{"id":5310,"date":"2020-09-22T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2021-10-18T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:52:15","slug":"office-at-ignite-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/office-at-ignite-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Office at Ignite 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Ignite 2020!\u00a0While this year feels different compared to other<\/span>s, we are excited to\u00a0<\/span>share our sessions for\u00a0<\/span>Ignite<\/span>\u00a0and hear from you.\u00a0<\/span>Ignite 2020 will be\u00a0<\/span>open access \u2013 whether you\u2019re sharpening your skills or b<\/span>uilding your first ever<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Office<\/span>\u00a0integration<\/span>, we hope that you are able to ta<\/span>ke away something<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>from<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>all the rich new features and content\u00a0<\/span>our Program Managers<\/span>\u00a0have prepared with our\u00a0<\/span>partners and customers.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Office: Outlook and Excel Add-Ins, Office Scripts<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Modern workers now face three major challenges: overwhelming amounts of data, increased time demand, and growing needs for protection and security. We can address these challenges with Office Web Add-Ins and increase your productivity<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0Developers who are building the evolution of work can optimize Outlook even further\u00a0\u2013 by looking\u00a0to\u00a0what\u2019s ahead and\u00a0how we\u00a0can\u00a0<\/span>integrate solutions\u00a0seamlessly into\u00a0an\u00a0Outlook experience<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Email functionality is top of mind for everyone,\u00a0we can learn from CodeTwo, a Microsoft 365 partner,\u00a0on how to build signatures\u00a0directly into our emails.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Excel\u00a0is the world\u2019s most popular language. This year\u00a0we will continue to expand on new ways for developers to extend with Excel\u00a0Add-Ins.\u00a0<\/span>With keyboard shortcuts,\u00a0an\u00a0open in Excel button, and\u00a0integrations with partners like Oracle\u00a0to optimize your data<\/span><\/a>,<\/u>\u00a0there are\u00a0new ways to keep your productivity at the highest level.\u00a0Our Program Managers are excited to share what\u2019s in\u00a0preview, and how you can be part of a powerful community.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Office Scripts preview is now\u00a0rolling out the change to be\u00a0available by default to all eligible users.\u00a0<\/span>Office Scripts for Excel on the web has exciting updates<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0If you are new to coding, we have new capabilities to record and automate workbook-based processes, and the ability to run a script with Power Automate.\u00a0IT Admins\u00a0experience\u00a0an increased\u00a0need for protection and security \u2013 Office Scripts can address this with new governance capabilities to help admins control how scripting is used in their organization.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As modern work evolves, we can use Office to make us more productive, work with anyone all over the world, and secure our data.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SharePoint<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

This year we are continuing to share how you can make the most of SharePoint Files and Lists. You\u2019ll learn how to\u00a0<\/span>build apps, manage business processes, and automate workflows<\/span><\/a>. We will continue to expand on modern productivity\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span>building cross-platform solutions with SharePoint Framework<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0SharePoint Framework, or SPFx, helps bring your work to wherever your users work. Connecting us between SharePoint and Teams apps, we will share how to build and deploy them through App Source. Finally,\u00a0we\u00a0heard from you in our open-source community and want to show you how easy it is for developers everywhere to create new Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint projects. Learn about\u00a0<\/span>PnP assets and how to get started<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We look forward to hearing your feedback on what you learned during Ignite 2020. For more announcements and details on the platform, visit our Virtual Hub<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Feature Updates<\/span><\/h3>\n

Outlook\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Outlook Mailbox 1.9 JS API \u2013\u00a0\u00a0GA coming soon<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Script Lab for Outlook \u2013 GA<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Online Meetings in Mobile – GA<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Event-based Add-ins\u00a0 -Preview<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Excel\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Excel 1.12 APIs \u2013 GA<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Excel Custom Functions 1.3 \u2013 GA<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Enable\/Disable Ribbon commands \u2013\u00a0GA<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Dialog API 1.2 – GA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Office Scripts\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Enhanced Admin Controls<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Office Scripts is starting to roll out the change to be on by default starting with the Targeted Release audience.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Welcome to Ignite 2020! While this year feels different compared to others, we are excited to\u00a0share our sessions for this year\u00a0and hear from you. This year we will have open access to everyone \u2013 whether you\u2019re sharpening your skills or building your first ever\u00a0Office\u00a0integration, we hope that you\u00a0are able to\u00a0take away something\u00a0from our Program Managers, partners, and customers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69080,"featured_media":25159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,12],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-add-ins","tag-excel","tag-outlook"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

        Welcome to Ignite 2020! While this year feels different compared to others, we are excited to\u00a0share our sessions for this year\u00a0and hear from you. This year we will have open access to everyone \u2013 whether you\u2019re sharpening your skills or building your first ever\u00a0Office\u00a0integration, we hope that you\u00a0are able to\u00a0take away something\u00a0from our Program Managers, partners, and customers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}