When building Office Outlook Addins there has traditionally been three ways to install them. Installation from the Office Store Installation by a Exchange administrator uploading the manifest.xml Installation by a end-user by uploading the manifest.xml Recently Office 365 was also extended with the centralized deployment feature that allows tenant admins […]
I have been testing out the new Microsoft Graph Subscriptions API that allows you to get notified when, e.g. mails are received in Exchange online. To use this API you have to setup a webhook that gets called by the exchange servers. The requirement to this webhook is that it […]
The Office 365 App Launcher was introduced in October 2014, with the idea of making it easier for people to navigate to the app they use most. Only problem, it only support links to Azure AD Apps and the Office 365 applications that you have access to. But what if […]
Apps for Office whether it is for Outlook, Excel, Word or PowerPoint are all standard HTML pages with JavaScript. I just finished building an app where I wanted some of my app pages to be accessible from a web browser outside the Office context. Apparently that is a very uncommon […]
It’s really nice to see the cadence Microsoft is getting up to with their release cycle. Yesterday a new version of the Office 365 API Tools (1.1.728) was release that improves on the previous releases (not so much if you are using it in a web application, it seems like […]
As I have mentioned before I really like the app concept introduced with Office 2013. Today I’m going to show my latest creation which is a Mail App for Outlook that lets you access files in your OneDrive and upload new files, manage their permissions and insert links to them […]
The Office 365 product suite (SharePoint, Exchange, Onedrive and the Office package), is moving in an interesting direction. Instead of being products, it starting to become more of a service platform that you can use for whatever you see fit. One of the recently released tools, that really makes this […]
A very likely feature request of any Outlook app would be automatic creation of calendar items, e.g. appointments. Unfortunately the MSDN documentation does not exactly specify how you do that, but it is simple when you know how, let me show you. The JavaScript API unfortunately offers no direct way […]
So, you finished building that beautiful Office app of yours, and now you want to share it with the world? No problem you think I just go to the Office store and publish it, how hard can it be? From my experience, it was more difficult than I expected, so […]
The 2013 wave of Microsoft products introduced a brand new app concept that received a lot of attention during the launch. Now more than a year later it might be time to look back at how the app model have done. The First Year with the App Model For SharePoint […]