Month: October 2016

SharePoint now accessible via the Microsoft Graph beta

Marky Roden Microsoft Graph, Office 365, SharePoint , , , ,

Last week at Ignite it was announced that finally Microsoft was bringing O365 SharePoint access to the Microsoft graph as an API. This is a huge deal for those of us who want to use O365 as a platform and develop engaging applications for customers. In my case for Office Add-ins this is great because it reduced the number of OAuth hoops I have to jump through and manage to get the data I want.

Here is a link to the documentation: Working with SharePoint sites in Microsoft Graph and a quick example.

NOTE: this is beta and will change – this is purely a demonstration of what is possible today (Oct 2016) and not to be used as future reference.

Example

Using the graph explorer demo I am able to bring up content from my default SharePoint site very easily

https://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/graph-explorer#

Here is my copper site within my SharePoint tenant

sh1

and here it is referenced from the graph API

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sharepoint/sites/site-id

sh2

here is the API response of the lists
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sharepoint/sites/site-id/lists

sh3

and here is a reference to the documents in the Shared Documents folder

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sharepoint/sites/site-id/lists/list-id/items

sh4

How cool is that !!!!!

 

Microsoft MVP for Office Development

Marky Roden Just Marky, MVP ,

This weekend I was thrilled to receive an email from Microsoft announcing that I had been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Office Development technical community. This is a very natural evolution of my journey over the last two years since I branded out from nearly 20 years in IBM Domino. As I said about the xomino365 blog it was all about taking my skills on tour and seeing where it took me. While that blog served it’s purpose and I have come back to https://www.xomino.com exclusively, I am very content with the place it took me.

I wanted to take a moment to thank those people who nominated me (that I am aware of): Theo, John, Rob, Michael, Ren? and I am sure others – I really appreciate your support and belief in me.

I also wanted to thank Lisa Anderson (MVP wrangler for the mid-west) and Simon Jaeger (MS developer advocate) for their encouragement and support. They helped me know I was on the right path and are now responsible for what they helped create 😉

Finally I wanted to thank John Quirk and @PSCGroup who have given me a job and platform to allow me to do what I do best. I really love my job and the people I work with.

This (as always) is going to be fun 🙂

 

Thanks again