Office PnP Cmdlets Now Use *-PnP* Prefix tl;dr; If you have not been paying attention, the (awesome) PowerShell PnP Cmdlets are undergoing a big change. How do I know this you might ask? Well, I could have found this out the easy way by reviewing the 2nd November PnP recording information from Vesa Juvonen [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Developer/SharePoint-Patterns-amp-Practices-PnP-Core-and-PnP-PowerShell/m-p/27100/highlight/true#M764] . However, as I often do, I learned th...

In the spirit of a Scrum Retrospective, I wanted to reflect on the completion of a recent community event in which I am involved. The 11th Annual Atlanta Code Camp [https://atlantacodecamp.com/2016] was held recently (Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016) at Kennesaw State University. This is my fourth year of being involved with this event and it seems to get better every year. What Went Well By most accounts the weekend was a big success. We had more than 400 registrants, more than 350 attendees, and 45 s...

Thoughts After Microsoft Ignite 2016 Last week I attended Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta (Sept. 26-30, 2016). Aside from making my normal commute even worse (I am from Atlanta), this conference was incredible. It's been a while since I attended a Microsoft conference and I forgot just how much there is to absorb and attend at a conference this size. Since the conference covers more than just development topics (taking the place of TechEd, the SharePoint conference and others, this conference packe...

The release of Visual Studio Code 1.3.0 brought enhancements to browsing for and managing Visual Studio Code Extensions. With the 1.3.0 release an extensions pane was introduced to search for installing and managing extensions to VS Code. This is similar to extension management for Visual Studio (for Windows), Brackets, and other editors too. I have been spending some of my free time (since I have so much) trying to get back into coding and chose to create an Outlook Addin using Angular 2 and T...

Outlook Activation Rules As part of a larger series, I am building an Outlook Addin using Angular 2. This is proving to be a little more work than expected based on the recent RC-5 changes, but I wanted to get this quick post out since Outlook Addin Activation rules are independent of the client framework you choose to use. Outlook can activate Addins based on rules that determine if the item the user is viewing meets certain criteria. If the item, in our case an email, satisfies the rules spec...