This month's agenda included: -Office Add-ins overview -Updates from Microsoft Ignite -Office Add-ins SSO -Documentation updates -Q&A For more information, visit https://developer.microsoft.com/office

1. Office Add-ins
Developer community call
November 13, 2019
8:00 AM PST

2. • https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall
• Next call: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
• Meet the product teams behind Office Add-ins
• What’s new and coming soon
• Technical deep dives
• Customer presentations
• Q&A
About the community call

3. Call agenda
• Office Add-ins overview
• Updates from Microsoft Ignite
• Office Add-ins SSO
• Documentation updates
• Q&A

4. Presenters
Dev Writer
Alex Jerabek
Sr. Program Manager
Nitesh Golchha
Michelle Scharlock
Dev WriterSr. Program Manager
Juan Balmori Labra Keyur Patel
Sr. Program Manager

5. Office Add-ins
Overview
Alex Jerabek, Dev Writer

6. Add-inAdd-in Add-in
Add-in
Web App Manifest fileAdd-in

7. Add-in
Web APIs,
Azure services,
cloud storage,
analytics
Office.js

8. aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs

9. Updates from Microsoft
Ignite
Juan Balmori Labra, Sr. Program Manager

11. Announcement: Mailbox 1.8 released!
• Internet Headers
16.0.12130.20272

12. New Scenarios
1. Online Meetings
2. Autorun add-ins!

13. What’s coming !
Single Sign-On in Outlook Add-ins
• Authenticate the user
• Access user’s rich data on Microsoft Graph​
SPFx in Outlook
• Announced as part of SPFX 1.10
• Use the share point hosting capabilities to build add-in that can
work across Office, Sharepoint & teams

14. Important Announcement!
• We are about to release a re-engineered version of Outlook JS API. (early
2020)
• Why?
• Remove MSAjax Dependency
• Ship improvements faster!
• Reduced size ~30%
• PLEASE HELP US.
• Test using our Preview CDN
• https://appsforoffice.microsoft.com/lib/preview/hosted/Office.js
• Debug:
https://appsforoffice.microsoft.com/lib/preview/hosted/Office.debug.js
• Log ANY issue here: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js

15. Keyur Patel, Sr. Program
Manager

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#APIS
API Release
Excel APIs: Accelerating towards full API parity
2000 JavaScript APIs for Excel!
1.10 APIs: +150 new APIs for
better dashboards and co-
authoring, events

17. Excel Custom Functions context sharing
(preview)
Easily share state between your custom functions and taskpane (and
commands), and….
• Support for httpOnlyCookies
• Enables full CORS support
• Make calls to the Microsoft Graph
• Respond to onCalculate events without taskpane being open
Learn more: https://aka.ms/customfunctions

18. Excel: Moving
beyond the
task pane
Single Sign On
Dynamic Ribbon APIs
Enable/Disable Ribbon commands
Hide/Show Ribbon Tabs
Events
Get notified of events without your taskpane being visible
Hide/show taskpanes
Dialogs
Send messages to your dialog from your taskpane

19. Office Scripts

20. Excel Custom
Functions and
Dynamic Arrays
• Excel Dynamic Arrays are
rolling out to production, starting
with Excel for the web this week.
• Note: you may see an @
decorator for workbooks with
UDFs saved from previous
versoins of Excel. Calculation is
the same, and first time folks will
see a call out.

21. Office Add-ins SSO
Nitesh Golchha
Senior Program Manager

22. Understand user
signed into Office
Access user’s rich data
on Microsoft Graph

23. The Single Sign-On API
let token = await Office.Runtime.auth.getAccessToken({allowConsentPrompt = true})

24. Tooling & Samples

25. API Updates

26. Apps, Platform and Scenario support
PLATFORM
APPS
SCENARIO

27. Looking forward
• Access to Graph when user acquires add-in
• Support for Single Page Applications
• Dynamic consenting
• MSA support in Outlook and OWA
• SSO support on iOS and Android

28. Next steps and to-dos
Take our survey at https://aka.ms/OfficeSSOsurvey
5 minutes of your time will help us build a better experience
Try out our new SSO samples at https://aka.ms/ssoNodeSample and
https://aka.ms/ssoDotnetSample
• Works on only latest Insider builds
• Reference our beta CDN
• We’ve not yet enabled Store submissions so test in your development environment only
• Grab latest API from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/office-runtime/officeruntime.auth?view=excel-js-preview
Log any issues you see on GitHub/Stackoverflow
Shoot me an email if you see any issues at officeSSO@microsoft.com

29. Documentation Updates
Michelle Scharlock, Dev Writer

30. MS Learn
Extensibility
Modules
• Beginner level module
about extensibility on MS
Learn live
• In the pipeline: modules
on SharePoint Framework,
Teams, Microsoft Graph,
MS Identity, Office add-ins
• Try it here
• Quarterly refreshed
content can be found on
Github

31. • Handle and Return Errors from your custom function
(preview)
• Tutorial: Share data and events between Excel custom
functions and the task pane (preview)
• Enable SSO for Office Add-ins
• Authorize to Microsoft Graph with SSO (preview)
• Troubleshoot error messages for SSO (preview)
• Outlook 1.8 Requirement Set & reference
• ExcelApi 1.10 Requirement Set & reference
• Common coding issues topic
Recent Documentation Updates

32. Engage with us!
Are you interested in...
* Presenting during an upcoming call?
* Providing feedback about the docs?
aka.ms/office-add-ins-engage

33. Q&A (post questions in chat window)

34. Learn
Engage
Developer resources
What Where
Office 365 Developer Program https://aka.ms/officedevprogram
Script Lab https://aka.ms/getscriptlab
Office Add-ins documentation https://aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs
Custom Functions https://aka.ms/customfunctions
What Where
Stack Overflow (questions) https://stackoverflow.com
office-js
outlook-web-addins
GitHub (issues) https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js
UserVoice (feature requests) https://officespdev.uservoice.com
Send a Smile or Frown Inside Office

35. • Recording will be available soon on Office Developer YouTube
• https://aka.ms/OfficeDevYouTube
• Next call: Wednesday December 11th, 2019
• Submit your questions: https://aka.ms/officeaddinsform
• Add to your calendar: https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall
Thank you