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Microsoft Teams apps for meetings

March 24, 2021 No Comments

By now Teams users are used to having various teams apps in form of Channel Tabs, Personal Tabs or messaging extensions. I feel, one of the extremely useful area is still being overlooked or not understood properly, and that is “Teams Apps for Meetings”. We are so used to having teams meetings throughout the day and because it’s so nicely integrated with other office 365 services, we hardly see to miss any feature. But what if we can do much more with teams meetings that we normally do? Let’s take a look. What is Teams Apps for meetings As explained […]

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App Only Policy with Tenant Level Permissions in SharePoint Online

September 11, 2016 16 Comments

There are various articles explaining what App Only Policies are and how they work with SharePoint Provider Hosted Apps. Two of the good starting points, I found are this msdn blog and this msdn article. The process of setting is App only permission is really simple. All you need to do is change the AppManifest.xml file. <AppPermissionRequests AllowAppOnlyPolicy=”true”> <AppPermissionRequest Scope=”http://sharepoint/content/tenant” Right=”FullControl” /> </AppPermissionRequests> The problem is if you need tenant level permissions for your app, you can’t register the app principal in any of the site collections, like you would do for any other level of permission requirement like Site Collection admin. Steps […]

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SharePoint Hosted Apps in AAM or host-header environments for SharePoint 2013 with ADFS

May 7, 2015 No Comments

Hey Guys, Many of you might have started working on or at least looking at Hybrid Implementation of SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, probably using some federated Authentication like ADFS 3.0.You might not have faced any issues when installing and running even basic apps from SharePoint store in Office 365 environment, it is not that easy, well at least not that well documented on how this exactly works for In-Premise sites. In some case, you might have got it working in your lab/dev environment easily, but what if you have a SharePoint site with Host Headers defined in IIS. As […]

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Developing Hybrid Apps for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

February 23, 2015 No Comments

Hey guys, You could find a lot of articles over internet on how to setup a development environment for developing SharePoint Apps. Some of those articles (including technet) nicely explain how to setup the Apps environment for SharePoint.However, when I started exploring, I found many confusing and contradicting stuffs there, for example Configure your Domain Name section in the technet article Configure an environment for apps for SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) is correct for SharePoint hosted Apps (or if you want to use SharePoint store apps) and NOT for provider hosted apps !!! Anyway, I will skip these and assume that you have […]