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14 October 2025 is a big day when it comes to the Microsoft Office Add-ins world. It marks not only the official retirement of Windows 10, but also the end of support on by Microsoft on various other Office related products including Office 2016, Office 2019, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019. Here’s many of the products that end support on this date: Access 2016Access 2019Excel…

Developer Sessions at Microsoft 365 May Conference

I’ll be giving two developer oriented sessions at the free Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon conference May 4-6 2022. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon is a free, online, 60-hour event happening May 4-6, 2022. We will have content going the whole time with speakers from around the globe. This event is free for all wanting to attend. Join us as we talk about the many different pieces of Microsoft 365,…

We are excited to give you the opportunity to utilize If This Then That (IFTTT) to create and run recipes with Microsoft Teams, Calendar, Contacts, and OneNote service. https://t.co/FQtwMWCar3 #MSDev #MicrosoftGraph

How to clear the Microsoft Outlook for Mac web browser cache and cookies

When working with Outlook for Mac the content of email messages are rendered in a web browser control that is specific to Outlook (it does not use Safari). So when you have a need to clear any cached data or cookies it is far from obvious how you should go about clearing this cache. I’m a newbie to Mac so maybe this is obvious to seasoned users! Here’s how I went about it. Start the Finder…

Upgrading from Angular 2 RC5 to RC7 – watch out for required NPM version

I skipped RC6 and made the jump straight from RC5 to RC7. First step was to upgrade the versions of my dependencies (both the “dependencies” and “devDependencies”) in the package.json file. To get the magic recipe of what versions of each dependency were needed I referred back to the QuickStart guide on the Angular.io website. { "name": "myapp", "version": "1.0.0", "scripts": { "start": "tsc &&…

How to access properties of Office.js objects that don’t exist in the Typescript definition file

When developing Office Add-ins and using Typescript, I’ve found the Office.js Typescript definition file available at DefinatelyTyped to only support a fraction of the objects and properties that are available within the Office.js library. To give you an idea of what I mean, here is a list of properties that are available on the Office.context.mailbox.item object (according to the API…