Wes Hackett
Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365
Welcome to my technology blog.
You’ll find articles about Office 365, Azure and other Microsoft technologies. Day to day I work as the Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365, a Microsoft ISV Partner based in London. As CTO my main responsibilities include designing the AddIn365 product roadmaps and supporting clients and partners in understanding and using Office 365.
I’ve been a Microsoft MVP for a number of years specialising in Office 365, SharePoint and development.
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Latest articles
Speaking at Microsoft Recoder 2015
Recoder 2015 is a free one-day conference for application developers and IT professionals who want to get the fast track on Office 365. Discover how you can work smarter now, and get ready for the big innovations that are on the horizon.
SUGUK Yammer Deep Dive presentation
On Thursday April 30th SUGUK held a London session where I presented a session on Yammer deep dive. Yammer deep dive Many organisations are considering leveraging Yammer as their Enterprise Social Network (ESN). Office 365 has already taken some steps to...
SharePoint Evolutions 2015 presentations
April 20th – 22nd 2015 saw London play host to SharePoint Evolutions conference. It was a great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. It was a privilege to be invited to speak again. This year I had two sessions App Launcher and Yammer SDK deep dive.
Installing Office 2016 Preview from your tenant
Microsoft announced the Office 2016 Preview Public Preview today during the Ignite Keynote. You can install the Office 2016 Preview from your Office 365 tenant. Browse to your Office 365 Settings from the context menu on the Suitebar like the screenshot below. From...
Ignite Session Catalog in Excel
I wanted to work out which Ignite sessions were of interest without the need to use the website session builder. So here is an Excel version extracted today. Ignite Session Catalog
Office Online UI updates
There have been some subtle changes to the Office Online user experience in the past week or so. Office Online are the office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, they render a web based version which allows you to edit and read content directly within the...
Creating a simple redirect app for the App Launcher
Imagine an organisation wants to take advantage of the App Launcher to provide a link to their users for the company public website. On the surface this isn’t such a bonkers request. Many organisations have some elements of their internal intranet hosted within Office 365 and often they require a link to the public facing sites as well. It makes sense then as the App Launcher provides a globally available menu system that the intranet owner might ask for this link to be provisioned.
Adding GitHub to the App Launcher
One of the latest features released to Office 365 and Azure was the ‘App Launcher’. This feature provided a consistent menu of applications that can be launched by the user. Azure Active Directory now provides an easy way to integrate to many SaaS platforms. It provides identity and access management features through the Azure portal and the Access Panel for users to discover apps they have access too. The App Launcher leverages the same underpinnings within Azure to provide the suite wide UX within Office 365. Lets see how easy it is to bring in an application like GitHub.
The importance of naming your Office 365 tenant
Within Office 365 the choice of the tenant name is something you really need to think about from day one. Failure to do so often leads to later headaches and unhappiness.
Naming a document in Office Online
Office Online is the web based versions of the common Office application like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These are great productivity boasters in Office365 allowing most common document editing experiences to be performed within the browser without the need to download the actual document locally.
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