2. Exploring the Office Developer Story in Microsoft Office 365
SESSION CODE: COS-OFC307
Ben Walters Elaine van Bergen
BPOS TSP Architect
Microsoft Australia OBS
Exploring the Office Developer Story in Microsoft Office 365
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Agenda
SharePoint Online Branding/Site Templates
Business Process Automation
Office Client Integration
Exchange Integration
Dashboards/Data visualisation
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Key Takeaways
Office 365 has many extensibility points that developers can leverage to build solutions
Start with simple customisations until the platform evolves
Many solutions will leverage multiple parts of Office 365
A large number of solutions will involved hybrid elements.
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Branding/ Templates
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Branding Options
Site Logo/Theme
Custom CSS
Custom MasterPage
Custom Page Layouts and webparts
Silverlight and Javascript
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Branding Limitation
Sandboxed Solutions
No access to Layouts or other file system folders
Style assets deployed to Site Collection or Site Libraries
Custom Master Pages cannot have code-behind
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Branding Deployment
Manually edit in SPD
Package in sandboxed features for multiple site collections or sites
Consider web templates for complex sub sites
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Templates DEMO
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Branding Summary
No site collection templates possible
Use features for site collection or manual edit
Use features or web templates for sub site customisation
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11. Business Process Automation
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12. Starting a Business Process
InfoPath online form
Adding /Editing list item
Adding /Editing document
InfoPath client or on premise application via web service
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13. Workflow in SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online supports declarative workflows
Prototyping in Visio 2010
Implement in SharePoint Designer 2010
Extend with Visual Studio 2010
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New to Workflow in SP2010
New Workflow targets
Reusable Workflows can be applied to any list
Site Workflows can execute on site
New Workflow events
Emitted by SharePoint Online (i.e. WorkflowStarted)
Custom Events, Event Receivers
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15. Prototyping in Visio 2010 SharePoint specific Workflow template
Design in Visio using SharePoint shapes
Provides workflow Visualization

16. Export to SharePoint Designer 2010
Visio exports to a VWI file
Renamed zip file containing all workflow files
.xoml and .xoml.rules define workflow
.vdx file contains Visio drawing

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FORMS/Workflow Demo
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18. Business process summary
Multiple methods in 365 to start process, including off premise call
Workflow can only be declarative
External services can only be called from the client
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Exchange Integration
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EWS MA 1.1 Overview
Managed API for developing applications that use Exchange Web Services
Functional parity with EWS*
Makes EWS calls under the covers
Backwards compatible
Request versioning
new ExchangeService(
ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010_SP1);
Cloud compatible out of the box
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Autodiscover
Don’t hardcode EWS URL in your app!
Use Autodiscover to find most efficient Client Access Server URL for a given mailbox
On-Premise
Global & distributed deployments
Cloud based
Office 365
Outlook Live
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22. Autodiscover – Exchange Online
EWS MA client contacts Autodiscoversevice
EWS MA client executes callback to Validate URL Redirection
EWS MA
Application
EXO Office 365
Autodiscover service returns URL for EWS bindings
EWS MA client connects to Exchange Web Services
Firewall

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Impersonation
Application performs actions using another user’s
Identity
Permissions
Exchange ApplicationImpersonation role needs to be granted to a user
Service account is typically allowed to impersonate other accounts
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24. Office Client Integration
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25. Equivalent Objects
Server (Microsoft.SharePoint)
.NET Managed (Microsoft.SharePoint.Client)
Silverlight (Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight)
ECMAScript (SP.js)
SPContext
ClientContext
SPSite
Site
SPWeb
Web
SPList
List
SPListItem
ListItem
SPField
Field
Member names mostly the same from server to client (e. g., SPWeb.QuickLaunchEnabled = Web.QuickLaunchEnabled)

26. Architecture/Execution
ECMAScriptControlsand Logic
Browser
Client.svc
Server OM
JSON Response
ECMAScript OM
XML Request
Proxy
XML Request
Proxy
Content database
JSON Response
Managed OM
Managed Client
Managed Controls and Logic
SharePoint Server

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Authentication
Claims + Multiple Authentication Provides + High security = Complicated !
Use available samples/help
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Office/Exchange Demo
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29. Exchange/ Office Client Summary
EWS MA 1.1 for exchange integration
SharePoint Client Object Model for SharePoint integration
Authentication for SharePoint Online is complicated. Use samples as starting point
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30. Dashboards/Data VisualIsation
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31. Excel Data Islands Data is trapped in Excel workbooks
Excel Services lets us expose this information
Users can interact and collaborate
Excel “applications” can be exposed on web

32. What is Excel Services? Server hosting of Excel calculation engine
Provides a web thin client for Excel workbooks
Excel aggregates data from multiple sources
Exposes data using Web Services, REST, and JavaScript
Browser
Excel 2010
Custom applications

33. Chart Web Part Connect to: Link chart to data Customize type
SharePoint list
Another web part
Excel Services data
Link chart to data
Customize type
Customize appearance

34. Exposing Excel Content
Content can be exposed in a variety of ways
Publish workbook to a SharePoint site
Entire workbook, specific sheets, specific items
Excel Web Services
Access the Excel data from a rich client app
REST Services
Embed chart data in a web page
ECMAScript Object Model
Build dashboards that tie together Excel workbooks
Compelling in a sandboxed solution
No custom server side code

35. Excel Web Services SOAP API Add a service reference
Add a service reference
Program against SOAP API
varexcelService= new ExcelService();
excelService.OpenWorkbook( …
excelService.GetRange( …

36. Excel Services REST API
Access workbook elements via URL
Atom feed to expose:
Charts
PivotTables
Tables
Ranges
URL elements
…/model/Charts('SampleChart')

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Dashboards Demo
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Dashboards summary
Multiple visualisations to display dashboards
Excel service content can be accessed remotely
Silverlight and JavaScript can be used to integrate data from on premise or other locations such as azure
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Key Takeaways
Office 365 has many extensibility points that developers can leverage to build solutions
Start with simple customisations until the platform evolves
Many solutions will leverage multiple parts of Office 365
A large number of solutions will involved hybrid elements.
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More Information
Office 365 Developer Toolkit
Visual Studio Power Tools
Office 365 sign up
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