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Paul Bullock

Upcoming SharePoint WebHooks

This summer is looking like an awesome period for new development features and the Office PnP team recently published a web cast on SharePoint Web Hooks in Office 365, although this is not yet released, the public preview for first release tenants will be due this summer.

So what are Web Hooks?

Web Hooks are an asynchronous push mechanism to provide notification to a remote endpoint for changes. In the context of SharePoint, this would be similar to Remote Event Receivers that trigger a remote call when changes are made to the subscribed resource i.e. lists or web.

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Paul Bullock

Uservoice: Want a new feature or have a great idea for Microsoft?

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Have your say…

Have an idea, groan or want to input on new and existing features? Microsoft recently have started to use User Voice sites to allows customers to input on new and existing features.

 This is a great way to allow you to voice your requirements to feed into the product offerings. If the feature you suggest has enough votes with the community of users then Microsoft may include this into a future release. There may also be other suggestions useful to you and your organisation, then vote on it, the greater ideas’ popularity will become the more likely it will be incorporated.

It does work, I have submitted a few ideas myself and voted on existing ideas that have come to fruition.

Examples include:

You have a limited number of votes on your own idea and others, however once the site administrator has either completed or declined your idea these get returned to you.

It’s a good idea to provide as much information as possible to the suggestion to help the tech guys the other end understand the problem your idea is trying to solve.

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