Office 365 APIs and Python Part 2: Contacts API
This post is the second part of a series of posts chronicling my (mis)adventures learning Python and Django, and using them to integrate with Office 365. This extends the sample app from Part 1 to add...
View ArticleOffice 365 APIs and Python Part 3: Mail and Calendar API
This post is the third part of a series of posts chronicling my (mis)adventures learning Python and Django, and using them to integrate with Office 365. This extends the sample app from Part 2 to add...
View ArticleBuilding Daemon or Service Apps with Office 365 Mail, Calendar, and Contacts...
Device and Web Server applications usually require a user to sign-on and consent to allow the application to access and work with their information in Office 365. The underlying protocol to gain access...
View ArticleClient Credentials Flow for Mail API in Python
Matthias announced support for the Client Credentials flow in the Mail, Calendar, and Contacts APIs a couple of weeks ago, and since then, we’ve had a lot of questions about implementing it. Matthias...
View ArticleRuby on Rails and Office 365 Tutorial
I published a quick tutorial on writing your first Office 365 API app using Ruby on Rails. The tutorial takes you from creating a new Rails project to listing the contents of the user's Inbox using the...
View ArticleAnnouncing C# Support in the API Sandbox for Office 365 APIs
Today we bring you a guest post from Xiaoying Guo, a Senior Program Manager in our Cloud Platform Tools group. Enjoy! We're pleased to announce that C# is now supported in the API Sandbox for Office...
View ArticleUsing the Calendar API in PHP
In the same spirit as my Python experiment, I decided to give PHP a try and see how far I could get with the Office 365 APIs. The same disclaimers apply: I am a total PHP neophyte. I'm certain that my...
View ArticleCustomizing the read experience with contextual mail apps for Outlook
It is common for messages and meeting requests to include key pieces of information users need to access additional information about. Let’s say you receive an email from a co-worker suggesting a...
View ArticleOffice 365 APIs and Node.js
When we launched the Office 365 APIs, the Visual Studio folks released some very helpful client-side implementations of these APIs, making it much easier to get started. One of these implementations,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Outlook Mail Apps UserVoice page
 We at Microsoft put our users’ satisfaction first. It is even more important for us in the Outlook Mail Apps team as we have two set of users, developers and consumers. To make sure that every single...
View ArticleRuby gem for Mail, Calendar, and Contacts APIs
Today I published a new Ruby on Rails sample, the Office 365 VCF Import/Export Sample. It's basically a simple tool that allows a user to export contacts from her Office 365 mailbox to vCard files, or...
View ArticlePopulate your Office 365 Developer Tenant with sample data
An Office 365 Developer Tenant is a great resource for developing with the Office 365 REST APIs. It gives you a place to register your app, and a user to test against. However, you have to manually add...
View ArticleCheck out dev.outlook.com!
As you can probably tell from announcements we made at BUILD this week like add-ins for Outlook coming to Outlook.com, new features in our REST APIs like web hooks and search, and new ribbon...
View ArticleMaking App Registration Easier
I know I've been a little quieter than usual recently. No new blog posts, no new samples...you'd think I was taking a break. In reality, I've been heads-down working on the https://dev.outlook.com...
View ArticleOffice 365 API Walkthrough for Windows Store App
With Office 365 API Tools, you can integrate Office 365 services - including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Files and other services - with your applications. Office 365 API Tools take care of registering...
View ArticleAnnouncing Exchange ActiveSync v16
One advantage of having your mailbox in Office 365 is that we usually deploy our innovations there first. We’re making enhancements to Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) in Office 365 that will soon be...
View ArticleUnified Outlook APIs for Office 365 & Outlook.com are here!
We are excited to announce Outlook REST APIs for mail, calendar, and contacts now support both Office 365 & Outlook.com! This single REST API endpoint https://outlook.office.com/api combined with a...
View ArticleIntroducing add-in commands
Today we bring you the first in a two-part series of guest blog posts from Andrew Salamatov, a Senior Program Manager with our Outlook team. You can find the second part here. Enjoy!Back at Build and...
View ArticleBuilding add-ins with commands
Today we bring you the second in a two-part series of guest blog posts from Andrew Salamatov, a Senior Program Manager with our Outlook team. You can find the first part here. Enjoy!Because of their...
View ArticleDeprecating the REST API preview endpoint
As many of you know, the Outlook REST APIs moved from preview to general availability in October 2014. As part of this transition, we are shutting down the old preview endpoint...
View ArticleMessage Body property will filter unsafe HTML by default
As part of the Office 365 APIs, the Mail API lets you read, create, and send messages and manage folders in a user's mailbox in Office 365 or Exchange Online.We are making a change in what is returned...
View ArticleOutlook REST API changes to beta endpoint
We are making a few changes to the Office 365 REST APIs beta endpoint. The changes are being rolled out in pre-prod and production systems and will be widely deployed over the next few weeks.User ID...
View ArticleOutlook REST API changes to beta endpoint - Part II
I wanted to update you all on some more breaking changes that we are making to the Outlook REST API beta endpoint. These changes will be widely deployed over the next few weeks.Reminders for eventsThe...
View ArticleOutlook REST API changes to beta endpoint - Part III
Today we bring you a guest post from Abdelkader Bahgat, a Senior Program Manager with the Outlook team. Enjoy!I wanted to update you all on some more breaking changes that we are making to the Outlook...
View ArticleOutlook REST API changes to beta endpoint - Part IV
I wanted to give an update on some more breaking changes that we are making to the Outlook REST API beta endpoint. These changes will be widely deployed over the next few weeks.Scope of collectionsWe...
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