Covers some advanced development techniques for SharePoint Online, which our team uses for efficient delivery of team-based Office 365 projects. Covers key decisions such as how to deal with test environments, our approach for multiple Office 365 tenancies, choices for development environments, and guidance on how to interpret Microsoft's guidance on the sandbox being deprecated. A key focus of the presentation is automation of development tasks in Office 365 (e.g. deploying Managed Metadata taxonomy, uploading/activating WSPs to the Solution Gallery etc.)

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chrisobrienmvp

3. Decisions
• Test environments?
• Multiple tenancies?
• Developer laptops?
• Sandbox/sandbox code?
Tips and tricks
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Provisioning Managed Metadata and taxonomy fields
Managed properties/search schema import
Scripted deployments to Office 365
Continuous Integration

4. 100% onpremises/no cloud
aspirations
“Cloudfriendly”
“Cloud-compatible”

5. YES!
MAY BE OK
PREFERRED

6. Client 1
Dev
Test
Client 2
Dev
Test

7. Client 1
Client 2
Dev (P2) Test (E3) Dev (P2) Test (E3)

9. 528,728

10. YES!

11. Disposable, flexible

12. “The sandbox is deprecated!”
“SharePoint Sandbox isn't Dead...UserCode is”

13. Our decision: NO - AVOID WHERE POSSIBLE
(but sandbox WSP with just XML is OK)
Alternatives to server-side sandbox code:
JavaScript
code
(JSOM/REST)
Remote Event
Receivers
PowerShell +
CSOM

16. MAY BE OK
OUR CHOICE

17. Term Set
Term Store
NOT PRACTICAL!

18. can control IDs
can be used in field definitions

22. with known GUIDs

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25. Title
Page title
Job title
Project title

34. PS cmdlets
900
800
700
SharePoint Online
600
500
774
400
300
200
100
0
Poweshell cmdlets
On-premises
SharePoint Online
30

36. Importing/exporting taxonomy terms
Importing/exporting search schema
Recreating site collections
Sandbox solution deployment – no API for this!
Activating web templates
Create publishing pages
Uploading files

43. Office 365 is less limiting than you think
And you don’t need to sacrifice engineering practices..
Get comfortable with apps and client-side techniques
Key techniques:
Provisioning Managed Metadata/fields
Importing search schema
PS + CSOM deployment scripts
Incl. automated WSP deployment

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Luis Mañez blog:
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45. THANK YOU!
www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com
@ChrisO_Brien