Development & automation
What we learn moving organisations onto the Microsoft cloud. Method, not opinion.
Developing for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition: the practices that hold up
Subscription Edition is supported until at least 2035 and its SharePoint Framework ceiling has not moved since 2023. That combination is the whole job: a long runway on an older stack. This is how to build on it well, with code that runs on the version your farm actually accepts.
SPFx before version 1.0: our web parts in the official Microsoft samples
The SharePoint Framework developer preview came out in August 2016. Version 1.0 arrived in February 2017. Our first contribution to the official Microsoft 365 samples repository is dated October 2016, five months before there was a 1.0 to build against. Four of our web parts are in that repository today, and this is what each of them is for.
We are still measuring engineers by the part that got automated.
In 2025 DORA threw out its own scoreboard. The low, medium, high and elite tiers that the industry had quoted for a decade were replaced by seven team archetypes across eight measures. That is not a methodology footnote. It is the most used measurement framework in software admitting that the instruments no longer read the thing that decides whether a system survives.
SPFx 1.23.2: upgrading is not changing a number
The previous version was pulled from npm for regressions, and that is the warning: the risk of upgrading the SharePoint Framework is almost never in the SharePoint runtime, it is in the build. What changed in Heft, in Sass and in npm audit, with the code showing how it was, how it is, and how it will be.
Sending email from an application, without a single password
Microsoft turned off SMTP with a password. The answer is not to store a better secret: it is to store no secret at all. Managed identity, Microsoft Graph, and Mail.Send tied to a group of mailboxes. Here is the whole configuration, mistakes included.
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