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  1. Development & automation

    Farm solution, SharePoint Framework or external service: deciding each customisation on Subscription Edition

    A farm that upgrades to Subscription Edition does not make its custom code compatible, secure or supported. Each component is decided on its own: kept as a farm solution, rebuilt on the SharePoint Framework, moved to an external service, or retired. What Microsoft documents for each, and what decides between them.

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  2. Development & automation

    Why SharePoint Framework stayed on React 17 through SPFx 1.23.2

    A retrospective on the SPFx 1.16–1.23.2 dependency boundary, updated to distinguish it from SPFx 1.24 and React 18.3.1. Platform compatibility requires more than changing a package version.

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  3. Development & automation

    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.

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  4. Development & automation

    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.

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  5. Development & automation

    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.

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  6. Microsoft 365 & SharePoint

    The state of SharePoint in 2026: what is gone, what is current, and what to build on

    Every year someone declares SharePoint dead. It never was. But in a matter of months, real parts of it reached the end of the line: SharePoint Online Add-ins and Azure ACS for SharePoint Online retired in April, and SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer left support in July. Here is what actually ended, what replaced it, and what to build on now, on-premises and in the cloud.

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