SharePoint ToolBox 119 Microsoft Script Lab and PowerShell Scripts

Script Lab, a Microsoft Garage Project

Script Lab is a tool for anyone who wants to learn about writing add-ins for Excel, Word, or PowerPoint. The focus is the Office JavaScript API, which is the technology you need for building Office add-ins that run across platforms. Maybe you’re an experienced Office developer and you want to quickly prototype a feature for your add-in. Or maybe you’ve never tried writing code for Office and you just want to play with a sample and tweak it to learn more. Either way, Script Lab is for you.

Script Lab has three main features:

  • Code in a pane beside your spreadsheet. IntelliSense shows suggestions while you type so you can easily discover and use the Office JavaScript objects and methods. And if you don’t want to start from scratch there are plenty of samples preinstalled with Script Lab. Your snippets can use any TypeScript features like the magical async/await and conveniences like arrow functions and template strings. But it’s not only script: your snippets can also use HTML, CSS, and references to external libraries and data on the web. Script Lab uses the Monaco editor, the same tech that powers VS Code, so it’s beautiful and lightweight.
  • Run the code in another pane beside the editor. Execution can include logic, API calls to Office, UI in the pane, and even output to a console. Every time you make a code change you can refresh the editor and run the new version in seconds.
  • Share your snippets through GitHub. If you create a snippet you’d like to share, you can use Script Lab to save it. Then send the link to someone else to try it and tweak it on their computer. The Import feature lets you load other people’s snippets. We think sharing will be especially useful for asking and answering questions about add-ins on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/office-js).

You can install Script Lab right now for free from the Office Store. It works for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint on Office 2013 and later, Office Online, and Office for Mac.

The source code is open to the community at https://github.com/OfficeDev/script-lab. We welcome your contributions to the tool and to our snippets repo. We’re excited to keep building Script Lab with your help!

Reporting Office 365 Admin Role Group Members

This script produces a report of the membership of Office 365 admin role groups. The report is output to CSV file.

This script relies on the AzureAD PowerShell module, which you can install from the PowerShell Gallery.

1. Download the script from the link above.
2. Run the script using the usage examples below. You will be prompted to authenticate to Azure AD if you are not already connected.

Parameters

  • ReportFile – You can provide a custom output file name. The file name you specify will be modified with the current date, for example MyReportFileName.csv will become MyReportFileName-ddMMyyyy.csv. If a file of the same name exists, a unique character string will also be appended to the file name.
            

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Michael Greth

Michael Greth ist SharePoint-Begeisterter der ersten Stunde und arbeitet als freier Berater und Trainer rund um die Digitale Transformation mit den Schwerpunkten Microsoft, SharePoint, Künstliche Intelligenz und Video im Unternehmen. Seit vielen Jahre engagiert er sich in der Communityarbeit und ist dafür seit 24 Jahren von Microsoft mit dem Titel MVP (Most Valuable Professional) für Office Apps & Services ausgezeichnet. Er gründete und betrieb unter sharepointcommunity.de das größte deutschsprachige Anwenderforum für SharePoint- und Office365-Anwender und ist heute auf Social Media und in Usergroups aktiv.

Als Podcastpionier ist er seit 18 Jahren und über 400 Folgen mit dem SharePointPodcast.de online, einem der ältesten deutschschsprachigen Podcasts überhaupt. Und auch im Bewegtbildbereich ist er mit der SharePointSendung und weiteren Video- und LIveformaten seit vielen Jahren auf Youtube, LinkedIn und anderen Kanälen aktiv.