Hi All,

Today, I’ll share the news related to new version of CSOM released on December 2018.

On December 28, Microsoft announced new version of CSOM (Client-Side Object Model) for SharePoint Online and Project Online.

We will get latest version of CSOM package for SharePoint Online and Project Online from the NuGet gallery having search term or with an ID – “Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM”.

The latest version of CSOM package is 16.1.8412.1200 as

Figure 1: Office 365 – SharePoint Online / Project Online: New version of CSOM package – 16.1.8412.1200

Note: Here, only NuGet version is changed but assembly version remains same – 16.1.0.0.

This NuGet package is only for SharePoint Online and cannot use as it is for SharePoint on-premises environment.

SharePoint Online Management Shell has been also updated to match with this CSOM release.

We can download updated SharePoint Management Shell from here

Few Important Properties, Methods and Classes which are added as follows: Here’s a raw list of all the changes in the classes, properties and methods within this package.

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client

public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.OrganizationNews

public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.OrganizationNewsSiteReference

public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Site.RelatedGroupId

Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Client.Tenant

public property Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.SiteProperties.GroupOwnerLoginName

public property Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.SiteProperties.IsGroupOwnerSiteAdmin

public method Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant.GetOrgNewsSites

public method Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant.RemoveOrgNewsSite

public method Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant.SetOrgNewsSite

public property Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.TenantSiteDesign.DesignPackageId

public property Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.TenantSiteDesignCreationInfo.DesignPackageId

New cmdlets in SharePoint Online Management Shell

Here’s a list of new cmdlets included in the SharePoint Online Management Shell release.

Get-SPOOrgNewsSite

Remove-SPOOrgNewsSite

Set-SPOOrgNewsSite Stop-SPOSiteContentMove

References:

New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – December 2018

SharePoint Online Management Shell

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