Saturday, April 15, 2023

An Open Letter To SharePoint On App Registrations

Dear SharePoint,

First, I just wanted to say it’s not like I don’t like you — I like you and I like some of the easy integration you have with Azure and Azure AD Enterprise apps — nice easy way to secure it all and give us that connection (because in so many ways that’s what we’re using it for — a connection to a SharePoint List to do some CRUD’ing)

For sure.

But I do have a complaint.

It’s a small one, but I think important.

There’s just not a great way to see all the applications and what specific list and permissions they have access to, and there doesn’t seem to be a great way to see it the other way around (at least that I’m aware of).

I mean, you tell us to do it that way — and it works great — but once you start having a lot of apps connecting into SharePoint, it would be nice to see X name app with the SharePoint Lists it has access too and what permissions it has. And yes, I know — nomenclature helps — but I just feel like there should be a better way to do this.

Now I know you have a lot going on and maybe I’ve missed something for quite some time, and that’s okay, but to that point, if there is, it’s not easily accessible or made aware of from a general developer/engineer perspective.

Okay. Hope this finds you well (or at least not horribly under the weather,
Adam