Microsoft announced new version CSOM (Client Side Object Model) for SharePoint Online and Project Online – Mar 2018

Hi All,

On Mar 30, Microsoft announced new version CSOM (Client Side Object Model) for SharePoint Online and Project Online. We will get latest version of CSOM package for SharePoint Online from the NuGet gallery having search term or with an ID – “Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM”.

The latest version of CSOM package is v16.1.7521.1200 as

Figure 1: Office 365 – Latest release of CSOM in NuGet manager

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

Figure 2: Office 365 – Latest CSOM release details in NuGet

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

New PowerShell CMDLETS are added :

Get-SPOUnifiedGroup

Set-SPOUnifiedGroup

SharePoint Online Management Shell (16.0.7521.1200) also updated for this CSOM release. We can download from here

References: https://dev.office.com/blogs/new-sharepoint-csom-version-released-for-Office-365-march-2018

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588