Year: 2018

How to Securely Call a Logic App from an Azure Function + Benefits

How to Securely Call a Logic App from an Azure Function + Benefits

Probably the most predominant reason to choose to implement something with Azure Logic Apps or Microsoft Flow is how fast and easy it is to automate processes with them, and how that can lead to reduced implementation costs. However, there is one thing that can really rack up the costs, and that is polling.

Provisioning Teams with a SharePoint Site Template, Power Automate and Microsoft Graph

Provisioning Teams with a SharePoint Site Template, Power Automate and Microsoft Graph

Soon you will be able to create a team for an Office 365 group via its modern team site. There will be a button that allows you to create a Team with a single click. But could things be made even easier? In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can have an option to create a team automatically when creating a new modern, Office 365 group connected team site.

How to set up an Azure AD application registration for calling Microsoft Graph

How to set up an Azure AD application registration for calling Microsoft Graph

Whenever you want to call Microsoft Graph from your custom solutions, you need to have an application registration in your Azure Active Directory first. In this blog post, I show you three ways to create an app registration in the Azure AD, and how you can choose the right way depending on your situation.

How to Expose a Firewall-Protected Web Service to the Cloud with Azure Relay

How to Expose a Firewall-Protected Web Service to the Cloud with Azure Relay

Cloud solutions can’t communicate directly with on-premises hosted web services because of the firewall. Luckily we can get past that using Azure Relay. In this blog post, I’ll show you, how you can, e.g., expose a SharePoint-hosted web service to Office 365.

SharePoint Online Guest User Troubles and How to Get Past Them

SharePoint Online Guest User Troubles and How to Get Past Them

What would be nicer than to invite some users from other organizations to collaborate with us on the beautiful, modern SharePoint Online sites? I’ve recently been working with guest users in SharePoint Online environments, and in this blog post, I take you through, what problems we encountered and how you too can get past them.

My Most Used PowerShell Scripts for Managing SharePoint Online

My Most Used PowerShell Scripts for Managing SharePoint Online

Working with Office 365, you too might have already started building up a collection of useful PowerShell scripts; the ones you always keep on going back to when you need to perform certain operations for a tenant. This month I’m sharing with you some of my toolkit; a collection of PowerShell scripts I currently find myself using the most while working with SharePoint.

How to Sort Planner Tasks Using Order Hint and Microsoft Graph

How to Sort Planner Tasks Using Order Hint and Microsoft Graph

Copying an existing Planner plan programmatically is totally doable thanks to Microsoft Graph. But how to sort the tasks and buckets of the new plan in the exact same order as in the original plan? Let me show you how you can achieve that by using the Planner order hint property and Microsoft Graph.

The Ultimate Guide to SharePoint Site Templates and Site Scripts

The Ultimate Guide to SharePoint Site Templates and Site Scripts

In this blog post, I’m going to take you through what SharePoint site designs and site scripts are, how you can create, deploy, maintain and use them for provisioning sites from many different places, and give you new ideas on how you can and should be taking advantage of them.

Useful Things to Do with Microsoft Graph Teams Operations

Useful Things to Do with Microsoft Graph Teams Operations

Microsoft Graph Teams operations can be used for all kinds of cool stuff related to Teams. Because I’ve had so much fun playing around with those, I figured I’d show you a couple of examples of how you can utilize those operations in a SPFx web part, and provision a Team for an existing Office 365 Group.

How to Create a Multicolored Theme for a Modern SharePoint Online Site

How to Create a Multicolored Theme for a Modern SharePoint Online Site

You can create your own themes for Modern SharePoint Online sites by using the Office UI Fabric Theme Generator. Using the theme generator is really easy if you just want to use one color. But what if your organization has multiple brand colors and you would like to create a multicolored theme?