The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Graph
This blog post offers a well-structured and “chronologically proceeding” beginner’s guide, including much hands-on experience on even the most minor quirks of the API.
Application development, architecture design, and security in Microsoft cloud
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Azure AD Access Reviews — Built-in Features and Custom Solutions
Managing user access does not need to be tedious and constant work. Let’s take a look at the built-in features of Azure AD Access Reviews, whether they are enough for real-life purposes, and how we can improve things via custom solutions.
Authenticating to Azure AD protected APIs with Managed Identity — No Key Vault required
Did you know there is a way for us to securely authenticate to Azure AD protected APIs while simultaneously avoiding storing any credentials?
The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Teams based approvals
Organizations have a lot of processes that include an approval step. Let’s dig into all the available Teams-based approval implementation options, what problems we might face, and how to counter them.
Deleting the treacherous Wiki tab as a part of your Teams provisioning process
Using the Wiki tab in Teams can easily lead to a permanent loss of information. Let me show you how to delete the tab during your provisioning process.
What is Microsoft Teams Shifts and how you can customize it – Part 2
The long awaited continuation to my Shifts blog post mini-series is finally here! This time we dig deep into how you can customize Shifts, what kind of business processes you can automate (with a real-life customer use case), and what pitfalls you need to be aware of.
Authenticating to Microsoft 365 APIs with a certificate — step-by-step
This blog post is meant to be the one place to get all of the information you need for setting up certificate authentication. This scenario is important when you, for example, want to use the SharePoint Online REST API with application permissions.
Calling Microsoft Graph from Power Automate (and other daemon apps) with delegated permissions
Last week I realized that I have never actually shared how you can authenticate to Microsoft Graph from Microsoft Flow using delegated permissions. So, without further ado, let me show you how you can do that with a REST request. You can also use this method in other daemon apps such as Azure Functions or WebJobs.
Cloning Teams and Configuring Tabs via Microsoft Graph: Configuring the SharePoint and Files tabs
Our blog post series is closing to the end. In this final blog post of the series, I will show you how you can automatically configure two SharePoint related tabs: the SharePoint tab itself and the Files tab.
Cloning Teams and Configuring Tabs via Microsoft Graph: Configuring the Planner tab
We’ve already come quite far in this blog post series! We’ve got our team cloned and have already started configuring the tabs. The Planner tab is probably the easiest one to configure out of the tabs I’m covering in this blog post series. Still, there are some small things you should keep in mind and be aware of to get the most out of this process.
Cloning Teams and Configuring Tabs via Microsoft Graph: Configuring the OneNote tab
People can have different opinions on how Teams tabs should be configured and that is most likely the reason why they aren’t automatically configured when you clone a team. The configuration can be automated, but each different kind of tab needs to be set up in a slightly different way. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can configure the OneNote tab.
Cloning Teams and Configuring Tabs via Microsoft Graph: Configuring Tabs – The Fundamentals
At this point, we have our brand new team set up with its cloned tabs. However, none of those tabs are yet configured to show any content. All of the tab types are a bit different from one another, but what I am about to show to you in this blog post is so fundamental that it should be very useful to you no matter which tabs you eventually decide to configure.
Cloning Teams and Configuring Tabs via Microsoft Graph: Cloning a Team
In the prelude, I told you a little bit about the reasons why configuring tabs automatically is important. In this one, I will show you a couple of ways on how you can clone a team programmatically via Microsoft Graph. I also talk a little bit about what quirks the whole clone team process contains, and what we can expect from Teams templates in the future.
Cloning Teams and Configuring Tabs via Microsoft Graph: Prelude
With the clone team operation, you can clone the team settings, channels, apps, tabs, and even members. What doesn’t automatically happen with cloning though is the configuration of tabs. Searching for the right resource to display can be difficult at times, so I’m happy to tell you that it is possible for us to automate the configuration of the cloned tabs via Microsoft Graph. And that is the bread and butter of this blog post series.
How to build a guest user self-service registration for Azure AD with Azure PaaS services
In some extranet scenarios, you want to limit external sharing only to the employees of specific organizations. In Office 365, you can do that by configuring a list of allowed domains for guest invites. But what if one or more of your stakeholder organizations have blocked access to other Office 365 tenants via tenant restrictions?
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
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 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.
How to Completely Disable External Sharing for a Single Office 365 Group
The Office 365 external sharing settings have been a hot topic in many conversations lately. I have also got to work with those, and in this blog post, I’ll tell you how to programmatically disable external sharing for a single O365 Group and its team site.
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.