Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
It has been an amazing and rewarding week for me as Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) and RDs (Regional Directors) travelled from all corners of the world to gather at the Microsoft Redmond Campus for an intense week of knowledge sharing, direct engagement with product teams and Microsoft leadership, providing feedback, sharing vision and discussing... Continue Reading →
With Microsoft 365 Copilot becoming generally available in recent months and this being the first major Microsoft conference in Australia for several years the attendance was high (I believe the last big Microsoft conference in Sydney was pre-COVID with the Ignite Tour in 2019). Rumour has it the tickets were capped at 5,000 and it... Continue Reading →
When making calls to get user centric data from the Microsoft Graph API the documentation tells us we can use either the users (Graph) id or the users UPN (Active Directory User Principal Name) For example, to get the details of a specific user GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName} To get mail messages for a specific user GET... Continue Reading →
I wanted to shine the spotlight on this annual competition run by Microsoft as I've personally found it to be so inspiring, giving me confidence that upcoming generations of creative, problem-solving technical innovators have the mindset and ambition to solve the world's biggest issues. This year's competition had a focus of "AI for Good" and... Continue Reading →
I was recently interview by Microsoft's Ayca Bas on this podcast of the Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast series where Ayca, Jeremy and Paul talk to developers who are building awesome solutions on Microsoft 365. In this episode, I had a chance to talk about how OnePlace Solutions started as a small company in Australia and... Continue Reading →
This conference marked the first time I travelled outside of Australia since 2019. As hard as we've all tried with virtual conferences, user groups and meetups this solidifies for me the value of in-person events. I feel I struggled to maintain existing relationships over the last 3 years in the virtual world, and even harder... Continue Reading →
In this episode of the Microsoft "Learn from the Community" series with Ayca Bas, Mathieu Rebuffet and myself discuss our career paths that led us to developing and running commercial products at scale on top of the Microsoft 365 platform and leveraging the Microsoft Azure cloud. We demonstrate some key features of the OnePlaceMail App... Continue Reading →
Lately my VS2022 (17.2.x) Azure Functions projects started failing to run locally. The local console had errors related to not being able to start any of the Timer Triggers. The errors take the format The listener for function 'function name' was unable to start. Azure.Storage.Blobs: Service request failed. This error is related to Azurite (the... Continue Reading →
Using Azure Blob storage to host static website files has been around for many years, it's cheap, effective and fast to setup. It gives you the ability to effectively create a directory with a unique public URL that you can upload your static files to and have them hosted (no need for any web server).... Continue Reading →
I'll be giving two developer oriented sessions at the free Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon conference May 4-6 2022. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon is a free, online, 60-hour event happening May 4-6, 2022. We will have content going the whole time with speakers from around the globe. This event is free for all wanting to attend.... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 