Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
Azure Application Insights is great for easily adding telemetry to your application across a variety of languages (.Net web apps, Azure functions, .Net Framework / Core apps, JavaScript SPAs and more). The telemetry is logged back to an Application Insights instance in your Azure tenant. You can then view all the reported telemetry via the... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of virtually emerging from my COVID bunker to present at the amazing M365 May event. This was my first virtual presentation experience and although a little weird to not have people to talk to and interact with, I still had a lot of fun. Thank you to everyone that joined the... Continue Reading →
The new blog series "A Lap Around the Microsoft Graph Toolkit" is a great way to start. Short, easy to read and digest posts that take you from zero knowledge. I wrote todays post about the mgt-get component that allows you to securely show any data set from the Microsoft Graph in a couple of... Continue Reading →
When writing Kusto queries it is often useful to be able to write queries that span multiple Application Insight instances. This is especially true for micro-services where each service has it's own Application Insight instance. I've tried several times in the past to write cross instance queries and failed to find a way even though... Continue Reading →
You've written your awesome web app and you've been an awesome developer by handling those pesky intermittent connectivity issues that happen now and again when making HTTP requests. Typically you are doing this by catching the common HTTP Error Status Codes and performing retries. When it comes to testing you will want to methodically test... Continue Reading →
30,000+ people at a single conference amazes me. The shear size of the food halls prepped and ready to go is epic. Navigating the conference schedule is daunting - there's over 1000 sessions and it's so easy to be present at the conference and yet miss a lot of announcements. While I don't pretend to... Continue Reading →
Thanks to everyone that came along to the Microsoft 365 Saturday at the Microsoft Reactor. It was great to see so many passionate people come together on a Saturday to discuss Microsoft 365 technologies. These days are amazing opportunities to connect and learn from some of Australia's most knowledgeable experts in these technologies and I... Continue Reading →
We recently ran the Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp at the Microsoft Reactor in Sydney, and it was a sold out event! A room full of eager developers made for a fun day. The major subjects covered were Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint Framework Extensions and Microsoft Teams. We naturally saw a lot of interest from... Continue Reading →
The countdown is on to the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference – just 7 weeks to go! If you are planning to attend, you or your team can use my coupon code ESPC19SPK to receive a special €100 discount. Book tickets. Join me on Wednesday 4th of December for my session “Building Office Add-ins Overview: Integrate. Dominate.” Office add-ins have the potential to keep... Continue Reading →
The scenario here is that you've got a local web server already serving up a web application over https. You want to be able to access the web application from another machine/device hence you are using ngrok to provide a public URL. By default ngrok assumes that your local web server is just serving http... Continue Reading →
