Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
So you've developed your application using the Microsoft Graph SDK, you are making calls to the Graph API and things are looking great. Being an awesome developer, you want to make sure that your application can handle any errors that the Graph API might throw at you. The first challenge is trying to figure out... Continue Reading →
After attempting to upgrade my version of Node.js on my Windows 10 machine (directly from the Node.js LTS Windows MSI download) I was left with an install of Node.js where I couldn't use NPM. Anytime I tried to use NPM (Node Package Manager) I would get the following error npm WARN npm does not support... Continue Reading →
Developing and testing your error handling code is really important to ensure the end product is resilient. I've always found this area to be a bit of a minefield when developing against SharePoint and more recently the Microsoft Graph API. I usually resort to using some software that intercepts the calls being made (e.g. Fiddler)... Continue Reading →
While Azure Front Door promises to provide resilience and automatic failure over to alternate backends, I've found it a bit tricky to determine how to eliminate downtime when doing blue/green deployments, or if you want to take a specific backend service offline to perform upgrades or maintenance. It appears I'm not the only one: load... Continue Reading →
My setup is 2 external monitors (displays) and my laptop. My particular laptop is a Surface Pro 6 and I've got the external displays connected via the Surface Dock. I work a lot with Remote Desktop Sessions. Typically my development virtual machine stays open all day full screen on display 3. In this setup I... Continue Reading →
This isn't new functionality of OneNote/Outlook but I've just re-discovered it. I'd been using the 'modern' OneNote (Win 10 App that you could get from Windows Store). This once represented the future of OneNote until Microsoft changed direction and re-stated that future investment would be in the original desktop version of OneNote. I've now taken... Continue Reading →
When trying to enter a person in a SharePoint Person/Groups column you find you are able to search and select users only to encounter this error: Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it. I found this error really... Continue Reading →
I'm a regular listener of the Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast as I find it a great way (and efficient way) to stay across the news and what's happening in this space. My tips as to other ways I keep up to date on the latest news Having listened to the show for so long I... Continue Reading →
What is this event? The Microsoft Graph team (the people that actually make the Graph API) are running a 2hr live streamed event on Learn TV targeted at developers wanting to learn how to build apps using the Microsoft Graph and expedite their journey. Microsoft is running this live stream twice to accommodate different time... Continue Reading →
I'm writing this post not because I'm an expert in CDN configuration but because I found the process of setting up URL redirects using Azure CDN (Verizon Premium) incredibly frustrating due to poor/lack of documentation and examples. In my scenario I had an Amazon Web Services S3 (file storage) that contained installation files for different... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 