Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
The Digital Workplace Conference is set to hit Sydney next week and is in it's 10th year! This conference has a rich history in the SharePoint community in Australia and New Zealand, and in recent years has grown into an all up Office 365/Azure conference with a focus on getting the most out of the... Continue Reading →
I've been using the new Microsoft Edge browser as my default browser now for several weeks. I initially missed some Chrome extensions that made my life a little easier and the Microsoft Edge Extensions store hasn't got much to offer yet. That was until I realised that Microsoft has made it possible to install extensions... Continue Reading →
We are living through the age of digital transformation, where businesses are finding new and novel ways to embrace technology to change processes and gain competitive advantages. This has seen almost all of our once paper based documentation make it's way into digital form. The core Office product suite of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook... Continue Reading →
Fiddler is one of those development tools that makes me wonder what I did before it was around. If you've been hiding under a rock for the last decade (or just getting into web development) Fiddler is a web debugging proxy and it's super useful for developers to see all the HTTP network traffic. Once... Continue Reading →
I had been using Application Insights for a while with a Web API project and found it immensely valuable for monitoring how the Web API was performing and discovering any issues in production. I only recently stumbled across the fact that for ASP.NET projects, the Application Insights telemetry is surfaced and available in your source... Continue Reading →
I stumbled across this list of SharePoint blogs to follow in 2019. You never know the metrics used or logic behind these lists but I'm honoured to have this blog site listed at number 14! Not quite sure I how I ended up that high on the list. For those reading this you probably already... Continue Reading →
When creating more complex PowerPoint slides you may need to overlap objects or entirely cover object with others. This can make objects very hard to select as they are underneath each other. There is an easier way than just clicking with increasing frustration! Home | Drawing | Arrange | Position Objects | Selection Pane... Now... Continue Reading →
This is the continuation of my experience with testing the auto-scaling capabilities of the Azure App Service. The first post dealt with scaling out as load increases, and this post deals with scaling back in when load decreases. On the Scale Out blade of the App Service Plan you can see the current number of... Continue Reading →
I was recently testing the automatic scaling capabilities of Azure App Service plans. I had a static website and a Web API running off the same Azure App Service plan. It was a Production S1 Plan. The static website was small (less than 10MB) and the Web API exposed a single method which did some... Continue Reading →
