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 →
How to write Azure Kusto queries across multiple Application Insights instances
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 →
Creating your own HTTP Chaos Monkey in 15 Minutes using Fiddler
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 →
Office 365 Developer News from Microsoft Ignite 2019
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 →
Microsoft 365 Saturday Sydney 2019
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 →
2019 Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp Sydney
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 →
Countdown to the European SharePoint Conference 2019
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 →
Using ngrok to get a public HTTPS address for a local server already serving HTTPS (for free)
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 →
How to debug Office Add-ins that use the Edge web browser control
Office add-ins running in the Windows Desktop version of Office products are hosted using an embedded web browser control within the Office product. Traditionally this browser control was based on Internet Explorer (IE). This has changed recently so that later builds of Office are using Edge as the browser control. The technique used to debug... Continue Reading →
How to create a Microsoft Teams Messaging Extension pop-up dialog with a custom UI
Messaging Extensions in Microsoft Teams allow you to pull in data from other systems and insert into the new message the user is composing. This can be an incredible time saver for users and results in consistent and accurate data in the form of a card being inserted into the message. Most of the documentation... Continue Reading →