I'm OOO on vacation with bad internet connectivity, I will check the mail occasionally, if this is important please mark it as urgent.

How to use Microsoft Flow to manage very critical mails in my vacations

1. Login into Microsoft Flow and start from a template (you can play later to build your own)
2. You  will need a Twilio account to send a message. @Deon Herbert added in the prerequisites of his article a good summary
3. At this point you will need to add your own settings:
   1. On New Email, click Show advanced options and change Importance to High
   2. On Send Message, add your Twilio phone number, and the phone number you want to be notified. You can change the text of the SMS as well.

1. SMTP submission
2. Direct send
3. SMTP relay

SMTP Client Submission

Requirements

• Authentication: You must be able to configure a user name and password to send email on the device.
• Mailbox: You must have a licensed Office 365 mailbox to send email from.
• Transport Layer Security (TLS): Your device must be able to use TLS version 1.0 and above.
• Port: Port 587 (recommended) or port 25 is required and must be unblocked on your network. Some network firewalls or ISPs block ports—especially port 25.

Limitations

Example

$mail = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage( "mailfrom@domain.com" , "mailto@domain.com" ) $mail.Subject = "Correo enviado desde powershell" $mail.IsBodyHtml = $true $mail.Body = @" How to send an email using SMTP Office365 and PowerShell<br> Check technet for details. "@

$client = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient( "smtp.office365.com" , 587 ) $client.EnableSsl = $true $client.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential( "user@tenant.com", "password" ) $client.Send( $mail )

• You open Notifications (Windows key + A) and there is no Bluetooth icon
• You Settings > Devices and there is no Bluetooth option

• Open a new message from the user to send a question from the Employee Intranet
• Populate mail with workflow information and use builtin user capabilities to add attachment files or policies
• Automate Meetings or events in the user calendar

1. URL for mail has added a /owa/ section
2. All the parameters should be in URL encoded(Hex value of the UTF-8 bytes), and
3. Outlook domain could be https://outlook.office.com/ or https://outlook.live.com

Yesterday was published a preview service that you may have been waiting for. Would you like to move data faster to your awesome OneDrive for Business?

Would it be great to find out a quicker way to migrate content that you have on premise or that you have sanitized from your fileshares?

Take a look at Office 365 Import Service if your are in the described regions you can use this preview service.

From there you can check the steps to set it up https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt210445.aspx

:)

Namaste!

This is the right time to start blogging again about Office and Windows. Just with the recent announcement of SharePoint Server 2016 Preview, and all things rolling out from Office 365, plus Windows 10 innovation next year will be awesome :). I wanted to highlight two initiatives that came out this summer:

Office UI Fabric is a responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework for developers, designed to make it simple to quickly create web experiences using the Office Design Language. Think about it as your framework to build Office Add-ins and Apps, no matter your platform. (remember coming cross-platform add-ins were announced at \\build). This will bring you:

• Common Style in your solutions aligned with Office across platforms
• Reusable components to use and bind (a nice list is at https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric/blob/master/ghdocs/COMPONENTS.md )

1. Design guidelines for Office Add-ins
2. GitHub Repo Office UI Fabric with SourceCode and Documentation
3. Office 365 JavaScript controls

For the management/devops part :), the

Office IT Pro Deployment Script project, is a new driven community GitHub project were you can contribute in a collection of PowerShell scripts focus on simplifying IT activities. A gem there is Office Click-To-Run Configuration XML Editor a web based editor that allows you to graphically generate and edit the configuration file used with Office Click-To-Run deployments. Of Course this is an extension to the existing Powershell Repository that you should chek out as well                    

So check the repo, use it, give feedback and contribute!

Bye!

When you implement your client-side logic in a Silverlight application, there are two approaches you can use to access services in other domains from the client. The first approach
is to deploy a service facade, or proxy, to the domain that hosts your SharePoint server. This allows your Silverlight application to access the service within its own domain and avoids any cross-domain issues.

You can also use this approach for JavaScript clients. The principal advantage is that the services facade can reuse the credentials associated with the browser session in order to
authenticate the consumer of the service. However, there are various disadvantages. The approach adds an additional "hop" to the service interactions. It can be complicated to preserve the identity of a user across a double hop to the service; for example, NTLM authentication cannot be used over a double hop. This approach also requires that you develop and deploy a services facade. If you are constrained to the sandbox execution environment,
you may also be unable to deploy this kind of server-side component. Therefore, the reference implementation does not demonstrate this approach.

The second approach is to use the Silverlight application to access the external service directly. As described in RIA Technologies: Benefits, Tradeoffs, and Considerations, the domain that hosts the service must define a client access policy (clientaccesspolicy.xml) file that permits access from Silverlight clients across domain boundaries. The Silverlight External Service interface in the reference implementation demonstrates this by deploying a service to a different port (which constitutes a different domain) on the SharePoint server.

This pattern was/is very important in the new apps for SharePoint, where we leverage this functionality with the cross domain library and indeed you can find it at all levels:SPWebApplication.CrossDomainPhotosEnabled just check out Wictor post!

Bye!.

By the way, one of the articles I found was the Secure Cross-Domain Communication in the Browser written by http://dannythorpe.com/about/ involved in the past in the  cross-domain in-browser communication channel API for Windows Live. 

I'm pretty sure you have tried to search in Google or Bing the answer to a math operation, and you got an instant result that matches exactly that.

When you read about this scenario,talking about SharePoint 2013, "A search result, suggestion, or recommendation is more relevant when it better satisfies the intent of the person who issues the query", you can see how powerful can be to "understand" what your users are trying to find, and as a result give them that specific answer.

I will show you how to include that behavior in SharePoint 2013 using the new features. Specifically Query Rules and Custom Display Templates. I will not cover here what are those features, you have great info in Steve Peschka blog (well may be next year I will talk about just a little bit ;)).

Let's show the result and then go through the steps:

Here the user has asked for the result of 12*5, this was a match for the configured condition (Query Rule) and then a specific "relevant" result was shown (Result Block) with a custom visualization (Display Template). You can just start imagine different examples where you can add Instant answers to your users in your organization:

1. Translate content with action words, "Translate some_fancy_word to spanish"
2. Integrate Line of Business applications, "Create a new support case" "Projects with Customer X"
3. Get specific information, "Last report for Customer Y"

to mention some examples.

So to set up the scenario with the math operation, the following elements will need to be created and deployed,

Item_Calculator.html (and a file associated with it named Item_Calculator.js)

This will display the calculator and will manage the math operations. A summary of the most relevant parts (Item_Calculator.html):

Head tag

General properties (ex. display template name), design view styles and the necessary properties from the search service. In the scenario chosen none specific managed property will be used as  the result is based on just the query.

Body tag

Before calculators' container (div) the styles and JavaScript code will be referenced, in order to add the functionality and visualization code.

<script>
 $includeCSS(this.url, "~sitecollection/Style Library/calc/style.css");
 $includeLanguageScript(this.url, "~sitecollection/Style Library/calc/script.js");
 </script> 

then all the specific HTML code that will be rendered will be inside the <div id="Item_Calculator">.Here a callback to the final calculation, after control rendering, will be executed with the user's query.

<!--#_
 AddPostRenderCallback(ctx, function()
 { 
 calculate(document.getElementById('box').value);
 });
 
 if(!$isNull(ctx.DataProvider)){
 var calValue = ctx.DataProvider.get_currentQueryState().k;
 _#-->
 

the user's query will be put in the calculator's box with its value

<input id="box" type="text" value="_#= $htmlEncode(calValue) =#_">

Item_Calculator.html and Item_Calculator.js should be placed in "/_catalogs/masterpage/display templates" OOB folder

script.js and style.css should be placed in "/Style Library/calc/" custom folder

Query Rule

On the other hand, a rule will need to be configured matching this query and using the result.

You need to go to Site Settings->Query Rules and create a new Rule based on a source (in my case Local SharePoint Results), with the following information: a name, the condition (Advanced Query Match as we want to include a regular expression that matches the operations: [^d]*[/*/+][^d]*) and the result block; with defaults, one result and our Calculator Item Display Template.

This will allow the system to detect when a math operation is requested and display the result block previously configured.

You can download the source code from codeplex.

 There were some things that came out doing this, that I will talk about in next posts: eval is evil, browser support of JSON, debugging display templates, display templates pipeline and circular references

Ciao!

Do you remember this post? :) I do. Really nice to see that you can use Netmon with SharePoint, just one year after my "prediction" :)

Although the original place was codeplex, latest versions had moved to Microsoft Connect (Windows and SQL).

So how will it look like? You will need to install netmon, the specific SharePoint parsers...and have an installation of SharePoint.

You have a great article about Using Network Monitor with the Microsoft Office and SharePoint Products Parsers, so I will just share a quick scenario with SharePoint 2013.

There are many filters available, although from the two samples list I put, just the first one exists: MS-SITEDATS.npl.(I would say that due the fact of the evolution in the search space with SharePoint 2013, for search,filters will come in the future).

This will be my scenario: Windows Server 2012, SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 2013. The installation of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 went like a charm, although Windows 8 is not listed as supported. Then the Network Monitor Parsers 3.4.2590 3.4.2774 and SharePoint parsers.

You will need to install version 3.4.2774 instead of the suggested in downloads section, as the latest will give you a "The parser dotnetremotinghttpchannel.npl installed by the NetWorkMonitor_Parsers package is not compatible with this package. Please visit http://nmparsers.codeplex.com/releases for more information" error in the SharePoint parsers installation.

 We have the environment available, so:

1. Open Network monitor->parser profiles->Parser profiles options->[right click Office]->Set As Active
1. This will make available the SharePoint parsers
2. New Capture -> Start
3. Open Word 2013 -> new Halloween template
4. Save into a SharePoint Site

you can see the use of MSFSSHTTP.

Bye!

I'm just returning back to share with you 1 year of ideas :) It is the right time, just with SharePoint Server 2013,Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 out there (and many many new things).

As I was working in SharePoint Server 2013 using the IE App on Windows 8, I realized that snapped view is really useful to interact between apps or to do some multithreaded work ;). Just to mention the most common, in order to drag and drop files ¡you need it!. If you test it, you will discover that its use is cumbersome, as the full page is auto-scaled. You can read more info in the IE Blog: Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes, and an example is shown in the screenshot below:

Reviewing one of my posts about media queries, I did a quick test, in order to improve the experience with snapped view mode. I added a reference to a custom css, with

@media screen and (max-width: 400px) {
 
 @-ms-viewport {width: 400px;} 
 
 #sideNavBox {display:none;}
 
 #mysite-titlerow {display:none;}
 
 #contentBox {margin-left:10px;min-width:200px;}
 
 #fullscreenmodebox {display:none;}
 
 #onetidDoclibViewTbl0 th:nth-child(5){display:none;}
 
 #onetidDoclibViewTbl0 th:nth-child(6){display:none;}
 
 #onetidDoclibViewTbl0 th:nth-child(7){display:none;}
 
 #onetidDoclibViewTbl0 td:nth-child(5){display:none;}
 
 #onetidDoclibViewTbl0 td:nth-child(6){display:none;}
 
 #onetidDoclibViewTbl0 td:nth-child(7){display:none;}
 
 }
 

 to remove title, leftnav and OOB columns in the list view (this test was done with a document library and default behaviour). Then you can see the experience is a bit different :)

 a large image to see differences:

Maybe in the future we have this sort of behaviour OOB in SharePoint, but you should think about it when you customize, configure or build your Apps.

Namaste!