Share-n-dipity
SharePoint serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. In this case, it is the occassional musings, observations, and Ouija board readings about the phabulously
Office 365 Search Monitoring at Office365Mon
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Date: 05/02/2016
The Office365Mon REST APIs Continue to Grow
// At Office365Mon we love, love, love developers, so we continue to invest in growing the APIs we...
Date: 03/18/2016
Office 365 Outage Notifications the Way You Want Them – Announcing Webhooks at Office365Mon
// From day one Office365Mon has made short work of letting you set up monitoring for your Office...
Date: 02/29/2016
New Year-Over-Year Reporting at Office365Mon
// We just released a mini-feature that our long and loyal customer base will appreciate. For those...
Date: 02/12/2016
The New Azure Converged Auth Model and Office 365 APIs
// Microsoft is currently working on a new authentication and authorization model that is simply...
Date: 02/03/2016
Know When Your Azure Identity Won’t Work with Office 365 APIs
// As those of you who are familiar with Office365Mon know, we heavily leverage the Office 365 APIs...
Date: 01/15/2016
Invalid Client Secret when Publishing Azure AD Secured Apps
// Back to my old nemesis…the long very long blog post title. :-) I ran across this problem...
Date: 12/15/2015
Newly Released – Analyze your Office 365 Outage Data in Power BI
// We’re very happy today to announce the release of new integration between the Office365Mon...
Date: 12/14/2015
How To Monitor Multiple Mailboxes and Sites with Office365Mon
// As we’ve had more and more interest from customers wanting to monitor multiple mailboxes...
Date: 11/02/2015
Azure B2B First Look
// This is a companion piece to the Azure B2C First Look I published last week. This post is some...
Date: 09/26/2015
Azure B2C First Look
// I’ve spent some time the last couple of days working with the new Azure B2C features and...
Date: 09/22/2015
Hooking the onSwitchChange Event in Bootstrap Switch
// Okay I’ll admit that this is a little on the arcane side but…it’s one of those...
Date: 09/01/2015
Parsing an SMS Message from Twilio
// The explosion of text messaging is a foregone conclusion, and apps have been catching up to the...
Date: 08/18/2015
Office365Mon is Making it Easier to Get Help During Outages and Getting Refunds When You’ve Earned Them
// We’ve recently rolled out a couple of new features that we think will continue to make...
Date: 08/13/2015
Debugging a Windows Service Startup Method
// It’s been a long time since I wrote a Windows service but…I was doing that today and...
Date: 07/27/2015
Office365Mon Partners with Microsoft Office 365
// Hi everybody, We could not have picked a more appropriate day to announce this. Office 365...
Date: 07/17/2015
Getting an Azure Access Token for a Web Application Entirely in Code
// I generally find using Azure Active Directory for securing my resources to be a joyous thing, but...
Date: 06/03/2015
It’s A Reporting Extravaganza at Office365Mon – Now You Can Create Your Own Reports
// One of the things we’ve learned from our many years working in the software industry is...
Date: 05/29/2015
Do You Need An Account In Azure Active Directory if Using ADFS?
// Today’s topic is a little spin on a question that seems to be coming up more frequently,...
Date: 05/26/2015
The Post Ignite Feature Blast
// A Couple Weeks after Ignite It’s been about two weeks since Microsoft Ignite. I wanted to...
Date: 05/26/2015
Fun with Azure Key Vault Services
// I was able to spend a little time recently with a new Azure service, the Key Vault service, for...
Date: 05/01/2015
Office365Mon – The First Month in Review
// Today is a special day for Office365Mon. We have been live for exactly one month. You all have...
Date: 05/01/2015
How Office365Mon’s Free Services Got Me a Refund on my SharePoint Online Bill
// One of the original goals I always had for Office365Mon was the hope that at some point it should...
Date: 05/01/2015
How to Fix the OpenId Access Denied When User Won’t Grant Rights at Login
// Okay, so the title may not be the clearest thing ever here today, but it’s tough to do in...
Date: 04/10/2015
Do You Know When Your Office365 Tenant Is Down...Because Now You Can (for free)
// As you all know, I have worked extensively with customers who run On-Premise servers and those on...
Date: 03/18/2015
Using Roles in Azure Applications
// I was spending some time today (finally) looking at how to get what I really consider the...
Date: 03/09/2015
Why I’m Leaving Microsoft…and Starting SamlMan
// As I’m sure some of you noticed last week, I switched over all of my blogs from the former...
Date: 03/06/2015
Using Azure AD as an Identity Provider with ADFS for SharePoint 2013
// I had someone ask me about this topic a couple times in the last few weeks so I decided it was...
Date: 03/05/2015
Bug Alert for April CU and Migrating Users
// Just heard about a nasty little bug in the April CU from my friend Syed. He was using the...
Date: 03/03/2015
How To Delete An App You Consented to in Azure AD
// In many ways this is a companion piece to the post I just published on solving an issue with...
Date: 02/22/2015
The Account Needs to be Added as an External User in the Tenant with Azure AD Apps
// This is an error I see pop up in various discussions forums every now and then and tracking it...
Date: 02/22/2015
Fixing the Provided App differs from Another App with the Same Version and Product ID Error in Office 365
// I started hitting this little gem of an error recently and was ready to pull out the little...
Date: 02/18/2015
OneDriveBrowser and o365 APIs with A Custom Persistent Store for ADAL Token Cache
// In this post I’m going to briefly cover a custom token cache that I wrote for use with...
Date: 01/19/2015
Signout With SharePoint 2013 and SAML
// Today's topic is one for which I deserve zero credit, I'm just putting out info that one...
Date: 01/15/2015
Using the o365 APIs and ADAL to Send Email from an Unattended Process
// UPDATE: We just posted a blog on a new and better way to do this! Check out the blog post at...
Date: 01/07/2015
Another Cool Way to Remotely Debug Azure Web Sites
// When I was working on a project last week I was having some problems getting the debugging...
Date: 01/05/2015
OneDrive for Business Browser Using o365 APIs
// I’ve been spending a lot of time recently talking to different partners and customers about...
Date: 01/05/2015
Using ADAL Access Tokens with o365 REST APIs and CSOM
// Many fine folks were generous enough to point out to me this week that you can now (actually...
Date: 12/17/2014
OAuth, o365 APIs and Azure Service Management APIs – Using Them All Together
// I’ve been spending some time lately fooling around the o365 API’s. Frankly, it has...
Date: 12/08/2014
SQL Azure Connection String Settings for Visual Studio Projects Deployed to Azure Web Sites
// I recently spent HOURS looking for a silly little SQL Azure connection string in my Visual Studio...
Date: 11/21/2014
Desktop SharePoint Apps for SAML Secured SharePoint Sites
// Continuing on with the theme of SAML secured SharePoint sites and SharePoint Apps, this next...
Date: 11/17/2014
Developing Low Trust Provider Hosted Apps with SAML Authentication in SharePoint 2013
// Low trust provider hosted apps in a SAML secured SharePoint web application is a scenario that...
Date: 10/02/2014
An Updated ClaimsTokenHelper for SharePoint 2013 High Trust Apps and SAML
// When Visual Studio 2013 came out, it introduced a new class and simplified methods for obtaining...
Date: 09/30/2014
Configuring SharePoint Hosted Apps with SAML Authentication in SharePoint 2013
NOTE: This is a sampling of some content we're preparing for working with SharePoint Apps and...
Date: 09/30/2014
New and Improved Architecture Guidance for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Features
// This post is an update to the original architectural guidance I published previously at...
Date: 09/11/2014
You Start Getting a 401 Unauthorized Error When Using the SharePoint Hybrid Features After Applying April 2014 CU or Later
// This sounds scarily like a KB article, which I don't do, so we'll just jump straight to...
Date: 08/28/2014
Developing and Deploying Multiple SharePoint 2013 Apps to a Single Azure Web Site
// Today’s topic is one that came about after I heard some folks kind of unhappy about using...
Date: 08/12/2014
CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 6
// In Part 5 of this series we looked at all of the different ways in which CloudTopia is integrated...
Date: 08/11/2014
CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 5
// In Part 4 of this series we looked at the integration with various Azure services in the...
Date: 08/11/2014