SharePoint and Office 365 Architect
I’m part of the Microsoft Heroes at Sogeti and this week we had an evening event about DevOps where I did a talk about the operations part of DevOps for Office 365. At my current customer we are preparing Office 365 for deployment to every employee in the Netherlands. So far we had moved 1000…
Continue ReadingAs a follow up on my post from last week I wanted to add some extra data in the terms. This is not possible with the default CSV import that SharePoint has. I mentioned in my previous post that Office Dev PnP has also an option to import terms. And with that option we can…
Continue ReadingThis week I was working with the term store and had to create and import a big chuck of data in the term store. We all know that we have multiple options here Just enter them one by one in the browser (great for a few entries) Use the csv import Use CSOM Use Office…
Continue ReadingThis week I had a customer that has some data in their on-premises Active directory that we needed to use for a custom application in SharePoint Online. This data was placed in the ExtensionAttribute field of the user. With the latest version of Azure AD Connect we have the option to select attributes to sync…
Continue ReadingLast week Microsoft has send an email that on august 15th 2016 the Azure AD token-signing certificate would roll over and that I had some applications that is using this token-signing certificates. The list of applications contains all of them, this was not very useful. Luckily there is a short step-by-step instruction with a link…
Continue ReadingIn my previous post I wrote about using Azure automation to start and stop an Azure VM that is deployed using Resource manager. If you did not read that one I suggest you read it first since I will use that setup and the scripts in this post. The azure automation has a great editor,…
Continue ReadingLast week the news came that the migration of IaaS from the classic deployment to Azure Resource Manager went General Available (GA). (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/iaas-migration-ga/). Not everything can be migrated yet, see this list for the unsupported features for now (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-migration-classic-resource-manager/#unsupported-features-and-configurations) I have a few resources still in the classic deployment model that are supported to move…
Continue ReadingIn the trend of my recent blog post I create a new addition to my automation of Office 365 tasks. This time creating a report with the license consumption per month with PowerShell automation, Azure table storage and Power BI. In this post I will take you with me thru the steps to set this…
Continue ReadingLast week I was getting complaints by users in our Office 365 environment that the address book in Exchange was not up to date. The issues was that users where getting email addresses with the <domain>.onmicrosoft.com as the default email address. The users with these onmicrosoft.com mail addresses where users that are in our on-premises…
Continue ReadingTwo weeks after my visit to SharePoint Saturday Paris I visited SharePoint Saturday Netherlands. The schedule for today was a bit more relaxed than in Paris. We had 4 session slots of 75 minutes with great sessions and more time in between the sessions to have a chat with sponsors, trying out the HoloLens and…
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