Site collection based conditional access I will have to be fair. I planned to write a blog about the conditional access to specific site collections within SharePoint Online. This is a feature by Microsoft which should be available in first release tenants, as of september 1st 2017. But...... it isn't (as yet). At the end of this blog, you will find the required PowerShell cmdlet. But at this moment (september 15th) this cmdlet did not work in my tenant. So instead, I will detail how you … [Read more...]
Handling Custom Azure Event Grid Events
Lately I've been exploring the new possibilities opened up by Azure Event Grid, which was introduced last month. Azure Event Grid is a fully managed platform for publishing and subscribing to event notifications. It is intended to ultimately encompass all Azure services as event publishers and/or subscribers but it also allows for custom, non-Azure participants. At this point, the following publishers and handlers are available: For a little bit of background information on how AEG … [Read more...]
Application configuration settings guidelines and practices.
Handling configuration settings for environments/ development stages is not always easy and straight forward. Application characteristics, platform capabilities, business and security requirements are different per system you build and release. Although all application differ it is always good to have guidance. Guidance in the form of guidelines, practices and opinions that worked and are adopted in projects will provide a consistent, flexible and secure way of working. On GitHub an example … [Read more...]
ASP Net Core AAD User and Groups Manager on GitHub.
Just put our AAD User and Groups Manager Application on GitHub. A WebApp for end users to control AAD entries in an easy, comfortable and still controlled way. The WebApp is built with ASP Net Core 1.0, Google Material Design Lite, Azure Automation Runbooks and the AAD Graph API. The App separates responsibilities during the creation of AAD Users and Groups in two areas. The front office triggers the creation or editing of a user and assigns groups via the App. the Backoffice, AAD … [Read more...]
Deploy and host static content in Azure Blob storage
Hosting static HTML and CSS in Azure Blob storage is pretty simple. Using the Storage Explorer it is as simple as drag-and-drop. But when you want to integrate this in your VSTS pipeline, content type issues arise. This tiny blog will explain how to identify and fix this problem. … [Read more...]
Small tip for Win10 Ubuntu and access GIT local repo with Visual Studio Code
Installing Ubuntu on Windows 10 is pretty easy now it is available as an app in the Store. Too bad for all non insiders, the App store version is only available for insiders Win10 environments. Still no problem ,you only have to install it the old way. Something that recently has changed on the installation is that the Linux file is hidden in your AppData folder. And it is highly recommended not to though it. When you want to control your GIT repo from this Ubuntu installation you have to do … [Read more...]
Office 365 data retention – then and now
The Sogeti Smart Workspace offers a great platform for collaboration and document management (amongst others). But although working is such in environment is becoming more and more intuitive and easy, we must not underestimate the need for data retention and -management. In this article I explain the options for data retention. Working from the possibilities in the (not so distant) past to the new functions of Office 365. Those of us who have worked with data retention, SharePoint and Office … [Read more...]
Text Analytics – Dutch Support
Recently, Microsoft added Dutch language support for the Text Analysis API within the Cognitive Services stack. In this blogpost I will show how to determine the sentiment of a newsfeed in Dutch. The importance of language support Most development articles are written in English. Most documentation is written in English. I'm Dutch and even I am blogging in English! With the rise of chatbots and other dialogue based UX apps, native language support becomes ever more important. Think of an … [Read more...]
Timestamps in the Azure IoT messaging flow
Timestamps are important for monitoring and testing the IoT messaging flow. In this blog you’ll find which timestamps are available when using Microsoft Azure IoT services. … [Read more...]
Emotion Recognition using WPF
A lot of examples of the Cognitive Services include UWP applications and samples. But sometimes you have to support older operating systems, that force you to fall back on techniques like WPF. The use of webcams in WPF is not included by default in the framework. In this blog I will explain how to implement the Emotion API and build a WPF application capturing your webcam. A sample of an application you can create shown in the following screenshot. This application shows the realtime … [Read more...]
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