Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multimodel database service designed to help you achieve fast, predictable performance. It scales seamlessly along with your application as it grows. This blog explains exactly how it works and what to do in some scenarios. But in my work as Cloud Architect I sometimes need to dig deeper and figure out if my solution scales for a particular case. For example, a 'partition' has a maximum size of 10GB, so it is really, really important to understand … [Read more...]
Heroes Academy #7 Slides
Deze blogpost bevat alle slides die getoond zijn tijdens de 7e Heroes Academy Arnout van der Plas: SharePoint Dashboard Daan Oosters: Visualisatie Workshop Daan Oosters Robin Neven: Visualisatie Workshop Robin Neven Jurgen Forster: RevealJS … [Read more...]
Having Azure Active Directory, Azure Information Protection and SharePoint work together
Managing sensitive content is no easy task. Especially when we have so many content and even more ways of storing and sharing these. How can we make sure that the sensitive content is sufficiently protected but without undermining the usefulness of all the platforms we use to store it? All these cloud apps Some time ago a CloudTech research estimated that more than 15% of European organisations use more than 1000 cloud apps, with Google Drive, Facebook, and Twitter the most popular. And … [Read more...]
LogicApp Template Creator
When trying to put your LogicApp code in a CICD pipeline, it is always problematic getting your code into a proper template. Obviously switching to 'LogicApp Code View' is an option, but there is a better solution to this problem. LogicAppTemplate is a PowerShell commandlet that makes is very easy to get the content (even automatically) of the app and save it to disk. The usage is very simple, open up a PowerShell window and execute the next command: Big thanks to Jeff Hollan who … [Read more...]
What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 1 – Moving to Agile & the Cloud
What would you do if you had the opportunity to have a look inside the kitchen of a Michelin Star restaurant? Not only would you be able to look around, you will even be able to meet members of the team who will explain to you what they did to get their Michelin Star. I bet that if you have a love for cooking, you would jump on the opportunity to learn from the best. … [Read more...]
Test Windows applications with Appium and JavaScript.
A sample implementation is available on GitHub.Appium is an opensource test framework for validating native and web apps. It can drive iOS, Android and Windows applications via the well-known Selenium WebDriver protocol.Appium can be used from any tool, any language, any test tool and for any platform, if there are is a WebDriver for the platform and language-specific client libraries for the Selenium WebDriver API.Platform, Windows.To run validations on the Windows platform Microsoft offers an … [Read more...]
Debugging Azure Functions with LogicApps locally
Azure Functions are a great example of how serverless is conquering the cloud world we live in today. There are also many blogs in how-to-write-functions out there, of which the latest use the precompiled functions, in Visual Studio 2017. Think of a scenario, where you want to test a LogicApp against your function, but that app obviously cannot connect to localhost. You have two options; You can deploy the Functions app to Azure and use remote debugging or you can use your own localhost, with … [Read more...]
Azure Information Protection scanner in public preview
On Wednesday October 18th Microsoft introduced the public preview of the Azure Information Protection scanner. I was lucky enough to participate in the private preview of this new client. And I was surprised by the speed and workings of this scanner. So what’s it all about? AzureIP scanner You might know Azure Information Protection as a software-client. A client used within Office or the desktop filesystem to label and protect documents. Or you might be aware of the PowerShell options of the … [Read more...]
Deploy LogicApps using linked templates
Deploying LogicApps with VSTS is easy. You can create a new project using the steps defined in this post and you are all set with deployment settings in place. But, when you add more and more LogicApps your JSON file will grow and you might be better off putting each LogicApp within its own JSON. Not to speak of the parameters running wild within your files... This post will explain how to set this up, and what is needed in your VSTS builds to enable the deployment of all the linked apps. … [Read more...]
Intune and SharePoint Online working together. Secure access to SharePoint content using unmanaged devices
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...]
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