Last week, at Microsofts SharePoint Virtual Summit, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jeff Teper unveiled the roadmap for SharePoint. Not the entire roadmap, off-cource. You'll need to be at Ignite 2017 to get that information :-) But at our Sogeti headquarters in Vianen, we invited our SharePoint specialists and some of our customers to watch the roadmap together. The keynote went into the Office 365 suite on a whole. Collaboration does not have a "one size fits all" solution. That's why … [Read more...]
Microsoft Build 2017 – Day 3
Today was the third and final day of Microsoft Build. The first two days were full of exciting announcements and excellent sessions. Peter wrote about day 1 (in Dutch) and Annejan wrote a post about day 2. The Future of Visual Studio Saqib Shaikh, you may know him from the Seeing AI project video, is a software developer with Microsoft and he is also blind. Live on stage he gave a demonstration of how he works, writing a hello world application with speech within minutes. Very … [Read more...]
Microsoft Build 2017 – Day 2
The first day of Build 2017 was packed with exciting announcements and great content, such as the announcement of IoT Edge, new stuff on .NET Core and .NET Standard, a lot of work on AI and ML, and much more; see Peter's write-up for some more detail (in Dutch). So let's see if the second day can top this :). Keynote The Thursday keynote was pretty much centered around Windows 10, and more specifically the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, that will include new features such as OneDrive Files … [Read more...]
Microsoft Build 2017 – Dag 1
Op de eerste dag van Build in Seattle maakt Microsoft het heel duidelijk; AI wordt de toekomst. De tooling en SDKs die vanaf nu beschikbaar zijn maken het eenvoudiger om snel applicaties te schrijven die gebruikmaken van de geavanceerde services die Microsoft biedt op het gebied van cognitieve apps. Keynote Tijdens de Keynote zijn veel nieuwe diensten aangekondigd, en dat is uiteraard te zien op Channel 9. Erg indrukwekkend was de demonstratie van de verzameling van nieuwe cognitive services … [Read more...]
Working with dates & times in Microsoft Flow
Recently I found out that the Workflow Definition Language schema for Azure Logic Apps is also supported in Microsoft Flow. This makes it a lot easier to work with dates and times. You can use the "Data Operations - Compose" action to work with those dates. Dates For a workflow it can be very useful to get the current date, day, month or even year. To do this, the following scenarios are possible: Datetime The above code snippet will return … [Read more...]
Using tokens for custom settings in VSTS CICD Pipelines
In this blog I will explain how to separate your settings from your configuration files, when deploying from VSTS. I will show with an example how you can deploy your WebApp and store all variables in VSTS, eliminating the need for developers to have all settings and configurable values within Web.config transformation files. When deploying your WebApp to various on-premise environments from VSTS, you can use Web.config transformations for separation of your various variables. But, sometimes, … [Read more...]
SharePoint Saturday Munich 2017
This year of SharePoint Saturday's started with the one in Munich last weekend. This time there was also a preconference session on Friday. The sessions on Friday and Saturday were held at the brand-new building of Microsoft Germany. Friday session This year they organized two preconference sessions. A developer one about Office Dev PnP and an IT Pro about SharePoint 2016. I went to the SharePoint 2016 session where they talked about all the aspects of SharePoint 20116. They started with the … [Read more...]
Post Yammer announcements through a button triggered Flow with approval
At multiple clients, I always see that there are (content management) groups created for different content. For instance: the communications department is in control of the corporate news, but announcements are being posted by the facilities department – when for instance the fire alarms are being tested – but also by IT – when there is an issue with some IT system – and sometimes by the communications department. More and more communication departments I meet are afraid they aren’t in … [Read more...]
Upgrading an Office 365 Group to a Microsoft Team
Since a Microsoft Teams depends on Office 365 Groups and creating a Microsoft Team creates an Office 365 Group I wanted to know if it was possible to upgrade an already existing Office 365 Group to a Microsoft Team. This is possible but you need to keep a few things in mind to have the ability to upgrade a Microsoft Team. So let's first start at the beginning, creating a Microsoft Team can be done within the Microsoft Team application by clicking on "Create team" and you will get this simple … [Read more...]
Share Flows with your colleagues
The Microsoft Flow team added the capability to share your Flows with colleagues. This could be very handy when you want to collaborate with others on a Flow. You are able to share Flows by clicking the people icon in the "My flows" overview: This will lead you to a screen where you can add owners. To add someone else as an owner you can add them by names, email adresses or you can add groups. When you add someone as an owner, they will be able to edit, update and delete the flow. … [Read more...]
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