Blog posts

    Azure Functions, SharePoint Webhooks and PnP - Part1

    I would like to show you how to use Azure Functions along with SharePoint WebHooks. Besides, I will show you how to use environmental variables (app settings) and code from external libraries (like the PnP Core) within the code of your Azure functions.

    The Future of Microsoft Teams, O365 Groups and Yammer #1

    Microsoft Teams went into General Availability earlier this month, and with no immediately obvious guidelines on how it related to / differed from Office 365 Groups and Yammer, hundreds of posts popped up asking for and discussing the differences and trying to help others make an informed decision on which product to take forward.

    Modern Team Sites and Pages Behind the Scenes

    In this article, I will talk about Modern Team Sites and Pages, as these have been available for a while in our Office 365 tenants.

    [SPFx] Extending Gulp and running tasks in series (or in parallel)

    As you may already know, the new SharePoint framework uses Gulp for all the “compilation” tasks: bundle JavaScript files, generate the package file, etc. However, when we have to create our own Gulp tasks, it doesn’t follow the “normal” mechanism of Gulp, so we can’t just add a new “Task” in the “Gulpfile.js”

    Continuous Integration in SharePoint with Team Services and PnP

    In this article, we will see how we can use the PnP framework with Visual Studio Team Services to configure a Continuous Integration Build in SharePoint Projects. The most part of what we will show in this article, works also for SharePoint On Premises, but the different screenshots or pieces of code are aimed at SharePoint Online.

    Yammer Tips - Part 2

    We're back to round off our Yammer tips this month. We found last month's article was greatly received and appreciated by many of our clients trying to engage their colleagues in the Yammer experience. As a result we're going to be highlighting useful tips and tricks for other Microsoft applications.

    Migrating a Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure

    In the last few weeks I’ve been working on a study of how easy or hard it would be to migrate a whole SharePoint farm built on Hyper-V Virtual Machines to Azure IaaS. I must begin with saying that I’m not an infrastructure expert, as in my daily work I’m focused on SharePoint development stuff, but I’ve played a bit with Azure in the past, and specially, managing Azure from PowerShell scripts, as I’m a PowerShell Script lover.

    Custom Extensibility Handlers for PnP Provisioning Framework

    Following the series of articles talking about the PnP Provisioning framework, we will see how to create our own ExtensibilityHandlers, adding our own actions, when exporting a site as a template, or when provisioning a template to a new site.

    PnP Provisioning framework

    An important announcement that is not in the article, but that Vesa Juvonen announced during the bi-weekly team Webcast, is that the PnP program will become part of the SharePoint product group, which means that the program is still Open Source and made by and for the community but, in some way, Microsoft recognises the success and good work of the program, and, in my opinion, the product team will begin to use it internally.

    Restore Multiple SQL Server Databases Backup

    Our guide to restoring multiple SQL Server database Backups