Having fun with IoT Flic buttons and Microsoft Flow Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:00 PM Toni Pohl I just got a cute Flic button to play around with. It takes only some minutes to connect that IoT button to a connector and execute customs tasks. Well, as first step, I simply created a message in a Microsoft Teams channel. See the step-by-step instructions here. App | Cloud | IoT | Microsoft | Microsoft Teams | Logic apps | Flow | English | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Secure a web on Azure with an Azure Active Directory Multi-Tenant App Friday, March 1, 2019 8:00 AM Toni Pohl Azure offers a great platform for multiple types of apps and services, Web Apps are one of the PaaS service, we are using much. In some scenarios, it makes sense to host a static website on Azure, but to restrict access just for authenticated users. Well, AAD can help you with that by demanding a successful login with an Office 365 account. See how this works here. Azure | App | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Convert a Markdown document to PDF easily Thursday, January 3, 2019 8:00 AM Toni Pohl I am a big fan of the lightweight and super useful Visual Studio Code editor. Recently, I discovered another cool extension for creating PDF, HTML, PNG, and JPEG files from a Markdown document. App | Developer | English | Microsoft | Tools | Visual Studio Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Use SharePoint view column formatting for displaying pictures and conditional formatting Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:00 AM Toni Pohl Today I want to share just a quick tip for custom formatting views in SharePoint lists since I need them from time to time. My goal was to show a picture of a text field with an URL and to use conditional formatting with a traffic light system to visualize the sentiment of tweets that are written to a SharePoint Online custom list from a Flow. See the formatting options here. App | Cloud | Design | English | Flow | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Open Source | SharePoint | atwork | Tools | Developer Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (1) | Post RSS mehr
Want to remove the Feedback button from SharePoint Online? Friday, August 24, 2018 1:30 PM Toni Pohl Modern SharePoint Sites come with two Microsoft buttons on the bottom of each SharePoint page: "Get the mobile app" and "Feedback". Want to remove them from your SharePoint sites? Well, then we have an easy to use solution ready for you. App | English | Microsoft | SharePoint | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Working with the Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio Sunday, August 19, 2018 3:00 PM Toni Pohl I like Azure LogicApps, they are really useful and easy to "develop". To use Visual Studio as designer environment, you can integrate the Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio easily. See how to work with that extension here. App | Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Tools | Visual Studio Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
This was Insider Dev Tour Vienna Thursday, June 21, 2018 7:30 PM Toni Pohl Yesterday, on June 20th, the Insider Dev Tour (see insiderdevtour.com) took place in our home town Vienna. It’s a roadshow for software developers in the Microsoft universe delivering the latest news about Windows, Azure, Office, Graph, AI technology and more. I enjoyed being part of the event along with my fellow MVP colleagues and the Windows Development community. App | Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Event | Microsoft | MVP | Office365 | Visual Studio | Windows Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Check out the free eBook Developer's Guide to Building AI Applications Sunday, June 10, 2018 6:00 AM Martina Grom Microsoft provides a bunch of cloud services, tools, and resources that provide tools for developing an intelligent Bot service. To get started, check out the free "Developer’s Guide to Building AI Applications" eBook and download it here! App | Azure | Cloud | Cognitive Services | Developer | English | Microsoft | AI Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Use Visual Studio Code and the REST Client extension for testing HTTP Requests Sunday, April 15, 2018 3:00 PM Toni Pohl Are you using tools as Fiddler or Postman for testing HTTP Requests? Well, if you are already working with Visual Studio Code, try out the cool REST Client extension! App | DevOps | Developer | English | Microsoft | Open Source | Tools | Visual Studio Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Use Visual Studio Code and the Code Runner extension Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:00 PM Toni Pohl Visual Studio Code (currently, Version 1.22 is available) is a very cool developer tool providing a modern and fast code editor with a bunch of extensions. With extensions as Code-Runner, it’s easy to run a code file or active text directly from the VS Code text editor. Check out this quick description how to configure and use Code Runner. App | Developer | DevOps | English | Microsoft | Open Source | Visual Studio | Tools | TypeScript Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Delete an unused app in Azure Active Directory Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:00 AM Toni Pohl Want to cleanup unused apps in your Azure Active Directory? Well, that’s easy – but how to accomplish that if the Delete option is inactive? See the quick solution here. Azure | App | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (1) | Post RSS mehr
How to create or renew Service Principal Names in Azure Active Directory Saturday, March 24, 2018 4:04 PM Toni Pohl When an automated task or an app needs to access data from Office 365, you need to create an app in the tenant’s Azure Active Directory (AAD). For having full control, e.g. for deleting objects in AAD, a so called Service Principal Name (SPN) can be used. That is similar to a Global Admin in Office 365, but just for apps and usually with a predefined expiration date. Which is good. Or? Azure | App | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Office365 | Security Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr