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Month: March 2017

Are you thinking about making the move to Office 365? Ensure you are fully aware of and take advantage of Microsoft FastTrack resources!

Are you thinking about making the move to Office 365? Ensure you are fully aware of and take advantage of Microsoft FastTrack resources!

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If you are a mid to large sized company and contemplating an Office 365 deployment or enhancing your existing Office 365 services, I cannot stress how important it is that you know of & take advantage a free service from Microsoft called Microsoft FastTrack (https://fasttrack.microsoft.com).  With the help of Microsoft FastTrack, you can accelerate your timelines for deploying Office 365 from months to weeks and ensure a smooth transition to the Microsoft cloud in the process. Some of the benefits…

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Azure Traffic Manager Geographic Routing capability hits General Availability

Azure Traffic Manager Geographic Routing capability hits General Availability

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Using this capability in Azure Traffic Manager, you can now direct user traffic to specific endpoints based on the geographic location from where the requests originate.  A good use case for this would be to direct users to a localized/language/feature specific web-site that is customized towards that specific region. Or even further, you can route users to an Azure Web site that is hosted in a closer data center. Region granularity includes: World – any region Regional Grouping – Africa,…

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How do you know if your Office 365 subscription is in a secure state?

How do you know if your Office 365 subscription is in a secure state?

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Little known to many is a really handy feature recently released by Microsoft called the Secure Score. Secure Score is a totally different way of managing risk on your Office 365 deployment where by instead of reacting to security alerts sent to you by Microsoft, it lets you proactively track and incrementaly improve your Office 365 security. Secure Score figures out which Office 365 services you have along with how they are configured and compares it to a baseline level…

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Provide input on the Azure Logic Apps Triggers and Actions you would like to see for integrating business applications

Provide input on the Azure Logic Apps Triggers and Actions you would like to see for integrating business applications

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As I have been playing with the various Azure Logic Apps actions available, I have uncovered that there seem to be a lot that are missing when it comes to SharePoint Online. Many of these actions that are missing can quite easily be custom created by an Azure Function, however, a lot of the basic actions and triggers should be built-in within the provided SharePoint Online logic app action itself (i.e. the basic ability to create a folder in SharePoint Online)….

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Grant limited access to your Azure Storage BLOBS using Shared Access Signatures (SAS)

Grant limited access to your Azure Storage BLOBS using Shared Access Signatures (SAS)

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My client has the requirement that BLOB’s be placed on a speedy, durable, scalable & highly available cloud storage platform and accessed via the public via a dropdown menu on their corporate web site where any anonymous could download the BLOB files.  The metadata for the BLOBs would be stored in a SharePoint environment and accessed via web services. The tricky part of their requirement is that they wanted the link to expire after a certain amount of time due…

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Understanding where you Azure Services are being regionally hosted

Understanding where you Azure Services are being regionally hosted

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It is important to understand that when you setup an Azure service, the service and the data is served out of a various data centers in the world regions.  You can see exactly where each data center resides across the world via the Microsoft published Azure Data Center Map.  At the time of writing this blog, Microsoft were currently at 30 data centers across the world. An example of the map showing the Canadian data centers (Toronto and Quebec City):…

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Use the Azure Status page to check that all your services are running correctly

Use the Azure Status page to check that all your services are running correctly

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Microsoft is trying to be transparent just like Salesforce in their Trust Center site in letting their customers know when something is impacting their services in their various data centers. This could be anything from outages, backed bugs and misconfiguration or just general failures. This transparency is indicated in the Azure Status page where Microsoft lists the status (Good, Warning, Error or Information) of each Azure service/product by each region.   From this page, you can also drill down to see…

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Setting up Azure CDN for SharePoint framework (SPFx) web part

Setting up Azure CDN for SharePoint framework (SPFx) web part

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For anyone following Microsoft’s new and shiny SharePoint framework, it has lot of potentials and can solve most challenges, if not all, around SharePoint Online customizations. When you build the SPFx web part you get your resource files i.e. CSS, JSON etc. You can deploy them to your SP document library but better option will be to deploy them to Azure CDN. In this article, I am going to walk you through how to setup Azure CDN. To setup Azure…

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