June 2017 - Rez's Blog Spot

Join Microsoft Azure OPENDEV day to learn about open source technologies in the Azure Cloud – June 21, 2017 9AM PST / 12PM EST

June 21, 2017 Rez Khamis Comments 0 Comment

For those interested in open source technologies, join Microsoft’s free online OpenDev Day on June 21, 2017 @ 9am PST. Learn about how you can use the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to host, build and deploy your open source cloud or hybrid apps. Includes sessions regarding all the hot open source topics now a days including containers, docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Pivotal, Red Hat, Habitat and much more! View more information here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/opendev/

Office 365 SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business rolling out support for the # and % symbols

June 5, 2017 Rez Khamis Comments 3 comments

For a long time now, SharePoint and OneDrive users have been constantly frustrated with having to rename their files when uploading to SharePoint due to Invalid file or folder name characters errors. i.e.: “The file name is invalid or the file is empty. A file name cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ? ” < > | # { } % ~ &” This is due to the fact that “certain characters have intrinsic meanings…

Role in Azure Active Directory to Grant Access to Create and Remove Azure AD Users and Groups

June 1, 2017 Rez Khamis Comments 0 Comment

I recently had the requirement to grant a user in my organization to be able to do the following: Create an Azure AD user Create an Azure AD group Add an Azure AD user to an Azure AD group Remove an Azure AD user to an Azure AD group Using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), I was able to designate this user as an administrator of a specific role to serve these specific requirements. The administrator role I gave the user…