Cimares, Author at Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict

The problem of storing App Credentials in Azure Runbooks Back when SharePoint on-premises was all the rage, there was always a need to provide a way of automating script actions for a number of reasons. Invariably this would mean that an automation server would be configured running Windows Scheduled tasks out of hours to access …

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May 29

Addressing the challenge presented by Channel meetings in Microsoft Teams

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5 Minute Fix, Teams

I’ve been working with Microsoft Teams for sometime now and it’s having massive impact both within my own team at work (reducing e-mail and expanding collective and accessible knowledge through the persistent conversation) and with my customers. The Teams and Channel meetings experience is pretty seamless and I have a lot less technical issues with …

Tags: Channel Meetings, Outlook, Teams Meetings

May 07

Using Notification Tags in Microsoft Teams

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Notifications, Teams

I have been working with Teams for some time now in a mixture of team types from large and small. Each has its own interesting ways of working, but for me one of the biggest problems with larger teams is of course notifications. What generally happens is people raise a topic in the team or …

Tags: Notifications, Teams

Mar 01

Configuring your tenant Conditional Access for Site Sensitivity Labels in Office 365

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In my post yesterday about the public preview of Site Sensitivity Labels in office 365, I said I’d do another post about how these work and what’s required to get these working in your tenant. This is kind of important as the current documentation does NOT tell you what to configure in Conditional Access to …

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Feb 29

Site sensitivity labels in Teams, Groups and SharePoint

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Azure, Conditional Access, SharePoint Online, Teams

##UPDATE## I’ve spent the weekend updating my session ready for SPC20 in Las Vegas in May where I’ll be demoing this updated experience along with other Conditional Access Scenarios! If you register with Speaker code HUNT or from this link here, you can get $50 off the registration price! Update to Site Collection Scoped policies …

Tags: Conditional Access, SharePoint Online, Teams

Feb 12

Using PowerAutomate to deploy PowerAutomate (Flow deploying Flow)… Sounds like Inception?

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PowerPlatform

Cobb: “Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed – fully understood – that sticks; right in there somewhere.” I’ve not been using Power Automate heavily in recent projects, just the odd small workflow here and there, but just recently a colleague asked …

Tags: Flow, Flow Deployment, PowerAutomate, PowerAutomate Deployment

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Jan 09

Back to work with a bang and great news that I’ll be in Vegas in May @ SPC20

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For those of you that are connected to me socially or read my previous blog post about disruptive technology in Helsinki, you’ll know that 2019 ended on a bit of a health downer. While travelling to attend and speak at SharePoint Saturday in Helsinki (one of the most awesome cool cities I’ve visited), I had …

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Dec 02

The time a disruptive technology saved my life in Helsinki

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Jussi Mori and Paul Hunt - Helsinki Cathedral

The tail end of 2019 was due to be a busy time of year for me, conference silly season was in full effect and even though I wasn’t speaking at Microsoft Ignite, I still had a number of SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday events (Zurich, Helsinki, Brussels, Leicester) and other conferences (O365 Connect and Thrive) …

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Mar 08

Passing a Param object to a SharePoint PowerApp list form and why it doesn’t work.

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jQuery/Javascript, JSLink, PowerApps, SharePoint, SharePoint Online

I spent a lot of my time with SharePoint classic, building small business apps using JSLink and JavaScript embedded in the pages. Nothing really fancy, just things like pre-populating fields for Parent/Child relationship lists and things like that. As I was thinking about writing a conference session on updating old solutions into the modern world, …

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Feb 27

MS Ignite the Tour – London

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Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Multi Geo, OneDrive For Business, SharePoint Online

I’ve just spent the last two days at Microsoft Ignite the Tour – London edition staffing both the asks the experts and the demo booths in the hub area. It’s been a great experience and I’ve had some fantastic conversations with people using all aspects of Microsoft 365. On the demo booth I had the …

Tags: Multi-Geo, Office 365