Octavie van Haaften – Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Development

Update SharePoint User Profiles based on Azure Group Membership

Many customers with a SharePoint Online intranet also have a page based on people search. Many default SharePoint User Profile properties are synced from Azure AD automatically. But what if you added your own custom properties that you would like to keep in sync based on information in Azure? Overview...

Managing Timeouts for SharePoint and Azure AD integrations

Many companies still have SharePoint on-premises. Some of them have Azure Active Directory integrated with their SharePoint on-premises environment. This can be achieved quite easily by following the steps described in this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/sharepoint-on-premises-tutorial In this article a custom solution AzureCP is used to configure SharePoint with the claims provider...

September 19, 2019 by Octavie van Haaften Azure SharePoint 0

SharePoint Search Crawl Issue That Makes You Wanna Scream

Recently I was migrating a SharePoint 2016 farm to SharePoint 2019. Not that exciting, because the customer did not have any farm solutions or customizations other than a custom claims provider for ADFS. The SharePoint 2019 farm needed to be configured using the Azure Active Directory. We used the solution...

July 15, 2019 by Octavie van Haaften SharePoint 0

Inconvenient duplicate accounts in People Picker with multiple Claims Providers

More and more customers are integrating their SharePoint on-premises environment with Azure Active Directory. The solution AzureCP is used to accomplish this quite easily. The solution installs a custom claims provider and you can configure some using the settings interface that is available in Central Administration. There is a good...

July 9, 2019 by Octavie van Haaften PowerShell SharePoint 0

Using PowerShell DSC in ARM Templates

In one of my previous posts I introduced Azure Resource Manager templates, aka ARM templates. These templates are great for deploying and configuring Azure Resources like virtual networks, virtual machines, Azure websites, Azure key vaults, etc. But sometimes you need a little bit more automated configuration that goes beyond ARM...

November 23, 2018 by Octavie van Haaften Azure PowerShell 0

Update SharePoint User Profiles based on Azure Group Membership

Managing Timeouts for SharePoint and Azure AD integrations

SharePoint Search Crawl Issue That Makes You Wanna Scream

Inconvenient duplicate accounts in People Picker with multiple Claims Providers

Using PowerShell DSC in ARM Templates

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