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...
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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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2018
Every year I attend several SharePoint Saturdays, especially Netherlands and Belgium. This year I am thrilled to be present as a speaker. Together with my colleague Albert-Jan Schot we are going to talk about Cloud First Deployments. Abstract:So you’ve built something awesome for Office 365 and now you want to...
Continue reading...Using ARM templates in a DTAP environment
More and more customers don’t settle with just an Office 365 / Azure tenant as their production environment. They often have one or more additional tenants (or subscriptions) to have an Acceptance, Test and/or Development environment. When it comes to deploying Azure resources, Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates are very...
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