Display dropdown selection list on AD FS 4.0 Home Realm Discovery page

9th of May, 2018 / / No Comments

On AD FS 2.0 or 3.0 home realm discovery page, there was an option to select the AD FS namespace from a dropdown list. But in AD FS 4.0 it has been changed to HTML DIVs and sometimes it can be annoying if you have many (100s) of claims provider trusts available to choose from. So there is a customization required to change the HTML DIVs selection to a dropdown list selection.
Before doing the customizations, the HRD page selection section looks like:

In AD FS 4.0 this customization can be done in an “onload.js”… [Keep reading] “Display dropdown selection list on AD FS 4.0 Home Realm Discovery page”

Set up a Microsoft Graph App for Office 365 and SharePoint Online management to use in Azure Functions, Flow, .Net solutions and much more

4th of May, 2018 / / No Comments

Microsoft Graph API can be used to connect and manage the Office 365 SaaS platforms such as SharePoint Online, Office 365 Groups, One Drive, OneNote, Azure AD, Teams (in beta) and much more.
A Graph app is an Azure AD app that has privileges (with provided permissions) to authenticate and then execute operations when using PowerShell, Azure Functions, Flow, Office Online CSOM, SharePoint Online and many other tools.
It is quite easy to set up a graph app, below is a brief preview of the process.… [Keep reading] “Set up a Microsoft Graph App for Office 365 and SharePoint Online management to use in Azure Functions, Flow, .Net solutions and much more”

How to make Property Bag Values indexed and searchable in SharePoint Online

26th of April, 2018 / / 1 Comment

In an earlier post here we have seen how we can set Property Bag values in Modern SharePoint sites. One of the major reasons for setting Property Bag values in SharePoint sites is to make the SharePoint sites searchable based on custom metadata.
However, property bag values are not crawled by the SharePoint Online Search index directly. To make a property bag value searchable, we must explicit set the property bag values to be indexed by the Search crawler.… [Keep reading] “How to make Property Bag Values indexed and searchable in SharePoint Online”

Report of All Taxonomy Fields containing a term in SharePoint Tenancy

24th of April, 2018 / / 1 Comment

Recently we had a request to find fields/columns in all lists across the tenancy which have a specific Taxonomy term because we needed to report on field usage across all site collections. However, we found that getting a report of all Taxonomy fields in your SharePoint tenancy that is linked to a specific Term Set can get quite daunting because there is no direct SharePoint Query to fetch the associations.
The technical challenge is that using PnP PowerShell, the Taxonomy fields are returned as a generic SP.Field… [Keep reading] “Report of All Taxonomy Fields containing a term in SharePoint Tenancy”

Building a Teenager Notification Service using Azure IoT an Azure Function, Microsoft Flow, Mongoose OS and a Micro Controller

28th of March, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction

This is the third and final post on my recent experiments integrating small micro controllers (ESP8266) running Mongoose OS integrated with Azure IoT Services.
In the first post in this series I detailed creating the Azure IoT Hub and registering a NodeMCU (ESP8266 based) micro controller with it. The post detailing that can be found here. Automating the creation of Azure IoT Hubs and the registration of IoT Devices with PowerShell and VS Code
In the second post I detailed communicating with the micro controller (IoT device) using MQTT and PowerShell.… [Keep reading] “Building a Teenager Notification Service using Azure IoT an Azure Function, Microsoft Flow, Mongoose OS and a Micro Controller”

Deploy VM via ARM template: Purchase eligibility failed

23rd of March, 2018 / / No Comments

I recently tried to deploy a VM using an ARM template executed via PowerShell and I encountered the purchase eligibility failed error as seen below.
PurchaseEligibilityFailedError
As I have encountered this before I ensured I accepted marketplace terms for the VM image in question using the PowerShell commands:

Get-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Publisher PublisherName -Product ProductName -Name Name | Set-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Accept

I then reattempted to deploy my VM using my ARM template and still got the same error, I even waited 24 hours and tried again with no luck.… [Keep reading] “Deploy VM via ARM template: Purchase eligibility failed”

Integrating Azure IoT Devices with MongooseOS MQTT and PowerShell

21st of March, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction and Recap

In my last post here on IoT I detailed getting started with Azure IoT Hubs and registering an IoT device and sending telemetry from the IoT Device to the Azure IoT Hub. And doing all that using PowerShell.
If you haven’t read that post or worked through those steps, stop here, work through that and then come back. This post details configuring MongooseOS to receive MQTT messages from Azure IoT which is the last mile to making the IoT Device flexible for integration with anything you can think of.… [Keep reading] “Integrating Azure IoT Devices with MongooseOS MQTT and PowerShell”

Validating a Yubico YubiKeys' One Time Password (OTP) using Single Factor Authentication and PowerShell

20th of March, 2018 / / No Comments

Multi-factor Authentication comes in many different formats. Physical tokens historically have been very common and moving forward with FIDO v2 standards will likely continue to be so for many security scenarios where soft tokens (think Authenticator Apps on mobile devices) aren’t possible.
Yubico YubiKeys are physical tokens that have a number of properties that make them desirable. They don’t use a battery (so aren’t limited to the life of the battery), they come in many differing formats (NFC, USB-3, USB-C), can hold multiple sets of credentials and support open standards for multi-factor authentication.… [Keep reading] “Validating a Yubico YubiKeys' One Time Password (OTP) using Single Factor Authentication and PowerShell”

Commanding your Philips Hue lights with PowerShell

19th of March, 2018 / / 8 Comments

A couple of years ago I bought a number of Philips Hue bulbs and put them in the living areas of my house. Typically we control them via the Hue App on our phones, or via the Google Assistant. This all works very well, but of course I’m a techie and have a bunch of other Internet of Things devices and it would be great to integrate the Hue lights with those.
This post is the first in doing that integration.… [Keep reading] “Commanding your Philips Hue lights with PowerShell”

Creating SharePoint Modern Team sites using Site Scripts, Flow and Azure Function

16th of March, 2018 / / No Comments

With Site Scripts and Site design, it is possible to invoke custom PnP Provisioning for Modern Team Sites from a Site Script. In the previous blog, we saw how we can provision Simple modern sites using Site Scripts JSON. However, there are some scenarios where we would need a custom provisioning template or process such as listed below:

  • Auto deploy custom web components such as SPFx extension apps
  • Complex Site Templates which couldn’t be configured
  • Complex Document libs, content types that are provided by JSON schema.
… [Keep reading] “Creating SharePoint Modern Team sites using Site Scripts, Flow and Azure Function”