Global Navigation and Branding for Modern Site using SharePoint Framework Extensions

30th of October, 2017 / / 43 Comments

Last month at the Microsoft Ignite 2017, SharePoint Framework Extensions became GA. It gave us whole new capabilities how we can customize Modern Team sites and Communication sites.
Even though there are lots of PnP examples on SPFx extensions, while presenting at Office 365 Bootcamp, Melbourne and taking a hands-on lab, I realised not many people are aware of the new capabilities that SPFx extensions provide. One of the burning question we often get from clients, if we can have a custom header, footer and global navigation in the modern sites and the answer is YES.… [Keep reading] “Global Navigation and Branding for Modern Site using SharePoint Framework Extensions”

Royal Flying Doctor Service empowers employees with Office 365

25th of October, 2017 / / No Comments

Customer Overview

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland) is a part of one of the largest and most comprehensive aero-medical organisations in the world. It provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in rural, remote and regional Queensland. A not-for-profit organisation, the Flying Doctor relies on the support of the community and in Queensland the Service needs to raise over $12 million per year to keep the Flying Doctor flying.

Business Situation

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland) provides patient care to 95,000 people in remote communities as well as life-saving transfers to those in need of organ transplants and heart surgery.… [Keep reading] “Royal Flying Doctor Service empowers employees with Office 365”

[Updated] How are email addresses created for Office 365 Mailboxes?

22nd of October, 2017 / / No Comments

First published at https://nivleshc.wordpress.com

Background

Over the past few weeks, I have been doing some Cloud-Only Office 365 deployments using Azure AD Connect . As you might imagine, this deployment is abit different to the Hybrid Office 365 deployment.
One of the things that got me thinking was, how are the email addresses created for my Office 365 mailboxes? As I was synchronising objects from my on-premises Active Directory, this question held the answer to what values I needed to change in my on-premises Active Directory user object, to get the desired email addresses populated in the Office 365 mailbox that will be created for it.… [Keep reading] “[Updated] How are email addresses created for Office 365 Mailboxes?”

Use Azure Hybrid Connections to get on-premises data from SQL to SharePoint Online

18th of October, 2017 / / No Comments

Azure Hybrid Connections are an easier and less complicated way to connect cloud applications with on-premises SQL data. This provides great extensibility options for SharePoint Online such as,

  1. Provider Hosted Apps hosted in Azure
  2. Business Data Connectivity using WCF services hosted in Azure
  3. SharePoint Hosted Apps using BCS external sources.

In this blog, I will illustrate the steps to configure Azure Hybrid Connections. In a nutshell, the diagram below outlines the data flow in Hybrid connections.… [Keep reading] “Use Azure Hybrid Connections to get on-premises data from SQL to SharePoint Online”

How to Pass Parameters into a PowerApp

17th of October, 2017 / / 2 Comments

I was recently trying to replicate some functionality I’m used to with InfoPath, but this time using a PowerApp. I was looking for a way to get parameters from outside into a PowerApp, and surprisingly this is really not well documented, but actually really quite easy to do. I’ll walk you through the process below.
Note, this isn’t about passing parameters between screens in a PowerApp, that’s well covered in several blog posts, and forums.
First off, start by creating an app.… [Keep reading] “How to Pass Parameters into a PowerApp”

Restoring deleted OneDrive sites in Office365

16th of October, 2017 / / 1 Comment

A customer has requested whether it was possible to restore a OneDrive site that had been deleted when the user’s account was marked for deletion in AD. After a bit of research, I was able to restore the site back and retrieved the files (luckily it was deleted less than 30 days ago).
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Adding Bot to Microsoft Teams

11th of October, 2017 / / No Comments

If you are following up on my previous blog posts about Bots and integrating LUIS with them, you are almost done with building bots and already had some fun with it. Now it’s time to bring them to life and let internal or external users interact with Bot via some sort of front end channel accessible by them. If you haven’t read my previous posts on the subject yet, please give them a read at Creating a Bot and Creating a LUIS app before reading further.… [Keep reading] “Adding Bot to Microsoft Teams”

Deploying Cloud-only mailboxes in Office 365 using On-Premises Directory objects

8th of October, 2017 / / No Comments

First published at https://nivleshc.wordpress.com
In this blog, I will show you how to create Cloud-only mailboxes in Exchange Online (Exchange Online is the messaging part of Office 365) that are bound to objects synchronised from your on-premises Active Directory. The Cloud-only approach is different to the Hybrid approach because you do not need an Exchange server deployed in your on-premises environment.
There are a few reasons why you would want to link your Cloud-only mailboxes to your on-premises Active Directory.… [Keep reading] “Deploying Cloud-only mailboxes in Office 365 using On-Premises Directory objects”

ADFS Service Communication Certificate Renewal Steps

17th of September, 2017 / / 3 Comments

Hi Guys, adfs service comprises of certificates which serve different purpose for federation service. In this blog post I will share a brief description of these certificates, their purpose and will discuss renewal process of service communication certificate.
 
Type of ADFS Certificates and their purpose
 

Certificate Type Description Purpose
Service Communication certificate
 		 Standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate that is used for securing communications between federation servers, clients, Web Application Proxy, and federation server proxy computers.
… [Keep reading] “ADFS Service Communication Certificate Renewal Steps”

Configuring Remote PowerShell to a Remote Active Directory Forest for FIM/MIM GalSync

7th of September, 2017 / / No Comments

Introduction

Windows Remote Management (aka Remote PowerShell) is a wonderful thing; when it works straight out of the box when you’re in the same domain. Getting it working across Forests though can feel like jumping through hoop after hoop, and sometimes like the hoops are on fire.  When configuring GALSync ([Exchange] Global Address List Synchronisation) with FIM/MIM this always means across AD Forests. The graphic below shows the simplest relationship. If there is a firewall(s) in between then you’ll have additional hoops to jump through.… [Keep reading] “Configuring Remote PowerShell to a Remote Active Directory Forest for FIM/MIM GalSync”