Exchange Online – Mapi over Http Transition

1st of September, 2017 / / No Comments

Microsoft has announced that from 31st October 2017, outlook clients using RPC over Http protocol to connect to Office 365 will be no longer supported. Only Mapi over Http clients will be in action onwards. This announcement has left many administrators thinking, What exactly does that mean for my organization? What actions are required to avoid any business impact? Is it time to update outlook clients and upto what level? And last but not the least how can I verify if all necessary steps have been taken to ensure business as usual.… [Keep reading] “Exchange Online – Mapi over Http Transition”

Integrating Yammer data within SharePoint web-part using REST API

29th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Background

We were developing a SharePoint application for one of our client and have some web-parts that had to retrieve data from Yammer. As we were developing on SharePoint Online (SPO) using a popular SharePoint Framework (SPFx), so for the most part of our engagement we were developing using a client-side library named React to deliver what is required from us.
In order for us to integrate client’s Yammer data into our web-parts, we were using JavaScript SDK provided by Yammer.… [Keep reading] “Integrating Yammer data within SharePoint web-part using REST API”

What's a DEA?

14th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

In my last post I made a reference to a “Data Exchange Agreement” or DEA, and I’ve since been asked a couple of times about this. So I thought it would be worth while writing a post about what it is, why it’s of value to you and to your business.
So what’s a DEA? Well in simply terms it’s exactly what the name states, it’s an agreement that defines the parameters in which data is exchanged between Service A and Service B. … [Keep reading] “What's a DEA?”

Configure SBC to forward calls out from the original SG where incoming call comes in

13th of August, 2017 / / 1 Comment

Issue Description:

Recently I did a project of adding additional Telstra SIP trunks into Sonus production environment. The customer Sonus environment has primary SIP trunks with another SIP provider. They are going to use the new Telstra SIP trunks set up for new established small office. After the new trunk set up. I had one issue: when the calls were forwarded from SFB clients to users’ mobile phones, the A party number didn’t Pass through, instead, the number shown on mobile phones is the pilot number of the primary SIP trunk.… [Keep reading] “Configure SBC to forward calls out from the original SG where incoming call comes in”

SharePoint Online forecast storage requirements

10th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Background

Office 365 users get quite a bit of storage on SharePoint Online for content, be it files, metadata, etc. But still to manage the storage and forecast as to when additional storage has to be added becomes a challenge with very limited analytics available in SharePoint Online. Since adding more storage cost money so adding before you actually require or a bit too late would not be ideal.
SharePoint Online provides two ways to track the storage one from the admin center and other one from within the site collection using Storage metrics.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Online forecast storage requirements”

SharePoint Online external user access error "User Not in directory"

10th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Background

Organization wants to share their SharePoint online site collection, documents and collaborate with external partners, vendors or customers. By default site collection are shared to internal user’s only. But this can be extended to authenticated external users or also with limited sharing to anonymous users. External users do not have a license to office 365 subscription, they are limited to basic collaboration tasks.
I had recently enabled external access for site collection on the SPO tenant only to selected domains and authenticated external users.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Online external user access error "User Not in directory"”

Sharing a report using a Power BI app

2nd of August, 2017 / / 1 Comment

History

You have created reports and built dashboards in Power BI desktop to surface your data from multiple data sources, it is a time for you to share dashboards to a wider audience in your organisation and looking for how to do it. Power BI service came up with a powerful feature of Power BI apps to cater such scenarios.
If you have not yet created reports or did not setup a gateway for leveraging our on-premises data, please follow my earlier posts Setup a Power BI Gateway and Create reports using a Power BI Gateway to do so.… [Keep reading] “Sharing a report using a Power BI app”

Create reports using a Power BI Gateway

27th of July, 2017 / / No Comments

Background

Once you have a Power BI gateway setup to ensure data flow from your on-premises data sources to Power BI service in the cloud, next step is to create reports using Power BI desktop and build reports using data from multiple on-premises data sources.
Note: If you didn’t have a gateway setup already, please follow my earlier post to set it up before you continue reading this post.

Scenario

All on-premises data is stored in SQL server instances and spread across few data warehouses and multiple databases built and managed by your internal IT teams.… [Keep reading] “Create reports using a Power BI Gateway”

Where's the source!

26th of July, 2017 / / No Comments

SauceIn this post I will talk about data (aka the source)! In IAM there’s really one simple concept that is often misunderstood or ignored. The data going out of any IAM solution is only as good as the data going in. This may seem simple enough but if not enough attention is paid to the data source and data quality then the results are going to be unfavourable at best and catastrophic at worst.
With most IAM solutions data is going to come from multiple sources.… [Keep reading] “Where's the source!”

Windows 10 Domain Join + AAD and MFA Trusted IPs

24th of July, 2017 / / 11 Comments

Background

Those who have rolled out Azure MFA (in the cloud) to non-administrative users are probably well aware of the nifty Trusted IPs feature.   For those that are new to this, the short version is that this capability is designed to make it a little easier on the end user experience by allowing you to define a set of ‘trusted locations’ (e.g. your corporate network) in which MFA is not required.
This capability works via two methods:

  • Defining a set of ‘Trusted” IP addresses.
… [Keep reading] “Windows 10 Domain Join + AAD and MFA Trusted IPs”