Copy millions of Azure Storage files with Azure Data Factory
In this article, I introduce you to Azure Data Factory and show how you can use it to move millions of files in your Azure environment.
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Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
SharePoint Framework State of the Union (Fall 2019) from Microsoft Ignite 2019
Like previous years, Microsoft delivered a session at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference that was essentially the “State of SharePoint Framework”. This session, BRK3071 - SharePoint …
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Microsoft Ignite 2018: A Recap of Sessions and Presentations
Last week, Microsoft held their annual Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida. I was there recording interviews for my podcast, the Microsoft Cloud Show, presenting one session on Leveraging …
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SharePoint 2016, 2019 & SharePoint Online: Which Version of the SharePoint Framework Should You Install?
Customers can leverage the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in any of the modern or recent SharePoint versions. This includes SharePoint Online & SharePoint on-premises versions SharePoint Server 2016 …
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Automatically Reindex Hugo Sites with Azure Pipelines
In this post, I’ll show you how I trigger Azure Search to reindex the site each time its redeployed as part of my existing Azure Pipeline configuration.
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Monitor Azure Search With Azure Application Insights
In my last post, Add Search to Hugo Sites With Azure Search, I explained how I added a search capability to my site using Azure Search. In this post, I’ll show you how I monitor it to see what …
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Add Search to Hugo Sites With Azure Cognitive Search
A few months ago I re-launched my site on Hugo, but search wasn’t included in the release. That’s what this post is about.
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Stop Using Internet Explorer 11
It’s long past time we as an industry stop using Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and get more aggressive in dropping support for it.
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Jest Preset Update October 2019
Late last year I published a few Jest presets to simplify adding automated testing to your SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects. These are complete with example tests including testing the rendering …
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Dealing with Undefined 'this' in React Event Handlers in a Performant Way
When I’m teaching React to developers, one thing that comes up often is dealing with a common error. But here’s the interesting thing: it’s not running into the error that comes up …
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Automate Building, Testing and Deploying SharePoint Framework Projects with Azure Pipelines in Four Steps
In just four simple steps, this post will show you how to automate the build, test & deployment to SharePoint Online of any SharePoint Framework project using Azure Pipelines. I guarantee you can …
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SharePoint Framework Summer 2019 Wish List
I originally intended to write this post mid-summer, but just never happened. Thankfully my wish list hasn’t changed for the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) since the spring of this year… …
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Implement Automated Hugo Releases With Azure Pipelines
In this post, I explain how this site is automatically built & deployed when I push commits as well as on a scheduled basis with Azure DevOps Pipelines.
Hosting Hugo on Azure - Here's How I Do it in Detail
Last week I wrote how I migrated my site from a dynamic CMS to a static site generated using Hugo. The entire site and all supporting processes are hosted in the Microsoft cloud, specifically Azure …
The Good, Bad & the Ugly: Using Angular Elements with the SharePoint Framework
In this series, I showed you how to build custom elements, a native web technology supported natively by most browsers (except you Edge & IE…) and presented two options for how you can go …
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Using Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework Projects
This has been a long time coming and many of you Angular developers who also work with the SharePoint Framework may have given up by now and switched to React, but for those of you who have been …
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16-year blogging journey: author shifts to new platform
I started this site and blogging as a personal journal almost exactly 16 years ago today, in September 2003. Over the last 16 years, I’ve used three different open source engines to implement …
Leveraging the Webpack Define Plugin in SPFx Projects
Here’s a post that teaches you a technique that you can start leveraging in your SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects right away! You know those projects where you have certain values you use in …
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JavaScript + SharePoint Framework Summer Camp Calls - July 3 & July 18, 2019!
Microsoft regularly hosts three different community calls under the SharePoint PnP program on various topics. You can learn all about these from the community page in the SharePoint docs at SharePoint …
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SharePoint Framework v1.8.2 (and v1.8.1) - What's in the Latest Release
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, Microsoft released v1.8.2 of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). A little over a month ago, I wrote about the v1.8.0 release. Since then we had another minor …
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Sprint 16 adds SPFx with Teams, SPA's and Tons of Updates
I’m excited to share this latest update to my course, Mastering the SharePoint Framework for developers. This update, packaged as sprint 16, includes one new chapter and a LOT of updates. When I …
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SharePoint Framework v1.8.0 - What's in the Latest Release
In this post, I’ll summarize what you can find, and share some additional details I found after spending some time picking apart this latest release of SPFx.
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Sprint 14+15 Go Live Party Recording!
Earlier today I recorded an impromptu Facebook Live video for the recent release of sprints 14 & 15 of the SharePoint Framework. Usually, I let people know about these ahead of time but travel the …
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Leverage Custom Permissions in Entra ID Applications
In my last post, Securing an Azure Function App with Entra ID - Works with SharePoint Framework!, I showed how you can secure a REST API deployed as an Azure Function App using Microsoft Entra ID. …
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Securing an Azure Function App with Entra ID - Works with SharePoint Framework!
I recently published a new chapter in my Mastering the SharePoint Framework on-demand course for developers that included a section that showed how to call a REST API deployed using an Azure Function …
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