Creating new Microsoft To-Do items from emails is easy with Microsoft Flow
Mining Yammer data for Gold
Whilst tracking through my OneDrive I rediscovered the theme I developed for an analytics session at Ignite 2017. I still think the theme is relevant today so I’ve decided to turn it into a blog post. If you were in the session you’ll notice that I’ve tweaked it a little bit 😉
Counting SharePoint users using Microsoft Flow
This post will show you how to make a REST call to the SharePoint API and process the JSON response using Microsoft Flow.
Automatic document numbering using Microsoft Flow
The Document ID service is great but limited. Engineers tend to want more metadata in their IDs!
For the citizen developer: embed a Power BI dashboard in a classic SharePoint page
Using PowerApps to work around the limitation of only being able to embed Power BI dashboards in modern SharePoint pages
Lessons learned from setting up Visual Studio Code to work with Visual Studio Services
Recently I came across an excellent blog post from Jethro Seghers that covered getting started with Office 365 PowerShell Automation. In the post Jethro walks through the process of setting up Visual Studio Code to work with Visual Studio Services. The process uses Git as the broker. The end result is that your scripts can be stored in a secure source repository. In following the post I learned several lessons that I thought I'd share
Power BI: CSV refresh failure
The moral here is if you change the number of columns in a file you need to update the Source definition in Power BI
Where’s my Power BI data?
Quick post: geolocating your data in Power BI
Sub-sites are dead, long live the Site Collection
For me Ignite 2017, is the conference where sub-sites died. The sub-site is dead, long live the site.
Search reborn
For me the Search announcements made at Ignite 2017 are probably the biggest ones that they made at Ignite as they are the ones that really effect an end users experience. An effective and efficient search is fundamental to their productivity.
