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2016 6
- Office 365 Search Monitoring at Office365Mon
- The Office365Mon REST APIs Continue to Grow
- Office 365 Outage Notifications the Way You Want Them – Announcing Webhooks at Office365Mon
- New Year-Over-Year Reporting at Office365Mon
- The New Azure Converged Auth Model and Office 365 APIs
- Know When Your Azure Identity Won’t Work with Office 365 APIs
2015 31
- Invalid Client Secret when Publishing Azure AD Secured Apps
- Newly Released – Analyze your Office 365 Outage Data in Power BI
- How To Monitor Multiple Mailboxes and Sites with Office365Mon
- Azure B2B First Look
- Azure B2C First Look
- Hooking the onSwitchChange Event in Bootstrap Switch
- Parsing an SMS Message from Twilio
- Office365Mon is Making it Easier to Get Help During Outages and Getting Refunds When You’ve Earned Them
- Debugging a Windows Service Startup Method
- Office365Mon Partners with Microsoft Office 365
- Getting an Azure Access Token for a Web Application Entirely in Code
- It’s A Reporting Extravaganza at Office365Mon – Now You Can Create Your Own Reports
- Do You Need An Account In Azure Active Directory if Using ADFS?
- The Post Ignite Feature Blast
- Fun with Azure Key Vault Services
- Office365Mon – The First Month in Review
- How Office365Mon’s Free Services Got Me a Refund on my SharePoint Online Bill
- How to Fix the OpenId Access Denied When User Won’t Grant Rights at Login
- Do You Know When Your Office365 Tenant Is Down...Because Now You Can (for free)
- Using Roles in Azure Applications
- Why I’m Leaving Microsoft…and Starting SamlMan
- Using Azure AD as an Identity Provider with ADFS for SharePoint 2013
- Bug Alert for April CU and Migrating Users
- How To Delete An App You Consented to in Azure AD
- The Account Needs to be Added as an External User in the Tenant with Azure AD Apps
- Fixing the Provided App differs from Another App with the Same Version and Product ID Error in Office 365
- OneDriveBrowser and o365 APIs with A Custom Persistent Store for ADAL Token Cache
- Signout With SharePoint 2013 and SAML
- Using the o365 APIs and ADAL to Send Email from an Unattended Process
- Another Cool Way to Remotely Debug Azure Web Sites
- OneDrive for Business Browser Using o365 APIs
2014 44
- Using ADAL Access Tokens with o365 REST APIs and CSOM
- OAuth, o365 APIs and Azure Service Management APIs – Using Them All Together
- SQL Azure Connection String Settings for Visual Studio Projects Deployed to Azure Web Sites
- Desktop SharePoint Apps for SAML Secured SharePoint Sites
- Developing Low Trust Provider Hosted Apps with SAML Authentication in SharePoint 2013
- An Updated ClaimsTokenHelper for SharePoint 2013 High Trust Apps and SAML
- Configuring SharePoint Hosted Apps with SAML Authentication in SharePoint 2013
- New and Improved Architecture Guidance for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Features
- You Start Getting a 401 Unauthorized Error When Using the SharePoint Hybrid Features After Applying April 2014 CU or Later
- Developing and Deploying Multiple SharePoint 2013 Apps to a Single Azure Web Site
- CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 6
- CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 5
- CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 4
- CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 2
- CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 1
- More SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Search Tips
- Yammer on Mobile Devices
- Uploading Large Files to SharePoint 2013 from .NET Using CSOM and REST
- Access Denied Error with App Only Access Token When Reading Profile Info
- A Couple of Be Prepared Actions When Changing the SharePoint STS Token Signing Certificate for Hybrid Features
- 400 Bad Request Error with ADFS
- Uploading File Attachments to Yammer
- Remote SharePoint Index, Hybrid, and SAML
- SAML in a Box - Inviting External Users to Your SharePoint Farm
- Using Yammer Open Graph in .NET - Part 2
- Using Yammer Open Graph in .NET - Part 1
- SAML Support for SharePoint-Hosted Apps with ADFS 3.0
- Changes To Know About When Your SharePoint STS Token Signing Certificate Expires - the Impact to Your High Trust Applications
- Missing Context Token in Low Trust App with SharePoint 2013 - Part 2
- Create a List in the Host Web When Your SharePoint App is Installed...and Remove it from the Recent Stuff List
- Updating Trust Between OnPrem Farms and ACS for Apps When Your SharePoint STS Token Signing Certificate Expires
- Claim Type Exceptions with Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2013
- More Info on an Old Friend - the Custom Claims Provider, Uri Parameters and EntityTypes in SharePoint 2013
- Enhancing the Yammer Search Results and Messages Samples and Deserialization
- Integrating Yammer and SharePoint 2013 Search Results
- Programmatically Adding A Trusted Identity Token Issuer to a Web Application Zone in SharePoint 2010 and 2013
- Using Impersonation with the Yammer APIs
- Some More Advice When Using the Yammer APIs with .NET
- Update to Guidance for Patching AppFabric on SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache Servers
- What You Must Know if Using Azure Active Directory for SSO with Yammer
- Another BCS Hybrid Tip - Fixing "The Type name for the Secure Store provider is not valid" Error
- Oh No - Your BCS Model Doesn't Show Up When You Create a Content Source For BDC
- Using Azure Active Directory for Single Sign On with Yammer
- Setting Up BCS Hybrid Features End to End In SharePoint 2013
2013 46
- You Get More Results in the Query Builder for a Web Part Than When the Web Part is Rendered on the Page in SharePoint 2013
- Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Features
- The Hour of Code 2013
- Debugging SharePoint Apps That Are Hosted In Windows Azure Web Sites
- Tool to Get Token Signing Certificate Out of ACS
- Getting the Current User Identity in a Low Trust App in SharePoint 2013
- Creating a Yammer-Centric Security Setup for SharePoint 2013
- Another "Could not load file or assembly" Error Resolved
- Architecture Design Recommendation for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Search Features
- Another Tip if Visual Studio Times Out Trying to Deploy Your App in SharePoint 2013
- Using Azure Multi-Factor Authentication With Azure Active Directory and SharePoint 2013
- How To Control App Token Lifetimes in SharePoint 2013
- Use Social Tools to Tell me What You Want to See Here Next
- Dedicating Servers to Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013
- Using Managed Metadata With Variations in SharePoint 2013
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 8
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 7
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 6
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 5
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 4
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 3
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 2
- Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 1
- Another Hybrid BCS Configuration Tip When Importing A BDC Model File
- How To Use CSOM with Ratings in SharePoint 2013
- How To Quickly and Easily Get a List of Fields in a SharePoint 2013 List.
- Another 401 Unauthorized Tip for Working with SharePoint Apps
- SharePoint Conference is Back!
- Converting a VS.NET Web for a Provider Hosted SharePoint App to a Full Blown Web or Console Application
- Missing Context Token in Low Trust App with SharePoint 2013
- Checklist for Issues with Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2010 and 2013
- Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 2 The Custom Claims Provider
- Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 1 Configuration
- Using Multiple Properties Or The Entire Object In a Converter Class for Windows Phone and WinRT
- Using REST Services with a Provider Hosted App in SharePoint 2013
- Creating Refinable and Sortable Managed Properties in Sites and Site Collections in SharePoint 2013
- Troubleshooting Tips for Hybrid BCS Connections Between Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 On Premises
- Resolving a Problem Creating a New Encryption Key for Secure Store Service in SharePoint 2013
- Using Taxonomy AKA Managed Metadata AKA TermSets with CSOM in SharePoint 2013
- When Do Your Apps Need AppRegNew.aspx in SharePoint 2013
- Resolving the Directory Links Across Partitions are not Allowed Error When Crawling OData BDC Sources
- What You Need to Know About Using EnsureUser In Claims-Based Web Apps in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
- Another Port Opening for Search in SharePoint 2013
- Using ACS with the New Azure Web Sites
- Getting a Full Result Set from a Remote SharePoint Index in SharePoint 2013
- Configuring Multiple Distributed Cache Servers in SharePoint 2013
2012 53
- Enabling Licensing and Editing for Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013
- Create An Easy PDF Preview for Search Results in SharePoint 2013
- Using SharePoint Apps with SAML and FBA Sites in SharePoint 2013
- Using OData and ECTs in SharePoint 2013
- Using Fiddler With SAML and SharePoint to Get Past the Three Authentication Prompts
- Using User Context (AKA Segmentation) in Search with SharePoint 2013
- Adding a New Search Partition and Replica in SharePoint 2013
- Windows Phone 8 Support for SharePoint and SAML
- Query Rule Conditions in SharePoint 2013 Search
- Hybrid Features In SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
- More TroubleShooting Tips for High Trust Apps on SharePoint 2013
- How to Configure the Global Search Center Url for SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell
- Where Did My OWA ULS Logs Go In SharePoint 2013
- Another Apps for SharePoint Tip with the Error "The issuer of the token is not a trusted issuer"
- Creating and Using a Certificate for the CSUpload Tool with Azure IaaS Services
- Working with Request Manager in SharePoint 2013
- Important Change for Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2013 - and Refresh of Some Favorite Claims Tools
- Planning the Infrastructure Required for the new App Model in SharePoint 2013
- The User Profile Claim Provider in SharePoint 2013
- Creating Managed Properties in a Site Collection in SharePoint 2013
- Integrating People Metadata In Content Searches Using Query Rules in SharePoint 2013
- OAuth and the Rehydrated User in SharePoint 2013 – How’d They do That and What do I Need to Know
- Troubleshooting My Site Creation in SharePoint 2013
- One Important SAML Claims Property to Never Touch in SharePoint 2013
- Configuration Required for Sharing Feature in SharePoint 2013
- Mapping User Profiles for SAML Users with an AD Import in SharePoint 2013
- Searching Property Bags in SharePoint 2013
- An Important Tip About Client ID Values for S2S Apps in SharePoint 2013
- FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2013
- Configuring Self Service Site Creation in SharePoint 2013
- Using Dreamweaver and Design Manager with SharePoint 2013
- In SharePoint 2013 My Site Collection Will Be Created In What Content Database?
- A Memory Issue To Watch in SharePoint 2013 Beta 2
- Your First SharePoint 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 Development Tip - the Old 32-Bit Process Error
- Converting A Classic Auth Content Database to Claims Auth in SharePoint 2013
- Debugging Display Templates
- Setting Up the Subscription Settings Service Application in SharePoint 2013
- Configuring Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013
- Setting Up an oAuth Trust Between Farms in SharePoint 2013
- SharePoint 2013 Technical Training Materials Are Here!
- Creating an Azure Persistent VM for an Isolated SharePoint Farm
- How To Send An Authenticated Message to the Windows Phone Push Notification Service
- The Issuer of a Token is not a Trusted Issuer Craziness with SAML Claims in SharePoint 2010
- Getting Welcome Emails to Work with a Custom Claims Provider in SharePoint 2010
- 403 Forbidden Errors When Failing Over a SQL 2012 Availability Group with SharePoint 2010
- Using Compression on Windows Phone 7.5
- When Do You Need to Install a Custom Claims Provider for Search in SharePoint 2010
- One More Claims Migration Gotcha For SharePoint 2010
- Finally A USEFUL Way to Federate With Windows Live and SharePoint 2010 Using OAuth and SAML
- The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 3
- The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 2
- The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 1
- Adding Users Programmatically to A Claims Site in SharePoint 2010
2011 48
- One of the request inputs is out of range Error with Azure Table Storage
- Some Easy PowerShell to Export the Token Signing Certificate from SharePoint 2010
- Doing The Mash with Excel Web App and SkyDrive
- Where Are My Share-n-Dipity Posts?
- Make Sure You Know This About SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication - Sticky Sessions Are REQUIRED
- Retrieving REST Data Using NTLM From a Dual Auth Site in SharePoint 2010
- Server Collection Cannot Be Empty Error When Using Azure AppFabric Caching in Winforms Application
- The CASI Kit Announcement from SharePoint Conference
- Facebook DataView WebPart Code from SharePoint Conference
- Working with Social Tags in SharePoint 2010
- Major Announcement for CASI Kit Coming at SharePoint Conference 2011
- A New Twist on an Old Friend - "The security validation for this page is invalid" - in SharePoint 2010
- Using the WHR Parameter with SharePoint 2010 and SAML Auth
- Windows Phone 7 and Other Mobile Device Access to SharePoint 2010 SAML Sites After Applying SP1 and June 2011 CU
- Windows Azure 1.4 Diagnostics All Up Overview
- Writing A SharePoint 2010 People Picker Control for Silverlight
- Tips for Upgrading or Moving ADFS 2.0
- Using SAML Claims, SharePoint, WCF, Claims to Windows Token Service and Constrained Delegation to Access SQL Server
- SAML Alert for SharePoint 2010 - If You Apply SP1 Follow Up with June CU
- IRM for SAML Claims Users in SharePoint 2010 is Here
- You May Experience Slowness When Using SAML Claims with SharePoint 2010
- Troubleshooting Blank Response Pages When Using Federation with ACS and Facebook
- Using DPAPI with IsolatedStorage In Windows Phone 7 Mango Release
- PSConfig Fails with Missing / Required Error Message After Applying CU or Service Pack in SharePoint 2010
- Name Disappears After Selecting in People Picker with Custom Claims Provider in SharePoint 2010
- Connecting to an SSL WCF Service with Windows Phone 7 Emulator
- Using SAML Claims in SharePoint 2010 with Host Header Sites
- Federating Shibboleth, Ping Federate and Oracle Access Manager with SharePoint 2010
- Federating SiteMinder and SharePoint 2010
- Hiding Default Authentication Providers in SharePoint 2010
- Federated SAML Authentication with SharePoint 2010 and Azure Access Control Service Part 2
- Federated SAML Authentication with SharePoint 2010 and Azure Access Control Service Part 1
- Bypassing the Multi Authentication Provider Selection Page in SharePoint 2010
- Troubleshooting Tip for Debugging Crawl Issues in SharePoint 2010
- How To Add Additional Claims in ADFS 2.0 that can be Consumed in SharePoint 2010
- Retrieving Data from a Multi Auth Site Using the Client OM and Web Services in SharePoint 2010
- How to Get the Real Original Issuer for an Identity Claim in SharePoint 2010
- How to Get All User Claims at Claims Augmentation Time in SharePoint 2010
- How To Get All Claims Providers Associated with a Web Application in SharePoint 2010
- Adding Support for Multiple SharePoint 2010 Farms and the CASI Kit in Your WCF
- SharePoint 2010 Claims Auth Login Stops at ADFS Authentication Page
- Using Secure Store Service in a Custom Claims Provider with SharePoint 2010
- Configuring Secure Store Service to Use Accounts Across A One Way Trust in SharePoint 2010
- Packaging A SharePoint 2010 Custom Claims Provider in a Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Project
- Tips for ULS Logging Part 2
- Who Wants to Work in the Cloud?
- Tips for ULS Logging
- The Dreaded 3 Login Prompts When Authenticating
2010 76
- CASI Kit Part 6 - Integrating SQL Azure with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure
- FBA Sites with Office Hub in Windows Phone 7
- Beware of Default Solution Deployments for Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2010
- Configuring SharePoint to use a Specific Identity Provider in ADFS
- Configuring ADFS Trusts For Multiple Identity Providers with SharePoint 2010
- Some Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint 2010 Tips
- Problems Resolving Claims Names in SharePoint 2010
- Adding A Custom Claim to a Web App Policy via PowerShell in SharePoint 2010
- The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 5
- The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 4
- The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 3
- The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 2
- The Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration Toolkit Part 1
- Debugging the Crawler Parsing in FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
- Service Not Available Error When Downloading IRM Document from SharePoint 2010
- Intellisense for Properties on ASP.NET Custom Server Controls
- Retrieving REST Data in a Claims Based Auth Site in SharePoint 2010
- TrustedMissingIdentityClaimSource Error with Claims Auth in SharePoint 2010
- Azure Development Tips for Debugging and Connection Strings
- A SharePoint 2010 Claims Provider to Convert Role SIDs to Group Names
- Calling a Claims-Aware WCF Service From a SharePoint 2010 Claims Site
- List Throttling and Recycle Bin in SharePoint 2010
- Using Custom Claims in Web Application Policies in SharePoint 2010
- Find Out Who’s Following You with SharePoint 2010 Social Features
- Finding Which Crawled Property Data Types Match a Managed Property Data Type in SharePoint 2010
- Free Developer Search Tool for SharePoint 2010 Search and FAST Search for SharePoint
- Using PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 in C#
- Setting the Login Token Expiration Correctly for SharePoint 2010 SAML Claims Users
- Knowing How the Sandbox Changes the Object Model in SharePoint 2010
- Configuring SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 End to End
- SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication Configuration Manager
- Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 2
- Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 1
- Migrating from Windows Classic Auth to Windows Claims Auth in SharePoint 2010 Part 2
- Managing Trusted Root Authorities for Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010 Central Admin
- Changing the Master Page on SharePoint 2010 My Sites
- ProcessBatchData and New Event Items
- Using Audiences with Claims Auth Sites in SharePoint 2010
- Migrating a Web Application from Windows Classic to Windows Claims in SharePoint 2010
- Using the Client Object Model with a Claims Based Auth Site in SharePoint 2010
- Using the Client Object Model with a Forms Based Auth Site in SharePoint 2010
- Configuring a Custom Claims Provider to be Used only on Select Zones in SharePoint 2010
- More Information on Adding and Changing Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2010
- How Does SharePoint 2010 Support Partitioned Tables in the Usage Database
- Writing A Claims Provider Walk-Through and Sample Code
- SharePoint Claims Auth Without SSL
- Writing Custom Health Rules in SharePoint 2010
- Solving Configuration Failures with non-admin Nodes in FAST Search for SharePoint
- Replacing the out of box Name Resolution in SharePoint 2010 - Part 2
- New Online Training For SharePoint 2010 Released
- How Do I Update my WSP with Visual Studio 2010
- How Your Client Application can know when your SharePoint 2010 Farm is Busy
- How to Override the Default Name Resolution and Claims Provider in SharePoint 2010
- How to Create Multiple Claims Auth Web Apps in a Single SharePoint 2010 Farm
- Update on Errors for Root Certificate Not Trusted with SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication
- Creating Custom Error Pages in SharePoint 2010
- Creating Service Applications and Service Application Proxies for SharePoint 2010 in PowerShell
- Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 - Part 4: Supporting Resolve Name
- Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 - Part 3: Searching Claims
- Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 - Part 2: Adding Support for Hierarchy Nodes
- Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 - Part 1: Claims Augmentation and Registering Your Provider
- Unexpected Error When Adding a Search Connector Link from SharePoint 2010 to Windows 7
- "No User Profile Application Available" Mystery in SharePoint 2010
- Why Do I Get an Access Denied Error When Managing User Contexts in SharePoint 2010
- Why Can't I Save My Changes to the Refiner Web Part in SharePoint 2010
- Getting Search Service Applications and Proxies in SharePoint 2010 Object Model
- Manually Adding Query Suggestions in SharePoint 2010
- Planning Considerations for Claims Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
- Creating both an Identity and Role Claim for a SharePoint 2010 Claims Auth Application
- Reflecting on PowerShell in SharePoint 2010
- Figuring Out What Claims You Have in SharePoint 2010
- Access Denied with Claims Auth in Interim Build
- Root of Certificate Chain Not Trusted Error with Claims Authentication
- Use LINQ to Find All Web Applications that Use a Specific Service Application in SharePoint 2010
- Determine if a SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application is FAST Search or SharePoint Search
- Creating Health Monitor Rules for SharePoint 2010
2009 30
- Customizing Search Results in SharePoint 2010
- Multi Tenancy in SharePoint 2010 Part 2
- Creating a FAST Search Scope
- Using Custom Properties to create a FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 User Context
- Enabling Multi Tenant Support in SharePoint 2010
- Playing with Large List Throttling
- Large List Throttling for External Lists in SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Training Courses on Channel 9
- Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Developer Events for December, 2009
- Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 1
- Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 2
- Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 3
- Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 4
- Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 6
- Publish and Subscribe to Content Types in SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 1 - A Cool New Feature for Managing Your Content
- SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 2 - The Rules Engine
- SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 3 - The Drop Off Library
- Using the New SharePoint 2010 Ratings Feature in Search
- Using the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Development at the PDC
- Working with Large Lists in SharePoint 2010 - List Throttling
- Problems Joining a Server to a Farm?
- Adding Throttling Counters in SharePoint 2010
- Configuring an ASP.NET Application to work as a Relying Party with Geneva Beta 2
- Configuring AAM for Split DNS
- Troubleshooting and Triggering a Profile Import from BDC
- Share-n-Dipity v 1.0
- Load Balancing Incoming Email in SharePoint 2007