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I plan to start using Azure functions, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint Online and web hooks to integrate with my applications. I have read a lot of blogs, watched a lot of training videos, watched conference sessions and looked at sample code, but nothing seemed to pull together my basic requirements. These are; Securely manage all secrets Securely connect to SharePoint Online without a user context Securely connect to Microsoft Graph without a user context Log events and telemetry in a central location You might think this would be simple, but that was not my experience. ...

Background I have been working with K2 products for more than ten years (since 2003) in various roles. Over that time there have been periods of frustration, especially where I have had to support solutions built by other people where they have used InfoPath and a lot of custom code in the workflows. We didn’t previously license the K2 SmartForms piece of the solution, and I have to admit that I was a little sceptical about how good SmartForms would be and how well it would be able to deliver on the requirements we have. ...

I really enjoy the presentations that Rory Sutherland does on TED. He has some very insightful comments and is funny too. In this video, the thing that stands out to me is the idea that if you don’t have a big budget and big projects, there are lots of small things that we should be looking at to have a big impact. He suggests a ‘Chief Detail Officer’ to be responsible for looking at these things. ...

I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 farm deployment and came across a problem with the performance of SharePoint search. I was finding that it was consistently taking more than 15 seconds to return search results. As part of the troublshooting process, I turned on verbose logging in SharePoint and was able to identify the 15 second gap was between these two entries: 0x0138 12:38:40.33 init CAuthZcontext 0x0138 12:38:55.41 finished init CauthZContext ...