#ADAL #Application Insights #Azure Functions #Microsoft Graph #SharePoint #Uncategorized

A starter scaffold for my Azure Functions

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. ...

#K2 #SharePoint

Switching to K2 SmartForms mid project

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. ...

#SharePoint #Archive

CAuthZcontext and slow search

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 ...