Consuming 3rd party APIs with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
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Tag: API
Access Microsoft Graph API Using Managed Identities in Azure Functions
Blog PostsIn this post I’m going to show how to use a MSI with PowerShell on Azure Functions to generate oAuth access tokens for Graph API access. MSI Managed Service Identities (MSI) aka “Azure AD-managed identities” eliminate the need for developers having to manage credentials by providing an identity for the Azure resource in Azure AD… READ MORE
Nicole Enders interviews Vesa Juvonen
Blog PostsCommunity Reporter Nicole Enders interviews Vesa Juvonen, Senior Program Manager, OneDrive – SharePoint Engineering. Video Transcript Nicole: Okay welcome to the ESPC 2019 we are sitting here at the community reporter booth I have Vesa here as my interviewee. Vesa: Thank You for having me. Nicole: You’re a principle program manager at Microsoft so for… READ MORE
Producing and Auditing a Bill-Of-Materials For Software Products
Blog PostsA bill-of-materials, in terms of software, was a new term for me up until recently. The idea is that you can collect all dependencies of your software product and do a security as well as a legal audit of those dependencies. Modern software products (web products in particular) use an extensive amount of open-source dependencies.… READ MORE
Azure Cognitive Services–Experience Image Recognition using Custom Vision (Build an Harrison Ford Classifier)
Blog PostsCustom Vision Service as part of Azure Cognitive Services landscape of pretrained API services, provides you an ability to customize the state-of-the-art Computer Vision models for your specific use case. Using custom vision service you can upload set of images of your choice and categorize them accordingly using tags/categories and automatically train the image recognition… READ MORE
Getting started with Graph API and PowerShell
Blog PostsIf you haven’t heard about Microsoft Graph API lately, you have probably been living outside of civilization. Graph API is Microsoft’s master communication service that connects and handles data between almost any Azure or Microsoft 365 service in the background. If you are already used to PowerShell and modules, the toolkits you use to work… READ MORE
Calling your APIs with Azure AD Managed Service Identity using application permissions
Blog PostsManaged Service Identity is pretty awesome for accessing Azure Key Vault and Azure Resource Management API without storing any secrets in your app. If you are new to AAD MSI, you can check out my earlier article. There is also one I wrote on integrating AAD MSI and Key Vault with ASP.NET Core’s configuration. But how could… READ MORE
Displaying and updating your Office 365 profile picture with Microsoft Graph API
Blog PostsIn order to stay connected with Office 365 in terms of mail, calendar, contacts, documents, directory, devices, and more, Microsoft has provided the Graph API. Naturally, this is a great and easy way to perform operations against Office 365 and building your custom solution for example. One capability provided by the APIs is the possibility… READ MORE
Building a Microsoft Teams Bot
Blog PostsMicrosoft has released Teams from one year, the utility of this product is indisputable, a strength is definitely the possibility to extend it with bots, connectors and tabs. In this article, I’ll talk about how to build a bot and how to leverage the Microsoft Teams API capabilities, which are the following: Fetch Channel List… READ MORE
Automated deployment for SharePoint Framework scripts available on Powershell gallery
Blog PostsI published two scripts on Powershell gallery in order to help automated deployment of a SharePoint Framework solution: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/VSTS.DeploySPFxToO365CDN https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/VSTS.DeploySPFxToAppCatalog The first script basically collects automatically the bundle publishing it on Office 365 CDN, while the second across the SharePoint ALM API is able to upload the package of the solution in the App Catalog.… READ MORE
