Yannick Reekmans

28 July 2019

SharePoint News notifications in Microsoft Teams, using Flow and Adaptive Cards

Post News from any SharePoint site to a Microsoft Teams team with the help of Flow, Adaptive Cards and some image trickery.

26 June 2019

Use Node.js 64-bit on Azure App Service

Explore how to configure your Azure App Service so that your Node.js applications run on a 64-bit Node.js binary.

19 May 2019

The curious case of Get-FederationInformation and New-OrganizationRelationship

Set up an Organization Relationship between two Exchange Online organizations, working around some documentation issues.

16 May 2019

I got awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional!

Sharing my personal accomplishment of becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.

13 April 2019

Overview of Microsoft Role-based Certifications

Visual overview of new Role-based certification paths for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Azure

3 April 2019

Ghost on Azure: Question time!

Answers to frequently asked questions related to running Ghost on Azure. Clearing up some uncertainties and handling gotcha's when taking the same approach.

9 March 2019

Automate governance in Microsoft Teams: Improvements and Wishes

An overview of improvements that might make it into v3 of the application, and a wishlist of things I hope Microsoft implements in Graph and Teams.

6 March 2019

Automate governance in Microsoft Teams: Reporting

Creating Power BI reports to follow up on the creation of Microsoft Teams teams, and their compliance with our governance policies.

28 February 2019

Automate governance in Microsoft Teams: Implementation, v2

How we implemented the second version of our application to automate governance in Microsoft Teams. A story on how we succeeded and the technology helped us.

24 February 2019

Automate governance in Microsoft Teams: Implementation, v1

How we implemented the first version of our application to automate governance in Microsoft Teams. A story on where we failed and where the technology failed us.

19 February 2019

Automate governance in Microsoft Teams: The Result

Showcase the end user features of our solution to automate governance in Microsoft Teams.

19 February 2019

Automate governance in Microsoft Teams: Context and Goals

A story on how we rolled out Teams for 15000 people, to improve internal and external collaboration all while keeping IT happy and friction to a minimum.

6 January 2019

Index your Ghost blog in Azure Search, with an Azure Function

Index the content of a Ghost blog in an Azure Search Index, using the Ghost API and an Azure Function.

3 January 2019

How does the Microsoft Graph access its data?

Learn which APIs the Microsoft Graph uses to deliver a response for each request, using the $whatif parameter.

27 December 2018

Generic URLs for all Office 365 Group connected workloads

Get the links to all the Office 365 Group workloads, using the groupstatus.aspx page.

20 December 2018

Download videos from Azure Media Services

Download videos from Azure Media Services with youtube-dl.exe, even when downloading isn't enabled.

23 November 2018

Use an Azure Function to redirect url's

Use an Azure Function v2 with a proxy to redirect legacy domains to a new domain.

22 November 2018

Use Let's Encrypt in an Azure Function for an Azure Function App

Using Let's Encrypt in an Azure Function v2 to request certificates for Azure Function Apps

21 November 2018

Use Let's Encrypt in an Azure Function for an Azure Web App

Use Let's Encrypt to automate SSL certificate creation for Azure Web Apps with an Azure Function v2, use Managed Service Identity

20 November 2018

Add Application Insights to Ghost on Azure

Enable page view tracking with Application Insights on Ghost on Azure.

19 November 2018

Enable SendGrid with Ghost on Azure

How to use the SendGrid free tier in combination with your Ghost blog running on Azure.

18 November 2018

Run Ghost 2.x on Azure

A "how to" guide to running Ghost 2.x on Azure

6 November 2018

Workaround to connect Power BI to Microsoft Graph

Power BI cannot natively connect to Microsoft Graph, one possible solution is an Azure Function that acts as a proxy.

27 October 2018

Azure AD B2B Guest user cannot access SharePoint Online

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27 October 2018

Yet Another Blog on Office 365 and Azure

Why I started yet another blog on Office 365 and Azure: giving back to a community that gives so much to everyone working with Office 365.