A few days ago, I was working on a project and needed to know if it was possible to access a user’s Exchange Online calendar using the same access token used to access list data in one of their SharePoint Online site collections. The Microsoft documentation is confusing due to the rapid pace of change […]
Tim McCarthy
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Git – If you don’t know, now you know!
Ever since Microsoft started adding support for Git into Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), many veteran developers on the Microsoft stack who had never used Git before started wondering what was up with that. One of the things I quickly picked up on at the Build 2016 conference is that most of the dev teams […]
How the Visual Studio Team Services Team Uses its Own Product
One of the sessions that I attended at Build 2016 was titled “DevOps at Scale: A True Story”. It was a really interesting presentation from Microsoft’s Principal Group Program Manager for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) about how they use their own product, VSTS, to build VSTS! Other Microsoft divisions also “dog food” VSTS quite […]
Visual Studio Team Services: Making DevOps Easier
After attending some of the sessions at Build 2016 and talking with various Microsoft employees, it has become very obvious to me that Microsoft has made DevOps a first-class citizen in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Here are some of the notes that I was able to jot down about VSTS. Home Page and Work Items […]
Saving files to SharePoint from Outlook Web Access (OWA) – Part 1
Recently, I was working with a customer who was evaluating Office 365 for a very particular use case. The scenario was this: The customer has several “kiosk” type computers in a store, and need to be able to save email attachments directly to the cloud without having to touch the file system of the kiosk. […]