Configuration

Disable feedback surveys in Power Platform

If you have worked in Microsoft 365 PowerApps or Power Automate, you might be familiar with feedback survey which pops up quite often. Microsoft wants your feedback on how likely are your to recommend Power Automate to a friend or colleague? Well, I ran into a conversation in twitter about this survey. Apparently I learnt […]

Step by step guide to configure Viva Connections

Update 09/23/2021 - Viva Connections public preview is available now. Steps defined in this article to create an LOB Teams application using PowerShell is not necessary now. Viva Connections app is available in Teams admin center. This new app replaces Step#3 & Step#4 in this article. You still has to go through the home site […]

Managing global navigation in SharePoint online

Options to manage global navigation in SharePoint online keeps getting better and better. We have come a long way from custom apps, using managed metadata navigation to hub navigation & the shiny SharePoint app bar. SharePoint app bar: SharePoint app bar brings together global navigation and user personalized resources (Sites, News & Files) to every […]

SharePoint Online site collection app catalog

Using SharePoint Online site collection app catalog functionality SharePoint framework solutions and add-ins can now be deployed only to a particular site collection. This approach is way flexible compared to deploying all solutions in a centralized app catalog. Centrally deploying solution is visible and available on all site collections. With this new functionality apps or […]

Team connected SharePoint sites default external sharing setting

Noticed a strange behavior where Team connected SharePoint sites are all defaulting to Existing guests external sharing setting. After spending some time on Internet and working with Microsoft, it is determined that this is happening because of SharePoint & OneDrive’s external sharing setting. Kind of obvious! Duh! Here is how external sharing settings for SharePoint […]

Setup on-premises data gateway

In this post i am going to list out all the things I had to do setup an on-premises data gateway. It can be setup either in personal mode or standard mode. I am going to set it up in standard mode which is recommended by Microsoft for high availability. Personal mode is more suitable […]

SharePoint Site Scripts & Site designs

What is a site design? A site design is a group for predefined commands or actions that gets executed after a SharePoint Site is created. Some of the actions which can be executed as a site design are setting site logo, join the site to a hub, set default theme, create lists & libraries with […]

Office365 Trusted sites for Single Sign On(SSO)

For Single Sign On(SSO) to work on all Office365 services, we need to setup a bunch of URL’s as Trusted Sites in Browser. These URL’s are all over the place and list keeps on growing. I am trying to document all of them in one place for future reference. I will try to keep this […]

Create a custom connector for PowerApps/Flow

If you have a need to connect with data from another line of business systems using PowerApps, you can create a custom connector. If you are trying to connect to any on premises systems, you need to setup an on premises data gateway to start with. I will leave on setting up and configuration of […]

SharePoint Designer cannot display the item

You run into ‘SharePoint Designer cannot display the item’ error when you are trying to edit an existing workflow setup in Designer quite often when there is a windows update or update to .NET framework installed in your computer. In some cases it may also not allow you to create new workflows. Resolution: Clearing Designer […]