https://thomasdaly.net/category/azure/Recent content in Azure on Inquisitive M365Hugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 Tom DalyThu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/05/archive-lease-extraction-giant-packets/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/05/archive-lease-extraction-giant-packets/Giant scanned packets of leases, rental agreements, cancellations and letters. How we pulled the files from SharePoint, ran OCR on a local machine, read them with a cheap AI model in Microsoft Foundry, and only paid for a stronger model when a simple check failed.https://thomasdaly.net/2026/09/01/azure-function-send-email-one-mailbox/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/09/01/azure-function-send-email-one-mailbox/Mail.Send lets an Azure Function send as any mailbox in your tenant. How to scope it to one mailbox with Exchange, and the traps along the way.https://thomasdaly.net/2026/08/18/azure-ai-document-routing-sharepoint/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/08/18/azure-ai-document-routing-sharepoint/How I used Azure AI to read lease documents and file them in the right SharePoint folder, and the surprises that didn’t show up until real documents started flowing through it.https://thomasdaly.net/2025/06/14/managing-document-library-versioning-tenant/Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2025/06/14/managing-document-library-versioning-tenant/Version history in SharePoint can quietly eat your storage. Here’s how we enforce consistent versioning and auto-expiration across every site in a tenant using PnP PowerShell — both at provisioning time and as a bulk remediation.https://thomasdaly.net/2024/02/20/sharepoint-site-automatically-apply-site-templates-on-site-creation/Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:17:16 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2024/02/20/sharepoint-site-automatically-apply-site-templates-on-site-creation/Applying a consistent site template across newly created SharePoint sites is essential for maintaining uniformity, particularly for departmental sites. While designing and creating templates is…https://thomasdaly.net/2024/01/06/updating-web-part-properties-via-azure-function-powershell-pnp-searchable-content/Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:31:52 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2024/01/06/updating-web-part-properties-via-azure-function-powershell-pnp-searchable-content/I’ve been working on an SPFx web part that allows users to edit content on the page without being a Contributor on the site. It’s…https://thomasdaly.net/2022/02/12/azure-web-app-deployment-issues/Sat, 12 Feb 2022 04:56:15 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2022/02/12/azure-web-app-deployment-issues/I’ve been having major troubles when I am deploying my Node.js application. It will often get stuck deploying in the Azure Web App b/c of…https://thomasdaly.net/2021/11/20/azure-community-bootcamp-2021/Sat, 20 Nov 2021 03:53:29 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2021/11/20/azure-community-bootcamp-2021/Introduction After an event I like to wrap up some of my thoughts on how the event started and some of the lessons learned. This…https://thomasdaly.net/2021/08/14/passed-az-204-developing-solutions-for-microsoft-azure/Sat, 14 Aug 2021 04:49:32 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2021/08/14/passed-az-204-developing-solutions-for-microsoft-azure/On June 8, 2021 I passed my AZ-204 exam to become a Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate. I completed the exam on my first attempt…https://thomasdaly.net/2021/04/09/pnp-powershell-v4-provisioning-with-azure-functions-v3-and-power-automate/Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:56:16 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2021/04/09/pnp-powershell-v4-provisioning-with-azure-functions-v3-and-power-automate/Introduction Trying out the new way to Provision via PnP PowerShell V4 and Azure Functions V3 was a little challenging at first. There are some…https://thomasdaly.net/2020/12/19/pnp-powershell-v4-and-azure-functions-v3-first-look/Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:06:59 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2020/12/19/pnp-powershell-v4-and-azure-functions-v3-first-look/I’m writing this blog to share my experiences with working the latest version of PnP PowerShell V4 this .NET Core version and Azure Functions V3….