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Letting an Azure Function Send Email as One Mailbox — and Only One

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

M365 NYC 2026: Learning From the Person Next to You

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A short look back at M365 Community Days NYC 2026: full rooms, a scavenger hunt that gets strangers talking, and the volunteers who made it all happen.

Ten Years as a Microsoft MVP

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2026-2027 — my tenth year in the program, what it has meant, and why I keep showing up.

Why We Rebuilt a Power App as a Web App (And How AI Helped Us Ship It Fast)

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A boutique camera parts dealer outgrew their Power App. Here’s why we moved to a custom web app, the problems that forced the switch, and how AI-assisted development made it practical for a small team.

Three Years of Community Days: Built by the Community, For the Community

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CommunityDays.org turns three. A look back at how it started, what we’ve built, and the people who made it happen.

Renewed as Microsoft MVP for 2025-2026

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2025-2026 — what the program means to me and why it matters for our community.

Managing Document Library Versioning and Expiration Across a SharePoint Tenant

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Building a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Invoice Processing with AWS Textract and Amazon Bedrock

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How I built a serverless pipeline using AWS Textract for OCR and Amazon Bedrock for AI normalization to extract structured data from invoices across hundreds of different vendor formats.

Sort Your SharePoint Site Directory Alphabetically

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:53:07 +0000

In my previous article, Build a Site Directory with PnP Search Web Parts, I walked through how to create a dynamic site directory using PnP…

Build a Site Directory with PnP Search Web Parts

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:07:34 +0000

This article will demonstrate how PnP Search Web Parts can be used to build a comprehensive Site Directory that not only enhances navigation but also…

SharePoint Site – Automatically Apply Site Templates on Site Creation

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:17:16 +0000

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…

Updating Web Part Properties via Azure Function & PowerShell PnP + Searchable Content

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:31:52 +0000

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…

Community Days / Sessionize Key Deep Dive

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 18:32:19 +0000

Intro In the previous article, we discussed creating a basic JSON-formatted API endpoint in Sessionize to integrate your event content, including Speakers, Sessions, and Schedule,…

Creating a Sessionize Key for Community Days

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 18:02:11 +0000

In this walkthrough, we’ll guide you through the steps to create a Sessionize key, which is required by Community Days for integrating your event’s Speakers,…

Azure Web App Deployment Issues

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 04:56:15 +0000

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…

Adding Font Awesome to SPFx React project

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:39:00 +0000

Introduction I love the FontAwesome library and use it on many projects. I was a huge fan of FontAwesome 4.0 and had a little struggle…

Azure Community Bootcamp 2021

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 03:53:29 +0000

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…

Alerts Header – SPFx project

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:24:00 +0000

Introduction This new project is a nice little feature that you can easily add to your SharePoint site to enable site messages or alerts. Having…

Awarded Office Developer MVP 2020-2021

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 04:51:57 +0000

Awarded Office Developer MVP 2020-2021 – I am thrilled to announce that I was award a new title of Office Developer MVP. I’ve been a…

Passed – AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 04:49:32 +0000

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…

SharePoint – SPFX Back to Top

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 04:35:03 +0000

This post will demonstrate another SharePoint UI hack that is typically seen on many modern sites today. B

Create Site Collection App Catalog

Sun, 30 May 2021 03:09:09 +0000

I’m posting this quick tip on how to create a site collection based app catalog with PowerShell. I used this over and over when I’m…

M365 Philly Virtual 2021 Event Wrap Up

Sun, 16 May 2021 04:54:00 +0000

This past year has been a challenging year for running events. For those that do not know me, I am someone that facilitates many events…

PnP PowerShell V4 Provisioning with Azure Functions V3 and Power Automate / Flow

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:56:16 +0000

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…

Building a Microsoft Teams Provisioning Process using Power Apps & Power Automate

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 04:29:16 +0000

This blog will cover an example of a MS Teams provisioning process that was originally delivered for M365 California Jan ’21. The sessions were 30…

PnP PowerShell V4 and Azure Functions V3 – First Look

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:06:59 +0000

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….

Remove Left Navigation on Modern Team Sites

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:46:55 +0000

I am frequently asked how do I removed the left navigation on the modern Team sites? Most people don’t know this but if you just…

Global Microsoft 365 (M365) Developer Bootcamp NY, NJ & PA

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:49:34 +0000

Global Microsoft 365 (M365) Developer Bootcamps are happening in major cities all over the world from October 1st through November 30, 2020. These are typically…

Using JSOM to update Taxonomy Fields in SPFx

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:00:37 +0000

Introduction Last week I was working on a project that involved setting some managed meta data fields, both the single value and multi values fields….

Hub Site Guide

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:16:47 +0000

Introduction Over the past few months I’ve been involved in many discussions about SharePoint Hub Sites. What I’ve found is that majority of the people…

Renewed as Microsoft MVP – Office Server & Services 2020-2021!

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:55:36 +0000

I am humbled and honored 🙂 to be renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2020-2021. Anyone that received this award should be humbled and honored….

Making SPFx Web Parts Searchable – Lessons Learned

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0000

I recently built a handful of amazing content entry web parts for Office 365 using SharePoint Framework (SPFx). The client I was working with wanted…

SPFx Side Navigation Project for Modern Sites

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:53:09 +0000

I started this project over a year and a half ago and at the time Modern SharePoint starts gaining some traction with organizations. I remember…

Set Modern Page Properties with PnP PowerShell

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:59:31 +0000

Recently I had to provision a number of modern pages w/ some additional page properties. These page properties were custom fields added as columns to…

SPFx Application Customizer that works on Classic SharePoint Sites

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:48:41 +0000

Introduction Over a year ago I create a cross site collection navigation solution aka global navigation for Modern SharePoint sites using all the Microsoft goodies…

Cross Site Collection Navigation for Modern & Classic SharePoint Sites

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:47:43 +0000

TL;DR Go here for the code + instructions: https://github.com/tom-daly/spfx-global-navigation Modern version works with: Office 365 & SharePoint 2019 – IE 11, Chrome, Firefox. Classic version…

Suppress SPFx warnings w/ Regex

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:48:43 +0000

My goal is to write clean and readable code. The least I can do is make sure it’s formatted correctly. One of my favorite Visual…

Renewed Office Server & Services Microsoft MVP for 2019 – 2020

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:46:49 +0000

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been re-awarded my MVP for the upcoming year. This past year had some unique challenges with the birth of…

Update: SPFx Automatically Generating Revision Numbers + Versioning

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 04:21:23 +0000

I’ve been using the auto generated build numbers paired with Stefan Bauer: How to version new SharePoint Framework projects and it’s been working great for myself….

SPFx Automatically Generating Revision Numbers

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:18:41 +0000

I like automatic revision numbers while I’m developing. I don’t have to manually be making changes while pushing packages out and testing. While working on…

I’ve been renewed for Office Servers & Services MVP for 2018 – 2019!

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:19:31 +0000

I’ve been renewed for Office Servers & Services MVP for 2018 – 2019!

Trimming the Suite Bar + Ribbon on Modern SharePoint Sites in Office 365

Mon, 14 May 2018 08:00:43 +0000

Update 2/26/2020 – due to the comments I’ve posted a github project that you can check out to help. https://github.com/tom-daly/spfx-trim-ribbon What I’m about to show…

Simple Build Script for the SharePoint Framework

Mon, 07 May 2018 11:29:33 +0000

This little script saves me thousands of keystrokes and hours of wasted time while building SPFx (SharePoint Framework) solutions. Generating a production level build is…

Changes to Default Document Mode in Office 365 / SharePoint Online

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:34:53 +0000

Starting February 14th, 2018 – Microsoft will push an update to a tiny, but very important, piece of code in all your master pages. They…

SharePoint Quick Deploy & Build Process Using Node, Gulp & SP Save – Part 2

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 01:57:54 +0000

In this article we’ll pick up where we left off in Part 1 and begin the creation of a gulpfile.js. This file will provide the…

New Year, New Job. 2018 Enter the Dragon

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 03:30:27 +0000

New Year, New Job. 2018 Enter the Dragon For those of you that don’t know me, I started a new gig this year. I recently…

SharePoint Quick Deploy & Build Process Using Node, Gulp & SP Save – Part 1

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:05:17 +0000

For the past year or so I’ve been developing and building branding assets in Visual Studio Code for my Office 365 projects. Not only just…

Changing the Site Logo on Modern Team Site

Sun, 05 Nov 2017 02:47:27 +0000

I found this so strange that I had to post something about it. It’s really easy to change the site logo for a Modern Communication…

The Easiest Way to Attach CSS or JavaScript to your Office 365 or SharePoint Site

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 04:35:46 +0000

Introduction I’m typically asked quite often on how I can attach global CSS or javascript like jQuery to my SharePoint / Office 365 site. There…

Awarded Microsoft Servers and Services MVP for 2018!

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 02:19:38 +0000

Awarded Microsoft Servers and Services MVP for 2018! I am so happy to announce that I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP in Office Servers and Services…

Print to PDF not working on Nintex Form

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:47:03 +0000

I stumbled across an issue last week where a client was reporting that the custom branding broke the print functionality of their Nintex forms. I…

Creating a Site Template (Web) using PnP-Powershell Provisioning

Mon, 06 Mar 2017 03:20:59 +0000

During my last project we were asked to create a fairly simple site template on Office 365. I typically cringe when I hear the word…

Hide Newsfeed, OneDrive and/or Sites from the Waffle for SharePoint 2016

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:26:53 +0000

Here’s a quick little snippet of CSS if you are trying to hide the Newsfeed, OneDrive or Sites from the Waffle Menu in SharePoint 2016….

Visual Studio Code Productivity Tips & Favorite Extensions

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:05:17 +0000

Over the course of the past 6 months I’ve found myself using Visual Studio Code as my goto html/css/javascript IDE. Much of the time I…

Built-in Helper Classes Inside Office 365 & SharePoint 2013

Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:33:05 +0000

There are a number of already built in helper (or utility) classes in Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. These classes can be very useful when…

Hijack SharePoint’s Built-in Full Width Background Image

Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:26:16 +0000

You may or may not already know that SharePoint has the ability to do full width background images. If you’ve ever applied one of those…

SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release – Where do I begin?

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:11:00 +0000

This is an exciting time! The much anticipated SharePoint Framework Preview was released yesterday. And guess what … they are essentially Add-ins /Apps. Right now…

Change Default SharePoint Site Logo CSS Trick – Great for Office 365!

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:25:32 +0000

I was just thinking about this issue one day and realized that I could just override the default image but if the user decides that…

Hide Newsfeed, OneDrive and/or Sites from the Suite Bar – Ribbon Area for SharePoint 2013

Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:17:28 +0000

It really is super simple and requires I line of CSS per item. If you want to hit them all or any future ones you…

Hiding People from People Search

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:45:09 +0000

Introduction This all started as a request from a client to hide only certain users from the people search. I’ve decided on this route because…

Bootstrap Navigation for Office 365 & SharePoint 2013 using jQuery and REST

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:46:24 +0000

Introduction In my last post I talked about making the SharePoint navigation render in a Bootstrap friendly way. I suggested that you could do this…

Bootstrap Responsive Navigation in SharePoint

Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:19:00 +0000

Updated 10-5-2016: Included link to javascript version of bootstrap navigation Updated the navigation code to detect in active -> Contribution by Olly in comments below….

Office 365 Icons

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:52:00 +0000

Introduction I recently came across an interesting blog – http://www.n8d.at/blog/office-365-icon-font-documentation/ which mentions O365 icons. This was back in February so when I attempted to locate…

My Favorite JavaScript Libraries and jQuery plugins

Thu, 07 May 2015 16:24:00 +0000

These are a few of my favorite and go to JavaScript libraries. These tend to work well in SharePoint with no problem. This is my…

Working with SASS style sheets in Office 365 / SharePoint 2013

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:53:00 +0000

My new favorite thing is creating all my style sheets with SASS. SASS makes writing my style sheets faster, easier, cleaner, and more reusable. Don’t…

Delete a Workflow on the Host Web from the App Web

Wed, 14 May 2014 19:43:11 +0000

Below is some sample code to delete a workflow on the host web from your app web. This would be useful in the event you…

Provision a Workflow to the Host Web from the App Web

Wed, 14 May 2014 19:29:38 +0000

Below is some sample code to provision a workflow on the host web from your app web. This sample code is in one block for…

Deleting a List on the Host Web from the App Web with JavaScript Object Model (JSOM)

Sun, 11 May 2014 17:22:10 +0000

Below is some sample code of how to delete a list on the host web from the app web via SharePoint JavaScript object model function…

Provisioning a List on the Host Web from the App Web with JavaScript Object Model (JSOM)

Sun, 11 May 2014 17:16:00 +0000

Below is some sample code of how to provision a list from the app web via SharePoint JavaScript object model. function CreateList(title, url, templateType, hidden)…

Content Query Web Part + Calendar = Mad Problems

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:58:00 +0000

I recently had to assemble a content query web part (my least favorite thing) pulling data from a Calendar list and experienced hours of pain…

Permanently Removing the Recent Node from Quick Launch for SharePoint 2013

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:42:26 +0000

The following updates have been made to this article since it’s publication: [Update 9/7/2016] – The method suggested by Håkan Nilsson only works with Publishing…

Reuse DataForm Web Part, change ListId to ListName, and scrub GUIDs

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:08:25 +0000

I know there are quite a few posts out there on this, but i’m writing this here for myself as a rollup of the information…

Deploying Composed Look – The Declarative Method – Part 2

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:24:18 +0000

Back in December I posted a lengthy article on how to deploy a Composed Look for SharePoint 2013. If you haven’t read that it can…

Free Floating Quick Launch Navigation for SharePoint 2010 using jQuery

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:43:00 +0000

Recently I was asked to make a free floating navigation element, so that when you scroll down the page it would follow. There are many…

My Sticky Footer Solution for SharePoint 2013 – Pure JavaScript Solution

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:32:13 +0000

Last year I posted a blog article which described the issue with SharePoint 2010 and having a footer. Well similarly SharePoint 2013 has some of…

SharePoint 2013 Theme Builder Tool

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:48:35 +0000

There is a tool released by Microsoft to assist with building SharePoint 2013 Themes more specifically the theme color palettes. This will help a lot…

Customize Table of Contents Web Part: Remove Libraries & Navigation Headers

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:59:00 +0000

This article is based off Thomas Sondergaard’s post located here: http://sharepointsharpener.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/quick-fix-remove-libraries-lists-from-toc/ This version is slightly different, I approach it similar but in a different way….

Cache Busting Using CssRegistration & ScriptLink in SharePoint 2010

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:41:42 +0000

What is cache busting? Cache busting is way to ensure that the browser will download a new version of your file. This is easily accomplished…

Applying a Composed Look programmatically

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:30:32 +0000

Applying a theme has change from SP2010 to SP2013, here is a link to the method to apply a composed look. SPWeb.ApplyTheme( string colorPaletteUrl, string…

Deploying a custom ‘Composed Look’ in SharePoint 2013

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:07:14 +0000

There are two ways to deploy your custom composed look. Via XML / Elements file – the declarative way, or via feature receiver / C#…

SharePoint 2013 – Design Manager – Unable to map network drive, while working on the server

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:36:18 +0000

I’ve been experimenting heavily lately with SharePoint 2013 and the entire process wrapped around Branding sites. I am one of those people that rely on…

Theme Builder Lives On!

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:29:24 +0000

For those working with SharePoint 2010 themes this tools seemed to be amazing at giving me those .THMX files. Until they took it away, but…

My favorite XSL tips / tricks

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:50:29 +0000

I’m compiling a list of my favorite XSL tip and tricks that always help me. These items are not going to be in any particular…

SharePoint CSSRegistration or Link?

Wed, 02 May 2012 04:38:46 +0000

I must say that I’ve been using for my style sheets for some times now. Until recently have seen the benefits from using the…

Building a custom Navigation Menu using SPServices

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:05:00 +0000

In this post we are going to create a 2 tier navigation menu using SPServices. In this scenario we’ll be replacing the current quick launch…

My SharePoint 2010 Sticky Footer Solution

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Problem I’ve come across a handful of sticky footer solutions and many of them claiming to work in SharePoint. Most of the CSS ones just…

OOTB Navigation fix to support IPad & I-Devices

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:29:06 +0000

I was recently asked to get the navigation to work on a tablet. Well part of the problem is the there is really no such…

Tree View Navigation & Managed Meta Data Navigation, Missing Vertical Grip in starter.masterpage

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:02:38 +0000

Intro This goes out to those people that want to use the managed meta data navigation / tree view navigation and are using the starter…

Deploying Master Pages & Themes via a Feature using Visual Studio 2010

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:08:41 +0000

Following this guide you’ll see the process that goes behind creating the feature which commonly be used to deploy branding items such as Master Pages,…

Clean V4 Master Page

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:03:27 +0000

Update 11/12/2013: Moved this to CodePlex – CleanMasterPages.CodePlex.com This is a creation / compilation of the v4.master page which I use when branding a site…

Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011

Tue, 03 May 2011 03:25:55 +0000

I’m very surprised and happy to announce that I am one of the many to receive the Microsoft Community Contributor Award for 2011! Not entirely…

Using SPServices and Pagination to create a photo gallery

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:28:44 +0000

In this positing I’m going to cover utilizing the SPServices codeplex project to build a “Gallery” of sorts. In this demo we’ll be creating a…

Speaking – SharePoint NYC User Group

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:53:03 +0000

Next week ( 4/6/2011) I’ll be speaking at the NYC SharePoint User Group. I’ll be talking about “Getting Started with SharePoint Branding” specifically focusing on…

Concept – Quick Hide / Show of the Ribbon

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:44:57 +0000

I had an idea the other day to come up with a nice way to keep the ribbon away when I don’t really want to…

ScriptLink vs Script tag, what’s the difference?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:23:31 +0000

This article specifically refers to the ScriptLink available in MOSS 07, as 2010 has other features such as script on demand which I will talk about…

Simple Accordion type plugin for JQuery – works w/ Quirks mode!

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:06:47 +0000

So this weekend I spent a whole lot of time trying to impliment the Jquery UI accoridion plug in on a site for one of…

SharePoint Access on your DROID – or other android phone

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:07:47 +0000

So you want to try to get your on your DROID? Well there is now some good news. Previously you might have been unable to…

Ajax, Update Panel, & the People Picker

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:24:52 +0000

A lot of people complain about issues with the People Picker when attempting to use an Ajax Update Panel with it because it just doesn’t…

How can i get the current time in my data view web part

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:33:20 +0000

I’m posting this in case anyone is looking to easily get the time from your SharePoint server through the data view webpart. This will give…

Generating Dummy Profiles for your Shared Service Provider

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:09:54 +0000

In the past month I’ve been heavily involved in dealing with SSPs. Sometimes rebuilding them, or migrating from a broken one to a new one….

Jazzing up SharePoint picture gallery

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:25:37 +0000

This posting will demonstrate the power of jquery and the galleriffic jquery plugin to make your out of the box SharePoint picture gallery sexier. The…

Contact form using Jquery, web services, & content editor

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:10:02 +0000

This post I’ll show you how to create a simple contact form using Jquery, web services, & the content editor. This form works best for…