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Finding free time in Office 365 via REST
Here is a two step tutorial of how you can find time in Office 365 calendars via REST...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 10/27/2017
Posting messages to the Graph API from Microsoft Flow
I needed to POST a message to Microsoft's Graph API in order to find meeting slots in a calendar...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 10/27/2017
Using Postman to call the Graph API using Azure Active Directory (AAD)
I needed a mechanism to be able to call an API that would find free time in my calendar. I looked at...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 10/05/2017
Service Fabric - Watchdog connector
I was helping a customer move an on premises solution into Service Fabric and they were very keen on...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 09/18/2017
Best way to host Microsoft R Server in Azure
Today I was asked whether it was better to run Microsoft R Server on a Virtual Machine / Azure...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/08/2017
Relational Database to Cosmos DB
A customer fired off a few questions to me today regarding their move from on-premises SQL Server to...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 07/31/2017
Azure Service Fabric Application Insights working sample
This simple post is going to walk through the very basics of getting trace events to appear in...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 06/16/2017
Add Azure Active Directory B2B users to your Visual Studio Team Services
I often go on site with customers and do some work for them inside their VSTS. I am going to...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 03/15/2017
Retrieving Distinct Count of the PageViews in Application Insights using parseurl
Had a query from a partner today about how they could get a report from Application Insights to tell...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 01/04/2017
dotnet restore unable to resolve .NET Framework libraries
I was at a hack at the start of the month and we were attempting to create a CI pipeline for the...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 09/25/2016
Unable to locate Nuget on a Hosted Build
I was working for a customer as they were having an issue after importing their code into Visual...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 09/30/2015
Cloud Roadmap
Ever wanted to know what the Azure team are up to and what services have been deprecated? This is...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 02/11/2015
Windows 10 Calculator
Wow – we have finally updated calc.exe – how long has that been? and and How cool is it that 12...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 01/29/2015
Adding Nokia JBL PowerUp to Windows 10
I have a Nokia charging station in my office that also doubles as a nice speaker whilst I am...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 10/14/2014
New cmd.exe features in Windows 10
So in Windows 10, cmd.exe has had some love finally! Open your command prompt and right click and go...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 10/04/2014
A Windows Service hybrid Console that installs itself
I have sent this previously to a few of my customers when I see them having issues around console...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 10/04/2014
Setting an IP to address to be static and then dynamic in C#
Yesterday, I was with a colleague and we were discussing how to set an IP address to be static for a...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 09/10/2014
TF400856: The following service is not registered in the database: FileContent.
Within TFS 2013 Update 2 you may come across the above error. A job was introduced to migrate BLOB...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/28/2014
How to subscribe to Azure Notifications
You can get notifications about Azure Status by subscribing to the RSS feed at Azure Status...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/28/2014
Features added in Microsoft Test Manager 2010–>2013
There have been so many great features added by Ravi Shanker and the team, I have posted these here...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/22/2014
Visual Studio 14 in Azure
So if you have ever followed Microsoft’s versioning, we will never release a version 13 of Visual...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/21/2014
How to bulk import Test Cases into Visual Studio Online
A customer of mine didn’t want to renew their license with Quality Centre as all of their...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/21/2014
WebDeploy using publish settings
In the new version of Web Deploy 3.6 you can now use your publish settings that were created within...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/20/2014
Event ID 65203, General Service Bus Resource Provider Information. Namespace recovery completed. Trying to recover
Today I had a customer query where they were seeing the following two messages every 10 minutes in...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 08/14/2014
Predictive Analytics
I haven’t got too excited for a while, but I believe that this will be immense. We can hopefully...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 07/02/2014
Windows Azure Pack IaaS Jump Start - July 16 & 17
Software-Defined Networking with Windows Server and System Centre Jump Start Free online event with...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 07/02/2014
Collecting TFS Best Practice Analyser Logs
Sometimes when you work with a Microsoft TFS support technician you will be asked to collect and...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 06/27/2014
Which VS / TFS Power Tools should I use?
I always get asked this question, so I have captured the information here so I can always get the...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 06/27/2014
Retrieving the installer for Windows Service Bus 1.1
A customer of mine is using the On Premises version of Azure Service Bus, or Windows Service Bus...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 05/28/2014
Enterprise deployment of an Ektron web site
I am currently helping a customer who is using Visual Studio 2012 with TFS 2010 to deploy an Ektron...
Author: SoftwareSimian Date: 05/16/2014