Category: Office365

Azure AD: Migrate from Federated Authentication to Cloud Authentication

In this blog, I want to share my recent experience of migration of Azure AD Authentication from Federated authentication using Okta as the Identity Provider to Cloud Authentication (Pass through in my case, but similar process & principles to be followed for Password Hash Authentication). Scenario This post is helpful if you have below current … Continue reading Azure AD: Migrate from Federated Authentication to Cloud Authentication →

Single Sign On in Office 365-SharePoint Online by bypassing Home Realm Discovery page

This blog explains techniques to acheive single sign on in your office 365 tenant by bypassing Office 365 Home realm discovery(a.k.a HRD--> https://login.microsoftonline.com ) page.If your Office 365 setup does not have the following setup then this blog does not apply to you: AAD with Federated identity with third party Identity provider such as ADFS/CA … Continue reading Single Sign On in Office 365-SharePoint Online by bypassing Home Realm Discovery page →

Receive Office 365 Group conversations/emails in personal mailbox

Many workplaces are moving away from using email Distribution lists and starting to use the Shared Mailbox address of Office 365 groups.Well, office 365 groups & MS Teams offers many cool features but in this blog I am going to talk about a very simple & very useful feature about the Shared Mailbox feature of … Continue reading Receive Office 365 Group conversations/emails in personal mailbox →

SharePoint Online Set a site collection as Read Only

There are many different business scenarios when we want to set a SharePoint site collection as read-only mode (as shown in above screenshot) to prevent any further addition/modification of content but simultaneously to make the existing content available to the users. In SharePoint on-premise, this was primarily done via central administration or using powershell. But … Continue reading SharePoint Online Set a site collection as Read Only →

Introduction to Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Teams? Back in November 2016 , Microsoft announced  "Microsoft Teams"- a chat based work space which comes free with your Office 365 subscription. It's a lot like Slack and is designed to work across multiple platforms (windows desktop, Mac OS, mobile apps for Android ,ios and no mobile app for windows phone yet … Continue reading Introduction to Microsoft Teams →

Quick guide to basics of Microsoft Graph API

What is Microsoft Graph? Microsoft Graph is a REST API endpoint exposed via https://graph.microsoft.com. It provides a unified access endpoint to all the data, office graph intelligence and insights available inside your Office 365 tenant. If you are familiar with Facebook's Graph API you can consider this as Office 365 version of that. Wait, but Office … Continue reading Quick guide to basics of Microsoft Graph API →

Preparing for SharePoint Online migration

SharePoint product has had a very drastic transition over the past few years. Many features are deprecated and many solution practices which we used to follow are no more supported. So this blog will give you details of the things to watch out for or to be remediated before you move into cloud. No farm solutions  … Continue reading Preparing for SharePoint Online migration →

SharePoint Online Migration

Every organization intranet and every product are slowly moving to cloud platform. SharePoint is no different and have better features in its cloud platform( SharePoint on steroids 🙂 )  than on-premise version. This blog will provide some key things which can help you in defining a cloud strategy for your SharePoint investments. Part 1 - Assess your … Continue reading SharePoint Online Migration →