https://www.blimped.nl/A tech blog about Microsoft 365 related stuffHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usmlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000https://www.blimped.nl/release-branch-strategies-with-federated-identity-and-github-actions/Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/release-branch-strategies-with-federated-identity-and-github-actions/Learn how to secure SPFx deployments using GitHub Actions and Federated Identity with release branch strategies. A deep dive into flexible federated credentials for effective CI/CD security.authgithubcli-microsoft365entraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/deploying-to-m365-using-cli-and-federated-identity-devops-edition/Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/deploying-to-m365-using-cli-and-federated-identity-devops-edition/Learn how to properly deploy artifacts from Azure DevOps Pipelines to Microsoft 365 using the CLI for Microsoft 365 without fiddling with certificates or user credentials.azuredevopsdevopscli-microsoft365entraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/deploying-to-m365-using-cli-and-federated-identity/Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/deploying-to-m365-using-cli-and-federated-identity/Learn how to properly deploy artifacts from GitHub workflows to Microsoft 365 using the CLI for Microsoft 365 without fiddling with certificates or user credentials.authgithubcli-microsoft365entraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/finding-the-minimal-azure-function-authentication-setup/Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/finding-the-minimal-azure-function-authentication-setup/Using the built-in authentication for Azure Functions is powerful, as long as you optimize it a bit!authazurefunctionentraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/moving-sites-to-cold-storage-using-code-and-m365-archive/Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/moving-sites-to-cold-storage-using-code-and-m365-archive/This post highlights the various means I found to archive SharePoint sites programmatically with Microsoft 365 Archive.sharepointmicrosoft 365 archiveCSOMhttps://www.blimped.nl/updating-and-using-the-property-bag-in-2024/Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/updating-and-using-the-property-bag-in-2024/It's an old, but useful feature, and impacted by the change Microsoft is pushing with NoScript sites. Or is it? Here's how to use the property bag in 2024.sharepointpropertybagpnppowershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/extending-microsoft-365-with-custom-retention-controls-part-2/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/extending-microsoft-365-with-custom-retention-controls-part-2/New release of a small Microsoft 365 extension I've developed to view & manage retention controls.purviewsharepointspfxcomplianceretentionrecordmanagementdlmmicrosoftgraphhttps://www.blimped.nl/spfx-and-the-potential-pitfall-of-partial-page-navigation/Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/spfx-and-the-potential-pitfall-of-partial-page-navigation/How you need to take partial page navigation into account when building SPFx customizations.spfxsharepointhttps://www.blimped.nl/calling-entra-id-secured-azure-function-from-power-automate/Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/calling-entra-id-secured-azure-function-from-power-automate/Can you call an Entra ID secured Azure Function from Power Automate? Yes you can, in several ways. This blog post describes one way to do it.azurefunctionspowerautomateentraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/durable-functions-logging/Sat, 14 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/durable-functions-logging/Durable functions are awesome... this post shows how to see what happened end-to-end in a durable function instance.appinsightsloggingazurefunctionsdurablefunctionshttps://www.blimped.nl/pnp-powershell-how-not-to-forget-all-those-client-ids/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/pnp-powershell-how-not-to-forget-all-those-client-ids/The PnP Management Shell Entra ID App has gone away. Which means we'll now have to remember our Client Id's ourselves. This is a way to do just that.entraidpnp-powershellpowershellmseidhttps://www.blimped.nl/extending-microsoft-365-with-custom-retention-controls/Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/extending-microsoft-365-with-custom-retention-controls/Thinking about a Purview post by Joanne C Klein, I've developed a small Microsoft 365 extension to view & manage retention controls.purviewsharepointspfxcomplianceretentionrecordmanagementdlmmicrosoftgraphhttps://www.blimped.nl/moving-existing-contenttypes-to-the-contenttypehub/Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/moving-existing-contenttypes-to-the-contenttypehub/How to start leveraging the power of the Content Type Hub on your existing information architecture.sharepointinformationarchitecturehttps://www.blimped.nl/debugging-production-spfx-code/Tue, 28 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/debugging-production-spfx-code/A way to debug minified SPFx code in production against your original typescript code.spfxtypescriptsharepointwebpackdebugginghttps://www.blimped.nl/authentication-and-authorization-highlights-in-the-terminal/Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/authentication-and-authorization-highlights-in-the-terminal/Highlighting some great features in the CLI for Microsoft 365 when working with multiple identities and PIM.cliformicrosoft365entraidpimidentitymseidrbacsecurityhttps://www.blimped.nl/rsc-using-delegated-sites-selected/Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/rsc-using-delegated-sites-selected/Sites.Selected has been made available in delegated mode! What does it mean and how does it work?entraidsharepointmicrosoftgraphsecuritycompliancecliformicrosoft365mseidhttps://www.blimped.nl/4-benefits-of-starting-your-dlm-journey-today/Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/4-benefits-of-starting-your-dlm-journey-today/This post highlights 4 key benefits of implementing data lifecycle management.purviewretentioncompliancedatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmsharepointhttps://www.blimped.nl/applying-inactive-retention-labels/Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/applying-inactive-retention-labels/In this blog post I'm highlighting the difference between active and inactive retention labels, and why you may want to keep your retention labels as inactive.purviewretentioncompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmsharepointhttps://www.blimped.nl/daisy-chaining-retention-labels-and-automated-archival/Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/daisy-chaining-retention-labels-and-automated-archival/An partner-post with Joanne C. Klein on how to automatically move files labelled with a Purview retention label to some archive location.purviewretentionsharepointpowershellcompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmhttps://www.blimped.nl/correctly-paging-when-searching-sharepoint/Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/correctly-paging-when-searching-sharepoint/Avoiding an API pitfall when querying large result sets using SharePoint searchsharepointsearchapimicrosoftgraphpnppowershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/dont-trust-pwd-in-azure-powershell-functions/Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/dont-trust-pwd-in-azure-powershell-functions/Note to self: do not trust $PWD in Azure PowerShell Functions.azurefunctionspowershellcliformicrosoft365https://www.blimped.nl/deploying-spfx-apps-with-azure-devops-pipelines-all-yaml/Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/deploying-spfx-apps-with-azure-devops-pipelines-all-yaml/In this blog post I will show you how you can deploy SPFx apps using Azure DevOps pipelines with an all YAML build & release definition.sharepointspfxcicdpipelinescliformicrosoft365azuredevopshttps://www.blimped.nl/quick-tip-customizing-the-sharepoint-site-search-experience/Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/quick-tip-customizing-the-sharepoint-site-search-experience/Creating a customized SharePoint site search experience using PnP Modern Search and PnP PowerShell.sharepointpowershellsearchhttps://www.blimped.nl/deploying-spfx-apps-with-azure-devops-pipelines/Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/deploying-spfx-apps-with-azure-devops-pipelines/In this blog post I will show you how you can deploy SPFx apps using Azure DevOps pipelines with a classic release pipeline.sharepointspfxcicdpipelinescliformicrosoft365azuredevopshttps://www.blimped.nl/building-a-sharepoint-new-site-form-look-alike/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/building-a-sharepoint-new-site-form-look-alike/A post on building a SPFx Form Customizer with a Dynamic Form with field overrides to create an experience that looks like the default SharePoint new site form.spfxsharepointformsdynamicformsformcustomizerhttps://www.blimped.nl/configuring-the-cli-for-microsoft-365-in-azure-functions/Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/configuring-the-cli-for-microsoft-365-in-azure-functions/Additional tips on configuring and using CLI for Microsoft 365 scripts on Azure Functions based on the PowerShell stack!cliformicrosoft365azurefunctionsazurepowershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/automating-purview-data-retention-using-azure-functions/Thu, 04 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/automating-purview-data-retention-using-azure-functions/An example of how to automatically apply Purview retention labels using Azure Functions.purviewretentionsharepointpowershellcompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmautomationhttps://www.blimped.nl/using-the-on-behalf-of-flow-in-azure-powershell-functions/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/using-the-on-behalf-of-flow-in-azure-powershell-functions/A step by step guide on how to use the on-behalf-of flow in Azure PowerShell Functions.entraidauthenticationazurefunctionsspfxcliformicrosoft365powershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/implications-of-applying-purview-retentionlabels-to-folders/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/implications-of-applying-purview-retentionlabels-to-folders/In this blog post I will show you 7 implications of applying Purview retention labels to folders in SharePoint.purviewretentionsharepointpowershellcompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmhttps://www.blimped.nl/finding-and-fixing-incorrectly-applied-purview-retention-labels/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/finding-and-fixing-incorrectly-applied-purview-retention-labels/In this blog post I will show you how you can find incorrectly applied retention labels.purviewretentionsharepointcompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmmicrosoftgraphcsomrestpowershellcliformicrosoft365https://www.blimped.nl/working-with-purview-event-based-retention-using-code/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/working-with-purview-event-based-retention-using-code/Do you want to retain data for a period of time after a certain event has happened? It is called event-based retention and this is how you use it from code.purviewretentionsharepointpowershellcompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmmicrosoftgraphcsomrestpowershellcliformicrosoft365https://www.blimped.nl/working-with-teams-powershell-in-azure-automation/Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/working-with-teams-powershell-in-azure-automation/How to work with Microsoft Teams PowerShell and Managed Identity in Azure Automationentraidauthenticationmicrosoftteamspowershellazureazureautomationcliformicrosoft365https://www.blimped.nl/managing-and-applying-purview-retention-labels-using-code/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/managing-and-applying-purview-retention-labels-using-code/An overview of the different ways you can manage and apply Microsoft 365 Purview retention labels in SharePoint using code.purviewretentionsharepointpowershellcompliancerecordmanagementdatalifecyclemanagementdlmrmmicrosoftgraphcsomrestpowershellcliformicrosoft365https://www.blimped.nl/running-dotnet-function-apps-or-app-services-accessing-microsoft-365/Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/running-dotnet-function-apps-or-app-services-accessing-microsoft-365/A guide on how to create a .NET application that can access SharePoint and the Microsoft Graph through Entra ID.sharepointmicrosoftgraphazurefunctionsentraidcliformicrosoft365securityhttps://www.blimped.nl/common-errors-deploying-azure-bicep-and-arm-templates/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/common-errors-deploying-azure-bicep-and-arm-templates/Recently, I deployed some Azure resources using ARM and Bicep templates for a few customers. This is a write up of some errors I ran into.azurebiceparmazurecliazurefunctionslogicappmicrosoftgraphmanagedidentityentraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/what-i-learned-at-espc22/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/what-i-learned-at-espc22/I attended the ESPC conference in Copenhagen this year. My first in person conference in a long time. These are some of the things I learned!payingitforwardespccommunityespc22https://www.blimped.nl/spfx-using-custom-certificates-when-debugging/Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/spfx-using-custom-certificates-when-debugging/Are you often debugging SharePoint Framework solutions in a devcontainer? Upgrade your dev workflow by using custom localhost certificates!spfxdockercertificatessharepointhttps://www.blimped.nl/how-to-copy-views-in-sharepoint/Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/how-to-copy-views-in-sharepoint/There's currently no way to copy list and library views in the SharePoint UI. I've created a SPFx sample demonstrating how it can be done using code.spfxsharepointpnpjshttps://www.blimped.nl/running-application-with-limited-sharepoint-permissions/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/running-application-with-limited-sharepoint-permissions/Securing application access to SharePoint through Entra ID is easy, but how to access SharePoint using the principle of least privilege?sharepointsecurityresourcespecificconsentrscentraidcliformicrosoft365pnppowershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/getting-notified-of-changes-in-guests-accessing-sharepoint/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/getting-notified-of-changes-in-guests-accessing-sharepoint/Part 3 on how to use the CLI for Microsoft 365 and Azure Functions: How to get notified of updates in guests accessing SharePoint.cliformicrosoft365azurefunctionsharepointguestaccessentraidpowershellexternal identitiesb2bb2chttps://www.blimped.nl/getting-notified-of-service-incidents-in-microsoft-teams/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/getting-notified-of-service-incidents-in-microsoft-teams/Part 2 on how to use the CLI for Microsoft 365 and Azure Functions: How to get notified in Teams, when a service health incident occurs on SharePoint?cliformicrosoft365azurefunctionsteamspowershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/how-to-run-the-cli-for-microsoft365-on-an-azure-function/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/how-to-run-the-cli-for-microsoft365-on-an-azure-function/Did you know can run a CLI for Microsoft 365 script on an Azure Function based on the PowerShell stack? Here's how to do it.cliformicrosoft365azurefunctionspowershellhttps://www.blimped.nl/application-insights-and-azure-appservice-webjobs/Mon, 09 May 2022 21:05:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/application-insights-and-azure-appservice-webjobs/When updating a few Azure WebJobs to a new version of the WebJobs SDK, I had to rewrite the way they logged data. This led to a few lessons learned, which I'm happy to share for anyone who is working with the same tools.applicationinsightsloggingwebjobsappservicesazurehttps://www.blimped.nl/fixing-azure-webapp-zip-deployment-issue/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/fixing-azure-webapp-zip-deployment-issue/My Azure DevOps pipeline recently stopped zipdeploying to Azure App Service. This is how I fixed it.azurewebappazureappserviceazurecliazuredevopsoryxkuduhttps://www.blimped.nl/sharepoint-guest-access-and-azure-ad/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/sharepoint-guest-access-and-azure-ad/Microsoft is polishing up SharePoint guest access, and this is why I find that a big deal.sharepointguest accessb2bb2centraidexternal identitieshttps://www.blimped.nl/getting-started-testing-your-microsoft365-cli-contributions/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/getting-started-testing-your-microsoft365-cli-contributions/When contributing to the Microsoft 365 CLI Open Source project you need to write a lot of unit tests. I wrote down some tips and tricks to get you up and running.cliformicrosoft365unittestingcontributingopensourcemochahttps://www.blimped.nl/contributing-as-a-holiday-season-present/Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/contributing-as-a-holiday-season-present/Last month I contributed to an Open Source project: CLI for Microsoft 365. I did that both because I love using CLI's and because I love not reinventing wheels.cliformicrosoft365contributingopensourcedockermkdocshttps://www.blimped.nl/fixing-nginx-trailing-slash-issue-on-azure-linux-web-apps/Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/fixing-nginx-trailing-slash-issue-on-azure-linux-web-apps/When running a Linux based Azure Web App with the PHP 8 runtime stack, URL's without trailing slashes pose a problem.azurewebappazureappservicelinuxphpnginxbashhttps://www.blimped.nl/quick-tip-deploying-to-web-app-subfolders/Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/quick-tip-deploying-to-web-app-subfolders/A quick tip on the possibilities of deploying to web app subfolders in Azure DevOps pipelines.pipelinesazuredevopstipscicdcontinuousintegrationcontinuousdeploymenthttps://www.blimped.nl/creating-a-beautiful-documentation-site-with-mkdocs/Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/creating-a-beautiful-documentation-site-with-mkdocs/MkDocs is a great tool to create straightforward documentation sites. It's 1 of 2 static site generators I've recently worked with.staticsitegeneratorwebappmkdocsdocumentationjamstackhttps://www.blimped.nl/spfx-authentication-and-third-party-cookies/Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/spfx-authentication-and-third-party-cookies/About SharePoint pages that refresh and reload when your webpart is on it, and what that has to do with Authentication and Third Party cookies.spfxsharepointframeworkauthenticationentraidhttps://www.blimped.nl/spfx-docker-and-npm-link/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/spfx-docker-and-npm-link/When using SPFx Library Components we are instructed to execute npm link when debugging our webparts. But what if we are using dev containers?spfxdockernpmyalcsharepointframeworkhttps://www.blimped.nl/quick-tip-powershell-performance/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 18:00:00 +0000mlingstuyl@live.com (Martin Lingstuyl)https://www.blimped.nl/quick-tip-powershell-performance/I regularly use PowerShell scripting to achieve my ends. I find them airy and easy to use. But when dealing with large amounts of data, performance is key.powershelltipsperformance