SoHo Dragon Blogs

Peter Ward

My job as CEO of SoHo Dragon involves developing and delivering Microsoft Cloud solutions, as well as presenting new ideas, recruiting and motivating the people within the team to provide an outstanding service to our clients.

Like all of us, I get involved in pitching for work and making it work. We know when we get things right because people send us lovely emails about the things we have done, the people we have helped. We have our services down to a science and see Microsoft’s cloud offerings to be great business productively drivers. We are proud of the work we do with our clients of all verticals in helping them discover the enormous saving and take advantage of what the Microsoft platform has to offer. Now that’s a real reward.

Teams Tuesday Meetup February 2023 Podcast

Content Citizen Developers can be some of the best product and change champions your organization will ever have - if motivated and managed correctly. In this session, we'll show how many of the tools and techniques we have used in Champion programs in the past should be tailored to motivate and educate citizen developers. We'll also discuss how to help Citizen Devs accept and stay within your governance guardrails. You'll leave with an step-by-step 8 week program, including...

GitHub MS Teams Sync to HubSpot

This Github code is a sync sync engine to sync Teams and HubSpot users with notes in Deals, so will never miss an update in notes. Scheduled job runs in your Azure env. https://github.com/peterwardsoho/HubSpotTeamsChannelCreation

Teams Tuesday Meetup December 2022 Podcast

Content Tired of watching canned, pre-recorded sessions on how to do Teams stuff? Want to see some real-life MS Teams in practice and learn from experts around the world? CommunityDays.org is the new community hub built by the community and powered by Microsoft. It's the go-to place where you can go to find free, events happening worldwide. No need to be connected to an inner circle social network or wait for a coworker to tell you about a free training event. Community Days is...

Teams Tuesday Meetup November 2022 Podcast

Content We all know that visual cognition is much quicker that scanning through reams of text, so why not use diagrams more often in Teams? Not all of us are artists, so why not use an app that provides you with graphic elements that you can just drag and drop, annotate, group and link together? Moreover, why not use consistent symbology for the particular subject area that you are communicating? On top of that, you should use an app that you can collaborate, co-author and comment...

What is the metaverse, and how it will impact you

As companies and employees settle into new work norms post-pandemic, we’re living through a once-in-a-lifetime shift in work patterns. Whether work happens from home, at the office, in a warehouse or on the go, work is no longer a place, but an experience that transcends place and time. Over the past two-and-a-half years, new patterns of work have emerged that put people, communications, and workflows at the center. In that time, Microsoft Teams has grown to 270 million monthly...

Integrating Powerful and Effective Communication with Teams and Whiteboard #m365cincy

This was a presentation I did last week from M365 Friday Cincinnati FYI People are 36% more productive when brainstorming with pen and paper than with a keyboard Why is a stylus more effective with the brain than the Calibri font? I think the brain is more wired to handwriting after over 2,000 years of figuring out calligraphy. Also, everyone tells you they are a visual person (I’ve never met anyone who isn’t), and handwriting provides an opportunity to brainstorm and use your...

Anna Jhaveri

Over 9+ years of experience on various Microsoft Technologies, mostly on SharePoint. Vast experience on solution design, implementation and product customization on different versions of Microsoft SharePoint Products.

Specialties: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Online(Office 365), WSS, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Search, Collaboration, Enterprise Applications, SQL Server 2012/2008 , JQuery, ASP.NET, C#, SharePoint Designer 2010/2013, Nintex Workflows, TFS 2010, TFS Online, Scrum Methodologies. Solution design, implementation and delivery of client applications and products on different versions of SharePoint.

Beginner’s guide: Connecting Dynamics 365 and Power Automate - send emails on creating and updating records

Prior to Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), many of us probably sent emails using a workflow in Dynamics 365. This option has been around for quite some time. Typically, we have some automated process where emails go out to notify internal personnel or external customers. Power Automate now provides the same concept of sending Dynamics 365 emails. However, there are few things to be aware of, and the setup is different. First, we will need to create the flow from within a...

Beginner’s guide: Connecting Business Central and Power Automate - send emails on creating and updating records

You must have read my blog on beginner’s guide to connect D365 from power automate. And, if you are interested in connecting Business central with power automate, you are at the right place. I will show you the basics and steps to connect business central, how to send emails and limitations of power automate with Business central A small recap of how to create a flow - First, we will need to create the flow from within a solution. Creating a solution is most preferred way to do...

REST API to Create and Update SharePoint List Items from Power Automate

If you want to make any changes in SharePoint from Power Automate, the REST API is one of the best options to use. Sharepoint has its own REST APIs that can be used to create site/items/files/folders, update site/items/files/folders, or make any changes in the site or any update within SharePoint for which a REST endpoint is available. You can use the "Send HTTP Request to SharePoint" action to send REST API calls to perform any operation in SharePoint. So First we will go through...

Michael Rava

At SoHo Dragon, we help companies find elite-level IT Staff for mission-critical projects and full-time employment on Direct Hire. For more than 5 years, I have honed our talent sourcing method working side-by-side with hiring managers at top investment banks and financial services companies. The end result is the formation of a nimble sourcing team that functions as an extension of our client’s Information Technology/Human Resources arm to rapidly augment headcount and swarm on project objectives to complete reach milestones ahead of schedule

Training Can Be Your Ticket to Advancement

A recent email from an online university shared this smart observation: “Employers notice people who keep learning.” Learning helps you stand out as someone who progresses and doesn’t stand still. With all the disruption in our world today, businesses cannot afford to have staffers who stand still. According to Business News Daily, “When hiring, employers analyze a job candidate’s current skills and assess their ability to learn new ones. Growth potential is an essential quality...

How IT Workers Can Find New Jobs During and After the Great Resignation

During the pandemic, people worked harder than ever just to keep businesses up and running. Many had to stretch their capabilities, learn new skills on the fly, pivot, and roll with the times. Some people lost their jobs. Everyone had to adjust, and then readjust as work requirements changed almost daily. With restrictions lifted, more and more people are headed back to the office, commuting, and adjusting their mask-wearing habits. But not everyone is happy transitioning to the...

Finding IT Workers During the Great Resignation

In the past year, a shocking number of Americans have quit their jobs in what is known as the Great Resignation. And while you may think this trend only affects low-wage jobs, the opposite is true. According to the research firm, Gartner, over 70% of IT workers are considering changing jobs this year. Companies are coming to realize that the people they employ are valuable assets. With IT workers scarce, companies are grappling with a lack of personnel, trying to figure out how to...

Tom Daly

An Office 365 and SharePoint developer, I currently specialize in the UI aspects of SharePoint, implementing branding, DVWP, web parts, and apps. I am expert in both JavaScript and C# development. New Office Servers, and Services MVP.

I’m an active blogger @ thomasdaly.net, community contributor, GitHub project author, speaker, and event organizer (Office 365 Bootcamp / Azure Bootcamp – NY/NJ), SharePoint Saturday NYC, SharePoint Saturday NJ, & New Jersey SharePoint User Group)

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 the oryx build process. This is highly frustrating because [...]

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 post will be broken out into the two parts of the story on the event and then some of the lessons that come with running an event. For those that […]

Adding Font Awesome to SPFx React project

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 moving over to using 5.0 + 6.0 in my projects. I was use to the old [...]