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Read what SoHo Dragon's thought leaders have to say about the IT industry, Microsoft technology, and recruitment. 

Peter Ward

I am CEO of SoHo Dragon. My roots are in  solution architecture, and I am involved in 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 July 2024 Podcast

Content Learn how to capture key knowledge from your employees (or yourself) in a short period of time using M365 tools like SharePoint, Stream and Teams Meetings. Speaker will share real-world examples for capturing: • Routine tasks • Historical knowledge • How things are organized Below are the questions and answers from the July 2024 Meetup Session. Q. Tell us a bit about yourself? – City, family, hobbies, job title A. I live in Derwood, MD, I'm married with 3 rescue dogs (1... Read more

Teams Tuesday Meetup June 2024 Podcast

Content Copilot can assist with reducing the time spent on manual tasks, but it is essential to comprehend how it operates in actual deployments and the challenges that come with it. Come to hear about the many different stages, events, and lessons learned from actual Copilot rollouts. Attendees will: • Learn about the questions and research that might happen before getting approval to deploy Copilot at an organization, especially from a Legal, HR, and InfoSec perspective. •... Read more

Teams Tuesday Meetup May 2024 Podcast

Content This session outlines the key strategies for early career success, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning, strategic networking, and personal branding. Practical tips for navigating their first professional roles. Insights into leveraging skills in a competitive job market. Strategies to develop a growth mindset that fosters long-term career advancement. Below are the questions and answers from the May 2024 Meetup session. Q. Tell us a bit about yourself? –... Read more

Teams Tuesday Meetup April 2024 Podcast

Content One Source of Truth powered by OneLake All Your Tools in one Place: Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Data Science Simplified Data Governance and Security Below are the questions and answers from the April 2024 Meetup session. Q. Tell us a bit about yourself? – City, family, hobbies, job title A. CEO and Founder of Ventagium Data Consulting, where he leads a team of 30 data professionals. Arturo graduated from the master's degree in Supply Chain Management at MIT and... Read more

Teams Tuesday Meetup March 2024 Podcast

Content Microsoft Teams consist of three main channel categories: Standard, Private, and Shared. In this session, we will review the functionality and differences of each channel and explain the use case scenario of each one. We will explain the architecture of each channel, the differences between the previous Guest experience and the current B2B architecture, and how to best collaborate with others within your tenant or external users. We will finish the session by discussing... Read more

The Ink Pen is Mightier Than the Digital Marker

Yes, the Remarkable 2 is popping up on my radar again, as this device can be seen with some clients, and if you follow tech news or reviews of new gadgets, you will certainly have heard of the Remarkable, an e-ink writing tablet that promises “better thinking” and an end to the pile of legal pads and pens you keep on your desk. One of SoHo's clients seeking a paper-free, clean desk policy asked us to evaluate the tablet as a corporate device and see how well the product integrates... Read more

Anna Jhaveri

Anna Jhaveri is a Managing Director of SoHo Dragon in India and is a Microsoft MVP. She has close to 15 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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Set Unique Permissions for Items in SharePoint Using Power Automate

While developing a flow for SharePoint list process, I came across a requirement to set unique permissions for SharePoint list items. So, in this blog post I will share a walk-through on how to set unique permissions for items in SharePoint using Power Automate. Walk-through In your flow add the actions as per below instructions: Break permissions on item This step is to break permissions on an item if there are permissions for the item. 1. Add “Send HTTP Request to SharePoint”... Read more

Using Azure Key Vault to Store Client Secret for Graph API in Power Automate

If you are using Graph API in your Flows, you may want to safeguard client secret as it will be shown in plain text when you store the client secret value in a variable, its value will show up in the Flow history. This blog assumes that you have already created Graph API, app registration in your Azure AD and you want to use Graph API in your Flow. Please note you need a license to use Premium Connectors for Power Automate. Let’s get started by creating Azure Key Vault if one is... Read more

Challenges Faced While Applying Cumulative Update on SharePoint Server 2013 (KB4484408)

Challenges faced while applying Cumulative Update on SharePoint Server 2013 (KB4484408) Recently I worked on a support ticket to apply the patch on SharePoint Server 2013. I know it sounds too old – SharePoint Server 2013 but there are still organizations out there using it. Though we have recommended them to migrate to SharePoint Online, until that decision is made, we need to provide the support for SharePoint Server 2013. I faced the below challenges while applying the... Read more

Tom Daly

Tom Daly is Collaboration Practice Director at SoHo Dragon and is a Microsoft MVP. An Office 365 and SharePoint developer, he specializes in the UI aspects of SharePoint, implementing branding, DVWP, web parts, and apps. Tom is expert in both JavaScript and C# development. New Office Servers, and Services MVP. 

Tom is the creator of Community Days, a website that connects the Microsoft user community with free and low-cost Microsoft training and information events. He is 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 [...]

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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 […]

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Adding Font Awesome to the 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 [...]

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