With the new Windows Terminal available I’ve been searching on how to upgrade my console experience. I see a lot of people improving their terminal to show important information, like which Git branch you are working on, which Azure subscription, the actual location on disk, etc.
A couple of months ago I came across Brad Wilson his post on the matter and I like the way his terminal looks. His post, is rather straightforward, but there was some information missing.
Read more →A couple of weeks ago I’ve passed both the AZ-300 and AZ-301 exams. You’re required to pass both of these exams in to get the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification. After posting a tweet I got a lot of responses asking if I had any pointers on what to learn. Instead of responding to each person individually it makes more sense to share what I’ve used to study and hopefully it’s helpful to others also.
Read more →If you’ve read my earlier post on authentication of actions invoked in a Microsoft Teams MessageCard, you’ve probably seen the only useful information we get in the user’s token is the Object Id (oid).
{ "iat": 1560799130, "ver": "STI.ExternalAccessToken.V1", "appid": "48afc8dc-f6d2-4c5f-bca7-069acd9cc086", "sub": "bc6c3ca0-5acd-4cd4-b54c-f9c83925e7e3", "appidacr": "2", "acr": "0", "tid": "4b1fa0f3-862b-4951-a3a8-df1c72935c79", "oid": "b26c3c10-5fad-4cd3-b54c-f9283922e7e2", "iss": "https://substrate.office.com/sts/", "aud": "https://serverlessdevops.azurewebsites.net", "exp": 1560800030, "nbf": 1560799130 } While this is nice, it doesn’t really tell us much.
Read more →Being able to create Message Cards or Actionable Messages in Microsoft Teams via a Logic App or an Azure Function is great. Especially if you can use this to invoke logic on your API and update the message in the Teams channel.
However, you don’t want everyone to invoke a management API endpoint you’ve exposed to ‘do stuff’ in your cloud environment. Normally, you’d want to authenticate if the user pressing the button (read: invoking the endpoint).
Read more →In my latest post, I’ve shown you how you can use Azure Functions in your Microsoft Teams flow to handle errors in your environment. This stuff works great in a couple of projects I’ve worked on, but what would be even more awesome is to reply to a message in Teams when an action has completed after a button is pressed.
Well, replying & modifying the original message with a status update is quite possible and I’ll show you how in this post.
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