Continuing my journey building a Power App on top of Azure Cognitive Search, this post provides some pointers and tips for configuring and retrieving facets with a custom connector in the Power Platform. For GET operations with the Azure Cognitive Search REST API, if you need more than one facet…

I built a Power App as a front-end to Azure Cognitive Search using a custom Power Platform connector and I wanted to share some of my learnings from that (on-going) experience. There is at least one great example in the official Microsoft documentation about how to build a Power App…

Working with a customer recently, we were trying to figure out how to use Power Automate to create a Microsoft Team and then capture the SharePoint URL for that Team so we could create some custom lists in that SharePoint site. Here’s how we did it… TLDR — we use…

Many of my customers present requirements for a notification feature on their intranet portal. This is a great place to inform users of urgent or important alerts like an upcoming IT outage, facility issues or similar. For critical safety related alerts, this can even augment a more real-time push-style notification…

Most of the organizations I work with do not have a solution for enabling cross-organization knowledge sharing through different types of communities. Combining the power of SharePoint’s content services and Yammer conversations, companies can facilitate robust knowledge communities built around people, conversations and content. Depending on your organization, you will…

Today, a close friend of mine (we’ll call her Cindy) told me that she was going to pick up her new computer. However, she was dismayed because she wouldn’t be able to get any work done until she received the new machine and completed training later in the morning. …