ElioStruyf GitHub Star | M365 Development, Developer Technologies MVP | Google Developer Expert Azure | Microsoft 365 | Visual Studio Code

Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.

Get to know who is tracking your mails via the Microsoft Graph and Azure Functions

We all get a lot of emails every day. Did you know that some of these emails are being tracked by others? There are various kinds of email trackers available, most of them work by inserting hidden images and/or changing the links in the mail by a tracking prefix. This allows them to see when and how many times you opened your email and which of the links you clicked from the mail.

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Sharing my managed metadata refiner display template

Do you have a refiner template that shows the refiners based on the hierarchy of a term set, or can you explain how to build it? These are probably two of the most asked questions I received the last couple of months/years. Back in 2015 I created such a template, but never shared it until today.

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Creating and renewing your Microsoft Graph webhook subscriptions

Webhooks are an easy way to do something when an event occurs. For example, when you want to do something when a new email is received. Currently, I have such a webhook subscription running which checks every mail for mail trackers. I just love to have control of my emails and know which of them are being tracked.

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Returning other types of data like HTML via JavaScript Azure Functions

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a simple Office add-in which just added a custom add-in command. An add-in command only requires that you specify an URL to a page / HTML file to make it work. As it would be overkill to create a website for just that one file, I thought about using an HTTPTrigger Azure Function to return me the necessary HTML for my command.

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