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.

Change is on its way, leaving consulting behind for something new

For the past eight years, I worked as a consultant for Xylos and Ventigrate. I loved my job, I had great colleagues and worked on interesting projects. I am grateful for the opportunities and support I got while working for these companies. For some time now, I was thinking of heading in another direction.

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Retrieving external / guest users via the Microsoft Graph API

A project I was working involved retrieving all external / guest users that have been added to Office 365 and especially to Office 365 Groups. As it had to build in to an Office 365 application I choose to work with the Microsoft Graph. First thing I did was retrieving all users with the standard API call:

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Uploading images to your OneDrive with PowerApps

Since my last post, I got a couple of questions about uploading files to OneDrive or SharePoint. Last week I worked on a solution to find out how it “could” work(s). The only solution I found is not so elegant and it only works for OneDrive at the moment. There is no solution yet for SharePoint.

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Showing a spinner when loading data in PowerApps

This week I built my first application with PowerApps for our company. I wanted to create it via PowerApps to finally see its capabilities and to use it as a showcase for our customers. I must say that it is quite powerful, but some things are not so convenient and can be simplified.

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What makes a page to be a news page on SharePoint Online

Yesterday our tenant got the new team news functionality. This functionality allows you to write news in your team site which gets published on the homepage or via the new news headlines web part. Show image Team news functionality Info: SharePoint Online “team news” begins roll out to Office 365 First Release customers - https://techcommunity.

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Getting up to speed with webpack

Show image webpack After the introduction of Node.js, npm, Gulp and Yeoman. It is time to spend some time on another tool called webpack. Webpack is a module bundler and is one of the tools which is used in the building process of a SharePoint Framework client-side web part.

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