Updating your Azure WebJob using the Kudu Console


So you’ve already published your shiny Webjob to Azure either using Visual Studio 2013 publishing awesome-ness or ‘manually’ using the Azure management portal, and now you want to update it. There’s a super-easy way and thats using the Kudu console. Login to the Kudu console for your web app using the url shown below; https://{webapp name}-scm.azurewebsites.net … Continue reading Updating your Azure WebJob using the Kudu Console

Enable IFraming in a SharePoint Provider Hosted MVC App


In order to show your shiny remote provider hosted app in a dialog or IFrame, the calling domain of the page with the IFrame, must match the domain of the target page (the page being IFramed). Why might you do this? well there a quite a few patterns in the OfficeDev PnP which use remote provider hosted … Continue reading Enable IFraming in a SharePoint Provider Hosted MVC App

Set a PropertyBag Property as Indexed (Queryable via Search) using CSOM + Powershell


PropertyBag values in SharePoint 2013 can be indexed, which means that they’re indexed by Search and a crawled property is created using the PropertyBag name as the crawled property name. If you then create a managed property mapped to the crawled property you can use it in your search queries. The code below creates an indexed … Continue reading Set a PropertyBag Property as Indexed (Queryable via Search) using CSOM + Powershell

Gotcha using Office 365 / SharePoint REST API and ODATA Minimal Metadata


You’ve probably heard that in Office 365 / SharePoint Online, the REST API service now includes support for JSON light responses, meaning that you can vary the style of the ODATA response. Reading that post you’ll notice that the ‘shape’ of the response is also different when using the minimalmetadata or nometadata types; For example, when using … Continue reading Gotcha using Office 365 / SharePoint REST API and ODATA Minimal Metadata

Setting a SharePoint Multi-value Lookup Field value using PowerShell and CSOM


In this super short post I’ll show how to use Powershell and CSOM (Client-side Object Model) to set the value of a multi-value Lookup field column in a list or library. To set the value for a single-value column you just need to set the column value to a FieldLookupValue instance, note that only the LookupId … Continue reading Setting a SharePoint Multi-value Lookup Field value using PowerShell and CSOM