Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint – Oversharing for Very Large Tenants

IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post is no longer current. Please visit the latest version of this blog in the official Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint blog in the Tech Community web site. 0. Introduction If you have a large SharePoint tenant (with hundreds of thousands of sites), you might run into some issues while trying … Continue reading Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint – Oversharing for Very Large Tenants

Counting Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) Groups

Groups and Permissions If you use Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint, you know that the datasets from SharePoint will give detailed permissions, including which users have access to sites, libraries, folders and files. However, permissions are frequently granted to Microsoft Entra ID (new name for Azure Active Directory) groups. To fully understand how many … Continue reading Counting Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) Groups

Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint FAQ: How can I estimate my Azure bill?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post is no longer current. Please visit the latest version of this blog in the official Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint blog in the Tech Community web site. Introduction When gathering SharePoint data through Microsoft Graph Data Connect, you are billed through Azure. As I write this blog, the price to … Continue reading Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint FAQ: How can I estimate my Azure bill?

MGDC for SharePoint – Overview and prerequisites

You can use the Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint to extract SharePoint and OneDrive information and use that to run analytics for your tenant. You get data in an Azure Storage account owned by the tenant, and you can easily transform and visualize the data. For example, if you're looking at the SharePoint Sites … Continue reading MGDC for SharePoint – Overview and prerequisites

9 regions now available for SharePoint Data via Microsoft Graph Data Connect

IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post is no longer current. Please visit the latest version of this blog in the official Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint blog in the Tech Community web site. This is a quick blog to share that the SharePoint datasets in Microsoft Graph Data Connect are now available in 9 regions, up … Continue reading 9 regions now available for SharePoint Data via Microsoft Graph Data Connect

SharePoint on MGDC FAQ: Which regions are supported?

IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post is no longer current. Please visit the latest version of this blog in the official Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint blog in the Tech Community web site. 1. Overview When gathering SharePoint data through Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC), you need to pay attention to an important detail: regions. That … Continue reading SharePoint on MGDC FAQ: Which regions are supported?

Do you have a suggestion? Check the User Voice sites for several Microsoft products and services

Several teams at Microsoft are now using a User Voice site as your place to suggest ideas on how to improve specific products and services. These sites make it easier for the teams to receive your suggestions and listen to what you say. Here are the User Voice sites that I could find: ASP Net … Continue reading Do you have a suggestion? Check the User Voice sites for several Microsoft products and services

Using PowerShell to create a custom reference for Azure PowerShell cmdlets and parameters

I was looking into the list of Azure PowerShell cmdlets and I could not find a page with all cmdlets and parameters in a single list. There are individual pages for each cmdlet on TechNet, but not all cmdlets in one page. There is a list of all cmdlets in one page, but that does … Continue reading Using PowerShell to create a custom reference for Azure PowerShell cmdlets and parameters

Testing Windows Server and the Scale-Out File Server – What should your lab look like?

  With the release of Windows Server Technical Preview, a common question comes to the surface again. What kind of lab hardware do I need to play with it? Ideally, you would get one of those new Cloud Platform System (CPS) racks with a 32-node Hyper-V cluster, a 4-node Scale-Out File Server and 4 JBODs … Continue reading Testing Windows Server and the Scale-Out File Server – What should your lab look like?

New poster for Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2

For those who enjoy the Server Posterpedia posters, there is a new one that just became available for download. It’s called the "Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2" poster and it depicts both public and on-premises cloud technologies. Here’s a little thumbnail to give you an idea of … Continue reading New poster for Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2