Content relating to hosting infrastructure on or configuring Microsoft Azure.
Most modern cloud authentication providers (i.e. Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Okta, etc.) provide a claims-based user management capability. A user can be assigned roles and permissions and these are surfaced in .NET’s user identity classes as ‘claims’.
Although, most of the time, claims can be configured and managed in the identity provider’s management console there may be times when you want to inject additional claims, and this article discusses how that can be done.
With Microsoft iminently shuttering the capability to send emails programmatically via MS Exchange in Azure, developers need to switch to a mechanism that will be supported moving forwards. Enter Microsoft Graph. This article describes how the MS Graph API can be leveraged to replace MS Exchange based mailing for the programmatic sending of emails.
Converting a file from DOCX to another format (such as PDF) had long been a pain in SharePoint and usually led to resorting to using Word Automation Services (WAS). Fortunately, modern SharePoint (Online) and the Microsoft Graph API mean you can do it with a few Web API calls.