The personal blog of Sanjay Bhagiahttps://sanjaybhagia.com/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/we-all-should-be-bit-more-like-dogs/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/we-all-should-be-bit-more-like-dogs/We can learn valuable lesson on life from dogs. They are calm, satisfied with very little, don't overthink, masters of solitude, quick to forgive, unmatched excitement, make you move, what you see is what you get.Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/handling-order-processing-with-azure-api-servicebus-topics/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/handling-order-processing-with-azure-api-servicebus-topics/Learn how to securely send messages to Azure Service Bus Topics directly from Azure API Management using the policies.Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/hands-on-with-katonic-generative-ai/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/hands-on-with-katonic-generative-ai/Exploring Katonic.ai's Generative AI PlatformWed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-irondpf-azure-functions/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-irondpf-azure-functions/Guide to setup a CI/CD Pipeline (YAML) in Azure DevOps for running IronPdf in Azure Functions.Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/the-best-investment-i-made-in-2022/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/the-best-investment-i-made-in-2022/Find out how a simple $15 bullet journal transformed my life in 2022 and why you should give it a try.Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-state-management/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-state-management/How Pulumi tracks infrastructure state, and a walkthrough of replacing the hosted backend with your own Azure Blob Storage container.Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-secrets-management/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-secrets-management/How Pulumi encrypts secrets in stack configuration, and using the passphrase and Azure Key Vault providers to manage your own encryption keys.Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-configuration-management/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-configuration-management/How Pulumi's per-stack configuration works: setting and reading values via the CLI and C# code, namespaces, and structured config with --path.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-how-it-works/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-how-it-works/A look under the hood of Pulumi: the engine, language hosts, resource providers, stacks and state, plus a hello world program targeting Azure.Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-what-and-why/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/pulumi-what-and-why/An introduction to Pulumi and why writing infrastructure as code in a real programming language beats DSLs like ARM templates and HCL.Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/passing-azure-iot-220-exam/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/passing-azure-iot-220-exam/How I prepared for and passed the AZ-220 Azure IoT Developer exam, with study material, labs, online proctoring tips and my impressions.Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/capture-quotes-from-books-2/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/capture-quotes-from-books-2/Part 2: Writing an Azure Function that appends OCR-detected quotes from the Logic App to a text file in blob storage.Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/capture-quotes-from-books/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/capture-quotes-from-books/Building an Azure Logic App that picks up book photos from OneDrive and extracts the quotes with the Computer Vision OCR API.Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/migrating-blog-from-wordpress-to-wyam/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/migrating-blog-from-wordpress-to-wyam/Notes on moving my blog from WordPress to the Wyam static site generator, hosted on Netlify with an Azure DevOps pipeline for deployment.Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/microsoft-openhack-devops-stockholm/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/microsoft-openhack-devops-stockholm/My experience at Microsoft's three-day OpenHack DevOps hackathon in Stockholm, solving Azure DevOps and Kubernetes challenges hands-on.Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/using-postman-for-integration-tests/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/using-postman-for-integration-tests/How I use Postman collections, tests and environment variables to run integration tests against my APIs before every release.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/accessing-wcf-service-via-azure-service-bus-relay-with-net-core/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/accessing-wcf-service-via-azure-service-bus-relay-with-net-core/Calling an on-premises WCF service from a .NET Core web app through Azure Service Bus Relay by crafting the SOAP request and relay token by hand.Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/accessing-azure-analysis-services-models-using-net-core/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/accessing-azure-analysis-services-models-using-net-core/Querying an Azure Analysis Services model from .NET Core using ADOMD.NET with a service principal and token-based authentication via ADAL.NET.Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/are-you-keeping-your-secrets-secret/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/are-you-keeping-your-secrets-secret/Two versions of an Azure web app reading from blob storage: one with the connection string in app settings, one keeping it safe in Key Vault.Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/identifying-the-owner-of-personal-sites-in-sharepoint/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/identifying-the-owner-of-personal-sites-in-sharepoint/How to find the owner of a SharePoint personal site by mapping the PersonalSpace profile property to search and caching the result in the property bag.Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/deleting-managed-metadata-fields-via-powershell/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/deleting-managed-metadata-fields-via-powershell/PowerShell script to remove the hidden Note fields SharePoint leaves behind when deleting taxonomy fields, fixing duplicate field name errors.Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/using-httphandler-to-deal-with-cross-domain-requests-from-angularjs-app-for-sharepoint-on-premises/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/using-httphandler-to-deal-with-cross-domain-requests-from-angularjs-app-for-sharepoint-on-premises/Using a custom HttpHandler to avoid cross-domain issues when an AngularJS app filters followed sites with the site feed feature in SharePoint on-prem.Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/the-specified-program-requires-a-new-version-of-windows-exception-from-hresult0x8007047e/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/the-specified-program-requires-a-new-version-of-windows-exception-from-hresult0x8007047e/Fixing the HRESULT 0x8007047E exception by dropping ModeratedList from schema.xml and enabling content approval in code instead.Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/associating-oob-approval-workflow-with-custom-list-for-different-locale-lcids/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/associating-oob-approval-workflow-with-custom-list-for-different-locale-lcids/Why the OOB Approval workflow template BaseId differs per locale, and how to build the right GUID from the site's LCID in hex to associate it.Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/updates-are-currently-disabled-in-get-requests-exception-while-provisioning-multiple-site-collections/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/updates-are-currently-disabled-in-get-requests-exception-while-provisioning-multiple-site-collections/Why SharePoint throws 'Updates are currently disabled in GET requests' when a timer job creates several site collections, and the HttpContext fix.Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/incorrect-values-for-user-fields-while-copying-list-items-from-one-site-collection-to-another/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/incorrect-values-for-user-fields-while-copying-list-items-from-one-site-collection-to-another/Fixing wrong user field values when copying SharePoint list items across site collections by remapping lookup ids with SPWeb.EnsureUser.Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/creating-loosely-coupled-and-generic-process-steps-implementation/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/creating-loosely-coupled-and-generic-process-steps-implementation/Designing a loosely coupled process step framework in C# with Execute and RollBack methods for a SharePoint site provisioning workflow.Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/consuming-content-type-hub-in-custom-web-templates/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/consuming-content-type-hub-in-custom-web-templates/Why sites created from custom web templates can't consume the Content Type Hub, and how activating the hidden TaxonomyFieldAdded feature fixes it.Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/paged-custom-search-query-using-keywordquery/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/paged-custom-search-query-using-keywordquery/Paging SharePoint KeywordQuery results with RowLimit and StartRow to stay under the 10000 row search limit and avoid HRESULT 0x80040E01 errors.Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/update-personal-site-property-in-user-profile/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/update-personal-site-property-in-user-profile/PowerShell script to relink the PersonalSpace user profile property when SharePoint loses the connection between users and their personal sites.Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/update-list-items-to-trigger-event-handler-through-powershell/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/update-list-items-to-trigger-event-handler-through-powershell/PowerShell script that updates every item in a SharePoint list to re-trigger its event handler and push taxonomy values back into user profiles.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/remove-webpart-from-a-page-on-personal-site-using-delegate-control/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/remove-webpart-from-a-page-on-personal-site-using-delegate-control/Using a delegate control to remove the Recent Blog Posts web part from the default page when SharePoint provisions a user's personal site.Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/adding-local-variables-on-a-page-as-a-user-control/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/adding-local-variables-on-a-page-as-a-user-control/Using a SharePoint user control to emit server-side values as inline JavaScript variables, available on page load without waiting for external scripts.Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/alloweveryoneviewitems-enable-anonymous-access-to-files-in-list/https://sanjaybhagia.com/blog/alloweveryoneviewitems-enable-anonymous-access-to-files-in-list/How the AllowEveryoneViewItems property makes documents and attachments in a SharePoint list anonymously accessible, set via PowerShell, XML or code.Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT