Provide customized error message

By Adam Cogan in SharePoint On Premises 0 Comment

When SharePoint cannot talk to configuration database, provide a customized error message rather than the default Runtime Error.

Figure: Default 500 error message looks bad

Figure: Default 500 error message looks bad

Figure: Detailed error message - for investigation we can disable the custom error message, then detail error message is shown

Figure: Detailed error message – for investigation we can disable the custom error message, then detail error message is shown

We don’t mind the detailed error message shows in the ugly yellow background page, but the default 500 error message should be better.

[This is as per Do you use a customized error page to handle an unhandled error occurs on your website?]

Ability to call a webAPI to get the call history from employees personal skype accounts

By Adam Cogan in Skype 0 Comment

We want the ability to call a webAPI to get the call history from employees personal Skype accounts.

Skype for business has API’s and we able to get CDR’s however there does not appear to be a simple solution for employees who use their personal accounts.

There are some steps that employees could run manually to get this data:

However this data needs to be captured automatically.

Give me options on right-click without editing the report

By Adam Cogan in Power BI 0 Comment

I’ve just started to use stacked columns… For some reason I’ve always avoided then in the past.
See screenshot… You can see trends with red and green but not black.

Figure : Bad example - the black data is hard to focus on

Figure : Bad example – the black data is hard to focus on

Suggestion to Microsoft: A user, without editing a report to add a slicer, should be able to right-click and choose to “Change order” or “Hide red | Hide black | Hide green”