On November 27th 2023, Microsoft made an important announcement regarding the retirement plan for both Azure Access Control Services and the SharePoint Add-in model. Earlier in the year, Microsoft made another important announcement regarding the retirement of SharePoint 2013 Workflow (also referred to as Workflow Manager) in Microsoft 365. All three Microsoft 365 service retirements…
Category: SharePoint
Steps to Upgrade to Modern Work Center in SharePoint Online
In my recent blog, I announced the availability of Modern Work Center for SharePoint Online Modern Work Center Is Now Available for SharePoint Online In this blog, we will look at the steps which existing customers, who are on AgilePoint NX v9 and above, need to perform to upgrade the AgilePoint NX app to a…
Modern Work Center Is Now Available for SharePoint Online
Back in May 2015, we released AgilePoint NX in Microsoft AppSource. It became hugely popular amongst our enterprise customer base who use Microsoft 365. Customers were able to access AgilePoint’s forms, Task Management, override the default list forms in SharePoint natively to make the whole user experience seamless without having to navigate to AgilePoint Portal….
How to Disable Multi Factor Authentication on Office 365 Trial
Starting October 21st, 2019, every new Office 365 for business or Microsoft 365 Business subscription will automatically have security defaults turned on. This means that every user will have to set up MFA and install the Microsoft Authenticator app on their mobile device. With Multi Factor Authentication enabled, the way you can create an access…
Support Multi Factor Authentication for Office 365 Access Token
Multi-factor authentication is a process where a user is prompted during the sign-in process for an additional form of identification, such as to enter a code on their cellphone or to provide a fingerprint scan. If you only use a password to authenticate a user, it leaves an insecure vector for attack. If the password…
HTTP status code 429 (“Too many requests”) – SharePoint Online API
Symptom: While making SharePoint API calls from AgilePoint server to SharePoint Online, you might occasionally notice a HTTP error code 429 due to which your workflow is suspended on the SharePoint activity however it works fine without any changes when the process is resumed. Reason: SharePoint Online uses throttling to maintain optimal performance and reliability…
Govern Microsoft Teams Usage Using AgilePoint NX
In this article, I am going to cover how to use AgilePoint NX to govern and manage your Microsoft Teams instance. User provisioning and governance applications gives a single point of maintenance to manage user access to IT applications. Companies need these governance programs to maintain organized records of user information such as personal information,…
Governance Apps Using AgilePoint NX
In this article, I am going to cover how to use AgilePoint NX to design your system and user governance applications. User provisioning and governance applications gives a single point of maintenance to manage user access to IT applications. Companies need these governance programs to maintain organized records of user information such as personal information,…
Form Based Applications – SharePoint Data Source
In this article we are going to look into form based application using SharePoint as a data source. This has been the most awaited feature in v7.0 where you could create standalone data driven applications which do not need a process model and replace the OOTB SharePoint ListForm. The OOTB SharePoint ListForm is single column…
Create SharePoint Governance Bot with AgilePoint NX
Every organization has unique needs and goals that influence its approach to SharePoint governance. Larger organizations will probably require more—and more detailed—governance than smaller organizations. In this article, I am going to cover a new bot scenario which we had implemented for few of our customers to automate self-serve SharePoint governance in their organization. SharePoint…
Best Practices For Maximizing Reuse Of Workflows Across SharePoint Farm
Big enterprises usually have multiple SharePoint OnPrem farms spread across the globe and not to mention the fact that these multiple farms have a lot of site collections, sites and lists/libraries. At AgilePoint, we do work with a lot of big enterprises and often times one of the topic of discussions is how can I…
Unable to initiate multiple workflows for a list item in SharePoint Online custom list
Issue: Unable to initiate multiple workflows for a list item in SharePoint Online custom list. Description: The problem occurs in SharePoint custom list only. Suppose you have a custom list in an office 365 site and the list workflow association contains the following “Changing an item will start workflow” enabled. Updating the list item for…
Create App Level Access Tokens for Office 365
As part of the security best practices, a lot of admins in Office 365 setup their user password policy in a way that the password needs to be changed every 3 months. Though this is very good for end user account security, it can pose challenge for service accounts being used in the applications to…
SharePoint Access Token – Best Practices for Multi Nationals
AgilePoint NX as a product is used by companies with employees ranging from 50 user – 400K users. A lot of organizations do a global roll out of AgilePoint NX for their employees worldwide with application designers spread across multiple continents. A lot of global roll-outs do involve SharePoint integration and a question we sometimes…
AgilePoint NX and SharePoint server interaction flows for Office 365 and Hybrid
In this article I am going to cover how AgilePoint interacts with SharePoint servers whether it is Office 365 or hybrid. Apart from this ofcourse there is another scenario which is the traditional one where AgilePoint server is OnPremises and connects back to OnPremises SharePoint. through Active Directory which is pretty similar to the scenario…
Internet Explorer support for AgilePoint Dashboard Webpart with SharePoint 2010.
AgilePoint Dashboard WebPart is built on top of html 5 features and to support viewing of AgilePoint Dashboard WebPart, user must have IE 10 or later versions installed in the SharePoint server. However, within SharePoint 2010, pages are always rendered using IE8 standards document mode by default even if higher versions of IE are installed…
Content Type Level Workflows Limitations in Office 365
Content type level workflows are a thing which has been very common in SharePoint world for many years. However with introduction of new workflow platform in SharePoint 2013, significant changes were made which resulted in few limitation been introduced for content type level workflows. Please note that as far as AgilePoint NX is concerned this…
SharePoint Item Permission Demo
Sometimes when you are creating a SharePoint app, a question comes up that can you use SharePoint native ListForm capability. However the immediate question which pops up in their mind is that now since you are making me go to the SharePoint list to kickoff a process or perform certain actions, how can AgilePoint do…
Reusable SharePoint Workflows
One of the topics which comes up is that can I reuse the same workflow against multiple SharePoint site collections or even SharePoint farms. No one would prefer to clone apps for each site collection unless the logic is different. Prior version of AgilePoint had SharePoint access token was scoped at a site collection level which…
Office 365 Access Token Validation Error
If you are configuring a SharePoint access token to connect to Office 365 and get a validation error, it might be due to various reasons Your SharePoint Site Collection URL is not accessible.from AgilePoint server or user might not have permission to access the site. Check the credentials you have entered If you have Multi…