Joshua Chini

If you’re like me and want to save links to specific emails in your notes, there’s a simple way to do it in the Outlook web app. Keep in mind that these links will only be valid as long as the email is retained, which at my current company the email retention policy is 3…

Here is a list of career advice that I have collected in my notebook over the years. I recently shared it with an intern at work and thought it would be easier if I could just send them a link to it rather than pasting it in an email. Communication – there is nothing more…

Most applications have the need to provide a search feature for a person. This may be to send them a message, add them to a group or team, grant them access, or a hundred other possible reasons. Applications implement this search functionality in a variety of different ways. Some being far better than others. In…

Most enterprise companies now days have multiple layers of security protecting their network. One of those layers is SSL/TLS interception. SSL/TLS interception is performed by software on proxies located in between the client and HTTPS website at the enterprises perimeter. SSL/TLS interception relies on the client having previously installed a root certificate onto their operating…

Introduction While at Microsoft Ignite in September I started playing around with some of the Azure cloud offerings such as Function Apps, Event Hub, and Cosmos DB. I was able to quickly connect the resources together to create a sample solution and wanted to document the process. The sample solution will consist of a Xamarin…

I have numerous Windows devices that I am responsible for setting up and maintaining. I have 4 personal Windows devices including my laptop, my wife’s laptop, my children’s computer, and my home desktop which also serves as our family media server. I then have 2 work Windows devices that I am responsible for a desktop…

At the company I work for we have developed a Visual Studio extension that adds a variety of different project templates that incorporate our standards for authentication, authorization, logging, configuration, etc. We have templates for ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET MVC with Angular, .NET Console, and others. We make that extension available through our own custom extension…

I just got back from Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. Ignite is Microsoft’s IT Pro focused conference with a lot of sessions around Azure, Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Windows Server, SQL Server, Office 365, Dynamics and more. It was Microsoft’s third conference in 3 weeks. First there was the Edge Web Summit on…