Some months back an app registration secret expired and the service that was depending on it just stopped. The expiry date was sitting right there in Entra the whole time. It lives in one blade that nobody opens more than twice a year, so of course nobody saw it coming. This is the annoying thing…
In the last post I set the weights by hand so the word france pointed to macron. That is fine for one fact and a dozen numbers. But nobody is going to hand type a million facts. So the model sets the weights itself. I gave a tiny one a few questions with their answers,…
Every programmer’s first program is hello world. It is the smallest thing you can run that proves the whole setup works. So think of this as the hello world of AI. A model so tiny you can read the whole thing on one screen, that still answers a question. I asked it a simple question,…
In this post, I am going to show you why your custom Microsoft Graph connector data does not show up in Search, and the one setting that turns it on. This follows on from building the connector, where we pushed an item but it did not appear anywhere yet. The symptom You built a connector,…
In this post, I am going to show you how to build a custom Microsoft Graph connector that pushes your own content into Microsoft Search. No web app and no framework. Just an app registration, a token and three calls. Full program at the end. Run on .NET 8 with one package, Azure.Identity. What a…
The old SharePoint Search Query Tool is still pinned on my taskbar. It has been there for years. Last time I wanted to confirm that items from a Copilot connector were actually reaching the search index, and the old tool just sat there. It talks to the SharePoint search REST endpoint, which is a different…
Some of the content your users need lives outside Microsoft 365. Here is how to build a no-code Microsoft Graph connector end to end, including the one visibility setting that trips up almost everyone the first time.
Entra never warns you when an app secret or certificate expires. A short Microsoft Graph PowerShell script that lists every app credential in your tenant, sorted by days left, so you find it before your users do.
Microsoft Search does not rank on keywords alone. How the lexical and semantic indexes, plus your network signals, decide the order, and the settings that control whether content shows at all.
The sharing link is the quietest oversharing vector in SharePoint. It does not appear as a permission on the site. It hides as a SharingLinks.<guid> group that nobody opens, and it outlives the project it was made for by years. Your permissions page can look spotless while a document sits shared with the whole company…