Text Translation on Office 365 SharePoint

Let us look how the text added to Office 365 SharePoint list are translated and saved back to SharePoint using Microsoft Flow and Translator.

Consider a business scenario of having multi-lingual content to be available in SharePoint list and you need write the text in all the required languages. Instead, Microsoft Flow can be leveraged for translating the content on Office 365 SharePoint for the required languages with the help of Translator service.

There are several ways available for implementing the above scenario. The best possible solution is explained in this post.

Note: This article only focuses on translating content present on SharePoint lists. For enabling multilingual feature for whole portal, you can refer to the Microsoft article here.

Building SharePoint Webhook Services with Serverless Architecture

Before looking out at the implementation of webhook models in SharePoint, here let us look at how Serverless web hooks concept can be feasible.

What is Serverless architecture? It allows us to build the required services, without the need of servers. Some Azure services like Azure functions helps building such Serverless models.

The components like webhook service, storage queues, web jobs and SQL database are hosted on Azure. The following picture depicts the Serverless webhooks process, with the help of Serverless components. The components present on the Azure box, depicts serverless architecture model.

Serverless Architecture for SharePoint Webhook Services

Azure Active Directory App Authentications

Azure AD App registrations provides ways for authenticating or authorizing the user custom applications which uses Azure AD, to access the data available on the Microsoft products/services.

Why Azure AD App Registration? You might have already worked with custom applications that uses Azure Control Service, which provides way for authenticating users to gain access to web applications and services. As ACS is getting deprecated, Microsoft provides ways for authenticating the applications and provides way for enabling permissions for users to access the data. 

(Source: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2013/06/22/azure-active-directory-is-the-future-of-acs/)