10 August 2021

SPFx Lightbox Image Gallery web part, v1.0.0

Introducing the Lightbox Image Gallery web part for SharePoint, developed using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and PnPjs. It renders images and folders from a document library as albums, with a Lightbox full-screen effect

23 July 2021

Secretless applications: use Azure Identity SDK to access data with a Managed Identity

Use your Managed Identity in .NET code to authenticate against Azure resources, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint and Dataverse/Dynamics 365.

21 May 2021

Secretless applications: add permissions to a Managed Identity

Your Managed Identity needs permissions to access other Azure resources or even other Azure AD protected applications and APIs. This is how you do that!

20 May 2021

Secretless applications: managed identities

An introduction to Managed Identities, both System Assigned and User Assigned. What are they, why would you use them?

17 May 2021

Use Cloudflare to consolidate your domains with redirects in Page Rules

Use Cloudflare Page Rules to create redirect rules for old URLs and domains to a new domain.

13 May 2021

SPFx People Search web part, v2.5.0

The full release history of the SPFx People Search web part, to celebrate the release of v2.5.0

6 April 2021

Change your own profile picture as a Guest in Microsoft Teams

A self-service way to change your profile picture in tenants where you are a Guest in Microsoft Teams!

29 March 2021

Add Developer PowerShell and Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio to Windows Terminal

Add the Visual Studio command line tools as a separate profile to Windows Terminal.

17 February 2021

Use Azure DevOps to create self-hosted Azure DevOps build agents, just like Microsoft does

Use Azure DevOps and the Packer scripts provided by Microsoft to create self-hosted build agents, exactly like Microsoft does too!

2 February 2021

How I stay up to date on Microsoft cloud

A story on how I stay up to date on Microsoft cloud, my methods and processes, the tools I use, and sources I consult.

30 January 2021

PowerShell: remove all subscriptions on a Microsoft 365 group

PowerShell script to remove subscriptions from a Microsoft 365 Group.

24 January 2021

How I keep my custom Ghost Casper theme in sync with the original code

How I keep two versions of my blog's theme up to date when the Office source theme Casper gets an update from its maintainers, by using git rebase.

31 December 2020

Pondering over past and future: 2020 edition

Looking back on my life & work in 2020 and what might come in 2021.

30 December 2020

My experiences with the Jabra Speak 710

My personal experiences of using the Jabra Speak 710 Microsoft Teams certified speaker phones

29 December 2020

My experiences with the Jabra Evolve 65t

My personal experiences of using the Jabra Evolve 65t's certified Microsoft Teams true wireless earbuds.

20 December 2020

Use the CLI for Microsoft 365 Docker container in Azure DevOps

Use the CLI for Microsoft 365 Docker container in your Azure DevOps pipeline, with unattended/app-only authentication.

17 December 2020

Bring your own Service Principal for an Azure Container Registry connection in Azure DevOps

How to use your own Service Principal for a Service Connection (in Azure DevOps) to an Azure Container Registry

8 December 2020

Simplified app-only authentication with CLI for Microsoft 365, in Azure DevOps

The new (upcoming) release of CLI for Microsoft 365 makes it easier to work with certificates, making the steps in Azure DevOps for secure unattended authentication much simpler.

29 November 2020

Secure app-only authentication with CLI for M365/PnP PowerShell using Variable Groups in Azure DevOps

Use Variable Groups connecting to Azure Key Vault in Azure DevOps to do secure app-only authentication using PnP.PowerShell or CLI for Microsoft 365 in your YAML pipeline.

3 November 2020

Get default tasks list from Microsoft To Do with Microsoft Graph

Create tasks in or get all tasks from the default Tasks list in Microsoft To Do by using a trick on Microsoft Graph.

15 September 2020

Get Yarn v1 to work in Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows Subsystem for Linux v2

Get the Yarn package manager installed on Ubuntu 20.04 running on Windows Subsystem for Linux v2

30 August 2020

Add a task to Microsoft To Do from a message in Microsoft Teams, with Linked Resources

Create a Task in Microsoft To Do, from a specific message in Microsoft Teams. Use Linked Resources capability to link back from the task to the message in Microsoft Teams.

28 August 2020

Connect to MAGDA token-based API sources of the Flemish Government

A walkthrough on how to connect to the MAGDA token-based services of the Flemish Government with C#, JWK's and HTTP Signing.

30 July 2020

SPFx People Search web part based on Microsoft Graph

Introducing the People Search web part for SharePoint, based upon Microsoft Graph and developed using SharePoint Framework (SPFx). It supports $select, $filter, $orderby and $search.

25 July 2020

Discovering API's for Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365

Down the rabbit hole of Information protection Sensitivity Labels API's for container objects in Microsoft 365.