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.

30 June 2020

Use Sensitivity Labels in SharePoint Search

A way to use Sensitivity Labels applied to documents and sites, groups and teams in SharePoint Search, for querying and visualization of the label.

17 May 2020

How to update the registration of a provider-hosted SharePoint app/add-in

A how-to on updating the Redirect URI and App Domain for an existing provider-hosed SharePoint app/add-in.

14 May 2020

The underwhelming story of what happened when I changed my UPN

I changed the UPN of my account and I document the resulting experience, on how all the different applications deal with this update.

20 April 2020

Teams for Education, Fundamentals (April 2020)

An introductory presentation about Microsoft Teams in Education, created to help out some schoolteachers in Belgium.

14 April 2020

Casper: wide edition

CasperWide, a widescreen and slightly adjusted version of the standard Ghost blog theme Casper, is released.

19 March 2020

How I exported 820 .ics files from an Office 365 Group calendar, for MVP Summit

A walkthrough on how I managed to export 820 .ics files from an Office 365 Group Calender, for improved schedule building at MVP Summit 2020.

13 March 2020

Ugly truths about installing an SPFx package through a provisioning pipeline

Take a look at the issues we encountered when automatically installing an SPFx package in a SharePoint site collection, and how we resolved them.

31 December 2019

Pondering over past and future: 2019 edition

Looking back on my life & work in 2019 and what might come in 2020.