20 April 2022

Use Power Automate to force sync an Azure AD user to Dataverse

Learn how to force the synchronization of e new user object in Azure AD to the systemusers table in Dataverse, with Power Automate.

27 February 2022

Dataverse Trigger and Action in Power Automate return different values for Date Only columns

Power Automate trigger and action for Dataverse return a different value for a Date Only (with User Local behavior) column.

29 January 2022

Get full meeting details in a Teams meetings app, without Bot SDK

You can get meeting details in a Microsoft Teams meeting app through the Bot SDK, but what if you prefer to not use the Bot SDK?

25 January 2022

Power Platform environment variable secrets from Azure Key Vault: an improvement?

A look at the brand new Environment Variable of type secret in the Power Platform. Does it fulfill the expectations or does it have a little too much gotcha's?

31 December 2021

Pondering over past and future: 2021 edition

Looking back on my life & work in 2021, and what might come in 2022.

12 December 2021

Change the author of a GIT commit & a tale of a missing GitHub contributor

Change the author of a set of commits without rewriting the date of their original commit and keeping all merge commits, so that they correctly show in the GitHub contributors section.

25 October 2021

How 3 makers, 2 devs and a princess came together to save kittens for a hackathon

BetterTogether story about a team with diverse backgrounds building a solution at SouthCoastSummit hackathon.

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.