A dumping ground for thoughts and fixes. Mostly to do with automation, especially for Microsoft products such as M365, Azure, Dynamics, Power Platform, PowerShell & C#
Recently, I've been updating a bunch of Visual Studio Azure Functions and Blazor projects to .NET 8.0 from 7.0. Most went smoothly but when I came to run the Azure Functions project locally in Visual Studio, I ran into this error: Error: There is no...
Want to track how long you spend in Microsoft Teams meetings or have a request from a user for some stats? Luckily, it's actually quite easy to get the meeting durations for any user in your tenancy. Common scenarios for needing meeting duration Ok,...
One of the most requested features on Microsoft's UserVoice forum was the Support for Dynamic '+' Email Aliases in Office 365. This has been pending since 2017 and Microsoft finally implemented it in September 2020. Woohoo! However, it's not enabled ...
My computer is in the lounge and it tends to be left on for most of the day (especially with WFH in full effect). With 4 monitors hooked up, it actually outputs a decent amount of light and if you're trying to watch a movie on the TV it can be distra...
Do you run a WordPress site? Have you configured it so that its contents are automatically backed up in case of failure/hack/human error? If it's a no, then you better get cracking as it can happen to anyone. Check out how you can automatically backu...
I'm lazy, no getting around that but over the last year or so I've been able to maintain zero emails in my Gmail inbox. One of the ways I lazily do this is by archiving the vast majority of mail that requires no action but I may need to refer back to...
Recently, I needed to review a whole bunch of domains and see if the domain information is up to date. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to do this but seen as there was quite a few (100+) I'd thought I would create a quick and dirty PowerShell scrip...
Using Git on Windows is pretty straight forward. You can just install Git for Windows and use either the Git GUI app or Git Bash console. But what if you use PowerShell as your default console of choice and don't want to switch? Furthermore, what if ...
Perhaps you need an app principal to be able to access a particular SharePoint site? You could be using the great SharePoint PnP PowerShell module and you want to connect via an AppId and AppSecret. You've got two choices: Grant access using Azure A...
