In my blog post contribution for this year’s Festive Tech Calendar, I’ll show you how to reduce Azure costs by automating the runtime of your Azure Bastion host(s) with Azure Automation. The Festive Tech Calendar is a collaborative community initiative founded by Gregor Suttie (Azure Greg), Richard Hooper (Pixel Robots), Keith Atherton, Simon Lee, Lisa Hoving, and Matt Boyd. Running throughout… READ MORE
Shifting FinOps left Not too long ago, I discovered an open source project on GitHub called InfraCost. It aims to help cloud teams shift left FinOps by helping provide Terraform Azure cost estimations, into Pull Request comments within GitHub/Azure DevOps, including a fancy VS Code extension. And whilst I was excited to try it out, it… READ MORE
A How-to guide to re-creating multilanguage links for Pages in your SitePages library. Maybe you’ve also stumbled upon the issue of missing multilanguage links in your SitePages library in SharePoint Online. This can happen if you create translations in an unsaved default language Post / News Article.Since the Column Translation languages (_SPTranslatedLanguages) is read-only, you can’t simply… READ MORE
Certificate-based authentication for Microsoft Graph PowerShell enables you to authenticate to Microsoft Graph and run PowerShell scripts in the application context without having to store or retrieve a client secret. This can be beneficial in scenarios where you need to run a script from a privileged device but do not want to store a client secret… READ MORE
Azure AD is a cloud-based directory and identity management service that helps you manage users, groups, and applications in your organization. One important aspect of managing applications in Azure AD is keeping track of application secrets, which are used to authenticate and authorize access to resources. Happy Azure Week! Background Application secrets have an expiration… READ MORE
Introduction In this article, we will go through the steps required to import the Excel file data to SharePoint online list using PnP PowerShell. There are a lot of ways to import the data, but for this article, we will stick to PowerShell way. Here the credit goes to person Danile Finke who developed the Import… READ MORE
PnP PowerShell – What You Need to Know Join Erwin for this webinar recording and learn all about PnP PowerShell and what you need to know! Did you know that SharePoint and PnP (Patterns and Practices) were born out of frustration? Yes, the idea of creating a better platform for sharing and collaborating on documents… READ MORE
Are your Teams Auto Attendants, Call Queues and Resource Accounts a mess? Or have you lost track of who created which accounts or Voice Apps? You know what they say… Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth. It’s not really spring yet but who cares? Cleaning up your environment is always a good thing. Today we’re… READ MORE
When we connect external applications to SharePoint via API, client ID and client secret are normally generated, to generate access tokens that authorize API calls. Just in case you do not know how to generate these credentials, you could read my previous blog post here, to learn how to do that. After one year of… READ MORE
On February 15, 2021 Microsoft has decommissioned the Skype for Business Online PowerShell Module and rolled the commands that were available in that module into the new Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module. Whether you are using Teams in your organization or not, you will need to upgrade to the latest PowerShell module to manage Skype for… READ MORE
