Mar 20
I’ve always prided myself on being a ‘maker’, whether that’s in my IT world or my Woodturning hobbyists world. And being a maker can mean a number of things. In woodturning, it generally means slapping a piece of wood on the lathe and turning a rough piece of wood into something beautiful. I’ve recently been …
Jan 24
A member of my team recently came across an interesting customer requirement that didn’t seem to have an easy solution using the out of the box Approvals process in Power Automate. The process on the surface seemed fairly simple, but the execution certainly proved less so! Picture the following approval process: User submits a Document …
Jun 13
The problem of storing App Credentials in Azure Runbooks Back when SharePoint on-premises was all the rage, there was always a need to provide a way of automating script actions for a number of reasons. Invariably this would mean that an automation server would be configured running Windows Scheduled tasks out of hours to access …
May 29
I’ve been working with Microsoft Teams for sometime now and it’s having massive impact both within my own team at work (reducing e-mail and expanding collective and accessible knowledge through the persistent conversation) and with my customers. The Teams and Channel meetings experience is pretty seamless and I have a lot less technical issues with …
May 07
I have been working with Teams for some time now in a mixture of team types from large and small. Each has its own interesting ways of working, but for me one of the biggest problems with larger teams is of course notifications. What generally happens is people raise a topic in the team or …
Mar 01
In my post yesterday about the public preview of Site Sensitivity Labels in office 365, I said I’d do another post about how these work and what’s required to get these working in your tenant. This is kind of important as the current documentation does NOT tell you what to configure in Conditional Access to …
Feb 29
##UPDATE## I’ve spent the weekend updating my session ready for SPC20 in Las Vegas in May where I’ll be demoing this updated experience along with other Conditional Access Scenarios! If you register with Speaker code HUNT or from this link here, you can get $50 off the registration price! Update to Site Collection Scoped policies …
Feb 12
Cobb: “Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed – fully understood – that sticks; right in there somewhere.” I’ve not been using Power Automate heavily in recent projects, just the odd small workflow here and there, but just recently a colleague asked …
Jan 09
For those of you that are connected to me socially or read my previous blog post about disruptive technology in Helsinki, you’ll know that 2019 ended on a bit of a health downer. While travelling to attend and speak at SharePoint Saturday in Helsinki (one of the most awesome cool cities I’ve visited), I had …
Dec 02
The tail end of 2019 was due to be a busy time of year for me, conference silly season was in full effect and even though I wasn’t speaking at Microsoft Ignite, I still had a number of SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday events (Zurich, Helsinki, Brussels, Leicester) and other conferences (O365 Connect and Thrive) …