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Microbit Mouse Jiggler
Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.
The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status.
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3D-printa en Super Mario-blomkruka
Jag håller på och lär mig lite om 3D-Print på fritiden. Jag berättar om mina första intryck och hur jag skriver ut en blomkruka som ser ut som ett Super Mario-block - allt detta i en bloggpost.
Montering av 3D-skrivaren Jag behövde montera min 3D-skrivare (Creality Ender 3 v2) och det gick smidigt även om det tog flera timmar. Jag följde denna fantastiska Youtube video: JustVlad: Creality Ender 3 V2 - 3D Printer - Unbox & Setup .
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Lookup Person Field in Power Automate
Hello Citizen Developers!
I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc.
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Automatically Send Email When News Is Published
News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal