Tweaking the default search display template in SharePoint 2013
Let’s look at what it takes to make a minor tweak to the out of the box search result in SharePoint 2013. Say my requirement is to show the document id in th...
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powershell
Use a custom app for Graph PowerShell delegate access
Set up a custom application registration for using with Microsoft Graph PowerShell
Get-MgUser_List1: Expect simple name=value query, but observe property ‘assignedLicenses’ of complex type ‘AssignedLicense’.
Are you seeing this message when trying to get user license information using the Graph API.
aka.ms/mgps
Having trouble finding the Graph PowerShell commandlet reference? I created an easy to remember shortcut at aka.ms/mgps.
Parsing the Azure AD federationmetadata.xml in PowerShell
If you try to parse Azure AD’s federation metadata xml in PowerShell using a script like the one below you most probably end up with the error “The specified...
Azure AD PowerShell script to generate a report on authentication methods registered by your users
NOTE: This API has been deprecated. Please use List userRegistrationDetails - Microsoft Graph beta instead.
PowerShell script to generate a report on all Power BI workspaces and groups in your Microsoft 365 tenant
Here’s a useful script I wrote the other day. This uses a few PowerShell modules to pull together information about all the Power BI workspaces in your Micro...
Script to Download Yammer Image Profile
Here’s a neat script I wrote the other day to download the urls of all the user’s in your Yammer network. This comes in handy when you want to re-use the pro...
Creating PDF files dynamically with PowerShell
So how does one go about creating PDF files dynamically? You need a pinch of the open source PdfSharp library and 10 lines of PowerShell. Add-Type -Path .\P...
Creating jUnit/xUnit compatible xml test tesults in PowerShell
I originally wrote this function when I needed to create jUnit/xUnit compatible test results. The resulting xml file was then fed into the jUnit plugin in Je...
Making SharePoint JSon calls from PowerShell in SharePoint 2013
The Invoke-RestMethod in PowerShell 3 doesn’t send the appropriate header required by SharePoint 2013 to return JSon results. It took me a while to figure ou...
FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2010
Setting up forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010 requires making changes in three web.config files. [FBA.ConfigureMembershipProvider]::Configure($we...
azuread
Use a custom app for Graph PowerShell delegate access
Set up a custom application registration for using with Microsoft Graph PowerShell
Azure AD and Microsoft Graph Extensions and Attributes
A comparison of the five different types of Azure AD extensions and attributes.
AzureAD Restricted Access - Guest Permission Level
ICYMI We introduced a new guest permission level in Azure AD that restricts what guests can view about other directory objects in your tenant.
aka.ms/mgps
Having trouble finding the Graph PowerShell commandlet reference? I created an easy to remember shortcut at aka.ms/mgps.
Graph Permissions Explorer
If you are a developer in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem you will be well versed with the Microsoft Graph API reference docs and most probably know about permis...
Parsing the Azure AD federationmetadata.xml in PowerShell
If you try to parse Azure AD’s federation metadata xml in PowerShell using a script like the one below you most probably end up with the error “The specified...
Azure AD PowerShell script to generate a report on authentication methods registered by your users
NOTE: This API has been deprecated. Please use List userRegistrationDetails - Microsoft Graph beta instead.
Setting up Azure AD B2B Direct Federation with Google GSuite
If you are looking to configure Azure AD B2B Direct Federation with Google’s GSuite and running into issues here’s a quick screenshot of how it needs to be s...
Password Hash Sync and Staged Rollout - Things you need to know
Now that Staged Rollout is out of NDA, I can finally talk about one of the projects I’ve been working on for the last twelve months. Why Staged Rollout?
Tips
Setting up WordPress as your micro blogging platform
Deciding on WordPress as your source of truth for your micro blog is all good but how do you avoid spamming your RSS readers with your status updates meant f...
Things to watch out for when migrating SharePoint 2010 FAST Search to SharePoint 2013
I’m currently working on a Search First migration to SharePoint 2013. This post is a placeholder to document the gotchas and workarounds.
Troubleshooting the ‘403 Forbidden’ error for SharePoint & ASP.NET Apps
If your site bombs out with 403 Forbidden error one quick way to identify the root cause is to run ProcessMon on the web server and filter it out to only sho...
Disable Windows Live Contacts from being synchronized to Windows Phone
One very useful Windows Phone feature is that it automatically adds all your Windows Live contacts to your Windows Phone when you sign in. This is all fine a...
Windows 8 – New Folder
To create a new folder in windows explorer pre Win8 was Alt+F, N.
Windows 7: New Keyboard Shortcuts
There are quite a few new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 and some of them are a godsend when working on a multi-monitor setup. I can finally retire UltraMon...
graph
Use a custom app for Graph PowerShell delegate access
Set up a custom application registration for using with Microsoft Graph PowerShell
Azure AD and Microsoft Graph Extensions and Attributes
A comparison of the five different types of Azure AD extensions and attributes.
Get-MgUser_List1: Expect simple name=value query, but observe property ‘assignedLicenses’ of complex type ‘AssignedLicense’.
Are you seeing this message when trying to get user license information using the Graph API.
aka.ms/mgps
Having trouble finding the Graph PowerShell commandlet reference? I created an easy to remember shortcut at aka.ms/mgps.
Graph Permissions Explorer
If you are a developer in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem you will be well versed with the Microsoft Graph API reference docs and most probably know about permis...
Azure AD PowerShell script to generate a report on authentication methods registered by your users
NOTE: This API has been deprecated. Please use List userRegistrationDetails - Microsoft Graph beta instead.
windows 7
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7
Here’s a quick summary of how I installed the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010. Minimum Requirements: - Windows 7 64 bit: What this means is that yo...
Windows 7: WiFi slow to connect or Limited Connectivity
I’ve been having this frustrating issue for the last month where the laptop would take about 10 minutes before it was able to connect to the internet. This h...
Windows 7: New Keyboard Shortcuts
There are quite a few new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 and some of them are a godsend when working on a multi-monitor setup. I can finally retire UltraMon...
Windows 7 beta and the beta nVidia Driver
Two words: Don’t install This is what nVidia says and you typically get it through Windows Update. I suffered with the title bar going missing and ugly black...
Running Windows 7 Beta
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7. Both setups ran fine w...
2010
Limit SQL Server memory usage on your workstation, laptop or VM
Here’s a neat tip I learnt over the weekend.
SharePoint 2010 Service Manager
With the final release of SharePoint 2010, I finally had time to brush-up and release the Service Manager that I wrote sometime back when the 2010 betas was ...
Installing Office Web Apps on Windows 7
If you haven’t heard of Office Web Apps before it’s basically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote running inside a browser. It lets you edit documents right ...
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7
Here’s a quick summary of how I installed the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010. Minimum Requirements: - Windows 7 64 bit: What this means is that yo...
install
Visual Studio 2010 Installation Issue – Setup Failed with HRESULT -2147467259
If you Visual Studio 2010 setup keeps failing when it tries to install the Visual C++ runtime, here’s a quick fix for you.
Installing Office Web Apps on Windows 7
If you haven’t heard of Office Web Apps before it’s basically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote running inside a browser. It lets you edit documents right ...
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7
Here’s a quick summary of how I installed the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010. Minimum Requirements: - Windows 7 64 bit: What this means is that yo...
SQL
Updating Extended Properties of a Database using SQL Server SMO
Updating the extended properties on a database using SQL Server’s excellent Server Management Objects API is not as straightforward as setting the value and ...
Limit SQL Server memory usage on your workstation, laptop or VM
Here’s a neat tip I learnt over the weekend.
SQL Server 2008 Service Weirdness
Two weird things I learnt about SQL Server while building the SharePoint 2010 Service Manager.
dell
Another Dell XPS M1330 tip: External Display Flicker
Although five of us have exact same setup, I am the only one at work to experience the external display flickering. I tried everything from downloading all t...
Dell Studio: Slow mouse (touchpad) and missing keys issue
Just before I installed Windows 7, the new Dell Studio suddenly started slowing down. The touchpad movements would be jerky and some keys wouldn’t get presse...
wcf
Generating a mock/stub WCF web service from a WSDL
When working on integration projects you sometimes need to build a stub or mock service to emulate the behavior of the targeted system in your dev environmen...
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 breaks Microsoft CCF (Customer Care Framework)
So your seeing this exception in your WCF client application after installing SP1 on .NET Framework 3.5 System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityExceptio...
date
LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
Date Ranges in Log Parser for EventLogs
If you need to trawl through your production server event logs. Here’s a quick tip for extracting just the entries for a given date range using LogParser. BT...
logparser
LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
Date Ranges in Log Parser for EventLogs
If you need to trawl through your production server event logs. Here’s a quick tip for extracting just the entries for a given date range using LogParser. BT...
setup
Visual Studio 2010 Installation Issue – Setup Failed with HRESULT -2147467259
If you Visual Studio 2010 setup keeps failing when it tries to install the Visual C++ runtime, here’s a quick fix for you.
Visual Studio Maintenance Mode
I started working my way through the hands on labs in the SharePoint 2010 Developer Evaluation Guide and found that I was missing the Visual Studio 2010 Comm...
workflow
Dynamically setting multiple activity destinations in K2 with ASP .NET
When building a typical workflow you usually know which user or group needs to perform an activity at design time. Sometimes though the workflow needs to be ...
Workflow does not start automatically when bulk inserting items
This had me tripped for a while. I was bulk inserting items (~800) to a list which had event receivers as well as a workflow attached.
Service Manager
Limit SQL Server memory usage on your workstation, laptop or VM
Here’s a neat tip I learnt over the weekend.
SharePoint 2010 Service Manager
With the final release of SharePoint 2010, I finally had time to brush-up and release the Service Manager that I wrote sometime back when the 2010 betas was ...
fba
FBA Custom Sign In Page returns 401 Unauthorized error
If you’ve built a custom sign in page in SharePoint 2010 but keep getting a 401 Unauthorized error instead of the sign in page then you’ve most probably depl...
FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2010
Setting up forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010 requires making changes in three web.config files. [FBA.ConfigureMembershipProvider]::Configure($we...
log
LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
ULS Viewer stops working
If ULS Viewer suddenly stops reading from the ULS log, the quick fix is to move all the log files to another folder. Except for the last log file which Explo...
windows phone
Disable Windows Live Contacts from being synchronized to Windows Phone
One very useful Windows Phone feature is that it automatically adds all your Windows Live contacts to your Windows Phone when you sign in. This is all fine a...
Fixed: The target “GetCopyToOutputDirectoryContentProjectItems” does not exist in the project.
If your building a Windows Phone app and get this error then a quick fix is to download the XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh (40 MB) and install it.
bcs
Creating a BCS Content Source using PowerShell
You can use the following command to create a content source to crawl a Business Data Connectivity Service (BDCS). $lobSystems = @("LOBSystemName1","LOBSyste...
Tips for working with BCS and FAST Search
When building a FAST search solution to crawl external entities through BCS it can get very frustrating if you deploy a change and it doesn’t get updated in ...
app
Mobile Apps: Native or Web?
When building for mobile there isn’t a silver bullet. Instead we have a myriad of compromises to make. If your an enterprise wanting to build apps here are f...
SharePoint Health Monitor App
Introducing the SharePoint Health Monitor App. More details coming soon once the app is published in the marketplace.
search
Tweaking the default search display template in SharePoint 2013
Let’s look at what it takes to make a minor tweak to the out of the box search result in SharePoint 2013. Say my requirement is to show the document id in th...
Things to watch out for when migrating SharePoint 2010 FAST Search to SharePoint 2013
I’m currently working on a Search First migration to SharePoint 2013. This post is a placeholder to document the gotchas and workarounds.
tip
Debugging Javascript
What’s the easiest way to break into the debugger in JavaScript especially when you have heaps of js files being loaded by a page (SharePoint 2013 & disp...
Tweaking the default search display template in SharePoint 2013
Let’s look at what it takes to make a minor tweak to the out of the box search result in SharePoint 2013. Say my requirement is to show the document id in th...
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God prefers kind athiests over hateful christians
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report
Azure AD PowerShell script to generate a report on authentication methods registered by your users
NOTE: This API has been deprecated. Please use List userRegistrationDetails - Microsoft Graph beta instead.
PowerShell script to generate a report on all Power BI workspaces and groups in your Microsoft 365 tenant
Here’s a useful script I wrote the other day. This uses a few PowerShell modules to pull together information about all the Power BI workspaces in your Micro...
BlogEngine.NET
Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
Yet another migration post, feels like just yesterday I migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET.
blogml
Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
Yet another migration post, feels like just yesterday I migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET.
migrate
Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
Yet another migration post, feels like just yesterday I migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET.
wordpress
Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
Yet another migration post, feels like just yesterday I migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET.
64-bit
Running Windows 7 Beta
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7. Both setups ran fine w...
chrome
Running Windows 7 Beta
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7. Both setups ran fine w...
live mesh
Running Windows 7 Beta
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7. Both setups ran fine w...
slow
Dell Studio: Slow mouse (touchpad) and missing keys issue
Just before I installed Windows 7, the new Dell Studio suddenly started slowing down. The touchpad movements would be jerky and some keys wouldn’t get presse...
studio
Dell Studio: Slow mouse (touchpad) and missing keys issue
Just before I installed Windows 7, the new Dell Studio suddenly started slowing down. The touchpad movements would be jerky and some keys wouldn’t get presse...
touchpad
Dell Studio: Slow mouse (touchpad) and missing keys issue
Just before I installed Windows 7, the new Dell Studio suddenly started slowing down. The touchpad movements would be jerky and some keys wouldn’t get presse...
nvidia
Windows 7 beta and the beta nVidia Driver
Two words: Don’t install This is what nVidia says and you typically get it through Windows Update. I suffered with the title bar going missing and ugly black...
shortcuts
Windows 7: New Keyboard Shortcuts
There are quite a few new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 and some of them are a godsend when working on a multi-monitor setup. I can finally retire UltraMon...
display
Another Dell XPS M1330 tip: External Display Flicker
Although five of us have exact same setup, I am the only one at work to experience the external display flickering. I tried everything from downloading all t...
xps
Another Dell XPS M1330 tip: External Display Flicker
Although five of us have exact same setup, I am the only one at work to experience the external display flickering. I tried everything from downloading all t...
ccf
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 breaks Microsoft CCF (Customer Care Framework)
So your seeing this exception in your WCF client application after installing SP1 on .NET Framework 3.5 System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityExceptio...
service pack
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 breaks Microsoft CCF (Customer Care Framework)
So your seeing this exception in your WCF client application after installing SP1 on .NET Framework 3.5 System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityExceptio...
format
Making your portable hard disk work with the XBox 360
I like using my XBox as a media center. But when I plugged in a portable HDD to the 360 but it didn’t show up as a disc. Didn’t work on the Samsung home thea...
hard disc
Making your portable hard disk work with the XBox 360
I like using my XBox as a media center. But when I plugged in a portable HDD to the 360 but it didn’t show up as a disc. Didn’t work on the Samsung home thea...
portable
Making your portable hard disk work with the XBox 360
I like using my XBox as a media center. But when I plugged in a portable HDD to the 360 but it didn’t show up as a disc. Didn’t work on the Samsung home thea...
xbox 360
Making your portable hard disk work with the XBox 360
I like using my XBox as a media center. But when I plugged in a portable HDD to the 360 but it didn’t show up as a disc. Didn’t work on the Samsung home thea...
range
Date Ranges in Log Parser for EventLogs
If you need to trawl through your production server event logs. Here’s a quick tip for extracting just the entries for a given date range using LogParser. BT...
timestamp
Date Ranges in Log Parser for EventLogs
If you need to trawl through your production server event logs. Here’s a quick tip for extracting just the entries for a given date range using LogParser. BT...
oracle
Changing the default schema in Oracle
The application I was working on assumed that the user would always be in the default schema. I ran into a snag when I had to connect to the staging environm...
schema
Changing the default schema in Oracle
The application I was working on assumed that the user would always be in the default schema. I ran into a snag when I had to connect to the staging environm...
session
Changing the default schema in Oracle
The application I was working on assumed that the user would always be in the default schema. I ran into a snag when I had to connect to the staging environm...
silverlight
Fixing the Silverlight caching issue
Fell into this trap today. I deployed an update of my silverlight project to the Sharepoint site but on some machines the browser continously kept loading th...
peace
The War is Over
Sri Lanka is finally rid of the terrorists, the war is over. I hope and pray that we have seen the end of senseless bloodshed.
checked
WPF Checked ListBox
WPF currently does not have a checked list box out of the box so you’ll need to roll your own. Unfortunately most of the examples that come up on Google invo...
listbox
WPF Checked ListBox
WPF currently does not have a checked list box out of the box so you’ll need to roll your own. Unfortunately most of the examples that come up on Google invo...
WPF
WPF Checked ListBox
WPF currently does not have a checked list box out of the box so you’ll need to roll your own. Unfortunately most of the examples that come up on Google invo...
visual studio
Back to top ↑Google Wave Invites
UPDATE: No more invites. Sorry guys I’ve given away all my invites on a first-come first-serve basis. Cheers!
wave
Google Wave Invites
UPDATE: No more invites. Sorry guys I’ve given away all my invites on a first-come first-serve basis. Cheers!
weather
CKS: World Clock and Weather WebPart with Proxy Support
I recently had to add proxy support to the Community Kit for SharePoint: World Clock and Weather WebPart. IT Teams usually like to lock down the proxy server...
limited connectivity
Windows 7: WiFi slow to connect or Limited Connectivity
I’ve been having this frustrating issue for the last month where the laptop would take about 10 minutes before it was able to connect to the internet. This h...
slow to connect
Windows 7: WiFi slow to connect or Limited Connectivity
I’ve been having this frustrating issue for the last month where the laptop would take about 10 minutes before it was able to connect to the internet. This h...
wifi
Windows 7: WiFi slow to connect or Limited Connectivity
I’ve been having this frustrating issue for the last month where the laptop would take about 10 minutes before it was able to connect to the internet. This h...
office web apps
Installing Office Web Apps on Windows 7
If you haven’t heard of Office Web Apps before it’s basically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote running inside a browser. It lets you edit documents right ...
command prompt
Visual Studio Maintenance Mode
I started working my way through the hands on labs in the SharePoint 2010 Developer Evaluation Guide and found that I was missing the Visual Studio 2010 Comm...
visual studio 2010
Visual Studio Maintenance Mode
I started working my way through the hands on labs in the SharePoint 2010 Developer Evaluation Guide and found that I was missing the Visual Studio 2010 Comm...
bulk insert
Workflow does not start automatically when bulk inserting items
This had me tripped for a while. I was bulk inserting items (~800) to a list which had event receivers as well as a workflow attached.
subversion
SharpSvn: A Primer
The SharpSvn library basically gives you a .NET interface to all the operations that you would normally perform through a tool like TortoiseSVN. I found myse...
tortoisesvn
SharpSvn: A Primer
The SharpSvn library basically gives you a .NET interface to all the operations that you would normally perform through a tool like TortoiseSVN. I found myse...
code;
Get Safe File Name
Here’s a quick utility that might come in handy. More than once I’ve seen code where the invalid chars were hard coded. The Path.GetInvalidFilenameChars has ...
beta
.NET 4 Free Beta Exam Vouchers
Looks like I somehow missed this. Free vouchers for the .NET 4 (Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams) are available online in the Born to Learn blog. I couldn’t reg...
exam
.NET 4 Free Beta Exam Vouchers
Looks like I somehow missed this. Free vouchers for the .NET 4 (Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams) are available online in the Born to Learn blog. I couldn’t reg...
voucher
.NET 4 Free Beta Exam Vouchers
Looks like I somehow missed this. Free vouchers for the .NET 4 (Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams) are available online in the Born to Learn blog. I couldn’t reg...
architecture
Icons & Illustrations for SharePoint Architecture Diagrams
A picture is worth a thousand words. Like me if you spend a lot of time writing up functional specs and architecture diagrams and are looking for ways to co...
site template
Feature differences between SharePoint 2007 Enterprise and Standard for a Publishing Portal
I recently had to deploy a site template that was built using SharePoint Enterprise Edition 2007 on an instance of SharePoint Standard Edition 2007.
destinations
Dynamically setting multiple activity destinations in K2 with ASP .NET
When building a typical workflow you usually know which user or group needs to perform an activity at design time. Sometimes though the workflow needs to be ...
infopath
Dynamically setting multiple activity destinations in K2 with ASP .NET
When building a typical workflow you usually know which user or group needs to perform an activity at design time. Sometimes though the workflow needs to be ...
k2
Dynamically setting multiple activity destinations in K2 with ASP .NET
When building a typical workflow you usually know which user or group needs to perform an activity at design time. Sometimes though the workflow needs to be ...
smo
Updating Extended Properties of a Database using SQL Server SMO
Updating the extended properties on a database using SQL Server’s excellent Server Management Objects API is not as straightforward as setting the value and ...
utility
FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2010
Setting up forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010 requires making changes in three web.config files. [FBA.ConfigureMembershipProvider]::Configure($we...
claims
FBA Custom Sign In Page returns 401 Unauthorized error
If you’ve built a custom sign in page in SharePoint 2010 but keep getting a 401 Unauthorized error instead of the sign in page then you’ve most probably depl...
sso
FBA Custom Sign In Page returns 401 Unauthorized error
If you’ve built a custom sign in page in SharePoint 2010 but keep getting a 401 Unauthorized error instead of the sign in page then you’ve most probably depl...
uls viewer
ULS Viewer stops working
If ULS Viewer suddenly stops reading from the ULS log, the quick fix is to move all the log files to another folder. Except for the last log file which Explo...
wsdl
Generating a mock/stub WCF web service from a WSDL
When working on integration projects you sometimes need to build a stub or mock service to emulate the behavior of the targeted system in your dev environmen...
config
Configure the Belkin Play Max router for SLT ADSL Broadband
I’m on vacation back home in Sri Lanka and became the tech support guy for the in-laws. They were using an old D-Link router which supported just 802.11b and...
router
Configure the Belkin Play Max router for SLT ADSL Broadband
I’m on vacation back home in Sri Lanka and became the tech support guy for the in-laws. They were using an old D-Link router which supported just 802.11b and...
iis
LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
time
LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
utc
LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range
This is a note to myself to remember how to convert the UTC date/time to the local timezone.
windows 8
Windows 8 – New Folder
To create a new folder in windows explorer pre Win8 was Alt+F, N.
personal
On Ode To My Father
Hi Dadda,
fast
Tips for working with BCS and FAST Search
When building a FAST search solution to crawl external entities through BCS it can get very frustrating if you deploy a change and it doesn’t get updated in ...
surface
SharePoint Health Monitor App
Introducing the SharePoint Health Monitor App. More details coming soon once the app is published in the marketplace.
dev
Mobile Apps: Native or Web?
When building for mobile there isn’t a silver bullet. Instead we have a myriad of compromises to make. If your an enterprise wanting to build apps here are f...
json
Making SharePoint JSon calls from PowerShell in SharePoint 2013
The Invoke-RestMethod in PowerShell 3 doesn’t send the appropriate header required by SharePoint 2013 to return JSon results. It took me a while to figure ou...
xpath
Online XPath Tool
XPathTool is a really great online XPath utility. It’s free, doesn’t need to be installed and has more features than a lot of the utilities that you find on ...
javascript
Debugging Javascript
What’s the easiest way to break into the debugger in JavaScript especially when you have heaps of js files being loaded by a page (SharePoint 2013 & disp...
automation
Retrieving the text from a message when writing automation tests using White
Quick tip on how to retrieve the value of a message box when writing automation tests using White for Windows desktop apps.
testing
Retrieving the text from a message when writing automation tests using White
Quick tip on how to retrieve the value of a message box when writing automation tests using White for Windows desktop apps.
Creating PDF files dynamically with PowerShell
So how does one go about creating PDF files dynamically? You need a pinch of the open source PdfSharp library and 10 lines of PowerShell. Add-Type -Path .\P...
api
Script to Download Yammer Image Profile
Here’s a neat script I wrote the other day to download the urls of all the user’s in your Yammer network. This comes in handy when you want to re-use the pro...
yammer
Script to Download Yammer Image Profile
Here’s a neat script I wrote the other day to download the urls of all the user’s in your Yammer network. This comes in handy when you want to re-use the pro...
IFTTT
God prefers kind athiests over hateful christians
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azure
Allowing third party applications in your Office 365 tenant
When managing Office 365 (and it’s related Azure Active Directory) in a large enterprise your security team is wary about allowing third party applications t...
office 365
Allowing third party applications in your Office 365 tenant
When managing Office 365 (and it’s related Azure Active Directory) in a large enterprise your security team is wary about allowing third party applications t...
status
Take back
Take back your voice in 2018. I love the whole idea around micro blogs. This feels like the early days of RSS and web logs. Find out more at https://micro.blog
conditionalAccess
Password Hash Sync and Staged Rollout - Things you need to know
Now that Staged Rollout is out of NDA, I can finally talk about one of the projects I’ve been working on for the last twelve months. Why Staged Rollout?
powerbi
PowerShell script to generate a report on all Power BI workspaces and groups in your Microsoft 365 tenant
Here’s a useful script I wrote the other day. This uses a few PowerShell modules to pull together information about all the Power BI workspaces in your Micro...
permissions
Graph Permissions Explorer
If you are a developer in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem you will be well versed with the Microsoft Graph API reference docs and most probably know about permis...
external identities
AzureAD Restricted Access - Guest Permission Level
ICYMI We introduced a new guest permission level in Azure AD that restricts what guests can view about other directory objects in your tenant.