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It has been a while since I have reinstalled a device. At the end of 2019 I reinstalled and wrote a blog about my setup. Due to bad weather during my holidays, I figured it was time to revamp my machine as well as to build my own desktop. That resulted in a few days of playing around with hard and software. ...

Recognizing contributions is a great way to boost morale. The SharePoint Better Practices documentation even has a section on Identifying Your Microsoft 365 Champions. As pointed out in that article you can use the usage reports to identify your metrics and match people who are active on different platforms. Usage Reports Using the CLI for Microsoft 365 you can retrieve several different usage reports. ...

Migrations can always be a tricky thing. In most cases you want to produce some form of reporting to confirm migration results. Or sometimes just to prove you have done whatever you promised to do. Luckily, you are not the only one. As Jasper Oosterveld had a similar issue. Making sure the numbers add up, he was looking for a script to report how many files each folder hold during a migration. ...

Roughly two years ago I blogged about listing all failed site designs with PowerShell. However, in a recent scenario I had to achieve the exact same thing but was looking at implementing it as a CLI for Microsoft 365. The goal was to achieve the same, a report of sites with failed site designs. ...

Recently I drafted my first blog for the Microsoft365PnPBlog on the Tech community. It explains on how to run reports on your tenant using the CLI for Microsoft and Azure Container Instances. After finishing the post Luise Freese reviewed it and we started discussing on how to write proper technical posts, and what should be part of it and what shouldn’t. ...

One of my colleagues recently had some troubles at a customer: there was a SharePoint list that had its items updated by a Power Automate process. However, it was unclear what flow did the update. Given the size of the environment with multiple environments and multiple flow per environment we just could not figure out what flow was the culprit. ...

I must admit that I am not knowledgeable on anything around containers. So I was very happy that we released a Docker image for the CLI for Microsoft 365. It sounded like a great excuse to start playing around with it. Running the image locally turned out to be straight forward. ...

Within the CLI for Microsoft 365 we use JMESPath write execute expressions against returned data. It is a great way to filter down a dataset. But it also has a somewhat steep learning curve, at least it did for me coming from a PowerShell world. So for the sake of time I captured some of my most used scenario’s. ...

Another post after blogging about Migration report with CLI for Microsoft 365. Same scenario, however this time I had to extract all external users from the environment. Having that overview we could reach out and see if they still needed access. Having insights into who accesses what information will help you in determining the best migrations strategy. ...