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The plus site of starting a new adventure is an empty calendar and a whole lot of new energy! I recently started out at Blis.digital(mind the Dutch) and will be focussing on fusion development with the Power Platform. The first few days I figured that I needed to up my game regarding the Power Platform. ...

Migrations can be a tricky thing. Over the years I managed to do quite a few of them. Yet for some reason I always end up using some Excel skills to write reports. It doesn’t matter how good the migration tools or scripts are, there always seems to be a reason to write additional reports in Excel. ...

After my previous blog on Mocha and testing with local files I realized that I had another experience with writing test cases. This time instead of local files it was about auto opening URL’s. As you can imagine opening a URL in a browser is not something you want to see happening when running tests. ...

With the CLI for Microsoft 365 we use Mocha for testing. Before getting active in Open Source I must admit that I wasn’t to aware of all testing frameworks. We applied unit tests in our projects, but never to the extend that we got to 100% code coverage. When doing my first PR on the CLI it turns out we had 100% code coverage, and the only way to get your PR approved was to include tests and stay on the 100% code coverage. ...

Triggered by my previous blog to recognize contributions using the CLI for Microsoft 365 I got challenged on taking more metrics into account. Just using the activity details wasn’t enough according to Thomas Gölles. He pointed out that there are other metrics like replies or likes that might indicate how active a user is. ...

Setting up a new machine is an awesome experience. And with Endpoint Manager and Winget a smooth experience. There is however one thing left that when doing consultancy is something you have to do quite often: Creating new Edge profiles. There is a wonderful write-up on launching Edge with different profiles using shortcuts that explains a bit of the why and how to create shortcuts for your profiles. ...

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. ...