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I guess all those MVP’s around the world are currently helping schools to quickly deploy and create teams. So, I did not want to feel left out and provided some help to schools out there with some sample PowerShell to manage teams. Now while PowerShell is not rocket science, I did encounter some weird behavior. ...

QnAMaker.ai is a great way to provide answers to end-users through a chat interface. And while it has been around for a while there are always new things to explore. We recently set it up internally to provide a FAQ around the whole COVID situation. To keep learning we challenged ourselves to keep our knowledge base as up to date as possible. ...

I have been using Azure Functions for quite a while now without any issues. Setting them up is easy, and once they are running all is good. And as you can even load PnP PowerShell into them it is fairly easy to run some automation logic in the cloud. Now there also Azure Runbooks but for the sake of client context lest assume you have an Azure Function for reasons. ...

A while back I migrated my blog to Hugo. Ever since that migration, I tried to get even more performance out of my template. So far I didn’t do much, right up until I read up on some tips & tricks the last few weeks. So what follows is a set of ‘best practices’ I applied to my template. ...

There are a few new options in SharePoint Online. You now can change the URL of the site, change the root site and swap them with another. To support these scenarios the site redirect functionality is introduced. This means a new redirect is created each time the action occurs. A redirect ensures that links pointing to the ‘old’ URL will continue to work. ...

Using the Office 365 CLI, you can manage your Microsoft Office 365 tenant and SharePoint Framework projects on any platform. And I must admit I like the tool to manage my Office 365 dev tenant. But I am still on windows, so when I recently formatted my laptop I reconsidered installing the CLI again. ...

What’s better than to use a few days off to reorganize? During the days before Christmas, I usually reinstall my laptop to make sure that next year I have a great start with a clean machine. Software I am currently running a Surface Book 2. Reinstalling Windows thus requires a bootable USB disk with a recovery image. ...

Last week the Global AI Bootcamp was held in 130 locations all over the world! Together with my colleague Rutger Knijnenburg I had the opportunity to give a talk there. And I must admit it was awesome. A quick recap from our session and our slides. All about Using AI to classify your SharePoint Data. ...

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the MSIgnite. The 2019 edition was not unlike other years. Loads of announcements, and way too many sessions to attend. There were several community gatherings, a good number of parties and I can’t help but return energized. I did try to do follow sessions less in my comfort zone and focus a bit more on development and Azure. ...