A huge missing capability in flow and logic apps (apart from there being no damn clipboard in logic apps) is the ability to turn off steps for testing. This is obvious once you think of its but there actually a 10 second way to do this – Stick the step(s) into a Condition where 1=2:… Read More »
So I was creating a logic app (which I’ll probably document later it dumps email to a SharePoint library based on RegEx) and building an account for it to run under (terrible I know but managed identities are great for providing access to azure resources but not so much for office 365 stuff yet without… Read More »
I’ve written a fair bit about how I use Function apps and Flow to get data about 365 environments. There are clear advantages and disadvantages of each. Flow is incredibly slow, difficult to process data in and is in general restricted to what you can take out of Microsoft Graph. Function Apps allow you to… Read More »
I’m a big fan of running powershell in function apps. Sorry, no that’s wrong – I’m a big fan of NOT running powershell on “reporting servers”, “management boxes”, “that vm that does the 365 stuff” or anywhere where there is even the slightest chance I’m going to find myself fixing a problem on a windows… Read More »
Its just one of those things. Everything is great in your tenant all best practise, no creaky old servers anywhere then the phone rings and someone from the BI team says they need an hourly output of some stuff in csv and the columns have to be in a particular order. Or someone NEEDS a… Read More »
As per Part 1 – The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanism for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business unit… Read More »
As per Part 1 – The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanisms for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business unit… Read More »
As per Part 1 – The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanisms for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business… Read More »
The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanisms for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business unit was getting from that… Read More »