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Power Platform Security Assessment: How Mature Is Your Tenant?
Read more →: Power Platform Security Assessment: How Mature Is Your Tenant?You have configured governance — but does it actually work? In the final blog of this series, we introduce a PowerShell script that automatically checks 10 security domains in your Power Platform tenant, built with GitHub Copilot. The result: an interactive HTML report, a maturity score, a concrete improvement plan, and guidance on what to…
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RBAC for Applications – Least Privilege When Sending Email via the Graph API
Read more →: RBAC for Applications – Least Privilege When Sending Email via the Graph APIA while ago I received a question from a Power Platform team. They were building a Power App and wanted to add email functionality to it. To send emails from the app, they wanted to call the Microsoft Graph API. For this purpose, they had created an App Registration in Entra ID. The question was…
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Skype for Business: Create DFS with PowerShell
Read more →: Skype for Business: Create DFS with PowerShellSkype for Business needs a file share to store shared data of the pool. When installing a Skype for Business environment you want the file share to be high available. In order to make a file share high available you need DFS, Distributed File System. For installing and configuring DFS I used this blogpost (https://insidemstech.com/2015/08/24/deploy-dfs-for-skype-for-business-server-2015-enterprise-pool-part-i/) for guidance. But…
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Installing SQL 2014
Read more →: Installing SQL 2014Installing SQL 2014 isn’t quite as different as installing SQL Server 2012. Sure there are some minor UI changes when installing SQL, but it’s all the same. In order for SharePoint to work with SQL, we only need the database engine. I don’t want to click my way through the setup every time I need to install SQL server.…
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SQL Server 2014 Release
Read more →: SQL Server 2014 ReleaseSQL Server 2014 has been released to manufacture (RTM) on March 18th by Microsoft. On April 1st the download of SQL Server 2014 will be made available. Brings up the question if SharePoint will support SQL Server 2014, well the answer is yes. However, SharePoint 2013 will not be able to work with SQL Server…
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SharePoint 2013: Host Named Site Collections and MySites
Read more →: SharePoint 2013: Host Named Site Collections and MySitesI needed to configure Host Named Site Collections for a few customers and ran into a few problems especially with the creation of MySites. I know that Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) were available in SharePoint 2010 and that Microsoft improved it in SharePoint 2013. Didn’t play with it in SharePoint 2010 and now with…
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Stopping SharePoint services on multiple servers
Read more →: Stopping SharePoint services on multiple serversToday I needed to move some SharePoint databases. This needed to be done on 2 different farms, but I did not feel the need to logon to every SharePoint server in order to stop every service. So I wrote a little PowerShell script. I tested this script on multiple environments. [code language=”PowerShell”] # Stop SharePoint…
