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Trigger Microsoft Fabric Data Pipeline using Power Automate/ Logic App
Go read this post first. That’s what helped me figure out what to do without too much Googling around! Key things are: The URL to call (via POST) is...
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Yammer Admin unable to create new Communities
The Engage Administrator role in Viva is known as Yammer Administrator in Entra ID. After assigning that, you will see that the admin is unable to create new communities, for instance. What you have to...
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Zed editor: ERROR [crates/project/src/environment.rs:227] capturing shell...
In case this helps anyone else… not saying what follows below is the solution for such errors. Started to use Zed again earlier this week, and one one of my machines it showsa warning that the...
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Consent between first party application...
Maybe it’s always been the case, or maybe it changed some time ago but I never used this connector much and so didn’t realize… anyhoo, using the “Invoke an HTTP request” connector from a Logic App/...
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Plus Address emails for Entra ID admin accounts
There’s plenty of blog posts on this topic, so I won’t go into the basic details. We often have admin accounts in Entra ID that must receive emails, but there’s no point wasting a license on a mailbox...
View ArticleGood Fortune (English movie), and others…
We happened to watch “Good Fortune” this weekend. It’s a blast of a movie! I had so much fun watching it. I didn’t realise it was written and directed by Aziz Ansari (his movie debut). If you like his...
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Logging in to SuccessFactors Android app with a fingerprint in the work profle
Continuing with SuccessFactors on Android, one of the things the app does upon launch is to ask whether you want to use a password or fingerprint. If I select “fingerprint”, it says there’s no...
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SAP SuccessFactors app and Intune
We wanted to push the Android and iOS apps of SAP SuccessFactors. iOS is easy. Push the app out to a group. Also push out an app configuration so the app knows what to do when a user clicks on it. Easy...
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Hammerspoon and macOS shorcuts
Sweet, Hammerspoon can run macOS shortcuts! So awesome. In a similar vein to my tinkering with Hue lights… I have a BenQ ScreenBar Halo on my monitor which I’d like to turn off when I logoff or my Mac...
View ArticleBlood in the Machine (Book)
“Blood in the Machine” – the book – by Brian Merchant, is crazy! I am only some 100 pages in to it so far, but it is so shocking and eye opening. I never knew this was what the beginnings of the...
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“guestOrExternalUserTypes”: 63
I have an automation that goes through the Graph audit logs API output for any Conditional Access policy changes. I noticed that the output for these had a few entries that looked like...
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Teams Phone and their authentication flows (part 4)
Just adding a link to this Microsoft blog post I previously linked to, and especially the video in it. Wanted to capture two screenshots from there. This is how enrollment works for Android phones And...
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Teams Phone and their authentication flows (part 3)
Continuing from my previous post (which is a continuation to another post), during my last enrolment the phone OS upgraded from Android to Android AOSP. This was not unexpected because Microsoft is in...
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Teams Phone and their authentication flows (part 2)
Continuing from my previous post, I upgraded the Yealink MP56 phone to the next available firmware. Firmware 122.15.0.107 This firmware is from December 2022. Here is what the admin page shows...
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Teams Phone and their authentication flows (part 1)
I wanted to document the authentication flow for Teams phones. This is by no means comprehensive, but only what I have been able to gather by looking at a Yealink MP56 phone. The device itself is...
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Setting the scene on a Hue light via API
Continuing my trilogy (here and here) of Hue API posts… in my previous post I detailed how I set the lights to turn or or off when I login to my Mac. Slight issue with that. When I used to do this via...
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Turning off and on Hue lights when I unlock/ lock or sleep/ wake my Mac
Barely a few days since my previous post on having fun with the Hue API, and the sensor stopped responding to my API calls. There’s no error or anything, the sensor just doesn’t get enabled! I run the...
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Power Apps – The user has not been assigned any License and is disabled.
Encountered a red-herring of an error today. A colleague shared a Power App with another colleague and got the following: The user in question was indeed enabled and licensed. Also, interestingly, the...
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Intune – App Protection policies and custom apps
Every so often I get a request from one of our IT folks asking if I can add such and such app to our App Protection policies. Thing is, most of the time the app in question isn’t one that’s supported...
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KQL – Outputting the input of a function
Playing with Functions in KQL today. One of the things I wanted to do was troubleshoot the input I am passing to a Function. Couldn’t figure out a obvious way to do this, so here’s what I did. My...
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