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How to enable SMB1 on Windows 10
If you try to access an SMB 1 share from Windows 10 you may receive the following error message: You can’t connection to the file share because it’s not secure. This share requires the obsolete SMB1...
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Tips for a Tidy Communications Cabinet
A cluttered communications cabinet is unpleasant to look at, confusing and difficult to work with. I’ve had to tidy up a few recently and it is a strangely satisfying task. Here are a few tips and...
View ArticleSpecify Display Name when sending Email with PowerShell
Sending email with PowerShell is easy with Send-MailMessage. Here is a basic example: $server = "smtp.sendgrid.net" $Username ="test" $Password = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force...
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How to add Thousands separators to a number with Powershell
When working with long numbers, they are much easier to read with the thousand separators included. The Powershell format operator makes it simple. $Number = 2109999.86 '{0:N0}' -f $Number '{0:N2}' -f...
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Install an SSD in the Optical Bay of a 13th Generation PowerEdge
Installing an SSD to the optical drive by on a 13th Generation Dell PowerEdge is really easy and provides extra flexibility. The only thing you really need to know is that the bay is 9.5mm high, there...
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Use PowerShell to generate push notifications to your SmartPhone
This post is going to cover how to use Powershell to send push notifications to your smartphone using Powershell. I recently discovered a web service called Notify17. It’s a really nifty little...
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Fixing Headset overload with the Jabra Evolve 75 wireless
I spend a lot of time on the phone, and I cannot stand to hold the phone to my head, unless I can talk on a headset, I really don’t want to talk. So I bought myself a Jabra Evolve 75 to set about...
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Monitor Disk Usage on Linux and Unix Servers with Microsoft Flow
I look after quite a number of servers, many of which are different flavours of Unix and Linux. Checking disk usage is easy with the df command but I wanted to setup something automatic, where I could...
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Emailing from Powersoft TTwin 4 Terminal Emulator with VBA Script
I’ve got a lot of customers with legacy systems, by chance most of them use Century TinyTerm. One, who uses TTwin 4 by Powersoft asked if it would be possible to initiate an email from the contents of...
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Log RDS Sessions with a Power BI Streaming Dataset
After a conversation with a customer today, I needed to create an easy way to monitor RDP authentications. This turned out to be more difficult than I expected. We suspected that some accounts had...
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Create PDF Invoice using Microsoft Power Automate with JSON
This post demonstrates how to create a PDF invoices from JSON data using Microsoft Power Automate (Microsoft Flow). The five step flow follows this sequence: Receive data from a HTTP request...
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Reboot loop on Windows 2012 caused by KB4532920
There have been a number of reports that KB4532920 is causing endless reboots loops on Windows Server 2012. One of my customers experienced this today. This update was released on December 10th 2019....
View ArticleFiles not visible on Windows Share due to Client Side Caching
I was working on a machine that was unable to see a number of files within a completely standard Windows Server Share. The machine was running Windows 7 64-Bit. Other clients were able to see the...
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Power Apps: Recover accidentally deleted Portal Management App
If you’ve accidentally deleted your Power Apps Portal Management Application you can get it back pretty easily as it is just a model driven app. Here is how to do it: Login to the Power Apps...
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Power Automate: Get a single record from CDS List Records action
You can easily retrieve the unique identifier of a record in CDS within flow using the List Records action. But this approach will create an “Apply to each” loop, even if there is only one possible...
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Change column headings for an Entity List in Power Apps Portal
When you build an entity list for display in a Power Portal the column headings may not suit your requirements. For example: The column headings are too long for the data and will waste valuable...
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How to trigger a Power Automate Flow with a HTTP Request
Being able to trigger a flow in Power Automate with a simple HTTP request opens the door to so many possibilities. I love it! With some imagination you can integrate anything with Power Automate. If...
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How to Print from PowerApps to on-premise printers
PowerApps is a marvellous product, but printing support is quite weak. I am currently in the process of developing a PowerApp and printing support to on-premise printers is a must. YouTube video that...
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Get more than 5000 items from SharePoint with Power Automate
The 5000 item view limit of SharePoint lists has been a stumbling block for a long time. Fortunately we can overcome the limit using Microsoft Power Automate. This is a part of a series of blog posts...
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Use the REST API in Flow to get over 5000 items from SharePoint
This post describes how to use the SharePoint API in Microsoft Power Automate to retrieve over 5,000 items from a SharePoint list. It is the second part of a series of blog posts which covers this...
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