I recently started doing an email migration into Google Workspace. As I was creating the users, I encountered a wrinkle: one of the email addresses already had a personal Google account associated ...
Movie Directory Part 4: Import
This continues a short series about a movie directory personal project exploring Power Apps and Dataverse. In the first three posts, I’ve laid out the data structure in Dataverse and the app itself...
Movie Directory Part 3: View and Edit
This continues a short series about a movie directory personal project exploring Power Apps and Dataverse. In the first two posts, I’ve laid out the data structure in Dataverse and the gallery and ...
Movie Directory Part 2: Gallery and Filters
In Movie Directory Part 1, I described what I was aiming to achieve with this personal project, as well as the Dataverse structure. In this post, I’ll describe at a high level the design of the Po...
Microsoft Excel vs SharePoint Lists
I’ve been asked the question before: when should I use Microsoft Excel and when should I use SharePoint lists? At first I didn’t have a great answer, but I thought about it, looked into it a bit mo...
CiviCRM: Personal Campaign Pages
Have you ever taken part in a non-profit fundraising event where you get your own personal webpage that you can direct people to as a way for them to sponsor you directly in the event? Personally I...
Movie Directory Part 1: The Data
I recently decided to do more experimentation with Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) in the Power Platform. I did this by making myself an app to solve a need I have myself: a movie director...
Considerations Migrating IMAP to M365
Email migrations are one of those tasks you won’t have to do often, but you’ll really want to make sure you’re doing it correctly when it does need to happen. As much as collaboration tools like Mi...
SharePoint: Overriding a Site’s Home Page
This post continues a series on SharePoint site provisioning, unpacking some of the problems I’ve faced and overcome in building SharePoint site provisioning solutions. At this point in the series...
Microsoft Cloud App Security
If you’re an IT admin, do you know what apps users are putting on devices alongside company data? Do you know all the apps that they are directly putting company data into, thinking it helps solve ...