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How to Create Puppet Bolt Tasks

Last Update: Sep 05, 2024

Puppet Bolt tasks are scripts that you can run on Linux or Windows systems. A task contains a script, completely unmodified, written in any language supported by the remote system on which the task will run.

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Demystifying Windows Update Complexity and How To Challenge Your MSP

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into demystifying the complexity of Windows update error messages, how to know if your MSP is on-top of all the changes they are pushing down to your environment, and a little bit about classic bikes.

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Adding a Default Photo to Azure Active Directory Guest User Accounts

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

You can add photos to Azure Active Directory guest accounts and have Office 365 apps display those photos. But it’s a lot of work to track down suitable photos for individual guests. If you want to change the default two-initial icon displayed by Office 365, you can use PowerShell to update all guest accounts with a photo. Here’s how I handled the problem.

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Demystifying Azure App Services

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Understanding how Azure App Services works behind the curtain is important if you want to make the most of the App Service resources.

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The PowerShell Mess in the Microsoft Cloud

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

PowerShell is a great way of automating common administrative Office 365 operations. That is, if you know what module to use and how to use the cmdlets in that module. Unfortunately things are a bit of a mess with too many modules and inconsistent behavior in areas like error handling. With so many development groups working on Office 365, the PowerShell situation might be inevitable, but it needs cleaning up.

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Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Physical Server and Endpoint Backup

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Organizations have data in many different places that needs to be made available. Whether it is a physical server or a desktop, roaming laptop or a few other configurations – that data needs to be protected against everyday occurrences such as lapses in connectivity, hardware failures, file corruption — or even ransomware or theft.

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What You Need to Know About PowerShell 7

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

PowerShell 7 (PS7) is based on .NET Core 3.0 and Microsoft is aiming to provide much greater compatibility with Windows PowerShell modules, as much as 90 percent.

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The Upcoming Generational Shift and AI in the Apps

At ShiftHappens, Mary Jo and Brad Sams sat down with Jeff Teper to talk millennials, AI, SharePoint, and a lot more.

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The Genesis of SharePoint

This week at ShiftHappens, Jeff Teper sat down with Paul Thurrott to talk updates, Microsoft 365, and the genesis of SharePoint.

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The Birth of AvePoint, The Challenges of a Startup

At ShiftHappens this week, Brad Sams had the opportunity to sit down with the co-CEO of AvePoint, Tianyi Jiang, to talk about the birth of the company and the challenges his company has overcome during the past two decades.

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