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PowerShell helps automate processes, especially in the Microsoft 365 world. That´s true for the Microsoft Power Platform as well. See how to access PowerApps and Flow with PowerShell here. So, here´s a very quick introduction for using PowerShell with PowerApps and Flow. Find the full documentation at PowerApps cmdlets for administrators. Install the PowerShell modules Install the PowerApps (preview) module from the PowerShell Gallery once with the following PowerShell statements as Administrator on your machine: ...

Deutsche Version Formeln mit einem Datumsfeld lassen sich in Project leicht erstellen. Wenn dabei ein Datumsfeld geprüft werden soll, das potentiell keinen Wert enthält, lässt sich das in der deutschen Version mit einer Prüfung auf „NV" (Nicht verfügbar) abprüfen. Das kann zum Beispiel bei einem Vergleich mit einem Basisplandatum wie Geplantes Ende der Fall sein. Folgende Formel zeigt im Feld Text1 „Kein Basisplan" an, wenn für den Vorgang noch kein Basisplan festgelegt wurde. Dabei wird „NV" mit „ProjDateValue(“NV”)=[Geplantes Ende]" in ein Project-Datumfeld konvertiert, um mit dem Wert in Geplantes Ende vergleichen zu können. ...

A very quick tip today: When using an Azure Logic App in combination with an Azure SQL Database, filtering rows can be done like here. As example: A T-SQL query as this one… SELECT - FROM [dbo].[Customers] WHERE [StorageDataSentDate] IS NULL ORDER BY [Id] …will be formulated as filter expression with an OData query as here. The definition for the Get_rows_(V2) action looks similar as here: … "Get_rows_(V2)": { "inputs": { "host": {"connection": {"name": "@parameters('$connections')['sql']['connectionId']"} }, "method": "get", "path": "/v2/datasets/@{encodeURIComponent(encodeURIComponent('[someserver].database.windows.net'))}, @{encodeURIComponent(encodeURIComponent('governancetoolkit365'))}/tables/ @{encodeURIComponent(encodeURIComponent('[dbo].[Customers]'))}/items", "queries": {"$filter": "(StorageDataSentDate eq null)", $orderby": "Id"} }, "runAfter": {"Initialize_variable": ["Succeeded"]}, "runtimeConfiguration": { "paginationPolicy": {"minimumItemCount": 5} }, "type": "ApiConnection" }, … Depending on the data size, remember to configure pagination. ...

Working with Azure SQL Databases is handy. Just, how can I copy data from one Azure SQL database to another database? See the best practice here. I had such a use case. I needed to copy a table (all rows) from a source database to a destination database with SQL Management Studio. The table did not have much data, but extensive data with varchar(MAX) fields containing HTML and Base64 encoded images. So, a copy in the edit mode via clipboard did not work. ...

Delegate365 version 8.4 came up with a lot of improvements and updates. This version recently got another update to speed up the license assignment synchronization operation. See the details here. Delegate365 allows to add sync rules to the sync operation to automate specific operations. In large tenants, the sync can run for a long time since all objects must be queried for changes. To accelerate the sync operation when using license assignment sync rules, we optimized this process as follows: ...

See the amazing musical made by interns spending the summer of 2019 at Microsoft: Microsoft the Musical. 150 interns and employees came to the Microsoft Redmond Campus outside of their day jobs to produce this 10 minutes video as a musical during the summer of 2019. The video was published to YouTube yesterday, on September 6th, and result is amazing. The full credits are at IMDb.com. Microsoft the Musical is a cool and professionally made video, with some self-mockery to Windows Vista, and Windows Phone and referrals to current technology. “All around the world our products are well known. Except for when we tried to make a phone…” ...

In addition to all the great features in Office 365, governance plays an important role, especially for large organizations. Richard Campbell, runasradio.com, interviewed Martina Grom recently about governance and tools in Office 365. The interview is available as podcast here. In this podcast, Richard chats with Martina about the various aspects of Office 365 that affect the way users collaborate with each other and get work done. There are bunch of great tools inside and outside of Office 365 to enable Governance. Check out the latest Office 365 Governance podcast with Martina Grom at runasradio.com. ...

Deutsch Häufig wird in Foren die Frage gestellt, wie Ausnahmen (Abwesenheiten oder abweichende Arbeitszeiten) exportiert werden können. Hier ist ein Makro bereitgestellt, das alle Kalenderausnahemn in eine Datei exportiert. Dabei werden alle Ausnahmen aller Projektkalender und aller Ressourcenkalender während der Projektlaufzeit berücksichtigt. Mit dem Setzen einer Konstanten zu beginn, können Sie definieren, ob nur arbeitsfreie Tage oder alle Ausnahmen exportiert werden sollen. In Makros implementieren / Implement Macros wird beschrieben, wie ein Makro in Project übernommen werden kann. Mehr Beispielmakros sind unter VBA zu finden. ...

Modern websites and website templates use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) intensively. To load websites faster, it makes sense to reduce these files to the essential content. You can do that with many tools. PurgeCSS is one of them. See the How To here. I wanted to optimize a small, static one-pager website. I used a HTML5 template with Bootstrap 4. Nothing very fancy, but simple and modern. All my tests ran against my localhost. ...

When installing a new computer, it takes some time to download and install the essential software. This is what Chocolatey is for. Chocolatey is a cost free package manager for Windows using NuGet infrastructure and PowerShell to quickly installing applications and tools that you need. I am using choco since a long time, now I wanted to show my current packaged software for my new computer. See the script here. About and Prerequisites Partly taken from About Chocolatey: Chocolatey CLI aka choco (or choco.exe) is a client that provides the core of Chocolatey and the installation store for locally installed packages. You need to have Windows 7+ or/ Windows Server 2003+ as Operating System and PowerShell v2+ (not PowerShell Core yet though) and the .NET Framework 4+ installed. Just to mention, the installation will attempt to install .NET 4.0 if you do not have it installed, see choco installation and Getting Started. Besides the client, there also exists a Chocolatey GUI and Chocolatey Agent (aka chocolatey-agent) for central administration. ...