Management Leverage Azure Virtual Desktop for Remote Technical Interviews and Have Fun Doing It* Over the past several months we've been running technical interviews for remote candidates for software and data engineering roles. As part of my hiring process, I like to have people do work similar
Musings Is It a bug or an Existential Crisis? Today, in the course of writing another blog post, I tried to sign-in to well-known and generally helpful writing tool, to proof my work. I was presented with the following screen requiring me
DevOps GitOps is Not The Goal After kicking off a project with a group of knowledgeable people and listening to their comments, someone could be forgiven for drawing the conclusion that GitOps was the goal of the project. The
DevOps Adding Secure Upstream NuGets in Azure DevOps Artifacts There we were, merrily skipping down the happy path to setting up Azure DevOps Artifacts for our .Net focused team when we realized that we couldn't add non-public upstream NuGet providers. Bummer. Happy
Skype Broadcast Winning with Skype Broadcast and a Live Audience I've delivered several Skype Broadcasts and, while they've been successful and well received, the experience for the presenters and the in-room audience didn't meet my standards for awesomeness. The easy answer would be
Office365 Are You Ready For The Office365 External User Sharing Changes? Did you know that Microsoft is changing the way folks outside your organization access your shared Office365 and SharePoint online content? As of March 23, 2018, Microsoft will start rolling out an update
Office365 Microsoft Private Teams Aren't as Private Anymore If you're on the happy-path with Microsoft Teams within your organization, you probably have some private teams. You might even be using those private teams for collaboration on sensitive topics and content. After
Skype Broadcast I Survived Skype Broadcasting Success! In a previous post I talked about my first impressions of Skype Broadcasting. At that point, I had only done test broadcasts with small groups of people and under controlled conditions. Well
Skype Broadcast Is This Thing On? Skype Broadcast 101 Got 10,000 of your closest friends and colleagues that you need to communicate to and love blue Koolaid? Then you, my friend, need Skype Broadcast. Skype Broadcast is a tool from Microsoft
Office365 Building a SharePoint World Clock with Moment.js It seemed like such a simple thing that someone must have built one already, but alas, no. We recently needed to replace an old-school world clock from our archaic intranet (it was built
Technology Protip: The fastest way to reference a web page in Trello It's amazing, I've been using Trello since it was launched ages ago and I just discovered a great way to add a link to a list. I use Trello a lot for research
Office365 Getting Started Monitoring SharePoint Online With Application Insights If you're like me, you might get a little obsessed with performance and want the best experience for your users. That eventually leads to wanting to have reliable metrics for your SharePoint online
Technology My Perspective of the Build 2017 Conference There was an incredible amount of information, technology and great people at this year's build conference. Here's my take on it!
Office365 Embedding Forecast.io Weather Into a SharePoint Page Awhile back I stumbled across forecast.io and darksky.net. I was really impressed with the product those guys have created and their story. The app is beautiful, responsive and really accurate. I
Office365 Adding Tiles to the Office365 Waffle Waffles. Little circles and squares of golden deliciousness smothered in maple syrupy goodness. This isn't about those. Recently, we wanted to improve the experience of our new intranet and Office365 by adding a
Technology Planning is better with friends Last spring all of the members of my team spontaneously, and with great enthusiasm, started using Microsoft Planner when it was made available to the first-release tenants on Office365[1]. If you're not
