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Stop sending mail to the wrong people because Microsoft buried the controls behind two completely different and hidden UIs.

A working service can stop answering overnight when the IP beneath your AKS ingress changes — and when DNS records or firewall rules depend on that address, the fallout can be immediate and painful!

My Windows 11 machine decided to go belly up just before Christmas, so I got to have some fun reinstalling Windows from scratch.

This is not my typical blog post, where I introduce a problem, talk a little bit about the background, dive in to the technical stuff, rant for a while and then explain how to get around the issue (or even fix it!

SSL certificates - some days they'll give your end users that false sense of security that only a beautiful green lock icon can bring, and some other days they'll throw you in a world of pain because one randomly expired and hence the API you use to ...

Ever thought Azure CLI was your reliable sidekick on Windows? Ha! You'd think so, until "Decryption failed: Key not valid for use in specified state" hits you out of nowhere.

Ah, the joys of Kubernetes wrangling – where even a "simple" cert swap feels like herding a bunch of ferrets on meth through a YAML labyrinth.

Ever wondered if shelling out for a top-tier Windows laptop really delivers the bang for your buck in development speed, or if a budget Mac mini could punch above its weight? Stop wondering, and start reading, because I've got the answers for you.

Oh, Blazor Static - the dazzling, lightning-fast static site generator that turns your Blazor components into HTML gold. One of the rare pieces of tech that makes me happy day after day that I'm using it for my static sites.

Ever wished GitHub Copilot could read your mind (or at least your repository's README)? You're not alone - it's time to turn your AI assistant into a well-behaved coding partner, who actually does what you want. Say "NO!

This article explains what happened to the "Share to Yammer" button, which was discontinued at the end of Q2 2025, and what you can do now. The historical context Yammer was acquired by Microsoft in 2012.

This article explains how you can keep using Windows 10 for another year, even though Microsoft has officially ended support for it. Background (rant) I'm not going to lie - right now I would not buy a Windows computer.

In this article, I'll get back to basics of KQL in SharePoint Online's Search Service, and explain how to target a Managed Metadata term and its children.

This article explains how to diagnose and fix a Dell XPS 15 laptop that won't start, indicated by blinking LED lights. It includes a list of blink codes and a step-by-step guide to resetting the BIOS.

This article explains how to obtain OAuth access tokens for SAP SuccessFactors OData endpoints using the SAML 2.0 Bearer Assertion flow. I wouldn't normally write about SAP.

This article explains the weird history of the M365 Skills offering, which has been renamed and rebranded more times than I can count.

This article explains some of the pros and cons of the M365 Agents SDK: The ambitious successor to Teams Toolkit, and why you should care about it. I'm also sharing some of my and my peers experiences developing with it.

There are a lot of ways SSO can break for your bot or agent on Teams/M365 Copilot/any other M365 app. I don't even know how to explain the extensibility in M365 now, so this word salad is what you get.

In this article, I will share some of my first experiences using GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (or "SWE Agent" as it was known before), and some quick tips for getting the most out of it.

In this article, I'm complimenting Microsoft on making a fantastic app, after which I'll have the questionable pleasure of announcing that the app is going away.

Are you like me - a frustrated power user on Windows, reluctantly looking into experimenting with the ultimate smoothbrain of Operating Systems - Mac OS?

This article explains how to fix it when Google Chrome decides to start crashing immediately on startup. Chrome is seriously starting to feel like the Internet Explorer of the 2020s sometimes - yet, somehow, I still keep using it.

Let me open up with a few hot takes: Operating System should be an enabler - infrastructure, that doesn't get in the way. Version control should also be an enabler - and at best, a force multiplier.

This article explains why you might have some trouble uploading your custom Teams app on your dev tenant lately. Because, yes - there's an ongoing service disruption going on.

I'm on Summer vacation, and I figured it's a good time to do something slightly different - it might finally be a good time to put the finishing touches on this lighter article about my recent forays into the Apple ecosystem.