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  Published on

  2025-11-25 7:12 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  dotnetMacOSWindows11DellOpinion

  Windows Juggernaut vs. a Cheap Mac: Speed Comparison

  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. As someone who's juggled both - a 4000 USD developer laptop (Dell XPS 14 with insane specs) and a 750 USD Mac mini that cost a fraction - I put them head-to-head in build speed tests.

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  Published on

  2025-11-18 3:46 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  BitlockerRefsTroubleshootingWindowsWindev

  How to fix a ReFS Dev Drive on Windows?

  Ever tried editing a file on your ReFS Dev Drive only to get "This media is write-protected" or "unexpected error code 19"? Welcome to the non-deterministic future of operating systems, where a sneaky update or a rogue policy can all but brick your drive - while tools like diskpart and chkdsk claim there's nothing wrong. Buckle up for the failures: takeown/icacls flops, registry tweaks do nothing, and ReFS's locked metadata mocks NTFS fixes. The real culprit?

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  Published on

  2025-11-11 2:27 p.m.

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  koskila

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  AspNetCoreBlazorSEOBlazorStatic

  How to make Blazor Static support trailing slashes in URLs?

  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. Too bad it's a real diva when it comes to URLs! Stubborn enough to refuse to serve /about/ when /about works just fine. And sure - it's not really the library's fault. There is no server-side routing to handle the redirection between the two URL styles.

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  2025-11-04 8:10 p.m.

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  Koskila

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  CopilotGHCPGitHubMarkdown

  Using *instructions.md to encourage GitHub Copilot to behave

  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!" to more random changes and weird side paths. Let's learn how to customize Copilot's behavior so it aligns with your project's quirks and keeps the code fresh.

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  2025-10-28 3:38 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  M365VivaEngageYammer

  "Share to Yammer" truly is gone - what's next?

  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. At that time, Yammer was a popular enterprise social networking service, and Microsoft integrated it into its suite of productivity tools. Well, "integrated" might be a strong word. More like "added it to marketing materials". But I digress.

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  2025-10-21 2:37 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  ESUMicrosoftWindowsUpdateWindows10

  Extend Your Windows 10 Experience for Another Year 🥰

  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. It just feels like a risk you don't need to take. And I would know! I have bought 3 Windows machines in the last 3 years, costing me (or my employer) 4000, 2500 and 750 euros respectively.

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  2025-10-14 2:00 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  KQLSharePointManagedMetadataSharePointSearch

  How to query a term + children in SharePoint Search (KQL)?

  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. Maybe everyone else just remembers how to do this straight off the bat, and how the service behaves in different scenarios... But I don't. And googling gave me a bunch of low confidence results. Which I had very low confidence in. So here we are. I needed to try this out again, and document it for future reference.

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  2025-10-07 1:34 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  BIOSDellTroubleshooting

  LEDs Are Blinking But Nobody's Home - Dell XPS 15

  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. And a lengthy rant about Dell and the state of Windows laptops in 2020s 🙃 Background Ah, Dell XPS 15, my favorite laptop to hate on. 1.5 years of a love-hate relationship, with very little love and a lot of hate. Don't get me wrong. I have loved Windows since I first got started on Windows 3.11.

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  2025-09-30 5:31 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  AuthenticationdotnetSAPSuccessFactors

  How to authenticate against SAP SF OData endpoints in .NET?

  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. It's one of the TLAs that gives me shivers, and I'd rather stay away from it. But the corporations do love it - almost as much as they love Workday - so deal with it we must! I'd also normally post my articles on Tuesdays - but this one was so painful to finish that it'll roll out when it's done.

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  2025-09-23 10:41 a.m.

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  Koskila

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  M365MicrosoftPeopleSkillsVivaSkillsInViva

  M365 Skills are all over the place again - what's good?

  This article explains the weird history of the M365 Skills offering, which has been renamed and rebranded more times than I can count. If you want the TL;DR - skip the history and jump to the "What do you need to know about People Skills in M365?" section.

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  2025-09-16 2:44 p.m.

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  Koskila

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  M365AgentsSDKSessionsMicrosoftTeams

  At Teamsdagen? Come say hi!

  Helloooooooo Stockholm! Are you coming to Teamsdagen on 17th of September? Because you probably should! Teamsdagen is Sweden's premier conference dedicated to Microsoft Teams, bringing together experts, innovators, and enthusiasts for a couple of days full of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities.

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  Published on

  2025-09-15 6:17 p.m.

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  Koskila

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  M365AgentsSDKSessionsTeamsToolkitM365

  CollabDays Finland 2025 was great - get the slides and demos here!

  CollabDays Finland/Helsinki was last week, and boy was it an interesting trip! I feel super fortunate having the opportunity to do some fun traveling for work, and the privilege to speak and meet people at these community events. I was presenting a session with Gautam Sheth, an old friend from the fabled Valo days. We talked about our experiences (and challenges) with the M365 Agents SDK, and how to build M365 Copilot extensions with it.

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  Published on

  2025-09-09 3:20 p.m.

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  koskila

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  M365M365AgentsSDKTeamsFXTeamsToolkitMicrosoftTeams

  Why M365 Agents SDK Should Be on Your Radar

  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. Background Microsoft really, really REALLY wants to be THE Enterprise AI company, and place Copilot as the UI for AI.

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  Published on

  2025-09-02 8:11 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AuthenticationM365TeamsFXM365AgentsSDKGraphAPIGuestPost

  M365 Agents SDK SSO broken - how to fix 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. Anyway in this article, I'll explain how to fix one of the possible ways your setup might be broken. Background I've been working on and off with M365 Agents SDK (and Teams Toolkit before) for a while now, and have some strong opinions about it.

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  2025-08-26 1:35 a.m.

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  koskila

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  CopilotdotnetGHCPGitHubVibecoding

  First experiences using GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

  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. Or maybe I'll just be sharing some fun and frustrating moments with the truly Agentic version of GitHub Copilot. Because that's almost as much fun as showing everyone the funny pictures I made with AI, right?

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  2025-08-19 5:16 p.m.

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  koskila

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  CopilotOfficeLensOneDrive

  Microsoft Lens is going away - what now?

  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. Because Microsoft Lens, the app that made scanning, saving and sharing documents and whiteboards a breeze, is being discontinued. Microsoft just can't tolerate an app that does one thing, and does it well. So.. What now? Background Microsoft has officially announced the discontinuation of Microsoft Lens , formerly known as Office Lens .

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  2025-08-12 6:36 a.m.

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  koskila

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  WindowsWindows11MacOS

  All the ways a Mac baffles me as a lifelong Windows user

  Are you like me - a frustrated power user on Windows, reluctantly looking into experimenting with the ultimate smoothbrain of Operating Systems - Mac OS? Or are you already years into that process, but still finding new surprises in the machine that you haven't had to reboot since first opening it?

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  2025-08-05 3:00 p.m.

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  koskila

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  GoogleChromeMacOS

  Chrome crashing on startup on mac OS? Easy fix!

  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. Background I was surprised to find out that there are a lot of guides for this issue online already.

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  2025-07-29 1:56 a.m.

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  koskila

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  GitWindows

  Fix 'Invalid Path' Error When Cloning GitHub Repo on Windows

  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. Developers should be able to select their laptops so they'll stay as productive as possible. Fun file names should be allowed. Well, maybe nothing I said was really THAT hot of a take.

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  2025-07-22 2:25 a.m.

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  koskila

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  BloggingMVPBuzzWordPressAnnouncement

  Humbled and Honored to reach my 500th article on koskila.net !

  This article is going to be something a little bit different: I'm still on vacation, but figured I should write sort of a self-congratulatory celebration post for 500 published blog posts on koskila.net, and offer y'all a quick look at what's going on with the site and myself. koskila.net is evolving - after 10 years! If all goes well, you should be noticing some small differences in the layout and all that.

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  Published on

  2025-07-15 2:01 a.m.

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  koskila

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  CopilotM365AgentsToolkitTeamsToolkitMicrosoftTeams

  Sideloading Teams apps suddenly blocked? YES it's broken.

  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. Problem For some background, my tenants have sideloading (uploading custom Teams apps) enabled: But when you're trying to Upload an app, it'll tell you sideloading is disabled anyway (that's what "Request approval from your IT admin to be able to upload apps.

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  2025-07-08 8:31 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AppleMacOS

  Am I the problem? Even onboarding to the Apple ecosystem failed miserably.

  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. Which haven't exactly been perfectly smooth sailing.

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  Published on

  2025-07-01 2:11 a.m.

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  koskila

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  AKSAzureKubectl

  Any kubectl command throws "Unhandled Error" err="couldn't get current server API group list: Get "http://localhost:8080/api?timeout=32s": dial tcp [::1]:8080: connect: connection refused" - what do?

  This article explains a fix to a - frankly possibly a little bit dumb - problem, where all kubectl commands suddenly throw an error along the lines of "couldn't get current server API group list: Get \"http://localhost:8080/api?timeout=32s\": dial tcp [::1]:8080: connect: connection refused". Since I don't ever have Kubernetes running locally, and I actually don't even change kubectl connections, I was quite confused by this.

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  Published on

  2025-06-24 2:27 a.m.

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  koskila

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  OneNote

  "Sync error. We are having trouble syncing. Click 'Sign in again' to fix the issue." in OneNote? Let's fix it!

  This article explains a fix to an annoying issue, where OneNote sync randomly breaks. Yes - another one of those! This time, it's probably one of the earlier issues again, but coming back with a different error message. For whatever reason... Read on to see what went wrong this time and how to fix it! Problem This issue surfaces in 2 dfiferent ways. You might see this in the Notebooks list for 1 or more notebooks: "Sync error. We are having trouble syncing.

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  Published on

  2025-06-17 2:56 a.m.

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  koskila

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  MacOSOutlook

  How to set Outlook as Your default email client on a mac (because that's definitely a totally sensible thing to do)

  This article explains how to commit a crime so heinous Steve Jobs would throw a backflip in his grave: start using Outlook as the default mail app on your mac. But, as I've discovered is OFTEN the case with macs, changing default apps isn’t always as intuitive as you’d hope. Few things are. And don't get me wrong - I'm not saying Windows is intuitive.

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