Author Archives: jmattmacd

Using Power Platform and Graph for Office 365 Reporting – Part 1 – Users

By | August 13, 2020

The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanisms for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business unit was getting from that… Read More »

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Microsoft/Office 365 PowerShell in Azure Functions – Setup an app and VS Code

By | August 1, 2020

You know that reporting server? Runs those PowerShell scripts to grab custom reports, add group prefixes and other general 365 maintenance tasks? Uses that global admin password that is exempt from MFA because it needs to run these scripts or uses a highly privileged ClientID/Secret? Means anyone that can get access to the drive with… Read More »

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Eggs.

By | July 25, 2020

So my Uncle used to have an allotment with chickens (and two ducks!). This isn’t apocryphal this is a thing that was. Every morning he’d walk to the allotment, less than a mile, with a big open topped plastic box, collect the eggs and walk back to put them into individual egg boxes for sale,… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part Four – Server Infrastructure Resources

By | December 29, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part Four goes through the included server infrastructure resources for the design.… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part Three – Network Resources

By | July 25, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part Three goes through the Virtual Network elements of the design All… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part Two– General Azure Resources

By | July 25, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part Two goes through the genaral Azure reources required for the design.… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part One – Overview and Scoping

By | August 2, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part One gives a quick run down of the scoping and an… Read More »

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