Moving the comments system for this blog to Mastodon
Since this blog is hosted on GitHub (as of yet…) and I am slowly detoxifying myself from American proprietary bigtech, I would like to embrace true decentral...
Role
Freelance Cloud SaaS & iPaas Solution Consultant and FOSS aficionado
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Giving it all to improve continuously.
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Migrations! Moving away from proprietary (cloud) platforms to Free and Open Source Software
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2025
2023
Moving the comments system for this blog to GitHub Discussions through giscus
Since this blog is hosted on GitHub it would be only fitting to use the platform capabilities a bit more.
Six Ways to Edit SharePoint Pages with PowerShell
Six ways, really? Certainly! Although I will only dive into the two most prominent ways because they are the most recent and most recommended, but I wanted t...
My Wish List for Microsoft Teams in 2023
With this post I will propose some ideas on ‘making Teams better’ in 2023. The paragraphs below are ‘prioritized’, so first things first. I know most of this...
Adding Key Phrases to Jekyll Blog Posts - The Offline Edition
Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 is the hottest ticket in town, it’s about time to call it what it is:
2022
A New Public GitHub Repository - Python
First off, I am still a great fan of PowerShell. It is a very versatile and powerful scripting language that, ever since the ‘.NET Core revolution’, works cr...
PowerShell Heaven - Optimizing your Microsoft Graph Usage
First off, I am a great fan of PowerShell. It is a very versatile and powerful scripting language that, ever since the ‘.NET Core revolution’, works cross-pl...
The Current State of ‘Password-less’ in the Microsoft Cloud
‘Password-less’ is the new buzzword in ‘Microsoft Cloud Security’ land. Basically it ushers in ‘The Future of Authentication’, promising easy, but very secur...
The Greatest Options to Beat MFA Fatigue
Lately, a lot has been said about the phenomenon called ‘MFA fatigue’. This method of gaining access to someone’s account (we will focus on (Microsoft 3651 W...
The path to my new messaging app - A Utopian tale
While I have to start this post with some alarming observations about the state of our world, I also aim to provide some ideas to try and tackle the very big...
Getting a Powerful Grip on the Graph
The Microsoft Graph is the latest of APIs Microsoft provides for their productivity cloud services. In the past nearly every individual workload in the Micro...
2021
A little less conspicuous - Part 4: Obscuring DNS traffic
This is the final follow-up article for A little less conspicuous - Part 1: Introduction. Please read that first, if you came here through a direct link.
A little less conspicuous - Part 3: The Tor Proxy
This is a follow-up article for A little less conspicuous - Part 1: Introduction. Please read that first, if you came here through a direct link.
A little less conspicuous - Part 2: The DNS Sinkhole
This is a follow-up article for A little less conspicuous - Part 1: Introduction. Please read that first, if you came here through a direct link.
A little less conspicuous - Part 1: Introduction
On the very day our caretaker Dutch cabinet mandated the obligatory use of corona passports (CoronaCheck) in almost all places of leisure and large public ga...
2020
Fancy a game of chess?
A couple of weeks ago I really had the urge of playing an old fashioned game of chess. You know, with an actual board, playing someone in real life, maybe ha...
The importance of solid Software Architecture in a cloud world
When I was well into my master studies on ‘Artificial Intelligence’ one of the topics covered in my curriculum of 2001 was concerning Software Architecture. ...
Protect your privates! But first you’ll have to find them…
When ‘getting a business overview’, ‘mixing business with pleasure’ and ‘storming consumer markets’ come together. Better pay attention and stay focused!
Sharing is caring! Or taking your next step toward better SaaS Governance and External Identity Management for Microsoft 365 - Part 3 of 3
This is the third and final part of a three part blog series, building on the premise to open up your Microsoft 365 Cloud Service tenant to External Parties....
Sharing is caring! Or taking your next step toward better SaaS Governance and External Identity Management for Microsoft 365 - Part 2 of 3
This is the second part of a three part blog series, building on the premise to open up your Microsoft 365 Cloud Service tenant to External Parties. This sec...
2020-07: Upcoming PnP PowerShell developments and recommendations
Upcoming PnP PowerShell developments
Sharing is caring! Or taking your next step toward better SaaS Governance and External Identity Management for Microsoft 365 - Part 1 of 3
This is the first part of a three part blog series, building on the premise to open up your Microsoft 365 Cloud Service tenant to External Parties. This firs...
Information Management. More important than ever.
Information Management has gained even more weight in the cloud era, especially given the enormous range and variety of providers and services that can (may?...
2019
Embarking on the ‘Open Source Note Taking’ journey
Every once in a while you start rethinking all the digital tools you use to organize yourself, maybe even to take some of those methods to business life and ...
2014
Whitepaper: 10 good ROI-case arguments for Nintex Workflow 2013 (in Dutch)
These are what I considers great arguments for building a Nintex Workflow ROI case for your organization:
2013
My Top-10 Free SharePoint Store Apps - P2 - October 2013
This post is the October 2013 update to my previous post from June 2013. I would like to repeat this post every quarter or so especially as more and better a...
My Top-10 Free SharePoint Store Apps - P1 - June 2013
I would like to repeat this post every quarter especially as more and better apps will be available is het SharePoint Store. In this post some of the Apps I ...
SharePoint 2013 NL is grappig
ik denk dat er iemand veel lol gehad heeft…
2011
FAST Search stopt met werken in Information Worker VM
De ‘FAST Search for Sharepoint 2010’ installatie in de Information Worker VM’s verloopt na een jaar. Er zijn weinig concrete meldingen in het eventlog dat er...