Recently, I had the problem of monitoring the latency of my internet connection to provide these information to my ISP for troubleshooting. As the standard ping class in .net and Test-NetConnection was too inflexible and had no timestamps, I wanted to create a PowerShell Script to provide these functionality. Classes were something I haven’t used in a while so I chose to create a PowerShell class called AdvancedPing.

A frequent question regarding Office 365/Azure tenants is, which default language is used for the individual services and where it can be changed. In general, every user can set his own language in the user settings (MyAccount - Settings - Language and Time zone), but there are also services where the default language cannot be changed afterwards.

If you are like me from Germany, but used to writing on a EN-US or EN-GB keyboard layout, you probably ran into the problem of writing special characters like “ä”, “ü” or “ß”.
This is why I searched for a more simple solution then changing the layout with WIN+SPACE frequently.

In Microsoft PowerBI, measures are created by default within the existing table. If you have a large data model with a lot of measures it can get very confusing. Here is a little trick how to improve your measures structures.

To keep your readers up to date and to deliver constant social media activity, it’s a great idea to provide weekly digests to your readers. And what could be better to get the job done than Azure Logic Apps ;)

If you are using RedHat OpenShift on Azure as your container platform, you are most likely using Azure DNS to resolve names of your cluster nodes – at least when you deployed it using the ARM-Template provided by Microsoft with Azure as the OpenShift cloud provider instead of an “Bare-Metal” installation on Azure VMs without an cloud provider config.

Once every year, all the worldwide Azure communities come together to the Global Azure Bootcamp. This year on April 27th it’s the sixth time and we are proud to be part of it the fourth time in a row!

During an Exchange online migration, some preparations must take plce in advance so users can be migrated easily to the cloud.
A typical error in the mailbox migration process occurs because of the mail domain (property: smtp/proxyaddresses) with the message “Target mailbox doesn’t have an smtp proxy”.

The SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR structure stores security related attributes of an object. It determines, who can access the object and which additional permissions are assigned. Because sometimes you are confronted with the “raw” NtSecurityDescriptor e.g. in Active Directory related scenarios, I tried give an overview about all parts of it.

This blog series explains what static site generators are, why we have chosen a static site generator for our blog, how static sites can be implemented using only Microsoft Azure technologies and when you should consider using them vs. a CMS like WordPress.