Scenario: Introduction Think of an organization that maintains most of its IT infrastructure on Azure. It applies a segmentation strategy by branch office, where the assets underlying each regional branch office are deployed to their specific landing zone subscription, i.e. SUB-BRANCH-A, SUB-BRANCH-B, etc. The landing zones share the same Microsoft Entra ID Tenant as their…
Read MoreWhy am I writing this? The recent introduction of file‐based apps in .NET 10 Preview 4 marks a turning point in how we think about C# for quick tasks and prototyping. With a single command – dotnet run app.cs – you can now execute a standalone C# file without ever creating a .csproj (May 28,…
Read MoreScenario Windows has provided Remote Desktop functionality for a very long time. A lot of companies use this feature to build up a remote Desktop Farm and then let people run programs remotely, which can be very useful when going over a WAN connection with high latency. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft added the…
Read MoreLet’s assume we have the following reference scenario, which we’ll use just for simplicity: A fictitious commercial freight business moves large volumes of goods all over Europe. It has two legally registered offices, one in the Netherlands (Western Europe) and the other in Ireland (Northern Europe), where the accounting departments are located. The business’ board…
Read MoreManaging user access in Atlassian Cloud can become complex, especially when integrating with Identity Providers (IDPs) for user provisioning via SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management). A common challenge arises when users who were initially synchronized through your IDP become deactivated after moving them from a group synchronized with Atlassian. Due to the SCIM link,…
Read MoreIn the world of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform administration, ensuring users have timely access to environments is a common challenge. The standard synchronization process between Azure Entra security groups and Power Platform environments can sometimes leave administrators waiting longer than desired, especially when onboarding multiple users simultaneously. The Challenge We’ve all been there –…
Read MoreAt SharpCoding 2025 in Rome – hosted at Microsoft’s headquarters – I had the pleasure of sharing our approach to simplifying deployments using Azure Container App Jobs. In my session, “Guided Deployments: Power Platform under Control with Azure DevOps,” I discussed how we tackled the challenge of reliably extracting, versioning and deploying custom power platform…
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