With the ever increasing number of phishing emails it’s a good idea to help users easily spot emails that are sent from someone external to your organisation. You can prevent that by adding an external email warning or tag external emails using a feature within Exchange Online. Enable an external sender warning There are two…

Need to connect to Exchange Online to manage features or even work on a migration? This is where the Exchange Online PowerShell module can really help you. In this blog post I’ll walk you through the steps needed to install the components and start to use them. Install PowerShellGetModule Open your PowerShell…

Schedule Azure DevOps pipelines — You can trigger Azure DevOps pipelines to run on a number of different events. When building pipelines, there may be a case when you want to run them on a defined schedule. This is where CRON expressions come in handy. Can you schedule Azure DevOps Pipelines? Yes! You can easily schedule them using a CRON expression…

I was in need of a laptop back in November last year that would be lightweight but powerful. Over the years I’ve had all sorts of laptops, HP, Dell, Surface, Fujitsu… and all of them have had their pros and cons. This time around I started my research with a…

There are a lot of Git commands. I’m always discovering a new and useful one. This time I have found one that allows you to push an empty commit to a repository. Why push an empty Git commit? Git doesn’t allow you to push commits without making changes, and there are times when you don’t want…

Trigger tasks at the same time every day — You can trigger GitHub Actions to run on a number of different events. The most common would be running when you push changes to your repository. Also, you may want to trigger an Action to run on pull requests. When building Actions you may want to run them on a…

Boost your productivity with GitHub Actions — Source control is the practice of tracking and managing changes to your code. This could be software code or infrastructure as code (IaC). Source control in the development side of IT has been common practice for a long time. But it is something that is still new or uncommon within…

When writing any type of code you always want it to follow best practices or be as secure as it can be. When writing AWS CloudFormation templates you can use cfn_nag to perform some basic security tests on your templates. The tool can validate both JSON and YAML AWS CloudFormation…

In this blog post I want to show you how to create an S3 bucket using a CloudFormation template. If you are new to Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s CloudFormation templates, this will be a great first template to deploy! What is CloudFormation? AWS CloudFormation is a tool that can help you create or…