Office 365 and more

So last night I was working on something I don't do very often, upgrade an old phone to a new ROM. Long ago I upgraded my Nexus tablet (2003) to new Cyanogenmod version. That went pretty smooth but I forgot to note all the steps down. So when I wanted to update this old Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Maguro) to a new lineage OS I had to look-up all the steps I had to do. Now to make my life easy I'll just note them down here. Let's start with installing ADB, Fastboot and drivers ( XDA developers ) So I set it all up, got my phone running in Fastboot mode but now I ran into the problem that the command prompt was "Waiting for device" when typing in a command. - I was able to fix this issue by installing the tool "PDA+" ( http://pdanet.co/ ) that works really well.  So I unlocked my phone by using the command Fastboot oem unlock Now I was able to move on to setting up a recovery tool on my phone. Off course I chose TWRP - Setting it up is explained  Here -

I always wonder why Microsoft would use a word like "Modern" or "Power" to emphasize on the tool. For example you have Power BI and now the Modern Approval. What happens when Power BI is replaced by another BI tool? Do you get Power+ BI or a "More modern" approval? So Microsoft introduced their "Modern" version of an approval,  they called it Modern Approval. It enables users to get a new approval experience and more functions that come with it for example: Approve an item directly from your phone Approve an item in the Flow app on your phone Approve item on the Flow website Here is the first thing I find a little disappointing. There is no approval in Outlook directly, you have to go to the Flow site to approve or reject an item. On the phone it's fine, you get a notification from the Flow app (if you have that installed) and you can directly approve or reject but if you get an e-mail you will be sent to the Flow App.  The video

Wow somebody said about 2 years ago "Azure is going to be big" well no shit sherlock back then it was already BIG now it's just getting BIGGER. I've been trying out all sort of features in Azure and I'm amazed how it's all possible in the Cloud. From Stream analytics, VM's, Storage to Bots, AIP , Privilege identity management  etc.. So many possibilities! Sure some things are not new and just arrived from the On-premise environment to the Cloud but still. My hat is of to the guys that make it all possible. So I've talked to colleagues about it for a while now but I've never really gotten anything on Paper. BOTS! Recently I saw an article on Twitter about the QnA maker from Microsoft in Azure and that was the starting point of building my own bot. Now you want to build your own Bot? Below is the steps you can take that will help you build one. Get an Azure subscription  Go to  https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/qnamaker Here is

A client kept telling me he was having issues adding new columns to a SharePoint (Office 365) list. He would add the field named Order  and SharePoint would name the field name N0G23  or something other random. I tried finding the issue and I just couldn't understand, I never got this problem. So what seems, it's the Quick edit mode in SP that's the killer. It seems that SharePoint doesn't check if the field already exists or not it just adds a random name as field name to prevent it from having a conflict somewhere. It's pretty nice if you just want to use a column but it's not cool if you need to access that list and you expected a column to be named Order instead of N0G23.  Reference: https://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2014/12/this-column-name-is-not-what-you-think-be-careful-with-column-names-in-sharepoint-2013-office-365/

What a way to start of the month with another Blog on Privilege Identity Management (PIM), great stuff! In my last blog on PIM  here  I talked about some of the features that are possible. In this blog I want to talk about whats inside, how does it look and feel. Let's start by the beginning. PIM Starting 1. Activating PIM - to do this you should have Azure AD premium Plan 2! If you don't have this you can request a 30 day trial. Once you have that up and running the next step is to activate PIM. 3. There you go that wasn't very hard now? Let's continue by selecting the Role you want to define further. Click on "Global administrator" and click on Next. 4.You can now choose the people you want to make eligible for this role. Note: Eligible means this person only has this role for a period of time not permanent. 5. Click on Next to see the last screen and to confirm by clicking Ok.  Your all done now. So now you enter the PIM environment. The