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Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum

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Ensuring a Successful Windows 10 Migration

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Five Easy Steps to Smarter Systems Imaging

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Office 365 Hub Sites Are Here! A Few Tips

It’s great to see the Hub Sites promised at Ignite last fall rolling out finally. Hub Sites will be the capability which allows us to associate related “modern” sites with each other. This is probably most common in Intranets, but other examples might be a set of Project sites, a multi-layered HR sites, etc. Keep in mind that the maximum number of Hub Sites today is 50, so plan carefully. (That’s a bigger number than you think, in most cases.)

I’ve been able to play with them a little in my tenant, and I thought I’d post a few observations based on confusion I felt as well as questions I’ve seen. You can read all the nitty-gritty details in this post from Mark Kashman (@mkashman) Organize your intranet with SharePoint hub sites, but here’s what I felt I needed to know.

To setup a new Hub Site in your Office 365 tenant, you only need to run a little Powershell. (I wish the way we have to first work with new capabilities was never spelled P-o-w-e-r-s-h-e-l-l, but that’s what it is. Build us a UI!) I don’t run Powershell all that often, so I needed a little refresher. Here are the steps:

• Open the SharePoint Online Management Shell. If you haven’t installed it yet, you can download it here.
• Run the following command:
  

  Connect-SPOService -Url https://sympraxis-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential
  Register-SPOHubSite https://YourTenant.sharepoint.com/sites/YourHubSite
  

  
  Yes, you must be a SharePoint Admin (or above) to do this. If you aren’t one, go bake your SharePoint Admin some chocolate chip cookies.
• If you are fine with any Site Owner adding their site to this Hub Site, you can stop here. However, you’ll probably want to lock it down to a specific set of people. To do this, you create a mail-enabled group and give it permission to add sites to the Hub Site. For my Hub Site at /sites/Intranet, this goes like:
  

  Connect-SPOService -Url https://sympraxis-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential
  Grant-SPOHubSiteRights -Identity https://sympraxis.sharepoint.com/sites/Intranet -Principals sympraxisemployees@sympraxis.onmicrosoft.com -Rights Join
  

I ran the Powershell and I have a new Hub Site. I’ve associated one other “modern” site with it. A few questions came to me immediately as I poked around. Melissa Torres at Microsoft was kind enough to answer my questions on the Tech Community,

After I set a new theme on the Hub Site, is there a lag before I see it on the associated site(s)?

Yes it’s not automatic, can take up to 2 hours.

I have two different browser tabs open to the Hub Site. I manually added a link to the associated site in one tab, but don’t see it in the other, even after a Ctrl-F5. My guess is something is cached that shouldn’t be.

Correct it is due to caching. We’re working on addressing this issue of switching between tabs.

I published a News item in the associated site, but don’t see it in the Hub Site. What’s the delay supposed to be there? Are all News items rolled up?

We use search to rollup content from the associated sites so it’s subject to that, and yes all news items rollup.

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In case you were wondering, the HubNav ends up right below the Top placeholder, and above the mainContent.

 

Don’t have access to a Hub Site? Having questions about how it all works? Feel free to add your questions in the comments, and I’ll try to reply with answers.

by Marc D Anderson via Marc D Anderson's Blog

Founder Solomon Hykes Bids Docker "Au Revoir"

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Microsoft Edges Closer to Quantum Computer Based on Elusive Particle

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The Cloud OS Awakens: A Deeper Dive

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Building Blocks of Your Virtual Physical Network

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Fast Forward Your EUC Journey

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Achieving Mobility Safely with a Digital Workspace

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End-User Computing is Top of Mind Today: 5 Ways to Optimize It for Your Business

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Limiting Your Mobile Footprint in the Data Center

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Facebook Fallout Spreads With Product Delay, Privacy Overhaul

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Identity Architecture to Maximize Microsoft Technology Benefits

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Red Hat Earnings Foretell Good Times for Open Source Businesses

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Nvidia Shrinks the Deep Learning Data Center

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Apollo Is Said to Consider IPO of Cloud-Hosting Firm Rackspace

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Apple Launches Low-Cost IPad for Education, Targeting Google

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Apple's iPad Needs Schools More Than They Need It

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Scripting Languages vs Programming Languages: PowerShell

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The End-to-End Performance Imperative

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Who’s Buying OCP Gear Outside of Facebook and Microsoft

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Save 100$ (33%) on a Pluralsight Subscription – New Subscriptions and Renewals

Is your Pluralsight subscription up for renewal soon or have you been waiting for a promotion to become a Pluralsight subscriber? Pluralsight, one of the best on-demand online training companies with over 6000 courses is currently having a promotion between March 26^th and 31^st 2018 to save 100$ on your Yearly Pluralsight Subscription, and it even works on renewals!

Whether you’re interested in learning SharePoint, Office 365, PowerShell, Angular or even Ethical Hacking and Security, 199$ for a year of unlimited learning is an amazing deal! Get the promotion now, click on the banner above or at the following link: https://spvlad.com/PSMarchMadness ! Don’t wait too long as the deal ends on March 31^st and it might not come back until the end of 2018!

If you are an Office 365 / SharePoint person, here are some of my courses on Pluralsight:

Planning for SharePoint Server 2016: Physical Topology and Services

SharePoint Server 2016 brings a lot of changes to the Infrastructure Architecture, with new features such as MinRole and Microsoft Identity Manager. You’ll learn how to plan your SharePoint 2016 Infrastructure to answer your business needs.

Planning for SharePoint Server 2016: Logical Architecture and Integrations

This course will teach you how to plan your SharePoint 2016 logical architecture, SharePoint farm security, and how to plan for integration with Exchange Server 2016 and Project Server 2016.

Implementing a Hybrid SharePoint 2013/2016 Infrastructure

SharePoint hybrid infrastructures are gaining popularity, so SharePoint IT professionals need to prepare. You’ll learn how to configure a hybrid infrastructure in either SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 to allow your users to be more productive.

PowerShell for Office 365

Take your Office 365 Administrator skills further by learning to automate repetitive tasks as well as access advanced settings using the magic of PowerShell.

Leave a comment and don’t forget to like the Absolute SharePoint Blog Page   on Facebook and to follow me on Twitter here  for the latest news and technical articles on SharePoint.  I am also a Pluralsight author, and you can view all the courses I created on my author page.

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BlackBerry and Microsoft Join to Secure Mobile Microsoft Office Apps

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Microsoft Commercial: Behind the Migration to Windows 10

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Dropbox Tops Private Valuation as Shares Soar in Market Debut

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SharePoint On-Premises is Still Loved by Customers – Maybe to Microsoft’s Chagrin?

To me, at least, it is no secret that Microsoft has been trying very hard for several years to get as many SharePoint customers as possible to migrate off SharePoint on-premises and to SharePoint Online (a.k.a Office 365).


Of course, I don’t have any hard numbers that show that this has been what Microsoft has been doing.  I just have my own impressions from their marketing pushes, product investments and anecdotes from people I know around the SharePoint world.

One anecdote came from a former colleague that works in IT on the SharePoint team for one of the major auto makers in the U.S.  He told me within the last year that every time the Microsoft team shows up at the company’s headquarters, that all the MS team wants to the talk about is SharePoint Online and when the company will migrate to it.


Well, my former colleague says that his company is quite happy with their SharePoint on-premises deployment (SharePoint 2013, in their case) and have a very active user base and lots of functionality that helps the company in many different ways.  Other than the “fear” that they will be left behind by Microsoft at some point, they seem to be satisfied with their on-premises experience.  (He also said that they would have upgraded to SharePoint Server 2016 when it came out, but that they couldn’t see that it had enough new features in it that would benefit them, so they have remained with SharePoint 2013 for now.)

Now, I know this is not universally the case.  Many, many companies over the years have failed and/or have significant pain related to their on-premises SharePoint platforms.   It is a very complex technology to set up and maintain – a lot of which can be eliminated by migrating to SharePoint Online and letting Microsoft take care of the “under the hood” components for you.

Nevertheless, there are also many, many other companies that started investing in SharePoint on-premises long before SharePoint Online ever came along, and that have been successful with it, even with all its complexities – such as the auto maker I mentioned above.  I’d say we’d all be surprised if we could know exactly how many of these satisfied SharePoint on-premises customers exist today.

I also have first hand experience every day from support requests we receive from our customers of Extranet Collaboration Manager (ExCM) for SharePoint on-premises.  Its our flagship add-on for enabling SharePoint on-premises as an extranet solution and we have hundreds of customers using it around the world.  We first released it in 2007, and all versions of it (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016) are still actively being used at various customers to this day.

Wrapping this post up with a final example, today I happened to be reading a blog post while researching a question I had related to a non-SharePoint topic and ran across some statements the author made that serve as just another anecdote for the continued popularity of SharePoint on-premises.  The article series was written last year, but its still recent enough that I consider it “current”.

Check out these quotes that I cherry picked from Ivan Matviyenko’s 2017 series on IT Orchestration that use SharePoint on-premises as a key component:

"SharePoint—as the central web and e-documents portal and the company wide workflow engine, well known by the users and used in dozens of everyday business scenarios, not limited to IT processes only."

"If SharePoint is good for hosting web forms and business process workflows, why misuse its great functionality by trying to squeeze some Exchange mailbox provisioning scripts into it?"

"We use SharePoint to define the overall layout of business or IT process, to assign roles in the process to different users, to communicate with the users when a manual interaction (such as taking an approval decision) is required and to call the IT orchestration engine...."

"The SharePoint customization tools, ranging from SharePoint Designer for power users, to professional Visual Studio solutions with full source control, allow us to define workflow algorithms and design web forms of any complexity for every required scenario."

"And I will also tell the story of how SharePoint, while an imperfect product and lacking functionality in many respects, still made its way into our organization in almost a guerilla fashion and became the primary e-documents and workflow hosting platform."

Ivan works in IT for Kcell, the main cellular provider in Kazakhstan.

Here is the link to the first post in his series:

https://medium.com/@ivan.matviyenko/automation-in-a-corporate-environment-using-microsoft-technologies-part-1-49e42283f650

Does your company still use SharePoint on-premises? On balance, is your company still loving it?

Or, is your company anxious to migrate to SharePoint Online - for reasons other than “fear of being left behind by Microsoft”?

It would be great to hear from you in the comments below.

by noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Cate) via SharePoint Solutions Blog

Find all the Office 365 Groups a user is a Member of with PowerShell

Whether you want to do some reports or debugging, you might need to quickly find out what Office 365 Groups a user is a member or Owner of! You could go in the user’s profile, see all the groups, find out which ones are Security, which ones are Distribution Groups, and which ones are Office 365 Groups. or you could do an easy PowerShell cmdlet!

Since we will be playing with Exchange Online, you first need to connect to Exchange!

$cred = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

 

Next up, I will save the E-mail of the person I am looking for in a variable called UserEmail, and use the GetMailbox cmdlet to save the Mailbox object of that user in a variable called Mailbox.

 

$UserEmail= "Jeff.Collins@globomantics.org"

$Mailbox = Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.PrimarySmtpAddress -eq $UserEmail}

After we have this information, we can use the Get-UnifiedGroup PowerShell cmdlet, together with the Get-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet to find which groups this user is a member of!

To find all the Office 365 Groups a user is a member of, we would use the following cmdlet:

$Office365GroupsMember = Get-UnifiedGroup | where { (Get-UnifiedGroupLinks $_.Alias -LinkType Members | foreach {$_.name}) -contains $mailbox.Alias}

We then have all those groups stored in a variable, and we can use them as we wish inside PowerShell!

To find all the Office 365 Groups a user is an owner of, we would use the following cmdlet:

$Office365GroupsOwner = Get-UnifiedGroup | where { (Get-UnifiedGroupLinks $_.Alias -LinkType Owners| foreach {$_.name}) -contains $mailbox.Alias}

As you see, the only thing that changed is the -LinkType parameter from Members to Owners! We now also have all those groups stored in a variable to use as we wish in PowerShell!

 

Leave a comment and don’t forget to like the Absolute SharePoint Blog Page   on Facebook and to follow me on Twitter here  for the latest news and technical articles on SharePoint.  I am also a Pluralsight author, and you can view all the courses I created on my author page.

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Find all the Distribution Groups a user is a member of with PowerShell in Office 365

Whether you want to do some reports or debugging, you might need to quickly find out what Distribution Groups a user is a member of! You could go in the user’s profile, see all of the groups , find out which ones are Security, which ones are Distribution Groups.. or you could do an easy PowerShell cmdlet!

Since we will be playing with Exchange Online, you first need to connect to Exchange!

$cred = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

 

Next up, I will save the Username of the person I am looking for in a variable called Username

$Username = "Jeff.Collins@globomantics.org"

And then, I will use this cmdlet which will get all the Distribution Groups in my tenant, and then find the ones where my username is in the members! (This assumes your e-mail address is the same as the username! If that’s not the case, you can simply put the e-mail in the UserName variable and it will work!)

$DistributionGroups= Get-DistributionGroup | where { (Get-DistributionGroupMember $_.Name | foreach {$_.PrimarySmtpAddress}) -contains "$Username"}

You can now either Display it , or do another action such as removing the user from all of them!

That’s it! As you see this is really an quick and easy PowerShell snippet!

 

Leave a comment and don’t forget to like the Absolute SharePoint Blog Page   on Facebook and to follow me on Twitter here  for the latest news and technical articles on SharePoint.  I am also a Pluralsight author, and you can view all the courses I created on my author page.

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Microsoft Pitches New Standard for Data Center Flash Storage

Says current architecture not the best fit for cloud infrastructure
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Enable support for lookup columns in other webs in the REST API – Boom! It’s Done?

ParallelM Brings Machine Learning Application to Enterprise IT

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Google Is Said to Work on Blockchain-Related Technology

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IBM Think 2018: Science Slam Sees a Future Free of Data Bias

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DFFS Package updated to v4.4.3.40

I have released a new version of the DFFS package (v4.4.3.40) with a few bugfixes and some new functionality.

You find the change log here and the files in the download section of the user manual.

Please post any comments in the forum.

Best regards,
Alexander

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Azure Tip: Installing and using the Azure CLI in VSCode

1. Install the Azure CLI Tools extension in vscode

If you don't already have the Azure CLI installed, you can open the link to the landing page directly from vscode (or use the link above):

Choose your platform and install.

2. Start working with the Azure CLI Tools extension in vscode

Once this extension is installed, it's pretty straight forward to get started. I have a lot of files, configurations and common commands that I run on a daily basis with my production and dev tenants; With the support of vscode and the integrated CLI it's easier to ensure correctness in these commands.

2.1 An example: Define an .azcli file

The vscode extension supports the .azcli extension, and if you open a file with this extension inside vscode you'll get all the juice and goodness. Here's an example.

Now we've got intellisense directly from the editor. Neat.

But it's not only intellisense for the commands, it's intellisense for your actual resources in Azure too - it'll look it up for you while you're typing, so if you're for example trying to execute the get-version command for an AKS cluster, you don't have to by-heart know the full resource group name and cluster name (and the same obviously goes for any resource in Azure):

Now, you can chose to run your command in the Terminal or in the Editor. I usually execute it in the Terminal (see the shortcut commands for each in the picture below), but sometimes when I need to grab the JSON result, it is very convenient to run it in the Editor.

Run an azcli command in Terminal

In order to get the output directly in the Terminal, all you'll have to do is to execute the "Run Line in Terminal" command; Either by using shortcuts or from the menus. Whatever floats your boat.

Great, quick and easy - superb for troubleshooting and I use this a lot.

Run an azcli command in Editor

But, what is this running in Editor thing? Well, I use this when I need to quickly grab the JSON result of my query and use in any documentation, additional configuration files or REST queries I may need to execute using other means.

Choose the other run option to run in Editor, and you'll get a side by side Editor with first the command being executed, and after a few short moments you'll see the result:

Documentation on mouse-over

Simple things made easier: Now you can just mouse-over any element in the file and it'll display the up to date documentation about this command:

That's a wrap for this short tip. I hope you'll find it as beneficial as I am when working with the CLI on a daily basis.

Cheers,
Tobias.

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DevOps Methodology Gets High Marks from Developers, But Progress Lags

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Microsoft’s Xbox Unit Seeks to Lure Game Makers to Cloud

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Many Companies Missing Basic Network Security Policy: Study

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The Key to Leveraging Industrial IoT Data? First Do No Harm

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Azure Tip: Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10

I recently got a question about how to use the Bash CLI instead of the Windows-based CMD experience, but remaining in Windows and not have to set up virtual machines or other computers.

The Azure team is doing an awesome job in expanding the functionality in the Azure CLI, and this goes cross-platform. It's pretty straight forward, and since I was asked I'll outline the steps here for future reference.

1. Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10

The first thing we need to do on our Windows 10 box is to enable the Linux Subsystem, which is done from the Windows Fetures dialogue:

Once enabled, ensure you reboot your machine. (You know - Windows, rebooting and all that jazz...)

2. Install the Ubuntu app from the Microsoft Store

Once the feature is enabled, we'll find bash.exe on the Start Menu. Launching it will give you further instructions, saying you'll need to select a distribution to run on your subsystem:

Head on over to the Microsoft Store, search for Bash for example, and click the App called Ubuntu.

Click Get:

Et voila! It's installing:

Once it is done, you can install the Azure CLI directly into this distro. Microsoft have detailed instructions about it here.

Just run these commands to set it up:

AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)  
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $AZ_REPO main" | \  
     sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list

then:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver packages.microsoft.com --recv-keys 52E16F86FEE04B979B07E28DB02C46DF417A0893  
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https  
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install azure-cli  

And we're done:

Run Bash and install Azure CLI

With those few simple steps, we're prepared to take on the Azure CLI using the Ubuntu dist on our Windows 10 box using Bash. Awkward, strange, awesome, ingenious and fun. Right?

As you always do, run your login commands to the Azure CLI:

az login  

If things were setup correctly, you'll see a positive result:

Now you can use the Azure CLI as you normally would on any other system as well, but running in Bash:

Resources

Microsoft Docs: Install Azure CLI on Ubuntu or Debian

A complex concept made extremely simple in Windows 10 - hope it'll help someone to get it running quickly.

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Nine Best Practices to Reduce Active Directory Security Breaches and Insider Threats

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Tip of the Day: List of supported VM Sizes in Azure Container Services (AKS)

Here comes a short tip of the day post about AKS.

A common ask from people in the community and end customers using the Azure Container Services is to know what VM-sizes are supported by AKS. Not all services and regions offer support for all sizes, and sometimes it's a bit tricky to get to know which Azure service has support for what size of VM's.

Looking for this information myself, I came across some details in the GitHub repository for the Microsoft Azure Container Service Client, and found this enumeration that contains the supported VM sizes.

Also, as per the Issue on GitHub here there's some work being done on it. However if you're not using Bash, the list below (or updated in the file from the link above) can be a good starting point for you to figure out what sizes are available in AKS.

Note if using bash, you can use the CLI auto complete functionality to get it straight into your cmdline (using TAB TAB)

Not all VM sizes are available in AKS as of this writing, so the subset below has been extremely helpful in figuring out the best balance for my own setups.

As of 2018-03-12 the services contains these sizes, and their corresponding names that you can use with the Azure CLI.

Note: As of 2018-02-26, Microsoft announced that AKS now also supports B-series support in AKS

standard_a0 = "Standard_A0"  
standard_a1 = "Standard_A1"  
standard_a10 = "Standard_A10"  
standard_a11 = "Standard_A11"  
standard_a1_v2 = "Standard_A1_v2"  
standard_a2 = "Standard_A2"  
standard_a2_v2 = "Standard_A2_v2"  
standard_a2m_v2 = "Standard_A2m_v2"  
standard_a3 = "Standard_A3"  
standard_a4 = "Standard_A4"  
standard_a4_v2 = "Standard_A4_v2"  
standard_a4m_v2 = "Standard_A4m_v2"  
standard_a5 = "Standard_A5"  
standard_a6 = "Standard_A6"  
standard_a7 = "Standard_A7"  
standard_a8 = "Standard_A8"  
standard_a8_v2 = "Standard_A8_v2"  
standard_a8m_v2 = "Standard_A8m_v2"  
standard_a9 = "Standard_A9"  
standard_d1 = "Standard_D1"  
standard_d11 = "Standard_D11"  
standard_d11_v2 = "Standard_D11_v2"  
standard_d11_v2_promo = "Standard_D11_v2_Promo"  
standard_d12 = "Standard_D12"  
standard_d12_v2 = "Standard_D12_v2"  
standard_d12_v2_promo = "Standard_D12_v2_Promo"  
standard_d13 = "Standard_D13"  
standard_d13_v2 = "Standard_D13_v2"  
standard_d13_v2_promo = "Standard_D13_v2_Promo"  
standard_d14 = "Standard_D14"  
standard_d14_v2 = "Standard_D14_v2"  
standard_d14_v2_promo = "Standard_D14_v2_Promo"  
standard_d15_v2 = "Standard_D15_v2"  
standard_d16_v3 = "Standard_D16_v3"  
standard_d16s_v3 = "Standard_D16s_v3"  
standard_d1_v2 = "Standard_D1_v2"  
standard_d2 = "Standard_D2"  
standard_d2_v2 = "Standard_D2_v2"  
standard_d2_v2_promo = "Standard_D2_v2_Promo"  
standard_d2_v3 = "Standard_D2_v3"  
standard_d2s_v3 = "Standard_D2s_v3"  
standard_d3 = "Standard_D3"  
standard_d3_v2 = "Standard_D3_v2"  
standard_d3_v2_promo = "Standard_D3_v2_Promo"  
standard_d4 = "Standard_D4"  
standard_d4_v2 = "Standard_D4_v2"  
standard_d4_v2_promo = "Standard_D4_v2_Promo"  
standard_d4_v3 = "Standard_D4_v3"  
standard_d4s_v3 = "Standard_D4s_v3"  
standard_d5_v2 = "Standard_D5_v2"  
standard_d5_v2_promo = "Standard_D5_v2_Promo"  
standard_d8_v3 = "Standard_D8_v3"  
standard_d8s_v3 = "Standard_D8s_v3"  
standard_ds1 = "Standard_DS1"  
standard_ds11 = "Standard_DS11"  
standard_ds11_v2 = "Standard_DS11_v2"  
standard_ds11_v2_promo = "Standard_DS11_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds12 = "Standard_DS12"  
standard_ds12_v2 = "Standard_DS12_v2"  
standard_ds12_v2_promo = "Standard_DS12_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds13 = "Standard_DS13"  
standard_ds13_v2 = "Standard_DS13_v2"  
standard_ds13_v2_promo = "Standard_DS13_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds14 = "Standard_DS14"  
standard_ds14_v2 = "Standard_DS14_v2"  
standard_ds14_v2_promo = "Standard_DS14_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds15_v2 = "Standard_DS15_v2"  
standard_ds1_v2 = "Standard_DS1_v2"  
standard_ds2 = "Standard_DS2"  
standard_ds2_v2 = "Standard_DS2_v2"  
standard_ds2_v2_promo = "Standard_DS2_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds3 = "Standard_DS3"  
standard_ds3_v2 = "Standard_DS3_v2"  
standard_ds3_v2_promo = "Standard_DS3_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds4 = "Standard_DS4"  
standard_ds4_v2 = "Standard_DS4_v2"  
standard_ds4_v2_promo = "Standard_DS4_v2_Promo"  
standard_ds5_v2 = "Standard_DS5_v2"  
standard_ds5_v2_promo = "Standard_DS5_v2_Promo"  
standard_e16_v3 = "Standard_E16_v3"  
standard_e16s_v3 = "Standard_E16s_v3"  
standard_e2_v3 = "Standard_E2_v3"  
standard_e2s_v3 = "Standard_E2s_v3"  
standard_e32_v3 = "Standard_E32_v3"  
standard_e32s_v3 = "Standard_E32s_v3"  
standard_e4_v3 = "Standard_E4_v3"  
standard_e4s_v3 = "Standard_E4s_v3"  
standard_e64_v3 = "Standard_E64_v3"  
standard_e64s_v3 = "Standard_E64s_v3"  
standard_e8_v3 = "Standard_E8_v3"  
standard_e8s_v3 = "Standard_E8s_v3"  
standard_f1 = "Standard_F1"  
standard_f16 = "Standard_F16"  
standard_f16s = "Standard_F16s"  
standard_f1s = "Standard_F1s"  
standard_f2 = "Standard_F2"  
standard_f2s = "Standard_F2s"  
standard_f4 = "Standard_F4"  
standard_f4s = "Standard_F4s"  
standard_f8 = "Standard_F8"  
standard_f8s = "Standard_F8s"  
standard_g1 = "Standard_G1"  
standard_g2 = "Standard_G2"  
standard_g3 = "Standard_G3"  
standard_g4 = "Standard_G4"  
standard_g5 = "Standard_G5"  
standard_gs1 = "Standard_GS1"  
standard_gs2 = "Standard_GS2"  
standard_gs3 = "Standard_GS3"  
standard_gs4 = "Standard_GS4"  
standard_gs5 = "Standard_GS5"  
standard_h16 = "Standard_H16"  
standard_h16m = "Standard_H16m"  
standard_h16mr = "Standard_H16mr"  
standard_h16r = "Standard_H16r"  
standard_h8 = "Standard_H8"  
standard_h8m = "Standard_H8m"  
standard_l16s = "Standard_L16s"  
standard_l32s = "Standard_L32s"  
standard_l4s = "Standard_L4s"  
standard_l8s = "Standard_L8s"  
standard_m128s = "Standard_M128s"  
standard_m64ms = "Standard_M64ms"  
standard_nc12 = "Standard_NC12"  
standard_nc24 = "Standard_NC24"  
standard_nc24r = "Standard_NC24r"  
standard_nc6 = "Standard_NC6"  
standard_nv12 = "Standard_NV12"  
standard_nv24 = "Standard_NV24"  
standard_nv6 = "Standard_NV6"  

Hopefully the list in the repo is soon updated with the b-series VM's too.
Of course, another trick is to just go to your Azure Portal and see what's available when you create AKS, but it's a lot more cumbersome and it isn't my favorite way to do it since I live in the Azure CLI.

List all SKU's

With the Azure CLI, you can also list all SKU's/VM Sizes:

az vm list-skus --location westeurope  

Though, it's currently not filtering on the service (AKS). Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/vm?view=azure-cli-latest#azvmlist_skus

Resources

• GitHub: Azure CLI ACS - Tab Completer
• Microsoft Azure Blog - Introducing B-series VM's in AKS
• GitHub: -
• GitHub: Issue requesting an update in the python SDK
• Microsoft Docs: az vm list-skus
• GitHub - Issue in keeping the list of VM's updated

by Tobias Zimmergren via Zimmergren's thoughts on tech

Why you Need to Take Control of Your Office 365 Email

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VMware Shareholder Slams 'Terrible' Dell Technologies Talks

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Google Offers Free Machine Learning Training Course

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Speaking at SharePoint Fest DC 2018 ! Join me and 66 other speakers for 5 days of awesome content!

This year I have the great pleasure again of travelling to DC to speak at SharePoint Fest DC 2018! This year’s SharePoint Fest is the biggest one ever with 2 days of workshops, and 3 days of sessions! Just look at the numbers below!

If you didn’t sign up yet, you can use my code to save 100$ of your registration on the site at https://sharepointfest.com/DC/

Here is what I will be speaking on!

Morning Workshop 9:00 am – 12:30 pm, Monday WS 201 – Congratulations, you are our new SharePoint Online Admin!

You have managed SharePoint On-Premises for a while and got comfortable with it, but now your company is moving to Office 365! Chances are, you will become the new SharePoint Online Admin!

In this half day workshop, we will look at how to administer SharePoint Online, as well as some other Office 365 services that are often administer by the SharePoint Online Admin such as Groups, Planner, Video and more!

Afternoon Workshop 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Tuesday WS 601 – Mastering PowerShell for Office 365

Until you master PowerShell, you cannot have full control of your Office 365 tenant! PowerShell enables you automate boring tasks, and also gives you access to the more advanced settings that are not available in the Office 365 admin center. In this workshop, we will learn how to manage our users and licenses in Azure Active Directory, manage our SharePoint Online Sites, Exchange Online, Office 365 Groups as well as Skype for Business!

After finishing this workshop, you will be able to manage all the aspects of your Office 365 tenant, and automate multiple boring tasks.

BV 301 -What do YOU get from SharePoint Hybrid?

Every time you see a blog post about SharePoint 2016, you see the word hybrid. But what exactly is a hybrid infrastructure and what features does the business user get? In this session, we will look at SharePoint Hybrid from a business user point of view to understand what features we get out of it. We will look at Hybrid Sites, Hybrid Search, Hybrid Taxonomy and more!

ADM 203 – Advanced PowerShell for Office 365

Know the basics of PowerShell for Office 365 but want to take it further? In this session, we will look at some awesome real-life examples of how PowerShell can make our life as an admin easier, and at quite a few things that cannot be done from the User Interface! This session requires you to have basic knowledge of PowerShell for Office 365.

WF 103 – Three Must-Have Workflows with Microsoft Flow

Are you on Office 365 or planning to move soon? Learn how to automate business processes with Microsoft’s latest workflow tool: Microsoft Flow! In this session, we will earn the basic of workflows, how Flow works and create a few awesome examples!

Hope to see you there!

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CommentBox for SharePoint v3.x

I have brushed up my CommentBox solution to use REST queries instead of the old web-service queries. I have rewritten the entire solution and brushed up most of the functionality.

What is this solution

You can add a CommentBox to any page in your SharePoint site to enable the users to post comments and discuss topics. You can have rich text or plain text comments with attachments, and multi level replies. It has paging and subscription to comments by email.

Please note that the new version only supports SP 2013 and above. If you use SP 2010 or SP 2007 you must stick with the old version.

Check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

Alexander

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Bug in Get-SPOExternalUser PowerShell : Not all external users are returned

While working on some reporting with PowerShell and Office 365, I have discovered something that might be important if you use the Get-SPOExternalUser PowerShell cmdlet to create reports on your SharePoint Online external users.

At the end of 2017, Microsoft has released a new , simpler, and nicer way to share SharePoint Online content with your external partners, allowing them to log in with a simple pin / e-mail validation , without them needing to have a Microsoft account anymore. Users loved it, but it seems the PowerShell module hasn’t yet been updated to show those new users yet. Microsoft is already aware of this problem and they have an issue open on the GitHub site for the SharePoint Online PowerShell Module.

This is valid as of the February 2018 version of the SharePoint Online PowerShell Module and I will update this blog with the version when Microsoft fixes it or gives an official workaround . You can also check live updates directly on the issue on GitHub!

The Bug

To show you the bug, I will first invite an external user to a document in a modern SharePoint Online site called Modern Share Test, you can see the screenshot of the invite below.

I will then navigate to outlook for this example, accept the invite and then log in to view the document shared with me. As you see in the screenshots below, I am first asked to validate by e-mail, Microsoft Sends me a PIN number, I enter it in the box, and it all works nicely. Off topic, but good job to the Microsoft people who worked on this feature as the end-user experience is amazing.

Now I will go to PowerShell and run a Get-SPOExternalUser on that Site Collection, and as you see below, it only returns a user, and it’s not the one we just invited!

However, if I run an Get-SPOUser cmdlet against the same site, we can see that users added with this modern sharing option have a different login name vs our old external users. The Old naming convention was using #ext# while the new one is urn:spo:guest . In the screenshot below, you can see the accounts in a red box that use modern sharing, and the new naming convention, and the account in the green box that uses the older, Microsoft account method (or Azure B2B).

Luckily, even if the Get-SPOExternalUser PowerShell cmdlet is not perfect anymore and only works with accounts that log in with a Microsoft account, we can still create reports using the existing cmdlets.

The Workaround

Here is a small script that I have done that uses the Get-SPOUser cmdlet to return the external users per site collection and exports them to a CSV file at the end and includes the URl so you can also do some nice filtering. There are a ton of ways to do PowerShell, and probably a ton of ways to do this, but here is a way that I have tested, and it works!

$SiteCollections  = Get-SPOSite -Limit All
foreach ($site in $SiteCollections)
{
        $ExternalUsers += Get-SPOUser -Limit All -Site $site.Url | Where {$_.LoginName -like "*urn:spo:guest*" -or $_.LoginName -like "*#ext#*"} | Select DisplayName,LoginName,@{Name = "Url" ; Expression = { $site.url }
        }
}

$ExternalUsers | Export-Csv -Path "C:\PowerShell\ExternalUsersPerSCWithModern.csv" -NoTypeInformation

 

And here is a screenshot of the CSV, with a Filter on the URL we have talked about before!

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