What’s new in Power Platform Licensing – November 2024

The November 2024 version of the Power Platform Licensing Guide was just released, so it is time to compare the changes to the October 2024 release. A smaller clarification was added for the AI Prompts (both GPT 3.5 and GPT 4o) in the AI Builder rate card section: “For common English text, 1000 tokens = ~700 words. Input tokens include both customer and system prompts” (newly added text in italic).This Details

What’s new in Power Platform Licensing – October 2024

The October 2024 version of the Power Platform Licensing Guide was just released, and below are the changes compared to the September 2024 release. The Change Log shows that not too much has changed (and yes, I also compared the 2 documents to confirm that there isn’t something else that was changed but isn’t listed – see more further below). The first change is quite simple – any references to Details

Power Platform for 109,000 WPP employees across 10 tenants – Our achievements so far

As we complete another milestone today, it is time to reflect on our achievements at WPP when it comes to the usage of Power Platform in our organisation. Towards the end of 2021, we started on the endeavour to create a central team to manage and support the Power Platform at WPP (including A LOT of operating companies) and empower our 109,000 employees worldwide to leverage the platform and create valuable solutions. Details

Using Azure Cognitive Services to support my children with their Chinese homework

My daughter is in Primary 2, my son in Kindergarten 2. As they are part of Singapore’s education system, this also means for them that they learn Chinese (at varying levels) as their mother tongue, and also need to do some weekly reviews and practice spelling at home. For example, my son needs to practice the following spelling for this week: So basically, there are some words that they need Details

Available now: Hands-On Microsoft Lists

I am delighted to announce that a book I have co-written is getting published today! João Ferreira, a Microsoft MVP from Portugal, and myself have written “Hands-On Microsoft Lists“, edited and published by Packt Publishing. The target audience for our book are people who have used Office 365 and SharePoint before, and now want to learn more about how they can leverage Microsoft Lists. Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible Details

Using Power Automate for targeted notifications of Microsoft Forms Responses

I recently encountered a scenario at work where responses to a Microsoft Form should be sent to different people via email based on a value selected as part of one of the questions. Basically, if a person selects Option 1, send an email to a group of people, if he selects Option 2 send it to another group of people, etc. This can be easily achieved with Power Automate within Details

Custom Flavours are coming to Microsoft Teams

Let’s face it – when was the last time you heard someone say “Teams tastes great!”? I bet you can’t remember, or more likely, never heard anyone say that before. Most people would describe the taste of Teams as “mechanical”, “electrical”, or even “worse than my washing machine after it failed to drain the dirty water” – definitely huge adoption blockers. It’s no surprise that one of the most voted Details

Using Mover to migrate from Dropbox to OneDrive

Back in October 2019, Microsoft acquired mover.io, a cloud file migration company focusing on migrating content from other cloud sources (Dropbox, Box, Google, …) into the Microsoft cloud (Office 365, Azure). And while I was strongly involved in a lot of migrations over the past few years, I decided not to check this out in detail as I was working with too many other things (Teams/OneDrive adoption, PowerApps, …). But Details

Retrieving an item’s version history and changes with PnP PowerShell

Just a few days I wrote that ” it’s been MONTHS since I last ran a PowerShell script!” – and yesterday I not only had to run a script, but create it first. Luckily I still remembered how to use some of the PnP PowerShell cmdlets (though I have to confess, I forgot some syntax), and got the script working within a very short time. Not a surprise, really, as Details

It’s been a while… What’s next?

Well, it’s been a while since I wrote something here. As I changed my job in April last year, I also had a change in job scope – away from daily operational work (it’s been MONTHS since I last ran a PowerShell script!), on to more project and strategy focused activities. A good amount of the content on my blog originated from this daily work (scripts, how to do xzy, Details