In an effort to reduce the number of edits a user would have to make when importing a Power Automate Flow which responds automatically to a new Teams message, I wanted to retrieve the Team ID and the Channel ID to use later in the Flow. There were a number of available solutions (e.g. Solved: Re: Get Teams name and …

SPWakeUp version 1.3.0 has been released. This version includes the ability to run on a non-SharePoint server to wake arbitrary URLs. Use the ‘-NotASharePointServer’ command line parameter to specify that SPWakeUp should not check for the presence of SharePoint and should not attempt to evaluate a list of web …

SPWakeUp version 1.2.0 has been released. This version includes the ability to import a list of additional URLs to be woken from a file instead of providing a series of URLs to be included individually on the command line. Use the ‘-IncludeFile:’ command line parameter to specify the full path to the file containing …

I’ve implemented something that I’ve wanted to for a long time on SPWakeUp: The ability to wake additional URLs. Version 1.1.0 allows the use of the ‘-Include':’ command line parameter to specify additional URLs that will be woken once the detected site collections and subsites have been traversed.

We use the SharePoint Online Content Type Hub extensively as the central location to create, manage and distribute content types throughout our SharePoint Online tenant. We recently saw an issue with the distribution of one of the content types defined in the Content Type Hub which had a specific PowerPoint template …

Since I started working with on-premises SharePoint instances, one of the solutions that I’ve used to wake up (pre-compile) the site collections and sub-sites contained within the web applications hosted by the farm is SPWakeUp. This was originally a solution hosted on CodePlex and provided binaries for SharePoint …

I recently noticed that some of the Microsoft Teams that we had in use exhibited different behaviour to others that had been created more recently. ‘Recently’ (for varying definitions of ‘recent’) created Teams allowed users to edit and delete their messages, whereas a few older Teams did not. The older Teams were all …

I’ve had a number of cases where it would have been useful to be able to deploy files to a logged-in user’s profile on Windows using Configuration Manager (SCCM), but due to the context in which the ‘installation’ runs (i.e. the local system), using parameters such as %AppData% in a batch file doesn’t work, and this …

Symptoms: Following imaging with Windows 10 1903 using Configuration Manager OSD, the Type Cover doesn’t work at all (keyboard, trackpad). When rebooting the machine, the keyboard and trackpad both work when in the BIOS. When imaging the machine, both the keyboard and trackpad work in Windows PE. The Surface Pro 3 was …

Today we attempted to re-image Rik’s new Surface Pro 6 using the usual set of task sequences that we have configured for all of the PCs that are in use, and hit an issue. The task sequence failed (very quickly) with error 0x80070490. Looking at what was going on onscreen, it was obvious that the partitioning of the …