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CoPilot For Microsoft Teams: A Smart Assistant
How CoPilot can help you make the most of your online meetings I’ve been using CoPilot within my Teams meetings for a few months and am really enjoying it. This might be the one-use case for CoPilot that on its own justifies the monthly cost…
Custom Global Navigation Using SPFx Application Customizers
Out-of-the-box navigation in SharePoint Online has come a long way over the last number of years. Hub sites and hub site navigation provide much more customizability and consistency for navigating around a hub. However, modern intranets in SharePoint Online are generally made up of multiple…
Imaginet’s Experience with GitHub CoPilot
GitHub CoPilot is a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to help developers write code faster and better. It is powered by OpenAI Codex, a large-scale neural network that has been trained on billions of lines of public code. GitHub CoPilot can generate code snippets,…
Customizing Lists and Libraries with Custom Actions and Field Extensions Using SPFx
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is relatively new, but we can’t stop talking about the benefits it has to offer. SPFx allows you to use modern web technologies and tools in your preferred development environment to build productive experiences and apps that are responsive and mobile-ready. In…
Staying Current with Technology: The Benefits & Drawbacks
Recently Microsoft announced several updates for their flagship technologies. These updates included a new version of .NET, .NET 8, as well as updates to Entity Framework Core, .NET Maui, and more. These updates are not limited to Microsoft either – Angular recently released Angular 17.…
SQL Saturday Part 2: Learning About Microsoft Fabric
I’ve been digging into Microsoft Fabric recently – well overdue, since it was first released about a year ago. At the recent SQL Saturday Atlanta event I attended in early February 2024, I took the opportunity to learn from the sessions and speakers that were…
My Trip to SQL Saturday Atlanta (BI Edition): Part 1
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend SQL Saturday Atlanta (BI edition), a free annual event for data professionals and enthusiasts held in Alpharetta Georgia. I spoke at this conference a year ago, and I was glad to have one of my abstracts selected so…
Enabling BitLocker Encryption with Microsoft Intune
In today’s data-driven world, safeguarding sensitive information is paramount, especially with the increase in remote work following the pandemic and the rise in cyber threats. BitLocker, a robust encryption tool, plays a pivotal role in protecting your data from unauthorized access. In this blog post,…
Primary Constructors (C# 12 Syntactic Sugar): A Guide
With the introduction of .Net8 and C#12 in November of 2023, there were many significant changes to .NET and C#. One such feature in C#12 is the concept of a Primary Constructor. A Primary constructor replaces a class constructor with parameters on the class. The parameters for the…
Secret Manager to Protect Sensitive Data in App Development
Secret Manager to Protect Sensitive Data in App Development How you deal with sensitive data is critical to your organization’s success. If you are not careful with sensitive company or client data, you risk losing trust between you and your employees or customer base. But…
Protecting Sensitive Data: Ensuring Privacy from a Data Engineering Perspective
Protecting Sensitive Data: Ensuring Privacy from a Data Engineering Perspective In a bank call center, staff members handle clients’ data. They have to identify clients for various requests while maintaining privacy. The call center representative must be able to identify the client while keeping the…
Custom Script Setting in SharePoint & OneDrive Removed
Last week, we published a blog discussing Microsoft retiring SharePoint Add-Ins. In that blog, we briefly discussed how the Classic Mode for Custom Scripts has been affected by that change. The Custom Script setting in SharePoint and OneDrive has already been removed – the change…
SharePoint Add-Ins to be Retired in M365
In Microsoft’s effort to provide modern, evolved digital solutions, they will be retiring SharePoint Add-Ins and pushing SharePoint Extensibility Models instead – such as SharePoint Framework. SharePoint Add-Ins will stop working for new tenants in November 2024 and will be fully eliminated in early 2026.…
Increasing Productivity with Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is an application aimed to increase productivity by providing the user with a set of tools and offerings. Originally introduced in the 1990s and resurrected for Windows 10, PowerToys are a collection of free, open-source utilities designed to enhance your Windows experience. Whether…
How the Bushcraft Rule of Threes Helps Me Think about Project Management
Using survival skills can help with project management. Yes, you read that right. What is the Bushcraft Rule of Threes? The bushcraft rule of threes is a simple guideline that helps campers and survivalists to prioritize their needs in a wilderness situation. It states…
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