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Azure Data Factory – Getting start or end of week dates

October 21, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

In this post I will cover methods to get the start and end for the current, previous and next week using an Azure Data Factory Pipeline expression. I have a few pipelines which only run once a week that need …

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SQL – The SELECT permission was denied [FIXED]

September 4, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

Recently I had to solve an issue with a users permissions to Microsoft SQL. When running a report from Microsoft Excel, they would get the message; Unable to connect We encounter an error while trying to connect. Details: “Microsoft SQL: …

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Azure AD – Storing custom user data for Enterprise Applications

December 29, 2022June 18, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

I recently had the requirement to create a new Enterprise Application in my Azure Active Directory tenant. This was to get a third-party SaaS application to work with Single Sign-on for my users. The provider of the SaaS application also …

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Azure Data Factory – Get and Use Key Vault Secrets

October 28, 2022May 31, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

I have occasionally found that I need to use keys, passwords, or other sensitive strings as part of my ADF Pipelines. While it is completely possible to store this data in parameters against the Pipeline, it is not the best …

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Microsoft Graph and Invoke-RestMethod [PowerShell]

June 4, 2022May 29, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

While the PowerShell Microsoft.Graph modules are great, Microsoft Graph is an API opening many different methods for reading and writing data, including via the PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod command. But why use Invoke-RestMethod instead of one of the many Microsoft.Graph module commands? …

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Connect-MgGraph – Using a Service Principal [PowerShell]

October 21, 2022May 23, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

Recently I had the need to write a script to query and set data in Azure AD using PowerShell. I didn’t want to create or use a user account, using hard coded credentials in a script is never a clever …

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Updating MalCare Security Plugin fails “This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions”

November 19, 2022April 18, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

I use the provider Cloudways to host this site and a few of my other projects. If you haven’t previously looked at Cloudways I would highly recommend you give them a look. See my Tools I Use page for a …

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Setup WordPress to use Azure CDN

March 1, 2023March 29, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

In this post I will cover how to configure WordPress to benefit from the Azure CDN to improve the speed. My WordPress sites are hosed as Azure App Service sites, however that is not a requirement to use the Azure …

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The name ‘GooglePlay Tangle’ does not exist in the current context [FIXED]

March 14, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

When opening the Unity project for my Binary Blitz game for the first time in over a year and on a new computer. I was greeted by the following errors error CS0103: The name ‘GooglePlay Tangle’ does not exist in …

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Ensure Microsoft.CDN is listed as a registered Resource Provider [FIXED]

April 3, 2022February 26, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

While experimenting with using Azure as a content delivery network (CDN), I attempted to create a new CDN Profile only for the validation to fail with the message. Validate failed. Required information is missing or not valid. In order to …

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