There is no reason not to switch to Workload Identity Federation for Service Connections in Azure DevOps. Compared to secret-based connections, it offers several compelling benefits:

• Firstly, you eliminate the need for secrets. This means no more manual or automatic rotation of secrets, or worse, being caught off guard when secrets expire unnoticed.
• Secondly, it’s more secure. Secrets used across multiple projects and stored in key vaults or, even worse, in tools like OneNote, are far more susceptible to compromise than the new identity federation approach.

Here is my step-by-step guide on setting up Workload Identity Federation in Azure DevOps. I recommend the manual setup over the automatic one for these reasons:

AI Sweden har publicerat den första svenska språkmodellen - GPT-SW3:

• Nyheten på Computer Sweden
• Samlingssida på AI Sweden
• Språkmodeller från AI Sweden på HuggingFace

I det här inlägget vill jag beskriva hur man kommer igång om man vill testa det. Min setup är följande:

• En MacBook Pro (men det kan vara vilken dator som helst egentligen)
• Python 3.8^ + venv (om det lite senare)
• Visual Studio Code
• Jupyter Notebook Extension till Visual Studio Code

Datoruppsättning

Om inte du har gjort det tidigare, installera Visual Studio Code

Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.

In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.

PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.

An introduction

Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint. When not overused, they provide “metadata” by itself, metadata that works even in synced folders, in archive scenarios, works best with Teams etc.

I just 3D-printed a laptop holder, a vertical one. It is so pretty and it makes my desktop tidier, so, I thought, it deserves an own blog post. This information might be too little for a blog post. So, as a bonus, I’ll tell you how the process of finding and customizing a 3D model looks like.

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Thingiverse customizer

I found a nice laptop holder on Thingiverse. Then I just clicked on “Open in customizer” like this:

Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.

The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status. So it sounded like a fun challenge to me. Eventhough I don’t need it. If you think you need it, I’d say talk to your boss instead and make sure you are not measured on time being green in Teams, but your real effort. But it is fun to tinker with electronics anyway :)

Jag håller på och lär mig lite om 3D-Print på fritiden. Jag berättar om mina första intryck och hur jag skriver ut en blomkruka som ser ut som ett Super Mario-block - allt detta i en bloggpost.

Montering av 3D-skrivaren

Jag behövde montera min 3D-skrivare (Creality Ender 3 v2) och det gick smidigt även om det tog flera timmar. Jag följde denna fantastiska Youtube video: JustVlad: Creality Ender 3 V2 - 3D Printer - Unbox & Setup . Jag fick justera höjden på plattan flera gånger för att hitta ett lagom avstånd. Svårt att förklara, man måste testa det själv.

Hello Citizen Developers!

I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc. But there are also techier, nerdier actions that are less citizen developer friendly. One of them is Send an HTTP Request to SharePoint. It might be the answer to many challenges, intimidating at first, but powerful and, hopefully, not so complicated once you’ve tried it. This post is about this very action and how you can use it to simplify your flow.

News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.

Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.