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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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What can cause the trigger for a Power Automate Flow to stop firing?
When the AAD account that owns a Power Automate flow (or Cloudflow, or whatever the name is by the time you read this....) is disabled it sometimes causes the trigger for the flow to stop working, …
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"There is no Functions runtime available that matches the version specified in the project." when moving an Azure Functions project to a different machine
If Visual Studio gives you the error "There is no Functions runtime available that matches the version specified in the project." then you'd, reasonably, think that the answer would be to either …
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"Changing" the secret for a Dataverse connection in Power Apps
For reasons best known to Microsoft, you can't change the secret used to authenticate a Microsoft Dataverse connection using a service principal (If you're not familiar with setting these up there's …
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Backing up backups from the HRMC 'Basic PAYE Tools' using NTFS junctions and OneDrive
I've been using the HMRC provided 'Basic PAYE Tools' to run payroll and it does the job adequately. The one gap is that, whilst it performs periodic backups, backups are to a location that cannot …
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Querying a SharePoint list via Microsoft.Graph after upgrading to .NET SDK v5
I've just finished upgrading all the project references in a CRM solution I built a while ago, which was using the Microsoft.Graph v4 .NET SDK (via the Microsoft.Graph v4.35.0 NuGet package, to be …
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Feature flags in ASP.NET Core
I've been working on a few ASP.NET Core applications recently which has given me cause and opportunity to gate some functionality access behind feature flags whilst it's a work in progress, rather …
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Where have the last two years gone!?
Well... Somehow it's ended up being two years since I last posted (and that was a brief one about resetting your password via the command line) on the blog here - hopefully with the amount of stuff …
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Resetting your password via the command line
If, like me, you're working remotely at the moment you might be spending a non-trivial amount of time using Remote Desktop to hop on and off various machines. It might be that, also like me, you …
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Why my Pi-hole was logging tens of thousands of queries against my default gateway for domain SRV records
If you're running Pi-hole (which you should if you can, it's awesome - you can even run it on a virtual machine) and also happen to be running it in an Active Directory environment, there are …
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SQL Server Reporting Services subscriptions fail to send email
We've recently had reports that some scheduled reports that are emailed out haven't been sent/received, looking at SSRS the error that was showing was:
Failure sending mail: The report server has …