At home, I run a Plex media server. I’ve added a TV receiver to the setup to have a real DVR that I can control remotely. It’s great! Here’s how it looks in Plex when I want to record all… Read More »Building an integration for Plex with Azure API Management
I browsed back through my calendar, that the last time I went physically to work at the local Microsoft office was about 170 days ago. Even before this new normal, where everyone works from home, I often visited the office… Read More »Building a custom solution using Windows 10 and Azure to track when I’m working from home
I often end up automating a lot of things in my life I find too repetitive, or too boring to do manually. This might not always be the smartest thing to do, as learning how to do something esoteric might… Read More »Insights on building robust business process orchestrations using Power Automate, Logic Apps and Azure Functions
I’ve recently worked with Azure Logic Apps a fair bit. Last night, I wanted to stretch my understanding of the Logic Apps service a bit further and started thinking about what would be a fun solution to build. I came… Read More »Building a double-blind email distribution list using Azure Logic Apps and Exchange Online
This time it’s something a little bit different. Back in 2015 I ordered a bunch of ultrasonic sensors, with hopes that I’d be able to automate the detection of when people arrived at the office. We had limited seats, so… Read More »Building an automated monitoring tool to track how many people are at the office by using Unifi network gear and Azure Logic Apps
It’s summer in Finland now – a pleasant +15 C! Hopefully, it will be warmer in July. We put up a trekking tent on the balcony, and the kids are now sleeping there. So last night, they went to bed… Read More »Creating a custom Microsoft Edge (Chromium) extension using Azure Logic Apps and the Bing Image Search API for content
I wrote about building a Raspberry Pi-based weather monitoring systems back in July, 2019. The solution utilizes Ruuvitag bluetooth beacons to measure temperatures and other data, and then submits those readings to Azure using Azure IoT Hub and Azure Functions.… Read More »Building a Raspberry Pi-based temperature monitoring solution with Sense HAT LED matrix display and Azure Logic Apps (and some LEGO!)
I spent some time in early December building an integration between Azure Log Analytics (and Azure Sentinel, obviously) and Office 365 Audit Logs. The latter exposes the logs through Office 365 Management Activity API, which is very handy, albeit slightly… Read More »Building a monitoring solution for Office 365 service availability using Azure Logic Apps