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It's "that time" of the year.
Not "that time" of the year 🤣🤣🤣

Not until now Jen.
Not until now.

Hey
UK and EU folk.
It's that time of year again.

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This time of year

You're allowed to say FUCK about this one.

Kindness is free, sprinkle it everywhere.
Be the reason someone smiles today.

A round sticker with the words You can be anything, be kind.

Being kind is free.
The benefit is priceless.
Be known for being kind.
Be recognised for being kind,
Be remembered for being kind.

#bekind

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Help and Discovery - Finding Your Way Around 295+ Cmdlets

Introduction Most of this blog post is going to be more about PowerShell in general than this specific module. The MicrosoftFabricMgmt module has over 295 cmdlets, which can be overwh
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MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Workspaces - List, Get, Create, Update, and Remove

Introduction The workspace is the fundamental unit of organisation in Microsoft Fabric. Everything lives inside a workspace — your lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, pipelines, reports. Mana
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MicrosoftFabricMgmt: The PowerShell Pipeline - Idiomatic Automation

Introduction Last week I showed you how to work with workspaces — creating, updating, removing, assigning capacities. But we were doing each operation in isolation. Today I want to show you what
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So, 1 yes, some of that will be available

2 - federated identity no - does the fabric rest api support that

But Azure DevOps and SPN - yes - use a windows runner

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Kindness is contagious—spread it around.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
In the end, only kindness matters.
You can be anything—be kind.
Kindness is never wasted.

If you work with SQL Server and use Linux or a Mac and want access to those fancy query store reports, give my new VS Code extension a shot. It works with the existing SQL Server extension and I'd like some feedback. It's been good in testing so far. github.com/jdanton/quer...

A rainbow unicorn

There’s only one of you in the world, and that’s more than good enough.
Be unapologetically yourself.

The Label on My Drawer Has Changed

The Great Job Title Debate I posted a few things on LinkedIn recently about job titles. The discussion was lively — as it always is — and the general vibe was something along the lines of “titles don’t define what you do, they’
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Colourful sticker that says You can be anything Be kind

It's free 👇

A bottle of Soidin whisky from Finland

Got a bottle of whisky from Finland that I'll open tonight to celebrate.

2 heads working together

Collaborate with your peers.
Two heads are better than one when solving complex issues.
#TechCommunity #Collaboration #Teamwork

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Workspaces - List, Get, Create, Update, and Remove

Introduction The workspace is the fundamental unit of organisation in Microsoft Fabric. Everything lives inside a workspace — your lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, pipelines, reports. Mana
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rainbows ripples

You can be anything—be kind.
Acts of kindness create ripples of joy.

#BeKind #SpreadKindness #ChooseKindness #BeTheChange

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MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Goodbye GUIDs - Intelligent Output and Smart Caching

Introduction When you work with a REST API that returns GUIDs for everything, human readability goes out the window. You run a query like this in PowerShell to get your Fabric lakehouses a
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Don't panic! Start with the basics.
When troubleshooting, always check your logs first. They often hold the key.
#TechTips #Troubleshooting #YouGotThis

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Getting Started - Installation and Authentication

Introduction Yesterday I introduced the MicrosoftFabricMgmt module and explained what it can do. Today we are getting hands on — installing the module, sorting out dependencies, and making yo
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PSA - If you update tomorrows blog post - todays blog post does not update 😀

1. Probably yes, if not raise an issue and we can build it
2. I have not tested this yet (too busy building) but Set-FabricAPIHeaders (whose name I shall change) has a Use Managed Identity switch

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