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The New World of Teams Webhooks

By Ryan Dorman | July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

As you may have heard, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has decided to retire “Office 365 Connectors” for Teams. At first this sounds innocuous until you realize this also includes the incoming webhook connector which allows webhooks to trigger Teams messages. Thats a very handy feature in the world of automation. The replacement solution is to use “Workflows” which is really just a fancy name for PowerAutomate also/previously/better known as Flow. There are a variety…

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The Case of the Missing PowerBI Credentials

By Ryan Dorman | June 9, 2024June 15, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I migrated a user from AWS Workspaces to AVD to improve performance on POwerBI queries. The migration did indeed significantly increase performance but it also introduced an odd issue: When opening the PowerBI Desktop file the Snowflake credentials store in the file “could not be decrypted.” Every. Time. This behavior was not seen on AWS. Most Googling on this topic talked about clearing caches and re-entering credentials but none of that worked. There was also…

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Unable to load Edge Workspaces

By Ryan Dorman | May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I had a user recently request to use the Edge Workspaces feature. This feature allows you to create pre-defined sets of tabs and bookmarks that can be shared amongst users and centrally managed. When he clicked on the Workspaces button in Edge he would receive “Unable to load” and a retry button. I started by using every combination of Enabling Workspaces from Intune Templates and Settings Catalog. No dice. Extensive Googling really just boiled down…

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AVD Password Prompt Redux

By Ryan Dorman | May 1, 2024May 1, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I’ve moved on to a new AVD setup. I went with full cloud: Entra Joined, Intune managed and page blobs for FSLogix. Fantastic. I started to run into the same issue I had in a previous post where I talked about the roamIdentity FSLogix issue. There is a HUGE warning on the Microsoft site that you cannot roam WAM tokens when you are using Intune so turning that on was not an option. The AAD…

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Meraki MX -> Azure Virtual Fortigate IPSec VPN

By Ryan Dorman | January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I recently worked on a site-to-site VPN tunnel between a Meraki MX and a virtual Fortigate appliance in Azure. No matter what I did I could not get the tunnel up despite confirming the phase 1/2 and PSK settings multiple times. A few tricks I learned along the way that got me there: Even when you do all of that, it will not work. The missing piece was: The Fortigate sends the Local ID as…