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Here is the first version of an Excel VBA program to model the membership of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or any similar professional body). It may be freely used by others under the Creative Commons License. I have produced this in an attempt to help actuaries and others ...

If App Insights is not showing any data for a .NET 6 (or 5) web app, configure it within Visual Studio

User Administrator (or similar) role is needed for a registered app to change a user's passwords within Microsoft Graph.

It is very hard to find out what roles an app has been granted. When you add a role, document this within the notes section of the app's blade in the Azure portal. Microsoft ought to fix this.

I have been finding that on several pcs that I use, the free space on the C drive has been reducing constantly over time. The existing tools within Windows 10 didn't help as they don't make it easy to find out where the large files and folders are, and the ...

If you need to move thousands of Azure blobs, or very large ones (many GB) then you can either use AzCopy (a command line tool which you run locally), or if you want to do things programmatically, you can use the Microsoft Azure Storage Data Movement library. That library is ...

By default, Azure functions timeout after 10 minutes (or 30 minutes if running in an App Service Plan, or a Premium plan). The official documentation (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-host-json#functiontimeout) says that you can increase (or reduce) this by adding a functionTimeout value to host.json. But this doesn't seem to work for a ...

I am creating a prototype, suitable for use with the UK's Pensions Dashboard project.  Early days, but have made good progress so far!  More in due course.

A simpler way to create and query Azure Entity Functions (previously called Durable Entities): just use the built in webhooks.

Both last year and this year I took (and passed) a Microsoft exam (I suppose the equivalent of CPD - Continuing Professional Development). Last year it was Programming in C# (certification: here ), and this year it was Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (certification: here ).