Efficiently Finding Graph API Permission Guids using PowerShell Script

August 29, 2024 by Leave a comment

I have been writing some tools recently that use Application Authentication to connect to Microsofts Graph API. Part of the tool installation process is that it requests access to the various API permissions, there is a great resource for finding those here: Graph Permissions

The difficulty I found though, was when requesting permissions programmatically, you do not use the familiar name like ‘Sites.Read.All’ instead you use a resource access object which contains some guids.

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Add UK Bank Holidays to Teams Voice

May 21, 2024 by Leave a comment

If you have ever administered a Phone System you will know that one of the most boring tasks you can be asked to do, is program in the new years bank holiday dates. Even today one of the most popular phone systems on the market 3CX it remains a manual task.

With Microsoft Teams Voice you of course benefit from a PowerShell interface to configure your system, and if we combine this with a surprisingly useful part of the gov.uk website we can can programmatically get, and input our bank holiday dates for the year ahead. In fact the current document has dates through to the end of 2026.

To do this we will make use of New-CsOnlineDateTimeRange, New-CsOnlineSchedule and Set-CsOnlineSchedule which are part of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module.

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Azure APIM Override Header Value – JSON Content Type

February 11, 2023 by Leave a comment

This week I was working on an Azure Function Web Hook to receive data from a third party service.

The service I was receiving the data from was a little limited in that all I could provide was an endpoint where the data would be posted, and an example of how the data would be formatted.

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