List all MS Teams
I have just had a client want a list of all the Teams in thair Office 365 Tennant and they could not find a quick way to do this via the MS Teams Admin Center. The following commands run in PowerShell got the listing they needed.
Woodturning project #10 – A key bowl
So after a very long break from the garage I have finally made something.This is a key bowl for my son’s new place, tomorrow I have the fun of driving a big Luton van around and I thought a key bowl is just the thing for someone who can misplace most things.
Sunset in the Broads the day after
So yesterday we had a sunset in the Broads and this is this evening sunset. Still taken with a DJI Osmo 2 and the Google Pixel phone processed with Adobe clip which is a fantastic little piece of software for the Android phone.
Sunset in The Broads
A few days away up Norfolk way and this is tonight’s sunset, this time lapse was taken on my Google Pixel phone using the DJI Osmo 2. As I have not taken my laptop the video was editing using Adobe clip with the music being added and the watermark all on the phone, it it […]
DJI Osmo Mobile 2
So time for a new toy I think, I have just had a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 delivered to help me with some time lapsed photos and videography. This is the first two time lapsed videos, one with and one without motion, just setup on a tripod in the back garden, next time I will […]
Leather project 1 – Coin purse
My first leather project is a coin purse that can be hooked over a belt keeping the change out of your pocket so it does not cause any rips in the pocket lining. The step by step process is detailed in both the video & the photos below. You can donwload the template from this […]
Leathercraft
One hobby I am beginning out in is leatherwork, my projects can be found on both this site and my YouTube channel.
Numan 2017
16 October 2017 I had the pleasure of attending the Savage tour date at the Brighton Dome, fantastic night out and a few photos.
First acrylic pen
So the first acrylic pen is finished, not too sure if I like them or not, I have a few more blanks so we will see how they go.
Web Widget 1st Cut
BloomSky Dashboard – Unofficial Web Widget 1st Cut The first attempt looks like this: To add this into your page please take the following code inserting your BloomSky API Key: Change this line: We will be adding more refinements into the widget over the coming days.
BloomSky Dashboard – Unofficial
Welcome to the BloomSky Dashboard – Unofficial project pages. After my weather station gave up the ghost I decided to try a BloomSky from https://www.bloomsky.com and while I love the photos I was not too impressed with the ability to store data and serve up the information on personal websites so I have decided to […]
PowerShell Arrays and that annoying number on the screen
When you create an array and populate it in PowerShell the number of elements is written out to the screen, very annoying. e.g. Output So how do we stop the numbers from being displayed to the screen, while Fix 2 is the proper way I like fix 1 as it reminds me of passing things […]
Gary Numan – 24 September 2016
Today I got to go to a Gary Numan gig in Portsmouth and t was fantastic. He was revisiting the Replicas, The Pleasure Principle & Telekon albums bringing them bang up to date and he did a fantastic job, I also get to see the same just up the coast in Bexhill on Monday evening […]
Once in a blue moon
So for the second night on the trot the moon has been out and I have had the time to take some photos, tonight I thought I would add some filters to see if it would define the craters and ridges in more detail, still not too sure about it’s success.
Luna photography – second attempt
So way back in 2014 I tried my hand at taking some photos of the moon take a looa at: Luna photography for an idea of what I was doing. Tonight I thought I would give it a second attempt and I think the photos are much much better with quite a bit more detail […]
Woodturning project #9 – Pens
So I have moved on from bowls for a moment and decided to give pens a try and this is my first 6, quite fun little projects and useful as well. I think I will keep at it as there are issues with them but not a bad start.
Hallvik – Dive site
This is Hallvik in Iceland, not too far from the Silfra fissure and just as stunning, the photos do not do the viability and blues justice, the best things is the water was quite warm rangeing from 3 – 9 degrees. We where guided by Dave from http://magmadive.is a guide that I could not recommend highly enough so if […]
Silfra – Dive 2
After the first dive my wife being the sensible woman she is decided to get out of her diving kit and get warm me on the other hand could not help but go back in, this is the second dive. We where able to dive the Silfra fissure crack between the North American and Eurasian continents where the continental […]
Silfra – Dive 1
I had the absolute pleasure of diving on my wedding anniversary with my wife in Iceland this weekend. We where able to dive the Silfra fissure crack between the North American and Eurasian continents where the continental plates meet, one truly unique place. We where guided by Dave from http://magmadive.is a guide that I could not recommend highly enough so […]
Woodturning project #8 – Cherry bowl
This little bowl is heading up to my grandmothers 90th birthday later in the week.
Woodturning project #7 – Burning and ebonising
Well this weekend I have been playing with a couple of news items, a blow torch & ebonising spray and the results are below. They are not too bad for a first attempt but I should have built up the ebony layers much slower and a lot thinner. Today’s inspiration has come from both Mike Waldt and Martin Saban-Smith both […]
Woodturning project #6 – Ash platter
So onto project number 6 an Ash Platter, ending up with a 12 inch diameter and a 3 inch depth this Ash platter has Danish oil on the underside and a food safe oil on the top as it is intended as a fruit bowl.
Woodturning project #5 – Yew pots
Today I have been turning two pots that will be used for makeup pots, the wood is Yew kindly donated to me. The pots are 10cm & 7cm deep the cut from the wooden log in the back of the photo.
I am in Turner’s Rest
It looks like two of my turnings have been included in Turner’s Rest. Turner’s Rest is a paper.li content aggregator run my Martin Saban-Smith and it has picked up on two pieces of work that I did last weekend, quite exciting. Pop over to www.turnersrest.com and take a look and subscribe it hits your email […]
Woodturning project #4 – A wooden box
This weekend I have had the pleasure of being taught how to turn some wood. I spent two days with Tom Pockley and have learned so very much that I hope I don’t forget. I guess the best way is to get some more practice in during the week all I need to do is […]
Woodturning project #3 – A wooden bowl
This weekend I have had the pleasure of being taught how to turn some wood. I spent two days with Tom Pockley and have learned so very much that I hope I don’t forget. I guess the best way is to get some more practice in during the week all I need to do is […]
Misadventures in wood turning
So we are in March 2016 and the time has come to begin a new woodworking related hobby I have chosen wood turning. This section will document my misadventures in wood turning from photos of my first pieces to eventually videos to detail my journey, I am sure I will make many many mistakes but […]
Woodturning project #2 – A small goblet
So today was the second item I have turned a small goblet. I followed this tutorial from Keith Barrow on YouTube:
Woodturning project #1 – 8 inch sycamore bowl
So I have taken up a new hobby to go with all of the others, and this is my first attempt to make something. This in an 8 inch sycamore bowl. I am in preparation of a turning course in two weekends time and thought I should give things a go before I went, this […]
Out on the Red Dragon Flyer
I had a fantastic day out with a friend on the Red Dragon Flyer
Hastings by night
So some fun tonight in Hastings with long exposures. I need to bring the time down quite a bit as they are a little too light in places and the images are suffering as a result, I will go back to the spot and play again in a few evenings times and hopefully the outcome […]
Water droplet photography
So after an age I have been able to start with doing some water droplet photography, this is my first try and a few lessons learned. Firstly the boring bits: Shutter speed: 1/250 ISO: 400 F-Stop: f16 Camera: Cannon Eos 700D Post editing With the exception of cropping there was no post editing, so what […]
A little macro fun
That x64 setting.
Today the following error was being thrown by a new SharePoint c# application, “An unhandled exception of type ‘System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException’ occurred in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll” with the following detail: “Additional information: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).” The application […]
Diving at Holbrough Lakes
Went for a little dive over at Holbrough lakes this afternoon / this evening trying out a Liquid Image video camera mask, pleasantly surprised with the video. We found the bus that was sunk at Holbrough lakes a couple of weeks ago.
Dover castle & wartime tunnels
Had a fantastic day out at Dover Castle & visited the war time tunnels, if you want a unique visit them pop over and take a look.
Star trail photography
I have loved star trail photos for quite some time now so I thought I would have a play. This image of from a set of images taken last night, not the best night for star trails as there was a almost full moon but I needed to try out the theory. The image below […]
Luna photography
I thought I would try my hand at Luna photography and after a little messing around with the settings I was able to get a few shots off. The following are the four that I have selected out of the 9 in focus photos that I was able to take tonight. ISO : 400 F-stop : F3.5 […]
Fireworks 2014
It has been a while since I had the time to play with the manual mode of a camera as as the local school was having a fireworks night in my back garden I thought I would have a play. So I set my Nikon D5100 up on a tripod got out the IR shutter release […]
Virtual box to Hyper-V is one easy step
Tip of the day, this tip has been shamelessly stolen from Diary of a SharePoint consultant like many others I run Virtual Box and have lots of different environments ready to run to aid development & migration and the thought of re-creating them in Hyper-V has filled me me dread for quite a while now. I […]
Office 365, ADFS & SSO
So you have made the move into Office 365, you have ADFS so you can have a single sign on so your user do not need to worry about logging in when they are in the office but it is not working, you check your ADFS setup and it looks good once you users logon […]
Keeping your PowerShell tidy
I am quite a fan of Powershell but miss the ability to include other files in a simple and clean way. I quite like the idea that as you run scripts in the different environments dev, test, UAT, staging and production they should never change, the only thing that should change are the variables in […]
PowerShell script to create an AD group in an OU
Active directory you have got to love it, using it as a base to secure up access to SharePoint is quite an important thing to understand but who wants to create the groups, better pass it over to a script to do. This script is a starter and will create an AD group in a […]
SQL Server Audit
Who did what and when did they do it? SQL Servers has some fantastic audit capability but sometimes a client will want to hand craft their own and this script can act as a place to start. The script will create audit tables that will audit what your users are up to. The script has […]
Database documentation
Documentation is the bane of my life you design a fantastic database and someone tells you that they would like to know how it works, so the task begins. This script will take a look at the database and do the graft for you, if you have been well behaved and added descriptions to objects […]
Database CRUD scripts
The use of a database is always a good idea and not giving users any direct access to the tables is an even better idea but wrapping the tables with stored procedures that you can secure up by group membership is a little bit of a pain, this script will enable you to create all […]
What site template did that SharePoint site start as?
Sometimes you need to figure out what template was used when creating a SharePoint site, you can mess about in the database (not recommended) you can look in the HTML of an output page as long as your master page has not changed some of the default options or you can open up the SharePoint […]
Move that SharePoint SubSite into its own site collection.
So it seemed like a good idea at the time, all of the sites on the root site collection but now you are beginning to regret that the content database is getting a little on the large side and managing the security is getting to be a pain. So how do you move this subsite […]
Finding that SharePoint Correlation ID
So you have an issue in SharePoint and a screenshot form a user in a production environment. You have asked the production support team to put SharePoint log viewer onto the server and they have submitted the request to the change group and will get back to you in a couple of days and in […]
PowerShell script template
This file is the Powershell template file that I use when creating PowerShell scripts. The code below is a functioning PowerShell script for you to build on, it has the syntax for the Get-Help cmdlet to function correctly and takes three parameters some mandatory some not, it also outputs to the screen the script execution […]
One of my favorite dives
I have wanted to dive all of my life and not too long ago I finally took the plunge and went for it, I have loved every moment of it but one dive stands out for me. So while I was more than happy to make bubbles my other half was not quite so keen, […]
Scraping Back Time
I have always liked the “Scraping Back Time” photos that I have seen around so I thought I would give it a go. I am currently working in Guernsey one of the Channel Islands and the only part of the UK that was successfully occupied during the Second World War so I thought I would […]
Holbrough lakes dive map
Unfortunately for me my underwater navigation is not the best so in an attempt to get better I have decided to map out Holbrough Lakes and then use a custom Google map to show my work. Lets hope it go’s well. I am going to use different layers in the map so you can see […]
Egypt 2014
Some photos from a trip to Egypt in 2014. Fantastic diving and so very warm.
Holgrough Lakes
A nice dive at Holbrough Lakes 6 October 2014.
Stoney Cove
A few shots of diving in Stoney Cove 24 June 2013.
Spitfire BM597
On 6th March 2011 I was treated to a flight in a helicopter while one of the few remaining spitfires fly around us, it has to be one on the most wonderful experiences I have had. This is a set of photos from the day.
Harrow Lane from 200ft up
This is the view from the DJI at about 200ft in the air. One of the issues with the camera is the distortion that the camera picks up so there is a need to flatten the image, in this tutorial you are shown remove the distortion using GIMP. This is my before & after.
Bodiam Castle
This is a few moments over Bodiam Castle. Along with the video the DJI can also take photos.
Initial flight
This is the video from the first flight. My longsuffering wife kindly got me a DJI Phantom Vision 2 as a present. This is the first video in Hastings Old Town.
Diving
I have had the pleasure of taking diving up as a hobby. I am currently a PADI Master Scuba Diver and would recommend that anyone who can should give diving a go it is just fantastic, where else will you see a turtle floating around free and happy.
Photography
When I first left school I trained to become a photographer and after 3 years I decided it was not for me. I have still had an interest in photography and I plan to start up again, so this is where my photos will be for everyone to see, lets hope they are OK.
Aerial video & photos
I own a DJI Phantom Vision 2 that enables me to take aerial photos & video. This is the clever little thing hovering a few feet from the air. If you have an unmanned aircraft then this video if well worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6uU1LTdI8M#t=49