Category: Sys Admin
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My supplier has been compromised – should I still use them?
One of our suppliers was recently hit with a ransomware attack (or “cyber incident” as the new euphemism has it). As a result their systems were offline for several weeks. During this time they were relatively open to their customers about what had happened – they acknowledged it was ransomware, that they were in discussions…
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Cancelling Flow runs – surely it should be easier than this?
I have a Microsoft Power Automate Flow that is triggered by a webhook – and for “reasons” it received thousands of triggers that I didn’t want: Thousands of Flows that are about to do something that I don’t want…. Thousands. Luckily time is on my side – Power Automate will only let a few Flows…
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Button in SharePoint list to trigger PowerAutomate/Flow – a few tweaks
The situation I have a SharePoint list which holds information for generating data sharing contracts with external partners. I have a Flow linked to this that sends the data from the selected item over to Adobe Acrobat Sign to insert into a template, and then send out for electronic signature. Can it be improved? I’m…
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What happens when disaster strikes?
Back in 2012 I was faced with a failed RAID array for one of my clients, and had to go through a disaster recovery procedure. Shortly after I wrote a blog post for my (then) employer (ICT Partnerships), detailing what happened. Below is the original post as it was published in 2012: One of our…
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Matt Kirby 