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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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Password advice
These days we need passwords for everything – from accessing our work PCs, to reading messages on Gmail, to buying things on Amazon. It used to be the case that as long as you avoided easily guessable passwords you’d be fine – unfortunately those days are long gone. Read on for some advice on what […]
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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. Full details can be found in my original blog post here.