Chris Rowtcliff

Chris Rowtcliff

Creating an Email to SMS Gateway using Microsoft 365, Azure Logic Apps and Azure Communication Services

Creating an Email to SMS Gateway using Microsoft 365, Azure Logic Apps and Azure Communication Services

There are a lot of services which offer an Email to SMS Gateway, which converts emails to an SMS message. Generally, the idea is that you send an email containing the message to [phone number in E.164 format]@gateway.domain, for example [email protected], and this forwards the

Using Azure Logic Apps (or Power Automate) to automate Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS)

Using Azure Logic Apps (or Power Automate) to automate Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS)

Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) is a great tool from Microsoft which you can use to keep your Student Information System (SIS) data, including staff, students, classes and parents to create classes and groups for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Intune for Education (amongst other things) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft

Synergetic to Microsoft SDS SQL scripts

Synergetic to Microsoft SDS SQL scripts

I have recently rolled out Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) with Synergetic and have made the scripts we use public in a GitHub repository. All scripts match the Microsoft SDS 2.1 CSV spec. We are a single campus K-12 school and sync years 4 through 12. Organisations https://github.

Fixing "The import List.ConformToPageReader matches no exports" error in Power BI

Fixing "The import List.ConformToPageReader matches no exports" error in Power BI

Tl;dr: Check for updates on the Power BI On-Premise Data Gateway, and install them! We have a number of reports in Power BI attached to datasets which are set to refresh automatically. One Monday morning, we arrived at work to find a few of following emails in our inbox,

Adding a non-GoDaddy domain to your Microsoft 365 home account

Adding a non-GoDaddy domain to your Microsoft 365 home account

One of the features of Microsoft 365 (formally Office 365) allows you to add a custom domain, i.e. yourdomain.com, to your account for you to send and receive emails. Unfortunately, as of the time of writing, Microsoft only supports domains that are registered and managed with GoDaddy which,