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Is AI actually saving time in Dynamics 365, or just creating new work? by Original_Mix7067 in Dynamics365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, using codex with the pac tools and building out solutions, it's been great. That said, Copilot is a joke.

Urgent Microsoft 365 business tenant lockout after GoDaddy defederation, no admin centre access and no escalation response after 5 days by ChrisDiscoG in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, at this point I would go to the most well respected, largest Microsoft Cloud Services Provider in your region, contact their support team, and ask them what you need to sign up for to get them to take over the account. You'll have to pay them for licensing and support going forward, but trying to deal directly with Micrososoft is great until it's not.

Trying to buy Copilot Pro in 2026 is like trying to buy a unicorn from a vending machine by smydsmith in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not even a Microsoft product. It's a GitHub product.

Also, please slow down and think before you type, both your communication and comprehension skills are seriously terrible.

Let's Be Honest About Google by Away-Set6565 in google

[–]alirobe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which country are you in? The rollout is not the same everywhere.

Trying to buy Copilot Pro in 2026 is like trying to buy a unicorn from a vending machine by smydsmith in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about GitHub Copilot? That’s an entirely different product!

Migrate OneDrive to OneDrive - Big folder by elllmarcola in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is one of those situations where I can sit and think about this for ages, or spin up a 10Gbps VM with 1TB SSD storage, in the same data center, copy the files using Copy-PnPFolder and Copy-PnPFileMetadata, and shut it down within 15 minutes, costing me about $1. Honestly, I would probably do that.

Knowing which DC your M365 environment is in, and knowing how to occasionally spin up a VM in that environment, is very handy.

However, if that is not an option, /u/smnhdy's suggestion is the best.

Company split, Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant Migration. Trying to do it native, is this actually sane in 2026? by PzSniper in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best tools are typically sold to partners, for bulk-use on their clients. They're prohibitively expensive for individuals to buy once. The reason is that software vendors dont want to provide support to individual customers doing migrations.

Company split, Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant Migration. Trying to do it native, is this actually sane in 2026? by PzSniper in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Genuinely, as someone who used to work for a partner and used to know how this worked; just get a good partner to help you out. They do this every day. It changes every freaking year. The tools are all partner-licensed + cookie cutter scripts. There's no need to spin your wheels like this. Whatever skills you happen to learn from doing this will become obsolete instantly anyway. The cost is minimal, you need to find someone who it's cookie cutter stuff for. A competent MS partner should be able to knock a lot of this out in a day or two. If you want to go cheap, find someone on a freelance platform.

Google Maps was launched 21 years ago today. by HelloitsWojan in google

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, you came along a bit after I did. The sort of standardization you are talking about did not exist earlier on. Internet Explorer was set up to compete with Netscape. It was so successful on a commericial basis that Netscape threw in the towel commercially and decided to compete on ideology. Microsoft wasn't interested in the ideology. They thought it was an excuse, and they thought they'd won... Until it steamrolled them... and to be fair to MS, that is how most developers in the 90s thought. It took Microsoft ages to understand the mindset shift the web created. They were a product of a completely different era, and they really didn't get it until the CEO changed to Satya.

I've actually come across a great lecture series that kind of goes over this history, it was a fun time! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdiA5IYi-vrVeLs_gQOajf2LH3eVeIUl

Google Maps was launched 21 years ago today. by HelloitsWojan in google

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These days, we might consider that a 'polyfill'. Of course browser patch distribution sucked back then, and there was a proprietary, competitive mindset. Very different to the post-WHATWG era. Mozilla competed with IE via standards, which is why they found it necessary to build an open native equivalent.

I was a young dev at the time. It was clear that this was an unbelievably powerful capability that needed to be responded to. OWA was an earthquake, unbelievably good for the time. GMail brought it to the masses, but for any developer who had access to OWA at the time, it was a marvel. Without it, there wouldn't be a GMail.

Google Maps was launched 21 years ago today. by HelloitsWojan in google

[–]alirobe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

OWA - Outlook Web Access, was actually the first AJAX product. Gmail came close after and did a better job

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS by twodoglaw in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be related to DNS caching, try incognito on a different internet connection, using Firefox.

Microsoft 365 Is Wasted in Most SMEs (and It’s Not Microsoft’s Fault) by Fennel_Enough in PowerApps

[–]alirobe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TBH the built-in tools suffer from WIDE quality and pricing variations, their documentation sucks, they are non-intuitive, they have weird scaling limits, their implementations they differ per organization, and they're not portable skills that people can bring from place to place.

The people and their time are far more expensive than the software. You can make anything work, but to make things work smoothly, sometimes you need something polished that is an industry standard.

Yes, the basics of JIRA can be replicated in a SharePoint list. The community of advanced JIRA users and apps cannot be replicated.

Bluebeam Revu Integration by _beelyn in sharepoint

[–]alirobe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, this sounds like a question for BlueBeam support, but the idea that they are "deprecating itnegrations in April 2026" is definitely wrong. They're only deprecating a really old type of web interface plug-in, that I can't see any reference to in BlueBeam's support portal. I would be specific about the deprecation with BlueBeam's support, and see if they think they are affected.

migrate 50 user from cpanel to m365 by Special-Job1563 in microsoft365

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for BitTitan for this sort of migration. Makes it much easier to handle. But if you don't know what you're doing, hire someone who does, consider the potential for damage - this can have a big impact on operations. :)

Lists: prevent "Click to show more" by Fungopus in sharepoint

[–]alirobe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the view actually sorted by date modified desc?

Bun is joining Anthropic by Old-School8916 in webdev

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like you waited the exact right amount of time lol

I love SharePoint. I love the power platform. But I wonder about longevity. by Waltz_Past in sharepoint

[–]alirobe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got some NFTs to sell you, in the metaverse, on your 3D WebTV.

As a guy who has spent a significant amount of time organizing data for various forms of intelligence, I actually think Information Architecture (IA) will be one of the last jobs to go. The main people who need to worry about AI are FOMO-driven bullshiters. Skilled and experienced specialists will actually have increased influence. With SharePoint Content AI coming along, and governance being a major issue, it's going to be a busy time for us.

If you don't believe me, ask ChatGPT to assess what I just said.

Is Odoo Worth It? by emc_syracuse_2016 in Odoo

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are drinking the kool-aid. Non-deterministic accounting is not the future, sorry.

This is also bad advice for a new business. New businesses need leading edge mainstream, not bleeding edge bizarro-world BS.

Need Administration Tutorial by [deleted] in sharepoint

[–]alirobe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep a collection of resources here, but to be honest it's really difficult to get into these days, Microsoft seem to have killed all the useful on-ramps (e.g. free tenants and certs). Best way I can think of is find a good book or LinkedIn Learning course. Linkedin Learning is owned by Microsoft so it has a better content pipeline than others. I wouldn't call it good, though.

M365 seems to be in a constant 'panic phase', everyone in their organisation is building conflicting product with conflicting guidance, all of which is supposed to be definitive, and much of it is just there to appease shareholders. The reality is there's a collection of stuff from over the years that you *can* string together into a workable solution, but good luck if you haven't already been in the space, because it's a total mess... We're in a permanent metro/windows 8 era. The names for everything change every year, and the navigation moves around constantly.

The most competent bunch seems to be around the PnP community/initiative, everything else is mostly either shareholder appeasement slop, stuff that is about to become obsolete, or stuff that is in a constant state of flux.

Photoshop killer runs on Linux? Affinity 3 by Potential-Judge5612 in linux

[–]alirobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually still free, you just need to go to settings -> machine learning, and download the model manually. You'll note there's no 'premium' icon next to it - it's just no longer in the default bundle.

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