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🚀 Introduction Over the holiday break, I decided to dive deep into Llama 3.3, running it on my MacBook Pro M3 Max (128GB RAM, 40-core GPU). What started as curiosity quickly turned into a full exploration of local AI models, Semantic Kernel, and API integrations using Microsoft Graph. In this post, I’ll walk you through my setup, the performance differences between Llama 3.3 and other models like Llama 3.170B, and the practical lessons learned along the way. ...

Building Custom Connectors with Microsoft Graph: A Starter Guide Welcome to the world of Microsoft Graph Connectors! If you’re looking to seamlessly integrate external data into Microsoft Search, you’ve come to the right place. This blog post is designed for technical audiences new to Microsoft Graph Connectors, providing a step-by-step guide on how to get started with building custom connectors. Let’s dive in! Introduction to Microsoft Graph Connectors Microsoft Graph Connectors offer a bridge between external data sources and Microsoft 365, allowing you to make external content searchable within Microsoft Search. This integration not only enhances productivity but also fosters collaboration by making external data accessible through familiar tools like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. ...

Building inside Microsoft 365 ecosystem with Graph Connectors - A Recipe Book Welcome to the world of Microsoft Graph Connectors! If you’re looking to seamlessly integrate external data into Microsoft Search, you’ve come to the right place. If this is the 1st time you are hearing about Microsoft Graph Connectors, it might be useful to take a look at these 2 earlier post: from Waldek Mastykarz and Majesty Uwagerikpe on Find what you need with Microsoft Graph connectors and from Waldek again Anatomy of a Microsoft Graph Connector This post is a middle of the road post that likely your Data folks, your Security folks, your Business Analyst will ask you questions on so… Let’s dive right in! ...

Why you should read this post If you are interested in getting started doing software development with Microsoft 365 and in particular with Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, and/or Microsoft Graph,this post gives the cookbook recipie of what you need and where you need to go to get it. I am going to approach it from: Infrastructure ie. what you need to even get started Sample code created from both internal Microsoft as well as contributed from by the Technical Community Video tutorials of solutions curated by the Product Group team I am on at Microsoft Bonus - I will give you the links to Live calls that you can attend with Microsoft that highlights various popular technology stack where you can hear what is out there by the experts as well as ask your troubling keep you up at night questions. Infrastructure For as long as you continue to use this piece of infrastructure you get an instant sandbox preconfigured with sample data, which enables you to start developing on the Microsoft 365 platform within minutes. The sample data includes: ...

TLDR; A few weeks ago in a corporate team sync one of my colleagues presented information around Microsoft Clarity and I was totally blown away in it’s capabilities as well as its ease of use. According to Microsoft Clarity is a behavioral analysis tool that helps you understand user interactions within your website. I use it to do just that especially for knowing where my users come from, and how they are engaging my content, want to see/hear about my experiences? keep reading… ...

What this is and what this is not This is something new I am trying, this is for me to come back to when I have bad days, when I need to re-focus, and even when I have good days. It is not a goals list, and it not meant to be a retrospective list for 2023. I am going to list 3 things each year that I will try to build upon based on where I am now and where I aspire to be. ...

TLDR; If you are ever in the unfortunate situation where your token thats issued when you create an Azure Static Web App is unobtainable or destroyed and you are trying to CI/CD from your Repo in GitHub you will get an error in your deployment pipeline in GitHub Actions. To remedy the issue you can reset your Token in the Azure Portal and then create a new GitHub Secret in the Repo with the new reset token GUID and you will be all sorted. Want to see how, keep reading… ...

TLDR; A few days ago I set out for a walk to start my Boxing Day 2021 (December 26) & as usual I donned my AppleWatch and my AirPods to listen to my walk/run playlist as I log my journey on the Strava app. As circumstance would have it I got a new iPhone over the holidays and had to redo the process of pairing my ancilliary devices such as my AirPods. By setting up my AirPods with iOS 15 I saw options that permitted me to enhance the sounds that surrounds me that I did not see when I originally set up my AirPods Pro more than 2 years ago. Succintly put, I was able to have bionic ears, I was able to hear the leaves blowing on the streets, at one point I thought I was being followed 😊 I was able to hear all of nature ahead of seeing any movements, and I was also able to hear distant children playing & automobile activity. ...

Why you should read this post Do you find yourself thinking 🤔 wouldnt it be easy to just copy an event on your calendar and paste it to a new location if everything is the same except the time you need it? Well, I tried to do that and from the calendar in the regular thick Outlook Client and I was not able. Later on however after some research I did find an option if I used Outlook Web Access (OWA) or Outlook Progressive Web App (PWA) to Duplicate Event as seen below which gets me what to what I wanted to do. So this works for you, you can stop reading here 😄 if however you only use the regular thick client… keep reading. ...

Why you should read this post If you are interested in Microsoft Graph and how it can work with Python this post gives two examples of an art of the possible. In this post i will be addressing the following topics: Using MSAL libraries in Python Using 2 different Authentication Flows to gain access to Microsoft Graph resources Bonus - Access to my GitHub repo where you can get the code as well as a Jupyter Notebook to runs this on your own Wiring this all up This is not very onerous, in fact if you have ever played with Python, its the simplicity that is really astounding. Basically you need to work the the below libraries to get this sorted: ...