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Plantui Smart Garden - Maintaining the Water Pump
Tutorial how to clean and maintain the water pump of Plantui Smart Gardens. Necessary every few month or when it makes noises.
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Power Apps Licensing: Per App Plan Is Not Enough
Microsoft's Power Platform has had a lot of growth recently as it has become one of the core offerings of Microsoft's entire product line. But with changes in importance and technology, new licensing plans came by and were released in October 2019. The structure of the previous plans (called P1 and P2) were totally changed...
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Plantui Smart Garden - My Favorite Plants & Recipes
Plantui Smart Gardens are perfect for plant lovers like me. They offer a fascinating and convenient way to grow plants - for both old and young . At the same time, their smart gardens are based with futuristic technology based on hydroponic watering. Hydroponically grown plants like herbs, spices and flowers are not only super...
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Plantui Smart Garden - My Favorite Accessories
Expand your Plantui Smart Garden with a wide range of accessories. Grow microgreens and boost plant growth.
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Instructions: Outlook.com with your own domain
Would you like to use a personalized e-mail address at no extra cost? No problem: With Outlook.com Premium, you can link your own domain (e.g. lennartwoermer.de) to your email inbox at Outlook.com. This requires your domain to be hosted under GoDaddy and a Microsoft 365 subscription. I personally use this function and receive my emails from the contact form directly in Outlook.com. This gives me...
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Power Apps: Building Offline Capability for Canvas Apps
Best practice how to build offline capability for Canvas Apps (Power Apps) including formulas and real-life scenarios.
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Create iCal Birthday Calendar from Outlook.com Contacts
Do you use Outlook.com as your primary source to store your contacts? Well, it's a good choice as it's based on the Office 365 infrastructure. Therefore, it's a fast, reliable and secure service from Microsoft. In this article, I'd like to show you how to create your own birthday calendar based on your Outlook.com contacts...
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Power Apps: Creating Multilingual Canvas Apps
Microsoft Power Apps are powerful ways of creating business applications in a smaller scale than Dynamics 365 solutions. With Canvas Apps as one type of Power Apps, there are even more possibilities and features included in the newly created Power Platform: The additional layer on top of the Dataverse allows you to connect to hundreds...
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Subscribe to Microsoft To-Do Tasks in Calendar (iCal)
Ever since Microsoft released their new task management tool Microsoft To-Do, I was missing just one functionality from its predecessor Wunderlist: subscribing to an iCal calendar feed with my tasks in it. Since there is no native way of doing it, I took Microsoft's process automation tool Power Automate to fulfill this task. Let's prepare...
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Power Apps Portals: Embedding Power Apps
Embedding Power Apps (Canvas, Model-Driven) may be a scenario you might have to deal with when you want your customer to access a Power App through a dedicated Power Apps Portal designed for your customer's specific needs. Unfortunately, there isn't a native way of integrating your Power App into the Power Apps Portal. Therefore, a...
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Make Dashlane Work With New Microsoft Edge Chromium
Today is a big day for Microsoft as they started to rollout their new Microsoft Edge Chromium-based web browser. It's a fantastic product: It's fast, reliable, safe and it's compatible with (almost) all extensions you already know from Google Chrome. However, it doesn't work together with Dashlane out of the box. Here is a tutorial...
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Magic Mirror - Part 8: Installation of MagicMirror²
It's been three quarters of a year since my last post in the Magic Mirror series, in which I announced a change of course away from in-house development on Universal Windows Platform and Windows 10 IoT Core to a web-based application. Today is the day, because I have decided to use the MagicMirror² project - a project behind which...
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Xbox One S - Fixing noisy fans creating an ultra silent console
The Xbox One S is an amazing game console as every Xbox has been. However, with this version of the Xbox in particular, there's been a problem with noisy fans. The quality of the original fans vary quite a lot and therefore, there can be really silent but also really noisy game consoles out there....
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Embedding XING in social media strategies
While LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, XING is still very present in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Unfortunately, XING can only be integrated into the social media strategy of a company or private individual to a very limited extent: There are no interfaces to automatically create posts and share content with your network. This article...
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OneNote: Migration of notebooks via OneDrive
Microsoft does not provide instructions for migrating OneNote notebooks that are valid for all scenarios. This article is based on these instructions and provides a generally applicable and practical guide to migrating OneNote notebooks between users or between different OneDrive storage locations.
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License changes for PowerApps and Flow in October 2019
With the Power Platform, Microsoft has created a powerful and highly integrated low-code platform. Its components include PowerApps for process and data visualization and Flow for process automation. Both products will receive new license models from October 2019. I have also provided you with equivalent information on PowerApps Portals. PowerApps general information The following is a summary of the basic features of PowerApps...
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PowerApps: Filtering a SharePoint List By Date
Microsoft PowerApps is a powerful low-code platform which allows you to connect to hundreds of data sources - SharePoint is one of them and a very popular choice in enterprises. A very common thing to implement is a list of items respectively records of a data source - in this example a SharePoint list. This...
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Dynamics 365: Generating New Leads though a Business Card Reader
Introduction Wouldn't it be great to just take a photo of a business card and save the extracted information as a new lead record in Microsoft Dynamics 365? Or to add certain elements to an existing lead record? Or maybe the same with contacts or accounts? Let's jump right in and check out how it...
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How-to: Building Really Responsive Power Apps
Implement responsive Canvas Apps (Power Apps) with dynamic screen sizes and flexible item positions. Best practices and examples included.
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Portal for all Microsoft Insider programs
Microsoft operates a so-called Insider Program for a large number of products and services - an opportunity for interested users to gain early access to new functions and provide targeted feedback. In recent months, we have seen a continuous expansion of Microsoft's Insider programs: At the end of last year, they announced the Microsoft Edge Insider Program...
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