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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 10/06/2025

Today's solution looking for a problem: hooked up Power BI to my #Ubiquiti network. As long as the items have some of naming convention in UniFi I can break things up into more visuals and graphs. Only works in desktop at this stage as the API isn't available to the web. #PowerBI #UniFi #BecauseICan

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 06/06/2025

Dear Microsoft, when I open up "Microsoft 365 Copilot" (formerly the home screen of #Microsoft365) and press the Create button, images are not the first thing I want to see. The productivity app content should not be buried under "more". #Copilot #M365Copilot

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 04/06/2025

Ah... #PowerBI... continuing to make errors when it comes to #OneDrive or #SharePoint

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 27/03/2025

I know that meetings in #MicrosoftTeams channels aren't perfect, but isn't it better to keep all the items together in context? Because realistically, a non-channel meeting is actually a group chat with voice & video. #PSA #StopGroupChats

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 04/03/2025

Ugh, I hope the new one will at least let you just open the damn thing and switch accounts as necessary, instead of prompting you right at the beginning. When I want to use Copilot that's not in a M365 app/service, I just want Copilot dammit!

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 18/02/2025

Oh, here's one that worked. And sooooooooo helpful!

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 18/02/2025

#Copilot for #Microsoft365 admin failing at the things it says I can do, using prompts it suggests I use.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 14/02/2025

One of my favourite error screens, as seen in #PowerBI.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 27/01/2025

Now, this experience isn't confusing at all. Logos are a small detail I hear people say. :-/

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 20/01/2025

I'm not sure who @ MSFT needs to hear this, but #Copilot interactions and #MicrosoftTeams chats are not the same thing. Therefore they should not be grouped together like this in #Purview retention policy choices. Especially as Copilot interactions occur elsewhere. #Microsoft365 #WhoThoughtThisWasOk

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 13/01/2025

Oh, so you're the one who this stat relates to!

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 11/01/2025

A fun Saturday morning with @lindsaytshelton.com deploying a test build of my #Microsoft365 #Copilot Usage Reporter solution into her org. Some kinks to iron out, but will hopefully be sharing it next week. Stay tuned!

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 04/01/2025

The danger of copying & pasting is evident in the new #Copilot settings in #Microsoft365, specifically in the #Viva sections. Three of these things are not like the other...

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 31/12/2024

Welcome! Remember, the outdoor cooking area must be able to consume a good portion of the total outdoor area. It's a rule, I didn't make it up.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 19/12/2024

Two weeks notice, and over the holiday season??? So, some people will come back to work and find an entire system of managing content has simply vanished. Who thought this was OK???

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 19/12/2024

Continuing the trend in deprecating actually useful features in what appears to be a thinly veiled guise to get us to rely on Copilot more.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 19/12/2024

Lol no... But if I squint really hard I can see you from here! And that's beyond punny!

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 19/12/2024

Ah, welcome down undah mate! I'm actually on the opposite side of the coast from you currently, having my own beach holiday. :-)

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 18/12/2024

That actually exists. Here it is in Flight Simulator 2024. :-)

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 06/12/2024

So umm..... #VivaGoals is being retired next year? Kinda surprised by that one.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 05/12/2024

No #Copilot in #Excel, it is not password protected. It has a sensitivity label applied to it. Your other friends seem to be able to work with them, so why can't you?

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 05/12/2024

Can I ask, does anyone else think that going to copilot.microsoft.com and having this experience is actually a good thing? If so, why? Why can't it redirect me automatically, and let me use the account switcher as it did previously? #Copilot

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 01/12/2024

By day I enjoy hacking #Microsoft365 to do what I want it to do. Today, I hack my car

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 24/11/2024

Ahh... the bots are coming!

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 20/11/2024

Playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 last night and I see this. Automatically triggered by Pavlovian conditioning, but this time it's not wrong.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 12/11/2024

I've just launched a new "data centre" for my home automation and monitoring kit. Both running Ubuntu server with Docker. About to move some workloads over. Connected to a 1200va UPS (which is actually for our desks). The cabinet with the NAS and network gear is at capacity already. :-)

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 08/11/2024

After I took this pic, he decided to pose for me.

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Loryan Strant @loryanstrant.com · 04/11/2024

When you decide to do a #Microsoft practice test just to see what it's about and come across incorrect product names.

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