Techielass - A blog by Sarah Lean

Microsoft 365 Featured

Enable External Email Warning Tag in Exchange Online

Learn how to enable the external warning tag within Outlook and help your users to identify malicious emails.

Exchange Online

Install Exchange Online PowerShell modules

Join me as I look at how to install the latest Exchange Online PowerShell modules on your local computer and start to interact with your Exchange environment.

Azure DevOps

Schedule a build in Azure DevOps using CRON Expressions

This article helps you with an easy way to trigger a build or pipeline using Cron Expression or Jobs in Azure DevOps.

Product Review

Lenovo ThinkPad X13 (Gen1) Review

Join me as I look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 (Gen1) and share my thoughts.

Git for everyone Featured

How to Push an Empty Commit in Git

In this article, we will discuss how to push a commit in Git without making any changes.

GitHub Actions Featured

Schedule GitHub Actions Using CRON Expressions

In this blog I show you how to schedule a GitHub Actions workflow using a CRON expression.

Public Speaking

Speaking at DATA:Scotland

I'm speaking at DATA:Scotland in September, come and join me!

Windows 11

Blue Screen of Death when Hyper-V enabled

I recently had an issue where every time I enabled Hyper-V on my Lenovo laptop it would blue screen of death. In this blog post I show how I fixed the issue.

DevOps

Top 10 DevOps engineers to follow in 2022!

Join me as I look at the top DevOps engineers you should be following in 2022!

GitHub Featured

Source Control your AWS CloudFormation templates with GitHub

In this blog post I show you how to source control your AWS CloudFormation templates using the source control tool, GitHub.

AWS CloudFormation

Install cfn_nag on Windows

Join me in this blog post as I install the cfn_nag tool on my Windows machine.

AWS

Install cfn-lint on Windows

Join me as I look at how you can install the CFN-LINT tool on your Windows machine.

AWS

AWS CloudFormation template explained

Join me as I look at the nine key areas of a AWS CloudFormation and look at examples and use cases for each.

AWS Featured

Create an S3 Bucket using AWS CloudFormation

Learn how to create an S3 bucket using AWS CloudFormation with this step-by-step guide. Perfect for beginners, this tutorial covers YAML templates & deployment.

DevOps Featured

What is Lint (software)?

Join me as I look to understand what Lint (software) is and why lint testing your code is important.

Azure Featured

Azure Retirement Announcements

Join me as I look at some of the Azure services that will be retiring in the next year or two.

Open Source

What is Open Source?

Let's take a look at what open source means and how you can get involved.

Hybrid Cloud

The future of hybrid

Join me in a panel discussion on the future of Hybrid Cloud.

GitHub Actions Featured

Trigger a GitHub Actions workflow when a folder changes

Join me as I look at how you can trigger when a GitHub Actions workflow runs.

chocolatey

Chocolatey: What is it?

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows machines. It is used to get software and software updates installed on your Windows machine.

Azure Featured

Create Azure credentials for use in GitHub Actions

Join me in this blog post as I look at how you can create an Azure Service Principal to make a connection between your Azure subscription and GitHub Actions.

Azure Bicep Featured

Getting Started with Azure Bicep

Join me as I look to start learning Azure Bicep. I walk through creating a template and deploying it to Azure.

Presenting

Speaking at Scottish Developers

I will be speaking at Scottish Developers on the 13th April 2022!

Jabra Featured

Jabra Evolve2 75 Review

Check out this review of the Jabra Evolve2 75 headphones.

AWS

AWS Storage Classes explored

Starting your AWS journey or studying for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam? Here is some useful explanations to the different AWS storage classes.