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Get SharePoint Document Check-In Comment and ETag in Power Automate

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +1100

When you’re building a Power Automate workflow that to approve files in SharePoint, you need the ETag property from the item, but you probably also want the “check-in comment” that the user enters when they click “Submit for Approval”. Here’s how to get both in one step!

Get Planner Data with PowerShell Universal

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +1100

Recently, the Graph team introduced the ability to access Planner as an application, rather than as a human. That means we were able to give PowerShell Universal the ability to read plans, tasks etc and surface them as an API endpoint.

One-Time File Downloads in ASP.NET

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +1100

A trick for downloading files from your secure ASP.NET Web API.

Start-ChinWag in PowerShell

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:53:34 +1100

Recently, my manager was experimenting with the idea of randomly touching base with people in the business through the day as a way to keep engaged when working remotely. Not content with a manual process, he was tinkering with a PowerShell script to get the members of an Active Directory group, choose someone at random, and start a Teams call using the callto: protocol.

View on GitHub Link for Hugo Coder

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:00:00 +1000

I wanted a “View on GitHub” link on this blog so you could quickly view the source code for any post. Here’s how I did it!

Random Sample of AD Users in PowerShell

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +1000

We had a situation at work recently where we needed to gradually roll out a change to our Active Directory user accounts, and we wanted to make sure we got a random sample from across the organisation for each “ring” of the deployment.

Entity Framework Migrations from GitHub Actions

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +1000

So you have an app using Entity Framework that you’re deploying using GitHub Actions, and you want to use Migrations to keep your database up to date.

Calling MS Graph from ASP.NET on Azure

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +1000

In my last post I talked about calling Microsoft Graph endpoints using an Azure managed identity from PowerShell Universal. This post is about doing the same thing from an ASP.NET web application on .NET 6.

Calling MS Graph from PSU on Azure

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +1000

The Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module wraps up all the Graph endpoints in PowerShell functions, but for security reasons, the Connect-MgGraph function doesn’t allow for stored (secret) credentials. However, since we host PowerShell Universal as an Azure App Service, and we have a managed identity for that app service, we can connect to Graph as the app!

PowerShell Universal Startup Script

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 14:30:00 +1000

I’ve been playing with PowerShell Universal for almost a year now, and I thought this would be a great place to share some tips, tricks and scripts that have helped me out. And what better place to start than the initialize.ps1 script? That’s the script that runs right before the PSU server starts.

The script lives in the .universal folder inside your Repository folder, so create it if it doesn’t exist already.

Welcome (back) to Mabster.NET

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +1000

So yeah, I got tired of faffing about with blog engines and have decided to relaunch this site as a static blog.