I often have situations, where the scheduling of meetings is not done effectively. Tools like Doodle, mail or even phone calls are used to coordinate appointments even though Office 365 - including FindTime is available.\nTherefore, I would like to go over the integrated functionalities of Office 365 and FindTime again.

If you are working with PowerShell frequently, you will often run into the question of logging. How do I want to write logs, where to write them and which format should they have. We wont go into these questions here, however, we will take a look at how to implement PowerShell logging in a non-blocking (async) way.

On July 1st, Microsoft is honoring community work with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title all over the world. This years renewal cycle held some big surprises for us.

Recently, I had the problem of monitoring the latency of my internet connection to provide these information to my ISP for troubleshooting. As the standard ping class in .net and Test-NetConnection was too inflexible and had no timestamps, I wanted to create a PowerShell Script to provide these functionality. Classes were something I haven't used in a while so I chose to create a PowerShell class called AdvancedPing.

A frequent question regarding Office 365/Azure tenants is, which default language is used for the individual services and where it can be changed. In general, every user can set his own language in the user settings (MyAccount - Settings - Language and Time zone), but there are also services where the default language cannot be changed afterwards.

If you are like me from Germany, but used to writing on a EN-US or EN-GB keyboard layout, you probably ran into the problem of writing special characters like "ä", "ü" or "ß".\nThis is why I searched for a more simple solution then changing the layout with WIN+SPACE frequently.