https://gerjon.com/ Just another IT nerd blog en Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://gerjon.com/setting-up-microsoft-scout/ https://gerjon.com/setting-up-microsoft-scout/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Microsoft Scout is Frontier's new agentic 'virtual coworker' in Teams, and Microsoft locks it down hard. How to open both required gates: Frontier access in the admin center, and the Intune policy that actually controls what the agent is allowed to do. https://gerjon.com/copilot-cowork-usage-based-billing/ https://gerjon.com/copilot-cowork-usage-based-billing/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Copilot Cowork hit GA with usage-based billing on top of your Copilot license. How to scope access to a pilot group, govern Copilot Credits spend, and where cost governance still falls short. https://gerjon.com/migrating-wordpress-to-azure-static-web-apps/ https://gerjon.com/migrating-wordpress-to-azure-static-web-apps/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000 A step-by-step guide to moving a WordPress site to Azure Static Web Apps: the static export, connecting the repo, fixing the 250MB size limit, and the apex-domain gotcha when adding a custom domain. https://gerjon.com/building-your-ai-second-brain-a-practical-manual/ https://gerjon.com/building-your-ai-second-brain-a-practical-manual/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:29:45 +0000 Based on our conversation with Dave Brear (Account Technology Strategist, Citrix) on The Impact of AI: Explored — with my own additions on connecting it to Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Every… https://gerjon.com/maximize-rpa-efficiency-with-power-automate-desktop-on-virtual-machines/ https://gerjon.com/maximize-rpa-efficiency-with-power-automate-desktop-on-virtual-machines/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:09:51 +0000 Power Automate Desktop excels in virtual machine automation, whether for attended development or unattended cloud-triggered flows. This guide covers installation on any VM plus Azure-specific setup… https://gerjon.com/1-mcp-101-demystifying-the-model-context-protocol/ https://gerjon.com/1-mcp-101-demystifying-the-model-context-protocol/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:11:44 +0000 Welcome, future MCP heroes! In this inaugural post, we’ll peel back the layers of the Model Context Protocol—your AI agents’ universal Swiss-Army knife—so you’ll never confuse it with good old agen… https://gerjon.com/plug-and-play-ai-building-your-first-copilot-studio-bot-using-a-mcp-server/ https://gerjon.com/plug-and-play-ai-building-your-first-copilot-studio-bot-using-a-mcp-server/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:31:47 +0000 This is the 2nd blog in a series of blogs. The idea is to take you on a journey into all things related to Model Context Protocol. These are the different blog posts I will create/have created. Hav… https://gerjon.com/setting-up-azure-local-complete-guide/ https://gerjon.com/setting-up-azure-local-complete-guide/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:51:09 +0000 Welcome to the world of Azure Local! Azure Local (the artist formerly known as “Azure Stack HCI”) lets you run VMs, containers and a handful of PaaS services on-prem while Azure Arc keeps everythin… https://gerjon.com/unpacking-sharepoint-restrictive-search-limitations-and-benefits/ https://gerjon.com/unpacking-sharepoint-restrictive-search-limitations-and-benefits/ Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:44:15 +0000 What is Restricted SharePoint Search? Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a tool for SharePoint Administrators (or higher roles) in Microsoft 365. It lets you create a list of approved SharePoint… https://gerjon.com/create-an-ai-agent-inside-a-sharepoint-library/ https://gerjon.com/create-an-ai-agent-inside-a-sharepoint-library/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:27:13 +0000 What Are SharePoint Agents and How Can They Be Used? Introduction to SharePoint Agents: SharePoint agents are automated tools or bots designed to enhance the functionality of SharePoint by performi… https://gerjon.com/cracking-the-code-fixing-the-onedrive-404-error-in-microsoft-teams/ https://gerjon.com/cracking-the-code-fixing-the-onedrive-404-error-in-microsoft-teams/ Sat, 07 Dec 2024 12:00:52 +0000 As an IT consultant, I often encounter various technical issues that require a bit of digging to resolve. Recently, I came across a particularly perplexing problem: the OneDrive button in Microsoft… https://gerjon.com/monitoring-your-blog-website-using-azure-monitor/ https://gerjon.com/monitoring-your-blog-website-using-azure-monitor/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:16:36 +0000 Recently my website was unavailable because there was an issue with the permalinks. So the links on the homepage wouldn’t refer to a blog post. That was *** annoying, so I created an Azure mo… https://gerjon.com/running-windows-11-64-bit-arm-on-vmware-fusion-13-apple-silicon-m1-and-fixing-the-no-network-issue/ https://gerjon.com/running-windows-11-64-bit-arm-on-vmware-fusion-13-apple-silicon-m1-and-fixing-the-no-network-issue/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 21:24:29 +0000 Recently VMware released VMware Fusion 13 which also runs on Apple Silicon. So for us Mac users we have now run Windows on our mac.In this post, I’ll explain how to get through the first step… https://gerjon.com/creating-your-first-power-virtual-agent-chatbot/ https://gerjon.com/creating-your-first-power-virtual-agent-chatbot/ Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:54:18 +0000 Chat bots are an easy way for users/customers to get help, get things done, and/or explain stuff using a textual response system. Nowadays most companies have some kind of chatbot on their internet… https://gerjon.com/error-creating-first-bot-power-virtual-agents-in-trial-environment/ https://gerjon.com/error-creating-first-bot-power-virtual-agents-in-trial-environment/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 10:26:52 +0000 For a certification I’m trying to achieve, I was playing around with AI Chatbots to see how they work. A colleague pointed me to a nice walkthrough by Microsoft on how to create a basic chatb… https://gerjon.com/export-and-import-adfs-claim-rules/ https://gerjon.com/export-and-import-adfs-claim-rules/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:42:26 +0000 Recently we were playing around with an ADFS environment where there was a question of a supplier on the configured ADFS settings. Now my first reaction was why do you connect to ADFS and not to Az… https://gerjon.com/error-the-subscription-is-not-registered-to-use-namespace-microsoft-azureactivedirectory/ https://gerjon.com/error-the-subscription-is-not-registered-to-use-namespace-microsoft-azureactivedirectory/ Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:23:34 +0000 Recently I was at a customer where we needed to have clients authenticate to the web app they created for their service, we looked at several options, and Azure B2C seemed to be the best fit for it… https://gerjon.com/internal-error-when-encrypting-vm-in-vmware-workstation/ https://gerjon.com/internal-error-when-encrypting-vm-in-vmware-workstation/ Sat, 21 May 2022 15:09:22 +0000 In a previous post I explained a few ways how to run Windows 11 inside VMware Workstation Pro read here. But recently I received an error when deploying a new VM stating: There was an internal erro… https://gerjon.com/install-windows-11-in-vmware-workstation-16-pro/ https://gerjon.com/install-windows-11-in-vmware-workstation-16-pro/ Sat, 26 Mar 2022 12:03:15 +0000 Recently I’ve been playing around with VMware Workstation 16 and found that installing Windows 11 is a bit more complex then next, next, finish mostly because of the TPM requirement that the … https://gerjon.com/run-a-pihole-securely-in-azure/ https://gerjon.com/run-a-pihole-securely-in-azure/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 16:34:30 +0000 In my home network I wanted to install some extra security by implementing a Pi-hole (more info can be found here There a several options to do this but I wanted to try using an Azure Container Ins…