https://ictstuff.info/Scribbles from a Microsoft Cloud Engineer with a passion for automation and DevOps. 2026-08-29T22:45:38+02:00 Marco Janse https://ictstuff.info/ Jekyll © 2026 Marco Janse /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-08-23T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-29T21:54:23+02:00 https://ictstuff.info/posts/2026-08-23-configure-signed-commits-with-github-codespaces.html Marco Janse

Introduction In one of my previous post I wrote about Using a Yubikey with GitHub for signing your commits. This works fine for your local Git client, but I noticed for this blog that my commits were not signed when using GitHub Codespaces. Thankfully, signing your commits when using GitHub Codespaces is quite easy and does not require your Yubikey or any other GPG-supported hardware key: i...

2024-05-15T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-29T22:45:18+02:00 https://ictstuff.info/posts/2024-05-15-how-to-submit-a-winget-package.html Marco Janse

Introduction When using Windows client systems, installing applications and keeping them up-to-date used to be quite a hassle in the old days. In the past, I used to rely on Chocolatey to keep all my applications up-to-date. Nowadays, I prefer to use the built-in winget tool to install and update packages on Windows client devices. However, sometimes you can run into one of these scenarios: ...

2024-04-05T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-22T21:42:02+02:00 https://ictstuff.info/posts/2024-04-05-powershell-function-for-setting-azure-sql-permissions.html Marco Janse

Introduction I had to set permissions on multiple databases on an Azure SQL server. I decided to create a function for this that can set specific database role permissions on all or one SQL database within an Azure SQL server. The script uses sqlcmd to connect to the Azure SQL server and configure the permissions. So apart from PowerShell, you will need to have the Az.Accounts PowerShell m...

2024-04-01T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-29T22:45:18+02:00 https://ictstuff.info/posts/2024-04-01-introduction-to-bicep.html Marco Janse

Introduction In this article, we will explain what Bicep is, what benefits it has and why you should use it to deploy your infrastructure in Azure. Background When deploying resources with Azure, you can use the Azure Portal to do so. Using the Azure portal to deploy resources is a great way to learn about Azure and getting to know the resource and the configuration options. It also has a...

2024-04-01T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-22T21:42:02+02:00 https://ictstuff.info/posts/2024-04-01-git-set-different-user-settings-conditionally.html Marco Janse

Introduction As you probably know, when using git you have to set your user name and email address before you can do any commits. You can use git config user.name "John Doe" and git config user.email "john.doe@example.com" to set these for a specific repository You can use git config --global user.name "John Doe" and git config --global user.email "john.doe@example.com" to set these valu...