NotAllAboutCode

So here's another rant about Microsoft inconsistency and UN-usability of their products (sorry but I cannot hold this anymore).. Since it's been introduced years ago, Microsoft Powershell looked very promising, with its CMDLet approach to reuse scripts, not only for sysadmin tasks, but for almost everything Microsoft . There is only one problem with it (still nowadays): inconsistency . The reason why I say this, is because most of the times (I am serious, most of them) I try to use Powershell , I get the famous error message: The term '[ Put your Powershell Module name here]' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. That seems like a trivial error, so the next thing to do is to install the missing module. This generally requires a few steps: Figure out which module contains the command you are trying to run (not always straightforward). Figure out which version of the module contains the exact comman

I mentioned before about the Azure and Microsoft Graph APIs , and the fact that Microsoft recommends to use the latter one. In fact, every page of documentation related to the Azure Graph API contains this disclaimer: We strongly recommend that you use  Microsoft Graph   instead of Azure AD Graph API to access Azure Active Directory resources. Our development efforts are now concentrated on Microsoft Graph and no further enhancements are planned for Azure AD Graph API. There are a very limited number of scenarios for which Azure AD Graph API might still be appropriate; for more information, see the  Microsoft Graph or the Azure AD Graph I can see this disclaimer in articles dated back as much as June 2017. Still, as of now ( February 2018 ), the Microsoft Graph API only supports a tiny bunch of operations in its official version 1.0 , and a few more in its beta version , while most of the operations that are supported on the Azure Graph API (soo ma