Feed Validator

Here's a great way to validate an RSS feed. It allows you to test and validate the feed as well as offering suggestions to make the feed more readable for a wide range of readers.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/ 

Proton Two Factor Auth

 Proton has released its Authenticator App. And there was much rejoicing.

RSS Lookup!

Here is a great tool for looking up RSS Feeds. I have a couple PowerShell scripts built into PowerNews (https://github.com/loatswil/PowerNews) that do this but it's nice to have a much more thorough online version.

https://www.rsslookup.com/

Microsoft Embracing RSS feeds?

Is it possible that Microsoft is once again embracing the RSS feed?

Over the years, RSS feeds have come and gone so often that many of them are no longer valid. They seem to change weekly. I have always been on the hunt for new feeds and even written PowerShell modules that pull them, parse them, and spit out a local page for viewing. It's very easy to tailor the feed to your needs including Blocklists and Allowlists.

For a long time now many people have used a popular social media site to display updates when we already had a simple and easy way to publish this stuff. Now it appears that Microsoft at least is moving away from this social media method and back to RSS. Here's the "new" Azure status link complete with "rssfeed" in the URL. 

https://rssfeed.azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/feed/

Let's hope it's the start of a new trend.

M365 Forms Admin

How to get information on a Form in M365:

• Open the Form in a browser.
• Open Dev Tools.
• Go to the Network tab.
• Look at the properties for the "response" page and find the UID of the owner.
• The Tenant ID will also be listed first (after the api).

"@odata.context": "https://forms.office.com/formapi/api/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/users/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/

• Go to this page with the GUI/UID pasted at the end.
• You will need an admin role assigned to a user with a Forms license to access this page.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/delegatepage.aspx?originalowner=xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

• Here's the Microsoft learn page:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-forms/admin-information#form-ownership-transfer