Maik van der Gaag

I am a Microsoft MVP, a speaker, and the father of three.

In my free time, I’m on a mission to supercharge the tools I rely on every day. I craft powerful extensions that make your digital life smoother and more exciting. These gems are unleashed on marketplaces and GitHub, changing the way we work and play.

Join me in this journey and fuel the future of extension development. You can Buy me a Coffee or dive into the code with me on GitHub. Together, we’ll create magic that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary!

GitHub Action: Bicep Linting

The Github Action Bicep Linting supports people who write Bicep in linting capabilities for their GitHub Workflows. Supported features for this aciton are:

  • Build Bicep files
  • Output to the GitHub Summary
  • Output to Sarif
  • Output to a combined Sarif file for all your linted Bicep files.

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Power BI Actions

Power BI Actions is one of my most used extensions. With this extension, you can manage the complete lifecycle of your Power BI dashboards within powerbi.com. A list of operations that are supported are:

  • Upload / Import Power BI dashboard (pbix file).
  • Create a Power BI workspace.
  • Remove a Power BI workspace.
  • Add a new Admin user to a Power BI workspace.
  • Add a Service Principal to a Power BI workspace.
  • Add a Group to a Power BI workspace.
  • Update the connection of a Power BI report.
  • Refresh a dataset.
  • Update SQL Direct Query String
  • Update Gateway

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Azure Key Vault actions

“Azure Key Vault actions” is an extension for performing specific operations within an Azure Key Vault. Operations that are supported are:

  • Get Azure Key Vault secret value
  • Add / Update Azure Key Vault secret
  • Remove Azure Key Vault secret
  • Add access policy
  • Remove access policy
  • Import Azure Key Vault certificate
  • Get Azure Key Vault certificate Uri

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Azure Resource Group Tagging

“Azure Resource Group Tagging” is an extension for tagging resource groups with certain tag values. This extension is mainly used to tag resource groups with a release number.

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Azure Resource Group with Tags and Lock

“Azure Resource Group with Tags and Lock” is an extension that allows you to create resource groups with tags and locks. With the default Microsoft extension, it is not possible to create resource groups with tags and locks.

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Trigger Azure DevOps Pipeline

“Trigger Azure DevOps Pipeline” is an extension for triggering a Build or Release Pipeline in an Azure DevOps project.

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Version number counter

Version number counter is an extension for Azure Pipelines where this extension increments the version number on each run.

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Azure RBAC

Extension for Azure DevOps that gives you the ability to add and remove role-based access assignments in Azure.

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Publish Stream Analytics Transformation

Publish Stream Analytics Transformation is a simple task for Azure DevOps Build and Release Pipelines that publishes a stream analytics transformation based on a query file within source control.

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File Content To Variable

File content to a variable is a simple task for Azure DevOps Build and Release Pipelines that extracts the content of a file and places it within a variable.

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