According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
The first mistake that all new Analysis Services Tabular developers make is this one: they create a new project in SSDT, they connect to their source database, they select the tables they want to work with, they click Import, and they then realise that trying to load a fact table with several million rows of… READ MORE
Azure Search Index can work really well with Azure Blob Storage. It can automatically index and analyse documents uploaded to a Storage Container to make it easy for you to expose the data in your application.When working with Blob data, Azure Search is designed to incrementally add new documents automatically. However, where it gets really… READ MORE
I’ve written about using Docker Machine with a number of different providers, such as with AWS, with OpenStack, and even with a local KVM/Libvirt daemon. In this post, I’ll expand that series to show using Docker Machine with Azure. (This is a follow-up to my earlier post on experimenting with Azure.) As with most of the other Docker Machine providers, using… READ MORE
We won the European SharePoint Conference 2017 Hackathon with a fresh idea of using Office 365 and Machine Learning to identify groups of people in Office 365 that can collaborate through Yammer, SharePoint and the Office 365 stack. The idea, Office 365 as a better collaboration space The initial idea came from @Joon Du Rant and we… READ MORE
At the recent 2017 European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference in Dublin, my colleague @VelinGeorgiev and I built a solution for the conference hackathon that uses insights gathered from machine learning to create communities of users on an Office365 tenant who have similar behavior. I came up with the idea and built the machine learning part… READ MORE
SharePoint Webhooks was the main topic of the previous article, in this article I’ll talk about the same topic, using it with SharePoint Framework extension application customizer for displaying toast notifications. This is the final result: This solution offers the possibility to display toast notifications on the modern view, which is definitely really useful to keep informed… READ MORE
Microsoft announced that it has added geographic routing capability to Azure Traffic Manager, which allows users to localize content specific to regions, enhances data sovereignty. It allows users to partition their user base by continent, country or even a particular state, and serve them using the nearest endpoint. For example, you can serve users from Australia and… READ MORE
Microsoft Ignite once again brings in a plethora of announcements, changes, new features, new services and things to keep track of. This session will highlight what’s essential, tell you what’s interesting and shine light on things you might have missed during the week of Ignite. If you’re a IT Pro working with Microsoft Azure, Office… READ MORE
The term “Availability” is for some organisations crucial as they can’t afford any downtime. Your SharePoint pages should be up as you don’t want to lose credibility in front of your customers especially if you are selling services/products through SharePoint. As being the IT department, if you don’t propose some decent monitoring tools, the business… READ MORE
A while ago I wrote two articles about how you can automate the publishing process of your SharePoint Framework scripts and solution package via custom gulp tasks. Info: you can find the articles here and here. These gulp tasks are already a great step forward but still, requires you to manually launch these gulp commands… READ MORE
