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.
Imagine having a personal Office 365 assistant in your daily job routine, which can help you provide all information that you need, like for example who is your manager, scheduling a meeting, displaying and updating your profile picture or list the Microsoft Teams where you are involved and so on. These are only a few… READ MORE
Planned maintenance for virtual machines in Azure As mention in previous post, Azure periodically perform the update to increase reliability, performance, security. These updates includes patching software components in the hosting environment (like operating system, hypervisor, and various agents deployed on the host), upgrading networking components, to hardware decommissioning. As mention these update don’t have any… READ MORE
Understand the Maintenance and Downtime Unplanned Hardware Maintenance Event This event occurs when Azure predicts either hardware or any platform component is going to fail. Azure Issue an unplanned hardware maintenance alert to reduce the impact to the VMs hosted on that hardware. What is the impact in this case?In this scenario Azure uses Live migration to… READ MORE
In my last post I have shown you how to create and configure the Analysis services in Azure. Today I will show you how to connect to the Analysis Services from Visual Studio SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools). In my lab environment the initial Architecture was as follows. Fig: Azure Analysis Service Initial Architecture. The steps to… READ MORE
This post I have targeted to the BI developers and system admins who are interested to configure and work with the SQL Server Analysis Services in Azure (Called Analysis Services in Azure) What is SQL Server Analysis Services? SQL Analysis Service is the PaaS instance of SQL Server Analysis Services. It’s an analytical data engine… READ MORE
More and more Companies are moving from on premises towards Office 365, but how to authenticate with 3rd party Web Services, e.g. for document generation?
Azure Active Directory offers a way to authenticate users for any Web Service called from SharePoint Online, Dynamics 365 or any other Office 365 App.
Join this session to see a live demo of how we have seamlessly integrated and secured the dox42 Web Service into SharePoint Online using Azure Active Directory.
In this article I’d like to talk about a very common enterprise scenario, where basically a user is able to request a new SharePoint site (Team site, Communications site) or Microsoft Teams by starting a workflow process where a kind of architecture on Azure looks like as below: I decided to share my experience about… READ MORE
Get your ESPC18 Super Early Bird Tickets before May 7th! Super Early Bird Tickets are available until May 7th for Europe’s leading SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference. Book today and save up to €300 per ticket. 10 reasons why ESPC18 is the leading European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference 1. Focus –… READ MORE
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
Collect and analyze sensor and usage data from Internet of Things applications with Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. Internet connectivity to everyday devices such as light bulbs, thermostats, and even voice-command devices such as Google Home and Amazon.com’s Alexa is exploding. These connected devices and their respective applications generate large amounts of data that can be… READ MORE
