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.
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
Cloud computing offers number of benefits compared with on-premises, including hardware cost savings, hyper-scale advanced workload to fully automation capability to step up to DevOps cultural transformation. Organisations are looking into transforming their infrastructure to the cloud to take these advantages. Such a transformation is not new today, it’s a “shift-and-lift” strategy every organisation has… 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
Sentiment analysis is a special case of text mining that is increasingly important in business intelligence and social media analysis. In this session, we’ll build an experiment for sentiment analysis of documents in SharePoint, using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio.
Get started and learn a step-by-step approach to application development using Microsoft Azure PracticalPlanning an Effective Mobile Strategy – Getting Started with Azure NoSQL Services. Select the right services to solve the problem at hand in a cost-effective manner and explore the potential different services and how they can help in building enterprise applications. Azure… READ MORE
One of the new features that is about to go live is “Azure Information Protection“, which in reality is the cloud version of “Rights Management Services” but better. You can read more about it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/azure-information-protection For this post we will simply look at enabling it and how it works. Firstly, you have to… 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
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
Monitoring a SharePoint Server park was never a really exciting job for Administrators; expect if you really knew about System Centre Operations Manager – aka SCOM, compared to SharePoint Pages with Azure Insight Apps. You had to install the Management Pack that basically enables administrators to manage Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016. The Management Pack is… READ MORE
