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.
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
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
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
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 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
Let’s make the comparison with your favourite social network web site. In the real life, do you refresh your Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter feed by hitting the « F5 » key every time to get new updates? Obviously not. You are automatically notified in real time when something new happened. Getting back to an intranet portal scenario, why it couldn’t be the… READ MORE
