Implementing Entity Keywords
Implementing Entity Keywords Use this feature in your application when you want to enhance searchability of your entities by allowing users to tag them…
Monitoring Azure in Operations Manager 2012 using the Azure Applications management pack (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #Azure)
The Azure Applications Management pack is the same management pack that I blogged about at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/11/09/kicking-the-tires-using-the-azure-management-pack-in-opsmgr-2012-scom-azure-sysctr.aspx. This blog post provides…
QuickTricks: SmartSizing when using Remote Desktop Connection in Windows 8
Windows 8 added a new feature to Remote Desktop Connection UI that I had not seen up to this point…
XrmServiceContext Caching Issue
I love using the XrmServiceContext Caching issue in order to use LINQ queries to retrieve items from our CRM implementation.…
Getting started with Power Query and Power Map – PowerBI
Microsoft recently announced that Data Explorer and Geo Flow are being merged into the new PowerBI suite. You can download…
SQL: Explicitly Setting IDENTITY Key Value using IDENTITY_INSERT
You may come across a need to explicitly set an IDENTITY Key value in your insert statement. I recently came…
Using SQL MERGE for ETL Type 1 and Type 2 Incremental Loading
There are two basic techniques for updating one table with information from another, in this example, we are updating an…
AD FS Setup for a Development Environment (Localhost)
I recently was tasked with configuring our development environment (localhost) to work with AD FS. Unfortunately, I had a…
Entity Framework Code First
Entity Framework Code First Pluralsight course Entity Framework 4.1 – Code First by Julie Lerman General Info Code first is a…
July Office 365 International User Group Meeting Scheduled
With being out at Microsoft’s World Partner Conference last week I am getting this out a little late, but better…