Converting from Federated Users (ADFS Authenticated) To Standard Users and Password Sync
I recently assisted a client converting from using Federated Users that authenticate using ADFS to Standard User with DirSync…
Maintaining Related Data with Entity Framework
Maintaining Related Data with Entity Framework Info from asp.net/mvc tutorial Overview Unfortunately out-of-the-box strongly typed MVC views do not expose relationship…
Implementing Entity Keywords
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…