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…
Oversized and undersized VMs plus one IT geek meltdown
Once in a while you work on something which is so cool that you have to share it. Once in…
Share your alert tuning tips to win a Surface RT on SCC!
SystemCenterCentral has just announced a new contest where you can win a Surface RT or a copy of the Operations…