I had a couple of excellent questions asked with regards to the first blog post in this series which discussed using Power BI to gather information from an upgraded Log Analytics workspace. “How do I authenticate to schedule a refresh of data in Power BI for my particular datasets from queries? I have the option…
In the first part of this blog series I discussed some of the new capabilities available for Power BI with the release of the new query language. In this blog post I will identify some of the user interface changes which you will see after your workspace has been converted. In the third part of…
In my previous post on defining Employee Engagement, I shared some of my experience in how I frame conversations on the topic. The term “engagement” means different things to different people, thus the perspectives I shared were purposefully designed to help me focus conversations. The term “strategy” is even more ambiguous, and as someone who…
We all hear these words in association with exercise and other forms of vigorous activity for good reason. The excitement or myopic focus on the fun often overshadows the fact many of us need to make sure we are ready to start but more importantly sustain our goals without dire consequences. As well, there are…
[Update 11/29/2017: With all workspaces being converted to the new query language, the original “non-converted workspace” sections of this blog post can be disregarded. I am leaving this blog post in place for historical purposes to show how this functionality changed with the new query language.] Microsoft recently released the new query language for…
If you receive an Error 409 Conflict, when deploying a scheduled Webjob to Azure there are a few things you’ll want to check. Pricing Tier First, in the Azure Portal navigate to Schedule Job Collections, and check the Pricing Tier that your collection is using. If it is set to the Free tier, then you…
I recently ran into a problem uploading to an Azure Storage Queue from an Azure App Services web app. The problem began when I moved the web app from one subscription to another. After the move, I received a (403) Forbidden message when attempting to write to a queue. The storage account for the queue…
The Rapid Application Platform for Digital Transformation Once upon a time, the system of Microsoft applications now called “Dynamics” was really only targeted at sales teams. It was literally Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and capable of very little else. Today, thanks to the technology that lies beneath what was once just CRM, Dynamics is becoming…
Oftentimes, the answer to a question is colored by one’s perspective. There are many perspectives on what employee engagement means to an organization. Some are presented from the perspective of recognition and morale, others from the perspective of corporate communications. My perspective has always been driven by the technology solutions people seek to help…
The most common objection to moving to the cloud is security – companies just aren’t ready to put their data in Azure. Azure stack is the answer to that problem. The ability to run the Azure services on premise is the first step for many companies in a move to a hybrid data center. In…
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