Azure Resource Manager (ARM) introduces a new set of API’s that are leveraged when resources in Azure are provisioned and deployed – benefits of which the Classic Azure Service Management (ASM) API’s simply didn’t have. The Azure Resource Manager is the portal accessed via: https://portal.azure.com With this new portal and related API’s came the concept…
Office 365 Groups has been around for a while now, but many people either don’t know about it, or don’t use it. Quickly, O365 Groups provides users a way to communicate and collaborate with each other in a quick and easy environment. More importantly it is the foundation of Microsoft’s growing feature set for the…
Do you use Azure Automation and want to know what jobs have run and their results? Would it be even more useful to have this available on your mobile? If so, check this out! Microsoft has provided a way to route Azure Automation job information into Microsoft OMS which is available at this article: Forward…
It seems that every few years there is a new “must do” trend in business. The most recent buzzword was “Cloud.” Everyone knew they should be leveraging it, but it was so nebulous that it really didn’t mean anything to anyone. It has taken years for people to figure out what the cloud really is…
The Digital Transformation? It’s only the most transformational time in human history. You’re living in the era that marks a holistic integration of technology into human activity. Has the 20th century canon of dystopian novels come to fruition? Is WestWorld’s human vs machine narrative so chilling because, well… what is the difference between your mind…
In the Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we created an ASP.Net Core app in Visual Studio 2015 and manually installed it on an EC2 instance in the AWS cloud. In Part 3 we automated the deployment using AWS OpsWorks Configuration Management Service and custom Chef recipes. Part 4 will utilize the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service as an…
It’s been many years since I read that SQL databases should use an NTFS volume formatted with at 64KB file allocation unit size (block size). So long that I didn’t remember why or if it is still considered best/good practice. It appears that it is according to Microsoft and the foremost authority on SQL with…
For so much promise, often the best day of an Intranet or employee portal is the day it launches. IT, Developers and users have spent months creating compelling content and excitement over the new portal is high. We built it, now they will come and be more productive and engage with the mission of the…
It wasn’t that long ago that Microsoft told us that they were a Cloud First company. Now they are a Cloud First, Mobile First company. Can you have two “firsts”? Well, it turns out that they really do go hand in hand. One of the biggest changes with Satya becoming the CEO of Microsoft has…
Microsoft’s Cognitive Services is a grab-bag of amazing capabilities that you can purchase by the transaction. The Cognitive Services APIs are grouped by vision, speech, language, knowledge and search. This article is about using the Text Analytics API (in the language group) to score the sentiment and detect the topics of a large number of…
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