In Part 1 you learned how to get Visual Studio 2015 setup and connecting to Amazon AWS DynamoDB NoSQL database with CRUD Operations. Part 2 will continue where we left off and push the application to the AWS cloud by creating an Amazon Linux EC2 instance and prepare the OS to support DOT.NET Core app…
Typical ASP.NET Web applications run on windows servers, front ended with IIS web services and SQL Server as the underlying database. Running in the cloud in Azure is also extremely popular. For this exercise I wanted to change everything. We are going to build a web app in Visual Studio 2015, provide support for ASP.NET…
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to attend the Microsoft MVP Global summit? If so, consider me as your tour guide for this year’s event. Good news, you even got some back stage passes! (BSP = Back Stage Pass) The Microsoft MVP summit in and around Bellevue and Redmond Washington (extremely close to the…
The modern, digital workforce: Where a diverse array of employees, expectations, content, and goals collide in a space that’s more vulnerable than ever before. Centralized collaboration hubs – your company intranet – can help orchestrate digital workplace complexity around a single axis point. But how can you create an environment that mitigates risk while also…
Microsoft introduced PowerApps in late 2015 and recently announced general availability for PowerApps this year. Right now is a great time to explore the new technology. Microsoft wants to accelerate how business apps are developed. Some say this might be the next “workflow” for power users. I spent some time looking evaluating this technology as an automation and communication tool. …
Recently Catapult co-blogged on methods to visualize weather information via OMS and Power BI. These blog posts are available at: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2016/11/14/visualizing-weather-information-in-power-bi-with-data-from-microsoft-oms/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2016/11/11/visualizing-weather-information-in-microsoft-oms/ The sample OMS solution which was created in the series on visualization weather information is now available for download at: OMS solution: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Weather-Solution-for-OMS-ef2faeec Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a way which…
This blog post is designed to get you from nothing to an All-In-One Operations Manager 2016 environment running in Azure on Windows 2016 with SQL 2016 in a couple of hours from start to finish. The following are the major steps involved: Creating the IaaS system in Azure Configure IaaS and the Operating System Configuring…
Do you want to know what’s new in Configuration Manager, System Center Operations Manager 2016 and Windows Server 2016? If so you won’t want to miss the one-time webinar featuring Wally Mead, Mick Talbott and some slacker who says he knows a few things about Operations Manager J On Thursday December 8th, we will be…
I recently ran into an interesting issue when deploying Office 2016 ProPlus on Windows 7. I discovered that the OneDrive application installs under the user context, and not to the system like the rest of the suite does. This is not a big deal if you are using Windows 10, as OneDrive client is built…
A crucial part of any IT Pro’s job is to be a reliable source of information for a given platform; proving that you are this reliable source can be difficult for any number of reasons: These platforms are often new (sometimes to the point of being partially incomplete) Studying for one or more tests can…
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