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The last year has flown by for our Perficient Microsoft team – and that’s likely the case for most Microsoft partners. It seems like a mere few months ago, Perficient was both elated and humbled to be recognized as the 2013 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year.  As mentioned in this blog post, at the […]

The Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) was introduced back with SP2 for Exchange 2010; while it has been a vast improvement over the former manually-intensive process, at times it can feel more like the “Hybrid Configuration Gremlin”… Like most aspects of Office 365, the HCW has seen continual improvement from it’s initial introduction and […]

Welcome back to Perficient’s Yammer 101 Series. This is Part 2 of the series. If you missed Part 1 – Introduction, please have a look. In this post, we will take a dive into the world of Posting – How to Post, Types of Posts, Topics, Mentions, and Best Practices for Posting. How to Post Starting […]

From yesterday’s announcement: Salesforce will support Windows, Windows 8.1, build “interoperability Salesforce and Office 365,” Microsoft’s subscription-based productivity suite, and integrate OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and Outlook in various capacities. Salesforce will use Microsoft’s Azure broadly. Who would have ever thought there would be a picture containing both a Microsoft CEO and Mark Benioff […]

In my last blog post, I gave you a SQL function that will return the FullPath of a given Sitecore Item.  Another common set of information one might want to retrieve from the Sitecore DB is the descendent items in the proper order as they show in the Sitecore Content Tree.  The trick to this […]

It’s not often that a Sitecore developer has to write SQL queries against the Sitecore databases because the Sitecore API handles basic CRUD operations for the developer.  It’s also a best practice to use the API so that all the hooks and handlers and pipelines and events fire the way they’re designed to.  However, there […]

The Perficient Sitecore Practice team would like to extend our congratulations to Sitecore for being named Microsoft’s ISV Partner of the Year for 2014!  You can see the full list of winners here.  As an implementation partner of Sitecore, and a Microsoft NSI who’s won a Partner of the Year award, we certainly understand the […]

The release of Windows Server 2012 R2 brought with it a new version of AD FS (unofficially referred to as AD FS 3.0). This version of AD FS was a deviation from previous versions in that it no longer used IIS and the “AD FS Proxy” was replaced with the “Web Application Proxy” role. In […]

Testing is a necessary difficulty that we all must endure. The practice of Test Driven Development (TDD) doesn’t always make testing easier but I firmly believe it makes the development of software more predictable and reliable. Throughout my career I’ve been a part of many teams, both those disciplined in good testing practices and others […]

Yammer is a cloud-based Enterprise Social Network (ESN) platform that facilitates open communication and collaboration within a private area for employees within the same company. Often thought of as ‘Facebook’ or ‘Twitter’ for the enterprise, it provides familiar features to interact on business content. The key message behind ESNs in general and Yammer specifically is […]

Earlier in the year, we held a popular webinar on utilizing Power BI, a new Microsoft offering (then in preview). Of course, much has changed since that previous webinar, with Power BI being available to the general public and the release of SQL Server 2014. In light of those changes, my colleague, Andy Tegethoff, a […]

It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at the office.  Besides hopping from LA to NYC to Chicago to work with various and sundry eye-catching clients, we’ve been turning out essays on a couple of hot topics: ROI (Return On Investment) as provided by Enterprise Social Networks Governance in Yammer, specifically External Networks In […]