Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on Power BI for Office 365: Using SharePoint Online to Deliver Self-Service Business Intelligence. During the well attended session, Andy Tegethoff, Microsoft BI architect at Perficient, first reviewed what Power BI is all about, who is likely to be a user, and the components of it. He then dug deeper […]
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The Art of Delegation: The new Office 365 Partner Admin Center
So you say you’re moving to Office 365 / SharePoint Online with the help of a leading technology partner, and you’d like that partner to help you manage the platform going forward? Look no further, says Microsoft– the Office 365 Partner Admin Center is here! According to the official Office 365 Technology Blog: The new […]
Windows Azure: PaaS changing the landscape of online gaming
Titanfall is a new blockbuster game for the Xbox One. It is being published by Electronic Arts and is due to be released in March 2014. Titanfall is a first person shooter that will have much of its AI hosting , physics calculations, online match making and multi-player dedicated servers hosted in Windows Azure. This […]
Leveraging In-Line User Defined Functions in SQL Server
User-Defined Functions (UDFs) are great, and have been part of SQL Server for a long time now. They come in two primary flavors: scalar and table-value. The first returns a single value, where as the second will return an entire result set. It’s not uncommon to want to reuse a block of SQL. Views are […]
Manually Configuring Outlook for Office 365 (Exchange 2013)
With the new version of Office 365 on the Exchange 2013 platform, Microsoft really recommends using Autodiscover for client configuration and connectivity. There may be some instances during coexistence where Autodiscover cannot be changed/redirected. The following are the steps in order to gather and configure Outlook manually. This manual configuration is on a per user […]
The CIO’s Guide to a Lync Server 2013 Global Design
More and more organizations are deploying Lync 2013, as it provides a single solution that unites voice, IM, audio, video, and web-conferencing into a richer, more simplified experience. It allows employees to work from just about anywhere to communicate securely and stay connected with colleagues and customers. When an organization decides to take advantage of […]
Developing Rich UI Applications with Display Templates
As part of working on two SharePoint 2013 WCM projects I’ve had the opportunity to develop a lot of Display Templates. At first, Display Templates development sounded more painful than it should be, but as I spent more time I found a few techniques to easily build rich interfaces. In this post I’ll go over […]
Upcoming Webinar: Building a Better Healthcare Dashboard
According to a recent world study, when it comes to the topic of big data and decision-making for healthcare organizations, a top challenge reported is the ability to analyze data and deliver insights in real time. Unfortunately, many key performance indicators on healthcare dashboards fail to drive real results or are missing key organizational improvement […]
Coin — One card to rule them all?
What is Coin? Coin is a brilliant new technology that allows users to consolidate all of their cards into a single Coin card. A Coin card is not your traditional credit card. It is an electronic device the size of a credit card with a programmable magnetic strip. Any card with a magnetic strip whether […]
Lync 2013 SQL Mirroring Witness Gotcha
My colleague, Jason Sloan, has a great blog post on some SQL mirroring issues he encountered during a recent Lync 2013 deployment that I highly recommend everyone read. This post is intended as an addition to that list with an issue that I discovered during my own Lync 2013 SQL mirroring deployment. Consider the following […]
Windows Azure PCI DSS compliance and expanded ISO certification
Microsoft announced today that Windows Azure has met two significant milestones. The milestones are related to compliance and security. The lack of PCI compliance is one thing that has kept some potential Windows Azure customers away from building services and applications on the platform. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) will allow you […]