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Recently, I posted about issues that ran into during an upgrade of 8.0 update 4 rev. 150621 to 8.1 update 2 rev. 160302. That article is available here. That article did not cover the actual process of upgrading and I thought it may be beneficial to provide a walk-through of that. To start off, I went […]

One of the compelling features of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is its extensibility. Although SQL Server comes with a wide array of SSIS components (including different data sources, transformation tasks and logical flow control operations), sometimes there is a need to do something unique in your SSIS package, something that is not supported […]

Blogging runs the gauntlet from personal to professional, and somewhere in the middle, it ends up being a great tool for engaging customers. In larger companies, it may seem challenging to juggle multiple blogs, find a common audience, and be a trusted voice to customers. With numerous blogging platforms available (with some great, others not […]

Mark your calendars and get ready to watch Jeff Teper from Microsoft unveil the new vision and roadmap for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, both on-premises and in the cloud with Office 365. Microsoft has added so many exciting new innovations into SharePoint. This event will be a great resource for everyone, whether you’re a SharePoint and/or ODFB end […]

It has been a busy couple of years working with SharePoint Online in Office 365. Perficient has been full throttle migrating organizations to the Microsoft Cloud adopting workloads like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype as well as making sense of new innovations like Delve and embracing Social with Yammer. Particularly within the last year there has […]

Coveo released version 4 of their Coveo for Sitecore product today and we’re all very excited about this new release. We’ve been very impressed with the Coveo product as it brings enterprise-grade search capabilities to Sitecore as well as provide a bevy of connectors to other platforms. With this new release, Coveo has made a […]

While Office 365 offers an ever-expanding amount of insight of logging and health information, there are still operational tasks behind the scene that organizations do not have insight into. In many situations, you don’t necessarily care either; take for instance a failure of a database or server, the service has redundancy in place such that […]

Ever since Microsoft started adding support for Git into Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), many veteran developers on the Microsoft stack who had never used Git before started wondering what was up with that.  One of the things I quickly picked up on at the Build 2016 conference is that most of the dev teams […]

Top of mind for most clients these days is how to use technology to digitally transform their business. And within this is the underlying current of always putting the customer first. Whether it is improving communication by moving Exchange to the cloud, or streamlining collaboration with SharePoint online – the end goal is to be […]

While the Office 365 Roadmap is the authoritative source for features being added to the service, many features seem to receive a sort of “official announcement” via blog post or otherwise before they appear on the roadmap. Before the feature announcement, one would assume that Microsoft has made a fair amount of progress of integrating […]

Sitecore 8 introduced a new Explore Mode option to the Experience Editor that allows content authors to test their digital marketing strategy by simulating visits to their site as different users. One feature that has been particularly useful for me is the ability to simulate different IP addresses to test GeoIP integration in components I’m […]

In my previous post, GEOIP – Getting Started, I mentioned that I would illustrate how to actually use the GeoIP components, and here it is! I’ll start with a personalization example. For this example we have a tab component that will have content specified for different US states. When a visitor comes to the site from Georgia, […]