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Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the new set of APIs for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure services. A previous article in this series defines what Azure Resource Manager (ARM) means for Developers, IT Pros and DevOps. This article will dive into the details of using Azure Resource Manager, ARM Templates, Visual Studio 2015, and the Azure SDK to […]

How to get the best business return on your Sitecore investment. As marketers become more involved in choosing the tools to drive digital business growth, they must also be very aware of the process and key steps that should take place before one line of code is written. This holds true in every Sitecore build […]

Microsoft is in the process of transitioning the Microsoft Azure tools over to using the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) model for managing Azure resources. On the surface this looks to be merely a change in the API’s and tools. While this is mostly true, it’s a shift that offers a more streamlined approach to […]

It’s been 4 years since the first Raspberry Pi was released on February 29, 2012. In the last four years there have been a number of updates to the Raspberry Pi platform, including the Raspberry Pi 2 released 1 year ago. The Raspberry Pi has been fairly popular among hobbyist, education and industrial markets with […]

For the most part, Directory Synchronization with Exchange Hybrid is fairly straight-forward. Your Active Directory is authoritative for nearly every attribute in Exchange Online with only a handful of attributes being written-back to the on-premises directory. If you want to change an attribute such as an email address, you make the change in Active Directory […]

Sitecore offers HTML caching for your components right out of the box with several different caching options to boost your site’s performance. You can set different caching settings at the rendering-level such as enabling/disabling caching, caching per user, caching per data, etc. However, the caching duration for renderings is set at the site level and is […]

Perficient is excited to announce that both Stephen Tynes, Sitecore Practice Director at Perficient, and Jon Upchurch, Sitecore Practice Architect at Perficient, have been named a “Most Valuable Professional (MVP)” by Sitecore, the global leader in experience management software. Tynes and Upchurch were two of only 177 people worldwide to be named a Sitecore Technology […]

How healthcare can use the leading customer experience platform to deliver the ideal patient experience. If you are in the healthcare business – data, and how it is utilized, is likely something you face weekly. For that matter, you may have even read some of our own Healthcare Industry Trends. Healthcare is rich with patient data, […]

Moving your business from an on-premises SharePoint environment to the cloud-based Office 365 (O365) environment can be a complex, costly, and time-consuming process.  That’s why a lot of companies take a piecemeal approach.  Some of the business will stay on-premises, as they move a piece at a time to the cloud. This is a safe […]

Also known as, ASP.NET 5, this introduction will cover some basic topics on the new framework. Microsoft hosted a free all-day training session this week at the MTC and I was able to attend. It was my first in-depth look at all the new features and I was quite surprised by some. The last version […]

For many organizations, Exchange Online commonly serves as the stepping stone to Office 365 and often as their first step to using cloud services in general. Sometimes overshadowed by the financial benefits of migrating to Exchange Online is the necessary prep work to get there. While the migration effort is something you may have engaged […]

Do you remember your very first airplane ride? I do, I was eight and I was headed to Disney World. So a double whammy of happiness – first time on a plane and first time to Disney. I don’t recall being scared to get on the plane, or being nervous when landing, or even when […]