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The Visual Studio 2015 support GUI support for Azure Resource Group projects and managing ARM Templates is still fairly new. As a result there isn’t full GUI and editor support in it for all features of Azure; although there are a lot of features already supported. One of the features that isn’t supported through the […]

Recently I was working on a contact form using Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM) module and came across an instance that didn’t quite work out-of-the-box as I would expect. Some background on the Sitecore instance before I get into the rest of the details. Sitecore version is 8 update 4 (rev. 150621) and the […]

Despite all the new features that Microsoft has introduced around Retention Policies and Archiving, some clients that I work with still long for the day of “Managed Folders”. The “Managed Folders” feature left us with Exchange 2010 and the replacement, “Retention Policies” and “Retention Tags”, can be a difficult to adopt for some organizations. In […]

Earlier this month, I published some notes (“Office 365 – Have You Evaluated These Exchange Online Features?“) on features within Exchange Online that deserve a bit of scrutiny. One of these features is the “Default Role Assignment Policy” which, by its name, is assigned by default to every mailbox. What does this policy contain? Are […]

I’ve been asked “Why upgrade to SharePoint 2016?  What’s in it for me?” Your SharePoint farm is old. As in, it’s SP2007 or SP2010 – you are not supported. That’s a no brainer.  But what if you have SharePoint 2013… SharePoint 2016 is a lot more stable and it’s faster. Microsoft has gained had a lot […]

The previous article in this series covered how to define database Connection Strings for an App Service Web App within an ARM Template. This article will continue to build on the foundation of deploying a Web App using an ARM Template by exploring how to define Application Settings (aka appSettings) for an App Service Web […]

Franklin Energy is the leader in program administration and implementation for utility clients across the U.S. in both the residential and commercial sectors. Their tag line (and go to market solution for its clients) is energy efficiency. The company, based in Port Washington, Wisconsin, wanted to simplify and streamline the process for its clients looking […]

This week on Pi Day, March 14th, Microsoft announced that SharePoint Server 2016 has reached RTM (Release to Manufacturing). This new release of SharePoint Server brings with it new capabilities for users, IT pros and administrators. SharePoint 2016 also includes features for powering the next generation of hybrid capabilities. In addition, the cloud hybrid search for […]

When you move your mailboxes to the cloud, there are some details that you lose a little bit of insight into. While an acceptable answer to “where are my mailboxes” might be “the cloud”, I was curious as to how distributed they are. We know that an Office 365 tenant is limited to a single […]

Hedgehog’s Team Development for Sitecore has made Sitecore development with teams a dream. Gone are the days of passing around packages and keeping track of your Sitecore changes in notepad for each commit. As great as TDS has been, I’ve run into an issue on a couple of projects recently when using TDS with Git that […]