When you install Lync 2013 and configure the back end for mirroring, a lot of things happen “under the hood” to configure the mirror (and witness, if applicable). Microsoft really has done a fantastic job of hiding the overall complexity of SQL mirroring through Lync topology builder, but suffice it so say, there are many […]
Posts Tagged ‘application development’
Webinar Recap & Replay: Big Data and the Intelligent Enterprise
On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on Big Data: Using Microsoft Enterprise Information Solutions to Make Smarter Business Decisions. During the session, Duane Schafer, Microsoft BI Practice Director at Perficient, began by defining Big Data, then analyzing Big Data with the Microsoft platform (including ways to manage structured vs. unstructured data such as a parallel […]
Windows Azure: Retiring Windows Server 2008 and how to upgrade
Beginning on June 2, 2014 Windows Azure will be retiring Windows Server 2008. This means that you will no longer be able to deploy a new Cloud Service or manage your existing services on virtual machines running Windows Server 2008. Windows Azure currently supports four different GuestOS ‘versions’: GuestOS 1.x – Windows Server 2008 GuestOS […]
SPC 2014: SharePoint for Any Screen Size, a Responsive Approach
Eric Overfield (@ericoverfield) and Rita Zhang gave an informative session. It was chock full of examples and example code. I couldn’t grab the code examples but a lot of the best practices and screenshots from live sites I was able to grab. They started with the three pillars of Responsive Design: Fluid Grid Must use a […]
SharePoint Conference 2014 Keynote: Working With IT Professionals
Micorosft wants to partner with you. It’s about trust, control, and the cloud onramp. Platform changes Deliver rock solid platform whether it’s on-premise or in the cloud Will do a 2015 release of SharePoint and Exchange But Cloud remains a key focus Stats 250K responses per second 400K cores 400 Petabytes of storage 20% growth […]
New Azure VMs improve SQL Server Data Warehousing in the cloud
While poking around in Azure, looking to set up a BI Demo VM , I noticed that Microsoft had added a few SQL Server-oriented images to their catalog. VMs labeled “SQL Server… for Data Warehousing”! There was one for SQL Server 2012 (SQL Server 2012 SP1 for Data Warehousing on WS 2012) and one for the current […]
SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released!
In further anticipation of SharePoint Conference 2014, today Microsoft announced the release of Service Pack 1 for all Office products, including SharePoint 2013. This has been a long time coming. Most of us in the industry were expecting SP1 to arrive sometime last fall, right around the 1 year mark of the product release. There […]
ASP.net Cascading Dropdownbox and Jquery
Background: A few days back as part of my .Net learning effort I had to deliver a task that depicts the below screen When the end-user types the username, the application should validate the username from the database and display his / her training details in the dropdown box named TopicNames and LevelName. The application then […]
Windows Azure: How to create a streaming media service (GUI)
In my previous post I discussed how Microsoft and NBC were streaming every single event live and on demand at the Sochi Olympic Games. Azure makes publishing and streaming videos easier than ever before. This post will walk you through creating a media service, uploading content (video or audio), encoding it and publishing it for […]
MVC controller actions vs Web API vs SignalR – what to use?
Over the course of a last few years Microsoft unleashed two new web development frameworks: Web API and SignalR, both are suitable for asynchronous communications between web client and web server. And, of course, we still have MVC controller actions that can be used for asynchronous communications too and can accept and return JSON objects. […]
TFS Agile Project Management Wishlist
For several months, I’ve been working on a DW/Reporting project which uses Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 for Agile project management. This has been my first experience using that aspect of TFS, so I’ve been alternately surprised, annoyed, gratified, accepting — I’ve run the gamut of human emotions dealing with this tool. I’m a longtime […]
Integrating ASP.NET MVC authentication with SiteMinder SSO
SiteMinder is an enterprise-class secure single sign-on solution by CA (Computer Associates) which is employed by many large companies to secure their intranet access and provide single sign-on functionality to various intranet applications. SiteMinder has a broad support for different application frameworks which is making possible to use in heterogeneous enterprise environment. For example, when […]