Posts Tagged ‘Azure’

Office 365 Data loss protection (DLP) comes with 6 to 7 predefined templates, MS is adding 20-30 every month One central place to manage all workloads (SP, OD4B, Exchange). Admin Action Block access to content for SME. They shouldn’t be able to see end user content. Send email notification Policy tip (like outlook) across all workloads Target policies […]

It’s absolutely stunning atmosphere here in Chicago. What a breathtaking use of technology and level of energy with 23,000 technology folks here at Microsoft Ignite. It took two full days just to arrange chairs for the keynote! Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about how businesses are being transformed and will be the focus of Microsoft […]

Today, Perficient announced that its team will be heading to the inaugural Microsoft Ignite conference as an exhibitor. The Perficient team will be showcasing their Microsoft Cloud expertise in booth 330 and Joe Palarchio will be sharing his Office 365 experience in a session on Exchange in a hybrid environment. We’ll also be giving away […]

When you creating a new web app (or web site, how it used to be called until recently) it’s have “Always On” setting off by default, which means the web site will be recycled after period of inactivity (20 minutes). This setting is somewhat similar to “Idle Time-out” setting on IIS application pool.When you web […]

The 2015 BUILD Conference kicked off today, and today’s keynote was packed full of TONS of announcements and new information. Some of these things are going to be released sometime this year, but some of it has also been released to be available today! Even though you can watch the Build 2015 Day 1 Keynote […]

In order to properly diagnose and troubleshoot various issues that may come up on a web site (or web job for that matter), diagnostic logging is a must and one type of diagnostic logging is often not enough.  Just because the code is deployed and hosted in the cloud doesn’t mean that you won’t have […]

Today, during annual Microsoft Build conference keynote, Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (executive VP  of cloud and enterprise group) introduced new Azure service which is going to be available in public preview in June: Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Large enterprise today can’t effectively function without big data realtime analytics. Realtime analytics means processing large amounts of […]

I recently participated in a webinar on the topic of Big Data/Advanced Analytics and how the Microsoft platform supports it.  My colleague Shankar RamaNathan spoke first about the various challenges of truly seeing ROI out of Big Data initiatives.  Then I spoke about how the Microsoft Data Platform, both in the cloud and on-premises, provides […]

Every Azure Website (recently renamed App Service) comes with a default deployment slot – production. Did you know that you can create up to 4 additional deployment slots to be used for dev, test, QA, or staging?

Microsoft has been spearheading the security campaign across cloud services. This week has been in focus with announcements of new capabilities affecting SharePoint Online (SPO), Email, and customer controls. I’ve been involved in numerous customer strategy sessions where similar concerns were raised. It is becoming increasingly clear that customers are expecting higher level of security controls […]

About a week ago Azure DocumentDB, a new Microsoft’s entry into NoSql database market, become generally available. DocumentDB allows user to to store/update/delete arbitrary objects (as complex as needed, not limited by relation structure) and query these objects using a special (quite limited) flavor of SQL (yes, SQL!) or LINQ when it’s used from .NET. […]

I recently blogged about my personal experiences with the first “Know it. Prove it.” challenge that ran through the month of February 2015. The “Know it. Prove it.” challenge is back! This time it’s bigger and better than ever. The new challenge is a companion to both the Build and Ignite Conferences with 11 amazing […]