This morning Microsoft announced that Satya Nadella will be taking over as the new CEO. Satya Nadella is the former head of the Cloud and Enterprise division at Microsoft. The last few years Microsoft has been focused on providing a better cloud solution. They have rapidly iterated on Windows Azure, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Xbox […]
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Developing Rich UI Applications with Display Templates
As part of working on two SharePoint 2013 WCM projects I’ve had the opportunity to develop a lot of Display Templates. At first, Display Templates development sounded more painful than it should be, but as I spent more time I found a few techniques to easily build rich interfaces. In this post I’ll go over […]
Upcoming Webinar: Building a Better Healthcare Dashboard
According to a recent world study, when it comes to the topic of big data and decision-making for healthcare organizations, a top challenge reported is the ability to analyze data and deliver insights in real time. Unfortunately, many key performance indicators on healthcare dashboards fail to drive real results or are missing key organizational improvement […]
Lync 2013 SQL Mirroring Witness Gotcha
My colleague, Jason Sloan, has a great blog post on some SQL mirroring issues he encountered during a recent Lync 2013 deployment that I highly recommend everyone read. This post is intended as an addition to that list with an issue that I discovered during my own Lync 2013 SQL mirroring deployment. Consider the following […]
Windows Azure PCI DSS compliance and expanded ISO certification
Microsoft announced today that Windows Azure has met two significant milestones. The milestones are related to compliance and security. The lack of PCI compliance is one thing that has kept some potential Windows Azure customers away from building services and applications on the platform. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) will allow you […]
January #WindowsAzure Training
Microsoft is offering several opportunities to get up to speed on Windows Azure. I’m listing just a few options available this month (January 2014). The below items are available via the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) or via webinars. Also coming up in March is the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (#GWAB), a full day of hands […]
Microsoft beats out Apple to earn top spot in branding survey
In recent years, when it comes to top brands in the United States, Apple has been an obvious winner. But times are changing, and according to an annual survey conducted by Forrester Research, Apple is losing the appeal to US consumers that it once had. In a survey of 4,500 Americans, Microsoft came out on […]
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V – Overview of Generation 2 VM’s
With the release of Windows Server 2012 R2 comes many great new features, including a improved virtual machine named generation 2. Generation 2 virtual machines provide quite a few enhancements across the spectrum of Hyper-V VM technology. Perhaps most notable is the removal of legacy emulated hardware. Removal of the legacy network adapter, IDE controller, […]
Pie Charts – Your First Visual SSRS Report
In my previous articles, we looked at all the basic concepts of creating a report in SSRS. We built a simple tabular report and made it presentable. However, simple tabular or matrix graphs are textual reports. Today, we will build a visual report – a pie chart. There are several visual reports one can build using […]
Webinar Replay: Driving Employee Engagement with Yammer and #ESN
This past Wednesday, we hosted a webinar, “Using Yammer and SharePoint Intranets to Drive Employee Engagement.” During the session, Rich Wood, Director of Web & Social Collaboration at Perficient, first gave a quick overview on the enterprise social network and Yammer, and then went on discuss user adoption and engagement. He covered what exactly a […]
Windows Azure: What is Platform as a Service?
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)? How does it differ from Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)? Let’s start with IaaS. When “The Cloud” first became popular IaaS was the target. The point of IaaS is to migrate a company data center into Windows Azure. This involves converting whatever physical servers you have to Hyper-V […]
Windows Azure for ITPros Webinar Followup
I gave a presentation about Windows Azure the other day, and got some great questions that I would like to address with this blog post. Here they are in no particular order, with some answers I hope are useful to you: “We have multiple Operating Companies who may want to leverage the features of Windows […]