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TFS Usage

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I was asked a few questions about TFS by a customer a couple of years ago.... I was rummaging through some of my luggage and found the questionairre. Just thought I would answer the questions with this blog post before throwing it away: 1. How would you breakdown TFS Projects? The manner in which TFS projects can be broken down is into identifiable work items with tasks associated to them. 2. Once the Work Item is defined, what are the next steps? The above image does not belong to me but would love to thank the author for the same. Review the requirements that are assigned to the iteration, and define them in more detail. •Create task work items for the work that must be performed to implement and test each requirement. Link the tasks to the requirement work item by using the parent link type. •Set the Original Estimate field of each task. •Divide tasks that have estimates that are longer than a few days. •Compare the estimates with the time that is available for

Branding your SharePoint site in a super fast way - Emgage

Branding a SharePoint farm on premise or in O365 is an extremely time absorbing task. Recently found a few tools called emgage prime and emgage turbo which basically gives you customized UX branding solutions to make you get to what you want super fast and super easy....Just used it on a SP2016 farm a few days ago and the results were tremendous. A definite recommendation on the SP side of things.

Load Data into Azure DW using C# in an SSIS script task

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Now there are a lot of reasons why SSIS needs to be leveraged for loading data into the Azure DW platform. Even though Polybase and Azure Data factory are the core criteria's, here are the templates for the SSIS script task that were leveraged to load data (full and incremental into Azure DW) for a specific customer rather than using the data flow task: SSIS Full Load script : SSIS Incremental Load script : There are a few reasons for this approach and one of them being that the existing package was using a similar structure and one not to be deviated from. The other being that some key logging aspects needed to be handled in a Legacy platform that could not be decommissioned at that time.

Why Azure might overtake AWS in its data services offerings

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Compliance Microsoft enterprise cloud services are independently validated through certifications and attestations, as well as third-party audits. In-scope services within the Microsoft Cloud meet key international and industry-specific compliance standards, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27018, FedRAMP, and SOC 1 and SOC 2. They also meet regional and country-specific standards and contractual commitments, including the EU Model Clauses, UK G-Cloud, Singapore MTCS, and Australia CCSL (IRAP). In addition, rigorous third-party audits, such as by the British Standards Institution and Deloitte, validate the adherence of our cloud services to the strict requirements these standards mandate. Security With Security tightly ingrained with its AD offerings, Microsoft currently continues to evolve its security   and data integrity in Azure. Core advantages of Security in Azure are as follows: Tightly integrated with Windows Active Directory Simplified cl