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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.

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.

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 Simplifie...

Its been a few days now and I have been focused on understanding modern day messaging patterns for a problem I am trying to solve. I do know that there are existing server side tools like Active MQ, Rabbit MQ and even WMS that can do the trick and already have pre-defined patterns tested and validated for performance and security but in this case even though I am not trying to reinvent the wheel in terms of creating a new pattern or any of these server side products, I am definitely trying to understand the manner in which these products have been created and if I can actually leverage some of the principles in a server side application I am writing up. For example in modern based web application development, if .Net based, you have patterns like the one's defined here: Microsoft SOA patterns  that do the neat tricks you would need. Man at times I feel I am going at 300 miles an hour without any crash guards: Code reviews, Custom product development, Customer Engagements, Team man...

It is very critical for organizations to work & play with data. Power BI - the reporting solution from Microsoft is literally scorching the market with its rapid pace in usage. On a quick note while interacting with your Power BI report like the following--> This report is accessible by the public. In order to create a more personalized/advanced security reporting structure with Power BI, the Power BI embedded would be the way to go. Create a workspace collection in Azure and then generate the required API keys (two by default - primary and secondary). These API keys will be leveraged by your web application. Once this is done create the pbix solution file in your desktop tool and publish or import the pbix solution to the Azure workspace using powershell/C#/ruby/java etc... Now to interact with the pbix file in your application, you need to leverage the Power BI Embed API's. However there is another approach using Power BI API's instead of the embed API's. The em...

On Monday 6/13/2016, Microsoft announced its acquisition of LinkedIn. This is a major game changer in the world of IT. But before we get to some of the advantages of this acquisition, Microsoft actually was working on a LinkedIn killer on its CRM dynamics platform. The idea was to generate more footprint for its CRM solution as well as create something unique with it. This was started in early 2012 and was way before its actual acquisition of LinkedIn. Here are my thoughts into where this acquisition will lead Microsoft & LinkedIn to: Microsoft gains a huge database of professionals and organizations in various streams: This alone is the most massive gain by Microsoft. It could start targeting professionals/organizations to either move onto the Microsoft platform or join the Microsoft platform which can bolster its sales by a huge margin/ Microsoft integration of LinkedIn ads with Bing: Just imagine an organization trying to establish a marketing campaign. Now with LinkedIn a...

The following are basically my notes while studying R and is meant as a reference point for myself Just a few pointers to anyone preparing for R or studying R: Take a quick look at your statistical math basics before proceeding Before applying any formula on your base data, try to understand what the formula is and how it was derived (this will make it easier for one to understand) Use it in tangent with the Data Analysis in Excel Refer to the cheat sheets available on  https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/ Segregate the workbench for each module There are best practices that can be incorporated while programming in R Try and jot notes when and where one can...  Refer to existing data-sets embedded in R before jumping into a data.gov file Refer to R programs written already in Azure ML rnorm() by default has mean 0 and variance 1 head() has its own built in precision *default settings in R can be modified by the options() function example: ...

Setting the Hadoop files prior to Spark installation on Win 10: 1. Ensure that your JAVA_HOME is properly set. A recommended approach here is to navigate to the installed Java folder in Program Files and copy the contents into a new folder you can locate easily for eg:- C:\Projects\Java . 2. Create a user variable called JAVA_HOME and enter " C:\Projects\Java " 3. Add to the path system variable the following entry: " C:\Projects\Java\Bin; " 4. Create a HADOOP_HOME variable and specify the root path that contains all the Hadoop files for eg:- " C:\Projects\Hadoop " 5. Add to the path variable the bin location for your Hadoop repository: " C:\Projects\Hadoop\bin " <Keep  track of your Hadoop installs like C:\Projects\Hadoop\2_5_0\bin> 6. Once these variables are set, open command prompt as an administrator and run the following commands to ensure that everything is set correctly: A] java B] javac C] Hadoop D] Hadoop Version 7. ...

A few Tableau dashboards I have published off late to give a flair for different visualizations within Tableau:

Just created a Xamarin Android mobile application . Extremely easy to use and did not require much reading the resources to understand how to go about building it. The first iteration is as shown in the figure below: Though the emulator (Nexus 5 through 7) did not render as clearly I wanted it to, but still a great start for v1.0. The next version would basically integrate with Google maps. As soon as one clicks the app, you get a splash screen and then navigate to Cyclotron's main menu from where you can navigate to the layouts. The support aspect would also be a part of the next iteration of the app along with the Login. There were a few more images added to the individual activities . Probably leverage this article as the initial help on how to use the app.... The follow up items are as follows: 1. Integration with Google Maps 2. Synchronization with Cyclotron's support database 3. Login for Support 4. Tweak the UI 5. Replicate for IOS

Sample piece of code to parse Excel files with regular expressions using Excel Query (The first piece does not loop through all the rows to make it more efficient and fetches the resultant set based on the first row. The second piece goes through all the columns and finds a match): //This piece uses ExcelQuery --> using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.IO; using System.Text; using System.Web.UI; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using Scanning; using System.Data; using Innovative.Data; //Install ExcelQuery namespace WebApplication1 {     public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI. Page     {          protected void Page_Load( object sender, EventArgs e)         {         ...