May 2019

Have you considered Azure Reserved Instances?

May 31, 2019 May 31, 2019 05/31/19

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We recently had the opportunity to work with a customer and help manage their Azure cost. This topic came up and it ended up resulting in significant saving by reducing the cost of resources they had already planned to deploy. Based on that interaction, we thought it would be useful to highlight this option in a blog post.

Dynamics 365 Implementation Pt. 3 – Postman

May 31, 2019 May 31, 2019 05/31/19

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With tools such as Postman, you can easily send HTTP requests to your APIs. This technique can help test the fields that are being added to the integration message to see if they pass or fail. This helps in the efforts to test if the integration message being sent will successfully get posted in Dynamics 365.

Getting Started with Azure Blueprints

May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 05/29/19

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Azure Blueprints now makes it possible for development teams to rapidly build and stand up new environments with a set of built-in components -- such as networking -- to speed up development and delivery.

Understanding how Microsoft Azure keeps your data safe

May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 05/28/19

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When it comes to data, there is never a thing as too much security. With identify theft and breaches becoming a daily occurrence, ensuring sensitive information is protected is essential to business. Microsoft Azure has been designed from the ground-up to be one of the most secure places to store your information. Let me prove it!

Dynamics 365 Implementation Pt. 2 – Data Migration Process

May 27, 2019 May 27, 2019 05/27/19

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Throughout a typical Dynamics project, various environments are setup to prevent the existing environments from being affected by the changes being pushed to an environment. This is the model most firms follow when they have mastered the release sequence in their CI/CD.

Quantum Computing: Learn Now and Prepare for the Future

May 26, 2019 May 26, 2019 05/26/19

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Microsoft is developing Q#, "the domain-specific programming languages used for expressing quantum algorithms." Ingest as much as you can. There are also a host of resources online from videos to White Papers, including resources on the Microsoft Quantum Computing site.

Blockchain: Let’s think this through again

May 25, 2019 May 25, 2019 05/25/19

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The strategy / business operatives should define the problem space and leave it to the Solution Architect to evaluate and build the best solution. Any decent Solution Architect would apply Occam's Razor to any solution (s)he creates; the end solution would be as simple as could be (but not simpler).

Using Groups in Azure AD B2C

May 24, 2019 May 24, 2019 05/24/19

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Accessing Groups claims in Azure AD B2C requires adding some custom code through custom (IEF) policies. This post shows how to configure AD B2C IEF policies to access Groups in JWT Tokens.