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Parsing folders in Power BI and adding the folder name as a column in the Power Query

January 11th, 2017
Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Reilly, walks us through parsing multiple files contained in multiple folders from Power BI. (image) On occasion you may have a need to parse multiple files contained in multiple folders from Power BI.  As an example I am working with a colleague to generate some Power BI reports from CSV data...

DigiCert Certificate Management through Azure Key Vault

January 11th, 2017
In a recent post from his blog, Application Development Manager Christian Reddington walked us through an introduction to Azure Key Vault.  Azure Key Vault helps safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications and services.  It streamlines the key management process, enabling you to maintain control of keys that access ...

Premier Support Helps Keep Santa Flying

December 23rd, 2016
(image) Each year, NORAD Tracks Santa across the globe in an event that captures the heart of children and adults worldwide. Families can take part using a range of applications and devices to watch Santa’s progress in real time. Premier ADMs, Chris Mason, Bernard Apolinario, and developer consultant Geoff Gray share a glimpse of what goes ...

How to Import Related Data into Dynamics 365

December 19th, 2016
In this post, Senior ADM Justin Scott walks us through how to maintain entity/table relationships when importing data into Dynamics 365. A recent project I was on involved bringing over customer and contact information from another proprietary CRM application. Being newer to the Dynamics platform, one challenge was to figure out how to ...

Rollback tests with TFS/VSTS

December 19th, 2016
In this post, Premier ADM Mike Lapierre covers techniques to rollback bulk editing changes with TFS test cases. I was assisting a customer recently who was working on many TFS test cases, using Excel for bulk editing.  The Excel integration is great for editing regular fields but it can’t handle HTML fields like the description or the ...

Amazon Alexa Skills Development with Azure Active Directory and ASP.NET Core 1.0 Web API

December 12th, 2016
In this post, Premier ADM, Rob Reilly, walks us through building Alexa Skills using Azure AD and ASP.NET Core Web API. Background (image) Amazon Alexa is a technology developed by Amazon that takes voice commands, interprets them, and then takes action by sending requests on to API’s to perform a multitude of tasks only limited by ...

One less click to download with Edge

December 8th, 2016
This timesaver is shared by Premier ADM, Billy Sun with a simple tweak that can save you a few extra clicks downloading content with Edge. Ever since the release of Windows 10 and Spartan beta in early 2015, Edge has always been the default browser for the new OS. Unless you change the default manually, everything that would trigger the ...

Migrating SQL Workloads? Check out Database Experimentation Assistant

November 30th, 2016
Considering the impact of a SQL upgrade? In this post, Application Development Manager Omer Amin spotlights Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA).  Customers who are upgrading from previous SQL server versions (starting 2005 and above) to any new version of the SQL server will be able to use analysis metrics to help them build higher ...

Technical Debt: A change in perspective

November 21st, 2016
In a recent post from his blog, Premier ADM Shawn Gaul puts a metaphorical spin on Technical Debt with Steve St. Jean and Marty Donovan.   (image) This series demonstrates how a metaphor can be used to change the way you look at this problem and thereby help to understand ways to overcome it. With that change in perspective, we’...

US Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – Nov/Dec 2016 Update

November 14th, 2016
Teams struggle to keep up with the latest technology trends, so training and knowledge transfer are important investments to build the expertise required for optimal application and infrastructure.  It’s a great way to proactively stay in front of technical gaps that can manifest in the form of implementation delays, architectural problems...