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Understanding how Microsoft Azure keeps your data safe
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
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
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
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
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.
404 response code caused by App Services – AlwaysOn feature
In this post, Sr. Consultant Adel Ghabboun shows how to optimize Azure App Service Always against cold starts.
Hour of Code and Minecraft for All Ages
Learn how to organize and run your own successful Hour of Code learning events.
Enabling DevOps in A Hybrid Cloud Environment at DoD
Learn how DoD leverages Azure DevOps to promote code from higher information level (IL) environment from a lower IL environment using Microsoft-Hosted and Self-Hosted Agents.
How Microsoft Tracks Santa
In this post, App Dev Manager Casey Kriutzfield shed some light on the NORAD Tracks Santa Azure architecture allowing for some impressive page view metrics. I’m Casey Kriutzfield. One of the leads for NORAD Tracks Santa. For the past several years, we’ve been a key partner in the NORAD Tracks Santa website. Along with development, we coordinate support and hosting as well. Naturally, a site like NORAD Tracks Santa is best hosted in the cloud, and there is no better cloud than Azure. For most of the year we run a static website, but come December 1st, we change over to the full site. Changing over isn’t all...