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Premier ITSM Testing Services: Anatomy of a Lab Engagement (Part 2)

June 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017 06/29/17
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Sanjeev Gogna and Charles Ofori, Senior Application Development Managers, discuss the importance of testing and spotlight the resources available to our customers as part of a testing engagement. This is the second of a three part series to discuss the importance of testing and spotlight the resources available through Premier Support and our ...

Internet Explorer 11 Migration Quick Start

December 4, 2015 Dec 4, 2015 12/4/15
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On Jan 12, 2016, IE11 will be the only supported version of IE on most Windows versions. In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Pat Altimore covers the essentials to jumpstart your migration. There are three main areas to plan for when you migrate: deployment, configuration, and compatibility. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/patricka/archive/2015...

Simplify Migration to the Cloud with RAP as a Service

June 29, 2015 Jun 29, 2015 06/29/15
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In this blog post, Application Development Manager, Lalit Patel, shares some examples of working with Premier to minimize risk and validate environments using RAP as a Service. Migrating workloads to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure) provides many benefits for our customers. It is also a paradigm shift in how to approach capacity planning and...

Web App Performance : Are you listening to your logs?

June 29, 2015 Jun 29, 2015 06/29/15
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In this post, Principal Application Developer Manager, Reed Robison explains how a periodic review of IIS Log data, often ignored and archived, provides valuable insight into the operational health and performance of web applications.   We recently posted about how a focus on DevOps is changing the way IT Operations and ...

Microsoft Cloud: Migrating Workloads and Security Planning

June 4, 2015 Jun 4, 2015 06/4/15
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In this blog post, Application Development Manager, Lalit Patel, shares examples of customers working with Premier to overcome migration concerns and build confidence while moving workloads to the cloud. Cloud Adoption is underway as more organizations look for opportunities to optimize spending and reduce the operational cost ...

Universal App Development and IoT Training – Now Available

May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 05/26/15
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  Windows Universal App Development (Workshop and Briefing) We hope you’ve been able to watch some of the Build and Ignite sessions over the last few weeks. If the content on Windows 10 piqued your interest, Premier Developer has training materials available. Now you can build one app that runs on all Windows devices and design your ...

Unit Testing OData Web API/Entity Framework Applications

May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 05/15/15
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In this blog post, senior Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo demonstrates how to easily unit test an OData based Web API service which is consuming data from SQL DB using Entity Framework. The goal is to write unit tests which stub out the actual DB calls. We will make use of faking the DB Context and using a common DI pattern of construction injection. The result is a highly testable maintainable and cohesive codebase.

Azure ML: NCAA Bracket Prediction – A competitor perspective

May 7, 2015 May 7, 2015 05/7/15
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Chandra Sekar, Senior Application Development Manager, shares how his simple exploration into Azure Machine Learning quickly produced an accurate predication of March Madness. If you watched the Day 2 BUILD keynote you might have noticed Joseph Sirosh, CVP-Machine Learning, talking about an internal hackathon where competitors used ...

Part 3: Supportability and the Internet of Things

April 28, 2015 Apr 28, 2015 04/28/15
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Mark Taylor, Premier Services Senior Consultant and David S. Lipien, Director in Microsoft’s Premier Services present a 3 part installment on the internet of things (IoT).  For this third and final part, we also strongly collaborated with Carroll Moon a Microsoft Senior Service Management Architect for Cloud. Part 1 of the IoT ...

Why performance is critical in the Health Insurance Industry

April 7, 2015 Apr 7, 2015 04/7/15
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Sujith Nair, Senior Application Development Manager, shares his experiences working with a healthcare customer and the performance challenges common during open enrollment season. He also discusses how customers could use Azure, or the Microsoft Cloud, to manage such bursting compute scenarios. What are enrollment cut-off dates in ...