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Premier Support Helps Keep Santa Flying

December 23, 2016 Dec 23, 2016 12/23/16
Developer Support
(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 ...

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

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16
Developer Support
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 ...

Azure AD client certificate rollover

May 12, 2016 May 12, 2016 05/12/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon gives us a step-by-step overview of how to use OAuth2 Client Credential flow with an X509 certificate. This Azure AD sample shows how to use OAuth2 Client Credential flow with an X509 certificate for authentication. Here is a procedure I use to periodically rollover ...

Using Client Certificate Authentication for Web API Hosted in Azure

May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais  gives us a step-by-step overview of how to add client certificate Authentication for Web Api Hosted in Azure. During recent customer engagement there was a discussion around client certificate [a.k.a tls mutual] authentication and how to use it with asp.net web api ...

Changing user password in Azure AD using GraphAPI

March 3, 2016 Mar 3, 2016 03/3/16
Pam Lahoud
Recently, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon posted this article on his blog regarding changing passwords in Azure AD that may be helpful to those of you facing this specific scenario in your applications: If this is something you are facing, read the rest of Marius’ article here for the solution, including a code sample: ...

Introducing CREST and Graph API

January 7, 2016 Jan 7, 2016 01/7/16
Developer Support
Deepak Malik, Senior ADM, shares an overview of Commerce Rest and Azure AD Graph APIs for Cloud Solution Provider Partners. Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners can improve their experience through API Integration with the Office 365 services provided by Microsoft to monitor, service and manage customers. These API's are categorized ...

Announcing Red Hat on Microsoft Azure

November 4, 2015 Nov 4, 2015 11/4/15
Developer Support
(image) As a key component of today’s announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to address common enterprise,  ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on...

Big Data on Azure: A Real-World Implementation Using Cortana Analytics

September 21, 2015 Sep 21, 2015 09/21/15
Developer Support
Premier Support for Developers was part of the first ever Cortana Analytics Workshop earlier this month.  Be sure and check out our own Brian Raymer discuss how an international customer can ingest millions of events per hour, exploit near-real-time analytics, and tackle true 'Big Data' problems successfully on our Azure data platform. This ...

Spotlight on Critical Situation Support

July 31, 2015 Jul 31, 2015 07/31/15
Developer Support
If you write software or manage infrastructure, unplanned downtime will occur. Even with the very best people and process that money can buy, the unexpected still happens. At Premier, we support Microsoft’s most innovative and talented customers but nobody is immune—not even Microsoft. We all deal with system outages and downtime of ...

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. (image) Migrating workloads to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure) provides many benefits for our customers. It is also a paradigm shift in how to approach capacity ...