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The Azure CLI is built with Knack CLI
We all love the Azure CLI. This week as I was looking into its GitHub repo, I found out that beneath its surface there is the Knack CLI. What a cool surprise. The Knack CLI is super easy to use for those with Python skills.
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Bypass PowerApps End User Consent
When List forms in SharePoint Online are customized with PowerApps, your end users may start to experience a minor inconvenience. This inconvenience is simply bypassed by applying a consent policy to that specific PowerApps app you are working on. See below for details. 1. Download and Install the PowerApps PowerShell modules (see reference below)2. Find…
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Azure Then and Now
Lately, I have been thinking about the time it takes me to pickup a new technology, digest it, understand it, believe in it, and use it. How long does it take me? When will this new technology become main stream? Only if I knew then, what I know now. Well. Think Azure. For me, it turns…
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Restore Adventure Works database to SQL Server Express
Database download https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/samples/adventureworks-install-configure?view=sql-server-2017 Note Make sure to grant proper permissions to SQL Server in order for it to locate the *.bak file. Run the first RESTORE operation to discover the actual names of the database files. Use those names to refer to them in the second RESTORE operation. T-SQL Script RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK=’C:\Windows\Temp\AdventureWorks2016.bak’ RESTORE…
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Microsoft Ignite 2016, Atlanta, GA
I headed off to Atlanta, GA this year for another serving of Microsoft Ignite. Was not planning on it, however, our Marketing team, had another plan in mind. They produced a ticket for me and placed me on schedule to work the booth! As someone who grew up around SharePoint (In fact my first ever…
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Microsoft Build Conference 2016
If I were to summarize the story that Microsoft Build Conference 2016 told me, here it is in plain English: Conversations as a Platform (CaaS) 1. Augment Human Experiences 2. 3 Major Pieces: People, Digital Assistance, Bots 3. Content which represents: People, Places, Things
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Post Microsoft Ignite Conference 2015
It’s been a month now since the Microsoft Ignite 2015 Conference. 23K or so attendees from all over the world merged to learn, connect, and establish new paths for themselves and their organizations. Few of the sessions I attended included the following: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4117 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3157 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3199 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK1450 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/THR0489 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2188 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/FND2203 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/C9-31 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/C9-09 Next year, Ignite will…
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Time to Recycle
Time to remind ourselves with one important task. Don’t forget to recycle. It is time to reset your internal machines and look forward to a better year ahead. Time to think about all of your accomplishments and everything in between. Think about your family, your close friends, your career, those new relationships you formed, those…
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Follow the Money
Or shall I say, in my world, follow the Information! It has been said many times that SharePoint is what connects People, Process, and Information. It’s true. Yet, things change a bit. Over time, something else might pick up the game and run with it. Say Yammer. So instead of going with the Business Collaboration…
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Notes on TechEd 2013 North America
I attended my first ever TechEd conference last week, and what a deal that was. Definitely, an awesome place to be at. A ton of people, I heard close to 10K, but cannot confirm. The place was New Orleans, LA at the convention center. I think to summarize my experience there, and looking ahead, I…
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