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Discover your career path: Get started with fundamentals
Are you looking for the right Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 certifications to help advance your career and to earn the recognition you deserve? We’re here to help you discover the career path that’s right for you—whether you’re just starting out, looking...
Ask the Microsoft Viva team anything on June 23!
Our Microsoft Mechanics series on Microsoft Viva is almost in the books! If you’ve missed the series so far, start with our introduction to Viva, then dive into each of the modules: Viva Topics, Viva Connections, and Viva Learning. The video for Viva Insights will be...
VMSS, VMSS Flex, what are they? And what’s the differences?
Hello folks, I’ve been looking at ways to scale regular VM up and down without having to create a full VM template used by the existing VM Scale Set. And I wanted a way that did not force me to choose between Availability and Scalability. I found my saving grace...
Timeshares: Yes? No? Maybe?
If you’re considering getting a timeshare this vacation season, read on. Maybe you got a flyer in the mail with pictures of sunny beaches and beautiful resort suites. Sounds great, right? But before you sign a timeshare contract, make sure you understand what you’re...
20 Amazing IT Admin Updates for Back to School!!
Education IT admins around the world are already planning for the next Back-to-School (BTS) season. If your organization is returning to in person learning, fully remote, or somewhere in between, Microsoft has you covered. Here are the latest Microsoft 365 product...
Import BACPAC fails if schema has a large number of tables, indexes and/or views
Azure portal Import from BACPAC fails if database schema is large because the number of tables, columns, indexes and views. ...
Deploy SAP IQ NLS HA Solution using Azure shared disk on Windows Server
Background Over the years, the size of SAP BW system database grew exponentially, which leads to increase in hardware cost when running the system on HANA. To reduce the size of HANA hardware, customer can leverage an option to migrate their data to near-line...
IoT Plug and Play native API is now in the core Azure IoT SDK (C# Preview)
We just added new APIs in preview in the Azure IoT SDK for C# that will make it easier for device developers to implement IoT Plug and Play, and we'd love to have your feedback. Since we released IoT Plug and Play back in September 2020, we...
Deprecation of old azure-cli docker image on Docker Hub
Summary As previously announced, we are deprecating all /microsoft org container images hosted in Docker Hub repositories on June 30th, 2021. This includes some old azure-cli images (pre v2.12.1), all of which are already available on Microsoft Container...
Lesson Learned #176: Using Polybase to connect from SQL OnPremises to Azure Managed Instance/SQLDB
Today, I got a very interesting question about if could be possible to connect from external tables to Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Database or Synase. In this article, I would like to explain it. Besides the option that we have with Linked...
Cultural Mediation – How Can Open Communication Benefit the Workplace?
Cultural mediation is a concept developed to help deaf people experiencing communication problems within their work communities. Cultural mediation involves cultural experts facilitating conversation and learning between the deaf or hard-of-hearing and hearing...
Microsoft 365 webinar: ORCA – University College London in action
ORCA is an open-source software solution which helps academic institutions assess the effectiveness of online learning by analyzing data on students’ attendance and engagement with online platforms and content. As a group of students at University College London...
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