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This post is going to mentioned a few important notes specific to .NET development and Azure platform which we should remember or follow. These will help us to take the right call of upcoming future decision. Let's see what are those in below. Azure Web apps use Application Request Routing (ARR) to route all requests to the same server. And this is specific for IMemoryCache which represents a cache stored in the memory of the specific web server. The in-memory cache can store any object. The distributed cache interface is limited to byte[]. The in-memory and distributed cache store cache items as key-value pairs. Authentication and authorization in Azure App Service for feature architecture on Linux and containers Feature architecture on Windows (non-container deployment) The authentication and authorization module runs as a native IIS module in the same sandbox as your application.   Feature architecture on Linux and containers The authentication and authorization module runs in a...

Data warehouse which is build on RDMS is used for analyze the data and based on the nature of data and the analysis, people take the decisions. The objective is to bring intelligence analysis which lead to make the predictive analysis call right. Following are few fundamental notes on data warehouse. Now a days, the Data Lake is being used for Big Data analysis purpose and not limited only in RDMS stored area. In particular, there are three key factors are exist in data warehouse world , and they are three V's - Volume , Velocity , and Variety . In data warehouse, not only structured data maintained or analysis, the data warehouse system should able to handle unstructured data like video, audio, images as well.  Centralize data warehouse using Single RDMS.  Keep a note that data warehouse is NOT as Data mart. Dependent DataMart variation with Corporate Information Factory(CIF). There are four rule of data warehouse Integrated  Subject Oriented Time Variant Non Volatile ET...

Following are few simple Power BI reports which is usually visible in Power BI dashboard as our analytical reports. Reports for Application Dashboard, Incident Analysis, Analysis-By Ticket Priority With Time, Analysis-With Time-With Status and count of resolution will help you to understand your team strength, give you insights of ticket trends, and many more.

Microsoft Azure platform is vast and below some notes from Microsoft to learn more about it. The entire notes is from Microsoft and I segregated those in category wise in three parts. Note 1 Organizing structure for resources in Azure, which has four levels: management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.   ·          Resources : Resources are instances of services that you create, like virtual machines, storage, or SQL databases. ·          Resource groups : Resources are combined into resource groups, which act as a logical container into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed. ·          Subscriptions : A subscription groups together user accounts and the resources that have been created by those user accounts. For each subscription, there are limits or quotas on the amount of r...

  Azure Synapse Analytics - Services provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform to do data warehousing stuff i.e. brings or extract data, work or compute on those data, execute analytical part like predictive analysis, or prepare the C-Level analytical report. Following the standard execution/implementation approach about Synapse. Below are some key points about Synapse Analytic Services and Platform. # Why and when we need to use Azure Synapse Analytics Large-scale data warehousing Advanced analytics Data exploration and discovery Real time analytics Data integration Integrated analytics # Azure Synapse Data Explorer is a data processing engine in Azure Synapse Analytics that is based on the Azure Data Explorer service. Data Explorer uses Kusto Query Language (KQL) to enable high performance, low-latency analysis of batch and streaming data. # You can create a Synapse Analytics workspace in an Azure subscription interactively by using the Azure portal, or you can autom...

SharePoint migration is a continuous process in this business platform. Organization who are using SharePoint for a while need to start thinking at some day for migrating their data from lower version to upper version of SharePoint. Migration is one of the evitable project of most of the Organization. Migrating from On-Premises to On-Premises like MOSS 2007 to SP2020, or SP2010 to SP2013/2016/2019 is one path, and there is another path which is from SP2010/2013/2016/2019 to SPO (SharePoint Online). Content migration is the simple one rather than migrating content with custom application. Migration approach and the plan needs to be perfect for a successful migration. Considering SP2010 or SP2013 or SP2016 environment, there must be workflow presence and it could be integrated with document library, or list or might be site itself. These workflows might be SharePoint Designer Workflow, or Out-Of the-Box workflow or workflow created by any tool like Nintex.  Converting existing workfl...

This post highlight some important notes in Power Automate. While developing workflow using Power Automate, following notes will help to make you a smarter decision. Below are some point under their respective areas: Connecting Dynamics 365 using Cloud Flow Connector Dynamics 365 connector is deprecated, need to use Microsoft Dataverse connector, and if the Microsoft Dataverse connector does not fit your needs, then use the Microsoft Dataverse (legacy) connector. Microsoft Dataverse connector do have some limitation as well, such as the ability to connect to multiple environments. In this kind of you scenario, your choice would be Microsoft Dataverse (legacy) connector which provides the same capabilities as the Dynamics 365 connector with improved reliability. Delete an action If you give the file a name that matches an existing file's name (in the selected folder), the existing file will be overwritten. You can't delete an action if you're using any outputs from it anywhe...

When analytics and intelligence adapt with security, we got a boom! Latest Microsoft threat data and research bringing content which will tell us an expert perspective into the current threat landscape, discussing trending tactics, techniques, and strategies. Security threat in Cloud is keep increasing in exponential way. Now world demands more secure intelligent smart way to exchange data. Something new we are looking for - new approaches, new techniques, new strategies etc. New battel ground is getting created and we called this as Identity! Below few data points which appears by aggregating insights - analysis from 24 trillion security signals combined with intelligence, monitoring more than 40 nation-state groups and over 140 threat groups, able to block more than 25.6 billion Azure AD authentication attacks. Hats off performances!!! Microsoft Defender and Azure Active Directory provided anonymized data on threat activity like Endpoint threats, E-mail threats, Identity threats. Let...

Smart decision always make your life easier. Migrating to cloud or having your IT space in cloud is a smart decision, however, knowing how much exact cost your need to bear will be a smarter call. Microsoft Azure Cloud provides pricing calculator to its user to understand exactly how much cost it could be based on user's choices along with timeline. You can add anything from Azure Pricing Calculator page link, however a few handy url below for your quick references. Azure Pricing Calculator https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/calculator/ Azure Product Pricing Feature -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/#product-pricing Virtual Machine -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/ App Service -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/app-service/windows/ Azure Functions -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/functions/ Blob Storage -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/sto...

A long, may be very long demand from Power Apps developers, UI builders, is now Microsoft is going to fill by introducing Co-authoring feature in experimental basis. Microsoft announced on 1st November about this ad here the link - Experimental Co-authoring for Power Apps Studio | Microsoft Power Apps This is going to speedup the development phase, reduce the merging code in main app, and let the team work smartly and effectively. No doubt about this! Few things to remember ere, this feature is exclusively working for Power Apps Studios, and the changes merges asynchronously whenever click on save or sync option.  As this is on experimental basis rollout, so default this is turn off state. You need to take a step forward and turn on this feature. And feel free to submit your feedback - how this feature is working, what you like, what improvement you would like to see etc. So, let's be ready, and keep an eye on your Power Apps dashboard/App settings to see this feature is ready for ...

Migration is one of the horizontal line of business in SharePoint scope of work. Most of us having idea about migrating content and application from lower SharePoint version to higher version, or from on-prem to cloud. Many of us also familiar with non-SharePoint platform like Documentum or Lotus Notes to SharePoint migration. At very initial days, like SharePoint V2.0 i.e. WSS 2.0, we have seen and experienced mostly from non-SharePoint version to SharePoint version. Latter on, we have seen mostly from lower version to SharePoint higher version or to SharePoint online. Migrating from Lotus Notes to SharePoint is little bit more complicated, however there is one 3rd party tool named Quest . They have line of tools/product which can help you to migrate your stuff from Lotus Notes to Exchange/SharePoint/Office 365. Here the url for have a look at it -  https://www.quest.com/migration-manager/

Why we will choose Power Apps and where we can fit this? key benefits of the Power Platform solution v   Simple and automated system used by floor technicians to record inventory used on projects v   Easy for technicians to enter parts used as they work with mobile devices on the floor v   Timely, accurate and relevant data – reducing the amount of manual entry and rework v   Seamless reconciling process – listing inventory, drafting PO, sending invoice v   Easy for Manufacturing company to track the inventory that is sent to the customer with the model-driven app v   Reporting – PO Report for Jobs and inventory used, On-hand Inventory so customer knows what is in the warehouse, and the replenishment report which shows which items need restocking. v   Rule-based BPM Engine for Process Modelling – This is all about ability to manage complex workflows (either serial or parallel), breakdown phases for each process step, execution through r...