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How to access multi-select choice column choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse with PySpark or SQL

How to access multi-select choice column choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse with PySpark or SQL

Jessica Hill

Learn how to access multi-select choice column choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse using PySpark or SQL.
How to access choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse with SQL

How to access choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse with SQL

Jessica Hill

Learn how to access the choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse using T-SQL through SQL Serverless and by using Spark SQL in a Synapse Notebook.
How to access choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse with PySpark

How to access choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse with PySpark

Jessica Hill

Learn how to access the choice labels from Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse using PySpark.
Notebooks in Azure Databricks

Notebooks in Azure Databricks

Jessica Hill

This blog post explores interactive notebooks in Azure Databricks. An Azure Databricks Notebook is a powerful data science tool that support exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, data cleaning and transformation, data visualisation, statistical modeling and machine learning.
Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Ed Freeman

Microsoft Fabric unifies Power BI, Data Factory & Data Lake on Synapse infrastructure, reducing cost & time while enabling citizen data science.
What is OneLake?

What is OneLake?

Ed Freeman

Explore OneLake, Microsoft Fabric's core storage for data in Azure & other clouds. Discover its role in Fabric workloads, the OneDrive equivalent for data storage.
Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Ed Freeman

Microsoft Fabric unifies data & analytics, building on Azure Synapse Analytics for improved data-level interoperability. Explore its offerings & pros/cons.
Notebooks in Azure Synapse Analytics

Notebooks in Azure Synapse Analytics

Jessica Hill

Discover the use of Synapse Notebooks in Azure Synapse Analytics for data analysis, cleaning, visualization, and machine learning.
Using Cloud CI/CD in Zero Trust Environments

Using Cloud CI/CD in Zero Trust Environments

James Dawson

Performing certain deployment operations from a cloud-based CI/CD agent against resources that are only accessible via private networking are problematic. The often-cited solution is to use your own hosted agents that are also connected to the same private networks, however, this introduces additional costs and maintenance overhead. This post discusses an approach that combines the use of cloud-based CI/CD agents with 'just-in-time' allow-listing as an alternative to operating your own private agents.
Working with JSON in Pyspark

Working with JSON in Pyspark

Charlotte Gayton

This blog shows how to transform a document based format to a tabular format whilst managing all the nested properties
Using the Playwright C# SDK to automate 2FA authentication for AAD and MSA

Using the Playwright C# SDK to automate 2FA authentication for AAD and MSA

Howard van Rooijen

Learn to configure AAD or MSA 2FA profiles for UI automation testing with Time-based One-Time Passwords.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 5 - Debugging Containers with Visual Studio

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 5 - Debugging Containers with Visual Studio

James Dawson

Explore Dapr for cloud migration & use Visual Studio container tools to debug containerized services.
Correctly configuring ASP.NET Core MVC authentication when hosting in Azure Container Apps

Correctly configuring ASP.NET Core MVC authentication when hosting in Azure Container Apps

Jonathan George

A short rundown of why you need the ForwardedHeadersMiddleware when using Azure Container Apps to host an ASP.NET Core MVC app requiring authentication
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Conclusions

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Conclusions

Jonathan George

In the sixth and final post we draw our conclusions about migrating an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 4 - Containerising with Visual Studio

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 4 - Containerising with Visual Studio

James Dawson

Explore Dapr for cloud migration & simplify containerized dev inner-loop using Visual Studio with the Dapr Traffic Control sample application.
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migration of the existing test environment

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migration of the existing test environment

Jonathan George

The fifth in a series of posts talking about how and why we migrated an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps
Customizing Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics

Customizing Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics

Ed Freeman

Explore Custom Objects in Lake Databases for user-friendly column names, calculated columns, and pre-defined queries in Azure Synapse Analytics.
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Authentication and CORS issues

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Authentication and CORS issues

Jonathan George

The fourth post migrating an app from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps we examine the challenges around authentication and CORS
What is a Lake Database in Azure Synapse Analytics?

What is a Lake Database in Azure Synapse Analytics?

Ed Freeman

Explore Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics: analyze Dataverse data, share Spark tables, and design models with Database Templates.
Insight Discovery (part 6) – How to define business requirements for a successful cloud data & analytics project

Insight Discovery (part 6) – How to define business requirements for a successful cloud data & analytics project

James Broome

Many data projects fail to deliver the impact they should for a simple reason – they focus on the data. This series of posts explains a different way of thinking that will set up your data & analytics projects for success. Using an iterative, action-oriented, insight discovery process, it demonstrates tools and techniques that will help you to identify, define and prioritize requirements in your own projects so that they deliver maximum value. It also explores the synergy with modern cloud analytics platforms like Azure Synapse, explaining how the process and the architecture actively support each other for fast, impactful delivery.
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Build and deployment pipelines, and our first big problem

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Build and deployment pipelines, and our first big problem

Jonathan George

The third in a series of posts talking about how and why we migrated an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps
Insight Discovery (part 5) – Deliver insights incrementally with data pipelines

Insight Discovery (part 5) – Deliver insights incrementally with data pipelines

James Broome

Discover a unique, action-oriented approach to data projects for maximum impact. Learn how to prioritize requirements and leverage cloud analytics platforms.
Insight Discovery (part 4) – Data projects should have a backlog

Insight Discovery (part 4) – Data projects should have a backlog

James Broome

This series focuses on maximizing data projects' impact via an iterative, insight discovery process, and synergy with cloud platforms like Azure Synapse.
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migrating from Azure Functions to ASP.NET Core

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migrating from Azure Functions to ASP.NET Core

Jonathan George

The second in a series of posts talking about how and why we migrated an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps
Insight Discovery (part 3) – Defining Actionable Insights

Insight Discovery (part 3) – Defining Actionable Insights

James Broome

Discover a unique, action-oriented approach to data projects for maximum impact. Learn how to synergize with platforms like Azure Synapse for fast delivery.
Insight Discovery (part 2) – successful data projects start by forgetting about the data

Insight Discovery (part 2) – successful data projects start by forgetting about the data

James Broome

Many data projects fail to deliver the impact they should for a simple reason – they focus on the data. This series of posts explains a different way of thinking that will set up your data & analytics projects for success. Using an iterative, action-oriented, insight discovery process, it demonstrates tools and techniques that will help you to identify, define and prioritize requirements in your own projects so that they deliver maximum value. It also explores the synergy with modern cloud analytics platforms like Azure Synapse, explaining how the process and the architecture actively support each other for fast, impactful delivery.
Insight Discovery (part 1) – why do data projects often fail?

Insight Discovery (part 1) – why do data projects often fail?

James Broome

Discover a unique, action-oriented approach to data projects for maximum impact. Learn how to synergize with platforms like Azure Synapse for fast delivery.
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Introduction

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Introduction

Jonathan George

The first in a series of posts talking about how and why we migrated an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps
Automating Excel in the Cloud with Office Scripts and Power Automate

Automating Excel in the Cloud with Office Scripts and Power Automate

Liam Mooney

Automate Excel tasks with Office Scripts & Power Automate. Get an overview and explore a practical example in this post.
Using Azure CLI Authentication within Local Containers

Using Azure CLI Authentication within Local Containers

James Dawson

Fix broken dev loop with containerized apps on Azure CLI for Windows. Learn a workaround to avoid using outdated Azure CLI versions.
Sharing access to synchronized Shared Metadata Model objects in Azure Synapse Analytics

Sharing access to synchronized Shared Metadata Model objects in Azure Synapse Analytics

Ed Freeman

Learn how to grant non-admin users access to Spark synchronized objects with SQL Serverless in Synapse Analytics using the Shared Metadata Model.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 3 - Azure Storage Queues

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 3 - Azure Storage Queues

James Dawson

If you're interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) and how it can simplify migrating existing workloads to use cloud platform services, then this series might be for you. In this post, we continue modifying the excellent Dapr Traffic Control sample application by swapping the MQTT-based messaging with Azure Storage Queues. We will also look at how you can use the Dapr programming model as an alternative to cloud-provider SDKs.
What is the Shared Metadata Model in Azure Synapse Analytics, and why should I use it?

What is the Shared Metadata Model in Azure Synapse Analytics, and why should I use it?

Ed Freeman

Explore Azure Synapse's 'Shared Metadata Model' feature. Learn how it syncs Spark tables with SQL Serverless, its benefits, and tradeoffs.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 2 - Azure Key Vault

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 2 - Azure Key Vault

James Dawson

Explore DAPR's role in migrating workloads to cloud services, focusing on integrating Azure Key Vault for secrets management.
How to Monetize APIs with Azure API Management

How to Monetize APIs with Azure API Management

Howard van Rooijen

Explore monetizing APIs with our guide. We offer strategies, videos, and code via Azure API Management to fast-track your business model.
Testing Power BI Reports with the ExecuteQueries REST API

Testing Power BI Reports with the ExecuteQueries REST API

James Broome

Explore DAX queries for scenario-based testing in Power BI reports to ensure data model validity, rule adherence, and security maintenance.
Why you should care about the Power BI ExecuteQueries API

Why you should care about the Power BI ExecuteQueries API

James Broome

Explore the benefits of Power BI's new ExecuteQueries REST API for developers in tooling, process, and integrations.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 1 - Azure Service Bus

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 1 - Azure Service Bus

James Dawson

Explore Dapr for migrating workloads to cloud services. Learn to enable PaaS Pub-Sub with Azure Service Bus using the Dapr Traffic Control sample app.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 0 - Introduction

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 0 - Introduction

James Dawson

Explore Dapr's role in simplifying cloud migration using Azure services, based on the Dapr Traffic Control sample app.
Flex Your DevSecOps Muscles With Bicep (and get started with our cheat sheet)

Flex Your DevSecOps Muscles With Bicep (and get started with our cheat sheet)

Barry Smart

Bicep provides a significant improvement in tooling for organisations seeking to deploy infrastructure as code on Microsoft Azure.
Managing schemas in Azure Synapse SQL Serverless

Managing schemas in Azure Synapse SQL Serverless

James Broome

Explore Azure Synapse's SQL Serverless for on-demand data lake queries, its benefits, and challenges in managing schemas and maintaining data sync.
How to deploy a Vue app to Azure Static Web Apps using Azure DevOps and YAML

How to deploy a Vue app to Azure Static Web Apps using Azure DevOps and YAML

Carmel Eve

Deploy a VueJS app on Azure Static Web Apps using a YAML-defined Azure DevOps pipeline with Microsoft's hosting solution for static web applications.
New LinkedIn Learning Course: AZ-204 - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

New LinkedIn Learning Course: AZ-204 - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Carmel Eve

Carmel has recently released an exam tips course on preparing for the AZ-204 exam: Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure! The course gives an overview of the syllabus, some tips on what you'll need to know for each section, and some examples of common question types.
How to use Azure Synapse SQL Serverless to connect Data Lake and Power BI

How to use Azure Synapse SQL Serverless to connect Data Lake and Power BI

Carmel Eve

TL;DR - Using Azure Synapse SQL Serverless, you can query Azure Data Lake and populate Power BI reports across multiple workspaces.
How to test Azure Synapse notebooks

How to test Azure Synapse notebooks

James Broome

Explore data with Azure Synapse's interactive Spark notebooks, integrated with Pipelines & monitoring tools. Learn how to add tests for business rule validation.
Configuration in Azure Functions - What's in the box?

Configuration in Azure Functions - What's in the box?

Jonathan George

The first in a series of posts talking about how to best work with configuration in Azure Functions
How to safely reference a nullable activity output in Azure Synapse Pipelines and Azure Data Factory

How to safely reference a nullable activity output in Azure Synapse Pipelines and Azure Data Factory

Ed Freeman

Discover Azure Data Factory's null-safe operator for referencing activity outputs that may not always exist. Learn to use it effectively.
How to trigger an Azure Synapse pipeline run from C#

How to trigger an Azure Synapse pipeline run from C#

Jonathan George

A rundown of how to trigger an Azure Synapse pipeline run from C# code.
How Azure Synapse unifies your development experience

How Azure Synapse unifies your development experience

Ian Griffiths

Modern analytics requires a multi-faceted approach, which can cause integration headaches. Azure Synapse's Swiss army knife approach can remove a lot of friction.
How to fix the "You need permission to access workspace..." error in Azure Synapse Analytics

How to fix the "You need permission to access workspace..." error in Azure Synapse Analytics

Ed Freeman

Fix the "You need permission" error in Azure Synapse Analytics with this guide, addressing its causes and solutions for Data Engineers/Developers.
How to use the Azure CLI to manage access to Synapse Studio

How to use the Azure CLI to manage access to Synapse Studio

Ed Freeman

Assign roles in Synapse Studio for Azure Synapse Analytics devs using Azure CLI. Accessible by Owners/Contributors of the resource.
Does Azure Synapse Link redefine the meaning of full stack serverless?

Does Azure Synapse Link redefine the meaning of full stack serverless?

James Broome

Explore Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB's impact on 'full stack serverless', No-ETL, and pay-as-you-query analytics.
How to use SQL Notebooks to access Azure Synapse SQL Pools & SQL on demand

How to use SQL Notebooks to access Azure Synapse SQL Pools & SQL on demand

Howard van Rooijen

Wishing Azure Synapse Analytics had support for SQL notebooks? Fear not, it's easy to take advantage rich interactive notebooks for SQL Pools and SQL on Demand.
ArrayPool vs MemoryPool—minimizing allocations in AIS.NET

ArrayPool vs MemoryPool—minimizing allocations in AIS.NET

Ian Griffiths

Tracking down unexpected allocations in a high-performance .NET parsing library.
A simple invite user flow for AAD B2C (without custom policies)

A simple invite user flow for AAD B2C (without custom policies)

James Broome

Explore an alternative "invite user" flow for Azure AD B2C, simplifying authentication without custom policies in SaaS applications.
Deploy an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace using an ARM Template

Deploy an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace using an ARM Template

Ed Freeman

Explore deploying Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces using ARM templates, a popular infrastructure deployment method for organizations.
Using Azure Key Vault for Encryption in C# - A Simple Tutorial

Using Azure Key Vault for Encryption in C# - A Simple Tutorial

Ed Freeman

Learn to encrypt data in your app using C# and Azure SDK libraries, and secure keys with Azure Key Vault. Discover the easy setup process in this blog.
How to prepare for Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

How to prepare for Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Carmel Eve

Carmel recently passed the 'Az-204 - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure' exam. Here she shares how she went about preparing!
Azure Synapse Analytics: How serverless is replacing the data warehouse

Azure Synapse Analytics: How serverless is replacing the data warehouse

James Broome

Serverless data architectures enable leaner data insights and operations. How do you reap the rewards while avoiding the potential pitfalls?
Talking about Azure Synapse on Microsoft Mechanics!

Talking about Azure Synapse on Microsoft Mechanics!

Jess Panni

I was recently invited on to Microsoft Mechanics to talk about the new on-demand SQL Serverless offering within Azure Synapse. If you have been following along with my previous blog posts you will know that we've been hard at work applying Azure Synapse against real customer workloads. In the video I take you through the service by solving a real-world IoT problem for one of our telco customers.
Benchmarking Azure Synapse Analytics - SQL Serverless, using Polyglot Notebooks

Benchmarking Azure Synapse Analytics - SQL Serverless, using Polyglot Notebooks

James Broome

New Azure Synapse Analytics service offers SQL Serverless for on-demand data lake queries. We tested its potential as a Data Lake Analytics replacement.
Azure Synapse for C# Developers: 5 things you need to know

Azure Synapse for C# Developers: 5 things you need to know

James Broome

Did you know that Azure Synapse has great support for .NET and #csharp? Learning new languages is often a barrier to digital transformation, being able to use existing people, skills, tools and engineering disciplines can be a massive advantage.
Using multiple azure-cli credentials within automation

Using multiple azure-cli credentials within automation

James Dawson

Discover a technique for setting up multiple, concurrent authenticated sessions using azure-cli in this post.
Does Azure Synapse Analytics spell the end for Azure Databricks?

Does Azure Synapse Analytics spell the end for Azure Databricks?

James Broome

Explore why Microsoft's new Spark offering in Azure Synapse Analytics is a game-changer for Azure Databricks investors.
5 Reasons why Azure Synapse Analytics should be on your roadmap

5 Reasons why Azure Synapse Analytics should be on your roadmap

James Broome

Explore 5 key reasons to choose Azure Synapse Analytics for your cloud data needs, based on years of experience in driving customer outcomes.
Why Power BI developers should care about the read/write XMLA endpoint

Why Power BI developers should care about the read/write XMLA endpoint

James Broome

Whilst "read/write XMLA endpoint" might seem like a technical mouthful, its addition to Power BI is a significant milestone in the strategy of bringing Power BI and Analysis Services closer together. As well as closing the gap between IT-managed workloads and self-service BI, it presents a number of new opportunities for Power BI developers in terms of tooling, process and integrations. This post highlights some of the key advantages of this new capability and what they mean for the Power BI developer.
How does Azure Key Vault help me secure my data?

How does Azure Key Vault help me secure my data?

Carmel Eve

Azure Key Vault safeguards encryption keys & secrets for secure data access. It offers isolated storage, AD integration, RBAC, and access policies.
Testing Power BI Reports using SpecFlow and .NET

Testing Power BI Reports using SpecFlow and .NET

James Broome

Ensure Power BI report quality by connecting to tabular models, executing scenario-based specs, and validating data, business rules, and security.
Recording of Azure Oxford talk on combatting illegal fishing with Azure (for less than £10/month)

Recording of Azure Oxford talk on combatting illegal fishing with Azure (for less than £10/month)

Carmel Eve

Jess and Carmel recently gave a talk at Azure Oxford on Combatting illegal fishing with Machine Learning and Azure - for less than £10 / month. The recording of that talk is now available for viewing!The talk focuses on the recent work we completed with OceanMind. They run through how to construct a cloud-first architecture based on serverless and data analytics technologies and explore the important principles and challenges in designing this kind of solution. Finally, we see how the architecture we designed through this process not only provides all the benefits of the cloud (reliability, scalability, security), but because of the pay-as-you-go compute model, has a compute cost that we could barely believe!
Testing Power BI Dataflows using SpecFlow and the Common Data Model

Testing Power BI Dataflows using SpecFlow and the Common Data Model

James Broome

Ensure reliable insights with endjin's automated quality gates for validating Power BI Dataflows in complex solutions.
Azure Analysis Services - how to save money with automatic shutdown

Azure Analysis Services - how to save money with automatic shutdown

James Broome

Explore Azure Analysis Services for scalable analytics. Control costs via automation with Powershell & Azure DevOps in multi-environment setups.
Building a proximity detection pipeline

Building a proximity detection pipeline

Carmel Eve

Endjin's blog post details their project with OceanMind, using a serverless architecture and machine learning to detect illegal fishing.
Azure Analysis Services: How to update the expression for a calculated column from .NET

Azure Analysis Services: How to update the expression for a calculated column from .NET

James Broome

Learn how to update Azure Analysis Services model schemas in .NET apps using AMO SDK for user-driven analysis.
Wardley Maps - Explaining how OceanMind use Microsoft Azure & AI to combat Illegal Fishing

Wardley Maps - Explaining how OceanMind use Microsoft Azure & AI to combat Illegal Fishing

Jess Panni

Wardley Maps are a fantastic tool to help provide situational awareness, in order to help you make better decisions. We use Wardley Maps to help our customers think about the various benefits and trade-offs that can be made when migrating to the Cloud. In this blog post, Jess Panni demonstrates how we used Wardley Maps to plan the migration of OceanMind to Microsoft Azure, and how the maps highlighted where the core value of their platform was, and how PaaS and Serverless services offered the most value for money for the organisation.
Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 5 - Using Corvus.SpecFlow.Extensions in a build pipeline

Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 5 - Using Corvus.SpecFlow.Extensions in a build pipeline

Jonathan George

If you use Azure Functions on a regular basis, you'll likely have grappled with the challenge of testing them. Even now, several years after their introduction, the testing story for Functions is not hugely well defined. In the final post in this series, we show how to ensure specs written using Corvus.Testing can run as part of your build pipeline.
Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 4 - Controlling your functions with additional configuration

Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 4 - Controlling your functions with additional configuration

Jonathan George

If you use Azure Functions on a regular basis, you'll likely have grappled with the challenge of testing them. Even now, several years after their introduction, the testing story for Functions is not hugely well defined. In the fourth of this series of posts, we look at how configuration can be supplied from your tests to the functions apps being tested.
Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 3 - Using hooks to start Functions

Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 3 - Using hooks to start Functions

Jonathan George

If you use Azure Functions on a regular basis, you'll likely have grappled with the challenge of testing them. Even now, several years after their introduction, the testing story for Functions is not hugely well defined. In the third of a series of posts, we look at using classes in the Corvus.Testing library to run functions apps via scenario and feature hooks.
Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 2 - Using step bindings to start Functions

Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 2 - Using step bindings to start Functions

Jonathan George

If you use Azure Functions on a regular basis, you'll likely have grappled with the challenge of testing them. Even now, several years after their introduction, the testing story for Functions is not hugely well defined. In the second of a series of posts, we look at using step bindings provided by the Corvus.Testing library to run functions apps as part of your SpecFlow scenarios.
Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 1 - Introduction

Integration Testing Azure Functions with SpecFlow and C#, Part 1 - Introduction

Jonathan George

If you use Azure Functions on a regular basis, you'll likely have grappled with the challenge of testing them. Even now, several years after their introduction, the testing story for Functions is not hugely well defined. In the first of a series of posts, we look at some different approaches to testing your functions apps, and introduce the Corvus.Testing library.
Azure Analysis Services - How to process an asynchronous model refresh from .NET

Azure Analysis Services - How to process an asynchronous model refresh from .NET

James Broome

Learn to use Azure Analysis Services in custom apps via REST API in .NET for efficient async model refreshes.
Introducing Ais.Net - High-Performance Parsing in C#

Introducing Ais.Net - High-Performance Parsing in C#

Ian Griffiths

Explore endjin's high-performance .NET AIS parser, developed for OceanMind, used for tracking commercial ships.
Azure Analysis Services: How to execute a DAX query from .NET

Azure Analysis Services: How to execute a DAX query from .NET

James Broome

Explore endless possibilities with dynamic DAX queries in C# for Azure Analysis Services integration in custom apps using the provided code samples.
British Science Week - inspiring the next generation of data scientists

British Science Week - inspiring the next generation of data scientists

James Broome

The theme of this year's British Science Week (6 - 15 March 2020) is "Our Diverse Planet". We'll be getting involved by speaking to school children about the work we've been doing with Oxfordshire-based OceanMind (part of the Microsoft AI for Good programme) to help them combat illegal fishing, hopefully inspiring some of the next generation of data scientists!
How can I contribute to the Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library?

How can I contribute to the Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library?

Howard van Rooijen

The Azure CNAB Quickstart Templates we've created are only half the story. Much of the work we've done over the last few months involved the authoring, contribution and DevOps pipelines required to support an open source project. The project is inspired by the original Azure Quickstart Templates - which over the last 5 years has grown to over 850 templates. In this post we're going to explain how you can author CNAB templates and contribute them.
Setting up Porter on Windows

Setting up Porter on Windows

Mike Evans-Larah

Porter: a CNAB-based tool for building, managing, and installing app bundles. Learn to set up Porter on Windows with this guide.
Introducing the Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library

Introducing the Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library

Mike Evans-Larah

In partnership with Microsoft, we have released Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library on GitHub. CNAB (Cloud-Native Application Bundle) is a new specification designed for facilitating the packaging, installation, upgrading and uninstallation of cloud-native solutions in the cloud, on-premise or on the edge. We've created a number of quickstarts covering Apache Airflow, Azure Kubernetes Service, Ghost, Kubeflow, SQL Server Always On and Wordpress to help demonstrate the power of CNAB and Porter.
Exposing legacy batch processing code online using Azure Durable Functions, API Management and Kubernetes

Exposing legacy batch processing code online using Azure Durable Functions, API Management and Kubernetes

Jonathan George

Discover how Kubernetes, Azure Durable Functions, and Azure API Management transform legacy batch processing code into a RESTful API.
Azure Analysis Services - How to query all the measures in a model from .NET

Azure Analysis Services - How to query all the measures in a model from .NET

James Broome

Explore .NET querying methods for integrating Azure Analysis Services beyond data querying into dynamic UIs and APIs.
Azure Analysis Services: How to open a connection from .NET

Azure Analysis Services: How to open a connection from .NET

James Broome

Learn to integrate Azure Analysis Services in apps by establishing server connections. Follow this guide with code samples for essential scenarios.
NDC London 2020 - My highlights

NDC London 2020 - My highlights

Ed Freeman

Ed attended NDC London 2020, along with many of his endjin colleagues. In this post he summarises and reflects upon his favourite sessions of the conference including; "OWASP Top Ten proactive controls" by Jim Manico, "There's an Impostor in this room!" by Angharad Edwards, "How to code music?" by Laura Silvanavičiūtė, "ML and the IoT: Living on the Edge" by Brandon Satrom, "Common API Security Pitfalls" by Philippe De Ryck, and "Combatting illegal fishing with Machine Learning and Azure - for less than £10 / month" by Jess Panni & Carmel Eve.
NDC London Day 3 Retrospective - from personal projects to developer comedy

NDC London Day 3 Retrospective - from personal projects to developer comedy

Jonathan George

Along with several of my endjin colleagues, I attended NDC London in January this year - here's a run through of the sessions I attended on Day 3 and my thoughts. This final day was a mixed bag, taking in talks on drumming and AKKA.net, as well as something a bit more close to home - a session from endjin's own Jess Panni and Carmel Eve on our recent project for OceanMind.
NDC London Day 2 Retrospective - Full Stack, from SPAs to high performance .NET Core via Websockets

NDC London Day 2 Retrospective - Full Stack, from SPAs to high performance .NET Core via Websockets

Jonathan George

Along with several of my endjin colleagues, I attended NDC London in January this year - here's a run through of the sessions I attended on Day 2 and my thoughts. This day was UI heavy, with sessions on Vuejs and UI testing, but I also learned more about GraphQL and writing high performance C# code.
NDC London Day 1 Retrospective - dangerous AI, microservices, diagnostics and Blazor

NDC London Day 1 Retrospective - dangerous AI, microservices, diagnostics and Blazor

Jonathan George

A retrospective of my first day at NDC London 2020, taking in sessions on AI and Machine Learning, Capability Mapping, Micro Frontends, Diagnostics and Blazor.
Azure Analysis Services - integration options using .NET, REST APIs and PowerShell

Azure Analysis Services - integration options using .NET, REST APIs and PowerShell

James Broome

Explore Azure Analysis Services in custom apps using SDKs, PowerShell cmdlets & REST APIs. Learn to choose the right framework in this guide.
Azure Analysis Services: 8 reasons why you might want to integrate into a custom application

Azure Analysis Services: 8 reasons why you might want to integrate into a custom application

James Broome

Explore Azure Analysis Services' versatility in bespoke analysis products & processes, and learn how it can unlock data insights beyond traditional BI.
AI for Good Hackathon

AI for Good Hackathon

Ian Griffiths

Endjin attended Microsoft's AI for Good hackathon at the IET in London, highlighting the potential of tech to amplify good deeds.
Building a secure data solution using Azure Data Lake Store (Gen2)

Building a secure data solution using Azure Data Lake Store (Gen2)

Carmel Eve

In this blog we discuss building a secure data solution using Azure Data Lake. Data Lake has many features which enable fine grained security and data separation. It is also built on Azure Storage which enables us to take advantage of all of those features and means that ADLS is still a cost effective storage option!This post runs through some of the great features of ADLS and runs through an example of how we build our solutions using this technology!

Speaking at NDC London: Combatting illegal fishing with Machine Learning and Azure

Carmel Eve

In January 2020, Carmel is speaking about creating high performance geospatial algorithms in C# which can detect suspicious vessel activity, which is used to help alert law enforcement to illegal fishing. The input data is fed from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2, and converted into data projections optimised for high-performance computation. This code is then hosted in Azure Functions for cheap, consumption based processing.
Troubleshooting "NotImplemented / Access is denied" error when integrating Azure App Service with Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

Troubleshooting "NotImplemented / Access is denied" error when integrating Azure App Service with Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

Ed Freeman

Are you configuring your Azure App Service to use a VNet? The regional VNet integration for an Azure App Service is a preview feature, and so comes with some quirks. One of the documented limitations of this preview feature is that "The feature is only available from newer App Service scale units that support PremiumV2 App Service plans." This has interesting implications as to how you need to deploy your App Service, otherwise you could end up with a rather perplexing pattern of errors. Read about how we came about this error, and how we ended up fixing it.
Comparing GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines: High-level concepts

Comparing GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines: High-level concepts

Mike Evans-Larah

GitHub Actions is GitHub's new CI/CD platform. It is comparable with Azure Pipelines, which forms part of the Azure DevOps suite. In this post, Mike Larah looks at the similarities and differences in the high-level concepts and terminology between the two platforms.
Long Running Functions in Azure Data Factory

Long Running Functions in Azure Data Factory

Jess Panni

Explore Azure Durable Functions as an alternative to long-running operations, overcoming HTTP Triggers' 230s limit in Azure Load Balancer.
How Azure DevTestLabs is helping me climb Everest

How Azure DevTestLabs is helping me climb Everest

Carmel Eve

Remote working allows us to work from anywhere we want. This brings a huge amount of flexibility in freedom, however we do need the help of a working laptop! When Carmel's laptop gave in just before a trip, she used Azure DevTestLabs to allow her to continue to work using a 10 year old Mac that probably couldn't wouldn't have been up to the task alone...
Running Azure Functions in Docker on a Raspberry Pi 4

Running Azure Functions in Docker on a Raspberry Pi 4

Jonathan George

Running an Azure Function in a Docker container on Raspberry Pi 4 with this step-by-step guide and ready-to-use code for your projects.
Secure Azure Function-to-Function authentication without the need for credentials

Secure Azure Function-to-Function authentication without the need for credentials

Carmel Eve

Explore how to build secure solutions on Azure using Azure Functions and Managed Identities, eliminating the need for storing credentials.
How to use the AzureAD module in PowerShell Core

How to use the AzureAD module in PowerShell Core

James Broome

Explore using AzureAD with Az module in PowerShell Core, as Az may not fully replace AzureAD. Learn to utilize both for optimal functionality.
How to create a Power BI workspace in an Azure DevOps Pipeline using Powershell

How to create a Power BI workspace in an Azure DevOps Pipeline using Powershell

James Broome

Automate Power BI workspaces creation & security using PowerShell & Azure DevOps pipelines in a wider DevOps strategy with Azure data platform services.
Using Databricks Notebooks to run an ETL process

Using Databricks Notebooks to run an ETL process

Carmel Eve

Explore data analysis & ETL with Databricks Notebooks on Azure. Utilize Spark's unified analytics engine for big data & ML, and integrate with ADF pipelines.
Exploring Azure Data Factory - Mapping Data Flows

Exploring Azure Data Factory - Mapping Data Flows

Carmel Eve

Mapping Data Flows are a relatively new feature of ADF. They allow you to visually build up complex data transformation sequences. This can aid in the streamlining of data manipulation and ETL processes, without the need to write any code! This post gives a brief introduction to the technology, and what this could enable!
Snowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory - Part 2

Snowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory - Part 2

Jess Panni

Snowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory - Part 1

Snowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory - Part 1

Jess Panni

Explore the lack of a native Azure Data Factory connector for Snowflake and discover alternatives for integration between these popular platforms.
Enforce resource tagging with Azure Policy

Enforce resource tagging with Azure Policy

Mike Evans-Larah

Explore Azure Policy for proper tagging on resources and enabling tag inheritance from parent resource groups.
Avoiding deployment locking errors by running Web and Functions Apps from packages

Avoiding deployment locking errors by running Web and Functions Apps from packages

Carmel Eve

Fix DLL locking errors in Azure Function deployment by using "deploy from package" option. This runs the function from a package file, resolving issues.
How to run a script on an existing Azure Virtual Machine

How to run a script on an existing Azure Virtual Machine

Mike Evans-Larah

Using PowerShell and the VM Custom Script Extension to download and execute scripts on existing Azure VMs
Managing applications using Azure AD, service principals and managed identities: A permissions story

Managing applications using Azure AD, service principals and managed identities: A permissions story

Carmel Eve

Explore Azure Active Directory's key concepts: AAD apps, service principles, managed identities, with setup examples.
Cosmos DB - Request Units charged for processing a Gremlin API request

Cosmos DB - Request Units charged for processing a Gremlin API request

Howard van Rooijen

If you're using the Gremlin API for Cosmos DB, you can now see how much each operation costs in Request Units.
Thoughts about .NET, The Cloud, AI, ML, and teaching software engineers

Thoughts about .NET, The Cloud, AI, ML, and teaching software engineers

Howard van Rooijen

Ian Griffiths recently joined endjin as a Technical Fellow. We had a long fireside chat, which has been broken down into a 5 part series covering .NET, the Cloud, AI, ML, teaching software engineering, and why he joined endjin.
OpenAPI Document Converters for Visual Studio 2017

OpenAPI Document Converters for Visual Studio 2017

Howard van Rooijen

The OpenAPI SDK based OpenAPI document converters extension has been updated to support Visual Studio 2017.
How we set up daily Azure spending alerts and saved $10k

How we set up daily Azure spending alerts and saved $10k

Mike Evans-Larah

Read how we set up Azure spending alerts and saved over $10k
We're talking about Cosmos DB at Future Decoded 2017!

We're talking about Cosmos DB at Future Decoded 2017!

Howard van Rooijen

We have lots of experience working with Azure Cosmos DB, and we're sharing some of our knowledge at Microsoft's Future Decoded event.
Kickstart your API proposition with the API Maturity Assessment

Kickstart your API proposition with the API Maturity Assessment

Howard van Rooijen

Explore the importance of API strategy, governance, security, and design in Digital Transformation projects.
How to plan your cloud transformation journey

How to plan your cloud transformation journey

Howard van Rooijen

We've been helping customers adopt Microsoft Azure since 2010, we have produced a lot of thought leadership to help people think about the steps required, the risk involved and how to plan a successful adoption.
Azure Tech Selector - 2017 Edition

Azure Tech Selector - 2017 Edition

Matthew Adams

We've just released an updated version of our Azure Technology Selector poster - helping you to choose the right Azure service, based on your use-case.
Best of the Recorded Azure Sessions at BUILD 2017

Best of the Recorded Azure Sessions at BUILD 2017

Howard van Rooijen

There were so many good sessions at Microsoft BUILD 2017, we selected our highlights of sessions that you should make time to catch up with.
Creating a PowerBI report with DirectQuery and multiple SQL Database sources using Elastic Query

Creating a PowerBI report with DirectQuery and multiple SQL Database sources using Elastic Query

Alice Waddicor

Learn to build a Power BI dashboard using DirectQuery and ElasticQuery across multiple databases with Alice Waddicor.
Benchmarking the Cloud against on-premise data centres

Benchmarking the Cloud against on-premise data centres

Barry Smart

In the third and final part in this series we compare the risk of Azure vs the risk of on-premise data centres, using the Swiss Cheese Risk Model.
Advanced Azure Resource Manager template patterns – t-shirt sizing and optional resources

Advanced Azure Resource Manager template patterns – t-shirt sizing and optional resources

Richard Kerslake

Implement using parameters in Resource Manager templates for optional resource deployment and configuration.
Automating office security with Synology, Surveillance Station, OneDrive and Power Automate

Automating office security with Synology, Surveillance Station, OneDrive and Power Automate

Mike Evans-Larah

Read about how we set up automated backups of our office security camera footage and used Power Automate to alert us if anything went wrong
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Networking

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Networking

Jess Panni

Explore AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform's offerings for cloud migration. Understand their services for your specific needs.
How to use Power BI Embedded with AspNetCore

How to use Power BI Embedded with AspNetCore

Matthew Adams

This post shows how to add a Power BI Embedded report to an ASP.NET Core application.
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Mobile Services

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Mobile Services

Jess Panni

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Internet of Things

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Internet of Things

Jess Panni

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Analytics & Big Data

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Analytics & Big Data

Jess Panni

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Database

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Database

Jess Panni

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Storage & Content Delivery

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Storage & Content Delivery

Jess Panni

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Compute

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - Compute

Jess Panni

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform

Jess Panni

Cloud Adoption: A Deep Dive into the Swiss Cheese Model

Cloud Adoption: A Deep Dive into the Swiss Cheese Model

Barry Smart

In the second part of this series, we take a deep dive into the Swiss Cheese Model and show how this type of threat modelling is essential for understanding the risks that adopting Microsoft Azure post your organisation, and how you mitigate them.
Automating creation of new ALM environments using PowerShell and Azure DevOps

Automating creation of new ALM environments using PowerShell and Azure DevOps

Richard Kerslake

Did you know that you can fully automate the bootstrapping process of setting up an Azure DevOps enviornment? This post shows you how.
"But it works on my cloud!" - are your developers still making the same mistakes in a world of DevOps and PaaS services?

"But it works on my cloud!" - are your developers still making the same mistakes in a world of DevOps and PaaS services?

James Broome

In the world of DevOps, cloud and platform services, how does a developer's "definition of done" need to change? This post argues that as the silos of development and operations are broken down, the responsibility of understanding the whole solution increases meaning, to truly take advantage of the cloud, the need for quality and professionalism is critical for success.
Deploying to Azure using Azure Resource Manager templates and Octopus Deploy

Deploying to Azure using Azure Resource Manager templates and Octopus Deploy

Richard Kerslake

Learn how to combine the power of Azure Resource Manager and Octopus Deploy for a frictionless Azure DevOps experience.
Cloud Adoption: Risks & Mitigations Analysis

Cloud Adoption: Risks & Mitigations Analysis

Barry Smart

In the first part of this series, we look at how you take a strategic look at the risks of adopting Microsoft Azure, and how you report these to C-level execs.
Using Postman to load test an Azure Machine Learning web service

Using Postman to load test an Azure Machine Learning web service

Richard Kerslake

Explore creating and testing an Azure ML Studio web service using Postman for efficient machine learning model production.
TeamCity MetaRunner for creating Release Annotations in Azure Application Insights

TeamCity MetaRunner for creating Release Annotations in Azure Application Insights

Howard van Rooijen

Meta-Runners allow you to easily create reusable build components for TeamCity, in this post I demonstrate how to create a Meta-Runner to create Azure Application Insights Release Annotations.
Automated R Deployments in Azure

Automated R Deployments in Azure

Jess Panni

Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only – using graphical runbooks

Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only – using graphical runbooks

Richard Kerslake

We've improved our approach for saving money by turning off our virtual machines outside of office hours. This post explored how to do it using graphical runbooks.
Embracing Disruption - Financial Services and the Microsoft Cloud

Embracing Disruption - Financial Services and the Microsoft Cloud

Howard van Rooijen

We have produced an insightful booklet called "Embracing Disruption - Financial Services and the Microsoft Cloud" which examines the challenges and opportunities for the Financial Service Industry in the UK, through the lens of Microsoft Azure, Security, Privacy & Data Sovereignty, Data Ingestion, Transformation & Enrichment, Big Compute, Big Data, Insights & Visualisation, Infrastructure, Ops & Support, and the API Economy.
The 100 Year Start-up: Embracing Disruption in Financial Services

The 100 Year Start-up: Embracing Disruption in Financial Services

Howard van Rooijen

Hymans Robertson was set up in Glasgow in 1921 and is one of the longest established independent firms of consultants and actuaries in the UK. Hymans Robertson soon realised that the computational requirements of their models exceeded the capacity of their on-premise datacentres and that the most cost effective solution would be to use the cloud to perform their Big Compute. But before they could harness the cloud to help them solve their Big Data problems, the business needed to understand the ramifications of moving to the cloud; everything from regulatory, risk and compliance concerns,  to how their internal Ops team would need to evolve and adapt, and how to deal with moving data from on-prem into the cloud.
Why is blockchain revolutionising Financial Services?

Why is blockchain revolutionising Financial Services?

Matthew Adams

There is a lot of hype about the blockchain - usually wrapped up with talk about Bitcoin and crypto-currencies. In this article, we look at its impact on trust, and auditability in financial services, and why it may (or may not) be appropriate for your solutions.
Regulatory Compliance and Cloud Adoption

Regulatory Compliance and Cloud Adoption

Matthew Adams

In this post we review the FCA's guidelines for the adoption of cloud services by FinTech businesses, and help you to understand their impact across the value chain.
FinTech Week and the Microsoft Cloud

FinTech Week and the Microsoft Cloud

Matthew Adams

To celebrate FinTech Week, we've released an eBook based our our talk about Disruption in Financial Services at Future Decoded.
Azure Resource Manager authentication from a PowerShell script

Azure Resource Manager authentication from a PowerShell script

Richard Kerslake

Learn how to authenticate against Azure Resource Manager using PowerShell, for fully automated deployments.
Azure Weekly turns 1 & we're celebrating by giving away 5 Windows IoT Raspberry Pi 2 starter kits

Azure Weekly turns 1 & we're celebrating by giving away 5 Windows IoT Raspberry Pi 2 starter kits

Howard van Rooijen

We've reached our first milestone - a whole year of publishing Azure Weekly. To celebrate we're giving away stuff!
Azure Batch - Time is Money in Big Compute

Azure Batch - Time is Money in Big Compute

James Broome

Consumption based pricing is a one of the USPs of Cloud PaaS services, but the default settings aren't necessarily optimised for cost. Significant savings can be made from understanding your workload.
Azure Machine Learning–experimenting with training data proportions using the SMOTE module

Azure Machine Learning–experimenting with training data proportions using the SMOTE module

Alice Waddicor

Using Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell DSC to create and provision a VM

Using Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell DSC to create and provision a VM

Richard Kerslake

Explore Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell Desired State Configuration for provisioning and configuring Azure virtual machines.
Spinning up 16,000 A1 Virtual Machines on Azure Batch

Spinning up 16,000 A1 Virtual Machines on Azure Batch

Howard van Rooijen

We recently completed a technical proof of concept to see if the new Azure Batch service could scale to meet the demands of a Big Compute workload.
Azure data services part 3: Azure Machine Learning

Azure data services part 3: Azure Machine Learning

Alice Waddicor

Azure data services part 2: Stream Insight

Azure data services part 2: Stream Insight

Alice Waddicor

Azure data services part 1: HDInsight

Azure data services part 1: HDInsight

Alice Waddicor

SpecFlow Extensions for Azure Storage Emulator

SpecFlow Extensions for Azure Storage Emulator

Howard van Rooijen

We use SpecFlow to write integration tests against Azure. In this post we share an Open Source SpecFlow extension for the Azure Storage Emulator.
Speed kills: decrease page load time and increase conversions with Azure CDN

Speed kills: decrease page load time and increase conversions with Azure CDN

Pascal Arnould

A CDN, short for Content Delivery Network, is essentially a network of servers set-up, in various geographic locations, with the aim of speeding up the delivery of content to end-users across the Internet.
Azure Automation scheduler and daylight saving time

Azure Automation scheduler and daylight saving time

Richard Kerslake

Everything in Azure runs in Coordinated Universal Time; learn how to deal with Daylight saving time in Azure Automation, so your jobs still run on time.
Visualise your Azure Table Storage data with Power BI

Visualise your Azure Table Storage data with Power BI

Alice Waddicor

You can easily visualise data stored in Azure Table Storage in Power BI. This guide shows you how.
Azure Web Apps: Package Restore against a private NuGet Feed

Azure Web Apps: Package Restore against a private NuGet Feed

Howard van Rooijen

If you have private NuGet feeds, restoring packages during a CI/CD process can be a challenge. This post provides a solution when working with Azure App Service.
Using a different New Relic application name per environment with Azure Cloud Services

Using a different New Relic application name per environment with Azure Cloud Services

Richard Kerslake

Just because you're using the cloud, doesn't mean you don't use traditional DTAP environments. But you do need to configure your cloud services to understand them.
Reporting errors to New Relic from an Azure Worker Role

Reporting errors to New Relic from an Azure Worker Role

Richard Kerslake

In this post we demonstrate how to use New Relic to monitor an Azure Cloud Service Worker Role, step by step.
A step by step guide to choosing the right Azure technology for your solution

A step by step guide to choosing the right Azure technology for your solution

Matthew Adams

To help guide the client through the selection process (and to act as an aide memoire when we come to try and remember why particular choices were made), we created a handy flow-chart to take you through the technology landscape, and suggest some recommended-practice solutions.
Generating and using a certificate to authorise Azure Automation

Generating and using a certificate to authorise Azure Automation

Alice Waddicor

Explore how to use Azure Automation for running VMs during office hours. Learn to create runbooks for automated tasks at pre-defined times.
Diagnostic logging with Azure SDK 2.5

Diagnostic logging with Azure SDK 2.5

Richard Kerslake

Learn how to use diagnostics in Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Service Web or Worker Roles using the Azure SDK.
Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only

Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only

Richard Kerslake

Discover cloud computing's pay-as-you-use model and how turning off VMs outside office hours can save costs.
Elasticsearch gotchas and tips - part 2

Elasticsearch gotchas and tips - part 2

Richard Kerslake

We've delivered a number of Elasticsearch solutions on Azure. In this second post in the series, we share some useful tips.
Have you signed up for the Azure Weekly newsletter?

Have you signed up for the Azure Weekly newsletter?

Howard van Rooijen

Azure Weekly is our FREE weekly newsletter containing a round up of all the news and interesting blog posts about the Azure ecosystem.
Azure Weekly Newsletter

Azure Weekly Newsletter

Matthew Adams

We have started to publish a FREE weekly newsletter covering all the latest news about the Microsoft Azure ecosystem
Troubleshooting Twilio with New Relic

Troubleshooting Twilio with New Relic

Richard Kerslake

We created an an automated, telephony-based candidate interviewing system using .NET and Azure. We used New Relic and Twilio to simplify first line support. In this post we delve into some of the technical details.
Restrict access to Azure Websites by accept-listing

Restrict access to Azure Websites by accept-listing

Mike Evans-Larah

By utilising the IP and Domain Restrictions feature in IIS, it is possible to lock down your Azure Website to only allow access to IP addresses and domains that you have specified in a accept list. Learn how in this post.
Gotchas when installing an Elasticsearch cluster on Microsoft Azure

Gotchas when installing an Elasticsearch cluster on Microsoft Azure

Richard Kerslake

We've built a number of Elasticsearch clusters on Microsoft Azure. This blog post contains some of our top tips and gotchas.
A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting

A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting

Howard van Rooijen

Learn how to use PowerShell Remoting to connect to an Azure Virtual Machine; a useful technique for managing servers like cattle, not pets.
Azure Tip: Cannot connect to Virtual Machine after changing Virtual Machine Size

Azure Tip: Cannot connect to Virtual Machine after changing Virtual Machine Size

Howard van Rooijen

A quick tip on fixing a 'remote desktop could not connect' error on Azure Virtual Machines.
Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use Office 365 for Email Notifications

Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use Office 365 for Email Notifications

Howard van Rooijen

This post shows how to use your Office 365 SMTP relay to enable email notification from TeamCity and YouTrack hosted in Azure.

Downloading Windows Azure Subscription Files

Pascal Arnould

If you use Azure Management Studio, you can quickly setup your connections by importing your publish settings...
Azure From The Trenches: Updating Service Configuration Whilst Running In The Emulator

Azure From The Trenches: Updating Service Configuration Whilst Running In The Emulator

Mike Evans-Larah

A quick tip for updating your Azure cloud service configuration while running in the emulator

Azure Cloud Migration Poster

Matthew Adams

We've just released a free Cloud Migration Process poster to help you understand the complexities of evaluating & executing different cloud migration strategies.

RavenDB in the Cloud

Matthew Adams

Some thoughts on RavenDB after using it to build a content-managed website.