Microsoft Launches Slack Competitor with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has launched a competitor to Slack and other persistent chat applications that allows collaborators to chat back and forth in real time through a … Read More
SQL Server Analysis Services Finally Coming to the Cloud!
Microsoft has announced a new cloud service in preview – SQL Server Analysis Services. This has been a glaring gap in the cloud stack for … Read More
Microsoft Improves Azure App Service Support for Linux and MySQL
Microsoft has supported running PHP, Java and Node.JS within the Azure App Service (which is what used to be called Azure Web Sites) for years. … Read More
Microsoft Driving to Cross Platform .NET Standard 2.0
Microsoft has had evolving variations of the .NET framework over the years targeting specific platforms. Even within Windows, there were multiple .NET framework platforms depending … Read More
Microsoft Introduces Location Based Conditional Access for Office 365
Office 365 has always had a concept of access controls based on users and groups. Microsoft has now taken the concept much further to restrict … Read More
Office 365 Site Collection Limit Expands to 25 Terabytes!
Microsoft has announced the increase of the site collection size limit from 1 TB to 25 TB for Office 365. A Site Collection in SharePoint … Read More
As Cloud Architectures Grow Up, Migration and Portability Will Be Key Issues
We have been working on a major upgrade project for an application that was written more than ten years ago. Written in the era of … Read More
Auditing Arrives in Preview to Power BI
Microsoft today announced the addition of new auditing capabilities within Power BI. The new features are only available in preview to United States customers for … Read More
Azure SQL Now Supports JSON Storage and Query
Microsoft has just released into General Availability support for storage and retrieval of JSON data. JSON is a convenient data format used by web sites, … Read More
SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Just Released
In May 2016, Microsoft unveiled a new SharePoint Framework for creating responsive, modular presentation components as a replacement for web parts, app parts, etc. The … Read More