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As someone who has worked in IT departments and an IT consultant for a Managed Service Provider (MSP), Business Continuity plans are something I’ve been involved in quite a lot. Either recovering from a threat or designing a solution that could r… Continue reading Business Continuity with Azure – Disaster Recovery
Many customers wonder, what’s the right way of ingesting XML data into Azure Data Explorer? Well, there’s no native support for XML format yet, but there’s built-in function parse_xml() that accepts XML string and returns a corresponding structure… Continue reading Ingesting XML data into Azure Data Explorer
Update: This fix for this issue has been rolled out with the latest release of macOS 10.15.5.
We were recently alerted to a scenario whereby after an end user updated to macOS 10.15.4, they experienced unexpected access app prompts or blocks to … Continue reading Resolved – Conditional access unexpectedly blocking macOS 10.15.4 native mail client/other apps
Whether in the form of socially distant precession lines, virtual ceremonies, or neighborhood drive-throughs, the class of 2020 is graduating and heading off into the world. We applaud these graduates wherever they are and wish them the very be… Continue reading Using Exchange Online for Alumni to Extend Exchange Licenses for Graduating Seniors
A new live broadcast directly from the Visual Studio team (my garage to be exact) is now streaming near you every Thursday morning. It’s about everything Visual Studio and you get rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. This is like being in the machine room and you get to see and h Continue reading Learn with Visual Studio Remote Office Hours
Excel for good: An Access Database at the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This week’s story isn’t exactly about Excel; rather, it’s a story about Access, a related product in the same family of Microsoft 365 Apps. Like many others in this C… Continue reading Excel for good: An Access Database at the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
When SharePointDsc started, PowerShell v4 was heavily used. Because of the way the LCM worked in PowerShell v4 (all runs were started under the SYSTEM account), we had to implement a workaround to make sure we were able to access the databases. This me… Continue reading Does SharePointDsc need PowerShell v4 support?
Display drivers have long been measured using ecosystem versions that measure crashes and hangs in games for the driver version being flighted (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/dashboard/graphics-measures)
The Windows graphics … Continue reading Three new measures for Graphics driver evaluations