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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In November, 65 offers from Cognosys Inc. successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. Cognosys continues to be a leading Marketplace publisher, with more than 600 solutions availabl… Continue reading Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 95
Note: In Part 1 of a two-part series, Rick Wagner shines a spotlight on federal agencies demonstrating resiliency to respond and rebound from 2020 challenges and reimagine a future of innovation and transformation. As we look ahead to the close of 2020 and the beginning of a new year and administration, I’m more excited…
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Although test centers are starting to reopen, you might not have the option of traveling to one to take your exam. Or, maybe you simply don’t want to. As a risk-averse psychometrician, I completely understand. If you haven’t taken the leap to try an on… Continue reading Online proctored exams: What to expect and how to prepare
Organizations are continuing to work in a remote or hybrid-remote environment which accentuates the need to protect people, devices, apps, and the data that spans across the entire landscape. An increase in online collaboration has caused an influx of … Continue reading Protecting your data – creating a secure and compliant Microsoft Teams environment
In this recorded webcast Microsoft’s Scott Murray and Tony Sims discuss how detect, protect, and respond to ransomware with the Defender stack.
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Recently I came to a support issue where we tried to use REST API to list SQL resources on an Azure subscription. The output returned results, but it did not show any of the SQL resources that we expected to see. Filtering the result with … Continue reading REST API call does not list SQL resources on Azure subscription
LightIngest is a command-line utility for ad-hoc data ingestion into Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The utility can pull source data from a local folder or from an Azure blob storage container. LightIngest is most useful when you want to ingest a large amo… Continue reading How to ingest historical data with actual creation time to optimized performance
Data format mappings (for example, Parquet, JSON, and Avro) in Azure Data Explorer now support simple and useful ingest-time transformations. In cases where the scenario requires more complex processing at ingest time, use the update policy, which… Continue reading Azure Data Explorer 1-click now supports mapping transformations