AIS First to Deploy Azure IL6 Environment AND Achieve ATO!
We are in awe of our team as they have reached another impressive milestone in support of our nation’s mission to modernize their IT footprint. Within the last week, AIS was able to successfully...
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Using an Azure Logic App to Query Data in an On-Premises SQL Server Database
This blog is part of a series of hands-on labs on leveraging the Power Platform and Microsoft Azure. To break this series up into more manageable chunks, in this installment, we’ll focus on setting up...
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Dockerfiles and the Dreaded Dangling Container Image
The Dockerfile development workflow is fantastic if you are familiar with the documentation and have spent a lot of time troubleshooting. However, if you are writing your first Dockerfile, it may be...
View ArticleFive Real-World Scenarios Where Microsoft Dataflex is a Game Changer
Last week, Microsoft introduced its new Dataflex technology for data services inside of Microsoft Teams, in addition to the rebranding of its former Common Data Service (CDS) to be called Dataflex Pro....
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Azure VM Disk Encryption using Deployment Scripts in ARM Templates
Have you been in a situation where an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template with Azure Blueprint is the only option available for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment? Have you realized that certain...
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Applying User Experience (UX) Skills to Organizational Change Management (OCM)
In this blog post, I’d like to share: What I have learned about OCM and its importance The ADKAR® Model for successful OCM How UX and OCM are closely related and connected A case study of implementing...
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Using SharePoint Framework to Build Office Add-Ins
Building data and formatting features into MS Office applications using Office Add-Ins can be a crucial productivity boost to an organization. Now Microsoft has given us the ability to build Add-Ins...
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Things to Consider when Presenting at a Conference
How do you know you’re ready to present at a conference? You may have a good understanding of how something works, or you can build and explain how you reached a specific solution. I’m writing this...
View ArticleAIS is Now an Authorized Reseller of M365 GCC High
AIS is now one of few partners that can offer your organization cloud licensing across Azure Commercial, Azure Government Cloud, M365, M365 Government Community Cloud (GCC), and M365 GCC High. As a...
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Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Bridging the gap between serverless OLTP and Analytics Cosmos DB is unabashedly a document-based Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) system. It was engineered at its core to provide low latency,...
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Building a Web Scraper in an Azure Function
Web development is arguably the most popular area of software development right now. Software developers can make snappy, eye-catching websites, and build robust APIs. I’ve recently developed a...
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Cosmos DB: Recommended Usage Patterns
Cosmos DB is a cloud-native, geo-distributed, highly scalable schema-less database provided by Microsoft Azure. Cosmos DB achieves cloud-scale horizontal scalability by utilizing a partitioning scheme....
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Live Streaming for Devs
Why Stream? If you don’t have school-aged children, you might not know that live streaming is the hot thing at the moment. Imagine telling your younger self that you could not only get paid for playing...
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Controlling Sensitive Output from Azure Pipelines Deployment Scripts
Introduction Unfortunately, Azure DevOps does not have a SaaS offering running in Azure Government. The only options are to spin up Azure DevOps server in your Azure Government tenant or connect the...
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A Use Case for Containers in a Multi-Platform Environment
I support projects where we have platforms like SharePoint, are looking towards adopting PowerApps, and have Azure Government subscriptions. While learning about containers, I wondered where they could...
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Azure API Management and Custom Connectors
Summary To break this series apart into more manageable chunks, in this installment, we’ll focus on setting up the API in Azure API Management (APIM) and the custom connector. If you missed the first...
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Power Apps DevOps Using Best Practices
Assumptions This write up is executed in sequence in that if you jump to a section, it assumes you have completed the parts before it. This write-up assumes the following; You have a Power Apps tenant...
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Things to Consider when Presenting at a Conference
How do you know you’re ready to present at a conference? You may have a good understanding of how something works, or you can build and explain how you reached a specific solution. I’m writing this...
View ArticleAIS is Now an Authorized Reseller of M365 GCC High
AIS is now one of few partners that can offer your organization cloud licensing across Azure Commercial, Azure Government Cloud, M365, M365 Government Community Cloud (GCC), and M365 GCC High. As a...
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Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Bridging the gap between serverless OLTP and Analytics Cosmos DB is unabashedly a document-based Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) system. It was engineered at its core to provide low latency,...
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