AIS Innovation Program Project: Blazor
Blazor is coming! In fact, it’s coming sooner than later. Check out ASP.NET’s blog post from April 18, 2019 announcing the official preview. What is Blazor? by Vivek Gunnala Blazor is a new...
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Brace yourself, Windows Server 2008 End of Support is coming!
End of Support is Coming End of support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is rapidly approaching. On January 14th, 2020 support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end; support for SQL Server...
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Azure DevOps Release Pipe Customization for Quality Boost
Azure DevOps release pipeline is a great platform to handle matured software deployment process and helps to customize the release pipe as required. Based on the feedback of DevOps engineers, testers,...
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It’s Time to Move to Exchange Online – Exchange 2010 Nears End of Support
Exchange 2010 is at the end of its journey, and what a long road it’s been! For many customers, it has been a workhorse product facilitating excellent communications with their employees. It’s sad to...
View ArticlePerforming Git Repository Analysis with PowerShell
It can be challenging to maintain a repository after it’s been in use for months, through iterations, and by more and more teams. The online interfaces to team Git repositories – GitHub, Azure Repos,...
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Innovation Project Part I
SharePoint has been a widely adopted and popular content management system for many large organizations over the past two decades. From SharePoint Portal Server in 2001 to SharePoint Server 2019 and...
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So, You Want to Rehost On-Premises Applications in the Cloud? Here’s How.
What does it mean to Rehost an application? Rehosting is an approach to migrating business applications hosted in on-premises data center environments to the cloud by moving the application “as-is,”...
View ArticleNew Pluralsight Course: Introduction to Common Data Service (CDS)
Foundational Knowledge of CDS At the core of any low-code development platform, such as the Microsoft Power Platform, is the ability to secure, easily store, and manage data used by business...
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Critical Considerations, Benefits, and Challenges When Rehosting Applications
What is Rehosting? Rehosting is an approach to migrating business applications hosted on-premises in data center environments to the cloud by moving the application “as-is,” with little to no changes...
View ArticleMusicStore Application Upgrade to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Part Two
Since Steve Michelotti and I recorded the Migrate & Modernize with Kubernetes on Azure Gov Video on Microsoft’s Channel 9, production-level support for Windows Nodes has been added. So we decided...
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Azure Sentinel: A Tip of the Microsoft Security Iceberg
If you’re looking for an intelligent cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that manages all incidents in one place, Azure Sentinel may be a good fit for you. Not only...
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Texas Department of Information Resource (DIR) Technology Forum 2019
Last week, AIS was invited to speak to at DIR one day conference for public sector IT leaders with the theme Journey to the Cloud: How to Get There. AIS’ session was titled Improve Software Velocity...
View ArticleAn Internship at AIS: A Wonderful Experience
One of the key experiences recommended during any one’s time as an undergraduate is doing an internship. It not only gives a person their first glimpse of corporate life but also is essential to boost...
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Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part One
Azure Cognitive Services is Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life, a collection of AI services that currently offer capabilities around speech,...
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Mainframe to Azure: A Real World Modernization Case Study
When GEICO sought to migrate its sales mainframe application to the cloud, they had two choices. The first was to “rehost” their applications, which involved recompiling the code to run in a mainframe...
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What I Learned at DEF CON 2019: DIY Azure Security Assessment Best Practices
I recently had the privilege and opportunity to attend this year’s DEF CON conference, one of the world’s largest and most notable hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas. Deciding what talks...
View ArticleJEDI Cloud Computing Contract Awarded to Microsoft
After much anticipation, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract for cloud computing services to Microsoft over Amazon....
View ArticleWhat the JEDI Award Means for Public Cloud Adoption in the Government
Late last Friday, the news of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract award to Microsoft Azure sent seismic waves through the software industry, government, and commercial IT...
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Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part Two
This blog is a follow on about Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life. The offering is a collection of AI services with...
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Plain and Simple: Azure Arc Is About ARM
Azure Arc is one of the significant announcements coming out of #msignite this week. As depicted in the picture below, Azure Arc is a single control plane across multiple clouds, premises, and the...
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