Introducing File and Folder ACLs for Azure Data Lake Store

Overview We’re excited today to announce the availability of File and Folder ACLs for the Azure Data Lake Store. Many of you have been eagerly awaiting this feature because it is critical in securing their big data. When we launched the preview of Data Lake Store in October 2015, filesystem security was controlled by a…


MS Bot Framework & Ngrok

Configuring your bot for local debug development can be a bit confusing for new bot developers. Ngrok offers the ability to create a secure tunnel to your localhost environment. Here’s a quick checklist of the steps to configure your new bot with it: 1. Create a bot on MS Bot Framework 2. Run your bot…


Road to Small Basic 1.3 Blog #1 – Exploring New Logos

This is part 1 in a blog series that takes us down the road toward Small Basic 1.3! Road to Small Basic 1.3 Blog #1 – Exploring New Logos – This blog! Road to Small Basic 1.3 Blog #2 – New Mascot   In the Small Basic team, we have a great designer, Ram, who…


Learning with Partners at WPC 2016

Hey folks, What a whirlwind WPC2016 was this year!  I was happy to see Dynamics 365 get unveiled and to hear Satya talk about the Common Data Model.  We’re very excited to see unification happen on the various entity models that have evolved over the years and to see another example of the One Microsoft strategy…


Junior Years – Building Skills and Habits for Success

Guest Post by Matthew Jorgensen, Microsoft Teacher Ambassador Queensland Technology is often hard to implement in Primary Years. The touch screen, drag and drop device wave has catered for technology integration in our young students, but they need to be able to use a more productive ecosystem of hardware, operating systems and apps as their…


[Power BI] DAX入門(3) 相対日付 (Relative date) の実装 -地震速報の可視化-

Microsoft Japan Data Platform Tech Sales Team 土井 貴彦 DAX 入門 第 3 回目では、前回の応用として、相対日付の実装について触れます。 今回は 地震速報 データを使って、今日何時に地震が起きたか? 昨日起きた地震の最大震度は? 直近一週間何件地震があったか?といった形で相対日付で可視化するレポートを作ってみます。


Get Inspired To Start Your Own Business!

Imagine Cup Poland Success Stories is a blog dedicated to young people who want to start their own business and are looking for inspiration. Here you can find stories about students from Poland who turn their innovative ideas into real business. They will share their experience on how they got started, what challenges they had on their way and how they overcame it. Read more about these…


Sending email receipts from Retail MPOS Transactions

MPOS has the ability to send receipt emails in real-time.  This utilizes the RTS to call directly back to AX to send the email at the time of the transaction.  This is unlike EPOS where the posting of the transactions via statement posting process is required before the email can be sent.  EPOS has not…


Real World Parallel INSERT…SELECT: What else you need to know!

Arvind Shyamsundar Reviewed by: Gjorgji Gjeorgjievski, Sunil Agarwal, Vassilis Papadimos, Denzil Ribeiro, Mike Weiner, Mike Ruthruff, Murshed Zaman, Joe Sack In a previous post we have introduced you to the parallel INSERT operator in SQL Server 2016. In general, the parallel insert functionality has proven to be a really useful tool for ETL / data…


Azure PowerShell: How to delete and re-deploy a VM from VHD

Before moving further, please make sure you have Azure PowerShell installed: How to install and configure Azure PowerShell For basic information about using Azure Powershell with Resource Manager (ARM), please have a look at: Using Azure PowerShell with Azure Resource Manager In this example, the following variables are being used: Resource Group: ARMGROUP Original VM…