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Microsoft Announces Retirement of Access Web Apps

ImaginetNov 13, 20174257

Microsoft Announces Retirement of Access Web Apps Microsoft Announces Retirement and Shutdown of Access Web Apps and Web Databases in Office 365 and SharePoint Online Did you hear? Microsoft has announced that Access web apps and Access web databases in Office 365 and SharePoint Online…

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Power Query Function for Dense Ranking

Mike DiehlApr 26, 20174229

Power Query Function for Dense Ranking Power Query Function for Dense Ranking Recently I was having issues writing a measure in DAX to rank items properly (not an issue with the DAX, but in my understanding of the DAX). I did some searching and came…

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Power Query for Azure Tables and Updating Column Names

Mike DiehlMar 13, 20172625

Power Query for Azure Tables and Updating Column Names I recently did some PowerBI work using Azure Table Storage. In the query editor, it seemed that each table I pulled in from Azure Tables had a very similar process.: Get the list of tables available for…

cloud applications

How Can You Protect Your Cloud Applications From Outages?

ImaginetMar 2, 20173278

How Can You Protect Your Cloud Applications From Outages? How Can You Protect Your Cloud Applications from Outages? Were you affected by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage this week? If you use Quora, Slack or Trello chances are you were.  S3 Storage services in the…

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Step-by-Step Tutorial: IIS Redirect/Rewrites for SharePoint

ImaginetFeb 28, 20174486

Step-by-Step Tutorial: IIS Redirect/Rewrites for SharePoint NOTE: THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT; PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND AT YOUR OWN RISK. Perform the following steps on the Web Front End servers only. When working with websites, it is imperative for the users, customers, and possibly…

Azure

Scaling Azure SQL databases up and down

Mike DiehlFeb 15, 20174784

Scaling Azure SQL databases up and down Scaling Azure SQL databases up and down I’ve recently been working on a project where we push data from an on-premise database to a set of Azure SQL databases daily and use that Azure SQL database as the…

Visual Studio

How to Create Lists in SharePoint Using Visual Studio 2015

ImaginetFeb 8, 20164590

How to Create Lists in SharePoint Using Visual Studio 2015 How to Create Lists in SharePoint Using Visual Studio 2015 (Step-by-Step Tutorial) At Imaginet, we’re always looking for better and faster ways to accomplish technology goals.  In this article, we’ll explore how to create lists in…

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Deploying a Provider Hosted SharePoint App to Azure and SharePoint Online

ImaginetAug 10, 20153442

Deploying a Provider Hosted SharePoint App to Azure and SharePoint Online In this post, we are going to walk you through the process of deploying a provider hosted SharePoint app to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft SharePoint Online. We assume that the app has been created,…

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5 Pillars of Successful UX Design

ImaginetJan 13, 20144344

5 Pillars of Successful UX Design I’d like to begin this post by establishing the purpose of User Experience Design (UX). UX is about people. It’s about understanding the needs of people and marrying them with the needs of the business. Throughout the past 5-7…

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Using Hangfire to Run Background Jobs in IIS

Darren KuikJan 20, 20227275

Imaginet blog Using Hangfire to Run Background Jobs in IIS Recently one of our clients went through an application modernization project to upgrade and update their internal business applications. Among the technical challenges to conquer was how to handle long-running and recurring scheduled jobs. In…

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Using Microsoft Power BI – Business Data Analytics for Better Reporting

Kyle ThorburnDec 20, 20215993

Using Microsoft Power BI – Business Data Analytics for Better Reporting We have a lot of discussions with clients about a desire to do “better reporting”. They have been using Power BI but feel they now need a data warehouse to create reports that will…

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Managing Open-Source Dependencies with JitPack

Michael VeroukisDec 15, 20216293

Managing Open-Source Dependencies with JitPack Managing dependencies for your Android app has gotten a lot easier with tools such as Gradle, but there is still one big gotcha that it cannot solve: The dependency itself. It is quite normal for a single Android app to have dozens of third-party…

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Using Microsoft Power BI in Data Engineering

Mike DiehlNov 12, 20215256

Using Microsoft Power BI in Data Engineering We have a lot of discussions with clients about a desire to do “better reporting”. They have been using Power BI but feel they now need a data warehouse to create reports that will give them all the…

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The Power of DevOps in Business Intelligence

Mike DiehlOct 25, 20216984

The Power of DevOps in Business Intelligence Common pain points experienced when building Business Intelligence (BI) data assets and how Imaginet uses DevOps to mitigate them If you’re a Business Intelligence developer, have you experienced some of these challenges? One team member overwrites the changes…

SharePoint On Premise

New Version of SharePoint On-Premise

Jeremiah WalkerAug 17, 20215746

New Version of SharePoint On-Premise SharePoint Service Subscription Edition is the last SharePoint you’re ever going to need. In summer 2021, Microsoft announced SharePoint On-Premise Server Subscription Edition (SE) to emphasize the specific needs of on-premises users. Currently in public preview, organizations can explore the many new…

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