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Power Query for Azure Tables and Updating Column Names
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…
How Can You Protect Your Cloud Applications From Outages?
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…
Step-by-Step Tutorial: IIS Redirect/Rewrites for SharePoint
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…
Scaling Azure SQL databases up and down
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…
How to Create Lists in SharePoint Using Visual Studio 2015
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…
Deploying a Provider Hosted SharePoint App to Azure and SharePoint Online
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,…
5 Pillars of Successful UX Design
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…
Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit
Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in Visual Studio 2010 was Visual Studio Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful. It’s a diagramming tool that allows you to…
Why you should use a single TFS Team Project
Why you should use a single TFS Team Project I seem to be spending a lot of time lately trying to convince clients that a single TFS Team Project for the entire Enterprise is the way to go. To most people this seems counter-intuitive. They tend to…
MS365 Tenant-to-Tenant SharePoint Online Migration
Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant SharePoint Online Migration Many situations can cause organizations to migrate from their current MS 365 tenant to a new tenant subscription. Common scenarios we encounter at Imaginet include mergers and acquisitions, brand spin-offs, corporate divestitures and sometimes something as simple as a…
Using Hangfire to Run Background Jobs in IIS
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…
Using Microsoft Power BI – Business Data Analytics for Better Reporting
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…
Managing Open-Source Dependencies with JitPack
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…
Using Microsoft Power BI in Data Engineering
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…
The Power of DevOps in Business Intelligence
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…
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