Today I started down the path of getting the previously-named “Business Intelligence Studio” (now called SQL Server Data Tools) up and running on my local machine. I already had SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) 2014 installed, but had just never gotten around to installing the BI development suite. I’m going to […]
Monthly archives: May 2015
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Recently I had an old Microsoft Azure subscription ready to expire, yet I still had some resources linked to the outgoing subscription in question. Some of the active websites on another subscription still used SQL Databases on the old subscription. If you find yourself needing to move Azure assets between […]
At the start of this month, Microsoft released another preview edition of the upcoming next edition to the Windows operating system franchise. This is Preview 10074, and contains a few very interesting changes. I ran up the Preview image earlier today to take a look at what’s new. Installing Windows […]
Tonight I finally got around to installing the recently released Windows Server Technical Preview 2, which was published around the time of the annual BuildConf in the US. So I ran up a Hyper-V image and hit the standard product selection screen. I was greeted, as it has been rumoured, […]
Given the serious investment we place in our modern smartphones, it makes a whole lot of sense to also spare a thought for how we protect these pocket sized technical innovations. A busy demanding modern lifestyle can put your mobile device at significant risk of accidental damage in a myriad […]
Introduction In recent times, I’ve become very intimately acquainted with OpenID Connect, OAuth2 as well as SAML, JWT, WS-Federation and more. It’s a complicated world. Since I dwell amongst the Microsoft ecosystem, I’m very experienced with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) which in its latest version supports OAuth2 endpoints […]
We’re so very close to Visual Studio 2015’s launch. The Release Candidate (RC) is pretty much the last of the community pre-release versions before it hits the RTM (release to manufacturing) edition. Here’s the configuration I’ll be playing with: