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If you are actively using Azure VM workloads, you should probably enable Security Center now
With being able to bring up and tear down VMs in a matter of minutes in Azure, it’s easy to lose visibility of our VM workloads. This is where Azure Security…
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Enemy of the State? What you need to know about Dynamics CRM Plugins
I recently had a conversation with a highly experienced CRM developer, who did not understand why CRM plugins need to be stateless. He was trying to write a plugin in…
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"Cannot open Sql Encryption Symmetric Key because Symmetric Key password does not exist in Config DB" in Dynamics CRM 2016 with Azure Service Bus Integration
Ran into this error with one of our customers while trying to register a service endpoint for Azure Service Bus integration with Dynamics CRM 2016 SP1 (on-prem.) We were using…
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Microsoft Azure Advisor Enters Preview
Last month Microsoft released the preview for Azure Advisor in the resource manager portal. The app essentially scans your Azure subscription resources and looks for potential performance/security issues and recommendations….
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How to TRUNCATE a SQL Server Table from a SYNONYM Name
If you work in an environment where your SQL Server database procedures need to frequently reference data in other databases or on other servers, it can be difficult to implement…
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Microsoft targets the High Performance Computing (HPC) market with the introduction of the H series VM SKUs
Microsoft has described the H series VM as “a new family specifically designed to handle high performance computing workloads such as financial risk modeling, seismic and reservoir simulation, molecular modeling…
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