Transitioning to the cloud is no small task. It can impose risk for any organization who makes the transition without proper strategy in place. At the same time, it is packed with an even greater amount of business value that an organization can extract when properly transitioned. When things go wrong, they may not be … Read more
We are back with more from Kat and Rob. In this month’s New Signature- exclusive podcast they talk through new Teams updates, including new break-out rooms and the new 49 person video conference capability. Kat also announced some new PowerPoint updates and then they dive deep with New Signature Intelligent Workplace consultant John Ventry about … Read more
PowerBI has a lot of power–no pun intended. Created primarily as a self-reporting tool to be used by the C-level suite, as well as managers, it has grown and matured to the point where it iss edging out SSRS in capabilities. In fact, you can now embed PowerBI into end-user applications (“App Owns Data” as … Read more
A colleague and I set out to write three open-source APIs that would all do the same thing, but each with a different design (monolithic, microservices, and nanoservices). Our reason for this was that we would have a set of APIs that can be used to give talks at various conferences, highlighting the good, the … Read more
There are a lot of things to consider when migrating from TFVC, a centralized version control, to Git, a distributed version control system. While it’s easy to think version control is version control, there are actually a lot of differences. Let’s walk through some of the things to consider after you’ve made the decision to … Read more
In my latest blog post, I talked about the rapid deployment of Teams. Many companies went through deployment within weeks—if not days—and happily reported high Teams adoption numbers. Adoption is an interesting concept. When asked how they know employees are adopting Teams, I have been told, most of the time, it is by the number of teams that were created, numbers of chats and calls. However, that does not necessarily mean that Teams is highly adopted within your organization. Luckily, there are solutions for these issues and … Read more
In a recent blog series that I wrote, I recently discussed what goes into making a Great Place To Work (GPTW for short) and what you can do to help your organization achieve that goal. In short, making a place a GPTW is a lot like stone soup – everyone brings something, and everyone benefits … Read more
Technology that enables us to work remotely is beneficial for businesses of all industries and sizes. It allows for mobility, flexibility and access to information when and where you need it. While many users worry that a cloud-based workplace solution may not provide the same security support that on-premises infrastructure provides, the reality is that … Read more
In an increasingly technological world, our organization knows and appreciates that we are humans first; it’s why Human is our first core value at New Signature also why, during this time of increased stress, our People Team rolled out a week-long initiative to help employees focus on the importance of work-life balance, mental health and … Read more
You are formulating your company’s cloud strategy. Where do you start? There’s so much information out there, so many options – Which provider do I go with? What services fit my tech stack? How do I translate my and my team’s knowledge into this new world of the cloud? Are we falling behind? You may … Read more
You’ve heard it before, probably a million times. “Developers must write unit tests.” Easier said than done. There’s the big monoliths, the ugly codebases, the mission-critical code that one really knows how it works. Well, it turns out that those ugly pieces of software that provide a lot of value are probably going to require … Read more
Kubernetes has been getting a lot of attention lately and it’s not hard to figure out why. In fact, the Kubernetes website provides more than 50 case studies of unique scenarios in which Kubernetes removed barriers for managing infrastructure and services while reducing the operational overhead and overall cost; all of which would not have … Read more
Working remotely may be something that your organization does when needed or full-time, or maybe some employees at your company work in the field, or travel frequently, working remotely as they go. Either way, when you are a leader of a remote team, you can find great success and overcome the unique challenges of managing … Read more
Check out Part I and Part II of this series to catch up on more Teams tips and tricks. In the final installment, we share New Signature Modern Workplace expert Kat Memenza’s thoughts on how to leverage Teams if you’re new or a novice with the tool. One of the largest and most valuable aspects … Read more
As a developer, I have felt the pain of long, complex, merges of code, juggling which branch to apply a hotfix, which release is in production and how we can patch it. Do we roll back the code, apply the fix, then roll forward? Or perhaps we make a branch, fix it, then release that? … Read more
DevOps enables organizations to shorten cycle times, foster collaboration, accelerate feedback loops, optimize resources, and more. To accomplish all of this, we work with organizations to make improvements across people, process, and tools. As part of our customer engagements, one of the items that we focus heavily on is the ability to manage infrastructure as … Read more
For the last twenty years, if you ran a Windows network then you generally used Active Directory to handle your authentication and authorization for users and computers. Historically, this design model has worked well in the four walls of the business and when networks were managed and controlled by the organization’s IT department. As the … Read more
Azure DevOps, and TFS/VSTS before it, has always had an interesting problem with Team Projects. The recommended architecture by most in the field–and Microsoft itself– is a single Team Project for all of your work. However, in my experience many users are given an Azure DevOps organization and told to start developing. The first thing … Read more
Recently I was demoing Azure Sentinel to a large organization, and someone asked me, “What if an attacker manages to compromise my system and disables Windows Defender?” Well…what if they do? How can we flag this, investigate and remediat? Why would someone intentionally disable anti-malware protection? I’ve written this blog to hopefully help you combat … Read more
Here at New Signature, we work with our clients on a wide variety of projects. They can range from one person for one week to eight consultants for several months. The challenge with this, from a project management point of view, is to consistently provide high-quality delivery and reporting while appropriately sizing the overhead and … Read more
So, you have Microsoft 365 at your fingertips within your organization, but are you using it to its fullest potential? In this month’s podcast episode, New Signature experts Rob Murry and Kat Memenza work through some timely modern workplace considerations that can help your team work easily, no matter where you are. Listen below as … Read more
We know from our own operational structure and because of the power of Microsoft technologies that you can experience success in a remote environment, and our goal at New Signature is to guide our partners to success. Microsoft Teams is the center of Office 365. If your organization is licensed for Office 365, you already … Read more
Five years ago, a co-worker told me he wanted to get an ALM certification. I stared at him and blinked. “What’s ALM?” “Application Lifecycle Management.” I don’t remember my exact reaction, but I was skeptical. I didn’t understand what that meant at the time. My focus was entirely on writing the best, cleanest code I … Read more
As we move toward a new year, Microsoft is gearing up for some changes and new features that will drive your business forward. Microsoft uses the Azure feedback tool, where you can leave feedback about Azure updates or features you’d like to see, to guide their developments. At New Signature, we aim to keep you up-to-date … Read more
At New Signature, we love tips and tricks that keep us moving along during our work day and make our experience even easier. We actually love it so much, that we developed a monthly podcast to talk about it. You can listen to Office Explorers any time! We are always here, keeping our ears to … Read more
With the importance of security being constantly pressed to IT leaders, it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start when it comes to day-to-day tasks that lead to effective security for your organization’s environment. As experts in modern workplace technologies, we do all we can to keep our customers up-to-date about the things … Read more
The end of year is here, so while you’re wrapping gifts, travelling, or relaxing at home, listen to Kat and Rob wrap up the best tips from the past six months, plus some fresh tips to help you start the New Year off efficiently and productively. Listen to hear more top productivity tips of 2019. You can … Read more
The exclusive New Signature podcast, Office Explorers, has been live and successful for a full year. Over the past twelve months, Rob and Kat have explored topics that relate to Office 365, from SharePoint and Planner, to security and updates from Microsoft Ignite. For the anniversary episode, Kat and Rob met with New SIgnature project … Read more
Remember this photo? Long story short: the Hawaii emergency agency password was written on a Post-it note and made it onto a photo that went viral on the Internet. Not the kind of notoriety, any of us are hoping for. But we witness this type of risky behavior daily across many teams and organizations – … Read more
Everyone is talking about DevOps. I’m sure you’ve heard it. One of the best definitions is: the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. What does that mean? What is value? How do we know we’ve delivered value? And why continuous delivery? Value Let’s start with Value. There … Read more
Losing information to a hacker is the worst nightmare an IT administrator can experience. Don’t be fearful, as Kat and Rob provide an informative webinar on security and compliance with Office 365. In keeping with the Halloween season, they go over: Who’s that in my directory? Using Active Directory to see any unauthorized users Zombie … Read more
Do you have any Office apps that just sort of hang out in your waffle icon, but you aren’t sure how to approach their use? Many users feel that way with Planner, but if you’re not exploring the organization and productivity-boosting aspects of Microsoft Planner, you could be missing out on some serious benefits. In our … Read more
Bill Gates has a rule of 3’s when it comes to productivity. He suggests that there be at least three ways to complete any task in Office to accommodate every work style. This month, New Signature experts and Office Explorers podcast hosts Kat Memenza and Rob Murray dive into the best everyday productivity tips to use … Read more
The Problem On a recent project, we were faced with the challenge of keeping data synchronized between an external data source that was constantly being updated and Dynamics 365, which was serving primarily as the database for an externally facing Dynamics Portal website. There were two goals in mind: Keep the strain on the source … Read more
There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around getting existing devices into the Apple Device Enrollment Program(DEP) or Apple Business Manager (ABM) portal. The official documentation seems to indicate that using Apple Configurator is a requirement, but it is just one way to achieve this. The problem with using Apple Configurator is that … Read more
Dynamics 365 for Sales is an integral tool for any organization. Having all the sales data in a central location is key to nurturing a relationship with your prospects and to ensure their experience is optimal even beyond the Sales Cycle. This will ensure your organization is setup for success and moving towards achieving your … Read more
In development, we all can agree that the user is most important. And what do users love? Features. It’s reasonable to assume that each of your users will want a new and unique feature at least a few times per year. Product owners guessing at what these features could be can cause backlogs to fill … Read more
In our previous blog post, Assembling Your Team, we discussed how to assemble an adoption team, who will help you drive adoption across the organization. The next big challenge is defining a business strategy, by identifying key business scenarios where the technology can play a role. This will help you win over your stakeholders and … Read more
In the latest Office Explorers podcast, Kat Memeza and Rob Murray dive into the world of Azure with New Signature expert, Evan Riser. Kat provides feedback from attending SP19 (SharePoint Conference 2019) along with an interview with Evan Riser, senior consultant in Infrastructure/Azure and Windows Server here at New Signature. In this episode you will … Read more
Let me ask you a question… Do you love football? I do and i use it in the workplace every day. What does this have to do with DevOps you ask? Well welcome to my brain … jump on the train and come along for a the ride or jump off now and take a … Read more
Occasionally, the need may arise to generate a new online archive mailbox for an Office 365 user. According to Microsoft, archive mailboxes become disconnected when they are disabled. The disconnected archive will be retained for 30 days by default and subsequently purged. In some cases, you may not be able to wait the 30 days … Read more
The customer service module within Dynamics 365 is a must-have for any organization that services customers. Now that includes every organization, doesn’t it? We will focus on three key areas within this article: (1) Queues (2) Automatic Record Creation (3) Service Level Agreements (SLA). Queues Queues are a great way to group work that needs … Read more
The retention policies in the Security and Compliance Center of Office 365 are a great and easy way to ensure data in your tenant is being protected. It is very easy to turn on protection for ‘All’, but businesses rarely mean ‘All’. It’s usually ‘All’ with some exceptions. These exceptions are where things get a … Read more
These are common phrases you hear around a business: “Why upgrade? It works fine just the way it is.” “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” “It is what it is. “ They are rooted in the key concept that the cost of changing is expensive. But the cost of not changing could be more … Read more
One of the most challenging aspects of our highly technological world, is adopting to change. With rapid increases in cloud technology, and productivity platforms, modern workers are being asked to learn new tools regularly. We understand the challenges of adopting technology such as Microsoft 365, so we’ve dedicated a blog series for outlining how to … Read more
Exchange Online (EXO) has a long list of features that delight end users and administrators alike. End users who were accustomed to the constant struggle of keeping mailboxes under quotas are a thing of the past in EXO with spacious 100 GB mailboxes and unlimited in-place archives. Administrators do not have to worry about storage … Read more
In our latest Office Explorers podcast, New Signature experts Kat Memenza and Rob Murray yammer on about all the amazing things you can do with Yammer. Office Explorers is the podcast where we uncover the latest and greatest with Office 365 and share it with you. This episode includes exciting news updates that you won’t … Read more
We’ll look at three features within the Lotus Notes email software and see how to achieve similar functionality using Outlook. This is the second post in a series that aims to smooth the transition from the Notes email client to Microsoft Outlook – you’ll find the first post in this series here. Email Stationery Like … Read more
In our recent webinar “Controlling Your Azure Environment: Governance for the Modern Enterprise” we touched on the five disciplines of cloud governance from Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework. This blog post is the second in the “The Five Disciplines of Cloud Governance” five-part series expanding on those concepts. If you missed the first post in the … Read more
New Signature is pleased to announce the acquisition of Nebbia Technology: an award-winning Microsoft Azure DevOps consultancy focused on the delivery of solutions on Microsoft’s Azure platform. A Microsoft gold-certified partner and 2018 finalist for DevOps Partner of the Year, Nebbia brings a suite of exceptional competencies to the table, supporting our commitment to advancing … Read more
A few weeks back, my colleague Evan Riser and I held a webinar introducing the five disciplines of governance from Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework. This blog post is the first in a series expanding on those concepts. If you didn’t get a chance to see the webinar, check it out here, but to quickly recap, … Read more
The release of Windows 10 version 1703 ushered in a new way of configuring policy for Mobile Device Management, through select Group Policy administrative templates (ADMX backed policies). However during testing of ADMX ingestion into Intune, I found a major blocker to their use. Currently, the ingested policies are not allowed to write to locations … Read more
If your email system is changing from Lotus Notes to Office 365, this post will help smooth your transition from using the Notes email client to using Microsoft Outlook. Let’s review the key features and settings for your first day with Microsoft Outlook. Using the Menu Ribbon First, if you have been using Word, Excel, … Read more
Over the past few months, I have been working on a consolidation project, where Company A (the Parent) acquired Company B (the Child). The consolidation activities included both an Active Directory migration between forests and moving the Child on-premises mailboxes homed on Exchange Server 2013 to the Parent’s Office 365 tenant. The focus of this … Read more
Office 365 provides all your team needs to collaborate, communicate and work smarter across any device from any location. It can be overwhelming to keep up with all the new features that are being rolled out, but New Signature is here to help highlight those, while providing additional tips, tricks and education. Here are just … Read more
Our newest episode of the New Signature podcast Office Explorers is live and is focused on all the high-level characteristics that make SharePoint Online great for your modern workplace team. Hosts Kat Memenza and Rob Murray join Oliver Bartholdson to discuss the important aspects of SharePoint and how it integrates with your technological environment as a whole. Learn more about: How SharePoint underpins Office 365 Enhancing productivity Empowering … Read more
Organizations exist that have a large number of mail domains in their on-premises Exchange environment set as accepted domains (let’s say 20+). As these organizations move to Office 365 using the Hybrid Config Wizard, they will likely notice a problem with the interface that does not allow them to verify domain ownership in bulk. The … Read more
Some years back, before Microsoft launched Azure cloud services, my study network consisted of three beefy servers living under the kitchen table at home; it was noisy! However, it did allow hands-on study and exploration of recent technologies in a safe environment. Now I have many more Virtual Machines in Azure than I could ever … Read more
Implementing a CI/CD pipeline can be intimidating if you are used to a manual release process. I have heard the concern that tools like Azure DevOps are not flexible enough for more complex build procedures. Even the term pipeline certainly suggests moving in a straight line through your process, which doesn’t seem very adaptable. However, … Read more
The public cloud remains one of, if not the hottest topic, in IT right now. The chances are that if you’re not doing it, you’re thinking about it. When you are planning how you wish to adopt the public cloud, the biggest consideration for your business is security, and asking yourself how secure your infrastructure will … Read more
In this post I’ll pass along suggestions and tips based on my own experience that will help you answer the question: “How do I become an IT trainer?” Watch other trainers There are many free webinars available from companies promoting products or services. Watch several of them and note what you find engaging. And if … Read more
DevOps is a journey. While many people focus purely on releasing more frequently or adopting new tools, often the more important part of the process is the culture shift required to truly embrace DevOps principles. In my experience, Quality Assurance (QA) teams can be resistant to these changes. While it may require a change in … Read more
This past Christmas, my wife Sarah was kind enough to buy me what my heart truly desires – more tools. In this case, it was 20V DeWalt tools, including a drill and driver set. Of course I was delighted, but then, I saw which drill it was and my heart sank. I had the very … Read more
For any of us that have interacted with Microsoft Azure for any length of time, we know that at times there are actions or resources that are not fully configurable from the Azure Portal. When times like this occur one way to handle this is to jump to the Azure PowerShell modules to make these … Read more
Written by a team of New Signature project managers: Ana Huertas, Kobby Acquah, Louisa Morren, Edward Wong Escape rooms are metaphors for work and life, and contain many lessons that can help in each. For the Applied Innovation PMO team, we approached it as a vivid illustration of the challenges we face in Agile Projects, as well as a great team building experience. Join us on our journey to learn something … Read more
I am a numbers person, Microsoft Excel is where I prefer to do most of my work, and there is something about a properly formatted table that always makes me happy. So, it should not be a surprise that I love metrics – anything I can track, forecast, or plot. The tricky thing about metrics … Read more
“How can I help staff quickly adopt the new technology?” – the short answer is: planning, communication and adoption. Good visuals will help also. Let’s take a quick look at these key areas. Planning We all know the future starts with planning, and when we introduce new technology and systems, we need to plan for … Read more
When adding features to a project in Visual Studio, you can do so by directly referencing the libraries as individual dlls or a collection of dlls as a NuGet package. The advantage of using the NuGet package system is that it makes it easier to maintain the libraries. It notifies you if the added packages … Read more
Our New Signature podcast has hit the airwaves, and the second episode of Office Explorers is live. In this episode, hosts Rob Murray and Kat Memenza talk with modern workplace expert Varol Saatcioglu about Microsoft Teams and how it is changing the way companies function. They offer some great productivity tips and lots of other new features within SharePoint and Office … Read more
We are truly lucky to work for an organization that is driven by values and encourages the unique development of every employee, which translates into the best experiences for our clients. But it’s not as though, here at New Signature, we are so moved by our dynamic culture that we would take the time to … Read more
Have you ever found yourself noticing a new feature within Microsoft Office 365 and thought to yourself, “Wow! Where did that come from?” or sit and wonder when your machine runs updates what exactly is happening? The experts at New Signature are here to help you stay up to date and educated on all the newest and more useful … Read more
At Nebbia Technology, while I have Software Developer as my title, more and more I realize that the value I bring to the table is as much communicating with clients as it is communicating with computers. While computers have a very strict way that is required to communicate with them, via code, the discussions I … Read more
Azure DevOps is a powerful tool for any organization, especially one dedicated to a robust CI/CD pipleline. Getting a working pipeline for a repository can take only a few minutes, especially if using a tried and true template. But what if instead of 5 or 10 pipelines, you want to set up a thousand? I … Read more
Staying up to date with every new feature that Microsoft rolls out for Office 365 can be time-consuming. New Signature works to keep our customers and curious learners in the know when it comes to neat tips and tricks, as well as important updates to your cloud-based collaborative environment. Recently, Microsoft has implemented some updates … Read more
I don’t come from an agile software background. Most of my professional experience has been part of standard waterfall based schedules and planning, where you have everything pre-planned out – a schedule showing “exact” start and stop dates for each task and quantified process to capture earned value against your performed work. Now, at Nebbia, … Read more
As a consultant who primarily deals with the Azure cloud and DevOps, I often get to meet software team stakeholders who, for a myriad variety of reasons, still haven’t migrated to the cloud. The fastest route to get an on-premises system to the cloud, is popularly known as lift-and-shift. [fusion_builder_column spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” … Read more
How many places do you need to search to understand your company’s own software? I’m sure you have some kind of user-facing documentation or some form of presentable details that your users can work off of. That doesn’t describe your database schema. It doesn’t go into the API endpoints available for your partners wanting to … Read more
As Azure and DevOps consultants, we have the privilege of helping organizations deliver greater value by streamlining their processes. So how do we do that? By helping organizations become more Agile by moving them to the cloud, helping them build cloud-native apps, and introducing DevOps practices to refine the process and acquire meaningful feedback. Often … Read more
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On a recent engagement, I assisted one of our clients with configuring Azure DevOps pipelines for a cross platform Xamarin forms application. Due to the specific requirements of each platform, it is necessary to configure separate pipelines for Android and iOS. When we got to the Android pipeline, we ran into a bit of a … Read more
Ever since the inception of Team Foundation Server (TFS), there has been a need to harmonize its usage with ongoing portfolio management efforts by a PMO (Project Management Office) team going on in bigger companies. In the beginning, the only out-of-the-box way of integrating with tools used by PMOs was to use the Microsoft Project … Read more
Join us Tuesday, November 6th at the Microsoft office in Tampa, Florida for our upcoming workshop: Azure Adoption Strategies! This will be an expert-led session that will include hands-on experiences with Azure, as well as discussions with our team and your peers related to ways that you can get to the Cloud successfully. There are a … Read more
Every day, developers are working to elevate your Office 365 experience with new features and the enhancement of the existing functionalities. At New Signature, we always have our ear to the ground to watch out for some of the most helpful and impactful developments in the Office 365 world. We are committed to relaying updates … Read more
We recently started a new project with a client who already has a DevOps mindset. It’s very refreshing to work with a team that values DevOps principles and appreciates the cultural changes that need to occur to deliver high-quality software frequently and consistently. We were pleasantly surprised when they mentioned that they value: Production-first mindset … Read more
Performance is a feature Recently a client of ours came to us discussing one of their systems and the millions of hits per day that they have to process. Through some fine tuning and a migration into Azure they’re handling that load just fine on their API cluster. I had a little free time and … Read more
You may be asking why this is important… let’s first discuss what Reserved Virtual Machine Instances are. As companies move to Azure it can be effective or necessary for them to maintain some workloads on virtual machines in Azure. This can often be due to 3rd party software that has to be installed on the … Read more
While many companies and teams see the value of assessing their DevOps capabilities, few understand the significance of an assessment as a living document, rather understanding it as an audit result. An audit is a yes/no answer to a compliance question against a checklist of some quality attributes. Through an audit you can usually demonstrate … Read more
When I started at Nebbia, my first time ever working for/with a technology company, I was thrown into this world with lots of terms I’d never heard before. One word that came up a lot in the beginning was “scrum”. For a little while, I just thought it was a funny word everyone was saying … Read more
When attempting to remove an archive mailbox, the deletion never occurs. This happens whether the object is cloud-only or synced over via AAD Connect. Additionally, there is no litigation hold or in-place hold. If there is a retention policy set to all mailboxes, the mailbox has been excluded from that policy as well. To correct … Read more
At Nebbia, I have seen many different companies, corporate structures, and cultures, and have learned from each one I’ve encountered. Every company has had some great qualities and some that could be improved. No company is ever perfect, and perfection is a goal rather than a destination anyway. It’s just the nature of the beast. Of … Read more
Lately, most of the companies I’ve been talking to recently have at least been thinking about microservices. Unfortunately, it’s very easy for this topic to lead into a tools and frameworks discussion. To avoid jumping into this trap, I made a point in a previous post that if you’re thinking about microservices, you need DevOps … Read more
One of Nebbia’s specialties is helping customers transition from using On-Premises TFS to utilizing VSTS in the cloud. The primary way that we accomplish this is via the Microsoft full fidelity migration tool that allows for all history, work items and code to be migrated to VSTS and look exactly as it did before the … Read more
Most don’t realize it, but the current trend is the third time that “cloud computing” has achieved preeminence, having failed twice before. Cloud computing has been with us much longer than most of us are aware – unless you are a historian, or has lived through it. I can only claim to have witnessed the latter … Read more
Having developed five VSTS extensions (one public one you can use right now, Test Charts), we at Nebbia Technology have learned a thing or two about building them. In fact, we’ve spent hundreds of hours building Visual Studio Team Server extensions. Because we are a DevOps-focused company, we have found a few different ways that … Read more
Imagine yourself in one of the following scenarios (if you have not been in one of these scenarios yet, I imagine you could be sooner than you think): You have just been told invited to implement DevOps at your organization You were just told invited to lead your company to the cloud by X year … Read more
Some code is boring. There, I said it. Most developers want to work on difficult challenges, or at the very least, interesting ones. So when a tool comes along that eliminates some of the tedious code that seems to be written again and again (and again) to do the same work, I embrace it. Because … Read more
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are often talked about as something that always go hand in hand. Teams often spend months and month trying to come up with the “perfect” mixture of tools and workflow so that they can finally start putting their theory into practice. Based on my conversations with many teams, the reluctance … Read more
Are you thinking about DevOps and attempting to understand the “lay of the land”? What about Azure or other cloud providers? How does DevOps play into Azure? How do cloud providers stack up against each other. More importantly, how does everything affect you? Undoubtedly, a changing process in your company, a new methodology/philosophy, a new … Read more
One of the developers at a client recently pulled me aside to ask me a fairly simple question: Hey Cliff, how do we grant access to QA to do read-only queries in our Azure DB instance for testing? My natural response was of course a tilt of the head and Why? Creating cloud-first software is … Read more
As organizations and development departments begin to move toward cloud first development practices, there are often situations where employees, with the best of intentions, pull up to the buffet that is Azure and start to decide what they want to put on their plate. They grab a little of this service and oooh some of … Read more
