Hooked on React: useState and useEffect
This is a junior take at React Hooks – which is one of the most important things to understand when learning React. React is a JavaScript library. Learning React has been an interesting experience as...
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Defend Microsoft Teams with Nine Microsoft 365 Policies
Did you know Microsoft Teams Admin Center is not the only place to configure Teams Security? Since Microsoft Teams is strongly wired with SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange, Teams takes advantage of...
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Azure Spring Cloud Review
Spring Framework is one of the most popular frameworks for application development using Java. Spring Boot is one of the top modules of Spring Framework, which is widely used to build enterprise-grade...
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Microsoft recognizes Lee Baker as FastTrack Solution Architect
Microsoft FastTrack is a service provided by Microsoft that helps customers onboard Cloud Solutions and drive user adoption. The Microsoft Power Platform product engineering team recognizes...
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Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit and Pester Fundamentals
Testing is and has always been a necessary action when writing code or creating templates. Throughout the history of writing code, tools have made it easier and more foolproof for developers to...
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Building a Home Inventory Application with the Microsoft Power Platform: Part...
This blog series is for anyone trying to learn how to use the Power Platform. Readers should know software development fundamentals. It begins by explaining why we would want to create a home inventory...
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Building a Home Inventory Application with the Microsoft Power Platform: Part...
This blog series is for anyone trying to learn how to use the Power Platform. Readers should know software development fundamentals. This blog begins by covering how to create a base Canvas App from an...
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Building a Home Inventory Application with the Microsoft Power Platform: Part...
This blog series is for anyone trying to learn how to use the Power Platform. Readers should know software development fundamentals. This post builds on the first two parts by adding smartphone camera...
View ArticleAIS Presents on Accelerated ATO and Compliance Solutions at the DC AzureGov...
Microsoft Azure Government DC is a group created for anyone in the IT world modernizing government with a goal of bringing real-world lessons to innovators in Government. AIS has supported and...
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How to Build and Share Reports with a Power BI Free License
The landscape for Power BI licensing is complex and evolving. To begin to grasp the structure and detail, let’s break it down. Today I am asking: what are the capabilities of using a free license?...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of an Internal Power Platform Hackathon
AIS recently held an internal hackathon for Microsoft Power Platform to expose our team to the platform, concepts, approaches through hands-on experience and to demonstrate the role Power Platform...
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Automatic Creation of External Tables in Azure Synapse
Recently I was working on a project for a DoD client looking to move multiple, siloed on-premise data workloads to the cloud as part of an Azure capabilities proof of concept. The client needed to...
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Visual Studio Code for DevOps Engineers
From C# Developer to DevOps Engineer Over the last couple of years, I’ve become a DevOps Engineer after having been primarily a C# developer. Instead of primarily C# and SQL, I was now working almost...
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A Case for Azure API Management Services
Azure API Management service has been around since 2014. AIS has been implementing solutions using Azure API Management for almost as long. I am working on a project that recently introduced new...
View ArticleEnterprise-scale DevOps: How to Implement DevOps Across Your Organization
So you’ve written Infrastructure As Code, Automated All The Things, and drank deeply of the DevOps Kool-Aid on your current project – what’s next? You’ve been reaping the rewards of DevOps at some...
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An Overview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK: Benefits, Limitations, and How to...
Microsoft affirms its commitment to the Java ecosystem by offering open-source distribution of Java with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. It’s a no-cost, Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK...
View ArticleDevOps Enterprise: How to Spread the DevOps Wealth
So you’ve written Infrastructure As Code, Automated All The Things, and drank deeply of the DevOps kool-aid on your current project – what’s next? You’ve been reaping the rewards of DevOps on a small...
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User-Centered Design/Discovery for an Agile Power Platform Modernization...
Project Background From August 2020 to this February, I worked as a Business Analyst (BA) on a project team to help a major insurance company modernize thousands of InfoPath forms into the Microsoft...
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User-Centered Design/Discovery for an Agile Power Platform Modernization...
Prototyping in Axure vs. Power Apps As I described in part one of this blog series, prototyping was an integral step of our user-centered design/discovery process. When we first started on the project,...
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FY22 Solutions Strategy: Building Bridges Across Microsoft Clouds to Drive...
Our team enters the fiscal year 2022 with excitement, intention, and confidence. In 2022, AIS turns 40. We’ve thrived through four decades of IT consulting and continue to achieve record growth numbers...
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