Empathy and the Power Platform - Webinar Insights

Empathy isn't just about emotion; it's an important part of human connection and should be factored into how your organization engages with employees and customers. Damon Sanchez, Anthony Escobedo, and Nicholas Rustad join forces to discuss the core of empathy through the technology lens and how building it into your applications and processes will help harness the power of technology to drive brand loyalty and engagement. 

by Stephanie Siewert Jul 17, 2020

Design patterns are a lifesaver for Extensible Applications.

All of the major programming languages have evolved tremendously over the past decade especially to make the developers job easy. C# by Microsoft has been at the top of the game of adding plethora of easy to use and extremely powerful constructs ranging from async programming to functional programming. The well-developed programming languages have made it extremely easy for beginners to pick up coding and start developing applications quickly.

However, when developing extensible applications for the future, just using the language to write down logic for applications does not do the job well. We have to think about the overall design of the application for it to be able to scale and extend well. This means utilizing appropriate design patterns wherever applicable.

by Siddharth Bhola Jul 11, 2019

Introduction to MQTT protocol for IOT applications.

In my previous blog post, I explained why the widely used application-layer protocol HTTP is not suitable for the IOT applications. There are a number of application-layer protocols developed to serve the purpose of IOT like MQTT, AMQP, CoAP, XMPP, STOMP etc. In this blog post, I will provide an introduction to MQTT protocol, its design, architecture and use-case examples.

by Siddharth Bhola Jun 26, 2019

Why HTTP is not suitable for IOT applications.

When developing modern web-applications, the most commonly used application layer protocol is HTTP. It is suitable for serving hypermedia resources in a request-response fashion over the internet. However, when it comes to the Internet of things(IOT), it tends to perform poorly mainly because it was designed to be a reliable but heavy-weight protocol for the world-wide-web. In this blog, I want to highlight the issues with HTTP with respect to IOT applications.

by Siddharth Bhola Jun 24, 2019

WSUS/SUP software updates sync failing because of “Upgrades” classification

At a client recently my Configurations Manager software update sync to Microsoft was failing.  This happened after I chose the classification “Upgrades” in the SUP (Software Update Point) properties.  After about 5 minutes the sync failed.  The following is what helped me fix this issue.
 

by Marcus Musial Feb 28, 2017

Chris Kabat Joins Concurrency as Vice President of Modern Applications and Chicago Regional Director

Longtime Microsoft-focused solution architect, Chris Kabat, has joined professional services firm Concurrency, Inc. as the company’s Vice President of Modern Applications and Chicago Regional Director. Kabat is based from Concurrency’s downtown Chicago office.

by Concurrency Blog Feb 27, 2017

VIDEO: Microsoft EMS Walkthrough

You've heard a lot about Intune and Mobile Device Management (MDM), but what about the myriad of other components that are included with the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS)?

by Shannon Fritz Jun 29, 2016