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    Top Tech Leadership Priorities for 2022

    In moments of transition often weak leaders freeze, unable to move or act until those around them move. The weak leader is unable to gather the team to move forward through the malaise and is challenged to reflect, think, and act. In contrast, the effective leader is able to use moments of transition to accomplish great…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Moving GitHub Desktop Repo Local Directory

    You have unfortunately downloaded your GitHub repo to a directory in your OneDrive synced files haven’t you? It’s synchronizing everything twice! Didn’t anyone tell you that OneDrive wasn’t supposed to be used for source code? Don’t worry. This one is actually pretty easy to fix. Now, return to work and never again make this mistake. 

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Building a One Page Strategic Plan in PowerApps

    So… we were working as a company to construct our One Page Strategic Plan. We’d used platforms before that had similar concepts but none of them integrated with Teams or any of the Microsoft ecosystem. I was not happy about implementing another walled garden for our executive team, so I set out to use some…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    5 Things I Love About Microsoft Teams and 5 Things I Hate

    So, I’m a huge Microsoft Teams fan, but that doesn’t stop there from being improvements every organization would appreciate. Let’s talk about the things I love and the things I hate about Microsoft Teams. LOVE #1: Integrated Applications The relationship between the applications and the interface is incredibly useful. I will often create a Planner…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Cloud Horizon Models and Changing Responsibility

    The cloud can be a somewhat imprecise term. What does it mean to talk about migrating to the cloud or refactoring an application? In order to clear up some of this ambiguity I’ve found it useful to apply Horizon Models to cloud migration efforts. The use of a Horizon Model is to define the states of…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    5 Things I Love and 5 Things I Hate about Microsoft Whiteboard

    I love the use of a whiteboard in collaborative meetings. It was one of my favorite things about meeting in-person and felt like it was a major loss when moving to a largely remote culture. I needed to replace the collaborative experience with something and also make way for a Hybrid workplace. Enter, Microsoft Whiteboard. I…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    New column option in Model-Driven Apps

    Recently, Microsoft published the 2021 Wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 (D365) & Power Platform , a compilation of new capabilities that are planned to be released between October 2021 and March 2022. Several functionalities will be accessible as part of early access in non-production environments from August. In this blog, we’ll go through the…

    Ajay Ravi
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    Using DAX Studio to Jump Start Your Data Dictionary

    Using DAX Studio To Jump Start Your Data Dictionary    In the world of analytics, understanding and being able to define your data is king in any data project. Organizations often focus on the early stage around getting systems set up and the technology behind the data, but they easily lose focus on the metrics and key information the business needs and the process to govern their…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    How to Secure a Synapse Workspace with Active Directory groups 

    Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used for big data, Pipelines for data integration and ETL/ELT, and deep integration with other Azure services such as Power BI,…

    Concurrency