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    Basics of Powershell Excel & JSON Parsing

    The Powershell scripting language is designed to help system administrators automate tasks and manage OSs: Windows is naturally supported, but so is Linux and Mac with the newest versions. It allows you to access data stored across the file system, including Excel and JSON files. Thanks to the integration on the Microsoft side, we do not need to download…

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    Conditionals and “For” in Terraform

    Those who came from a programming background will find infrastructure as code solutions and other configuration languages to be pretty syntactically different from traditional imperative programming languages. Naturally, this is due to the different application of these languages- we would not want to accidentally get stuck in an infinite loop while deploying virtual machines. Nonetheless, there…

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    Cumulative Sum by Period to Period Change in Power BI

    To first understand period to period change, you want to start by creating an expression in DAX (a library of functions and operators that can build formulas and expressions in Power BI Desktop) that calculates the sum of sales. You can do this by writing a measure like the following: Sum = SUM(‘Internet Sales'[Sales Amount]) Next you…

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    Polymorphic Associations Using EF Core

    For this example, I will be modeling a website that has pictures, videos, and blogs that can all contain comments. There will also be certain pages/posts that cannot contain comments, and these pages inherit from a shared interface as the pictures, videos, and blogs. We want to use one table, “comments,” to store comments for…

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    How to Create a Custom SharePoint Theme

    How to Create a Custom SharePoint Theme Microsoft offers a great tool that allows you to create your own SharePoint themes through Office Fabric UI. It allows you to plug in three colors (primary color, text color, and background color) and will then generate a SharePoint theme that can be pushed to your SharePoint site…

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    Introduction to NGX-Formly for Automatic Form Generation

    Power of Form Models Formly is an Angular module that transforms HTML forms to Javascript/JSON configured forms. Over the past two weeks I have been using Formly to transform HTML forms and saw the benefits of how much time is saved and how much code has been condensed through this process. The image below shows a…

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    How to Delete Users from Azure AD After AD Connect instance has been deleted

    I encountered this issue while working on the Windows and Office Deployment Lab Kit, however, it may be useful to others who may be coming across this issue elsewhere. In my case, I had started the deployment lab just before it was set to expire on 6/16/19. I had configured my lab using AD connect…

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    How to Use Illustrator and CSS to Customize SVGs

    How to Use Illustrator and CSS to Customize SVGs Something cool that I learned here as an intern is that you can use Adobe Illustrator to make SVG graphics easier to customize with CSS and JavaScript. What this means is that you can design a graphic in Illustrator (or import one and edit it) and then…

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    Hung Server Troubleshooting

    When a server hangs, it can oftentimes be difficult to find the root cause.  There are a variety of potential factors, and narrowing it down can be tough.  Here, we’ll review the general process for troubleshooting a hung server. Frequency & Patterns The troubleshooting process for a one-time hang vs. a repeated occurrence is a…

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