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    Create a Simple Ticketing System in SharePoint Online

    I was recently tasked with creating a simple help desk ticketing system in SharePoint Online and Office 365 for a client. While I fully understood from the start that OOTB functionality in SharePoint wouldn’t provide the best means for accomplishing this task, I was pleased to discover that it is surprisingly capable of offering the…

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    Getting Started with SSH on Windows Server 2019

    New to Windows Server 2019 is the OpenSSH Client and Server capability that can be enabled with PowerShell.  This feature was originally introduced with the 1804 release of Windows 10 and has since been added into Windows Server 2019.  The configuration of the SSH Server feature entails installing the capability and enabling the services.  You…

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    Domain Controller DNS Record Registration

    DNS plays a central part in Active Directory.  Clients use DNS records to discover and communicate with domain controllers which, in turn, allows for proper domain functionality.  Let’s take a look at the key DNS records and some other helpful information for troubleshooting DNS issues. Core DNS Records There are 7 types of DNS records that get…

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    SPO Image Resizing and How to Format New Visual Content

    One Question I have been getting asked since SharePoint Online came out is about content images. How should they be formatted? What are the dimensions of a banner image? How do the images look at different window and screen sizes? All of these were Questions I had myself. So I started digging. First, its good…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    IoT 101: Data Flow

    A few blogs ago, we started on the 4 Ws of IoT. This blog is second blog that explains one of the many “hows” in the question of IoT.  In order to us to have a IoT solution, we have to have things, or a device, or a system that is willing to gather data…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    The four Ws of IoT: Who, What, Where, and Why

    My name is Lwin Maung. I am the Principal Architect at Concurrency, and a Microsoft MVP in the Platform Development Area. Today, I am writing about IoT. Ok.. Let’s look at the last two statements. What does that mean to you? Probably not much. How about this then? I am a geek. I have been…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Using the Graph API with large data sets

    Use Paging to retrieve more records For this article I’ll use the convention /me when I mean https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/meSometimes there will be a need to retrieve blocks of data that are too large for a single API call.  For example, the query /users in most organizations will return more data than a single call can accept. This query would return all…

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    Patching Windows Server 2016

    The patching strategy for Windows Server 2016 has changed fairly significantly since 2012 R2, and understanding these changes is crucial to managing this operating system effectively.  Here, we’ll review the new cycle of patch releases and how to make sure your servers stay up to date. Prior Versions of Windows To understand the changes in…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Creating a Suspect SQL Database

    Recently, a customer contacted us asking for the steps to force a SQL Server database into a Suspect state.  Although there are other blog posts about doing exactly that, they didn’t quite work for us.  Let’s take a look at how we got this working for them. Initial Attempt To start, we found this guide written by…

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