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    Striping Disks in Azure

    Sometimes when working with an Azure VM, you need to combine the size or throughput of multiple Azure disks.  You can do this by using Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 or 2016.  Storage Spaces is similar to RAID or the old dynamic disk technology in Windows and allows you to combine multiple disks into a…

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    Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Replication without the need of an appliance.

    Hyper-V replication allow your environment to replicate from one virtual machine to another virtual machine environment without the need for additional cost of an appliance. Hyper-V Replication helps with both planned and unplanned fail over situations by having a fail over to protect the virtual machine. This feature is included in Windows Server 2012, 2012R2,…

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    Avoiding Duplicates with the D365 / CRM Outlook Add-On

    When using Outlook with CRM, users often find themselves with many duplicate contact records. These records will sync between CRM and Outlook if they satisfy the sync filter properties. There are a few ways a user can leverage the sync filters to only have the records desired, but planning and standards should be set to…

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    Windows 10 GPOs and more

    Here are a few links that I send to my customers who are starting to manage and tweak Windows 10.  Most of the items below are GPO related.  I also included how to modify the Start menu, and a nice script on GitHub that has many different settings that can be changed in Windows 10 (using PowerShell).…

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    Installing SQL Server on a Domain Controller: What You need to know

    When configuring your data environment and planning servers and installs, it is important to understand that Microsoft does not recommend that you install SQL Server on a Domain Controller.  While you technically CAN, there are some dangers involved that you should be aware of before you do this. Let’s take some in depth looks at…

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    Working with the K2 PDF control in SmartForms and workflow processes

    Recently I was approached by a client that was concerned about the length of time it would take for their K2 SmartForm to generate a PDF of their form which had multiple tabs and lots of controls. The Save as PDF feature available out of the box with K2 SmartForms is a nice feature, but also…

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    SQL Server Filegroups

    Since SQL Server stores data in a model, that data needs to clearly go somewhere but where does it go?  This is where Filegroups come into play in SQL Server.  Filegroups are the physical files on your disc volumes that hold SQL Server’s data and can be used for backup and administrative management purposes. The…

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    Creating Logins and Users in SQL Server

    How to create a new SQL Server Login and User Creating individual logins and users for SQL gives you a great security advantage.  A Login is used for authentication into a SQL Instance while a User is used for authorization into a SQL Database.  Note that Logins are used at the Instance level and Users are…

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    React in SharePoint

    Lately I’ve been playing with ReactJS, and was looking for a way to render content in SharePoint using React. I really like React because you can easily create interactive UIs declaratively. You design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render the correct components when your data changes.…

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