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    Azure Function Published with Azure DevOps is missing .python_packages

    I was publishing an Azure Function with Azure DevOps vs. deploying with VS Code and was finding the function was failing because the .python_packages folder was missing. Reviewing the build code the standard python package was populated with “pip install -r requirements.txt”, which was working on my local client to ensure the published environment included the necessary packages.…

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    Running the Data Migration Assistant – Part Two – PowerShell

    In the previous post, I introduced the Data Migration Assistant (DMA) from Microsoft.  In this post I will introduce PowerShell modules from Microsoft that can be used to run the DMA against an inventory of instances and databases. A .zip file containing the PowerShell modules can be downloaded from this page.  Once the modules are downloaded…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    5 Disciplines of Cloud Governance

    The best organizations are ones that balance growth mindset in the cloud with effective cloud governance. The growth mindset is the company challenging itself, its previous assumptions, it’s understanding of what the future looks like. The partner is governance that accelerates the transformation while ensuring protection and responsibility. The goal of cloud governance is not…

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    Concurrency, Inc. receives two 2020 Microsoft US Partner Awards: Industry – Manufacturing & Azure – AI and Machine Learning

    BROOKFIELD, WI (July 16, 2020) — Concurrency, Inc. today announced it has been awarded two 2020 Microsoft US (MSUS) Partner Awards: Industry – Manufacturing and Azure – AI and Machine Learning.   The company was honored among a field of top MSUS partners for its leadership in customer impact, solution innovation, deployment and exceptional use…

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    Firewall Settings for Connecting to Azure SQL Databases from an Azure VM

    Recently, I was helping a colleague troubleshoot connectivity issues between an Azure VM and Azure SQL Database.  The client architecture looks like this: The failing connections were coming from the DMZ.  Watching network traffic using Wireshark, we saw an attempt to connect to the Azure SQL Database on port 11029.  A Google search led me…

    Concurrency, Inc.
  • Blog

    Decom Lync/Skype after moving to Teams

    This is my working list for decom for older Lync and Skype deployments on prem for organizations that are moving to Microsoft Teams. **more info to be added around trunk removal. Look for disabled accounts that are still registered to Lync 2013 Get-CSuser | Disable-CSuser Get-CsConferenceDirectory | Remove-CsConferenceDirectory Check for Analog devices Get-CsAnalogDevice | Select-Object…

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    Create an Azure Function with Python to Retrieve GPS Coordinates from an Image EXIF in Azure Storage

    This post is part of a series. If you want to work on creating your own Wildlife ID environment, start here! We started with provisioning an Azure storage environment that this uses to retrieve images. In this post we’ll provision the Azure Function, deploy the code via VS Code and configure an App Insights availability tracker.…

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    Changing Azure Account in Visual Studio Code

    I was using an account in Visual Studio Code to access a certain set of subscriptions I was working against and deploying to. This was prior to getting my pipelines ready, as that was my eventual deployment destination. In the meantime, I needed to change the account and noticed there wasn’t any GUI way to…

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    Return JSON from Azure Functions with Python

    I was working on an Azure Function for an open source wildlife IoT project and came across a lack of documentation in docs.microsoft.com. I had successfully returned HTTP content from my Azure function, but wasn’t sure how to get it to return JSON so I could interpret it elsewhere. In this case I’m storing latitute (lat)…

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