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    Creating a UI with Power BI

    Power BI is an interactive business analytics tool, not a visual design tool. Even though this statement is true, I was inspired to see how I could maximize what Power BI offers to make a visually appealing dashboard. Over the past few weeks I was given the opportunity to focus on designing the user interface…

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    Making the Switch to the Agent Workspace in ServiceNow

    Introduced in the Madrid release of ServiceNow, the Agent Workspace is a new single pane view for agents to respond to all task types, view the full context of the issue and get relevant recommendations. The agent workspace allows you to have multiple tickets of varying types all open at the same time in a tabbed…

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    Introduction to MQTT protocol for IOT applications.

    In my previous blog post, I explained why the widely used application-layer protocol HTTP is not suitable for the IOT applications. There are a number of application-layer protocols developed to serve the purpose of IOT like MQTT, AMQP, CoAP, XMPP, STOMP etc. In this blog post, I will provide an introduction to MQTT protocol, its design, architecture…

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    Why HTTP is not suitable for IOT applications.

    When developing modern web-applications, the most commonly used application layer protocol is HTTP. It is suitable for serving hypermedia resources in a request-response fashion over the internet. However, when it comes to the Internet of things (IOT), it tends to perform poorly mainly because it was designed to be a reliable but heavy-weight protocol for the…

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    ServiceNow CSM – Consumer and Consumer User Craziness!

    Within ServiceNow Customer Service Management, I’ve found that most implementors and users tend to leverage B2B capabilities, and thus contacts and accounts.  This works great for those scenarios – but what about B2C?  That is, what about those scenarios when your organization is interacting not with other businesses, but with individual consumers? In those cases…

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    Diagnosing Slow Page Loads due to CRL Checks

    Recently, a support ticket was opened for an issue where a couple of websites were slow to load after blocking outbound internet access from a VM.  The IP addresses of these websites were whitelisted, but the browser would hang for about 30 seconds before they’d load.  In the end, we found that the SSL certificate…

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    AIA Location #2 – Unable to download

    While setting up my Two-Tier PKI Hierarchy, I ran into an error on my issuing CA where my AIA Location #2 was unable to download. I viewed this error using the PKIVIEW tool. I right clicked on the AIA Location # 2 and copied the URL. From there, I opened a web browser and paste the…

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    ServiceNow Test Management: Accelerate the Management of Testing Processes

    Getting Started If you don’t know already, ServiceNow provides some amazing toolsets that allow your organization to author tests and simplify the overall testing experience of a software application within your instance. You might think that I’m talking about “Automated Test Framework”, but I’m actually speaking to “Test Management”. This feature is located within the…

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    Attack Surface Analyzer

    Overview and Uses Attack Surface Analyzer, shortened as ASA, is used to compare or track the state of a server as changes are made.  It is specifically geared towards DevOps or security engineers for seeing what changes 3rd party software software makes to the system, with the goal of analyzing it for potential security risks.  However,…

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