The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Cloud

  • Provisioning an Office 365 Tenant

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    During most Office 365 IT Pro sessions related to getting started with Office 365, a tenant is needed for demonstration purposes.  This usually only lasts about 5 minutes of the overarching presentation, but I’ve found it helpful for when an individual needs to see exactly how it’s completed. As such, I’ve started a new series…

  • ARM Template Reference Now Available

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    If you’ve been tracking Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering over the past few years you’ve probably noticed that there have been a few (hundred) changes during that time period. And by hundred, I mean multiple hundreds. . . One of those changes was to transition from the Azure Service Management interfaces to the Azure Resource Management…

  • Global Azure Bootcamp 2017

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    Interested in learning more about Microsoft Azure? Looking for a starting point and you’ve already read all the documentation over at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/? Have a Saturday afternoon free in the latter part of April? Check out the Global Azure Bootcamp community event taking place on 22 April 2017 around the world. There are locations everywhere as the world…

  • Renaming your LiveID

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    If you’ve found yourself running into a problem of having an Organization ID and a EASID (LiveID with an e-mail address) with the same name – you may find yourself frustrated when working with Microsoft Services, whether that’s MSDN, Office.com or something else that has a Microsoft login. Further, you might find yourself wondering, “what’s…

  • Office 365 Developer Tenants

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    Are you a Developer? Do you write JavaScript code? Did you recently hear about the SharePoint Framework and you’re intrigued and you’re looking to learn more? Are you looking for somewhere to work on your code without necessarily having to consume resources from your Production tenant that you’re running Office 365 within? Consider heading over…

  • SharePoint Saturday New York 2016 – Getting Started with Office 365

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    It’s been nearly a year since I’ve been up to the Big Apple for a conference or technology show and once more the SPSNYC team without fail has pulled off a terrific show with a solid group of speakers and sponsors. This go round I had the privilege of presenting on a topic near and…

  • Whoa… Office 2016 is coming…

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    So just when you got used to Office 2013, boom, Office 2016 is hitting the streets as of 22 September 2015. This was announced yonder on the Microsoft Office blog – pretty darn cool. https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/10/admins-get-ready-for-office-2016-rollout-begins-september-22/ Be sure to check out the Microsoft Cloud Roadshow taking place in November… https://microsoftcloudroadshow.com/cities

  • Office DevCamps

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    The other day while recording Episode 15 of Brewery.fm with Scott Hoag, I remembered something that was tweeted about during //Build and that I’d received an email about earlier in the day as well – Office DevCamp. So we included it in the show and hoped that folks would consider checking it out – it’s a…

  • Microsoft Azure – PowerShell March 2015 Update

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    Without much fanfare, the Azure PowerShell commandlets have been updated as of 31 March 2015 to version 0.8.16. More pertaining to the update can be read here: – https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/tag/v0.8.16-March2015 If you’ve been watching the Azure Content repo on GitHub you probably noticed a ton of things pertaining to HDInsight being committed. Well, you guessed it,…

  • Brewery FM – Episode 7 – Delving About Delve… Again

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    This week has been a little hectic between work, life and community, but somehow Scott Hoag and I were still able to get together for an hour and record another session of Brewery.fm. In this weeks episode, we call out Tim Ferro again – mostly because he asked us for some thoughts on an announcement…