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Single Server Farm SharePoint 2019

A Quick Start Guide for the new Single Server Farm SharePoint 2019

A Quick Start Guide for the new Single Server Farm SharePoint 2019

Public preview of SharePoint 2019 is here and in no time, the official release will hit the market. Here are a few steps to get your started with it:

  1. Get SharePoint Server 2019 prerequisites installed either manually or by Prerequisite Installer. These include: Web Server (IIS) Role, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or Microsoft SQL Server 2017, Microsoft Sync Framework Run-time v1.0 SP1 (x64) and a few more components.
  2. Install SharePoint Server 2019, enter the product key and start configuration wizard
  3. Make sure that user account is the Setup User account
  4. Launch Farm configuration wizard
  5. Select the services you need to get and proceed with the wizard.
  6. Configure farm page and Finish the wizard.

You can also upgrade from SharePoint 2016 for which you shall use database attach upgrade. In such a case, you need to upgrade to content only and not the settings.

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Born in the cloud or cloud-enabled?

Born in the cloud or cloud-enabled?

The concept of “born-in-the-cloud” is seldom confused with “cloud-enabled” or “cloud-native”. However, there is a significant deference between these terms.

A solution that was “born in the cloud” means a solution that is exclusively meant to be delivered by the cloud and does not involve any legacy systems. The solutions that are cloud-enabled are the solutions that were originally designed for a traditional datacenter and then eventually plunked into the cloud. this is originally a legacy product. They are single-tenant and difficult to scale.

In case of cloud native systems, they are built form ground up approach using micro-services. They are multi-tenant and are easily scalable. Hence the concepts of “born-in-the-cloud” and “cloud-native” are close enough but have a huge difference with “cloud-enabled” solution.

Companies prefer to adopt cloud-native solutions. With cloud-native solutions, there is no hassle of the Infrastructure upon it is delivered and built. Many vendors are now trying to offer cloud-enabled version of their products.

Big Data Value

Tips to get real value out of Big Data

Tips to get real value out of Big Data

Enterprises need to know how to get info out of big data. A successful business is the one that can manage and analyze big amount of data – we are talking about data that is in petabytes!

More often, companies have got big data, collected and stored in the data center, but have little knowledge of what to do with the data. It is recommended that every company must have a data plan even before the data is consolidated in the storage i.e. the cloud. They must also have a set of tools ready to be used within their systems in order to get business value out of the stored data. Some more steps that can be taken are: understand meta data, know which data to keep and turn it into business value, consider a performance plan.  The bottom line is: Only make necessary investments in data.

Multi-Cloud Journey

3 Steps to Start Your Multi-Cloud Journey

3 Steps to Start Your Multi-Cloud Journey

The concept of ‘Multi-clouds’ revolves around private clouds, hosted cloud environments and even on-premises data centers. A lot of organizations, whose major domain is deployment and management, opt for this approach. Here are three basic steps to get hand on transition to a multi-cloud strategy:

  1. Be more accessible to business users and know where your resources are located.
  2. Be focused with business services and know the relationship between business process and workload
  3. Use a cloud management platform and create an initial multi-cloud governance system.

Taking a multi-cloud approach makes the IT infrastructure more flexible. However, there is not a single solution fits all, rather every company shall have their own multi-cloud roadmap that makes the transition phase easier for the organization.  A decent Cloud management platform enables end-to-end visibility across all the Cloud resources. It also simplifies much business complexity and integration challenges while moving towards multi-cloud.

csp direct billing

New Microsoft CSP Billing Requirements

New Microsoft CSP Billing Requirements

Ever since Microsoft introduced the new Microsoft CSP billing requirements, CSPs all over the world have been in search for ways to fulfill these requirements.  It is, however, estimated that 80% of the CSPs have still not fulfilled the Microsoft CSP Direct Requirements to retain their CSP Tier 1 status. The deadline, 31st august, is approaching fast and all those CSPs who are not able to comply with these requirements shall be able to provide services under the Indirect Provider Status. In order to meet the customer’s needs, there are two plans:

  • Microsoft Advanced Support for Partners
  • Microsoft Premier Support for Partners

In the former plan, Microsoft provides support for general issues fixation and problem resolving solutions whereas in the latter plan, Microsoft provides CSPs with managed support along with proactive services across the entire Microsoft Platform. This includes enhanced solutions with maximum uptime and fast response time for your customers.

To comply with the announced Microsoft CSP Direct billing requirements from Microsoft, you need to take the following steps:

  1. Ensure provision of an IP service or a managed service or a solution application
  2. Further, you need to equip your system with a necessary infrastructure required to introduce billing systems.

These Microsoft CSP Billing requirements need to be fulfilled in time. In order to keep the status of CSP Direct partners, CSPs need to approach solution providers who offer complete and reliable automation solutions in order to make the systems complying with these Microsoft CSP requirements.

OneDrive for android

Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Office apps work with Android, too

Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Office apps work with Android, too

At this time when there are many options offered by Techno Giants with ever increasing features in each coming product, it is hard to get a best solution when you want to get the best of features according to your needs from a single provider. Same case happens with smartphone users who are comfortable with android as their Smartphone but primarily work on Microsoft Apps.

This problem has been solved and now OneDrive App can be installed from Google Play Store on Android devices in order to gain access to storage on the Cloud provided by Microsoft OneDrive. Not only OneDrive, but Google Play now also hosts free versions of Excel and Word on Play Store. There apps do not contain full features but offer general features that are sufficient for most users like reading and editing documents and Excel worksheets. For more details, you can have a look here

Cloud computing trends 2018

Cloud Computing Trends of 2018

Cloud Computing Trends of 2018

Since the Cloud has prevailed in almost all aspects of business, it is important to keep a check on the latest trends in order to stay competitive in the market.

• Internet of Everything (IoE)
After IoT (Internet of Things), the term IoE (Internet of Everything) will soon prevail with Artificial Intelligence being in the front of cloud. This means, devices can be interacted in an intelligent manner, much like human to human interaction.

• Rise of 5G
With more data requirements, there will be better internet quality and 5G to support the internet needs. Highly responsive, fast loading apps and services will require better quality networks.

• Security concerns
Security has always been a topic of concern with upcoming technology and cloud is no exception. There will be a greater need for enhanced security.

Cloud Hybrid Search

Cloud Hybrid Search Service (CSSA) FAQ

Cloud Hybrid Search Service (CSSA) FAQ

There are a lot of questions people ask related to Cloud hybrid Search. I have decided to compile the most frequently asked questions in the following post.

  1. How is Hybrid search different from normal cloud hybrid search?

In hybrid federated search, results are fetched from both search index in SharePoint Server 2013/2016 and as indexed in Office 365. In case of cloud hybrid search, all crawled content is processed by O365 search engine.

  1. Can Hybrid search be deployed in multiple forests environment?

Yes, Cloud hybrid search service application works under environments having multiple forests.

  1. How many crawl Databases are recommended for Cloud hybrid search application?

There is a rule of thumb in this regard. One database suffices 20 million items from the total amount of content.

  1. Are there any Forums for Cloud hybrid search discussions?

Yes, TechNet Forum hosts multiple discussions on the topic.

  1. Is there any book related to Hybrid capabilities?

There is an ebook Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities (ISBN 9781509302437) which can be downloaded here.

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What’s New in Visual Studio 2017

What’s New in Visual Studio 2017

With the new release of Visual Studio 2017, Here’s what Visual Studio 2017 can offer you !

But what’s changed, what’s in it for developers?

Cloud Services :

There is tighter integration with cloud services. Azure is very much leading the pack from a developers perspective –  like technologies called ‘Containers’; these are now very tightly integrated directly into Visual Studio with Docker. Visual Studio makes it easy to configure, build, debug, package, and deploy apps and services on Azure.

Mobile App Development :

Both Xamarin and the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova are included in this release. Both make it extremely easy to create solid mobile solutions for your customers in an efficient modern way. If you are more used to of Web development, then you should strongly consider using the Cordova tools.

Enhanced debugging experience :

The overall debugging and testing workflow and experience has been revised to help developers find problems as early as possible in the dev lifecycle. Live Unit Testing,  Exception Helpers, and Run to Click to fix the path to regression risks and exposing the root cause of new bugs.

Cross-platform development :

Seamlessly provide a software to any targeted platform. Extend DevOps processes to SQL Server through Redgate Data Tools and safely automate database deployments from Visual Studio. you can use .NET Core to write apps and libraries that run unmodified across Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems.

details can be found  at  https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/whatsnew/

Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV)

Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV)

Software Defined Network (SDN)

Hyper-V Network Virtualization using Network Virtualization Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)

Hyper-V Network virtualization provides a capability, in which multiple virtual networks (with overlapping IP addresses) run on the same physical network infrastructure and each virtual network operates and isolated from each other.

Core Concepts:
CA ==> PA (Mapping)
Customer Address : CA (Virtual Machine IP)
Provider Address : PA (Hyper-V Host IP)

Microsoft Hyper-V Network Virtualization virtualizes the VM networks by connecting each VM IP address (CA) with a corresponding physical IP address (PA) used on the actual packets on the wire.
Each VM packet is transformed (rewritten/encapsulated) from a CA packet to PA packet before the packet is actually transmitted onto the physical network, and is transformed back with matching rules from PA packet to CA packet before the packet is sent back to the destination virtual machine.

SDN/Network virtualization module operates on the packets based on the virtualization policy rules provisioned from management servers such as (SCVMM) OR Using PowerShell Scripts.

 

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