August 2014 - Applied Information Sciences

@aisteam

Answers.com needed a Microsoft partner that could upgrade their Windows 8 application to maximize the use of a variety of new 8.1 features. Expediency was of the utmost importance in this instance and based on our prior experience with Microsoft, they knew we were the best partner for the job. AIS upgraded the Answers.com Windows 8.0 Store application to 8.1, meeting Answers.com goal of getting it done as quickly as possible. Our team also validated the application through the Microsoft DPE Windows 8 Partner Program to ensure adherence to all Windows 8.1 criterion. Read more…

Michelle Schafer

Your company’s SharePoint site should be personalized to reflect your brand and culture. How your site looks can impact how much it’s used. One of the easiest ways to complete this personalization is by incorporating graphics that “match” your organization. Sometimes you have a great set of graphics and icons to start with, and sometimes it can be difficult to find “exactly” what you are looking for. In these instances I have to create my own graphic from “scratch” or by using a few found images. Read More…

Michelle Schafer

As a former graphic designer now turned Analyst, my skills in typography and design come in handy every once in a while. A lot of teams and projects don’t have the budget or full time position for a graphic designer or user experience professional, but here are a few tips and tricks to help you with your software and SharePoint design.

Brent Wodicka

@bwodicka

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure Government: The cloud platform designed to meet the demands of the U.S. government. Azure Government delivers cloud speed, scale, and economics while addressing the security and compliance needs that exist in U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies. Azure Government offers physical and network isolation from non-U.S. government deployments and requires specialized personnel screening. In addition, specifically constructed datacenters ensure that all data hardware and supporting systems will physically reside in the continental United States. Azure Government will address government regulatory and compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, CJIS, ITAR, DoD Impact Levels 1-5 and HIPAA.
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Vishwas Lele

@vlele

Welcome to part six of our blog series based on my latest PluralSight course: Applied Azure. Previously, we’ve discussed, HIPAA Compliant Apps with Windows Azure Trust Center, Azure Web Sites, Azure Worker Roles, Identity and Access with Azure Active Directory and Azure Service Bus and MongoDB.

Motivation

Question: “How does an admin protect their SharePoint farm from poorly written custom code?” Answer: “Force custom code to run in the SharePoint sandbox mode.” Not quite! Turns out that running in a sandbox mode (as the name suggests, it is a restricted execution mode within SharePoint) is not very productive because of the performance penalty and very limited capabilities available to code running in it. A better approach is to move the code “outside” of SharePoint and into a “private” execution environment (so that the errant developers can shoot themselves in the foot, but not everyone else). Read More…

BlogMonthly Archives: August 2014