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Setting up the new blog couldn’t have been more simple (hint – Click New – Compute – WebSites – Gallery – WordPress in the Azure Dashboard) and only took about five minutes. The stuff that actually took the longest was customizing WordPress itself (themes, plugins, etc) , pointing the new Azure Website to a cname (davedev.azurewebsites.net to davedev.net) and then making sure I was backing up the MySQL Database. One of the areas that was not obvious to me however was how to send Emails. Usually, if you sign up for WordPress from an online hoster or WordPress.com you will ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 15/08/2013 6:29 AM EDT

Setting up the new blog couldn’t have been more simple (hint – Click New – Compute – WebSites – Gallery – WordPress in the Azure Dashboard) and only took about five minutes. The stuff that actually took the longest was customizing WordPress itself (themes, plugins, etc) , pointing the new Azure Website to a cname (davedev.azurewebsites.net to davedev.net) and then making sure I was backing up the MySQL Database. One of the areas that was not obvious to me however was how to send Emails. Usually, if you sign up for WordPress from an online hoster or WordPress.com you will ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 15/08/2013 6:29 AM EDT

The task was simple but the error was a little tricky to understand and so was the solution (easy one, but worth jotting) Problem: The user is trying to execute an SSIS package but it fails on the FTP task with the following error: Error [Connection manager "FTP Connection Manager"] Error: An error occurred in the requested FTP operation. Detailed error description: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. . Here is the detailed package flow and logic The SSIS Package had the following logic flow: 1. The First Step: Data is copied into Source.csv file. 2. ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 15/08/2013 6:49 AM EDT

More than 500 participants attended the event, including decision makers, networking specialists, and managers from all major European networking and research organizations, universities, and worldwide institutions, and industries . Kenji Takeda from Microsoft Research Connections gave a keynote address exploring the opportunities of cloud computing in research. The availability of big and broad data is becoming a foundation upon which we can accelerate our research and education across all disciplines, including science, engineering, technology, social science, anthropology, history, and government. Takeda’s talk explored how Windows Azure is enabling new capabilities and insight in data-intensive research through services and tools in ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 15/08/2013 7:33 AM EDT

Logs that he uses to analyze what content is popular. Well it turned out that you should read the FAQ... Once your logs reach 35MB, they are no longer updated until you clean up the directory. I guess it kind of makes sense because I did think that it was weird that you could just have any amount of logs for your website for free. But there is no free lunch I guess... I just wish the user interface where you turn this thing on would mention this in the little help popup because there are probably a lot of ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 15/08/2013 3:15 AM EDT

For the purpose of this blog series, I’ll loosely define the term to mean an expansion of focus from data originating from core operational systems - the domain of traditional Business Intelligence - to include new data sources either historically neglected or newly available. That is a gross simplification of the term Big Data but it’s challenges inherent to working with these new data that have driven the adoption of new data platforms. And as we’re focusing on Hadoop, the most widely recognized of these new data platforms, such a limited definition of Big Data would seem to suffice. Hadoop ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 14/08/2013 5:10 AM EDT

I have authored two Forums Reader Windows Store Apps; one for the Windows and Surface Communities and a second for the TechNet Windows Forums. The Microsoft Windows and Surface Community Reader App includes coverage for content from Questions and Answers, Discussions, and Wikis from Microsoft Communities. The TechNet Windows Forum Reader includes content from the TechNet Windows Forums I’m a MVP who tries to keep up with current issues and provide support in a few of the Community (formerly Answers Forums), specifically in the Windows and Surface Categories (where I’m also a Forum Moderator). I also regularly read a few ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 14/08/2013 6:52 AM EDT

In my next post, I will discuss big data in healthcare, and how advances in understanding and processing this data is leading to breakthroughs in healthcare, but in the meantime, here’s a brief preview. Security. Big data. Both are critical concepts in and of themselves, but when combined together they become key elements of intelligent systems. Intelligent systems harness the flow of data across industry devices and the Internet of Things to back-end systems, enabling businesses to make more insightful decisions and drive revolutionary advances in healthcare. A new IDC solution brief, titled “Improving Healthcare Delivery with Intelligent Systems,” discusses ...

Published by blogs.msdn.com at 13/08/2013 4:00 AM EDT