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Power BI September Updates Released by Microsoft
What’s New in the September Release of Power BI Report Server New September Release Power BI Report Server 2022 On-premises data gateway September release Here’s our September release of the on-premises data gateway! As always, stay up to date for the latest...
How our Managed Services group helps support our CSP Clients!
Covenant is a white glove Managed Service organization. Our Managed Services can cover tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 proactive support, break/fix support, health assessments, and coaching needs. Covenant’s Managed Service utilizes the CSP program to bundle hosting,...
What is Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)?
What is Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) The Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program (CSP) enables partners to directly manage their entire Microsoft cloud client lifecycle. Partners in this program utilize dedicated in-product tools to directly provision, manage,...
Find Out What Your Apps can do with Cloud Technology!
Quickly build, deploy, and scale powerful cloud applications! Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) lets you forget the worry of infrastructure management and the inefficiencies of legacy apps. With PaaS, security, patching, and operating system (OS)...
Azure Synapse Analytics August 2022 Updates
Connect DEP Enabled Synapse Spark to On-Prem Apache Kafka Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for high-performance data pipelines and streaming analytics with real-time to near real-time capabilities. There are many on-premises...
Power BI August Updates Released by Microsoft
On-premises data gateway July 2022 update is now available On-premises data gateway July 2022 update Analysis Services server properties in Power BI Premium are now in public preview Join the public preview to enable additional settings for workspaces in...
Customer Story: Save-A-Lot
Client was moving HQ and did not wish to move an old outdated phone system. The client also had multiple vendors for meetings/conferencing. We saw this as an opportunity to provide a single solution in Microsoft Teams.
Dynamics 365 Release Wave 2 2022
Release Wave 2 2022 Plan Has Been Released Microsoft released the 2022 Release Wave 2 Plan on July 12, and we have the low down! The features in this release are from October 2022 through March 2023. This release includes new features across Dynamics 365...
Azure Synapse Analytics July 2022 Updates
How to provide statement id in the serverless SQL pool support ticket? Serverless SQL pool is a query service that enables you to analyze data in Azure Data Lake storage, Cosmos DB, or Data verse without a need to manage the resources, tune your queries, or do any...
Power BI July Updates Released by Microsoft
Improved Power BI Experience in Excel The improvements to the Power BI experience in Excel include a new user-friendly UI that helps users easily search for datasets to build reports in the Excel grid. Also, users can now directly navigate from Excel to the Power...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Retail
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Retail Landscape The digital transformation of the retail industry has been going on for years. It has increased speed, efficiency, and accuracy across every branch of retail business. Thanks in large part to advanced...
Disrupting with Innovation
How Traditional Companies Can Disrupt with Innovation “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” — Henry Ford When existing businesses were busy looking for faster horses to fulfill the people’s increasing transportation demand,...
Getting The Most From Your Business Intelligence Investments
Getting more out of your data investments In today’s data-driven world, organizations like yours are driving efforts to maximize data investments to have the greatest business impact possible. This may include implementing data security, unifying data silos, and...
Azure Synapse Analytics June 2022 Updates
CICD Automation in Synapse Analytics: taking advantage of custom parameters in Workspace Templates Azure Synapse Analytics is an integrated analytics platform, which combines data warehousing, big data analytics, data integration, and visualization into a single...
Power BI June Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI June 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the June 2022 update. We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Format Pane, error bars and information protection updates, table navigation improvements, Connect to datamarts and Power BI Data...
Set aside Portals, Make way for Power Pages!
Microsoft has recently announced for preview ‘Power Pages’. Expanding the low-code offerings under the Power Platform, users can now create websites that integrate across the other Power Platform components and data. The potential this provides for further...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Top 10 Best Practices for User Adoption
Establish Goals The goals for the company leadership should be translated to the goals of the sales organization, and then to the goals of the individual sales people. If an organization knows what leadership considers important as it relates to its customer base,...
Microsoft Teams Update For May 2022
Desktop and Web Show as: comes to Teams Now in Teams, when you schedule a meeting, private appointment, or vacation, you can choose how that meeting shows in your calendar. Just like in Outlook, you can choose from Free, Tentative, Busy, Working elsewhere,...
Azure Synapse Analytics May 2022 Updates
Introducing the Azure Synapse Influencer Program We’re pleased to announce the Azure Synapse Influencer program. We’re excited to share this program with the community and begin welcoming new members starting today. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure...
Power BI May Updates Released by Microsoft
Announcing General Availability of Automatic Aggregations Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of automatic aggregations, along with several important improvements. By using automatic aggregations in Power BI Premium, you can unlock...
Our New Partnership with LMS365
We are excited to announce our Partnership with LMS365! Who are they: LMS365, a Microsoft Preferred Solution, is one of the fastest-growing cloud-based Learning Management Solutions in the market today. LMS365 provides a modern, integrated, and familiar...
Blogs
SharePoint: Team Site vs. Communication Site
Team Site vs. Communication Site - Which one should I choose? | Microsoft Docs Things to Consider: What type of security do you need? Will external users also need access to collaborate? What is the flow of information? One-way flow of communication?...
Azure Synapse Analytics February 2023 Updates
Historical monitoring dashboards for Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pools Deploy rich, interactive monitoring templates for historical monitoring of your Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pool. Azure Synapse Analytics January Update 2023 Welcome to the January 2023...
Power BI February Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI Activity Logs: New Workspace Metadata for Excel Scenarios We are announcing improvements to the Power BI audit logs that helps Power BI admins filter usage of Power BI data in Excel by workspace name and workspace id. Create stunning and more...
Add a Loading Spinner to Your Power App
Spinners can be helpful when you want to ensure that data is loaded before a user either exits the app or clicks on something else which can cause some havoc. I dove into spinners when I had an end user, who was entering a large number of records and would close...
Azure Synapse Analytics January 2023 Updates
Improve Spark pool utilization with Synapse Genie Synapse Genie Framework improves Spark pool utilization by executing multiple Synapse notebooks on the same Spark pool instance. It considers the sequence and dependencies between notebook activities in an ETL...
Power BI January Updates Released by Microsoft
Thank You Power BI Community! Thank you, Power BI Community, and look back of 2022 feature releases, and when the upcoming release will be available. Announcing: Viva Goals + Metrics integration, scorecard time zones and more New year, new features! We are...
View Marketing Insights on a Contact
If you’re using the Sales Hub or Marketing model-driven apps, you should be able to see an Insights Tab on the Contact form. If you’re using a custom Contact form in any model-driven app, you will want to reach out to your administrator to get the Insights tab...
Microsoft Teams Update for November 2022
Desktop and web Microsoft Polls for quick check-ins Presenters can launch a poll without preparing in advance. Simply ask your question aloud and people can answer by selecting one of two answers (yes or no, thumbs up or down, heart or broken heart). ...
Azure Synapse Analytics December 2022 Updates
How Data Exfiltration Protection (DEP) impacts Azure Synapse Analytics Pipelines Data Exfiltration Protection (DEP) is a feature that enables additional restrictions on the ability of Azure Synapse Analytics to connect to other services – enabling you to further...
Power BI December Updates Released by Microsoft
Announcing: Enterprise scorecards with hierarchies and linked metrics in Power BI Metrics Announcing new Power BI Metrics features hierarchies and linked metrics. Subscribe to a report with filters applied You can now create a subscription to a view of a...
Search a view then save the results!
Search a view then save the results! Also, why can’t I use wildcard in a search?! Today we cover a nifty feature Microsoft released that can benefit end users, especially those that don’t like to mess with filters (whether using traditional Advanced Find or...
Add Missing D365 Entities/Tables and Columns/Fields to Dataverse Search
With the introduction of Dataverse search in Dynamics 365 CE, the way you configure search changed just a bit. You still need to use the Quick Find View within the table to configure which fields are searchable in that table. The change and the steps below describe...
Azure Synapse Analytics November 2022 Updates
Data mesh: A perspective on using Azure Synapse Analytics to build data products As organizations grow, the volume of data and the number of systems generating data also grows. The size and number of disparate systems introduces procedural, operational and...
Power BI November Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI November 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the November 2022 update! This month we introduce an Optimize ribbon which makes your report creation experience more streamlined, especially if you are working in DirectQuery mode. Also new this month are Linked...
Azure Synapse Analytics October 2022 Updates
New informative Livy errors codes for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics! Apache Spark for Azure Synapse now provides descriptive Livy error codes. When an Azure Synapse Spark job fails, this new and updated error handling feature parses and checks the logs on...
Power BI October Updates Released by Microsoft
Join Us! Power BI Dev Camp: Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST– 12:00 PM Noon PST Campers should review and understand the concepts discussed in the August 2022 session before attending or watching this session. Deployment pipelines – announcing...
Introducing the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit
The number one thing we hear from IT groups is they want to enable users (Makers in the Power Platform world) in their organization to create solutions in the Power Platform, but they are TERRIFIED about trying to govern it. Concerns about licensing, creating new...
Microsoft Teams Update For August 2022
Desktop and Web Leave a meeting on all your devices If you've joined a Teams meeting on multiple personal devices, you can now leave the meeting from all the devices you've connected to the meeting by selecting the down arrow next to Leave, then select Leave...
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