May 2017 - Cloud Decoded

Create your first Azure Chat Bot – Step by Step

May 31, 2017 2 Comments

Hey guys, Automation and Machine Learnings are the new buzz words these days and Microsoft is leading the way. Azure Bot Service has been rolled out recently, which is currently in preview mode but has plenty of stuffs to try your hands on. In this article, I am going to explain step-by-step, how you can get started with Azure Chat Bot service using Natural Language processing. First of all of course you need to have an Azure subscription, you can sign up for free here. Once you have the subscription ready, go to http://portal.azure.com Browse to New – Data + […]

Azure

How to ensure SharePoint performance during SQL backups

May 20, 2017 No Comments

Hello Guys, In one of my recent SharePoint 2016 deployment (hosted on Azure VMs), we ran across an issue in which SQL Server 2014 managed backup was enabled for SharePoint databases. The size of all the databases combined was about 2 TB! The problem started when users started using the SharePoint application extensively, resulting in SQL transaction logs getting filled more frequently and hence SQL Managed backup triggering full backups of such databases during peak business hours multiple times. Now, whenever the backup used to get started, the communication between SharePoint server and SQL server started to show issues like […]

SharePoint

Playing with SharePoint Pages Dynamic Div IDs

May 1, 2017 No Comments

Hey Guys, I am sure there are many other ways, you might have achieved similar results, but dynamic div ids in SharePage pages give a hard time to many developers.Like most other people, developers love certainty, but SharePoint pages may generate 2 different div ids even for same page, when accessed by 2 different users, because of different permissions.I recently had a requirement to put a direct link to users’ my site document library in the my site host page. It’s a SharePoint 2016 environment, but they were not yet ready to go for OneDrive interface and decided to stick […]