App Integration Pattern for Power Apps

Some common questions I get from citizen development teams center around options for app integration to on-prem line of business systems for both Power Apps and Power Automate. Microsoft provides a number of methods for importing data from these systems into the Dataverse directly - Automate Flows, Logic Apps, Data Factory to name a few. …

Deploying SonarQube Community on Azure Container Instances

The Microsoft documentation around running SonarQube Community Edition is a relatively brief read and is equally straightforward to implement. Summarizing the information Microsoft provides, standing up a new Azure Container Instance (ACI) implementation is as simple as running the following Azure CLI command: az container create -g {resource-group-name} --name {container-instance-name} --image sonarqube --ports 9000 --dns-name-label …

Secure DevOps – Six (6) Important Considerations

Hello. We're about a week out to Christmas and, while others are thinking of trimming trees and dancing sugar plums, I've been heads down on Secure DevOps and have memorialized notes from a few conversations I've been having over the past couple of weeks. There are a variety of reasons why organizations deprioritize secure DevOps …

Working with Graph Data Connect

Greetings.In a recent v-blog, I discussed a new preview service from Microsoft, Graph Data Connect, and the value it serves in creating a bridge between Office 365 Graph data – messages, contacts and the like – and Azure storage for storage over time or manipulation into other applications or datasets. In this brief HOW-TO article, …