April 9, 2015
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Taking Backups of Azure VM using Azure Backup

by pug-admin in Microsoft Azure 1 comment

Most of us always have big concern about the backup of Data on Azure especially VM Backups. Now with Azure IaaS we realized that VM becomes backbone of entire our application structure. Hence it is important to have a good proven backup and disaster recovery strategy for such IaaS components. Before Azure Backup came into […]

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April 6, 2015
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OfficeDev/PnP – PowerShell for Office365 Administrators.

by pug-admin in Office 365 , SharePoint 4 comments

We all know the big gap between PowerShell Cmdlets available for SharePoint Server (On-Premises) and SharePoint Online (Office365), which made things bit difficult for administrators as they had to use or understand Client Side Object Model (CSOM) to get very basic task done on SharePoint Online ¹ . But now thanks to OfficeDev/PnP we have […]

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April 2, 2015
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SQL Server – What are Different Normalization Forms?

by pug-admin in SQL Server 0 comments

Database normalization is a data design and organization process applied to data structures based on rules that help building relational databases. In relational database design, the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy is called normalization. Normalization usually involves dividing a database into two or more tables and defining relationships between the tables. The objective […]

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March 30, 2015
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Manage and Secure resources using Azure Resource Groups and Role Based Access Control for Management of Azure

by pug-admin in Microsoft Azure 1 comment

Azure has so many different components and features. And over the time Azure subscription has been a way for giving access to the users. Once a user has access to Azure subscription a user pretty much can perform any task. But as you start introducing more and more workloads to Azure, it is difficult to […]

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March 24, 2015
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Doing more than provisioning with Azure VM using PowerShell

by pug-admin in Microsoft Azure 0 comments

Most of us build VMs as soon as we get access to Azure Subscription and first thing we do is RDP to that VM and spend time there to understand what all things we can do over there. Microsoft Azure brings openness to Azure Cloud Platform with exclusive support to Linux VMs and thus support […]

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March 21, 2015
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Azure Virtual Machine quick provisioning using Azure Powershell

by pug-admin in Microsoft Azure 0 comments

Dear PUG community members, I am excited about new launch of PUG blog. I have been associated to PUG since March 2014 and it has been excellent journey till now. Starting a blog is really a great initiative and it will help all of us to reach to new set of audience, expand the horizons […]

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March 16, 2015

SQL Quiz – Why Error when Executing SELECT statements

by pug-admin in SQL Server 0 comments

Let us start our very first blog post with a quiz. Thanks Pune User Group for inviting me for the guest blog post. Run following T-SQL Code in SSMS. There are total of five lines. Three T-SQL statements separated by two horizontal lines. SELECT MAX(OBJECT_ID) FROM sys.objects ______________________________________ SELECT MIN(OBJECT_ID) FROM sys.objects ______________________________________ SELECT COUNT(OBJECT_ID) FROM sys.objects Now when you execute individual lines only […]

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March 11, 2015
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Sensors! Sensors Everywhere!!!

by pug-admin in Windows , Windows Phone 1 comment

Sensors play very important role in mobile and tablet devices. These days, we can’t imagine a device without some basic sensors. For example, ‘Proximity Sensor’ helps to disable touch-screen (and its input) when the device is in pocket. This avoids unnecessary touch inputs. ‘Light Sensor’ can automatically adjust the brightness of the screen. Every Windows […]

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March 11, 2015

Welcome to PUG Blog!

by pug-admin in Announcements , News 3 comments

Hello everyone I am Mahesh Mitkari, Founder Volunteer and now User Group Lead for Pune User Group. Today I am excited to announce new initiative by PUG Team, a brand new online platform to connect with you. We’re pleased to welcome you to “PUG Blog”. The purpose of this blog is to share knowledge and […]

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