Creating an Azure Storage account through the current portal (non-preview) is quite simple. Here’s how you do it. (To create an Azure Storage account in the new portal, follow this quick guide instead.) Login to https://manage.windowsazure.com Click Storage Click New Click Quick Create, then choose a name for the storage account. Choose the location you want […]
When switching from Google Apps/Google for Work to Office 365, you’ll usually want to migrate your Google Drive files as well as your mail. There are a few online tools that will do this for free, or at a cost, with varying degrees of functionality. I came across this handy article that goes into more […]
Last week I connected NewBook to Microsoft’s Power BI for our Accommodation provider clients. This weekend I gave Xero the same treatment, and it’s worked out better than I thought. Some tech stuff The architecture of this solution is pretty much the same as the NewBook solution. A .net console app runs as an Azure […]
Powerful, easy up to date reporting on all devices with Power BI We support a large number of tourist park operators and accommodation providers running NewBook, a cloud based reservation system. We got in touch with the developers last week and asked if we could get API access to a test tenant to see if we […]
In the previous post I outlined connecting our temperature/humidity sensor to a Raspberry Pi and taking a reading from it. The next step is to send that data to the cloud and make use of it in Power BI. Here’s a basic outline of the process Of course, Power BI isn’t the only thing you […]
At GCITS we’re getting familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT). To start with, we’re connecting sensors to the cloud to make use of the real time data. As a quick test, we want to connect a temperature sensor in our office to our dashboard in Power BI. The first step is to get a […]
Microsoft delivered on a long awaited feature of OneDrive last week – the syncing of shared folders. Microsoft announced the feature back in February 2014 and called it Co-Owners. As far as I can tell, it’s no longer called co-owners, though the concept is still the same. The new feature allows users of the consumer […]
This week we’re exploring the capabilities of Microsoft Power BI (an Office 365 add-on) to give us a clear picture of our daily performance. Power BI allows you to connect multiple data sources from a wide range of on-premise and cloud services and view the live data in a clean dashboard. You can view and […]