Die Cloud sorgt für fundamentale Veränderungen von Geschäftsprozessen und Ertragsmodellen. Das gilt nicht nur für Unternehmen, sondern auch für IT-Dienstleister. Um seinen Partnern den Umstieg aufs Cloud-Business zu erleichtern, hat Microsoft das „Cloud Solution Provider Program“ ins Leben gerufen. Christoph Heiming, Direktor Partnergeschäft & Entwicklung bei Microsoft Deutschland, erklärt was es damit auf sich hat.

Wie verändert die Cloud bestehende Geschäftsmodelle bei Ihren Partnerunternehmen?

Über viele Jahre haben wir zusammen mit unseren Partnern unsere Erträge vor allem über den Vertrieb von transaktionalen Produkten und Einmallizenzen erzielt. Dieses Geschäft bleibt auch weiterhin Teil des Ertragsmodells, wird aber zunehmend durch Cloud-basierte Geschäftsmodelle ersetzt. Für unsere Partnerunternehmen ist diese Transformation Herausforderung und Chance zugleich: Sie müssen auch ihr eigenes Portfolio nach und nach um Cloud-basierte Angebote erweitern, können aber auch ganz neue Services und Dienste auf den Markt bringen und damit ihre Kundenbeziehungen über einen längeren Zeitraum festigen.

Wie unterstützen Sie Ihre Partner bei dieser Transformation?

Wir lassen unsere 31.500 Partner in Deutschland am stark wachsenden Cloud-Geschäft teilhaben und ermöglichen ihnen, mit uns ihr eigenes Cloud-Business aufzubauen. Dafür haben wir das Cloud Solution Provider Program (CSP) ins Leben gerufen. Damit wird ein IT-Dienstleister zum Cloud-Reseller und kann seinen Kunden Lizenzen von Azure, Office 365, CRM Online oder der Enterprise Mobility Suite anbieten. Er kann bei „CSP direct“ auch die Rechnungsstellung und den Support übernehmen und seinen Kunden damit Ende-zu-Ende-Services aus einer Hand anbieten. Und er kann sein Portfolio mit eigenen Services und kundenindividuellen Lösungen auf der Basis unserer Cloud-Produkte und Schnittstellen erweitern und sich damit selbst zum Cloud-Dienstleister machen. Bei „CSP indirect“ sind die Möglichkeiten identisch, allerdings übernimmt hier ein Cloud Distributor einzelne Aufgaben, zum Beispiel die Rechnungsstellung oder den Support.

Welche Vorteile bringt das Cloud Solution Provider Program den Microsoft-Partnern?

Wir sind überzeugt, dass der Cloud die Zukunft gehört: Mobiles Arbeiten und vernetzte Produktion („Industrie 4.0“) sind ohne die Cloud nicht denkbar. Sie bietet Unternehmen zudem eine einfache und kostengünstige Möglichkeit, Innovationen anzugehen, ohne dafür Unsummen in ihre IT-Infrastruktur investieren zu müssen. Analysten und die wachsende Nachfrage unserer Kunden nach Cloud-Services bestätigen uns. Als Microsoft pushen wir daher mit unserer „Mobile first, Cloud first“-Strategie die Transformation von Unternehmen oder Unternehmensteilen in die Cloud. Mit dem Cloud Solution Provider Program schaffen wir für unsere Partner einen Zugang zu diesem Business und lassen sie aktiv daran teilhaben. Das ist uns enorm wichtig, denn wir erzielen allein in Deutschland mehr als 90 Prozent unseres Umsatzes über Partnerunternehmen. Deshalb ist es für die Zukunft entscheidend, dass wir den Weg in die Cloud gemeinsam und für beide Seiten gewinnbringend gehen.

Erfahren Sie mehr über das Cloud Solution Provider-Programm in diesem Übersichtsvideo.

Ein Beitrag von Christoph Heiming (@cheiming)
Direktor Partnergeschäft & Entwicklung bei Microsoft Deutschland

How to waste an entire afternoon!

Finally got AAD Connect installed at a Canberra government department.

remove any inspection on

*.microsoftonline.com

then

  fixed proxy: proxy must allow

   •         adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com

   •         login.microsoftonline.com

   •         provisioningapi.microsoftonline.com

then created a  globaladmin account  in AAD to use for the dirsynch, made him a subscription admin for good measure.

oh.. and on the on-premises box, the Local Policy on the box to grant run as a service.. check if Group Policy is blocking that...

Hmm..  Got failures on the setup of AAD Connect. Grrr…

THEN as per http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31148.deploying-azure-active-directory-sync-behind-a-proxy.aspx 

Had to alter the machine.config etc. to have the proxy settings. Still no go. GRR...

AND the very last thing to get it all working

    netsh winhhtp import proxy ie

now run the AAD Connect installer and it (finally) completes. Yay!

One last gotcha - password Sync was not working. Hmmm..

Turns out the account did not have appropriate AD rights, so got them to fix that.

Yay! All now works as desired.

A colleague bitten too:

"Turns out the account we were using to install the AAD connect tool wasn’t Enterprise Admin even though the service account was."

Střední škola informatiky a právních studií, o.p.s. v Českých Budějovicích (www.stredniskola.cz) se ve školním roce 2014/2015 zapojila do programu podporujícího využívání informačních technologií i ve výuce všeobecně vzdělávacích předmětů, jako jsou například biologie, geografie, fyzika a český jazyk, v čemž pokračuje i v letošním školním roce, tj. v roce 2015/2016. Poskytovatelem softwarového vybavení v podobě programu Corinth Classroom B[1] je firma Corinth s.r.o. úzce spolupracující se společností Microsoft, jejíž operační systém Windows 8.0 nebo vyšší je nezbytný pro fungování výše zmíněného programu.

Corinth Classroom obsahuje trojrozměrné náhledy modelů skutečných objektů dříve využívaných k demonstrativním účelům ve výuce daných předmětů či dílčích oborů v nich zahrnutých (např. biologie člověka), a tím je i částečně nahrazuje. Program se nejvíce uplatňuje především ve výuce biologie, kde se jeho využití v rámci právě zmiňované biologie člověka jeví jako nejpraktičtější. Žákům Corinth Classroom umožňuje lépe si představit složité trojrozměrné struktury, jakými jsou například živočišná buňka či lidské srdce. Žáci tedy nejsou omezeni nutností používání méně jasných zjednodušených dvourozměrných schémat v tištěné podobě[2], ale mají jasnou představu o skutečné stavbě daného objektu, neboť v programu je možné s daným modelem pohybovat a otáčet prostřednictvím intuitivního ovládání na dotykovém zařízení s ohledem na právě probírané téma či část struktury v náhledu. Každý náhled dále obsahuje názvy vyobrazených struktur, jež je možné ve výuce využít dvojím způsobem:

a)      výběrem názvu požadované struktury ze seznamu dochází k jejímu zvýraznění v náhledu, anebo

b)      výběrem neznámé struktury v náhledu se zvýrazní její název v seznamu.

Žáci proto nejsou odkázáni pouze na výklad vyučujícího, ale mohou pracovat s programem samostatně. V minulosti byly názvy uváděny v angličtině, což žákům umožňovalo i propojení těchto dvou předmětů a rozšíření slovní zásoby v cizím jazyce.

V běžných hodinách je pro prezentaci modelů v programu využíván počítač s operačním systémem Windows 8.0, dataprojektor a interaktivní tabule. Žáci si mohou vyzkoušet práci s programem zejména během opakování či zkoušení u interaktivní tabule. K tomu, aby se mohli všichni žáci věnovat práci s programem při výuce zároveň, by bylo třeba drahého vybavení v podobě dotykových zařízení, například tabletů, jejichž efektivní využití v hodinách biologie není možné vzhledem k hodinové dotaci výuky biologie plynoucí z RVP[3] pro poskytovaná zaměření školy, a proto o jejich nákupu škola prozatím neuvažuje. Tento problém částečně řeší celoškolní přechod na operační systém Windows 10, který fungování programu podporuje.

Corinth Classroom zefektivňuje výuku předmětů, kde doposud nebylo zvykem běžně využívat informační technologie, a pomáhá žákům ve schopnosti představit si složité struktury v jejich neschematizované podobě, a tím lépe pochopit jejich fungování, stejně tak jako pracovat a učit se samostatně prostřednictvím technologií, které znají a denně využívají v běžném životě.

Vladimír Čížek - MIE Expert

an awesome collection - go look!

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-loves-linux-deep-dive-blog-series/

By: Derek Appiah, Country Manager, Microsoft Ghana

In the 10 years that Microsoft has been operating in Ghana, there has been tremendous growth in broadband availability and internet penetration in the country. This has made it ripe breeding ground for digital literacy and the use of technology to lead economic and social transformation.

When I joined the company I said that youth in Ghana punch above their weight intellectually – and I believe that now more than ever.

It’s one of the reasons I’m excited about our online employability platform, TizaaWorks, launched in May 2015. We see the platform as a one-stop shop for Ghana’s youth to access services to help them improve their employability and entrepreneurship skills. Through our partnership with IICD, we have been able to offer over 1400 Ghanaians career guidance, courses, entrepreneurship support, and access to events and job advertisements.

We are thrilled with these results, but we are now more eager than ever before to reach even more young Ghanaians and give them the tools they need to improve their employability. With this in mind, we are excited to welcome World Vision on board as our new implementing partner for TizaaWorks, as IICD ceases operations in The Hague.

World Vision has proved its worth, having already benefitted over four million children and their families in its capacity as a Christian humanitarian organisation. Now, our aim is to work together with them to equip 20 000 disadvantaged youth from rural communities with the skills they need to successfully enter the job market and compete with their counterparts in the cities.

We are eager to work with World Vision to extend our reach and identify new ways to connect young Ghanaians with opportunities for training, employment and entrepreneurship. This is a great way for us to continue working to fulfil our goal of playing an active role in the transformation of Ghana’s education and youth through the use of technology.

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Today’s Tip…

Earlier this year we announced the G-Series line of VMs, which provided the most memory, the highest processing power and the largest amount of local SSD of any Virtual Machine size currently available in the public cloud.

We have now added premium storage support to these virtual machines in the GS-series.  Combining the compute power of G-series with the performance of Premium Storage to create powerful VMs for your most storage and compute intensive applications. Powered by the Intel Xeon E5 v3 family processors, the GS-series can have up to 64TB of storage, provide 80,000 IOPs (storage I/Os per second) and deliver 2,000 MB/s of storage throughput. The GS-series offers the highest disk throughput, by more than double, of any VM offered by any other hyperscale public cloud provider. Furthermore, both the G-series and GS-series offer up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth, more than double that of the closest VMs of any hyperscale public cloud provider.

GS-series sizes, listed below, are available in every region the G-series sizes are available, including West US, East US 2 and West Europe.

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Error: “Could not discover endpoint for Integrate Windows Authentication” when attempting Active Directory Integrated Authentication

Details of error message:

Failed to authenticate the user NT Authority\Anonymous Logon in Active Directory (Authentication=ActiveDirectoryIntegrated).

Error code 0xCAA90022; state 10

Could not discover endpoint for Integrate Windows Authentication. Check your ADFS settings. It should support Integrate Widows Authentication for WS-Trust 1.3. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 0)

Image:

Caused:            Caused when attempting “Active Directory Integrated Authentication” from the SQL Management Studio using ADALSQL with default ADFS Settings.

Reason:            By default, ADFS does not enable Integrated Windows Authentication for WS-Trust 1.3, as shown below:

Solution:          Enable Integrated Windows Authentication for WS-Trust 1.3 for the Transport Security Mode and if desired, enable for Proxy access, as shown below:

Upon enabling the setting you can log into SQL Azure, using Active Directory Integrated Authentication, and verify that, if your account has permissions, you can access SQL Azure without an id or password.

...

 - Cross posted from my post on the SharePoint Team blog, where you'll find blogs from a great bunch of knowledgeable SharePoint support engineers.

              http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spses/archive/2015/03/04/requirements-for-sending-email-to-sharepoint-libraries-including-x-headers.aspx

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There have been some questions around E-Mail requirements for sending email to a SharePoint list or library, and specifically around the need for the x-sender and x-receiver header fields.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all requirements, but rather an overview of the way we use x-headers and other unique or notable requirements for sending mail to SharePoint lists and libraries.  More information about requirements not specifically cited here can be gleaned from the referenced RFC 821 and RFC 822 standards.

We process messages sent to SharePoint lists via email, in three phases.

1. First is the SharePoint Email Engine, which consists of the functionality associated with the SharePoint timer job which fetches the email messages from the Windows SMTP service via the drop folder, and then converts each message into a stream for delivery to the appropriate list in the appropriate SPWeb. This functionality exists in private classes, so there is not a great deal of available information on the internals of this step.

2. The second phase is handled in the SPEmailMessage class.  I have linked to the public MSDN information about this step. This phase consists of parsing of the message extracting the header, body and attachment components, and converting these to metadata and attachments to be added to the target list/library is done here.

3. A third phase handles the details of mapping the appropriate metadata and attachments to the library-type specific fields.

X-Headers are typically used in processing SMTP mail from the drop folder. While phase #2 and #3 do not require the X-Headers, phase #1 does require them, and uses them for routing the message.

Since the first phase is not publicly documented on MSDN I have attempted to sum up the requirements for this phase below, with additional, relevant information from phases 2 and 3.

1. Required fields include:

==============================

Sender Header = "x-sender: "

Receiver Header = "x-receiver: "

Mail file Pattern = "*.eml"

Message ID = "message-id"

If there are no Recipients listed in the “x-receiver:” header field, no sender listed in “x-sender:” , or the x-sender header field is not present, we will fail processing the message and return an error with this verbiage in the ULS logs:

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A critical error occurred while processing the incoming e-mail file <email file name> The error was:

Bad senders or recipients

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Additionally, if the message header contains "X-AlertServerType" with a value = "STS" or "X-mailer" with a value = "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010" the message is considered to be originated from SharePoint and will not be delivered to a SharePoint list.

The behavior seen in this first phase is similar to the Exchange replay folder behavior noted here:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124230.aspx

The X-Header fields, including x-sender and x-receiver, used by SharePoint are described in more detail here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms526966(v=EXCHG.10).aspx

excerpt:

Using the SMTP Message Envelope Fields

A summary of the use of x-sender and x-receiver from this article is included below:

===========================================================================

The recipientlist field contains the e-mail address of each intended recipient. If the message was submitted over the network through the SMTP protocol, each recipient corresponds to a RCPT TO: protocol command. If the message was submitted through the local SMTP service pickup directory, each recipient corresponds to an x-receiver header at the top of the message file. You can alter this list when executing; for example, you can expand a custom distribution list by substituting the alias address with each member of the list.

The senderemailaddress field contains the address of the message's sender. If the message was submitted over the network using the SMTP, this address corresponds to the transmitted MAIL FROM SMTP command. If the message was submitted using the SMTP service pickup directory, this address corresponds to the x-senderheader at the top of the message file.

Note

The recipientlist and senderemailaddress envelope fields and the various message header fields such as (urn:schemas:mailheader:) To, From, Cc, and Bcc are different attributes of the message. The SMTP does not use the mail header fields to route the message; it routes the message based upon the RCPT TO and MAIL FROM protocol commands if a message is submitted using the SMTP, or the x-receiver and x-sender headers if a message is submitted to the local SMTP pickup directory. The envelope fields are not transmitted or stored with the message and exist only for the message's lifetime in SMTP transport.

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In addition to x-sender and x-receiver, we make use of and populate the messagestatus and arrivaltime x-header fields when picking up the message from the drop folder and delivering it to the appropriate list.  These fields help to manage delivery failures, aborts, retries, etc.

2. In the second phase we follow RFC 821 for attributes like “MAIL FROM” (EnvelopeSender), or if not present, we fall back to RFC 822 “FROM” header if MAIL FROM is blank or not present.

The same behavior applies to the RFC 821 “RCPT TO” and RFC 822 “TO” header fields, among others.

In this phase - SPEmailMessage - we use RFC 821 when parsing other message header, body, and attachment components.

The MIME parser used is a specific - and modified to suit SharePoint coding design - version of the Exchange EDGE server role MIME parser.

Of note, a 4K header size limit is imposed by our implementation of the MIME parser.

3. Third phase (SP Email Handler) and additional information:

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Attachments - Invalid filename characters = "\\/:*?\"<>|#{}%~&"

SharePoint List types supported for email

NOTE: SharePoint has coded email handlers for the following SPListTemplateType types.

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Olá Comunidade TechNet Wiki!

Hoje é terça-feira, dia de Artigo Spotlight!

E o destaque de hoje vai para o Artigo Monitoramento de aplicações com Application Insights: primeiros passos

Criado pelo Colaborador Renato Groffe

O Otimo artigo escrito pelo Renato Groffe mostra o Monitoramento de Aplicações em Microsoft Azure.

Em palavras do Renato Groffe que mostra em mais detalhes.

É consenso geral que o monitoramento de uma aplicação em produção é uma tarefa de extrema importância, embora muitas vezes este tipo de atividade seja relegado a um segundo plano. A análise de como um software vem se comportando permite não apenas detectar falhas ou identificar funcionalidades utilizadas de forma mais intensiva, como também fornece insumos para ações que visem melhorar a performance do sistema considerado.

A obtenção de informações como tempos de resposta, erros e outros aspectos relativos ao funcionamento de uma aplicação leva, quase que invariavelmente, à implementação de algum mecanismo de log para a coleta de tais dados. Do ponto de vista prático, isto se traduz em trabalho extra por parte de desenvolvedores com o intuito de criar toda uma estrutura de monitoração.

A utilização do Application Insights implica na inclusão de um SDK à aplicação que será monitorada, além de necessitar de uma conta para uso do Microsoft Azure. A partir disto acontecerá o envio de dados de telemetria para o serviço na nuvem. No caso específico de aplicações .NET, o SDK pode ser adicionado durante a criação do projeto; isto habilitará então a coleta e transmissão imediata de métricas consideradas como default ao Application Insights.

O fato do Application Insights ser uma solução da Microsoft sugere, num primeiro momento, que o uso desta tecnologia estaria restrito a aplicações construídas com o .NET Framework. Entretanto, este não é o caso. Outras plataformas de desenvolvimento como Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Android e até mesmo JavaScript também são suportadas (a Microsoft disponibiliza inclusive SDKs específicos para cada cenário previsto). Importante destacar ainda que o monitoramento pode ser ativado tanto a nível server-side (como no caso de um projeto em ASP.NET), quanto em modo cliente-side (um aplicativo construído em Xamarin, por exemplo).

Olá Comunidade TechNet Wiki!

Hoje é terça-feira, dia de Artigo Spotlight!

E o destaque de hoje vai para o Artigo Monitoramento de aplicações com Application Insights: primeiros passos

Criado pelo Colaborador Renato Groffe

O Otimo artigo escrito pelo Renato Groffe mostra o Monitoramento de Aplicações em Microsoft Azure.

Em palavras do Renato Groffe que mostra em mais detalhes.

É consenso geral que o monitoramento de uma aplicação em produção é uma tarefa de extrema importância, embora muitas vezes este tipo de atividade seja relegado a um segundo plano. A análise de como um software vem se comportando permite não apenas detectar falhas ou identificar funcionalidades utilizadas de forma mais intensiva, como também fornece insumos para ações que visem melhorar a performance do sistema considerado.

A obtenção de informações como tempos de resposta, erros e outros aspectos relativos ao funcionamento de uma aplicação leva, quase que invariavelmente, à implementação de algum mecanismo de log para a coleta de tais dados. Do ponto de vista prático, isto se traduz em trabalho extra por parte de desenvolvedores com o intuito de criar toda uma estrutura de monitoração.

A utilização do Application Insights implica na inclusão de um SDK à aplicação que será monitorada, além de necessitar de uma conta para uso do Microsoft Azure. A partir disto acontecerá o envio de dados de telemetria para o serviço na nuvem. No caso específico de aplicações .NET, o SDK pode ser adicionado durante a criação do projeto; isto habilitará então a coleta e transmissão imediata de métricas consideradas como default ao Application Insights.

O fato do Application Insights ser uma solução da Microsoft sugere, num primeiro momento, que o uso desta tecnologia estaria restrito a aplicações construídas com o .NET Framework. Entretanto, este não é o caso. Outras plataformas de desenvolvimento como Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Android e até mesmo JavaScript também são suportadas (a Microsoft disponibiliza inclusive SDKs específicos para cada cenário previsto). Importante destacar ainda que o monitoramento pode ser ativado tanto a nível server-side (como no caso de um projeto em ASP.NET), quanto em modo cliente-side (um aplicativo construído em Xamarin, por exemplo).

こんにちは。Exchangeサポート チームの上地です。

今回は、System Center Operations Manager (以下 SCOM) 2007 で、Exchange 2010 管理パックをご利用いただいている環境にて、相関エンジンのプロセスが大量のメモリを消費してしまう事象をご紹介させていただきます。

Exchange 2010 管理パックの相関エンジン サービス (Microsoft Exchange Monitoring Correlation) は、Exchange サーバーから収集したヘルス状態を基に、最適なアラートを計算して生成します。これは、管理パックによって通知されるアラートの数を大幅に減らす目的で開発された機能になります。
Exchange 管理パックにおいては、Exchange のヘルス状態は、基本的に相関エンジンによって処理をされて、アラートを生成する構造になっています。

  * 参考
  Title: アラートの相互関係について
  Url: https://technet.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/ee758053%28v=exchg.140%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

相関エンジン サービスは、クラスター化することができます。クラスター化することで、相関エンジンを実行する 1 台の管理サーバーがダウンしても、もう一台に切り替わることで、Exchange のヘルス状態に関するアラートを生成することが可能になります。

しかしながら、クラスター化した状態であっても、フェールオーバー開始から終了までの短い間ですが、相関エンジンは一時的に機能しなくなります。
ここで、監視 Exchange ノードが多数存在しており、各サーバーで監視項目を絞っていない場合、各エージェントからは大量のヘルス データが転送されてきて、相関エンジンが機能していない間、相関エンジンによる処理待ちの状態のまま蓄積されてゆきます。
その結果、管理サーバーのフェールオーバーが完了した直後には、相関エンジン サービスのプロセスが、蓄積された大量のヘルスデータを読み込んで処理をするため、メモリと CPU を占有することがあり、場合によってはその他の監視機能も含めて一切の監視が行えない状態が数時間も継続することがあります。
監視ノード数や有効なモニタ数と、事象の継続期間には明確な基準は無く、環境によって異なるものですが、弊社に寄せられた事例では、60 台の Exchange 監視ノードで、管理サーバーのフェールオーバー後 2 時間程度、この状態が継続したという報告がございました。

この事象発生後の対処策は、エージェントから送信されてくるデータを一時的に停止する以外に方法はございません。
つまり、フェールオーバーが発生したら、以下の手順で相関エンジンに処理をさせるデータを削除します。

- 手順
a. すべての Exchange Server 上の System Center Management サービスを停止し、併せて 以下のフォルダ内のファイルを削除する。

     C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\Health Service State

b. 相関エンジン サービス (Microsoft Exchange Monitoring Correlation) を停止する。
c. 管理サーバー上の System Center Management サービスを再起動する。この際、メモリーを大量に消費している MonitoringHost.exe プロセスも併せて停止することを確認する。
d. 管理サーバーの相関エンジンサービスと、各 Exchange Server の System Center Management サービスを開始する。

なお、この手順を行うと、サーバーで処理しきれていなかったヘルスデータと、管理サーバーに転送していなかったエージェントのデータはすべて削除されます。

このような状況を未然に防ぐためにも、Exchange の監視ノードが多い場合で、クラスター化された相関エンジンを使用している場合は、適宜監視項目の絞り込みや管理グループの分割を計画していただきますようお願いします。

なお、Exchange 2013 管理パックでは、相関エンジンという仕組みが存在しないため、この事象は発生しません。

I have decided to write this blog post as quite a few of my clients are asking me how best to enable a data culture inside their organizations. Satya Nadella says: “this is where I think we as leaders of our businesses get to do the most transformative thing, which is to first make sure that everyone inside of the organization has the tools, has the capability to be able to gain these insights and then we empower them to act on those insights. This data culture is very much the journey that Microsoft itself is on.”

To enable a data culture, everyone must be able to access the data they need when they need it. For this, we need a BI architecture built for data exploration.

The diagram above illustrates the different approaches taken by traditional, deductive, BI versus the new trend of exploratory BI which is inductive. The usual approach for data warehousing project is to start from company strategies and then understand business requirements, such as produced by the balanced scorecard methodology. These requirements are then broken down into technical requirements such as KPIs that are implemented using ETL, DW, and OLAP technologies. This top-down, deductive, method is very good for descriptive and diagnostic analyses.

In our face-pace world, where agility is key there is a new way to do BI through inductive, bottom-up methods. This enables us to move up the value chain to predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics thus maximizing the value of an organization’s informational assets. The inductive approach starts from the unprocessed sources of information, co-located or not in a data lake, to enable business users to observe and play with the data. With the right tools they can then detect patterns, think of hypotheses and then confirm them.

Far from being an either/or, deductive BI and inductive BI complement each other and form part of a modern data warehouse strategy. Both set of technologies enable scenarios that are valuable for organization and the top-down authoritative metrics for an organization is not threaten by the need of flexibility and agility that an inductive approach allow. At Microsoft we believe that most organization will benefit from both of those type of analytics.

Using Cortana Analytics Suite components, we can assemble a solution that will enable inductive data exploration using the Azure Data Catalog, Azure Data Lake Store and HDInsight. The resulting architecture is shown in the picture below.

• To understand how the different components fit together, please read the complete article on my LinkedIn blog.