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Friday Five: Firewalls, Expense receipts, Azure and More!

Hui's World! - An Excel Project of Global Scale

Ian Huitson, is the founder of Mining Solutions, a Mining Engineering and Management Consultancy from Perth, Australia. He is a Microsoft MVP (Excel) and has been since 2013. Ian deals with real Mining as well as Data Mining. Ian is passionate about mathematics, simulation, scheduling and budgeting but more importantly is their application to real world problems. Follow him on Twitter @IHuitson.  

Managed or Unmanaged - How to decide which one to choose 

Nadeeja Bomiriya is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Business Applications, Practice Lead - Microsoft Dynamics 365 at Velrada, award winning Technical Architect, President of Melbourne Dynamics 365 User Group, Australian Chapter Leader of Dynamics 355 Saturday Conference, and the blogger of Dyn365Apps.com.  He lives in Melbourne, Australia. Follow him on Twitter @dyn365apps.  

Microsoft Azure: SQL Database Setup 

Asma Khalid is a Technical Evangelist, Technical Writer and Fanatic Explorer. She enjoys doodling with technologies, writing stories and sharing her knowledge with the community. Her core domain is Software Engineering, but she’s also experienced in Product Management, Product Monitoring, Product Implementation, Product Execution and Product Coordination. She is the 1st female from Pakistan to receive Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) recognition and the 1st female from Pakistan to receive C-sharp corner online developer community Most Valuable Professional (MVP) recognition. She has 6+ years of experience as IT professional, freelancer & entrepreneur. She is currently working on her entrepreneur venture, AsmaKart. Follow her on Twitter @asmak.

Connect your firewall to Azure Log Analytics for security insights 

John Joyner is an inventor, author, speaker, and professor on datacenter and enterprise cloud computing topics. He was awarded MVP for the last eleven years. John is employed as Senior Director, Technology at ClearPointe, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. He teaches a cloud computing management course at the University of Arkansas. He has co-authored four books in the System Center Operations Manager Unleashedseries. John is also a U.S. Navy computer scientist, and retired Lieutenant Commander. He has worked for NATO in Europe and aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter @john_joyner

Analyzing expense receipts with Azure Cognitive Services and Microsoft Flow

Mariano Gomez is the Manager of Product Development at Mekorma Enterprises, Inc., a Microsoft Dynamics GP independent software vendor. He's a technology professional with over 20 years of experience delivering business solutions implementations and multiplatform systems integrations around Microsoft Dynamics technologies for organizations across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East in a wide variety of industries. Mariano holds an MIS/Technology Administration from University of Phoenix, he is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Mariano holds a BS. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Antonio Narino in Bogota, Colombia. Follow him on Twitter @dgpblogster