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The place where I page to when my brain is full up of stuff about the Microsoft platform
Qualification
Data Science and machine learning are very cool just now and It’s relatively easy to find lots of...
Date: 01/06/2017
Think Data Science–Pitfalls
In my last post and generally I like to talk up how useful a data science approach is to...
Date: 08/12/2016
Think Data Science – Approach
I go to a lot of computer events and I feel for the organisers when 80 have registered and only...
Date: 08/04/2016
So you want to be a Data Scientist
In the dark days of the last millennium data scientists were serious statisticians using exotic...
Date: 07/26/2016
PowerShell for taming Azure
Have you got your subscription under control particularly if you are on MSDN or a smaller budget and...
Date: 04/20/2016
If you haven’t got a question then Machine Learning is not the answer
I am in the middle of preparing for some more events the next big one being a day of machine...
Date: 02/26/2016
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Don’t do this..
I am always one of the first to try new stuff when it comes out and so it was great for Microsoft to...
Date: 10/26/2015
Data, no use at all without a catalog
About a decade a go I went on a Microsoft BI boot camp which was also attended by Microsoft staff...
Date: 10/06/2015
Cortana - Remembering the Future
If you have ever watched the Star Trek First Contact film the crew allude to the fact that the star...
Date: 09/02/2015
Azure Data Services for Big Data
Big data is one of those over used and little understood terms that occasionally crop up in IT. Big...
Date: 07/12/2015
Azure Data Services for Predictive Analytics
In my last post I hopefully explained that business intelligence works very well on Azure and with...
Date: 07/01/2015
Azure Data Services for Business Intelligence
A little known fact the biggest workload on Azure VM’s (aka IaaS) is .. SQL Server. This might seem...
Date: 05/15/2015
Azure Data Services–what are they?
This might be a recurring theme but worth mentioning again - Azure continues to change and expand at...
Date: 04/09/2015
Machine Learning for the Business Intelligence developer
Amy (the other half of the data duo in our team) and I have been gate crashing the Data Culture...
Date: 02/26/2015
Azure Machine Learning – General Availability
Today Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (MAML)goes from preview to general availability and it’s also...
Date: 02/16/2015
TechDays on Line 2015–it gets better
I have been out in Seattle for the last couple of weeks as a roving reporter for our upcoming...
Date: 01/31/2015
IT Camp - Extend your Data Centre with Azure
I have been on a journey over the last year that some of you may already be embarked on and that is...
Date: 12/18/2014
IT Camps–What are they good for.
One of the most rewarding yet most difficult part of my job over the last three years has been...
Date: 12/17/2014
How to train your MAML–Redux
Since I wrote this series we have taken on two computer science graduates in the evangelism team in...
Date: 12/12/2014
What kind of data person are you?
I have been working with data in one form or another since 1991, but I wouldn’t describe myself as a...
Date: 11/28/2014
Lab Ops – Working with Azure VMs
A couple of months ago I had a very interesting chat with Andy a Data Centre admin at CP Ltd about...
Date: 11/24/2014
How to train your maml – Publishing your work
Before I get into my next post you may have noticed that ML has changed compared with a few weeks...
Date: 11/09/2014
Future Decoded – with Data Science
If you have been following my posts on Microsoft’s approach to data science with things like Machine...
Date: 10/06/2014
How to train your MAML – Looking at the data in SQL Azure
In my last post we saw how to clean, transform and join datasets. I also mentioned I had trouble...
Date: 09/25/2014
How to Train your MAML–Refining the data
In my last post we looked at how to load data into Microsoft Azure Machine Learning using the...
Date: 09/18/2014
How to train your MAML – Importing data
In my last post I split the process of using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (MAML) down to four...
Date: 08/26/2014
Learning Machine Learning using a Jet Engine
In this post I want to try and explain what machine learning is and put into context with what we...
Date: 08/07/2014
Adventure Works!
My title for this post is a pun on the Adventure Works databases, and samples that have been in SQL...
Date: 08/01/2014
VDI–Shameless plug
I have spent the last six months writing my first book, Getting Started with Windows VDI for Packt...
Date: 07/24/2014
Lab Ops – PowerShell 4 and PKI
In a Remote Desktop Services lab setup involving a gateway to allow connections to our virtual...
Date: 05/28/2014
Microsoft VDA and Windows Embedded – A game changer for VDI?
If you are following me on Twitter then you may have noticed that a few of my friends are reviewing...
Date: 05/08/2014
Lab Ops Redux setting up Hyper-V in a hurry
I am at Manchester United as I write this and one of the delegates wanted to quickly try out Hyper-V...
Date: 04/16/2014
Lab Ops 19 – Software Defined Networking - where’s my stuff
Well done if you got through my last post, I bolted a lot of stuff together and it all looks a bit...
Date: 02/19/2014
Lab Ops 18 Getting started with Software Defined Networking
In my last post I finished up where I had my host under management of Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)...
Date: 02/06/2014
Lab Ops part 17 - Getting Started with Virtual Machine Manager
In my last post I talked a lot about the way all of System Center works, now I want to look at one...
Date: 01/29/2014
Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 Templates cubed
Up until now in my Lab Ops series I have been using bits of PowerShell to create VM’s in a known...
Date: 01/27/2014
System Center: Use the right tool for the right job
This post isn’t really about Lab Ops as it’s more theory than Ops, but before I dive in to the world...
Date: 01/20/2014
Lab Ops– 16 System Center setup
This post isn’t going to tell you how to install System Center screen by screen as there are some...
Date: 01/15/2014
Lab Ops part 15 - Combining MDT with Windows Update Services
If we are going to deploy VDI to our users we are going to still have some of the same challenges as...
Date: 01/10/2014
Lab Ops - Part 14 Putting Applications into the VDI Template with MDT
In my last post I created a process to quickly create what MDT refers to as a Reference Computer and...
Date: 01/07/2014
Lab Ops Part 13 - MDT 2013 for VDI
The core of any VDI deployment is the Virtual Desktop Template (VDT) which is the blueprint from...
Date: 12/31/2013
Lab-Ops part 12 – A crude but effective Domain Controller
I realised I need to recreate a Domain Controller in my labs and in so doing I noticed a snag in my...
Date: 12/23/2013
Lab Ops part 11 – Server Core
My laptop running Windows Server 2012R2 looks like this when it starts: This is a good thing and a...
Date: 12/13/2013
Lab Ops Part 10–Scale Out File Servers
In my last post I showed how to build a simple cluster out of two VMs and a shared disk. The...
Date: 12/01/2013
Lab Ops part 9 - an Introduction to Failover Clustering
For many of us Failover Clustering in Windows still seems to be a black art, so I thought it might...
Date: 11/19/2013
Lab Ops part 8 –Tidying up
If you have been to one of our IT camps you’ll know it’s all live and unstructured which can...
Date: 11/05/2013