Author’s note: This is an AI-generated summary of a webinar InterWorks hosted on May 29, 2025. The main presenter was Jon Nash, VDC Microsoft 365 Solution Engineer. If you want to watch the whole webinar we summarized for this piece, feel free to watch it here! When...
Salesforce just made headlines for cutting 4,000 customer service jobs, with CEO Marc Benioff proudly declaring he "needs less heads" now that AI agents handle half their support interactions. Microsoft chopped 15,000 roles this year. Meta cut 3,600. The message from Silicon Valley is clear:...
What Happened? Last week brought a burst of AI announcements from the major players, each positioning their latest capabilities as breakthrough advances: OpenAI launched Codex research preview for parallel agent orchestration in coding. Microsoft Build delivered MCP Registry support for Windows, GitHub's evolution from "pair programming"...
Welcome to part three in our series on Microsoft Fabric governance, where we apply principles we’ve learned from our work in Tableau to Power BI and the broader Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. In part one, we covered basics about users, roles and capabilities. In part two,...
Welcome to part two in our series on Microsoft Fabric governance, where we apply principles we’ve learned from our work in Tableau to Power BI and the broader Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. In part one, we covered basics about users, roles and capabilities. In this article,...
Over the years, we’ve developed a perspective on what good governance looks like within the Tableau ecosystem. We wrote an introductory blog about that here and expanded on that with this series. But lately, we’ve been intrigued by Microsoft Fabric, so we’ve decided to apply...
The term "Medallion Data Architecture" was first coined by Databricks where they describe data at different stages of processing as being "bronze," "silver" or "gold" level data. The term has since been used by Microsoft to describe stages of processing within Microsoft Fabric. It can...
As you may be aware, Snowflake has a cool feature which allows its standard functionality to be extended through the use of external functions. Among several other capabilities, this includes the ability to leverage Azure Functions within Snowflake. This unlocks a whole new realm of...
Snowflake is a powerful software that can store data points that are important for auditing the ETL process. This is done by creating a control table, which tracks ETL jobs that have been run and their statuses. There are a variety of methods for populating...
This is the third and last installment of the three-part series on SSO, SAML and user provisioning in general. Today, we’ll focus on SAML and setting up SSO between Snowflake and Azure AD / ADFS. What Is SAML, ADFS, Azure AD, Okta, Etc.? It is useful to...
Another month gone, and we're excited to share the content we published on the blog in May. Webinars continue to be the name of the game as things slowly transition, and we're hopeful that in the next few months, we'll have some real in-person event...
A few months ago, we kicked off a new blog series where we ask some of our IT experts what they like about certain technologies, as well as the vendors/partners behind those technologies. After all, the IT landscape is an expansive one. Knowing which solutions...
Two weeks ago, my fellow content connoisseur Andrea Avey sat down with InterWorks IT gurus Scott Matlock and Tim Rhymer to talk about the impact of the cloud on IT over the past ten years. That’s some serious ground to cover, and they did a...
As we hit refresh on a new month, new year and new decade, it makes sense for us to look back on the road that brought us to where we are currently. When we think about all the changes that have taken place in tech...
Microsoft’s Azure AD Connect is a great tool that allows admins to sync Active Directory credentials from local domain environments with Microsoft’s cloud (Azure/Office 365), eliminating the need for users to maintain separate passwords for each. While not a common occurrence, there may be reasons that...
The objective of this comparison exercise was to rebuild the Overview dashboard from the Tableau – Superstore sample dashboard in both Tableau (10.4) and Microsoft Power BI (2.52) with no prior knowledge of the Microsoft analytics package. I decided to conduct this comparison to better understand...
On today’s Webcast Friday, I got to talk in part on the capabilities of the Cloud, but mostly wanted to showcase the versatility of Office 365. InterWorks is a proud partner of Microsoft, and we enjoy and utilize Office 365 on a regular basis. So,...
Many of us heavily rely on our digital calendars to organize our schedules, and with those often come third-party conferencing products such as Webex, GoToMeeting and a myriad of others services to help accommodate these needs. However, we recently came across an issue where one of...
In Microsoft Exchange, you may have received these error messages: "The signature is too big. Please try a smaller format." "The Property X is out of range, the valid range is x to x." "The length of the property is too long. The maximum length is 8000 and the...
We received notice on a server that the World Wide Web Publishing Service had stopped. This happened to be an Exchange 2010 server, so all webmail functionality stopped. I attempted to start the service manually but received an error that a dependency was unable to...
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