Cbt Nuggets Microsoft

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Butwhy did Microsoft choose not to name those four games (even though Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded and Sea of Thieves were immediately reported to be the titles in question)? What happened to the previously-reported plans to include larger games such as Starfield? And where will Microsoft draw the line for what to launch elsewhere? Right now, these four feel like something of a soft launch for Microsoft's multiplatform strategy,

As well as all that, we also discuss the news nuggets Microsoft dropped for the Xbox faithful - including mention of new Xbox console hardware this year and the proper next-gen Xbox that's still years away. With me this week are Eurogamer's Ed Nightingale, Victoria Kennedy and Liv Ngan.

This week, Microsoft trots out all its new products and solutions at their annual Ignite conference. Over 25,000 techies attend this conference, held this year in Orlando. A slew of AI products and productivity enhancers were announced prior to the event, but the one that does some heavy lifting is Project Cortex. This tool, announced as part of Microsoft 365, will comb through all your emails, documents and reports and create a corpus of tagged data. From this rich data source, it will assemble Wikipedia like information nuggets. When they see a project term or acronym, anyone in the enterprise can click on it and be served a wiki-page of what that project is about, who the key persons involved are, etc. It comes with built-in security features to specify who has access to this information. Corporate customers will be getting access to this solution soon!

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Using SQL Server as a backup for critical business data provides an essential safety net against loss and enables business users to more easily connect that data with features like reporting, analytics, and more. Biml is an XML dialect that can be used to create Microsoft SQL Server BI objects, like SSIS packages. Pairing CData SSIS Components with Biml empowers you to easily build SSIS packages with access to Microsoft Exchange data. Key benefits include:

This article demonstrates how to use Biml with the CData SSIS Components for Exchange to dynamically build SSIS tasks (one for each Microsoft Exchange entity) to replicate Microsoft Exchange data to a Microsoft SQL Server database. We step through the Biml file one section at a time but have included the complete Biml file at the end of the article.

With Biml, you can write scripting to dynamically generate SSIS projects, packages, and tasks. To see the Biml file for an existing project (and gain insights on using Biml with CData SSIS Tasks), simply create your tasks and then right-click the project and select Convert SSIS Packages to Biml.

In a new control nugget , create variables for values that will be used throughout the Biml script, including a connection string for Microsoft Exchange and structures to store the Microsoft Exchange metadata.

In our Biml script to create the replication tasks, there are several places where repeated XML elements are created dynamically (mostly for columns in SSIS tasks). Instead of repeating the code, add a class nugget and create a helper class with methods to consolidate repeated code (full code at the end of the article).

After configuring the connection to the CData SSIS Task, configure a connection to the replication database. The completed Connections element looks like the following (note the use of text nuggets to add variables for connection string values):

To build each set of tasks, use a while loop in a control nugget to iterate through the entity (table) names:int entityCounter = 0; while(entityCounter ExecuteSQL TaskIn the ExecuteSQL task, execute a SQL query to drop any existing tables that have the same name as our Microsoft Exchange entity (table) and create a new table based on the metadata discovered using the CData SSIS Component.

The CData SSIS tasks are surfaced in SSIS as custom components with a series of required CustomProperties: 0 [] false Connections Element The last element to add to the CustomComponent element is a Connections element, attaching the previously defined connection to the task:

Once the Biml file is written, right-click on the Biml file in Server Explorer and select Generate SSIS Packages. At this point, Visual Studio and BimlExpress will translate the Biml file into SSIS package(s), ready to be run.

With the CData SSIS Components for Exchange, you get SQL access to your Microsoft Exchange data directly from SSIS packages. And with Biml, you can automatically generate those packages. For more information about the CData SSIS Components for Exchange, refer to the product page. You can always get started with a free, 30-day trial. As always, our world-class CData Support Team is available if you have any questions.

There are few tasks more associated with using a computer on a regular basis than word processing. Whether it's jotting down a favorite recipe, making note of an important phone number, or writing a research paper, every accomplished computer user needs to become familiar with the concept of writing and editing documents. Of all the programs available for this purpose, none is more widely used than Microsoft Word, especially if you are a Windows user. Over the years, Microsoft Word has grown into a very robust, but also a very complex, piece of software. For a blind person who does not have the benefit of intuitive, visual help to figure out how to complete a task using Microsoft Word, it is necessary to learn a dizzying array of keystrokes, tips, and tricks in order to complete necessary tasks.

There are various resources for learning how to use Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Word in particular, but some of them are costly. On the other end of the spectrum, many of the free alternatives for learning to use Microsoft Word do not take the needs of the blind computer user into consideration.

Lynnette Tatum knows full well how much work is required to learn to use Microsoft Word. Knowing is one thing, but being able to do something about it is another thing entirely. In her more than 20 years as a Microsoft instructor, Tatum received praise from her students for the well-organized notes she handed out in her classes. As she began to lose her sight, she realized the importance of learning to use Microsoft Word's many keyboard commands, rather than relying on the mouse.

As a result of her many years of teaching, Tatum decided to collaborate with developer Michael Doise of iAccessibility to create an iOS app that would aid blind users of Microsoft Word in learning to use the program. The result, in fact, was an app that can be useful to any user of Microsoft Word without regard to visual acuity.

MLWordTips is available for the iPhone and iPad at a cost of $4.99, and consists of a series of 21 short lessons. Each lesson focuses on one aspect of using Microsoft Word, with a little humor and encouragement sprinkled throughout. When the app is launched, you are presented with a series of buttons, each of which takes you to the specified lesson. The app resembles an e-book, or perhaps a quick reference guide containing clear, concise information about how to use Microsoft Word. Headings and lists help keep all of the material found in this app orderly and easily digestible.

The About screen gives a brief description of MLWordTips and allows the user to visit Lynette Tatum's website where she has posted several blog entries on the process of developing the app. In addition to Tatum's site, the app's About screen also provides a link to iAccessibility, the website maintained by Michael Doise. Since Safari is loaded when you launch these sites from the app, it might be easiest to simply close out the web browser and go back into MLWordTips when you are ready to continue exploring the app. When I left Safari and went back into the app after visiting the two websites mentioned above, the web pages continued to be visible in the app until I activated the "Close" button to leave the About screen.

In the upper left corner of the About screen, there is a "Share" button that allows you to post a short description of the app along with its URL to social media. Along with the button that takes you to the About screen and a heading stating the app's name, the MLWordTips main screen contains the following buttons.

This screen gives a brief description of the app's purpose, and provides an "Essentials" button at the bottom right corner of the screen. This button is visible in most every screen of the app. We will discuss "Essentials" later.

This lesson provides a description of Microsoft Word's main document window. Headings are provided for the various sections and subsections of this screen. In fact, this is true for all lessons within the app. Topics covered in the Document Window lesson include the title bar, the ribbon/command bar, the backstage menu, and the status bar.

In this topic, only the most basic aspects of saving a document are discussed. There is no discussion of how to move to various folders on your computer to save files in specific locations. I would hope that a future version of this app would include more content in this area.

A bit more information is given here than was the case in the previous topic, including a brief mention of the Backstage menu. I would still like to see more attention given to navigating among folders and drives on one's computer, however.

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