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In this post we will go through signing up for a Bing Custom Search key using the Azure portal. Go to https://portal.azure.com and search for Bing Custom Search: Click Create: Enter details including the name and pricing tier. Click Create: You will see below, with the endpoint, e.g. https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bingcustomsearch/v7.0 Click on Keys and note the keys for use in your apps:
Log into https://portal.azure.com/ and select Virtual Machines. Click Add: And Create Virtual Machine: There are several machine images to choose from. We will select Windows Server: And then the build – Windows Server 2016 Datacenter: Click Create: Enter information such as the machine name, disk type (premium SSD or standard HHD), username and password: Select the compute type: And now the Settings: Select the inbound ports: We will select RDP: Note … Continue reading Creating an Azure Virtual Machine
In this post we will install Unified Service Desk 4.0 client and server. This is for a new installation in Dynamics 365. Go to:Â https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57273 Click Download: Select the PackageDeployer, which will install the new USD solutions in Dynamics 365, and the client version you require – x86 or x64: Run the Package Deployer: Click Continue: Select location for extracting files: Click Continue: Enter your Dynamics 365 credentials and click Login: … Continue reading Installing Unified Service Desk 4.0 Server and Client
Power BI is Microsoft’s cloud-based Business Intelligence Suite. Understanding how the pieces fit together can be a little challenging. In this post, I will discuss what Power BI is and how all the pieces fit together. Power BI consists of: Power BI Desktop Power BI Service Power BI Report Server Power BI Mobile Let’s look at each of these. Power BI Desktop Power BI Desktop is a downloadable tool that … Continue reading Getting Started with Power BI – What is Desktop, Service, Free, Pro, Premium, Embedded and Mobile
In this post, we will go through creating a report in Power BI Report Server. First, open Power BI Desktop for Report Server. Close the welcome window: Select to Get Data. We will select SQL Server: We will pull data from a localhost database: Click Connect: Click Load to load to the data into Power BI: You will see: We now need to add relationships to our data. Click on … Continue reading Creating a Report in Power BI Report Server
To install Power BI Desktop for Report Server, go to the download page and click Download: Select the PBIDesktopRS version: Run the exe and click Next: Click Next: Click Next: Click Install: Click Finish and launch: Power BI Desktop Report Server will launch:
To install Power BI Report Server, go through the following steps. First, download the software at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/report-server/. Select Advanced Download Options: Select Download: And PowerBIReportServer.exe: Run the downloaded exe and select Install Power BI Report Server: Note the options: Click Next: Click Next: Click Install: Click Configure Report Server: Click to Connect: You are now connected: Click on Web Service URL and Apply: And Web Portal URL and Apply: Click on … Continue reading Installing Power BI Report Server
In our previous posts, we signed up for a cognitive service subscription key and built a C# console app that listens to what a user is saying, sends the input to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Speech Service and returns the text. In this post, we will extend our app to get the real-time weather of a city that the user speaks when prompted. Yahoo! has a Weather API that we … Continue reading Get Weather by Speaking App with Azure Cognitive Services
In this post we will create a Windows console app that integrates with Azure Cognitive Services Speech Service to convert to text what we are speaking. In Visual Studio, create a new console app: You will see: Add Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech through NuGet: Click on the Solution->Configuration Manager: Change the platform to your current platform: Add the code. This is based on this sample code here. For yourapikey, use the key created here. … Continue reading Azure Cognitive Services Speech to Text Hello World in C#
To get a Microsoft Cognitive Services Subscription Key, go to: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cognitive-services/. Click on Speech APIs and select Get API Key: You may see the option to sign in or sign up: Once signed in and signed up, under Speech services click Add: You will may see the message, with links to the Quick-Start Guide and other Cognitive Services. Click Got It: You will then see your endpoint region and Keys: You can also get … Continue reading Get a Microsoft Cognitive Services Subscription Key (Speech)