Tag: Microsoft
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Build a Jar file for the Apache Spark SQL and Azure SQL Server Connector Using SBT.
The Apache Spark Azure SQL Connector is a huge upgrade to the built-in JDBC Spark connector. It is more than 15x faster than generic JDBC connector for writing to SQL Server. In this short post, I articulate the steps required to build a JAR file from the Apache Spark connector for Azure SQL that can…
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Thoughts on the Meltdown and Spectre Processor Vulnerabilities.
Summary: A new class of security vulnerabilities referred to as “Speculative execution side-channel attacks” also known as “Meltdown and Spectre” were publicly disclosed by Cyber security researchers this week. Given the gravity of these flaws, many concerns have been rightly raised. In this article I will cover their impact as well as the Microsoft Cloud’s…
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How to Customize Exchange 2010 RBAC Roles for Delegating User/Contact Management Part 2.
As a follow up to the last post, I decided to further restrict the Support Staff users’ access to the available Custom ‘Address Book Management’ Role cmdlets. The following commands enabled me accomplish this objective: 1) C:\>Get-ManagementRoleEntry -Identity “Address Book Management\*” | ?{$_.Name -ne “Get-User”} | Remove-ManagementRoleEntry ( This command removes all available cmdlets from…
