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Last June, Microsoft introduced AI Builder, which is an artificial platform that can be integrated in a Power Platform low-code application. It is still in preview, and since that day, I wanted to give it a try and find an interesting use case to test these new...

Is this blog still alive ? Well, after more than 3 years of inactivity, it is a legitimate question. In these last 3 years many things happened as one can imagine, also within the Atos organization in Switzerland (the one I am working for, in case this wasn't yet...

Currently having some Linux machines on which DeployR Enterprise 8.0.5 must be deployed, I faced a nice bug in the DeployR configuration utility. First, I started to deploy a "Microsoft R Server on Linux??? from the Azure marketplace. The setup is rather simple, and...

I am quite used to give public speeches, as multiple times I was speaker at conferences or internal meetings. But, several weeks ago, the speech I gave had mainly 2 objectives : giving an overview of IBIS, and, promoting our internal Toastmasters club. For this...

How many meetings do you attend ?From that number of attended meeting, do you read the minutes you receive ? Then, imagine that the meeting minutes are sent several days after the meeting took place, as a e-mail's attachment. Chances are that you will not even open...

The 9th of december last year (announcements on Scott Hanselman blog and the .NET foundation), Windows Live Writer became Open Live Writer and at the same time became open source through the .NET Foundation. For different licensing and complexity hurdles, several...

After the install of the Zachman Framework MDG Add-in for Sparx Enterprise Architect, there is an issue when we want to open the provided sample, ZF Example. EA complains that it "couldn't lock file". One way to successfully open this file is to run EA as an...

Recently, I had several times the request to get the GUID of a term in a SharePoint Term Store. And, unless you have access to the package that deployed the terms, you need to use PowerShell or write a quick console app to get them. Unfortunately, I didn't have access...

It's been quite a while, but no, this blog is not dead. Indeed, the last post was written at the last SharePoint Conference, which was a great one, once again. From that time, a lot have evolved, being in the community, the approach adopted by Microsoft regarding...