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In February 2025, Microsoft introduced a unified eDiscovery experience within the Purview portal, marking a significant evolution in its compliance and legal discovery tools. This modernization aims to streamline eDiscovery workflows, offering a centralized platform that integrates both standard...

At the recent Microsoft Build 2025 conference, HSO unveiled its latest innovation: a Model Context Protocol (MCP)-powered Copilot agent designed for Dynamics 365 Finance. This development signifies a substantial advancement in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) within enterprise resource...

Microsoft's recent announcement marks another pivotal moment in the evolution of AI agent interoperability. In a bold move to simplify multi-agent workflows, Microsoft is integrating Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its Azure AI Foundry. This integration supports cross-vendor...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), developed by Anthropic, has emerged as a pivotal open standard facilitating seamless integration between Large Language Models (LLMs) and external tools, systems, and data sources. By standardizing context exchange, MCP enables AI assistants to interact with...

If you’ve ever been elbow-deep in spaghetti code, cursing the data gods for making even the simplest AI integrations feel like trying to plug a PS/2 mouse into a modern MacBook, then you might want to sit down (with a strong beverage): enter the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short. It’s not...

How to Configure MCP Server on Windows 11 Using Claude: A Detailed Guide The ability to integrate AI systems and tools seamlessly has become a paramount requirement for developers and IT professionals. One of the newest breakthroughs in this space is the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open...

Azure Machine Learning is setting the stage for a data revolution in 2025, promising to extend its support far beyond traditional databases to encompass a wider spectrum of modern data sources. In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, the ability to integrate data from multiple origins is crucial...

Power BI Gateway – Enterprise (Preview) enables centralized and IT-managed access to on-premises data sources from Power BI service. Link Removed

The Microsoft Power BI Personal Gateway enables Power BI users to connect to on-premises data sources such as SQL Server. Link Removed

Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 allows you to create stunning data visualizations from Excel, SQL Server, SSAS, SQL Azure, SharePoint and other cloud & enterprise data sources. Link Removed

Read how Microsoft IT applied a unique development paradigm from their toolset to design an integrated productivity solution. This toolset design provides sales and marketing teams a dashboard view of essential apps, tools, and data sources to make decisions, to meet targets, and to improve the...

Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted a short, but sweat Kinect C++ example; Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; More on the openFrameworks and the Kinect Unity 5 and the Kinect... WebSocketing the Kinect Custom Kinect Gestures in Unity3D? Here's how...

Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool enables movement of data from various data sources into DocumentDB Link Removed

Data manipulation in Excel is easy… once you get your data into Excel. But what if it’s in different data sources? This is where PowerPivot, a free add-in for Excel, can help. With PowerPivot, you can hook up to multiple data sources, and work with hundreds of millions of rows of data. Watch how...

Link RemovedToday on Silverlight TV, Deepesh Mohnani*answers four of the questions most frequently asked in the*popular WCF RIA Services forums.*This is a great episode to watch and the first in a periodic series from the RIA Services team in which we will address the top questions from...

I tried to execute a mailmerge in windows 7, using Microsoft Outlook 2007 (which was also set as the default program for whatever it is capable of, including MAPI, using the \default programs\ dialoge in the configuration.) and MS Word 2007. Although both windows/winword and outlook do not...

Hello, I support a fleet of about 600 Windows XP machines that will soon be upgraded to Windows 7. We've begun limited testing and I've encountered the first problem related to the heightened user restrictions. A user cannot administrator ODBC settings without local admin rights. Is there any...

Hi, I have an application which uses sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver to bridge from JDBC to ODBC. First I created a simple CSV file and registered it as a Text Data Source using the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Now whenever I try to change the file extension list for this data source to only...