Power BI Basics: Turning Your Business Data Into Useful Information
A practical introduction to what Power BI is, what it does, and where it can help your business.
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SharePoint storage growth is rarely just about people adding new files. Version history, inactive content, and years of accumulated data can quietly become a much larger part of the bill.
Read articleWhen Application Crashes Are Really Runtime Problems: Diagnosing VC++ Dependencies at Scale
A practical look at diagnosing Visual C++ runtime dependencies, preserving x86/x64 distinctions, and scaling endpoint evidence collection with Intune.
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How Microsoft Intune, PowerShell, structured JSON, and Azure storage can turn one-off endpoint troubleshooting into consistent fleet-wide telemetry.
Read articleHow We Built CBITS Lens Around Visibility First
Why Lens starts with read-only analysis, local processing, privacy-conscious telemetry, and a report designed to inform the decision before anything is moved.
Read articleDesigning a Modular CubeSat Platform for Hands-On STEM Education
Inside the engineering of a modular educational CubeSat that combines sensors, power, storage, communications, physical constraints, and hands-on programming.
Read articleTeaching AI Literacy: Students Need to Question AI, Not Just Use It
AI literacy should teach students to define problems, question answers, test assumptions, and use AI as part of a broader problem-solving process.
Read articleWhy CBITS Lens Samples Version History Instead of Brute-Force Scanning It
How we balance scan depth and performance by combining a broad current-file inventory with measured, size-aware version-history sampling.
Read articleFrom Idea to Engineering Requirements: Managing a Multidisciplinary Product Project
How a multidisciplinary product concept becomes buildable by turning goals into explicit engineering requirements, dependencies, constraints, and workstreams.
Read articleFrom Manual Refreshes to an Automated Azure AI Search Data Pipeline
How we moved an Azure AI Search indexing workflow from manual refreshes to a repeatable, scheduled container job in Azure.
Read articleClean Data Before Embeddings: A Practical Lesson from an AI Search Pipeline
A practical Azure AI Search lesson: clean and validate source text before generating embeddings, then trace corrections through every downstream layer.
Read articleDesigning CBITS Lens for SharePoint Tenants with More Than a Million Files
What large Microsoft 365 environments taught us about tenant-wide inventory, repeat scans, version analysis, and turning enormous datasets into useful decisions.
Read articleFrom a SharePoint Storage Problem to an Archive Policy
Why the long-term answer to SharePoint storage growth is a repeatable archive policy rather than a one-time cleanup project.
Read articleDesigning CBITS Atlas for Restore — and Re-Archive
Why temporary restores, point-and-click retrieval, and configurable re-archive windows belong in the same archive lifecycle.
Read articleSPF, DKIM, and DMARC: The Email Security Trio Your Organization Can't Ignore
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC work together to help stop domain spoofing, protect your email identity, and tell receiving systems what to do when authentication fails.
Read articleMicrosoft Defender Phishing Simulations: Building Real-World Email Security Awareness
Controlled phishing simulations turn realistic attacks into measurable learning opportunities, helping organizations reinforce reporting behavior and identify where additional training is needed.
Read articleAdversary-in-the-Middle Attacks: Why MFA Alone Isn't Always Enough
AiTM phishing can intercept credentials and authenticated sessions in real time. Here's how the attack works and which Microsoft 365 controls can reduce the risk.
Read articleSharePoint Archiving Shouldn't Turn Your Files Into a Black Hole
Why lowering SharePoint storage cost is only useful when archived content remains organized, understandable, and practical to retrieve.
Read articleWhy We Built CBITS Atlas Around Retrieval, Not Just Storage
The first design question behind Atlas was not simply where inactive SharePoint files could be stored more cheaply. It was how people would get those files back when they mattered.
Read articleBuilding Better Search with Azure AI Search: Beyond Basic Vector Retrieval
Hybrid Azure AI Search works best when vector retrieval, lexical search, domain-aware expansion, image-derived context, filtering, and ranking work together.
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