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The Windows Azure Service Bus provides both brokered messaging (better known as queues) and relay capabilities between applications, and is secured using using Windows Azure Active Directory (formally Access Control Services or ACS). When creating a new service bus namespace, a default identity with the name Owner is created. This blog post will show you why you should not use this default entity, even though every demo on the web does so.

Roughly a year ago, I implemented currency conversion logic in multidimensional cubes using measure expressions (as well as using the Leaves function in MDX).  I documented the implementation in a few blog posts:

On Wednesday January 23 2013, I am presenting (or will have presented) on Windows Azure during the January MadPass meeting. Below is a collection of links on various Azure resources which I felt contained good information, some of which made it into my presentation.

The Logitech R400 is a wireless device used by presenters with Microsoft Power Point to call out objects on the screen using it’s built in laser pointer. It contains buttons for ‘Next’, ‘Previous’, ‘Start/Stop Presentation’ and ‘Hide Slide’.

I have been working on re-creating some logic in a tabular cube that was originally implemented in multidimensional.  This involved creating some DAX measures that return the same results as the MDX calculated member counterparts in the multidimensional cube.  I thought that some individuals who are familiar with MDX in multidimensional cubes might find it interesting to see the equivalent DAX in the tabular cube.