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I will start off by saying, whenever I see the names Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari and Chris Webb on a SQL Server Analysis Services book….I know it will good.  This book is no exception!  I can say with 100% honesty that this is one of the best technical books I’ve read.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been asking myself when Windows Azure will introduce 3rd party add-on services similar to what is offered by AppHarbor and Heroku. With the introduction of Azure VM’s in the June Azure refresh I knew it was only a matter of time, and what better time then the week of Build and PaaS (next week) to launch. While the list is small now, I expect this to grow rapidly over the next 3 to 6 months.

The more configuration you can manage via Group Policy, the easier your life is going to be. Today, I was reviewing the configuration I had in place for firewall logging for my Azure VMs. I realized that I had reached a point where I needed to firm up my standards, and using Group Policy was a great way to do that. I came across one snag which I felt would be worth mentioning and decided to go over my entire setup.

The DAX IsFiltered function returns True when is filtered directly and false if there is no direct filter on the column.  The syntax is IsFiltered().  More details regarding this function can be found on MSDN.