Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Manson Ng

Patrick Moulhaud

Kaushik Barat

Nelson Michael Rozo

Russell Lynn Long

Hernan David Maestre Piedrahita

Vincent Wayne Frankson

Eugenio Garcia-Carreras

Sunil Dixit

Kevin Andrew Wiggen

Jason A Antonelli

Hitesh Kanwathirtha

Andy Ness

Prashant Khanduri

Jeff McDowell

Jeffrey E Steinbok

The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to improve data ingestion processing for management of domain-specific data through a software data platform. Processing described herein provides technical advantages, provided through a software data platform, that enable a user (e.g., an administrator) of an organization to more easily integrate and manage domain-specific data within a software data platform. A graphical user interface (GUI) of a software data platform is configured to guide an administrative user through data mapping processing so that the administrator can more easily integrate its organizational data into the software data platform. Insights may be automatically generated and provided to the user through the GUI, which may help to guide the administrator through the data mapping process. In further examples, generated insights may be provided as recommendations (or autocorrections) designed to foster a successful data mapping to aid provisioning of data.

Advances in data ingestion and data provisioning to aid management of domain-specific data via software data platform

The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to improve data provisioning for management of access to and usage of domain-specific data through a software data platform. Processing described herein provides technical advantages, provided through a software data platform, that enable a user (e.g., an administrator) of an organization to more easily integrate and manage domain-specific data within a software data platform. For instance, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a software data platform is configured to provide a user (e.g., administrative user) with control over provisioning of their data (e.g., education data) including bulk provisioning options to manage utilization and sharing of data via a software data platform. Provisioning management may comprise control over sharing permissions of domain-specific data with vendors (e.g., ISVs integrating within a software data platform), user accounts associated with a tenant configuration and applications/services provided by the software data platform.

Advances in data provisioning including bulk provisioning to aid management of domain-specific data via software data platform

Techniques exist for imaging clients over a network, such as the preboot execution environment (PXE) protocol. However, such techniques may not scale well (e.g., using broadcast messages and having few facilities for distributing the imaging service over several servers) and limited capacity to choose a particular image for a particular client. Instead, a set of servers may be configured such that each server is assigned a set of clients, and when a client sends an imaging query, only the server to which the client is assigned sends a reply. For example, a PXE server also comprising a DHCP server may reply to queries only for clients having a DHCP reservation on the server. The servers may also be configured to refer to a network map (e.g., a manageability data store) in order to identify the role of the client and the appropriate image to direct the client to apply.

Scalably imaging clients over a network

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