New Azure HDInsight management SDK now in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the new Azure HDInsight Management SDK. This preview SDK brings support for new languages and can be used to easily manage your HDInsight clusters....
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Eight new features in Azure Stream Analytics
This week at Microsoft Ignite 2018, we are excited to announce eight new features in Azure Stream Analytics (ASA). These new features include Support for query extensibility with C# custom code in ASA...
View ArticleAnnouncing the EA preview release of management group cost APIs
We are excited to preview a set of Azure Resource Manager Application Program Interfaces (ARM APIs) to view cost and usage information in the context of a management group for Enterprise Customers....
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Strengthen your security posture and protect against threats with Azure...
In my recent conversations with customers, they have shared the security challenges they are facing on-premises. These challenges include recruiting and retaining security experts, quickly responding...
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Step Back – Going Back in C++ Time
Step Back for C++ In the most recent, 15.9, update to Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, we’ve added “Step Back” for C++ developers targeting Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) and later. With...
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Getting started writing Visual Studio extensions
I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility...
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How to upgrade extensions to support Visual Studio 2019
Recently, I’ve updated over 30 of my extensions to support Visual Studio 2019 (16.0). To make sure they work, I got my hands on a very early internal build of VS 2019 to test with (working on the...
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Microsoft Tops Four AI Leaderboards Simultaneously
Businesses are continuously trying to be more productive, while also better serving their customers and partners, and AI is one of the new technology areas they are looking at to help with this work....
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3-D shadow maps in R: the rayshader package
Data scientists often work with geographic data that needs to be visualized on a map, and sometimes the maps themselves are the data. The data is often located in two-dimensional space (latitude and...
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Healthcare Cloud Security Stack now available on Azure Marketplace
The success of healthcare organizations today is dependent on data-driven decision making. Inability to quickly access and process patient data due to outdated infrastructure may result in life or...
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Spark Debugging and Diagnosis Toolset for Azure HDInsight
Debugging and diagnosing large, distributed big data sets is a hard and time-consuming process. Debugging big data queries and pipelines has become more critical for enterprises and includes debugging...
View ArticleUsing AzureAD identities in Azure DevOps organizations backed by Microsoft...
Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate...
View ArticleWhat to expect in Spark + AI summit Europe
The Spark + AI summit Europe kicks-off in just a few days in London. Microsoft and many of their customers using Azure Databricks are present during the Summit. Azure Databricks is a first party...
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XKCD “Curve Fitting”, in R
You probably saw this XKCD last week, which brought a grimace of recognition to statisticians everywhere: It's so realistic, that Barry Rowlingson was able to reproduce all but two of the "charts"...
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Why and how you simplify IT with Microsoft 365
During this past week at Microsoft Ignite, it was an honor to spend time sitting with customers, listening to them explain what’s working and what’s not, and learning more about where they need our...
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Exploring .NET Core’s SourceLink – Stepping into the Source Code...
According to https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink, SourceLink "enables a great source debugging experience for your users, by adding source control metadata to your built assets." Sound fantastic. I...
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Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage now in public preview
We are excited to announce that this week we have made Advanced Threat Protection available for public preview on Azure Storage Blob service. Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage detects...
View ArticleHDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available
Enterprise Security Package GA for HDInsight 3.6 The HDInsight team is excited to announce the general availability of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive...
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Healthcare costs are skyrocketing! Reduce costs and optimize with AI
In 2016, healthcare costs in the US are estimated at nearly 18 percent of the GDP! Cost reduction is a high priority for all types of healthcare organizations, but especially healthcare providers such...
View ArticleAnalytics will be available on TFS 2019 RC1 – Want to help us test it?
Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps. Analytics will be available with TFS 2019 RC1, which should be available later this year. We are looking...
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