DevOps with Azure and VSTS: Videos from Ignite 2017
The Visual Studio Team Services team just got back from Microsoft Ignite, and we had the opportunity to talk to so many people about VSTS and DevOps. But if you weren’t able to make it to Ignite, you...
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Announcing Azure Files share snapshots public preview
Azure Files offers fully managed cloud file shares, and extends the ability of organizations to share files across on-premises and the cloud. With support for industry standard SMB protocol, this...
View ArticleAnnouncing dplyrXdf 1.0
I’m delighted to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the dplyrXdf package. dplyrXdf began as a simple (relatively speaking) backend to dplyr for Microsoft Machine Learning Server/Microsoft R...
View ArticleAnnouncing SignalR for ASP.NET Core Alpha 2
A few weeks ago we released the alpha1 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. Today we are pleased to announce a release of the alpha2 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This release contains a...
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Quarterly Microsoft Azure SOC reports: Compliance at warp speed
Responding to customers’ need for speed, Microsoft Azure has published six new Service Organization Control (SOC) reports, just three months after the previously issued reports. Azure is the first and...
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Monitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health
Azure IoT Hub is now fully integrated with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health to provide you with rich, frequent data about the operations of your Azure IoT Hub, and diagnose problems quickly. We...
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Scale up your deep learning with Batch AI preview
Imagine reducing your training time for an epoch from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, and testing many different hyper-parameter weights in parallel. Available now, in public preview, Batch AI is a new...
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.NET: Manage availability zones and more
We released 1.3 of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET. This release adds support for availability zones (in preview). https://github.com/azure/azure-libraries-for-net Getting started You can...
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Last week in Azure for the week of 02 October 2017
To paraphrase Ferris Bueller, “Azure moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” To help you do that without spending too much time looking around, this...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Released
Yesterday we released updates to several of our products: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4, support for .NET Standard 2.0 in the Universal Windows Platform, and the release of Visual Studio for Mac...
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This month on Bing: entertainment experiences and saved content
This month at Bing we continued our momentum by shipping several new experiences that help you quickly find what you’re looking for. New entertainment answers We expanded our carousel coverage to help...
View ArticleWindows Developer Day in London – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK...
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update provides a developer platform that is designed to inspire the creator in each of us – empowering developers to build applications that change the way people work, play...
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Bringing WebVR to everyone with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Last April, we introduced the WebVR 1.1 API in Microsoft Edge as part of the Windows Creators Update, providing a foundation for developers to create immersive virtual reality experiences with Windows...
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Announcing support for X.509 CA on Azure IoT Hub
We’re pleased to announce support for X.509 Certificates Authorities (X.509 CA) on Azure IoT Hub! The use of X.509 CA simplifies the creation of initial unique Internet of Things (IoT) certificate...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Azure SQL Database ranked #1 Database as a Service for developer...
Today we’re excited and honored to be recognized for three Developer Satisfaction awards from SlashData, a leading analyst firm in the developer community. On Oct 10, 2017 at their annual Future...
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R’s remarkable growth
Python has been getting some attention recently for its impressive growth in usage. Since both R and Python are used for data science, I sometimes get asked if R is falling by the wayside, or if R...
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Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0
This post was mostly written by Rich Lander with contributions from Immo Landwerth. Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for...
View Article.NET Framework October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup. The update applies to all supported Windows versions. It includes a known issue for Windows 10 1507 (see below). Security This...
View ArticleADAL.NET 3.17.0 released
ADAL.NET (Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory) is an authentication library which enables developers to acquire tokens from Azure AD and ADFS to access Microsoft APIs or applications...
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September 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our September top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains his first position in the cloud ranking while Olaf Helper climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking. This...
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