Send your Azure alerts to ITSM tools using Action Groups
At Ignite 2017, we announced the new IT Service Management (ITSM) Action in Azure Action Groups. As you might know, Action Groups is a reusable notification grouping for Azure alerts. Users can create...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL availability in Canada and...
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in Canada (Central and East) and Brazil (Brazil South) data centers. The availability of Azure...
View ArticleVSTS Update – Oct 9
This week we are deploying our sprint 124 work. You can get all the details in our release notes. I’m running late this sprint so I’m going to keep my summary short. The biggest change this release is...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview
Today we are releasing the first preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5. You can either download it from here, or if you already have Preview installed, you’ll receive a notification that the...
View ArticleTutorial: Azure Data Lake analytics with R
The Azure Data Lake store is an Apache Hadoop file system compatible with HDFS, hosted and managed in the Azure Cloud. You can store and access the data within directly via the API, by connecting the...
View Article15.5 Preview 1 Productivity Improvements: Structure Visualizer, Ctrl + Click...
Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.5 Preview 1 brings you a number of productivity and performance improvements that will save you time as a C++ developer. For this release, we brought two features from the...
View ArticleBotwin offers an interesting alternative option for routing with ASP.NET Core
NancyFx is a great alternative to ASP.NET if you want to make elegant little web apis like this:public class SampleModule : Nancy.NancyModule { public SampleModule() { Get["/"] = _ => "Hello...
View ArticleHow Azure Security Center unveils suspicious PowerShell attack
In honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), we have a new post in our series highlighting real-world attacks that Azure Security Center helped detect, investigate, and mitigate. This...
View ArticleHardening Azure Analysis Services with the new firewall capability
Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) is designed with security in mind and takes advantage of the security features available on the Azure platform. For example, integration with Azure Active Directory...
View ArticleUnifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service
We’ve seen an increase in container workloads running in production environments and a new wave of tooling that’s cropped up around container deployments. Microsoft Azure has a number of different...
View ArticlePut your databases on autopilot with a lift and shift to Azure SQL Database
The sheer volume of data generated today and the number of apps and databases across enterprises is staggering. To stay competitive and get ahead in today’s marketplace, IT organizations are always...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cognitive Services – How Content Moderator helps to boost...
Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications and enhance their ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of...
View ArticleStep-back while debugging with IntelliTrace
Have you ever stepped while debugging, realized that you’ve taken one step too far, and wished you could step back? Or, while stepping, saw a variable change in an unexpected way, and wish you could go...
View ArticleCheck out the new In-app ads dashboard in Windows Dev Center
We are happy to announce the new Monetize -> In-app ads section in Windows Dev Center. This is your one stop shop to create and manage the ad mediation settings of your UWP and Windows 8.x ad units....
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.6 RC
TypeScript 2.6 RC is now available! To get started with the latest stable version of TypeScript, you can grab it through NuGet, or use the following command with npm: npm install -g typescript@rc...
View ArticleA cRyptic crossword with an R twist
Last week's R-themed crossword from R-Ladies DC was popular, so here's another R-related crossword, this time by Barry Rowlingson and published on page 39 of the June 2003 issue of R-news (now known as...
View ArticleNew Map Control features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
The Maps team has been busy making improvements and adding new features to the Maps platform for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. In addition to performance and visual improvements to the 3D...
View ArticleNew Map Control features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
We have updated the Maps platform for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to make our maps more performant and visually pleasing. We have also listened the feedback from our users and introduced...
View ArticleNew vswhere: now with more properties!
The latest release of vswhere not outputs additional properties as requested, along with catalog properties and a way to disambiguate nested properties – not that there are any currently. You can...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.13
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What is a Backlog? – David CorbinSeems like it should be pretty obvious....
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