Last week in Azure: Capacity growth in China, Managed Applications, and more
Last week in Azure, the rhythm of cloud news continues with the announcement of growing capacity, general availablity and preview of services, improvements in security and other updates, and the ramp...
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A history-oriented introduction to R for Excel users
While spreadsheets are fine tools for collecting and sharing data, the temptation is often there to also use them for in-depth analysis better suited to reproducible systems like R. Historian Jesse...
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Start exploring Bing Search APIs in under 5 minutes
Building functionality that leverages billions of webpages, images, videos, news, and entities may sound complex and time consuming, but the Bing APIs make it simpler and easier for you to create your...
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Introducing query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services
Today at the SQL PASS Summit, Microsoft announced the scale out feature for Azure Analysis Services. With scale-out, client queries can be distributed among multiple query replicas in a query pool,...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 available
Today we released the final build of TFS 2017 Update 3. This release follows the release candidate and addresses all the customer feedback we have gotten and all the issues we have found in extensive...
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Device provisioning: Identity attestation with TPM
Folks using the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service to securely provision their devices are taking the opportunity to start using hardware security modules (HSM) to store the keys on their devices....
View ArticleIn case you missed it: October 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. A recent survey of competitors on the Kaggle platform reveals that Python (76%) and R (59%) are the...
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Microsoft’s Project Olympus delivers cloud hardware innovation at scale
Just over a year ago at Zettastructure, the European digital infrastructure conference hosted by Datacenter Dynamics, we introduced Microsoft’s Project Olympus – our next generation hyperscale cloud...
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General availability of App Service and Functions on Azure Stack
We’re pleased to share that Azure App Service and Functions are now generally available on Azure Stack. This release brings the power of Azure App Service and Azure Functions on-premises and offers...
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WebOptimizer – a Bundler and Minifier for ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core didn't have a runtime bundler like previous versions of ASP.NET. This was a bummer as I was a fan. Fortunately Mads Kristensen created one and put it on GitHub, called WebOptimizer....
View ArticleDevice provisioning: A manufacturing timeline for TPM devices
A lot of folks using the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service are starting to use hardware security modules (HSMs) in their devices because of how easy it is to use an HSM with the provisioning service....
View ArticleWhy Microsoft offers uncapped indemnification for open source in Azure
This post was authored by Jim Ross, Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property Group, Patent Conflicts and Indemnities Team One of the most frequent questions our customers ask us is how they can...
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Monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute in preview
We are happy to announce the preview of ExpressRoute monitoring using Network Performance Monitor (NPM). With NPM, you can now monitor end-to-end connectivity and performance between your branch...
View ArticleMonitoring Team Foundation Server 2018
Monitoring on-premises Team Foundation Server deployments is an important part of keeping them running smoothly, especially for large enterprise deployments. Good monitoring can help administrators...
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Lightweight bundling, minifying, and compression, for CSS and JavaScript with...
Yesterday I blogged about WebOptimizer, a minifier that Mads Kristensen wrote for ASP.NET Core. A few people mentioned that Shannon Deminick also had a great minifier for ASP.NET Core. Shannon has a...
View ArticleAnnouncing automatic OS upgrades for Azure VM scale sets
Infrastructure scale and complexity When Azure virtual machine scale sets were introduced, we made it easy to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure at very large scale. We are continually looking for...
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Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Windows Server System State Backup to Azure with the Azure Backup agent. We previewed the direct offsite of Windows Server System State to...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services in Hong Kong
Today we opened a new VSTS instance in Hong Kong – the Azure “East Asia” region. This adds to our instances in US, Europe, Brazil, India and Australia, giving us reasonably short distance access to...
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Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana
Today, we are excited to introduce the Grafana plugin for Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Azure is an open platform that enables you to bring workloads built using your favorite tools and...
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Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview
We are happy to announce the public preview of support for Cosmos DB in the Azure Storage Explorer (ASE). With this release Cosmos DB databases can be explored and managed with the same consistent user...
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