Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.17
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES First Look at VSTS Release Management Approval Gates – Mike DouglasWhen...
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Docker and Linux Containers on Windows, with or without Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Containers are lovely, in case you haven't heard. They are a nice and clean way to get a reliable and guaranteed deployment, no matter the host system. If I want to run my my ASP.NET Core application,...
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#AzureSQLDW cost savings with optimized for elasticity and Azure Functions –...
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft’s SQL analytics platform, the backbone of your Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). The service is designed to allow customers to elastically, and independently, scale...
View ArticleR3 on Azure: Strengthening our partnership
Blockchain is increasingly prevalent as a topic of interest in our conversations with business leaders. A growing number of our customers and partners are experimenting with the technology as a secure...
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Announcing the public preview of Azure Media Clipper
We are excited to announce the public preview of new capabilities in Azure Media Services (AMS) for composing media clips and stitching together rendered videos. Azure Media Clipper is a free...
View ArticleTime to migrate off Access Control Service
Access Control Service, otherwise known as ACS, is officially being retired. ACS will remain available for existing customers until November 7, 2018. After this date, ACS will be shut down, causing all...
View ArticleAzure SQL Databases Disaster Recovery 101
Why should I care? As a PaaS service, Azure SQL provides automated backup for all databases. It allows customers to recover their data from system or human errors and restores the databases to any...
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Public preview of new Azure Policy features
In the week of the Microsoft Ignite Conference, we announced a private preview of a set of new features for Azure Policies in Azure Compute session, Azure Governance session, and Azure Resource Manager...
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Jenkins on Azure update – ACI experiment and AKS support
I attended a Jenkins Meetup a while back and saw how the engineering team of a local company leveraged Jenkins pipelines and microservices architecture to simplify their build pipelines. It’s obvious...
View ArticlePackage Management adds nuget.org upstream source
Until now, we’ve focused on making Package Management in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server the best place to store your private NuGet and npm packages, but we haven’t focused as...
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Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update
On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual...
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Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers
Visual Studio 2017 first released in March of this year. Since then, there have been five updates with each bringing more improvements and capabilities. Every improvement is geared towards making you...
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New DirectX 12 features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
We’ve come a long way since we launched DirectX 12 with Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Since then, we’ve heard every bit of feedback and improved the API to enhance stability and offer more versatility....
View ArticleIt has never been a better time to migrate from TFS to VSTS!
From the day Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) first went live, customers wanted a path to migrate their existing on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) data. For a long time, only low-fidelity...
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R charts in a Tweet
Twitter recently doubled the maximum length of a tweet to 280 characters, and while all users now have access to longer tweets, few have taken advantage of the opportunity. Bob Rudis used the rtweet...
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Azure Advisor – your personalized best practices service got better
This blog post was co-authored by Matt Wagner, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure. Azure Advisor is your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that help you to improve availability, enhance...
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Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure
Just as each organization is unique, each organization will take a unique path to the cloud. Whether you are transferring data, migrating infrastructure, modernizing applications, or building a new...
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Scale up your parallel R workloads with containers and doAzureParallel
by JS Tan (Program Manager, Microsoft) The R language is by and far the most popular statistical language, and has seen massive adoption in both academia and industry. In our new data-centric economy,...
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Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release
Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language...
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Over 450 Areas of Bird’s Eye Imagery Now Live on Bing Maps
If you’re headed out on an end-of-the-year vacation this holiday season, you can preview that special place on Bing Maps using the new Bird’s Eye experience. We have been busy processing the oblique...
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