Azure Standard support now offers the highest value support for production...
Our Azure customers have three common needs from their cloud support plan: A fixed monthly cost that is affordable and simple to forecastFast response time for critical casesA plan that covers their...
View ArticleCompliance assessment reports for Azure Stack are now available
A few months ago, we announced we were performing a compliance assessment on Microsoft Azure Stack, today we are happy to share that the compliance assessment is done and available to you. Knowing that...
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Speed up simulations in R with doAzureParallel
I'm a big fan using R to simulate data. When I'm trying to understand a data set, my first step is sometimes to simulate data from a model and compare the results to the data, before I go down the path...
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Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes
Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates...
View Articlevswhere now supports -requiresAny to find instances with one or more...
The latest release of vswhere.exe supports a new switch parameter, -requiresAny (case-insensitive). This switch changes the behavior of -requires to return any instances that have one or more workloads...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.01.26
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 8 – Deploying in a...
View Article#ifdef WINDOWS – LottieUWP – Native Adobe After Effects animations in UWP apps
Lottie is a client library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders them natively on the client. Alexandre maintains the UWP port of the library (LottieUWP), and stopped...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Excel Painter
Excel often gets criticism when it gets used for applications it's not really designed for. In this instance it's being used in completely the wrong way, and the results are beautiful (via...
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You got this! You know the fundamentals. You are a learner. Plus The...
Sometimes we all get overwhelmed. There's a million (no irony there) reasons to be overwhelmed today, to be sure. I got an email from a community member who was feeling like they hadn't kept up on the...
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Using the MySQL sys schema to optimize and maintain a database
The MySQL sys schema, which is fully enabled in Azure Database for MySQL 5.7, provides a powerful collection of user friendly views in a read-only database. Building on the MySQL Performance and...
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Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot now generally available
Azure Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot, previously in preview as Connectivity Check, is making general availability sporting a new name. Connection Troubleshoot, part of our Network Watcher...
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Managing Azure Secrets on GitHub Repositories
Background An increasing number of developers across the globe use GitHub to host their projects, and many of them use GitHub public repositories for their open source work. While this is a great way...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: New Zone Redundant capabilities now in preview, and more
Last week in Azure, several announcements were made for Zone Redundant capabilities now in public preview that build on Azure Availability Zones. In addition, new backup and update capabilities make it...
View ArticleMerging conflicts in the browser
One of the cool things about having VSTS used across all of Microsoft is that when there’s some useful missing feature, one of the many teams using it might fill the gap and we get to harvest it and...
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Target Surface Hub and Windows 10 S on a Snapdragon processor with your UWP apps
When submitting your UWP app or game to Microsoft Store through Dev Center, you have the flexibility to choose the device families on which customers can acquire your app. By default, we make your app...
View ArticleVS Subscriptions and linking your VSTS account to AzureAD
A few weeks ago, I posted about a change coming to organizations managing their identities with Microsoft Accounts (MSAs); as of March 30th, you will no longer able to create new MSAs with a custom...
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Announcing the Bing Maps Fleet Tracker Solution
The Bing Maps team is pleased to announce the availability of our complete asset tracking solution for small fleets. The solution was previewed in September at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando and is now...
View ArticleSpeed up R with Parallel Programming in the Cloud
This past weekend I attended the R User Day at Data Day Texas in Austin. It was a great event, mainly because so many awesome people from the R community came to give some really interesting talks....
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How to set up Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Docker for Windows and run...
Docker for Windows is really coming along nicely. They have both a Stable and Edge channel and the Edge (beta, experimental) one just included a lovely new feature - Kubernetes support. Per their docs,...
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Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Grid
Modern applications are taking maximum advantage of the agility and flexibility of the cloud by moving away from monolithic architectures and instead using a set of distinct services, all working...
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