Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL
This blog post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. We recently made Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. These services...
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The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out,...
View ArticleInstalling certificates into IoT devices
Lots of folks are moving to X.509 certificate-based authentication as they start to use the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service, which is great! But I've gotten lots of questions about what the...
View ArticleAzure #HDInsight Apache Phoenix now supports Zeppelin
The HDInsight team is excited to announce Apache Zeppelin Support for Apache Phoenix Phoenix in Azure HDInsight Apache Phoenix is an open source, massively parallel relational database layer built on...
View ArticleAdvanced Analytics is coming into Azure Portal
We see Azure Monitor users are using both the Log Search page and the Analytics portal to accomplish their tasks. The Analytics portal offers advanced features, and we’re happy to announce it’s coming...
View ArticleAzure #HDInsight Interactive Query: simplifying big data analytics architecture
Fast Interactive BI, data security and end user adoption are three critical challenges for successful big data analytics implementations. Without right architecture and tools, many big data and...
View ArticleMake R speak
Every wanted to make R talk to you? Now you can, with the mscstts package by John Muschelli. It provides an interface to the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech API (hence the name) in Azure,...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17733 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17733 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17733 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleUpgrading an existing .NET project files to the lean new CSPROJ format from...
If you've looked at csproj (C# (csharp) projects) in the past in a text editor you probably looked away quickly. They are effectively MSBuild files that orchestrate the build process. Phrased...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: August 2018
A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications I've...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: A Titanic Brexit
Boris Johnson once declared that Britain leaving the European Union would be a "Titanic success". More than a year ago Comedy Central UK imagined what such a success would look like, and the prospects...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.17
Another Friday means another happy hour! No, not the time when I hit the bar after work — the time when I catch up on the news around DevOps for VSTS and Azure. Here’s what I’ve been reading (and, this...
View ArticleA Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise
A Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a critical DevSecOps practice. As engineering organizations accelerate continuous...
View ArticleMigrate Windows Server 2008 to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
For close to 10 years now, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 has been a trusted and preferred server platform for our customers. With millions of instances deployed worldwide, our customers run many of their...
View ArticleAzure Block Blob Storage Backup
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's massively scalable cloud object store. Blob Storage is ideal for storing any unstructured data such as images, documents and other file types. Read this Introduction...
View ArticleDriving industry transformation with Azure – Getting started – Edition 1
Microsoft is highly focused on solving industry challenges, creating new opportunities and driving digital transformation for all organizations. Through dedicated industry resources from Microsoft and...
View ArticleMulti-member consortium support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.3.0
Continuing our monthly release cadence for Azure Blockchain Workbench, we’re excited to announce the availability of version 1.3.0. You can either deploy a new instance of Workbench through the Azure...
View ArticleHardening the security of Azure IoT Edge
Azure IoT Edge which recently became generally available, designs in security from the ground up with avenues for custom security hardening. Security hardening entails additional security measures for...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 45
Now generally available Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL - Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL in all regions...
View ArticleBing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1!
Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users’ queries every second from consumers around the world...
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