Azure Monitor alerting just got better!
In March 2018, we announced the next generation of alerts in Azure. Since then, we have received overwhelming feedback from you appreciating the new capabilities and providing asks for the next set of...
View ArticleAzure Monitor is providing a unified logs experience
We’re happy to provide a new, unified log search and analytics experience for Azure Monitor logs, as announced earlier this week. Azure Monitor logs is the central analytics platform for monitoring,...
View ArticleRich insights for virtual machines from Azure Monitor
At Ignite we announced the public preview of Azure Monitor for VMs, a new capability that provides an in-depth view of VM health, performance trends, and dependencies. You can access Azure Monitor for...
View ArticleSerial console for Azure VMs now generally available
Earlier this year, we released the public preview of the serial console feature of Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Today we are announcing the general availability of serial console and we’ve added...
View ArticleAzure ISVs expand the possibilities with Azure Stack
Azure Stack features a growing independent software vendor (ISV) community that operates across a broad-spectrum of environments, empowering you to create compelling and powerful solutions. Today, I’d...
View ArticleManage your SQL Information Protection policy in Azure Security Center
We are pleased to share that your SQL Information Protection policy can now be centrally managed for your entire tenant within Azure Security Center. SQL Information Protection is an advanced security...
View ArticleTry Azure CosmosDB for 30 days free, no commitment or sign up
Today we are extending Try Cosmos DB for 30 days free! Try Cosmos DB allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign-up required and at no charge, for 30 days with ability to renew...
View ArticleNew features and enhancements released in Bing Custom Search V3
We are happy to share the release of additions and enhancements to Bing Custom Search. Bing Custom Search is an easy-to-use, ad-free search solution that enables users to build a search experience and...
View ArticleAnnouncing private preview of Azure VM Image Builder
Today I am excited to announce the private preview of Azure VM Image Builder, a service which allows users to have an image building pipeline in Azure. Creating standardized virtual machine (VM) images...
View ArticleNew Azure HDInsight management SDK now in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the new Azure HDInsight Management SDK. This preview SDK brings support for new languages and can be used to easily manage your HDInsight clusters....
View ArticleEight new features in Azure Stream Analytics
This week at Microsoft Ignite 2018, we are excited to announce eight new features in Azure Stream Analytics (ASA). These new features include Support for query extensibility with C# custom code in ASA...
View ArticleAnnouncing the EA preview release of management group cost APIs
We are excited to preview a set of Azure Resource Manager Application Program Interfaces (ARM APIs) to view cost and usage information in the context of a management group for Enterprise Customers....
View ArticleStrengthen your security posture and protect against threats with Azure...
In my recent conversations with customers, they have shared the security challenges they are facing on-premises. These challenges include recruiting and retaining security experts, quickly responding...
View ArticleStep Back – Going Back in C++ Time
Step Back for C++ In the most recent, 15.9, update to Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, we’ve added “Step Back” for C++ developers targeting Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) and later. With...
View ArticleGetting started writing Visual Studio extensions
I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility...
View ArticleHow to upgrade extensions to support Visual Studio 2019
Recently, I’ve updated over 30 of my extensions to support Visual Studio 2019 (16.0). To make sure they work, I got my hands on a very early internal build of VS 2019 to test with (working on the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tops Four AI Leaderboards Simultaneously
Businesses are continuously trying to be more productive, while also better serving their customers and partners, and AI is one of the new technology areas they are looking at to help with this work....
View Article3-D shadow maps in R: the rayshader package
Data scientists often work with geographic data that needs to be visualized on a map, and sometimes the maps themselves are the data. The data is often located in two-dimensional space (latitude and...
View ArticleHealthcare Cloud Security Stack now available on Azure Marketplace
The success of healthcare organizations today is dependent on data-driven decision making. Inability to quickly access and process patient data due to outdated infrastructure may result in life or...
View ArticleSpark Debugging and Diagnosis Toolset for Azure HDInsight
Debugging and diagnosing large, distributed big data sets is a hard and time-consuming process. Debugging big data queries and pipelines has become more critical for enterprises and includes debugging...
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