Choosing between Azure VNet Peering and VNet Gateways
As customers adopt Azure and the cloud, they need fast, private, and secure connectivity across regions and Azure Virtual Networks (VNets). Based on the type of workload, customer needs vary. For...
View ArticleSmarter Member List Filtering for C++
We are always looking for ways to make you more productive while coding in Visual Studio. In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we have created a smarter, more relevant Member List. Specifically, we now...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure welcomes customers, partners, and industry leaders to...
SIGGRAPH is back in Los Angeles and so is Microsoft Azure! I hope you can join us at Booth #1351 to hear from leading customers and innovative partners. Teradici, Bebop, Support Partners, Blender, and...
View ArticleRuby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it’s fabulous using WSL2...
I've been trying on and off to enjoy Ruby on Rails development on Windows for many years. I was doing Ruby on Windows as long as 13 years ago. There's been many valiant efforts to make Rails on Windows...
View ArticleCloud providers unite on frictionless health data exchange
This post was co-authored by Heather Jordan Cartwright, General Manager, Microsoft Healthcare Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a bigger and more central part of the infrastructure of healthcare. We...
View ArticleRun Windows Server and SQL Server workloads seamlessly across your hybrid...
In recent weeks, we’ve been talking about the many reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers choose Azure. Security is a major concern when moving to the cloud, and Azure gives you the tools...
View ArticleMicrosoft ML Server 9.4 now available
Microsoft Machine Learning Server, the enhanced deployment platform for R and Python applications, has been updated to version 9.4. This update includes the open source R 3.5.2 and Python 3.7.1...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18945 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 18945 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18945 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleUnderstanding and leveraging Azure SQL Database’s SLA
When data is the lifeblood of your business, you want to ensure your databases are reliable, secure, and available when called upon to perform. Service level agreements (SLA) set an expectation for...
View ArticleAzure Cost Management updates – July 2019
Whether you're a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants...
View ArticleStatus on Visual Studio feature suggestions
Visual Studio receives over 500 feature suggestions from customers every month on the Developer Community website. Handling that amount is a huge effort and we’d like to share with you how we handle...
View ArticleAzure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q3
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q3 As always, the Azure DevOps engineering team is working hard to deliver enhancements and new features across all our services. Recently we have been adding new...
View ArticleNew to Microsoft 365 in July—updates to Azure AD, Microsoft Teams, Outlook,...
This month, we’re announcing updates to Azure AD and Microsoft Defender ATP to help improve your security posture, updates to Teams and Outlook to help you be more productive, and updates to Desktop...
View ArticleHttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services
The ASP.NET team has built a command-line tool called HttpRepl. It lets you browse and invoke HTTP services in a similar way to working with files and folders. You give it a starting point (a base URL)...
View ArticleDocker Desktop for WSL 2 integrates Windows 10 and Linux even closer
Being able to seamlessly run Linux on Windows is making a bunch of common development tasks easier. When you're running WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) in a version of Windows 10 greater than...
View ArticleMoving your VMware resources to Azure is easier than ever
Back in April we announced the Azure VMware Solution to deliver a comprehensive VMware environment allowing you to run native VMware-based workloads on Azure. It’s a fully managed platform as a...
View ArticleNew Azure Blueprint simplifies compliance with NIST SP 800-53
To help our customers manage their compliance obligations when hosting their environments in Microsoft Azure, we are publishing a series of blueprint samples built in to Azure. Our most recent release...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure Dedicated Host
We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Dedicated Host, a new Azure service that enables you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers....
View ArticleTheming in Visual Studio just got a lot easier
Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough. Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes. One of the only ways to import themes was to...
View ArticleData on demand: Azure SQL Database in serverless mode
Azure SQL Database has a new “serverless” mode in preview that eliminates compute costs when not in use. In this post, I’ll show how you can set up a serverless database instance, and access data...
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