Reacting to maintenance events… before they happen
Introducing Scheduled Events (Preview) What if you could learn about upcoming events which may impact the availability of your VM and plan accordingly? Well, with Azure Scheduled Events you can....
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Azure IoT Hub Server TLS Leaf certificate renewal – May 2017
The following blog contains important information about TLS certificate renewal for Azure IoT Hub endpoints which may impact client connectivity. As part of the periodic renewal cycle, the Azure IoT...
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Technical Foundations of Informatics: A modern introduction to R
Informatics (or Information Science) is the practice of creating, storing, finding, manipulating and sharing information. These are all tasks that the R language was designed for, and so Technical...
View ArticleVcpkg: introducing export command
Vcpkg helps you acquire and build open source libraries on Windows. Since September 2016, the community added more than 200 libraries in the vcpkg catalog and has been contributing actively to the code...
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Two bulls meet
You may have noticed I wasn’t very responsive during much of April. That’s because I took an extended “Farmcation” for about 3 weeks. I just returned to work on Monday and should be a bit more...
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1400 compatibility level in Azure Analysis Services
We are excited to announce the public preview of the 1400 compatibility level for tabular models in Azure Analysis Services! This brings a host of new connectivity and modeling features for...
View ArticleAnnouncing preview of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers
We are excited to announce the preview release of the new Azure Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise customers. This follows the release of our new Power BI content pack that addressed issues...
View ArticleEmpowering digital transformation together at Red Hat Summit
Today we’re wrapping up an amazing week at Red Hat Summit. We’re proud to, once again, sponsor and participate in a forum that brings together customers, partners and communities who are passionate...
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Now Generally Available: On-premises data gateway in Azure
With today's update, we're excited to announce that the on-premises data gateway is now generally available in Azure. This gateway helps you securely connect your business apps in the cloud to your...
View ArticleMore storage for Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database
Until now the amount of storage available to Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database was limited to 750 GB. We are pleased to announce that this limit has increased to 4 TB for the largest Premium...
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Real-time scoring with Microsoft R Server 9.1
Once you've built a predictive model, in many cases the next step is to operationalize the model: that is, generate predictions from the pre-trained model in real time. In this scenario, latency...
View ArticleImprovements for Enterprises in Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 Creators Update
Last month, we began rolling out the Windows 10 Creators Update (Windows 10 version 1703) to over 400 million customers around the world. The Creators Update upgrades Microsoft Edge to EdgeHTML 15,...
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Episode 128 on Build preview with Yina Arenas—Office 365 Developer Podcast
In Episode 128 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega has an open chat with Yina Arenas about the behind the scenes preparation for the Build conference....
View ArticleDocumentation now live for moving or disabling the package cache
I previously wrote about moving or disabling the package cache for Visual Studio 2017, which is a feature in the latest preview of VS2017 and will be generally available update 15.2 is released. We...
View ArticleWhy am I getting these _SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS messages?
Recently, a C++ developer asked why they were getting diagnostic messages for this code: void example(char const * const src, char * const dest) { std::copy(src, src + 42, dest); } If you compile this...
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Using ‘Visual Studio Agent Deployment’ task on machines not connected to the...
‘Run Functional Tests’ (RFT) task is used for running functional tests using remote machines or to run tests in a distributed manner using multiple machines. With TFS 2017 Update 2 and VSTS, You can...
View ArticleStatistician ranked as best job in 2017 by CareerCast
According to job hunting site CareerCast, the best job to have in 2017 is: Statistician. This is according to their 2017 Jobs Rated report, based on an evaluation of Bureau of Labor Statistics metrics...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Bayesian Trap
If you get a blood test to diagnose a rare disease, and the test (which is very accurate) comes back positive, what's the chance you have the disease? Well if "rare" means only 1 in a thousand people...
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Using C++ Modules in Visual Studio 2017
This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis, Andrew Pardoe, and Billy O’Neal What Is New? The Visual C++ Team is elated to announce that with Visual Studio 2017, it has substantially improved the...
View ArticleUsing modern data sources in Azure Analysis Services
Just weeks after reaching general availability (GA) with Azure Analysis Services, we are super excited to make Tabular 1400 models available in public preview, as announced in the blog post 1400...
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