Useful tricks when including images in Rmarkdown documents
Rmarkdown is an enormously useful system for combining text, output and graphics generated by R into a single document. Images, in particular, are a powerful means of communication in a report, whether...
View Article“Secure transfer required” is available in Azure Storage account
The "Secure transfer required" feature is now supported in Azure Storage account. This feature enhances the security of your storage account by enforcing all requests to your account through a secure...
View ArticleZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK launches in Azure Marketplace today!
We’re happy to announce that the cloud encryption company Tresorit launched their ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK in Azure marketplace today! With ZeroKit, developers can easily build E2EE “zero...
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Microsoft Cognitive Services hack: Line Messenger
After the devastating earthquake in Japan in 2011, it became apparent that there was a need for a communication platform that would help better connect people in such situations. Out of this need, the...
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How we built it: Next Games global online gaming platform on Azure
Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it." Next...
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Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Security...
In part 2 of this series, we will start to dive into DC/OS 1.9 installation on top of vSphere. Mesosphere offers few ways to deploy a fully working cluster and since I wanted to see how everything is...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.4
Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 2.4! If you haven’t yet heard of TypeScript, it’s a superset of JavaScript that brings static types and powerful tooling to JavaScript. These...
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The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit
Previous posts: .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime...
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PyData Seattle is next week!
Next week, we’ll be hosting PyData Seattle 2017 at Microsoft. Several hundred attendees, speakers and teachers will converge on our main conference center for three days of talks, tutorials, and other...
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Gain business insights using Power BI reports for Azure Backup
Azure Backup announced the support for alerting and monitoring in August 2016. Taking it a step further, we are excited to announce preview of Azure Backup Reports using Power BI. Azure Backup Reports...
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Azure Site Recovery now supports Ubuntu
Azure Site Recovery makes business continuity accessible for all your IT applications by letting you use Azure as your recovery site. This offers a solution where you only pay for the resources you...
View ArticleCreating enterprise grade BI models with Azure Analysis Services
In April we announced the general availability of Azure Analysis Services, which evolved from the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The success of any modern...
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Text Analytics API now supports analyzing sentiment in 16 languages
You can now analyze the sentiment of your text in 12 new languages. With this release, you will now be able to get a more complete view of your customer’s voice with an understanding of how your...
View ArticleEvent Hubs Capture (formally Archive) is now Generally Available
Today we are announcing Azure Event Hubs Capture, released in public preview in September 2016 as Azure Event Hubs Archive, is now Generally Available. This capability adds an important dimension to...
View ArticleIdentity now available in SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a SQL-based, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud solution for data warehousing. SQL DW is highly elastic, you can provision in minutes and scale capacity in...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16225 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16225 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16225 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleNew troubleshooting and diagnostics for Azure Files Storage mounting errors...
Azure File Storage offers fully managed file shares in the cloud using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is the predominantly used file share protocol for on-premises Windows use cases....
View ArticleSecurity Features in Microsoft Visual C++
Every developer makes mistakes. No matter how careful you are when writing code, you will introduce bugs. And any bug can become a security vulnerability when software that runs in a connected...
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How we approach testing VSTS to enable continuous delivery
I like to write, from time to time about our experiences, successes, failures and learnings from delivering Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), a large scale service, on a cloud delivery cadence. My...
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Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2
At Build 2017, we released an initial preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0. Over the last two months we have incorporated your feedback and added a number of new features. We now have a Preview 2...
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