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Tracking configuration changes for your Azure VM
In this blog post, I will talk about how to use the Change Tracking solution to detect in-guest changes on your Azure VMs. Right from within your Azure VM you can quickly assess details of changes that...
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Announcing Azure Service Health preview
Personalized guidance and support when issues in Azure services affect you. We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Service Health, your new personalized service health dashboard in the Azure...
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A Wiki preview on VSTS
Back in February, I announced our plan to release a fairly full featured Wiki for Team Services and TFS. I also announced that we were purchasing the Wiki extension that was then in the marketplace....
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Hands on with Visual Studio for Mac – Part 2
Since the release of Visual Studio for Mac we’ve been amazed by the number of Mac developers using it to build native apps for Mac, iOS, and Android, using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms; web sites and...
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Perf results on scaling Git on VSTS with GVFS
A little over a month ago, I gave an update on our progress of moving the Windows team to Git in the largest Git repo on the planet. At the time, I described the scale of the Windows Git repo (over...
View ArticleDeep Learning and Drones
Deep Learning Part 5: Running Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks through Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs on Raspberry Pi 3 & Parrot Drones by Anusua Trivedi, Microsoft Data Scientist This blog...
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Calling WinRT Components from a Win32 process via the Desktop Bridge
In today’s post, we are covering another step you can take on your journey across the Desktop Bridge: specifically migrating business logic to Windows Runtime Components, aka WinRT Components....
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: O, Captain!
What would happen if a real-world airline pilot found himself inside a multiplayer flight simulator along with a bunch of gamers, but insisted that everything was real? That's the premise behind...
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XGBoost support added to Rattle
by Fang Zhou, Data Scientist; and Graham Williams, Director of Data Science, all at Microsoft Rattle — the R Analytical Tool To Learn Easily — is a popular open-source GUI for data mining using R. It...
View ArticleAn update on disabling VBScript in Internet Explorer 11
Beginning in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we intend to disable VBScript execution in IE 11 for websites in the Internet Zone and the Restricted Sites Zone by default, to provide a more secure...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.07
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Work Item Customization Simplified! VSTS vs TFS – Steven BorgTeam...
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URLs are UI
What a great title. "URLs are UI." Pithy, clear, crisp. Very true. I've been saying it for years. Someone on Twitter said "this is the professional quote of 2017" because they agreed with it. Except...
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Announcing StorSimple 8000 series in the new Azure portal!
I'm pleased to announce the General Availability of StorSimple 8000 series management in the new Azure portal. Everything about the StorSimple Physical Device Series experience in the new Azure portal...
View ArticleNew networking features in Azure scale sets
Today we are announcing a set of networking enhancements for Azure virtual machine scale sets. We are adding new ways to assign IP addresses, configure DNS, and assign network security. Azure scale...
View ArticleNew government datacenter regions available in Arizona and Texas
I am pleased to announce that Azure Government is commercially live in two additional datacenter regions in Arizona and Texas for U.S. government customers and their partners following my announcement...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: June 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. R 3.4.1 "Single Candle" has been released. The Scientific Computing Coordinator at the FDA explains how R is...
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Ongoing updates to Linux on Windows 10 and Important Tips!
I noticed this blog post about Ubuntu over at the Microsoft Command Line blog. Ubuntu is now available from the Windows Store for builds of Windows over 16215. You can run "Winver" to see your build...
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Ubuntu now in the Windows Store: Updates to Linux on Windows 10 and Important...
I noticed this blog post about Ubuntu over at the Microsoft Command Line blog. Ubuntu is now available from the Windows Store for builds of Windows over 16215. You can run "Winver" to see your build...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery support for Storage Spaces and Windows Server 2016
We recently announced the public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS machines, which allows you to replicate applications between Azure regions as well as create networks, storage accounts, and...
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Azure Site Recovery now supports large disk sizes in Azure
Following the recent general availability of large disk sizes in Azure, we are excited to announce that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports the disaster recovery and migration of on-premises virtual...
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