How Azure Security Center unveils suspicious PowerShell attack
In honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), we have a new post in our series highlighting real-world attacks that Azure Security Center helped detect, investigate, and mitigate. This...
View ArticleHardening Azure Analysis Services with the new firewall capability
Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) is designed with security in mind and takes advantage of the security features available on the Azure platform. For example, integration with Azure Active Directory...
View ArticleUnifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service
We’ve seen an increase in container workloads running in production environments and a new wave of tooling that’s cropped up around container deployments. Microsoft Azure has a number of different...
View ArticlePut your databases on autopilot with a lift and shift to Azure SQL Database
The sheer volume of data generated today and the number of apps and databases across enterprises is staggering. To stay competitive and get ahead in today’s marketplace, IT organizations are always...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cognitive Services – How Content Moderator helps to boost...
Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications and enhance their ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of...
View ArticleStep-back while debugging with IntelliTrace
Have you ever stepped while debugging, realized that you’ve taken one step too far, and wished you could step back? Or, while stepping, saw a variable change in an unexpected way, and wish you could go...
View ArticleCheck out the new In-app ads dashboard in Windows Dev Center
We are happy to announce the new Monetize -> In-app ads section in Windows Dev Center. This is your one stop shop to create and manage the ad mediation settings of your UWP and Windows 8.x ad units....
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.6 RC
TypeScript 2.6 RC is now available! To get started with the latest stable version of TypeScript, you can grab it through NuGet, or use the following command with npm: npm install -g typescript@rc...
View ArticleA cRyptic crossword with an R twist
Last week's R-themed crossword from R-Ladies DC was popular, so here's another R-related crossword, this time by Barry Rowlingson and published on page 39 of the June 2003 issue of R-news (now known as...
View ArticleNew Map Control features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
The Maps team has been busy making improvements and adding new features to the Maps platform for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. In addition to performance and visual improvements to the 3D...
View ArticleNew Map Control features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
We have updated the Maps platform for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to make our maps more performant and visually pleasing. We have also listened the feedback from our users and introduced...
View ArticleNew vswhere: now with more properties!
The latest release of vswhere not outputs additional properties as requested, along with catalog properties and a way to disambiguate nested properties – not that there are any currently. You can...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.13
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What is a Backlog? – David CorbinSeems like it should be pretty obvious....
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2018 and SQL Server
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post announcing the availability of TFS 2018 RC1. In the comments, there ensued a sizeable conversation about the requirement for SQL Server 2016 or later (rather than...
View ArticleAn AI pitches startup ideas
Take a look at this list of 13 hot startups, from a list compiled by Alex Bresler. Perhaps one of them is the next Juicero? FAR ATHERA: A CLINICAL AI PLATFORM THAT CAN BE ACCESSED ON DEMAND. ZAPSY:...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Line Rider
Line Rider is a simple web-based game: draw a line (or a series of lines), and watch an animated sledder ride along it like it was a snow slope. It's remained much the same since it was created in 2006...
View ArticleScaling Mentorship
You may have had a mentor in the past. Often these are more senior/elder people who are further along in their career. The presumption usually is that if they are "ahead" of you that they likely have...
View ArticleBenefits of using the Azure IoT SDKs, and pitfalls to avoid if you don’t
Azure IoT provides a set of open-source Software Development Kits (SDKs) to simplify and accelerate the development of IoT solutions build with Azure IoT Hub. Using the SDKs in prototyping and...
View ArticleCloud Service Map for AWS and Azure Available Now
Today, we are pleased to introduce a new cloud service map to help you quickly compare the cloud capabilities of Azure and AWS services in all categories. Whether you are planning a multi-cloud...
View ArticleAzure Log Analytics workspace upgrades are in progress
If you’re currently using Azure Log Analytics to monitor your environments for availability and performance, we’re rolling out new enhancements and changes for Log Analytics that you should be aware...
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