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Accelerating the adoption of enterprise blockchain
Over the past year, we have had the pleasure of working with several customers on their business initiatives related to blockchain's technology. During this time, we have been helping them to envision...
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Application Insights: VSTS dashboard chart widget now available
Yes, you read that correctly. We have just released an Application Insights chart widget for VSTS dashboards! It's ok, you can go ahead and say it, this has been a long time coming. We heard all of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing automatic OS upgrades for Azure VM scale sets
Infrastructure scale and complexity When Azure virtual machine scale sets were introduced, we made it easy to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure at very large scale. We are continually looking for...
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Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Windows Server System State Backup to Azure with the Azure Backup agent. We previewed the direct offsite of Windows Server System State to...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services in Hong Kong
Today we opened a new VSTS instance in Hong Kong – the Azure “East Asia” region. This adds to our instances in US, Europe, Brazil, India and Australia, giving us reasonably short distance access to...
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Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana
Today, we are excited to introduce the Grafana plugin for Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Azure is an open platform that enables you to bring workloads built using your favorite tools and...
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Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview
We are happy to announce the public preview of support for Cosmos DB in the Azure Storage Explorer (ASE). With this release Cosmos DB databases can be explored and managed with the same consistent user...
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Creating a Minimal ASP.NET Core Windows Container
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos One of the benefits of containers is their small size, which allows them to be more quickly deployed and more efficiently packed onto a host than virtual machines...
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Visual Studio IDE extensions now published and managed at Marketplace
Consumers of Visual Studio IDE extensions visit Visual Studio Marketplace to discover and acquire extensions. But extension publishers visit Visual Studio Gallery to publish and manage their Visual...
View ArticleDon Jayamanne, creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code, joins...
I'm delighted to announce that Don Jayamanne, the author of the most popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code, has joined Microsoft! Starting immediately, Microsoft will be publishing and...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Nov 2017 update – Multi-root workspaces...
This week has been very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension! It crossed 4 million downloads earlier this week only 18 months after its first release! Today, we are shipping the November...
View ArticleRecap: EARL Boston 2017
By Emmanuel Awa, Francesca Lazzeri and Jaya Mathew, data scientists at Microsoft A few of us got to attend EARL conference in Boston last week which brought together a group of talented users of R from...
View ArticleDevOps @ Connect(); 2017
I am excited…There will be lots of news…at Microsoft Connect(); 2017 happening Wednesday Nov 15th in New York City. Please join the live stream starting at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote,...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.10
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Defining a DevOps Culture – Esteban GarciaWhat do people mean when they...
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Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code
In the past 3 weeks, we’ve continued to see a lot of people installing and trying our tools, reading our documents, and visiting our repository. We’ve also seen a number of new issues opened by the...
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Developing AI applications on Azure: learning plans at three levels
If you're looking to expand your skills as an AI developer, or just getting started, these learning plans for AI Developers on Azure provide a wealth of information to get you up to speed. The...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Drone impact
On July 2 this year, a remotely-piloted drone wandered into active airspace ... twice. Not only does the video below illustrate the significant impact of this event, but it's also an interesting...
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Azure Virtual Datacenter
An approach to isolation, security, and trust in the Microsoft cloud I am excited to announce the distribution of Azure Virtual Datacenter guidance. Azure Virtual Datacenter (VDC) is an approach to...
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#AzureSQLDW: Hub and Spoke series Integration with Azure Analysis Services
This blog post is co-authored with Ellis Hiroki Butterfield, Program Manager for SQL DW and Josh Caplan, Program Manager for Azure Analysis Services. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft’s SQL...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Data & analytics updates, Azure IP Advantage, and more
It is inevitable that last week in Azure will soon be overshadowed by all the announcements and demos that will stream from the Microsoft Connect(); 2017 event in New York City, which starts on...
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