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VS 2015 Update 1 RC & TFS 2015 Update 1 RC2 Released
We just released our final “pre-release” of Update 1 for Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2015. Lots of useful links are available here:Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Release NotesTeam...
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Azure Key Vault Integration for Azure SQL Server VMs
Last week, the SQL VM team announced the Azure Key Vault Integration feature. The Azure Key Vault (AKV) Integration feature simplifies the process for setting up your Azure SQL Server VM to use Azure...
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What's new for Adaptive Tile Templates in Windows 10 Version 1511
For 1511, we've added a number of small features and improvements to Adaptive Tile Templates. This post summarizes everything that's new. See the Adaptive Tile Templates documentation to learn...
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Instance Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM is now on GitHub as open source
Today the Instance Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM was published on GitHub as a public open source project using the MIT license. The current release listed there is a pre-release version for folks...
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How to Enable Users to Access the MIM Portal
Ok, so you' ve imported all the users into the portal, but no other account can access it other than the FIM Administrator used to install the application.You've done the usual to verify that...
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@alt_snapshot_folder for PULL Subscribers
--Chris Skorlinski, SQL Server Escalation ServicesTo improve SQL Distribution agent performance when applying Snapshot, first ZIP then copy the snapshot files locally to the subscriber. This is a great...
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Rethinking SharePoint Project Cost Estimation with Azure Machine Learning
Editor’s note: The following post was written by Office Servers and Services MVP John Timney as part of our Technical Tuesday series with support from his technical editor, Office Servers and Services...
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Public Preview of Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database
Always Encrypted is now available for public preview in all service tiers of Azure SQL Database V12. You can use Always Encrypted to ensure sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, is encrypted and...
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What’s the secret to winning hackathons? A great idea, 22 hours without sleep...
Empty energy drink cans stack up on desks. Crumpled food wrappers litter hallways. Humans slightly resembling students hunch over screens or lie immobile on any flat surface available. No, it’s not the...
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The system is entering sleep.
I've received several complaints after upgrading to Windows 10 of devices entering sleep contrary to expectations, frequently after a very short delay (2-3 minutes). This has come up during previous...
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The New Home of DSC Documentation
I’m pleased to announce that our official PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) documentation now has a new home on MSDN. We heard your feedback loud and clear, and began working on a...
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Log Parser Errors Importing into IIS Logs into SQL Serer
During the transition of log parser scripts built in batch files to PowerShell, I encountered a few errors that took some time to figure out the cause and wanted to share with the rest of the...
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How to Identify Why an Application Pool is Recycling in IIS 7+ and DebugDiag...
Identifying why Application Pool is recyclingStarting with IIS 7, application recycle for managed Web Applications does not recycle w3wp.exe (IIS Worker Process), instead it simply reload (unload and...
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Introducing C++ Experimental Editor Tools!
Hello C++ World! At various times during our development cycle here in the C++ IDE, our developers start working on features that we believe can bring a lot of value to customers, but sometimes we just...
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Power BI Weekly Service Update
This week's update is a bit different than our normal update. This week brings improvements that make it easier for organizations and individuals to acquire Power BI licenses and for admins to monitor...
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Compete: changing the rules of the game
This week I wanted to share this new paper from Harvard Business Review that I found a very interesting read - The Future and How to Survive It by Richard Dobbs, Tim Koller and Sree Ramaswamy for those...
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Changing the conditions under which ReadFile produces fewer bytes than requested
In response to an article on hierarchical storage management, Karellen suggests that the problem could be ameliorated by having the hierarchical storage manager keep the first 4KB of the file online,...
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Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur DevOps
Venez demain chez Microsoft pour la conférence "Avec la démarche DevOps, optimisez le déploiement de vos applications !"Au programme de cette demi-journée, les thèmes suivants seront abordés :- Le...
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Announcing Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
As a key component of today’s announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Extensions Part 2
In this episode, I am joined by Tim Sneath for the second of two episodes focused on building Visual Studio extensions. In part 1, Tim provided an overview of extensions and talked about some of the...
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