Report Server database migration fails at "Setting DSN" step
Hello all,Recently I worked on a scenario where the requirement was to migrate the ReportServer database from SQL 2008 R2 instance to SQL 2014 . In this blog, I have shared the steps used to fix the...
View ArticleIs a SID with zero subauthorities a valid SID? It depends whom you ask
Here's an interesting table. FunctionIs SubAuthorityCount=0 valid?IsValidSidYesConvertSidToStringSidYesConvertStringSidToSidNo That last entry creates the unfortunate situation where a SID...
View ArticleOffice 365 Adoption Kit for Healthcare
This is a great resource for our Healthcare customers: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/health/products/office365-healthcare-adoption-kit/default.aspx#fbid=4LMzwoEVUbm
View ArticleASP.NET 5 Beta5 已釋出!
本週我們釋出了 ASP.NET 5 Beta5,您可以於 Visual Studio 2015 RC 內透過 http://nuget.org 直接升級!VS2015 RC 之前附帶安裝的是 Beta4,您一定和小編一樣迫不急待想升級吧!ASP.NET 5 Beta5 有許多新的功能、新的更新,並進行了一些 bugs 的修復。首先,您必須瞭解,在 Visual Studio 中包含了 ASP.NET...
View ArticleOffice 365 Deployment Center and Customer Success Center
Two more Office 365 resources I often point my customers to that they find useful:Accelerate deployment with the Office 365 Deployment Center: https://deploy.office.com/Accelerate usage and adoption...
View ArticleThe future of End User Programming
The bar for creating your own applications keeps getting lower. Can you create a PowerPoint presentation? If so, you can probably write a business application. Check out some of our latest work in...
View ArticleWimbledon has started. The sun is shining. The strawberries have arrived (but...
What could be better? Tennis on grass. Sunshine. And strawberry fields forever.(Unless there's a problem with a punnet!) Roughly 27,000 kilos of strawberries are eaten during the Wimbledon...
View ArticleAzure: Using Dreamspark Azure & Free tools to build your design team!
If you are a student, or still have an email account that has the extension of .EDU, you have the ability to get access to the Azure Cloud. Now you can get access to other clouds, and you should...
View ArticleWindows 10 Rollout plan
With about 4 weeks to go before Windows 10 General Availability, Terry Myerson just authored this blog post detailing our rollout plan:...
View ArticleMicrosoft open sources WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft open sources WorldWide TelescopeIndividuals and organizations can now adapt and extend the functionality of this astronomical image and data environment for research or educational...
View ArticleThank you for your contributions
Since going open source, Roslyn has had 45 and Visual F# has had 29 unique code contributors external to Microsoft. To celebrate and appreciate our first contributors, we sent them each a small gift in...
View ArticleMonitoring SharePoint 2013 Search Top Level Errors
IntroA common request for SharePoint Administrators and SharePoint Search Administrators is some sort of alert notification when top level errors occur during crawls. The SharePoint 2013 UI provides an...
View ArticleFinding files in the PATH with PowerShell
Just a quick post this time!I frequently find myself wanting to know where a command in my PATH is. Earlier today it was to work out why DNVM beta4 was being loaded despite installing DNVM beta6. (It...
View ArticlePSA: Win2D will be switching from the Apache 2.0 to MIT license
Win2D currently ships under the Apache 2.0 license. This has served us well so far, but we are now considering switching over to the MIT license. We plan to do this with our v1 release, which will ship...
View ArticleHow to ask Bing and Google to Index your Website
Search engine is one of the main channels to drive traffic to your website. If Google/Bing cannot discover your website, you are losing lots of customer opportunities. In the following two posts,...
View ArticleAdaptive and interactive toast notifications for Windows 10
Adaptive and interactive toast notifications are a new feature in Windows 10. They allow you to:Create flexible toast notifications with more content and optional inline images without being limited to...
View ArticleFolder Management – Visual Studio Online Extension, by Wouter De Kort
As one of the ALM Rangers, Wouter had the opportunity to join the early access program for the new extension model for Visual Studio Online.After the storyboard and with his extension idea approved by...
View ArticleWeb Developers’ SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0
Download the SEO Cheat SheetHere are the details and SEO information covered in the SEO cheat sheet 3.0. Page 1Important HTML Elements HTTP Status Codes Canonicalization URL Best Practices Webmaster...
View ArticlePreview the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver
Greetings SQL Server developers and users,Today we are pleased to announce availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft JDBC 4.2 Driver for SQL Server! This driver now...
View ArticleDeep Learning Machine beats Human in IQ Test
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test is a set of standardized questions designed to evaluate human intelligence.In June 2015, a Natural Language Processing team lead by University of Science and Technology...
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