Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.23
Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories How Microsoft Does DevOps - Dave Harrison An excellent write-up of an...
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YOLO on Azure Deep Learning Virtual Machine (Windows)
https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2018/03/CherryBot-Fans-short.mp4 Video credits: Greenwood Campbell at CherryBot Launch YOLO "You only look once" by Joseph Redmon A state of the art...
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Terraform and Azure Better Together! (Deploying Azure Function via Terraform)
You simply gotta love Terraform for obvious reasons but now specially for the awesome Azure integration available to all of us! As announced yesterday here we now have access to brand new offering...
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Announcing our Imagine Cup 2018 10 UK Finalist teams!
It’s that time of the year again when we see the UK’s top student developers coming together to create innovative solutions, looking to change the world. With the Imagine Cup UK National Finals fast...
View ArticleBinding a Certificate in IIS using C# and Powershell
Other day I was assisting a customer who had a unique need to bind a Certificate from within C# code using Powershell. A direct API call won't work due to some constraints, so Powershell was the other...
View ArticleInvestigating issues email notifications for new account sign up and other...
Final Update: Saturday, March 24th 2018 13:09 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of 11:44 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 2018/03/24 23:46 UTC and that during the 12...
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DevConf’s log #1 – Flights, floods, and lack of sleep
I am in South-Africa to share our DevOps journey at DevConf, a community driven, developer focused, one-day conference hosted annually. After a 23.9167-hour trip from Vancouver to Johannesburg I...
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SCOM: Export Rules, Monitors, Overrides, Settings, Effective Monitoring...
2018.03.23: (This is a reboot of a previous post. I revised the title, script, and photos a bit.) I was working on a support case recently when it was brought to my attention that this cmdlet,...
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Devconf discussions – Feature Flags
For the next few days I’ll try to share a few of the discussions before, during, and after DevConf, a community driven, developer focused, one-day conference hosted annually. Feature flags are...
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IIS Manager shows Authorization warning when testing a Physical Path
This is an issue we see time to time that worries our customers. In most cases, this is a by-design benign warning that simply telling us a verification has been deferred to runtime. If you select your...
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Lesson Learned #33: How to make “cliconfg” to work with SQL Alias...
I worked on a new situation, when we need to connect to a Azure SQL Database using SQL Alias in the same way that we have SQL Server on-premise. Unfortunately, there is not supported, but we are going...
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Azure Load Balancer – A new Standard SKU for Premium Capabilities
A bit of history When you talk about Cloud Computing, you cannot avoid talking about networking, it is the glue that maintain everything together, and permit users to access their resources, and...
View ArticleLesson Learned #34: Does Azure SQL Database support OPENJSON?
The answer is Yes! but your database needs to have in the compatibility level 130 or above. If your database compatibility level is less than 130 you could get an error about "incorrect syntax near the...
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2018 Imagine Cup 報名教學！
又到了一年一度的 Imagine Cup 這個由 Microsoft 針對學生所舉辦的科技大賽的報名時間，就讓 MSP 來告訴你怎麼樣完美的完成報名吧！ Step 1. 登入 Microsoft Imagine 首先請在看文章的你，點選 這裡 進到 Microsoft Imagine 的首頁。 接著請點選右上角的登入！ Microsoft Imagine 首頁...
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Teamwork: Embracing new culture of work
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships" – Michael Jordan New culture of work Just like sports, fostering a culture of teamwork is essential for a productive enterprise....
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devconf’s log #2 – Sun, Mandela, and no Bowtie
Continued from DevConf’s log #1 – Flights, floods, and lack of sleep. Spent the weekend relaxing, mentally preparing for the conference, and enjoying the sun, food, and discussions. Part of the mental...
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devconf discussions – What is DevOps?
Sharing a few of the discussions before, during, and after devconf, a community driven, developer focused, one-day conference hosted annually. The questions that were asked the most over the past few...
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Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki
This feature will be available in VSTS after the deployment of the Sprint 132 update is completed. Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK...
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Mixed Reality for everyone through Windows 10
Written by Natalie Afshar What exactly is mixed reality? And how does it compare with augmented reality and virtual reality? Well, virtual reality (VR) usually involves a fully immersive virtual...
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Azure Active Directory Authentication (Easy Auth) with Custom Backend Web API
A common scenario in web application development is a frontend web application accessing some backend API. The backend API may provide an interface to some shared business system or database (e.g., a...
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