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Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM Released
On August 24th we released Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM. This update is also available for MSDN subscribers.In Team Foundation Server 2015 we introduced a new feature Team Project Rename. This...
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Power BI in Action
Power BI offers a package of great features and capabilities—mobile BI, natural language queries, interactive dashboards, easy-to-share content packs, and awesome visualization tools. But how does that...
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Creating a Data Culture (Guest Post)
By Rik Howe, Partner Technology Strategist at Microsoft,The Last Mile of Business IntelligenceToday there’s a lot of hype around Big Data, but what we are coming to realise is that it’s not about the...
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Locale Builder and Finnish or other locales...
The Locale Builder tool, http://aka.ms/localebuilder, runs on Windows 10 and can be used to modify your computer's locale if you don't want the defaults that ship in the OS. For example, the Finnish...
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Git Experience Futures
Our goal is to provide a Git experience that works for different engineering systems and teams, while making it easy to use. Today, we're announcing improvements to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online,...
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Check out Snip from Office Mix!
Great tool I started using today. Designed to replace the snipping tool, it grabs screenshots but also works as a GREAT ad-hoc whiteboard: https://mix.office.com/Snip
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Authentication lifetime settings
When SharePoint 2013 authenticates an user, the Security Token Service creates a security token with the user's identity and several other claims. This token is then added to the Distributed Logon...
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Development builds for DSC Resources are available
Note: This blog post is intended to people who participate in the development of DSC Resources on GitHub. We are pleased to announce that we've made developments builds available for all DSC Resource...
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Introducing the team – Oleksandr Shamrai
Why do you want to join the ALM Rangers?I have deep experience on different ALM platforms. But Microsoft ALM remains for me the best ones. I also want to bring my experience in improving the use of MS...
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Speaking at Microsoft Ignite New Zealand next week
Next week I will be in New Zealand speaking at Microsoft Ignite New Zealand.Here are the details of the sessions I will be presenting:What's New in Windows Server Hyper-V [M227]Time: Wed 2 Sept, 3:10...
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Public Preview Refresh of SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault
For those that missed it, the Public Preview refresh download for the SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault was released on Aug 14, 2015 to the Microsoft Download Center. The SQL Server...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th
This week we are rolling out our sprint 87 work. Nothing earth shattering this sprint but some nice project management improvements. Also we’ve added first class SonarQube support now with custom...
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Survey: What's next in LCS
We are always working towards improving your LCS experience. We would like to understand how you use LCS for your projects and what other tools and services you use in conjugation with LCS to meet your...
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TFS 2015 Power Tools are available
Today we released the TFS 2015 Power Tools that accompany VS 2015 and TFS 2015. The landing page that link points to includes lots of info about compatibility, changes, etc.Sorry it took a bit longer...
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Don’t Leave Me A Message After the Tone: The Beginning of the End for Voicemail?
Is it time for your business to update its use of technology?The world of work continues to change – I often wonder how are we are supposed to keep up! It seems only yesterday that voicemails were a...
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Power BI Personal Gateway supplemental information
Note: Power BI software is updated frequently. This is written based on the Power BI Personal Gateway released in August 2015.Power BI Personal Gateway allows refresh of data models stored in Power BI...
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TFS 2015 Installation guidance
At least once or twice a week, I’m getting questions about where the TFS 2015 installation guidance is. We’re not doing well with search engines on that apparently. We’re going to see if we can do...
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VS 2012 Update 5 has been released
This week we released the final build of VS 2012 Update 5. You can get it on the Visual Studio downloads page. There are only a few changes in it. You can find them in the VS 2012 Update 5 KB...
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Features timeline refresh
With the TFS 2015 release behind us and a lot of planning for our next phase of work completed, it’s time to do a major refresh of our Visual Studio Online Features Timeline. If you aren’t familiar...
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Industry Acceleration (IP) Workshop - Sydney
Pursuing and servicing a broad range of industries has left many partners with a diversified customer base and limited IP. As the buying community increasingly demands lower costs, lower project risk...
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