Performance issues with Visual Studio Online in South Central US - 8/28 -...
Final Update: Friday, 28 August 2015 23:35 UTC The incident has been mitigated and customers should no longer experience any performance issues in South Central US. We understand that customers rely...
View ArticleAll the info, in lots more languages!
As we promised earlier this week, Kinect for Windows information for developers has migrated. You’ll now find it in the Windows Dev Center, where it’s in some pretty snazzy company. (Hello, Cortana....
View ArticleHow to nominate games to be featured on our blog!!!
Got a game or program you made with Small Basic that you want us to review for being featured on this blog?Maybe someone else's game or program that you think is great? Check out all our featured...
View ArticleAX 2012 – Dimensiones financieras en órdenes de compra y órdenes de venta
Las dimensiones financieras permiten clasificar la información contable básicamente para fines de análisis.El valor de las dimensiones financieras en cada transacción puede ser registrado al momento de...
View ArticleSharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview
Check out the post by Bill Baer, senior technical product manager for the SharePoint team on SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and cloud hybrid searchOther useful links for SharePoint 2016 Preview are:...
View ArticleSQLSaturdays Events
September is a big month for Data Platform in SA. The team will be hosting 3 SQLSaturdays in JHB on 5th September at the MS offices , 12th September in Cape Town and 19th September in Durban. There...
View ArticleThe Windows 95 I/O system assumed that if it wrote a byte, then it could read...
In Windows 95, compressed data was read off the disk in three steps. The raw compressed data was read into a temporary buffer. The compressed data was uncompressed into a second temporary buffer. The...
View ArticleIsolate issues related to e-mail not sending from Dynamics AX 2012 using the...
The smtp4dev is a quick tool that can be utilized to isolate issues related to e-mail not sending from AX. As sending e-mail from AX involves SMTP it is best to confirm if the issue is with AX or SMTP....
View ArticleCI Experience Futures
Today we updated the VSO features timeline with some investments we are making in Team Build. This list is not comprehensive but does cover some of the larger and more interesting features as well as...
View ArticleIntelligent Cloud - CRM Online & Power BI
Early in my career as a CRM Technologist I spent a lot of time writing SQL queries, creating dashboards and delivering them to the business. As a technologist, I provided estimates for those reports,...
View ArticleVisual 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...
View ArticlePower 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...
View ArticleCreating 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...
View ArticleLocale 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...
View ArticleGit 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,...
View ArticleCheck 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
View ArticleAuthentication 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...
View ArticleDevelopment 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...
View ArticleIntroducing 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...
View ArticleSpeaking 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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