FedAuth cookie encryption
The issue If you are using SharePoint with AD FS, you may know how these two products interact. Thefollowingsummarizestheloginprocess:When the user is not logged in, SharePoint will redirect the user...
View ArticleHow do I run a Web search in the user's default Web browser using their...
More than one customer has asked, "How do I run a Web search in the user's default Web browser using their default search provider?" Nobody knows for sure. Windows does define a mechanism for...
View ArticleUnderstanding Spark’s SparkConf, SparkContext, SQLContext and HiveContext
The first step of any Spark driver application is to create a SparkContext. The SparkContext allows your Spark driver application to access the cluster through a resource manager. The resource manager...
View ArticleData Insights Global Practice – Blog Kick-off
Today we’re kicking off a new Blog intended to provide technical and architectural guidance for developing analytics solutions on Microsoft Azure. Over the past 12 months, the breadth managed services...
View ArticleMaintenance Monday, 14 September - Friday, 18 September - Scheduled
We will be shipping an update to Visual Studio Online. We are planning on having maintenance windows from Monday,14 September , through Friday, 18 September. There should be no impact to the service...
View ArticleSCEnAT+ Launch Event: 24th September, Microsoft London
Together with the University of Sheffield, Shaping Cloud and a number of our other partners, Microsoft is pleased to be hosting the SCEnAT+ Lauch Event at our London Victoria offices on Thursday 24th...
View Articleebook deal of the week: Exam Ref 70-347 Enabling Office 365 Services
List price: $31.99 Sale price: $15.99You save 50% BuyThis offer expires Sunday, September 20 at 7:00 AM GMT.Direct from Microsoft, this Exam Ref is the official study guide for the new Microsoft...
View ArticleJoin @MSFTImagine for a Sept. 23 #ImagineChat on all things Imagine Cup,...
Are you interested in competing in this year’s Imagine Cup competition? Got questions about our new Hello Cloud Challenge? Want to learn more about our cool new Imagine Cup Earth contest?Well, if you...
View ArticleRunning Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 on Hyper-V
Last week I blogged about "Running Hyper-V on Nano". Today I want to talk about the opposite process - running Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 as a guest on Hyper-V.There are a number of changes in...
View ArticleAccessing Microsoft DreamSpark Azure account if you have onthehub DreamSpark...
Microsoft DreamSpark now offers FREE Azure for all students via https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=99 However if your institution has a DreamSpark Premium subscription with an...
View ArticleSo long and thanks for all the fish
This will be my last post on this blog. I have resigned from Microsoft. The past twelve years have been quite a ride, first in the support organization, and then in engineering - working on OpsMgr...
View ArticleOn a Cloud: Queue Batches
Queue: Batch Sizes Building up on the queue fundamentals, in this video I cover the important of using batches of messages when you are trying to optimize for messaging throughput.Enabling...
View ArticleStudent Survival Tips from Cortana
As students all over the country are returning to college and university, the pressures upon self-reliance and organisation will be slowly but surely cranking up as the work continues to flow steadily...
View ArticleStudent Survival Tips from Cortana
As students all over the country are returning to college and university, the pressures upon self-reliance and organisation will be slowly but surely cranking up as the work continues to flow steadily...
View ArticlePerfomance issues with Visual Studio Online - 9/15 - Resolved
Final Update: Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:08 UTCThe incident has been mitigated and customers should no longer experience any performance issues. We understand that customers rely on VS Online as a...
View ArticleAzure Storage SDKについて
本日2015年9月15日に行ったIoTハンズオンセミナーで、参加者の方に指摘を受けた、Azure Storage SDKに関する解決策です。https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-tables/にAzure Storage...
View ArticleEventSource Activity Support Demo Code
In yesterday's blog post, wrote a summary of the new support in .NET V4.6 for Activities. In particular it points you EventSource Activity Specification, which describes the feature in detail.I...
View ArticleA process inherits its environment from its parent, and the consequences of...
A customer reported that they changed some system-level enviornment variables (include PATH). They also have a batch file that, among other things, runs a program that requires that the PATH be set a...
View ArticleHwb+ at the core of the Digital Wales strategy
The ‘Digital Wales’ framework recognises that the most important drivers of economic and social growth for any country, surrounds the digital competency of their citizens and businesses. As part of a...
View ArticleUsing the Student FREE Azure Account to Setup a WordPress Blog
This blog is a result of a question on the computing at schools discussion forum, around schools setting up WordPress sites. The intention of this blog is to guide you through the steps which show...
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