Cloud Computing a blended learning approach to education
The growth in cloud presents challenges for companies to source expertise that securely supports their business when migrating/deploying services to the cloud-particularly Small-Medium-Enterprises(SME)...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.04
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Recent work on the Countdown Widget for...
View ArticleTroubleshoot Service Fabric Cluster Upgrade Issues
We refer Service Fabric Cluster Upgrade as the Fabric Upgrade. Fabric Upgrade failures can be caused by multiple reasons, some common issues were listed below: Missing seednode or not enough seednode...
View ArticleFocus on your code, Let Microsoft Teams worry about the UI
In this post, App Dev Manager Kyle Kapphahn spotlights the conversational UI framework of Microsoft Teams to simplify UI development for enterprise apps. When I first began commercial software...
View ArticleBulk VM creation from CSV using Azure PowerShell
This sample talks about few basic aspects of Azure PowerShell, 1. Reading from CSV 2. Parameterizing PowerShell 3. Calling another PowerShell from PowerShell with Parameters Now let’s see how the CSV...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server and GitHub Enterprise in Azure
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is the Software as a Service (SaaS) Microsoft offering for source code management (e.g., using Git), CI/CD pipelines, etc. It enables users to mix and match the tools...
View ArticleProtecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault
Context If you are building a modern application and are following modern design principles, there is a good chance your application is composed of a number of layers and services. Also, your...
View ArticleWhere can I find the latest Azure training?
We have many free Azure training offerings available to get started learning Azure. Here are several ones I recommend to customers: Where can I see a quick overview of Azure’s capabilities? For...
View ArticleProgrammatically created email with attachment shows fields garbled
In recent times I was working with the developer customer. They created a custom application using Outlook Object Model (OOM) API – their app tries to create a new message programmatically with...
View ArticleHow to get your free Dynamics 365 Business Central Demo Instance
Dynamics 365 Business Central is an online service by Microsoft - sold vis CSP (Cloud Solution Provider Program) by Microsoft partners on Microsoft Azure. It is an all-in-one business management...
View ArticleDevOps and Leadership
In this post, App Dev Manager Ron Vincent explorers the role of leadership in an industry driven by DevOps. DevOps requires a different approach to leadership. In this article I'll explain where...
View ArticleUsing the NavigationView in your UWP applications
The navigation view control provides top-level application navigation. For a more detailed description see the Windows Dev Center document “Navigation view”. In this blog post I want to provide you...
View Article2018 U.S. Imagine Cup Winners Announced!
The U.S. Imagine Cup Finals took place in San Francisco this week during an exciting three-day event where Microsoft exposed students to networking opportunities, innovative technology and community...
View ArticleBuilding a simple Azure Function using Visual Studio Code and Bot framework...
Here at MTC we are seeing growing interest in leveraging intelligent chatbots build on top of Microsoft Bot framework and using it's out of box channels like Skype, Teams, Facebook Messenger, etc. to...
View ArticleLanguage Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) – 401 Access denied due to...
Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) uses two keys: authoring and endpoint. The authoring key is created for you automatically when you create your LUIS account. When you are ready to...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Universal Resource Scheduling for Dynamics 365 May 2018 Update
Applies to Universal Resource Scheduling solution (version 2.4.2.xx), Field Service application (version 7.5.x.xx), Project Service Automation application (version 2.4.3.xx) On Dynamics 365 version...
View ArticleConnect Node.js to SQL Azure with Tedious
The following shows how to create a simple Node.js project that reads and writes data to SQL Azure. To get a clean foundation for further development i decided to split things into multiple files...
View ArticleAutomating Process Dump for Azure Functions using Kudu and Alerts
Recently I was asked how I might programmatically dump the w3wp process for a Function App. Jeremy Brooks (fellow Microsoftie) pointed out that I could issue the same GET requests used in Kudu to show...
View ArticleEarly technical preview of JDBC 6.5.2 for SQL Server released
We have a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server. Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the new additions to the project,...
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