Bot Framework v4 with Luis
The Cognitive Services Language Understanding Intelligence Services (Luis) should be no stranger to bot developers, it enables the all-important natural language processing which means users can...
View ArticleUse the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler
We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have...
View Article.NET Framework August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET Resolves an issue where an...
View ArticleOSD Video Tutorial: Part 23 – Nested Task Sequences
This session is part twenty-three of an ongoing series focusing on Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager. This session is posted a little out of the order from when originally recorded....
View ArticleUse reflection to get assembly type and method sizes for comparison
I wanted to know what changed between two versions of a managed assembly. Software changes over time, and seeing what changed can be important in understanding behavior.So I wrote a little program to...
View ArticleOSD Video Tutorial: Part 13 – to be Known or to be Unknown – that is the...
This session is part thirteen of an ongoing series focusing on Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager. We discuss the concept of Known and Unknown computer imaging and provides...
View ArticleOSD Video Tutorial: Part 14 – Pre-staged Media
This session is part fourteen of an ongoing series focusing on Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager. In it, we discuss the pre-staged media option for image deployment. The discussion...
View ArticleSystem Center Updates Publisher Video Tutorial
An update to System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) was released in March 2018 and thought now would be a good opportunity to add a video tutorial for SCUP. This video is part a series focusing on...
View ArticleOSD Video Tutorial: Part 15 – Advanced Concepts
Still with us? We’ve journeyed through the introductory and deeper dive OSD sessions and now we are pulling it together with the tutorials in the Advanced OSD section. Today’s tutorial is part fifteen...
View ArticleOSD Video Tutorial: Part 16 – BIOS or UEFI
This is part sixteen of a series discussing the Operating System Deployment feature of Configuration Manager. This session is a discussion of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems and...
View ArticleRemoving the TerminateThread from code that waits for a job object to empty
Some time ago I showed how to wait until all processes in a job have exited. Consider the following code which wants to create a job, put a single process in it, and then return a handle that will...
View ArticleTips and Tricks Revealed on this Week’s Friday Five!
Azure Key Vault recover keys, secrets and certificates Peter Groenewegen has acquired extensive and varied experience as a Software Architect, Tech Lead, Consultant and Lead Developer, because of his...
View ArticleAnnouncing: Dynamics 365 for Marketing August 2018 update
We are proud to announce the August 2018 update of Dynamics 365 for Marketing, which is available starting now! For even more information about this update, including known and fixed issues, see the...
View ArticleIntermittent Git failures in multiple regions – 08/31 – Mitigated
Final Update: Friday, August 31st 2018 13:10 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of 8/31 12:59 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 8/30 21:44 UTC and that during the 15...
View ArticleAzure IoT Toolkit supports C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby to...
With the latest release of Azure IoT Toolkit, lots of popular languages are supported to quickly create an Azure IoT application in VS Code: C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby! (Note: For C#,...
View ArticleDeveloper Preview – August 2018
Once again it is our pleasure to announce the August update of the Developer Preview. With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. We also...
View ArticleUsers may not be able to access auto shutdown blades for the service within...
We would like to inform you that we have identified a problem where users may not be able to access auto shutdown blades throughout the service within multiple browsers. We have observed this problem...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.31
This week is one of my favorite times of year. The evenings are getting cool and crisp, the apple tree in the backyard is bearing fruit, and best of all, there's some great DevOps reading to be had....
View ArticleRegistrations Open for the September 2018 Quarterly API Call
When: September 6, 2018, 11:00 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time Registration link: Click here to register. Please join our PM team to learn more about the exciting new API features which are coming soon! We will...
View ArticleConverting Microsoft Equation Editor Objects to OfficeMath
As discussed in the post Editing equations created using the Microsoft Equation Editor, the Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0 (MEE) was removed from Office installations because it has security problems...
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