New season, New software, New servicing model
Greetings. It feels like a lot of change is in the air! Last Friday marked the Autumnal equinox. Depending upon which hemisphere you live in, the changes you might see with the new season might differ....
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Azure Machine Learning WorkBench
Getting Started with Machine Learning Workbench for Windows: Install the Azure Machine Learning Workbench on your computer running Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or newer. Create Azure Machine...
View ArticleBuild definition issues on Visual Studio Team Services – 09/29 – Investigating
Update: Friday, September 29th 2017 17:32 UTC We continue to investigate the issues impacting build experience. Some users may intermittently notice that their build definitions are missing. This is a...
View ArticleExperiencing Data Access and Latency Issues for Many Data Types in North...
Initial Update: Friday, 29 September 2017 14:31 UTCWe are aware of issues within Application Insights and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience issues accessing Application...
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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.29
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Creating a CI/CD pipeline on Azure Container Services with Kubernetes and...
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Getting Started with the Azure AD B2B Invite API
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager Nick McCollum, who introduces us to Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration. Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) Collaboration enables...
View ArticleRelease: SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v7.6
Overview SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle, MySQL, SAP ASE (formerly SAP Sybase ASE), DB2, and Access allows users to convert a database schema to a Microsoft SQL Server schema, upload...
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Using the latest NuGet in your build
NuGet (both the command-line tool and the accompanying tools built into Visual Studio) continues to iterate rapidly and add support for new .NET Core and .NET Standard target frameworks, among other...
View ArticleLast (Few) Weeks on DirectX Shader Compiler (2017-09-29)
On the HLSL side, we've kept on adding support for float16, improving coverage, and fixing bugs. We've also been helping partners get their downstream implementations correct and stable. The compiler...
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Git and Visual Studio 2017 part 4
In this article, I will dig into branching. Branch in Git Branching can be considered a copy of entire repository. You typically use branch when you add some changes but keep the original project...
View ArticleHow Do I Catch Globalization Biases?
Last time I mentioned that we all have biases ingrained into our subconscious by our cultures, but I didn’t address how we avoid being tripped up by those problems in the first place. Unfortunately, it...
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How HITS Solutions Is Using Xamarin.Forms To Offer A Productivity App That...
HITS is a company specialized in developing Human Resources and People Management Business-to-Business Systems. Over the course of 17 years, HITS has evolved from a small regional enterprise into a...
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How HITS Solutions Is Using Xamarin.Forms To Offer A Productivity App That...
HITS is a company specialized in developing Human Resources and People Management Business-to-Business Systems. Over the course of 17 years, HITS has evolved from a small regional enterprise into a...
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Proactive obsolescence
Technology changes quickly. As fast as hardware, biotech, genomics, nanotech, quantum computing, 3D printing, and robotics are advancing, they are snails compared to software. UI frameworks, machine...
View ArticleSkype for Business 2016 で、UCMAPI.exe がクラッシュします。
Japan Skype/Lync サポート チームの久保です。 Skype for Business 2016 で UcMapi.exe がクラッシュする事象が確認されております。 この問題は、 2017年9月18日以降に利用可能となりました、Microsoft Office...
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Git and Visual Studio 2017 part 5 : Merging the changes
We did branching in the previous article, therefore we do merge in this article, as that’s the main reason for branching. I was planning to do re-basing in this article, but I realized it is too much....
View ArticleChange SharePoint Service Account
Normally, changing the SharePoint service accounts should not be a big deal. However, in our case we had to do this using PowerShell, as we could not access the managed accounts page (Central...
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Parts of LCIDs are a Bad Idea
I just posted a couple things about how We're all Naïve and Catching Globalization Biases, where I mentioned that platform and industry thinking has evolved over the years. And then today I ran into...
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SharePoint Workflow Auto Cleanup
I am not sure if this blog is really needed/helpful for someone or not, but we keep getting cases about workflow tasks being deleted, vanished, or deleted. Also, workflow status is gone! For...
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Dynamics 365 Connector for Flow and Logic Apps: An update
By using a Dynamics 365 connector for Microsoft Flow or Azure Logic Apps, you can create flows that initiate when an event occurs in Dynamics 365, or some other service, which then performs an action...
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