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A second update to the problem of email forwarding in Office 365
18 months ago, I wrote the following blog post: Why does my email from Facebook, that I forward from my outlook.com account, get rejected. 6 (ish) months ago, I provided an update at An update on the...
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Skype for Business Rate My Call with Power BI Analysis
When you are running a Skype for Business Online environment, CQD allows you to gain insights into the quality of calls via metrics and absolute network measurements from calls meta data. The context...
View ArticleData Lakes Stories of Relevance to Retail
ASOS: http://bit.ly/2ljJSgN The offline recommendations engine is used to batch-process user telemetry to build multiple machine learning models to be hosted by the online recommendations service....
View ArticleExperiencing Data Gaps for Availability Data Type – 11/04 – Investigating
Initial Update: Saturday, 04 November 2017 17:51 UTCWe are aware of issues within Application Insights and are actively investigating. Some customers whose data sent to North Europe region experience...
View ArticleDeleting an Azure Recovery Services Vault with all Backup Items
When I am prototyping Azure solutions with Azure Resource Manager templates and scripts, I often find myself allocating resources and when I am done, I will delete the entire resource group to clean...
View ArticleWe’ve moved! Feature updates, release notes, and more
Hello Outlook for Mac users: We wanted to tell you about two new locations for Outlook for Mac content, brought to you directly by our product team: Outlook blog on Microsoft Tech Community: here...
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Hey folks. After 23 years of fun, I'm leaving Microsoft to try some new things, and therefore this blog will be going into readonly mode. If you want to continue to read about agile development...
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Cannot validate argument on parameter (BizTalk 2016 deployment, feature pack 1)
When working with the new feature pack feature related to auto build and deployment, you can get the following error in the deployment phase: Error: 2017-11-02T08:25:50.9704669Z ##[error]Cannot...
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Creating workshop machines on Azure
During Directions US and Directions EMEA, we had to spin up approx. 2000 Azure VMs for our hands on labs. All of these machines was deployed individually from PowerShell (multiple simultaneous jobs,...
View Article[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your VMSS
In this article from his blog, Premier Developer consultant Larry Wall discusses building an ARM template that configures auto-scaling on a virtual machine scale set (VMSS). Like most people, whenever...
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Can your desktop app leverage the new UIA Notification event in order to have...
This post describes some approaches that Windows desktop app devs might consider for having a screen reader make a specific announcement. This includes leveraging the new UI Automation (UIA)...
View ArticleChanges to hashing algorithm for self-signed certificate in SQL Server 2017
Starting with SQL Server 2005, a self-signed certificate is created automatically during the startup to be used for channel encryption. By default, credentials in the login packet that are transmitted...
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NAV Development Preview – November Update
Welcome to yet another update for the Developer Preview, we're now introducing the November update. As usual, we've fixed a lot of issues reported by you, for more information view the list of fixed...
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Exploring Big Data: Course 5 – Delivering a Data Warehouse in the Cloud
(This is course #5 of my review of the Microsoft Professional Program in Big Data) Course #5 of 10 – Delivering a Data Warehouse in the Cloud Overview: The Big Data course titled “Delivering a Data...
View ArticleAutomated deployments Performance Degradation in West Europe – 11/08 – Mitigated
Final Update: Wednesday, November 8th 2017 18:20 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of 11/8/2017 17:36. Our logs show the incident started on 11/8/2017 12:00 and that during the...
View ArticleCumulative Update 25 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has been released
Cumulative Update 25 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016. The cumulative update is intended mainly for...
View ArticleVisual Studio Toolbox: Dependency Injection
In this episode, I am joined by Miguel Castro, who explains dependency injection, which makes it easy to resolve classes at any level in any size object hierarchy, all the while making your application...
View ArticleExperiencing Data Access Issue in Azure Portal for Availability Data Type –...
Final Update: Wednesday, 08 November 2017 18:14 UTCWe've confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 11/08, 10:10 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 11/08,...
View ArticleMonitoring Team Foundation Server 2018
Monitoring on-premises Team Foundation Server deployments is an important part of keeping them running smoothly, especially for large enterprise deployments. Good monitoring can help administrators...
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