ASP.NET MVC Security Bulletin MS14-059 ships to help secure .NET NuGet Libraries
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-059– Important: Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2990942)This is the first release from Microsoft that uses Security Updates for .NET...
View ArticleTechEd Europe: Windows Docker Client Demo Highlights Linux Containers on Azure
Just two weeks ago Scott Guthrie announced and Jason Zander elaborated upon an important new collaboration with Docker. To bring support for Linux container technology to Windows Server and to develop...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Stream Analytics for real-time event processing
Today at TechEd Europe 2014, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Stream Analytics. Stream Analytics is a real-time event processing engine that helps uncover insights from devices, sensors,...
View ArticleData Factory Public Preview – build and manage information production pipelines
The data processing landscape is more diverse than ever; processing data across geographic locations, on-premises and cloud, the variety of data types, and volume of data. Developers are left writing...
View ArticleNew Networking features and partnerships for Enterprise scenarios
Yesterday, we made a number of Azure networking announcements to enable customers to build better hyper-scale and enterprise grade applications in public and hybrid cloud environments. ExpressRoute...
View ArticleSuper simple load test trial experience
In order to make it super easy for anyone to get a tiny taste of what the VS Online load test experience is about, we added a new web based experience a few days ago.If you go to your account home page...
View ArticleProtecting against the SSL 3.0 vulnerability
Microsoft released Security Advisory 3009008 to provide guidance related to a vulnerability in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 which could allow information disclosure. This is an industry-wide...
View ArticleAzure Load Balancer new distribution mode
Azure Load Balancer is a Layer-4 (TCP, UDP) type load balancer that distributes incoming traffic among healthy service instances in cloud services or virtual machines defined in a load balancer set.The...
View ArticleMultiple VM NICs and Network Virtual Appliances in Azure
At TechEd Europe 2014, we announced support for multiple Network Interface (NICs) in Azure VMs, along with several important partnership in bringing Network Virtual Appliances to Azure, notably Citrix...
View ArticleVS Online Data Protection
It’s not uncommon that I get questions about data security and privacy in Visual Studio Online. It’s something we take very seriously, design for, test for and focus on.Jeff Beehler, who runs our...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery – Announcing Windows Azure Pack integration and...
Azure Site Recovery is getting widely adopted by both enterprises and service providers as a standard for disaster recovery in virtualized, physical, and cloud environments. Our customers are loving...
View ArticleJust in Time for Halloween: Find Spooky GIFs in a Jiff
In our quest to help our users hunting for image content with our last UX improvements, we are proud to unveil the work we’ve done to make searching for animated GIFs easier, and more fun. An animated...
View ArticleMaking it easier for Enterprises to stay up-to-date
As we shared in May, a top priority for Microsoft is helping customers upgrade and stay up to-date with the latest version of Internet Explorer. Today at TechEd Europe, we are making two announcements...
View ArticleSAP Software support on Azure: Now on bigger VM sizes
Earlier this year Microsoft and SAP announced support for SAP NetWeaver application on Azure, specifically SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA (Developer Edition) – detail here. Up until now you could only...
View ArticleUsing VNET integration and Hybrid connections with Azure Websites
The following write up will outline the example of getting WordPress running on Azure Websites with a remote MySQL database and will be covered in two parts. In the first part, the database is hosted...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform: Common App Developer Design Considerations
Dave Crawford, an experienced graphic design professional, has spent the last several years driving high quality design into some of the most popular Windows apps. In this episode of Inside Windows...
View ArticleMicrosoft Antimalware for Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines
Yesterday, we announced the availability of Microsoft Antimalware for Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines at TechEd Europe. It provides real time protection from the latest threats, on-demand...
View ArticleBing’s Halloween home page full of scream-worthy surprises
Few things get our pulses racing more than our annual journey into the world of ghosts and ghouls. This year’s Halloween homepage features thrills and chills for anyone who dares enter, with a trio of...
View ArticleEnabling Websockets for Socket.io Node apps on Microsoft Azure
NOTE: This is a technical post, I'll blog more about Nightscout later this week. Subscribe and watch for my take, or visit http://www.nightscout.info. I'm running an application called Nightscout that...
View ArticleCloud-based Load Testing REST APIs are here
Many of you are looking at being more agile when it comes to testing, and with increased focus on automation, there are quite a few who wants to integrate Load Testing as a regular test practice. This...
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