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Media Services in Azure Government Datacenters!
I am proud to announce the availability of Azure Media Services in Azure Government datacenters. This has been a coordinated effort over the past couple of months between the Media Services and...
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Tragedies of the Remote Worker: "Looks like you're the only one on the call"
I'm writing this as I sit alone in a remote meeting room. As a remote worker, this is just one of the tiny, daily paper cuts. To be clear, I like being remote and I wouldn't change it, but some days...
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Two Big Pictures for the Price of One at Ignite
Enterprise developers have to deal with a lot of moving parts just to add one line of code. Ignite offers tons of solutions and new ideas, and today we’re highlighting two terrific sessions that will...
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Guest Post: Gil Amran talks about using TypeScript at Wix
I'm pleased to share a contributed post from one of TypeScript's community members. Today, guest writer Gil Amran from the Wix development team talks about using TypeScript to build WixStores, some of...
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Bing Maps
Bing Maps is a great tool for exploring and learning about many things, including the numerous celebrations held each year in cities across the country. Today is St. Patrick’s Day, named in honor of...
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dotnetConf 2015 – Join us live March 18th and 19th
dotnetConf is a free, live web event featuring speakers from Microsoft product teams and the .NET community at-large. Together, across two content-packed days, we’ll cover .NET 2015, ASP.NET 5, .NET...
View ArticleExpressRoute for Office 365
We launched Azure ExpressRoute last year to enable you to easily extend your IT infrastructure to Azure using private, dedicated, high bandwidth connections that bypass the Internet. We have since made...
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Announcing Azure Media Services integration with Azure CDN (Content Delivery...
Today, we are very excited to announce that Azure Media Services is fully integrated with Azure CDN. Azure CDN can be easily enabled for any Media Services streaming endpoint by using the Azure...
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Getting admin by adding a new user to sudoers when you're locked out of an...
So I got locked out of an Ubuntu VM that's running in Azure Long story, but an employee left and some now the "admin" user I had access to no longer had "sudo" powers anymore. I needed to run apt-get...
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Protecting large data disks using Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery users cannot directly protect Hyper-V VMs that have any data disk (VHD) with size greater than 1 TB. This is due to an Azure limitation of 1 TB data disk size limit for IaaS VMs (at...
View ArticleBasic Monitoring with Batch PowerShell
Last October we released the new Azure Batch service and along with it, PowerShell cmdlets to help you perform most of the tasks. In the 0.8.15 release of the Azure PowerShell SDK, there are 4 new...
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Rendering engine updates in March for the Windows 10 Technical Preview
Based on feedback from Windows Insiders, we are working to release preview builds more often. Today we flighted the first update to Insiders on this accelerated cadence, which includes the latest...
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MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications....
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April and May DevOps Webinars by Northwest Cadence
The warm weather in Seattle has definitely seems to have had an effect on everything! My feature team (Load Test) is ahead of schedule, the flower gardens are in full bloom and and the folks at...
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Customize external web tools in Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015 ships with multiple open source command line tools that are used in modern web development workflows. Those tools are:Node.exegrunt-cliBowernpmGitAll of these tools are shipped as...
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Exploring the Cloud at Ignite
Building and deploying apps in the cloud is getting more and more attractive these days, especially at the enterprise level. Microsoft Azure offers solutions for all sorts of cloud needs, and Ignite...
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Bing Round-up: Get movie recommendations with Cortana and see where the March...
Get your weekend movie recommendations from CortanaIf it’s Thursday and you’re wondering what fun things to do over the weekend, Cortana might just have the answer for you. Especially if you love going...
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The .NET Voyage into Open Source–dotnetConf 2015
dotnetConf is on now! Yesterday on Day 1, there were a ton of great presentations from the team. One of my personal favorites of the day was the talk where Immo, Rich and Miguel spoke about .NET Core...
View ArticleNew additions to the Azure VM PowerShell DSC Extension
The Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Extension team has announced a new cmdlet that makes it easy to retrieve DSC configuration status from the Azure Virtual Machine. This cmdlet is...
View ArticleMore insight into Windows 10 opportunity for developers
Microsoft made several Windows announcements at WinHEC 2015 in Shenzhen this week that give developers more insight into the Windows 10 opportunity.Terry Myerson talked timing and features, announcing...
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