It’s all about the end user! As lead of the Internet of Things & Advanced Analytics business within Microsoft Australia’s Cloud and Enterprise marketing organisation I get to do a lot of different jobs. This involves working on a software platform that essentially allows people to connect everything, from mining trucks through to traffic lights…
Application Insights - Advisory 07/24
Between 7/20/2017 23:24 UTC and 7/24/2017 21:05 UTC less than 1.5% of customers may have experienced errors while viewing Application Insights parts and blades in Azure Portal. Errors would persist until customers would refresh their browser session. Our DevOps team have identified the issue and deployed the fix to address the problem.We apologize for any inconvenience.-Vitaliy
Running a simulation on 20 low priority Azure VMs for a cost of $0.02
Azure Batch clusters now supports low-priority nodes, which can be used at a discount of up to 80% compared to the price of regular high-availability VMs. So what are Low-priority nodes Low-priority VMs are available for a much lower price than normal VMs and can significantly reduce the costs of running certain workloads or allow…
Genetic Algorithm, in Reverse Mode
Today I would like to discuss running genetic algorithm… backwards. Yes, this is possible. Occasionally it is practical, when you need not the best, but the worst solution to a problem. And I think there are more uses for it. It seems to be helpful with maintaining genetic pool diversity, with avoiding being stuck in…
Fazendo mágicas com os seus relatórios em Tabelas Dinâmicas do MS-Excel
Nessa apresentação online conduzida por João Benito, a mais de 12 anos, no dia 27 de Julho será mostrado como aprimorar suas habilidades com o recurso de Tabela Dinâmica Lançado em 1992, vamos apresentar algumas das muitas mágicas que os usuários conseguem realizar nos seus relatórios, utilizando este recurso fantástico do MS-Excel. Saiba com o…
Issues with forum sites - Mitigated
Final Update: Monday 24/07/2017 07:26 PM UTC We have mitigated the Forum sites issue. Now the sites are accessible. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience. – MSDN Service Delivery Team ______________________________________________________________________________________ Recurrence: Monday 24/07/2017 07:05 PM UTC We are again intermittently facing issues while rendering MSDN/TechNet forums sites and are actively working to resolve it. – MSDN…
Logic App, B2B diagnostics logging, monitoring and alerting documentation newly expanded
The documentation writer and our engineering team has recently scrubbed for quality and expanded for holistic coverage our documentation of both Logic App and B2B integration diagnostics logging, monitoring and alerting. The improved documentation was released just last Friday at: Monitor Logic App status Monitor B2B messages Track B2B messages in OMS Query OMS for B2B…
Networking Related Commands for Azure App Services
The purpose of this blog is to give a general overview of the available commands to troubleshoot network connectivity issues with web apps, specifically when connecting the web apps to VNETs either in an App Service Environment (ASE) or a standard web app with a Point-to-Site VPN connection. These commands can be used via the…
Scaling Scrum with Nexus in VSTS
This post is from Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone. In this post, I will cover what Scrum Nexus is, where, when, and why you would want to use it, and how to set up VSTS best to accommodate your Scrum practices. As VSTS’s tooling is not yet perfect for some of Nexus’s practices, I will…
.NET Framework July 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup
We released a new Preview of Quality Rollup for the .NET Framework. Preview of Quality Rollup releases are recommended for businesses that want to use and/or preview quality improvements as soon as they become available. These same quality improvements will typically be included in the following Security and Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release…