Script Junkie Discussion announcements
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We'd like to welcome you to the Script Junkie forum. Here you'll find a fantastic place to engage with others who have a passion for JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the emerging standards that are changing the face of web development. We urge you to share the web development experiences and techniques that have made your projects fun and exciting.
Also, please let us know your feelings about the SJ content so that authors can get the feedback they need to continuously enhance their works. We want to know what works and what topics you'd like to see in the future and this forum is a great place to share your ideas.
It's our hope that the SJ forum breeds many incredibly useful discussions and provides a hub for developers to work together to build amazing applications.
- The Script Junkie Team
Live Connect (Archived) announcements
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The Microsoft account team will need to make a change that will affect the way that registered applications process tickets. All you have to do is upgrade to the latest SDK and the ticket handling will automatically be updated. For more information please see this page : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=242807.The change is scheduled to take place on Monday 5thMay, so please make sure that you update before then – users may experience problems with repeated sign-in when requesting consent for your application if you don’t.
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Live SDK v5.4 is now available for download. New additions to this version of the SDK include:
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Windows Store HTML and XAML applications. Version 5.4 of the Live
SDK was updated for compatibility with Windows 8.1 Preview and Visual Studio
2013 Preview, including new behavior specific to Windows 8.1 Preview: For a
user not connected with a Microsoft account, invoking WL.login in JavaScript or
LiveAuthClient.LoginAsync will trigger the process to connect the user with a
Microsoft account. Also specific to 8.1 Preview, for users who are not
connected with a Microsoft account, calling methods on LiveConnectClient to
access user data will result in a reject response.
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Windows Phone 8. This update contains several fixes for the new
WP8 SDK, including a fix for a login session cache issue that could prevent a
user from logging in with a different account after logging out. Additionally
resolved in this update is a caching issue in LiveConnectClient.UploadAsync
that could lead to additional app memory consumption and less accurate progress
event data when uploading large files. As a result, larger files can be
uploaded on lower-memory devices than was possible in the past.
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.NET client and ASP.NET apps. The Live SDK v5.4 Nuget package has
been updated with support for .NET 4.
- Live SDK for iOS apps. Several UI issues related to login in the iOS 6 SDK have been resolved.
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Windows Store HTML and XAML applications. Version 5.4 of the Live
SDK was updated for compatibility with Windows 8.1 Preview and Visual Studio
2013 Preview, including new behavior specific to Windows 8.1 Preview: For a
user not connected with a Microsoft account, invoking WL.login in JavaScript or
LiveAuthClient.LoginAsync will trigger the process to connect the user with a
Microsoft account. Also specific to 8.1 Preview, for users who are not
connected with a Microsoft account, calling methods on LiveConnectClient to
access user data will result in a reject response.
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Last year, we announced that support for Messenger will end in 2013. Apps that already use Extensible Messages and Presence Protocol (XMPP) will continue to be supported until October 2013. We strongly discourage any new implementations relying on XMPP. Instead, we encourage you to learn more about our APIs for SkyDrive, Hotmail and Skype at http://dev.live.com.
The documentation for XMPP and messaging has been removed from the Windows Dev Center and archived. This info will not be updated and might contain links to content that no longer exists. But you can still find the XMPP topics here if you need them:
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Live SDK v5.3 is now available for download here. New additions to this version of the SDK include:
- New .NET SDKs for client and server. Since we first introduced the Live SDK, we have seen a lot of developers ask for a .NET library that would work for classic desktop apps and ASP.NET applications. With this release you can now create applications that target traditional desktop scenarios and as well as server side scenarios. With the client .NET SDK, you can create WPF, Windows Form or console applications that let your users use their SkyDrive data. With the ASP.NET SDK, you can create websites and web server components that talk to the Live Connect API service. Using the SDK also makes it easy for you to incorporate Microsoft account into your identity system or even just use Microsoft account as your primary identity system. Be sure to check out our Build talk “Powering your apps with Microsoft accounts” below to learn more about it.
- Windows Phone 8 SDK. The WP 8 SDK takes advantage of some of the new features that Windows Phone 8 has to offer and provided you with an easy to use programming model by supporting the new Task<T> async pattern and dynamic keyword. With this you can easily move your code between your Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 application.
- Open source projects for Windows and Windows Phone SDKs. Starting from v5.3, all Live SDK client components written in C#, Objective C and Java are released as open source projects. This makes it much easier for developers to resolve problems quickly and build solutions that are tailored to their scenarios. Be sure to check out our gibhub depot for new additions of the Windows and Windows Phone SDK source code.
- New samples and starter guides. New samples for Windows and Windows Phone are added as part of the open source Windows SDK projects. We also have an updated starter guide for Windows Phone 8 and a new one for Windows 8 and Asp.Net.
SkyDrive REST API enhancements - we have added the ability to search for files in a user’s SkyDrive by using a partial file name. You can do this by simply making an HTTP GET call with the search parameter 'q'. Here is an example:
GET http://apis.live.net/V5.0/me/skydrive/search?q=expenses
The response contains the list of files that have “expenses” in the file name.
Windows 8 Sign-in control deprecation - Starting with Live SDK v5.3, the sign-in control is deprecated from the Windows 8 C# and Windows 8 JavaScript SDKs. Instead, apps should follow our guidelines for implementing the sign in experience for Windows Store apps using HTML/Javascript and Windows Store apps using XAML.
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When we shipped the Live Connect API service 5.0 April last year, we included the functionality to allow an app to provision applications on behaves of other developers. This functionality is enabled if the app has permission to use the wl.application and the wl.application_create scope. Application information can be access through the https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me/applications path. After observing the usage pattern of this API for more than a year, we have concluded that this API does not fit into the user model and the design goals of the Live Connect API, whose primary objective is to provide developer access to user’s data stored in Windows services, not a platform to auto provision applications. With that, we’re now announcing the plan to decommission any APIs that are related to application provisioning through the Live Connect API service, which include all calls to the https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me/applications path and its sub-paths. These APIs will stop working in March 2013.
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We would like to inform you of about the changes to the OAuth 2.0 SDK. We have transitioned the OAuth endpoints to https://login.live.com. This change is to move our OAuth 2.0 authentication service to be on the same backend as our primary login infrastructure. It will give increased scalability and reliability to our OAuth interface and also add some security features like invalidating refresh tokens if the users are detected as compromised or has changed their password.
The https://oauth.live.com endpoints will continue to function but with slightly increased latency so we recommend you begin using the new URL’s.
The new endpoints are:
- authorization: https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf
- token: https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf
- desktop: https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf
The old end points are:
- authorization: https://oauth.live.com/authorize
- token: https://oauth.live.com/token
- desktop: https://oauth.live.com/desktop
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This forum is monitored by Live Connect Support and Product Group team.
Hours of Operation: 8:00AM – 5:00PM US Pacific Time (Monday – Friday)
We do not provide any support over the weekend (Saturday-Sunday).
Thanks!!!
Live Connect Support Team
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Check out our open source depot on github: https://github.com/liveservices/
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With the release of v5.0 of the Messenger Connect API, the previous version is now deprecated. As mentioned in the v5.0 announcement blog post, the latest version of the Messenger Connect API is the result of taking into account a lot of the input from developers about how to simplify the API and address key limitations we had in the previous version.
The v4.1 API will continue to function and will be supported for one year after the release of the v5.0 API. New applications are strongly encouraged to use the v5.0 Messenger Connect instead of the deprecated v4.1 API. It is also recommended that when you upgrade or modify existing applications avoid using and remove usage of the v4.1 APIs.
Below is a list of v4.1 features that will no longer be supported in new applications with the release of v5.0 of the Messenger Connect API
- The v4.1 API provides the ability to publish activities using activity streams to a user’s Messenger Social feed. We received significant feedback from developers and end users that this functionality is not complete because it doesn’t set the Messenger status field and is thus not visible in the user contact list nor in mobile or previous versions of the Messenger client. In addition, we’ve gotten complaints about the complexity of the data formats required to publish status updates. For this reason, we have updated the activity object available in v5.0 to address these shortcomings. For this reason we are not supporting any new applications using the v4.1 activity publishing APIs although this will continue to function in existing applications. Any new applications that try to use this functionality from the v4.1 APIs will receive a 1073 error.
In summary, the v4.1 Messenger Connect APIs are deprecated and ceased working on August 14, 2012.
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The final version of the Live SDK v5.2 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone is now available for download here. There are several versions of the Live SDK, depending on your target development platform:- Live SDK for Windows and Windows Phone: use this edition if you're developing apps for Windows 8 or apps for Windows Phone 7.0 or 7.5. Download here.
- Live SDK for Android: use this edition if you're developing apps for Google Android mobile technology platform devices, like those running Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and Ice Cream Sandwich. Download here.
- Live SDK for iOS: use this edition if you're developing apps for the iOS operating system for Apple devices, like iPad, iTouch, and iPod. Download here.
We’ve also added the following new features in the REST API as highlighted in this SkyDrive blog post.
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If you're developing apps for other platforms, you don't need to download the Live SDK; you can reference our updated Representational State Transfer (REST) API directly, as follows:
- For websites that use JavaScript, learn more.
- For Windows desktop apps, and for mobile apps for other than Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, learn more.
If you have any questions about these downloads or about the Live SDKs in general, post them in this forum. We have team members here that are ready to help you.
If you're new to Live Connect, learn how to get started; configure your app; work with our code examples; do cool things with Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger; play with our APIs without writing any code; and explore our end-to-end code samples.
Microsoft Translator Developer & Web Master Support announcements
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To receive feedback and support for Microsoft Translator, please navigate to translatorbusiness.uservoice.com.
You can also view our blog at aka.ms/TranslatorBlog.
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For IT-type content (software, hardware...) API user can use the "TECH" domain to get better results with their translations.
To use the TECH domains, the developer needs to invoke in the API by using the category=tech parameter.
Not all the languages supported by Microsoft Translator general domain (list of the 45+ supported languages for the general domain can be found here: www.microsofttranslator.com/help). You can use the GetLangaugesForTranslate() method to query the complete language set. (also listed below for convenience). For the languages not listed the translation result will be the same between category=general and category=tech.
Here is the list of languages supported by this domain:
- cs
- da
- de
- el
- es
- fi
- fr
- he
- hi
- hu
- it
- ja
- ko
- nl
- no
- pl
- pt-br
- pt-pt
- ru
- sv
- th
- tr
- zh-hans
- zh-hant
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When you try to translate a large Word document by using Microsoft Translator, you might get 404 error. This is a known issue and we're working on this. If you need to translate a large Word document, we suggest you to split the large document into smaller documents. We will post a note at the forum when this issue gets fixed.
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Microsoft Translator developer offerings provide developers a wide spectrum of translation and language APIs for integration into their applications and services.The AJAX interface provides your web applications with JavaScript based access to translation services.The SOAP interface provides a strongly typed, web service standards based programming model supporting rich development environments such as the .NET framework.The HTTP interface provides a high degree of interoperability for any network enabled application and supports a broad range of development environments.Comprehensive reference for Microsoft Translator APIs on MSDN.Windows Azure Marketplace gives you a convenient way to sign up for the Microsoft Translator API. The set of offers includes an option for FREE use of the API. You can try out the functionality of the Translator API without having to write any code, right there on the Windows Azure Marketplace.
News, Feedback & Support
Microsoft Translator User Forum (Including Bing Translator) announcements
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How to add newly released languages to your list of languages in Office?
As new languages are added to the core Microsoft Translator service, these languages will appear automatically in www.bing.com/translator, Internet Explorer, Skype Translator IM translation, etc.
However, for these to appear in Office, Word for instance, you need to first update the list. This is pretty simple and here are the detailed steps to do this. It will take less than a minute to do this
- Open word, type a short (5 words of more) text, select the text
- Go to the review tab, select “translation” and “translate selected text”
- This will open the research pane and you will see a link towards the bottom of the pane that say “Get update to your services”
- If you click on the menu “from” or “to” you will see that the new language is not in the list
- Click on this “Get update to your services” link.,
- Click on “Update”, then “Continue” on the pop-up Windows
- Click on “Install” (figure 3)
- Then “OK” and “Close”
- All done! Now the new language is available.
Questions? Comments? www.MicrosoftTranslator.com/forum
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When you try to translate a large Word document by using Microsoft Translator, you might get 404 error. This is a known issue and we're working on this. If you need to
translate a large Word document, we suggest you to split the large document into smaller documents. We will post a note at the forum when this issue gets fixed.
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This forum provides support for Microsoft Translator powered end-user products - Bing Translator, Office Translator, Windows Live Toolbar, Internet Explorer Accelerator etc.
If you are looking for support with Developer and Webmaster offerings - please go to our MSDN forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/microsofttranslator/threads
Forums Redesign - Q&A / Discussions announcements
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Thank you everyone who has provided feedback into this forum so far. We appreciate the feedback and are actively prioritizing it accordingly. We are monitoring the suggestions and bugs and are currently working to make improvements based on feedback that has already been provided.
In order to help us make further improvements to this new design, please take the following action:
- If you have a suggestion for the redesigned Forums please post these to Suggestions and Feedback for the Forums. Please limit one suggestion per post and we encourage users to vote up suggestions to bring attention to the Forums team.
- If you encounter bugs please continue to post bugs in the Forums Issues forum.
- If you have additional questions or comments about the redesign, this forum is the place to post.
Again, thank you for your feedback and know that your voice is being heard.
SyncFx - General [ReadOnly] announcements
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One piece of feedback we receive fairly frequently is that given the number of Sync Framework forums, it is confusing, where to best find answers and ask questions relating to specific components of the Sync Framework. For that reason, we have created a new single (unified) forum for you to use for anything relating to the Microsoft Sync Framework:
SyncFx - Microsoft Sync Framework Developer Discussions
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/syncdevdiscussions/threads
As a result, as of Jan 23rd, 2010 this forum will be locked and will only be available in read mode to allow you to search and read archived questions. Any questions that were submitted since Jan 1, 2010 in the below forums will be moved to this new location and will continue to be active in their new location. So please start tracking them in their new location.
SyncFx - General
SyncFx - Technical Discussion
SyncFx – Feedback
SyncFx - Microsoft Sync Framework Database Providers
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Microsoft Translator Hub Forum announcements
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To receive feedback and support for Microsoft Translator, please navigate to translatorbusiness.uservoice.com.
You can also view our blog at aka.ms/TranslatorBlog.
.NET Native Preview announcements
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.NET Native compiles C# to native machine code that performs like C++. You will continue to benefit from the productivity and familiarity of the .NET Framework with the great performance of native code. Popular Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster and use 15-20% less memory when compiled with .NET Native.
Useful resources for .NET Native
Download .NET Native Developer Preview and general resources:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=394990MSDN Documentation for .NET Native:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=392862General .NET announcements:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet
Windows Live Messenger Web APIs: Development announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.7 has been released.
See our blog posting for more information.
http://blogs.msdn.com/messenger/archive/2010/02/02/introducing-windows-live-messenger-web-toolkit-v3-7.aspx
Thanks for supporting the Messenger Web Toolkit!
Keiji
Windows Phone Preview OS Issues announcements
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We have moved our support from for the OS Consumer Support (almost any support of the Preview for Developer release that is not related to developing an application) to the Microsoft Community website.For more information, please read this thread:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b342fcb2-faa2-4415-9a95-687f0ecdd4a2/move-of-preview-os-issues-forum-to-ms-community?forum=winphoneosissuesThank you,
Visual Studio Editor announcements
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To increase the chances of the right team seeing your topic, it's very helpful if you post in the forum that corresponds to your issue or discussion. This forum (Visual Studio Editor) covers questions related to the core text/code editor *only*. This includes issues related to typing, scrolling, IntelliSense, tooltips, syntax coloring, outlining, etc., as well as editor extensibility. It does NOT include questions of the form, "How do I write code to accomplish XYZ task in language Foo?".
For topics that are language-specific, database-related, or involve any type of designer surface, debugger, compiler, etc., please start with the forums listed below:
- Web Development: http://forums.asp.net
- SQL/Database Development: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstsdb/threads
- WinForms: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winforms/threads (general issues) or http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winformsdesigner/threads (WinForms designer)
- WPF Designer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/threads
- Debugger: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/threads
- Test Tools: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/threadsThanks for your help in posting questions where they are most likely to be answered!
Expression Studio announcements
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In conjunction with our announcement that we have discontinued development of several Expression products and are no longer selling Expression Studio, we have locked this forum to further posting.
You can read the details of our product announcement on the Expression home page, http://msdn.microsoft.com/expression.
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Windows Live Messenger Client: Development (retired) announcements
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For issues with hotmail accounts, please use this link to get help support
http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
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For Microsoft Exchange questions, please post in this forum listed below
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This link provides more information, and provides tools to remove the msn virus
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For messenger support, please see Messenger Support Space at:
http://messenger-support.spaces.live.com/
Windows Live Spaces: Development announcements
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If you want to make a suggestion for a new space feature in the future, please click on the feedback button at the bottom of your space. Or you can offer feedback, stay up-to-date with spaces plans, or make suggestions for new features at the live space team blog at the link below
http://robdolin.spaces.live.com/?lc=1033
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For hotmail tech support, please click on the link below
http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
Bing Maps: Map Control and Web services Development announcements
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Today we announced the new Bing Maps developer forums. Rather than having a single forum for Bing Maps we have created 5 seperate froums grouping liked API's. In addition we have also created a Bing Maps category in the MSDN forums which you can access here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/bingmaps
· Bing Maps Silverlight/WPF Controls
· Bing Maps REST/SOAP/SDS Services
· Bing Maps Windows 8 Controls
The original announcement can be found here: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/03/16/the-bing-maps-forums.aspx
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Since its release earlier this year, we have seen interest in, and usage of, our Bing Maps Spatial Data Services (SDS) grow rapidly.
The result is that at times of peak load the number of evaluation accounts using the service is pre-empting other requests. Today we have made a change to the SDS service that will prioritize requests from Enterprise Accounts. You can check the status of your Account to see if you have an Enterprise Account by logging into the account on the Bing Maps Account Center.
We regret that this means that you will no longer be able to submit new jobs to SDS from non-Enterprise Accounts until you request and are given access to SDS as detailed below. To be clear, data already uploaded to the SDS service can still be queried; it is only when you try to update those data sets, create new ones, or download them that you will receive an error.
If you would like to request access to SDS for a non-Enterprise Account application, you can do so by emailing MAPLIC@microsoft.com with your Account ID and (for publically accessible sites) top level domains. Be sure to send this request from the email account on record in the Bing Maps Account Center. (Replies will only be sent to these accounts so please check your SPAM filters and the usual things that might complicate communication.)
Please also note that if you are using the SDS service from an Enterprise Account, then you should not need to take any action related to production accounts. Your application should not require any changes. If you experience any issues please let us know via your enterprise support contact.
As we continue to enhance the SDS system this process will be improved and made more efficient. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Chris Pendleton
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Released today, the Bing Maps v7 Interactive SDK demonstrates the code required to perform common tasks on the Bing Maps v7 control - how to add shapes to the map, working with tile layers, adding events to the map, together with new features such as getting the user's location and registering custom modules.
You can access the interactive SDK here: http://www.bingmapsportal.com/ISDK/AjaxV7
If you have any questions about the examples used in the iSDK, please start a new thread onthe forum
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On the 2nd November 2010, Microsoft announced that they have discontinued investment in the Bing Maps 3D control Active-X plug-in.
When the next update to www.bing.com/maps is launched, the option to view 3D Maps will be removed.
Current users of 3D Maps can expect the following:
1. Permalinks and the desktop shortcut to 3D Maps will be redirected to Bing Maps with the nearest match to the experience they had in 3D. In most cases this will result only in a loss of the ability to navigate in full 3D.
2. After opening collections with 3D models, the 3D models will be represented as pushpins only. The models will not be accessible from collections.
3. Permalinks to tours will now open the collection manager with a message indicating discontinued support of the feature. Unfortunately there will no longer be an option to view the tour.
The 3D API used by developers to implement 3D mode in their own Bing Maps (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb429547.aspx) will continue to be supported until December 2011.
You can view the announcement by Brian Hendricks, Bing Maps Product Manager, at: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/11/02/changes-to-bird-s-eye-and-3d-maps.aspx
Windows Live Writer: Development announcements
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Have ideas for future requests? Or, want to give feedback. The live writers team would love to hear your ideas.
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Click on this link to get technicle support for windows live writer
https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlwriter&page=wlsupport_home_options_form_byemail&ct=eformts
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http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
Reporting announcements
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Please be advised that in an effort to provide a more unified Dev Center experience the ads-in-apps forums have been moved as of August 01, 2016 into the same location housing the other Dev Center forums.
If you already have links to the forums for App/Ad Unit Management, Promote Your App, and AdSDK they should continue to work. The Payout and Reporting forums have been combined and content migrated with the Dev Center Payout and Reporting Forum. All of the original posts and replies still remain and can be found in the new locations.If you have any specific questions regarding the forum migration please contact support via the Dev Center Support Portal.
Ad Revenue, Payout & Taxes announcements
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Please be advised that in an effort to provide a more unified Dev Center experience the ads-in-apps forums have been moved as of August 01, 2016 into the same location housing the other Dev Center forums.
If you already have links to the forums for App/Ad Unit Management, Promote Your App, and AdSDK they should continue to work. The Payout and Reporting forums have been combined and content migrated with the Dev Center Payout and Reporting Forum. All of the original posts and replies still remain and can be found in the new locations.If you have any specific questions regarding the forum migration please contact support via the Dev Center Support Portal.
SQL Server 2012 Setup and Installation (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Setup and Installation questions
SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Excel (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" PowerPivot for Excel questions
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Integration Services questions.
SQL Server 2012 High Availability and Disaster Recovery (Pre-Release) announcements
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Welcome to the SQL Server "Denali" AlwaysOn forum for high availability and disaster recovery. The SQL Server product team actively monitors and responds to this forum.
To report any bugs or provide suggestions, please vote on or file items through Microsft Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver
See the SQL Server "Denali" AlwaysOn Resource Center for more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/gg490638(en-us,MSDN.10)
SQL Server 2012 Spatial (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Spatial questions.
SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Analysis Services questions.
SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for SharePoint (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" PowerPivot for SharePoint questions.
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Pre-Release) announcements
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http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145
The following blog post summarizes much of the new functionality added in Power View for RC0: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2011/11/17/what-s-new-in-power-view.aspx
Enjoy!
SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services (Pre-Release) announcements
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This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Master Data Services questions.
Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva announcements
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The Federated Identity ”Geneva” team is happy to announce the release of Microsoft code name “Geneva”, an open platform for simplified user access based on claims. This release consists of three components: Geneva Framework for .NET developers, Geneva Server for IT Pros, and Windows CardSpace “Geneva”.
You can find all of our installation downloads and supporting documentation for each component of the Geneva platform on the “Geneva” Connect site.
Cognitive Services announcements
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First off: there are no changes to the API endpoints or keys you are already using from Project Oxford.
On March 30th at the //build/ conference we announced Microsoft Cognitive Services. Bringing together the services from Project Oxford along with Bing’s v5 Search APIs and additional machine learning based services from across Microsoft, there are now even more capabilities available to developers to easily add intelligent features across Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, and Search capabilities.
Please visit our new site at: www.microsoft.com/cognitive to learn more and start using the new services today.
For more details on Cognitive Services and related announcement from //build/ please see this blog post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/03/30/from-analytical-applications-to-intelligent-solutions/
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Signature Changes:
The root service endpoint has changed from https://api.projectoxford.ai/face/v0/ to https://api.projectoxford.ai/face/v1.0/
There are several signature changes for methods such as Face-Detect, Face-Identify, Face-Find Similar, Face-Group, so please see the v1.0 documentation for all the details.
Higher Call Limits:
Quota
New Limit
Group: Faces to be grouped
Now returns up to 1,000 candidates (previous limit was 100)
Find Similar: Candidate faces allowed
Now returns up to 1,000 candidates (previous limit was 100)
Person: Persisted faces per Person Object
Now store up to 248 per Person object (previous limit was 32)
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Orchard –Discussions announcements
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Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum:
Orchard - Help and Support announcements
Azure Mobile Engagement announcements
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This forum is closed as the product does no longer exist.
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Quick Tips for former Capptain customers who are new to Azure:
- You can setup a free 30 trial of Azure if you don't have a subscription: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
- However, to avoid losing access to your AzME trial apps when your free Azure trial expires, you can setup a "pay as you go" Azure subscription instead of a free trial: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0003p/
- Then, with a "pay as you go" account, as long as you have less than 100 monthly active users, your AzME apps are still free to use long term: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/mobile-engagement/
- You will be billed for any other Azure services in addition to AzME that you use as the standard rates: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
- You can setup a "spending limit" to ensure that you don’t accidentally spend too much per month: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/spending-limits/
- If you want to pay for your Azure subscription by invoice instead of credit card, you can setup "pay by invoice": http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/invoicing/
- You can open a Billing or Account related SR for free from any Azure subscription: https://manage.windowsazure.com/?getsupport=true
- You can even open a Billing or Account related SR for free without an existing Azure subscription: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=544831&clcid=0x409
- You have to purchase technical support plans to be eligible to open a Technical Support SR (even though Billing or Account related SRs are free): http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/
- BizSpark members can access AzME with their BizSpark Azure benefits: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0064p/
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Overview:
Announcement: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/azure-mobile-engagement-now-in-public-preview/
Main Page: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mobile-engagement/
Pricing: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/mobile-engagement/
Preview Sign Up: https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures
Documentation:
SDK Documentation: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/mobile-engagement/
API Documentation on
MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn913744.aspxUI Documentation: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-user-interface/
Troubleshooting: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-troubleshooting-guide/
How-Tos: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-how-tos/
Support:
MSDN Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/home?forum=azuremobileengagement
Feature Requests/Feedback: http://feedback.azure.com/forums/285737-mobile-engagement
Azure Portals:
Azure Current Portal: https://manage.windowsazure.com/
Azure Preview Portal: https://portal.azure.com/
Azure Billing Portal: https://account.windowsazure.com/
ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities (Pre-Release) announcements
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This Entity Framework Pre-Release forum is closed.
We are seeing a lot of great Entity Framework questions (and answers) from the community on Stack Overflow. As a result, our team is going to spend more time reading and answering questions posted on Stack Overflow.
We would encourage you to post questions on Stack Overflow using the entity-framework tag. We will also continue to monitor the Entity Framework forum.
Entity Framework Team
Microsoft StreamInsight announcements
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Dear StreamInsight users,
We just officially announced our new StreamInsight V2.1 release - you can find all the relevant information including download links in the StreamInsight blog!
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We just officially announced our new StreamInsight V1.2 release - you can find all the relevant information including download links in our latest blog posting!
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As appeared on the blog:
Finally: The StreamInsight Development Team is now tweeting! Follow streaminsight to receive latest announcements and news. We are excited about the opportunity to use this push-channel to deliver messages to our developer and user community, that's the true spirit of an event-driven world!
Regards,
The StreamInsight Team
Microsoft Robotics - Visual Programming Language announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Code Contracts announcements
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This forum is now closed. Thank you all for your participation.
Regards,
MSDN Forums team
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We just released the CodeContracts tools as Open Source on
https://github.com/CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts
We accept contribution!!!
The CodeContracts team
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We just released the CodeContracts tools as Open Source on
https://github.com/CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts
We accept contribution!!!
The CodeContracts team
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Better inference of object invariants for the static checker!
Some bug fixes!
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
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New checks, improved performances for the static checker
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
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Dear CC users,
we are glad to announce the birth of a new blog on CodeContracts, static analysis etc: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/francesco/
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It has taken a long time, we know, but we have finally released the contract editor extensions for VS2012 and an update to VS2010.
The new version is much more stable and less CPU consuming than previously and hopefully much more useful as a result.
For VS2012: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/02de7066-b6ca-42b3-8b3c-2562c7fa024f
For VS2010: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/85f0aa38-a8a8-4811-8b86-e7f0b8d8c71b
If you haven't tried it yet, then please do and let us know what you think!
To review, the extensions should show you method contracts in the following situations:
- While you are typing a call to a method: the signature helper window should show you each overload's contract in the same window as the signature and exception information.
- Hovering over an existing method call: the quick info window should show you the method's contract in addition to its summary information.
- Method override and interface implementation definitions: hover over the method name in the signature to see the tooltip of the contracts inherited (or defined in the method).
- Metadata windows: if you "go to definition" for a type/method that is defined in an external assembly then the metadata window that VS creates should be augmented with method contracts.
Enjoy.
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We have added a section to our web site listing the external projects that we know about which are using Code Contracts. If you would like your project listed, please send us a link and we'll add it to the list. This would really help us in our efforts to get the project more fully supported by the product groups.
Thanks!
Mike
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We are so happy that you are interested in Code Contracts! You are at exactly the right place for learning how to use contracts from any .NET language to:
- Specify method preconditions for expressing conditions that a caller must meet in order to call a method.
- Specify method postconditions for expressing conditions that the implementation of a method must meet before returning. Conditions can be specified for both normal termination as well as exceptional termination.
- Specify object invariants that describe the healthy states for an instance of a class.
We currently provide three tools for making use of contracts:
- A binary rewriter that operates as a post-build step to inject the contracts into the appropriate places for them to be evaluated at runtime.
- A static checker that operates as a post-build step to analyze your code without even executing it for potential contract violations.
- A documentation generator that adds information about the contracts to the XML documentation files for your project.
The installer for these tools is available for either commercial or non-commercial use.
We welcome you to use the forum to ask questions about how to use contracts and the tools, to make suggestions for how we can improve, and --- if you really must --- to report bugs and problems.
You can also check out our home page at Microsoft Research.
Azure Virtual Machines announcements
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We are currently experiencing an outage in South Central US
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
You will want to monitor the Azure Status Page for further updates.
Once the issue has mitigated all Virtual Machines and data should be restored and fully functional. After the issue has been mitigated and if you are still seeing issues let us know.
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With the release of the March 2018 Security bulletin, there was a fix that addressed a CredSSP, “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability (CVE-2018-0886) which could impact RDP connections. The vulnerability was discovered to which the exploits observed were:
- Targets receive a malicious RTF Microsoft Office document
- After being opened, the malicious document causes the second stage of the exploit to be downloaded in the form of an HTML page with malicious code
- The malicious code triggers the use-after-free memory-corruption bug
- Accompanying shellcode then downloads and executes a malicious payload
For additional information regarding this update and mitigation steps see the following blog:
Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation
For general discussion of this topic please see:
General Discussion - Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption
If the mitigation steps detailed in the above links do not solve your problem please submit a new forum post to:
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication announcements
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Azure MFA faced a global outage this morning. This issue is now mitigated. If you are still receiving this issue, please open a new thread and we will work with you to resolve it.
Anyone testing with the Authenticator app should use the refresh option to check for notifications.
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Identity and access management is an anchor for security and top of mind for enterprise IT departments. It is key to extending anytime, anywhere access to employees, partners, and customers. Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is now available to deliver increased access security and convenience for IT and end users.
In addition to entering a username and password during sign in, users also authenticate with the Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication app on their mobile device or via an automated phone call or text message. In order for an attacker to gain access to the user’s account, they would need to know the user’s login credentials and be in possession of the user’s phone. This increases security while using mobile devices and methods that are familiar to users.
For more information, see the article: Announcing General Availability of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) announcements
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Hi All,
For updates to WPF, see the team blog. Also many common questions about WPF can be answered be reading the team blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/jgoldb/default.aspx
SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint announcements
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If PowerPivot for Excel 2010, Excel 2010, SharePoint 2010, or the Reporting Services Addin for SharePoint 2010 are beta versions, PowerPivot and its related functionality will not work with the Released versions of these components.
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Some of you may have been waiting for the Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 QFE to be released before installing SharePoint 2010 and PowerPivot for SharePoint. The QFE has just been released!
To read more about how to install the QFE with SharePoint 2010, please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx.
Thanks ~
Kathy MacDonald
Microsoft Robotics - Simulation announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Dev Center App announcements
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Window Phone is no longer supported by Microsoft and most of the questions in this forum are off topic. As a result, this forum is now closed. Thank you for your participation.
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Thank you for all the feedback regarding the new Dev Center App!
We released an update (version 1.1.1302.26 published on Feb 28, 2013) to fix these issues:
- App would fail if the background agent was turned off
- App would show an incorrect notification “update required”
- UI graphic improvements
IMPORTANT: This app requires a Windows Phone Dev Center active account and won’t work without one.
Please take a minute to download the update. Please send us feedback either by email and this forum.
Application Insights (AI) announcements
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Yesterday at Connect() 2016 event in New York, we announced the general availability of Azure Application Insights(previously Visual Studio Application Insights) and launched our new pricing structure. With this announcement, Application Insights now provides a financially backed SLA offering 99.9% availability. You can read all about in the following blog post
In addition, we are announcing these new features and enhancements to Application Insights, that we are proud to share these with you .
- Increased raw data retention to 90 days for Analytics Queries
- European data center option for storing Application Insights data
- Improvements in Application Performance Management:
- Smart detection of degradation in request performance
- Correlating Availability Monitoring results with server side telemetry which will let you diagnose failures of your synthetic tests
- Failure Samples in Live Metrics Stream which will let you get insight into details of failed requests, dependency calls and exceptions in real time
- Grid control in Azure Dashboards and additional charting options in Metric options such as percentage charts
- Enhancements to the Codelens and Application Search capabilities inside Visual Studio provide more information in context to identify and fix issues sooner
- Preview of Application Insights REST APIs to access all your queries, events, and metrics data
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Azure Blockchain announcements
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A recent release of Azure cloud shell caused Workbench AAD setup script fail. This impacts all new deployments. While we are working on a fix, here is a workaround. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Emergency Maintenance: We are performing emergency maintenance on the Azure Blockchain Service infrastructure due to CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, and CVE-2019-11479. You may experience downtime of up to 60 minutes in duration within the next 72 hours; and the nodes may be restarted. During this period, access to the transaction node may be lost, so new transactions submission and blockchain and smart contract state queries may fail. The access will automatically be restored, without any loss of data, and the transactions can then be resubmitted.
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Update: The issue has been resolved by the Azure networking team
Azure is experiencing intermittent VPN gateway connectivity issues when accessing your resources. This may impact your ability to successfully deploy among other things. You can find detailed updates by going to the "Service Health" page from your Azure Portal.
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A known Azure Networking Infrastructure issue may be causing Workbench deployments to fail. Please feel free to track this issue here.
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Update Jun 27th: Another issue surfaced after the fix below was applied. We have rolled out a hotfix to (keyserver pgp.mit.edu unavailable) which is now live. Your deployments should now succeed. We apologize for the inconvenience - the fix hardens our solution against similar issues in the future.
We are aware of an upstream dependency that is causing all workbench deployments to fail. We have identified the root cause as the Parity installation mechanism and have reached out to Parity team to investigate and fix. This announcement will be updated as progress is made in rolling out a fix. You can track the root cause issue here: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/issues/8978
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The Microsoft Blockchain team monitors this forum to provide support for our Azure marketplace solutions:
- Azure Blockchain Workbench - the fastest way to get started with blockchain on Azure.
- Ethereum on Azure - Ethereum multi-subscription cross-region multi-member solution template.
- Hyperledger Fabric on Azure - Hyperledger Fabric solution templates.
Azure Cache announcements
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Azure Redis Cache is now Generally Available, with an availability SLA of 99.9%.
Azure Redis Cache is a distributed, in-memory, managed cache that helps you build highly scalable and responsive applications, by providing you with fast access to your data. It’s based on the popular open source Redis Cache, and it gives you access to a secured, dedicated Redis cache that’s managed by Microsoft.
For all new Azure deployment, Azure Redis cache is the recommended cache.
For more information browse to the Azure Redis Cache service home page.
Azure Cognitive Service announcements
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Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Services forum. This forum is for the posting of questions related to building and deploying applications using pre-built machine learning models. These pre-built models include, but are not limited to, computer vision, speech, language, knowledge and other preview services as they become available. This also includes any pre-built model that supports customization, such as custom vision or custom speech.
We look forward to hearing about the project you are working, and helping you infuse the models into your applications in the most effective manner.
Azure Data Factory announcements
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We have noticed customers post their questions on Azure Databricks on incorrect forums on MSDN, since there is a new home for Azure Databricks.
Forum Link: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=AzureDatabricks
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Azure Data Factory allows you to manage the production of trusted information by offering an easy way to create, orchestrate, and monitor data pipelines over the Hadoop ecosystem using structured, semi-structures and unstructured data sources.
You can connect to your on-premises SQL Server, Azure database, tables or blobs and create data pipelines that will process the data with Hive and Pig scripting, or custom C# processing. The service offers a holistic monitoring and management experience over these pipelines, including a view of their data production and data lineage down to the source systems.
The outcome of Data Factory is the transformation of raw data assets into trusted information that can be shared broadly with BI and analytics tools.
The MSDN forum will be used for general discussions for Getting Started, Development, Management, and Troubleshooting using Azure Data Factory.
Azure Disk Encryption announcements
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Heads up! If you plan on using Azure Disk Encryption, please install the latest version of PowerShell, which at this time is version 1.0.2.
Thanks!
Tom Shinder
Program Manager, Azure Security Engineering
Azure Functions announcements
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A recent update to App Service removed implicit PHP support, causing users’ Azure Functions v1 PHP functions to stop working. A fix will be rolling out with the next App Service update; in the meantime, please manually load PHP into your app’s site/tools folder (accessible by Kudu) as a temporary workaround.
Note that this will reset the php.ini config to its default. Thanks to our users for discovering and reporting this error.
Azure Key Vault announcements
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Today we're announcing the public preview of Microsoft Azure Key Vault, a cloud-hosted HSM-backed service for managing cryptographic keys and other secrets used in your cloud applications. This forum is intended for general discussion, best practices, tips and tricks and troubleshooting. Remember, this is a public forum. Do not post confidential information here. Reach us via email to discuss your specific project or feature requests.
Azure Logic Apps announcements
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We are aware of an incident effecting any Logic Apps that were using the SQL connector. Connections will need to be recreated. Details on mitigating can be found here https://aka.ms/logicapp-sql-mitigation
We apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused and will keep you updated with details as we progress.
For questions or issues - please email logicappsemail@microsoft.com
Azure Log Integration announcements
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The Azure Log integration feature will be deprecated by June 01, 2019
AzLog downloads will be disabled by June 27, 2018 - no new downloads after this date.
For guidance on using Azure monitor to integrate Azure logs with SIEM tools, review the official blog post https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/use-azure-monitor-to-integrate-with-siem-tools/
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Hey everyone!
Welcome to the Azure Log Integration forum!
Here you can ask questions about configuration, troubleshooting, capabilities and just about anything else you want to ask!
We will monitor this forum and provide answers when we have them. We hope that community will be a powerful force to help one another though, as often you come up with solutions before we do! :-)
Looking forward to working with all of you!
Thanks!
Tom
Azure Migrate announcements
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We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Migrate.
Azure Migrate is offered at no additional charge and provides appliance-based, agentless discovery of your on-premises environments. It enables discovery of VMware-virtualized Windows and Linux VMs today and will enable discovery of Hyper-V environments in the future. It also provides an optional, agent-based discovery for visualizing interdependencies between machines to identify multi-tier applications. This enables you to plan your migration across three dimensions:
- Readiness: Are the machines that host my multi-tier application suitable for running in Azure?
- Rightsizing: What size will my Azure VM be, based on my machine’s configuration or utilization?
- Cost: How much will my recurring Azure costs be, taking into account discounts like Azure Hybrid Benefit?
You can get started by creating a migration project in the Azure portal. In addition...
- Get and stay informed with our documentation.
- Seek help by posting a question on our forum or contacting Microsoft Support.
- Provide feedback by posting or voting for an idea in our user voice.
Happy Migrations!
Azure Mobile Apps announcements
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We are happy to announce that you can now log feature requests for Mobile Services on Uservoice. We would love to hear your feedback about the features we should be looking into:
http://feedback.windowsazure.com/forums/216254-mobile-services
Thanks.
Dinesh
Azure Search announcements
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Welcome to the public preview forum for Azure Search. This is a great place to ask technical questions about Azure Search a fully-managed search-as-a-service that customers can use to integrate complete search experiences into applications and connect search results to business objectives through fine-tuned, ranking profiles. We look forward to your questions and feedback!
Azure Security Center announcements
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Welcome to the Azure Security Center Forum - we're really happy to see you here. Feel free to ask any question you like about Azure Security Center. We read all the posts and will do our best to answer your questions quickly! Here are some resources to get your started:
- Check out Sarah Fender’s Azure Security Center post on the Azure Blog
- Watch Sarah’s presentation at AzureCon 2015,
- Read the Azure Security Center docs
- See the Azure Security Center announcement
- Stay up to date on Azure Security by reading the Azure Security Team Blog
We're looking forward to working with you - so let's work together to make Azure Security Center the best!
Thanks! -Tom Shinder, Project Manager, Azure Security Engineering.
Azure Sphere announcements
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In September, Azure Sphere was released for public preview. Today, Microsoft released the 18.11 update to the Azure Sphere Operating System, Azure Sphere Security Service, and Visual Studio development environment. This release includes substantial investments in the security infrastructure and connectivity solutions, and it incorporates some of your feedback.
Update to 18.11 Release
Because of changes to the security infrastructure, this release will require a manual update; over-the-air (OTA) update should be available for future releases. Download and install the new SDK and follow the instructions in the Release Notes to manually update your device to 18.11 and reconnect to Wi-Fi. If you previously configured OTA application deployment, you will need to create new feeds.
Upgrade your device OS and SDK as soon as possible. Devices that run the TP 4.2.1 release will have limited functionality. Please refer to the Release Notes for more information.
New Features
18.11 release includes support for new device functionality and adds new reference solutions. Please see the Azure Sphere Blog post for more details.
If you have any questions about this update, please post them here on Azure Sphere MSDN forum.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse announcements
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We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in four additional regions—North Europe, Japan East, Brazil South, and Australia Southeast. These additional locations bring the product worldwide availability count to 18 regions – more than any other major cloud provider.
Read More Here!
Cost Management - Cloudyn announcements
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Creating a support ticket
- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: Billing > Azure Cost Management
- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: Billing > Cloudyn Legacy
If you are unable to find answers using the Azure Cost Management documentation and you suspect the issue may be due to a service disruption or bug, you can open an online support ticket. You should open each support ticket for only a single problem, so that each reported issue can routed accordingly.
To open a support ticket
- Sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com)
- On the left navigation menu select Help + Support
- From the Help + support menu, select New support request
- On the Basics blade, for Issue type, select Billing
- For Subscription, choose any of the listed subscriptions. The subscription chosen isn’t used for routing of the issue.
- For Service, select the Billing option, and then choose either Azure Cost Management or Cloudyn Legacy from the list
- Under Support plan, choose your support current Azure Support Plan, and then click Next
- On Problems, select a Severity
- Select a Problem type, and then select a Category for that type
- Enter a descriptive Title for the incident, and input additional information in the Details dialog
- Choose an
approximate date and time for When
did the problem start, and click Next
- On Contact information, select your preferred contact method and provide your contact information and then select Create
Once the support ticket is created, it will be added to the support queue and response time will vary based on the Support Plan and Severity (e.g. business impact) of the issue.
For more information see: Support scope and responsiveness
To check status of an Incident you have filed, see: Manage support requests
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Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn provides detailed visibility into Azure consumption, cost and performance.
Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn is now available for free to customers and partners managing Azure spend!
Azure customers can use their Azure subscription to register with "Azure Cost Management" by Cloudyn to access the Cloudyn portal.
(For more details, please see the following Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn documentation.)
"Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn" Documentation and Resources can be found at:
- Azure Cost Management Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview-cost-mgt
- Cloudyn Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview
- Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cost-management
- Trial: https://trial.cloudyn.com/
- Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=Cloudyn
- Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/use-azure-cost-management-for-free/
- Videos: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/ref-videos
- Feedback: http://aka.ms/costmgmt/feedback
"Cloudyn" Documentation and Resources can be found at:
- Website: https://www.cloudyn.com/
- Documentation: https://support.cloudyn.com/hc/en-us/
You can open "Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn" service requests from:- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: All Services > Monitoring & Management > Cloudyn
Azure Marketplace announcements
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We recently updated our certificate infrastructure to reflect all up Windows Azure Certificate Authority change (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/15/windows-azure-root-certificate-migration.aspx).
Some Linux clients do not does not accept certificates chained to both the GTE CyberTrust Global Root and the Baltimore CyberTrust Root and you may hit certificate validation errors. Accepting the Root Certificate trust will solve the issue.
Thanks,
Marketplace team
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We are pleased to announce a new development in the display of thumbnail images with the Bing Search API. As the demand for images in Bing has increased, the need for larger thumbnails to display high quality images has grown. To meet this need, thumbnail dimensions will now be increased when the original image can support it.
How does this affect you? If you currently display images in your application, you will need to utilize existing thumbnail properties to adjust the thumbnail size to your UI specifications. We recommend that you should not have a dependency on the upper bound of the thumbnail size, as the thumbnail size will vary.
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery announcements
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We’re very excited to announce the ability to protect & recover Generation 2 virtual machines to Azure. This feature is now available in all ASR supported regions.
For more details, check out General availability: Recover Generation 2 virtual machines to Azure.
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We are rolling out updates for the Configuration Server (Version 8.2.2.0) and Process Server (Version 8.2.2.0). The updates bring better error handling and other quality enhancements. We strongly recommend that you get your Preview / TAP customers to install the latest updates in the following order:
- Log onto the configuration server using the Virtual Machines page in the Azure portal and download the latest update from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=533809. Follow the installer instructions to install the update
- On the server that you installed the process server, download the latest update from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=533810 and install it using the installer instructions
- On the server that you have installed the master target server(s),
install the latest update (Version 8.2.1.0), if you haven't already
- For Windows master target server(s), log onto the Windows master target server(s) using the Virtual Machines page in the Azure portal and download the latest update from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=533811. Follow the installer instructions to install the update
- For Linux master target server(s), copy the installer tar file that is available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=533812 using a sftp client. Alternatively you can log onto the Linux master target server(s) using the Virtual Machines page in Azure use wget to download the file. Extract the files from the gzipped installer and run the command “sudo ./install” to install the update
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Migration Accelerator functionality of providing pain-free migrations of physical, VMware, AWS and Hyper-V workloads, is now an integral part of Azure Site Recovery, an enabling technology of Availability on Demand.
Sign up now and start migrating to Azure today!Read the blogs:
Seamless Migrations into Azure with Availability on Demand
Migrate Heterogeneous IT Environments to Azure with ASRThe Migration Accelerator service will not be available after 07/31/2015. We recommend that you start using Azure Site Recovery for your migration scenarios.
Machine Learning announcements
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We have a new dedicated forum for Azure Cognitive Services.
Please update your bookmarks to point to: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=AzureCognitiveService
Thank you.
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We have opened a new forum (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=AzureMachineLearningService) dedicated to Azure Machine Learning service.
Please direct all Azure Machine Learning service (and the retiring Azure Machine Learning workbench) related questions to the new forum.
Thank you.
Azure Machine Learning team
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New Module: Extract Key Phrases from Text
You can use this module to extract key talking points from text. As an input, the module takes a dataset that must have a text string column from which the key-phrases are extracted.
The module takes the language of the text records as input parameter. Supported languages include Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. You can also use a language column that specifies the language of each record, as produced by Detect Languages module.
The output consists of comma-separated lists of key phrases for each record in input. The key phrases can be used to summarize a corpus of documents, or as features for a machine learning model.
Updated Module: Preprocess Text
- You can specify a language through a language column, as produced by Detect Languages module.
- Following three preprocessing options have been added: Expand verb contractions, Normalize backslashes to slashes, and Split tokens on special characters. Previously, these transformations were done automatically.
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We are pleased to announce the availability of Azure Machine Learning Workspaces and Web Service Plans for all our Azure Machine Learning users through the Azure Portal. Azure Machine Learning users can now create and manage Standard workspaces through the Azure Portal. In addition, users will also be able to create Web Service Pricing Plans. These plans are used when deploying web services and provide included quantities of operationalized compute at a single, predictable monthly cost.
Create your Standard Azure Machine Learning workspace now by going to https://portal.azure.com. Log in with the credentials that you use for accessing your Azure Subscription(s). Click on +New | Data + Analytics | Machine Learning Workspace.
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We are pleased to announce significant new capabilities for text analytics in Azure Machine Learning Studio.
The new features include following modules:
- Detect Languages
- Identify language of each record in input file from large number of languages.
- Preprocess Text
- Clean and simplify text to make it more easy to featurize.
- Extract N-Gram Features from Text
- Create N-gram feature vectors from long text strings, and select only the most important features.
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Group text into categories using topic modeling.
These modules allow you to build models to solve text classification problems, such as support ticket routing or sentiment analysis. You can pre-process text in multiple languages, and then create features from your text data. Operationalization of models is fully supported.
The modules complement the existing capabilities for Feature Hashing, Vowpal Wabbit based high-dimensional models, and text analytics through R and Python scripting.
For more details, visit MSDN documentation and Cortana Intelligence Gallery.
- Detect Languages
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There is an issue impacting the "New" web service option for deploying web services from Predictive Experiments in Azure ML. We are working on resolving the issue, and a result have disabled the feature until the feature is fully functional. To access web services created the new process, please browse to https://services.azureml.net and sign in to view your web services. Sorry for any inconvenience this issue may cause.
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We have released support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a data source and a destination in Azure Machine Learning. You can use the existing "Azure SQL Database" connection options in the Reader and Writer modules to read from and write to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. When using the Writer module, the destination tables must already exist in the SQL Data Warehouse.
For more information, please see How to Use Azure ML with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Please refer to SQL Data Warehouse Reference to learn more about the product and the Transact-SQL language details.
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Visualization of tree models such as Boosted Decision Trees is now available in Azure Machine Learning Studio. To view the trees, train the model, and click Visualize on the output of Train Model module.
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Announcing the Availability of an Azure Virtual Machine Image with Popular Data Science Tools
Microsoft Data Group is happy to announce the immediate availability of a Windows Server 2012 based custom virtual machine image on the Azure marketplace containing several tools that can be used by data scientists and developers for advanced analytics. Through Azure’s world-wide cloud infrastructure, customers now have on-demand access to a data science development environment they can use to derive insights from their data, build predictive models and intelligent applications. The virtual machine saves developers’ time from having to discover and install the tools individually. Hosting the data science machine on Azure gains you high availability and a consistent set of tools used across your data science team.
The data science VM comes with several popular tools pre-installed like Revolution R Open, Anaconda Python distribution including Jupyter notebook server, Visual Studio Community Edition, Power BI Desktop, SQL Server Express edition and Azure SDK. Once you provision your virtual machine from this image you can get started with data exploration and modeling right away. The data on the virtual machine is stored on the cloud and highly available. You have full administrative access to the virtual machine and can install additional software as needed. There is no separate software fee to use the VM image. You only pay for actual hardware compute usage of the virtual machine depending on the size of the virtual machine you are provisioning this VM on. You
The data science virtual machine helps you create an analytics environment where you can rapidly build advanced analytics solutions for deployment to the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment.
You can find the data science virtual machine and the Azure hardware compute pricing at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/microsoft-ads/standard-data-science-vm/
More information about the virtual machine can be found at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-data-science-provision-vm/
If you are new to Azure, you can try the data science virtual machine for free via a 30-day Azure free trial by visitinghttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
We encourage you to try the data science virtual machine to jumpstart your analytics project and provide us feedback on how we can better serve your analytics needs.
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We are happy to announce that we have released Azure ML in our Western Europe datacenter (Amsterdam). Now you can create workspaces in this datacenter. For more information, click here: http://aka.ms/mlwelaunch.
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We are happy to announce that we have released Azure ML in our SouthEast Asia datacenter (Singapore). Now you can create workspaces in this datacenter. For more information, click here: http://aka.ms/mlasialaunch.
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We are happy to announce that we have released Azure Active Directory (AAD) support in Azure ML. Now you can log in with any arbitrary Azure AD account (work or school account), in addition to, Microsoft accounts (LiveID), and invite other Azure AD users to your workspace. For more information, click here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/archive/2015/09/02/logging-on-to-azure-ml-with-your-work-or-school-account.aspx.
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A free Excel add-in that you can use with web services published from Azure Machine Learning is now available. You can use this add-in for request/response predictions or batch predictions, work in Windows or the browser, share workbooks with your co-workers, and call multiple web services all within a single spreadsheet. Go to http://aka.ms/amlexcelhelp for help or ask a question here.
To try it out, open and download sample Excel worksheets that already contain web services:
http://aka.ms/amlexcel-sample-1
http://aka.ms/amlexcel-sample-2
You may use the add-in directly in the browser using Excel Online or opening the file in Excel 2013 or later on Windows. Copy the file to your own OneDrive account if you want to edit it.
Feature highlights
- Connect to multiple web services in one Excel workbook
- Choose from RRS or BES
- Supports single or no input, and single, multiple, or no outputs
For sample 1 (text sentiment analysis): http://aka.ms/amlexcel-sample-1
1.) Highlight cells A1 to A12
2.) Click the range selector button (the selection Sheet1!$A$1:$A:$12 should automatically be populated)
3.) Click OK in the Select Data dialog box
4.) Type “B1” in the output1 text box
5.) Click the Predict button
6.) This web service takes some time to process the text, so please be patient and wait for a minute. When it’s done, you should see the sentiment predictions and scores in columns B and C.
For sample 2 (Titanic survivor predictor): http://aka.ms/amlexcel-sample-2
1.) Highlight cells A1 to G11
2.) Click the range selector button (the selection Sheet1!$A$1:$G:$11 should automatically be populated)
3.) Click OK in the Select Data dialog box
4.) Type “H1” in the output1 text box
5.) Click the Predict button
6.) When it’s done, you should see the predictions and scores in columns H and I
To add your own web service:
1.) In the Excel add-in, go to the Web Services section (if you are in the Predict section, click the back arrow to go to the list of web services)
2.) Click Add Web Service
3.) In Azure ML Studio, click the WEB SERVICES section in the left pane, and then select the web service
4.) Copy the API key for the web service
5.) Paste the API key into the Excel add-in text box labeled API key
6.) On the DASHBOARD tab for the web service, click the REQUEST/RESPONSE link
7.) Look for the OData Endpoint Address section. Copy the URL and paste that into the text box labeled URL in the Excel add-in\
8.) Click Add
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On July 24th, 2015, Microsoft announced the Preview Availability release of Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Machine Learning Studio.
Azure Machine Learning Studio is a powerful canvas for the composition of Machine Learning Experiments and subsequent operationalization and consumption. It provides an easy to use, yet powerful, drag-drop style of creating Experiments. But sometimes you need a good old “REPL” that allows you to have a tight loop where you enter some script code and get a response. We are delighted to announce that we’ve now integrated this functionality into ML Studio through Jupyter Notebooks.
Jupyter enables the concept of “executable documents” with support for mixed code, markdown and inline graphics. It’s one of the most important innovations in the Data Science and Technical Computing space in recent years. You now have full access to its power from any OS, from any modern browser directly from inside the Azure Machine Learning Studio.
In addition to authoring capabilities above, we are also enabling publishing AzureML web services directly from the Jupyter Notebook. We are also extending this capability to the Jupyter Notebooks running locally outside of AzureML Studio. This allows you to publish any function, including those creating ML models, to be published as a web service directly from the Jupyter Notebook running on your machine. The result is an AzureML web service API that can be called to perform functions or predictions from client applications in real time and over the internet. -
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Announcing the availability of the SDK for AzureML Batch Execution Service (BES)
The AzureML BES SDK is now available for download and installation as a NuGet package on NuGet.org (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.MachineLearning/).
The SDK wraps the BES sample code with additional functions to simplify the consumption of BES APIs.
Documentation is available after installing the SDK package in Visual Studio. The BES documentation has also been updated with sample code and guidance on using the SDK.
We are looking forward to hearing your feedback and comments on the SDK to help improve it.
Thanks,
AzureML Team
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We have posted a demo of the Retraining APIs on Codeplex.com. The demo uses the new APIs to programmatically retrain a trained model. Here is the link to the Demo.
Please take a look and let us know if you have questions or comments.
Azure Media Services announcements
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Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services to build media applications that include encoding, content protection with DRM, video indexing, live streaming, dynamic packaging, and content delivery at scale. The API now features:
A simplified development and management model that
adds new capabilities across live, VOD, and Content Protection
includes new presets to facilitate automated audio and video metadata extraction workflows in Azure
A new live streaming (LiveEvent) entity with support for 8-second end-to-end low-latency streaming across both HLS and DASH (when using 1s GOPs)
Release of a CLI 2.0 command line module that supports all API features (including live!)
Better integration experience with key Azure services like Event Grid, Logic Apps, and Functions
Updated versions of the most requested client SDKs for .NET, .NET Core, Java, Go, Ruby, Python, and Node.js.
In addition, there are updates to Azure Media Player— AMP now includes a Low Latency profile to use with the new LiveEvent entity, and its accessibility support has been enhanced with the inclusion of the closed-captioning standard CEA-708.
For more information on the above, please read the announcement blog.
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As part of our impending shut-down of ACS authentication and Key support in Azure Media Services, we will be removing support for ACS key management from Powershell as of next week.
If you have not begun your migration to use AAD authentication, you should begin so IMMEDIATELY!
In June we will be shutting off ACS key authentication support for all calls to Azure Media Services API. This means that all API calls and code that has not been migrated to use Azure Active Directory (AAD) auth will no longer work.
See our previous announcements on the required updates here:
ACS deprecation AnnouncementAlso see the full blog post with details on migration here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation/
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Azure Media Services client SDKs for both Java and PHP now support Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.
Due to the upcoming deprecation of key authentication support for the Azure Access Control service (ACS) on June 22, 2018, all Media Services customers are required to upgrade their client SDK or REST API code to support Azure AD authentication.
To get the latest Java SDK release, see the details in our Java documentation. To download the latest PHP SDK for Media Services, look for version 0.5.7 of the Microsoft/WindowsAzure package in the Packagist repository. For critical information about the deprecation of ACS, see our blog.
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This is a CRITICAL reminder of an upcoming BREAKING CHANGE to your code if you are using Azure Media Services.
On June 1, 2018, we will be shutting down ACS authentication key support. This is currently the primary way most customers are authenticating with Azure Media Services. We are being forced off the ACS system due to that team's planned retirement of the backend ACS key services. As we have blogged before, we have moved to Azure Active Directory for Authentication (AAD). See my previous blog post here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation/Starting in November 2017, we will be turning off the ACS key blade in the Media Services section of the Azure Portal. You will no longer be able to retrieve or rotate your existing ACS keys for authentication with Media Services. We are doing this to promote the coming critical change
more, and ask customers to move more rapidly to meet the June 1 deadline. You can still list your keys via the REST management API or through Powershell.
We are pleading directly to our customer base to IMMEDIATELY update your SDK or REST API code to use Active Directory (AAD ) authentication. Do not delay, as this will be a breaking change to your code on June 1, 2018.You production code using ACS keys will begin to fail authentication on that date.
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The Media Services team is very excited to announce some long awaited customer features, including both our new Standard Streaming Endpoints and Enhanced Azure CDN Integration.
Our new Standard Streaming Endpoints offer auto-scaling and the flexibility to deliver your content to virtually every device through dynamic packaging into HLS, MPEG-DASH, and Smooth Streaming as well as dynamic encryption for Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay, and AES128 without needing to worry about Streaming Units. They also scale from very small to very large audiences with thousands of concurrent viewers through Azure CDN integration. The new Streaming endpoints only cost a very low monthly fee, with no additional costs when they scale up based on demand.
Moving forward, all new Media Services accounts will be created with Standard Streaming Endpoint by default. Addition to this all new media services accounts come with 15 days of free Standard Streaming Endpoint. This is great for developers who need to test out our MPEG-DASH and HLS advanced features without committing to spending for the month. Existing Media Services accounts with classic Streaming Endpoint will not be automatically migrated to Standard Streaming Endpoint, but will have the option to migrate manually. Standard Streaming Endpoints is our recommended option for virtually all streaming scenarios and audience sizes.
In addition to Standard Streaming Endpoints, we are also pleased to announce enhanced Azure CDN integration. With a single click you can integrate all the available Azure CDN providers (Akamai and Verizon) to your Streaming Endpoint including their Standard and Premium products and you can manage and configure all the related features through the Azure CDN portal. When Azure CDN is enabled for a Streaming Endpoint using Azure Media Services, data transfer charges between the Streaming Endpoint and CDN do not apply. Data transferred is instead charged at the CDN edge using CDN pricing.
You can start trying out new Standard Streaming Endpoint and CDN integration or migrate your existing endpoints to Standard Streaming Endpoint using Azure Portal (Please note that AMS is not accessible via Azure Classic portal and have a new home).
If you prefer writing code, you need to use REST 2.15 and upgrade to .NET SDK 3.8.0.5.
For more information please check our blog post and Streaming endpoints overview.
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WAMS Service Management APIs are now live on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn167014.aspx
Feedback welcome
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You can now monitor your usage of On-Demand Streaming for your media services accounts via the following three metrics that are now available via the Azure Media Services dashboard.
Streaming Data Out - Indicates how many Bytes of egress data has been used for On-Demand Streaming.
Streaming HTTP Errors - Indicates how many HTTP Errors have occured. This includes server errors (e.g. HTTP 500 caused by blob store or a media services component) as well as typical client errors (e.g. HTTP 404 or 403). In a future update we will provide additional granularity so that you can track these errors individually.
Streaming Requests - Indicates how many requests for data have been made for on-demand streaming.
If there are other metrics that you would like to see available for on-demand streaming, add the request to our uservoice board - https://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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We have a User Voice site that we have been using for IIS Media Services on-premises for many years that we would like to direct our customers to post new feature requests and vote on features for Azure Media Services as well. We decided to mix the customer feature list, as many of the same feature requests will impact both our cloud and on-premises solutions for Media Services.
Please post your feature requests to our User Voice Media Services site here:
http://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
Azure Log Analytics announcements
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IMPORTANT for OpInsights users!
If you are using OpsMgr with Azure Operational Insights behind proxies with specific ACL or rules to only allow traffic to specific destination, please note the following upcoming change that would require an action in your environment.
In order to align the way that OpsMgr and direct agent send data to the service, and as we are making preparations to have a presence in more Azure regions, we have to make a ONE-TIME change to the URLs that the management packs use to post data to OpInsights: where in the past OpsMgr would be talking to ods.systemcenteradvisor.com , with an upcoming deployment (possibly mid next week, we will update this post closer to the deployment as we have a more specific date) OpsMgr will instead start reporting to <yourworkspaceid>.ods.opinsights.azure.com. We recommend you update your firewall/proxy’s ACLs/rules to allow traffic to the new destination *.ods.opinsights.azure.com or your data would start either queuing up on OpsMgr and/or eventually being dropped if the new destination can’t be reached.
As the new management packs will be received, the system will start reporting to the new URL, and you can later remove the previous ods.systemcenteradvisor.com entry which won’t be needed any longer.
We have updated the table with the relevant URLs on our troubleshooting blog post and are updating the MSDN documentation as well. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you need more information or help.
Read more on our blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2015/02/06/notice-upcoming-url-change-for-opsmgr-reporting-to-opinsights.aspx
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Log Analytics is an analysis service that enables IT administrators to gain deep insight across on-premises and cloud environments. It enables you to interact with real-time and historical machine data to rapidly develop custom insights, and provides Microsoft and community-developed patterns for analyzing data. Learn more and try it out at http://www.microsoft.com/oms
This is a forum to ask question and discuss with the community about your experience with Log Analytics!
Onboarding issues? Read this troubleshooting guide
- How do I do XYZ? Try our documentation
- Customers with Premier support can log support cases via Premier
- Customers with Azure support agreements can log support cases in the Azure portal
Note we also have another site to report Feedback, Ideas and Bugs https://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-log-analytics (before submitting there, check what other users have already suggested and voted on). You can also reach us on twitter @OpInsights
Service Bus announcements
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Check the latest update to Service Bus explorer at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Explorer-f2abca5a
Beside many new features which were recently added to Service Bus and now available in the tool, the tool now supports both cloud and on-premise versions for Service Bus !
StorSimple announcements
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In July 2017, we announced the general availability of the Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 series in the new Azure portal. Beginning October 2017, you need to use the new Azure portal to manage your StorSimple 8000 series devices. The Azure classic portal is no longer supported.
- Starting October 5, 2017, your classic StorSimple device managers will automatically move to the new Azure portal. This is a phased rollout, and we will update you about the move via email and portal notifications. For more information about the move, see Move your service to Azure portal.
- The new Azure portal supports devices running Update 3.0 or later. If your device is not up to date, we strongly recommend that you apply Update 5 as soon as possible. For more information, see Install Update 5 on your StorSimple device.
- The existing Azure Service Management (ASM) PowerShell cmdlets are not supported after the transition to the new portal. Update the scripts to manage your devices through the Azure Resource Manager SDK. For more information, see the script samples that use the Resource Manager SDK.
If you have any questions, see FAQ: Move to Azure portal. To familiarize yourself with the new Azure portal, please refer to the product documentation.
Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/storsimple-8000-series-is-available-only-in-the-azure-portal-from-october-2017/
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StorSimple 8000 series device management is generally available in the Azure portal. This means that you can use the portal and Azure Resource Manager to unlock deep personalization and role-based access control, and have a single portal to manage all your apps.
What does this change mean for you?
- Using Resource Manager, you can now manage 8000 series devices.
- You can leverage the Resource Manager SDK for automating the 8000 series device management.
- The Azure portal supports devices running Update 3.0 or later.
What actions do you need to take?
- Your existing StorSimple Physical Device Series resources in the classic portal can be transitioned to the new Azure Portal in the coming weeks. The transition from the classic portal to the Azure portal is quick, easy, and non-disruptive.
- If your device is not up to date, we strongly recommend that you apply Update 4 as soon as possible.
For more information about the Azure portal experience, please visit the Azure Blog.
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To leverage the StorSimple Virtual Array hybrid cloud offering, we are now expanding this solution to customers who are on MSDN, Pay-as-you-go, and other subscriptions.
For more details, check out Expanded subscription offers for StorSimple Virtual Array.
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Your existing StorSimple Virtual Device Series managers in the Azure Classic portal will be transitioned to the new Azure portal. Please note this migration is seamless and there will be no downtime to your virtual arrays. Upon completion of this migration, you may still see your StorSimple Virtual Device Series resources within the Classic portal,
however you will be directed to manage them within the Azure portal.More information is available at StorSimple Virtual Device Series transitioning to the new Azure portal.
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We’re happy to announce the management of the StorSimple Virtual Device Series is now available in the new Azure portal. You can use the StorSimple extension in the new portal to create Azure Resource Manager based StorSimple managers to manage your virtual arrays.
For more information, check out Managing StorSimple virtual arrays in the new Azure portal.
Azure Storage announcements
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With general availability of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disk
sStorage today, we are delivering the next generation of our highly performant Azure Managed Disk, for data intensive workloads migrating to or running in the cloud. Azure Ultra Disk will help you get maximum extremely scalable performance and sub-millisecond latency for applications and databases like SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Oracle DB, Postgre SQL, NoSQL, MySQL and many more.Azure Ultra Disk
swill give you access to the best in class IOPS, throughput and latency in the cloud. You can now:- Choose from a range of different disks sizes ranging from 4 GiB up to 64 TiB with granular increments
- Scale performance up to 160K IOPS and 2 GB/s per disk with zero downtime using our flexible innovative design
- Achieve the optimal performance you need per disk even at low storage capacities
Our preview customers have benefited by achieving new levels of performance and scale on Azure for their Virtual Machine and Container workloads. Get started today with Azure Ultra Disk Storage. Please refer to our how-to-guidefor a deep dive and learn more at https://aka.ms/UltraDiskBlog.
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When the forums moved into specialized areas, the original forum content for Windows Azure was left archived at this link:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/windowsazure/
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Please see the Windows Azure Storage Team Blog for more information on Windows Azure Storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
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With the release of the March 2018 Security bulletin, there was a fix that addressed a CredSSP, “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability (CVE-2018-0886) which could impact RDP connections. The vulnerability was discovered to which the exploits observed were:
- Targets receive a malicious RTF Microsoft Office document
- After being opened, the malicious document causes the second stage of the exploit to be downloaded in the form of an HTML page with malicious code
- The malicious code triggers the use-after-free memory-corruption bug
- Accompanying shellcode then downloads and executes a malicious payload
For additional information regarding this update and mitigation steps see the following blog:
Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation
For general discussion of this topic please see:
General Discussion - Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption
If the mitigation steps detailed in the above links do not solve your problem please submit a new forum post to:
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.
And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Azure Backup announcements
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Announcing Security Features in Azure Backup to protect data against security threats:
https://twitter.com/AzureBackup/status/798946904809750529
Here are few highlights of the feature:
- Prevention: New authentication layer added for critical operations so only users with valid Azure credentials can perform them.
- Alerting: Email notifications sent for any critical operations that impact availability of backup data to help detect attacks as soon as they occur.
- Recovery: Backup data retained after deletion and minimum recovery points maintained to ensure recovery of data.
Learn more @ https://aka.ms/azurebackupsecurityfeature
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Announcing backup and restore of Azure virtual machines encrypted using Azure Disk Encryption twitter.com/AzureBackup/status/793500079923470336
Salient features:
- Enhanced security
- Improved restores
- Portal and PowerShell support
- Simplified experience
Learn more @ aka.ms/azurebackupencryptedvms
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Announcing preview release of alerting and monitoring for Azure backups @ https://twitter.com/AzureBackup/status/765586365509754880
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Announcing preview release of alerting and monitoring for Azure backups @ https://twitter.com/AzureBackup/status/765586365509754880
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Premium storage VM backup GA @ https://twitter.com/AzureBackup/status/743559104421986310
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Here are some of the blogs which have been released on Windows Azure Online Backup.
1. Windows Azure Online Backup Preview for Windows Server 2012 - http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/07/windows-azure-online-backup.aspx
2. Integration with System Center 2012 SP1 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/09/07/windows-azure-online-backup-now-supports-system-center-2012-sp1.aspx
3. Integration with Windows Server 2012 Essentials - http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/09/18/windows-azure-online-backup-and-windows-server-2012-essentials.aspx
Windows Desktop Sidebar Gadget Development announcements
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Internet Explorer Extension Development announcements
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Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.
Thanks,
Microsoft Community team
Internet Explorer Web Development announcements
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Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.
Thanks,
Microsoft Community team
Developing Windows Desktop Applications with Power Management announcements
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Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ff944599.aspx for up to date information on how to design applications that are energy smart and work well with Windows Power Management. Post feedback on this forum if you can't find the information you are looking for via this link.
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As somewhat of a social experiment, I'm inviting those of you who've diagnosed issues with apps not working correctly with Windows power management to post your reports on this forum here. Apps not working right could mean that the PC stays awake unnecessarily, or or could mean that the app is negatively impacted by power management because it doesn't request that the system or display stay on while it is perform critical work.
The goal is to share knowledge of the issues so we aren't all "re-diagnosing the same wheel" and hopefully get the attention of the developers of the apps so they can make their applications a little more energy smart. Here's hoping...
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This forum is for issues associated with developing application that work well with Windows Power Management. Please do not post general Windows development or other non-power management related questions to this forum or they will be moved to the 'off-topic' forum.
Thanks!
Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development announcements
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- Benefits of getting desktop apps certified for Windows 8
- Learn how to use the Windows App Certification Kit
- How to list a desktop app in the Windows Store
- App submission checklist
- What’s new in the SDK
- The Compatibility Cookbook: Tips on getting your app compatible for Windows 8
- Compatibility Center Update the compatibility status of your app or add apps
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Windows 7 Application Remediation Services are now available to assist software developers and corporate customers with application compatibility issues. Microsoft wants to ensure customers resolve application compatibility issues related to code remediation or general compatibility with Windows 7. If you are a software developer, Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) ISV, or corporate customer who is deploying software on Windows 7, you may take advantage of this program in the following ways:
1. Online support and resources at:
a. MSDN
b. TechNet
c. MPN ISV Online Technical Communities (MPN partners provided a response within 8 business hours from Microsoft)
d. https://www.isvappcompat.com/
2. Premier customers may request a Windows 7 Application Compatibility for Enterprises Workshop through their Technical Account Manager. Premier Field Engineers are also available for on-site identification and remediation of issues through Application Compatibility services. In some countries, the workshop is being made available for open enrollment events as well.
3. Use your Premier, or Professional Support agreements (or Pay Per Incident) to open paid service requests with Microsoft Support. Our support teams will assist you through shim development, debugging code or leveraging XP mode to resolve application compatibility issues. You may open a service request by using the following resources: Phone (800) 936-4900 - Premier Support, Professional or MSDN Support.
4. In addition, MPN Partners can leverage Technical Sales Assistance, Technical Advisory Services, and Break-Fix Support benefits by contacting the Global Partner Support team. To do so learn more at MPN Partner Technical Support Benefits and MPN ISV Online Technical Communities
Windows Desktop Ribbon Development announcements
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What’s new for Windows 8:
- Support for PNG image resources.
- Event notifications that identify the ribbon mode, command info, event type, and location within the ribbon.
- Ability to show or hide font size buttons.
- Improvements to Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) functionality, including highlighting, undo/redo buttons, and support for gallery controls.
- Collapse ribbon and expand ribbon buttons.
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Hello and welcome to the Windows Ribbon Development forum!
The Windows Ribbon Development forum provides you an opportunity to join a community of Windows developers interested in the Windows Ribbon Framework—a rich command presentation system that provides a modern alternative to the layered menus, toolbars, and task panes of traditional Windows applications. Here you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with development backgrounds similar to yours.
If you have any suggestions or feedback on the new Windows Ribbon Framework, please feel free to post them in this forum.
The Windows Ribbon Development forum is based on the new Forum 3.0 platform. To learn more about Forum 3.0 features, please view the following video:
http://xpstream.winisp.net/samjarawan/msdn%20forums%20overview.wmv
Windows Desktop SDK announcements
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The RTM release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now available for download in both ISO and Web Setup format. Web setup allows you to install a specific subset of the SDK you select without having to download the entire SDK. The DVD ISO setup allows you to download the entire SDK to install later. This release of the SDK has three ISOs to choose from. You should pick the version that matches the CPU (x86, x64, or Itanium) you are installing on. Each ISO will allow you to build applications that target all the other CPU platforms. If you install the x86 ISO (which only installs on x86 platforms), you will be able to create applications targeting x86, x64, and Itanium.
Platform Compatibility:
This release of the Windows SDK is compatible with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Candidate, Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 , Windows Vista, and Windows XP.
Visual Studio Compatibility:
This release of the Windows SDK is compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1; including Visual Studio Express Editions.
What’s New:
Please check out the top-level Getting Started section in the SDK documentation for a full description of what’s new in the SDK as well as recent posts to this blog – such as New Win32 Samples in Windows SDK for Windows 7: Windows User Interface or New Tools in Windows SDK for Windows 7.
Learn More:
Check the Windows SDK blog and the Windows SDK MSDN Developer Center over the coming weeks for more information about the Windows SDK. Please read the Release Notes for a description of known issues before you install the SDK. The Release Notes also have instructions on how to use the different components in the SDK.
Troubleshooting:If you are having problems downloading or installing this SDK, read Troubleshooting Windows 7 SDK Download/Install.
Tell us what you think:Send your thoughts to the Windows SDK Feedback alias. Tell us how you use the SDK and what we can do to make your life easier.
--Karin
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Windows Desktop Web Services API (webservices.dll) announcements
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Please follow instructions in this post if you are intersted in using the WWSAPI runtime on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. The version available corresponds to the one released in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. To develop for this version of the runtime, you need to install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. If you used any pre-released versions of WWSAPI, please make sure to regenerate all code using the new version of wsutil.exe tool and rebuild all source code that used any of the pre-released versions of this API. When you have technical issues of using WWSAPI, you may use this forum. All other questions about this version before you have access to it, please email them all to wwsredst@microsoft.com.
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Follow the link below to a page with a list of online resources available to help you connect your native C/C++ code and web services using Windows Web Services API.
http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/pages/connecting-c-c-and-web-services.aspx
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Hello and welcome to the forum on Windows Web Services API!
Windows Web Services API forum provide you an opportunity to join a community of native C/C++ code developers who are wroking on connecting native code and web services. Here at the forum you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others similar to yours. Start by posting related questions to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
For more information please check out PDC 2008 talk on WWSAPI which you can find here, http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC01/.
Thank you for your posts and we are looking forward to productive converstation on this forum.
Windows Web Services API team.
Visio General Questions and Answers for IT Professionals announcements
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Welcome to the Visio 2010 Forum. This forum provides a place for you to discuss all topics related to Visio such as questions you may have about the product or tips & tricks you have learned and want to share with others.
Message Analyzer announcements
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Message Analyzer 1.4 has Released, check out the blog at http://aka.ms/ma14rel. Videos are available at http://aka.ms/MAVideos.
Network Monitor announcements
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Find out more info at our new blog. Here's our introductory post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/messageanalyzer/archive/2012/09/17/meet-the-successor-to-microsoft-network-monitor.aspx.
Thanks!
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Feel free to post your questions concerning Network Monitor 3. Examples of topic areas are:
· Filtering
· Capturing
· Network Monitor API
· User interface
· NMCap (command-line capture tool)
· Writing parsers with NPL (Network Programming Language)
· Reassembly
· Conversations
Windows Desktop Perfmon and Diagnostic tools announcements
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We have a new forum for Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), Windows Event Log, Software Tracing (WPP), and related technologies. Here you will find help for writing event providers, consuming events, and using event tools (such as logman, tracerpt, logman, and Get-WinEvent).
Database Design announcements
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The following list of database design resources is not intended to be exhaustive or ‘the correct list’. Items are included simply because one of the Moderators knew the material and offered it as a suggestion. If you wish to offer suggestions for inclusion, please do so.
Books
A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server: Covering SQL Server 2005 and 2008
Eric Johnson and Joshua Jones
An Introduction to Database Systems
Chris Date
Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals
Lex de Haan, Toon Koppelaars
Architecting Regulatory-Compliant Architectures
Mike Walker, MicrosoftGraeme Simsion and Graham Witt
Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design
Toby Teorey
Information Modeling and Relational Databases
Terry Halpin
Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference for the Thinking Practitioner
Fabian Pascal
Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation
Louis Davidson, Kevin Kline, et al
Online Resources
A Simple Guide to Five Normal forms and Relational Database Theory
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htmData Modeling vs. Database Design
http://www.aisintl.com/case/library/R-Theory_vs_ER/r-theory_vs_er.htmlData Models
http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/index.htmDatabase Design - Ten Common Database Design Mistakes, Louis Davidson
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/ten-common-database-design-mistakes/Database Design Issues -EAV Model Discussion (Querying an EAV Table)
http://tinyurl.com/yks8huDatabase Design Issues –EAV and OTLT
http://tonyandrews.blogspot.com/2004/10/otlt-and-eav-two-big-design-mistakes.htmlDatabase Design ROI by Paul Nielsen
http://www.sqlserverbible.com/files/databasedesignroi.pdfIntroduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345143(SQL.90).aspxLibrary of database models
http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/On Normalization and Repeating Groups by Fabian Pascal
http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/622318.htmORM white paper
http://www.orm.net/pdf/ORMwhitePaper.pdfOverview of the Relational Model
http://www.utexas.edu/its/archive/windows/database/datamodeling/rm/overview.htmlUnderstanding Data Model Quality, Graeme Simsion
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MSBuild announcements
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Take a look at the Blog post below by Dan Moseley.
SQL Server Analysis Services announcements
SQL Server Compact announcements
Data Mining announcements
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Microsoft BI Labs went live today featuring a look into the future of SQL Server Data Mining in the Cloud. The SQL Server Data Mining team presents a set of prototype web services in the cloud that mirror some of the great predictive analytics functionality available in the Table Analysis Tools for Excel add-in from the SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office package. No installation required.
This blog post provides more details.
Explore these predictive services from your browser - on your own data - and give us your feedback!
SQL Server Express announcements
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Hello,
Many thanks to Rick Byham who provided me these links :
- SQL Server 2008 Express RTM http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=58ce885d-508b-45c8-9fd3-118edd8e6fff
- SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced services RTM http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b5d1b8c3-fda5-4508-b0d0-1311d670e336
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Express RTM http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b3695d9-415e-41f0-a079-25ab0412424b
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Advanced services RTM http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e08766ce-fc9d-448f-9e98-fe84ad61f135
I will try to update these links when a new Service Pack or SQL Server "Denali" ( 2011 ? ) will be released
Power Pivot announcements
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The PowerPivot team is pleased to report that the fix for the November CTP expiration issue has been released. We know many of you have been eagerly awaiting this fix since last week when the PowerPivot for Excel add-in expired. We do sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.
We have released a new version of the November CTP for the PowerPivot for Excel add-in. This new version is functionally identical to the old one except that it extends the expiration date to end of the year. You can download it from the same locations as in the past:
- http://powerpivot.com/download.aspx
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=48a5b47b-8c9c-450f-ab6e-178600a733ca
Please note that the new version will take some time to replicate across all servers in the Microsoft download center. If you download it from the above links and still get the expiration error message, then try again periodically. It might also help to clear any browser/download caches on your computer.
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If you are running the November 2009 CTP version of the PowerPivot for Excel 2010 add-in, your add-in expired on April 1st. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
The SQL Server team will re-release the November 2009 CTP version of the PowerPivot for Excel 2010 add-in with an extended expiration date very soon. We will post an availability announcement with the download location and installation instructions on the PowerPivot blogs and forums as soon as possible.
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If PowerPivot for Excel 2010, Excel 2010, SharePoint 2010, or the Reporting Services Addin for SharePoint 2010 are beta versions, PowerPivot and its related functionality will not work with the Released versions of these components.
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The beta versions of the components listed above are not compatible with the released versions of these components. If the beta versions of the components are installed, they will not function with the released versions. For example, if you have a beta version of the PowerPivot download installed and upgrade to the released version of Excel 2010, the PowerPivot addin will not be available in Excel.
The solution is to upgrade the beta components to their released versions when they become available.
SQL Server Master Data Services announcements
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We are excited to share the new features which shipped in SQL CTP2.3 public release. You can download the product here:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48726, and Excel add-in here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47343
In this monthly release, we added a few highly asked features. Please give it try and look forward to hearing your feedback.
Manage Business Rules (MDS Add-in for Excel)
In the Master Data Services Add-in for Excel you can manage Business Rules, such as creating and editing business rules. Business rules are used to validate data. For more information, see Manage Business Rules (MDS Add-in for Excel).
Many-to-Many Relationships in Derived Hierarchies
You can now create a Derived Hierarchy that displays many-to-many relationships. A many-to-many relationship between two entities may be modeled through the use of a third entity that provides a mapping between them. The mapping entity is an entity that has two or more domain-based attributes referencing other entities.
For example, entity M has a domain-based attribute that references A and a domain-based attribute that references B. You can create a hierarchy from A to B using the mapping entity.
For more information, see Show Many-to-Many Relationships in Derived Hierarchies (Master Data Services)
Merge Conflicts
If you try to publish data that has been changed by another user, the publish will fail with a conflict error. To resolve this error, you can perform merge conflicts and republish the changes. For more information, see Merge Conflicts (Master Data Services) and Merge Conflicts (MDS Add-in for Excel).
SQL Master Data Services Team
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Please give it a try and let us know your feedback!
SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.2 is publicly released and the latest bits can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2016
In CTP2.2 MDS introduced following changes:
1. Custom Indexes
You can create a non-clustered index on one attribute (single index) or on a list of attributes (composite index), in an entity, to help improve the query performance. For more information, see Custom Index (Master Data Services).
2. Entity Sync Relationship
You can share entity data between different models by creating an entity sync relationship. For more information, see Entity Sync Relationship (Master Data Services).
3. Member Revision History
A member revision history is recorded when a member is changed. You can rollback a revision history, as well as view and annotate revisions. Using the Log Retention Days property, you can specify how long historical data is retained. For more information, see Member Revision History (Master Data Services).
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Hi, we are pleasured to announce the release of MDS Excel add-in. You can download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42298
This release includes a number of performance improvements – most users will see a 4x improvement when loading data from an MDS server, without any additional server or environment changes. For an additional performance increase (2-4x), you can enable Dynamic Content Compression in IIS.
It works with both SQL12 or SQL14. The installation will be in place upgrade so the users don't need to uninstall previous installation. All the MDS connections will be preserved through the installation.
Please download the new version of Excel add-in. Your feedback is welcome!
Thanks,
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.NET Framework inside SQL Server announcements
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This forum covers questions regarding .NET assemblies and database objects running as part of SQL Server including user-defined types, user-defined aggregates, UDFs, triggers, and stored procedures implemented in .NET code. supported by SQL Server 2005 and later versions. Other questions regarding SQL Server database access and other related technologies should be directed to the most appropriate forum to obtain the best response.
Questions on SQL Server .NET Client (SqlClient) data access should be posted to the ADO.NET data provider forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/threads
Questions on using SQL Server with ASP.NET should be posted to the ASP.NET forums: http://forums.asp.net/
Questions on writing Transact-SQL code, including T-SQL stored procedures, UDFs, and triggers: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/threads
Questions on installation problems pertaining to .NET installations should be posted to the SQL Server Setup and Upgrade forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsetupandupgrade/threads
Questions on problems using SQL Server Data Tools: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqltools/threads
Questions on using other Data Access APIs (e.g. ODBC, OLE DB): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldataaccess/threads
Questions on writing code for SQL Server Compact Edition: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlce/threads
Questions on SQL Server Express-specific issues: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/threads
Questions that are off-topic in this forum may be moved to one of the other, more relevent, forums to ensure the best, most prompt response and facilitate forum-specific searchng for similar questions that have already been resolved.
SQL Server Notification Services announcements
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The following forums can be used to post questions and discussion about the topics: SQLDependency/Query Notification and DBMail.
Please use http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/threads for SQLDependency and Query Notification.
Please use http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldatabaseengine/threads for DBMail.(Attribution: Jang-uk In)
Hope that helps,
-Lukasz
SQL Server Replication announcements
SQL Server Reporting Services, Power View announcements
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We have released a beta version of the Reporting Services Migration Tool. The tool is available for download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29560
This tool essentially allows you to create a backup store of a native mode Report Server and then migrate that content to a SharePoint-integrated mode Report Server. Migrated content includes all report items (reports, shared data sources, models, shared datasets, report parts), along with associated metadata (shared schedules, subscriptions, history snapshots, etc.). Some additional details are in this blog post, along with the download link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jameswu/archive/2012/04/21/reporting-services-migration-tool.aspx
We are working on enabling more features in this tool, so feel free to share any feedback or report any issues. Thanks!
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Last Update: Mar 4, 2011.
SQL Server 2008 R2 was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2010. You can read more about it here.
Downloads available:
- Report Builder 3.0 RTM
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Developer Trial Edition
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Express Edition with Advanced Services
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Documentation
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Feature Pack (with Report Builder and PowerPivot for Excel 2010)
- Reporting Services 2008 R2 Add-in for SharePoint 2010
- Visual Studio 2010 Report Viewer Redistributable
Cumulative Updates:
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SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #6 (build 10.50.1765)
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SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #5 (build 10.50.1753)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #4 (build 10.50.1746)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.50.1734)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.50.1720)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.50.1702)
You can read about specific new Reporting Services features added in November CTP on top of what was available in August CTP. You can research and ask questions on the dedicated MSDN forum.
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Get an overview and the latest information on Reporting Services 2008 at the MSDN aggregation page for Reporting Services!
Important downloads for Reporting Services 2008:
SP2:
- Report Builder 2.0 (SP2 Download)
for Reporting Services 2008 (build 10.00.4000)
- SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.00.4279)
- SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.00.4272)
- SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.00.4266)
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP2
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP2 Express
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP2 Feature Packs
- RS 2008 SP2 Add-In for SharePoint Integrated Mode (build 10.00.4000)
Note: updates for the SharePoint add-in are available for each CU as well, just make sure to select the "..._RSSharepoin" download package.
SP1:
- RS 2008 SP1 Add-In for SharePoint Integrated Mode (build 10.00.2531)
Note: updates for the SharePoint add-in are available for each CU as well, just make sure to select the "..._RSSharepoin" download package.
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #13 (build 10.00.2816)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #12 (build 10.00.2808)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #11 (build 10.00.2804)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #10 (build 10.00.2799)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #9 (build 10.00.2789)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #8 (build 10.00.2775)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #7 (build 10.00.2766)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #6 (build 10.00.2757)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #5 (build 10.00.2746)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #4 (build 10.00.2734)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.00.2723)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.00.2714)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.00.2710)
- SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (build 10.00.2531)
RTM:
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #10 (build 10.00.1835)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #9 (build 10.00.1828)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #8 (build 10.00.1823)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #7 (build 10.00.1818)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #6 (build 10.00.1812)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #5 (build 10.00.1806)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #4 (build 10.00.1798)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.00.1787)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.00.1779)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.00.1763)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM (build 10.00.1600.22)
- Updated SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009 Update)
Also check related discussion threads in this forum about the Reporting Services 2008 release, and Report Builder 2.0 release. - Report Builder 2.0 (SP2 Download)
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MSDN information aggregator site for Reporting Services 2005.
Important downloads for Reporting Services 2005:
SP4:
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update #3 (build 9.00.5266)
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update #2 (build 9.00.5259)
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update #1 (build 9.00.5254)
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM, Express Edition RTM (build 9.00.5000)
SP3:
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #15 (build 9.00.4325)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #14 (build 9.00.4317)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #13 (build 9.00.4315)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #12 (build 9.00.4311)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #11 (build 9.00.4309)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #10 (build 9.00.4305)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #9 (build 9.00.4294)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #8 (build 9.00.4285)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #7 (build 9.00.4273)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #6 (build 9.00.4266)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #5 (build 9.00.4230)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #4 (build 9.00.4226)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #3 (build 9.00.4220)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #2 (build 9.00.4211)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #1 (build 9.00.4207)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 RTM (build 9.00.4035)
SP2:
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #17 (build 9.00.3356) - Final CU for SP2
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #16 (build 9.00.3355)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #15 (build 9.00.3330)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #14 (build 9.00.3328)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #13 (build 9.00.3325)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #12 (build 9.00.3315)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #11 (build 9.00.3301)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 RTM (build 9.00.3042)
- RS Add-in for SharePoint Integrated Mode (SP3 download, SP2 download)
- SQL Server 2005 Books Online (December 2008 Update)
SQL Server Migration announcements
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Need help with migration to SQL Server? Have any questions related to SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) products for Oracle/Sybase/MySQL/Access? Feel free to discuss any SQL Server migration related topics or post any questions related to SSMA.
SQL Server Samples and Community Projects announcements
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Welcome to the SQL Server Samples and Community Projects Forum.
This forum is the place to discuss all things "samplish" in the SQL Server community and samples space, whether it's an "official Microsoft sample" or a community project in CodePlex or Code Gallery. This is*not* the place to discussion specific nuances of T-SQL syntax or wage data modeling methodology wars: there are lots of other forums for those purposes. This one is for questions about samples, community projects and conversations between the collaborators that build them.Some examples of projects that are open for discussion can be found here: http://www.codeplex.com/SqlServerSamples. It doesn't have to be listed there to be fair game, but it's a good bet that it is fair game if it's already listed there.
Below are a few guidelines to help you find your answer quickly and also to help the people who answer the questions, answer yours correctly.
- Is your question about SQL Server Samples and Community Projects . If it's not please locate the correct forum otherwise your question may be moved, closed/locked or deleted.
- Try searching the forum . Search the forum to see if your question has been asked before and answered. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please start a new thread rather than adding to an old one as some people do not see answered questions in their forum views so you may not get the assistance you're looking for.
- Don't be brief . The more information you can give in your question, the better the response will be.
- Check your alerts . You can subscribe to a question so that you can see any update on it (ReferSetting up your alerts below).
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- Be polite. You will get better assistance if you're polite to other members so no flaming or trolling. If you persist with flaming or trolling, your accountmay get banned.
- Mark your question answered. If someone answers your question please mark their reply as the answer to your question. You can also mark multiple replies as answers if you think they answered your question. Marking replies not only assists others with similar questions, it also let's people know that you're grateful for their assistance.
Dead thread/Answer policy.
Where possible the moderators will allow sufficient time for the original poster to come back and mark the replies to their questions as answers. The amount of time is at the discretion of the individual moderator but is suggested that it will be declared dead after a week if the original poster does not respond . We will always try to be fair and mark suitable replies as answers.
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All of the work items for our community projects and product samples are in TFS on CodePlex. If you want to report a bug, suggest a change for an existing sample or suggest a new sample, create a work item in the appropriate project so that our community team (not just Microsoft employees) can vote on them, help us triage and prioritize them.
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This forum is the place to discuss all things "samplish" in the SQL Server community and samples space, whether it's an "official Microsoft sample" or a community project in CodePlex or Code Gallery. This is *not* the place to discussion specific nuances of T-SQL syntax or wage data modeling methodology wars: there are lots of other forums for those purposes. This one is for questions about samples, community projects and conversations between the collaborators that build them.
Some examples of projects that are open for discussion can be found here: http://www.codeplex.com/SqlServerSamples/ It doesn't have to be listed there to be fair game, but it's a good bet that it is fair game if it's already listed there.
Also, please post your project announcements here when you create a new release or a whole new project. If you're looking for people to work on your project or looking for a project to work on, this would be a good place to do both.
Let us know what's missing, let know what could be better and let us know what we're doing right!
SQL Server Setup announcements
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- Customer-ready SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide(How to upgrade).
- What's new.(Why upgrade)
C Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
-Eric (ebattali@microsoft.com)
Visual Studio General Questions announcements
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The following forums have been merged into this forum: Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, Visual Studio Report Controls, and Visual Studio Editor.
Visual Studio Diagnostics (Debugger, Profiler, IntelliTrace) announcements
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To learn what is new in Diagnostics for Visual Studio 2013, see this collection of links:
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A Channel 9 video showing the new 2010 debugger features is available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-34-Debugger-Enhancements-and-Improvements/
Testing with Visual Studio Test Manager (MTM) announcements
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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers.
- Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications.
- Create coded UI tests for Silverlight 4 applications with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Edit coded UI tests using a graphical editor with Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- Use action recordings to fast forward through manual tests that need to support Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6.
- Run coded UI tests for web applications using Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
For more details, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=192777
Visual Studio Setup and Installation announcements
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 have been released to the web for MSDN subscribers, as well as trial versions for all our customers.
More information about the many features in VS2012 can be found at the links below.
If you have any problems installing Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, please download and run the log collection utility. When that completes, upload %TEMP%\vslogs.cab to an Internet share like http://skydrive.com, which gives you 7GB of free cloud storage using the same Microsoft account you use for these forums. Then share the URL here in this forum with a description of your problem.
Visual Studio Integrate announcements
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- This Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- For questions about T4 Toolbox, please use http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/discussions
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling Extensibility Forum - for domain-specific languages (DSLs) and extending the modeling tools
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
ClickOnce and Setup announcements
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Hi,
I've posted a new blog entry about ClickOnce and Windows 8 and the Smart Screen filter. I collaborated with someone at Microsoft to create this; I hope it's helpful.
http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/windows-8-and-clickonce-the-definitive-answer-2/
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In Visual Studio 2010, we have partnered with Flexera, makers of InstallShield, to create InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 just for Visual Studio 2010 customers. The InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 offers comparable functionality to the Visual Studio Installer projects. In addition, you can build your deployment projects using Team Foundation Server and MSBuild. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deployment_technologies/archive/2010/04/20/installshield-limited-edition-is-available-for-download-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx.
With InstallShield available, the Visual Studio Installer project types will not be available in future versions of Visual Studio. To preserve existing customer investments in Visual Studio Installer projects, Microsoft will continue to support the Visual Studio Installer projects feature that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 and below as per our product life-cycle strategy. For more information, see Expanded Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy for Business & Development Products.
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The InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition is a free version of InstallShield for Visual Studio developers that replaces the functionality provided by the Visual Studio setup and deployment projects.
Here are some highlights of the product:
• Use Visual Studio to create installation projects for applications built with Visual Studio.
• Build your installation projects with MSBuild
• Jumpstart projects with a simple design environment and Project Assistant.
• Take advantage of Installation Prerequisites and Custom Actions.
• Digitally sign your installers.
Need a feature that is not supported in the Visual Studio deployment projects? Try the InstallShield Limited Edition. You can easily migrate your existing Visual Studio deployment projects into InstallShield Limited Edition installation projects with a few clicks. The installation projects created with the InstallShield Limited Edition are compatible with other versions of InstallShield products. This enables you to upgrade to higher version of InstallShield with a more advanced feature set.
To obtain the InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition, complete the following steps:
1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
2. Expand the Other Project Types node.
3. Expand the Setup and Deployment node.
4. Click InstallShield LE.
5. Click Enable InstallShield Limited Edition, and then click OK.
6. Click Go to InstallShield.
Note: You must register by using your email address before downloading the product.
Register and Manage Account announcements
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Starting today, no Windows Phone 8.0 device will be able to be developer unlocked. You have three options to continue testing Windows Phone 8.0 packages:
- - updating the phone to Windows Phone 8.1 and unlocking it for developer testing
- - submitting the apps as beta through the Windows Dev Center and testing in Windows Phone 8.0 devices, or
- - testing your Windows Phone 8.0 apps via the Windows Phone emulator.
Any Windows Phone 8.0 device currently unlocked will continue to be unlocked and work as a test device until its certificate expires.
Note that this change has no impact on apps available in the Windows Phone Store, nor will it impact customers with Windows Phone 8.0 devices.
Windows Store team
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Over the last month, we’ve brought the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store together into a single marketing and operations team to deliver a better experience for developers, end users and partners. Our focus remains to improve the way we help you reach new users and better monetize your apps, all while reducing friction and cost. Today we are making a set of changes that will simplify doing business with us.
I’m pleased to announce a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers, available at a lower cost. As a result of these changes, Windows Store developers are now also Windows Phone developers, and Windows Phone developers are also Windows Store developers. Welcome all!
Here’s what you can expect:
- Registered Windows Store developers can now submit apps to the Windows Phone Store, using the same Microsoft account.
- Registered Windows Phone developers can now submit apps to the Windows Store at no additional cost, using the same Microsoft account.
- New developers can register and existing developers can renew their account using the same Microsoft account. Developers will enter registration information just once and pay a single lower price of $19 for an Individual and $99 for a Company account, providing access to publish
apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users. - Developers already registered with both Windows Store and Windows Phone using the same Microsoft account will receive a code via email this month, valid for a free one-year
renewal when their existing registration is up for renewal. - Students continue to be supported through the DreamSpark program.
You will continue to use the separate Windows Store and Windows Phone Dev Center Dashboards to submit and manage your apps. You can expect some differences in the steps you take to renew your account. The most notable for some of our Windows Phone developers is the addition of a credit card to validate all new account and renewals. You can read more about today’s changes on the Windows and Windows Phone Dev Centers.
Publish your app for both Windows Store and Windows Phone and earn prizes
With the holiday selling season approaching, this is an ideal time to tune-up and publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone to help increase your downloads and revenue. Last year holiday sales of paid apps grew 40% over baseline, and we expect an even more robust Holiday 2013 due to an even larger base of Windows and Windows Phone users with more ways to pay for apps.
As an added incentive, we’ve partnered with Nokia via the DVLUP community to give you an easy way to learn more and complete challenges as you develop for both the Windows Store and Windows Phone. Along the way, you’ll earn points that can then be redeemed for great prizes (for example, Nokia Lumia phones and more). DVLUP is currently open to developers in more than 20 countries. To participate, register for the DVLUP program and take advantage of the two new challenges available today:
Publish a new app for Windows Phone 8, or port an existing Windows Store app
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Bring your Windows Phone app to Windows 8.1I’m hopeful that the steps we’ve taken will encourage you to publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users around the world. I’ll share more in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned.
Quoted from Todd Brix on the 'Windows Phone Developer Blog'( http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/11/06/unifying-developer-registration-windows-and-windows-phone.aspx)
Submitting and Publishing Apps announcements
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The price tier value updates for Windows Store are now complete. We recommend that you review the updated prices for your paid apps and in-app products. You can make any desired price changes in Dev Center.
For additional information on pricing:
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The price tier value updates for Windows Store are underway and all paid items will be updated over the course of this week. The initial maintenance was shorter than expected and app ingestion is operational again.
You can see the updated prices reflected in Windows Phone Dev Center now. We will confirm when updated prices are also available in Windows Dev Center.
For additional information on pricing:
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Further to the email sent to all developers on March 20, 2015, a reminder that next Monday (April 13) the 96 Windows Store price tiers will be updated with new values. These price tier values are updated periodically to maintain consistency across currencies, accounting for changes in foreign exchange rates, taxes, and other geographic pricing considerations. With this update, the US Dollar (USD) price in each tier will remain the same, with the prices in all other currencies adjusted relative to the USD price.
Here is an example of a price update for a paid app published in the United States and China:
Before update
After update
Product Price in
US Dollars (USD)Equivalent Product
Price in Chinese Yuan (CNY)Product Price in
US Dollars (USD)Equivalent Product
Price in Chinese Yuan (CNY)2.99 USD
18 CNY
2.99 USD
18.50 CNY
The price tier value changes will take place automatically, there is no action required on your part. After April 13, the price tier values will be updated in Dev Center, and all paid items in the Store will be updated over the course of the week. We recommend that you review the updated prices for your paid apps and in-app products in Dev Center after April 13 and make any desired changes.
To support the updates on April 13, app ingestion will be stopped from approximately 11AM to 3PM Pacific Time. During this time newly published apps and apps updates will be queued. App ingestion will resume immediately following this maintenance window.
For additional information on pricing:
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Hello all,
You can now display a badge to let your customers know that your Windows Phone app is available in the Windows Phone Store!
Use this link to get all the details and download the Windows Phone Store badge.
The Windows Phone Store badge is intended to provide a clear way to communicate the availability of your app on the Windows Phone Store. The badge can be used in your print or digital media, and is made available in a number of colors, sizes, and digital formats. The following shows some examples of the badge.
.NET Framework Class Libraries announcements
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ASP.NET Questions are off-topic in .NET Base class library, and will be moved to the Off-Topic forum when posted. Please ask questions relating to ASP.NET at the ASP.NET Forums.
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking announcements
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This "Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization and Networking" Forum will be migrated to a new home on Microsoft Q&A!
We've listened to your feedback on how we can enhance the forum experience. Microsoft Q&Aallows us to add new functionality and enables easier access to all the technical resources most useful to you, like Microsoft Docs and Microsoft Learn.
Now until Aug 17, 2020:
- You can post any new questions on Microsoft Q&A or here.
From Aug 17, 2020 until Aug 31, 2020:
- New posts - We invite you to post new questions in the "Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization and Networking" forum's new home on Microsoft Q&A. The current forum will not allow any new questions.
Existing posts - Interact here with existing content, answer questions, provide comments, etc.
Aug 31, 2020 onward:
- This forum will be closed to all new and existing posts and all interactions will be onMicrosoft Q&A.
We are excited about moving to Microsoft Q&A and seeing you there.
Visual C# announcements
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This forum is for C# related question. GUI questions become very unclear if its a WPF or Winforms or ASP.Net related question.
Please post any GUI related questions to the target forum:
Windows Forms General
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
ASP.Net forums
depending on what you are working on.
The C# forum is for C# related questions on the language constructs and not indirect component usage. THX
Visual Basic announcements
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This forum is for problems and discussions related to programming with VB inside Visual Studio for versions starting with the .Net version (2002). Before posting your question, check if your issue is related to the following categories. In order to get better response, take a look at How to Use this Forum.
Category
Appropriate forum
Other versions of Visual Basic
GUI related
ASP.Net forums (ASP and VB for MVC)
Forms Design and .Net Controls
SQL transact
3rd party products
.NET Framework Class Libraries
Windows
WCF, System.Net namespace and remoting technology
Windows Communication Foundation, Serialization, and Networking
If you have any suggestion to this table, please jump into this threadfor discussion.
You could share this announcement via this URL: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads?announcementId=b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89#b5956386-b706-4180-b003-6e778f582d89.
ADO.NET Managed Providers announcements
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We view your organization as a key stakeholder in the process that we have to identify areas for future investments for SQL Connectivity components that address major development platforms, including ODBC, ADO.NET, JDBC and PHP. The feedback you provide is valuable and each response will be read and will be treated with utmost confidence. The survey can be found in the link below and will be available until 9th September, 2011 5:00 PM PST. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CS45XT9FE/.
Thanks
Raghu Ram
SQL Connectivity Group Program Manager
ADO.NET DataSet announcements
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For people who are posting questions on this forum, here are a couple of questions to ask to understand if this forum is the best place to ask your question
1) If you have a question about how to connect to a database using Ado.Net, the Ado.Net Data Providers forum is the correct place make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/threads/
2) If you are having Databinding issues and not using a Dataset, DataTable or DataView, here is an appropriate forum to make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdatacontrols/threads/
3) For issues that occur when using Visual Studio and dragging and dropping within VS, here is an appropriate forum to make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdesigner/threads/
4) If you have a question related to VB6 Data Access please proceed to the following Discussion group
Thanks
Chris Robinson
Dataset - PM
LINQ to SQL announcements
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Welcome to the forum for discussing LINQ to SQL. A few suggestions:
- Make the subject line specific - "I'm stuck", "HELP" or "This query doesn't work" could easily mean somebody with the answer skipped it.
- Be polite when asking and responding to questions - we're all here to try and help each other
- When you have an answer please remember to mark it as such so people can filter down on who's still stuck and find answers to their problems
There are a few useful resources you also might want to check out:
- MSDN Getting Started & Programming Guide
- Cheat sheet for C# and VB.NET (PDF)
- Customized code-generation templates
- List of additional LINQ to SQL resources
Some other forums that might be of help:
FSLogix announcements
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FSLogix Documentation:
- Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/fslogix/
- Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/FSLogix/
- Install: https://docs.microsoft.com/fslogix/install-ht
- Download: https://aka.ms/fslogix_download
- Support: How to open an FSLogix Support Request
- Enhancement Requests: https://windowsvirtualdesktop.uservoice.com/forums/921289-fslogix
- Sales/Licensing Questions: fsfwsale@microsoft.com
Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Preview Documentation:
- WVD Product Overview: https://azure.microsoft.com/services/virtual-desktop/
- WVD Pricing/Licensing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/virtual-desktop/
- WVD Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-desktop/
- WVD Feedback/Feature Request Forum: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Virtual-Desktop/bd-p/WindowsVirtualDesktop
- WVD Support: https://portal.azure.com/ "Help + Support" - "New support request" - "Issue Type: Technical" - "Services: All Services - Windows Virtual Desktop - Preview"
Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats announcements
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The September 4, 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Office Protocols documents in relation to the release of Office Desktop 2016 and Skype for Business 2016.
Microsoft Office File Formats links:
- Landing Page: Office File Formats
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office File Formats Documentation
Microsoft Office Protocols links:
- Landing Page: Office Protocols
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office Protocols Documentation
Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support links:
- Landing Page: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support
- Full documentation set (zip): Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support Documentation
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
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A number of people have inquired about the .pst file format on this forum in the past, and at that time we stated we would provide an update if the .pst file format specification becomes available. This week we announced our documentation plan for the .pst file format specification on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog,. If you are interested in actively participating in the review of preliminary drafts of the .pst file format specification, send an email message to pstinfo@microsoft.com and then we will contact you when a preliminary draft of the specification is ready for broader review. If you only are seeking the final version, we anticipate releasing the .pst file format specification in the first half of 2010 under our Open Specification Promise.
Exchange Server Protocols announcements
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The September 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols and Standards documents in relation to the release of Exchange Server 2016.
Exchange Server Protocol Documents links
- Landing Page: Exchange Server Protocols
- Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols Documentation
Exchange Server and Outlook Standards links
- Landing Page: Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Support
- Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documentation
The following new specifications have been added:
- [MS-OXWSOLPS]: Online Personal Search Web Service Protocol
Note that for the Exchange Server 2016 Preview release, this document was published as “[MS-OLPS]: Online Personal Search Protocol.” The title and short name published with the current release are final and should be used exclusively to refer to this document from now on.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
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The Office Interoperability team is pleased to announce the release of the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites. The test suites are designed in a client-to-server relationship and were originally developed for the in-house testing of the Microsoft Open Specifications. The test suites have been used extensively during Plugfests and Interoperability Labs to test partner implementations and are now available on MSConnect for public download. Test suites test the server-side implementation of the Open Specification protocol, as specified in Open Specification documentation, by acting as a synthetic client.
Currently the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites support the ten RPC based Exchange protocols listed in the table below. Want to learn more about the Test Suites? You can watch a video from one of our recent events that provides an overview of what is included in the test suite package. As always, if you have any questions or issues please reach out to the support team in this forum or through Email at dochelp (at) microsoft (dot) com.
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The Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX) is a command-line tool that can parse network captures and interpret remote procedure calls made from a client to Microsoft Exchange . RPX uses the information provided in the Microsoft Exchange protocol documentation to parse RPCs, remote operations (ROPs), and the parameters for each ROP.
Download is available at the Microsoft Download Center found here.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.
Click here to go to the download page for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 protocol documentation PDF files.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standards Documentation
The Exchange Server Standards Documents describe Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 support for industry messaging standards and Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.
Click here to go to the download page for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standards Documentation PDF files.
Windows File Sharing Protocols announcements
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This release contains updated Overview Documents in the Open Specifications library on MSDN. These documents were updated on November 5, 2018 for Windows Server and Windows 10 operating systems to reflect content updates. To see details, click the Diff link on the landing pages to view the changes associated with each document.
Technical changes have been made in the following overview:
* [MS-RDSOD]: Remote Desktop Services Protocols
The following overviews have been updated to reflect the latest products.
* [MS-ADFSOD]: Active Directory Federated Services Protocols
* [MS-ADOD]: Active Directory Protocols
* [MS-AUTHSOD]: Authentication Services Protocols
* [MS-AZOD]: Authorization Protocols
* [MS-CCROD]: Content Caching and Retrieval Protocols
* [MS-CERSOD]: Certificate Services Protocols
* [MS-DOCO]: Windows Protocols Documentation Roadmap
* [MS-FASOD]: File Access Services Protocols
* [MS-FSMOD]: File Services Management Protocols
* [MS-GPOD]: Group Policy Protocols
* [MS-MQOD]: Message Queuing Protocols
* [MS-MSSOD]: Media Streaming Services Protocols
* [MS-PRSOD]: Print Services Protocol
* [MS-RMSOD]: Rights Management Services Protocols
* [MS-STOROD]: Storage Services Protocols
* [MS-TPSOD]: Transaction Processing Services Protocols
* [MS-VSOD]: Virtual Storage Protocols
* [MS-WMOD]: Windows Management Protocols
* [MS-WPO]: Windows Protocols Overview
* [MS-WSUSOD]: Windows Server Update
The RSS functionality found on the first page of each document on MSDN is supported by Internet Explorer. You can also install an RSS Reader application to get notifications.
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The September 2018 release contains updated Windows protocol documents for the MSDN release on Open Specifications.
The following documents are new to Windows Protocols:
· [MS-RDPECAM]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Video Capture Virtual Channel Extension
· [MS-RDPEUDP2]: Remote Desktop Protocol: UDP Transport Extension Version 2
The following documents have been updated with new product content for this release:
- [MS-ADFSPIP]: Active Directory Federation Services and Proxy Integration Protocol
- [MS-ADTS]: Active Directory Technical Specification
- [MS-CDP]: Connected Devices Platform Protocol Version 3
- [MS-CMRP]: Failover Cluster: Management API (ClusAPI) Protocol
- [MS-CSRA]: Certificate Services Remote Administration Protocol
- [MS-FASP]: Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol
- [MS-GPFAS]: Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure
- [MS-HGSA]: Host Guardian Service: Attestation Protocol
- [MS-MDE2]: Mobile Device Enrollment Protocol Version 2
- [MS-MICE]: Miracast over Infrastructure Connection Establishment Protocol
- [MS-NCNBI]: Network Controller Northbound Interface
- [MS-OAPX]: OAuth 2.0 Protocol Extensions
- [MS-OIDCE]: OpenID Connect 1.0 Protocol Extensions
- [MS-RDPBCGR]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Basic Connectivity and Graphics Remoting
- [MS-RDPEGFX]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Graphics Pipeline Extension
- [MS-RDPERP]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote Programs Virtual Channel Extension
- [MS-RDPEUDP]: Remote Desktop Protocol: UDP Transport Extension
The following documents contain technical updates for this release.
· [MS-CIFS]: Common Internet File System (CIFS) Protocol
· [MS-SMB2]:Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3
· [MS-TDS]: Windows Client Certificate Enrollment Protocol
The following document contains protocols removed from Windows products.
· [MS-BDSRR]: Business Document Scanning: Scan Repository Capabilities and Status Retrieval Protocol
The RSS functionality found on the first page of each document on MSDN is supported by Internet Explorer. You can also install an RSS Reader application to get notifications.
Note that previous versions of protocol documents are available in PDF and DOCX format. Due to production processes, the release date for older documents might not exactly match the date in the document’s footer.
Office Protocols announcements
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The September 4, 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Office Protocols documents in relation to the release of Office Desktop 2016 and Skype for Business 2016.
Microsoft Office File Formats links:
- Landing Page: Office File Formats
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office File Formats Documentation
Microsoft Office Protocols links:
- Landing Page: Office Protocols
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office Protocols Documentation
Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support links:
- Landing Page: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support
- Full documentation set (zip): Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support Documentation
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
SharePoint Server Protocols announcements
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The August 24, 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Office Protocols documents to include support for Office Desktop Client 2016 Preview, SharePoint 2016 Preview, and Windows 10.
SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols Preview PDFs
- Landing Page: SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols
Microsoft Office File Formats Preview PDFs
- Landing Page: Office File Formats
Microsoft Office Protocols Preview PDFs
- Landing Page: Office Protocols
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
Open Specifications Questions announcements
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Windows Protocols Overview Documents (ODs) support the technical specifications by illustrating how Windows protocols that are functionally related work together, with practical examples for implementers that demonstrate common usage scenarios.
The 6 ODs listed below were updated and published on DMC - docs.microsoft.com.
[MS-ADOD]: Active Directory Protocols Overview
[MS-CERSOD]: Certificate Services Protocols Overview
[MS-DOCO]: Windows Protocols Documentation Roadmap
[MS-FASOD]: File Access Services Protocols Overview
[MS-NETOD]: Microsoft .NET Framework Protocols Overview
[MS-RDSOD]: Remote Desktop Services Protocols Overview
This release also includes updated, annotated network captures - open sourced on GitHub – for MS-ADOD and MS-FASOD (in both WireShark and Microsoft Message Analyzer formats), and MS-CERSOD and MS-RDSOD (in Microsoft Message Analyzer format).
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This release contains updates made to protocol documents since the last release.
The following known issues exist in the June 2017 release:
- Underscore characters are not always visible in code in the PDF files, depending on the magnification selected by the user. Those characters are present in printed versions of the PDF.
- Information in a table row may split across two pages.
- Table borders are not always visible, depending upon the magnification selected by the user. Borders are present in printed versions of the PDF.
- Cross-protocol links are functional only when the PDF files for all the cross-referenced protocols are in the same folder.
Note: Links in the PDFs do not resolve in Adobe Reader 9 because Adobe has changed the default setting for view mode in Adobe Reader 9. To access such links, perform the following procedure:
- In Adobe Reader 9, go to the Edit menu and click Preferences.
- In the Categories list, click Documents.
- Under PDF/A View Mode, change the selection from Only for PDF/A documents to Never, and click OK.
Additional details on changing the setting are located on the Adobe help site: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS3E0E8467-B787-4020-A1D3-6BC762A42DF2.w.html
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The September 4, 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Office Protocols documents in relation to the release of Office Desktop 2016 and Skype for Business 2016.
Microsoft Office File Formats links:
- Landing Page: Office File Formats
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office File Formats Documentation
Microsoft Office Protocols links:
- Landing Page: Office Protocols
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office Protocols Documentation
Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support links:
- Landing Page: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support
- Full documentation set (zip): Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support Documentation
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
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The June 30, 2015 preview release contains updates made to Microsoft Exchange Server Protocol and Standards documents to include support for Windows 10.
Microsoft Open Specifications Preview
- Landing Page: Preview Specifications
Exchange Server Protocol Documents links
- Landing Page: Exchange Server Protocols
- Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols Documentation
Exchange Server and Outlook Standards links
- Landing Page: Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Support
- Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documentation
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
Windows Protocols announcements
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This release contains updated Overview Documents in the Open Specifications library on MSDN. These documents were updated on November 5, 2018 for Windows Server and Windows 10 operating systems to reflect content updates. To see details, click the Diff link on the landing pages to view the changes associated with each document.
Technical changes have been made in the following overview:
* [MS-RDSOD]: Remote Desktop Services Protocols
The following overviews have been updated to reflect the latest products.
* [MS-ADFSOD]: Active Directory Federated Services Protocols
* [MS-ADOD]: Active Directory Protocols
* [MS-AUTHSOD]: Authentication Services Protocols
* [MS-AZOD]: Authorization Protocols
* [MS-CCROD]: Content Caching and Retrieval Protocols
* [MS-CERSOD]: Certificate Services Protocols
* [MS-DOCO]: Windows Protocols Documentation Roadmap
* [MS-FASOD]: File Access Services Protocols
* [MS-FSMOD]: File Services Management Protocols
* [MS-GPOD]: Group Policy Protocols
* [MS-MQOD]: Message Queuing Protocols
* [MS-MSSOD]: Media Streaming Services Protocols
* [MS-PRSOD]: Print Services Protocol
* [MS-RMSOD]: Rights Management Services Protocols
* [MS-STOROD]: Storage Services Protocols
* [MS-TPSOD]: Transaction Processing Services Protocols
* [MS-VSOD]: Virtual Storage Protocols
* [MS-WMOD]: Windows Management Protocols
* [MS-WPO]: Windows Protocols Overview
* [MS-WSUSOD]: Windows Server Update
The RSS functionality found on the first page of each document on MSDN is supported by Internet Explorer. You can also install an RSS Reader application to get notifications.
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The September 2018 release contains updated Windows protocol documents for the MSDN release on Open Specifications.
The following documents are new to Windows Protocols:
· [MS-RDPECAM]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Video Capture Virtual Channel Extension
· [MS-RDPEUDP2]: Remote Desktop Protocol: UDP Transport Extension Version 2
The following documents have been updated with new product content for this release:
- [MS-ADFSPIP]: Active Directory Federation Services and Proxy Integration Protocol
- [MS-ADTS]: Active Directory Technical Specification
- [MS-CDP]: Connected Devices Platform Protocol Version 3
- [MS-CMRP]: Failover Cluster: Management API (ClusAPI) Protocol
- [MS-CSRA]: Certificate Services Remote Administration Protocol
- [MS-FASP]: Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol
- [MS-GPFAS]: Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure
- [MS-HGSA]: Host Guardian Service: Attestation Protocol
- [MS-MDE2]: Mobile Device Enrollment Protocol Version 2
- [MS-MICE]: Miracast over Infrastructure Connection Establishment Protocol
- [MS-NCNBI]: Network Controller Northbound Interface
- [MS-OAPX]: OAuth 2.0 Protocol Extensions
- [MS-OIDCE]: OpenID Connect 1.0 Protocol Extensions
- [MS-RDPBCGR]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Basic Connectivity and Graphics Remoting
- [MS-RDPEGFX]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Graphics Pipeline Extension
- [MS-RDPERP]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote Programs Virtual Channel Extension
- [MS-RDPEUDP]: Remote Desktop Protocol: UDP Transport Extension
The following documents contain technical updates for this release.
· [MS-CIFS]: Common Internet File System (CIFS) Protocol
· [MS-SMB2]:Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3
· [MS-TDS]: Windows Client Certificate Enrollment Protocol
The following document contains protocols removed from Windows products.
· [MS-BDSRR]: Business Document Scanning: Scan Repository Capabilities and Status Retrieval Protocol
The RSS functionality found on the first page of each document on MSDN is supported by Internet Explorer. You can also install an RSS Reader application to get notifications.
Note that previous versions of protocol documents are available in PDF and DOCX format. Due to production processes, the release date for older documents might not exactly match the date in the document’s footer.
Bing Maps Web Controls announcements
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Hello folks!
MSDN Forums are shutting down and we wanted to let you know you can still get assistance but at our newer offering Answers.Microsoft.com. We are easy to find there! Select "Bing" on the main page then "maps" in the Bing page dropdown.
See you there!
Bing Maps
Bing Maps REST, SOAP, Spatial Data Services announcements
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Hello folks!
MSDN Forums are shutting down and we wanted to let you know you can still get assistance but at our newer offering Answers.Microsoft.com. We are easy to find there! Select "Bing" on the main page then "maps" in the Bing page dropdown.
See you there!
Bing Maps
Bing Maps WPF, WP7/8/8.1, Silverlight announcements
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Hello folks!
MSDN Forums are shutting down and we wanted to let you know you can still get assistance but at our newer offering Microsoft Q&A. Windows and Visual Studio development support are easy to find there right on the main page! Select "Windows" or "Visual Studio" on the main page then follow the options to the support you need.
See you there!
Microsoft Maps
Bing Maps for Windows UWP apps announcements
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Hello folks!
MSDN Forums are shutting down and we wanted to let you know you can still get assistance but at our newer offering Microsoft Q&A. Windows and Visual Studio development support are easy to find there right on the main page! Select "Windows" or "Visual Studio" on the main page then follow the options to the support you need.
See you there!
Microsoft Maps
Bing Maps General announcements
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Hello folks!
MSDN Forums are shutting down and we wanted to let you know you can still get assistance but at our newer offering Answers.Microsoft.com. We are easy to find there! Select "Bing" on the main page then "maps" in the Bing page dropdown.
See you there!
Bing Maps
Windows Hardware Testing and Certification announcements
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Windows Hardware Certification partners can now get news, info, and updates on the new Windows Certification blog. Partners can also post comments and join in conversations with the Certification team and other community members. The blog will replace the certification newsletter. Subscribe today!
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The purpose of this forum is to help those who have questions with the Windows testing and certification processes used with the Hardware Certification Kit (HCK). Please post questions here about the tools, processes and tests used in testing, packaging, and certifying drivers.
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry announcements
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We are pleased to announce the availability of Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro Release Preview
You can download and file bugs at http://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembeddedTAP/program8171
Please use this forum to discuss the preview release.
Your feedback is really important and useful to us. Thank you for participating.
Please note that for feedback on other versions of the Windows 8.1 Release Preview we recommend visiting the Windows 8.1 Preview forum
Standard 7: Embedded Enabling Features (EEFs) announcements
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Many of you have asked about contacting product support for questions that remain unanswered in the forums. The link below should help contact product support for Windows Embedded.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/about/support.mspx
Windows Embedded Compact Native Application Development announcements
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Welcome almighty native CE developers!
This new forum is dedicated to all topics related to native applications development on Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded CE and Windows CE, whether you are using the latest Visual Studio 2008 or the older eVC++, this forum is all yours! If you are coming from Newsgroup, I really think you will love the forums format.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE managed applications development and another one for CE platform development, so if your question is more related to building a CE OS or a driver, go here, and if your question is about managed application development on CE, go here.
I look forward to read your first questions and to see our community jumping in.
-Olivier