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Raspberry Pi + Azure Functions + Cognitive Services + Microsoft Teams -> How A Pi Informs Us About Lunch Thomas Goelles is a Microsoft MVP from Austria. He is a Team Lead at Modern Workplace Solutions @solvion, P-TSP @MicrosoftAT, and Co-Organizer @SPSVie. Follow him on Twitter @thomyg. Overview Of Cortana Skills Kit Daniel Krzyczkowski is a… Continue reading Check Out This Week’s Friday Five!
Kiran Madnani chats with Scott Hanselman about Azure Monitor, where you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, application, and Azure platform. Learn about the next generation of alerts in… Continue reading Unified alerts in Azure Monitor | Azure Friday
This week, James is joined once again by friend of the show Dan Siegel, Microsoft MVP, who shows off his latest creation, Prism Template Studio & Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio for Mac. This toolkit has great quick-start templates when using P… Continue reading Prism Template Studio & Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio for Mac with Dan Siegel | The Xamarin Show
Starting at 2:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha Skip Ahead Ring will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1810.180702-1938). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1810 system update. This build has the same features as 1806 plus more to be announced over the coming weeks! Fixes: Groups Fixed an issue where some users may have lost their created Groups. Settings Fixed an issue with the Blu-ray and disc option in Settings wasn’t appearing. Known Issues: Game Pass Tab Preview Alpha – Skip Ahead… Continue reading New Preview Alpha Skip Ahead 1810 System Update – 7/5/18
Inside Xbox returns to the spotlight live on Tuesday, July 10 at 3 p.m. ET/12:00 p.m. PT on Mixer, Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter with interviews for Forza Horizon 4, We Happy Few, Earthfall, the latest news on Xbox Game Pass and a special story born from the Xbox Live Creators Program you won’t want to miss. Of course, we’ll also have a couple of secrets under wraps, and ready to reveal during the show as well. Forza Horizon 4: Ralph Fulton from Playground Games will be on-hand to reveal more about Seasons in Forza Horizon 4, but better yet,… Continue reading Inside Xbox Returns July 10
E3 may be in our rear view like a fall leaf in Forza Horizon 4, but we’ve been busy updating the Xbox experience and adding features that you’ve requested. The July Xbox Update adds features that make finding content even easier and offers a host of improvements to Mixer. Here’s what’s new:
FastStart Enabled for Select Titles
Announced back at E3 2018, FastStart is a new innovation from our Xbox Platform team that allows you to jump into your games twice as fast and play after downloading just a fraction of it. FastStart works by identifying which files are needed to begin playing and prioritizes the download of those files first, enabling you to quickly jump into full-fidelity gameplay while the remainder of your title downloads in the background. Simply find the FastStart-enabled title you want to play in our catalog, hit ‘Download’ and your console will take care of the rest. It’s that simple. What’s more, it’s now enabled for select English language titles in our Xbox Game Pass catalog, and will expand to more games in more languages over time. You can learn more about FastStart here.
Group Your Games and Apps
With so much content available, fans have asked for more options to organize libraries of games and apps. Today, we’re introducing a powerful new enhancement to Pins, which we call “Groups.” With Groups, you can create multiple collections of content made up of anything from within My Games & Apps. You can also assign custom names to each Group, organize and order them, and add individual Groups to Home. Groups will appear across My Games & Apps, Home and Guide, so you’ll be able to access your Groups at a moment’s notice. Best of all, Groups are tied to your Xbox Live account, so they will automatically sync across multiple Xbox One consoles. We’ve started you off with a Group that should look very familiar — your Pins! Continue reading July Xbox Update Rolling Out Today
Showing is always better than telling. Nicole Berdy joins Olivier on the IoT Show to demonstrate how the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service can be used to implement zero-touch provisioning of (a lot of) IoT devices.Learn more on Azure IoT Hub De… Continue reading Provisioning IoT devices at scale – The Demo | Internet of Things Show
Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure App Service Web Apps, the best way to build and host web applications in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. It offers auto-scaling and high availability, supports… Continue reading Azure App Service Web Apps | Azure Friday