Month: February 2019

Ever since Spacelords launched as a free to play adventure in shooter form, the MercurySteam development team understood that the game’s unique proposition would attract a particular kind of player — one who wanted to experiment something beyond the more traditional formulas found in the genre. We have always maintained, both in previous Xbox Wire blog entries and in our own social media channels, that community feedback was key to the game’s success, and that the players input should, and would, have an impact over the future of Spacelords. In many occasions, players have requested new features or gameplay adjustments… Continue reading Community Achievement Unlocked: Aneska Joins the Spacelords→

As email continues to be not only an important means of communication but also an official record of information and a tool for managing tasks, schedules, and collaborations, making sense of everything moving in and out of our inboxes will only get more difficult. The good news is there’s a method to the madness of staying on top of your email, and Microsoft researchers are drawing on this behavior to create tools to support users.

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Alex Frankel (@sonofdiesel) joins Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) to discuss Azure Blueprints. Environment creation can be a long and error prone process. Azure Blueprints helps you deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using c… Continue reading An overview of Azure Blueprints | Azure Friday→

At some stage, you either need to add a new set of data to Log Analytics or even look at your usage and costs. Originally you looked at the Usage table for this data. Reference:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/log-standard-properties  and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/manage-cost-storage As you can see from these docs (and please read them as I wont go over the content… Continue reading Azure Log Analytics: Looking at data and costs→

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Written by Paulo Marques da Costa. Edited by Nanette Ray. Published by Adam Boeglin from Microsoft patterns & practices. Accelerate digital image-based modeling on Azure This example scenario provides architecture and design guidance for any organization that wants to perform image-based modeling on Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The scenario is designed for running photogrammetry software on Azure… Continue reading NEW EXAMPLE SCENARIO: Accelerate digital image-based modeling on Azure→

Update: Friday, 08 February 2019 15:46 UTCWe continue to investigate issues within Log Analytics. Root cause is not fully understood at this time. Some customers continue to experience issues while creating new workspaces in the OMS portal using Google Chrome for Log Analytics. . We currently have no estimate for resolution. Work Around: As a… Continue reading Experiencing Issues while creating new workspaces in the OMS portal for Log Analytics – 02/08 – Investigating→