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MSIX aims to become the best packaging and deployment technology for Windows desktop applications and, on this blog, we have seen multiple times its advantages: the clean install & uninstall experience, the network bandwidth and disk space optimiza… Continue reading Supporting a modular Windows application with MSIX and Optional Packages
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This article is a follow up on a previous post titled “UI Automation – Page Object Model and other Design Patterns” and is part of a series of posts related to UI Test automation, if you are interested in UI … Continue reading WinAppDriver and Desktop UI Test Automation
Hands up if you are used to deploy servers either by unpacking them from a box or using a graphical user interface (GUI)? Yip, that’s me and it’s where I’ve built my career. However, over the last few years I’ve been getting more and more used to… Continue reading How to use GitHub Actions to deploy an Azure Virtual Machine
This is the third in a series of posts about changes coming in the February release of Azure Sphere.
As we mentioned earlier, we are making a number of enhancements to our OS and SDK to further strengthen the defens… Continue reading Plan for Change – Part 3: Azure Sphere February Release
Jan. 22, 2020 – In this webinar led by Microsoft researcher Jenn Wortman Vaughan, explore how to best incorporate transparency into the machine learning life cycle. Here, we will explore these three components of transparency (with examples): tra… Continue reading Transparency and Intelligibility Throughout the Machine Learning Life Cycle Webinar
Software Assurance (SA) Benefits for SQL Server are enhanced on November 1st, 2019 with new rights to build a holistic high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) plan for SQL Server workloads. Enhanced SA rights for SQL Server enable significant… Continue reading Optimize TCO with new SQL Server Software Assurance Benefits for Disaster Recovery
If you have a SQL Server 2019 named instance with Polybase feature, you may fail to restart the PolyBase Data movement service after running the sp_polybase_join_group.
You follow the steps in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/p… Continue reading Failed to restart Polybase Data Movement service after running sp_polybase_join_group
Customers tell us they want easier ways to manage their environments while delivering more productivity value to their employees. This includes helping people quickly find the information they need, a potentially frustrating prospect given the sheer an… Continue reading Introducing – and Managing – Microsoft Search in Bing through Office 365 ProPlus