Month: February 2020

One of the most exciting things in our work is offering new ways for you to incorporate your own ideas and vision into our tools. In this blog post, I would like to highl Continue reading Extending the Q# Compiler→

A customer asked, “Please tell us about the CF_SYLK and CF_DIF clipboard formats and if you have information on the specific format to use.”
Okay, let’s start with the f Continue reading What’s up with the CF_SYLK and CF_DIF clipboard formats?→

Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview.  The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available.  No extra steps are required to get started.

 
Having laid the conceptual groundwork for Elastic Jo… Continue reading Creating an Elastic Jobs Agent, Credentials, and Jobs for Azure SQL Database in PowerShell→

As organizations grow, their organizational charts become more critical to the business—and also more complex and harder to maintain. HR professionals, COOs, and other operational leaders build org charts to illustrate and codify hierarchical relations… Continue reading Three ways you can use Visio to turn your org chart into a strategic business tool→

Cumulative Update #12 for SQL Server 2016 SP2
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2016 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. … Continue reading Cumulative Update #12 for SQL Server 2016 SP2→

Cecily Morrison wants to build technology that enables people to live their lives the way they want and accomplish things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. The Principal Researcher landed on the personal mission years before joining Microsoft Research. Experiences first teaching children robotics and then working with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service applying […]

The post EMEA scholarship program continues to foster collaboration with academia while new research award targets rising talent appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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Many of the IoT devices that Azure Sphere can securely connect need to operate in power-constrained environments. We have heard from many customers who want to integrate Azure Sphere into devices powered by batteries, solar panels, and even supercapac… Continue reading Power Down: Low power mode for Azure Sphere→

Final Update: Tuesday, 25 February 2020 05:09 UTC
We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 02/25, 03:32 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 02/20, 17:00 UTC and that during the 4 days 10 hours and 32 min… Continue reading Linux Ubuntu VMs in non-responsive state for Service Map Agent- 02/25 – Resolved→