Connecting to Azure Lab Services Environments on your MacOS devices

Connecting to Azure Lab Services via MacOS
Azure Lab Services enables you to quickly set up a classroom lab environment in the cloud. An educator creates a classroom lab, provisions Windows, or Linux virtual machines, installs the necessary softwa… Continue reading Connecting to Azure Lab Services Environments on your MacOS devices

Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein

Episode 114 | April 8, 2020 – Forty years ago, database research was an “exotic” field and, because of its business data processing reputation, was not considered intellectually interesting in academic circles. But that didn’t deter Dr. Philip Bernstein, now a Distinguished Scientist in MSR’s Data Management, Exploration and Mining group, and a pioneer in the field. Today, Dr. Bernstein talks about his pioneering work in databases over the years and tells us all about Project Orleans, a distributed systems programming framework that makes life easier for programmers who aren’t distributed systems experts. He also talks about the future of database systems in a cloud scale world, and reveals where he finds his research sweet spot along the academic industrial spectrum.

The post Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Continue reading Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein

Use Microsoft Teams Rooms as an Interactive Whiteboard Device

Microsoft Teams Rooms helps to transform meeting spaces ranging from small huddle areas to large conference rooms with a rich, collaborative Teams experience that’s simple to use, deploy, and manage.
 
The Microsoft Whiteboard is part of the nativ… Continue reading Use Microsoft Teams Rooms as an Interactive Whiteboard Device

Using Managed Service Identity (MSI) to authenticate on Azure SQL DB

We all know that we can use SQL authentication or Azure AD authentication to log on Azure SQL DB. We can also use Azure AD Token authentication or certificate-based authentication, but we will not explore these ones here. In this article… Continue reading Using Managed Service Identity (MSI) to authenticate on Azure SQL DB

How to host a live streaming with multiple participants using OBS Studio and Skype

This time I won’t blog about development content, but I wanted to share a solution to a problem that my team has faced in the latest days for which I wasn’t able to find much documentation.
 
A little bit of context: as you know, conferences and e… Continue reading How to host a live streaming with multiple participants using OBS Studio and Skype

Experiencing Alerting failure for Metric Alerts Rules – 04/08 – Resolved

Final Update: Wednesday, 08 April 2020 09:44 UTCWe’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 04/08, 08:25 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 04/08, 07:05 UTC and that during the 1 hour & 20 minutes that… Continue reading Experiencing Alerting failure for Metric Alerts Rules – 04/08 – Resolved