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Azure Education Governance Series
One of the challenges education customers face when starting to adopt Azure is understanding how they can effectively use services and still address the need for governance. In our experience, customers that address governance early on in their public cloud journey have a higher probability of success while reducing compliance/security issues that typically arise from…
You Should Never See This Callstack in Production
A customer who just experienced some server outage asked us for help as they thought it was due to some very long GC pauses. I thought this diagnostics exercise might be useful for other folks as well so I am sharing it with you. We had them collect a GCCollectOnly trace which showed there were…
Join us: Women Leading Government Cybersecurity – Oct. 24 in Washington, DC
In support of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, we invite you to RSVP and join us for a special edition Microsoft Azure Government Meetup, Women Leading Government Cybersecurity, Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 6 – 8:30 p.m., at 1776 in Washington, DC. All are welcome to this free event, which…
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations version 8.1 is now available
We’re excited to announce the availability of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations version 8.1 with Platform update 20 through Lifecycle Services (LCS). This release is packed with some great features. To see what’s new, check out the Release Notes. Customers and partners can get version 8.1 using one of the options listed below: Deploy a…
.NET Core October 2018 Update – NET Core 1.0 and 1.1
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2018 Update for 1.0 and 1.1. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.13, 1.1.10 and .NET Core SDK 1.1.11. Security CVE-2018-8292: .NET Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability that exists when .NET Core when HTTP authentication information is inadvertently exposed in an…
.NET Framework October 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we released the October 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security update. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR Updated code to prevent errors regarding invalid date format when Japanese Era 4 is used…
Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the September 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual Studio Code in the documentation. In this release…
Introducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community
Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement – customers could use the “send a smile” feature in Visual Studio, but this would result in only coarse-grained feedback such as “I like this” or “I don’t…
The numerology of the sample directory listing in the Windows 95 font selector property sheet page
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