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[this summer Beckylin Orooji from the University of Central Florida in Orlando studying Computer Science interned with the Application Insights team in the developer division at Microsoft.  Below is a blog she authored based on some end to end scenarios she worked on] In my scenario today I have a shopping website. I have made some changes to the ...

With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now support deploying to On-premise environment (Standard) and Azure environments without having to setup Microsoft Deployment Agent.   Prerequis...

With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now support deploying to On-premise environment (Standard) and Azure environments without having to setup Microsoft Deployment Agent.   Prerequisite...

Today, as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Release Candidate, projects enabled for Application Insights will result in an Application Insights resource being provisioned in an Azure subscription (visible in Portal Preview at https://portal.azure.com). Currently the Application Insights Blade shows “Coming soon…” - check back in mid-July for ...

We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 flight of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide has firmly landed, after Bill Heys completed the copy editing and the product owner has given us the “thumbs up”. what’s included? The latest guidance includes practical guidance for three main scenarios: … and lots more in the everything ...

You no longer have to install any agent on your server to use the fast diagnostic log search in Application Insights. You simply add Application Insights to your app project, together with an adapter for your favorite logging platform. Your log events are sent to the portal, where you can query them as you like, and get quickly to the root of any p...

(Posting for one of the PMs on the Application Insights team Soubhagya Dash or just “Dash” as we call him in the hallways)   We are excited to announce the new Alerts page user experience! This experience replaces the prior page and has been rebuilt ground up with significant back-end service improvements as well. Check it out! As always y...

The Application Insights team has released a new agent for Application Performance Management scenarios.  This updated agent is version 7.1.11196.0 and is available here.  If you are already using version 7.1.11115.0 then upgrading to this agent can be done by uninstalling the old one and then installing the newer version (for Azure Cloud Services ...

We have just published the CTP1 for Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 3. You can download this release here and read through the KB article here. With this update, you can use DSC (Desired State Configuration) to deploy apps to your environments. Using DSC, you can run Powershell scripts on target servers of an environment without havin...

It is always very interesting to see how different technologies are adopted at different rates in different geographies for instance MSMQ initially had its largest user base Australia.  In rolling out Application Insights we have seen a large uptake in Europe namely Netherlands and Finland.  In the case of MSMQ the cause was unreliable an...