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First release candidate of SQL Server 2017 now available (for Windows, Linux and Docker)

July 21, 2017 Jul 21, 2017 07/21/17

Vahe Minasyan

We are pleased to announce availability of the first public release candidate for SQL Server 2017, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), which is now available for download. This means that development work for the new version of SQL Server is complete along most dimensions needed to bring the industry-leading performance and security of SQL Server to ...

Nested Virtualization in Azure

July 21, 2017 Jul 21, 2017 07/21/17

Vahe Minasyan

Today we are excited to announce that you can now enable nested virtualization using the Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes. We will continue to expand support to more VM sizes in the coming months...

Improved alternate authentication experience for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17

Vahe Minasyan

Recently, we’ve heard feedback from customers that developers have a poor experience creating and managing their alternate authentication credentials and that administrators moving from TFS to the cloud aren’t provided the policies they need to enforce how alternate authentication is used by their end users.  This post will describe our ...

The fastest path to a new Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extension

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17

Vahe Minasyan

Over the last few years we have introduced a number of ways to extend and integrate with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. For example, client libraries for .NET (which work with both .NET Framework and .NET Core apps) and for Node.js and an extensibility model that allows extension of our web experience. The ...

Announcing public preview of Wiki in Visual Studio Team Services

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17

Vahe Minasyan

Each project in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now supports its own Wiki. Now you can conveniently write pages that help your team members and other users understand, use, and contribute to your project...

Perf results on scaling Git on VSTS with GVFS (Brian Harry)

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17

Vahe Minasyan

A little over a month ago, I gave an update on our progress of moving the Windows team to Git in the largest Git repo on the planet.  At the time, I described the scale of the Windows Git repo (over 3.5M files and ~4,000 engineers), the current performance results and set of improvements that were just rolling out that we called “O(modified...