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What’s new in Azure? Check out Azure.Source – Volume 43

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

John Powell

Announcing public preview of Azure IoT Hub manual failover feature - IoT Hub cloud service manual failover enables customers to failover an IoT hub instance from its primary Azure region to its corresponding geo-paired region with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 10 min–2 hours. The IoT Hub service provides cross-regional automatic ...

Publish Enterprise Apps with Visual Studio App Center and Intune

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

John Powell

Publishing and distributing line of business apps in an enterprise can be challenging for both developers and admins. Developers often use custom build tools, manually test across multiple devices and upload apps to an internal company site. Microsoft Intune offers the company portal for simple and secure distribution of apps within an ...

Ansible 2.6: What’s new for Azure

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

John Powell

Ansible 2.6 was recently released and I am excited to share with you what’s new for Azure in Ansible 2.6. In total, four new Azure modules were added in addition to over 17 enhancements to our existing modules. In 2.6 you now have the ability to natively manage...

3 Steps to Build Your First Intelligent App – Conference Buddy

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

John Powell

Imagine yourself at a conference, attending a session with hundreds of other enthusiastic developers. You put away your phone to pay attention to the speaker who is talking about the latest cutting-edge technologies. As you learn about the topic, you start to gather a list of questions you would like to get the answers to right away. But the ...

.NET Framework July 2018 Update

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

John Powell

Update: 8/03/2018 Guidance has changed for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. See dotnet/announcements #74. Today, we released the July 2018 Update that fixes an issue in .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2. We recommend that you apply this update if you are experiencing the ...