It is the holiday season, and the bright lights are everywhere. In the technology world, I hope you’re seeing more green than red lights in your Azure Pipelines status badges! Monitor Azure DevOps workflows and pipelines with Datadog Pipeline status monitoring is an important part of the software delivery lifecycle. The post Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.12.13 appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

A few months ago, we posted a survey to gather feedback on your experience with metrics in the Azure portal. Thank you for participating and providing valuable suggestions.

With two new relational database features (Result-set caching and Materialized Views) just GA’d in Azure Synapse Analytics (formally called Azure SQL Data Warehouse), it makes for some very compelling reporting performance options when combined with Power BI. In this blog I’ll … Continue reading →

Organizations that embraced the option to run Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Linux have been looking forward to the release of SQL Server 2019. Regardless of which operating system (OS) you choose, it's the same SQL Server database code, and includes even more of the same features and services as the Windows release. This introductoryRead more The post Tools and commands for running SQL Server 2019 on Linux appeared first on SQL Server Blog.

We are pleased to introduce the ability to export high-resolution keyframes from Azure Media Service’s Video Indexer.

One of the toughest IoT quandaries is figuring out how to bake IoT into existing hardware in a secure, cost-effective way. For many customers, scrapping existing hardware investments for new IoT-enabled devices (“greenfield” installations) isn’t feasible.

Today, we are releasing Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 RTW. Azure DevOps Server offers all the services of Azure DevOps, including Pipelines, Boards, Repos, Artifacts and Test Plans, as a self-hosted product that can be installed in your on-premises datacenter or in a virtual machine on the cloud. The post Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 RTW appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

Microsoft and HPE have teamed up to validate the HPE Edgeline EL8000 Converged Edge system for Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI program. Designed specifically for space-constrained environments, the HPE Edgeline EL8000 Converged Edge system has a unique 17-inch depth form factor that fits into limited infrastructures too small for other x86 systems. The chassis has an 8.7-inch width which brings additional flexibility for deploying at the deep edge, whether it is in a telco environment, a mobile vehicle, or a manufacturing floor. This NEBs-compliant system delivers secure scalability.

Digital twins have moved from an exciting concept to reality.

We are taking a look at the preview of a maintenance control feature for platform updates on Azure Dedicated Host and Isolated virtual machines. Using this feature customers can take control of host updates for a period of 35-days in a rolling window. At public preview we are making CLI, PowerShell, APIs available. Portal will come later.

Sprint 161 has just finished rolling out to all organizations and you can check out all the new features in the release notes. Here are some of the features that you can start using today. Create bulk subscriptions in Azure Pipelines app for Slack and Microsoft Teams Users of the Azure Pipelines app for Slack and Microsoft Teams can now bulk subscribe to all of the pipelines in a project. The post What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 161 appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

Puzzled when to use Power BI Premium vs Azure Analysis Services? Power BI Premium is where future investments will be made but there are things to consider when making a choice.

At the recent Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference, we introduced two new and related perspectives on the future and roadmap of edge computing.

Last month, we started sharing the DevOps journey at Microsoft through the stories of several teams at Microsoft and how they approach DevOps adoption.

Earlier this year, we announced the preview of Azure proximity placement groups to enable customers to achieve co-location of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources with low network latency.

We’re announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines. Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts.