In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Derrick Cawthon weighs in on one of the latest announcements that TFS 2018 will include XAML builds. Starting in TFS 2017 it was announced that XAML builds were being deprecated. No big surprise to anyone paying attention as they are an older build system which had to go at…
Azure AD B2C settings menu unable to load for a small set of customers
A very small set of customers may experience failures loading the Azure AD B2C settings menu in the Azure portal. This does not affect end-users authenticating against Azure Active Directory B2C. As a temporary workaround, administrators should load the settings menu in a different browser or using the Private mode. As per our investigation, the issue…
Proactively Plan for your Critical Event in Azure with Enhanced Support and Engineering Services
In this post, Principal Consultant Jon Guerin lays out the benefits of Azure Event Management (AEM) and how to get started with the program. Deploying an application to Azure in support of a high-profile business event can have many advantages. But failing to assess up front potential gaps that could negatively affect performance and availability…
How-to: Basic check for Exchange Web Services connectivity using code
When a program is about to start talking to Exchange there is the chance of some sort of connectivity problem which will cause its EWS calls to fail. A basic can EWS call can be done to see if EWS can be reached and process a basic request. Below is such a connectivity test call…
Best Practices: Important and critical headers for EWS
It’s important to set several headers in your code help assure calls will work and to provide information to be used in diagnosing issues. As an example, some calls wither won’t work or may only work against some servers if you don’t set the X-AnchorMailbox header. If there is a need to review your application’s…
LCS Restoring Service | Lifecycle Services portal intermittently inaccessible
User Impact: Affected users may be unable to access projects through the Lifecycle Services portal intermittently. Current Status: We are continuing to restore service for users that may be experiencing Lifecycle Services portal issues and will provide an update when new information is available, or by the time listed below. Update 1: We are currently restoring service…
Upcoming DevOps and Tech Conferences
Are you interested in learning about DevOps and the newest advances in technology? Do you want to challenge your development perspectives and current practices? Read this post from Premier Developer Consultant Brian Blackman to find an upcoming conference for you and your team to attend. All of us in software engineering are always looking for…
How-to: Accessing other mailbox calendars with Graph
Accessing calendars with Graph requires some configuration in permissions before the Graph call will work. What is required relates to the type of application and that drives the type of permissions – Delegate or Admin. Below is information to help understand and help setting up the needed permissions.Starting information: For Graph to read from a…
Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types in East US region- 06/15 – Resolved
Final Update: Friday, 15 June 2018 19:59 UTCWe’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 06/15, 18:50 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 06/15, 18:25 UTC and that during the 25 minutes that it took to resolve the issue ~14% of East US customers may have…
Database Migration Guide – June 2018 updates
What’s new with the latest updates? Updated detail for the migration scenarios (source/target pairs) currently covered by the Migration Guide: Migrate from SQL Server to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines SQL Data Warehouse Migrate from MySQL to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure Database for…