best practices

When thinking about your app data, one aspect to consider is data lifetime. In general, when it comes to the lifetime of data, you have two options: local data, which exists as long as the app that created it remains installed, and roaming data, that will continue existing online even after your...

Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s Link Removed can be found in the Security TechNet Library...

I want to reinstall Windows 10 Pro (clean install) on my 2 in 1 tablet because its becoming very slow. 1. If I do a backup and after the clean install I restore (the backup), will it be the same as if I had kept it the way it was (slow; without taking into account the components itself: wear and...

Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and Link Removed can be found in the Security...

Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and Link Removed can be found in the Security...

This past August we announced the Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK with support for video interstitial ads and ad mediation. Video interstitials are full screen video ads, 20-30 seconds, that typically offer up to 10x the eCPM (value per thousand views) vs traditional banner ads. This makes...

Now that was a week! Not only are 27 (Yeah, 27) select shows, posts and episodes highlighted below we had four other important milestones that week. AzureCon 2015 A one day virtual event all abut Azure, with a great deal of announcements Windows 10 development for absolute beginners Bob...

One way to learn app development for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is by taking advantage of the extensive and growing samples collection on GitHub. You can use these samples to learn about specific UWP features and APIs and as a source of working code that you can copy and paste into...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (September 8, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet...

Everytime I plug my iphone in my pc windows 10 launches the photo app and I can't seem to find the setting to turn it off, anyone figured this out yet? thanks!

Today we released security updates to provide protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and Link Removed can be found in the Security TechNet...

In this short video Rowan takes us through a different approach to generating keys in Entity Framework 7 using sequences. This approach is interesting in cases of large INSERT batches primarily because keys are all fetched beforehand. Would love your thoughts! Here are some links for more...

Today we released security updates for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, and Internet Explorer. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. For more information about this month’s security updates and Link Removed...

In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott Welcomes Ken Van Hyning, a Principle Software Engineer in the SQL Server team. Today Ken introduces us to the SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor, code named DBA Workbench, a tool that consists of a suite of advisors for upgrading to SQL Server 2016. Ken begins...

Hi everyone, I am new to programming..Can anyone tell me some best server side scripting language..

In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott Welcomes Xin Jin, a Program Manager in the SQL Server team. In this episode of Managed Backup, Xin shows us what's new with Managed Backup. Managed Backup was introduced in SQL Server 2014, so Xin is here to show us what's new with Managed Backup in SQL...

With just two weeks until Microsoft Ignite, you're probably finessing your session schedule and starting to think about packing. In this week's Countdown Show, Link Removed and Link Removed talk about what's new on MyIgnite, last-minute tips to maximizing your Ignite experience, and the...

This whitepaper describes best practices for securing and hardening NDES to enable the deployment of certificates with Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager Link Removed

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (March 5, 2015): Advisory revised to clarify the reason why no workaround exists for systems running Windows Server 2003. See the Advisory FAQ for more information. Summary: Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability in Secure...

Original release date: January 02, 2014 | Last revised: February 05, 2014 Systems Affected Point of Sale Systems Overview Point of Sale Systems When consumers purchase goods or services from a retailer, the transaction is processed through what are commonly referred to as Point of Sale...