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 Exceptions are a type of error that occurs during the execution of an application. Errors are typically problems that are not expected. Whereas, exceptions are expected to happen within application code for various reasons.
Applications use exception handling logic to explicitly handl...Apr. 16, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,882 |
 Developing and deploying large-scale .NET-based applications can quickly become a time-consuming and error-prone process, as you waste resources and expose yourself to the risk of failure and diminished employee satisfaction. It may seem a trivial task at first, but as .NET development...Mar. 24, 2017 06:55 AM EDT Reads: 1,915 |
 Clearly Satya Nadella has made a huge difference at Microsoft since taking office in 2014. The stock in 2016 hit an all time high since 1999. So investors are happy. Here are the key changes he has made since taking the role as CEO:
Skipped Windows 9 and went straight from Windows 8 t...Jan. 7, 2017 09:00 AM EST Reads: 4,758 |
 Hostway is announcing its hybrid cloud service based on Azure – all backed by managed support for configuration and provisioning, monitoring resource utilization, virtual networks, backup, storage and much more. Now, organizations can choose the best technology infrastructure to run th...Sep. 23, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,273 |
 There is an old saying that good things come in small packages. This saying definitely applies to this book, which focuses in on a set of functions that most people are not aware of that are available in SQL Server. To start off with we need to answer the following question: What are T...Aug. 18, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,785 |
 Hostway Services, Inc. and WSM International have partnered to deliver trouble free migration services for any organization that wishes to bring their IT infrastructure to Hostway's Azure managed cloud services.
WSM is the leader in providing turn-key IT migration services since 2003 ...Jul. 27, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,496 |
 IndependenceIT has announced Cloud Workspace® Suite 5.0. Highlights of the latest generation software include automated cross platform software defined data center deployments and management; orchestration and workflow automation for third-party Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) platforms;...Apr. 7, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,091 |
 Illumio has extended the capabilities of Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)™ through integration with Microsoft’s Active Directory groups. The new capability, known as Adaptive User Segmentation, dynamically calculates and provisions connectivity rules based on user identity to prevent u...Mar. 30, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,904 |
 While this book was designed to be used by Windows System Administrators, any developer who has ever needed to write a batch (.bat) file will welcome with open arms the flexibility and power provided by Windows PowerShell.
This book is up to date covering all the way through PowerShe...Mar. 19, 2016 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,764 |
 My colleague, Jennelle Crothers, and I got a chance to chat about the usability and ease of use in this episode of Windows 10 series in TechNet Radio. She’s great and we had much fun doing it. Jennelle did a quick demo on how to make Windows 10 even easier to use.Feb. 13, 2016 06:00 PM EST Reads: 5,146 |
 Microsoft pulls a fast one! Good showing Microsoft.
Project Natick is Microsoft's R&D; feasibility project to explore, manufacture and operate a underwater.
Hey, you don't look for cooling water, if you can take the salt out.
How is latency improved? drop the datacenter at the neare...Feb. 11, 2016 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,520 |
 AppZero has launched a new version of its application migration tool that features an optional, high performance architecture that accelerates the migration of Windows Server applications over wide area or high latency network connections, typically found between geographically remote ...Dec. 27, 2015 02:33 PM EST Reads: 3,874 |
 ReSharper Ultimate is a license that combines all individual JetBrains .NET tools, as well as ReSharper C++. Each ReSharper Ultimate license allows a single developer to use ReSharper, ReSharper C++, dotCover, dotTrace and dotMemory.
If a single developer uses Visual Studio to code bo...Dec. 17, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 5,368 |
 Most everyone in Cloud IT circles has realized the power of containerization and that companies are adopting Docker containers at a remarkable rate. There are many good reasons for this, such as easily setting up dev/test scenarios (DevOps), and building out sophisticated, distributed ...Nov. 2, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 5,359 |
 Recently announced Azure Data Lake addresses the big data 3V challenges; volume, velocity and variety. It is one more storage feature in addition to blobs and SQL Azure database. Azure Data Lake (should have been Azure Data Ocean IMHO) is really omnipotent. Just look at the key capabi...Oct. 11, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,079 |
 Scott Guthrie's keynote presentation "Journey to the intelligent cloud" is a must view video. This is from AzureCon 2015, September 29, 2015
I have reproduced some screen shots in case you are unable to view this long video for one reason or another. One of the highlights is 3 data...Oct. 7, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,184 |
 If you’re part of a substantial development organization standardized on Microsoft development tools, chances are you’ll need to integrate Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio with third-party tools. The DevOps movement further highlights the need to connect a diver...Sep. 12, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,238 |
 Internationalizing software has been overlooked by companies in years past. Many available software applications lacked the ability to work with different languages or locale variations such as calendars, currency and numbering conventions. Although North America is a rich market and m...Aug. 21, 2015 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 2,920 |
 Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web. In the 12 months since Build 2014, Microsoft has delivered over 500 new Azure services and features, and greatly expanded the...Aug. 21, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,590 |
 We also believe that great outcomes are achieved not just by talking but by listening. Zeetings creates this genuine connection between presenters and audiences, changing the paradigm from a one-way monologue to a two-way conversation. Unlike a traditional presentation, a “zeeting” is ...Aug. 17, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,131 |
 Early last year Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of PowerBI for Office 365. Office is the most used office program and PowerBI brings in great value by providing a self-service means to discover, analyze and visualize data leading to deep insights.
Using PowerBI for...Aug. 11, 2015 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,454 |
 Windows Server 2003 End of Support is here and there is little most enterprises can do at this point to change the fact that they are now dependent on an unsupported operating system. Here we are at Microsoft's World Wide Partner Conference again, muttering "I'm late, I'm late," just l...Aug. 1, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,436 |
 Shipping daily, injecting faults, and keeping an extremely high availability "without Ops"? Understand why NoOps does not mean no operations. Agile development methodologies require evolved operations to be successful.
In his keynote at DevOps Summit, David Tesar, Microsoft Technical ...Jul. 25, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,534 |
 Everyone knows that advancements are very quick in the software world particularly in web development world. Web development technologies experience with .NET has never been so revolutionary like this, since its inception. It’s the first version of ASP.NET that marks a radical evacuati...May. 5, 2015 11:48 AM EDT Reads: 3,276 |
| It's spring in the Northeast, and this week we're launching a new blog post series, "Everything You Want to Know about Windows Server 2003 Migration." Why a series of posts on WS2003? Even as summer and EOS is just months away, our "State of Readiness for Windows Server 2003 End of Sup... Apr. 2, 2015 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,322 |
 At Convergence 2015 in Atlanta, GA Microsoft outlined Microsoft's vision of IoT on 16th March. Convergence is actually showcasing of Microsoft Dynamics CRM products but as PowrBI is very much a part of IoT a large part of the talk from the CEO was on 'Azure IoT Suite' and how Windows 1...Mar. 20, 2015 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,907 |
 The clock is ticking: the End of Support for Windows Server 2003, #WS2003EOS, arrives this July, as in four months from now. This means there will be no more patches or security updates and your applications and business will be at risk. New threats won't be addressed and WS2003 syst...Mar. 20, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,549 |
 With Levi’s Stadium as a backdrop, I share a bit about the Internet of Things and the strain it will place on the Domain Name System (DNS) along with a preview of his DNS of Things session at CloudExpo/ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Reporting from Silicon Valley. Mar. 20, 2015 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,306 |
 The essence of cloud computing is that all consumable IT resources are delivered as services.
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, will demonstrate the concepts and implementations of two important cloud computing deliveries: Infrastructur...Mar. 13, 2015 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,954 |
 In my first blog I wrote about SharePoint System Performance Health Checks beyond looking at CPU and Memory Metrics. In this blog, I cover deployment related performance health problems that I always check when looking at a SharePoint Installation. Especially after deploying new hardwa...Mar. 7, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,096 |
| The market transition from education and evaluation to remediation is marching along as the End of Support (EOS) nears for Windows Server 2003. The market has moved from being unaware of the challenge that EOS would pose for most IT organizations at the beginning of 2014 to POCs, trial... Mar. 2, 2015 01:19 PM EST Reads: 3,979 |
 I read an interesting article the other day that resonated so much I felt it was worth sharing and expanding upon its premise here. The article, originally written by Andrew Dailey of MGI Research, delved into the role of growth and accelerated time-to-revenue in a successful enterpris...Feb. 27, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,480 |
 The explosion in SMAC technologies (social, mobile, analytic, and cloud) in recent years has created unprecedented opportunities for those who can code. Indeed, programmers are the gatekeepers who are on the frontlines of the most momentous technological transformation in our history. ...Feb. 19, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,579 |
 IBM InterConnect is next week! It is IBMs premier conference focussed on all aspects of the IT Industry – Cloud, Mobile, Analytics, Internet of Things – you name it! I will of course be there for DevOps.
With literally 100s of sessions dedicated to DevOps, this is the largest DevOps...Feb. 16, 2015 11:22 PM EST Reads: 2,144 |
 Monitoring systems can help you better manage your uptime, but even though you may spend a lot of time configuring checks and thresholds to identify problems early, your alerts are only as good as your incident response processes. One of the biggest challenges we’ve seen when talking w...Feb. 16, 2015 07:45 PM EST Reads: 4,335 |
 This is aimed to be your one-stop-shop for everything microservices: Interesting posts and interesting people. Microservices is a software architecture approach that propagates small (in terms of responsibility) and independent components instead of monolithic all-in-one components. Se...Feb. 16, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,735 |
 New functionality is rolling out in SPM Performance Monitoring!
Watch this space for future posts on Transaction Tracing, Global and App-specific Server Views, Kafka 0.8.2 monitoring and other cool stuff.
For this post, those of you who use HAProxy are in luck as we just adde...Feb. 16, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 4,660 |
 AWS was in the premier position having had a head start of more than 4 years in the cloud related business. The lowering of prices by Microsoft; a new CEO; an emphasized bet on the cloud have all contributed to Microsoft Azure's adoption by the enterprises. One of the reasons for this ...Feb. 4, 2015 10:30 AM EST Reads: 4,108 |
 Hats off to Parasoft’s Mark Lambert and our own Jason English for their recent webinar, “New Year's Resolution: Trim Your Waste to Accelerate SDLC Velocity.” Holiday-themed online content can often be found for a dime a dozen and sadly, the cuteness of a clever title often exceeds the ...Feb. 3, 2015 04:28 PM EST Reads: 2,658 |
 If you’re an avid Solr user you’ll want to check out these Lucene / Solr Revolution videos from two of Sematext’s Solr experts: Rafal Kuc and Radu Gheorghe.
Radu talked about Solr performance tuning, which is always nice for keeping your applications snappy and your costs down. This i...Jan. 31, 2015 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,377 |
