New DocumentDB ORDER BY Features in the Azure Preview Portal
08 July 2015
With the release of ORDER BY support for Azure DocumentDB, we’ve updated our portal experience to make it just as easy to specify the indexing policy for your collections.
Monthly archives: July 2015
Announcing the release of Cordova plugin for Azure Mobile Engagement
07 July 2015
I'm excited to announce the release of the Cordova plugin for Mobile Engagement service. If you're developing mobile apps with Phonegap/Cordova, this allows you to integrate Mobile Engagement into these mobile apps very easily.
Order Query Results with Azure DocumentDB
07 July 2015
Today, we're pleased to announce a key improvement in SQL querying - DocumentDB now supports Order By, and string range queries! With this change, you will be able to sort query results using any string, numeric, or Boolean property in your JSON documents.
Start Automation Runbooks in Response to Events in Visual Studio Online
06 July 2015
Start Azure Automation Runbooks using Visual Studio Online Service Hooks.
Azure Preview Portal Improvements (June Update)
02 July 2015
Today we’re proud to announce a new set of improvements to the Azure Preview portal. Like last time, all these enhancements are in response to the great feedback we’ve received from you.
A Brand New Docker Extension
02 July 2015
Today, we are releasing a brand new version of Docker VM Extension with some very cool new features like Docker Compose support, Docker Hub/Registry authentication support.
Enabling Client Certificate Authentication for an Azure Web App
02 July 2015
How to enable client certificate authentication (TLS mutual authentication) for your Azure Web App.
Big Compute for large engineering simulations
01 July 2015
This post shares our experience working closely with a partner to bring a large engineering simulation solution to Azure.
How-old.net: Augmenting Virality in Real Time with Batch Analytics using Data Factory
01 July 2015
Microsoft launched the How-old.net demo as part of the keynote presentation at Build2015. We started the demo as a test for 50 users but it went viral with more than 33 million users and 236 million images in less than a week of activity. Very soon, this turned out to be a big data question, and we decided to augment real time with historic data analytics.
Inside Azure Search: Chaos Engineering
01 July 2015
As systems scale, we expect nodes to fail ungracefully in random and unexpected ways, networks to experience sudden partitions, and messages to be dropped at any time. Azure Search uses chaos engineering to help solve this problem.