James Kavanagh Chief Technology Officer Microsoft Australia I am excited to share the news that more than 50 Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services have been added by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to its Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL). It means Microsoft and our partners now have a hugely expanded…
How to Support Windows Authentication for ASP.NET Core in IIS
When we are debugging and testing Windows Authentication based ASP.NET Core application in development environment, it is very straightforward. We can just use Windows Authentication based template to create the application without any code change. The launchSettings.json contains the following section to enable windows authentication and disable anonymous authentication. “iisSettings”: { “windowsAuthentication”: true, “anonymousAuthentication”: false,…
Run H2O.ai in R on Azure HDInsight
In our previous blog, we introduced H2O.ai on Azure HDInsight. Currently, H2O can run on Azure HDInsight in Python or Scala APIs. However, R doesn’t come out-of-box. R has been popular in data scientist communities and support of R in H2O.ai on Azure HDInsight has been sought after by many of our customers. Today, we…
Win2D 1.21.0 – SVG, improved HDR support, and bugfixes
Win2D version 1.21.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. New in this release: Load, draw, and manipulate SVG (scalable vector graphics) documents (requires Windows 10 Creators Update) Load and save JpegXR images using extended precision pixel formats (16 and 32 bit floating point, or 16 bit normalized integer)…
Why C++ in 2017 ?
What are the advantages of making software with C/C++ in 2017 ? The question is simple. But the response is extraordinary powerful. Let me explain… If you are on the server, you want performance… You don’t want to distribute a huge framework and cross too many layers. If you have the socket handler, you make…
06/26 – Errata added for [MS-RSVD]: Remote Shared Virtual Disk Protocol
In multiple sections, the description of InitiatorId was changed: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt242377.aspx
06/26 – Errata added for [MS-RDPEGFX]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Graphics Pipeline Extension
Two updates at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt242403.aspx: Changes were made to specify Bitmap Cache size and number of variable-length slot values for RDPGFX_CAPSET_VERSION_10, RDPGFX_CAPSET_VERSION_102 and RDPGFX_CAPSET_VERSION_103 The description for the flag RDPGFX_CAPS_FLAG_AVC_DISABLED was revised to address all modes with specific instructions for the YUV444 mode
06/26 – Errata added for [MS-RDPEFS]: Remote Desktop Protocol: File System Virtual Channel Extension
In Section 2.2.3.10, Server Drive Query Directory Request, changes were made to differentiate when STATUS_NO_MORE_FILES versus STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE is returned: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt242382.aspx
06/26 – Errata added for [MS-SAMR]: Security Account Manager (SAM) Remote Protocol (Client-to-Server)
In Section 7 Appendix B, information has been added about which products implement which protocol roles: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt242368.aspx
06/26 – Errata added for [MS-LSAT]: Local Security Authority (Translation Methods) Remote Protocol
In Section 7 Appendix B, information has been added about which products implement which protocol roles: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt718730.aspx
