
Scale your cloud-native apps and accelerate app modernization with Azure, the best cloud for your apps
Developers are essential to the world we live in today, and the work you do is critical to powering organizations in every industry. Every developer and development team brings new ideas and innovation. Our ambition with the Microsoft Cloud and ... continue reading

Scale your cloud-native apps and accelerate app modernization with Azure, the best cloud for your apps
Developers are essential to the world we live in today, and the work you do is critical to powering organizations in every industry. Every developer and development team brings new ideas and innovation. Our ambition with the Microsoft Cloud and ... continue reading

Code, test, and ship your next app quickly and securely with Microsoft developer tools
Welcome to Microsoft Build, the event that’s all about celebrating the developer community! The work you do has the power to transform entire industries and keep critical businesses and services running through innovative solutions and applications. I couldn’t be more ... continue reading
Semi-Automate ConfigMgr Firewall Settings
Hi, Jonas here! Or as we say in the north of Germany: "Moin Moin!" I’m a Microsoft Senior Customer Engineer with a broad spectrum of interests. Due to recent events multiple customers have questioned their infrastructure security concept and approached me with ... continue reading
Major update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code
An updated version of our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user ... continue reading

Amplify your database development experience with Azure Data Studio
It is that time again! We are excited to bring new and exciting updates to Azure Data Studio. These updates include the general availability of the Azure SQL Migration Extension, the introduction of advanced features to the Table Designer feature ... continue reading
The top technical skills for the modern IT Pro
There are many niche areas within infrastructure and security, but we find that most IT Pros have a very broad set of responsibilities, touching different products and tasks. If you’re working in a Microsoft-focussed environment, especially one that is using ... continue reading

Empowering space development off the planet with Azure
Any developer can be a space developer with Azure. Microsoft has a long history of empowering the software development community. We have the world’s most comprehensive developer tools and platforms from Github to Visual Studio, and we support a wide ... continue reading

On Preferences and Scopes
Progress in PowerShell: a tale of Verbosity and other preferences with lessons in Scopes and Proxies thrown in It started, as these things often do, with someone complaining. In PowerShell Version 7.2 the output of Invoke-WebRequest -Verbose and Invoke-RestMethod -Verbose ... continue reading
Getting started with Azure Bicep
As technology has evolved, so have the tools we can use to build (or rebuild!) standard, repeatable system configurations. I remember building my first Windows-based computer systems using an "answer file" to populate and bypass the "out of the box" ... continue reading