MS Cloud Certification New Name after Jan. Expiration?
Hello, Since the MS Cloud certification will expire in January, what will the new exam be called? Thank you!

Logshipping Licensing
Hi, We have production database for which logshipping is configured in another server. There are two mode of logshipping - 1) Standby mode/Read-only mode 2) Recovery mode As per my knowledge if we use secondary server (logshipping configured DB) for…
Which is correct, ie9 emulation or VM VirtualBox ie9?
I want support with internet explorer 9. I am developing (devtool emulation internet explorer 11) ie9 using Win7. However, the style is broken in IE9 of Win7 running on VM VirtualBox. Which is correct, ie9 emulation or VM VirtualBox ie9? THANKS. …

Fix Hyper-V (Default Switch) IP address range 172 or 192
Can I force Hyper-V default switch to always have the same exact network/subnet. I use GNS3 VM provided by GNS and I need to always connect to the same VM, Everything was working correctly with (my home network devices are on 192.168.1.0/24) …
Highest and Lowest values
I’ve got a table as follows … StudentID ExamsPassed Student3 2 Student4 3 Student5 2 Student6 1 Student7 3 I need to write a query that pulls out the highest and lowest values and returns something like HighestAchievers …
Decommissioning Exchange 2010
Hi , I'm decommissioning the Exchange 2010 server. But will this remove the Exchange 2016 send connectors that has created automatically when adding the Server? I just try to disable the send connector in Exchange 2010 and noticed that it disabled…

edge server domain issue
I am bit confused with the name convention for the sip domain when it comes to edge deployment on the edge external certificate. Is it a must that i should include my sip domain as sip.domian.com or i can use a different name such as…


API gate way time out Issue
Hi, When run the logic app using API through postman, the gateway has timed out and says 504 gateway timeout. But logic app is running after getting response in postman. Could you please help on this how to extend time out in API gateway. or …
WSUS Server 2016 showing up with 3 instances in the WSUS console
WSUS Server 2016 showing up with 3 instances in the WSUS console
Excel File Problem with Office 2016
Hi, I am getting the below error message after clicking on a button in excel file linked to a pivot table. The same works if i use office 365.
unable to download my certificate
I wanted to download my certificate but i could not download it .Please i need this certificate for Job opportunity.You have refused to send it to my mail box and hard copy to my office address.This is very bad .My candidate id is MS0618637443. My…
Advice on the best suited architecture for our application
We are developing an application which needs to communicate to displays and a cloud server. Since we need to run the application when nobody is logged in, we run our application as Windows Service. However, we also need to be able to show a UI and talk…

az login from azure cloud shell (BASH)
Hi Team - Error : Command group 'pipelines variable-group' is in preview. It may be changed/removed in a future release. The requested resource requires user authentication:…
log4net in WPF application
Hi All. I'm trying to log exceptions in wpf application. For that I installed log4net package and modified app.config file <configSections> <section name="log4net"…

Current Method(s) to lock/unlock a range in a native array for read or write using
What would be a good and efficient way to have multiple threads and processes to read or write from a range of a RWS unsigned char array when they seek to read or write a contiguous range? I already have the array in a dll in shared memory, so the…
Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Update not working
Hi, I upgraded Win Server 2008 to Win Server 2012 R2. After upgrade Win Update is not working. When I press Check for updates, I receive following messages: Windows Update can't check for updates because the service is not running. You may need to…
HTTPS and Cloud Managent Gateway
I'm installing a cloud management gateway for an environment that have all machines Hybrid azure AD joined. Can I still deploy CMG but not enable "HTTPS" for the management point? I want keep it HTTP so I don't need to publish a cert for…
byName function to select column value from a json dataset in dataflow
Hi, I have a dataset with json data as source in a dataflow and want to add a derived column to the stream that will be calculated like this concat('/folder/',toString(byName('attribute')),'.json') This works fine But it my attribute is nested…
Best way to connect two SQL Data Data Warehouses
I'm dealing with a problem where we have 2 different organizations, each with their own data warehouse. Both data warehouses will be migrated from on-prem environments to Azure and use SQL Data Warehouse. Currently, they are just sharing data via SFTP…
Full Database backups are taking long time after upgrading SQL Server 2008 R2 to 2016 (SP2)
Hi, Recently we have upgraded (in-place) our on prem SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition to 2016 (Sp2) Standard. After the upgrade we are seeing Full database backups are taking longer time to complete. We have a db of 1.5TB size, to backup this db…
