Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Burra Gopal

Manish Soni

Roberto C Taboada

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

David Koronthaly

Rakesh Gupta

James P Rupke

Parul Manek

Kai Zhu

Darell D Macatangay

Jagdish Singh

Paul J Leach

Mark H Lucovsky

Sander M Viegers

Richard Bruce Ward

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Peter Sewall Ford

Lijiang Fang

David Charles Oliver

Adrian Fanaru

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Samuel John George

Steven D White

Paul Andrew Steckler

Ramanathan Somasundaram

Winnie C Wu

Jagadeesh Kalki

Constantin Stanciu

William Raymond Hoffman

Daniel Keith Winter

Michael B Taylor

Ramu Movva

Sean Squires

Anton Kirillov

Walter C Hsueh

Patrick R Kabore

Suresh Kannan

Chris Keyser

Shyam Narayan

David Benjamin Auerbach

Kendall D Keil

Philip Michael Smoot

Krishna Raghava Mulubagilu Panduranga Rao

Yuriy Labunets

Amy R Simpson

Shayan Kayhanian

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yi-Wen Guu

Rahul Kapoor

Robert G Hawking

Namendra Kumar

Ziyi Wang

Kok Wai Chan

Seshadri Mani

Sushil Kumar

Ashish Kumar Singhal

Sandhya D Jain

Alexandru Croicu

Gaurav R Doshi

Satish Kumar Chittamuru

Himesh Shah

Huy Q Nguyen

Ovais Khan

Diwakar Mantha

Zhongqin Wu

Oleg Ovanesyan

Sai Shankar

Shiguang Dong

Arvind Kumar Krishnan

Yang Xiang

Peiwei Cao

Muthiah K Annamalai

Sharon E Edelstein

Shyam Sundar Jayshankar

Shyam J Sundar

Amy Simpson

Techniques for asynchronous site provisioning in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving a user request to initiate a provisioning process for a site. The user request can contain one or more specified features or functionalities for the site. The method also includes in response to the received user request from the user, performing provisioning of the site without provisioning for at least one of the specified features in the user request and providing the provisioned site for access by the user upon completion of performing provisioning of the site. The method further includes continuing provisioning the at least one of the specified features included in the user request while allowing the user to access the provided site without the at least one of the specified features via the computer network.

Asynchronous service provisioning in computing systems

Data to be moved from a source system to a target system, for a set of tenants, is first identified. It is then isolated into its own container. The contents are then moved.

Isolating data to be moved across boundaries

Various methods and systems for generating an idempotent workflow are described herein. In one example, a method includes detecting distributed code and identifying a boundary function in the distributed code. The method can also include separating the boundary function into a transition function, a non-idempotent function, and a reversion function. Additionally, the method can include transforming the non-idempotent function into an idempotent function by generating a flag corresponding to the non-idempotent function, wherein the flag indicates if the non-idempotent function has been executed. Furthermore, the method can include combining the transition function, the idempotent function, and the reversion function to form the idempotent workflow.

Generating an idempotent workflow

Users in a given organization are tagged with a data center identifier (or data location) that identifies a data center where the user's resources are located. A user request is detected, that indicates that the user wishes to access a resource that is tied to the user. The user is automatically navigated to the user's corresponding data center, where the user permissions are analyzed to selectively grant access to the requested resource.

Cross-data center interoperation and communication

Techniques for database selection during site provisioning in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving a user request for a site to be hosted on one or more nodes in the distributed computing system. In response to the received user request, one of the databases is selected by randomly selecting a set of databases from a list of available databases, determining a subset of databases each having a lower level of database load than the other databases from the set of databases, and randomly selecting one database from the subset of databases. The method further includes storing a configuration file for the site in the randomly selected one database to enable the site to be accessible, the configuration file containing data representing one or more of module loading control, security configuration, session state configuration, application language, or compilation setting of the site.

Database selection in distributed computing systems

Data to be moved from a source system to a target system, for a set of tenants, is first identified. The data is enumerated by a first computing instance in the source system to obtain an enumeration list. Data is copied from the source system to the target system based on the enumeration list by a second computing instance. The data in the source and target systems is then enumerated by a third computing instance to determine whether any data is still to be moved and another enumeration list is generated. The data still to be moved is then moved based on the other enumeration list.

Securely moving data across boundaries

A computer system may provide zero-downtime, reversible, client-driven service migration to migrate a client from a current service to a new service. The computer system may configure the client to operate in a dual-write, old-read mode in which the client issues write requests to both the current service and the new service and issues read requests only to the current service. The computer system may configure the client to operate in a dual-write, new-read mode in which the client issues write requests to both the current service and the new service and issues read requests only to the new service.

Zero-downtime, reversible, client-driven service migration

Architecture that maintains the user experience as close as possible to the user experience when dealing with the usual/regular forms and data provided in an office application when dealing with hybrid forms and hybrid data. Synchronization of the hybrid data to single-master and multi-masters systems is accomplished when the associated hybrid client goes offline, changes are made to the hybrid data, and then the client comes back online. For example, where the single-master system is a line-of-business (LOB) server system and the multi-master system is an officer server that employs collaboration capability, the architecture allows office users to access, manipulate, and share LOB entity information using collaborative means, while at the same time, ensuring data and business process consistency for the LOB entity in the LOB system.

Blending single-master and multi-master data synchronization techniques

Multi-lingual translation for third party content feed applications is provided in social network and similar environments in an independent manner from the content feed. A copy of a content feed may be distributed to consumers via content feed channels of a social network or similar service with language specific views. Translation is performed post-content feed based on tagged format of the content feed translating language dependent text into a selected (or detected) language for a user and leaving language independent text in its original form. Support for new languages may be added or existing languages removed independent of the content feed.

Providing multi-lingual translation for third party content feed applications

Embodiments provide information composition management features and functionality to manage composite information, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computing system can include functionality to provide a composition of informational data that can be used to identify and manage aspects of shared and other data that can be associated with distinct information sources. In one embodiment, a computing platform includes a client that can be configured to access and use information of a plurality of independent sources to create a data composition that includes aspects of shared and unshared data portions and manage data changes of the data composition including managing issues associated with one or more of the plurality of independent sources. Other embodiments are described and available.

Context-aware management of shared composite data

Embodiments described herein provide information management features and functionality that can be used to manage information of distinct information sources, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computing environment includes a client that can be used to access data from distinct sources and generate a data composition representing aspects of accessed and other data and/or relationships of the distinct sources. In one embodiment, a client can include data composition and conflict resolution presentation features that can be used to manage one or more data compositions and/or source interrelationships. Other embodiments are available.

Shared composite data representations and interfaces

Methods and systems of leveraging synchronous communication protocols to enable asynchronous application and line of business behaviors. An application platform may be provided and configured to provide a pending state for any synchronous operation. The pending state may indicate that the operation has not been completed yet. For an application which may know how to track an operation that has a pending state, the application may control when the operation enters and exits the pending state. The application may communicate to the application platform to hold off on other operations dependent upon the pending operation when the pending operation is not complete. For an application which does not know how to track an operation that has a pending state, the application platform may ignore the pending state of the operation and proceed to other operations. Accordingly, the synchronous user experience is preserved where a straightforward, down-level user interface and experience is appropriate. The user interface and experience is also extended when an application knows how to interpret and present the asynchronous nature of various underlying systems.

Leveraging synchronous communication protocols to enable asynchronous application and line-of-business behaviors

Methods, systems, and computer program products detect and manage changes in business data integration (BDI) solutions. BDI solutions include extracting, mapping, or loading source information from disparate sources as targets presented to business applications that consume targets. A method involves detecting changes in a BDI solution, classifying each of the changes based on change severity, analyzing what objects would be impacted by the changes, determining whether the objects impacted by the changes can be change handled without user intervention, and change handling without user intervention all the objects impacted by changes that are not severe. Still further, the method involves committing changes to a metadata repository and creating a deployable checkpoint of the metadata repository where the deployable checkpoint is consistent for all the changes handled in the BDI solution. The modularized metadata describes an end-to-end information flow and underlying dependencies between the source information, mappings, targets and business applications.

Detecting and managing changes in business data integration solutions

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