Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kshamta Jerath

Ziyi Wang

Skji Martens Conklin

Corey Roussel

David H Tryon

John Keith Bankston

Bradley Michael Corob

Kimon Tsinteris

Joel M Fillmore

Marco Saenz

Bradley Willis

Josef Mirly

Kenneth Leung

Ilya Kulshin

Jason Matthew Cahill

Alexander Hopmann

Eric B Fox

Arshish C Kapadia

Tarkan Sevilmis

William R Taylor

Marc Keith Windle

Erick Raymundo Lerma

Zach Rosenfield

Tittu Jose

Umesh Unnikrishnan

Doron Bar-Caspi

Ricardo Prates De Oliveira

Bradley Corob

Corey M Roussel

Disclosed herein is a roaming settings service that receives an update to roaming settings specific to a user that is initiated by an instance of an application program provisioned according to a first application mode. Upon receiving a request for the roaming settings specific to the user initiated by an instance of the application program provisioned according to a second application model, the roaming settings service retrieves updated roaming settings that reflect the update to the roaming settings. The settings service transfers the updated roaming settings for delivery to the instance of the application program provisioned according to the second application model.

User-specific roaming settings

Techniques to perform gradual upgrades are described. An apparatus may include a database with a data set for a first version of an application program, and a computing device to couple to the database. The computing device may have a processor and memory, with the memory to store a first version of an application program, an installer program, and a gradual update engine. The processor may execute the installer program to install a second version of the application program, and said gradual update engine to convert the data set to a data schema used by the second version one data segment at a time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to perform gradual upgrades

A server farm includes a plurality of server devices. The plurality of server devices includes a plurality of topology service endpoints and a plurality of target service endpoints. A client computing system sends a topology service request to one of the topology service endpoints. In response, the topology service endpoint sends target service endpoint Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to the client computing system. When a client application at the client computing system needs to send a target service request to one of the target service endpoints, the client computing system applies a load balancing algorithm to select one of the target service endpoint URIs. The client computing system then sends a target service request to the target service endpoint identified by the selected one of the target service endpoint URIs. In this way, the client computing system may use a load balancing algorithm appropriate for the client application.

Service-based endpoint discovery for client-side load balancing

A machine manager controls the deployment and management of machines (physical and virtual) for an online service. Multi-tier server groups are arranged in farms that each may include different configurations. For example, their may be content farms, federated services farms and SQL farms that are arranged to perform operations for the online service. When the multiple farms are upgraded, new farms are deployed and the associated content databases from the old farms are moved to the newly deployed farms. During the upgrade of the farms, requests may continue to be processed by the farms. The farms may be automatically load balanced during an upgrade. As content becomes available on the new farm, requests for the content may be automatically redirected to the new farm.

Upgrade of highly available farm server groups

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