Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Patrick Moulhaud

Scott M Isaacs

Eric H Michelman

Daniel L Tripp

Daron Spektor

Jose Araujo Barreto

Kevin Andrew Chan

Ronakkumar N Desai

Craig Allen Harry

Shruti Kasetty

Paul A Elliott

Jacob D Kim

Jyotsana Rathore

Stephen P Rosato

Suresh Kannan

Federico Gomez Suarez

Deepak Sreenivas Pemmaraju

Carly Larsson

Manson Ng

Robert C Turner

Anish Agarwal

Michael Henry Schulz

Andy Ness

Pak H Ko

Tengyu Wang

Jeff McDowell

Jeffrey E Steinbok

The techniques disclosed herein enhance the efficiency and functionality of directory systems. This is accomplished by augmenting a primary table with an extended table for storing properties of an associated entity (e.g., a user, a company). A table serves to organize directory data and comprises rows and columns. Each row of the primary table stores an entity with each column storing an associated property. In contrast, the primary table is configured with an extended table in which each row of the extended table stores a property for an associated entity while each column stores additional information for the property such as timestamps and metadata. Storing specific properties in the extended table eliminates empty spaces in the primary table thereby reducing the volume of stored data. Moreover, by including additional data for properties, the extended table enables property-specific features such as search, synchronization, extensibility, and lifecycle management.

Arbitrary directory data properties in SQL-based directory systems

A system is provided for facilitating access to data stored in a cloud-based storage service. Data associated with a user account is stored at the cloud-based storage service. A portion of the data is associated with a heightened authentication protocol. A request for an application to receive data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol is received at the cloud-based storage service. In response to the request, the request is authenticated based on the heightened authentication protocol. In response to authenticating the request, permission is granted for the application to receive the data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. In response to a locking of the data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol, an indication that the data is unavailable is sent to the application.

Synchronization in a file storage system using authentication-state-based permissions

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for selective server-side tracing of user requests that match tracing criteria. For example, internal server processing data and/or a server-side perspective of web traffic data associated with a server processing a user request may be generated server-side as tracing data. The tracing data may be utilized in troubleshooting issues that may arise between a client machine and the server (e.g., error in uploading a photo to a website hosted by the server). Because a web-based resource (e.g., website) may be hosted by a large number of servers configured to process numerous user requests over time, an overwhelming amount of tracing data may be produced in the absence of weeding out requests for which tracing data is not needed. Thus, utilizing tracing criteria to selectively trace particular user requests promotes efficient troubleshooting.

Server-side tracing of requests

A moveable displayed user interface element can be used to select an item displayed on a user interface. Once the proper item or items are selected, an area of the moveable displayed user interface element can be activated to perform an operation on the selected item or items. The moveable displayed user interface element can additionally display information about a selected item, and, in some cases, the displayed information can be edited to modify the selected item. A versatile lightweight system can be used to determine when a moveable object is over any of a number of regions associated with specified targets. The lightweight system can be used to implement moveable displayed user interface elements.

Selection paradigm for displayed user interface

Systems, methods, apparatus, data structures, and computer-readable media are described which provide techniques for managing data storage. In an implementation, a method includes examining a role map to determine which of a plurality of roles are applicable to a request to interact with at least one of a plurality of items. The request is received via an application programming interface (API) that is available over a network and one or more of the items reference a respective item of data. Access to the at least one item is permitted based on a role definition which describes differing access rights available for the item based on which of the roles is applicable to the request.

Storage application programming interface

A system and method for generating structured electronic documents in a non-linear manner are provided. A document generation server obtains a request to generate an electronic document having logically ordered sections. Proceeding according to the logical order of the electronic document, the document generation server populates at least a portion of any section having data dependent on a subsequently ordered section with a content bookmark. Thereafter, the document generation server replaces the content bookmark with the dependent data after the data for the subsequently ordered section has been obtained.

System and method for generating structured documents in a non-linear manner

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