Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peter Kenneth Harwood

Jianfeng Cai

Rahul Nigam

Mark Raymond Gilbert

Chandramouleeswaran Krishnaswamy

Mustafaraj M Dhrolia

Michael H Ammerlaan

Brian G O'Connor

Zohar Raz

Divyachapan Sridharan Padur

Rajesh Kamath

Esha Sharma

Nicola Greene Alfeo

Jay Lu

Eladio Guzman

Todd Haugen

Jonathan Campbell

Jeffrey Earl Steinbok

Donovan Allen Isaak

Mohammed Nazeeruddin

Ilker Celikyilmaz

Sophie Dasinger

Eray Chou

Howard M Crow, Iii

Jiangfeng Cai

Nir Zvi Yurman

Peter Erling Hauge

Christopher Foster Johnson

Sandeep Kumar

Jing Ding

Raj Moizbhai Dhrolia

Methods, systems, and computing devices for the automation of the building and validating of an updated VM product image within a data pipeline. The disclosed systems can also determine if the updated VM product image should be validated by testing the updated VM product image based on the risk of the update data to the functionality of the updated VM product image. By automating the process of building and validating VM product images within a data pipeline, a system can mitigate the time lag caused by traditional processes, which use manually initiated steps in creating VM images and separately manually initiated tools for validating VM images.

Enhanced virtual machine image management system

Disclosed herein is a system for providing a test environment, composed of one or more virtual machines, to a developer instantly in response to a checkout request from the developer. To do this, a sandbox service implements a smart, tiered approach to creating and provisioning virtual machines that compose the test environments. The approach is flexible and elastic in nature, so that the developers do not have to wait an extended period of time for a test environment, yet the costs associated with configuring the virtual machines (e.g., storage and compute costs) are minimized. For example, the sandbox service can use historical data to predict a number of checkout requests expected for a first time interval (e.g., one day), a second time interval (e.g., thirty minutes), and a third time interval (e.g., five minutes). The sandbox service can then configure virtual machines into different states based on the predicted numbers.

Adaptive resource management for instantly provisioning test environments via a sandbox service

A system for updating a monolithic application. The system includes an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive a new version of the monolithic application. The new version of the monolithic application includes a first set of computer readable instructions. The electronic processor is configured to create a new class that defines a previous version of the monolithic application. The previous version of the monolithic application includes a second set of computer readable instructions. The electronic processor is also configured to compile the monolithic application to combine the new version of the monolithic application and the previous version of the monolithic application into an executable file, receive a selection of a version of the monolithic application to execute, and execute computer executable instructions in the executable file corresponding to the received selection of a version of the monolithic application.

Embedding of multiple versions in monolithic applications during compilation

A system enables initiation of request driven peak-hour builds to override 'off-peak' patching schedules for updating server applications. An 'off-peak' patching schedule is generated to minimize disruption from installing builds of patches. Notwithstanding the &#x201c;off-peak&#x201d; patching schedule, a tenant administrator initiates request driven peak-hour builds when some performance failure occurs during peak business hours. For example, the tenant administrator may generate a service request that includes incident data that is usable to identify and/or develop a particular patch for resolving the performance failure. Based on the service request, the &#x201c;off-peak&#x201d; patching schedule is overridden to expedite an out-of-sequence installation of a particular patch. In this way, a tenant administrator that becomes aware that some performance failure is disrupting information workers during a peak usage time-range (e.g., business hours) is empowered to initiate a request driven peak-hour build to quickly resolve the performance failure during the peak usage time-range.

Enabling tenant administrators to initiate request driven peak-hour builds to override off-peak patching schedules

A system to reduce strain on server farm computing resources by over-riding 'off-peak' patching schedules in response to performance failures occurring on a server farm. Embodiments disclosed herein determine a patching schedule for causing builds of patches to be sequentially installed on server farms during an off-peak usage time-range. Responsive to a performance failure occurring on the server farm, embodiments disclosed herein identify a particular patch that is designed to resolve the performance failure. Then, the patching schedule is over-ridden to expedite an out-of-sequence installation of whichever build is first to include the particular patch. Because resolution of the performance failure is expedited, the impact of the performance failure on the computing resources of the server farm is reduced as compared to existing server farm patching systems.

Enhanced server farm patching system for enabling developers to override off-peak patching schedules

A computing device includes instructions that, when executed by a processing unit, cause the processing unit to: create a business data catalog module that accesses and manipulates data residing on an internal data store and an external data store, wherein the business data catalog module receives a request for data, determines whether the data resides in the internal data store or the external data store, and access the data residing on the external data store, and create a external data provisioning module that provisions data accessed from the external data store, wherein the external data provisioning module maps external data from the external data store for presentation on a client computing device. A user can access and manipulate the data from the external data store in a same manner as accessing and manipulating data from the internal data store.

Extending collaboration capabilities to external data

A system and method for modularized Web provisioning. Functionalities available for Web provisioning are modularized into individual feature files. A site template may reference one or more of such features. A site provisioned using the site template activates the referenced features by default. Features may be added to or removed from the site. A feature may include atomic Web provisioning elements, custom code, metadata specifying properties of the features, and/or activation dependency information specifying precedent features that need to be activated before the feature can be activated. Feature provisioning can be processed through a command-line tool, an object model, and/or a graphic user interface.

Modularized web provisioning

A method of replacing a delegate component associated with a delegate modular software component ('associate delegate component') at software execution time, the method comprising obtaining a delegate modular software component identifier; selecting one of a plurality of candidate modular software components having a higher priority level than other of the plurality of candidate modular software components, wherein the one of the plurality of candidate modular software components has the same identifier as the delegate modular software component identifier; and replacing the associate delegate component with the one of the plurality of candidate modular software components during the execution of software including the delegate modular software component.

System and method of replacing a delegate component associated with a delegate modular software component at software execution time

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Peter Kenneth Harwood