Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sundaravadivelan Paranthaman

Arshish C Kapadia

Ankur Jauhari

David Koronthaly

Kalyan K Kona

Rolando Jimenez-Salgado

Bradley S Smith

Wei-Lun Lo

Alexander A Sourov

Keshav Puttaswamy

Joseph Hammer

A computing system comprises a controller configured to detect a reassignment input to reassign all computing resources from a source server farm to a target server farm, a resource capacity reassignment component configured to incrementally reassign all of the computing resources from the source server farm to the target server farm, in a plurality of fixed increments, and a database move component configured to, after reassigning each fixed increment of the computing resources to the target server farm, move a set of databases, corresponding to a previously reassigned fixed increment of computing resources, from the source server farm to the target server farm, for servicing at the target server farm.

Rolling capacity upgrade control

A request input indicative of a request to deploy computing resources in a target server farm is received, and a fixed increment of the computing resources to be removed from a source server farm and deployed in the target server farm is identified. The fixed increment of computing resources is removed from the source server farm, and deployed to the target server farm. Based on deploying the fixed increment of computing resources to the target server farm, it is determined whether the target server farm has deployed adequate resource capacity to service a fixed increment of databases. If so, the fixed increment of databases is moved from the source server farm to the target server farm, and, if not, additional computing resources is reassigned from the source server farm to the target server farm.

In order to upgrade a source farm to a target farm, the target farm is created with an initial increment of resource capacity that is a fraction of a final resource capacity of the target farm. A corresponding increment of the databases attached to the source farm are then switched from the source farm to the target farm. The resource capacity at the source farm, that was used to service the moved databases, is then removed from the source farm and added to the target farm, and another increment of the databases are switched from the source farm to the target farm. This continues until a full capacity of resources is deployed at the target farm, and the databases are fully moved from the source farm to the target farm.

Technologies are described herein for integrating external data from an external system into a client system. A subscription filed is selected. The subscription filed may include a read method and a query method. The read method may define fields of a client cache operating on the client system. The query method may be executed to retrieve, from the external system, field values corresponding to at least a subset of the fields. Upon executing the query method, the read method may also be executed to retrieve, from the external system, additional field values corresponding to a remaining subset of the fields that were not retrieved by executing the query method. The client cache is populated with the field values and the additional field values according to the fields.

Subscription for integrating external data from external system

Concepts and technologies for offline modification of business data are disclosed. A client device caches a cached version of business data. A business connectivity services ('BCS') application executing on the client device reviews modifications made to the cached version of the business data and generates one or more operations corresponding to the modifications. The BCS application maintains a queue of operations. The BCS application reviews the operations in the queue and combines or removes operations that can be combined or removed without affecting the dependencies between related operations. The client device accesses a business data server that hosts the business data, and transmits the operations to the business data server in the determined order.

Offline modification of business data

Methods and systems are provided for managing dependencies between projects in a project management application. The methods and systems utilize one or more project webs which are shared web-based collaborative workspaces for managing dependencies between projects.

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