Power BI Desktop December Feature Summary

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-december-feature-summary/

Power BI service October and November feature summary

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-service-october-and-november-2017-feature-summary/

How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sql_pfe_blog/2017/12/08/how-to-upgrade-an-ag-cluster-to-windows-2016/

DSC Resource Naming Guidelines

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/12/08/dsc-resource-naming-and-support-guidelines/

Prerelease Versioning Added to PowerShellGet and PowerShell Gallery

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/12/05/prerelease-versioning-added-to-powershellget-and-powershell-gallery/

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Release Notes

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/12/04/visual-studio-2017-version-15-5-visual-studio-for-mac-released/

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/12/08/new-git-features-in-vs2017-update-5/

SharePoint 2013 Nov 2017 CU and TimerJobHistory Table

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dasmay/2017/12/08/sharepoint-2013-nov-2017-cu-and-timerjobhistory-table/

What’s new in SSMS 17.4: SQL Vulnerability Assessment

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/12/11/whats-new-in-ssms-17-4-sql-vulnerability-assessment/

SSMS 17.4

Generally available | Build number: 14.0.17213.0

Windows Container and Virtual Network Deep Dive series

• WNV Deep Dive Part 1 – Introduction to Containers and Windows Network Virtualization
• WNV Deep Dive Part 2 – How WNV works
• WNV Deep Dive Part 3 – Capturing and Reading Virtualized Network Traffic
• WNV Deep Dive Part 4 – Looking at LBFO and Hyper-V traffic
• WNV Deep Dive Part 5 – Container Networking: The default NAT network
• WNV Deep Dive Part 6 – Container Networking: Transparent and L2bridge Networks

Best practices for a stable AGPM deployment

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/389thoughts/2017/12/11/best-practices-for-a-stable-agpm-deployment/

Security Updates from the Win10 Fall Creators Update

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2017/12/11/security-updates-from-the-win10-fall-creators-update/

The FCU security updates I would like to discuss are:

Exploit Guard

• Exploit Protection
• Attack Surface Reduction
• Controlled Folder Access
• Network Protection

Application Guard

Announcing the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK)

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2017/12/11/announcing-microsoft-quantum-development-kit/

Download QDK: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit

The future is quantum: Microsoft releases free preview of Quantum Development Kit

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/?p=73792

Microsoft quantum computing:

https://news.microsoft.com/features/new-microsoft-breakthroughs-general-purpose-quantum-computing-moves-closer-reality/