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Create and Deploy Linux WebJobs on Azure App Service
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[JUSTIFY]Introduction WebJobs are a feature of Azure App Service that allows you to run background tasks or scripts in your App Service. They are particularly useful for executing jobs such as scheduled tasks, data processing, or background maintenance tasks. WebJobs can run continuously, on-demand, or on a scheduled basis, and they can be written in various programming languages.[/JUSTIFY] The goal of this blog post is to guide you through the process of setting up and deploying a WebJob on an Azure App Service running Linux. We will walk you through the necessary steps to create and deploy a WebJob, configure its settings, and manage it effectively. By the end of …
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Simple Linear Regression with Phi3-vision and State Graphs
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Hi, I'm Jambo a Microsoft Student Ambassador for the Department of Applied Mathematics. First and foremost, this article is not a tutorial on regression analysis. Instead, it aims to share my thoughts on applying Phi3-vision through regression analysis. While some regression theory will be touched upon, the focus is not on the theory itself. The main goal here is to share how to use Phi3-vision, so even if you don't fully grasp the theory behind regression analysis, you'll still find this article accessible. [HEADING=1]What is Linear Regression[/HEADING] Linear regression is a method used to analyze and predict data. Simply put, it tries to describe the relationship…
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Viva Connections is the one stop place for all employee service where employees can easily access the relevant company information and their personal tools. We keep on evolving and improving the Viva Connections experiences constantly with new out-of-the-box features and on new extensibility opportunities . We are excited to announce the availability of three new out-of-the-box cards, which are available to be used within the Viva Connections dashboard. These cards are a OneDrive card (files), Quick Links card and the Playlist card. These new cards are demonstrated in the following video with Pooja Gulati (Microsoft) & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft). …
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Integrating Workload profile Container App with Front Door and Application Gateway Private Link
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[HEADING=2]Introduction[/HEADING] For the workload profile container app, private link support is not yet available. This is because the “Private Link Service does not support a load balancer that has an IP-based backend pool, which is used in Consumption + Dedicated environments (Workload Profile)”. Although we have a roadmap to implement this feature (Private link support for Workload Profiles · Azure Container Apps Roadmap), there is currently no ETA. In the meantime, I will guide you on how to integrate a workload profile container app with Azure Front Door using an Application Gateway. The architecture involves using the Application Gateway private link to …
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Get tailored insights with our Advisor Well-Architected assessments
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For cloud applications and mission-critical workloads, organizations trust Azure to drive innovation, scale operations, and keep their business competitive. As cloud environments grow more complex, however, companies strive to build secure and reliable cloud infrastructures while maintaining cost-efficiency—but achieving this balance can be daunting. We understand how important it is for our customers to implement better applications through curated guidance based on the needs and demands of their organizations, which is why we’re thrilled to announce Advisor Well-Architected assessment in Azure, now in public preview. Advisor Well-Architected assessments are self…
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Creating a Local Network Virtual Appliance in Azure for Oracle Database@Azure
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Oracle Database@Azure is an Oracle database service running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), collocated in Microsoft data centers. This ensures that the Oracle Database@Azure service has the fastest possible access to Azure resources and applications. The solution is intended to support the migration of Oracle database workloads to Azure, where customers can integrate and innovate with the breadth of Microsoft Cloud services. For more information and to gain a better understanding of Oracle Database@Azure please visit Overview - Oracle Database@Azure | Microsoft Learn [HEADING=1]Problem Statement[/HEADING] The current Oracle Database@Azure service ha…
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High Scale log collection in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
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Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. As adoption of AKS continues to grow, we are seeing an increasing number of customers with log scaling needs that hit the limits of log collection in Container Insights. We are happy to announce High Scale mode in Container Insights to help customers achieve a higher log collection throughput from their AKS clusters. When High Scale mode is enabled, Container Insights does multiple configuration changes leading to a higher overall throughput. These include using a more powerful agent setup, using a different data pipeline, allocating more me…
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Known issue: New apps not added in APP when targeting "All Apps" or "All Microsoft Apps"
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We recently identified an issue where newly added apps aren’t targeted automatically in Microsoft Intune app protection policies (APP) when the policy is targeted to app groups such as "All Apps" or "All Microsoft Apps". While we’re working on a fix, we recommend updating existing policies that target app groups to ensure all apps within an app group are included and receive APP. [HEADING=2]Workaround [/HEADING] Use the steps below to ensure all apps within the app groups are correctly targeted for policy: Navigate to Microsoft Intune admin center > Apps > App protection policies. Select the policy that targets the app group “All apps” or “All Micros…
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Azure Bot Directline channel vs Directline speech channel
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A comparison of two communication channels for Azure Bot Service [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Azure Bot Service is a cloud platform that enables developers to create and deploy conversational agents, also known as bots, that can interact with users through various channels, such as web, mobile, or messaging applications. One of the key features of Azure Bot Service is the ability to connect your bot to multiple channels, such as Skype, Facebook Messenger, Slack, or Teams, using a single bot registration and code base. However, not all channels offer the same level of functionality and user experience. Some channels, such as we…
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Announcing SharePoint Embedded Fall Tour Events and Schedule
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Kick off your journey with SharePoint Embedded. At the SharePoint Embedded for Enterprise Apps events, you'll explore best practices for your projects, glimpse the future of SharePoint Embedded, and learn to integrate Copilot into document-centric apps. We're eager for your feedback and experiences; your creations shape ours. The SharePoint Embedded product team is coming to New York City and London in September! Come join us for an all-day event to learn how SharePoint Embedded can deliver Copilot, Collaboration, Compliance, and Core Enterprise Storage for your document centric apps. Specifically, you’ll have the opportunity to do the following: Learn abou…
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How Microsoft deploys foundation models
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The foundation models that power Microsoft’s AI experiences are evolving constantly, becoming more powerful and efficient. In recent months, we’ve received questions from customers about which foundation model or models Microsoft deploys in its Copilot for Microsoft 365 service. Today, Copilot for Microsoft 365 uses a combination of foundation models, allowing us to match the specific needs of each feature – e.g., speed, creativity – to the right model. We are consistently evaluating and aligning the capabilities of both existing and new foundation models. When we can demonstrate that any model enhances the capabilities of Copilot for Microsoft 365, we wi…
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Azure Firewall and WAF integrations in Microsoft Copilot for Security
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Azure Firewall and WAF are critical security services that many Microsoft Azure customers use to protect their network and applications from threats and attacks. Azure Firewall is a fully managed, cloud-native network security service that safeguards your Azure resources. It ensures high availability and scalability while filtering both inbound and outbound traffic, catching threats and only allowing legitimate traffic. Azure WAF is a cloud-native service that protects your web applications from common web-hacking techniques such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. It offers centralized protection for web applications hosted behind Azure Application Gateway and Azu…
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Using Defender XDR Portal to hunt for Kubernetes security issues
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As we saw in previous article, the binary drift alert gives you information about where the activity happened like the object namespace, image, cluster, etc. This might or might not be enough information for you to act. Say, if you want to identify “how” this drift came to be for example, did a user logged on to container and downloaded the said binary. To supplement the information provided by the alert we can then use Defender XDR portal (Microsoft Defender portal - Microsoft Defender XDR) [HEADING=1]Harnessing the power of the Microsoft Ecosystem[/HEADING] If you are an E5 customer, your security teams most likely are very familiar with Advance Hun…
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Leveraging Azure native tooling to hunt Kubernetes security issues
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[HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Container binary drift refers to the phenomenon where a running container deviates from its original image over time. This can happen due to various reasons, such as manual updates, automated processes, or security vulnerabilities. Essentially, the container starts to differ from the static snapshot it was created from, leading to potential inconsistencies and security risks. When thinking of container image drifts, it is important to understand the following: Security Risks: Image drift can introduce security risks, as the container may run software or processes that were not part of the original…
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Building high scale RAG applications with Microsoft Fabric Eventhouse
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] In this article I will guide you on how to build a Generative AI application in Microsoft Fabric. This guide will walk you through implementing a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system in Microsoft Fabric using Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Fabric Eventhouse as your vector store. [HEADING=1]Why MS Fabric Eventhouse?[/HEADING] Fabric Eventhouse is built using the Kusto Engine that delivers top-notch performance for similarity search at high scale. If you are looking to build a RAG application with a large number of embeddings vectors, look no more, using MS Fabric you can leverage the processing power for building the Ve…
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Register for the upcoming live webinar covering Direct Lake mode in Fabric!
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Fabric Product Team present: Exploring Direct Lake mode Live Webinar Wednesday, September 4 4:30-5:30 PM ET Register Here Continue reading...
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Let's move away from API keys!
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="API keys management]62679[/ATTACH]API keys management This is the first part in a series of security practices on Azure You want enterprise-grade security but don't know where to start. You've heard terms like Entra ID and Managed identity or maybe even Service principal but where do you go from here? Let's start here with this series on security. That's a pretty scary statement, that means services are being misused most likely, data is actively being stolen and so on. Let's try to understand why the concept of API keys is a problematic one and how we can move away from it. [HEADING=1]What's the problem with using API keys?[/HEADIN…
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Speaker Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education - now globally rolled out and generally available
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Today's guest blog is from Microsoft Education Product Manager, Samantha Fisher We are so excited to announce that Speaker Progress, our newest Learning Accelerator, is now rolled out worldwide! Speaker Progress helps students develop confidence in their presentation skills and reduces anxiety by providing AI-powered real-time coaching and feedback on their public speaking skills like their pace, pitch, filler words, and more. Speaker Progress can also save educators time and create more opportunities for independent practice for in class presentations. We know that communication skills are fundamental future ready skills that help prepare students for the w…
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Using MI Link to transfer CLR binaries from SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="MihailoJoksimovic_0-1722153536564.png]62673[/ATTACH] Previous posts discussed what CLR is, how we can import 3rd party DLLs and how we can use CLR to invoke REST APIs directly from Azure SQL MI. Today, we will touch upon another pain point that we’ve observed – transferring CLR assemblies from on-prem. to cloud; and we will do that by creating a brand-new MI link. Let’s start with a quick reminder on what MI Link is. [HEADING=1]What is Azure SQL MI Link?[/HEADING] Azure SQL Managed Instance link is a new feature enabling you to create a distributed availability group between your SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance. It mak…
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Gain FinOps skills to unlock cloud value, on Microsoft Learn
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="image (2).png]62672[/ATTACH] The cloud offers unparalleled scalability, agility, and innovation potential. However, without a well-defined strategy, cloud costs can spiral out of control, hindering your organization's ability to fully leverage its benefits. That's where FinOps on Azure comes in. To help our customers learn to operationalize FinOps on Azure, we’ve recently launched two comprehensive learning curricula on our Microsoft Learn platform. We debuted these modules and more at this year’s FinOps X conference in San Diego and look forward to sharing more at FinOps X Europe in Barcelona. [HEADING=1]What is FinOps on Azure …
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Asynchronous HTTP APIs with Azure Container Apps jobs
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When building HTTP APIs, it can be tempting to synchronously run long-running tasks in a request handler. This approach can lead to slow responses, timeouts, and resource exhaustion. If a request times out or a connection is dropped, the client won't know if the operation completed or not. For CPU-bound tasks, this approach can also bog down the server, making it unresponsive to other requests. In this post, we'll look at how to build an asynchronous HTTP API with Azure Container Apps. We'll create a simple API that implements the Asynchronous Request-Reply pattern: with the API hosted in a container app and the asynchronous processing done in a job. This approach …
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Building Power Apps Canvas App with Multimedia Integration in SharePoint - Audio Player
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In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to build a Power Apps canvas application from within SharePoint that integrates a SharePoint list backend for storing and retrieving images and audio files. The app that you create will have labels, icons, navigation, image containers, and other elements. You’ll use a layout template and customize the built-in audio control to have a distinct appearance and behavior. By following the step-by-step instructions in this article, you will be able to create a powerful and fully functional canvas application that's integrated with SharePoint. By using SharePoint lists for storing and retrieving images and audio files, you can ensure …
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Transform Application Development with .NET Aspire: Seamless Integration with JavaScript and Node.js
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="thumb-aspire.jpg]62642[/ATTACH] In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud application development, managing configurations, ensuring resilience, and maintaining seamless integration between various components can be quite challenging. This is where .NET Aspire comes into play! A robust application development framework designed to simplify these complexities, allowing developers to focus on creating features rather than dealing with extensive configurations. In this article, we will explore the core aspects of .NET Aspire, examining its benefits, the configuration process, and integration with JavaScript, as presented in an outst…
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Implement Rule-Based scaling in Logic App Standard via Logic App Consumption
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Background As we all know, in Logic App Standard with WS ASP, we follow the target-based scaling as Azure Function EP plan which mostly depends on job queue length not CPU/memory usage. But in some situations, we could experience high CPU/memory usage without a long job queue which results to the scale controller cannot vote to increase backend instances as expected. So this blog is introduce how to "simulate" rule based scaling feature for Logic App Standard with WS plan as Logic App Standard running in ASE via using Logic App Consumption (it can be out Azure products as well, eg: Azure Function). Mechanism Since we need to scale based on CPU/memor…
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How to check if Azure SQL Managed Instances are enrolled (or not) on November 2022 Feature Wave?
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Recently, we have received a few questions from customers on how they can check if all the Azure SQL Managed Instances on a subscription have been enrolled in the November 2022 Feature Wave. Resource graph query to the rescue! Running this query is quite easy from the Azure portal. Follow the instructions on this article to understand how to run Kusto queries against resource graph. Use the query below. resources | where type =~ "microsoft.sql/virtualclusters" | extend parsed_properties = parse_json(properties) | extend version = tostring(parsed_properties.version) | extend NovemberFeatureWave2022Enabled = iif(['version'] == '2.0','Yes','No') | …