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We are thrilled to announce an addition to our Database Migration Service capability of supporting Oracle to SQL scenario and General availability of the Oracle Assessment and Database schema conversion toolkit . In tune with the changing landscape of user needs, we've crafted a powerful capability that seamlessly blends efficiency, precision, and simplicity, promising to make your migration journey smoother than ever. Why Migrate? Shifting from Oracle to SQL opens a world of advantages, from heightened performance and reduced costs to enhanced scalability. Introducing the Database Migration Service Pack for Oracle At the core of our enhanced Datab…

Using Git and GitHub can be a little intimidating at first. But worry no more; here are the tips, tricks, and analogies that will help you get started with Git and GitHub. In this blog, you’ll learn the absolute essentials of Git and GitHub: What is version control about, and how are Git and GitHub involved? What is a “repo”? What does “add” mean? What is a “commit”? Why do we “push”? These are just the very essentials you need to get started. By the end of this blog you’ll have the tools you need to work on a solo project using Git and GitHub. You’ll also have the skills to get started on this Cloud Skills Challenge: “Get Learning with Git – Git s…

The new Office theme specifies an updated standard color palette and type font that will be applied to new databases in Access. This doesn't affect the appearance of existing documents in previously created databases. The new theme is currently available in Beta and Current Channel (Preview) channels and will appear for some customers in Version 2310, and all customers in subsequent versions. New default Office font The default font used in databases and for form controls will change from Calibri to Aptos. Learn more about the history of Aptos here. To use the Aptos fonts outside of Office apps, download and install them from here (updated 7/28/23). …

We are pleased to announce the following new features, improvements, and bug fixes in the BingAds SDK November 2023 Release (V13.0.18). Key Features New API Interfaces Campaign Management API: UpdateSitelinkUrls for GoogleImportOption. Bulk API: LeadFormAdExtensions. [*]Bulk service New fields HashedEmailAddress and HashedPhoneNumber in BulkOfflineConversion. Release notes .NET Java Python Php Continue reading...

[ATTACH=full]56223[/ATTACH]It has been an incredible week of innovation coming out of the Microsoft Ignite conference and MidDay Café is coming in hot! In this week’s session we cover the great announcements coming out around Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Viva announcements, as well as Microsoft 365 Copilot. After the video be sure to check out the resource links provided. Covered in this episode: Microsoft 365 Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Premium Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Stream Microsoft Clipchamp and app integrations for Microsoft Designer now available Microsoft Loop now generally available with updated features New Updates to Microsoft 365 …

In a world increasingly driven by open collaboration and community-driven innovation, Microsoft has undergone a remarkable transformation. Microsoft is on a mission to provide students, startups, AI developers, and entrepreneurs with the tools and resources they need to build groundbreaking solutions. Embracing open source is not only at the heart of this transformation, but it's also the driving force behind Microsoft's renewed sense of purpose. In this blog post, we'll explore Microsoft's unwavering commitment to open source and how it's shaping a brighter future for students, startups, AI developers, and entrepreneurs. We'll then dive into Microsoft's open-source vi…

Collecting Debug Information from Containerized Applications 1. General Info Howdy everyone! It's your favorite Debug Engineer, Will Aftring back again, this time talking about containers. This blog post will assume that you have a fundamental understanding of Windows containers. If that isn't the case, then then I highly recommend reading Get started: Run your first Windows container. Many developers and IT Admins are in the midst of migrating long standing applications into containers to take advantage of the myriad of benefits made available with containerization. NOTE: Not all applications are able to equally take advantage of the benefits …

SAP ERP helps run your entire business, supporting automation and processes in finance, human resources, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and more. Microsoft Azure is the #1 cloud platform that SAP customers prefer to run their production deployments. Thousands of organizations today trust the Azure M-Series virtual machines to run some of their largest mission-critical SAP workloads, including SAP HANA. Azure M-series Mv3 family, the next generation memory optimized virtual machines, give customers faster insights, more uptime, a lower total cost of ownership and improved price-performance for running SAP HANA workloads with Azure IaaS deployments and SAP …

Ransomware attacks can cause significant damage to organizations and individuals, including data loss, security breaches, and costly business disruptions. When successful, they can disable a business’ core IT infrastructure, and cause destruction that could have a debilitating impact on the physical, economic security or safety of a business. And unfortunately, over the last few years, the number of ransomware attacks have seen a significant growth in their numbers as well as their sophistication. Having a sound BCDR strategy in place is essential to meeting your overall goals when it comes to ensuring security against ransomware attacks and minimizing their possible impa…

[ATTACH=full]56215[/ATTACH] At Microsoft Ignite 2023, Satya Nadella announced the imminent launch of the most advanced OpenAI generative AI models, GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 on Azure. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the global availability of GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 on Azure OpenAI Service, unlocking leading cost performance and generative AI capabilities for businesses to revolutionize their workflows. GPT-4 Turbo (gpt-4-1106-preview) and GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 (gpt-35-turbo-1106) are available to all Azure OpenAI customers immediately. Model Regions GPT-4 Turbo (gpt-4-1106-preview) Australia East Canada …

Introduction HDInsight on AKS is on a containerized architecture, exciting enhancements for the Spark workload, adding two new open-source workloads, Trino and Flink. HDInsight on AKS delivers managed infrastructure, security, and monitoring so that teams can spend their time building innovative applications without needing to worry about the other components of their stack. The blog objective is to provide a list of options to submit spark jobs to the Spark on HDInsight on AKS. There are a couple of ways we can submit the Spark jobs to the HDInsight on the AKS cluster: Interactive way using Jupyter and Zeppelin Spark-submit from ssh-nodes Livy API (…

[ATTACH=full]56210[/ATTACH] Digital Marketing Content (DMC) OnDemand works as a personal digital marketing assistant and delivers fresh, relevant and customized content and share on social, email, website, or blog. It runs 3-to-12-week digital campaigns that include to-customer content and to-partner resources. This includes an interactive dashboard that will allow partners to track both campaign performance and leads generated in real time and to schedule campaigns in advance TIPS AND TRICKS DMC campaigns were created to assist you with your marketing strategies in automated way. However, we understand that you want to make sure the focus remains on your…

In this blog series dedicated to Microsoft's technical articles, we'll highlight our MVPs' favorite article along with their personal insights. James Hickey, Developer Technologies MVP, Canada [ATTACH=full]56206[/ATTACH] Azure Application Architecture Fundamentals - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Learn “Amazing free high-quality content that lays out all kinds of architectural patterns, techniques and best practices. While developed for Azure in particular, this content is highly transferable to other platforms/cloud providers, etc.” *Relevant Blog: How To Structure Your .NET Solutions: Architecture And Trade-Offs (jamesmichaelhickey.com) …

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 100 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [ATTACH=full]56185[/ATTACH] MetroLink: Your Unified Communication Analytics API: MetroLink is a powerful analytics tool that seamlessly integrates with various communication platforms, such as Microsoft Teams and Cisco, to provide unified datasets for analysis. MetroLink by Metropolis Corp also integrates with Microsoft Power BI to deliver tailored reporting, advanced communication analytics, and proven KPIs, enabling you to make intuitive, data-driven …

Koulutuskumppanimme Sulavan Microsoft 365 Copilot päivässä tutuksi -koulutus toimii täsmällisenä starttina Microsoft 365:en ja Copilotin käyttöön! Koulutus järjestettiin ensimmäisen kerran jo Copilotin julkaisupäivänä 1.11. jolloin kouluttaja Miska Kytö sai paljon kiitosta osallistujilta. Koulutuksessa opit, mikä Copilot on ja miten voit valmistautua sen käyttöönottoon organisaatiossasi. Koulutuksessa käydään läpi myös oikeita esimerkkejä Microsoft 365 Copilotista käytännössä, joten saat arvokasta tietoa sen käytöstä omassa työssäsi. Kyseessä ei siis ole pelkästään mainosvideoita, vaan aivan oikeita livedemoja! Koulutuksen hinta: 180 € + alv. 24 %/osallistuj…

Introduction Today's world is driven by data, which demands comprehensive solutions that can access and integrate data across multiple platforms. The Power Platform meets this demand by enabling users to bring their own data into the system with Power Virtual Agent. This feature allows enterprise users to connect their data to Power Apps and Power Pages, improving business productivity and functionality. This solution not only makes data access and integration easier but also empowers the use of data, taking a huge step towards the future of data management and application. Go to the Power Virtual Agents home page. Select Create a bot on the Home page.…

Introduction Today's world is driven by data, which demands comprehensive solutions that can access and integrate data across multiple platforms. The Power Platform meets this demand by enabling users to bring their own data into the system with Power Virtual Agent. This feature allows enterprise users to connect their data to Power Apps and Power Pages, improving business productivity and functionality. This solution not only makes data access and integration easier but also empowers the use of data, taking a huge step towards the future of data management and application. In this blog, you will learn how to use the Power platform to create engaging and…

In the previous blog Govern your business applications data with Microsoft Purview, we announced the private preview for the integration between Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Dataverse. With the integration organizations can enable automated data discovery and sensitive data classification by scanning their Dataverse environments, and better understand and govern their data estate from Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platforms. Today we are excited to announce that integration is launching to public preview. You can now start to scan your Dataverse environments and enrich your Microsoft Purview Data Map. The integration is only available for the enterprise ve…

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The 10th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit: CU10 KB Article: Cumulative update 10 for SQL Server 2022 (KB5031778) - SQL Server Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model. Please refer to our blog for more details on Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 RTM Latest Cumulative Update: Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 Latest Cumulative Update from Official Microsoft Download Ce…

Azure Stream Analytics now allows you to seamlessly process events in the Protobuf data format using a built-in Protocol Buffer deserializer. What is Protobuf? Protobuf is Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data into binary format. This allows for many performance benefits, such as reducing the bandwidth needed to send messages, compact storage, and cross-language compatibility. Protobuf with Azure Stream Analytics The previous method of ingesting Protocol Buffers into your Azure Stream Analytics required customers to use our custom deserializer, which did not provide an intuitive experience. Wi…

Prescriptive guidance on how to plan, prepare, deploy, and manage Windows 11 devices is critical to your organization’s success. And sometimes it’s just as important to explore the what. One of the best ways we learn is from hands-on experience. While we can’t share the finer details of how individual organizations upgrade and manage an ecosystem with Windows 11, we can certainly note key learnings along the way. For that, we’re introducing a new LinkedIn series called Adventures in Windows deployment: How to survive and thrive in the real world. In this series, we’ll share common myths, realities, challenges, and opportunities that members of Microsoft field, FastTrac…

Seeking and acting on employee feedback is more critical than ever to ensure that everyone in your organization feels engaged and productive. As we’ve seen time and again, engaged and productive employees are business champions and contribute to the bottom line. As Glint goes live within Microsoft Viva and becomes Viva Glint, we are excited to bring the best of Glint from its previous LinkedIn home to Microsoft, along with many new customer-centric features. Glint’s highly impactful features will continue to be a core part of Viva Glint: A scalable, streamlined platform to measure employee feedback against proven drivers of employee engagement. Ea…

Apology: I must admit that in the last two years I’ve told many Power BI/Kusto customers not to worry about relationships that are created as M:M. I was pretty sure that with Direct Query, such relationships are fine, Indeed, the generated queries looked fine and performed as expected. I recently became aware that the number of queries generated for some visuals e.g. Matrix and tables can be affected by the type of relationships between the participating tables. Creating a relationship between two queries from Kusto Usually, the dialog of creating a relationship will look like this: [ATTACH=full]56138[/ATTACH] Even thou …