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Introduction NLog is a popular logging framework used by developers to log messages from .NET applications. NLog, a robust logging framework, captures and stores critical information, providing essential insights for debugging and optimization. Earlier in the summer we released the open-source NLog connector for Azure Data Explorer. Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a fast and highly scalable data exploration service that can be used to store and analyze large volumes of data. In this blog post, we walk you through the latest enhancements in NLog connector for Azure Data Explorer which marks a significant leap forward in offering seamless integration with Azu…

We worked on a scenario where a customer is connected to a database with billions of records, processing data in batches. After reading and processing each batch, the connection is left idle for some time before moving on to the next group of rows. However, this approach sometimes resulted in random connection closures due to various unforeseen circumstances. To address these issues, we will demonstrate different methods to prevent such incidents and improve data processing. Section 1: Connection Retry Policy Maintaining a reliable database connection can be challenging. To address this issue, a Connection Retry Policy is indispensable. This policy ensures that…

Learn the basics of working with Git, GitHub, and Version Control in just 1 hour In this Student Ambassadors event, available on-demand by clicking the preview below, you are going to get to know all about version control, install git, work on a local repository, work with remotes on GitHub, and finally, you are going to work on another developer’s repository. Access the Workshop workshop-library/full/intro-git-github-version-control/README.md at main · microsoft/workshop-library Learn how to run the workshop What is Version Control? Let's start with a little story, once upon a time there were two friends playing a game together this game consist…

We're pleased to share with you a summary of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server feature updates and announcements from last month, as well as the latest roadmap of upcoming features! October 2023 Live webinar These feature updates are also covered in our monthly Live Webinar on YouTube (Click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel!), which streams the second Wednesday of every month, at 7:30am Pacific time. Below is a link to the webinar we delivered this week: September 2023 updates Flexible maintenance options – Public Preview Building on our existing system-managed and custom-managed maintenance windows, the following …

Written by Erik Arnold, CTO at Microsoft Philanthropies I’m lucky enough that I get to spend time with nonprofit organizations every day. Learning how they use technology to advance mission outcomes is one of the most rewarding aspects of my role as CTO at Microsoft Philanthropies. It’s probably no surprise that lately most of these conversations have centered on AI's potential impact, especially the challenges and risks of leveraging AI in day-to-day operations. There is a lot of hope, and a lot of justified concerns. Let’s break through some of the hype and doomsday coverage around AI to share some of the learnings we captured from recent conversations with nonprof…

Hi Windows Server Community, On this month's Patch Tuesday (see KB5031364), we released a set of new in-box experiences for WS2022 that we're really excited about! We're making it easier than ever before to connect your server to Azure Arc, Microsoft's management platform for on-premises and multi-cloud servers. You've told us that you love the fact that Arc enables inventory of all your servers running everywhere: on-premises, on physical, virtual or even multi-cloud. Azure Arc provides this at no additional cost, click here to learn all about it. The first change you'll notice is a new system tray icon that helps you get started with Azure Arc if you aren'…

Greeting to our great NTA non-profit organizations. In this article, we will guide you through Dynamics 365 Marketing. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is a comprehensive marketing solution which enables you to build customer journeys, improve communication and helps automate business processes with some of the key features such as Customer Journeys, Leads, Accounts, Campaign Automations, Email, Form, Survey, Landing Page Creator, SMS, Social Media Integration, Custom Workflows, Automations and more. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing consists of two primary modules. Therefore, both modules have the ability to create graphical emails and design interactive custome…

What comes to your mind when you hear of DRAFT? Not the DRAFT you know. Let's talk DRAFT, an amazing tool that simplifies the process of developing cloud-native applications. In the dynamic world of technology, startups, AI entrepreneurs, developers, and students are continuously seeking tools and solutions to simplify their journey into the realm of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes. Azure Draft is a versatile and powerful tool, emerging as a game-changer, designed to cater to the unique needs of this innovative audience. Whether you're embarking on a new startup venture, pioneering AI projects, honing your development skills, or nurturing your educational …

In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti walk through, and discuss, all that’s new in Microsoft Viva. Covered in this session: What’s New In Viva Connections? Viva Engage Updates What’s New in Viva Goals? Viva Amplify is here The New Viva Home Viva on the Web Skills in Viva Plus, along the way we talk about how I leveraged Microsoft 365 Copilot to save me from over 82K unread emails. Listen to the Audio podcast version: Subscribe to the Audio Podcast on Spotify Subscribe to the Audio Podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the Audio Podcast on Google Podcasts Resources: What’s New in Microsoft Viva | October 20…

After SQL’s first Common Criteria (CC) certification of version 2005 (Yukon), SQL Server 2022 (SQL22) is the 8th major release that has successfully completed this security attestation. Continuous improvements to internal processes have enabled us to complete SQL22's Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4) certification process in about seven (7) months, making it the fastest ever performed by Microsoft. To see an extract of the extensive CC history of SQL Server, please refer to the SQL Server security page (Click on “View our Common Criteria certifications”). Additionally, this document provides important information to understand and use SQL22 as evaluated and certi…

Summary Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a fully managed, high-performance, big data analytics platform that makes it easy to analyze high volumes of data in near real-time and is an obvious choice for many industries to extract key insights, spot patterns and trends, and create forecasting models. This blog post focuses on how Contoso supermarket integrated their various data sources into ADX using a data pipeline to analyze data in near real-time. Data Integration Architecture Contoso supermarket uses Cosmos DB to collect and store grocery orders received from various stores located across the country and from online orders. Contoso supermarket also uses…

The 23rd cumulative update release for SQL Server 2019 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: CU23 KB Article: Cumulative update 23 for SQL Server 2019 (KB5030333) - 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® 2019 RTM Latest Cumulative Update: Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2019 Latest Cumulative Update from Official Microsoft Download Ce…

Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report provides extensive insight into cyberattacks globally and how AI is already proving to be a critical tool for successful cyber-defence, automating and augmenting aspects of cybersecurity such as threat detection, response, analysis, and prediction. The report shares insights on the evolution of cyber-attacks and how to improve your defences. Get key insights in the below and read the full article HERE Continue reading...

Hi friends, Today we’re excited to announce the public preview of Microsoft Graph Activity Logs. Have you wondered what applications are doing with the access you've granted them? Have you discovered a compromised user and hoped to find out what operations they have performed? If so, you can now gain full visibility into all HTTP requests accessing your tenant’s resources through the Microsoft Graph API. *Note: We're enabling the feature starting today. Public preview will be available in all regions within two weeks. You’re currently able to collect SignIn logs to analyze authentication activity and Audit logs to see changes to important resources. W…

The 9th 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: CU9 KB Article: Cumulative update 9 for SQL Server 2022 (KB5030731) - 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 Cente…

Did you miss the Azure Maps Roadshow in Amsterdam? Well, here is another chance! Grey Matter, an Azure Certified Solution Provider and Value Added Reseller, is hosting our continued series of Azure Maps Roadshows at three major European cities this fall, all within Microsoft's offices! Mark your calendars for these exciting dates: München, Germany on October 27, 2023 Madrid, Spain on November 14, 2023 Brussels, Belgium on November 29, 2023 London, United Kingdom to be scheduled for January, 2024 Event Agenda This event is packed with enriching sessions and networking opportunities designed to enhance your understanding of Azure Maps: Unlea…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 91 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=52892:name] Airsonic Advanced Server on CentOS Stream 8 Linux: Tidal Media has packaged this virtual machine image containing Airsonic on CentOS Stream 8 Linux. Airsonic is a customizable media streaming server that supports a wide range of audio and video formats, secure data transmission, and third-party integration. With Airsonic, you can stream media files securely and customize the platform to suit your needs. [attachment=52893:name] …

Scenario Suppose you have a specific requirement wherein the user should not have access to view the File Share, Queue, and Table Storage Services Data. The user should only be able to access and view the containers within the storage account. In this blog, we will delve into the methods and techniques to fulfil this requirement. Assessment: Azure Storage provides several predefined roles built-in roles that can be utilized to restrict users from executing certain operations on the Azure Storage Account. However, in order to fulfil the aforementioned requirement, it is necessary to customize the Role permissions according to the specific needs and constraint…

HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Trino Let's see the how we can create a cluster in HDInsight on AKS in just few clicks, and just in few minutes!! Before that, let's ensure the basics of required registrations for the service to work are turned on: Tenant registration: This is 'one time' operation required to provide access to HDInsight on AKS first party (1P) app. Run a single line command given in this documentation and you are set. Creating the cluster without this, may result in an error like below ""--The identity of the calling application could not be established.…

About our Team We are a team of postgraduate students from University College London focused on exploring new applications of Microsoft’s Live Share Software Development Kit (SDK). For our project, Teams Carnival, we partnered with Microsoft Cloud Advocates Lee Stott and Ayca Bas through UCL’s Industry Exchange Program, supervised by Professor Dean Mohamedally. Our team is passionate about leveraging new technologies for positive social impact, a goal that this project allowed us to explore. In addition to Live Share, we had the opportunity to learn and work with a suite of new software packages such as Microsoft Teams Toolkit, Unity and Fluid Framework. Meet …

Experts Live is a global community initiative showcasing Microsoft technologies across AI, Security, Azure, and Microsoft 365. The idea was founded in 2009 by an MVP & Microsoft Regional Director (RD) Maarten Goet in The Netherlands that set a mission to ‘enable sharing of knowledge and experience about Microsoft technologies worldwide’. Today, Experts Live events have expanded across the world, with the two most recent events taking place in September 2023 – Experts Live Europe and Experts Live Australia, hosted in Prague and Sydney. The significance of this community initiative saw many MVPs, RDs and Microsofties contributing to the event success. It saw nume…

The Visio team is excited to share a roundup of the newest icons, shapes, and templates available in Visio for the web, but before we dive into all the new content, let’s look back on the first half of 2023, when we introduced new capabilities to help you create and further customize your org charts in Visio for the web, the Visio app in Microsoft Teams to further enable collaborative diagramming, the new Visio Templates page on Microsoft365.com to improve the start experience, and new capabilities to view and edit shape data in Visio for the web. Now, to the (other) good stuff. Read on to learn about new icons, shapes, templates and sample diagrams, and color them…

Greetings, Azure PostgreSQL Enthusiasts! We are delighted to share our latest update for September 2023, which brings a host of improvements to Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. This month's updates revolve around further streamlining your database operations and enhancing your monitoring and migration capabilities on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Without further ado, let’s explore the features that have made September so groundbreaking. Feature Highlights of the Month Single-to-flex migration tool (FMS) Azure PostgreSQL Grafana Monitoring Dashboard. Support for New Minor PostgreSQL Versions. New region builds ro…

Each expert from the community contributes 15 minute video briefings on Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 topics. Check out this month’s updates. Is there a topic you want to see or are you interested in doing an expert community briefing? Do let me know. Microsoft Teams Monthly Update – September 2023 Empowering.Cloud September has been especially exciting with Microsoft’s announcement of the release date of Copilot for general access in enterprises, which among other news and updates is covered by MVP Tom Arbuthnot in just 13 minutes in the September Microsoft Teams Monthly Update: Microsoft Teams unbundling in the EU New Microsoft Room …

¡Únete al reto del GitHub Universe y comienza tu emocionante viaje en IA! Ya sea que estés comenzando o buscando cambiar tu carrera, esta experiencia de aprendizaje está diseñada para presentarte algunas de las herramientas de GitHub más solicitadas por principiantes de AI y explorar nuevas oportunidades relativas al campo. Regístrate ahora al reto y descubre nuevas herramientas que te pueden ayudar en tu carrera en AI. Durante este reto, explorarás como puedes crear proyectos con diferentes herramientas como Git, GitHub Copilot y GitHub Codespaces; ya que ofrecen una experiencia increíble para principiantes en IA. Beneficios Después de completar este re…