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  1. Guest Vasavi_Pasula

    Introduction  In today's digital landscape, where over 90 percent of organizations have embraced multicloud1 solutions, security teams face the growing complexity of maintaining robust security controls and cloud security posture across multi-cloud environments. Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers protection for cloud infrastructure, applications, and data providing a single contextual view of cloud risks across Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report, credential theft accounted for over 60% of compromise factors and cloud misconfiguration accounted for 19% of compromise factors. …

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  2. Guest ravon314
    Started by Guest ravon314,

    We are excited to announce the new "Automate Work" button in Excel for the web, powered by Power Automate, making it easier to automate tasks and run processes efficiently from anywhere. The new "Automate Work" button replaces the "Automate a Task" button, extending Power Automate capabilities to Excel for the web by providing access to pre-built templates and allowing users to build workflows quickly and easily – within Excel for the web. Getting started is easy! For instance, you can automatically capture customer feedback from emails and store it in an Excel for the web worksheet using the "Monitor incoming emails to an alias in an Excel worksheet" template. …

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  3. Guest ShashankJ
    Started by Guest ShashankJ,

    As we announced in this blog post, general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac was launched, which also includes our education customers. As part of our continued efforts to provide updates and upgrades to the Microsoft Teams experience, the Teams for Education app is being re-designed on a foundation of speed, performance, and flexibility, and has now launched as the next evolution of Microsoft Teams – new Microsoft Teams for Education. To ensure Teams continues to meet the evolving requirements of educational institutions, here’s a quick look what users can expect from new Teams: Higher overall performance with enhancements in core are…

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  4. Guest Anupam_Pattnaik

    Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac including education customers. We’re also beginning to roll out new Teams to public preview for our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and government cloud customers. Earlier this year, we ushered in a new era of Microsoft Teams with the public preview of the new Teams app. Our goal was to reimagine Teams from the ground up to deliver a faster, simpler, smarter, and more flexible app to help you stay productive and collaborate more effectively. The preview version of new Teams was up to two times faster while using 50% less memory. We have made notable p…

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  5. Guest Shaloo
    Started by Guest Shaloo,

    Today, we announced the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams application for Windows and Mac including availability for our education customers. We have also commenced public preview for our government cloud and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) customers. Upgrading to the new Teams is quick and effortless for our end-users, no migration is required! Just turn on the switch in the top-left corner of the classic Teams app to begin your new Teams experience. With just one click, you can join millions of users who are relying on new Teams to stay connected with colleagues, partners, and customers and achieve more together. How to prepare your or…

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  6. Guest Luxmi_Nagaraj
    Started by Guest Luxmi_Nagaraj,

    We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 112 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=52079:name] o365Automated: This SaaS platform from o365Automated integrates the functionalities and capabilities of all your Microsoft 365 applications and automates manual tasks. The platform centralizes account management, identifies unused licenses, and offers real-time analytics with scalable and cost-effective efficiencies. [attachment=52080:name] Wiiisdom Ops for Power BI: Test and deploy content to different Microsoft Power BI wo…

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  7. Guest OluwaseunOyero

    Every organization needs to process data. Choosing whether, a data mart, data warehouse, database, or data lake is the best option for your organization will depend on the type of data, its scope, and how it will be used. In this article we will discuss the key differences between a database, a data warehouse, data mart and a data lake. Database is a storage used to capture data. There are two type of database which are relational database and No-SQL database (non-relational database or unstructured data structures). A relational database can capture and store data via an OLTP process which stands for online transactional process, so when a company completes a tra…

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  8. Guest Lee Stott

    Are you a student eager to dive into the world of Power Platform and harness the power of artificial intelligence to create intelligent apps? Look no further! In this learning path, we will introduce you to creating Power Platform solutions with Copilot, a cutting-edge AI tool that will accelerate your development process and make your apps smarter than ever before. Introduction to Copilot for Power Platform Copilot is a revolutionary AI-powered tool for Microsoft Power Platform, designed to streamline the development process and enhance the intelligence of your applications. This learning path will take you through the fundamentals of Copilot and its integratio…

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  9. As the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month begins, I find myself reflecting on the strides made since its inception. The journey to enhance and improve cybersecurity is ongoing and extends beyond October. It’s not merely a technological challenge; it is fundamentally about people. It’s about the customers and communities that we at Microsoft work tirelessly to safeguard and defend.

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  10. Guest AtilGurcan
    Started by Guest AtilGurcan,

    Introduction Intune is very well known for its ability to manage both devices (aka. MDM) and applications (aka.MAM). The core difference between these two options lies back to the level of management that companies require, or employees accept. While MDM is seen an appropriate way to manage company-owned devices or a full zero trust environment; MAM is useful when a company wants to make sure employees can use their personal devices to run applications that access to company data, and limit what can be done with that data. From that perspective, it can improve zero trust posture of a company as well; making sure that applications used to access certain data su…

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  11. Guest TiffanyLee

    Meet Tanya Tanya Caruana works for BMO Harris Bank (with approximately 60K employees), one of the top five biggest banks in Canada with a presence in the United States and throughout Europe and Asia. She is the Director and Senior Digital Experience Specialist that works on the enterprise employee experience for their enterprise-wide technologies. Not just a trainer In this industry, some people may think Adoption Specialists are exclusively trainers and don’t understand the more complex capabilities needed to drive adoption and healthy usage of technologies at an enterprise scale. Tanya has proven this through her programs that drive usage, satisfac…

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  12. Guest rtgaritta
    Started by Guest rtgaritta,

    In June 2022, we introduced multi-factor authentication as a requirement for Bing Ads. You may still need to make a code change in order to become compliant with this requirement. Microsoft Advertising is performing technical enforcement checks in early October. Multi-factor authentication is a security process that requires you to verify your identity in two different ways (e.g., entering your password along with a code sent to your phone). Here's what developers need to do: 1. Make a code change and/or SDK update Update all applications to use the new msads.manage scope via the Microsoft identity platform endpoint. Note: Access tokens …

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  13. Guest Marco_Netto
    Started by Guest Marco_Netto,

    Azure CycleCloud allows the creation of resources to run High Performance Computing (HPC) applications based on widely used job schedulers such as PBS, SLURM, and LSF. Once CycleCloud is installed, it requires a few steps in the browser including setup of site name, accept the license agreement, setup the administrator account, and add subscription access permissions of the VM principal ID. After that, if one wants to create a SLURM cluster using existing built-in template, another set of steps is required; via either browser or command line. What if a single script could handle all these steps in a single execution? Here we describe the key steps to achieve this a…

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  14. Guest Jose_Manuel_Jurado

    In the context of a recent service request, a customer encountered connectivity and execution issues while interacting with Very Large Databases (VLDB) using Java and JDBC. The customer's operation involves reading chunks of rows, processing the data, and subsequently reading the next set of rows until the end of the database. This article reviews a custom script designed to alleviate these issues, highlighting the TCP Keep-Alive mechanism, which can be observed using network tools. Introduction The provided script shows critical considerations including reconnection policy, adaptive command timeout during execution, customizable Fetch Size, and illustrates TC…

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  15. Guest JohnAziz

    Introduction In this blog, you will learn how to leverage different Large Language Models available on Azure Machine Learning and provided by Hugging Face, Azure ML, OpenAI, and Meta. Also, you will learn how to integrate them into your Web Application or Power App. For the sake of simplicity, we won't get into the detailed steps as it has been already shown in this blog Deploying a Large Language Model (GPT-2) on Azure Using Power Automate: Step-by-Step Guide (microsoft.com) rather we will have an overview of what needs to be done in order to use other state-of-the-art Large Language Models available on Azure. Summary of the learning milestones: M…

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  16. Guest Colin_Mor
    Started by Guest Colin_Mor,

    Requirements Minimum OS version Windows 10 Version 1809 (Build 17763) Internet connection Download The first step to getting you and your team started on the new Outlook for Windows is to download the application onto your devices. You can make the switch to the new Outlook for Windows from the classic Outlook for Windows or the Windows Mail and Calendar apps, or you can directly install it from the Microsoft Store. For more information on how to download the new Outlook for Windows click here. Sign in The new Outlook for Windows makes it easy to sign in and get started. Depending on where you downloaded the application, the new Outlook might si…

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  17. Guest Buck Woody
    Started by Guest Buck Woody,

    Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database Buck Woody, Principal Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft Modern application development has several challenges. From selecting a "stack" of front-end through data storage and processing from several competing standards, through ensuring the highest levels of security and performance, developers are required to ensure the application scales and performs well and is supportable on multiple platforms. For that last requirement, bundling up the application into Container technologies such as Docker and deploying multiple Containers onto the Kubernetes platform is now de rigueur in application developme…

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  18. Guest ahmedmahmood
    Started by Guest ahmedmahmood,

    In today’s digital age, collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams have become the norm for businesses to communicate, stay connected, and share information. However, as organizations increasingly rely on these platforms, there has also been a surge in regulatory compliance and business conduct violations that occur on these platforms. Collaboration and messaging apps are one of the top three sources and that’s concerning. Many organizations, particularly financial institutions, healthcare providers, and other regulated industries face significant legal and reputational risks if non-compliant messages are shared during meetings. Across Microsoft Teams, Outlook, a…

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  19. Guest JillArmour
    Started by Guest JillArmour,

    For the past 20 years, our industry has recognized October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. While this annual observance has helped elevate the prominence of this critical topic, we must remember that keeping everyone secure — customers and partners alike — should be a year-round, 365-day priority. It is imperative that partners remain vigilant and current on the latest security practices, skills, and governance. As your partner, Microsoft is committed to providing comprehensive resources that empower everyone to take charge of their security posture. Through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, partners have access to a variety of tools and training related t…

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  20. Guest Mark Kashman
    Started by Guest Mark Kashman,

    Oh, the splendor of September brought much news and newness you’ll for sure remember! September 2023 brought some great news and new offerings: Answer Analytics in Microsoft Search, introduction of Microsoft 365 Chat, a GA date for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Nov. 1, 2023), introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Stream, Favorite and Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview support on iOS and Android, Planner Loop Component, and more. Details and screenshots below, including our audible companion: The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop: September 2023 podcast episode – all to help answer, "What's rolli…

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  21. Guest Sunil_Tanuku
    Started by Guest Sunil_Tanuku,

    Azure Container Apps allows your application to securely store sensitive configuration values. Once secrets are defined at the application level, secured values are available to revisions in your container apps. Additionally, you can reference secured values inside scale rules. This blog provides a detailed, step-by-step procedure for removing secrets associated with an Azure Container Registry (ACR). In this example, we will walk through the process of creating a Container App with an image reference from the ACR, which automatically generates a secret. We will then attempt to remove this secret and observe its behaviour throughout the process. Secrets are sco…

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  22. Guest Luxmi_Nagaraj
    Started by Guest Luxmi_Nagaraj,

    ITProCloud GmbH's Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop, an app published in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, uses automation and scaling to help organizations lower their resource costs. It allows administrators to deploy new session hosts, capture images from golden masters, configure auto-adapt scaling, automatically maintain session hosts and pools, and manage role-based user sessions. Microsoft interviewed Klaus-Peter Stumpf, IT Administrator for Azure Virtual Desktop at Donner & Reuschel AG, to learn what he had to say about the product. What do you like best about Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop? We are using Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop to auto…

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  23. Guest vinilv

    There is a known behaviour in Lustre if a VM has the Lustre mounted and it gets evicted or deleted as part of workflow without releasing the filesystem lock. Lustre will keep the lock for the next 10 – 15 minutes before it releases. Lustre has a ~10-minute timeout period to release the LOCK. The other VMs (Lustre clients) using the same Lustre mount point might experience intermittent hung mounts for 10-15 mins. I recently published a blog post where I discussed how to utilize Azure Scheduled Events effectively for cleanly unmounting Azure Managed Lustre in a VMSS or a SPOT VM. This approach helps prevent the same issues I previously described. How to unmount A…

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  24. Guest Aravind-MSFT

    You might have already seen the post for SQL on SLES 15 SP4 release, where we announced the support for SQL Server 2022 on SLES 15 SP4. Our aim is to enable our customers to deploy their SQL Server workloads on the latest Linux OS supported platforms. Also, we strive to reduce the effort required by our customers to get started in SQL Server on Linux. You may be aware that Azure Marketplace images are an easy way for our customers to get started as it offers a pre-installed SQL Server on top of Linux OS in the Azure ecosystem. We are pleased to announce that we have worked with both SUSE and Microsoft engineering teams to release the latest SQL Server 2022 on SLE…

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  25. Guest VinodSoni
    Started by Guest VinodSoni,

    API Security has become a key concern for enterprises who are taking the plunge into digital transformation and technology modernization, as they seek to protect their data and systems from malicious actors and threats. In response to this, Microsoft has released Defender for Azure API Management (API Mgmt), a security add-on designed to protect your APIs from malicious attacks. The main purpose of Defender for API Mgmt is to provide an extra layer of security for APIs that are exposed to the public. With this security add-on, organizations can detect malicious activity and suspicious access attempts on their APIs, as well as block access to or from known malicious…

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