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Introduction Azure AI Landing Zones provide a solid foundation for deploying advanced AI technologies like OpenAI's GPT-4 models. These environments are designed to support AI enthusiasts, but it's essential to grasp their networking aspects, especially concerning Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. In this article, we'll dive into the networking details of OpenAI Landing Zones, focusing on how PaaS services handle networking configurations, manage inbound and outbound connectivity, and handle DNS resolution. The knowledge you gain here is applicable not only to OpenAI but also to other PaaS and AI Services within Azure. But there's more! We'll wa…

The following suggested Network example topologies are thought to follow Vnet integration practices within the API management. Therefore, these revolve around API management in internal mode (Azure API Management with an Azure virtual network | Microsoft Learn). API Management in internal mode requires a Premium SKU or Development (not recommended for production). Please estimate API management cost appropriately using the Azure Pricing calculator. Considerations for Azure API Management Plane. Azure API Management comprises three essential components: an API gateway (data plane), a management plane, and a developer portal (user plane). These components …

Join us for a community event focused on the marketplace roadmap on Wednesday, September 27th, at 8:00 am PDT. For Microsoft partners and ISV Success members under NDA, get insight into the marketplace roadmap. Our marketplace product marketing team members will present the latest and upcoming platform features to help you expand customer reach, streamline sales, and drive growth. Through this deep dive with a live Q&A, you will learn how to maximize your marketplace potential. This event is open to Microsoft Partners only, please be sure register with your company email address. Your email address will be validated as a Microsoft partner prior to regist…

With so many Postgres conferences coming up soon, it seemed fitting to share some highlights from a past episode of the Path To Citus Con about why to give talks at Postgres conferences. This episode was recorded back in May 2023 and shares an hourlong conversation between some wonderful Postgres engineers—Álvaro Herrera and Boriss Mejías—along with my co-host Pino de Candia and me. The guests both have deep roots in the community—Álvaro as a Postgres committer and Boriss as a frequent conference speaker as well as the organizer for the PgBE PostgreSQL User Group Belgium. And they have known each other for decades, since university days. As much as Alvaro and Boris…

Introduction In today's interconnected digital landscape, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a persistent threat to organizations of all sizes. These attacks can disrupt services, compromise sensitive data, and lead to financial losses. To counter this threat, Microsoft Azure offers robust DDoS protection capabilities. In this blog post, we will explore how organizations can leverage Azure Policy to enforce and manage Azure DDoS Protection, enhancing their security posture and ensuring uninterrupted services. The main objective of this post is to equip you with the knowledge to effectively utilize the built-in policies for Azure DDoS protec…

The Forms live presentation feature is a crowd favorite, receiving an abundance of positive feedback since its initial release. It effectively bridges the gap between form owners and their audience, significantly elevating engagement levels. We've recently updated the live presentation experience to be even more immersive and seamless when you present your forms or quizzes. Let's delve into these exciting changes! You can also try out these improvements from this amazing template. Fresh design style When you switch to the “present” mode, you'll find that you have extra space available to showcase your questions and display more content. Additionally, you can inclu…

When we work together and share ideas and files, we achieve our goals faster than working alone. However, as collaboration expands across applications, teams, geographic borders, and time zones, staying organized and locating files has become increasingly challenging. We've all experienced the frustration of not remembering where a file is then having to search through emails, chat conversations, OneDrive or SharePoint sites to find it. To minimize this frustration and save you time, we are thrilled to introduce the People and Meetings views in OneDrive for Web. These new views let you effortlessly locate files based on the people you work with and your meetings. Let…

At Microsoft Ignite last fall, we announced Microsoft Syntex, a broad set of AI-powered content management services. Since our announcement, we’ve continued to release new features and capabilities. You can read about what’s available now and what’s coming soon in our blog Reflecting back and looking ahead to what’s coming in Syntex. As with any new product, the support of our customer and partner communities is an integral part of the development process. We highly value the feedback and discussions shared within these communities. To broaden the engagement, we’ve launched a monthly series of public Microsoft Syntex Community Calls. On the Microsoft Syntex Comm…

Customers who have successfully deploy Teams to their frontline workers follow a consistent pattern. They create a team for each frontline location and a channel for each department at that location. This consistent structure enables local collaboration across departments and access to frontline apps like Walkie-talkie, Tasks and Shifts which leverage this team structure to facilitate workflows. However, previously there was friction with setting up a team for each location, a channel for each department, and maintaining membership of these teams in high turnover industries. This required extensive planning and stitching together admin tools across PowerShell an…

In my previous article, I explained the benefits of Azure CLI and some methods to tailor it to your needs. In this article, I want to explore how to use Azure CLI efficiently to retrieve the data you want, in a quick and reliable manner. In addition, I will share some useful advice to improve your experience with the command-line interface. Using JMESPath with Azure CLI Azure CLI can fit almost any scenario that you currently have using Azure. With over 9,000 reference commands, there's always a way to achieve your goal. Prompt use of JMESPath can enhance your way of getting the precise data that you need. For this example, we'll use Azur…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 127 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=50629:name] Asterisk on Ubuntu 22.04 Minimal: Use Asterisk to create a robust and scalable private branch exchange (PBX) system. Its widely supported Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX) protocol enables efficient trunking of calls between Asterisk PBX systems and facilitates configuration logic distribution. [attachment=50630:name] Augury Process Health: Process Health uses a combination of AI and process experts known as hybrid int…

Overview Data mesh is a type of decentralized data architecture that organizes data based on different business domains such as marketing, sales, human resources, etc. Microsoft Fabric's data mesh architecture supports this approach by allowing data to be grouped into domains. It also enables decentralized governance, giving each business unit or department some level of ability to set their own rules and restrictions for data management based on their unique needs. In Microsoft Fabric, a domain is a way of organizing and grouping data that is related to a specific area or field within an organization. This is commonly done by grouping data based on busine…

Namaste Folks! (Namaste is traditional Indian greeting and Salutation which became popular during COVID-19 pandemic. It is a non-contact greeting which is performed by pressing the palms and hands together and placing them in front of the chest, with the fingers pointing upwards. The head bows slightly, and the eyes are closed or downcast. The word "namaste" is spoken softly as the greeting is performed). ***Main article starts here*** Often times I have been asked this question by our partners and customers – “Hey Karan, tell me how you guys at Microsoft get the answers related to Azure. Do you have a dedicated team who takes up those questions? Or, some…

Written in collaboration with @tobiotolorin Introduction Customers using Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) are often interested in post-deployment steps to ensure they have the best security practices in place in their environment. Although deploying a WAF will protect your web applications from common attacks and improve performance by filtering out malicious traffic, it is recommended to take post-deployment actions to ensure the security and reliability of your web applications. As a post-deployment check, you can ensure the following steps are performed for your web application within your application delivery platform, Azure Application Gateway or A…

While Defender for Cloud plans are enabled per subscription, and can become challenging to know which plan has been enabled on which subscription; especially in larger environments. That is why we added the Coverage workbook to Defender for Cloud's Workbook Gallery. While some plans simply need to be enabled, others will have additional dependencies. For example, in Defender CSPM, it is not enough to enable the plan on an Azure subscription, or multicloud connector, you will also want to enable agentless scanning for machines, agentless Kubernetes discovery, sensitive data discovery, and agentless vulnerability scanning for container registries. While all of these setting…

Suppose you're deploying a web application that relies on a database. Instead of manually configuring the database each time you deploy your application, you can use an Init Container to handle this task. The Init Container can run scripts to create tables, seed initial data, or set up the database schema. Once the database is ready, the main application container can safely start, knowing that the required database structure is in place. The below example defines an init container which runs under the same pod as main app container, seeds data to an existing Azure MySQL Database which will be used by the main web app container to serve contents onto the landing pa…

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message: Cannot open backup device 'https://XXX.blob.core.windows.net/NNN/YYY.bak'. Operating system error 86(The specified network password is not correct.). RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3201). Following I would like to share with you some details why this issue and the activities done to resolve it. The Core Issue: Error 3201 Error 3201 essentially signifies that SQL Server is facing challenges accessing the backup device or file specified during a backup or restore operation. Diving Deeper: "Operating system error 86" …

Microsoft Ignite -tapahtuma järjestetään Seattlessa 14.-17. marraskuuta 2023 (Pacific Time). Tapahtumassa on mielenkiintoisia keynote -puheenvuoroja, demoja ja mahdollisuus oppia suoraan Microsoftin insinööreiltä ja kumppaneilta sekä tavata kollegoita ja luoda uusia yhteyksiä. Tapahtuma järjestetään myös verkossa 15.-16. marraskuuta 2023 (Pacific Time). Verkkotapahtuma mahdollistaa globaalin verkostoitumisen muun yhteisön kanssa, keynote -puheenvuorojen kuuntelun ja osallistumisen live-keskusteluihin ilmaiseksi. Mukana tapahtumassa on Satya Nadella, Rajesh Jha, Charlie Bell, Scott Guthrie, Vasu Jakkal, Jessica Hawk ja monia muita, jotka tutustuttavat sinut t…

Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying to help our readers a bit more, whether that is learning, troubleshooting, or just finding new content sources! We will give you a bit of a taste of the blog content itself, provide you a way to get to the source content directly, and help to introduce you to some other blogs you may not be aware of that you might find helpful. From all of us on the Core Infrastructure and Security Tech Community blog team, thanks for your continued reading and support! …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field that has the potential to transform many aspects of our lives, from healthcare to entertainment. We are announcing the ‘AI Kick-off projects’ Learning Challenges that can help you acquire the confidence you need to succeed in AI, whether you're a beginner or an expert. What is the ‘AI-kick-off projects’ collection? AI kick-off projects is a new collection of projects available on the Microsoft Learn platform replying to a specific need expressed by the community. It challenges the learner to build innovative solutions with cutting-edge AI technologies for a real-world scenario, sta…

Microsoft Ignite is happening in Seattle on November 14-17, 2023! Get the answers you’re looking for to solve your biggest IT challenges. Join peers, partners, and Microsoft leaders like Satya Nadella, Rajesh Jha, Charlie Bell, Scott Guthrie, Vasu Jakkal, Jessica Hawk, and more as you explore the best of what’s next in technology. Microsoft experts will also be on-site, ready to collaborate to solve your biggest challenges with you, so you can take what you’ve learned back to your organization. Attend sessions covering topics like: Infusing AI capabilities into your environment Securing your infrastructure Managing data and business applications And…

We hope everyone had a restful August! Join our next community call on September 26 for a showcase of FastTrack and learn how you can leverage their services in your adoption journey. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour for both of our sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively). If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the calendar invites, program assets, and previous call recordings. Continue reading...

"Se você não pode medir, não pode gerenciar" (Peter Drucker) O APIM (Azure API Management) captura uma série de informações sobre requisições HTTP e HTTPS, transferência de dados, tempo de resposta, cache e muito mais. Todas essas informações podem ser visualizadas na própria instância do APIM através do menu Analytics no grupo Monitoring, também conhecido como Built-in Analytics. Esses logs são retidos de acordo com o tempo de vida da instância e possuem nível de detalhamento reduzido, o que pode dificultar análises mais profundas. Uma boa opção é integrar o APIM com o Application Insights e o Log Analytics, aumentando a capacidade de retenção e das análises.…

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 92 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=50498:name] Adaptive Cards Dashboard by adenin: Liven up your intranet pages by creating dashboards specific to your team or create a personalized dashboard for the entire organization, enabling all your Microsoft SharePoint users to have a single source of truth for their data. Connect dashboards to ServiceNow, HubSpot, Salesforce, Jira, GitHub, Zendesk, and more. [attachment=50499:name] Aptean Advanced Bundle Beverage Drink-IT…

Ensuring that your applications perform seamlessly under load is crucial. The last thing you want is for a code change or new feature to negatively impact your app's performance. That's where load testing swoops in to save the day. But what if we told you there's an even cooler way to handle load testing? Yep, you guessed it – automating it with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using Azure Pipelines and Azure Load Testing. Why automate load tests with CI/CD? Before we jump into the nitty-gritty, let's understand why automating load tests with CI/CD is a game-changer: Detect issues early: By integrating load tests into your CI/CD pip…