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Welcome to the second edition of Microsoft Viva People Science industry trends, where the Viva People Science team shares what we learn from our close work with customers across a range of different industries. Drawing on data spanning over 150 countries, 10 million employees, and millions of survey comments, we learn the unique employee experience challenges and best practices for each industry. In today’s blog, @AdrianaDuqueHughesPhD , Alice Wastag, and I share our insights on the technology industry. Despite significant challenges this past year, employee engagement in the technology industry has been resilient and continues to outpace global averages. Ho…

In the age of generative AI, leaders find themselves at an intersection of innovation and purpose. The question that reverberates though boardrooms and data science conferences is this: How can this new constellation of cutting-edge technologies be harnessed to advance organizational objectives with creativity and business agility, while balancing social responsibility? Generative AI is not just a tool; its promise, combined with unique business data, fuels competitive advantage. The Azure Machine Learning team has been at the forefront of innovation, infusing Generative AI capabilities into our platform over the last year including the addition of many OSS models …

Over the past few months, Microsoft Forms has rolled out a bunch of exciting new features aimed at making teaching and learning even better for both teachers and students. These features empower teachers to facilitate interactive and captivating classes and provide students with more effective and engaging learning experience. Let’s take a look at how they work within the teaching and learning process. Try out these features from this amazing template. Before class 1. Check students’ preferred topics and comprehension level Teachers can utilize Forms to do before-class preparation, such as a Pre-Class Surveys or pre-class quizzes. These forms assist teache…

Regulated Workplace for FSIs Our Financial Services Industry (FSI) customers have some of the most heavily regulated workplaces of any industry. Because of that, we look at their compliance requirements to set the baseline for what we need to build for regulated employees. Working through multiple conversations and meetings with a group of key FSI customers, we have created a set of new capabilities that comprise a ‘Compliance Bar’ to help Viva Engage to meet the compliance needs of the FSI customers, allowing them to deploy a best of breed solution, with more trust and confidence, to increase their employee engagement and leadership communication. …

Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Teams Webinars with these monthly webinars hosted by the Teams Engineering team. Microsoft Teams Webinars provide the tools to schedule your webinar, register attendees, run an interactive presentation, and analyze attendee data for effective follow-up. Are you curious how to host engaging and interactive Microsoft Teams Webinars? Do you want to learn about the new Advanced Webinar capabilities, part of Teams Premium? Join our upcoming Webinar series where we'll teach you everything you need to know about using Microsoft Teams Webinars before-during-after. Everything from: Scheduling a Teams Webinar Cus…

Introduction Mainframes are purpose-built systems with specialized hardware and software designed for high-throughput, reliability, and scalability. They excel at handling large, transaction-heavy workloads. On the other hand, Azure Cloud offers flexibility, scalability, resource sharing and operate on commodity hardware and virtualized infrastructure. Azure provides best of Compute, Storage, Networking, Security services at reasonable price so it becomes one of the primary options to rehost Mainframe applications. This migration can lead to performance challenges in scenarios where the workload was initially designed or optimized for a mainframe environment. Mainframe…

Microsoft is thrilled to be part of the 20th edition of Devoxx Belgium from October 2-6, in Antwerp, Belgium. Last year's event attracted over 3,200 attendees, and this year is shaping up to be equally impactful. The conference will cover Cloud, Big Data, Security, Architecture, Programming Languages, and importantly, the evolving fields of AI and Java, and more. With the upcoming release of Java 21, this year's emphasis on AI and Java promises a valuable learning experience. Exploring the core themes Spring Apps: Spring continues to be a bedrock for crafting resilient and scalable java applications. We will demonstrate how Spring Boot can be optimized and scale…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we process and analyze data, making it more efficient and accurate than ever before. One of the exciting applications of AI is text recognition, which allows you to automatically extract and work with text data from various sources, such as images, documents, or scanned files. What is Power Platform's AI Builder? Microsoft Power Platform is low-code/no-code development tool that allows you to create custom business solutions quickly and easily. AI Builder is one of its components. It brings AI capabilities to Microsoft's Power Platform and enables anyone to easily create AI models for tasks like text recogn…

Visit our Microsoft Partner Spotlight, where you'll find an inspiring collection of customer stories and cases spanning various solution areas. From groundbreaking App Innovation to transformative Business Applications, Azure Core, Data & AI, Low Code Development, Modern Work, and Security, our partners are at the forefront of driving digital transformation for their customers. Immerse yourself in captivating cases that highlight innovative solutions built on Microsoft's platform. Explore how our partners make a difference in areas such as Energy, Financial Services, Sustainability, and Social Impact. Prepare to be inspired by the transformative outcomes achieved t…

This is the 5th blog of a series on Azure App Service Limits illustrations: 1) Azure App Service Limit (1) - Remote Storage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 2) Azure App Service Limit (2) - Temp File Usage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 3) Azure App Service Limit (3) - Connection Limit (TCP Connection, SNAT and TLS Version) - Microsoft Community Hub 4) Azure App Service Limit (4) - CPU (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 5) Azure App Service Limit (5) - Memory (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub High memory usage is another common cause of performance issues within an application, the blog will provide insights into how to chec…

This is the 4th blog of a series on Azure App Service Limits illustrations: 1) Azure App Service Limit (1) - Remote Storage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 2) Azure App Service Limit (2) - Temp File Usage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 3) Azure App Service Limit (3) - Connection Limit (TCP Connection, SNAT and TLS Version) - Microsoft Community Hub 4) Azure App Service Limit (4) - CPU (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 5) Azure App Service Limit (5) - Memory (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub Except for platform-side limitations on remote storage, temporary folder usage, and connection limits platform side limitations, there…

This is the 2nd blog of a series on Azure App Service Limits illustrations: 1) Azure App Service Limit (1) - Remote Storage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 2) Azure App Service Limit (2) - Temp File Usage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 3) Azure App Service Limit (3) - Connection Limit (TCP Connection, SNAT and TLS Version) - Microsoft Community Hub 4) Azure App Service Limit (4) - CPU (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 5) Azure App Service Limit (5) - Memory (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub In the first blog of the app service limits series, we know the web app contents are typically saved in the attached remote storage as…

This is the first blog of a series on Azure App Service Limits, those limits are sometimes called quotas. 1) Azure App Service Limit (1) - Remote Storage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 2) Azure App Service Limit (2) - Temp File Usage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 3) Azure App Service Limit (3) - Connection Limit (TCP Connection, SNAT and TLS Version) - Microsoft Community Hub 4) Azure App Service Limit (4) - CPU (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 5) Azure App Service Limit (5) - Memory (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub Limits for Azure App service can be found here. When your website encounters performance issues, the ini…

This is the 3rd blog of a series on Azure App Service Limits illustrations: 1) Azure App Service Limit (1) - Remote Storage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 2) Azure App Service Limit (2) - Temp File Usage (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 3) Azure App Service Limit (3) - Connection Limit (TCP Connection, SNAT and TLS Version) - Microsoft Community Hub 4) Azure App Service Limit (4) - CPU (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub 5) Azure App Service Limit (5) - Memory (Windows) - Microsoft Community Hub As we know, interactions with websites can be categorized as inbound and outbound, and the same principle applies to Azure App Service…

Our FY24 ISV incentives feature richer earning opportunities for driving billed sales of transactable offers on Marketplace and driving Azure consumption growth through core and strategic workloads. Please read this message carefully, review relevant links, and sign up for one of the upcoming ISV partner incentives webinars. We invite you to join us in one of the two upcoming ISV Partner Incentive Webinars: September 19th @ 5PM PST – Click here to register September 20th @ 8:00AM PST – Click here to register The webinar will cover the following incentives: Marketplace Transact and Grow Incentive Campaign: In this incentive campaign, Participant…

Access to system metadata is crucial for IT and DevOps personnel to ensure that critical database systems are healthy, performing to expectations, and secure. You can grant and revoke that access efficiently and at scale through Microsoft Purview DevOps policies. Microsoft Purview DevOps policies already support integrations with Azure SQL Database (GA) and SQL Server 2022 via Azure Arc (GA). DevOps policies is already Generally Available (GA) for those two data sources. I am pleased to announce that today we are adding one more data source to the list: Azure SQL Managed Instance into Public Preview. Figure 1: Screenshot of DevOps policy Here is a quick v…

The latest episode of Path To Citus Con—the monthly podcast for developers who love Postgres—is now out. This episode featured guests Paul Ramsey and Regina Obe on the topic “Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres”. The conversation was all about PostGIS, a geospatial extension to Postgres which just happens to be one the most popular Postgres extensions. This episode was fairly technical, but still fascinating. The discussion ranged all the way from cartesian math at one point to how it’s very difficult to construct a database these days without a location component. This episode of Path To Citus Con focuses on the geospatial world of Postgres and shows how “w…

We are thrilled to announce a brand-new model catalog on the Azure Machine Learning platform. The model catalog is your starting point to explore collections of foundation models. Launched in May 2023, it offers a wide range of state-of-the-art open-source models curated by AzureML, a Hugging Face Hub Community Partner collection, a collection of Meta’s Llama 2 large language models (LLMs), and a collection of Azure OpenAI Service models. With today’s announcement, our catalog is now enriched with a diverse array of curated advanced open-source vision models, readily available to the AI community on our platform. We have curated a set of image classification models from H…

Author: Troy Starr, product manager in the SharePoint Server team In this article: Cyberattack protection through AMSI SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 23H2 feature update Customers rely on SharePoint Server to power a variety of critical on-premises collaboration and business productivity scenarios. Two years ago, we shared our vision to transform SharePoint Server into a more agile product with continuous innovation that emphasizes the specific needs of our on-premises customers. SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, which is our latest version of SharePoint Server, was launched to turn that vision into reality. Since that time we've rel…

Introduction Containerization has revolutionized the way we deploy and manage software. By packaging applications and their dependencies into a container, we can ensure that our software will run consistently across different environments. This is particularly useful when it comes to setting up self-hosted agents for Azure Pipelines. A self-hosted agent is an agent that you set up and manage on your own to run jobs. You can use self-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines or Git Hub Actions. Self-hosted agents give you more control to install dependent software needed for your builds and deployments. Why use containerised self-hosted agent As we have seen th…

The Azure Communication Services team is excited to share several new product and feature updates released in August 2023. (You can view previous blog articles here.) This month’s update describes the features below: Call Automation updates Microsoft Teams Extensibility Advanced Actions with Azure Cognitive Services Enhanced DTMF features [*] PSTN Direct Offers Geo-Expansion Enhancements to Call Automation The Azure Communication Services Call Automation team has released three new enhancements to public preview in August. Workflows extensibility with Microsoft Teams Advanced actions with Azure Cognitive Services DTMF enhan…

You may have noticed there were several new Exchange Server CVEs that were released today (a part of September 2023 ‘Patch Tuesday’). If you haven’t yet, you can go to the Security Update Guide and filter on Exchange Server under Product Family to review CVE information. The CVEs released today were actually addressed in the August 2023 Exchange Server Security Update (SU). Due to the timing of validation of those fixes and release dates, we decided to release the CVEs as a part of September 2023 ‘Patch Tuesday’ release cycle. We know that many customers are accustomed to checking for Microsoft security releases on the second Tuesday of every month, and we did not want…

Detect and prevent data security incidents with Microsoft Purview. Combine data classification with proactive and adaptive data loss prevention policies aligned to the assessed insider risk level for a multi-layered approach. Trusted insiders working for your organization contribute to 25% of data breaches. Many of these breaches remain undetected or are discovered long after the damage is done. We deconstruct what occurred at a prominent company with an account inspired by a true story of corporate espionage and how Microsoft Purview is designed to detect and prevent this type of data security incident. Know your sensitive data. …

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the latest generations of Azure Burstable virtual machine (VM) series – the new Bsv2, Basv2, and Bpsv2 VMs based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C, AMD EPYC™ 7763v, and Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processors respectively. The new generation of Azure burstable B-series v2 VMs are the lowest priced amongst general purpose VMs in Azure and now include native support for Arm-based workloads with the Bpsv2 series. B-series v2 VMs offer up to 15% better price-performance, up to 5x higher network bandwidth, and 10x higher remote storage throughput compared to the previous generation B-series VMs. Azure cus…

Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service seamlessly integrates with Azure, allowing automatic sending of logs and metrics to your Datadog organization for monitoring your Azure workloads. The service can be easily managed through clients such as Azure Portal, Command-Line Interface (CLI), and software development kits (SDKs), without requiring any custom code or connectors. The service, co-developed by Microsoft and Datadog, has continued to grow with deeper integrations based on your feedback. Here are some of the top features shipped recently that we would like to highlight: Multi-Subscription Monitoring – Easily manage monitoring of all your Azure subscriptions wit…