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Check out the Microsoft Cloud Weeks & Sales Enablement for Partners! Microsoft Cloud Weeks for Partners Azure Cloud Week for Partners: September 11-15, 2023 Security Cloud Week for Partners: October 9-13, 2023 Business Applications Cloud Week for Partners:  October 23-27, 2023 (SMB focus) December 4-8, 2023 Modern Work Cloud Week for Partners: November 6-10, 2023 Microsoft Sales Enablement for Partners Microsoft Copilot Partner Bootcamp: September 19-21, 2023 September 20-22, 2023 Microsoft 365 CSP Masters Sales Bootcamp: September 13, 2023 Business Applications Low Code Sales Bootcamp: October 17-19, 2023 Microsoft Solution Pla…

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In this guest blog post, Tim Ward, CEO at CluedIn, discusses the benefit of combining graph databases with Microsoft Azure OpenAI and how CluedIn can enhance Azure OpenAI workflows. In the effort to consolidate data across the enterprise, we often run into situations where standard logic will not suffice. Take the example of splitting an employee’s full name into first and last names. This seems like a simple task that should be easy to solve, but data often contain preferred names, middle names, salutations, and misspellings. With the right enhancements, Microsoft Azure OpenAI can automate processes and address even more complex data challenges. Making data…

In Azure SQL Database, performance tuning often requires a deep dive into "wait stats" using tools like the Query Data Store (QDS). One prominent wait stat that might surface is BUFFER IO. Notably, within the context of Azure SQL Database, this wait stat corresponds to the traditional PAGEIOLATCH wait types seen in SQL Server Understanding BUFFER IO BUFFER IO signifies the waiting times Azure SQL Database undergoes when reading or writing data pages from or to the disk. High BUFFER IO waits can indicate issues with the underlying storage system or excessive read/write operations surpassing the present resource limits. Root Causes: Suboptimal Storag…

Microsoft palkinnut Vuoden kumppaneita useilla eri osa-alueilla. Tänä vuonna olemme kutsuneet voittajakumppanit mukaan Teknologian supervoimat -podcast-sarjaamme. Sarjassa kuulet alan huipuilta inspiroivia ajatuksia, innostavia tarinoita sekä käytännön esimerkkejä siitä, kuinka teknologiaa voidaan hyödyntää liiketoiminnan kehittämisessä. Poimi itseäsi kiinnostavat jaksot tai kuuntele kaikki! Samalla pääset sukeltamaan aihepiireihin, jotka eivät ole ehkä olleet sinulle aiemmin edes tuttuja. Podcastin juontavat kaksi teknologia-alan syväosaajaa – Suomen Microsoftin kumppaniliiketoiminnan johtaja Katarina Engblom ja teknologiajohtaja Vesa-Matti Paananen. …

Nous avons tous une de ces feuilles Excel qui débutent comme un petit truc sans prétention et deviennent beaucoup trop volumineuses. Le problème n’est pas Excel, mais l’utilisation que l’on en fait. Excel est un outil extraordinaire pour manipuler les données qu’elles soient numérique ou autres. La situation commence à être moins idéale lorsqu’il y a plusieurs utilisateurs ou que notre pauvre feuille joue le rôle d’une base de données. Dans c’est circonstance il temps de penser à une migration. Il est toujours possible de bâtir une application standard avec du code et une base de données, cela demandera du temps et des développeurs. Une solution beaucoup…

Introduction The Power Platform is a low-code platform that enables you to create custom business applications for your organization. It is a suite of tools that includes Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Power Apps is a tool that allows you to build custom business applications without writing any code. Power Automate is a tool that allows you to automate business processes by creating workflows. Power BI is a tool that allows you to create interactive dashboards and reports. Power Virtual Agents is a tool that allows you to create chatbots without writing any code. In this blog, we will discuss why student entrepreneurs should use…

This article outlines the typical challenges that customers may come across while operating an Azure Spring Apps service instance using the Standard and Enterprise plans within a virtual network environment. Deploying Azure Spring Apps within a customized Virtual Network introduces a multitude of components into the system. This article will guide you to set network components such as Network Security Groups (NSG), route tables, and custom DNS servers correctly to make sure service is functioning as expected. In the following sections, we've compiled a list of common issues our customers encounter and offer recommendations for effectively resolving them. …

Understanding your Azure Spend is one of the most important things you do as an Azure customer. Azure Cost Management is built into the platform to provide you insights. But we live in a world of data and looking at the Azure Cost Management data in a silo may not meet your organization's needs. In those situations, we can solve that need by putting your Cost Management data into an analytical platform like Azure Data Explorer or Microsoft Fabric KQL Database. Here we can bring in or join additional data that's useful, run ad-hoc queries and build visualization tying it all together. Using the below repository, you'll be able to utilize Azure Cost Management export…

Submitted by Tom van Stiphout, Software Dev Manager, at Kinetik IT The new version 2.2 of the Northwind templates has some bug fixes and enhancements suggested by the community. To get the new templates, see Get the Access Northwind starter and developer templates v. 2.2. Northwind Starter Edition updates Added one-time processing steps to improve date and currency display under different regional settings. Version number 2.2 in the About box. Bug fixes, contrast and other improvements in Accessibility. Northwind Dev Edition updates Same enhancements as Starter Edition. Learn page is using new Edge Browser to display web page (Access 365 o…

Our newest round of Access bug fixes was released on August 28th, 2023. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel. If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel build 2308, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.16731.20170 or greater. Bug Name Issue Fixed Opening a linked table in design view displayed a warning that the linked table definition couldn’t be edited There is now a checkbox to prevent the dialog from appearing when a linked table is opened in design view. An option was added…

In this video, Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager on the Outlook team, and Robert Novitskey, Partner Engineering Manager for Outlook for Windows will give us an update on the new Outlook and some of the things we can expect in the future. Margie and Bob go over a refresher of how the new Outlook for Windows combines the best of our web and desktop experiences to bring you a product that delivers a beautiful, flexible, and consistent experience for the enterprise. We show how we’re bringing that innovation to every Windows user in a way that we’ve never done before. We’ve also included what to know when it comes to timelines, and what to expect as we conti…

Microsoft partners like ITProCloud GmbH and Data-Driven AI deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=49923:name] Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop: Hydra from ITProCloud GmbH helps you manage Azure Virtual Desktop for one or more tenants. Hydra’s web platform allows administrators to deploy new session hosts, capture images from golden masters, automatically maintain session hosts and pools, and manage role-based user sessions. Billing Subscription to Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop: Use this subscription to purchase the commercial version of Hydra with no l…

Unleash the power of AI and the Microsoft Cloud By Justin Slade, Director of Global Partner Enablement AI and cloud capabilities are enabling new opportunities and helping partner organizations of all sizes achieve their goals. In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, embracing and harnessing this potential is a must if businesses want to thrive. To help partners realize the benefits of Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud, the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program offers partners a comprehensive portfolio of investments for all partner business models, at every stage of maturity, from startups to independent software vendors, services to device partners. …

The Azure Machine Learning team is thrilled to share a groundbreaking integration between Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) and DataRobot, a leader in Value-Driven AI, that comes as a result of the recently announced partnership. This integration brings together the power of Azure Machine Learning's capabilities with DataRobot's expertise in accelerating the full life cycle for building, deploying, and monitoring enterprise-grade AI solutions. The DataRobot AI Platform uniquely brings both generative and predictive AI capabilities together in a unified, open, and end-to-end environment. With the new integration, the DataRobot AI Platform is now easy to r…

In July, we launched Bing Chat Enterprise, which offers AI-powered web chat with commercial data protection employees are using it to get answers, summarize data, create content, and learn new skills. We’ve also been listening to your feedback about wanting more user controls as well as information about how data is processed. Today, we’re excited to share some new administrative controls, which are enabled through the Bing Chat Enterprise Service Plan, and offer more clarity on how we manage data in Bing Chat Enterprise. Manage Bing Chat Enterprise for individual users with new admin controls At launch, Microsoft 365 admins had the option to turn Bing Ch…

SQL performance is often a critical aspect for most business applications. Over time, the execution characteristics of a SQL query can change, leading to unexpected performance issues. This article will guide you on how to identify regressive queries in Azure SQL using the powerful tool, Query Data Store (QDS), and a detailed script to put it into practice. This article is regarding a question received in support to know how much time in terms of duration a query has increased comparing this month with the year. Of course, that you could adapt the query using other columns and time. What is a Regressive Query? A regressive query is one that, over time, perf…

Welcome! This post is going to cover the end-to-end process of configuring and using Workload identity federation in Azure DevOps for your Terraform deployments. We'll cover: Why use Workload identity federation What is Workload identity federation and how does it work How can your organisation join the Workload identity federation preview How to configure Workload identity federation using the Azure DevOps Terraform provider How to use Workload identity federation in an Azure DevOps Pipeline with the Terraform task Why use Workload identity federation Up until now the only way to avoid storing service principal secrets for Azure DevOps pipelines was to us…

The recent release of Spring Boot 3 and Azure's dedicated service for Spring applications, Azure Spring Apps, has opened up for developers to deploy and manage their Spring Boot applications. In this blog, we'll dive deep into the new features of Spring Boot 3, introduce Azure Spring Apps, and guide you on deploying your Spring Boot 3 application on Azure Spring Apps. 1. What's New in Spring Boot 3 Spring Boot 3 and Spring 6 release has brought many new features and enhancements to the table, emphasizing Java 17 adoption, Jakarta EE 9 integration, and enhanced observability. Here are some of the standout features: Java 17 Enhancements: Spring Boot 3 adopt…

AKS Egress Traffic with Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, and User Defined Route Introduction Welcome to this lab where we will explore the different outbound types in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Outbound traffic refers to the network traffic that originates from a pod or node in a cluster and is destined for external destinations. Outbound traffic will leave the cluster through one of the supported load balancing solutions for egress. These solutions are the outbound types in AKS. There are four outbound types. 1. Load Balancer (default) 2. Managed NAT Gateway 3. User defined NAT Gateway 4. User Defined Routes (UDR) The egress traffic destinatio…

Today, we got a service request where our customer is facing connectivity issue using Azure SQL Database Failover Group Endpoint howerver using the IP of the Azure SQL Server Primary they didn't see any connectivity problem. The Azure SQL Database service offers robust features to ensure high availability and disaster recovery. One of these is the Failover Group, which permits seamless switchover between a primary and a secondary database. In this technical exploration, I would like to share with you how the Failover Group endpoint leverages DNS to route traffic and how we can determine to which IP it is currently resolving. We found that the customer netwo…

BlobInsight: Your Deep Dive into Smart Blob Lifecycle Management Navigating the world of blob lifecycle policies can be daunting, especially when you aim to base them on genuine usage patterns. To simplify this journey, we're introducing our insightful exploratory notebook. While it's not a direct plug-and-play solution for production, this notebook lays out the essential steps and queries to decode how your storage account interacts with data. Think of this as your compass, pointing you towards a more in-depth analysis and exploration. Overview Are your Azure storage bills giving you a headache? Blob lifecycle policies might just be the remedy you ne…

On September 5, 2023, Microsoft performed a test where all Microsoft Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints were switched over to use the new certificate requirements previously announced. The change requirement and test were communicated to Direct Routing customers through Message Center posts as well as Service Health Incidents in the Microsoft Admin Portal (MC540239, TM614271, MC663640 and TM674073). In addition, Microsoft announced the planned test and upcoming changes in: What's New Direct Routing - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn , and posts were made on LinkedIn and in other techcommunity articles such as: TLS certificate changes to Microsoft 365 services …

Introducing the new Get Data Experience: Streamlining Your Data Ingestion Journey We're thrilled to unveil a brand new Get Data Experience – the next generation evolution of Ingestion Experience in Azure Data Explorer (ADX)! Designed with simplicity and efficiency in mind, this update streamlines the way you bring data into ADX. Whether you're a seasoned data professional or just starting your data exploration journey, this new user experience is crafted to empower you every step of the way. Dive in today and explore the new Get Data Experience! Azure Data Explorer Read more Introducing the New Get Data Experience: Streamlining Your Data Ing…

For the month of September, we’re exploring learning resources to help you get started with Azure AI and Microsoft Copilots. Get an overview of copilots (AI assistants) available from Microsoft, get started with Azure OpenAI Service, and learn about Azure tools for building intelligent apps and working with machine learning. We also have updates about upcoming events, including details about .NET Conf and Microsoft Ignite. Use Microsoft Copilots Microsoft offers a variety of copilots (AI assistance in the apps you already use). Check out GitHub Copilot, Microsoft365 Copilot, and Copilot in Viva Sales and discover what each can do for you. GitHub Copilot docu…