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Almost one year ago the Jumpstart team released the public preview of HCIBox, our self-contained sandbox for exploring Azure Stack HCI capabilities without the need for physical hardware. Feedback from the community has been fantastic, with dozens of feature requests and issues submitted and resolved through our open-source community. Today, the Jumpstart team is excited to announce the general availability of HCIBox! Since our original preview release, we have also added new capabilities and optimizations, including the ability to deploy Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance on the HCIBox cluster, improved support for AKS on Azure Stack HCI, improved recovery…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 95 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=49753:name] Amazon Linux 2023: Ntegral has packaged and optimized this image containing Amazon Linux 2023 for use on Microsoft Azure. Amazon Linux 2023 delivers a secure, stable, and high-performance environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. Ntegral certifies images to be up to date, secure, and built to work right out of the box. [attachment=49754:name] Bella GPT Guard: Designed specifically to detect t…

As container adoption continues to grow, there is more scrutiny than ever on container supply chains. A container image from an unknown source could include vulnerabilities and malicious code injected by bad actors. To mitigate container supply chain threats, enterprises and open-source communities are exploring safeguards. Signing container images enables software consumers to detect tampering and ensure the authenticity of the containerized workloads. Notary Project is a set of specifications and tools that provides cross-industry standards for securing software supply chains through signing and verification, signature portability, and key/certificate management.…

This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits. Fabric OneLake, a single unified SaaS data lake With OneLake, you can get a data lake as a service rather than having to develop one yourself. You've had "OneDrive" for all of your documents for a long time. For all of your data, you currently have "OneLake." OneLake gives your entire company access to a single data lake. This means that you will al…

Background This article describes how to aggregate the Azure Storage logs collected using the Diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor when selecting an Azure Storage Account as destination. This approach downloads the logs and aggregates them on your local machine. Please keep in mind that in this article, we only copy the logs from the destination storage account. They will remain on that storage account until you delete them. At the end of this article, you will have access to a CSV file that will contain the information for the current log structure (e.g.: timeGeneratedUTC, resourceId, category, operationName, statusText, callerIpAddress, etc.). This s…

Yesterday, our customer reported that they have a routing path using a VPN client and always identify the public IP instead of the private IP of the VPN. Besides of VPN client configuration, I would like to share my lesson learned how is possible to identify the IP source that the connection is using in a simply way. PING Definition: PING (Packet INternet Groper) is a computer network diagnostic tool used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It also measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer. How it works: PING operates by sending Internet Control Message Prot…

Introduction In this blog, you will go through a step-by-step guide, from creating a ChatGPT deployment using your own data to deploying it to a website and making it available to anyone. Technical Architecture You will start by creating a resource group inside the Azure Platform. Inside this resource group you will create 3 resources a storage account resource, a cognitive search service, and an Azure OpenAI service. Inside Azure OpenAI service you'll create a gpt-35-turbo deployment, test it in the chat playground, and deploy it to a web app. In addition, We will modify the permissions of the website to allow anyone with a school or work account to acces…

If you have executed a CSP to EA Azure migration, you undoubtedly understand the potential unforeseen challenges that can arise when essential planning elements and comprehensive activities are overlooked. In this blog, I've shared insights drawn from real-world migration experiences. This article can help you meticulously plan your own CSP to EA migration, ensuring a smoother transition while incorporating critical considerations into your migration strategy. What is CSP to EA Migration Organizations who are on CSP agreements/enrollments might want to decide to move to other enrollments type like in this article we will specifically talk about Enterpris…

This blog has been co-authored by Samantha Brown, Pallavi Reddy and Ksheerja Batra Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences customers use our enterprise-ready and secure health data platform to solve a multitude of real world problems in healthcare and digitally transform their organization. While working with large amounts of organizational data, customers often run into the need to make data across siloed systems more interoperable. Customers have been asking for an easier way to construct their own custom ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines to integrate all their data and ultimately unlock business insights through analytics. We knew that we needed t…

AutoML for Images and AutoML for NLP, part of Azure Machine Learning (AzureML), are solutions that help to seamlessly build Machine Learning models for computer vision and natural language tasks. As a user, you only need to bring in the labeled data, and AutoML will find the best model for that dataset. Users can opt for an automated search or define specific models and hyperparameters for AutoML to explore. While the existing array of models in AutoML encompasses a wide range in both vision and NLP, the AI landscape is moving at an astonishing pace, continually introducing novel architectures and models. Established platforms such as Hugging Face and MMDetection o…

SAP Netweaver 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9 on Azure using Azure NetApp Files (ANF) Overview This article describes the setup of SAP ERP 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9. In addition, we will show how to use azacsnap to create application consistent snapshots. This article is written for an audience which are familiar with Azure, Linux and SAP Basis. Since the login mechanism changed in version 7.7 we can only support the MaxDB 7.9 with all the automation scripts explained here iin the documentation. SAP MaxDB: The SAP Database - Home SAP MaxDB - MaxDB - Support Wiki SAP MaxDB Directory Structure - MaxDB - Support Wiki System Configuration This illustration i…

On Saturday, September 9th (yes, this Saturday!), the PMI Africa Conference Youth Edition will be hosted at the University of Nairobi. The conference will be a chance for university students to explore the theme “The Africa We Want: Together We Can”. Our Microsoft squad is excited to be onboard to join in the excitement and share some inspiration, skills, and free resources with you! Read more to get hyped for the event, as well as get some free resources that will help you to make change! (Which you can use whether you’ll be at the event or not!) The jam-packed conference agenda has loads of opportunities to discover how you can be a driver for creati…

In January 2023 we announced the decision to delay the final decommissioning date for Outlook REST API v2.0 and corresponding beta endpoints. This was done as a response to signals and feedback received from our customers who required more time to achieve a successful migration to Microsoft Graph. At that time, we did not define a new decommissioning date. Today, we are announcing that we will fully deprecate Outlook REST v2.0 and beta endpoints on March 31st, 2024. After this date, every call to the Outlook REST v2.0 and beta endpoints will result in a HTTP 404 (Not Found error) with a deprecation message in the error response. This will only be active for 60 d…

Introducing the R and Python packages for Viva Insights The Viva Insights suite of Power BI templates and custom queries provide opportunities for deeper analysis on workplace collaboration and trends, for analysts who don’t have a coding background. Now, for more technical users, we’re excited to announce new complementary tools that will add even more details, visualizations, and efficient workflows to these types of analyses. The Viva Insights R package and the Viva Insights Python package are open-source repositories of functions that enable analysts to build visualizations and advanced analyses on top of existing queries. Armed with either of the…

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing offering which provides IaaS (infra as a service) virtual machines (VM), PaaS (platform as a service) containers and many other SaaS services (e.g., Azure Storge, Networking, etc.). Azure, being one of the largest cloud service providers, hosts millions of customer virtual machines (VMs) in our data centers. The operating system that runs on these hosts is a modified version of Windows called Cloud Host. I talked about this and the Azure Host OS architecture (incl. the root OS and the hypervisor) in an earlier blog post. In this blog post we will talk about how we update the operating system that runs on those hosts, in particular, a n…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Conditional Access overview dashboard and templates. Conditional Access protects thousands of organizations across the globe daily and customers often ask us about best practices and how to improve security coverage. Conditional Access overview dashboard and templates empower Microsoft Entra ID customers to gain insights into their security posture, assess the impact of individual policies, and simplify deployment of Microsoft’s recommendations. I’ve invited Krishna Venkit and Lisa Huang-North, product managers on the Identity Security team to share more details about these two features. Best Rega…

Identify, classify, and protect information at scale using Microsoft Purview’s AI-powered classifiers. Gain visibility into the data inside of your organization and apply the right protections, especially important if you intend to use generative AI to create content based on the information accessible on your network. Microsoft Purview’s AI-powered classifiers are extensively pre-trained and tested on vast categories of business data and Microsoft domain-specific knowledge, as well as synthetic data and sample files generated from large language models to detect sensitive content. Because these classifiers run on Microsoft’s AI supercomputer, with its spec…

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in digital solutions for health and wellness, and more organizations are now investing in technology to help improve the wellbeing of their workforce.¹ Microsoft Teams provides an ideal platform for deploying wellbeing apps to connect with users because the solutions exist alongside the rest of their collaborative tools, right in the flow of work. Let’s discuss how Teams apps from Thrive Global, Gauge.it, FlourishDx, Limeade, and Breakthru are enabling wellbeing for employees and organizations alike. Thrive Global helps build healthy habits with Microsteps Burnout has become increasingly common, and Thrive Gl…

Microsoft Sales Copilot is reimagining sales. Integrated seamlessly into your daily tools across Microsoft 365 and Teams, Sales Copilot harnesses the power of generative AI and customer data to keep sellers in their flow of work so that they can spend more time with customers. This month, we’re thrilled to share new and improved ways to build stronger customer relationships, accelerate productivity in the flow of work, and enjoy a better onboarding experience. Build stronger customer relationships With Sales Copilot, sellers are able to personalize their relationships with customers in an evolving remote landscape. Here’s how we’re making that even easier…

At Microsoft Build Japan, an event spotlighted in our recent blog post, three students in the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program (MLSA) organized an AI Hands-on session, 学生ハンズオン ~ChatGPTを使ったLINE BotをAzureで作成してみよう！ (Build LINE Bot with ChatGPT and Azure). This session was more than just a learning opportunity for the participants to explore the latest AI technology. It was also a fruitful collaboration with an MVP mentor where the students learned from his community experience. In this blog, we share the background of this collaboration and their learnings. The MVP mentor who passionately assisted the MLSAs right from the planning phase is a Mixed Reality MV…

Azure Storage lifecycle management (LCM) provides a rule-based policy enabling you to efficiently transition data between access tiers or expire it upon reaching the end of its lifecycle. These policies can be applied to a base blob, and optionally, to the blob's versions or snapshots. In this article, we'll delve into troubleshooting LCM Prefix issues and identifying common misconfigurations. Understanding PrefixMatch PrefixMatch is a pivotal component of Azure Storage LCM, wherein a prefix is defined to match specific blobs or containers. It's essential to recognize that prefix matching operates in a case-sensitive manner, adhering strictly to the specified …

If you have executed a CSP to EA Azure migration, you undoubtedly understand the potential unforeseen challenges that can arise when essential planning elements and comprehensive activities are overlooked. In this blog, I've shared insights drawn from real-world migration experiences. This article can help you meticulously plan your own CSP to EA migration, ensuring a smoother transition while incorporating critical considerations into your migration strategy. What is CSP to EA Migration Organizations who are on CSP agreements/enrollments might want to decide to move to other enrollments type like in this article we will specifically talk about Enterpris…

Web App for Containers is a lightweighted way to manage app by docker image. CD (Continuous Deployment) is a common way to pull the updated docker image from docker registry (such as Azure Continer Registray or Docker Hub etc) to App Service automatically. While if App Service enables Private Endpoint, the webhook from container registry should be blocked with 403 since the public access to the App Service kudu site (advanced tool site) is blocked by default. And when webhook event is trying sent to app service via Private Endpoint, it should fail with IP forbidden. With the situation, this blog provide a workaround by allowing webhook IP to access App Service k…

Monitoring the health and performance of an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster effectively is a crucial task for the organizations. This ensures the stability, performance, and availability of containerized applications running on the cluster. This article shows how to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster, Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus, and Azure Managed Grafana for monitoring the performance and health status of the cluster and workloads. The article also shows how to: Deploy the NGINX Ingress Controller via Helm and configure it to expose metrics in Prometheus format. Create an Azure Managed Grafana dashboard to analyze NGINX Ing…

Calling all professionals, enthusiasts, and learners! On August 29, we’ll be kicking off the “Learn Live: Get started with Microsoft Fabric” series in partnership with Microsoft’s Data Advocacy teams and Microsoft WorldWide Learning teams to deliver 9x live-streamed lessons covering topics related to Microsoft Fabric! These will be delivered via the Microsoft Reactor YouTube channel and will offer the chance to interact with and ask questions live to the presenters (including members of the various engineering teams responsible for developing Microsoft Fabric)! Learn Live: Get Started with Microsoft Fabric holding slide. To register for the series, and get remin…