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Your learning goes beyond Microsoft Build – Microsoft MVPs organized their Microsoft Build Community-Led Parties and delivered the key updates of the global conference, Microsoft Build in May 2023, in their own words. As we introduced in May, we had two different types of the events: the "Watch Party," designed for viewing the Build sessions live with the community, and the "After Party," dedicated to recapping the latest technologies unveiled at the Build. In total, MVPs organized over 140 community-led events in 21 languages across 45 countries, assisting attendees in enhancing their skills. In this blog, we feature the Watch Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and t…

Welcome to the August 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! Following a month of great announcements from Microsoft Inspire 2023, we are not slowing down by bringing you 52 new features and devices for the month of August. We have a great line-up of new features to announce. My personal favorites are Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings which allows me to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment and the Task lists sync in Microsoft Loop to sync my to-do list across my Microsoft Planner and To Do apps to ensure I do not important tasks. And every month we add new devices that certified and ready to use for Team…

Back to school is here! As educational institutions gear up for another productive semester, it's essential to harness the power of technology to streamline processes. To ensure a smooth start, I will introduce you to some invaluable tips for utilizing Forms effectively in different EDU scenarios. Whether you're an educator aiming to collect student input and assess comprehension, or a student gearing up for upcoming exams, these Form tips will undeniably enhance the efficiency and organization of your tasks. Let's delve into these valuable insights! You can also try out these tips starting from this amazing template. Live presentation capability in Forms and Power…

a banner depicting the title of the blog with tagline ”Your monthly IT admin blog for all things Microsoft 365 Welcome to the Microsoft 365 IT admin blog, your monthly source of tips, insights, and best practices for managing and optimizing your Microsoft 365 environment. In this edition, the latest on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise, and learn about enhancements to the Microsoft 365 admin center. Read on to catch up about all things Microsoft 365 administration. Join the next AMA on Microsoft 365 Copilot We’ll be hosting the next AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Microsoft 365 Copilot on Wednesday, September 6 in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Tec…

Introduction: APIs often return a large amount of data. Pagination allows you to retrieve a manageable subset of this data at a time, preventing unnecessary strain on resources and reducing the likelihood of timeouts or errors. In this example, the client starts by requesting the first page of data from the server. The server responds with both the data and metadata indicating the current page, the total number of records. The client then proceeds to request subsequent pages of data until it reaches the last page. This approach allows for efficient data retrieval and processing without overwhelming the client or the server. we want to get a file in ADLS contain…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 108 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=49089:name] Advanced HIMS: KareXpert Hospital Information Software (HIMS) streamlines and automates hospital and healthcare organization processes. Efficiently manage patient information with a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) for better patient outcomes. [attachment=49090:name] Airsonic Advanced Server on Debian 10: Use Airsonic Advanced to create a media streaming system on your PC and stream to multiple players …

Microsoft is making important changes to the licensing and availability of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. We are making these changes in response to feedback from the European Commission (EC). We believe this new licensing approach takes meaningful steps to address the Commission’s feedback while limiting disruption for customers and partners. Starting on October 1, 2023, we will introduce a new lineup of commercial Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites in the EEA and Switzerland that do not include Teams, and a new standalone Teams offering for Enterprise customers. Existing customers in the EEA and Switzerland…

With App Service Diagnostics, customers of Azure App Service aim to achieve service availability and resilience of their web applications. In this blog post, we’ll cover how App Service users can navigate to Azure Load Testing amidst diagnosing performance bottlenecks. Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load testing service that enables you to easily generate large-scale load. It provides actionable insights that can help identify performance, scalability and capacity issues. Azure customers can monitor their applications in Azure Load Testing during the load simulation to analyze the consumption of their resources. Azure App Service helps you build and h…

We will learn how to configure Gunicorn to efficiently handle multiple concurrent requests for a Flask App on Azure App Service Linux. Below are few experiments with different configurations of Gunicorn. Create Python Flask App that sleeps for two seconds and responds with message 'Finished'. This is to effectively mimic application making an outbound HTTP call or database call. from flask import Flask import time app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') def hello_world(): time.sleep(2) return "Finished" if __name__ == '__main__': app.run() Create script with 5 threads which will make 5 simultaneous HTTP calls to this Flask API. …

We’re inviting all partners to join us to #BuildFor2030 and innovate changemaking solutions, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Read this blog by Gena Goh to learn about nominations for the #BuildFor2030 feature opportunities and Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact accelerator FY24 cohort. #BuildFor2030: nominate for impact accelerator and feature opportunities **Note: Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact accelerator applications have been extended till September 8, 2023. We look forward to receiving your nominations! Nominate here: https://aka.ms/BuildFor2030. Continue reading...

Azure Application Gateway now supports HTTP/3 QUIC. As part of private preview, Application Gateway users can create HTTP/3 enabled Listeners which can support either of HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 along with HTTP/3. Note: HTTP/3, if enabled on one listener, will be available on that listener only. If some of your clients do not support HTTP/3, there’s no panic. They will still be able to communicate with HTTP/3 enabled listeners using previous HTTP versions. Why should HTTP/3 with Application Gateway be used? HTTP/3 is the latest version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol built on the top of QUIC which operates over UDP. It represents a significant lea…

We’re excited to announce that Forrester Research has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Integration Platforms As A Service, Q3 2023. We believe this is a testament to our deep understanding of customer needs, strong customer engagement and adoption success, and continued investments in customers’ integration needs. In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, seamless integration has become the backbone of successful businesses. With the growing need to connect applications, systems, and data across various platforms and environments, having a robust and flexible integration solution has never been more crucial. Microsoft's en…

Azure DDoS Protection is constantly innovating to protect customers from ever-changing DDoS attacks. As attacks become more sophisticated, it is important to keep your applications up to date with industry best practices to ensure maximum effectiveness when using Azure DDoS Protection. Below are architectural and design decisions you can make to ensure your resources are resilient to DDoS attacks. Minimizing Vulnerabilities and Enabling Relevant Protections It is important to launch the relevant protection services for your application. If you have any applications deployed to the internet, enabling DDoS Protection is vital. Any application that is open to th…

We're excited to share with you the launch of the interactive version of the Microsoft Custom Production Virtual Event Playbook. This playbook builds on the foundational knowledge in our core Virtual Event Playbook and provides guidance for seasoned event producers to deliver more highly produced events using additional tools. Example scenarios can include executive panels, internal or public conferences and events that include pre-recorded content or multiple remote presenters with a single host as you might see on the nightly news. This document has been reviewed and approved by our joint engineering groups, Microsoft Studios, our marketing partners a…

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. Hello to our Excellent NTA non-profit organizations. In this article, we will guide you through Exporting Data from Dynamics 365. Dynamics 365 export data to Excel feature is a very easy way to organize, manage, summarize, analyze, explore, and present your data and then share it with others or make it available to all Dynamics 365 users. Dynamics…

Introduction to Azure OpenAI Private Endpoints: Azure OpenAI Private Endpoints emerge as a pivotal solution within the Azure ecosystem. These endpoints play a vital role in fortifying the connection between your Azure resources and OpenAI services, ensuring that data transmission remains shielded from public internet exposure. By establishing a private link, Azure OpenAI Private Endpoints provide a secure and efficient channel for transmitting data between your infrastructure and the OpenAI service, mitigating potential security vulnerabilities associated with traditional public endpoints. This blog post takes you on a comprehensive journey, unraveling the intricat…

The enhancements to Windows Autopatch continue! Check out the latest additions, which include a comprehensive new guide to deploying the service. We cover scenarios like migrating from Configuration Manager or Windows Update for Business and, by popular demand, best practices for Autopatch groups. Dive right into it at aka.ms/AutopatchGuide or read on for a recap of all the recent Windows Autopatch additions based on the feedback we've received from you, our customers! Enhanced quality update pause controls for groups Self-serve device deregistration (and re-enrollment) Registry conflict detection New videos explaining the benefits of Windows Autopatch Introduci…

The blog points to performing simple Queue REST API operations such as List, Create, Get, Put and Delete using CURL utility. Let’s look at some of the CURL command syntax to perform REST API operations and will be making use of SAS as the auth scheme for most of the operations. We need to take care of the pointers below while performing the operations via CURL: Ensure the URL is formed correctly as per the operation you are trying to perform. The header needs to be passed and can be done using “-H” parameter. Ensure you are appending/removing extra ‘?’ to the SAS token in the URLs accordingly. Http verb can be GET, PUT, PATCH or DELETE as provided by the…

This week, we launched a on the Microsoft Azure YouTube channel that includes all episodes of our interview series, Microsoft SaaS Stories: Learn from Software Experts. This series highlights partners at various stages of their software as a service (SaaS) journey and their unique experiences building, publishing, and growing on the Microsoft commercial marketplace. In my role as an Engineering Manager at Microsoft, I’ve seen our software partners take a variety of approaches to SaaS. The most successful companies were the ones that spent the time to understand the scope and steps within the journey to SaaS, both on the business and technical sides. As my team he…

Welcome to the August 2023 update. This month, we are incredibly excited to announce the public preview of Python in Excel, which is gradually rolling out to users running Beta Channel on Windows – Excel for Windows version 2309 (Build 16818.20000) or later. Watch this by Excel MVP Leila Gharani and this by Excel MVP Carlos Barboza, and sign up to be notified about future availability for Python in Excel. Also rolling out to Beta Channel users on Windows are Stale Value Formatting and Monospaced Font in the formula bar. Furthermore, Current Channel users on Windows will now have Simplified Sharing Across M365, Improved Save As/Discard Dialog, and Power BI Conne…

Hello friends, Hard to believe it’s been almost a year since we made cross-tenant access settings generally available. Since then, it’s been awesome seeing you adopt this feature to secure your cross-tenant collaboration scenarios and improve end-user experiences for partners by setting up trust of multi-factor authentication (MFA) from their home tenants. With that said, we’ve also heard your feedback on a few critical areas. We’ve been hard at work to address that feedback and we have some new improvements to share. You can create custom roles and use protected actions to secure changes in cross-tenant access settings. We've removed limits so you …

Azure Container Apps is a service that enables you to deploy and run containerized applications and microservices without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of the following features in Azure Container Apps: Workload profiles environment – supports apps in Consumption and Dedicated plans across workload profiles within the same Azure Container Apps environment. Dedicated plan – option to run your apps on dedicated compute resources and select from a range of compute sizes and types up to 32 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory. Additional networking features – support for user defined routes (UDR),…

Azure Application Gateway now supports HTTP/3 QUIC. As part of private preview, AppGw users can create HTTP/3 enabled Listeners which can support either of HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 along with HTTP/3. Note: HTTP/3, if enabled on one listener, will be available on that listener only. If some of your clients do not support HTTP/3, there’s no panic. They will still be able to communicate with HTTP/3 enabled listeners using previous HTTP versions. Why should HTTP/3 with AppGW be used? HTTP/3 is the latest version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol built on the top of QUIC which operates over UDP. It represents a significant leap forward in terms of user e…

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 our template gallery. 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 teachers…

Recently I have been part of a customer project where the customer has decided to carved-out some of its business units/domains. Hence, a need to separate the M365 environment including Microsoft Teams, from the parent company’s environment. We used BitTitan Migration Wiz tool. While working on the migration piece we encountered few errors that I will be covering in this article: Migration Error 01: Migration failing while migrating Planner content with error as shown in below figure 01. Figure 01 Resolution: We provisioned the mailbox for the Teams Service Account and resubmitted the migration. Migration Error 02: Migration failing …