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Cybersecurity is not just a defensive strategy; it can be a powerful driver of an organization's success. In this episode of the Uncovering Hidden Risks podcast, host Erica Toelle talks to Nashid Shaker, AVP Information and Cyber Security at Canadian Western Bank Financial Group, and Antonio Maio, Managing Director at Protiviti, about how to tactically create a cybersecurity strategy that aligns with business goals, fosters trust, and enables innovation. Listen to this episode on your favorite podcast platform: Main show page Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Amazon RSS Feed Here are some of the key takeaways from the conversation: …

Introduction Are you tired of manually writing SQL queries? Do you wish there was an easier way to interact with your data? Look no further! In this blog post, we will show you how to build a cutting-edge speech-enabled SQL query system using Azure Open AI, Semantic Kernel, and Azure Speech Services. With this system, you can simply speak your query in natural language and receive the results as spoken text. We will use the power of Azure Open AI and Semantic Kernel to translate your natural language queries into SQL statements that can be executed against an SQL Server database. This will allow you to interact with your data in a more intuitive and user-friendly …

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 185 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=48909:name] absence.io bot: The absence.io bot can be integrated into your Microsoft Teams account to manage absence requests across your organization. Approvers can decline or accept absence requests, and requestors get notifications about declined or accepted requests—all within Teams. [attachment=48910:name] AI Perfect Assistant: Powered by ChatGPT, AI Perfect Assistant boasts a comprehensive suite of features to help reduce…

Introduction In today's digital landscape, the rise of complex cyber threats poses a significant challenge for businesses relying on cloud-based services. Specifically, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are now often being used as a diversion in multi-layer attacks. To safeguard their applications and ensure uninterrupted service availability, organizations must deploy robust security solutions. Microsoft Azure offers powerful security solutions - Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Microsoft Sentinel - to help you proactively defend your assets against such attacks. In this blog, we will explore how to integrate the Az…

We are excited to announce that the Microsoft Sentinel new incident experience is generally available! As part of the general availability of the incident page, we're happy to announce the general availability of the similar incidents feature and the capability to add entities directly from the incident as an indicator of compromise (IoC) to our Threat Intelligence engine. Last January of this year, Michal Shechter shared the public preview announcement in this blog post where you can find additional details. Since that time, customers have shared with us that their SOC analyst efficiency has substantially improved and has helped to decrease the time to tria…

This year, Viva Engage has introduced new features that empower leaders and communicators to reach and engage employees at scale. As we look forward to our next wave of innovations, we want your input. We are excited to launch one of our most comprehensive surveys of communicators and communications ever. We want to understand you, your job, your needs, your challenges, and your aspirations for the future of communications. Please share your thoughts and feedback with us in the Viva Engage Communicators Survey survey The survey is anonymous—there is no requirement for any “identifiable” information; and we will not be contacting you based on your input. …

Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE), a fully isolated and dedicated environment for running Azure Logic Apps workloads, is set to retire on August 31, 2024. This is an opportunity to migrate your ISE instances and unlock a world of new benefits. Seamless transition to Logic Apps Standard Like they say, the clock is ticking on this migration! To ensure a seamless transition, all existing ISE instances must be migrated to Logic Apps Standard by August 31, 2024 —preferably well in advance. While the creation of new ISE resources has already ceased, existing ISE resources will continue to receive support until the retirement date. Micros…

By: Aasawari Navathe | Senior Product Manager - Microsoft Intune We’re excited to announce that the Group Policy analytics tool is now generally available with the Microsoft Intune 2308 release. Group Policy analytics helps you import your GPOs, analyze the settings through sharable reports, and migrate settings from your GPO to Intune. From here, the settings can be managed just like a standard Intune device configuration policy. If you are managing your devices with Group Policy, some challenges you may face include: Lack of visibility in the current state and impact of your Group Policy objects (GPOs). Complexity and risk involved in moving from Group…

Microsoft Intune has been working with Jamf Pro to make it easier for Jamf Pro users to transition macOS devices from Jamf Pro’s Conditional Access integration in Intune to the newer Device Compliance integration in Intune. We’re sharing this awareness on behalf of Jamf to assist customers during the transition. The Device Compliance integration uses the newer Intune partner compliance management API, which involves a simpler setup than the partner device management API and brings macOS devices onto the same API as iOS devices managed by Jamf Pro. The platform Jamf Pro’s Conditional Access feature is built on will no longer be supported after September 1, 2024. Not…

Welcome to our August Terraform on Azure bimonthly update! We hope the first update was helpful towards giving you insights in to what the product team has been working on. We’ll once again open with updates in our major investment areas, then close with upcoming goals or plans. We will be aiming for the next update in October! AzureRM provider The resources exposed by the AzureRM provider are what most customers think of and include in their configurations when managing Azure infrastructure with Terraform. Azure is always adding new features and services so we work hard to ensure that you can manage these when they are generally available (GA). While t…

What is Microsoft Azure? In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, cloud computing has become the backbone of many businesses and industries. Microsoft Azure—a key part of the Microsoft Cloud, which also includes Microsoft Security, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, GitHub, and the Microsoft industry cloud solutions—is a powerful, industry-leading platform of services that provide critical cloud benefits for organizations and individuals alike. Building skills and experience with the Microsoft Cloud in general, and with Microsoft Azure in particular, has become increasingly important, empowering professionals to stay competitive, boost…

Today we’re sharing some new training resources and opportunities to help you build skills with these solutions—so you can use them now or get ready for a Microsoft certification exam. Help your organization secure your data estate with the new Microsoft Purview training guide. Microsoft Purview plays an integral part in securing your organization's data across clouds, devices, and platforms. The Microsoft training guide for Purview and data protection is an easy-to-navigate guide that quickly walks you through business needs related to information protection, insider risk management (IRM), and data loss prevention (DLP). It helps you make the most of…

We’re excited to announce significant enhancements to the Windows Update for Business deployment service catalog. You can now easily access granular details about Windows quality and feature updates with Microsoft Graph API. The two main improvements include: Greater detail about each update Wider spectrum of update types In addition to the security updates, the catalog now includes monthly non-security updates and out-of-band updates, providing a comprehensive view of what’s available to you. Furthermore, each of these updates is now accompanied by additional relevant KB references, CVE information, revision history, and other metadata! Explore new metadata …

IT professionals around the world count on Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions—key components of Microsoft business applications, along with Microsoft Power Platform—to help them manage sales, customer service, field service, finance, operations, and more. And these same professionals depend on the latest training and certification resources from Microsoft Learn to hone and validate their skills. They can then use these applications to enable digital transformation, capture new business opportunities, and meet the changing needs of their customers. To keep our training and certification resources up to date, we regularly review the required technical competencies of in-deman…

Earlier this year we took a big step towards improving customers’ experience with Apple devices by providing companies with the Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in for Apple devices. This plug-in enables Microsoft Entra ID users to have device-wide single sign-on (SSO) for all apps and websites in a consistent, secure, and seamless way. Best of all, it always stays up to date with the latest Microsoft technologies as they evolve. Today we're announcing a powerful enhancement to these capabilities - Platform SSO for macOS. This enhancement is designed to make using your macOS devices more seamless and secure than ever. Platform SSO is an enhancement to the existin…

In this new monthly blog series focused on GitHub, we will be sharing product updates, notable reads, and other new resources that can be leveraged by ISVs who are building apps for the commercial marketplace. Check out what's new in August! Product Updates: 1. We announced lots of enhancements to GitHub Issues & Projects allowing you to configure swimlanes on your boards , slice by field values in your project views, configure custom issue forms to automatically add an issue to a project and use a group menu for item and group actions 2. Codespaces gives you a free upgrade with more memory and 30% better CPU performance! Try them out today at Build software …

This past November we announced the public preview of the Azure portal experience to deploy a multi-subnet Availability Group (AG) for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. Today, we are excited to announce general availability (GA) of the end-to-end deployment experience. SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines supports many High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR) technologies and with this new deployment experience, we have made it even easier for customers to deploy an AG with just a few clicks. A multi-subnet configuration helps to match an on-premises experience connecting to your AG listener and eliminates the need to use an Azure Load Balancer. …

Our last roadmap update was in September 2022, in which we outlined our plans for bringing the Azure Functions isolated worker model to parity with the in-process model. In that post, we also stated that we would have another update in early 2023, but unfortunately this did not happen. However, we’ve made great progress since the last post, and today we’d like to share where we’re at with the isolated worker model, and how we’re thinking about the future. Isolated worker model assessment The isolated worker model you author your functions in a way that’s aligned with how the .NET ecosystem has evolved. It offers a rich dependency injection model, full control …

As many customers asked for it, we’re happy to announce that Microsoft Exchange Server now officially supports HTTP Strict Transport Security, also known as HSTS. What is HSTS and how can it help protecting my users? HSTS is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites (OWA or ECP when it comes to Exchange Server) against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. It is a widely supported standard that was defined in RFC 6797. It allows web servers to declare that web browsers should only interact with them using HTTPS connections, which provide encryption and authentication. The browser is instructed to enforce HSTS…

Blog post written by Noopur Vaishnav What if a salesperson could simply ask a chatbot in natural language to fetch the information about products from complex databases and then create a sales order back in their SAP system, all without leaving the Microsoft Teams interface? With Azure AI Studio and Power Platform, this is not only possible but easy to implement. In this blog post, we'll explore a real-life use case where a salesperson uses a GPT-4 powered bot to query data from SAP systems in natural language. The same AI model can further create a JSON that could be used to place a sales order in the SAP system, all without having to leave the chat interface…

Join us on September 14th for a new edition of Microsoft Intune Tech Community Live! We're bringing our product engineering and customer adoption teams to help you explore, expand, and improve how you manage devices across your ecosystem. As always, our focus is to ensure you can be as successful as possible in adopting and supporting our products and capabilities. Looking to improve the troubleshooting experience with Intune? Getting started with built-in reports? Curious about Day Zero support for upcoming Apple releases? Looking for practical steps to get cloud-ready? We've got you covered! In this edition of Tech Community Live, we're focusing on the latest in e…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 107 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=48774:name] Academia by Serosoft: Academia ERP by Serosoft is a cloud-native solution designed to digitally transform your educational institutions through process automation and AI-powered analytics. It enhances educational experiences from inquiry to graduation. [attachment=48775:name] ANK Insight: Empower your data engineers and boost productivity with ANK Insight data observability platform. Get proactive insights into your d…

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We are excited to announce the integration of Azure Update Manager with SQL Server on Linux Azure Virtual Machines. With Azure Update Manager, you will be able to patch your SQL Linux Azure VM’s at scale, automatically install SQL Server Cumulative Updates apart from critical or Important updates. In case you missed, here is a blogpost about integration of SQL Server (Windows) on Azure VM integrated with Azure Update Manager. Azure Update Manager is a unified service that helps manage updates for all your machines. By enabling Azure Update Manager, customers will now be able to: Perform one-time updates (or maybe Patch on-demand): Schedule manual updates on…

Hello Students and Developers! We are excited to announce the release of the new Foundational C# Certification in collaboration with freeCodeCamp. freeCodeCamp is a charity that creates free learning resources for math, programming, and computer science. The Foundational C# Certification is completely free, globally available, and includes a full 35-hour C# training course hosted on Microsoft Learn. Amplify Your C# Career Trajectory C# continues to shine as a leading programming language, essential in creating dynamic web applications, Unity games, comprehensive enterprise solutions, and more. In the rapidly evolving tech landscape, having tangible proof of…