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When building an application, one of the things we have to work alongside with is business requirements but we mostly forget about the users, “Is this application accessible to the users?” User’s Interaction and accessibility are many of the factors that needs to be discussed when building an application. It’s important to consider how efficient your application is to your users. Check out this Podcast Episode on A Girl in Love with Tech Podcast where I and Microsoft Snr Program Manager Ilya Fainberg who role is researching market trends and understanding customer needs to formulate product strategy. Helping customers succeed in their journey to the Microsoft …

Welcome to our first edition of the Microsoft Viva People Science industry trends series! The Viva People Science team works closely with global customers across a range of different industries spending time understanding their unique employee experiences, best practices, and challenges. Using Viva Glint data spanning 150 countries, over 10 million employees, and the with ability to analyze millions of employee survey comments, our People Science team is well positioned to consolidate a solid picture of the employee experience by industry. In this blog, my colleague, @c_hutchinson, and I focus on the manufacturing industry. Our data shows that the general state of em…

Introduction: The transition from SQL Server Authentication (SSA) to OAuth for our tabular modernization journey required changes in our legacy tabular models. These models used SQL queries in import tables, which are now required to be changed to M queries to implement OAuth authentication. This paper discusses the challenges faced during this migration and presents a Python script as a solution to automate the conversion process. Background: Tabular models are structured as BIM files containing various elements like data sources, measures, relationships, dimensions, queries, and roles in a nested JSON format. Changing the data sources from SQL server auth (SSA) which…

We’re excited to announce that a more easy-to-access entry point for Office Add-ins is now available online. By accessing the new entry point in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you’ll have an upgraded experience without worrying about managing all your add-ins or choosing the fit right add-in among the thousands available in AppSource and the Office marketplace. Quickly find Office Add-ins If you already use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint add-ins, the entry point has moved! Now you can find and activate your installed add-ins in two locations, on the Home tab and File tab. On the Find tab, your installed add-ins are shown in the top section under My Add-ins for q…

With ongoing advancements in technology, there has been a continuous shift in how we learn, network, and interact with each other. Communities in Teams experience enables students and mentors to connect and bring out a true sense of connection among them. IIT Madras, one of the leading engineering institutions in India, has been using Teams to enable mentorship-led communities along with their Microsoft Learn for Educators (MSLE) effort in their data science program. Mentors connect with the students to help them with course curriculum and technical questions related to various Microsoft certification courses that they are encouraging their students to take up, bot…

Plotting "unique users" charts from API Management logs It is quite a common requirement when working with API gateways (such as Azure API Management) to understand how many users are actively accessing your applications in the backend. However, the solution for that is not the same for everyone. For instance, a metric exposed out-of-the-box is the total number of HTTP requests... but that doesn't tell us how many unique users we have. Normally, an application running in the client devices generates multiple HTTP requests towards the backend. So... How can we get the number of active and unique users from Azure API Management data? The source code used in t…

Customers’ cloud adoption needs have rapidly evolved over the last couple of years. AI is here now and partners are already driving innovation and transformation with customers across industries to help them realize the benefits of integrating AI capabilities into every level of their organizations. The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is how we are investing in partners to enable them to capitalize on the economic opportunities that Microsoft AI presents. Keep reading to learn more about this year’s Microsoft Inspire Hero Announcements and our commitment to accelerating AI transformation, driving customer success, and fueling partner business growth and profita…

Azure Container Apps jobs let you perform specific tasks inside containers that start, run for a short time, and then stop. You can make these tasks happen whenever you want, following a schedule, or when something specific occurs. These jobs work well for things like dealing with data, teaching computers, or situations where you need quick computing power without leaving a trace. This blog helps you in deploying an event driven job using Azure Container apps and Azure Service Bus. In this example, the trigger will be a message in Service bus Queue and the Azure container app Job reads the message present in the queue and prints the message in container app console…

Huomaattehan, että jo pidettyjen Kumppanituntien tallenteet löytyvät samasta rekisteröitymislinkistä alla noin tunnin kuluttua Kumppanitunnin jälkeen. Jatkossa Microsoftin tekniset Kumppanitunnit järjestetään suoraan Cloud Champion -sivustolla, josta ne ovat kätevästi saatavilla tallenteina heti livelähetyksen jälkeen. Muistathan rekisteröityä Cloud Champion -alustalle ensimmäisellä kerralla, jonka jälkeen pääset aina sisältöön sekä tallenteisiin käsiksi. Pääset rekisteröitymään, "Register now"-kohdasta. Täytä tietosi ja valitse Distributor kohtaan - Other. Kumppanitunti on joka toinen perjantai klo 10.00-11.00 järjestettävä tekninen webinaari. Webinaarissa keskit…

Are you a student with big dreams of creating the next AI-powered startup? An aspiring entrepreneur developer who envisions building groundbreaking solutions? Or perhaps you're a seasoned startup entrepreneur looking to level up your AI game? No matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey, we've got an exciting opportunity for you! Power Platform AI HackTogether 2023 - Events | Microsoft Learn Introducing Power Platform AI HackTogether 2023 - Events | Microsoft Learn a virtual event that's set to ignite your creativity, sharpen your AI skills, and connect you with a vibrant community of like-minded innovators. Whether you're a coding prodigy, a business…

Azure OpenAI Service is at the forefront of technological innovation, offering REST API access to OpenAI's suite of revolutionary language models, including GPT-4, GPT-35-Turbo, and the Embeddings model series. Enhancing Throughput for Scale As enterprises seek to deploy OpenAI's powerful language models across various business units, they often require granular control over configuration and performance metrics. To address this need, Azure OpenAI Service is introducing dedicated throughput, a feature that provides a dedicated connection to OpenAI models with guaranteed performance levels. Throughput is quantified in terms of tokens per second (tokens/sec), allo…

Want to understand what is coming next for Microsoft 365, Windows 365, Teams, Security and Device Management to support your practices growth and revenues, better meet your customers’ needs and improve practice efficiencies? Join us for the Microsoft 365 Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Partner Q1 Connect call. In the first part of the call, Microsoft 365 CSP Partner Marketing Leads will cover new and upcoming announcements as well as product, resources, and tools updates for Microsoft Teams, Security, Device Management, Microsoft 365 and Windows 365. In the second part, they will answer your submitted questions. How do I submit my questions? You can submi…

What is the Azure Business Continuity Guide (ABCG)? The Azure Business Continuity Guide provides a comprehensive set of recommendations to help customers define what BCDR looks like for their applications. Often a customer will ask us for help with their business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Sometimes, the customer simply needs a structured approach to protect one application in Microsoft Azure. In other cases, they have a portfolio of many applications in a hybrid environment that might never have had a good solution to protect everything with a single BCDR framework. In addition, Microsoft Azure offers a variety of services and features to help customers…

Today we announced a new, simplified integration for creating and managing Azure Front Door profiles for your Azure Storage accounts. Azure Front Door accelerates the global delivery of static content from Azure Storage blobs and enables a secure and scalable architecture. Static content delivery is useful for many different use cases, including website hosting and file delivery. Moreover, by having Azure Front Door cache your blob storage content you will not only be lowering edge to client delivery latency at a global level, but also adding an additional layer of security with Front Door’s integrated DDoS and WAF protection. About Azure Front Door Azure Front Do…

Hey Guys Rob here again, today I am going to go over a set of typical Network Device Enrollment Service Event ID’s that you will inevitably encounter if you are maintaining an environment with NDES installed. These two events always seem to run together and can be seen in the Application Event log. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkDeviceEnrollmentService Date: DATE_TIME Event ID: 2 Level: Error User: NDES_APPLICATION_POOL_IDENTITY Computer: NDES_SERVER_COMPUTER_NAME Description: The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot be started (0x80070057). The parameter is incorrect. Log Name:…

Our guest contributor today is David Smith, VP, Channel Sales, Global Partner Solutions. As cloud and AI technologies continue to open new opportunities for partners, they are also reshaping the customer relationship. Partners who are authorized to sell as Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program can unlock growth by positioning themselves as trusted advisors to their customers. The licensing discussion is merely your foot in the door to provide the services and solutions that will solve customers’ critical problems. As a CSP partner, you own this entire relationship – from pre-sales through post-sales deployment, man…

We are excited to announce a new limited video series featuring innovations across Azure AI Language. In this video series, you will hear from subject matter experts (SMEs) that will take us through how you can use features powered by Azure OpenAI’s GPT models and others, to build the next-generation applications with generative AI. This video series will also feature new product announcements, customer stories and more; everything that we believe is important for our customers to stay updated on with the service. With the recent announcements around Azure OpenAI Service this year, you might be wondering how we are thinking about embedding the GPT models across Azu…

We are just starting to scratch the surface of what generative AI can do, and yet it’s already beginning to transform the marketing industry. An April 2023 survey of global CMOs revealed that about 70 percent of their organizations use generative AI, with nearly half using it to create higher-quality content faster than before.¹ The next jump for enterprises is how to use the technology to produce content at scale while mastering your brand and your voice. The new Typeface app for Microsoft Teams, available today, will help enterprises make that leap forward. It uses the powerful combination of Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, and Typeface's brand-pers…

This month we’re excited to announce a recent compliance milestone achieved by Test Base as well as introduce new capabilities that simplify the process of validating your applications against Windows updates in a Microsoft-managed test environment. Test Base achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification Test Base for Microsoft 365 consistently strives to enhance the security and compliance of the product. We’re proud to share the latest achievement in this journey that Test Base has obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. The certificate is displayed on the Microsoft Service Trust Portal. This demonstrates our commitment to building and maintaining security proces…

Introduction: Setting up alerts for pipeline failures on a Teams channel/outlook mail enhances communication, collaboration, and problem-solving within your team. It creates a streamlined workflow for addressing issues, reduces downtime, and promotes a culture of continuous improvement in managing your data pipelines. In this blog, I'll showcase a method for sending notifications to both Teams channels/groups and Outlook emails. Microsoft Fabric now includes Teams activity as a recent addition. Prerequisites: 1.Basic knowledge of Data Factory pipelines. 2.Workspace in Microsoft Fabric. 3. Teams channel & outlook account (you can do only one o…

Due to different environments, configurations, and needs, Windows Autopilot offers several different scenarios. Depending on whether the device is meant for a single user or multiple users and how the device is managed, Autopilot has different capabilities for each scenario. Choose the recipe based on the ingredients in your pantry! Today, let’s focus on two of the most common scenarios for user-driven and pre-provisioned Microsoft Entra join (previously, Azure Active Directory join) deployments. Time to learn: 121 minutes [attachment=48612:name]READ Windows Autopilot scenarios Compare and contrast different scenarios available in Windows Autopilot. E…

PIM for Groups Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) offers the Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Groups feature, enabling users to attain just-in-time membership and ownership of groups, thus governing access to a range of services. This feature allows the implementation of policies similar to those in PIM for Entra ID Roles and PIM for Azure Resources, allowing the configuration of actions like approval enforcement, multi-factor authentication (MFA), justification requirements, and activation time limits. Each PIM for Groups configured group features two distinct policies, catering to membership and ownership activation. This means that if an account is both an e…

With the rise of Artificial intelligence (AI), many industries and users are looking into ways to leverage this technology for their own development purposes and use cases. The field is expected to continue growing in the coming years as more companies invest in AI research and development. Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service provides REST API access to OpenAI's powerful language models the GPT-4, GPT-35-Turbo, and Embeddings model series. With Azure OpenAI, customers get the security capabilities of Microsoft Azure while running the same models as OpenAI. Azure OpenAI offers private networking, regional availability, and responsible AI content filtering. However, the in…

The annual Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary Report provides extremely valuable insights—like which IT certifications are most in-demand globally, the costs and risks of skills gaps, salary trends, and the reasons why IT professionals leave their jobs. Read the 2022 report for valuable insights like these and keep reading to see how you can help contribute towards reflecting today’s dynamic tech landscape in the coming 2023 edition. Microsoft invites you to participate in the annual IT Skills and Salary Survey led by Skillsoft. Now in its 18th year, Skillsoft's IT Skills and Salary survey strives to uncover the latest trends in the field, focusing on the skills and ce…

We’re excited to announce that our UI kit has been updated with some great new additions! The goal of this update is to help you design a broader selection of SharePoint sites and pages quickly and easily. The new update includes: 1. Team site navigation and page layouts Team sites are an important part of the SharePoint experience and we wanted to provide them as soon as possible. You can now design communication, team, and hub sites. 2. Smaller viewports for tablet and mobile We understand that not all SharePoint users are viewing the site on desktop devices. We’ve made it easier to visualize a site at different sizes with new template…