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Trivia, an app published to Microsoft AppSource, builds camaraderie, collaboration, and connections among teammates at work, right inside Microsoft Teams. With it, employees across an entire company can play trivia, spark conversations, and bond during five-minute social breaks at work. Microsoft AppSource interviewed Stephanie Pedro, People Operations Manager at Caresfield, to learn why she recommends Trivia. What do you like best about Trivia? Trivia makes it very easy for us to take a break from work, play some games, and interact with other teammates. We like the fact that our people can take small mental breaks amidst a busy long day and have fun…

Issue: Trying to login to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) using AAD-Integrated keeps getting the below error. However, the user is able to connect to MI using AAD-Password, AAD-MFA and SQL Authentication without any issue: Below is the detailed error from SSMS: =================================== Cannot connect to mySQLMI.xxxxxx.database.windows.net. =================================== One or more errors occurred. (mscorlib) ------------------------------ Program Location: at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) at System.Threading.Tasks.Tas…

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 112 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=47512:name] ACT - Materials Request: Use the ACT - Materials Request app within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to replace physical forms, increase approval efficiency, and create an audit trail for materials requests. The app also helps track and monitor inventory levels. [attachment=47513:name] AhaSlides: The AhaSlides add-in for Microsoft Teams helps you run polls, create brainstorming sessions, and host quizzes d…

Data synchronization between databases is a critical feature in many enterprise and cloud application scenarios. Microsoft Azure SQL Database offers the capability to synchronize tables between different databases, enabling consistent data across distributed environments. However, technical challenges can arise, such as the error "Sync failed with the exception 'An unexpected error occurred when applying batch file sync_XXXX\\XYZ-XXXXX.batch. See the inner exception for more details.Inner exception: The given ColumnMapping does not match up with any column in the source or destination. For more information, provide tracing ID ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-9a95a3f8ad2e’ to customer s…

Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix. All the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be perf…

The latest episode of Path To Citus Con—the monthly podcast for developers who love Postgres—is now out. This 6th episode featured guests Chelsea Dole and Floor Drees on the topic “You’re probably already using Postgres: What you need to know”. The conversation explored the app developer perspective on Postgres. Many of you app developers are already using Postgres, but perhaps on top of an ORM. If you want to optimize your application, if you want to better understand the underlying database: what do you need to know? And how do you remove the fear? This episode of Path To Citus Con, our new podcast for developers who love Postgres, focuses on opportunities for bu…

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 Data collection and survey creation have become an integral part of various processes, from educational institutions and businesses to personal projects. Microsoft Forms is a powerful tool that empowers users to create surveys, quizzes, and polls with ease, streamlining the process of collecting information and feedback. In this article, we will delve into th…

We are glad to announce that SQL Server 2022 is now available in preview mode for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. For this preview, only Evaluation edition is available, which is limited to 180 days starting Thursday, July 27th, 2023. In your Dev/Test environments, you may now take advantage of the most recent SQL Server 2022 improvements on both RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. Currently, production workloads on RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 are not supported by the SQL Server 2022 preview packages. You can run the production workloads for SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 22.04 and they are fully supported. SELinux Integration: With th…

Hello Folks, Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. Each month we bring you an update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what's new with Azure Networking in June 2023. In this blog post, we will cover the following announcements and how they can help you. Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager Azure Virtual Network encryption Enjoy! Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer Azure Load Balancer’s global tier is a global network load balancing solution. With cross-region load…

Introduction Before diving into Azure DNS Private Resolver (ADPR), let's go back in time a little bit, to understand its value. Before ADPR, companies that had to deal with hybrid DNS resolution, had to host custom DNS servers in Azure. They were mostly hosting at least a pair of DNS servers, or extending their Infoblox (or similar technology) in the Cloud. The reason why this had to be tackled that way was due to the fact that DNS zones in Azure could not be used as forwarders (still today), and Azure DNS itself is only reachable from within an Azure Virtual Network. In mid 2023, most production setups are still making use of custom DNS servers in Azure. …

Introduction In this blog, we talk about steps to follow to move data from Azure SQL Database to Lakehouse using Copy activity of Data Pipeline integrated within Lakehouse. If you are interested in bringing mainframe/Db2 data to Fabric, please read our blog here or if you are looking to copy data between Azure Data Services using Fabric, read our other blog here Before we move forward, let’s understand how OneLake and Lakehouse are related to each other: OneLake is a single, unified, logical data lake for the whole organization. Like OneDrive, OneLake comes automatically with every Microsoft Fabric tenant and is designed to be the single store fo…

Introduction SQL DB, SQL Managed Instance (MI), and SQL Hyperscale in Azure have a hard log throughput limit. This limit defines the maximum rate at which transaction log records can be written to disk. When the log throughput reaches this limit, it can impact the overall performance of the database and cause delays in transaction processing. To avoid reaching this cap, it is essential to actively monitor and optimize the workload and choose the most appropriate service tier. This guarantees the capacity to effectively handle the necessary log throughput specific to your application's needs. But if you have done everything that is possible to reduce the l…

Learn how you can save money with the Azure saving plan recommendations. with your host Thomas Maurer and Azure savings plan expert Obinna Nwokolo. Azure savings plan feature recap. Azure savings plan for compute is an easy and flexible way to save money on compute services spend compared to pay-as-you-go (PAYG) prices. What customers do is you can commit to an hourly amount to spend over a one to three-year and in exchange for that you get significant discounts over the on-demand prices. Purchase savings plans in the Azure portal. You can purchase Azure savings plan by going to Azure Portal. Login to the Azure Portal. In the sea…

User experience (UX) research is a vital part of product development at Microsoft. It directly informs the design and improvement of our products and services by helping us understand the needs, preferences, and behaviors of our customers. It is, in short, one critical way our product teams can stay “customer obsessed.” In this blog post Toni Saylor, a Senior UX Researcher working on OneDrive for Web, show us how user experience research plays a role in shaping and improving OneDrive. The new OneDrive for Web Home experience delivers a number of enhancements that make it easier and quicker to find your files. The illustration above calls out some of the updates…

A comparison of two AI-powered features that help you get the most out of your meetings Meetings are an essential part of our work, where we share ideas, make decisions, and collaborate with others. However, meetings can also be challenging, especially when we have to deal with multiple agendas, diverse perspectives, and complex topics. How can we make our meetings more productive, engaging, and accessible? How can we capture the key insights and outcomes of our meetings, and act on them effectively? How can we leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance our meeting experience and productivity? In this blog post, we will introduce you t…

Introduction Have you ever spent hours carefully crafting the perfect OpenAI prompt, trying to coax your AI model into generating just the right response? As an AI developer, I know that struggle all too well especially when it comes to returning structured JSON. What if there was an easier way to retrieve JSON responses from OpenAI and Azure OpenAI models? Meet TypeChat – an open source project from Microsoft that aims to make working with AI more efficient across different types of AI models by using TypeScript types (called “schemas”). Created by Anders Hejlsberg and team, TypeChat allows you to define structured schemas that are used along with your prompt…

The 7th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit: CU7 KB Article: Cumulative update 7 for SQL Server 2022 (KB5028743) - SQL Server Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model. Please refer to our blog for more details on Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 RTM Latest Cumulative Update: Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 Latest Cumulative Update from Official Microsoft Download Cente…

Our guest contributor for today’s blog is Amy Boyle, Director of Commercial and Advisory Partner Enablement. As Microsoft and our partners find innovative ways to push the capabilities of advanced technologies, the need for IT employees with updated skills remains. Organizations across the industry are having difficulty finding employees with expertise on the latest platforms. During this year’s Microsoft Inspire event, leaders from our partners TCS and Kyndryl talked about how training employees is fueling growth within their companies and the industry as a whole. Working together, Microsoft, TCS, and Kyndryl are making skills development on Microsoft Cloud an…

By: Juanita Baptiste – Sr Product Manager | Microsoft Intune When a user powers on their PC for the first time, the ideal scenario for Windows Autopilot deployments is that it connects it to their network to log in and automatically provisions itself while the user has little to do to complete the setup. It may take some time to download and install all the programs and settings, but the user only needs to sit back and let the magic happen. If you’re not getting this "ideal experience", especially if the user must enter their credentials repeatedly, there's a good chance it's because the device is unexpectedly rebooting at some point during start up and the …

Overview This year at Microsoft Build we demonstrated Visual Studio pre-caching for Microsoft Dev Box, one of the many integrations that make using Visual Studio on Microsoft Dev Box a great experience. Now with Visual Studio 17.7, you can try out pre-caching for yourself on Microsoft Dev Box. Visual Studio utilizes many caches to increase the performance of key features like Find in Files and IntelliSense. When opening a solution for the first time these caches must be generated by indexing and processing the codebase. Working with large solutions can add a significant amount of time to startup while these caches are created. Once the caches are created Visua…

The public sector is diverse and high reaching. Whether you manage devices in government, public finance, public health, social services, public safety, or justice, this special collection is for you. Learn about compliant cloud solutions, policy management, app deployment, reporting, and more with freshly brewed and evergreen resources. Microsoft Government Cloud is a separate datacenter from commercial instances available in the United States. This service is known as Government Community Cloud (GCC High) for impact level 4 (IL4) or Department of Defense (DoD) for impact level 5 (IL5). Microsoft Intune and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) services are shared across these…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 106 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=47365:name] Atalo: Hosted and powered by Microsoft Azure, Atalo by Cadvil helps businesses manage all aspects of operations such as HR, production, finance, inventory, and more. Increase efficiency and drive growth with this comprehensive solution with affordable SaaS pricing. [attachment=47366:name] Avanti - Managed Cloud Development Platform: Focus on value and time to market and let the Avanti platform manage all the infras…

New capabilities for your frontline workers, including Windows 365 Frontline experience, Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service for more streamlined service delivery, and Microsoft Teams as the single collaboration hub to get work done, wherever you are. Check out updated admin experiences, from setting up Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs and configuring Windows 365 Boot, to deploying Microsoft Teams to frontline workers at scale. Microsoft 365 Frontline Product Manager, Rajiv Thandla, shares updates, along with the admin controls to set everything up. Create work orders from customer emails. Pre-populated and summarized details using Copil…

As an IT admin in the public sector, you know how important it is to deliver secure, compliant, and efficient solutions for your organization. You also know how challenging it can be to keep up with the evolving needs and expectations of your users, stakeholders, and citizens. That’s why we’re excited and honored to partner with government agencies that deliver mission critical services by harnessing the power of tools and capabilities in Microsoft 365 Government. LA County became a model for other government entities looking to innovate and embrace technological solutions that they’ve already owned and the City of Corona drove efficiencies and improved their disaster rec…

KQL best practices for joins and filters For Power BI developers but not only Summary Many users who try ADX in direct query mode encounter errors right away. The errors complain about lack of memory. If the tables are small enough, it may work but still performance will not be as advertised on TV. The reason in most cases is the behavior of joins in ADX as they are created by PBI. In this article I’ll show different approaches to joining tables as used by PBI for related tables or as can be expressed in KQL in general. I created a special table in the help cluster with 31 million rows that is big enough to demonstrate the performance di…