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Limited Functionality: Project Subsite Lacks Essential Forms ** Edit 8/9/23 Although this was initially reported with 2016, I understand the same could occur with 2019 or the Subscription Edition. The mitigation would be the same ** Problem Description: Consider the following scenario, A new site template is created. The site template is associated with an Enterprise Project Type (EPT) A new project is published using this EPT, for which a new SharePoint site is created. While working within this new site, a user attempts to add a new list item to deliverables, issues, or risks. In this situation, instead of seeing the new form, they ma…

Microsoft Planner gives you and your teams an intuitive, collaborative, and visual task management experience for getting work done. Read on below to explore a set of rich new features that have rolled out recently to enhance your experience using Planner in your day-to-day task management. When your team work evolves and grows, and you find you need more enhanced capabilities to manage your cross-team projects , don’t miss the update below that will enable you to move over your existing Planner plans into Microsoft Project for the web for a free one-month trial. Then, head over to the summer roundup blog of new Project features that have been rolling out. Bring yo…

In July 2023, we announced Microsoft Sales Copilot. 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. Additionally, this means that Microsoft Viva Sales is now part of Microsoft Sales Copilot. Viva Sales, which kickstarted our mission to empower every salesperson in the world, is being renamed to Sales Copilot, where we will continue to reimagine sales in even bigger ways. This month, we’re thrilled to bring one of our biggest updates ever, with a suite of new features and improvemen…

A group of people in a meeting with banner for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA If you are an IT admin looking to get answers to your questions around Microsoft 365 copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise this is the event for you to attend. Please join us on Thursday, August 10th at 9 am PT for our Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA How does this AMA work? We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat enterprise. They will be standing by in our AMA space during the live hour -- to provide guidance, discuss best practices, and, of course, answ…

We are excited to announce the public preview release of a new seamless Azure experience for Azure Sphere users. Azure Sphere (Integrated) enables you to manage your Azure Sphere catalogs and devices directly from the Azure portal and Azure CLI. This is driven by a new API integrating the Azure Sphere Security Service into the Azure Resource Manager, Azure’s control plane management platform. In this blog post, we will illustrate the advantages and new features of Azure Sphere (Integrated), and tell you how to take next steps to try this out using either existing or new Azure Sphere devices. Azure Portal and Azure CLI integration The Azure portal provi…

I’m excited to announce a significant improvement to one of spreadsheeting's oldest features - Manual calculation mode. Manual calculation mode debuted in VisiCalc in 1979 (44 years ago), 6 years before the first release of Excel. Since its release, the user experience has remained largely the same, until now. Stale Value Formatting Manual calculation mode suspends calculations, which means that the values in cells can become out of date. We refer to these as being stale. When you edit a cell in a spreadsheet, not all cells become stale, just the ones that depend on your change. Excel tracks stale cells internally, however, there's been no way to see which cel…

Migrating and modernizing Windows-based applications to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) is a destination for many customers looking to adopt cloud native principles and benefit from Kubernetes. But how do you find the right tools to deploy, manage, and monitor your Windows containers on AKS? That's why we're excited to announce the launch of the Partner Solution page for Windows Containers, a curated list of solutions from our trusted partners that support Windows containers on AKS. The Partner Solution page is part of our ecosystem initiative, which aims to empower our customers and partners to realize the benefits of Kubernetes for your Windows-based app…

At Viva Goals, we believe there are key people that every organization needs to roll out a successful program. We set out to uncover who these core people are and exactly what they do within a Viva Goals program. The journey began by diving into how customers think about goals and use Viva Goals. This included an in-depth exploration of roles and responsibilities, competitor analyses, and customer interviews. In the end we boiled it down to six core personas that we typically see in a goals program. Below, I’ve listed the roles and responsibilities to help you identify these people within your organization. Viva Goals Program Roles & Responsibilities …

In this new monthly blog series focused on M365, we will be sharing product updates, notable reads, and other new resources that can be leveraged by developers who are building apps for the commercial marketplace. Spotlight Navigate your way through Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility with this QuickStart guide. This interactive guide helps you understand what M365 Copilot is, how to build plugins, and why you should extend with M365 Copilot. Read through the guide to access demos and learn how to get hands on with OpenAI plugins. Keep your app top of mind and top of chat with message extensions in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this post, we a…

By Jingzhou Yang, Zheng Niu, Qinying Liao, Garfield He, Jun-Wei Gan, Lei He, Binggong Ding, and Sheng Zhao In today's interconnected world, language barriers can be a significant challenge when it comes to effective communication. However, with the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, we are witnessing groundbreaking solutions that are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Azure AI Text to Speech, a powerful cloud-based service offered by Microsoft, is at the forefront of this transformation. In specific, the JennyMultilingual voice we introduced earlier has enabled customers to reach a more global audience w…

Some days ago, we published an article in our blog: Lesson Learned #412:PerfStat: Performance Stats Collection for SQL Server (OnPrem) Using DiagManager - Microsoft Community Hub . In this service request, our customer reported an execution timeout due to, most probably, due to a blocking issues. We have two additional articles to capture blocking issues: Lesson Learned #259: Capturing all blocking TSQL in Azure SQL DB and Managed Instance - Microsoft Community Hub and Lesson Learned #22: How to identify blocking issues? - Microsoft Community Hub but in this case we would like to have a deeper analysis about queries running, what they are executing, the main wait …

Our goal in this blog post is to demonstrate how to use Azure Blob Storage with React.js to create an image gallery. We will go over the capabilities, advantages, and best features of Azure Blob Storage. We will also discuss the different programming languages that can be used to build Azure Storage Blob clients, focusing on the JavaScript Azure Storage Blob client library. What is Azure Blob Storage? Azure Blob Storage is a Microsoft Azure cloud-based object storage solution. It enables developers to use blobs to store and manage unstructured data such as documents, photos, videos, backups, and logs. Blobs can be grouped together to form containers,…

Image courtesy of Altair This exciting integration brings together the power of Altair's industry-leading technologies with the scalability and flexibility of Microsoft Azure, opening new possibilities for businesses to drive innovation and accelerate simulation and modeling. Altair Unlimited on the Azure Marketplace is a game-changer for organizations seeking a turnkey solution that boxes up software, system administration, and infrastructure as a service into a single, intuitive platform. A quote from Kurt Niebuhr, Principal PDM Manager, Software and Ecosystem Lead for High Performance Computing at Microsoft, highlights the significance of this collaboration:…

Today we are launching a new platform for the Microsoft community leaders who are part of our Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), Regional Directors (RDs) and Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors (Student Ambassadors) programs. Community leaders can now create profiles more easily, share impactful contributions that matter most, and connect with others more seamlessly. The new platform also integrates community leader activities with other resources like Microsoft Learn and Microsoft Reactors. Behind the scenes, we’ve updated our stack and further invested in the fundamentals including one identity, accessibility, responsiveness, security, privacy, and tools to bett…

We’re excited to announce upcoming enhancements with new offers that benefit our customers and partners in the CSP-Hoster program. Starting August 1, 2023, the following offers will be introduced: System Center subscriptions will be made available, allowing CSP-Hoster partners to include System Center in their solutions for customers. Extended SAecurity Updates (ESUs) will be available to purchase and deploy for customers that are on deprecated versions of Windows Server and SQL Server versions. This will allow customers to securely run older versions of Windows Server and SQL server. Visit the dedicated partner collection for more guidance Cont…

We released Azure Data Studio 1.45 over a week ago, and today we’re announcing a hotfix for it, release 1.45.1. If you read the release notes for 1.45, or perused the 200+ issues closed for the release, you already know that we introduced numerous changes in 1.45. We continue to expand our test cases and add automated tests, but we discovered a couple issues after the release and determined a hotfix was needed. If you haven’t given this latest release a try, we’ll highlight a few items in this post so you know what to look for and where to go. Ultimately, I hope that the effort the team has put into this release is evident. I’m extremely proud of our engineers who co…

Postman es una poderosa herramienta para probar y desarrollar APIs de forma eficiente, ahora bien, integrada como una extensión en Visual Studio Code, nos permite a los desarrolladores enviar solicitudes HTTP, analizar respuestas y colaborar con equipos de manera sencilla y organizada. Y bueno, se que a lo mejor muchos no estarán familiarizamos con esto, por ello y para que podamos entender un poco mejor, comencemos por el inicio… ¿Qué es una extensión? Una extensión es un componente que agrega funcionalidades adicionales al editor de código base. Estas extensiones están diseñadas para mejorar la experiencia del usuario y aumentar la productividad a…

AI adoption and investment is everywhere and being applied across every industry and use case to solve real-world challenges. Together we are making AI accessible through technology and services by providing the best cognitive services to bootstrap AI, making it easier to build applications that see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision making. We want to help you thrive in this dynamic landscape by introducing our new AI Transformation Partner playbook - specifically designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary to establish your own AI practice and become a Microsoft AI/Azure OpenAI advocate. You'll gain access to a comprehensiv…

Hello everyone, my name is Zoheb Shaikh and I’m a Solution Engineer working with the Microsoft Mission Critical team (SfMC). Today I’ll share an interesting discussion about Windows Hello and the need for VPN/Connectivity with Domain Controllers. Recently I was interacting with an SfMC customer and was told that many users fail to register to Windows Hello for Business (WHFB) unless they connect to VPN or the Office network. The critical question that came my way was how to get your users to register with the least possible hassle, and if we can help here. I said of course I can help, after all I am your trusted Advisor Before I start sharing any mo…

Before we start, please not that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate the in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community 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 …

Greetings, Azure Database for PostgreSQL community! As we step into August, it's time to look back and reflect on the significant updates and features we introduced in July 2023. At Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, our consistent focus is on offering stellar performance, unwavering reliability, and unbeatable security via our flexible server solution. Let's dive into the key takeaways from the last month. Feature Highlights Summary In July, we launched significant updates to optimize your experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server: Flexible Server now supports PostgreSQL 15 (general availability) Automation Tasks f…

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse makes it faster and easier than ever before for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to manage users across customer tenants. You can search for any user across all your customers’ tenants to make changes to that user account, look at which users have been flagged for risky sign-in behavior, identify users yet to register MFA and more. Today, Lighthouse offers another capacity in this space- managing inactive users. What or Who are Inactive Users? If you've ever dealt with managing user accounts, you've probably encountered inactive users already. Inactive users are those user accounts that have had no activity for a long time. You don’t expec…

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 137 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=46935:name] ABN Validator: ABN Validator allows you to easily validate the Australian Business Number (ABN) of customers and vendors in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central using the Australian Government ABN Lookup service. This application is supported only in Australia. [attachment=46936:name] AI-Powered Chatbot and Voicebot: Yellow.ai is a generative AI-powered conversation platform that delivers autonomous, human-like e…