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Today I encountered an issue when customers upgraded their old version of tedious to the latest 16.X.X and started having connectivity issues using Active Directory Password Based Authentication. However, when they used the older version of tedious (11.X.X), there were no issues. When I debugged the code using Visual Studio Code, I got an error message saying “Requests can only be made in the LoggedIn state, not the SentLogin7Withfedauth state, which could be a consequence of the first one: Security token could not be authenticated or authorized.” I was able to reproduce the issue on my local, and I validated if any additional parameters or configurations were n…

Lustre has long been the gold standard for extreme performance and scalability amongst parallel file systems used in HPC. The open-source community has continually improved Lustre features and performance to keep pace with the ever-growing demands of HPC, and despite being over twenty years old, Lustre is still powering many of the fastest supercomputers in the world with file systems that can store hundreds of petabytes and deliver terabytes per second of performance. It’s little wonder that when most people hear Lustre, they envision petabytes of data stored across dozens of racks and thousands of hard drives. Taking a step back though, is a single, massive file …

Azure AI Document Intelligence formerly known as Form Recognizer now has a new set of capabilities generally available! Documents are core to any business process, from Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solutions like invoice processing to knowledge extraction like tax filing, financial reporting and audits. Azure AI Document Intelligence has AI components for you to build your document processing workflows. The v3.1 release of Document Intelligence brings new features and updated capabilities. Try using any of these updates in the Studio or the REST API version 2023-07-31. Document Classification and Splitting Processing files with multiple doc…

Enterprises today are facing a range of push and pull factors that are driving cloud migration. VMware has 500K+ customers and the 85M+ workloads running on vSphere on-prem. Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) provides tremendous growth opportunities for our partner community to realize, both short-term and over time. As Azure grows 50% YoY, AVS will be growing alongside, and we want to enable our partner community to capitalize on this opportunity. Every company is in a different place when it comes to its digital transformation journey and use of the cloud. Microsoft is committed to providing solutions that enable organizations to make progress to the cloud on…

Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA) lets you drive the scaling of any container in Kubernetes based on the load to be processed, by querying metrics from systems such as Prometheus. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) supports integration of KEDA with your AKS cluster to scale your workloads based on Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus metrics from your Azure Monitor workspace. Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus (also known as Managed Prometheus in Azure) is a fully managed Prometheus service in Azure (it includes a fully managed data store, query service, ruler service, Prometheus compatible query APIs, and managed add-on for data …

Our local Microsoft Inspire Connection really was the partner event of the year! We had an amazing day celebrating the successes of FY23 with our partners and also looking forward to a 'Brilliant Together' FY24. Huge congrats to all of the 2023 Partner of the Year Award (POTYA) winners who were recognised at our gala ceremony that evening. The complete list of categories and winners are as follows. Award Category Partner Country Partner of the Year Award Codec Security Rising Star Ekco Business Applications Rising Star BDO Advisory Services EY App Modernisation and Innovation Spanish Point Azure Infrastructure eir evo Business Appli…

Sin lugar a dudas como programadores utilizamos herramientas que nos permiten el hacer más fácil nuestros desarrollos, ya sea utilizando NuGets o extensiones, es por eso que el día de hoy conoceremos una extensión que no debe de faltar en tu Visual Studio Code. Y bueno, antes de entrar a materia, recordemos que Visual Studio Code es un editor de código fuente desarrollado por Microsoft y aunque comparte el nombre "Visual Studio" con el entorno de desarrollo integrado (IDE) completo de Microsoft, Visual Studio Code es una aplicación más ligera y está diseñada principalmente para programación y desarrollo web y móvil. A diferencia del IDE completo, VS Code se centra en l…

Kudu is the engine behind a number of features in Azure App Service related to source control based deployment, and other deployment methods like Dropbox and OneDrive sync. Access Kudu for your app Anytime you create an app, App Service creates a companion app for it that's secured by HTTPS. Reference: Kudu service overview - Azure App Service There may be a scenario where we may face issues while deleting the files on the Kudu Console(both from UI and cmd). The error might appear as a 404 Not Found error on UI. When we try to delete the files using the “del <filename>” command, it will be showing the error “Access Is Denied”. The issue might be ve…

You have just created a new community in Teams free and you realize you made a small typo in the community's name. With our recent updates it's now easy to edit your community details in Teams free on Windows 11, too. Additionally, you can accept community member join requests on Windows 10 as well now. You find these new options 'Edit community' and 'Manage community' by right clicking your community in the communities list or tapping the options menu (...) icon right next to its name. Manage community After selecting 'Manage community', you see the current owners and members in your community. When you community requires approval to join, you as comm…

Today, Intune uses the Windows Device Health Attestation (DHA) service for Windows 10/11 Compliance policy - Device Health settings. Device health attestation is a reporting service used to ensure a device boots to a trusted state. Starting in mid-August 2023 we’ll slowly be rolling out support for Microsoft Azure Attestation (MAA) service for Windows 11 devices. Learn more about Windows 11 device health attestation: HealthAttestation CSP - Windows Client Management | Microsoft Learn. Note that Windows 10 devices, and GCC High/DoD environments will continue to use DHA and are not impacted by this change. How does this affect me? If you set any of the Wind…

What is changing? Microsoft is introducing changes to our storage offerings across our Microsoft 365 suite. Beginning at customers' next contract renewal, but no sooner than August 1, 2024, all schools will receive 100 TB of free pooled storage – where storage is shared across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, plus customers get additional 50GB-100GB pooled storage per paid user, depending on the paid license type (not including student use benefits). With pooled storage, the total storage limit is the maximum amount of storage combined a customer can use. In addition, effective February 2024, users of Office 365 A1 (free SKU) will be limited to a maximum of 100GB f…

And we’re back! The team and I have been busy assembling all the interviews and snippets we’ve gathered the last three months and I’m excited to announce that we’ll be dropping two new episodes of Tackling Tech every Wednesday at 10am PT for the next three weeks! The first two will premiere, you guessed it, tomorrow at 10 am PT! What we’re tackling Let’s keep exploring the latest and greatest Microsoft capabilities for IT, enterprises, and information workers! Through interviews with the product teams building the tech, we’re continuing to tackle the enhancements, innovations, and tools that are most relevant to the “world of Windows” today—endpoint management, ap…

We are excited to announce that both exams for MD-102 and MS-102 will be released on September 6th. MD and MS 100 and 101 will retire on September 30th. Please reach out if you have any further questions. Thank you for your patience with the release of these exams! Continue reading...

Today we begin rolling out a few changes that will make the targeting of policies more flexible. Earlier this year we provided a new feature that allows you to easily target policies to all users on the tenant. The latest updates will allow you to add multiple groups to a single policy configuration and add the same group to multiple policy configurations. How to contact us To discuss any specific concerns, you can reach out to us via Services Hub. Contact Microsoft Support via the Microsoft 365 admin center. Continue the conversation by joining us in the Microsoft 365 Tech Community! Whether you have product questions or just want to stay …

Today, we got an interested case where our customer got the following error message "Statement(s) could not be prepared". We know that connecting to Azure SQL Database via the ODBC API provides developers with a powerful way to interact with cloud-based databases. However, running into the "Statement(s) could not be prepared" error can be a stumbling block to efficient database interactions. This error message, which occurs during the preparation of SQL statements for execution, can stem from a variety of issues. In this article, we'll delve into the potential causes of this error, emphasizing both SQL statement problems and connection-related factors. Armed with this kno…

Learn about the upcoming changes in Schannel protocol defaults and how to remove dependencies on legacy TLS versions or keep them enabled for compatibility. Overview Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the most common internet protocol for setting up an encrypted channel of communication between a client and server. TLS 1.0 dates back to 1999 and, over time, several security weaknesses have been found in this protocol version. TLS 1.1 was published in 2006 and made some security improvements, but never saw broad adoption. These versions have long been surpassed by TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3, and TLS implementations try to negotiate connections using the highest protocol ve…

Today, we are super proud to announce the general availability of our new in-product guidance, which is an evolution of the step-by-step guides documentation. (aka.ms/step-by-step) We believe in providing you the tools to become a security operations hero. This guidance is designed to help you ramp up on a feature within Microsoft Defender in a matter of minutes, while also providing all the key information you need to be successful. The key button to look out for is on the top right, labeled: "Learn More" as shown below in the animated demo. Figure 1: Animated Gif example in-product guidance On some pages, you will find the experience pops out au…

When investigating an incident, analysts follow certain steps – tasks – to ensure that the investigation is conducted effectively and efficiently. Standardizing the process is necessary for both generic steps and specific types of incidents, and their availability in the context of the incident allows for faster and more efficient management and remediation. Tasks in Microsoft Sentinel can help security analysts streamline their workflow and improve their efficiency. Analysts can add tasks to specific incidents or alerts, enabling them to track the progress of investigations and remediation activities. While tasks can be added manually from within the Sentinel cons…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 111 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=46572:name] Accelerator for Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365: Mavim's accelerator empowers business leaders to automatically discover, model, and collaborate on business processes related to Microsoft Dynamics 365. Increase predictability about costs and determine implementation trajectories through Mavim's systematic approach. [attachment=46573:name] Active Directory on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: This offer from Tidal Medi…

Azure provides comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions that are easy to use, secure, scalable, and budget-friendly. They can also be seamlessly integrated with existing on-premises data protection setups. In this article, we'll explore a practical demonstration of implementing Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery using Azure Site Recovery VM Replication through Terraform. This approach ensures the continuity of your business apps and workloads during unexpected outages, replicating your virtual machines from one location to another in a straightforward manner. Azure Site Recovery Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping busi…

Microsoft maintains 77 services across 13 service categories, everything from Artificial Intelligence to Compute to Databases to Storage to Azure Orbital – this is a lot of code and infrastructure to maintain and evolve, often at pace. Inevitably some of these services will be retired, either as new services replace them or through investments in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem. This article will provide an overview of the tooling that exists within Azure to obtain a single centralized view of Service Retirements and reduce the reliance on manually checking the Azure Updates feed and/or Email notifications. What is Service Health? First, we should define …

Today Microsoft is introducing changes to our offerings across our Microsoft 365 for Education suite that will place limits on storage and retire the Office A1 Plus program. While the increase in consumption of technology in education has been beneficial, it has made free, unlimited storage plans prohibitive, and become a large vector for security risks and fraud. Our goal with these changes is to continue to offer education customers generous allowances, new tools to support these changes, and time for thoughtful transitions.  Most schools (99.96%) are well below their storage allotment. While most customers will not need to reduce their current storage, a…

Rolling out in preview, there's now limited support for labels configured for user-defined permissions. This encryption configuration refers to the setting Let users assign permissions when they apply the label and the checkbox In Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, prompt users to specify permissions is selected: When a document is labeled with user-defined permissions and uploaded to SharePoint or OneDrive, these services can now process the document so that it can be opened and edited in Office for the web, the label name is displayed in the Sensitivity column, and the encrypted file is returned in search results for the label ID. Labels with this configuration a…

Microsoft 365 Defender Monthly news August 2023 Edition [attachment=46530:name] This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from July 2023. Legend: [attachment=46531:name] Product videos [attachment=46532:name] Webcast (recordings) [attachment=46533:name] Docs on Microsoft [attachment=46534:name] Blogs on Microsoft [attachment=46535:name] GitHub [attachment=46536:name] External [attachment=46537:name] Product improvements [attachment=46538:name] Previews / Announcements …

Overview In May 2023, we announced the General Availability of Azure Centre for SAP solutions. With Azure Center for SAP solutions (ACSS), one of the key capabilities is a logical representation of the SAP system or what we call a Virtual Instance for SAP solutions resource. With the virtual instance, you can see and interact with the SAP system directly in Azure, even for your existing systems by registering them. Benefits of registering your SAP systems with ACSS: Azure Center for SAP solutions enables you to deploy new SAP systems on Azure as well as register existing systems already on Azure. Once you register SAP systems, you unlock various SAP man…