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Make Test Cases Readonly in Azure DevOps Services.
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This blog content is compiled by @Ahetejaz from Azure DevOps CSS support team. Recently, he helped a customer in making a TestCase Readonly in Inherited Process. Requirement: Azure DevOps Services (inherited Process Template): Test cases to be made read only. Other work item types should be editable. Scenario: Generally, test cases move from "Design", "Ready" and "Closed" state. In Design state, tester will construct the test case and will move it to Ready state once the construction is completed. At this point, team may want to freeze the test case from further editing and admin would like to make it read only. 1. Make sure to have access to modify proce…
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Building CI/CD pipeline with Azure DevOps
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Looking to learn more about Azure DevOps and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it? I am organizing a virtual workshop building and deploying a sentiment analysis web app using Azure DevOps. About the session In this session, I will explore how to use Azure DevOps Pipeline to deploy a sentiment analysis project. I will cover how to use Azure DevOps pipeline to create a CI/CD pipeline for the creation of Azure infrastructures using bicep, tag and push a docker image to Azure Container Registry and deploy Sentiment analysis app to Azure web apps for containers. By the end of the session, you will have hands-on experience with using the Azure DevOps Pipeline…
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Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery with Azure Stack HCI
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In October 2021 we announced the support of Azure Site Recovery to protect virtual machines (VM) workloads on Azure Stack HCI. Based on customer feedback, we have improved the ASR agent deployment experience and now we are excited to announce the Public Preview of the new ASR agent deployment experience as an Arc extension. What is Azure Site Recovery (ASR)? ASR is an Azure service that helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. ASR replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines from a primary site to a secondary location. When an outage occurs at your primary site, you fail over to a secondary…
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Vector Similarity Search with Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
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Full credit to: Samuel Partee, Principal Applied AI Engineer, Redis Kyle Teegarden, Senior Product Manager, Azure Cache for Redis Introduction Imagine that you are a vehicle maintenance technician and a classic convertible just rolled into your shop. You’re about to tighten a few bolts in the engine when you realize you have no idea what the torque specification is. In the past, you had to spend hours digging up the right manual and finding the right page. But today, you have access to a semantic answer engine that is loaded with maintenance manuals for every car produced in the last fifty years. A simple query rapidly pulls up the correct page in th…
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Migrating users and privileges from AWS RDS MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
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Migrating users from one database platform to another can be a challenging task. In this article, we will discuss the process of migrating users from AWS RDS MySQL or AWS RDS Aurora MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. We will cover the steps involved in exporting user data from AWS RDS MySQL by Percona Toolkit, which is a is a collection of advanced open-source command-line tools supporting MySQL and other open-source databases. Then we could import the users and privileges output statements into Azure Database for MySQL, as well as any considerations and best practices to keep in mind during the migration process. By the end of this article, you will hav…
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Reaching production has never been easier: Announcing Pipeline component deployments
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There are many cases where you need to operationalize inference routines that can be decomposed into multiple independent steps. What is more, many times some of these steps need to be exactly the same thing that was done during training. Take the following example into account. It displays a simple yet typical scenario for training machine learning models. It contains a preprocessing step that performs data transformations. However, as part of the preprocessing some parameters are learnt, like the normalization coefficients. As a consequence of this design, the model the next step trains can’t work on raw data, but only on preprocessed data. If you are thin…
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Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Reaching End of Standard Support
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On 31 May 2023, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will reach the end of standard support. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) was released on 23 April 2018, introducing improved UEFI Secure Boot and broader Kernel Livepatch coverage for enhanced security on Azure. You can continue to use your existing virtual machines, however, security, feature, and maintenance updates will no longer be provided by Canonical and may leave your systems vulnerable. Recommended action: It’s important to act before 31 May 2023 to ensure you’re on a supported operating system. Microsoft recommends either migrating to the next Ubuntu LTS release or upgrading to Ubuntu Pro to gain access to extended…
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Learn about Holistic Listening with Viva Glint
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Listening holistically to your employees is like seeing the big picture in high definition - it reveals the hidden nuances, the interconnectedness, and the underlying themes that empower organizations to create truly meaningful employee experiences. On May 11, 2023, Viva Glint’s @Avneeta_Solanki led the first part of our Learn about Holistic Listening customer event, partnering with Raphael Andrade Nunes Freire and @CaribayGarcia to share their expertise on how to understand the employee experience from a truly holistic perspective. The speakers shared guiding principles for combining survey and system data, offered practical suggestions for getting organizations …
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Securing your AKS Deployments - Microservice User Authentication using Azure AD and Oauth 2 Proxy
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Following on from my previous blog post covering SSL Termination and NGINX, in this post we will expand our deployment to also now include user authentication of a new web app. As with every article in this series this has been driven by customer use cases. In this instance the customer desired having a development web application on a public domain but ring fenced to only allow access to authenticated users from Azure AD. Before we dive deeper into the use case and implementation its important to understand the various components if unfamiliar. I will speak about benefits of certain technologies as I go through but it is worth taking a quick look at these l…
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Securing your AKS deployments - SSL Termination on NGINX ILB using Front Door and Private Link
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Recently I have noticed an increase in questions from customers pertaining to different security practices for AKS deployments. I have decided to create a series of blogs covering some of the common ways to increase cluster security. I have plans for blog posts regarding Azure AD user authentication on micro services, utilizing Open Service Mesh and Network Policies to implement internal cluster networking security and the different options regarding metrics, alerting and telemetry for AKS clusters. Today however I will start by discussing using Azure Front Door, Private Link Service and NGINX Ingress Controller to create a secure ingress to private back end servic…
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Connect with Azure Communication Services at Microsoft Build 2023
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Microsoft Build is just around the corner and we can’t wait to share the latest advancements from Azure Communication Services with the developer community next week. We are excited to reconnect with in-person attendees in Seattle and engage online with attendees from around the world. Be sure to Register for Microsoft Build 2023 if you haven’t done so already. Below is the lineup of sessions that will showcase the upcoming releases from Azure Communication Services, along with samples, demos, and how-to manuals for building effective and efficient communication experiences. If you are a developer in the communication space, make sure to add these to you…
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Helping Customers Fix Their Own Issues with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
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A banner image with the text: "Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Help secure your email and Microsoft Teams with advanced protection against phishing, business email compromise, ransomware, and other threats." The Microsoft 365 commercial support team resolves customer support cases and provides support to help you be successful and realize the full potential and value of your purchase. Our support services extend across the entire lifecycle and include pre-sales, onboarding and deployment, usage and management, accounts and billing, and break-fix support. We also spend a considerable amount of time working to improve the supportability of Microsoft 365 services to re…
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Microsoft has been on a journey to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help security teams scale more effectively. Microsoft 365 Defender correlates millions of signals across endpoints, identities, emails, collaboration tools, and SaaS apps to identify active attacks and compromised assets in an organization’s environment. Last year, we introduced automatic attack disruption, which uses these correlated insights and powerful AI models to stop some of the most sophisticated attack techniques while in progress to limit lateral movement and damage. Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of automatic attack disruption to include adversary-in-the…
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Microsoft releases CMMC guidance to raise the security and identity baseline for Defense Industry
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Today we’re going to share with you some new guidance for configuring Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to meet the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 1 and Level 2 requirements. Identity continues to be the most common way bad actors get through cyber defenses. Therefore, identity controls are one of the most fundamental aspects of CMMC and this post is going to focus on Azure AD as a way of meeting CMMC's identity requirements. Azure AD is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps your employees sign in and access resources in your organization. Azure AD also provides a range of security features tha…
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Achieving Distributed High Availability: Stack HCI and AKS Hybrid
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Azure Stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) is a virtualisation host that runs on-premise on validated partner hardware. AKS Hybrid is an on-premise implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) orchestrator which automates running containerised applications at scale and runs on the Stack HCI platform. Together they provide a solution for hosting highly available workloads on-premise. Azure Arc is a cloud based control plane which can be used for managing on-premise AKS Hybrid instances. Introduction Sometimes high availability is the top business priority. There are situations where even the high availability provided in the cloud by redundant system…
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Azure Storage updating some default security settings on new accounts - Aug 2023
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Azure Storage to disable anonymous access and cross-tenant replication on new storage accounts by default Beginning August 2023, Azure storage will begin phased roll out of changes that disables anonymous access and cross tenant replication for all new storage accounts by default, to align with best practices for security and reduce the risk of data exfiltration. Existing storage accounts will not be impacted by this change. This change will be made to all Azure clouds. Azure storage gives the ability to configure anonymous access to storage accounts or containers. Anonymous access to containers is already disabled by default to ensure customer data is no…
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New transactable offers from Belinda CZ s.r.o.
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Microsoft partners like Belinda CZ s.r.o. deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=40353:name] IIS on Windows Server 2022: Designed for anyone who wants to quickly and easily deploy web apps and sites, Belinda CZ s.r.o. has built this image containing Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server 2022. Optimized Tiny Server with Windows Server 2022: Designed for use as a dev-test environment or to host low-traffic websites and web apps, Belinda CZ s.r.o.'s image provides a compact, optimized installation of Windows Server 2002. SQL Express…
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Hardening Windows Clients with Microsoft Intune and Defender for Endpoint
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As a major part of any corporate security program, vulnerabilities on corporate assets are required to be addressed, yet teams that solely focus on the patching aspects may be missing a key area of worry, insecure setup. Whether the asset’s configuration is unrestricted by default, or an operator has made a mistake, assets will end up in an unsecure configuration. Security teams with a proactive attitude will seek methods that automatically address asset misconfiguration, and, where possible, avert them in a centralized fashion. This blog will introduce a solution that uses multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Intune and Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to implemen…
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Getting started on your data security journey
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Data security is a top concern and priority for many organizations. As I'm working with customers, especially in the State and Local Government, I notice that sometimes customers do not know where to begin with their data security strategy. It can be challenging to embark on this journey and there is an endless supply of information out there. To address this challenge, I wanted to provide a checklist that is digestible and will help in the various stages throughout this journey. I will also be providing supporting documentation that you can reference and provide to needed stakeholders. The below are 3 key considerations for your data security journey. Get…
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Announcing General Availability of the New Logic Apps Designer
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We're excited to announce the General Availability of the new Logic Apps Designer! Since we first introduced the preview of the designer, we have received valuable feedback from our users, and today, we're taking the next step in delivering a seamless and improved experience across all Logic App surfaces and SKUs. With enhanced performance and usability, the new designer is ready to support you in creating powerful and efficient workflows. Let's dive into the updates and what you can expect from this release. The New Designer – Built for Performance and Usability We've listened to your feedback and worked diligently to improve the Logic Apps Designer's perform…
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Microsoft Search: Connecting You to Knowledge and Expertise
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Looking for results? Microsoft Search allows you to find information about people, resources, and data from across the organization in one place, doing away with the information silos of the past. Search relevancy is enhanced through Microsoft Graph, giving you access to the files, people, and items closest to you and your work. This gives the user greater personal, contextual search results. It’s almost like the results find you. And with the recent announcement “ ” – the results that find you will be more relevant, more personalized. You can do this from wherever you are working - whether you start your search in Microsoft Teams or Outlook, from a SharePoint site…
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General Availability: Online migration for Azure Database for MySQL using Azure DMS
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We’re pleased to announce General Availability of online migration for Azure Database for MySQL using Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). With online migration, businesses can now migrate an instance of Azure Database for MySQL - Single Server, their on-premises MySQL instance, or MySQL servers in other clouds to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with minimal downtime for critical applications, limiting the impact to service level availability. Azure DMS supports migrations for MySQL versions - 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0 from the following list of supported source server types: Community edition MySQL servers (located on-premises or in the cloud) AWS R…
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Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads
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We are happy to share that Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks! This means that you can now enable logging of backup-related metadata (such as jobs, backup items, policies, usage) for these workloads, and retain these records for a customizable duration of time depending on your compliance and audit requirements. You can then leverage the canned reporting views that are already provided via the Backup Reports solution today, and view information for protected items corresponding to these workloads. Since backup functionality for these new workloads are all surfaced v…
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Search text in a Kusto/ADX table using any number of terms from Power BI
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Search ADX text by multiple terms from PBI Summary In this article, I’ll describe how we can search an ADX/Kusto table using multiple words provided by the user. Step by step Connect to the table StormEvents in the database Samples on the ADX cluster help. Make sure to use direct query. In the Power Query editor add a step to the M script The new step applies a filter to the column EventNarrative using the operator has_all. This operator returns all rows that contain a list of terms in a text regardless of case. If we wanted to find text that include at least one term from a list, we can use th…
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How to Perform Manual Failover of an Azure SQL Database
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Introduction: If you're managing an Azure SQL database and encounter an issue where the database becomes unresponsive, you must find a solution that will help you restore the service. In this article you will learn how to perform a manual failover to restore service as part of the task to identify the root cause of the problem even though the server is unresponsive. A working example: One potential cause of an unresponsive Azure SQL database is a query that is fired by an API and consumes 100% of the CPU. In this scenario, it can be difficult to identify the problematic query without connection which allows you to query the data management views (DMVs) and pinpoint…