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Announcing public preview of Azure Container Instances Spot containers
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Today, we are excited to announce a preview of Azure Container Instances (ACI) Spot containers. ACI Spot containers offer an improved pricing plan for ACI by allowing you to take advantage of unused Azure compute capacity at a significantly lower cost. With ACI Spot containers, you can run interruptible, containerized workloads at up-to-70% discounted prices (vs standard containers on ACI) and are billed for per-second memory and core usage like standard ACI containers. ACI Spot containers are well suited to short-lived, containerized workloads that tolerate Azure interruptions. Common scenarios include parallelizable offline workloads such as image rendering, geno…
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Migrate an existing cluster to Network ATC
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Since Azure Stack HCI 21H2, customers have used Network ATC to: Reduce host networking deployment time, complexity, and errors Deploy the latest Microsoft validated and supported best practices Ensure configuration consistency across the cluster Eliminate configuration drift Network ATC has led to HUGE reductions in customer support cases which means increased uptime for your business applications and less headaches for you! But what if you already deployed your cluster? How do you take advantage now that you’re travelled through that trepidatious train of thought against taking on new technology? With minimal alliteration, this article will show you ho…
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Managing Container images for Private/Restricted Azure Kubernetes Clusters Introduction Recently I am having an increasing number of conversations with customers on how best to manage container images in disconnected or highly restricted environments. Cluster security is becoming increasingly more important, a 2023 report by Red Hat showed that 90% of enterprises surveyed had experienced a security incident in their Kubernetes environments in the last 12 months. There is certainly a trend from customers recently to harden environments making the most of Azure Services such as Azure Firewall to manage egress traffic or Network security groups…
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Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.2 Preview 2
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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.2 Preview 2 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two or three preview releases in between. This cadence should provide time for feedback and allow us to deliver features and fixes in a timely manner. This second 5.2 preview includes fixes and changes over the previous preview release. Added Added new property RowsCopied64 to SqlBulkCopy. #2004 Fixed Fixed socket synchronization issue during connect in managed SNI. #1029 Fixed issue with SqlConnectionStringBuilder property indexer no…
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The Durable Functions SDK for PowerShell is now in the PowerShell Gallery
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TLDR; We have just published the Durable Functions for PowerShell SDK in the PowerShell Gallery. This package contains several improvements, and allows the development of the Durable Functions PowerShell to be de-coupled from the release cycle of the Azure Functions runtime. Try it out by installing `AzureFunctions.PowerShell.Durable.SDK` from the PowerShell Gallery. This is a breaking change release, so make sure to read the “breaking changes” section before upgrading. Durable Functions (DF) makes it easy to implement robust stateful services that make full use of the scaling and billing benefits of serverless, all while using your language of choice: C#, JavaScrip…
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Azure Logic Apps Capabilities for Mainframe and Midranges Integration
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In this video Harold Campos, Principal Program Manager for Azure Integration Services is joined by Uli Homann, Distinguished Architect and Corporate Vice President in Cloud and AI at Microsoft Corporation for a discussion about the Cloud Native capabilities that the Azure Cloud has for Mainframe and Midranges via Azure Logic Apps. Mainframe products such as IBM CICS, IMS, MQ, DB2, Informix, VSAM, SNA have been evolving over the last 30-40 years—and so has Microsoft. In 1993 Microsoft released its first product to provide integration with IBM host systems. This product evolved into Host Integration Server, which has been providing core mainframe and midranges integr…
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Leveraging Azure AI Services for Nonprofits
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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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing industries and reshaping the way we interact with various applications and services. Nonprofits are increasingly turning to AI to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and deliver better outcomes. One of the key players in the AI space is Microsoft Azure, a compr…
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Grounding LLMs
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What is Grounding? Grounding is the process of using large language models (LLMs) with information that is use-case specific, relevant, and not available as part of the LLM's trained knowledge. It is crucial for ensuring the quality, accuracy, and relevance of the generated output. While LLMs come with a vast amount of knowledge already, this knowledge is limited and not tailored to specific use-cases. To obtain accurate and relevant output, we must provide LLMs with the necessary information. In other words, we need to "ground" the models in the context of our specific use-case. Motivation for Grounding The primary motivation for grounding is that LLMs a…
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Copilot Overview - Amazing Premium Capabilities Coming to GCCH!
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Great overview of Copilot and the exciting features on the horizon for GCCH! Continue reading...
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Kumppaniwebinaari 16.6. Microsoftin pilvipalveluiden tietosuoja: GDPR, EU Data boundary
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Meillä on ilo kutsua Sinut webinaariimme perjantaina 16.6.2023 klo 10:00-11:00 kuulemaan pilvipalveluiden tietosuojaan liittyvistä viimeisimmistä asioista. Webinaari on tarkoitettu kumppaneiden myynnille, pre-salesille sekä myös johdolle. Pilvipalveluiden tietosuoja puhuttaa edelleen ja asiakkaat lähestyvät kumppaneita erilaisilla kysymyksillä. Haluamme antaa kumppaneille selkeät vastaukset yleisimpiin kysymyksiin ja työkalut hälventämään epätietoisuutta ja vääriä uskomuksia. Webinaarissa selvennämme kertaalleen perusteet, joilla Microsoftin pilvipalvelut täyttävät EU:n vaatimukset jo tänään ja miten Microsoftin pilvipalveluita voidaan käyttää GDPR:n ja muiden EU-s…
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Hey all, I'm John 22 years old Senior Computer Engineering student at Modern Academy for Engineering, Full-Stack Developer Nanodegree Session Lead at Udacity, Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. In this demo, I will guide you through creating a Healthcare chatbot and then how we can deploy it in some very simple steps. Prerequisites: An Azure subscription. If you don’t already have one, you can sign up for an Azure free account. For Students, you can use the free Azure for Students offer which doesn’t require a credit card only your school email. Summary of the steps: Step 1: Open your Azure Portal and Sign in Step 2: Create an Azure Healt…
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Solutions Partner: overview of the updates to designation requirements
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Last year, we launched the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program – a program with a portfolio of tools, resources, and offerings to help partners meet evolving customer opportunities, innovate for any cloud scenario on an extensible platform, and deliver successful solutions to industries and markets worldwide. We also introduced Solutions Partner designations – each anchored on the Microsoft Cloud in six solution areas: Business Applications, Data & AI (Azure), Digital App & Innovation (Azure), Infrastructure (Azure), Modern Work, and Security – providing a way for partners to demonstrate their proven capabilities and experience across performance, skilling, an…
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New benefits of Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server | Data Exposed
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In this episode with Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward, you will learn the benefits of connecting SQL Server to Azure Arc, including new improvements, new billing options for SQL Server and how you can onboard your SQL Server at scale with minimum effort. Resources: Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server Continue reading...
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New benefits of Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server | Data Exposed
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In this episode with Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward, you will learn the benefits of connecting SQL Server to Azure Arc, including new improvements, new billing options for SQL Server and how you can onboard your SQL Server at scale with minimum effort. Resources: Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...
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SAP HANA on Azure NetApp Files - Data protection with BlueXP backup and recovery
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Table of Contents Abstract Introduction BlueXP backup and recovery BlueXP architecture and configuration BlueXP backup with Azure NetApp Files snapshots BlueXP restore and recovery from Azure NetApp Files snapshot Summary Additional Information Abstract This article and the included demo videos provide an overview of how SAP HANA systems on Azure NetApp Files (ANF) can be protected by using NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery. BlueXP backup and recovery leverages Azure NetApp Files snapshot capabilities and offers end-to-end workflows to execute SAP HANA snapshot-based backup and restore operations. Co-authors: Nils Bau…
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Digital Event: Microsoft Entra Innovations
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Join us on June 20, 2023 to explore the next stage of our vision at Reimagine secure access with Microsoft Entra. During the event, hear from some of our Microsoft Security leaders and experts as they present the next set of innovations from Microsoft Entra. Corporate Vice President, Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management, Vasu Jakkal will kick off the event by introducing Microsoft’s approach to comprehensive security, and how identity serves as organizations’ first line of defense. We will then be joined by Joy Chik, President, Identity and Network Access at Microsoft, who will reveal some exciting product announcements from Microsoft Entra. Th…
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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1 and Recent Changes, Part 1
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Toward the end of May the SQL Tools team released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1, which had many bug fixes as well as new functionality and a couple noteworthy changes. In addition, as users have been upgrading to SSMS 19.x, we’ve heard reports of confusion and misunderstanding related to selected settings. In this series of posts we’ll clarify the impact of changes between 18.12.1 and 19.x, as well as discuss what’s new in 19.1. Dependency Changes SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), like many other applications, has dependencies on client libraries and drivers. For SSMS, there are three, of which you may or may not be aware: SQL Manageme…
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May '23 GCCH M365 Webinar: Connect/Collaborate/Create
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The May webinar covered M365 Search and Search Analytics, Teams Panels, and new and coming GCCH functionality. Teams Panels: Search and Search Analytics: New and Coming Functionality: Continue reading...
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Early technical preview of JDBC Driver 12.3.1 for SQL Server released
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We have released a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server which contains several additions and changes. Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the changes in 12.3.1 over version 12.3.0. Added Added a case to throw XAER_RMFAIL on connection reset for XA transactions 2118 Added support for Azure Active Directory Service Principal Certificate Authentication 2128 Changed Improved performance of building parameter type definitions 1938 Removed condition check that had no effect 2129 Updated azure-security-keyvault-keys, azure-identity, gson and h2 dependency version…
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Microsoft Defender for IoT moves to site-based licensing for protecting OT environments
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On June 1, 2023, Microsoft Defender for IoT moved to site-based licensing for organizations looking to protect their operation technology (OT) environments. The previous Azure consumption model for this solution will no longer be available for purchase by new customers. Existing customers can choose to transition to site-based licensing or remain on the consumption model. In today’s digital transformation, operational technology (OT) has become an important part of various industries, from power plants and manufacturing facilities to transportation systems and healthcare institutions. While OT systems play an essential role in smoothly operating critical infrastruc…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – June 8, 2023
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 149 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=42382:name] ADFS MFA: Context-Aware Multifactor Authentication: This offer from miniOrange adds an extra layer of security to your organization's Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) through multifactor authentication. This helps to protect access to your ADFS resources. [attachment=42383:name] Akamai Security Connector Virtual Machine Image: Enterprise Security Connector from Akamai is a virtual machine that you c…
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Update to Microsoft Intune PowerShell example script repository on GitHub
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Since publishing the Intune GitHub sample script repository (repo) containing PowerShell scripts that demonstrate the use of the Microsoft Graph API for automation in 2016, there have been significant changes to the Microsoft Graph and PowerShell modules. To ensure the scripts remain relevant and useful for the community, we have reviewed and updated a subset of the scripts and simplified code. In addition, new GitHub repos have been created to house the updated scripts based on the scenario type. Important: From a support perspective, Microsoft fully supports Intune and its ability to deploy PowerShell scripts. However, Microsoft does not support the scripts thems…
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Released: SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django v1.3
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We have released version 1.3 of the SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django. This release contains support for the release of Django 4.12 as well as a number of issue fixes. Our plan is to support major releases of Django and SQL Server, to ensure users of this project can keep up to date with Django while continuing to use SQL Server as a backend. Added: Added case-sensitive feature for Replace function (#222) Added support for Django 4.2 (#269) Fixed: Fixed #196: changed getting system datetime to cached_property (#217) Fixed an issue of adding OFFSET keyword for legacy SQL Server versions (#218) Fixed left padding function to return strings …
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How ISVs are driving customer retention by enabling unique experiences in Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft Teams provides opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver enhanced customer value by either creating new collaborative user experiences or enhancing existing ones. By delivering these experiences where users are in the flow of work inside Teams, ISVs can drive more stickiness for their apps, resulting in higher renewal rates, as discussed in another recent blog post. Let’s explore how several ISVs built and deployed their apps on Teams to improve usage and customer retention. ISV partners can build unique and collaborative experiences in Microsoft Teams to improve user counts BHN Rewards is an innovative rewards application that e…
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Don't get caught unprepared: three steps to manage the risks of multicloud
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This month's episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks discusses what it means to support multicloud, the risks of running a multicloud strategy, and how customers can think about this as they accelerate their digital transformation. Considering over 90% of organizations are already multicloud – meaning they rely on more than one cloud provider; it is important to understand how to protect people and data in a constantly evolving digital environment. Joining our host Erica Toelle is our guest, Ashish Kumar. Ashish has over 25 years of experience in Engineering, Consulting, and Technology sales, helping businesses build products, increase revenue and market share, enhance …