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Tips for Internal Investigations While Maintaining Privacy
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The landscape for education is continuously changing as new mediums for expression, communication, and interaction evolve. Children and young adults adapt to new technology with legendary ease, but how can schools ensure that those explorations stay safe? Especially with the porous boundaries enabled by mobile devices and uncapped levels of information. In this month’s episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks, we explore how schools can conduct internal investigations while maintaining the privacy and safety of students within the K-12 education system. Joining us as the episode guest is Randyll Newman, Supervisor of Student Data and Information Security for Prince Will…
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Modernizing embedded development on Azure Sphere with Rust
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Exciting news Rustaceans and Azure Sphere enthusiasts!! You can now use Rust to develop applications on Azure Sphere. We had made an announcement in June 2022 about previewing Rust on Azure Sphere in this post -Previewing Rust on Azure Sphere - Microsoft Community Hub. Rust and Azure Sphere are a good match – a programming language that can improve safety of code with strict compile time safety checks alongside Azure Sphere’s secure identity, update, and end-to-end encrypted communication services for internet-connected devices should provide greater security to the customer applications. Rust offers embedded developers a new level of performance a…
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Microsoft Bookings - Engaging with customers
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Using Microsoft Bookings one can go beyond conventional appointment scheduling and actively engage with their customers. This will help Bookings users have better relationships with their customers, have higher trust, and ultimately higher and faster conversions. Microsoft Bookings features, like reminders and post appointment email follow ups, allow you to actively engage with customers. You can reduce the chance of your customers missing an appointment, be better informed about their appointment, and increase the probability of another appointment. Let’s see how you can achieve all of these. A simple reminder to not miss an appointment. Let’s start wi…
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Cosmos DB Patterns for Performance Efficiency
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Performance is one of the key reasons to use Azure Cosmos DB. Traditional databases are often limited in their ability to scale up resources like CPU, RAM, disk and IOPS. By distributing workloads into multiple partitions, Cosmos DB databases can exceed the limits of vertical scaling and provide high performance no matter the size of the use case. However, properly designing for distributed databases is essential to make sure the technology delivers what it promises. In this article, we discuss patterns and features designed to improve your Cosmos DB usage from the perspective of Performance Efficiency. This is not a complete list, but it provides some of the most i…
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Microsoft 365 Defender Monthly news January 2023 Edition [attachment=29901: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 January edition, we are looking at all the goodness from December 2022. NEW: At the end we now include a list of the latest threat analytics reports, as well as other Microsoft security blogs for you. Legend: [attachment=29902:name] Product videos [attachment=29903:name] Webcast (recordings) [attachment=29904:name] Docs on Microsoft [attachment=29905:name] Blogs on Microsoft [att…
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Lesson Learned #275: Timeout: Request failed to complete in Node.Js
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Today, a customer reported the following error message using Node.Js and Tedious : Timeout: Request failed to complete in 15000ms at Connection.requestTimeout (C:\...\NodeJs\node_modules\tedious\lib\connection.js:1257:21) at Timeout._onTimeout (C:\...\NodeJs\node_modules\tedious\lib\connection.js:1209:14) at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:557:17) at processTimers (node:internal/timers:500:7) { code: 'ETIMEOUT', number: undefined, state: undefined, class: undefined, serverName: undefined, procName: undefined, lineNumber: undefined } Following, I would like to share my findings here: This error reported "Timeout: Request failed to complete in 15000…
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A student’s first international public speaking experience at ESPC22
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Hi, my name is Gabrielle and I am a High School student in Maryland, USA in my 2nd "Sophomore" year, my studies are primarily in Business and Government outside of the standard classes. My interest in technology is as a hobbyist and enjoy helping my dad with Home Automation stuff around the house with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Python. Traveling with my dad for conferences is lots of fun and great cultural immersion, I learn a lot from seeing what its like in other countries. On this trip to the European SharePoint and Azure (ESPC) Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark I co-presented with my dad on one of his session "Microsoft Graph Development with the Python SDK" which …
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HDInsight Environment Cloning
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Overview Testing environments play a critical role in the development and deployment of any product or service. As a best practice, HDInsight customers are recommended to start the deployments in lower environments to assess the performance and functional capabilities before moving the workloads to production. All migrations, upgrades, and solutions being tested in a lower end environment ensure minimal to no issues in the production environment. To maintain two different environments requires copying of the cluster configurations and underlying resources. HDInsight Team provides the following two solutions for safe cloning of the storage account and metad…
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How to Stay Focused and Build your Tech Career
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Is Focus a Skill? Do you know that if a light is focused, it can cut through the hardest object? That's how important staying focused is to your career. Staying focused and building a successful career in tech requires a combination of hard work, dedication, and the ability to continuously learn and adapt. To stay focus, you must have started something. Click here to start your career in tech. You can also click on the image below. Make sure you commit time to learn using the resources provided above. Focus Tips Here are some tips to help you stay focused and build your tech career: 1. Set specific and achievable goals Havi…
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A method to run multiple applications in single App Service
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Sometimes we want to have applications developed in various languages in one App Service. There is a solution - Docker Compose. However, it is still in Preview status, so it is not recommended to use it in Production environment. There are also some limitations. In this article, I would like to use a sample app service to introduce a method to do the same thing by using nginx and custom docker container. Note The current method does not obey the recommendation of Docker that a docker container should host only one service, and we actually recommend customers use Azure Container App for hosting multiple applications. Design We will create a Docker conta…
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Deploy Spring boot application to App Service Tomcat Stack using generated war file
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Some people usually choose to follow this document to package the Spring Boot application to a jar file and use cli command to deploy the jar file to the app service with Java SE stack. However, you may also choose to package the Spring Boot project to a war file and deploy it to Tomcat. This article shows how you can do it. Firstly, you need to modify your Spring Boot application entrance class to entend SpringBootServletInitializer class and override configure method: @SpringBootApplication public class DemoApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer { @Override protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBui…
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Genomics workflows on secure lockdown environment using Cromwell on AKS
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Healthcare organizations now have some of the strictest controls, network security and infosec requirements while running workloads in the cloud. When dealing with healthcare data, there are heightened security, privacy, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, FEDRAMP) that the organization’s infosec team impose that any of their cloud-based solutions will have to meet. These requirements dictate the way genomics infrastructure is set up to provide end-to-end security for the environment. We worked with one such large provider in the US that does not take security lightly. They have a tightly controlled secure Azure environment, and every deployment must pass through r…
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Upcoming improvements to Win32 app supersedence
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By: Mandar Chen, Product Manager 2 | Microsoft Intune The Win32 app supersedence feature enables admins to upgrade or replace existing Win32 apps with newer versions of the same or entirely different Win32 app in a controlled manner. Since its launch, we’ve received a great deal of positive feedback about how supersedence helps admins streamline app updates. We’ve also received feedback on how we could further improve the feature to serve you better, especially related to how supersedence interacts with both app dependencies and the enrollment status page (ESP). Our next update, expected in Q1 2023, aims to introduce major improvements to these areas, including: …
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IPv6 Coming to Azure AD
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With the growing adoption and support of IPv6 across enterprise networks, service providers, and devices, many customers are wondering if their users can continue to access their services and applications from IPv6 clients and IPv6 networks. Today, we’re excited to announce our plan to bring IPv6 support to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This will allow customers to reach the Azure AD services over IPv4, IPv6 or dual stack endpoints. For most customers, IPv4 won't completely disappear from their digital landscape, so we aren't planning to require IPv6 or to de-prioritize IPv4 in any Azure AD features or services. However, it is important yo…
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Lesson Learned #274: Security token could not be authenticated or authorized in Node.js
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Today, I worked on a service request where our customer is facing two main issues: Security token could not be authenticated or authorized. at ..\NodeJs\node_modules\tedious\lib\connection.js:2659:35 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) {code: 'EFEDAUTH',isTransient: undefined} and RequestError: Requests can only be made in the LoggedIn state, not the SentLogin7Withfedauth state at Connection.makeRequest (....\NodeJs\node_modules\tedious\lib\connection.js:2199:24) at Connection.execSql (...\NodeJs\node_modules\tedious\lib\connection.js:1729:10) at executeStatement (...\NodeJs\NodejsConsoleApp1\app.js:107:16) at Connection.<an…
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Reducing the size of Windows Server Container Images – Part 1
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One of the most significant pain points for Windows Server Container customers is the size of the container images. These images have historically been quite large, resulting in long download times and impacting available disk space. We have made improvements to these image sizes over time, but thus far, these improvements haven't materially improved the customer experience. Today, we're happy to report some significant improvements in this area. Over the past few months, we've worked hard to decrease the size of the Windows container base images, resulting in a 40% total size reduction. To achieve these savings, we were required to do a one-time re-baseline of our…
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What you need to know when deleting and re-creating the security connector(s) in Defender for Cloud
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Introduction: This article provides guidance on important considerations for removing and re-creating security connectors in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. These security connectors store the configuration preferences that Defender for Cloud uses to access your AWS/GCP environment and provide security recommendations and alerts. There may be instances where you need to re-create the connector, such as following best practice guidance, connecting to a different Azure tenant, or storing connectors in different resource groups. I cover the process of re-creating the connector in more detail, including the creation of the connector, the deletion of the connector, and the re…
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Support ends for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, 8.1
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Heya folks, Ned here again. January 10 is a big day for support lifecycle on Windows Server and Windows. Not directly storage or file services-related, but critical news for IT Pros and their organizations, so I'm blogging about it. Windows Server 2008 R2 Extended Security Update ends January 10, 2023 - that's today - except if you're running those VMs on Azure or the Azure Stack family, which gets you one more year of security patches - Windows Server 2008 R2 - Microsoft Lifecycle Windows 7 Extended Security Updates also ends January 10, 2023 - today. There is no Azure time extension like Windows Server 2008 R2, they will receive no more security patches - https…
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Introducing recurring tasks and grid features in Planner
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We’re excited to share that the Recurring Tasks and Grid features have now launched in Planner! Recurring Tasks You can reduce extra work by easily setting up automatic repeating tasks for daily, weekly, or monthly recurrence – and many other interval options – with custom repeat settings. This feature was highly requested by our users, and we greatly appreciate the feedback! Some examples where this may come in handy include: Monthly report Weekly progress review Daily scrum meeting Quarterly Planning Yearly Review and Planning Specify task recurrence In Board view, select the task card to view its Details panel. Set task ti…
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The Strange Case of inetmgr.exe.config
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One of my customers had a strange issue, whenever they attempted to open the Application Pools node from the IIS Manager GUI, an alert popped up with an error saying "Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Web.Configuration.AppHostFileProvider" This was a little strange as it did not affect the w3wp process which we generally troubleshoot but instead the inetmgr GUI itself! However, as is the case with all assembly loading errors, Fusion Logging was the much needed light in the dark. This is what I see in the Fusion Logs *** Assembly Binder Log Entry (1/4/2023 @ 10:42:40 AM) *** The operation failed. Bind result: hr = 0x80070002.…
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Released: January 2023 Exchange Server Security Updates
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Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2019 SUs are available in a self-extracting auto-elevating .exe package, as well as the original update packages (.msp files), which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog. SUs are available for the following specific versions of Exchange Server: Exchange Server 2013 CU23 (note that support and updates end on April 11, 2023) Exchange Server 2016 CU23 Exchange Server 2019 CU11 and CU12 The January 2023 SUs address vulnerabilities responsibly reported to Microsoft by security partners and found through M…
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Azure DevOps Pipelines: Templates Tasks and Jobs
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Introduction By now if you have been following this series then you have learned about tasks, jobs, and stages in addition to variables and environments. This post will start to tie these together with templates. YAML templates provide Azure DevOps customers with the capabilities to quickly scale and deploy artifacts while following their organizations required steps securely and quickly. Templates are the ultimate goal in any DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) implementation of Azure DevOps Pipelines. In an effort not to overwhelm this post will cover task and job template design. To unlock how to use stage templates I have found it helpful to pair with YA…
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Lesson Learned #273:UsernamePasswordCredential: tenantId,clientId,username and password are required
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message: UsernamePasswordCredential: tenantId, clientId, username and password are required parameters using Node.Js connecting Azure SQL DB with Tedious. Following, I would like to share my findings here. The customer is using the following code: var Connection = require('tedious').Connection; var Request = require('tedious').Request; const readline = require('readline'); const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout }); var config = { server: "servername.database.windows.net", // or "localhost" database:"Databa…
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | January 2023
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Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to our first update for Teams for Education in 2023! This year is going to bring so many new and exciting features to Teams for Education, and as always, we thank you so much for being part of our growing community! We’ve been working on some great new updates that we’re excited to share with you, so here’s what’s new this month. Enjoy! Jupyter Notebook integration with Assignments Insights for Rubrics in Assignments New updates to Reflect Phonics Rules Challenge Assignments in Reading Progress Quiz/Forms support for images in multiple choice questions Microsoft Forms’ new cover page and distribution experience New Upda…