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A recent requirement from a customer was to host multiple container apps on Azure Container Apps within the same environment to optimize resource usage. To limit the traffic within the container app environment, an Nginx container was utilized as a reverse proxy server and public endpoint to direct all inbound traffics to the appropriate container app based on the URL. The traffic flow for this architecture is as follows: To demonstrate how to achieve this, I created a simple proof-of-concept (POC) and would like to share the configuration details in case anyone is interested in creating a similar system. Prerequisites As stated in our official documen…

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Reach new sales channels and markets with Microsoft sellers and partners: Achieve global scale and accelerate your growth by selling on the commercial marketplace and increase the opportunities to co-sell with Microsoft and partners. Expedite deals with a simplified sales process: Sell your Azure IP co-sell solutions on the commercial marketplace to meet customers where they are, while saving time, costs, and effort. Microsoft will facilitate customer purchases, allowing for streamlined customer set-up and management in one location. Unlock sales growth by helping customers maximize their cloud budgets: According to Tackle, 68% of buyers say they will increa…

Introducing a new capability that allows you to purchase Azure savings plan for your customers through Partner Center. Azure savings plan for compute, launched in October 2022 and available to CSP partners to purchase through the Azure portal, is an easy and flexible way for customers to save up to 65 percent on compute costs compared to pay-as-you-go. Savings plans can be purchased with a commitment term of one or three years, and payment terms can be upfront or monthly. Azure savings plan for compute helps customers: Save compared to pay-as-you-go prices on select compute services Automatically optimize savings across select services globally up to…

Companies are transitioning to the cloud at a breakneck to accommodate the scale of their applications. To keep pace, developers consistently turn Java as their language of choice, and the Azure platform for the build-to-deploy process. Azure not only supplies developers with their favorite environments but allows them to integrate with other apps in the Microsoft partner ecosystem. Learning about Java development on Microsoft Azure can be a great way for developers to hone their skills and create robust, versatile applications. That’s exactly what our new Java Skills Navigator is for. Azure has a comprehensive set of tools for developing applications using Java. …

Got a lot of Cloud PCs that have been provisioned through group-based licenses (GBL) and direct assigned licenses? Check out this new capability: bulk resize. To meet IT admin scalability needs, we have made significant investments in the existing resize capability, which is available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. It does what it's called, now admins can start resizing multiple Cloud PCs at the same time! What's new? The bulk resize capability can be found in the Bulk device action blade, and here's a list of what this capability can do: Screenshot of the Bulk device action menu in Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center Resize Cloud PCs that have been pro…

Written by Gopikrishna Kannan (Head of Products: Azure Firewall and Firewall Manager) Intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) is an advanced threat prevention mechanism supported by the Azure Firewall Premium SKU. Unlike simple network filtering, IDPS matches traffic patterns to a set of known malicious signatures. Azure Firewall supports more than 60,000 malicious signatures which are updated in real time. These signatures apply when malicious patterns are detected under the right conditions. The conditions include traffic direction (inbound or outbound) and network scope (private network or public network). Below are examples to validate IDPS configuration in …

In fiscal year 2024, Microsoft will take two important steps toward retirement of the CSP legacy commerce platform. Beginning in November 2023, Public Sector (Academic, GCC, NFP/Charity) offers will be available in new commerce for new and renewing customers, and starting in January 2024, Microsoft will begin automatic migration of all renewing commercial and Public Sector customers to new commerce. CSP legacy commercial subscription migrations Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners have been steadily migrating their legacy commercial customers to new commerce since October 2021. We know that managing customers' business on two platforms is burdensome. …

Extended events provide essential insights in Azure SQL Database, enabling efficient monitoring and troubleshooting. However, when an extended event becomes stops unexpectedly, it can hinder our ability to diagnose issues effectively. In this article, we will explore the process of re-starting an extended event using a PowerShell script designed specifically for Azure SQL Database. Understanding the Challenge When an extended event halts unexpectedly, it can be caused by various factors such, configuration conflicts, or transient errors. Detecting and resolving the problem promptly is crucial to ensure uninterrupted data capture for effective monitoring …

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Got a lot of Cloud PCs that have been provisioned through group-based licenses (GBL) and direct assigned licenses? Check out this new capability: bulk resize. To meet IT admin scalability needs, we have made significant investments in the existing resize capability, which is available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. It does what it's called, now admins can start resizing multiple Cloud PCs at the same time! What's new? The bulk resize capability can be found in the Bulk device action blade, and here's a list of what this capability can do: Screenshot of the Bulk device action menu in Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center Resize Cloud PCs that have been pro…

Migrate from Active Directory Federation Services to Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory). Many key blockers have been removed with Microsoft Entra ID, including capabilities like certificate-based auth, group filtering, group transformation, and token augmentation. Additional capabilities include conditional access and phish-resistant passwordless authentication. Jeremy Chapman, Director at Microsoft 365, shares the steps to migrate from AD FS to Microsoft Entra, as well as an inside look at the management and IT experience. Seamless single sign-on experiences. Increased security, flexibility, and control. Detailed reports f…

In Microsoft Azure, Private Link has been a popular feature that enables secure access to Azure services over private network connections. However, some users have reported an intriguing issue where even after removing the Private Link configuration, the service still resolves to a private IP address instead of the public one. This article explores the potential causes behind this behavior and suggests possible solutions, including the impact of a custom DNS from the customer side. 1. DNS Caching: One possible explanation for the continued resolution of the private IP address is DNS caching. When a private link is removed, the DNS records associated with i…

When users enter or leave your organization, automate manual steps to onboard and offboard with Microsoft Entra. For onboarding, manage user identities, grant permissions to access necessary information, and provide users with what they need to be productive, such as computer hardware. As people leave the organization, deprovisioning is critical to maintain security and compliance. Lifecycle Workflows in Microsoft Entra ID Governance can help with pre-built templates for common tasks. Microsoft Entra is a complete identity management platform with everything you knew about Azure Active Directory, along with many more capabilities. Identity lifecycle managem…

The Sematic Kernel is a great tool to help developers quickly integrate their codebases with OpenAI or Azure OpenAI models. The SK team has provided wonderful samples in C# and python using functions, web apps and notebooks. Semantic Kernel Overview Semantic Kernel Repo After working through the samples, I thought it might be fun to create my own endpoint using the minimal API in C#. The nice thing about working with the minimal API is that a developer can quickly stand up an endpoint for a POC or MVP. Let's get started! Prerequisites An OpenAI account An API key from the OpenAI portal OR An Azure subscription Azure OpenAI subsc…

We’re excited to share the public preview of restricted management administrative units, a new role-based access control (RBAC) feature in Microsoft Entra ID. What you can do with restricted management administrative units With restricted management administrative units, you can now designate specific users, security groups, or devices in your Microsoft Entra ID tenant that you want to protect from modification by tenant-level administrators. Here are some situations in which this is useful: You want to protect sensitive user accounts, such as C-level executives, from being able to have their password or multifactor authentication settings c…

Global Azure is the annual global event where communities around the world organize local hybrid events and live streams around a wide range of Microsoft Azure topics…AI, cloud native development, infrastructure, hybrid and so on… all led by community leaders (Microsoft MVPs, Regional Directors, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, and other local community speakers). This year’s event was held on May 11-13 as the Global Azure 2023 and offered learning and networking opportunities around the world. In total, 483 speakers conducted 445 sessions at more than 100 events in 6 continents! In this post, we feature three local Global Azure events in Czech Repu…

Hi everyone! Pete Daderko here, Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Teams Phone, and I’m coming to you live from One Esterra on the Microsoft campus, still looking for practical ways to make life a little easier. As a product marketer, I want to share useful Teams Phone features to help others navigate their day. So, I’m still spreading the word, one Teams Phone feature (and interview) at a time. Join me as we continue our “I didn’t know Teams Phone did that” adventure. Let’s talk AI in Teams What’s the first thing you think of when you hear Artificial Intelligence? Maybe it’s ChatGPT. Maybe it’s the Terminator franchise. Maybe you simply see it a…

In this HLS Show Me How I demonstrate how to exclude a website from search. The use case this is addressing is where a learning department wants to publish videos for embedding in their LMS but not have them appear in search for direct access. Resources: Overview of Stream (on SharePoint) - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Stream start page preview in Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn Web part transition plan - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn Stream Playlists - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn Stream (on SharePoint) FAQ - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn Thanks for visiting – Michael Gannotti LinkedIn | Twitter…

In prior years, if you were on certain subscription types you were not able to create SQL Managed Instance and experience 100% SQL server database engine compatibility with all the benefits of a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service. Now, anyone can create SQL MI for free with only an email and Azure account. From now on, the following subscription types will be able to create SQL Managed Instance: Free Trial Azure For Students Azure In Open In the following Azure regions: West US 2 South Central US UK South Souteast Asia West Europe East US Australia East North Europe Sweden Central In case you are on a subscription with li…

Microsoft präsentiert die neuesten strategischen Investitionen zum Marketplace für Unternehmen und den Azure IP Co-Sell-Leistungen. Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr verzeichneten wir einen Umsatzanstieg von 138 % im Marketplace und 214 % beim Azure IP Co-Sell-Umsatz über den Marketplace. Heute geben wir bekannt, dass die Veröffentlichung eines transaktionsfähigen Angebots über den Marketplace für Unternehmen eine neue Voraussetzung für den Zugriff auf Co-Sell-Leistungen ist. Wir arbeiten in unserem gesamten Partnernetzwerk zusammen, um Unternehmen bei der Umstellung auf den Marketplace zu unterstützen und ihnen den größtmöglichen Nutzen zu bieten, damit sie ihre Rentabilität stei…

Microsoft is excited to share our latest strategic investments in the Microsoft commercial marketplace to unlock Azure IP co-sell benefits. Year on year, we have seen a 138% increase in marketplace sales and 214% in Azure IP co-sell revenue made on the marketplace. Today, we are announcing that having a transactable offer published on the commercial marketplace is a new baseline requirement to access co-sell benefits, and we’re partnering across our ecosystem to help organizations transition to the marketplace and access maximum benefits to grow their profitability. Our customers are increasingly seeking to discover, try, and buy applications online, driving rapid …

Learn and develop essential AI skills with the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge Sign up for the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge and you'll get a head start on immersive and curated AI training content across Microsoft products and services, as well as four awesome AI-themed challenges. Whether you're just starting out or looking to change careers, this program will teach you the essentials of AI, Machine Learning, MLOps, and Cognitive Services. You will receive a Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge badge and certificate of achievement if you complete at least one of the four eligible tasks before August 14th, 2023. Refer to the official rules for more informat…

There’s just one more week until the start of Microsoft Inspire! Our annual partner event brings to life our continued investments in partner growth and capabilities. We are so excited to share the latest announcements regarding our evolved partner program and bring attendees on this powerful transformation journey. We look forward to sharing new offerings, products, pricing, incentives, and a commerce experience that are all designed to empower your success. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be joining us to deliver the opening keynote address, and we‘re excited to welcome a live studio audience of our Partner of the Year Award winners to our Redmond, WA headquarte…

Today, three new specializations became available to Solutions Partners for Business Applications in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. Those specializations are: Intelligent Automation, Business Intelligence, and Build and Modernize AI Apps with Microsoft Azure. Learn more about each of these specializations and get partner-ready email templates you can use to amplify this change with your partners, below. Intelligent Automation By 2024, the estimated market for automation solutions will be more than $16 billion, with greater than a quarter of work tasks suitable for automation. Today, 37 percent of companies are still using paper to manage critical busines…