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Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID as part of the Microsoft Entra product family expansion Today we announced the next milestone in our expanded vision for unified secure access. An important part of this milestone for you to be aware of is an upcoming product name change: Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is becoming Microsoft Entra ID. In this email, you’ll learn more about the context and change plan for this name change to help answer any questions you or your customers may have. Action requested from you Please update your content and assets with the new naming and product icon starting September 2023, Access the renaming kit…

Join us from July 18–19 (PT), 2023, at Microsoft Inspire—our largest partner event of the year—to learn how we can collectively enable inclusive growth as a global partner community. Discover breakouts and live community discussions that range from driving accessible digital transformation and innovation, enabling supplier diversity, bringing impact solutions to market, leveraging community partnerships for GTM, to nurturing inclusive leadership, diverse representation and allyship within our organizations. Drive change and grow your business Hear from Microsoft and your peers on how we can accelerate innovation, collective impact, and power an inclusi…

Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Benefits Prerequisites and general recommendations Getting Started Deploy Azure VMware Solution Provision and configure Azure NetApp Files Create volume replication for Azure NetApp Files-powered datastore volumes DRO Installation Prerequisites OS requirements DRO Configuration Setup Resource Grouping Replication Plans Failover and Failback Summary Additional Information Abstract In this article, we describe how NetApp Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (DRO) can simplify disaster recovery orchestration for virtual machines and applications running on …

Asir Selvasingh, Microsoft and Adib Saikali, VMware Tanzu Can you believe Spring is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year? We could not have gotten here without our millions of Spring developers across the globe, thank you! Spring has been an essential tool for Java developers, and it continues to grow and innovate at a fast pace. From the onset, Azure and VMware Tanzu have been trusted partners to customers for running mission-critical Java and Spring workloads. Our commitment and fondness for the Java Spring developer community have never wavered. Microsoft and VMware Tanzu Collaboration Continues Microsoft collaboration with the Spring team…

In the realm of database management, the BACPAC format is widely used for exporting and importing data between databases. However, we have found an interesting service request, where the recommended automatic indexes are not included in the exported data used by BACPAC. The Scenario: During a remote session with a customer, a comparison between the source and target databases revealed a discrepancy in the indexes. Specifically, while the source database contained three types of indexes (PK_xxx, IX_xxx, and NCI_xxx), only the manually created PK_xxx and IX_xxx indexes were visible in the target database after restoration. The absence of NCI_xxx indexes pr…

This morning at our Reimagine Secure Access with Microsoft Entra digital event, we announced new product innovations within Microsoft Entra. Don’t miss our Microsoft Security blog highlighting all the announcements. A brief overview of what we shared at the event: Secure access to any app or resource, from anywhere Today we introduced our identity-centric Security Service Edge solution with Microsoft Entra Internet Access – an identity-centric Secure Web Gateway (SWG) to protect access to internet, SaaS, and Microsoft 365 apps, and Microsoft Entra Private Access - an identity-centric Zero Trust Network Access to secure access to private apps and resource…

Flexible work arrangements and accelerating digital transformation changed the way we secure access. Traditional network security approaches just don’t scale to modern demands. They not only hurt end user experience but also grant each user excessive access to the entire corporate network. All it takes is one compromised user account, infected device, or open port for an attacker to access and laterally move anywhere inside your network, exposing your most critical assets. Legacy network security approaches are no longer sufficient Even if you adopted modern access solutions for your organization, you still need to integrate and manage multiple identity a…

Today we announced significant milestones for identity and network access, including the news that Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is becoming Microsoft Entra ID. As part of our ongoing commitment to simplify secure access experiences for everyone, the rebranding of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID is designed to make it easier for you to use and navigate the unified and expanded Microsoft Entra portfolio. I want to assure you that your work protecting your organization, customers, partners, and the investments you’ve made in deploying Azure AD will continue uninterrupted. All configurations and integrations will continue to work as they do toda…

Microsoft Edge for Business, the new, dedicated work experience for Microsoft Edge, is in preview today! Microsoft Edge for Business is planned to be the standard browser experience for organizations, activated by an Azure Active Directory (AAD) login and includes an adjusted icon, your organization’s name, and other visual cues. With the rich set of enterprise controls, security, and productivity features that you’re already familiar with, Edge for Business is designed to help meet the evolving security landscape while empowering users to work effectively. Try the preview of Microsoft Edge for Business, including the switching between work and personal bro…

Today at our Reimagine Secure Access with Microsoft Entra digital event, Microsoft Security leaders and industry experts presented the next set of innovations from Microsoft Entra. Check out our Microsoft Security blog to learn more about the product announcements. A brief overview of what we shared at the event: To provide secure access for any identity to any resource and protect all digital interactions, we announced two new Security Service Edge (SSE) products—Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access. Microsoft Entra Internet Access is an identity-centric, cloud-delivered Secure Web Gateway (SWG) to protect access to internet, …

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 112 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=45043:name] Amazon Seller Central to Azure SQL Connector: Stream your marketing data from Amazon Seller Central to Microsoft Azure SQL Database with this connector from Windsor.ai. Windsor.ai's cloud-based pipelines are quick to set up and require zero maintenance. [attachment=45044:name] Clerbo: Y Soft's Clerbo is a cloud-based onboarding solution and learning experience platform that helps companies maximize hire retention and en…

Today we are announcing the General Availability of several confidential VM and Trusted Launch security features via AVD Host Pool Provisioning. What are Confidential VMs? The AMD Azure EPYC SEV-SNP DCasV5 and ECasv5-series confidential VM series provides a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) with attestation capability by leveraging AMD SEV-SNP security features. Azure confidential VMs (CVMs) offer VM memory encryption with integrity protection, which strengthens guest protections to deny the hypervisor and other host management components code access to the VM memory and state. For additional CVM security benefits, please see the CVM docu…

We are expanding our tenant management capabilities in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse to help managed service providers (MSPs) secure and manage more of their small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. We’ve heard from our Lighthouse partners about the importance of being able to manage all their customers in Lighthouse and we are working to extend our coverage. Lighthouse now offers a limited set of management experiences across SMB customers with no customer licensing requirement. While the full value of Lighthouse is realized through products such as Microsoft 365 Business Premium, which includes productivity, management, identity, and security, these improvements…

Microsoft is committed to empowering every teacher and student on the planet to achieve more. And while there is great potential for technology to help address society’s biggest issues, the pace of this change is also raising new challenges and intensifying existing inequities in our communities. As a result, it’s critical that we apply technology and innovations to address these concerns. We support computer science (CS) education efforts which equip learners to use computational thinking and creativity to build the next generation of inclusive computing solutions. Microsoft is excited to participate in the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) virtual conf…

Future Proofing your SOC In today’s world of ever-evolving sophisticated threats, time is of the essence when it comes to an efficient SOC’s continuous feedback loop for reducing attacker dwell time. The days of humans writing effective rules to detect malicious activity are gone. Reducing attacker dwell time requires a host of people, processes, and modern technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Threat Intelligence (TI), and automation to find and eliminate threats before they become a nightmare. Microsoft Sentinel, along with the Defender Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform, provides an enhanced toolset of top-g…

Microsoft Azure has a great set of capabilities for managing non-Azure based servers, including monitoring, policy evaluation, inventory and change tracking, and security tools. Access to those services for non-Azure servers may be via Azure Arc – specifically installation of the Azure Connected Machine Agent. Let’s dig into the technical specifications of the agent and how to take care of it. Overview of the Azure Connected Machine Agent Architecture The Azure Connected Machine Agent: Creates an identity in Azure for the server (with an Azure Resource ID) under Azure Arc-enabled Servers Manages the machine’s connection to Azure, with the H…

This blog post has been co-authored by Microsoft and Venkat Gandhari from New Relic As containerization gains popularity in the world of application deployment, Kubernetes has emerged as a leading container orchestration platform. While Kubernetes provides robust management capabilities for containers, effectively monitoring and gaining insights into the performance of Windows containers in a Kubernetes environment can be a complex task. This is where New Relic, a renowned observability platform, comes into play. In this blog post, we will explore how New Relic can help streamline the instrumentation of Windows containers in Kubernetes, enabling you to gain …

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Ergänzend zu unseren globalen Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2023 zeichnen wir eine Reihe einzigartiger Partner für ihren außergewöhnlichen Beitrag zu unseren Märkten in Westeuropa aus. Mit den Western Europe Partner of the Year Awards werden herausragende Erfolge und Innovationen von Partnern in 10 Kategorien gewürdigt, die unserer Vision und unseren strategischen Prioritäten entsprechen und positiven Einfluss auf Kunden in der Region Westeuropa haben. WE Indirect Provider Award: Arrow WE Managed Service Provider Award: Insight WE Hosting Services Provider Award: Cronos WE Global System Integrator (GSI) Award: Capgemini WE Independent Software V…

Azure Static Web App offers two types of preview environments: branch environment and named environment. Both of these methods offer isolated environments for testing and deploying changes to your Azure Static Web App, allowing you to test and validate changes without affecting the main production environment. Here are the steps to create a preview environment: 1. After deploying the production branch to the main site, create a new branch based on the main branch and name it "dev". 2. Modify your YAML file in the dev branch to include "dev" in the trigger to track any changes in the dev branch. 3. Set "production_branch" to the name…

A few months ago we announced the support for virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves in Azure SQL Database. This announcement brings numerous advantages, including robust confidential queries and seamless cryptographic operations, to all Azure SQL Database offerings, independent from the underlying hardware. You can use the feature with any compute tier (provisioned or serverless), purchasing model (vCore or DTU), compute size and region that aligns with your workload needs. And, since VBS enclaves are available in existing hardware offerings, there is no additional cost. In addition to this preview, we are excited to announce the preview of VBS enclaves in A…

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Encrypting data at rest is a primary step in securing a Kubernetes cluster. KMS provides an interface for a provider to utilize a key stored in an external key service to perform this encryption. While KMS v1 on AKS enabled the encryption of Kubernetes secrets using a key in Azure Key Vault, it was limited to only supporting encryption of 2000 secrets. To address this limitation, the Azure Container Upstream team, in collaboration with the Kubernetes community, spearheaded the enhancement project. After being part of two Kubernetes releases, this feature has graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.27. As soon as KMS v2 became beta in v1.27, Microsoft promptly made it available…