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By Jacob Scott | Support Escalation Engineer - Microsoft Intune This is the second post of our two-part series that walks you through setting up and enrolling your Microsoft Teams phones and Teams Rooms on Android in Microsoft Intune. In this support tip, we wanted to provide a comprehensive guide on the capabilities available for Teams phones and Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android, and how to deploy these devices with Intune to aid in troubleshooting your environment. Note: All references of "these devices" refer to both Teams phones and Teams Rooms on Android unless otherwise indicated. What features are supported? Below is a breakdown of fea…

If you are a Windows user and love playing around with Windows VM on Azure, and if you would like to monitor whether a Windows service is stopped or in a running state using Log Analytics query, here is a post for you. In order to first monitor a Windows service running on a Windows VM from Azure Portal, from the VM page, Azure Portal gives you one option, the Windows Admin Center, that you can use and leverage, without having to log onto the Azure VM running Windows every time using RDP. To enable Windows Admin Center on an Azure VM running Windows OS please check out these steps. Manage a Windows Server VM using Windows Admin Center in Azure | Microsoft L…

Introduction The Log Analytics agent will be retired on August 31, 2024, it is recommended to start planning your migration to Azure Monitor Agent by using the information in the following article: Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent from Log Analytics agent. This article’s objective is to share a feedback and additional tips concerning this migration. Benefits In addition to consolidating and improving on the legacy Log Analytics agents, Azure Monitor Agent provides a variety of immediate benefits, including cost savings, a simplified management experience, and enhanced security and performance. Target sample design The follo…

Congratulations to the winners and finalists for the 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards! The Social Impact category highlights partners that are using business to drive change, accelerating innovation and our collective impact across the globe. We're excited to honor winning partners for the inclusion changemaker, sustainability changemaker and community response awards. POTYA Community Response winner: nVisionIT LTD (Mauritius) The Community Response Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner organization that is providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft technologies, helping solve challenges faced by communitie…

After an incredible year of increased security and productivity, today we recap the current capabilities of Windows Autopatch, highlight new features coming to general availability, and look ahead to more value being added to the service. Whether you're a long-time user or just learning about Autopatch, there's something for everyone below, so read on! The first anniversary of Windows Autopatch The idea for Windows Autopatch came from our customers. As the transition to hybrid work accelerated, managing enterprise endpoints became more complex, and as cybersecurity threats posed increasing risk, the need for applying updates in a timely fashion became more urgent.…

Announcing Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers Many of our Windows Server customers who use containers have expressed a need for faster innovation to keep up with this technology. Today, we’d like to share our progress on a new Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers. The goal of this new release is to provide an experience optimized for Windows Server host for Kubernetes and Windows Server container customers. The first version will be available later this year with preview access in July. You can also contact our Windows Containers team with interest today. This will be a completely optional upgrade to suit the needs of customers requiring in…

In the past, you may have downloaded and installed SQL Server Developer Edition on your computer to test features, write queries, and have a sandbox. Do you want a more lightweight development environment that's quicker to install and use? Enter Docker or Podman, sqlcmd, and SQL Server containers. Our modern sqlcmd gives you the capability to query your existing SQL Server and Azure SQL Database instances. It also introduces new features such as creating containers in one line of code, using an existing backup file to restore a database when the instance is created, and opening Azure Data Studio for data exploration in one command. Here is how you can do this end-to-e…

Artificial intelligence is changing the game for businesses across many industries. And organizations are seeking to adopt AI in order to continue to grow. Executives and business decision makers understand that optimizing and automating with AI is necessary to continue ahead. Microsoft is leading AI with learning materials designed for leaders to become confident in achieving their AI related goals with ease. Transform Your Business with Microsoft AI is designed to close the divide between AI technology and business strategy. This learning path can help business decision makers gain the knowledge to map out critical decisions for their business. Staying on the fo…

Network ATC continues to be the preferred method to deploy host networking for our Azure Stack HCI customers. For most customers, deployment takes just a single command and completes in a few minutes. Network ATC makes all the necessary decisions to ensure that your configuration is stable and optimized. In fact, it will even check periodically to ensure everything is still in the appropriate configuration and remediate any accidental misconfigurations it finds. The best part, you can get the status of all this information from every node in the cluster with just one cmdlet. But sometimes you just need a dashboard. Whether it’s your manager asking you for a screens…

Microsoft Viva Topics applies next-generation AI to empower people with knowledge and expertise in the apps they use every day. Viva Topics automatically organizes content and expertise into related topics like projects, products, processes, and customers. This month, we are excited to announce lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license. Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics do not use Viva Topics' AI, topic cards, or pages, but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage. With this release, we are pr…

Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Exchange Online Role Based Access Control (RBAC) management in Microsoft Graph. The preview is designed for admins who want a consistent management interface, and for developers who want to programmatically control RBAC. The public preview supports create, read, update, and delete APIs in Microsoft Graph which conform to a Microsoft-wide RBAC schema. Exchange Online RBAC role assignments, role definitions, and management scopes are supported through this new API. With this preview, Exchange Online joins other RBAC systems in the Microsoft Graph Beta API, namely, Cloud PC, Intune, and Azure AD directory roles and…

Since its launch two years ago, Windows 365 has changed how companies meet the needs of their flexible workforce. Now, with Windows 365 Frontline, companies can extend the power of Windows 365 Cloud PCs to shift and part-time workers —easily and affordably—allowing them to access their personalized, secure Frontline Cloud PC anywhere and on any device. Windows 365 Frontline is the first Windows solution designed to meet the distinct needs of shift and part-time employees. Instead of the common hassles that come with sharing physical PCs, Windows 365 Frontline provides Cloud PCs—freeing your frontline employees to work from anywhere, helping to boost their productivity,…

We are enhancing our tenant management capabilities in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) deliver services at scale across their small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. These changes improve the usability of the Tenants page and help partners understand their customers’ current management status in Lighthouse. Now, Lighthouse partners can use the Tenants page to see a detailed view across their SMB customers, including the status of Lighthouse management, delegated access, and deployment plans. Users can easily filter based on any of these fields or tenant tags. We’ve also updated the column options so that Lighthouse users can n…

To complement our global 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, today, we are recognizing a set of unique partners for their exceptional contribution to our Western Europe markets. The Western Europe Partner of the Year Awards celebrate outstanding success and innovation by partners in 10 categories spanning across customer impact, alignment with our vision & strategic priorities and performance excellence within the Western Europe Area. • 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 Vendor (ISV) Aw…

Microsoft Inspire begins next month and we have exciting news for you: Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer will deliver the opening keynote at this year’s event! You still have time to register, explore topics of your choice, and engage with local and global partners in rich discussions so you can learn about Microsoft products and get answers directly from subject matter experts in live Q&A.   Explore our session tools, enabling you to curate an unparalleled and personalized Microsoft Inspire experience tailored specifically to you. Continue reading...

Drumroll, please! We're thrilled to announce the winners and finalists for the 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. Congratulations to our outstanding partners, their exceptional work is transforming industries and making a lasting impact! Explore the complete list of winners and finalists and join us in celebrating their remarkable achievements. Continue reading...

Alerts, the hero or the devil? Alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud are notifications generated when potential security threats and anomalous activities are detected within your cloud environment. These alerts provide crucial information and insights, enabling SecOps teams to effectively identify, prioritize, and respond to potential malicious activity. Learn more about Defender for Cloud alerts here: Reference table for all security alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Too many alerts, however, can overwhelm security teams with a high volume of notifications, leading to alert fatigue. SecOps teams may struggle to prioritize and address genuine threats…

Congratulations to the 12 first award winners - announced on June 23 - for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Western Europe. They are all women that truly stand out in the Tech world as leaders and will be invited to participate in a Women Leaders Executive Program led by INSEAD Business School, our partner in this initiative. Check the Winners Here! Continue reading...

Globaalin ja lokaalin Microsoft Partner of the Year Awardsin lisäksi palkitaan kumppaneita heidän poikkeuksellisesta panoksestaan Länsi-Euroopan markkinoillemme. Western Europe Partner of the Year Awardsissa palkitaan kumppaneiden saavutuksia ja innovaatioita 10 kategoriassa, jotka kattavat asiakasvaikutuksen, vision ja strategisten prioriteettien noudattamisen sekä huippusuorituksen Länsi-Euroopan alueella. 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 Sof…

Hi all, mitigating the Secure Boot UEFI bootkit using the May 2023 cumulative update still causes misunderstandings at some of my customers. So I wrote this short article to give you an overview and illustrate how this update works, especially regarding the elemination of the BlackLotus bootkit, covered in CVE-2023-24932. A very detailed description can be found in the official KB article: KB5025885 support page. Among many other fixes, this update adds protection against a Secure Boot security feature bypass of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit tracked by CVE-2023-24932. However, some steps to fully mitigate the vulnerability must be performed manually. For easi…

Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a web technology designed to enable servers to transmit data to clients without the need for client-initiated requests. SSE proves to be highly advantageous for applications requiring real-time updates, such as chat platforms, news feeds, or stock price trackers. Traditionally, these applications would involve clients repeatedly requesting data from servers at predefined intervals. This blog post delves into the configuration process of setting up a server-sent events (SSE) API within Azure API Management (APIM). APIM is a comprehensive service offering the creation, publication, management, and security of APIs. APIM facilitates SSE API…

In this post we are going to discuss how we can take existing workflows (and other configurations) from an existing project and copy them into a new Logic Apps Workspace project that includes custom .NET FX code. To demonstrate this scenario, we will take an existing project that includes: Artifacts (Maps and Schemas) Multiple workflows Azure connection(s) We need to copy these resources from our existing project into our new project that is based upon the new Logic Apps Workspace project type using the following steps: Create a new logic app workspace. Fill out the prompts as requested for Workspace, Namespace, Function name etc. …

The Microsoft Defender for Identity portal experience and functionality have been converged into Microsoft’s extended detection and response (XDR) platform, Microsoft 365 Defender. Converging core elements of the legacy Defender for Identity portal into our XDR platform experience you are better able to pair the advanced identity threat detection and investigation capabilities with other security workloads to maximize not only their identity protection but also deliver a more comprehensive security posture. In this blog post, we explore the remarkable advantages this convergence brings, and guide you through the new ways you can access some of the core elements of th…

People sometimes wish to review and change their form or quiz responses after submission, even days later. We’re happy to share that you can now review and edit responses when needed. First, save your response To save your response, ensure that the form creator has selected "Allow respondents to save their responses" option in the Forms settings. Forms setting - save response Once the setting is enabled, and you submit a form, you will have the option to save your response from the thank you page. "Save my response" in Thank you page The response will be saved in “Filled forms” in Microsoft Forms. Filled forms If enabled, you c…