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Over the past few months, Microsoft Learn has published a series of blogs showcasing the latest trends in the tech industry and the increasing demand for tech skills. This series has highlighted in-depth LinkedIn data showing that preparing talent for an ever-changing job market is more important than ever. Despite recent layoffs at tech companies, the demand for technical skills in the modern workplace has never been greater; LinkedIn data has shown that the need for tech talent is flourishing in non-tech industries such as education, healthcare, finance, and government proving that not just tech companies are looking for people with technology skills. Helping stu…

Our days revolve around meetings. Microsoft 365 is making it easier to plan for and follow up on all the meetings in your day. In OneNote, we’re improving Meeting Details to take care of the time-consuming task of capturing meeting context so you can focus on what you do best: run meetings effectively and follow up flawlessly. Meeting details are one click away As you start to write notes about a meeting, you can bring context from your meetings into your Notebook by using the Meeting Details feature through the OneNote ribbon, or by using the ‘Send to OneNote’ feature in Outlook. An image demonstrating Meeting Details Suggestion Cards on a OneNote page…

Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load testing service that enables you to easily generate large scale load. I am excited to share that you can now run the tests using (Command-Line Interface). Azure CLI is a powerful tool for managing Azure resources from the command line. It is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), offers flexible output options (JSON, YAML, tables, etc.), and enables integration with automation systems (like CI/CD workflows) via scripting. Azure Load Testing already supports tools like SDKs, Azure DevOps and GitHub extensions. We are launching the support for Azure CLI since it can be easily integrated CI/CD tools and The newly …

Welcome to our insightful blog post where we delve into the fascinating world of applying dashboarding and machine learning in business analysis. Join us as we share our experiences and reflections as master students at Radboud University, where we had the opportunity to explore the power of Power BI and Azure Machine Learning. In this journey, we embarked on a mission to deliver a comprehensive report with data-driven recommendations to help FitCapacity, a company facing a decline in market share, regain its competitive edge. Along the way, we encountered ethical implications that sparked intriguing discussions and provided valuable insights for anyone interested in…

The Role of APIs in Modern Software Development In the world of software development, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become essential for connecting different applications and systems. They make it possible for these applications to seamlessly share data and functionality with each other. As more software projects rely on APIs, developers face the task of managing and integrating these APIs into their own applications. It may seem daunting, but with the right approach, it can be simplified and made easier to handle.API management services come to the rescue by providing developers with the tools, practices, and platforms needed to streamline the entir…

Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is the most popular Java framework in the market, known for its simplicity, design patterns and focus on productivity for developing enterprise-grade applications. In this blog, we delve into the exciting realm of leveraging Spring with Azure OpenAI to unlock a new realm of possibilities. You can effortlessly create intelligent and dynamic applications that offer personalized and predictive insights. Let's explore the fusion of Spring and OpenAI in a sample Spring chatbot app that provides Q&A style assistance and responds to natural language qu…

Introduction JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for working with data, code, and visualization. Azure App Service is a platform for hosting web applications in the cloud. In this blog post, we will discuss how to deploy JupyterLab to Azure App Service using the official Docker image in Docker Hub. Deploying JupyterLab to Azure App Service To deploy JupyterLab to Azure App Service, we will use the Docker image jupyter/scipy-notebook hosted in Docker Hub, which contains JupyterLab and all its dependencies. 1. First, create an Azure App Service. To do this, go to the Azure portal, select "App Services," and click "Add" to create…

Challenge: In today's healthcare landscape, secure and efficient management of health data is paramount. Azure Health Data Services (AHDS) provides a powerful platform for healthcare organizations to store, process, and analyze their sensitive data while adhering to stringent security and compliance standards. However, deploying AHDS in a complex enterprise environment can be challenging without a clear reference architecture and implementation guide. Solution: In this blog, we present AHDS Reference Architecture and a comprehensive Reference Implementation. This resource aims to empower healthcare customers by providing them with a clear blueprint for deplo…

To help administrators deploy Viva Insights more quickly and easily to their organizations, the Viva Insights team is excited to announce an updated collection of setup articles. As part of this change, you'll find a new landing page, which provides setup paths for core and premium Viva Insights features, along with updated articles, a new left-navigation structure, and all setup articles in one place. Here are a few images of the new experience:       Continue reading...

In our busy work lives documents and files come at us from all directions. With the prevalence of online collaboration our important files now find their home in many locations including SharePoint Document Libraries, file servers, email attachments, Teams chats and channels, and our co-workers’ cloud folders. The number of files we work with and the various locations in which they are stored can make it difficult to locate those files when you need them. The traditional display of folders, sub-folders and files is no longer adequate and makes it time-consuming to find our important files. OneDrive is solving this problem with several improvements we announced in May. Let…

At Microsoft, our goal is to empower all developers to be successful at building any application, using any language, on any platform. We are committed to building open, flexible technology that makes it easy for any developer to build adaptable and dynamic applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks. As one of the top open source collaborators in the world, Microsoft is committed to bringing our engineers and innovation to help foster a healthy open source ecosystem that our customers, developers, and partners can use, modify, improve, and build upon. We believe that open collaboration allows communi…

By Aasawari Navathe - Sr Product Manager | Microsoft Intune With Intune’s June (2306) release, we’ve made it easier for Intune for Education admins to add and deploy apps on their Windows 11 SE devices with the Managed installer policy. This policy automatically allows apps on Windows 11 SE devices deployed using the Intune Management Extension, which eliminates the need to request a supplemental policy update by Microsoft. Windows 11 SE devices used in education environments by students are highly controlled to prevent users from installing apps not specified in the allowed apps list through the Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policy. Adding app…

In December 2022, we announced Formula Suggestions was beginning to roll out to Excel web users. It is now available to all web users with English set as their primary language. Whether you’re new to Excel or have used it for years, Formula Suggestions helps you create formulas more quickly and accurately by offering relevant suggestions based on your data and context. All you need to do is type "=" at the beginning of a cell, and Formula Suggestions will show you different formulas that you can apply to your data, along with a specified range. Why use Formula Suggestions? Formula Suggestions can help you work faster and smarter with your data in several…

This project was a collaborative effort, bringing together the expertise and contributions of our team members: @NynkeHillen2001 Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Radboud University: LinkedIn Profile Data Analysis, Visualization and Writing Thijs Wentzel; Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Radboud University: LinkedIn Profile Data Analysis, Visualization and Writing The effective teamwork and collaboration among our…

One is deploying an HPC embarrassingly parallel application in Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSSs) and realized that (i) ssh into VM instances is possible even when they have not been fully provisioned and (ii) worker processes start before such provisioned state is reached. If you got into this situation, this blog post may be relevant to you. The goal of this blog post is to discuss places to start worker processes at boot time when running embarrassingly parallel applications in Azure VMSSs. The description here is based on UbuntuLTS Linux operating system but can be leveraged by users of other operating systems. Users of other application types may benefit…

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 Microsoft AI Builder is a powerful and user-friendly toolset provided by Microsoft to create custom artificial intelligence (AI) models without extensive coding or data science expertise. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform, which includes tools like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. AI Builder breaks down the barriers of technical complexi…

This month we are introducing several capabilities for leaders, corporate communicators, and employees to improve your campaigns, events, and engagement across the platform. Here’s what’s new for Viva Engage this month: Updates to Leadership Corner* feeds and announcements Employees can sort the feed in Leadership Corner chronologically, or filter to see unread conversations or only announcements from their leaders. Additionally, employees can now access a dedicated feed with all featured conversations across the network in a single, consolidated view. Top posts are also new in Leadership Corner, providing a visual element to highlight featured conversati…

Database modernization from Db2 and Oracle tables with LOB datatypes to Azure SQL PaaS offering (DB / MI) or SQL Server needs careful planning and at the same time provides an opportunity to optimize your database. Having TBs or PBs of LOB data stored as a part of any database has space implications as well as other maintenance overheads. In this technical blog, we are discussing the approach of storing the LOB data as Azure Datalake storage blob object and location of the blob object in Azure SQL DB Table. This approach allows reduced time to perform maintenance, provides additional flexibilities on backup / DR / storage tier and significantly reduces the siz…

In this guest blog post, Paul de Curnou, Senior Business Development Manager, Marketplaces at Keyfactor, explores the benefits of modernized PKI deployments on Microsoft Azure and how Keyfactor can help. Organizations are embracing cloud services to drive more efficiency, enable automation, and scale their digital footprint to meet new business needs. Like the mainframes before them, datacenters are gradually becoming obsolete, replaced by increasingly reliable and scalable cloud-based solutions. In the HashiCorp 2022 State of Cloud Strategy Survey, 76 percent of survey respondents said their company employs a multi-cloud architecture. HashiCorp projects that numbe…

We're excited to announce the general availability of Windows driver and firmware update management policies and reports in Microsoft Intune! This new functionality in Intune makes it easier to keep drivers on your Windows devices up to date in two main ways. First, you'll no longer have to do the manual work of downloading, repackaging, and deploying drivers using generic tools. Instead, you can take advantage of driver update management policies and reports built on the Windows Update for Business deployment service. These new capabilities are part of our Windows Enterprise offerings, providing you with multiple benefits: Intelligent servicing helps identify w…

Azure Load Testing is a fully managed service for simulating real-world, large-scale traffic to your application and services. The rich dashboard provides actionable insights, based on client-side and server-side metrics, to help ensure that the application meets your requirements when put under load. Can your ecommerce website handle the surge of holiday promotions, or does the response time of your APIs result in a degraded experience for mobile users? With Azure App Service, you have a fully managed service to build, deploy, and scale web applications and APIs in the cloud. Develop in your favorite programming language and let the service take care of scaling th…

We are happy to announce that Microsoft Teams Enterprise (non-EDU) users will now get a “Notes” tab, powered by OneNote, added by default to the tabs bar on creation of new standard channels to enable rich notetaking experience. This feature has started rolling out and you will get it soon if you haven’t already. OneNote is the sole notetaking app across Microsoft 365 ecosystem, and already powers notetaking in Teams channels for EDU customers. With this update, it would allow Enterprise (non-EDU) customers to leverage this capability as well. Please note, this feature is only available on standard channels, and not on private or shared channels yet. …

Microsoft 365 has swiftly become one of the most ubiquitous collaboration platforms in organizations today. People love how easy it is to use, and the vast array of features and tools that empower them to do their best work every day. But if you’re a records management professional, you’re probably a bit concerned about Microsoft 365. You’re likely concerned about the growth in the number of Teams and SharePoint sites that are being created, or IT implementing apps and features without considering records management. And you’re probably concerned about ensuring records stored in Microsoft 365 are appropriately managed and disposed of. I’ve worked with a lot …

We’ve recently rolled out two features that enhance the captions experience in Microsoft Teams meetings. We’ve added the ability to toggle profanity filtering for Live Captions and Live Transcription, and support for customizing your captions experience. Profanity filtering toggle We’ve added a toggle that allows you to turn off the profanity filtering for live captions. This will allow you to view live captions and live transcription without any filtering or masking, displaying every word as-is. Filtering is on by default so if you want to turn it off, you’ll need to do so from the captions and transcription tab in your user settings. This is a user-level pre…