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SSMS Performance Dashboard for Managed Instance shows different percent of CPU usage
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Symptom: When using Performance Dashboard on Azure SQL Managed Instance you may find that percent of CPU usage is different (lower) than reported by Azure Portal for your Managed Instance. You may wonder which is the correct value. Resolution: When Managed Instance is provisioned you set the number of vCores you desire to have. Assume you choose X vCores you end up with machine that has Y>=X. You will only be charged for X vCores, and the system will restrict your Managed Instance to use only X vCores out of Y This is done to make sure your Instance will always have enouph resources and to avoid distruptions. Now, here is the reason, Azu…
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Checklist for troubleshooting and improving MySQL database performance
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Introduction Database performance is a hot topic among database users and practitioners. Users are always looking for the best performance, preferably out of the box, with no need for additional tuning, and at the most affordable price point. While Azure Database for MySQL is already tuned for the best perfromance out of the box, workloads vary. As a result, specific workloads may require some user intervention to boost and get the most out of a database server's performance. It's always a good idea to benchmark a MySQL server using sysbench to assess the capabilities of the server SKU it is uses. This blog post provides a checklist to help improve MySQL datab…
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Enable and Operate Open Service Mesh in AKS hybrid cluster
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A number of organizations adopting microservices architectures have looked to service meshes as one of the tools that help these organizations in enforcing enterprise-wide policies and rules for traffic, security, reliability, and monitoring. These are generally categorized into Security, Reliability and Observability. While a networking solution other than service mesh can provide some of these features, it won’t do it without disrupting the application code or existing infrastructure. Service Mesh provides an independent infrastructure layer that can be managed by a separate team and is least intrusive. It deploys a sidecar container to pods by design, which makes it ve…
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Deploy Linux workstations for 3D visualization in Azure
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If you need a remote workstation with graphical acceleration for 3D visualization, Azure has several options available. From the original NV series, with the NVIDIA Tesla M60, to the fifth generation of the family with the NVads A10 v5 series based on the NVIDIA A10 cards. This series is the first one to introduce support for the use of partitioned NVIDIA GPUs with a minimum of 1/6 of the GPU resources in the smaller version with the Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5, up to a maximum of 2 full GPUs per virtual machine in the Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5. In addition, this new generation is based on the latest AMD EPYC 74F3V (Milan) processors with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz and a…
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Windows 365 Government session at Technical Takeoff
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technical takeoff graphic Coming up on Oct 27 2022, 08:00 AM - 08:30 AM (PDT) There will be a Windows 365 Government: setup and configuration session that you don't want to miss. You can also watch this session on YouTube In this session we will share with you the story of Windows 365 Government and how Windows 365 is staying true to principle of simplicity while meeting the the specific needs of US Government agencies and their contractors. Please join Robert Nishi, Roy Barton, Shannon Young, and Tony Checkal as they cover the product and architecture of Windows 365 Government, share some best practices, and address common questions and scenarios from cus…
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Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection: Skill up to deliver innovative security solutions
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As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, explore the solutions that Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection provides to help keep your organization’s data protected. Use the resources on Microsoft Learn to discover methods of supporting data security within your organization, whether you’re a functional consultant, a business user, a data analyst, or a developer. Learn how Fraud Protection helps safeguard customer accounts and build customer trust. Sandra Feinberg, Microsoft Principal Program Manager, offers insight on the subject. She observes that any enterprise using a Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection solution should consider that its high-quality data can be used not on…
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I have a varied client base. Many of my customers are traditional larger financial organizations. But I also work with start-ups and software houses. (Microsoft calls these ISVs – Independent Software Vendors). Most software houses don't want to sell software anymore. Instead, they want to repackage their solutions as services, i.e. they want to offer Software as a Service (SaaS). Converting an application to a service is not easy. Even Microsoft had false starts with moving their on-premises applications to cloud-based offerings. Lately, I've spent a lot of time considering Microsoft's Well Architected Framework (WAF). It provides pillars of guidance…
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The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Ninja Training is here!
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Short link: The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Ninja Training is here! The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Ninja Training is here! We are very excited and pleased to announce this rendition of the Ninja Training Series. With all the other training out there, our team has been working diligently to get this content out there. There are several videos and resources out there and the overall purpose of the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Ninja training is to help you master this realm. We aim to get you up-to-date links to the community blogs, training videos, Interactive Guides, learning paths, and any other relevant documentation. …
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Azure DevOps for the ITPro
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In my career I have worked for many organizations where we would launch all of our updates at once, both from the operational side and the development teams. This was messy. Through my career I started looking at new ways to do things. Deploying smaller, more incremental changes. I also found ways to automate easy tasks in my infrastructure so that I could actually take a vacation or have a sick day. I started with PowerShell, then really started to embrace Infrastructure as Code. As I was automating more and more, I needed to stop deploying these things manually as well and find a way to automate things further. I started to then learn about automated deployment, …
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi Zhang, Yuki Chen, and Dang The Tuyen! Check out the full list of researchers … Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q3 Security Researchers! Read More » Continue reading...
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Want to simplify your on-premises management of updates? Try the public preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP)! Following on a successful limited private preview, the UUP on premises is available for commercial organizations now. UUP on premises is an integration with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Configuration Manager. This new capability simplifies Windows content management and streamlines the process for upgrading to Windows 11 for those who manage Windows devices with these update management platforms. Prepare yourself and your organization for the complete transition of servicing to UUP by early 2023. Let's see how UUP on premises simp…
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Take advantage of expedited quality updates in Intune and Windows Update for Business to address zero-day security vulnerabilities and fast-tracking installation of security updates. It works seamlessly if you are managing a mix of Windows 10 and 11 devices, ensuring quick deployment even in complex environments. This feature is available to those enrolled in Windows Update for Business deployment service. Working closely with Intune users, we have invested in improving the experience by adding new and more intuitive alerts and notifications. To help you get the very best out of the expedite capability, this blog explores: Prerequisites for expedited updates Mo…
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A quick start guide to benchmarking LLM models in Azure: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron - Results
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By Hugo Affaticati (Technical Program Manager) and Jon Shelley (Principal TPM Manager) Useful resources: NeMo Megatron from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron Container from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NGC Below are the full results obtained with NVIDIA NeMo Megatron and Azure NDm A100 v4-series virtual machines (VMs) and a discussion on the parameters. NVIDIA NeMo Megatron is an end-to-end framework for training & deploying large language models (LLMs) with millions and billions of parameters. Full results: All the results were obtained with the container 22.06-hotfix and BF16 data type on GPT-3 architecture. Performance of the benchmark is…
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A quick start guide to benchmarking LLM models in Azure: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron - Steps
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By Hugo Affaticati (Technical Program Manager – Microsoft), Annika Brundyn (Solutions Architect – NVIDIA) and Jon Shelley (Principal TPM Manager – Microsoft) Useful resources: NeMo Megatron from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron Container from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NGC Below are the steps one needs to take to run GPT-3 architecture models with NeMo Megatron on NDm A100 v4-series on Azure, powered by NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA InfiniBand networking. NVIDIA NeMo Megatron is an end-to-end framework for training & deploying LLMs with billions and trillions of parameters – NVIDIA. Deploy the environment: Deploy and set up a …
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Public preview of Unified Update Platform on premises
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Want to simplify your on-premises management of updates? Try the public preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP)! Following on a successful limited private preview, the UUP on premises is available for commercial organizations now. UUP on premises is an integration with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Configuration Manager. This new capability simplifies Windows content management and streamlines the process for upgrading to Windows 11 for those who manage Windows devices with these update management platforms. Prepare yourself and your organization for the complete transition of servicing to UUP by early 2023. Let's see how UUP on premises simp…
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Get the most out of expedited Windows quality updates
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Take advantage of expedited quality updates in Intune and Windows Update for Business to address zero-day security vulnerabilities and fast-tracking installation of security updates. It works seamlessly if you are managing a mix of Windows 10 and 11 devices, ensuring quick deployment even in complex environments. This feature is available to those enrolled in Windows Update for Business deployment service. Working closely with Intune users, we have invested in improving the experience by adding new and more intuitive alerts and notifications. To help you get the very best out of the expedite capability, this blog explores: Prerequisites for expedited updates Mo…
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Serverless image classification with Azure Functions and Custom Vision – Part 4
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Welcome to the fourth part of the learning series “Serverless image classification with Azure Functions and Custom Vision”! About me Hi, I am Foteini Savvidou! a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador from Greece. I am an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) interested in wireless communications, IoT, AI, cloud technologies and biomedical engineering. I am also Microsoft MVP and Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. Always passionate about teaching and learning new things, I love helping people expand their technical skills through organizing workshops and sharing articles …
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Show upcoming meetings for a Microsoft 365 user
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Learn how you can build a simple personal assistant in under 10 minutes that'll show a Microsoft 365 user the meetings they have left for the day. Show upcoming meetings for a Microsoft 365 user Recently, I published an article on freeCodeCamp that shows you how you can build in just 10 minutes a simple personal assistant that shows upcoming meetings for the signed-in user. Showing upcoming meetings is a common scenario when integrating Microsoft 365 in work applications. It shows you how to get information from the user's calendar and check their availability for a particular time slot. And it's also a great way to get started with building…
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Working with ADF Storage Event Trigger Over SFTP
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Storage Event Trigger in Azure Data Factory is the building block to build an event driven ETL/ELT architecture (EDA). Data Factory's native integration with Azure Event Grid let you trigger processing pipeline based upon certain events. Currently, Storage Event Triggers support events with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and General-Purpose version 2 storage accounts, including Blob Created and Blob Deleted. Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a common data integration pattern that involves production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events. Data integration scenarios often require customers to trigger pipelines based on events happening in storage account, su…
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Estimating Azure Diagnostics Cost
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Introduction There are many good reasons to enable Azure Diagnostics on your Azure PaaS resources, for example, auditing who has been accessing a Key Vault, troubleshooting failed requests to a Storage Account, doing a forensics analysis to a compromised Azure SQL Server, etc. Azure resource logging is recommended as part of the Operational Excellence and Security pillars of the Well Architected Framework. Furthermore, you’ll also increase your Azure Secure Score, as enabling auditing and logging is one of the assessed controls of your security posture. Azure customers mostly prefer to enable Azure Diagnostics at scale and ensure recommended best practices…
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Azure Data Factory to ADX Free Cluster
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Azure Data Factory to ADX Free Cluster If you are using Azure Data Factory and need to connect to an Azure Data Explorer Free Cluster, this walkthrough will show you how to create the linked service using System Managed Identity. First make a note or copy the URL for your free cluster, example of the one we are using in the walkthrough: From Data Factory select Manage -> Linked Services -> New. Select ADX as the Linked Service Data Store. Provide a Name and Description and for Authentication method select System Assigned Managed Identity. For Account selection method select Enter manually and enter …
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Use managed identity instead of AzureWebJobsStorage to connect a function app to a storage account
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In a function app, usually we use appsetting AzureWebJobsStorage to connect to storage. This blog shows you how to configure a function app using Azure Active Directory identities instead of secrets or connection strings, where possible. Using identities helps you avoid accidentally leaking sensitive secrets and can provide better visibility into how data is accessed. This will not work if the storage account is in a sovereign cloud or has a custom DNS. Below are the steps to do configuration. 1. Enable system assigned identity in your function app and save it. 2. Give storage access to your function app. Search for Storage Blob Data Owner,…
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi Zhang , Yuki Chen , and Dang The Tuyen! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.
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MS Learn module: Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer
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Dashboards tell a story through visualizations, and are an excellent way to view your data and see all of your most important insights at a glance. Azure Data Explorer dashboards in the web UI natively support the Kusto Query Language over data hosted in Azure Data Explorer. These dashboards will help you progress quickly from raw data to shared insights. In the new module, you will create a dashboard from a query in Azure Data Explorer web UI. Add new tiles. Create dashboard parameters, and cross-filters for the parameters. Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer More ADX MS Learn modules: MS Learn: Introduction to Azure Data Explorer , MS Learn:…
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This article assumes that you already have created and published Python Bot using the link below: Provision and publish a bot in Azure - Bot Service | Microsoft Learn But you might end up facing some issues like below: Container pythonbot_### didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8000, failing site start Container pythonbot_### for site pythonbot has exited, failing site start Failed to find attribute 'app' in 'app'. Probable causes: App Service configured as Messaging Endpoint could have been missing one or more of the following configurations: App Service --> Configuration --> Application Settings: MicrosoftAppId (Application Id …