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CI & CD With Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool
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Author(s): Pradeep Srikakolapu is a Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Automating development practices is hard but we can make it simpler using Version Control, Continuous Integration & Deployment and best practices to manage ALM lifecycle of an Azure Synapse Data Warehouse with this blog article. Introduction This article helps developers understand the following: How to version control Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool (Azure data warehouse) objects? How to continuously develop and deploy data warehouse objects using SSDT & SQL Package? How to selectively deploy objects from a dacpac file? The p…
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Understanding Azure Web Apps and Azure App service
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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 Azure App Service is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offered in Microsoft Azure that enables developers to quickly build, deploy, and scale web, mobile, and API applications. Azure Web Apps is a specific type of Azure App Service that is focused on hosting web applications. Azure Web Apps provides a fully managed platform for building and hosting web appl…
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How to Customize the Azure Cognitive Service Vision Model to Fit Your Business Needs
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Azure Cognitive Service for Vision offers innovative AI models that bridge the gap between the digital and physical world. At the core of these services is the multi-modal foundation model. This model is the backbone of Azure’s Vision Services, converting images and video streams into valuable, structured data that unlocks endless scenarios for businesses. It is trained on billions of text-image pairs and can deliver image classification and object detection, customized to fit the unique needs of industries and domains. Until now, model customization required large datasets with hundreds of images per label to achieve production quality for vision tasks. With the Flor…
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PowerApps Community Portal Part I
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What is Community portal The Community Portal template is a quick and easy way for a Power Apps organization to get up and run with their own community portal. The template provides a lot of nice out of the box functionality, including blog posts, forums, ideas, knowledge base articles as well as providing feedback through comments and ratings. Setting up a community portal: To create a CFT: Open Power Apps or type (Power Apps) in web browser. On the left pane, select Create. At the middle of the screen/page, select start from template > Community. For Name, enter a name (CTF_PTL). For Address, enter the URL you want your user to visit …
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Generate Logic App Standard run history URL in Application Insights log
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Background Recently, we only can filter failed runs on workflow level in Logic App Standard and we also cannot filter for specific errors. So this blog is to introduce a different way to generate run history url based on Application Insights logs which can help us to find failure runs based on specific exceptions. Mechanism When we directly copy the run history URL from Azure portal, we will find it is very complex with all sorts of different parameters. After URL decode, we can see the URL contains a Json payload which include quite some workflow information: Except for the Json content, all the rest parameters (resource id, run id, etc.) …
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Enhancing Power Platform Development with VS Code and GitHub Codespaces Integration
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Introduction: The Power Platform is a powerful tool for creating custom business solutions, enabling developers to create low-code applications without needing to write complex code. However, the integration of Microsoft Power Platform with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and GitHub Codespaces provides an even more powerful development experience, combining the ease of low-code tools with the power of code-first development. This session covers the Power Platform CLI, authentication, creating developer environments, custom connectors, and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) controls. It emphasizes the concept of fusion development, where code-first developers can create re…
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Azure Policy Recommended Practices
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Azure Policy has multiple uses including general governance, monitoring setup, security, and compliance. It should not be used to deal with items better handled with role-based access control (RBAC). The following rules codify this: Prohibit anybody and any service from doing something: Azure Policy. Prohibit specific users and service principals from doing something: RBAC. Note: Many professionals use security and compliance interchangeably. Security encompasses much more than some checkboxes on a compliance spreadsheet; however, complying with Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark and NIST-880-53 are a decent baseline for enforcing security aspects with Azure Pol…
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Scenario Configure a Logic App (Consumption) with Azure Active Directory Open Authentication so that it can be called/invoked by an Azure Data Factory Web Activity via Managed Identity. References Create a Web Activity in Azure Data Factory: Web Activity - Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse | Microsoft Learn Select the Managed Identity Authentication for the Web Activity call in Azure Data Factory: Web Activity - Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse | Microsoft Learn Create a Logic App with an HTTP Trigger: Call, trigger, or nest logic apps by using Request triggers - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Learn Services Used Azu…
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Released: 2023 H1 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server
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Today we are announcing the availability of the 2023 H1 Cumulative Update (CU) for Exchange Server 2019 (aka CU13). CU13 includes fixes for customer reported issues along with all previously released Security Updates (SUs), including updates in the March 2023 SU. A full list of fixes is contained in the KB article for the CU, but we also want to highlight two exciting new features in the CU. Modern authentication Historically, Exchange Server has used Basic authentication (also known as legacy authentication) for client/server and server/server connections. Basic authentication is an outdated industry standard, we have been working to help organizations transitio…
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Increased remote storage performance with NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs now generally available
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At Microsoft Ignite in October 2022, we announced the preview of NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 Virtual Machine (VM) sizes based on the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C processor offering higher remote storage performance with Azure Disks. The Ebsv5 VM family is designed for memory-intensive business-critical applications, relational database servers, and in-memory data analytics workloads. Today, we announce the general availability (GA) of the NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VM series, with two new sizes, E96 and E112i vCPU, added to the Ebsv5 VM family. The Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe VMs offer up to 260,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) and 8,000MBps of remote disk storage th…
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Community Portal Part I
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What is Community portal The Community Portal template is a quick and easy way for a Power Apps organization to get up and run with their own community portal. The template provides a lot of nice out of the box functionality, including blog posts, forums, ideas, knowledge base articles as well as providing feedback through comments and ratings. Setting up a community portal: To create a CFT: Open Power Apps or type (Power Apps) in web browser. On the left pane, select Create. At the middle of the screen/page, select start from template > Community. For Name, enter a name (XYZ). For Address, enter the URL you want your user to visit to use your portal.…
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Part 2 - How to build your first app using Power Apps | Power Fx & Power Automate basics
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Add customizations to your inventory tracking apps in Part 2 of our series on how to build your first app in Power Apps. See how to add new part records and a search function to quickly find inventory as your catalog grows, incorporate logic to trigger an email notification when parts are running low, change the color theme, and upload photos of parts to the catalog to accompany records. In Part 1 of the series, we showed the basics of how to build an inventory tracking app from scratch incorporating AI-driven Copilot capabilities. We added a mechanical parts table for data entry and sample data stored in Dataverse on the backend. Emma Cooper, Princi…
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Azure Backup: Best Practices for Secure Data Protection and Restoration
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Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup solution by Microsoft Azure that allows you to protect your data and applications both in the cloud and on-premises by providing centralized management of backups, policy-based backup schedules, and built-in data protection features for storing backups. It offers a scalable and cost-effective way to back up your critical data and applications, ensuring that you can recover them in the event of data loss or disaster. Azure Backup can be used to protect a variety of workloads including Azure virtual machines, on-premises virtual machines, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and more. With Azure Backup, you can create backup policies th…
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How to provide feedback on Windows LAPS
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Like you, we are excited that Windows LAPS is now available! This new solution gives you the ability to easily manage and back up passwords for local administrator accounts on your Azure Active Directory-joined or Active Directory-joined devices. Password encryption and history, Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password backups, emulation mode, and automatic rotation—all these new capabilities can now be yours! But we'd love to keep working with you to continue to improve Windows LAPS. So, let's hear your ideas and feedback. Here's how you can submit your suggestions: Bookmark the Windows LAPS feedback board: Windows LAPS feedback To submit your feedback, se…
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How to provide feedback on Windows LAPS
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Like you, we are excited that Windows LAPS is now available! This new solution gives you the ability to easily manage and back up passwords for local administrator accounts on your Azure Active Directory-joined or Active Directory-joined devices. Password encryption and history, Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password backups, emulation mode, and automatic rotation—all these new capabilities can now be yours! But we'd love to keep working with you to continue to improve Windows LAPS. So, let's hear your ideas and feedback. Here's how you can submit your suggestions: Bookmark the Windows LAPS feedback board: Windows LAPS feedback To submit your feedback, se…
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In this blog post, we share how Microsoft's dedication to continuous learning and development led to the creation of Learning Fridays and a series of hackathons focused on AI. Our Customer Success teams came together to ideate and gain hands-on experience with the latest technology, resulting in valuable insights and blog posts. Read on to discover the power of AI with step-by-step guidance and access to a Hackathon Starter Kit. At Microsoft, we prioritize continuous learning and development. To support this, our leadership has set aside the first Friday of each month as a dedicated Learning Friday, during which employees have the time and resources to pursue their…
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Power Up your BI with Microsoft Power BI and Azure Databricks Lakehouse: part 1 - Essentials
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This post was authored by Andrey Mirskiy and Diego Fanesi. Welcome to the first post of our series on how to use Azure Databricks SQL with Power BI. In this article, we will focus on how to connect to a Databricks SQL Warehouse from Power BI and query your Delta Lake to populate your dashboards. This scalable approach allows you to efficiently run queries on large data volumes, generating more business value from your datasets. Many customers have adopted this architecture for their Business Intelligence workloads. Here is a short list of companies that are using Azure Databricks with Power BI today: Pandora Via CBC Australian Rail Track Corporation …
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Mitigating Downtime and Increasing Reliability: Strategies for Managing Complexity in the Cloud
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This paper explores the relationship between complexity, entropy, and chaos theory in the context of cloud application design and management. Discussing the importance of understanding business needs, setting RTO and RPO objectives, conducting effective risk assessments, understanding SLA and calculating SLAs when building Cloud Native Systems and steps to help mitigate down time and increase system availability using Azure Availability Zones. The paper concludes by emphasising the need for careful consideration when designing and managing complex systems, as the risk of failure increases with complexity and through the use of availability zones, risk of failure ca…
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Move to Azure with a Web App
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I recently saw a discussion on what value does the cloud actually bring to people. Why migrate? Beyond the most stated reasons, elasticity (aka add a host, VM, app or container on the fly), resiliency with Azure regions, Availability sets and zones. Maybe we should ask why wouldn't you migrate applications that make sense to move from on-premises to Azure? There will always be debate on what's right for your organization but there are many ways you can benefit from cloud. I thought it simplest to start with a web application. These can be run on a physical server, a virtual machine, a container but you can also run them as an Application Service in Azure. Have…
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New feature: Sign up for Windows known issue email alerts
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Today, we're announcing the availability of a much-requested feature for IT administrators planning and deploying Windows feature and quality updates—email alerts! Starting today, you can get notified about Windows known issues documented in the Windows release health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. This enables you to easily and quickly learn about issues related to Windows updates and make informed decisions about rolling out an update across your environment. When you sign up, you'll receive emails about new issues for the versions of the Windows operating system you support, as well as updates to known issues such as: Changes in issue status New wor…
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Checklist for Migrating Web Apps to App Service
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App Service continues to invest in migration tooling to allow customers to easily migrate their web apps to App Service. The current set of tools enable discovery, assessment, and migration of ASP. Net web app across various scenarios and scopes viz. standalone web app, single IIS server and even a datacenter. To read more about these migration tools please refer to ASP. Net web app Migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts. To successfully migrate, and subsequently operate, an application workload in Azure App Service several qualifying prerequisites must be satisfied. Broadly there are three categories of pre-requisite checks to review and confirm w…
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What’s New: MDTI Interoperability with Microsoft 365 Defender
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) helps streamline security analyst triage, incident response, threat hunting, and vulnerability management workflows, aggregating and enriching critical threat information in an easy-to-use interface. At Microsoft Secure, we announced new features, including that Defender TI is now available to licensed customers within the Microsoft 365 Defender (M365 Defender) portal, placing its powerful threat intelligence side-by-side with the advanced XDR functionality of M365 Defender. For Defender users, Defender TI will now be quickly accessible and easy to reference for swift context about threat actors and their tools a…
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Transforming Your Data Lake: Implementing Slow Change Dimension with Synapse
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As organizations continue to collect and store large volumes of data in their data lakes, managing this data effectively becomes increasingly important. One key aspect of this is implementing Slow Change Dimension type 2, which allows organizations to track historical data by creating multiple records for a given natural key in the dimensional tables with separate surrogate keys and/or different version numbers. In this blog post we will address the following scenario: a customer wants to implement Slow Change Dimension type 2 on top of their data lake. For this example, we will use Serverless SQL Pool to demonstrate how this can be done. Additionally, in the next …
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Prove your expert skills: Take Exam MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator (beta)
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We’re looking for Microsoft 365 administrators to take our new Exam MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator, currently in beta. If you have subject matter expertise in deploying and managing Microsoft 365 and in performing Microsoft 365 tenant-level implementation and administration of cloud and hybrid environments, be sure to check it out. The Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert certification will be renamed the Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert certification. The updated certification name more closely aligns with current workplace opportunities, and it better fits the scope of work, since the role and skills apply to organizations of…
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Introducing Real-Time Database Availability Monitoring
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is a fully managed database service offered by Microsoft Azure for PostgreSQL databases. It provides a flexible and customizable deployment option for PostgreSQL, which allows users to choose the compute and storage resources that best fit their workload requirements. Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of database availability monitoring in Azure Database for Postgres Flexible Server. This new feature provides you with real-time insights into the availability of your database, so you can quickly identify and resolve any issues that may arise. With database availability monitoring, you can: View the s…