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AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server 2023-05-09 Update
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Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that we have extended our support for minor Kubernetes versions for a period of up to one year, commencing with v1.23.x. In order to facilitate this, we have added a range of enhancements to our AKS hybrid platform which include: We have lifted a restriction that limited users from updating AKS hybrid management clusters when you have a target cluster that's running on a version that has been deprecated in the latest release. With the new change, update will proceed as long as the workload cluster's version is still a supported minor version. With the current release, while updates will continue to be executed in a…
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Azure Sphere update 23.05 is now available for evaluation
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The Azure Sphere update 23.05 is now available for evaluation via the Retail Eval feed. The retail evaluation period provides 14 days for backwards compatibility testing. During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate properly with this release before it's deployed broadly via the Retail feed. The Retail feed will continue to deliver OS version 23.02 until we publish the 23.05 update in two weeks. Areas of special focus for compatibility testing with the 23.05 release should include apps and functionality utilizing: Azure IoT Hub wolfSSL API calls (such as custom TLS Client or Server) TLS connections UART For more i…
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Activating and using your ISV Success program benefits in Partner Center just got faster and easier!
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You can now, at-a-glance, see important dates about your ISV Success program benefits, read benefit overviews, act on a detailed activation walkthrough, and complete your activation, all in one place. In April, Azure Standard Support Plan and GitHub have been added to the list of fully automated ISV Success program benefits, joining Azure Sponsorship, Dynamics 365 Sandbox, Microsoft 365 Developer Subscriptions, the Application architecture design session, Application design review, the Application publishing consultation, and Marketplace listing optimization, meaning a smoother transition from activation to utilization for you and your team. What does this mean for…
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Latest Enhancements Boost Usability, Enhance Your Tools and Workflows
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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM) discovers and classifies assets and workloads across your organization's digital presence to enable teams to understand and prioritize exposed weaknesses in cloud, SaaS, and IaaS resources to strengthen security posture. Features recently added boost usability and enable exciting new ways for customers to leverage their inventory data and critical security insights derived from their organization's assets and workloads. Below, learn about these powerful new enhancements and how you can begin using them today. New Features Data Connections Defender EASM now offers data connection…
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Cost Optimization Considerations for Azure VMs – Part 1: VM services
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Azure Virtual Machines are an excellent solution for hosting both new and legacy applications. However, as your services and workloads become more complex and demand increases, your costs may also rise. Azure provides a range of pricing models, services, and tools that can help you optimize the allocation of your cloud budget and get the most value for your money. Let’s explore Azure’s various cost-optimization options to see how they can significantly reduce your Azure compute costs. The major Azure cost optimization options can be grouped into three categories: VM services, pricing models and programs, and cost analysis tools. Let’s have a quick overvi…
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Azure API Management: Streamline Testing with Postman & Azure DevOps
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Have you ever needed to test an API that you have exposed via Azure APIM? It can be a tedious and repetitive process… right? Not only do you have to redo testing after every minor change, but you also have to repeat it for each environment you deploy to. What if there was a way to automate the process with minimal coding? First, what exactly is Azure API Management (APIM), if you have not used it before? It's a fully managed service provided by Microsoft Azure that enables you to publish, secure, and manage APIs for your organization. By acting as a gateway between your backend services and the clients that consume them, APIM provides a centralized point o…
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Skilling snack: Best practices for shared and frontline Windows devices
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Does your organization share computing resources among employees or clients? There are many reasons to do this, with productivity and ease of management perhaps being some of yours. On the one hand, there are shared multi-user and guest Windows devices. On the other hand, there is Windows 365 Frontline, which is currently in public preview. It is designed for employees who work on a rotation schedule or part-time workers who don't require 24/7 dedicated Cloud PCs. Variety is the spice of life, they say! Time to learn: 53 minutes [attachment=39895:name]READ Manage multi-user and guest Windows devices Start here to learn about Shared PC mode. It's a way…
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Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Muhammad Sakib Khan Inan
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Today we meet Muhammad Sakib Khan Inan who recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and engineering from East Delta University. Responses have been edited for clarity and length. When you joined the Student Ambassador community in 2020, did you have specific goals you wanted to reach, such as a particular skill or quality? Before joining the community, one of the most important goals in my mind was to break the boundary of my community engagement circle and extend the diameter of it at an international level. I wanted to improve my presentation skills, public-speaking skills, and story-telling skills at an international lev…
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Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Luis Filipe
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Today we meet Luis Filipe who recently graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from the Federal Institute of Science Education and Technology of Ceará, Brazil. Responses have been edited for clarity and length. What is your degree in? I graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Federal Institute of Science, Education and Technology of Ceará (IFCE ) in Brazil. When did you join the Student Ambassadors community? I joined the Student Ambassador community in January 2021, and loved every moment I could contribute to my community and fellow Ambassadors! What was being a Student Ambassador like? B…
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Getting started with Microsoft Learn
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Even if you’re completely new to Microsoft technology—or technology as a whole—Microsoft has some great tools and resources to assist you in getting skilled up, topic by topic, course by course, one certification at a time. One thing that could help is having a knowledge partner—someone who understands that you might be new to all this stuff. No matter what piques your interest, whether it’s development, AI, security, or another tech topic altogether, the Microsoft Learn Community is here to help. Microsoft—and more specifically, Microsoft Learn—can help you to build the skills you need to take your career to the next level or even to kick-start a new career in tec…
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Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Israel Ulelu
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Today we meet Israel Ulelu who recently graduated from University of Nigeria with a degree in computer science and statistics. Responses have been edited for clarity and length. What is your degree in? I recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science and statistics from the University of Nigeria. When did you join the Student Ambassadors community? I joined the Student Ambassadors Community in January 2020 just before the COVID -19 Pandemic. What was being a Student Ambassador like? It was a wonderful experience. The program provided me with a platform to connect with a network of Student Ambassadors from arou…
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Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Jasleen Kaur Sondhi
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Today we meet Jasleen Sondhi who recently graduated with a Master of Science in Data Science from Christ University in India. Responses have been edited for clarity and length. Tell us your degree and what university you attend? I will graduate with a Master of Science in Data Science (MSc Data Science) from Christ University, in India. When did you join the Student Ambassadors community? I joined the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors community right amid the pandemic. I was pursuing my bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, and Computer Science at the time. I was unmotivated due to the pandemic and recovering from a medical condition and…
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Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Bruna Lanzarini
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Today we meet Bruna Lanzarini who recently graduated with a degree in Information Systems from Faculdade de Informatica e Administracao Paulista in Brazil. Responses have been edited for clarity and length. What is your degree in? I graduated with a degree in Information Systems from the Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista (FIAP) in Brazil. When did you join the Student Ambassadors community? I joined the program in January 2020, through friends from my college who already participated and encouraged me to participate too. What was being a Student Ambassador like? It was gratifying, a welcoming place where I co…
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Public Preview: Token Protection for Sign-In Sessions
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At the recent Microsoft Secure event, we announced a new feature called Token Protection for sign-in sessions. This is the first in a series of Microsoft Entra features designed to combat token theft and replay attacks. As you may know, attacks involving token theft are becoming more frequent. To address this, we at Microsoft are making comprehensive investments to allow you to use Azure AD Conditional Access to better protect your critical resources. Our solutions aim to provide better security characteristics than previous approaches to combat token theft. This includes resistance to malware attacks on user devices that steal tokens and malicious insider…
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Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Raja Ahmed
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Today we meet Raja Ahmed who recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology at the University of Peshawar in Pakistan. Responses have been edited for clarity and length. What is your degree in? I pursued my bachelor's in computer engineering from UET Peshawar, a tier-1 engineering school in Pakistan. Peshawar is probably among the oldest cities on the planet, with a diversified culture. When did you join the Student Ambassadors community? I joined the MLSA community back in 2019 when I was about to start my sophomore year and now it’s time to say goodbye after an a…
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IN-PERSON EVENT: Inspiration Day, One Microsoft Place, 23rd June
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Please join us at One Microsoft Place to be inspired by Microsoft Specialists, our partners and our customers across Modern Work, Security, Azure and Business Applications to empower you and your organisation to achieve more. WHEN: 9:30 am – 3:15 pm, 23rd June 2023 WHERE: One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland WHO: Decision makers and/or IT managers interested in current market trends Learn more and register now HERE Continue reading...
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How to add Copilot to your Power Apps | GPT-based User Controls
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In Part 3 of our series, add Copilot to a simple app in Power Apps. Copilot user controls are rolling out now in preview. See how to add navigation between screens and conditional formatting using generative AI. Publish and share your app with your team, and integrate it with Microsoft Teams or Sharepoint to make it more discoverable. In Part 1 and 2 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. Then, we added customizations such as new part records, a search function…
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Using Azure DevOps with Synapse Workspaces to create hot fixes in production environments
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Have you ever deployed a release to production only to find out a bug has escaped your testing process and now users are being severely impacted? In this post, I’ll discuss how to deploy a fix from your development Synapse Workspace into a production Synapse Workspace without adversely affecting ongoing development projects. This example uses Azure DevOps for CICD along with a Synapse extension for Azure DevOps: Synapse Workspace Deployment. In this example, I assume Synapse is already configured for source control with Azure DevOps Git and Build and Release pipelines are already defined in Azure DevOps. Instructions on how to apply this this can be found in the Az…
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Enhanced autoscale capabilities in HDInsight clusters
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Today, we announce HDInsight Autoscale with enhanced capabilities which include improved latency and support for recommissioning node managers in case of load-based autoscale. Together, they improve cluster utilization massively and lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) significantly. Additionally, we also introduce customizable parameters on Autoscale to meet customer needs and bring in more flexibility to tune based on customer preferences. Note: Effective 17th May 2023, the enhanced autoscale capabilities are available for HDInsight customers on supported workloads. HDInsight Autoscale currently supports various cluster shapes and was released for general ava…
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Announcing extended support for minor Kubernetes versions in AKS hybrid
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We are excited to announce that AKS hybrid will now support minor Kubernetes versions for 1 year starting with v1.23.x. This was in response to feedback from customers emphasizing preference for consistency in the support of minor Kubernetes version with AKS in Azure, we have made changes to make this possible. What have we changed? 1. Support updates to next minor version In the past, updating an AKS cluster required workload clusters to be operating on a patch version that would also be supported in the new release. For instance, if you were running on v1.22.11 in January and a new release in February deprecated v1.22.11, you would be prompted to fi…
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Azure VMware Solution - May 2023 - What's New Update
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We are thrilled to announce the May 2023 release for Azure VMware Solution. A variety of new and highly anticipated features such as , AVS Gov is in GA for some areas, new regions and newly updated content. Read on to explore more. Azure VMware Solution Feature Updates Azure VMware Solution in Azure Gov New Region: Qatar Azure Migrate DigitalEvent Azure VMware Solution Webinar New Blog Post - Enable App Volume Replication for Horizon VDI with AVS Azure VMware Solution in Azure Gov Azure VMware Solution in Azure Gov: Arizona and Virgina Azure VMware Service will become generally available on May 17, 2023, to US Federal and Sta…
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Coordination is the key to spontaneity with these features in Outlook on the web and Teams
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In this new era of modern work where workforces are often distributed, opportunities for unplanned, in-person connection have become more elusive and difficult to manifest. Days are now filled with scheduled meetings – often on a screen. The proliferation of scheduled meetings is taking its toll on employees; in fact, our research showed that the number one productivity disruptor is inefficient meetings.[1] One solution to help lessen the impact of overscheduled meetings is to share where you’re working so more serendipitous and unstructured collaboration can occur. After all, relationships built in the physical workplace don’t just make employees’ days more enjoya…
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Use OpenAI GPT with your Enterprise Data
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The idea of retrieval augmented generation is that when given a question you first do a retrieval step to fetch any relevant documents. You then pass those documents, along with the original question, to the language model and have it generate a response. To do this, however, you first have to have your documents in a format where they can be queried in such a manner. This article goes over the high level ideas between those two steps: (1) ingestion of documents into a queriable format, and then (2) the retrieval augmented generation chain. Lots of data and information is stored in tabular data, whether it be csvs, excel sheets, or SQL tables. We wi…
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ACA vs AKS: Which Azure Service Is Better for Running Containers?
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In this blog post, we'll explore two of the most popular Azure services for running containerized applications: Azure Container Apps (ACA) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If you're a beginner or intermediate developer or IT professional looking to learn more about these services and how they compare, then you're in the right place. We'll be diving into the key differences between ACA and AKS, exploring their unique features, and discussing when it's best to use each one. As managed services, both ACA and AKS offer powerful tools for deploying and running containers on Azure. But as we'll see, they each have their own strengths and use cases. So, whether yo…
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How to attach an additional network interface to the Azure Stack HCI VM using SDN
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Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution consists of windows servers (Hyper-V), Storage Spaces Direct, and Azure-inspired SDN. All clustered servers share common configurations and resources by leveraging the Windows Server Failover Clustering feature. A Windows Failover Cluster consists of multiple windows servers running in a cluster to provide high availability i.e. If one server node goes down, then another node takes over. We can create multiple windows/Linux VMs on the failover cluster. In this blog, we have provided steps to attach a new network interface to an existing VM running on the failover cluster with static MAC and valid st…