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We are pleased to announce Data Generator – a new feature in Azure Event Hubs which would let you send/view events without writing a single line of code. No matter if you’re seasoned user for Event Hubs or using it for the first time, setting up end to end streaming pipelines could be done in minutes! Why Data Generator? Data Generator is a powerful tool that helps you get started with Azure Event Hubs in a simple and easy way. It allows you to stream data into Azure Event Hubs using your own custom payload or one of the pre-defined datasets available in Data Generator. Some of the use cases of Data Generator are: Building streaming pipelines with Az…

Imagine getting real-time insights into customer transactions with sub-second latency to respond to customer behavior immediately, detecting anomalies associated with your machines running at your business, or building real-time dashboards with Power Bi. These scenarios and more are what Azure Stream Analytics offers to users. To learn more about Azure Stream Analytics, please visit: Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics | Microsoft Learn Now we have taken it a step further and added another scenario that brings a whole new opportunity to take advantage of the many benefits of real-time analytics that Azure Stream Analytics offers: Kafka. We are announcing th…

Using Event Hubs capture feature, you can load real-time streaming data to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services, so that they can be processed or analyzed by analytics services. We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Managed Identity support for capturing event streams in Azure Event Hubs. Managed Identities when capturing event streams. With managed identity, users can seamlessly capture data to a preferred destination by using Azure Active Directory based authentication and authorization. You can use system-assigned or user-assigned managed identities with Event Hubs capturing destinations. Managed identities provide an au…

We are excited to announce the public preview of JSON schema support in the Azure Event Hubs schema registry for Kafka applications. The Event Hubs schema registry offers a central repository for schema documents utilized by messaging-centric and event-driven applications. By using Azure Schema Registry, both the producer and consumer applications can seamlessly exchange data without the need to handle and distribute the schema. We are further expanding the capabilities of Azure Schema Registry in Event Hubs and adding support for new schema formats to enable schema driven event streaming. The Azure Event Hubs schema registry is available at no additional charge…

By Marina Khidekel, Chief Content Officer at Thrive Global We all encounter small daily stressors and challenges that can make us feel frustrated or anxious. There's power in acknowledging the causes of our stress before it becomes cumulative or overwhelming — and it's also important to arm ourselves with tools and strategies to help us address stress in the moment so that we can move forward instead of dwelling on the issue. We asked our Thrive community to share with us the small ways they move on from their stressors and stop sweating the small stuff. Which of these tips will you try? Take a long-term view "I ask myself what impact the thing…

Azure Messaging and Stream Processing updates will cover recent releases from Azure Messaging and Streaming. In this blog we will cover releases from Microsoft Fabric event streams, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Grid, and Azure Stream Analytics. Microsoft Fabric event streams You can now ingest, capture, transform and route real-time events to various destinations in Microsoft Fabric with a no-code experience using Microsoft Fabric event streams. It enables customers to ingest real-time event data from external event sources into the data stores in Fabric. The events could be transformed into the native formats required for the target destination. For example…

Innovation has always been the driving force behind transformative change. The Imagine Cup is an annual technology competition for students from around the world to come together to push the boundaries of what's possible and bring their groundbreaking solutions to a global stage. This year's competition witnessed an unprecedented level of ingenuity and creativity, as teams from diverse backgrounds and cultures set out to redefine the limits of technological innovation. The journey began with tens of thousands of aspiring young minds, and after months of intense competition, we have finally reached the pinnacle. The Imagine Cup World Championship at Microsof…

We’re about a month away from the deadline we communicated in our blog post and Message Center posts, and we want to remind our customers before we start blocking traffic. The preview program for REST API access to on-premises mailboxes in an Exchange hybrid configuration has ended. Beginning June 2023, we will return errors for requests made against on-premises mailboxes. Over the past few weeks, we have sent Message Center (MC) posts to the affected customers; we encourage you to check your Message Center for posts MC541164 and MC541165. If you have received those messages, you have some apps that might be affected; if you don’t have the messages, this change will…

Today we are announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a capability of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance. In today's fast-paced digital world, APIs are critical for businesses as they seek to create digital products, integrate systems, and increase developer productivity. However, we have heard from our customers that the rapid proliferation of APIs, adoption of multiple API tools, and the burden of legacy technologies have led to a fragmented API landscape, compromising API reuse, quality, security, and regulatory compliance. API Center is…

We are very excited to announce the preview of elastic pools for Hyperscale service tier for Azure SQL Database! For many years now, developers have selected the Hyperscale service tier in a “single database” resource model to power a wide variety of traditional and modern applications. Azure SQL Hyperscale is based on a cloud native architecture providing independently scalable compute and storage, and with limits which substantially exceed the resources available in the General Purpose and Business Critical tiers. Value propositions for Hyperscale elastic pools An Azure SQL DB elastic pool enables software as a service (SaaS) developers to optimize the pric…

The Azure Text Translation SDK is a cloud-based REST API feature of the Translator service that uses neural machine translation. It enables quick and accurate source-to-target text translation across all supported languages in real-time. The SDK simplifies the developer experience and reduces the need to assimilate API definitions. The Azure Text Translation SDK offers several key benefits for developers, including- - Quick and accurate translations in real-time across all supported languages. - Easy to integrate with your application or workflow. - Customization options for your specific needs. - Scalable in handling a large volume of text for translat…

At Build 2023, we are happy to announce the public preview of the new Network Observability add-on for AKS. This add-on provides cluster level networking metrics and complete visibility into your cluster network. When combined with the recently announced Istio service mesh add-on and Azure CNI (powered by Cilium) - Customers now have comprehensive observability across all network layers. These offerings work seamlessly with the Azure managed services for Prometheus and Grafana - providing a unified monitoring experience in Azure Monitor. This solves a top pain point for AKS customers – the low observability across the multiple layers in the Kubernetes netw…

Seattle—May 23, 2023—Today, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services (ACS) Translator announces a) ‘Microsoft Translator’ plugin for Azure OpenAI, and b) Translator and Language Detect tools for PromptFlow in private preview. ‘Microsoft Translator’ plugin for Azure OpenAI On customer prompts requiring translation, OpenAI GPT models do good general domain translation among languages which have good web presence. However, it doesn’t provide a simple way to get translation customized for your organization and domain terminologies. Also, GPT models have limited language coverage and translation accuracy drops for low resource languages. Microsoft Translator Plugi…

Introduction At Azure AI Language (aka. Azure Cognitive Service for Language), we believe that language is at the core of human intelligence. In line with Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we are dedicated to providing natural language processing services that break down language barriers. Azure AI Language products are powered by state-of-the-art language models, including Z-Code++ and Azure OpenAI Service, empowering you to retrieve and analyze meaningful insights from a full range of text content. Join us as we explore the latest developments in our language AI products and how they can transform the …

Microsoft Teams provides a robust out-of-the-box Virtual appointment experience (learn more here). However, for those that require a more customized experience, there are a lot of options for extensibility with Azure Communication Services and Microsoft Graph. Microsoft provides three main approaches to Virtual appointments: Microsoft Teams out-of-the-box experience – This is a ready to use solution integrated into the Microsoft Teams application which allows you to schedule and manage Virtual appointments from Microsoft Teams. Extend Microsoft Teams Virtual appointments experience – With this approach,, you will learn the tools needed to customize and in…

Microsoft Viva Sales is reimagining sales. By bringing customer relationship management (CRM) data and artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly into every salesperson’s flow of work in Microsoft 365 and Teams, Viva Sales helps sellers focus time on what matters most: making meaningful connections, building trust, and moving deals forward. This month, we’re thrilled to bring one of our biggest updates ever, with a suite of new features and improvements that together make Viva Sales even more helpful from the get-go and attuned to the needs of sellers and organizations every day. Comprehensive support for all CRM record types in Viva Sales Most sales organizat…

Azure Stream Analytics announces a slew of enhancements at Build 2023: New competitive pricing model, Virtual Network integration, native support for Kafka source & destination, integration with Event Hub Schema Registry, GA announcements and more! Today we are delighted to share a range of exciting updates that will greatly enhance the productivity, cost-effectiveness, and security of processing streaming data. We are introducing new competitive pricing model that offers discounts to customers based on their increasing usage. Additionally, we are pleased to announce the integration of Virtual Network and native support for Kafka as a source and destination for Azu…

Hello Everyone! At Microsoft Build 2023, we are announcing several new capabilities and improvements for Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell. We aim to provide the most secure, complete, and usable tools to manage your Azure resources. In this release, we want to highlight the following areas: New services supported Authentication improvements in preview Usability improvements Since Microsoft Ignite in 2022, we added coverage for 11 new Azure Resource Provider(RP)'s services. DataProtection LoadTesting NetworkFunction ArcResourceBridge StorageMover CognitiveSearch AutoManage DNSResolver MobileNetwork VoiceServices Workloads We …

Introducing Document Translation in Language Studio - a user-friendly UI experience designed to simplify the process of translating rich documents. With Document Translation in Language Studio, users can take advantage of the powerful Azure Translator service through a streamlined interface. Since it is a web app, users can access the feature across multiple operating systems & browsers, making it a convenient and efficient solution for document translation needs. Plus, with Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and the ability to use existing Azure accounts and translator resources, users can scale and control usage with secure data handling. Enterpris…

Microsoft continues to strengthen its partnership with Red Hat as a “platinum” sponsor at Red Hat Summit to engage customers on future proofing their businesses with more license flexibility, closer joint engineering, and better joint support. Jeremy Winter, Corporate Vice President, Azure Cloud Native from Microsoft will deliver the keynote on Day 1 on the topic of ‘Innovation doesn’t rely on your IT budget’. This will showcase Microsoft’s advancements in open innovation and how the Red Hat on Azure product portfolio helps businesses innovate without significant investment. The Microsoft and Red Hat partnership has made great strides to make customers’ journey to …

Microsoft Translator V3 connector allows you to translate documents apart from translating text. The following are few sample scenarios where you can use this connector to create automated workflows: Translate single/multiple documents which are stored in SharePoint, OneDrive, local folder, or any other storage location. Translate text from any source such as incoming emails via Outlook provider. and many more… This connector leverages Azure Cognitive Services Translator which supports 125+ languages. For more details on the connector actions, refer to this document: https://aka.ms/translatorconnectordoc. To learn more about the prerequisites, and …

We’re excited to announce that Immersive Reader is now available in Excel for the web! Immersive Reader lets you customize your reading experience to be most comfortable to you, resulting in increased reading speed, increased comprehension, and fewer errors while reading. Also, with Immersive Reader supporting translation to 116 languages and locales, it makes it easier to read spreadsheets that may have a lot of text or instructions. In Excel for the web, the following customizations are now available through Immersive Reader. All customizations change only your view and will not affect the spreadsheet for others. Reading content aloud Translating content on-…

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Multi-region replication for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. The feature allows you to extend a managed HSM pool from one Azure region to an other thereby enhancing the availability of mission critical cryptographic keys with automated key replication and maximizing read throughput and latency with the closest available region. To learn more, see the Multi-region replication product documentation. Continue reading...

Today’s blog is from guest contributor Kuleen Bharadwaj, Senior Director, Community, Learning, and Partner Programs – Azure Data. Introducing Microsoft Fabric Organizations are eager to harness their data to gain a competitive edge. However, their analytics systems often comprise several disconnected services that use proprietary data formats. This makes integration complex, time-consuming and costly, and the resulting systems are often fragile. Systems integrators and solution builders have been trying to help customers simplify and unify their data estates in a secure, compliant and cost-effective manner so that they can use large language models agains…

Azure Event Grid is built to handle high scale message routing from any source to any destination for any application by decoupling publishers from subscriber services. Today, we are announcing that Event Grid now supports bi-directional communication via MQTT version 5 and MQTT version 3.1.1 protocols in Public Preview. We are also announcing the Public Preview of pull delivery of messages on custom topics, which gives applications more flexibility to handle events and enables the use of private links when receiving events. Azure's MQTT broker MQTT support is driven by the evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions like connected homes, connecte…