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Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Solves Cryptic Error Codes from Power BI, SQL Server, Power Apps, and more!
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Are you tired of cryptic error message codes from your IT tools filled with GUIDS, seemingly random numbers, and vague text? Azure OpenAI ChatGPT can help! When tools such as Power BI, SQL Server, Power Apps, and others encounter problems the error codes can often be difficult to decipher. Users will often paste them into search engines and comb through results for hours, open service tickets with their IT team or Microsoft, or paste the messages (which may sometimes contain company data) to community forums for help. The video embedded below shows how Azure OpenAI ChatGPT can decipher those cryptic error codes in minutes. Here's a link: The example in the…
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What’s New: Introducing Microsoft Sentinel DNS Essentials solutions.
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After the recent public preview of our first ASIM based domain Network session essential solution today, we are announcing a new DNS Essentials solution in Public Preview. This is a domain-centric essentials solution based on Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM). This solution provides a set of generic OOTB (out-of-the-box) content, specific to DNS security scenarios and supports 9 DNS products and services including Windows Server DNS, Cisco Firewall, GCP DNS, Zscaler Internet access (ZIA) and more. This means the same content from this solution can work with multiple DNS products deployed in your organization, hence delivering more value to protect your environm…
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RSAC 2023: Microsoft Sentinel empowering the SOC with next-gen SIEM
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With an increase in the number and severity of cyberattacks over the years, security remains a significant challenge. It is paramount for organizations to enhance their security posture and defend against cyber threats with end-to-end visibility across their hybrid environments. Microsoft Sentinel is a next-gen SIEM powered by the cloud and AI, with a deep understanding of the threat landscape, enabling defenders to proactively hunt and mitigate threats in real-time. To provide customers with a comprehensive and integrated security solution, Microsoft Sentinel harnesses the strong and growing ecosystem of security solution providers, managed security service providers …
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ChatGPT- What? Why? And How?
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ChatGPT- What? Why? And how? ChatGPT: the word everyone has heard of, but why has this thing become such a big revolution and earned such huge praise and a name in such a short time? What does it even do? Why is it being spread so much? How do I use it exactly? All these questions will be discussed and explained in this blog. ChatGPT has garnered significant attention and praise in the AI community due to its innovative capabilities as a language model. This blog aims to provide an in-depth understanding of ChatGPT, including its purpose, function, and utilization. By exploring the technology behind ChatGPT, the reader will gain a deeper appreciation for…
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What is causing the Always On AG issue? Is it cluster, AD, DNS, or SQL?
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Do any of these questions sound familiar? - My AG fails to failover - Why did my AG failover? - Why did my AG fail? - My AG is missing! - Why am I seeing stale data on secondary? - What is with the sudden log growth alerts? You are either hearing from end users that they are seeing stale data, or they are losing connections to availability database or listener, or you have monitoring solutions in place to catch these proactively and mitigate but are looking for a root cause. In either scenario, it helps to understand the high-level architecture of Availability Groups and the troubleshooting resources available for these components. Ov…
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Export to Logic Apps Standard – Latest Improvements
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The Logic Apps Standard extension in VS Code provides a feature that allow customers to export workflows from Integration Services Environment (ISE) or Consumption SKUs to a Logic Apps Standard VS Code project. This experience allows customers to group workflows that should be deployed together as Logic Apps Standard application, validates the workflows against the export logic – guaranteeing that workflows, once export, work successfully in the new platform, and generates a local VS Code project, allowing users to test the code locally before packaging them for deployment. This tool is a core part of the strategy to migrate workflows off ISE, which is retiring …
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HLS Teams Productivity Summit- Empowering Frontline Workers on shared mobile devices
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Thank you for being a part of the HLS Teams Productivity Summit. We are pleased to provide you with a copy of today's presentation and recording, which you can find below. Session Title: Empowering frontline workers on shared mobile devices Session Details: Most frontline workers today use shared devices while at work. This means they need to sign-in and -out of their devices once or multiple times a shift. This can be time consuming, and if not done correctly, a security risk. To simplify authentication for shared device, Microsoft created Shared Device Mode. With Shared Device Mode, a user only needs to sign-in once to be automatically authenticated into …
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Extracting Table data from documents into an Excel Spreadsheet
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Documents can contain table data. For example, earning reports, purchase order forms, technical and operational manuals, etc., contain critical data in tables. You may need to extract this table data into Excel for various scenarios. Extract each table into a specific worksheet in Excel. Extract the data from all the similar tables and aggregate that data into a single table. Here, we present two ways to generate Excel from a document's table data: Azure Function (HTTP Trigger based): This function takes a document and generates an Excel file with the table data in the document. Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics (in case you need to process large volu…
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Microsoft Purview in the Real World (April 21, 2023) - Sensitivity Labels and SharePoint Sites
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Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix. All the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be …
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Synapse Database Templates for airlines & travel services plus seven industries are now GA
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In response to continued enthusiastic adoption of the twenty previously published Synapse Database Templates (SDTs), we’re pleased to announce today that we are releasing two Industry Data Models (IDMs), for Airlines and for Travel Services, that have not previously been published as SDTs, along with enhanced versions of seven previously published SDTs. The IDM for Airlines is a comprehensive data model that addresses the typical data requirements of organizations operating one or more airlines for passengers and/or cargo. The IDM for Travel Services is a comprehensive data model that addresses the typical data requirements of organizations providing booking servic…
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Securely Migrate and Optimize with Azure
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Join us for this year’s digital event, Securely Migrate and Optimize with Azure, where you’ll learn how to achieve more efficiency and maximize the value of your IT investments. Get tips to migrate and modernize your infrastructure, apps, and data—with a spotlight from experts on optimizing migration for Windows Server and SQL Server workloads. Here’s 5 good reasons to Register Now: Get expert guidance to securely migrate and optimize your Windows Server and SQL Server workloads. Find tools, programs, and resources from Azure to migrate and optimize your cloud investments. Hear real-life success stories of customers who moved to Azure. See demos with st…
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Unroll multiple arrays in a single Flatten step in ADF
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You can now easily unroll multiple arrays inside a single Flatten transformation in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics using a data pipeline with a Mapping Data Flow. ADF and Synapse data flows gave a Flatten transformation to make it easy to unroll an array as part of your data transformation pipelines. We've updated the Flatten transformation to now allow for multiple arrays that can be unrolled in a single transformation step. This will make your ETL jobs much simpler with fewer transformation steps. There is now a plus (+) next to the Unroll Array property where you can add more arrays to your list to unroll. You can also use ADF's me…
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Unblock Viva deployment and adoption in your organization
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Hosted by the NDA Viva Customer Connection Program, the Getting Started with Viva Series is a non-NDA effort led by Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professions (MVPs) who have expertise and experience unblocking and driving Viva deployment and adoption in organizations around the globe. These webinars contain actionable steps you can take in your organization to realize your goals with Microsoft Viva, whether you're focused on one particular Viva app or the entire Viva Suite. Microsoft MVPs are always happy to answer your questions during the webinar and provide additional resources through their own blogs, websites, and in the all-new Viva Public Comm…
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Three steps to master information governance in your organization
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This month's episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks will discuss Information Governance and the industry trends we are seeing in this space. Information governance is the overall strategy for managing information at an organization. It is a discipline that spans several markets, including data governance, security, compliance, data privacy, content services, and more. Recently, these markets have begun to converge, highlighting the sometimes conflicting requirements between these disciplines. Joining our host Erica Toelle is our guest, Randolph Kahn. Mr. Kahn is a globally recognized leader in Information Governance, with his consulting team advising major multinationa…
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What’s new in Microsoft Intune - 2304 (April) edition
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New month, big news! For the April (2304) service release, we're excited to bring improvements to the security and user experience for three of the platforms we support for management – Windows, Android, and Mac. First, we're announcing the long-awaited Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS), which brings the popular security capabilities of on-premises LAPS to the cloud. In another important development, Intune now offers IT pros the ability to add Google accounts to Android Enterprise personally owned devices. And third, new macOS software update policy settings allow end users more choice in scheduling updates while maintaining admin oversight. As you …
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Announcing Windows LAPS management through Microsoft Intune
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Every single Windows device has a built-in local administrator account. It's required, can’t be deleted, and, given its high privileges, has full access to the device. This local admin account is protected by its account password, which means that enterprises have no choice but to make sure the password is continuously secured and protected to avoid vulnerability attacks and security breaches. Many customers use the stand-alone, on-premises product called Windows Local Admin Password Solution (LAPS) for password management. Although widely adopted, the LAPS solution didn’t support local admin password management in the cloud, until now. Intune is excited to announc…
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Lesson Learned #344:Managed Instance needs permissions to access Azure Active Directory.
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Today, we worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message : Managed Instance needs permissions to access Azure Active Directory. You need to be a 'Company Administrator' or a 'Global Administrator' to grant 'Read' permissions to the Managed Instance. Azure SQL Managed Instance needs permissions to read Azure AD to successfully accomplish tasks such as authentication of users through security group membership or creation of new users. For this to work, we need to grant the Azure SQL Managed Instance permission to read Azure AD. We can do this using the Azure portal or PowerShell. This operation can only be executed by Global Admi…
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HLS Teams Productivity Summit-Viva Engage: Bringing leaders, community, and knowledge together
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Thank you for being a part of the HLS Teams Productivity Summit. We are pleased to provide you with a copy of today's presentation and recording, which you can find below. Session Title: Viva Engage: Bringing leaders, community, and knowledge together for your employees Session Details: As part of our Viva employee engagement experience, Viva Engage connects people across the company so that everyone feels included and engaged. The Viva Engage app in Teams helps organizations build community, spark engagement with leadership, harness knowledge and answers, and build personal networks. During this session you’ll learn how we’re improving Viva Engage to m…
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Introducing Windows Local Administrator Password Solution with Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)
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Howdy folks, Today we have some news I know many of you will be excited about! As part of our vision to give you comprehensive security solutions, we’ve joined forces with the Windows and Microsoft Intune teams to release a public preview of Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) for Azure AD (which is now part of Microsoft Entra). I’ve asked Sandeep Deo, one of the Product Managers behind this release, to give you the low down on all these updates and explain how you can start using Windows LAPS with Microsoft Entra (Azure AD). You’ll find Sandeep’s blog post below. Best regards, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) Corporate VP o…
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Author(s): Freddie Santos is a Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. In my previous post, I discussed the basics of disaster recovery and high availability and how they can be implemented on Azure Synapse. You can revisit that post directly here: Creating a custom disaster recovery plan for your Synapse workspace Part 1. This post will focus specifically on one of the engines in the Synapse workspace, the dedicated SQL Pools, and explore options for creating a custom disaster recovery plan for our databases. The aim is to help you create a plan that aligns with your business needs, which may require a more granular RPO and/o…
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Enabling SNA Applications with Azure Integration Services
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In this video we explain what is SNA and why is still important. We also explain the alternatives to connect from Azure to an IBM Mainframe. Azure Integration Services helps our customers and partners to connect to IBM Mainframes directly using TCP/IP or via SNA over IP networks. Continue reading...
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Microsoft Products for Mainframe and Midranges Integration
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Public Preview of raise hand APIs
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Raise hand is a highly requested feature missing for a long time in Azure Communication Services calling SDK. However, this has changed with the latest release of JavaScript called SDK 1.13.0 (release notes)! Why are those APIs introduced? Communication is an essential part of our day-to-day life. As it moves to the digital environment, we must find new tools to manage communication in larger groups. Here are some favorite use cases of how our customers are using raise hand: Ask a question: Do you have a question about the content shared by the presenter, but you don't want to interrupt the speaker? Use your hand to indicate that something nee…
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How to install an AKS cluster with the Istio service mesh add-on via Bicep
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Istio addresses the challenges developers and operators face with a distributed or microservices architecture. The Istio-based service mesh add-on provides an officially supported and tested Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) integration. This article shows how to create an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster with the Istio Service Mesh add-on via Bicep and deploy the bookinfo sample application via a Deployment Script. For more information, see the following articles: What is Istio? Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service Deploy Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service Deploy external or internal ingresses for Istio…
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Azure App Service Logging: How to Monitor Your Web Apps in Real-Time
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When you're developing and running web applications, things don't always go as planned. You might encounter errors, underperforming response times, or unexpected behavior. The Azure App Service Diagnostics Logging capabilities come to the rescue in such situations. By enabling the application logging features, you can quickly and easily view your application logs to diagnose and fix issues. Here are a few examples of the types of problems you can solve by consulting your application logs: Errors: When an error occurs in your application, it's important to understand what went wrong and where. By consulting your application logs, you can see the error messag…