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We have released a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server which contains several additions and changes. Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the changes in 12.3.1 over version 12.3.0. Added Added a case to throw XAER_RMFAIL on connection reset for XA transactions 2118 Added support for Azure Active Directory Service Principal Certificate Authentication 2128 Changed Improved performance of building parameter type definitions 1938 Removed condition check that had no effect 2129 Updated azure-security-keyvault-keys, azure-identity, gson and h2 dependency version…

On June 1, 2023, Microsoft Defender for IoT moved to site-based licensing for organizations looking to protect their operation technology (OT) environments. The previous Azure consumption model for this solution will no longer be available for purchase by new customers. Existing customers can choose to transition to site-based licensing or remain on the consumption model. In today’s digital transformation, operational technology (OT) has become an important part of various industries, from power plants and manufacturing facilities to transportation systems and healthcare institutions. While OT systems play an essential role in smoothly operating critical infrastruc…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 149 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=42382:name] ADFS MFA: Context-Aware Multifactor Authentication: This offer from miniOrange adds an extra layer of security to your organization's Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) through multifactor authentication. This helps to protect access to your ADFS resources. [attachment=42383:name] Akamai Security Connector Virtual Machine Image: Enterprise Security Connector from Akamai is a virtual machine that you c…

Since publishing the Intune GitHub sample script repository (repo) containing PowerShell scripts that demonstrate the use of the Microsoft Graph API for automation in 2016, there have been significant changes to the Microsoft Graph and PowerShell modules. To ensure the scripts remain relevant and useful for the community, we have reviewed and updated a subset of the scripts and simplified code. In addition, new GitHub repos have been created to house the updated scripts based on the scenario type. Important: From a support perspective, Microsoft fully supports Intune and its ability to deploy PowerShell scripts. However, Microsoft does not support the scripts thems…

We have released version 1.3 of the SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django. This release contains support for the release of Django 4.12 as well as a number of issue fixes. Our plan is to support major releases of Django and SQL Server, to ensure users of this project can keep up to date with Django while continuing to use SQL Server as a backend. Added: Added case-sensitive feature for Replace function (#222) Added support for Django 4.2 (#269) Fixed: Fixed #196: changed getting system datetime to cached_property (#217) Fixed an issue of adding OFFSET keyword for legacy SQL Server versions (#218) Fixed left padding function to return strings …

Microsoft Teams provides opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver enhanced customer value by either creating new collaborative user experiences or enhancing existing ones. By delivering these experiences where users are in the flow of work inside Teams, ISVs can drive more stickiness for their apps, resulting in higher renewal rates, as discussed in another recent blog post. Let’s explore how several ISVs built and deployed their apps on Teams to improve usage and customer retention. ISV partners can build unique and collaborative experiences in Microsoft Teams to improve user counts BHN Rewards is an innovative rewards application that e…

This month's episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks discusses what it means to support multicloud, the risks of running a multicloud strategy, and how customers can think about this as they accelerate their digital transformation. Considering over 90% of organizations are already multicloud – meaning they rely on more than one cloud provider; it is important to understand how to protect people and data in a constantly evolving digital environment. Joining our host Erica Toelle is our guest, Ashish Kumar. Ashish has over 25 years of experience in Engineering, Consulting, and Technology sales, helping businesses build products, increase revenue and market share, enhance …

Join us June 22nd for another Microsoft Intune edition of Tech Community Live! We'll be bringing our product engineering and customer adoption teams help you explore, expand, and improve the way you manage devices across your ecosystem, whether that be Windows, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Android, Linux, or a cross-platform combination. In this edition of Tech Community Live, we're focusing on the latest in endpoint management with Microsoft Intune and the Microsoft Intune Suite. But really the focus is on your questions! Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA). Get tips and tricks. How do I attend? Choose a session name below and add any (or all!) of them to your calendar. Then,…

In the world of education, the integration of technology has transformed the way teaching and learning. For educators, it's essential to keep pace with the latest tools and resources to enhance the student educational experience. Enter Heather Aird, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIE Expert) from Scotland, who has created a series of vibrant and user-friendly "Quick Guides" for Microsoft Education products. Microsoft has partnered with Heather to make these guides available around the world. With Heather's PDF Quick Guides, teachers can effortlessly navigate the landscape of Microsoft Education tools and unleash their full potential in the classroom. One of th…

In September 2021, we announced that the classic EAC would be deprecated for customers in our WW cloud in September 2022. Our customers gave us lots of feedback on the new design, performance of the new portal, and feature parity, so we took some additional time to address their feedback. With the feature parity and other work now complete, we are announcing that the classic EAC will be deprecated in our WW environment on June 20, 2023. Here are a few highlights of the new EAC: Customizable dashboard that gives you access to mail-flow and migration reports and action cards. Global search option at the top that allows you to quickly navigate and take action…

Practical AI -kurssi on tarkoitettu sinulle, joka haluat oppia ja ymmärtää tekoälyn luomia mahdollisuuksia sekä valjastaa ne omaan käyttöösi. Tämä kahden opintopisteen kokoinen kurssi ei vaadi aikaisempaa teknistä osaamista vaan on rakennettu selkeäksi ja ymmärrettäväksi kaikille. Kurssi on kaikille avoin ja maksuton. Aloita kurssi nyt Practical AI (edukamu.fi) ja valjasta tekoäly omaan käyttösi! Kurssilla opit käyttämään tekoälyn kieli- ja kuvamalleja ja promptaamaan käytännössä. Seitsemän eri osa-aluetta opettavat sinulle uuden kansalaistaidon perusteet. Lähde mukaan kehittymään ja rakentamaan uutta kanssamme! Continue reading...

Practical AI -kurssi on tarkoitettu sinulle, joka haluat oppia ja ymmärtää tekoälyn luomia mahdollisuuksia sekä valjastaa ne omaan käyttöösi. Tämä kahden opintopisteen kokoinen kurssi ei vaadi aikaisempaa teknistä osaamista vaan on rakennettu selkeäksi ja ymmärrettäväksi kaikille. Kurssi on kaikille avoin ja maksuton. Aloita kurssi nyt Practical AI (edukamu.fi) ja valjasta tekoäly omaan käyttösi! Kurssilla opit käyttämään tekoälyn kieli- ja kuvamalleja ja promptaamaan käytännössä. Seitsemän eri osa-aluetta opettavat sinulle uuden kansalaistaidon perusteet. Lähde mukaan kehittymään ja rakentamaan uutta kanssamme! Continue reading...

As i have mentioned in an earlier post, moving a cloud pc from one datacenter location from another was not possible. This activity was basically a deprovisioning and reprovisioning of the existing cloud pc in the target datacenter. However, due to increasing customer demand, this behavior is being changed right now. Moving cloud pc from one datacenter location to another is currently in preview (June 2023) and probably it will be GA in the coming fall. Let’s take a look at how it is done. Existing Environment In my lab environment i have three cloud pc’s that is provisioned and being used by users in my tenant. As you can see statuses for these cpc’s are list…

I am Pascal Burume Learn Student Ambassadors (microsoft.com), a Microsoft MVP and Gold Microsoft Student Ambassador with an unwavering passion for Artificial Intelligence, Power Platform, and data visualization research. I excel in finding new challenges and opportunities to push the boundaries of knowledge in these domains. I am curious and visionary, aiming to make a lasting impact with my research. I stay at the forefront of the field and use innovative methods to achieve transformative outcomes. As a part of a program hosted by The Global Power Platform Bootcamp Nairobi in partnership with Cloud Advocate at Microsoft @Julia_Muiruri. The Bootcamp was completel…

Hello folks, As part of our Wired for Hybrid series, Michael and I have been talking with engineers and product managers about topics that are important when working with azure networking. In this deep dive episode, we’re talking with Duong Au senior content developer. Azure Front Door is a modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that provides fast, reliable, and secure access between your users and your applications’ static and dynamic web content across the globe. It caters to both dynamic and static content acceleration with built-in turnkey security. We all should care about Azure Front Door because it can help to reduce the operational burd…

Author(s): Arun Sethia is a Program Manager in Azure HDInsight Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Introduction This blog is part of Spark 3.x series of blogs; the blog is dedicated towards looking into two different aspects of AQE (Adaptive Query Execution), Dynamic Switching Join Strategies and Dynamic Optimizing Skew Join using Apache Spark in Azure HDInsight. Adaptive Query Execution – Dynamic Switching Join Strategies There are multiple business scenarios where we must join multiple datasets to generate business insight for end-user consumption. Spark applies different join strategies based on the nature of dataset or query basic to choose th…

ARRAffinity cookie is a feature on Azure App Service that allows an end user to talk to the same Azure App Service worker instance until session finishes. A common problem encountered when having Azure App Service behind Azure Application Gateway is whether we can use the cookie-based affinity feature on Azure Application Gateway end instead to maintain session stickiness. Answer is NO. Because as explained at Azure - Inside the Azure App Service Architecture | Microsoft Learn Azure App Service is distributed system and has its own frontend workers and backend workers, enabling cookie-based affinity on Application Gateway side only a…

Have you ever received an error message saying that public access is not permitted on this storage account while trying to access a blob? Just in case you are really needing to allow public access to your Storage Account, I will show you how to set this configuration, but before doing that, please note the following: Disallowing public access for the storage account overrides the public access settings for all containers in that storage account, preventing anonymous access to blob data in that account. When public access is disallowed for the account, it is not possible to configure the public access setting for a container to permit anonymous ac…

Today we had a very interesting case as our client encountered the following message: "Cannot open server 'microsoft.com' requested by the login. The login failed," or they had the message "Login failed for user 'username\microsoft.com'. while using the Azure Active Directory Password authentication. Following, I would like to share with you some lessons learned. In the first case, with this error message "Cannot open server 'microsoft.com' requested by the login. The login failed,", everything indicates that an attempt is being made to connect to the server "microsoft.com" because the username has the format "username@microsoft.com". The "@" symbol has a special …

At Microsoft Build 2023, we presented the most powerful AI platform available for developers to build upon today and in the future, and also unveiled ongoing enhancements to its developer tools and services — all with a strong focus on responsible and secure AI implementation. Microsoft is empowering developers with an unprecedented range of capabilities, harnessing the power of copilots to enhance their productivity and effectiveness. With our latest offerings, developers now have an extensive suite of tools and resources at their disposal, enabling them to accomplish more than ever before. This presents partners with an unparalleled opportunity to assist customers in th…

We are announcing an upcoming breaking change to the default orchestration mode for Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on Portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. This change will take effect over the next few months, starting with Portal in May 2023 and PowerShell, CLI clients in November 2023. Once the change is complete, any VM Scale Sets created on Portal, PowerShell, or CLI will automatically default to Flexible orchestration mode instead of Uniform. You will still be able to create Uniform scale sets by specifying the desired orchestration mode when deploying your VMs. To learn more about VM Scale Set orchestration modes, please see Orchestration modes for Virtual …

Part 2 – Deploying a Data Lakehouse in ADX Introduction As businesses continue to generate massive amounts of data, the need for efficient data management solutions becomes increasingly important. This is where a data lakehouse comes in - a hybrid solution that combines the best features of a datalake and a data warehouse. Part 1 - Building a Data Lakehouse using Azure Data explorer We explored how to build a data lakehouse using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) where the data flows from Azure SQL DB using Change Data Capture (CDC) through Azure Data Factory and events flowing from events hub. This article is Part 2 in the series, here we will show you how t…

Today we had a very interesting case as our client encountered the following message: "Cannot open server 'microsoft.com' requested by the login. The login failed," or they had the message "Login failed for user 'username\microsoft.com'. while using the Azure Active Directory Password authentication. Following, I would like to share with you some lessons learned. In the first case, with this error message "Cannot open server 'microsoft.com' requested by the login. The login failed,", everything indicates that an attempt is being made to connect to the server "microsoft.com" because the username has the format "username@microsoft.com". The "@" symbol has a special …

Microsoft 365 auditing capabilities can help you track the types of operations performed within and by your Microsoft 365 services and give you a better picture of the most common activities across your environment. Users in your organization can use the audit log search tool to search for, view, and export (to a CSV file) the audit records for these operations. Thousands of user and admin operations performed in dozens of Microsoft 365 services and solutions are captured, recorded, and retained in your organization's unified audit log. A complete list of audited activities is available at Search the audit log in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. These cap…