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This sample shows how to use Power BI API to generate Power BI content from specific Power BI workspace. We have uploaded the example API request in GitHub repository, you can download the API request examples and test it out in your environment. Prerequisites An active Azure subscription. If you don't have one, create a free Azure account before you begin. Download Postman or use Postman online free version. Generate Access Token with Power BI Administrator permission. This article help you understand what Power BI Administrator role is, and how to assign a user to Power BI Administrator role. This article will help you better understand Power BI Administra…

We have an interesting service request where our customer needs to measure the network time spent in several interactions while executing a query. Following I would like to share the following script using based on this URL: Provider Statistics for SQL Server - ADO.NET $SrvName = "ServerName.database.windows.net" $Database = "DBName" $Username = "UserName" $Password = "Password" $NumberExecutions = 10000 cls try { $sw = [diagnostics.stopwatch]::StartNew() $connectionString = "Server=tcp:$SrvName,1433;Initial Catalog=$Database;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=$Username;Password=$Password;MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Encrypt=True;TrustSer…

Flexible work has evolved quickly over the past couple of years, and so has the supporting technology and ways of working that we have developed to best get our work done! This guide will give you valuable tips and tricks on how to elevate your meetings to become more productive, enjoyable, and to deliver the best possible outcome. From before your meeting has started, to once you’re leading or participating in a meeting, and finally after the meeting has wrapped, we have put together two Fundamental Tips, that you should be able apply right on the spot, as well as two Pro Tips, that are either more advanced or require a Teams Premium License, to help you get the most out…

We’re excited to announce that customers using US Government Community Cloud (GCC) environment and Microsoft Azure can now purchase Windows 365 Enterprise and deploy their Cloud PCs in Microsoft Azure commercial regions. Windows 365 Enterprise has been assessed by a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorized auditor to meet FedRAMP High requirements at data centers within the Continental US and has an agency authorization at FedRAMP Moderate. Windows 365 Enterprise is included in the Office 365 Multi-Tenant & Supporting Services FedRAMP accreditation package. Windows 365 provides customers using the GCC environment the fle…

Welcome to our monthly update for Teams for Education and thank you so much for being part of our growing community! We’ve been working on some great new updates that we’re excited to share with you, so here’s what’s new this month. Enjoy! June Topics: Viva Connections for Education – Now available New updates to Assignments and Grades Introducing the “New” Microsoft Teams for Education Introducing the Microsoft Reflect Emotion Board New Updates to Microsoft Whiteboard 1. Viva Connections for Education Viva Connections for Education – Now available for all customers Microsoft is happy to announce that Viva Connections for Education is now a…

Purpose: Example of how-to set up TDE using BYOK on Azure SQL Database Server using Python code. setting up TDE using BYOK is made of two steps. step 1 - adding server key. step 2 - applying the server key as encryption protector. you may add more than one server key, but just one can be the encryption protector which will be used for TDE. Adding additional keys allows you to migrate databases from other servers that were encrypted with other keys. When a database first arrives on the server, the server key will be used to decrypt the database, then it will be encrypted by using the encryption protector. Example:…

As part of our Microsoft mission, to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, our team recently created a new open-source GitHub repository called “Azure Health AI Services Samples”. This repository contains different samples applications and code to help you get started with the different Health-AI services. Based on these examples you will learn how to use our services, and accelerate your implementations. I am excited to announce a brand new Health AI sample “The Intelligent Dashboard powered by Text Analytics for Health”, which is designed to automate the process of gathering and analysing unstructured healthcare data and conve…

Preparando-se para o exame AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals e não sabe por onde começar? Este artigo é um guia de estudo para certificação AZ-900! Fiz uma curadoria de artigos da Microsoft para cada objetivo do exame AZ-900. Além disso, compartilho os conteúdos da #SprintAZ900, uma série de mentorias do Microsoft Reactor. Recursos adicionais de aprendizado Se você não tem muita familiaridade com computação em nuvem, recomendo estudar a trilha Azure Fundamentals: Conceitos de nuvem Conta de teste do Azure - 30 dias Conta Azure for Students As porcentagens indicadas em cada tópico da prova são referentes ao peso / volume de questões que …

Registration is now OPEN! We’re excited to provide our partners with the opportunity to hear about the go-to-market (GTM) priorities and initiatives Microsoft Modern Work has planned for FY24. As the modern workplace continues to evolve, partners like you play a critical role – as trusted advisors and service and solution providers – in delivering the right digital tools to enable customers to connect and support employees, wherever they are, to encourage productivity, engagement, and collaboration. Learn more about how Microsoft 365 powers our global, modern workplace with one integrated experience that brings together a smart, efficient operating system, …

Before we start, please not that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate the in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community 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 …

Today we're discussing how you can update your Azure landing zones in the Azure environment with your host Thomas Maurer and Jan Faurskov and Paul Grimley from the Azure landing zone team. Landing zones are really a great way to build your Azure environment using best practices and building a platform where you can deploy apps and services. Paul and Jan get asked this question a lot as to “once you've deployed Azure landing zones, how do you keep it up to date?” What are some of the challenges you face in keeping your Azure landing zone up-to-date? Paul wanted to highlight some of the challenges in keeping your Azure landing zone up-to-date. From his …

Microsoft Defender for SQL provides full database protection and benefit from the following components: threat protection to detect attacks in real-time and vulnerability assessment (VA) that scans, flags, and reports on database misconfigurations that may result in vulnerabilities for attackers to exploit. A few months ago, we launched the express configuration for vulnerability assessments in Defender for SQL (in public preview) that provides a streamlined onboarding experience for SQL vulnerability assessments with one-click configuration (or a simple API call), without any additional settings or dependencies on managed storage accounts. This feature is …

About the Author I am a pre-final year student, currently pursuing B Tech in Computer Engineering at Delhi Technological University. I love to learn new things through exploration and connecting with people along the journey. My key skills include Machine Learning, Web Development, Data Structures & Algorithms. I am also an active open source contributor. Connect with me LinkedIn Profile GitHub Profile Introduction Are you interested in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict and plan for your health expenses? Are you curious about how Power Apps, Azure Machine Learning, and Open AI can work together …

During our last session in SQL Data Saturday, we received a question about if it is possible to know all the conversion implicit captured by Query Data Store. In the following example, I would like to share with you an example how to capture this considering among of SQL Antipatterns. Basically, in sys.query_store_plan we found the column called query_plan that contains the text of the execution plan. With this information plus other Query Data Store DMVs we could see the information required. Opening a XML Plan we could see a section called Warnings with all possible issues that we might have including the PlanAffectingConvert issue. Righ…

Scenario: The NBA playoffs start on 15 April following the conclusion of the Play-In Tournament on 14 April. In this tutorial, we use the nba_api Python API Client for NBA.com to fetch NBA teams stats and then run the Python Azure Tables SDK to create Azure table and entries. Finally, with Azure Storage Explorer we can easily build search query and visualize the results. Objective: To illustrate Azure Tables Python SDK usage using NBA API, followed by querying Azure Table Storage with Azure Storage Explorer's Query Builder. Pre-requisites: For this example, you would need: An Azure Table Storage Steps: Install nba_api Install Azure Tables client…

We are pleased to announce the enterprise-ready release of the security baseline for Microsoft Edge version 114! We have reviewed the settings in Microsoft Edge version 114 and updated our guidance with the removal of two settings. A new Microsoft Edge security baseline package was just released to the Download Center. You can download the new package from the Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge’s Password Manager (Removed) This release also brings some exciting password management changes that we have been discussing for quite some time. Previously, the Microsoft Edge security baseline has called for disabling the built-in password manager…

Your learning goes beyond Microsoft Build. Join After Parties at a local time with your local community. Here are some of our Community-led After Parties held on from June 5 to June 12 (as of June 5, 2023). Check it out and join your favorite Parties! MVP/RD/User Group-led Microsoft Build 2023 After Party Date (Local Time) Title Language(s) Format(s) June 5, 2023 Microsoft Build After Party - 気ままに勉強会 Power Platform Meetup 2 Japanese-Japan Virtual June 5, 2023 Microsoft Build After Party - 퓨전개발자 (fusiondevkr) Korean-Korea Virtual June 5, 2023 Azure OpenAI ChatGPT by AI Club …

Hybrid Strategies with the Azure SQL family of services Adopting a hybrid strategy makes it possible to access benefits of cloud services without exiting your datacenter, making it a game-changer when it comes to simplifying countless scenarios you may come across in your business processes. The flexibility of hybrid connectivity also allows you to increase your on-premises datacenter’s capabilities while reducing utilities and maintenance costs, as well as other operational costs associated with your datacenter. Azure SQL Managed Instance offers several options for introducing a hybrid environment to your organization, and each one is ideal for a variety of s…

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse makes it easier than ever for Managed Service Providers to deliver managed services to small and medium-sized customers, at scale, with multi-tenant management capabilities that help them secure users, devices, apps, and data across all of their customers’ tenants! Lighthouse provides a comprehensive security baseline and helps you deploy it across your customers’ tenants – which is VERY cool – but what’s even cooler is the ability to see the deployment status of every task and every user across every tenant that you manage on a single pane of glass! The power of deployment insights – a little something for everyone! Previously, even…

In today's cloud-connected world, organizations rely heavily on SaaS applications to streamline operations and improve productivity. However, this has increased reliance on cloud services which exposes organizations to potential security threats. Among these threats are OAuth applications, which can be vulnerable due to insecure implementation, frequently misconfigured permissions, relying on user consent granting permissions to third-party apps and allowing lateral movement to bad actors that can lead to phishing. App governance provides an essential layer of defense to help you to protect and improve the security posture of your OAuth enabled apps. Back in Apri…

Azure Event Hubs and Azure Data Explorer (ADX/Kusto) have joined forces to streamline the process of sending data to Azure Data Explorer. Now, with just a few clicks, you can effortlessly stream your data directly from the Event Hubs Instance page in the Azure portal into ADX. The Event Hubs Instance page in the Azure portal The Azure Data Explorer ingestion wizard makes it easy to preview your event hub data, transform and ingest it. Once your data is in Azure Data Explorer, you can run powerful queries using KQL, visualize your data through charts and graphs, gain valuable insights, build interactive dashboards, and share your findings with others. The …

This last week we got a service request where our customer faced the following error message: 'Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'NOT'.Inner exception: SqlException ID: XYZ-XYZ1-XYZ2-XYZ3-XYZ4, Error Code: -2146232060 - SqlError Number:156, Message: SQL error with code 156 For more information, provide tracing ID ‘XYZ5-XYZ6-XYZ7-XYZ8-XYZ9’ to customer support.' during the syncronization process of DataSync. Following I would like to share with you the lessons learned about it. Using SQL Auditing from the Portal or SQL Server Profiler extension in Azure Data Studio we were able to see the query that Azure Data Sync is using and why is failing at the moment of the s…

Ecco a voi il consueto appuntamento settimanale con tutte le news e le iniziative del mondo Enablement! Non prendete impegni il 19 e 20 luglio per il più grande evento dedicato ai partner! Microsoft Inspire è la soluzione per accelerare la trasformazione AI, far crescere i propri clienti e alimentare la crescita economica dei partner. Iscrivetevi all’evento Microsoft Teams Phone Bootcamp, che si terrà il 13 giugno alla sede Microsoft di Roma! Non perdete i prossimi webinar disponibili sulla piattaforma Cloud Champion: Digital & App Innovation 07/06/2023: Microsoft Commercial Marketplace Partner Showcase Cross Solutio…

This sample shows how to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) cluster and Azure OpenAI Service using Terraform modules with the Azure Provider Terraform Provider and how to deploy a Python chatbot that authenticates against Azure OpenAI using Azure AD workload identity and calls the Chat Completion API of a ChatGPT model. You can find the code of the chatbot and Bicep modules to deploy the environment in this GitHub repository. For a Bicep version of the article and companion sample, see How to deploy and run an Azure OpenAI ChatGPT application on AKS via Bicep. A chatbot is an application that simulates human-like conversations with users via chat. Its k…