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Optimize Costs in Azure SQL Managed Instance
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The economic instability and uncertainty of the future has many organizations trying to find ways to cut costs in different areas of their business models. The search for a way to reduce spending is often never-ending even as the economic climate improves, and cost-aware customers desire a solution that maintains the quality of their current business processes. Azure SQL Managed Instance encompasses multiple capabilities that offer different ways organizations can optimize their workload costs without compromising quality and performance, allowing them to operate efficiently at a lower cost. SQL Managed Instance allows the migration of workloads from an on-premises …
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Windows Update for Business reports: access and region control
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Since launching Windows Update for Business reports, you've asked for richer control over your data. We're excited to announce the preview of more flexible data routing and access controls, as well as new regions for data storage. Make it easier to monitor update compliance by routing data for Azure AD device groups to different Log Analytics workspaces and securing them using Azure role-based access control (RBAC). Let's see how! What are data routing and access control? When you enable Windows Update for Business reports, all data for all devices in your tenant is routed to a single Log Analytics workspace. That begins when you do one of the following: Enabl…
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Register for the upcoming live webinar covering data visualizations in Power BI!
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Health and Life Sciences Power BI User Group presents: Ask me anything about the future of data visualizations in Power BI Hosted by the Power BI Product Team Live Webinar Monday, April 24 10:00-11:00 AM ET Register Here Continue reading...
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A better way to identify external users in an Outlook mail
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Many companies are working in a context where content sensitivity is very important. You should be very careful on what information you are sharing and with whom, especially if one or more recipients don't belong to your organization. To help employees being more diligent, the Outlook team developed a while ago a feature called MailTips, which is a way to provide contextual information to a user when a specific condition happens. One of the conditions that IT admins can turn on is external users checking. The image below shows an example of what happens in my Outlook client when I try to send a mail that includes a recipient who is outside Microsoft: You can no…
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Extending Azure Health Bot with Azure OpenAI Service
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Extending Azure Health Bot with Azure OpenAI Service Over the past few months, we have witnessed a tremendous shift in the way Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used across every industry. The adoption of Large Language Models (LLM) is gaining traction at an immense speed. Azure Health Bot empowers healthcare organizations to build and deploy AI-powered, compliant, conversational healthcare experiences at scale. Already today, healthcare organizations are using Azure Health Bot to provide end users with self-serve functionality and easy to access information. The service combines built-in medical intelligence with natural language understanding tuned for cli…
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A Guide to the Developer Journey in Azure Stream Analytics
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As a developer, your journey with Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) can be divided into several stages, each with its own set of challenges and requirements. In this blog post, we'll walk you through the typical developer journey in ASA, from the initial setup to production deployment. Along the way, we'll explore the various development tools and best practices that will help you build a Stream Analytics job. Stage 1: Configure Input and Output Sources To define input and output sources for your Stream Analytics job, you can choose from various input sources such as Event Hubs, IoT Hub, and Blob storage, and output sources such as Blob Storage, Event Hubs, Power…
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How to contribute to the ITOpsTalk repo on GitHub
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A few days ago, we announced the launch of the ITOpsTalk repository on GitHub. This repo will feature Infrastructure samples for anything related to Azure Infrastructure, Hybrid, Windows Server, Containers, etc. While the repository will be maintained by the Moder Infrastructure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft, you can also contribute with IT/Ops related samples by submitting a Pull Request (PR)! This blog post will cover how that process works, in case you are not familiar with using GitHub. Fork the ITOpsTalk repo The first step to contribute to the repo is to fork it to your own account. This is necessary as only Cloud Advocates have writing access to thi…
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A La Decouverte De Microsoft Power Platform
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Le problème Très souvent, les entreprises rencontrent des problèmes lorsqu'elles essaient d'automatiser des processus et de développer des applications. Les employés n'ont pas toujours des compétences en programmation nécessaires pour faire le travail eux-mêmes et comptent sur le département informatique pour le faire à leur place. Cependant, cela peut souvent entraîner des retards ou des rejets de projets. Pour aider les entreprises à résoudre ce problème, Microsoft a créé la Power Platform. Cette plateforme permet aux employés de développer leurs propres applications, d'analyser des données et d'automatiser des processus sans avoir besoin de compétences …
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Enhancing health equity by extraction of Social Determinants of Health from unstructured text
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Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status. Where people live, work, and grow significantly affects quality of life and health outcomes. Many healthcare organizations aim to understand the complex array of factors, other than direct medical care, that drive health outcomes, such as underlying genetics, health behaviors, social and environmental factors. However, they face significant challenges as 80% of medical data remains unstructured and untapped after it is created. Today, we are excited to announce addition of SDoH and ethnicity support in Text Analytics for hea…
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Ramp up with me...on HPC: What is high-performance computing (HPC)?
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By: Rachel Pruitt, Product Marketing Manager, Azure HPC, AI Infrastructure When I first started my role in marketing for high performance computing (HPC), I knew very little about what HPC was and how it was used. I came from a business background in the lending industry for SMB companies, who were not using this technology. It’s been a steep learning curve, and I’m grateful to have incredible engineering and technical sales counterparts that were willing to be patient and take the time to educate me. Little did I realize that I would love learning about HPC as I dove into how it was being used by our customers. If you have some time, I encourage you to c…
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Saying Goodbye to HPC Pack 2012 R2: End of Life Date Reached April 11th 2023
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Introduction: Microsoft announced many years ago that it will end support for its High-Performance Computing (HPC) Pack 2012 R2 on April 11th, 2023. This means that Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, software updates, or security patches for this version of the HPC Pack. This is a significant announcement for organizations still using this version of HPC Pack, as it means that they will need to migrate to a newer version or alternative solution to avoid any support issues. HPC Pack 2012 R2 was the first major version of HPC Pack that saw tremendous cloud adoption by its users. Why End of Life Announcement? The End-of-Life (EOL) announcement for HPC …
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Authors: Dhiraj Sehgal and Ayobami Ayodeji Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that runs and scales Kubernetes applications in Microsoft Azure. AKS ensures a secure, scalable, and managed Kubernetes environment with security patches automatically applied to your cluster’s control plane. However, containerized workloads running in AKS are still at risk for security threats and vulnerabilities in your Azure environment. Securing workloads from build time to runtime in AKS Security is a constantly evolving challenge, and it doesn’t take long for threat actors to expose and exploit container vulnerabilities—or for compliance and access issues …
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Boost efficiency with Power Platform and Azure API Management
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With the rise of cloud computing, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT), APIs have become more important than ever, and their use has increased tremendously in recent years. APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, are the mechanisms that enable different software systems to communicate and interact with each other seamlessly. They allow developers to build flexible, integrated solutions that leverage data and functionality from multiple sources. This, in turn, enables businesses to deliver more personalized, efficient, and innovative services to employees, partners, and customers. With the ability for software systems to communicate with each other …
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Update 2303 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager current branch is now available.
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Microsoft Configuration Manager product branding Starting with Configuration Manager version 2303 Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is now Microsoft Configuration Manager. Microsoft Configuration Manager is an integrated solution for managing all your devices. Microsoft brings together Configuration Manager and Intune, without a complex migration, and with simplified licensing. Continue to use your existing Configuration Manager investments, while taking advantage of the power of the Microsoft cloud at your own pace. Cloud-attached management Improvements to Cloud Sync (Collections to Azure Active Directory Group Synchronization) feature …
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Create an AKS cluster in Azure and learn more about the workflow from start to finish - along with considerations when migrating from EKS workloads to AKS! 1. Navigate to Microsoft Azure 2. Click the "Search resources, services, and docs (G+/)" field. 3. Type "aks" 4. Click "Kubernetes services" 5. Click this icon to begin creating a Kubernetes service deployment. 6. Click "Create a Kubernetes cluster" to begin the workflow. 7. Click "(New) Resource Group" for the AKS deployment; both AWS and Azure have the concept of Resource Groups; however, Resource Groups are compulsory for all resources in Azure where AWS it's optional. Some…
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This article outlines the steps to follow in order to add a trial subscription to an Azure account. 1. Navigate to Cloud Computing Services | Microsoft Azure 2. Click "Sign in" 3. Sign in to your account 4. Enter your password 5. Click the "Subscriptions" icon. 6. Click this "+ Add" icon to add a new Subscription. 7. Click "Try Azure for free"; We will add a trial subscription in this example. 8. Fill in your details including your phone number for identity verification. 9. Click "Text me" 10. Type in the code and then click "Verify code" 11. Fill in the rest of the form 12. Accept Agreement…
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How to Increase Quota for Specific Types of Azure Virtual Machines
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In this article, we'll go over how you can increase the quota for specific types of virtual machines in Azure, including the steps to request the increase and the support ticket process. 1. Navigate to Microsoft Azure 2. Click "Quotas" 3. Select "Compute" 4. Use the Search field to filter through the list. Here, we're looking for A100 VMs. 5. We will request an increase for NDASv4_A100 vCPUs. For the regular process, click the checkbox to select the row. 6. Click "Request quota increase" 7. Click "Enter a new limit" 8. Enter in the requested New Limit for this Quota. 9. Click "Submit" 10. Some rows will have …
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Step-by-Step Guide: Creating an Azure Resource Group on Azure Portal
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This article outlines the simple steps to create an Azure Resource Group. 1. Navigate to Microsoft Azure 2. Click "Resource groups" 3. Click "+ Create" to create a new Resource Group. 4. Select the Subscription from the drop down menu 5. Name the new Resource group 6. Select the Region. Even though you choose a region for your resource group, the resources that you put into it don't all have to be in that region! 7. Click "Next : Tags >" 8. Add Tags (optional) 9. Click "Next: Review + create >" 10. Click Create. Continue reading...
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PsExec v2.43, Sysmon v14.15, and TCPView v4.19
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PsExec v2.43 This update to PsExec fixes a regression with the '-c' argument. Sysmon v14.15 This update to Sysmon sets and requires system integrity on ArchiveDirectory (FileDelete and ClipboardChange events). Every existing ArchiveDirectory needs to be first deleted so that Sysmon can create it with the expected integrity and permissions. TCPView v4.19 This update to TCPView fixes a manifest configuration regression with the 32-bit binary. Continue reading...
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Announcing Image Signing for Windows Containers
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Containers have become popular for application development and deployment due to their portability and flexibility. As more and more apps choose containerization as a means of app modernization, it is important to secure container images ensuring they remain safe from image tampering or modification. Today we published Windows container images signed by notation, and they are now available in Microsoft Artifact Registry (Nano Server, Server Core, Windows, and Server). In this blog, we will explore the concept of container image signing, the benefits of signing container images, how we implemented signing in Windows containers, and how it can be verified. …
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Advanced Formula Environment is becoming Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project!
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Experimentation is key to unlocking innovation in any field. It’s how we learn and grow, and it’s what helps us continue to create features that help you do more. So today, we are thrilled to announce our continued investment in experimentation through the release of Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage project. Excel Labs is an add-in that allows us to release experimental ideas for you to try, and to give us feedback that helps us evolve Excel to be most useful for you. The Microsoft Garage is Microsoft’s official outlet for experimental projects across the company so that teams may receive early feedback from customers and better determine product market fit. W…
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Lesson Learned #343:DISABLE_VERSIONING wait type and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer is trying to change ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION to OFF, during this process we found that this process is taking too much time and I would like to share my lesson learned here. Based on the documentation that we have sys.dm_db_wait_stats (Azure SQL Database) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn , DISABLE_VERSIONING "Occurs when SQL Server polls the version transaction manager to see whether the timestamp of the earliest active transaction is later than the timestamp of when the state started changing. If this is this case, all the snapshot transactions that were started before the ALTER DATABASE statement was run have f…
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By popular demand: Windows LAPS available now!
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Welcome to the new and improved Windows LAPS! That's Local Administrator Password Solution. We've been listening to your feedback and requests, and the day is finally here for both cloud and on-premises environments. We're very happy to announce that new LAPS capabilities are coming directly to your devices starting with today's April 11, 2023 security update for the following Windows editions: Windows 11 Pro, EDU, and Enterprise Windows 10 Pro, EDU, and Enterprise Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server Core 2022 Windows Server 2019 What is LAPS? Have you ever wanted the ability to secure the local administrator accounts on your deployed Windows devices?…
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Attack Simulation Training: Using machine learning to drive more effective simulations
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Attack Simulation Training (AST) is an advanced tool for reducing the risk of phishing across an organization that measures behavior change and automates the deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It allows security teams to run intelligent simulations, consume actionable insights and remediate risk with hyper-targeted training designed to change behavior, and then measure behavioral progress against that benchmark through repeated simulations. Predicted Compromise Rate for payloads One of the most crucial elements in running a phishing simulation is the right selection of the payload to drive the right user behav…
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By popular demand: Windows LAPS available now!
by Guest Jay Simmons- 0 replies
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Welcome to the new and improved Windows LAPS! That's Local Administrator Password Solution. We've been listening to your feedback and requests, and the day is finally here for both cloud and on-premises environments. We're very happy to announce that new LAPS capabilities are coming directly to your devices starting with today's April 11, 2023 security update for the following Windows editions: Windows 11 Pro, EDU, and Enterprise Windows 10 Pro, EDU, and Enterprise Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server Core 2022 Windows Server 2019 What is LAPS? Have you ever wanted the ability to secure the local administrator accounts on your deployed Windows devices?…