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Exploring SaaS Offers in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace: Essential Elements and Best Practices
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Introduction The Microsoft commercial marketplace has several deployment models and architectures, as explained my previous article, “An introduction to marketplace deployment architectures.” Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers are a very popular option when integrating your software solution with the marketplace because this offer type supports (you guessed it) SaaS product architectures so well. After finishing this article you'll have a better understanding of the following elements of a SaaS offer in the Microsoft commercial marketplace. Reasons to choose SaaS The landing page The webhook Creating a SaaS offer in Partner Center Additional …
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Engage the optimal training mode for any learning style
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You’ve probably been told that each of us has a distinct learning style, whether it’s visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or logical (among others). Mounting research suggests that effective training in complex Microsoft technologies should offer its students a full spectrum of teaching modes that engage and accommodate a variety of learning styles for the best training experience. To do that, Microsoft Learning Partners tailor training experiences to accommodate diverse learning styles. Let’s take a look at how. Visual instruction Visual aids like diagrams, charts, and videos are essential to condense complex technical concepts. Microsoft Learning Partners brin…
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Most valuable perspectives (MVPs) on Microsoft Intune Suite
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If reducing costs, improving your security posture, or simplifying endpoint management is on your wish list, keep reading. This week's Tech Accelerator has a lot of exciting news, but we want to give you a reason to slow down and dive deep into the new Microsoft Intune Suite. While the broad strokes were shared in the keynote and focus session, we recorded an extended conversation with three Microsoft MVPs that you won't want to miss. What's a Microsoft MVP? MVP stands for Most Valued Professional. Recipients of the "Microsoft MVP" designation have all demonstrated technical expertise, community leadership, knowledge sharing, and advocacy on behalf of user communi…
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Microsoft Purview Information Protection in Microsoft 365 Apps - April 2023
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Welcome back to the quarterly newsletter from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook discussing what’s new and coming soon with sensitivity labels, powered by Microsoft Purview Information Protection. We pick up where we left off in January 2023. From Bolt-On to Built-In: Recap In March 2023, We started rolling out to Current Channel the new configuration for M365 Apps that disables the AIP add-in by default, alongside a slew of new features that replace the capabilities of the add-in. From Bolt-On to Built-In: April 2023 Using the various feedback channels and quality signals we rely on, we’ve been learning how this change is impacting custome…
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Retirement notification for the Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling add-in for Office
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The Azure Information Protection (AIP) Unified Labeling add-in for Office has been in-market for close to eight years. In that time, it has grown in functionality and usage, becoming deeply embedded in the information protection strategy for thousands of organizations and used daily by millions of users. Since October 2019, Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise has been building the same functionality into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and has expanded sensitivity labels across Windows, Mac, Web, and Mobile for a comprehensive, consistent, and seamless experience for end-users and admins. Microsoft 365 Apps now have most of the capabilities found in the AIP Unified Lab…
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Request external files into SharePoint document libraries
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The magic of “requesting files” into Microsoft 365 started with OneDrive (Oct. 2019) providing users with a quick and secure way to request and collect files from anyone. And now we have extended the same capability for SharePoint – specifically requesting file into document libraries. Voila! It is easy and safe. A file request can start from a link in your email signature (see below tip), a link in a chat, a hyperlink that is a part of your intake or onboarding processes with customers, clients, and vendors. For the recipient, it is a simple web interface to upload a file and send it. And for you, the file(s) arrive(s) without granting access to your SharePoint do…
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Native Inline Microsoft Image Creator AI Experience Powered by DALL·E Now In Microsoft Edge
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Microsoft has now brought the Bing Image Creator AI experience powered by DALL·E to Microsoft Edge. In this HLS Show Me How video I show how to access and leverage Bing Image Creator AI to generate original imagery for use in your documents, Viva Engage, Viva Connections and more! Resources: Image Creator from Microsoft Bing Help - Image Creator from Microsoft Bing DALL·E 2 (openai.com) Create images with your words - Bing Image Creator comes to the new Bing - The Official Microsoft Blog Thanks for visiting – Michael Gannotti LinkedIn | Twitter Michael Gannotti Continue reading...
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Custom solution to Omit Azure SQL Auditing Data
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I have come up with the requirement from customer to omit the bind values captured as part of Azure SQL Auditing – Batch completed event. When we talk about bind values, I am referring to the parameters passed as part of prepared statement from application. By default, SQL Batch completed event captures complete statements executed by an application below is an example: So, the custom solution here includes the below services: Azure SQL Database Event Hub - 1st Destination to send the raw event. Blob Storage - Final Destination to send filtered Data. Stream Analytics Jobs – Used to filter the data. As a first steps, Azure SQL Databa…
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Azure DevOps for Beginners: How to Set Up Your Account, Organization, and Repository
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Welcome to my first blog post on Azure DevOps. My name is Rachel Irabor. I'm a Microsoft learn student ambassador, Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement developer. What is Azure DevOps Azure DevOps is a set of tools for developers, project managers, and other contributors to work together on software development. It lets companies create and improve products more quickly than they could with older methods of software development. Azure DevOps has integrated features that you can access through your web browser or IDE client. You can use all of the services that come with Azure DevOps or just the ones you need to add to your current workflows…
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Cost Governance with Azure Policy
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Introduction Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia. This post is about how you can implement Cost Governance with Azure Policy. I have delivered many Well-Architected Optimization Assessments and some of the policies here can help you to get closer to that Well-Architected state. Cost governance is an essential aspect of managing any cloud infrastructure. Azure Policy is a powerful tool that can help implement cost governance measures within your Azure environment. With Azure Policy, you can define and enforce rules to control costs, monitor usage, and optimize your resources. These policies can …
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MatLab and Azure: A Match Made in Performance Heaven
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Used in many industries, including engineering, mathematics, and finance, MatLab is a proprietary programming language and multi-paradigm numerical computing environment. With the increasing complexity of data analysis, simulation, and modeling tasks, the performance of MatLab plays a crucial role in the speed and accuracy of these operations. Microsoft Azure offers a cloud-based platform that provides virtual machines (VMs) to run MatLab. However, selecting the right VM SKU can be difficult, and choosing an incorrect one can lead to suboptimal performance and potentially higher costs. In this blog article, we'll discuss how processor selection and other factors may affec…
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How to expose data biases from debugging your model with responsible AI
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The traditional method of evaluating the trustworthiness of a model’s performance is to look at calculated metrics such as accuracy, recall, precision, root mean squared error (RSME), mean absolute error (MAE), or R2, depending on the type of use-case you have (e.g., classification or regression). Data scientists and AI developers can also measure confidence levels for areas the model correctly predicted or the frequency of making correct predictions. You can also try to isolate your test data in separate cohorts to observe and compare how the model performs with some groups vs. others. However, all of these techniques ignore a major blind spot: the underlying data. …
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How to find model performance inconsistencies in one data group vs another with Responsible AI
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An effective approach to evaluating the performance of machine learning models is getting a holistic understanding of their behavior across different scenarios. One way to approach this includes calculating and assessing model performance metrics like accuracy, recall, precision, root mean squared error (RSME), mean absolute error (MAE), or R2 scores. However, just analyzing one metric or alternatively, the aggregated metrics for the overall model is insufficient to debug a model and identify the root cause of errors or inaccuracies. In conjunction with measuring performance metrics, data scientists and AI developers need to conduct comparative analysis to aid their holis…
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Best practices regarding Azure Storage Keys, Azure Functions, and Azure Role Based Access
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Summary Azure provides developers and security operations staff a wide array of configurable security options to meet organizational needs. Throughout the software development lifecycle, it is important for customers to understand the shared responsibility model, as well as be familiar with various security best practices. This is particularly important in deploying Azure Functions and in provisioning Azure Role Based Access Control as customers are responsible for configuring and managing applications, identity, and data.
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Last month we took a deep dive into the update powers available to IT teams from Microsoft – including to explain the differences between the solutions on offer. This month we're back to talk about what's new in the service. New Windows Autopatch tenant health status The new ‘Inactive Status' feature is intended to make IT admins' lives easier. To help administrators recognize critically urgent issues that require immediate action, the status of their Windows Autopatch instance will be set to ‘inactive.' This will limit administrator access to only the Windows Autopatch blades and controls that need attention. Examples include misconfigured tenant access setting…
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Understanding Connectivity Issues in Azure SQL Database
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The connections established to Azure SQL Database from applications or client tools may be unexpectedly terminated and impact user environments due to internal (System) maintenance work, client networking, application related or other health related issues. In this blog post, we will cover recommended steps to identify connection failures to your database and best practices to handle these failures using resources & tools available for Azure SQL Database. Understanding the connection Problem! When it comes to understanding a problem, we need to know where the issue is occurring, whether this is happening on the client side, or it is an issue specific to the …
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Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365: Anti-malware, Safe Attachments, and Quarantine
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Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365: Anti-malware, Safe Attachments, and Quarantine Microsoft Support is excited to continue this blog series that will demystify how Microsoft 365 email protection works. In this fourth part of the series, we will cover how anti-malware and Safe Attachments protections work for known and unknown threats and review common quarantine operations, quarantine policies and notifications. Anti-malware protection Email attachments that contain malicious applications or code can cause damage and disrupt normal use of users’ devices. These malware attachments can allow unauthorized access, use system resources, steal passwords,…
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Announcement: New Features and changes to SQL IaaS Agent Extension
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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is powered by the SQL IaaS Agent extension which provides many features that make managing your SQL Server easy. This blog will discuss new features and changes we’ve recently released in this extension. Retiring Modes: SQL IaaS Agent extension traditionally used to have two modes, Lightweight and Full mode. In the Lightweight mode, customers were able to do license management, whereas the Full mode offers all the other manageability features. This differentiation of modes made it tough for customers to adopt the manageability features that the SQL IaaS agent extension offers. To address this, starting today there will be no manage…
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Introducing Viva Engage, now on iOS and Android!
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We are excited to announce that the Yammer mobile app has now been rebranded as the Viva Engage mobile app! Following the Yammer Communities app in Teams and Outlook rebranding, our mobile app will now reflect the same to align Yammer more closely with our Viva suite of employee experiences With the new Viva Engage app on iOS and Android, you can stay connected with your colleagues, get updates on important projects, and share information easily, all from your mobile device. The app comes with a modern interface, support for device-specific features, and an improved user experience. Now, whether a user visits to Yammer.com or experiences the Viva E…
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Oh, Snap! Let Your Silly Side Shine with Snapchat Lenses for Microsoft Teams
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A shower of hearts, a sloth’s warm embrace, or a chicken on your head. It sounds like a fun, eclectic party! Good news, it CAN be—in your next work meeting through Snapchat Lenses for Microsoft Teams. Starting this week, a collection of 20+ of the most popular Snapchat Lenses are available to Teams customers globally*, giving you more ways to express yourself, build relationships and let your meetings shine. Ahem, cue the Sunglasses Lens. Or better yet, check out Bear in Love, Cat on Head, or the Sunset Lenses. And did you know video calls make up 78% of positive memories in meetings?** Why not use Lenses to share more of your personality during your next Teams mee…
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Skill up on Modern Work: Quarterly recap
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Welcome to our new quarterly blog series designed to help you skill up on Modern Work technologies. This is your quarterly one stop shop for Modern Work technical skilling updates, resources, and opportunities. 7 ways to skill up on Modern Work technologies today: Explore administration of Microsoft 365 in the new era of AI: Microsoft 365 Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps. See what this will mean for Microsoft 365 administration and how data security, privacy, and responsible AI considerations will influence the control set we're building to manage Copilot experience…
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Troubleshoot Cloud PC connection issue
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Cloud PC users may encounter connection failure when they restarted the Cloud PC after Windows update or suddenly lose connection without obvious reason. These blog troubleshooting steps are not for a special reason of connection failure. It is a general troubleshooting method for users themselves and Cloud PC admins to bring the Cloud PC back online. If users restarted Cloud PC because of Windows feature update, it is reasonable to wait around 30 minutes to get a connection because Cloud PC backend infrastructure needs more time to resume all services for supporting Cloud PC than a regular physical devices restart. End User troubleshooting If a user gets a co…
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Recently, one of the customer who was facing issues with application pools and unable to set custom IIS App Pool Identity with message “There was an error while performing this operation and value does not fall within the expected range”. We reviewed the event logs and identified and resolved the issue with below troubleshooting steps. Symptoms ========= Unable to set custom IIS App Pool Identity and observed below error. Troubleshooting Steps: =============== Review the event logs - Services Logs => Microsoft => Windows => IIS-Configuration. ID 42: Failed to initialize the 'IISWASOnlyAesProvider' encryption provider in '\\?\C:\wind…
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What’s new in Windows Autopatch: April 2023 - notifications and impact
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Last month we took a deep dive into the update powers available to IT teams from Microsoft – including to explain the differences between the solutions on offer. This month we're back to talk about what's new in the service. New Windows Autopatch tenant health status The new ‘Inactive Status' feature is intended to make IT admins' lives easier. To help administrators recognize critically urgent issues that require immediate action, the status of their Windows Autopatch instance will be set to ‘inactive.' This will limit administrator access to only the Windows Autopatch blades and controls that need attention. Examples include misconfigured tenant access setting…
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SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 3 - Let's get that data!
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Thanks for joining me for the third episode of the blog series on SAP CDC Connector and SLT. In the previous post, I covered the initial configuration steps required to set up the SLT engine to work with Azure. Today, I'll be taking a deeper dive into the extraction process and monitoring. These steps are essential to ensure a smooth and efficient replication of data from your SAP source system to your target system. By the end of this post, you'll have a better understanding of how to manage and troubleshoot the replication process. DATA EXTRACTION AND MONITORING Once the Azure and SLT configuration is completed the only thing left to do is clicking Trigger Now…