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This solution architecture proposal outlines how to effectively utilize OpenAI's language model alongside Azure Cognitive Services to create a user-friendly and inclusive solution for document translation. By leveraging OpenAI's advanced language capabilities and integrating them with Azure Cognitive Services, we can accommodate diverse language preferences and provide audio translations, thereby meeting accessibility standards and reaching a global audience. This solution aims to enhance accessibility, ensure inclusivity, and gain valuable insights through the combined power of OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services and PowerPlatform. Dataflow Here is the process： …

Welcome back to Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement Show. We will be discussing the role of curiosity in being an Architect. Our hosts will be David Blank-Edelman and our armchair architects Uli Homann and Eric Charran. Eric suggests that there is a direct link between curiosity and humility. From Eric’s point of view, he thinks that there is a direct link between curiosity and humility. Humility is an important ingredient and certainly collaboration across different groups is too, but especially in the architecture discipline. Because in the architecture discipline, there's no other discipline that he can think of in which you go from thinki…

The combination of Microsoft Defender and Sentinel helps SecOps teams detect, investigate, respond to, and defend against threats with a fully integrated and comprehensive set of capabilities. Today we’re sharing some new training resources and opportunities to help you build skills with these solutions—so you can use them now or get ready for a Microsoft certification exam. New Microsoft training guide for SIEM and XDR This lightweight guide quickly walks you through business needs related to extended threat detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM). It helps you make the most of Microsoft security solutions by pointing …

ZoomIt v7.0 This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, adds the ability to screen record cropped regions or a specific window, and lets you snip regions of the screen or zoomed views to the clipboard or to a file in a single gesture. Continue reading...

Public sector organizations are facing a generational shift in their workforce. On one hand, they are experiencing the impact of the “silver tsunami”, the mass retirement of baby boomers who have been the backbone of public service for decades. On the other hand, they are struggling to attract and retain millennials and Gen Z, who have different expectations and preferences than their predecessors. How can public sector organizations navigate this challenge and leverage the full potential of generational diversity? Empowering your workforce with modern productivity, collaboration, and security tools can help your agency embrace generational diversity and across four c…

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Azure CosmosDB for PostgreSQL have now introduced support for the pgvector extension. With the pgvector extension, customers can now store embeddings in PostgreSQL databases which are vectors created by generative AI models that represent the semantic meaning of textual data allowing efficient similarity searches. This ensures that users can leverage the benefits of simplified model integration across different deployment options in Azure. The pgvector extension facilitates the storage and effective searching of embeddings that capture the semantic meaning of text inputs. By utilizing pgvector, customers across all …

We’re pleased to announce General Availability of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector, which now supports Azure public cloud, Azure China, and Azure national clouds. You can use the connector to connect to any Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server database and perform create, read, update, and delete operations. You can use the GA version of the connector with the following services. Power Apps: A low-code platform that enables you to build custom applications quickly and easily. Empower developers to build Dataverse applications fast on MySQL data which can reduce your development costs. Get started with building a Power app with …

In preparation for a demo in his talk, Leon Welicki needed "safe data", meaning data that looks legit but is fake. This post shares how I use Azure SQL Database templates, ChatGTP, and the .NET package Bogus to create data safe to be used, random, but that fits the demo theme and requirement. Don't miss this awesome demo! Watch Leon's session: Full stack scale with the Microsoft Power Platform on the Microsoft Build website. The Context Leon needs some sales data for his demo: salespeople, and a history of transactions that cover a year. The data need to be random but fit the demo theme and requirement. Part 1: Azure SQL Database Template When thin…

We're excited to announce the public preview of Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) Bindings for Azure Functions! With the bindings, read and write operations can be performed against Kusto clusters in declarative fashion leveraging the Azure functions framework. This new capability makes it simpler to build data processing pipelines that involve Kusto and enables you to easily integrate Kusto with other Azure services using Azure Functions. How does the Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) bindings work Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) bindings provides input and output bindings for Azure Functions, which allow you to read and write data from and to Kusto clusters respectiv…

This post is co-authored by Abhishek Saharn (Software Engineer, Microsoft) NLog is a popular logging framework used by developers to log messages from .NET applications. One of the challenges of logging is how to store and analyze the large volume of data generated by the logs. Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a fast and highly scalable data exploration service that can be used to store and analyze large volumes of data. In this blog post, we will show you how to use the Azure Data Explorer custom target connector with NLog to store your log data in an ADX cluster. But first, Why logging is important? Logging is a crucial component in software development…

Introduction This post is the second in a three-part series on troubleshooting common networking issues with Azure Kubernetes (AKS), a managed container orchestration service. Scenarios in this post were the result of an intensive one-day bootcamp specifically targeting advanced AKS networking triage and troubleshooting scenarios. It offers comprehensive guidance on how to set up a fully functional environment and presents various fault scenarios that participants can troubleshoot using familiar tools. The previous post addressed connectivity and DNS issues. This article specifically covers endpoint connectivity issues across virtual networks and port configur…

Organizations face a range of challenges when it comes to defending against cybersecurity threats. SIEM and XDR solutions are becoming increasingly important in the cybersecurity industry, as they help organizations detect and respond to threats across all systems. Microsoft’s SIEM and XDR provides a comprehensive, integrated cybersecurity solution that can help organizations defend against advanced threats in real-time. We’ve created the Defend Against Cybersecurity Threats campaign with two options available for Microsoft partners to engage customers with Microsoft security solutions and your services. If you’re looking for an automated digital campaign, you can…

In this blog post, you will learn how one could benefit from OpenAI’s chat plugin ecosystem to enhance the capabilities of the state-of-the-art chat completion models when tackling a real-world Postgres and Citus use case: choosing the right shard key (also known as the distribution column). If you are already using the Citus database extension in Postgres, or Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, you probably know that shard keys are used in distributed tables to assign table rows to shards. Choosing the right distribution strategy for your Citus database—such as choosing the right shard key in your PostgreSQL distributed tables, or choosing whether a table shoul…

OpenAI ChatGPT plugins unlock many potential scenarios interacting with real time systems and data. Particularly retrieval plugins enable ChatGPT to access data sources such as PostgreSQL. Recently Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL added support for the pgvector extension to Postgres. This post gives you a glimpse of future where—with a combination of Open AI / ChatGPT retrieval plugin (in beta) and pgvector—you will be able to use ChatGPT to store, search, and append knowledge with data from databases created using PostgreSQL on Azure. In this post, you’ll learn: What are “Embeddings” in the context of Op…

Maximizing the performance and scalability of your Stream Analytics job requires optimizing your query logic. One tool that can help you achieve this is the Job Simulation feature within the ASA extension for Visual Studio Code. It allows you to: Visualize the topology of your Stream Analytics job and assess its parallelism. Gain a clear understanding of how the computing resources (streaming units) are allocated within your job. Obtain valuable insights into the execution of your job at both the node and processor levels. Receive helpful editing suggestions to enhance your query and achieve a parallel job. In this blog, we'll walk you through a real-wo…

Microsoft Build May 23-25 Summary Event Overview Microsoft Power Platform will be featured prominently at Microsoft Build – Microsoft’s flagship developer event kicking off on May 23. Microsoft will be landing key news through a set of executive-delivered keynotes as well as breakout sessions, discussion opportunities, demonstrations, hands-on labs and expert meet ups. The list of announcements and disclosures below highlights Microsoft’s competitive differentiation and market momentum across Power Platform—advancements that will allow every organization to innovate with collaborative applications and low code. And if you haven’t already registered, there…

1. Introduction Microsoft 365 Defender is the Microsoft-recommended experience for investigation and remediation of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) incidents. Please refer to the step-by-step guided walkthrough published earlier to learn how to investigate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention alert in Microsoft 365 Defender. As part of the investigative capabilities available in Microsoft 365 Defender, advanced hunting provides the ability to query raw compliance and security data signals generated by Microsoft 365 to proactively detect known and potential risks in your organization as well as visualizing the attack chain. Advanced hunting can…

We are thrilled to extend an exclusive invitation to the Microsoft OpenAI Hackathon, a unique developer experience hosted by Microsoft. Taking place online on June 15-16, 2023, this event offers an immersive opportunity for teams and organizations to collaborate with Microsoft subject matter experts in solving AI-related use cases. Join us for two days of ideation, design, and hands-on building, as we accelerate your team's MVP or PoC in the realm of AI. What to Expect at the Microsoft OpenAI Hackathon: This collaborative environment will enable you to unleash your creativity and develop innovative AI solutions. Here's what you can look forward to: Ideatio…

Microsoft has collaborated with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA AI Enterprise — the software layer of NVIDIA AI platform, which offers over 100 frameworks, pretrained models, and development tools — into Azure Machine Learning. The integration will create the first enterprise-ready, secure, end-to-end cloud platform for developers to build, deploy, and manage AI applications including custom large language models. It will feature NVIDIA AI toolkits — such as TAO, RAPIDS, MONAI, Triton Inference Server, and DeepStream — in the Azure Machine Learning Community registry, which will be available starting today as a private technical preview. With this integration, users will be ab…

Thanks to the advancements in the area of natural language processing using machine learning techniques & highly successful new-age LLMs from OpenAI, Google & Microsoft - NLP based modeling & inferencing are one of the top areas of customer interest. These are being widely used in almost all Microsoft products & there is also a huge demand from our customers to utilize these techniques in their business apps. Similarly, there is a demand for privacy preserving infrastructure to run such apps. In this blog I am going to show how to run basic NLP text summarization using T5 & BART in a python streamlit.io based app & run it as a container on Conf…

We're excited to announce that Kubernetes Apps in the Azure Marketplace is now Generally Available. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides a robust and scalable managed Kubernetes platform for organizations running their most mission-critical applications on Azure. With Kubernetes Apps, teams can further extend the capabilities of their AKS deployments with a vibrant ecosystem of tested and transactable third-party solutions from industry-leading partners and popular open-source offerings. Customers benefit from a simplified supply chain that offers vetted security, integrated billing, and one-click deployment to AKS, making it easier than ever to build cutting-ed…

How to capture network traces on Azure App Services (Windows & Linux) Azure App Service Windows: On App Service Page on Azure Portal, select “Diagnose and Solve Problems”: In the search box, type "Collect Network Trace" and select "Collect Network Trace" Choose the duration and click on Collect Network Trace button: The timer started and the portal will show you the countdown before the trace will automatically stop: How to open the trace file: On your Browser, go to Kudo console (https://webappname.scm.azurewebsites.net) --> Debug console --> CMD , as below: A new Zip file will be created, you can …

In the world of data streaming, efficient data processing is key to unlocking valuable insights and powering real-time decision-making. With the recent integration of Event Hubs Schema Registry, Azure Stream Analytics can retrieve schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hubs input. By moving schema metadata into the Schema Registry, Azure Stream Analytics eliminates the need for manual management and ensures consistent data quality through schema enforcement. It also enhances development efficiency, reduces message overhead, and allows for smooth transitions when introducing new schema versions. Currently, the Schema Registry integrat…

Azure Databricks & Azure Confidential Computing are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Databricks support for Azure Confidential Computing options for data plane. Feature Overview Azure Databricks now supports using Confidential computing VM options while creating clusters. This new feature emphasizes our commitment to cloud security. With this new feature, now you can run your Azure Databricks workload securely & confidentially on Azure. Azure confidential computing generally attracts customers in highly regulated industries & regions but is equally applicable to any business that is looking to run their analytics, machine learning an…

Welcome to Build 2023! Welcome to this year's Build 2023 roundup of What’s New for Azure App Service! Build is in-person for the first time in many years (/woo-hoo!) and product group members will be in-person at Build 2023 in Seattle this year! This link to Application Innovation sessions at Build 2023 includes a comprehensive list of ten separate breakout sessions, demo sessions, and discussion (Q&A) sessions where Azure App Service is covered! Its also a handy guide to the plethora of Build content about API Management, Cloud Native and Serverless development, Low-code and Power Platform as well as Azure Communication Services! Team members will also b…