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Important capabilities and updates to improve your security posture and protect your customers' tenants are now available. Date: May 18, 2023 Workspace: Account settings Impacted audience: Direct bill partners, indirect providers, and indirect resellers transacting through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and with advisors We'd like to share the latest dates for the upcoming granular delegated admin privileges (GDAP) milestones. Transitioning delegated admin privileges (DAP) relationships to GDAP roles Microsoft will begin transitioning DAP relationships to GDAP roles as of May 22, 2023. Details on the GDAP roles can be found in the Apri…

We are excited to announce Azure App Spaces (preview), one of the fastest and easiest way to deploy and manage your web apps on Azure. Azure App Spaces is a portal-based experience that takes an app-first approach to building, deploying, and running your apps. App Spaces makes it easier for developers to get started using Azure, without needing to be an expert on the hundreds of different cloud services. Detect the right Azure services from your repository App Spaces lets you connect your GitHub repositories to Azure, and through analysis of the code inside your GitHub repository, suggests the correct Azure services you should use. Once you deploy, …

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus compatible service from Azure Monitor that delivers the best of what you like about the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and 18 months of data retention. With general availability today, Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus offers fully managed collection, storage, rule evaluation, and querying of Prometheus data. The metrics time-series database leverages the same platform used by Azure Monitor Metrics, which we extended to handle Prometheus metrics in their native format. It supports a cloud-native approach to monitoring your …

Illustration by Leonardo Betti Like many people who changed jobs recently, Dave Nobles embarked on his new role without ceremony. Joining Microsoft was a career pivot after years in the Navy and then at a university-affiliated research center, but he woke up that first morning and sat down to work in the same home office where he’d spent the entire pandemic. “Nothing changed except the computer I use and the sites I access,” says Nobles, who tried moving his desk to a new spot in the room when he joined Microsoft, “just to make the experience feel a little different.” More broadly, Nobles wondered how he would adapt to his first job in the business wo…

Azure Monitor offers a rich set of enterprise-ready capabilities to increase observability of your hybrid environment, enabling high availability, reliability, and performance. Recently, we launched several capabilities in the cloud-native space to enhance Kubernetes monitoring. Watch the video below to learn about these new capabilities, how to get started with Azure Monitor’s unified cloud-native offering for Kubernetes, and for a demo of how to troubleshoot a memory leak in Grafana and Azure Portal. Today at Microsoft Build 2023, we are announcing more capabilities that will help you gain streamlined visibility into your application and infrastructure work…

Welcome to Microsoft Build 2023. The evolution of the Kubernetes platform has not stopped over the past year, and the Azure Kubernetes team has continued to drive innovation and features to help our customers keep up to date and make the adoption and use of Kubernetes on AKS as seamless as possible. The value Kubernetes provides for you to ship faster, react to customers’ demands quicker whilst at the same time giving you an Enterprise platform that keeps up with those demands is at the centre of how we drive AKS forward for our customers. Simplifying your developer experience Getting your engineering teams up and running to start their development proce…

Integrate Azure Functions and Azure SQL easily with the Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions, now generally available. Input and output bindings speed up development time by reducing boilerplate code required to read and write from the database in .NET, Python, Node.js, Java, and PowerShell Azure Functions. Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions are compatible with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server 2016-2022. Simplified development Input bindings With Azure SQL bindings, data can be input from a database to the function with an input binding and data can be output from the function to the database. Configuri…

I'm excited to announce that ledger is now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance! Ledger is a technology that offers the power of blockchain with the simplicity of SQL. It was released last year in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022. As a logical next step, ledger is now available in preview for Azure SQL Managed Instance. Using ledger, the data in SQL is verifiable using the same integrity benefits seen in blockchain technology, while keeping the flexibility, efficiency, and performance of a traditional database. The data is centrally managed and you can cryptographically attest to other parties, such as auditors or other business parties, that your data is truste…

We are pleased to announce Data Generator – a new feature in Azure Event Hubs which would let you send/view events without writing a single line of code. No matter if you’re seasoned user for Event Hubs or using it for the first time, setting up end to end streaming pipelines could be done in minutes! Why Data Generator? Data Generator is a powerful tool that helps you get started with Azure Event Hubs in a simple and easy way. It allows you to stream data into Azure Event Hubs using your own custom payload or one of the pre-defined datasets available in Data Generator. Some of the use cases of Data Generator are: Building streaming pipelines with Az…

Imagine getting real-time insights into customer transactions with sub-second latency to respond to customer behavior immediately, detecting anomalies associated with your machines running at your business, or building real-time dashboards with Power Bi. These scenarios and more are what Azure Stream Analytics offers to users. To learn more about Azure Stream Analytics, please visit: Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics | Microsoft Learn Now we have taken it a step further and added another scenario that brings a whole new opportunity to take advantage of the many benefits of real-time analytics that Azure Stream Analytics offers: Kafka. We are announcing th…

Using Event Hubs capture feature, you can load real-time streaming data to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services, so that they can be processed or analyzed by analytics services. We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Managed Identity support for capturing event streams in Azure Event Hubs. Managed Identities when capturing event streams. With managed identity, users can seamlessly capture data to a preferred destination by using Azure Active Directory based authentication and authorization. You can use system-assigned or user-assigned managed identities with Event Hubs capturing destinations. Managed identities provide an au…

We are excited to announce the public preview of JSON schema support in the Azure Event Hubs schema registry for Kafka applications. The Event Hubs schema registry offers a central repository for schema documents utilized by messaging-centric and event-driven applications. By using Azure Schema Registry, both the producer and consumer applications can seamlessly exchange data without the need to handle and distribute the schema. We are further expanding the capabilities of Azure Schema Registry in Event Hubs and adding support for new schema formats to enable schema driven event streaming. The Azure Event Hubs schema registry is available at no additional charge…

By Marina Khidekel, Chief Content Officer at Thrive Global We all encounter small daily stressors and challenges that can make us feel frustrated or anxious. There's power in acknowledging the causes of our stress before it becomes cumulative or overwhelming — and it's also important to arm ourselves with tools and strategies to help us address stress in the moment so that we can move forward instead of dwelling on the issue. We asked our Thrive community to share with us the small ways they move on from their stressors and stop sweating the small stuff. Which of these tips will you try? Take a long-term view "I ask myself what impact the thing…

Azure Messaging and Stream Processing updates will cover recent releases from Azure Messaging and Streaming. In this blog we will cover releases from Microsoft Fabric event streams, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Grid, and Azure Stream Analytics. Microsoft Fabric event streams You can now ingest, capture, transform and route real-time events to various destinations in Microsoft Fabric with a no-code experience using Microsoft Fabric event streams. It enables customers to ingest real-time event data from external event sources into the data stores in Fabric. The events could be transformed into the native formats required for the target destination. For example…

Innovation has always been the driving force behind transformative change. The Imagine Cup is an annual technology competition for students from around the world to come together to push the boundaries of what's possible and bring their groundbreaking solutions to a global stage. This year's competition witnessed an unprecedented level of ingenuity and creativity, as teams from diverse backgrounds and cultures set out to redefine the limits of technological innovation. The journey began with tens of thousands of aspiring young minds, and after months of intense competition, we have finally reached the pinnacle. The Imagine Cup World Championship at Microsof…

We’re about a month away from the deadline we communicated in our blog post and Message Center posts, and we want to remind our customers before we start blocking traffic. The preview program for REST API access to on-premises mailboxes in an Exchange hybrid configuration has ended. Beginning June 2023, we will return errors for requests made against on-premises mailboxes. Over the past few weeks, we have sent Message Center (MC) posts to the affected customers; we encourage you to check your Message Center for posts MC541164 and MC541165. If you have received those messages, you have some apps that might be affected; if you don’t have the messages, this change will…

Today we are announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a capability of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance. In today's fast-paced digital world, APIs are critical for businesses as they seek to create digital products, integrate systems, and increase developer productivity. However, we have heard from our customers that the rapid proliferation of APIs, adoption of multiple API tools, and the burden of legacy technologies have led to a fragmented API landscape, compromising API reuse, quality, security, and regulatory compliance. API Center is…

We are very excited to announce the preview of elastic pools for Hyperscale service tier for Azure SQL Database! For many years now, developers have selected the Hyperscale service tier in a “single database” resource model to power a wide variety of traditional and modern applications. Azure SQL Hyperscale is based on a cloud native architecture providing independently scalable compute and storage, and with limits which substantially exceed the resources available in the General Purpose and Business Critical tiers. Value propositions for Hyperscale elastic pools An Azure SQL DB elastic pool enables software as a service (SaaS) developers to optimize the pric…

The Azure Text Translation SDK is a cloud-based REST API feature of the Translator service that uses neural machine translation. It enables quick and accurate source-to-target text translation across all supported languages in real-time. The SDK simplifies the developer experience and reduces the need to assimilate API definitions. The Azure Text Translation SDK offers several key benefits for developers, including- - Quick and accurate translations in real-time across all supported languages. - Easy to integrate with your application or workflow. - Customization options for your specific needs. - Scalable in handling a large volume of text for translat…

At Build 2023, we are happy to announce the public preview of the new Network Observability add-on for AKS. This add-on provides cluster level networking metrics and complete visibility into your cluster network. When combined with the recently announced Istio service mesh add-on and Azure CNI (powered by Cilium) - Customers now have comprehensive observability across all network layers. These offerings work seamlessly with the Azure managed services for Prometheus and Grafana - providing a unified monitoring experience in Azure Monitor. This solves a top pain point for AKS customers – the low observability across the multiple layers in the Kubernetes netw…

Seattle—May 23, 2023—Today, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services (ACS) Translator announces a) ‘Microsoft Translator’ plugin for Azure OpenAI, and b) Translator and Language Detect tools for PromptFlow in private preview. ‘Microsoft Translator’ plugin for Azure OpenAI On customer prompts requiring translation, OpenAI GPT models do good general domain translation among languages which have good web presence. However, it doesn’t provide a simple way to get translation customized for your organization and domain terminologies. Also, GPT models have limited language coverage and translation accuracy drops for low resource languages. Microsoft Translator Plugi…

Introduction At Azure AI Language (aka. Azure Cognitive Service for Language), we believe that language is at the core of human intelligence. In line with Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we are dedicated to providing natural language processing services that break down language barriers. Azure AI Language products are powered by state-of-the-art language models, including Z-Code++ and Azure OpenAI Service, empowering you to retrieve and analyze meaningful insights from a full range of text content. Join us as we explore the latest developments in our language AI products and how they can transform the …

Microsoft Teams provides a robust out-of-the-box Virtual appointment experience (learn more here). However, for those that require a more customized experience, there are a lot of options for extensibility with Azure Communication Services and Microsoft Graph. Microsoft provides three main approaches to Virtual appointments: Microsoft Teams out-of-the-box experience – This is a ready to use solution integrated into the Microsoft Teams application which allows you to schedule and manage Virtual appointments from Microsoft Teams. Extend Microsoft Teams Virtual appointments experience – With this approach,, you will learn the tools needed to customize and in…

Microsoft Viva Sales is reimagining sales. By bringing customer relationship management (CRM) data and artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly into every salesperson’s flow of work in Microsoft 365 and Teams, Viva Sales helps sellers focus time on what matters most: making meaningful connections, building trust, and moving deals forward. This month, we’re thrilled to bring one of our biggest updates ever, with a suite of new features and improvements that together make Viva Sales even more helpful from the get-go and attuned to the needs of sellers and organizations every day. Comprehensive support for all CRM record types in Viva Sales Most sales organizat…

Azure Stream Analytics announces a slew of enhancements at Build 2023: New competitive pricing model, Virtual Network integration, native support for Kafka source & destination, integration with Event Hub Schema Registry, GA announcements and more! Today we are delighted to share a range of exciting updates that will greatly enhance the productivity, cost-effectiveness, and security of processing streaming data. We are introducing new competitive pricing model that offers discounts to customers based on their increasing usage. Additionally, we are pleased to announce the integration of Virtual Network and native support for Kafka as a source and destination for Azu…