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On March 23, we announced that we would be enabling a transport enforcement system in Exchange Online to address the problem of email sent to Exchange Online from unsupported and unpatched Exchange servers. As we mentioned in our original announcement, we are starting with a very small subset of servers: Exchange 2007 servers that connect to Exchange Online over an inbound connector type of OnPremises. We have specifically chosen to start with Exchange 2007 because it is the oldest version of Exchange from which you can migrate in a hybrid configuration to Exchange Online, and because these servers are managed by customers we can identify and with whom we have an e…

Private 5G networks offer a robust and dedicated connectivity solution tailored to meet the unique demands of various industries, empowering them to drive digital transformation and gain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving business landscape. Industries are embracing private 5G networks to harness the benefits of enhanced security, reliable performance, edge computing capabilities, and improved efficiency. Azure private MEC is continually being built and delivered by an expanding set of operators, SIs, and ISV partners. Our partners serve a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, logistics, energy, retail, and defense, providing en…

Introduction Azure Managed Applications enable deploying your solution’s resources via an ARM template into the customer’s tenant. Further, they enable the publisher to restrict customer access to deployed resources. This puts maintenance into the hands of the publisher, who will manage the Azure Managed Application’s updates. In this article you’ll learn more about the deployment architecture, the artifacts that make up the deployment package, how publishers maintain the solution installations and finally, a bit about metered billing from within Azure Managed Applications. The deployment architecture As mentioned, the Azure Managed Applicatio…

Introduction The latest wave of generative AI, like large language models, has paved the way for significant advancements in the utilization of vector embeddings and vector similarity search. Large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT, can learn complex patterns and representations from vast amounts of text, enabling them to generate rich semantic embeddings for words, sentences, and documents. By leveraging these learned embeddings, developers can harness the power of vector similarity search, revolutionizing how information is organized, retrieved, and analyzed in various domains, including fraud detection, recommendation systems, and information retrieval. …

Newsworthy Highlights What’s new in Microsoft 365 Government – April 2023 We’re excited to announce several new products and services that have been delivered to our Microsoft 365 Government clouds in recent months and peek at what’s coming soon. There’s a lot of innovative products accelerating interest in Microsoft 365, and we continue our commitment to deliver the new product value, services, and features to our US Government cloud environments (GCC, GCC High, and DOD). Transforming State and Local Government IT: Discover the Benefits of Microsoft 365 Government In the post-pandemic world, state and local IT leaders are spending an increasing amo…

First, big kudos to Martin for crafting this amazing playbook and co-authoring this blogpost. Be sure to check out his SAP-focused blog for more In-Depth Insights! The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate how the SOAR capabilities of Sentinel can be utilized in conjunction with SAP by leveraging Microsoft Sentinel Playbooks/Azure Logic Apps to automate remedial actions in SAP systems or SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Before we dive into the details of the SOAR capabilities in the Sentinel SAP Solution, let's take a step back and take a very quick run through of the Sentinel SAP Solution. The Microsoft Sentinel SAP solution empowers organiza…

Favoriting a file is an easy way to ensure you can always find your favorite files faster. Whether it’s a travel document, receipt, or your medical report, you can now favorite the file in the Microsoft 365 app and easily find it in the Favorites tab on the Home page. Additionally, if these files are stored in your OneDrive, they will be available in your Favorites on www.microsoft365.com under Pinned on the desktop and web apps. How to try it Ensure that you install the Microsoft 365 mobile app from the Google Play Store and are on version 16.0.16227.20212 or higher. List view Tap on the ... menu next to any file item to open more o…

From new preview features like cold storage to expanding Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure has grown a lot in the past year—and there’s still so much more to come! Join us from May 23—25 for Microsoft Build 2023 to explore all things Azure with other cloud professionals from around the world. Make sure to register now to get the full Build experience, like participating in Q&A sessions and more. Joining us in-person is a great way to experience Build, but if you can’t meet us in Seattle, we’ll have lots of events online so you can learn about the latest Azure tech wherever you are. Check out our keynotes, Learn Lives, and discussions to connect with Azure experts an…

If you have ever taken any training modules or learned something new by going through the official documentation, the material you used was probably written or co-authored by one or many contributors. These individuals often are volunteers who offer their time and expertise to cover knowledge gaps in our portfolio or to keep the existing content current. In this series, we’ll be interviewing repeat contributors to the Microsoft Learn platform to get to know them better and to learn what motivates them to keep contributing. In today's discussion, we have the pleasure of speaking with Ben Gribaudo, an accomplished independent consultant and trainer who specia…

Polls have become an increasingly popular tool in Teams meetings, providing presenters with an interactive way to engage their audience. We are excited to announce that Polls are now supported in Teams channel meetings, making it simpler and more accessible than ever to incorporate this powerful tool into your meetings. The Polls app allows you to create engaging polls that can be used to quiz your students, collect feedback from your customers, or make informed decisions with you teammates in real-time. It's a user-friendly and straightforward tool that can be launched during your meeting with ease. For online classes using channel meetings, teachers can us…

We are happy to announce that our WebSphere on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) Marketplace solutions now enable using App Gateway as a load-balancer. We also have added support for integrating databases with WebSphere on Azure. In addition, we have published VM images for WebSphere Network Deployment (WebSphere ND) and WebSphere Base, which you can use independently of the Marketplace solutions. These changes make getting started with WebSphere and Azure even easier. Evaluate the WebSphere on Azure solutions for full production usage and reach out to for free help from Microsoft to collaborate on your migration. These solutions are jointly developed and supported by IBM and …

Introduction This article is a continuation of Microsoft Defender PoC Series which provides you guidelines on how to perform a proof of concept for a specific Microsoft Defender plan. For a more holistic approach where you need to validate Microsoft Defender for Cloud, please read How to Effectively Perform an Microsoft Defender for Cloud PoC article. There are two DevOps platforms currently covered by Defender for DevOps- GitHub and Azure DevOps. This article will go into detail about Azure DevOps Services. If you'd like to also learn about the GitHub connector with Microsoft Defender for DevOps, then check out this article here. Importance of Defender…

Ecco a voi il consueto appuntamento settimanale con tutte le news e le iniziative del mondo Enablement! Volete scoprire cos’è un percorso IFTS sullo sviluppo .NET e quali sono i vantaggi per le aziende che assumono questi profili? Registratevi al webinar IFTS sullo sviluppo .NET: di cosa si tratta e quali sono i benefici per le aziende partner che assumono questi profili |25 maggio, organizzato da Randstad Technologies, realtà leader nel settore della formazione tecnica superiore e del lavoro qualificato! Iscrivetevi all’evento in presenza Microsoft Viva Partner Technical Bootcamp che si terrà il 29 maggio a Milano. Apprenderete le più recenti informazion…

The following updates are now available in both basic/standard and enterprise plan: Source code assessment for migration: Assess your existing on-premise Spring applications for their readiness to migrate to Azure Spring Apps with Cloud Suitability Analyzer. The tool will provide you information on what types of changes will be needed for migration, and how much effort will be involved. Learn more. The following updates are now available in the enterprise plan More Options For build pools and allow queue build jobs: Build service now supports big size build agent pool and allows at most one pool-sized build task to build and twice the pool-sized build tasks t…

As cyber threats become more sophisticated and frequent, organizations need to be vigilant in monitoring their digital assets for potential security breaches. Microsoft 365 Defender is an XDR platform that delivers a unified investigation and response experience and provides native protection across endpoints, hybrid identities, email, collaboration tools, and cloud applications with centralized visibility, powerful analytics, and automatic attack disruption. Today we are excited to introduce alert tuning in Microsoft 365 Defender to help security teams detect and respond to potential security threats even more effectively. Alert tuning enhances how o…

Release Announcement Today we are releasing Azure-Samples/contoso-real estate as open source – giving JavaScript developers a comprehensive architecture reference sample for building enterprise-grade, cloud-native and composable solutions on Azure, end-to-end with JavaScript. What we are releasing today 7 core scenarios – including a static web app with serverless backend, integrated monitoring and insights, micro-frontends, built-in authentication, containerized payments, intelligent search, and perf optimization. Best-in-class developer tools from code to cloud - from authoring in VS Code, to testing with Playwright, deploying with Azure Dev CLI…

Installation of an SAP NetWeaver ERP6/EHP8 system based on WSFC with highly available ASCS and SAP MaxDB with Azure shared disks. The steps for creating the VMs with Azure shared disks, join them to a Windows AD, creation of the WSFC and the Cloud Witness are described here Setup of SAP Content Server 7.54 with MaxDB in a WSFC environment based on Azure shared disks This documentation focuses on the SWPM based steps, the creation of the Internal Load Balancer (ILB), Probe Ports and DNS settings. The following screen shows the cluster with 3 shared cluster disks. Additionally, there is one local disk per instance (MaxDB, ASCS and ERS). The conversion from E…

Join a Watch Party happening at the same time as Microsoft Build hosted by your local community or join After Parties at a local time with your local community. Here are some of our Community-led Watch Parties and After Parties held on from May 22 to May 29 (as of May 22, 2023). Check it out and join your favorite Parties! Watch Party - MVP/RD/User Group-led Microsoft Build 2023 Watch Party Date (Local Time) Title Language(s) Format(s) May 22, 2023 Microsoft Build Watch Party - Beijing English-China Hybrid May 22, 2023 Microsoft Build Watch Party - MS EMS Community English-Denmark Vir…

Setup of SAP Content Server 7.54 with MaxDB in a WSFC environment based on Azure shared disks This blog shows the setup of an independent SAP Content server running on its own resources represented by a WSFC cluster role. The same applies to the MaxDB server instance. Following best practices, the data and log files are placed on distinct disks. The MaxDB binaries are installed on the OS disk. If you have the policy not to install any additional SAP related binaries on C: you can create a local disk for each node with the same drive letter assigned and install all binaries on this drive. Contrary to older Content Server installations, this installation is cluster…

We are happy to announce that a solution to run Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now available on the Azure Marketplace. The solution, jointly developed and supported by Red Hat and Microsoft, makes it easier to move JBoss EAP workloads to ARO by automating common boilerplate provisioning tasks. Evaluate the JBoss EAP on ARO solution for full production usage and reach out to collaborate on migration. Solution Details JBoss EAP is an industry-leading application server that powers some of the most mission-critical workloads in the world. ARO is a fully managed OpenShift service jointly developed, run, an…

Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load testing service that enables you to easily generate high scale load and gain actionable insights into the performance and scalability of your applications. Customers benefit from Azure Load Testing (ALT) because the service abstracts away the environment setup and teardown, needed for high scale loads; and simplifies the analysis of the test results through the built in test criteria and integrated results dashboard. In this blogpost, we will demonstrate how you can gain more benefit from the automation and customization options provided by the service. If you haven’t used the service yet, you can get started and run your first l…

Os ambientes em nuvem oferecem diversos recursos que aceleram o desenvolvimento de soluções distribuídas complexas. Mas o aumento da complexidade pode criar, ou intensificar, vários desafios. Por exemplo, a manutenção das credenciais necessárias para aumentar a segurança na comunicação entre os componentes pode se tornar um pesadelo. A expiração de uma única credencial mal gerenciada pode causar a queda de serviços críticos com consequências potencialmente catastróficas. Nesse artigo veremos como uma funcionalidade do Azure AD e AKS pode nos ajudar a resolver esse desafio. Autenticação sem senhas Nos últimos anos, Microsoft, Apple e Google vêm trabalhando e…

In May 2022, custom named entity recognition and custom text classification were announced as generally available features under Language Cognitive Services. The features allowed you to create your own custom models to classify and extract domain specific information from your documents. A key component of building out a quality model lies in the labels and data you provide. We have listened to your feedback, and today we are delighted to unveil our exciting unified story with Azure Machine Learning Studio’s for Text Named Entity Recognition and Text Classification’s labeling projects. You can now leverage the powerful labeling experience in the Azure Machine Learn…

In May 2022, custom named entity recognition and custom text classification were announced as generally available features under Language Cognitive Services. The features allowed you to create your own custom models to classify and extract domain specific information from your documents. A key component of building out a quality model lies in the labels and data you provide. We have listened to your feedback, and today we are delighted to unveil our exciting unified story with Azure Machine Learning Studio’s for Text Named Entity Recognition and Text Classification’s labeling projects. You can now leverage the powerful labeling experience in the Azure Machine Learn…

Looking to develop a highly secure and high-performing web application? Harness the power of Azure Front Door and its Web Application Firewall (WAF) feature. In this article, we'll explore how Azure Front Door and WAF work together to safeguard your web apps from common threats and vulnerabilities. What is Azure Front Door? Azure Front Door is a robust and scalable application delivery network that ensures fast and reliable access to your web services. It acts as a gateway, providing numerous benefits to enhance your web application's performance. For detailed information, check out the comprehensive Azure documentation. What is the Web Application Fi…