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Meet the Judges for the 2023 Imagine Cup World Finals
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The Imagine Cup is one of the most highly anticipated student technology competitions in the world, and we are excited to announce the judges for this year's world finals. These experts in technology and innovation will be evaluating the projects of the talented student participants who have worked tirelessly to solve some of the most pressing issues facing our world. With a passion for creativity and a deep understanding of cutting-edge technology, our panel of judges is poised to provide insightful feedback and select the next generation of problem-solvers who will make a lasting impact on the world. During the regional finals, the top 48 teams will have the opp…
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Attaching a file to a DevOps Work Item
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In some automations, you may require to attach a file to a work item in DevOps. For example, you may want to send an email to a Distribution List, and with the email content and attachments, create a work item based on the subject or simply update the work item with more information. The connector actions to update the Work Item are very much straight through and will not be approached in this post. But upload and attaching a file to this work item is not documented to its full extent. Actually, the documentation is somewhat elusive on the actual needs of the Action, but after this, it will make sense. In my example, I read an attachment from a…
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Use Microsoft Generative AI TODAY For One Click Content Creation of Documents, Web Posts, And Emails
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Update Audio Fixed! With the release of Microsoft’s Generative AI capability for Bing inline in the browser content creation capacity has gotten an incredible boost. When you combine its ability to jumpstart content creation with web friendly content formats like Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Outlook email via the browser, and more, it becomes a pretty mind-boggling experience! In this HLS Show Me How video I walk through one button click to create a Microsoft Word document, a SharePoint news post and an email. It’s so easy you’ll be scrambling to try it yourself! Resources: The New Bing - Learn More About Bing Generative AI Introducing the new B…
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The Microsoft Defender EASM (Defender EASM) team is excited to share that new Data Connectors for Azure Log Analytics and Azure Data Explorer are now available in public preview. Defender EASM continuously discovers an incredible amount of up-to-the-minute Attack Surface Data, so connecting and automating this data flow to all our customers’ mission-critical systems that keep their organizations secure is essential. The new Data Connectors for Log Analytics and Azure Data Explorer can easily augment existing workflows by automating recurring exports of all asset inventory data and the set of potential security issues flagged as insights to specified destinations t…
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New Microsoft Loop app for modern co-creation
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Bring together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices with the new Microsoft Loop app, available both on the web and in mobile. It gives you a central place to create real-time content in a simple, collaborative and structured way, from using intelligent search to build your first shared workspaces, where you can enjoy super-fast synchronized collaboration, to leveraging AI with Copilot in Loop, to generate ideas with others on your team. Copilot capabilities in Loop will begin rolling out in the next few months. If you’re using Loop components today, you might familiar with how you can embed live, auto-updating content seamlessly across apps l…
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Local Specialties Expand the Circle of Community in Japan
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What comes to mind when you hear yellowtail meeting? Many people imagine a conference where experts get together to discuss something related to yellowtail, but it is an IT event in Toyama, Japan. In this blog, we will introduce why that IT community event BuriKaigi (“Yellowtail Meeting” in English) is named after a fish, and the reason why it attracts a lot of attendees. Toyama is in the Hokuriku region in Japan and a famous city for cold yellowtail. Local technical community leaders in Hokuriku have been working together to organize this annual event at the best timing for that seasonal gourmet every winter, and they organized the in-person event in Ja…
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Maximizing Your Academic Potential with Azure OpenAI Services ChatGPT Virtual Assistant
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Introduction The previous version of Azure OpenAI Services Virtual Assistant was limited to being a client-side application, which required users to share two API keys, making it less secure and not suitable for production. Additionally, monitoring usage and preparing for course assessments on using OpenAI Chatgpt was challenging. Finally, cost-saving was also a concern. To address these issues, we have developed a serverless solution using Azure Static Web Apps. This new solution eliminates the need for users to share API keys, provides better monitoring of usage, and reduces costs. With Azure Static Website, users can access the virtual assistant through a…
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Change Configuration Manager Site Server OS – High Availability Reference
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Hello! My name is Herbert Fuchs and together with other members of the Customer Success Unit and the Customer Service & Support Organization we want to help our Customers with This Blog-Series. We gathered information and put our field and support experience into this. Special thanks to our contributors, reviewers and content-writers, Wilhelm Kocher, Anthony Fontanez, Emilian Bucur, Pavel Yurenev, Anderson Cassimiro and Madalina Zamfir. In this Blog we want to explain what is necessary to change the Operating System of a Server which hosts the Configuration Manager through the High Availability Feature. The High Availability Feature was very long r…
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How Azure Data Factory-Data Flows is Revolutionizing the Creation of Machine Learning Training Data
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Recently, my team engaged with a customer where they were looking for a better method to extract & expose various marketing-related data feature aggregates for use in training a machine learning model to predict the outcome of customer contacts or touchpoints – to help determine if they would ultimately lead to real sales opportunities. Data feature aggregates are simply summary statistics or calculations performed on a set of data to derive new features or attributes. Feature aggregates are commonly used in machine learning to provide more informative and relevant input data for model training purposes. Machine learning has become an essential tool for…
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Uninstalling Windows updates on managed devices using Intune
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Have you ever been in a situation where a Windows device takes an update that is not compatible with the system or causes an issue that prevents user productivity? In this scenario, it can be frustrating to determine the best way to get the device(s) back to a protected and productive state. Using Microsoft Intune, here are a few ways to address the situation. If the update you want to uninstall is a Windows feature update that replaced the previous version of the operating system (OS) on the device, you can roll back the feature update using Intune and by leveraging the Update CSP. Screenshot of the Overview page in the Intune admin center, showing the Uninstall op…
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Skilling snack: Windows app compatibility
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Microsoft supports the broadest app, peripheral, and device ecosystem. Whether you're looking to understand how we maintain the 99.7% application compatibility rate or want to confirm it for your organization, this skilling snack is for you! We're excited to introduce our freshly baked blog series to help you throughout your deployment journey: from app inventory to testing to health monitoring. Testing and reporting tools add flavor, along with the visual support of a demo. Time to learn: 109 minutes [attachment=35516:name]READ Introduction: App confidence: From our compatibility story to yours (6 mins) See what's behind the scenes of ou…
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Big protection for small businesses — the latest in Microsoft security innovation
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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and prevalent. Small and medium-sized businesses are particularly vulnerable due to budget constraints and limited specialized security skills. In fact, 43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses, and the consequences can be dire: 60% of businesses close permanently within six months of an attack.1 That's why it's more important than ever for small businesses to modernize their security solutions and move away from traditional antivirus software. Microsoft continues to develop a comprehensive set of security solutions that are easy to use, cost-effective, and sp…
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Copying FHIR Entities using fhir-loader
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Copying FHIR Entities using fhir-loader In this blog post, we will review an alternative to the built-in FHIR Server $export and $import functionality, fhir-loader. Prerequisites This article, and the corresponding FHIR-loader code assumes that you already have an Azure Health Data Services or the legacy Azure API for FHIR FHIR Server installed and that you will be installing fhir-loader into the same resource group. Doing so will ease the configuration and security of fhir-loader as it will pull relevant keys from the existing KeyVault. FHIR-loader should work against other FHIR servers supporting the HL7 export functionality, but it has not been explicit…
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Azure VMware Solution - Monitoring Quickstart Guide
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Learn how easy it is to quickly set up some basic alerting and monitoring in your Azure VMware Solution environment. In this video, I utilize the GitHub repository provided by Microsoft AVS experts available at Enterprise Scale for AVS Setting up Alerts for Azure VMware Solution Follow along the AVS Monitoring portion of the Brownfield Deployment. Monitoring is a crucial part of running any resources whether its on-premises or in the cloud. This quick start for Azure gives you the basics to get up and running with Alert Groups that alert once thresholds are met, Service Health that updates with impacting events for AVS, and a Dashboard monitoring: CPU, mem…
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Sustaining your Microsoft Teams adoption strategy
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As the Microsoft Teams administrator of your organization, one of the operational activities you will be responsible for is developing an adoption strategy to drive the full usage of Microsoft Teams in your organization. While having your users quickly onboarded to Microsoft Teams is necessary, increasing their engagement with what is more than a communication tool is essential. It will help if you've devised a well-thought-through strategy to drive your organization's adoption of Microsoft Teams. Overview of Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 that brings together people, conversations, and content – along with the …
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How Microsoft uses Azure Maps Creator
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Remote work and sustainability have changed how we use our physical spaces. As a result, there is a growing need to optimize our facilities to support a hybrid workforce and reduce the environmental impact of where we work. It may seem obvious, but floor plans are vital resources for facilities managers to plan physical space usage. Moving from a static representation to an interactive indoor mapping solution enables building managers to assess available space and equipment, respond to critical issues, and adapt to the demands of hybrid workplaces instantly while reducing their overall carbon footprint. Microsoft has many diverse workspaces worldwide. These are pla…
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API Management: extract real requests traces temporarily by using FrontDoor or Application Gateway
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Introduction One of the most useful debug features of API Management is request tracing. The problem is: we need to reproduce the same client request with an extra header (Ocp-Apim-Trace) or tell the consumers to do so. What if we could just generate the traces from the APIM clients without telling them to add such header or do that ourselves? Is there an easier way to have APIM log the request traces coming from the real consumers temporarily for a certain period without much effort? This article is also available on GitHub. Pre-requisites API Management instance Azure FrontDoor instance or Azure Application Gateway instance Azure FrontDoor or Appli…
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The business value of investing in employee growth
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As organizations try to cut costs in response to a challenging economic outlook, it’s crucial for them to narrow their investments to those that provide a tangible return. We’ve conducted a handful of studies looking at the business impact of investing in employee experience, specifically with Microsoft Viva. The results provide evidence that the Viva apps are effective in driving better business outcomes. In this blog, we are focusing on one particular aspect of the employee experience: growth. Employee growth encapsulates everything from training and upskilling your workforce to connecting people with the right experts and expertise at your organization. Investme…
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Azure Standard Load Balancer with SAP BW HANA Scale-out deployment
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Scenario: A company has deployed SAP HANA Scale-Out architecture to run one of their mission-critical business application. As part of the SAP HANA Scale-out, they have a number of HANA worker nodes that need to be load balanced to ensure SAP Application or 3rd party application always connect to Master node using same [Frontend] DB hostname. The below configuration only applies to SAP BW Scale-out N+1 configuration where a pacemaker is not implemented. Overview: SAP HANA is an in-memory database platform that enables real-time analytics and processing of large data volumes. In a scale-out configuration, SAP HANA can be deployed across multiple virtual machin…
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SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 1 - Overview and architecture
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The SAP CDC connector, which is part of the Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse solutions, provides you with a simple and efficient way to access information that is most valuable to your organization. With its ability to extract data using a wide range of source objects, the SAP CDC connector makes it easy for businesses to extract and process SAP data making it a valuable source of information for analytics. In many cases, customers want to access data stored directly in the ABAP tables. Traditional data extraction methods, such as extractors or CDS Views, may not always provide the level of specificity required. They provide additional transformation layer to e…
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Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely used databases on-premises, deployed by many customers as the core of their business-critical applications and services. Azure VMware Solution is the ideal solution for those customers planning to move their workloads to the cloud without major changes and leveraging their investments and existing skills in VMware technologies. Migrating those workloads will also enable the possibility of taking advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server for their SQL workloads and save significant costs in Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server licenses. The Azure VMware Solution product group has created a series of …
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Azure Functions - Part 2 - Unit and Integration Testing
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Unit Testing Introduction A unit test usually involves writing code to test a specific function or method, using input data and expected output data. The test code then executes the function or method with the input data, compares the resulting output to the expected output, and reports any discrepancies as errors or failures. This approach allows developers to test each unit of code in isolation, ensuring that their code is modular, well-designed, and functioning as intended. For example, if you have a method that converts a full name to a first name and a last name and the input is John Doe, what you would want to validate is that the output of that m…
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Updating SQL Server containers deployed on Kubernetes!
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I'm sure you've thought about how to update SQL Server containers running on a Kubernetes cluster at some point. So, this blog attempts to answer the question. According to the Kubernetes documentation, there are two Update strategies for statefulset workloads. For your convenience, I'm quoting the summary below: OnDelete update : When a StatefulSet's .spec.updateStrategy.type is set to OnDelete, the StatefulSet controller will not automatically update the Pods in a StatefulSet. Users must manually delete Pods to cause the controller to create new Pods that reflect modifications made to a StatefulSet's .spec.template. Rolling update : When a statefuleset's .spec.upd…
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Build Intelligent Applications using ChatGPT & Azure Cosmos DB
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As the demand for intelligent applications continues to grow, developers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to enhance the functionality of their applications. Chatbots have become one of the most popular ways of delivering conversational AI. ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI, is a powerful tool for building chatbots that can understand natural language and provide intelligent responses. Since its initial release in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has incredibly popular worldwide. In this blog post, myself and a colleague, Sandeep Nair, walk through our experience in learning the Large Language…
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A Guided Path to AI and ML on Azure at the Game of Learners AI and ML Clinics
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Are you ready to take your skills to the next level with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Azure? If yes, then join us for the Game of Learners Clinics, a 5-week upskill initiative that will teach you how to build and deploy end-to-end AI Solutions on Microsoft Azure. You will learn from experts and mentors who will guide you through hands-on labs and challenges. You will also get the opportunity to prepare for the Azure Artificial Intelligence Fundamental certification, which is free for students, industry-recognized and offered by Microsoft. By the end of the program, you will have the option to take the Exam AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals…