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Azure Marketplace new offers – March 9, 2023
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 48 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=34558:name] AI Producer - Managed Application: Democratize video production and enhance your Microsoft Teams meetings with AI Producer. This managed application allows users to engage and share information through live webinars, townhall meetings, interactive events, and broadcasts. [attachment=34559:name] Analytics 365: Analytics 365, a native app for Microsoft Teams, promotes collaboration and customer engagement to drive bus…
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Announcing Power BI integration for Azure Database for MySQL in the Azure portal
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Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool that you can use to visualize and analyze data from various sources. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to connect Power BI to an Azure Database for MySQL flexible server to ensure that you can get the most out of your data. Today we’re happy to announce that now, with a single click, you can open a database connection to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server in Power BI Desktop. With Power BI Desktop, you can build advanced queries, models, and reports that visualize data. You can also build data models, create reports, and share your work by publishing it to the Power BI service. Power BI Desktop is free to…
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Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in North Europe
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Azure Availability Zones (AZ) provide protection from datacenter failures by using in-region redundancy between datacenters in separate zones, each with its own independent infrastructure. If a zone is impacted by an outage, another zone will be used instead, automatically. Availability Zone support in North Europe makes the service processes in this region more resilient to datacenter outages, without requiring user intervention or extra charges. To ensure you also keep your data safe and available in the face of a datacenter outage, link your workspace to a dedicated cluster that uses Availability Zones (now enabled by default in regions that support AZ). For mor…
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OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel Part 2: Explaining an Analytics Rule
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Welcome back to our series on OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel! Today we will explore another use case for OpenAI's wildly popular language model and take a look at the Sentinel REST API. If you don't already have a Microsoft Sentinel instance, you can create one using a free Azure account and follow the Sentinel onboarding quickstart. You'll also need a personal OpenAI account with an API key. Ready? Let's get started! One of the tasks that security practitioners face is how to rapidly consume analytics rules, queries, and definitions to understand why an alert was triggered. For example, here is an example of a relatively short Microsoft Sentinel analytics rul…
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How to Delete Microsoft Teams Cache for All Users via PowerShell
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For many in education, Microsoft Teams is the collaboration platform that allows students and educators to chat, share files, and collaborate on projects. Like many apps, Microsoft Teams uses cache to store temporary data, such as chat history and files. While the cache is useful for improving performance, it can also become cluttered over time and slow down the app. Deleting the cache can help improve Microsoft Teams performance by reducing the amount of temporary data stored which can also free up storage space. The Microsoft Teams cache can be deleted manually by deleting all the files and folders in the %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams directory for each user profile…
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Debugging your Power app for the code first developer
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So you are a code first developer, meaning you write code for a living. You may be considering using a low code platform or you're already using it. In this article, we will look at Microsoft Power Platform and specifically Canvas apps. We will at Power Platform in a specific way namely debugging. So what do we mean by debugging? When you code, you need to figure out that the code does what it should. For example, you are fetching data from somewhere and you want to transform it in such a way that you're able to get the data you need from it and can display it. As a developer, you have a few different approaches you use for "debugging" namely: - log/assertio…
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Imagine you've just launched a new product, and you're eager to hear what customers think about it. You want to create a customer satisfaction survey that's both visually appealing and user-friendly. So, where do you start? Microsoft Forms, of course! With Microsoft Forms, you can create a custom survey that looks professional and captures valuable insights. You can choose from a range of AI-generated themes or upload your own images to create a personalized cover page and theme for your survey. For this case, let’s say you are launching a new laptop. It’s so good that you want to use an image of the laptop as the cover page and theme. Make sure to select backg…
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Announcing the public preview of Uniform Resource Identifier schemes with the Remote Desktop client
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Today we’re very excited to announce the public preview of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes with the Remote Desktop client for Azure Virtual Desktop! This new feature allows you to subscribe to a workspace or connect to a particular desktop or Remote App via two URI schemes, ms-avd and ms-rd, and allows for fast and efficient end user connection to AVD resources. The Remote Desktop client for Windows is the currently supported client for URI schemes. As we proceed through Public Preview, we will evaluate support for other clients as well. Please refer to our documentation for known limitations and example commands. Key benefits Enable customers…
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Programas de mentoria em Segurança Cibernética e Inteligência Artificial para mulheres
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No Dia Internacional da Mulher, celebramos o potencial de mulheres e meninas em todos os lugares e suas ideias e inovações que estão moldando nosso futuro. O mercado de tecnologia é um dos que mais cresce no mundo e ao longo de décadas, tivemos mulheres como pioneiras na inovação, marcando a história da humanidade e trazendo vida à nossa era digital, desde o primeiro algoritmo. No entanto, atualmente enfrentamos um gap da presença feminina na área de tecnologia. As mulheres representam somente 25% da força de trabalho na indústria digital (ONU Mulheres Brasil, 2018) e ganham até 34% a menos do que homens no setor (PNAD – IBGE, 2018). Essas disparidades nascem na ra…
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The beginning of the end of Remote Mailslots
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Heya folks, Ned here again. With the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25314, we have started disabling the Remote Mailslot protocol by default. This is a precursor to deprecation and eventual removal from Windows. You aren't using this extremely legacy protocol unless you're also using the deprecated and disabled-by-default SMB1 protocol, so 99.97% of you have nothing to worry about. For those who are, a bit more information: Remote Mailslots The Remote Mailslot protocol is a very old, simple, unreliable, insecure inter-process communication method. A server creates a mailslot and a client writes messages to it using NetBIOS datagrams as a transport…
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LinkedIn Sales Navigator solutions for Dynamics 365 Sales
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This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits Hello to our Great NTA non-profit organizations. A few organizations recently inquired about how they can use the LinkedIn Sales Navigator solution with Dynamics 365 Sales. The LinkedIn Sales Navigator solution is available for Dynamics 365 Sales Professional. Administrator must integrate the solution with your sales professional app and add the contr…
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Microsoft Teams: A Solution for Healthcare Clinic Call Challenges
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First impressions matter! Especially if it is the first call from a new or potential patient. Phone calls are a direct method of patient care and outreach and must be routed efficiently and to the right person. Teams Phone can provide your patients & care givers with a convenient way to communicate quickly, while protecting the clinic from being inundated with calls that can be handled by other channels. In a typical clinic, you will need the ability for patients to ask follow-up questions from their appointments or refill prescriptions, but items like billing and scheduling are handled by centralized departments at another location. Your basic call routing sc…
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Let's talk about Azure Lab Services
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This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits Non-profit organizations often operate on limited budgets, making it challenging to invest in expensive technology infrastructure. However, technology can be a game-changer for non-profit organizations, helping them to operate more efficiently and serve their communities better. Microsoft NTA provides non-profits with access to cutting-edge technology and res…
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Securely save files from Microsoft Edge to OneDrive on mobile devices
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Thousands of enterprise customers globally entrust the Microsoft Edge mobile app to keep their data secure and protected while browsing on mobile devices. Today, we're announcing a new way for users to download and access files securely on mobile devices, beginning with version 111 of the Edge mobile app. Instead of downloading and saving files locally on mobile devices - which can put enterprise data at risk - users can now securely download and save files from the Edge mobile app to OneDrive so they can access them later. Previously, customers with high bars for security fought potential data leakage on mobile devices by blocking users from saving files to local …
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Custom DNS server issues while connecting from Databricks to Event Hub
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Scenario: You have an Event hub which receives events from Databricks. Suddenly, you observe that after receiving few messages, you encounter below error: AMQPConnectionError: Unable to open authentication session on connection b'EHProducer-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'. Please confirm target hostname exists: b'xxxxxxx.servicebus.windows.net' You start Wondering! May be your Event Hub namespace doesn’t exist or someone has deleted accidentally. You navigate to Azure portal and check Event Hub namespace exists and even you were continuously receiving messages in Event Hubs. Then what could be the reason for the above error to be encounte…
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Celebrating Tech Trailblazers for Women's History Month - Edition 1 with Harmke Alkemade
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As part of the Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Initiative, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we’re excited to highlight women-owned businesses, their solutions, and their journeys growing their business on the marketplace during Women’s History Month in March. This month, the marketplace community blog will feature a series of interviews with women leaders in our ISV community. Today on International Women’s Day, we kick-off this series with Harmke Alkemade, AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and Co-Founder at Friendly Flows. Friendly Flows enables workflow solutions that power cross-functional, collaborative activity. The Friendly F…
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Protect Your Data in Azure to Be Ready to Recover
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We have heard a lot of buzz about the cloud of the last several years as more and more organizations begin to move existing workloads to the cloud, or deploy new ones there. One thing that can sometimes be overlooked is data protection in the cloud. There’s lots of things that can happen to your data, from an accidental deletion to someone maliciously deleting files, not to mention the ever present threat of ransomware. Let’s face it, sometimes things also just happen, like an application upgrade goes awry and we need to roll back to an earlier point in time. No matter what the case, data protection remains one of the most critical but overlooked aspects …
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Quantum Computing on Azure | How it Works, What's Coming, & What You Can Try Today
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Set up a high performance hybrid quantum compute environment in your own Azure Quantum workspace, and run your code on real quantum machines. See the latest advances, core concepts, and Microsoft’s distinct topological approach to get us closer to realizing the world’s first scalable quantum machine with Azure Quantum Computing. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Azure Quantum VP, Krysta Svore, joins host Apoorva Nori, to share what it is and how to set it up. Run your quantum code on real hardware. Bring the best of classical and quantum computing together. Create and build a Quantum workspace — all you need is a browser. …
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XDR attack disruption in action – Defending against a recent BEC attack
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The ever-growing volume of advanced cybersecurity attacks challenges even the most advanced Security Operations (SOC) teams. To help SOC teams address these challenges, Microsoft 365 Defender can now automatically disrupt advanced attacks like ransomware and BEC campaigns. It uses high-confidence eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) signals across endpoints, identities, email, and SaaS apps to stop attack progression and limit the impact to organizations. While in Private Preview, Microsoft 365 Defender disrupted a total of 38 BEC attacks across 27 organizations – clearly showcasing the efficacy and impact the new capability will have to support SOC teams. To help…
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Delivery Optimization report now generally available
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Start monitoring Delivery Optimization usage and performance across your organization today! Following the Windows Update for Business reports announcement back in November 2022, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Delivery Optimization Windows Update for Business report. We genuinely appreciate those of you who participated in the public preview! You helped us verify the accuracy of the new data tables and revise the layout. Your responses helped us identify and address all critical issues, so it can now be offered to all Delivery Optimization users. In this article, find guidance to: Get started with Windows Update for Business reports Cus…
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Announcing the Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Apps (Preview)
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We’re pleased to announce the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector (Preview) for Power Apps, a low-code platform that enables you to build custom applications quickly and easily. Use the connector with Microsoft Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps to connect to and query data from a MySQL flexible server. Most applications need to connect to a data source to enable a use case for your needs. With the connector enabled in Azure Database for MySQL, you'll have a fully functional app that you can customize and share on any device. The connector allows you to perform read, write, and delete operations with data stored in Azure Database for MySQL. …
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Introduction to OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel
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Welcome to our series on OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel! Large language models, or LLMs, such as OpenAI's GPT3 family are taking over the public imagination with innovative use cases such as text summarization, human-like conversation, code parsing and debugging, and many other examples. We've seen ChatGPT write screenplays and poetry, compose music, write essays, and even translate computer code from one language to another. What if we could harness some of this incredible potential to help incident responders in a Security Operations Center? Well, we sure can - and it's easy! Microsoft Sentinel already includes a built-in connector for OpenAI GPT3 models that …
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Delivery Optimization report now generally available
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Start monitoring Delivery Optimization usage and performance across your organization today! Following the Windows Update for Business reports announcement back in November 2022, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Delivery Optimization Windows Update for Business report. We genuinely appreciate those of you who participated in the public preview! You helped us verify the accuracy of the new data tables and revise the layout. Your responses helped us identify and address all critical issues, so it can now be offered to all Delivery Optimization users. In this article, find guidance to: Get started with Windows Update for Business reports Cus…
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Does news affect Bitcoin rates? Use Logstash & Free Kusto to analyze Bitcoin rates and news reports
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In this tutorial, we will show how to use the free Azure Data Explorer (ADX/Kusto) cluster offering and the Kusto Logstash connector to collect, ingest and analyze real-time Bitcoin rates and The New York Times news reports, including the ability to visualize news reports and their corresponding categories within a selected time frame. The end result: a dashboard that presents news reports and Bitcoin rates, over time. We will use Logstash's http_poller plugin to pull real-time data from external sources into Kusto. Then, we'll use Kusto to transform, query and visualize the data. Here is the high-level architecture of this tutorial: Step 1: Crea…
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Call Azure Function App using AAD OAuth certificate
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We will show how to call Azure Function App HTTP trigger from Logic App using HTTP action and AAD OAuth certificate; in this article, we will be using a self-signed certificate: 1. Using Windows PowerShell, Create and export a self-signed certificate. $cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -subject "certificateSubject" Export-Certificate -Cert $cert -FilePath certificateFileName.cer -Type CERT 2. Export the certificate created in step 1 to pfx base64 encoded bytes. $mypwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "password" -Force -AsPlainText $cert | Export-PfxCertificate -FilePath pfxFileName.pfx -Password $mypwd $pfx_cert = [sy…