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Microsoft retired Skype for Business Online (SfBO) in July 2021, and the deadline to complete your SfBO upgrade/migration is rapidly approaching. To help protect the investment that you have made in Skype for Business Online phones (3PIP phones) and help you upgrade to Teams, we offer a solution through SIP Gateway to enable these devices to securely connect and function as Microsoft Teams endpoints. We encourage you to make necessary updates as soon as possible because Skype for Business Online will be permanently turned off on July 31, 2023. The following are a few scenarios that can help you chart the course of action for your organization: You have compa…

Welcome back to the fourth episode of my blog series on SAP CDC Connector and SLT! Previously, I've provided an architecture overview to help you understand the solution's foundation, as well as covered the basics of setting up, running, and monitoring the extraction process. Today, we'll explore advanced settings that can help you optimize the performance of your SAP data replication solution. However, please be aware that these tweaks are intended for experienced users and should be thoroughly tested in a development or test environment before implementing them in your production system. By the end of this post, you'll gain valuable insights into fine-tuning your replic…

Microsoft partners like Keytos, Cirrus Data Solutions, and CluedIn deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=39601:name] EZSmartCard: Enable passwordless onboarding and set up phishing-resistant credentials with Keytos' EZSmartCard. EZSmartCard uses artificial intelligence to verify a user's identity by scanning their government ID and matching it with their face and against your human resources database. This can remove the need for one-off passwords or a trip to the IT help desk. [attachment=39602:name] Cirrus Migrate Cloud: This solution from Cirrus Data ena…

This is Public Service Recognition Week, May 7-13, 2023! During the first full week of May each year since 1985 in the United States, we honor the people who serve our nation as federal, state, county, local and tribal government employees as a part of Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW). At Microsoft, we know that every day, government employees are working diligently to deliver on their missions of service in our communities. We thank each of you in public service and recognize your contributions! To multiply the gratitude shared during Public Service Recognition Week 2023, we challenge you to send praise to a coworker with a, “Thank you,” or a “Job wel…

Azure Container Apps is a fully managed environment that enables you to run microservices and containerized applications on a serverless platform. When you host your apps or microservices in Azure Container Apps, you may not always want to publish them directly to the internet. Instead, you may want to expose them through a reverse proxy, a content delivery network(CDN) or any other similar device. Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that can help you deliver higher availability, lower latency, greater scale, and more secure experiences to your users accessing your container apps. In this article, you learn to configur…

Azure Container Apps is a fully managed environment that enables you to run microservices and containerized applications on a serverless platform. When you host your apps or microservices in Azure Container Apps, you may not always want to publish them directly to the internet. Instead, you may want to expose them through a reverse proxy, a content delivery network (CDN) or any other similar device. Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that can help you deliver higher availability, lower latency, greater scale, and more secure experiences to your users accessing your container apps. In this article, you learn to configu…

こんにちは、 SQL Server サポートです。 今回は、日本語版 SQL Server Management Studio (以降 「SSMS」) のインストール手順を説明します。 ●手順 1. 以下のURLにアクセスします。 // SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) のダウンロード SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) のダウンロード - SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2. ページを下方向にスクロールし、[使用できる言語] 内の [日本語] リンクをクリックして、日本語版SSMSのインストーラーをダウンロードします。 // 画面例 ※ご注意: ページ中ほどの[sSMSのダウンロード]に記載されている をクリックすると、英語版のSSMSのインストーラーがダウンロードされます。(下記画面例) 日本語版をインストールする場合は、2. の[日本語] リンクからインストーラーをダウンロードしてください。[/color] // 画面例 3. ダウンロードした SSMS のインストーラーをダブルクリックして起動します。（日本語版の場合 ファイル名は [sSMS-Setup-JPN.exe] となります。) 4. 画面に従って、インストールを進めます。 // 画面例 …

Tervetuloa “Business x AI” -tapahtumaan, jossa keskitymme keskustelemaan tekoälyn mahdollisuuksista liiketoiminnalle. Tapahtumassa käydään läpi tekoälyn tuomia ratkaisuja ja innovaatioita, jotka voivat auttaa yrityksiä kehittämään toimintaansa ja parantamaan tuottavuuttaan. Kuulet inspiroivia puhujia ja esimerkkejä siitä, miten tekoälyä voidaan käyttää eri toimialoilla. Tapahtumassa on myös mahdollisuus verkostoitua muiden alan ammattilaisten kanssa ja jakaa ajatuksia sekä oppia uutta. Tule mukaan tutustumaan tekoälyn mahdollisuuksiin ja saamaan uusia ideoita oman liiketoimintasi kehittämiseen! Hybriditapahtuma järjestetään tiistaina 30.5.2023 klo 8.30 alkae…

MLOps & GitHub Actions You heard about MLOps, read about it, and might have even seen it in action, but starting your organization's MLOps seems harder than it should. Before discussing modules, identities, pipelines, and other concepts, let's start with the basics. We'll start with a working example that you can use as a starting point to build your MLOps. This blog post will show you how to use GitHub Actions to automate the process of training and deploying a machine learning model using Azure Machine Learning service. Skilling up - Learning MLOps Azure Machine Learning SDK/CLI (V2) is the main platform used in this sample. In this article I will co…

Introduction: Achieving high availability is crucial for businesses that rely on their SQL Server databases. With SQL Server on Azure virtual machines, there are two popular deployment architectures to consider: SQL Server Always-On Availability Groups (AG) and SQL Server Always-On Failover Clustering (FCI). However, choosing the right solution for your specific scenario requires careful consideration of various factors. In this article, we will provide a comprehensive guide to help you decide which approach to use, especially when deployed in the Azure environment. Main Considerations: Managed instance plans: If you plan to use Managed Instance (MI) in the fut…

My name is Rachel Irabor, I am a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CE developer. I love writing blog posts to document my learning. In this blog post I will show how to use two Gallery control in one screen and how to create responsive menu navigation bar in Canvas Power Apps using Gallery control and Collection, which you can use to navigate to different screens in your application. In Power Platform, Gallery controls are used to display a collection of data in a list or grid format. A Gallery control can be used to display a set of records from a data source, such as a SharePoint list, Excel table, or Common Data Service …

Introduction Azure Monitor Logs, also known as Log Analytics, is a fundamental tool for monitoring and reporting on your Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid resources. It supports such a vast array of Microsoft cloud services that it has become one of the most used Azure services for all sorts of customers. Consequently, Azure Monitor Logs has also become an important cost driver for many Azure customers and being able to allocate or split those costs across the right cost centers in the organization is a pressing need most customers have. This is especially relevant for customers who centralize as much as possible their Log Analytics workspaces, following Microsoft’s…

This article explains the steps carried out in doing a lift and shift migration of Kubernetes workloads running on virtual machines (from any location – Onpremise or Third-party cloud provider) to Azure public region. This migration was tested at a customer side, where they had specific requirements to migrate the Kubernetes workloads as is by retaining their IP addresses. As services like docker, weaver etc are manually installed on the VM to set up Kubernetes cluster, there were different IP addresses used at different layers of the application (within the VM) and migrating them manually to “Azure public region” is a huge task which itself will take 6-8 months’ t…

We are pleased to announce the security review for Microsoft Edge, version 113! We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 113 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 112 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 113 introduced 3 new computer settings and 3 new user settings. We have included a spreadsheet listing the new settings in the release to make it easier for you to find them. As a friendly reminder, all available settings for Microsoft …

DAX is now your Friend Learning and understanding DAX in Power BI can come with some challenges especially for Beginners. What if you can write DAX with just natural language, Isn't that awesome? Yes, DAX is now your friend. Let's analyze the magic happening in the image below. 1. Write what you want to achieve in natural language and the AI automatically generate the DAX function to achieve it 2. If you notice, I intentionally misspelt "Total" by writing "Toal" yet, it understood what I am trying to do. Now imagine what you will learn going through this live session with us. This session focuses on helping you to impro…

Driver Servicing leverages three types of measures when assessing the quality of a driver; standard, expanded, and ecosystem. Where standard & expanded measures assess drivers that match targeting constraints of the shipping label, ecosystem audiences expand data collection beyond a driver’s targeting constraints to reduce sampling noise and increase the measures’ statistical significance. These measures collect telemetry from any machine that downloaded the driver from any source, including untargeted machines that downloaded an identical version of the driver. A graphics driver is considered identical to another driver when they share the same Driver INF Version. …

Register for Azure Open AI & Copilot Webinar May 9th 11:30pm-12:30pm PDT Please join us for an introduction to Azure OpenAI and a preview of Microsoft 365 Copilot, specifically for healthcare and life sciences organizations. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize productivity and remove some of the drudgery of work. We'll cover: Overview of Azure OpenAI Introduction to upcoming Copilot features in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Healthcare use cases Responsible AI considerations Register Here Register for Azure Open AI & Copilot Webinar May 9th 11:30pm-12:30pm PDT Speakers Steve Kaiser | LinkedIn Account…

We’re excited to announce development on two new data-import features for Viva Insights. To get your feedback, we’d like to invite you to join our private previews. What are these features? Both features bring data into the advanced insights app from other sources and allow that data to refresh periodically. The first feature imports data from any organizational data source. We’ll provide sample code and technical documentation to connect to the Viva Insights API. The second feature imports data from Workday. You can sign up to preview one or both. What kind of benefit do these features offer? These features can help your data stay current over time. I…

We have released multiple updates to supported versions of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in the last couple of months. Just because it's been quiet on here doesn't mean we haven't been busy. Quite the opposite, in fact. Here's a summary of the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient updates we've released. Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.1.2 With this update, we also changed the 3.1 line to Long Term Support (LTS), extending the support end date to March 10, 2023. Added Added Windows ARM64 support when targeting .NET Framework. #1908 Fixed Fixed thread safety of transient error list in configurable retry logic. #1911 Fixed deadlock when using SinglePhaseCommit w…

Imagine a database system that can perform computations on sensitive data without ever having access to the data in plaintext. With such confidential computing capabilities, you could protect your sensitive data from powerful high-privileged but unauthorized users, including cloud operators and DBAs, while preserving database system’s processing power. With Always Encrypted using enclave technologies, this powerful vision has become a reality. Join us for the latest Always Encrypted investments in Azure SQL Database with Anna Hoffman and Pieter Vanhove. Resources: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database – preview Always Encrypted with secur…

The Azure Communication Services team is excited to share several new product and feature updates released in April 2023. (You can view previous blog articles here.) This month’s update describes the features below: Skip setup screen for UI Library native Simulcast support on Edge/Chrome desktop Microsoft Teams interoperability updates Direct routing updates JS Calling SDK updates Power Automate inbound SMS connector User Facing Diagnostics Raised hand Spotlight Skip Setup Screen The UI Library for native platforms integrates a new call workflow, “Skip the setup screen”, which is now in general availability. This workflow enables th…

We have released a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server which contains several additions and changes. Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central. Below is a summary of the changes in 12.3.0 over version 12.2.0. Added Added Java 20 support 2097 Added access token callback class connection string property 2073 Added additional logging to help debug authentication and encryption issues 2118 Added SQL query to toString() in SQLServerPreparedStatement to support Hibernate JPA slow query logging 2099 Changed Updated azure-identity version 2114 Updated msal4j version 2102 Allow failover par…

Imagine a database system that can perform computations on sensitive data without ever having access to the data in plaintext. With such confidential computing capabilities, you could protect your sensitive data from powerful high-privileged but unauthorized users, including cloud operators and DBAs, while preserving database system’s processing power. With Always Encrypted using enclave technologies, this powerful vision has become a reality. Join us for the latest Always Encrypted investments in Azure SQL Database with Anna Hoffman and Pieter Vanhove. Resources: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database – preview https://aka.ms/Alw…

Did you know the world’s energy demand will double by 2050? We can’t solve the world’s energy crisis on our own, but working with partners like @SightMachine and @Accenture we are taking measurable steps toward energy cost optimization with the manufacturing industry . Discover how in this #PartnerViewpoint episode of the MPI Vodcast. LinkedIn YouTube Podcast Series Description Living in a post-pandemic world presents untapped opportunities for partners and customers alike, and continues to drive innovation, digital transformation and growth to embrace today’s new normal. Welcome to the Microsoft Partner Innovation Vod…

Watch and listen in as two women-owned and operated ISVs share their experience as Microsoft partners, leveraging company programs and resources to tackle critical healthcare challenges worldwide, in this #PartnerViewpoint episode of the MPI Vodcast. LinkedIn YouTube Podcast Series Description Living in a post-pandemic world presents untapped opportunities for partners and customers alike, and continues to drive innovation, digital transformation and growth to embrace today’s new normal. Welcome to the Microsoft Partner Innovation Vodcast, a Microsoft commercial partner business series that brings together Micro…