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Learn how to build Python Web Apps from our 6-part series!
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Know a little Python and want to build web applications with Python backends? We've got you covered! We put on a 6-part series in June walking through the basics of web apps, the most popular Python frameworks (Flask, Django, FastAPI), containerization with Docker, deployment to Azure, and testing tools (Playwright, pytest). Follow the links below to watch those recordings and follow along at your own pace with our open-source sample projects! If you're a teacher, you can adapt the slides and projects for your students. You can get the editable versions from the slides repository. [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] An overview of the world of backend web developmen…
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Introducing Learn Cloud: A VS Code Extension to simplify your First Deployment to the Cloud.
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Have you ever wanted to deploy your code to the cloud, but felt overwhelmed by the complexity and options? Do you wish there was a way to learn the basics of cloud computing while working on your own project? If so, you're not alone. Many developers struggle with the learning curve and the decision fatigue of choosing the right cloud service for their needs. That's why we created Learn Cloud, a VS Code extension that guides you through the process of deploying your code to the cloud, with easy-to-follow steps, interactive explanations, and customized recommendations. Whether you have an existing codebase or you want to start from a beginner friendly starter project…
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Setting Up CDC for Seamless Operations in Azure SQL Managed Instances with Failover Groups
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Customers leverage Change Data Capture (CDC) with Azure SQL Managed Instance in various configurations. Although CDC operates smoothly after a local failover to a secondary replica in SQL Managed Instance Business Critical, it is not designed to function seamlessly after a geo failover within a Failover Group configuration. This applies to both General Purpose and Business Critical tiers. This step-by-step guide will assist you in configuring CDC to work seamlessly with a Failover Group configuration, ensuring that changes continue to be captured after a geo failover. Prerequisites: Two SQL MI instances configured as failover group partners. A user database to be …
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WDK NuGet: A new way to develop drivers on Windows
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We are excited to introduce the WDK NuGet, a new offering that enables developers to build drivers for Windows. The WDK is the essential tool for developing, testing and deploying drivers on the Windows platform. It provides the headers, libraries, tools and metadata that you need to create drivers for Windows devices. Previously, the WDK was available as an MSI installer or an ISO file. The WDK NuGet contains the compiled code, libraries, headers, tools and metadata for driver development. You can easily consume the WDK NuGet package by adding it to your project and then calling its functionality in your project code. The WDK NuGet offer some advantages over …
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What’s new in July: Azure Innovate & Azure Migrate and Modernize are built to work together.
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Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize are built to work together to enable simpler adoption of Azure—the foundation of the Microsoft Cloud. Partners can drive more value with comprehensive resources, extensive coverage across scenarios, and tailored incentives in one easy to navigate hub - so you can deliver better customer experiences. Now there are even bigger opportunities on the horizon with Azure Essentials - foundational guidance and best practices to help you elevate security, reliability, and ongoing performance for cloud and AI workloads. What's new: A new Innovate with Azure AI Platform scenario for pre-sales and post-sales. Evolving Build and …
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Comparing feature sets for AKS enabled by Azure Arc deployment options
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This article shows a comparison of features available for the different deployment options under AKS enabled by Azure Arc. AKS on Azure Stack HCI, version 23H2 AKS Edge Essentials AKS on Windows Server and AKS on Azure Stack HCI 22H2 Supported infrastructure where the Kubernetes clusters are hosted Azure Stack HCI, version 23H2 Windows 10/11 IoT Enterprise Windows 10/11 Enterprise Windows 10/11 Pro Windows Server 2019/2022 Azure Stack HCI 22H2 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022 CNCF conformant? Yes Yes Yes K8s cluster lifecycle management tools (create, scale, upgrade and …
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Introducing Windows 11 checkpoint cumulative updates
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We’re excited to further optimize the delivery of continuous innovation in Windows 11 with new checkpoint cumulative updates.[1] As early as late 2024, you will automatically get this optimization on any devices running Windows 11, version 24H2 or later, as well as on Windows Server 2025. Keeping your organization updated and secure will involve smaller, faster, and more sustainable updates, with no action required from you. Keep reading to learn how you can preview this experience today in Windows Insider Preview Build 26120.1252 (Dev Channel). Tip: Windows 11, version 24H2 will be available as a traditional feature update to all devices later this year. […
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Use WebGPU + ONNX Runtime Web + Transformer.js to build RAG applications by Phi-3-mini
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Phi-3-mini is deployed in different edge devices, such as iPhone/Android, AIPC/Copilot+PC, as well as cloud and IoT, citing the cross-platform and flexibility of SLM. If you want to follow these deployment methods, you can follow the content of the Phi-3 Cookbook. In model reference, computing power is essential. Through the quantized model, SLM can be deployed and run on a GPU or a traditional CPU. In this topic, we will focus on the model reference of WebGPU. [HEADING=1]What's WebGPU？[/HEADING] “WebGPU is a JavaScript API provided by a web browser that enables webpage scripts to efficiently utilize a device's graphics processing unit. This is achieved with the und…
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Azure Video Indexer & Phi-3 introduce Textual Video Summary on Edge: Better Together story
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Azure AI Video Indexer collaborated with the Phi-3 team to introduce a Textual Video Summary capability on Edge. This collaboration showcases the utilization of the SLM, Phi-3 model, enabling the Azure AI Video Indexer team to extend the same LLM based summarization capabilities that are available for the cloud, to also be available on the Edge. This comes following Build’s 2024 announcements of the integration of Azure AI Video Indexer with language models to generate textual summaries of videos and the expansion of the Phi-3 models family. The feature is accessible both in the cloud, utilizing Azure Open AI, and at the Edge via the Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct model…
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Draft with Copilot in Word on a selection of text, a list, or a table
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If you are a document creator, you know how challenging it can be to produce high-quality, engaging, and informative content. You must research, write, edit, format, and proofread your work while keeping your audience and purpose in mind. Sometimes, you may need to generate new content from existing sources, update your content to suit different contexts, organize your content more clearly, or transform your content into different formats or languages. To support these workflows, it’s often easier to reference or build upon existing content. That’s why we’ve added the ability to draft with Copilot based on a specific selection in your Word doc. This will help to:…
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Digital Marketing Strategies to Improve Customer Engagement now OnDemand!
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Discover strategic best practices and gain insights into how to adapt your B2B marketing initiatives for evolving customer needs in the new AI era of digital marketing. Marketing experts from Microsoft share their unique perspectives on how to drive growth, address customer challenges, and increase customer engagement along the sales journey within a rapidly changing marketing landscape. Join us for this partner exclusive webinar and start paving the way for your business’s success in the digital age. Register today and be part of the conversation that will shape the future of marketing. Event Speakers: Paulina Bobb ,Global Partner Marketing Manager for Busine…
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Fast Transcription Public Preview in Azure AI Speech
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We are super excited to announce the Public Preview of Fast Transcription service in Azure AI Speech, which allows customers and developers to transcribe audio file to text accurately and synchronously, with a high speed factor. Fast Transcription service includes our latest end-to-end model technologies, with best quality and super high Speed Factor leveraging GPU inference (it can transcribe a 30-minute audio file in less than 1 minute). Supported Locales: en-US, zh-CN, fr-FR, it-IT, es-ES, es-MX, ja-JP, ko-KR, pt-BR, hi-IN (more coming soon, learn more about language support in Speech service) Supported Regions: East US, Southeast Asia, West Eur…
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Streamlining SAP Processes with Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform
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In today’s fast-paced business environment, intelligent business processes and efficient collaboration are key to the success of organizations. A recent study by Microsoft on AI has shown that 71% of organizations are already using AI to add value to and speed up their business processes, the report also states that for every $1 invested organizations are seeing a return of 3.5X their investments. SAP systems have data related to business processes while the Microsoft Graph has data related to collaboration such as emails, chats, schedules etc. To use both these forms of data together with AI would transform the business processes of many organizations. As eve…
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Verify the integrity of Azure Confidential Ledger transactions with receipts and application claims
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[JUSTIFY]In today's digital landscape, the integrity and confidentiality of transactional data are paramount. Microsoft’s Azure Confidential Ledger offers a robust solution for maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of your data. The service utilizes cryptographic techniques to generate transaction receipts, which serve as immutable evidence of the ledger's state at a specific point in time. These receipts are crucial for businesses that require a high level of trust and transparency in their operations. [/JUSTIFY] [HEADING=1][JUSTIFY]Write receipts[/JUSTIFY][/HEADING] [JUSTIFY]The value proposition of Azure Confidential Ledger write receipts lies in their…
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Azure Database for MySQL - June 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
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We're excited to share a summary of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server announcements from last month, as well as the latest roadmap of upcoming features! [HEADING=1]July 2024 Live webinar[/HEADING] These updates and the latest roadmap are also covered in our Monthly Live Webinar on YouTube (Click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel!), which streams the second Wednesday of every month, at 7:30 AM Pacific time. Below is a link to the session recording of the live webinar we delivered last week: [HEADING=1]June 2024 updates and announcements[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]Move from private access (VNet integrated) connectivity…
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Accelerate data democratization in era of generative AI using Denodo Platform and Microsoft Fabric
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In this guest blog post, Mitesh Shah, Director of Cloud Product Management, GTM, Alliances at Denodo Technologies, explains how the Denodo Platform along with Microsoft Fabric enables a robust data integration, data management, and data delivery platform in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Learn how you can extend your data analytics and generative AI use cases and deliver smart data management in real time. Data landscape and business challenge Enterprises deal with massive amounts of data that have become the backbone for advanced analytics and generative AI projects. As the data volume continues to grow, it is often fragmented and siloed across multiple da…
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Introducing Agent and Gateway Extensions in Azure Monitor SCOM MI
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We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Agent and Gateway Server Extensions in Azure Monitor SCOM MI, a new capability that allows you to initiate monitoring on Azure and Arc enabled Windows machines at-scale and programmatically. More about this capability at Monitor Azure and Off-Azure Virtual machines. [HEADING=1]Key benefits and capabilities[/HEADING] Extensions for Agents and Gateways offer the following benefits: Monitor workloads everywhere: SCOM MI can monitor VMs and guest applications that are hosted on Azure or off-Azure using Arc channel. With Managed Gateways, you can monitor air-gapped & isolated VMs. At-scale deployme…
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From Principles to Practice: Developer Resources for Responsible AI Innovation
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In the rapidly evolving world of technology, AI stands at the forefront of innovation. However, with great power comes great responsibility. As developers, we play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI, ensuring it aligns with ethical standards and societal values. Microsoft is committed to guiding developers on this journey with resources and tools designed to develop responsible AI. [HEADING=1]Understanding Responsible AI[/HEADING] At its core, responsible AI is about developing, deploying, and managing AI systems in a manner that is ethical, secure, and inclusive. Microsoft champions this approach through six fundamental principles: Fairness …
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Redesigning a Retail Copilot with Open Source Models
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[HEADING=1][/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] As part of our 3rd-year group project in the EE Department of Imperial College London and under the amazing guidance of @Lee_Stott and @nitya , our team devised an end-to-end framework for developing and deploying GenAI retail copilots using state-of-the-art models from the Hugging Face AI platform and integrating them with a back-end architecture which leverages Microsoft Azure infrastructure. A key feature of this project is that Contoso Chat can be adapted easily to any retail setting simply by switching out the datasets and connecting large language models best suited for your application. To aid in op…
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Azure Monitor: How To Stop Log-Based Alerts for Specific Resources
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Hello howdie readers How many times, while dealing with alerting configured at scale, you had the need of stopping the alerts for few resources or even for only one? Creating alerts that work at scale, meaning alerts created with a wide scope (all virtual machine in a given subscription) gives you a hug advantage on alert management, but it also comes with some cons. For instance, you cannot disable the alert for a specific resource. Reason? The alert user interface does not include a feature or setting to disable an alert based on a specific resource (or resources); it only allows you to enable or disable it. So, given the need, how can you m…
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, generative AI (GenAI) has emerged as a game-changer for enterprises. However, building end-to-end GenAI applications that are robust, observable, and scalable can be challenging. This blog post will guide you through the process of creating enterprise-grade GenAI solutions using PromptFlow and LangChain, with a focus on observability, trackability, model monitoring, debugging, and autoscaling. The purpose of this blog to give you an idea that even if you use LangChain or OpenAI SDK or Llama Index you can still use PromptFlow and AI Studio for enterprise grade GenAI applications. [HEADING=1]Understanding Ent…
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (June 2024)
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Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying to help our readers a bit more, whether that is learning, troubleshooting, or just finding new content sources! We will give you a bit of a taste of the blog content itself, provide you a way to get to the source content directly, and help to introduce you to some other blogs you may not be aware of that you might find helpful. From all of us on the Core Infrastructure and Security Tech Community blog team, thanks for your continued reading and support! …
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Where Does One Machine End and the Next Begin?
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The process of integrating Azure HPC into Azure has raised many questions about why we do things differently from the general-purpose fleet. It turns out, though, that we don’t work so differently after all, once you change your perspective and start thinking of the whole cluster as a single supercomputer. [HEADING=1]Why can’t we split this cluster in two?[/HEADING] Replacing a big cluster with two smaller ones is kind of like replacing a big server with two smaller ones. To our customers, us having a bigger cluster isn’t just more inventory; it’s a faster supercomputer. The bigger we go, the harder it is to place them into datacenters, but also the more custome…
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Step-by-step: OneDrive Sync Health
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[HEADING=1]0. Overview[/HEADING] This blog shows a step-by-step guide to getting OneDrive Sync Health information using Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint. This includes detailed instructions on how to extract OneDrive device sync information and use that to run analytics for your tenant. If you follow these steps, you will have a Power BI dashboard like the one shown below, which includes total devices per OneDrive version, number of devices by Backup Folder enabled and total devices by date last updated. You can also use the many other properties available in the OneDrive Sync Health dataset. To get there, you can split the process …
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Comprehensive AI Safety and Security with defense in depth for Enterprises
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Azure AI Content Safety APIs Azure AI Content Safety is a new service that helps detect hateful, violence, sexual, and self-harm content in images and text, and assign severity scores, allowing businesses to limit and prioritize what content moderators need to review. Unlike most solutions used today, Azure AI Content Safety can handle nuance and context, reducing the number of false positives and easing the load on human content moderator teams. Prompt Shields (preview) Identify and block direct and indirect prompt injection attacks before they impact your model, scans text for the risk of a User input attack on a Large Language Model. Quickstart G…