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SharePoint is the world’s most flexible content platform powering innovation across Microsoft 365, through examples like video hosting on Microsoft Stream, real-time collaboration in Microsoft Loop, and a Viva Topics page inside Microsoft Teams. Partners and customers extend these experiences and build SharePoint-powered solutions using the SharePoint Framework, Microsoft Graph, and Power Platform. And the adoption of SharePoint continues to accelerate as every month customers add over 200 petabytes of documents, lists, pages, videos, and more. Today, we’re excited to share the latest SharePoint innovations that will make it simpler for everyone to build more com…

To get the most value from your Security solutions, you need to understand the business value of the different features they include to decide if, when, and how to go about turning them on. And when you’re ready to enable new features, you need clear guidance to make it happen. This is why we recently published new Microsoft Security solution feature guides on Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Defender for Endpoint. Each guide briefly highlights five key product features and the value they provide, then points directly to step-by-step enablement instructions. Microsoft Security solution feature guide: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Defender for Off…

This is a follow-up to my previous blog post I published a while ago titled "Updating SQL Server containers deployed on Kubernetes!" In that blog post, I discussed two approaches that are OnDelete & Rolling options to update your Kubernetes-deployed independent SQL Server container instances. In this article, we will go a step further and upgrade SQL Server containers running SQL Server 2019 to SQL Server 2022, with High Availability (HA) configured using Always On availability groups and the cluster stack provided by DH2i. As documented in this article: "Deploy availability group with DH2i for SQL Server containers on AKS." configuring Always On availability …

Overview As we continue to evolve the Azure landing zone (ALZ) product, if you follow the ALZ community calls or read the whats-new monthly releases you will see we are continuously enhancing documentation and architecture to accommodate changes to the Azure platform. Over the past few months, we have been working behind the scenes and with a few select customers to develop a solution to help more easily accelerate and adopt Azure Monitor as part of onboarding to Azure or Enhancing your existing Azure / ALZ investment. Working alongside the Azure Monitor product group we have identified a number of opportunities: Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (this post) Azure …

New ways of working In the post-pandemic world, state and local IT leaders are spending an increasing amount of time and investments navigating new ways of work, such as hybrid work rationalization, the phenomenon of 'quiet quitting,' and embracing the concept of goblin mode. While technological advancements offer exciting opportunities, optimizing these changes pose specific challenges for IT leaders in government. Hybrid work rationalization involves strategic planning and decision-making to create a flexible work model that meets the needs of both employees and the organization. se challenges include balancing remote and in-person work for employees, im…

Few of the Built-in Connectors for Logic App Standard, went to GA(Generally available) in the last quarter. We have published demo videos on Azure blob storage connector, Azure Table storage connector and XML transformation. Here is a glimpse of those videos from Azure Logic Apps channel. If you have any feedback on these or topic suggestions, you would like to see on future instances, please add comments below. Azure Blob Storage Connector: This video covers the following topics: Blob storage introduction Different types of Connection Authentication Trigger architecture Actions overview Storage Account behind firewall- Demo App settin…

Microsoft 365 Defender Monthly news May 2023 Edition [attachment=39003:name] This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from April 2023. Legend: [attachment=39004:name] Product videos [attachment=39005:name] Webcast (recordings) [attachment=39006:name] Docs on Microsoft [attachment=39007:name] Blogs on Microsoft [attachment=39008:name] GitHub [attachment=39009:name] External [attachment=39010:name] Product improvements [attachment=39011:name] Previews / Announcements …

Os softwares passaram a ser amplamente usados para dar suporte aos negócios das empresas, permitindo que as pessoas usem serviços em vários domínios, como: bancos, comércio eletrônico, entretenimento online, saúde ou meios de pagamentos, apenas para citar alguns. Espera-se que o software opere de maneira robusta ao enfrentar condições inesperadas, pois uma única falha pode afetar fortemente os usuários ou o fornecedor do software. Isso é especialmente verdadeiro em softwares e soluções de missão crítica, onde uma falha pode ter consequências desastrosas para o negócio. Os modelos arquiteturais usados para novas soluções, como por exemplo Event-driven, Microsserviço…

Some days ago, I used this script to share how to monitor a ReadScale Replica about the latency between primary and secondary. This script is part of the session delivered and published in this article Lesson Learned #345: How to get the most from Azure SQL Database - Session Delivered - Microsoft Community Hub I created a dummy table called DataDriven ---------------------------------- -- Create Table ---------------------------------- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS DataDriven CREATE TABLE DataDriven ( ID BIGINT PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1), FirstName Varchar(30), SecondName Varchar(30), Age int) In order to measu…

Introduction: Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to determine which AWS resources are missing a tag? You can accomplish this use case using custom recommendations for AWS workloads in Defender for Cloud. The following steps solve the problem of creating a custom recommendation that identifies which Amazon RDS instances are missing a tag, but they can be applied to other use cases too. Note: To use the option of creating custom recommendations and standards for AWS and GCP workloads, you need to have the Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) plan enabled. To learn more about Defender CSPM capabilities, you can start at Over…

Remote Physiotherapy in Microsoft Teams using UCL MotionInput and Live Share SDK About The Team We are a team of second-year students from University College London with a joint aim - to make physiotherapy more accessible, easier, and enjoyable. Our project was part of an Industry Exchange Program (IXN) under the supervision of UCL Professor Dean Mohamedally and Microsoft Cloud Advocates Lee Stott and Ayca Bas. Fuelled by our passion for innovation and a strong desire to make a difference, this project was perfect allowed us to express our creative side, whilist working with new technologies including Microsoft Teams Toolkit to develop Microsoft Teams app…

What is a Cloud Adoption Security Review? The Cloud Adoption Security Review (CASR) is aimed to self-assess an Azure landing zone (ALZ) environment that has achieved baseline security against the Secure Methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Security is an ongoing journey of incremental progress and maturity, and not a static destination. The Cloud Adoption Framework provides security guidance for this journey by providing clarity to the processes and best practices. This guidance is based on real world experiences of our customers, of Microsoft's own security journey and lessons learned, and the work with other organizations like NIST (National In…

The SQL Server Native Client (often abbreviated SNAC) OLE DB provider with programmatic identifier SQLNCLI is a legacy Microsoft OLE DB provider for SQL Server that was shipped with SQL Server 2005 (9.x) through SQL Server 2012 (11.x) and then deprecated for use by database application connections. Based on the Support Lifecycle exception SQLNCLI continued to be shipped as a component of SQL Server Database engine up until SQL Server 2019 release, for exclusive use by database engine features like linked servers. In 2018 a next generation of OLE DB provider for SQL Server known by programmatic identifier MSOLEDBSQL was released keeping backwards compatibility with SQLNCLI…

The SQL Server Native Client (often abbreviated SNAC) OLE DB provider with programmatic identifier SQLNCLI is a legacy Microsoft OLE DB provider for SQL Server that was shipped with SQL Server 2005 (9.x) through SQL Server 2012 (11.x) and then deprecated for use by database application connections. Based on the Support Lifecycle exception SQLNCLI continued to be shipped as a component of SQL Server Database engine up until SQL Server 2019 release, for exclusive use by database engine features like linked servers. In 2018 a next generation of OLE DB provider for SQL Server known by programmatic identifier MSOLEDBSQL was released keeping backwards compatibility with SQLNCLI…

Welcome to Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - April 2023, the official monthly newsletter for Microsoft's Logic Apps Aviators community. Catch up on Microsoft news from us and our community. In this issue: Upcoming Events News from our product group News from our community Upcoming Events Integrate 2023 Integrate is the World's Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference. It is a 3-day event bringing speakers from Microsoft Product Group and the Global Integration Community. The conference is happening in person in London/UK from June 5-7, 2023, with an option for virtual attendance too. More information and tickets can be found o…

In the previous post, we've discussed what Azure App Service is and why we need to move our existing ASP.NET applications to the cloud, especially Azure App Service. Throughout this post, I'm going to walk through how we migrate our existing ASP.NET application to the Azure App Service instance with minimal code changes. What needs to consider for changes? I'm more than confident to migrate our existing ASP.NET application to Azure App Service with no changes because that's what Azure App Service is designed for. However, there are a few things to change due to the cloud-native characteristics of Azure App Service. Then, what are they? web.config to…

Configure Azure Virtual Desktop with the enterprise-grade configurations you’ll want in place for secure authentication, improved connectivity, flexible user data, and service resiliency. If you’re new to Azure Virtual Desktop, check out our overview and quick setup videos in the our playlist at Azure Virtual Desktop Essentials | Intro and Full Tour In this show, we cover: — Azure Active Directory options to achieve Single Sign On and passwordless authentication — Web Authentication (WebAuthn) to redirect additional authentication factors to local devices — RDP Shortpath to optimize connectivity to remote hosts — FSLogix options to manage profile …

By Rebecca Muller, Community Editor at Thrive Global With all of the stressors in the world right now, it comes as no surprise that we're more worried than ever. And when we ignore those feelings, they can pile up and prevent us from being productive, creative, and present. If you're looking for a strategy to channel your worries in a way that's positive and constructive, try keeping a "worry diary." "Write down in the diary each worry you have," Graham Davey, Ph.D., an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Sussex, tells Thrive. "Then, in a week or so, go back and have a look at which worries were useful and which weren't." By reflecting, you…

By Marina Khidekel, Chief Content Officer at Thrive Global Throughout our time spent at home during the pandemic, many of us picked up new rituals and habits that helped us stay positive, grounded, and optimistic. We learned new skills, revisited childhood passions, and started incorporating little activities that became staples in our everyday routines. In fact, many of them are continuing to boost our happiness and well-being. We asked our Thrive community to share with us the pandemic habits and rituals that are now staples in their routines. Which of these will you implement into your routine? Five-minute journaling "I have tried journaling…

By Arianna Huffington, Founder CEO at Thrive Global As we're opening our Thrive Global office in Dublin today I've been reading more about Ireland's new code of conduct for businesses with the very-of-the-moment title, "Right to Disconnect." While it's not a law, it's a set of guidelines and best practices issued by the country's Workplace Relations Commission to "assist employers and employees in navigating an increasingly digital and changed working landscape which often involves remote and flexible working." The new code has three essential provisions: the right of employees not to routinely work outside normal business hours, the right to not be penalized for n…

Not since the introduction of Windows Autopatch have we had a blog so full of impactful news. This is a parade of public previews for powerful new features now available in Windows Autopatch, so keep reading to get a glimpse at the latest additions to the service. The theme of this release is responding to real enterprise needs – all because we've heard from Autopatch customers and would-be customers about what they want from the service. So here they are: new capabilities, controls, and reports, all geared towards helping IT administrators improve security and productivity with less effort. At the end of each feature description, we're including some prompts for areas…

Welcome to the April 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! Following a month of exciting announcements in March, we are not slowing down by bringing you new features for the month of April. We have a great line-up of new features to announce. This month brings 21 new features to Teams. My personal favorites are Automatically lowering of a user’s raised hand after speaking to help presenters know focus on who has outstanding questions and all the new devices certified for Teams Rooms. As we come back into the office, having the right devices available for productive in-person meetings will help us all stay more productive. Please read about all the updates and let…

Not since the introduction of Windows Autopatch have we had a blog so full of impactful news. This is a parade of public previews for powerful new features now available in Windows Autopatch, so keep reading to get a glimpse at the latest additions to the service. The theme of this release is responding to real enterprise needs – all because we've heard from Autopatch customers and would-be customers about what they want from the service. So here they are: new capabilities, controls, and reports, all geared towards helping IT administrators improve security and productivity with less effort. At the end of each feature description, we're including some prompts for areas…

New features in Teams (free) on desktop and web Join a community (Windows 11) Previously it was possible to join a community on mobile only, but now this feature is in Teams free on Windows 11 as well, making it a lot simpler to join communities. Additionally, when invited to a community, you can choose whether to Accept or Decline the invite before joining the community. Request to join a community (Windows 11) When joining a community, depending on the community settings configured by community owners, you might join the community immediately or your request to join might need approval. With this new feature, community owners can limit access t…

Our vision for Microsoft Teams has always been to bring together communication and collaboration tools in one place, from chat and meetings to apps and files—and now payments. Over 300 million users rely on Teams every month to stay productive and connected with colleagues, partners, customers, friends, and family. Getting paid for appointments, classes, and webinars—essentially any meeting you host in Teams—has just become easier. The new Payments app, currently in public preview in the Teams Store, allows small businesses in the United States and Canada to easily manage and collect payments from within Teams on your desktop or mobile device during a meeting. …