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We are excited to announce that the Yammer mobile app has now been rebranded as the Viva Engage mobile app! Following the Yammer Communities app in Teams and Outlook rebranding, our mobile app will now reflect the same to align Yammer more closely with our Viva suite of employee experiences With the new Viva Engage app on iOS and Android, you can stay connected with your colleagues, get updates on important projects, and share information easily, all from your mobile device. The app comes with a modern interface, support for device-specific features, and an improved user experience. Now, whether a user visits to Yammer.com or experiences the Viva E…

A shower of hearts, a sloth’s warm embrace, or a chicken on your head. It sounds like a fun, eclectic party! Good news, it CAN be—in your next work meeting through Snapchat Lenses for Microsoft Teams. Starting this week, a collection of 20+ of the most popular Snapchat Lenses are available to Teams customers globally*, giving you more ways to express yourself, build relationships and let your meetings shine. Ahem, cue the Sunglasses Lens. Or better yet, check out Bear in Love, Cat on Head, or the Sunset Lenses. And did you know video calls make up 78% of positive memories in meetings?** Why not use Lenses to share more of your personality during your next Teams mee…

Welcome to our new quarterly blog series designed to help you skill up on Modern Work technologies. This is your quarterly one stop shop for Modern Work technical skilling updates, resources, and opportunities. 7 ways to skill up on Modern Work technologies today: Explore administration of Microsoft 365 in the new era of AI: Microsoft 365 Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps. See what this will mean for Microsoft 365 administration and how data security, privacy, and responsible AI considerations will influence the control set we're building to manage Copilot experience…

Cloud PC users may encounter connection failure when they restarted the Cloud PC after Windows update or suddenly lose connection without obvious reason. These blog troubleshooting steps are not for a special reason of connection failure. It is a general troubleshooting method for users themselves and Cloud PC admins to bring the Cloud PC back online. If users restarted Cloud PC because of Windows feature update, it is reasonable to wait around 30 minutes to get a connection because Cloud PC backend infrastructure needs more time to resume all services for supporting Cloud PC than a regular physical devices restart. End User troubleshooting If a user gets a co…

Recently, one of the customer who was facing issues with application pools and unable to set custom IIS App Pool Identity with message “There was an error while performing this operation and value does not fall within the expected range”. We reviewed the event logs and identified and resolved the issue with below troubleshooting steps. Symptoms ========= Unable to set custom IIS App Pool Identity and observed below error. Troubleshooting Steps: =============== Review the event logs - Services Logs => Microsoft => Windows => IIS-Configuration. ID 42: Failed to initialize the 'IISWASOnlyAesProvider' encryption provider in '\\?\C:\wind…

Last month we took a deep dive into the update powers available to IT teams from Microsoft – including to explain the differences between the solutions on offer. This month we're back to talk about what's new in the service. New Windows Autopatch tenant health status The new ‘Inactive Status' feature is intended to make IT admins' lives easier. To help administrators recognize critically urgent issues that require immediate action, the status of their Windows Autopatch instance will be set to ‘inactive.' This will limit administrator access to only the Windows Autopatch blades and controls that need attention. Examples include misconfigured tenant access setting…

Thanks for joining me for the third episode of the blog series on SAP CDC Connector and SLT. In the previous post, I covered the initial configuration steps required to set up the SLT engine to work with Azure. Today, I'll be taking a deeper dive into the extraction process and monitoring. These steps are essential to ensure a smooth and efficient replication of data from your SAP source system to your target system. By the end of this post, you'll have a better understanding of how to manage and troubleshoot the replication process. DATA EXTRACTION AND MONITORING Once the Azure and SLT configuration is completed the only thing left to do is clicking Trigger Now…

Independent software vendors (ISVs) across the world are finding are finding new ways to grow their businesses with Microsoft Teams. Building on the recent blog post that dives deep into an example from Mural, we’d like to share examples from other ISVs across the globe so you can learn how they meeting unique customer demands, thriving with new business models, and making money from their Teams experiences. Here are three ways ISVs are growing their businesses with Teams. 1. ISVs are excelling by meeting unique customer and market needs Microsoft Teams enables ISVs to fulfil specific use cases that are unique to their markets. For example, Japanese start-up C…

Management Summary A disaster exists if a primary side (Region) becomes entirely unavailable due to major outages. Within the region the system is protected by WSFC and redundancy measures from single points of failure. In this example the focus is on the ASCS/ERS functionality. In another Azure region, a second SAP system is built, acting as for example a QAS system. This allows the virtual machines making up this system to be temporarily repurposed for the PRD DR system. This is a very cost-effective measure since there’re no idle machines. Both systems are installed with virtual hostnames. Following SAP Note 1564275, CNAMES should not be used to implement v…

Many of you have been leveraging Azure Load Testing (ALT) to evaluate how your applications respond to high scale load and get actionable insights to fix performance bottlenecks. If you haven’t started yet, you can get started and run your first load test in less than 10 minutes. Azure Load Testing (ALT) provides a unified dashboard of test statistics, client-side metrics, and server-side metrics so that the performance bottlenecks can be easily identified. While the out of the box dashboard is helpful in most scenarios, you might want the load test results to be available in a tool of your choice – You have a dashboard to monitor multiple aspects of service re…

In this post, I will explain how to use custom archetypes of Azure Landing Zones and how to automate this deployment using enterprise landing zones module in terraform Azure Landing Zones are an important aspect of cloud adoption for organizations. They provide a foundation for consistent deployment of resources, governance, and security across an organization's Azure environment. However, out-of-the-box Azure Landing Zones may not meet the specific needs of all organizations. This is where custom archetypes can help us to meet these particular requirements. Custom archetypes are based on the organization's specific needs, such as its industry, regulatory complianc…

Try WordPress on Azure App Service here: What is WordPress Multisite? WordPress Multisite is a feature of WordPress that enables you to run and manage multiple WordPress websites using the same WordPress installation. You could update multiple websites in a single click by using the parent WordPress dashboard, and even manage individual sites through their individual dashboards. This feature was previously called WordPress Multi-User. For example, a multinational e-commerce store can create multiple country-specific subsites in the same WordPress installation using this feature. The root admin can install plugins and themes required for all the we…

About the series Microsoft Student Summit was a free global event held virtually in several regions and languages last March, designed for developers wishing to acquire new technical skills and join an inclusive community of like-minded people. If you missed it, don't worry, you can still watch it on demand. However, the Student Summit was not only a moment in time. It was only the beginning of a learning journey with Microsoft Reactor. We've designed a series of Post Student Summit events, taking place throughout the month of April and May, to keep you posted about Microsoft innovative technologies and connected with Microsoft people. About the sessio…

Develop Applications that use Sites.Selected permissions for SPO sites. Microsoft Graph APIs have improved consistently over the years. In 2021, one highly demanded feature, Application Only or granular access to individual site instead of whole tenant, was implemented, this scope is called “Sites.Selected”. Initially, for this scope, there are two permission levels that can assigned to the Applications, “read” and “write.” Some customers found there are management tasks cannot be executed with even “write” permission level. To address that, “fullcontrol” and “manage” permission level was added this year. Here are the steps to impleme…

Microsoft aims to make mixed reality accessible and intuitive for frontline workers everywhere. With Dynamics 365 Guides, deskless workers use step-by-step holographic instructions to ensure process compliance, improve efficiency, and learn on the job. In 2022 Teams capabilities were integrated into Guides, allowing users to collaborate with anyone anywhere in the world seamlessly. This enabled calling through the HoloLens 2 – allowing the remote participant (or participants, if on a group call) to “see-what-I-see” through the HoloLens user’s eyes. They can see what is happening in real-time, annotate in their colleagues’ 3-dimensional space, and share relevant fil…

Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix. All the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be …

The Microsoft Teams Emergency Operations Center (TEOC) solution template leverages the power of the Microsoft 365 platform to centralize incident response, information sharing and field communications using powerful services like Microsoft Lists, SharePoint, and more. An open-source solution supported by Microsoft, it provides core functionality out of the box or can be extended to meet specific agency requirements. Join experts for a live chat throughout the webinar to learn how the Teams for Emergency Operations Center tool can help enable your public safety organization to streamline operations. This webinar is suitable for emergency management personnel and pub…

Last September, we announced the deprecation of Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online. CARs allow admins to control which devices can access their organization's mailboxes. It was introduced in 2017 as a way to provide granular access control based on client properties such as IP addresses, protocol, or application. In October 2022, we disabled CARs cmdlets for tenants that were not using CARs. This was done to reduce the complexity and confusion around CARs and to encourage the adoption of newer and more secure features like Azure Active Directory (AAD) Conditional Access and Continuous access evaluation (CAE). We have been working with customers to learn h…

On February 27, 2023 memorandum M-23-13 was released from the Office of Management and Budget requiring government agencies to remove TikTok from all GFE devices (unless there is an exception) and block network connections to TikTok by a given date. This blog post explains how to comply with the policy on Windows devices or using other Microsoft tools. For completeness, there is also information on iOS devices. M-23-13 requires agencies to perform the following three tasks which will be the focus of this blog post. The OMB memo requires that no later than 30 days after the issuance of this memorandum, agencies shall: Identify the use or presence of a co…

This blog is co-authored by Abhinav Singh Sr. Data Engineer (Cognizant) and Channa Wijesinghe Data & AI Capability Lead (Cognizant). This blog post aims to provide you with insights into the best practices for optimizing performance in data ingestion and transformation. You will learn how to efficiently use available resources, compute capacity, and workload management in Azure Synapse Analytics workspace. While the solution discussed in this blog pertains to a healthcare industry customer, the optimization techniques presented here are applicable to other industries as well. The scenario A new Healthcare mandate for ‘Transparency in Coverage’ rul…

This post follows Seeking Dead and Dying Servers blog and introduces the Microsoft Defender for External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM) APIs. You should start with the previous post if you haven't already done so or are brand new to Defender EASM. Defender EASM APIs provide much more capability than the UI (user interface) alone, enabling users to work with large numbers of assets in one action or piece of code. The pro of APIs is they provide an unencumbered interface between the application and the code or app interacting with it to enable exciting capabilities. However, leveraging an API usually involves significant coding work, even for experienced…

1. Navigate to your App Service via the Azure Portal. Under the Development Tools section, select SSH then Go -->. 2. Modify the default site config - You would need to make a copy of the existing configuration and place the file inside the /home/site directory by running the below command. cp /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /home/site/default Go to https://<app name>.scm.azurewebsites.net/newui/fileManager click on Modify site/default file. in the existing server block update the server name to www domain server { listen 80; ## Your website name goes here. se…

Recently, we assisted a customer who was facing issues that “None of the websites were working and browser will show the blank white page without any errors”. But There was an error in the application event with Event ID:1 (<Provider Name="GetAccess IIS Runtime" />) we collected IIS logs, Freb logs, and event logs generated at the time of the issue and helped the customer to resolve the issue. Symptoms ========= None of the websites are working and browser will show the blank white page without any errors. Description: The description for Event ID 1 from source GetAccess IIS Runtime cannot be found. Either the component that raises this e…

 I’m excited to announce the integration of Entra Identity Governance Entitlement Management with a very cool technology we recently introduced, Microsoft Entra Verified ID! If you think about what you need to onboard new users including employees, contractors, partners, or other business guests, it often includes verifying identity information and credentials. This process can be tedious and time-consuming, requiring users to fill out redundant online forms or paperwork, ultimately delaying hiring timelines and ramp-up periods. To ease this friction, we previously introduced custom questions and attribute collection in Microsoft Entra Identity Governance …