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Yammer is evolving to Viva Engage
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Yammer has been powering community experiences in Microsoft for over a decade. In that time, we’ve seen our customers use Yammer to influence their company culture, bring employees together during times of trial, share knowledge and empower employees with a voice that positively influences change within their organizations. During this period, you’ve inspired us, you’ve shaped us, and you’ve grown with us. Six months ago, we took the first step to rebrand the Yammer Communities app for Teams to Viva Engage, to align Yammer more closely with our Viva suite of employee experiences. Since then, we’ve continued to add new functionality to both Viva Engage and the Yammer apps …
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New Admin Center for Viva Engage
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Introducing a new admin center to directly manage and enable capabilities for Viva Engage. This admin experience will be available within the Viva Engage Teams application for Microsoft Viva customers. Admins will now be able to easily plan the rollout of Viva Engage within the organization – configure and customize the application, manage security and compliance, manage core and premium Viva Engage features and overall build engagement for employees. The following roles can access the Engage admin center: Microsoft 365 Global admin, Engage admin (Yammer administrator), Yammer network admin, Answers admin (Knowledge manager) and Corporate communicator role. The Engag…
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User Managed Identity support for Auditing Azure SQL Database is in Public Preview Now.
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We are happy to announce that User Managed Identity support for Auditing Azure SQL Database is in Public Preview now. Auditing for Azure SQL database has started supporting User Managed Identity. Auditing can be configured to Storage account using two authentication methods, managed identity, and storage access keys. For managed identity you can use system managed identity or user managed identity. To know more about UMI in azure refer here. To configure writing audit logs to a storage account, select Storage when you get to the Auditing section. Select the Azure storage account where logs will be saved, you can use two storage authentication types i.e., manag…
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Speech Service Update - Pronunciation Assessment is Generally Available
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This post was co-authored by Yinhe Wei, Ke Wang, Lei He, Sheng Zhao, Qinying Liao, Yan Xia, and Nalin Mujumdar An important element of language learning is being able to accurately pronounce words. Speech service on Azure supports Pronunciation Assessment to empower language learners and educators more. Pronunciation Assessment is generally available in American English, British English, Australian English, French, Spanish and Chinese, with other languages available in preview. The Pronunciation Assessment capability evaluates speech pronunciation and gives speakers feedback on the accuracy and fluency of the speech, allowing users to benefit from various a…
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Security baseline for Microsoft Edge version 110
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We are pleased to announce the security review for Microsoft Edge, version 110! We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 110 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 107 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 110 introduced 13 new computer settings and 13 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 Microsof…
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Part 4: BizTalk Server Migration to Azure Integration Services - Ask the Experts with Daniel Probert
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I recently had the opportunity to sit down with a Microsoft Integration expert, Daniel Probert, from Affinus to discuss BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services migrations. In this video, Daniel will share some of his real-world experience of migrating customers to Azure Integration Services. This is Part 4 of a multi-part series where I speak with Integration experts to tap into their experiences and share with the community. To view the previous videos in this series, please refer to the following post. In my conversation with Daniel, we cover the following topics: What are some examples of BizTalk migrations that you have been involved in? What i…
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Lesson Learned #328: Login failed for user 'xyz'
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Today, we have a service request that our customer needs more information about a login failed ocurred in their databases. Following, I would like to share a recommendation about it. If your application returned a login failed, for example, as below using SQL Server Management Studio: Cannot connect to servername.database.windows.net. =================================== Login failed for user 'XXX'. (.Net SqlClient Data Provider) ------------------------------ For help, click: Microsoft – Cloud, Computers, Apps & Gaming ------------------------------ Server Name: servername.database.windows.net Error Number: 18456 Basically, if you ena…
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Let’s Build Together: LowCode Edition Onboarding
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A picture showing Let's Build Together Low Code Edition Welcome to the Let's Build Together: Low-Code Edition Finding content or coming up ideas on what to build with Power Platform can be a challenging thing to do right? With Let’s Build Together: LowCode Edition, we will walk you through on how to build End to End solutions using Microsoft Power Apps, automate their processes with Microsoft Power Automate in a span of just 2 weeks. Power Platform skills will open doors for you in your career. In this show, we will do the following: Build a Booking Requests App with PowerApps Automate the Booking Request Process with Power Automate Build a Mobile Sales A…
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Compressing Audit log files on Azure Blob Storage using ADF Pipeline for Azure SQL Database
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Auditing is a powerful security feature which is widely used by many customers. Customers must maintain audit logs for longer retention periods for their security & Compliance requirements. If you have longer retention periods, the audit logs for Azure Database can be huge and the storage can become costly. To save cost and maintain your audit logs for longer retention periods, you can compress the log files with help of a copy data tool from Azure data factory. You can configure the pipelines to compress and decompress audit log files using known compression technologies like WinZip, zipdeflate etc. In This blog I will show detailed steps below to create the pipeline…
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Common Data Sync Errors received in Azure SQL DB_DSS035_13535_Invalid Records
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Issue: While trying to either establish data sync for the first time or reestablish data sync after any schema/application changes the following common error codes (messages) may be generated. The document describes the error codes & their possible mitigation techniques. Error 1- >WARNING: Table with object_id 1490872428 was not found, DataSync.xx_dss_updatemetadata was provisoned using this object_id! >WARNING: owner_scope_local_id 0 was not found for object_id 1490872428 Error 2- >WARNING: Tracking Records for Table [dbo].[aa] may have 2072 invalid records! >WARNING: Tracking Records for Table [dbo].[bb] may have 2072 invalid records!…
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Data Visualisation in Jupyter using PowerBI with Powerbi-jupyter
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PowerBI and Jupyter are both popular tools for data visualization and analysis, but they have some differences in terms of their use cases, functionality, and target audience. PowerBI is a business intelligence tool from Microsoft that provides a visual and interactive way to analyze data from various sources, including spreadsheets, databases, and cloud services. It is user-friendly, easy to use, and ideal for business users who want to create dashboards, reports, and charts without the need for deep technical skills. PowerBI also has a cloud-based version that allows users to share and collaborate on their data and visualizations. Jupyter is an open-source web-base…
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Create Azure Container Registry
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In this article we will learn how to setup Azure container registry. As you know we use container registry stores and manages private container images and other artifacts, like the way Docker Hub stores public Docker container images. Let's create a container in Visual Studio that we can push to GitHub and then deploy to Azure Container Registry. If you want to follow along on your local computer, you'll need Docker Desktop installed. This allows you to run containers locally before pushing them to a remote hosting environment, like Azure App Service, or a more complex orchestration environment, like Azure Kubernetes Service. You can download the Docker Desktop installed …
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Azure DevOps Customize Email Notifications using Power Automate
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Azure DevOps email notifications are great, sometimes project team members doesn’t want to get notified for each and every state change in a User Story, Tasks and Bug and only a specific few want to get to notified whenever a bug is created or closed (skipping the intermediate states). And some team members ask for all the fields in the email body they want additional fields instead of the fields that were changed. I have also seen the customer requirement where they want to be notified only specific date and time in a week with summarized work items(e.g. send email of all tasks are in close state under a particular user story). Though the 1st one is easily achievabl…
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How to Build an AI-Powered Developer Newsletter with Power Platform and ChatGPT3
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The recent developments with AI have presented several opportunities for developers to build intelligent solutions. How can rising developers take positive advantage of this with the help of Power Platform? You are a rising developer working for a specific company or part of developer/student community that constantly works with new trends and technologies. The key ask from your company/community is to compile a weekly newsletter with the latest trends about a specific technology (.NET, Python, React or Power Platform) for developers to stay up to date and make decisions on what new features, if any, should they deep dive on. Here are key learn materials for t…
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Build a Developer newsletter with Power Platform and ChatGPT3
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The recent developments with AI have presented several opportunities for developers to build intelligent solutions. How can rising developers take positive advantage of this with the help of Power Platform? You are a rising developer working for a specific company or part of developer/student community that constantly works with new trends and technologies. The key ask from your company/community is to compile a weekly newsletter with the latest trends about a specific technology (.NET, Python, React or Power Platform) for developers to stay up to date and make decisions on what new features, if any, should they deep dive on. Here are key learn materials for thi…
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Powerful Devs 2023 Conference - Feb 15th, 2023
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Powerful Devs 2023 Feb 15th, 2023, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT The Powerful Devs Conference will highlight how developers can leverage the Power Platform to build applications faster and with far less effort. Connect with industry recognized ProDev influencers, Microsoft Cloud Advocates, trusted and diverse community leaders, and members of the Power Platform Team. Register NOW Event Agenda Watch live at YouTube 09:00 PT Welcome with Dona Sarkar and Greg Hurlman 09:05 PT Keynote with Charles Lamanna 09:35 PT The Pro Devs toolbox for Power Platform integration with April Dunnam and Scott Durow 10:05 PT Power Pages hearts developers with Sand…
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Deploy Arc for Azure VMware Solution Simply Using PowerShell
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What is Arc for Azure VMware Solution? Simply put, it exposes your Azure VMware Solution resources (VMs, networks, datastores, etc.) to the Azure portal. Using Arc for Azure VMware Solution, those resources can be managed via the Azure portal, even though they are within your vSphere cluster running in an Azure datacenter. Even better, there is no cost to deploy Arc for Azure VMware Solution. More blogs to come on Arc for Azure VMware Solution, but if you want to get some more details check out this from Jeremiah Megie. First things first. Let’s get Arc for Azure VMware Solution installed into your private cloud. You will need to collect the following in…
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Strengthen Delta Lake in Synapse with auto maintenance job
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Authors: @KranthiMedam, @InnovatorsClub, @dipakshaw In every data engineering program, there is a need for upkeep on a Delta Lake. This blog presents a way to automate such a maintenance process in Synapse Analytics. We introduce a utility that auto detects all Delta Lake files in a Synapse workspace and then auto performs “Optimize” and “Vacuum” operations on those files. This process ensures the performance and size of a Delta Lake remains intact even with regular usage over time. What is Delta Lake? Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse Architecture. Delta Lake provides several features such as ACI…
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Remarks on setting up Azure Data Factory SSIS IR using Express virtual network injection method
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Introduction: In this article, we will delve into the topic of setting up Azure Data Factory SSIS IR using the Express virtual network injection method. This method is an efficient way to set up an SSIS IR, especially when you're working with smaller workloads. We will cover the necessary steps, prerequisites, and best practices for using this method. So, whether you're just starting out with Azure Data Factory or you're an experienced user, this article will provide valuable insights and remarks s on how to set up your SSIS IR using the Express virtual network injection method. Use Case: This diagram shows the required connections for your Azure-SSIS IR: …
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FSLogix profile containers for Azure AD cloud only identities
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Over the past several weeks, the number of customers seeking this type of guidance has increased significantly. I am glad see that our customers continue to push the boundaries of our product and growing in their Azure based deployments of RDS, Azure Virtual Desktop, and other VDI solutions in Azure. FSLogix does support non-traditional configurations for Azure AD only scenarios. We are working to add this to our public documentation, however due to the number of instances where I've been asked about these configurations, a blog post was more immediate. Customers who have Azure AD cloud only identities can use FSLogix in one of two configurations. Cloud Ca…
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How to connect Azure Data Factory to SQL Managed Instance over private network
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Introduction: In today Blog article, we are going to go through technical steps on how to connect Azure Data factory to Azure SQL Managed Instance over private network, this will leverage the public preview of the Managed instance private endpoint throughout Azure data factory Managed Virtual network. Use Case: Customer wants to connect Azure Data Factory IR to Azure Managed instance over the private network, check out the architecture diagram below for more clarification. It's important to review Azure SQL Managed Instance connector supported capabilities for either using Azure Integration runtime or Self-hosted Integration runtime: So…
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Lesson Learned #327: Why is important to use SQL Service Tag in your NSG?
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Today, we got a service request that our customer has 30 databases in a server but was not able to connect of 3 of them. Following I would like to share with you my findings here. All the databases in this server 'XXX' are standalone databases and there is not possible to connect within Azure but it is possible to connect from OnPremise. After analyzing the details we found that our customer has Default connection policy that means that connecting from Azure we are going to use Redirection and from OnPremise they are going to use Proxy. When you are using Redirection you need to know that besides connecting to the GW and port 1433 you need to connec…
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Get Started with GitHub Copilot with VSCode and Python Extension
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GitHub Copilot is a code search tool that uses machine learning to provide code suggestions and complete tasks for you while you code. It helps developers write code faster and with greater accuracy, making it easier to explore new code and technologies. Github Copilot VSCode Marketplace GitHub Copilot uses GPT-3, OpenAI's language model, to understand code and generate suggestions based on the context of what you are writing. Copilot can suggest code snippets, complete lines of code, and even entire functions based on the patterns it has learned from analyzing billions of lines of code on GitHub. Copilot helps developers write code faster and with greater acc…
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Container Service Options and Guidance in Azure
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Overview The main scope of this blog is to evaluate and understand the capabilities and limitations of Azure container services to help you choose the optimal platform for your container deployments. The container services in scope for this blog are App Service Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Container Apps (ACA), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The blog also elaborates on use cases that map well to respective container services and important details learned while evaluating a container service for customer projects/workloads, such as ACA versus AKS. Different Container Options Available in Azure App Service Web App f…
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Repository graphs in Azure DevOps
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If you working with GitHub, you must be aware that repository insights graph is available in public repositories (as shown below) with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. Basically repository's graphs give you information on traffic, projects that depend on the repository, contributors and commits to the repository, and a repository's forks and network. If you maintain a repository, you can use this data to get a better understanding of who's using your repository and why they're using it. But unfortunately this features no…