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Custom scaling on Azure Container Apps based on Redis Streams
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Azure Container Apps (ACA) are built on a solid open source foundation. Behind the scenes, it runs on a managed Kubernetes cluster and includes several open source components, including Dapr for microservices creation and execution, Envoy Proxy for ingress functions, and KEDA for event-driven autoscaling. Again, you do not have to install these components yourself. All you need to do is enable and/or configure your container app to use these components. In this blog, we will see how can we scale Container Apps based on Redis Streams with the Azure managed instance of Redis, i.e. Azure Cache for Redis. We will be referring to the KEDA trigger specification for Redis…
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Diversity and Inclusion for Zar Ni Tyn in Myanmar
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Burmese M365 Apps & Services MVP Zar Ni Tyn says “Diversity is so beautiful.” In this blog, learn to embrace a sense of diversity and inclusion from his community activities. Zar Ni Tyn has been working on training users as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2014 and engaging with community members as a Microsoft MVP since 2019. In addition to blogging and uploading videos, he has been delivering training sessions for diverse people, such as students in universities and the users in the non-profit organizations, bank, and the government. One of the best examples of his audiences is monks as we introduced in a previous blog (Live From The Monastery Tha…
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The CFP is open for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023
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Hello Tech Community readers and Postgres people! This blog post was originally published on the Citus Open Source Blog, and we're cross-posting it here to make sure you learn about this speaking opportunity while the Call for Proposals is still open. For those of you looking to give a talk at a Postgres conference, some good news: the CFP is open for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023. Citus Con is a free and virtual developer event happening next April, hosted by the Postgres and Citus teams at Microsoft. Carpe diem, as the CFP will close on Feb 5, 2023 at 11:59pm PST. Videos of all of the Citus Con talks will be published online for the world …
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Integrating network isolated backends with Azure Static Web Apps
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Azure Static Web Apps allows you to easily host your web apps globally, with built-in support for APIs, staging environments and more. With the introduction of the API integration feature for Azure Static Web Apps, we’ve heard many developers indicate that they want to link network isolated backends to their Azure Static Web Apps resources to benefit from this feature’s key benefits: integrated security and seamless routing. A screenshot of a GitHub issue asking how to integrate Static Web Apps with network-isolated backends However, since Static Web Apps hosts web apps in a distributed manner, Static Web Apps resources can’t be deployed directly into virtua…
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How to choose the right Azure Application load balancer for your use case?
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If you want to know more about picking the appropriate load-balancing solution on Azure based on your use case/needs, please check out this blog! This post is for the audience who are looking to choose the right Application Load Balancer on Azure depending on the web application's needs and use case. There is a specific tool "Load Balancing Options - help me choose" on Azure Portal that Azure offers, that makes the decision-making easier for Azure customers to choose the right load balancing solution per their needs or use case. In this post, I will walk through the less familiar but useful solution that will accelerate and help with the crucial decision-making pr…
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Evolving the Windows and Endpoint Manager Customer Connection Programs
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The Customer Connection Program (CCP) is pleased to announce that the Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) and Windows programs will now be operating as one. The new program will now be known as the Microsoft Management Customer Connection Program (MM CCP). With this merger, the Microsoft Management Customer Connection Program will ensure members have greater access to exclusive virtual calls, focus groups, surveys, Teams discussions, and private previews. Members will continue to engage directly with the engineering teams that build the features and products members use daily, as well as those that are yet to be released. Are you an IT professional who wants to help…
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Azure Virtual Desktop | Quick Setup
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Find what you need to get started with the fastest way to deploy Azure Virtual Desktop with a step-by-step guide. This is a streamlined provisioning experience, with automation built-in based on your parameters, and time saved with directory services setup and integration. How to set up a fully-operational Azure Virtual Desktop environment: -Prerequisites -Deployment steps -Configure host pools and Remote Apps -Test it out Matt McSpirit, Azure Expert, walks through the setup, and shares what’s notable and unique to the service. Directory services setup in just a few clicks to save time. Improve utilization, save on cost. …
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Scalable Trino Deployment on Azure Kubernetes Services with Private Endpoints
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Scalable Trino Cluster on Azure Kubernetes Services & Azure Data Lake Storage Account with Private Endpoints Problem Context: Trino is a distributed SQL query engine designed to query large data sets distributed over one or more heterogeneous data sources. Recently, a few customers approached us with a dilemma on how to deploy Trino on their Azure environment in a secure and scalable fashion that complements their existing On-Premises setup and since there was no holistic documentation available so far for such a use case this led to the creation of this article. High Level Architecture Diagram Section I: Setting up the infras…
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Streamline data collaboration with Databricks Delta Sharing and Microsoft Power BI
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This post was authored by Sachin Thakur and Timothy Sepp Data plays a critical role in the success of modern businesses and the ability to easily collaborate on data with business units, customers, suppliers, and partners is becoming increasingly important. Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that promote data sharing will outperform their peers on most business value metrics. By recasting data sharing as a business necessity, data and analytics leaders can have access to the right data at the right time, enabling more robust data and analytics strategies. For this to be successful, data consumers should be able to use shared data easily in their preferre…
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Announcing the Microsoft Management Customer Connection Program
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Our Customer Connection Programs (CCPs) provide a unique opportunity to connect Microsoft engineering and our commercial customers to develop solutions that better address commercial customer needs and result in product improvements. All customers who have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) are welcome to join, making these communities a safe space for vNext discussions. Currently, our team has well-established CCP communities for Compliance, Cloud Security, and Microsoft 365 Defender. Our newest addition to the CCP family is the Microsoft Management Customer Connection Program (formerly known as the Microsoft Endpoint Management CCP and Windows CCP). The Micro…
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Can I become successful in tech without a computer?
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Do You Need to Have a Computer to Succeed in Tech? I know you've been saving up to buy a computer, that dream computer that has "enough features" for you to finally kickstart your tech journey and succeed. But you haven't been able to purchase it because you're finding it difficult to raise money. Now, you're about to give up and do something else. Hold on! Not too fast. Guess what? I was once like you. I couldn't save up enough money to get a personal computer to use in tech. So how did I get here? Can you succeed in tech without a computer? YES, YOU CAN! While getting a suitable computer is relevant at some point and can make your journey in tech easier, you…
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RDCMan v2.92, Sysmon v14.14, and ZoomIt v6.12
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RDCMan v2.92 This update to RDCMan, a tool for managing and connecting to Remote Desktop sessions, fixes a naming error impeding plugin operation, updates the icon set, and fixes mstscax.dll load on some systems where initialization would previously fail. Sysmon v14.14 This update to Sysmon, an advanced host monitoring tool, fixes a timeout occurring with FileDelete and FileDeleteDetected events on low-speed media. ZoomIt v6.12 This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, eliminates drawing artifacts occurring when changing magnification, changing pen width, or combining these steps, and improves drawing settings persistence. Co…
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Azure Spring Apps feature updates in late 2022
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The following updates are now available to help customers reduce adoption barriers and pricing frictions to take full advantage of the capabilities offered by Azure Spring Apps Enterprise. Price Reduction: We have reduced the base unit of Azure Spring Apps Standard and Enterprise to 6 vCPUs and 12 GB of Memory and reduced the overage prices for vCPU and Memory. Learn more. Monthly Free Grant: The first 50 vCPU-hours and 100 memory GB hours are free each month. Learn more. You can compare the price change from Price Reduction. The following updates are now available in both basic/standard and enterprise tiers: Ingress Settings: Wi…
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Orchestrate and operationalize Synapse Notebooks and Spark Job Definitions from Azure Data Factory
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Today, we are introducing support for orchestrating Synapse notebooks and Synapse spark job definitions (SJD) natively from Azure Data Factory pipelines. It immensely helps customers who have invested in ADF and Synapse Spark without requiring to switch to Synapse Pipelines for orchestrating Synapse Notebooks and SJD. NOTE: Synapse notebook and SJD activities were only available in Synapse Pipelines previously. One of the critical benefits of Synapse notebooks is the ability to use Spark SQL and PySpark to perform data transformations. It allows you to use the best tool for the job, whether it be SQL for simple data cleaning tasks or PySpark for more compl…
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Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 now GA
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We're very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available. This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates: Compatible with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Supports Passwordless Connections Updated Azure for Spring developers documentation to help Spring developers code, deploy and scale Spring applications on Azure Redesigned Spring Cloud Azure documentation with improved scenarios To try Spring Cloud Azure 5.0, simply add the following dependency BOM to your project: <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> …
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What is Microsoft Teams (free)?
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You know Microsoft Teams as the app you have been using for work or school, especially now in the new hybrid era, when work is done remotely, and many meetings are online. There is another version of Microsoft Teams which you might not be familiar with, and that is free to use. This product we know as Microsoft Teams (free), and it is available for all users for free. Learn more about Microsoft Teams (free) Get started with Microsoft Teams (free) Getting started with Teams (free) is simple: On Windows 11, Teams (free) comes in-built with Windows, and you can just sign in with your Microsoft account to start using it. On Windows 10 or macOS, you m…
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Cross highlight when using direct query in PBI
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Cross highlight/ Cross filter Cross highlight/Cross filter is the default behavior of PBI when clicking on one visual causes other visuals in the page to recalculate. The affect can be of regular filter, like selecting a value in a slicer that will filter all other visuals, or it can be cross highlight which causes visuals to show the highlighted and not highlighted values in two different shades. Some types of filters cannot show highlight values like line charts or tables so the effect on them is always filter. Why is this behavior bad? Every time a user clicks on a row or a column in a visual, every other visual in the page feels an …
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Evolving the Windows and Endpoint Manager Customer Connection Programs
by Guest Megan_Hochstatter- 0 replies
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The Customer Connection Program (CCP) is pleased to announce that the Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) and Windows programs will now be operating as one. The new program will now be known as the Microsoft Management Customer Connection Program (MM CCP). With this merger, the Microsoft Management Customer Connection Program will ensure members have greater access to exclusive virtual calls, focus groups, surveys, Teams discussions, and private previews. Members will continue to engage directly with the engineering teams that build the features and products members use daily, as well as those that are yet to be released. Are you an IT professional who wants to help…
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: goodbyeselene, Jarvis_1oop, and kap0k! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.
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Offline Files survey and feedback
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Heya folks, Ned here again. I just published a survey for IT Pros on Offline Files (aka "Client-side Caching", aka "CSC"). It's just 5 minutes of your time, totally anonymous, and should help us make your life easier someday. Your feedback is invaluable for prioritizing our work, we really welcome your experience. Microsoft Forms Until next time, Ned Pyle Continue reading...
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Customer Offerings: Security: Microsoft Defender - Advanced Dashboards with Power BI
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Introduction As Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects, we get asked by Businesses, IT Managers and Cybersecurity Experts to accurately report on the Vulnerabilities and CVEs in our environments. This could be as easy as just deploying Endpoint Protection updates or as advanced as deploying every category and 3rd Party Updates using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Vulnerability Reporting with Power BI - involves implementing a cloud-based reporting and visualization solution that brings exposure to active threats into sharp focus. It is intended to provide value to IT Leaders, Stakeholders, Security & Compliance teams, and Opera…
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ACTION REQUIRED: New Agreements governing access to HDC
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We recently added new agreements to Partner Center for the Windows Hardware Program. We made these updates to clarify our terms and ensure that they are transparent, as well as to cover new government mandates. All participants in the Hardware Program are required to have their authorized personnel review, acknowledge, and accept the agreements. New submissions will be blocked after February 28, 2023 until the agreements are accepted. The four agreements listed below will govern your access to the Hardware Program. Legacy agreements will be deprecated. Code Signing Agreement (New) Windows Hardware Compatibility Agreement (New) Windows Logo License Agreement (LL…
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Cross highlight/cross filter when using direct query in Power BI
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Cross highlight/ Cross filter Cross highlight/Cross filter is the default behavior of PBI when clicking on one visual causes other visuals in the page to recalculate. The affect can be of regular filter, like selecting a value in a slicer that will filter all other visuals, or it can be cross highlight which causes visuals to show the highlighted and not highlighted values in two different shades. Some types of filters cannot show highlight values like line charts or tables so the effect on them is always filter. Why is this behavior bad? Every time a user clicks on a row or a column in a visual, every other visual in the page feels an …
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Lesson Learned #303: Can not connect to the database in its current state.
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Today, we worked on a service request where our customer faced the following error message: Database is currently inaccessible state - Can not connect to the database in its current state. This message applies when your Azure Vault Key (BYOK) got expired which was resolved by updated the key. Please, review the following links: Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Hyperscale now available - Microsoft Community Hub , Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys in Azure SQL Database generally available | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure , Customer-managed transparent data encryption (TDE) - Azure SQL Database &am…
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Power Apps Challenge: eNPS Survey App
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Prove Your Skill Are you up for this challenge? I need to ask you before we get started. Let me make this point clear, in this challenge, there is no losing, it's either you WIN, or you WIN. Meaning, you have so much to win by participating in this challenge. While there is no prize, working on this project is a clear way to convince recruiter or potential employee on your ability to use Power Platform to address business problems creatively. Use Case Description A medium-sized manufacturing company wants to measure employee satisfaction and engagement to identify areas for improvement. They decided to implement the Employee eNPS S…