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Welcome back to the blog series on SAP CDC Connector and SLT! In the previous post, we discussed the architecture and deployment options. Now that you have a solid understanding of how the solution works, it's time to dive into the initial configuration process. In this post, I'll guide you through the essential first steps of setting up the SLT to work with Azure. INITIAL SLT CONFIGURATION To start the replication process you need to set-up SAP SLT. You do it by creating configurations that controls the replication process. You manage the configuration in the SLT Cockpit (t-code: LTRC). In the Standalone deployment you should start the cockpit on the Replication…

In this article we'll explain private endpoints, a new feature of Azure SQL Managed Instance currently in Public Preview. Private endpoints rely on Azure Private Link technology to establish secure connectivity between your Azure SQL Managed Instance and another virtual network. If you'd prefer to watch a video, we've got you covered: How we usually secure and interconnect services A common network design pattern (and sane security practice) is to slice up your network space into zones with controlled access. For example, your databases would reside in one network zone; your applications producing or consuming this data in another; and, if your n…

Imagine you have sensor data that’s being sent to RabbitMQ from various IoT devices. These devices capture temperature and humidity readings. You want to use the power of Azure Data Explorer to analyze this data and apply intelligent insights to it. You have the challenge of getting the data out of RabbitMQ and into Azure. Using Azure Event Hubs, you can bridge RabbitMQ with Azure Data Explorer. In this blog, you'll learn how to set up RabbitMQ and Event Hubs so your sensor data can be analyzed with Azure Data Explorer. This blog assumes that you have RabbitMQ already configured and an Event Hubs namespace already set-up. If you want to read a step-by-step guide on…

Introduction: Rx (Prescription drugs) error is one of the most common and significant errors in the healthcare industry every year. Even though the healthcare industry is heavily regulated in the United States, these issues still occur due to glitches in the system. This post examines the 1. Prescribing Error: Prescribing incorrect or inappropriate medications, dosages, routes, or frequencies to patients. 2. Dispensing Error: Occur when a pharmacist fills a prescription with the wrong medication or dosage, or when the pharmacist provides incorrect instructions or labels on a prescription. 3.Administrative Errors: These errors occur when a nurse, …

What is Microsoft Graph SDK Overview - Microsoft Graph SDK is a software development kit (SDK) provided by Microsoft that enables developers to easily integrate with the Microsoft Graph API. The Microsoft Graph SDK makes it easier for developers to build applications that leverage the capabilities of Microsoft 365 services by providing a set of libraries, tools, and services. It abstracts away the complexity of working with the underlying HTTP requests and responses required to interact with the Graph API and provides a more intuitive programming model. Supported Languages C# PowerShell TypeScript | JavaScript Java Go PHP Python (preview) How To Cre…

Note: While we normally don’t cover this type of content on the Core Infrastructure and Security Blog, we thought this was important enough to provide our readers in order to support many Microsoft security capabilities. Introduction Hello everyone, I am Dave Guenthner, a Senior FastTrack Architect (FTA) at Microsoft. The purpose of this blog is to share a concern from multiple customers and provide suggestions and reference documentation for resolution. The issue is that after October 10, 2023, older perpetual versions of Office 2016 and Office 2019, which are no longer in mainstream support, are not supported connecting to Microsoft 365 services. While th…

Our April highlight includes Azure OpenAI Service, ChatGPT and open source related technologies to help you better understand the impact they have on today’s development landscape. Start learning with free training and documentation, watch demos to explore new tools, and watch on demand sessions from the recent Azure Open Source Day event to dive deeper. Here’s some of the most recent resources to help you get started. Revolutionize your enterprise data with ChatGPT: Next-gen apps with Azure OpenAI Service and cognitive search Revolutionize your enterprise data with ChatGPT. Pablo Castro explains how to combine Azure Cognitive Search and Azure OpenAI Serv…

Windows 365 provisioning is the automated process in the base of provisioning policies created in Endpoint Manager admin center Windows 365 blade. After users are assigned the Windows 365 licenses and provisioning policies are created and targeted to Azure AD user security groups or Microsoft 365 groups, the devices provisioning process will kick off automatically and the devices will be automatically assigned to the users in policy assignments group. Provisioning policies can be created in the base of different Azure regions, different images, or other different customer requirements. But one user cannot be put in assignments groups of different provisioning policy …

Supported Networking Scenarios for Azure Lab Services Azure Lab Services with Advanced Networking was announced as generally available in August 2022. Customers are using the advanced networking feature on various network architectures and topologies with Lab Plans. We compiled scenarios to label what works and what doesn’t with Azure Lab Services. For any feature requests, please add them to the Azure Lab Services Share Your Ideas community site! Thanks, Azure Lab Services Team Scenario Enabled Details Lab-To-Lab communication Yes This is available and documented. If students need two virtual machines we also …

While Azure SQL Database is different than SQL Server in some ways, when it comes to gathering query metrics, a lot of the tools are the same. In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition with Rie Merrit and Grant Fritchey, they will give you a quick rundown of the various ways you can see how your queries are performing within Azure SQL Database. And they'll also discuss why you would use each method. Resources: Extended events - Azure SQL Database About Grant Fritchey: Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate. Grant has more than 30 years of experience in the industry as a DBA and developer. Grant has written many books includin…

Today, we got a new question how much is the size used by a columnstore index table at storage level and memory usage. TSQL to obtain the total number of rows, size per schema, table and index. Using the view sys.column_store_row_groups (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn we could see the total number of rows and space usage at storage level. SELECT sys.schemas.name, sys.tables.name, sys.indexes.name, SUM(TOTAL_ROWS) as NumRows, SUM(SIZE_IN_BYTES) / 1024 / 1024 AS TotalSizeInMB from sys.column_store_row_groups INNER JOIN sys.tables on sys.tables.object_id = sys.column_store_row_groups.object_id INNER JOIN sys.schemas on sys.sche…

Have you ever wanted to learn more about programming databases for Transact SQL (T-SQL) but didn’t know where to start? Here at Microsoft, we have officially launched a video series where you will be able to learn the basics of Programming Databases with T-SQL . In this series not only will you be able to see how to add, edit, delete and query data in a relational database, but you can follow along with two of our experts in this space Marisa Matthews and Buck Woody as they create a database together for a real-world application from start to finish using SQL Server! Learn more about Programming Databases with T-SQL For Beginners only here at Micros…

The new Microsoft Teams desktop app for Windows was announced yesterday at Enterprise Connect and many users are excited to start using it. As an admin, if your organization is in production, you will have the option to enable the new Teams experience for your users. To manage this experience, use the Teams admin setting “UseNewTeamsClient” under “Teams update management policy” and select which users in your organization can see the toggle and get access to new Teams. There are two methods to manage and configure the new setting either via Teams Admin Center or via Teams Powershell. Configure setting via Teams Admin Center Use the Teams Admin Center to m…

While Azure SQL Database is different than SQL Server in some ways, when it comes to gathering query metrics, a lot of the tools are the same. In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition with Rie Merrit and Grant Fritchey, they will give you a quick rundown of the various ways you can see how your queries are performing within Azure SQL Database. And they'll also discuss why you would use each method. Resources: Extended events - Azure SQL Database About Grant Fritchey: Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate. Grant has more than 30 years of experience in the industry as a DBA and developer. Grant has written many book…

Dark theme extended to one customer voice (OCV) wizard The Configuration Manager console now extends the dark theme for the one customer voice (OCV) wizards. All 'Send a smile' and 'Send a frown' wizards will adhere to dark theme starting in Technical Preview 2303. This is part of the ongoing effort to make dark theme and overall admin console experience better. To use the theme, select the arrow from the top left of the ribbon, then choose Switch console theme. Select Switch console theme again to return to the light theme. Known issue. Console restart is required on doing the theme switch, as the node navigation pane might not…

Training large AI models on Azure using CycleCloud + Slurm In the past year generative AI models have leapt into common discourse through the popularity of text-to-image models and services such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but especially through the explosion in knowledge and use of chatbots like ChatGPT and their integration into apps and services like Bing Search. These models implement variations on the transformer architecture which has dominated natural language processing (NLP) tasks since its introduction in the "Attention is all you need" (Vashwani et al.) paper in 2017. These models have been shown to be very effective in a range of tasks inc…

We are "nxcited" to announce the release of nxtools, an opensource collection of class-based DSC resources for commonly used Linux / Unix modules and built-in Machine Configuration packages for customers. Azure Automanage Machine Configuration (previously known as Azure Policy Guest Configuration) enables configuration as code allowing you to audit and configure OS, app, and workload level settings at scale, both for machines running in Azure and hybrid Azure Arc-enabled servers. The nxtools module will be maintained by Automanage Machine Configuration. The module intends to make managing Linux easier for PowerShell users and will help in managing common tasks such…

An image of a collage of women working at Microsoft. In honor of Women’s History Month, we decided to interview a few of the women who are a part of our Modern Work Supportability Women’s group. The group grew out of a grassroots effort in 2019 to form a quorum of women and their allies to encourage and support one another in their professional and personal lives. Since then, they have worked to recruit other women and minorities for Modern Work Supportability roles and have spent time focusing on technical and personal growth areas. Ross: Hi Jessica. What is your current role in Modern Work Supportability? Jessica: I’m a Supportability Program Manager fo…

We’re looking for experts in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to take our new Exam MB-335: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert, currently in beta. Candidates for this exam are experts who implement and configure advanced features of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to meet the requirements of a business. They have a strong understanding of supply chain management operations, including production, logistics, master planning, and asset management. Additionally, these professionals analyze business requirements and translate those requirements into fully realized business processes and solutions. They also apply industry-recomm…

Data has become the lifeblood of every business, but with the shift to hybrid work and unprecedented levels of digital transformation, an organization’s data now lives outside of the traditional borders of business. Over 30% of decision makers do not know where or what their sensitive business-critical data is[1], making it impossible for organizations to protect that data, close exposure gaps, or comply with regulatory requirements. Just like seatbelts and speed limits took some time to protect passengers riding vehicles, privacy regulations are just catching up to the pace of digital transformation. It is just a matter of time for the world to catch up to regulat…

Did you know that 88% of organizations lack the confidence to prevent sensitive data loss?1 Data discovery and classification are the important first steps for organizations who want to better protect sensitive PII and corporate intellectual property; you can’t prevent data loss with policies if the right files aren’t correctly labeled and aren’t protected to begin with. With Microsoft Purview, our goal is to provide a built-in, intelligent, unified, and extensible solution to protect sensitive data across your digital estate. This includes Microsoft clouds such as Microsoft 365 and Azure, as well as on-premises, hybrid and third-party clouds, and SaaS applications…

Data security continues to be top of mind for business leaders. Data security continues to be top of mind for business leaders. The high data breach costs concern everyone, and these costs keep increasing each year. Let’s look at some of the data from 2022[1]. The worldwide average data breach cost was 4.35 million dollars per breach. This cost increased by almost 13% from 2020. The average cost of destructive attacks is even higher. A destructive attack involves encrypting files, deleting data, or executing malicious code. The average cost of a destructive breach in 2022 was 5.12 million dollars, which is 16% higher than the cost of an average data breach. A da…