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It's Low Code February! Welcome to Azure and Low Code
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Learning about Power Platform, Fusion Teams, and Cloud Integrations can provide a multitude of benefits for students, including: Career advancement: With a growing demand for low-code and cloud skills, learning about these technologies can help students stay ahead in the job market and secure positions in high-demand industries. Problem-solving skills: Power Platform, Fusion Teams, and Cloud Integrations offer powerful solutions for businesses and organizations, and learning how to use them can help students develop skills in problem-solving and innovation. Opportunities for growth: With the #LowCodeFebruary initiative, students will have access to a w…
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Architecture and Capabilities: From the endpoint security management architecture perspective, this scenario fulfills the gap of managing endpoint security features on unmanaged devices. For Intune managed devices, either cloud-only or co-management scenarios provided the endpoint security management capabilities. Also, Intune and Configuration Manager integration provided similar management capabilities for on-prem (ConfigMgr) managed devices. Finally, security configuration enforcement integration between MDE and Intune helps security teams to use the same admin interface – Intune console – to deploy Security policies to the devices that are enrolled to MDE …
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Skilling snack: Windows feature update management
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This is a good one if you’re new to IT or catching up with the rapid changes of the last couple of years! Brush up on the different types of Windows updates, servicing channels, and delivery tools. Review essential documentation, practical learning modules, and a couple of videos –all in under two hours. Choose whether you want to start with the definitions or jump right into practical advice and a walkthrough of how to upgrade to Windows 11! Time to learn: 113 minutes [attachment=31651:name]READ What is Windows as a service? Brush up on Windows update builds, deployment, servicing channels, and servicing tools. (11 mins) Windows Insider + App C…
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Modernize DevSecOps and GitOps journey with Microsoft’s Unified solution (Azure DevOps + GitHub)
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Highlights Useful links Developer-First Tooling increases Developer VelocityNative and Built-in security capabilities of Dependency scanning, Code scanning and Secret scanningEmbed security in the developer workflow with Shift Security left approach, find and fix vulnerabilities in days, not months.Unified End to end Solution from MicrosoftAutomate every step of your code life cycle, including powerful, flexible CI/CD Azure DevOpsGitHubAzure Boards DashboardsGitHub Package RegistryDependabotCodeQLGitHub Advanced SecurityCodespacesTestPlanArgo CDAzure Defender for DevOpsMigrate Repos with History, WorkItems, TestPlans etc. from on-pre…
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Announcing Windows 365 and AVD for Government AMA February 22nd
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Windows 365 and/or Azure Virtual Desktop in government AMA graphic Join us for our Windows 365 and/or Azure Virtual Desktop in government Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) with members of the engineering and product teams On February 22nd at 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM (PST)| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM EST. We are collaborating with the Windows community and hosting this one hour session where you can ask all of your questions - however far "down the rabbit hole " you want to go! Make sure to RSVP and bookmark the page here. This AMA will be hosted by : @Christian_Montoya Senior PM Manager Our Panel will include : @PhilWest Federal Solutions Group, …
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Microsoft committed to HoloLens 2 and Mixed Reality
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On behalf of the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft, I wanted to share some important context and insights on the Mixed Reality program at Microsoft. The intent of this note is to help provide clarity to this community on our commitment to HoloLens 2 and the broader Mixed Reality program. We continue to produce and support HoloLens 2, inclusive of monthly software updates to ensure our enterprise customers can leverage HoloLens 2 and the supporting platform to complete critical work. We also continue to update Dynamics 365 Guides and Remote Assist to address the needs of those customers. HoloLens and Dynamics 365 are key components of Industrial Metaverse deployments,…
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Azure Policies for Automating Azure Governance - Automating Policies
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In my earlier Azure Policy post, I covered issues and concerns organizations may face and how many built in Azure policies can address these problems. Now we are going to take it a step further and discuss how to enforce policies and automate their creation. Policies applied at the top level will be inherited by all of the child levels. It is recommended to put best practice policies that cover the entire organization at the Management Group level, and more specific application team policies at the Resource Group level. Try to find a good balance here to ensure you are meeting the policy statements you have defined while also allowing you to easily change policy as requ…
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Lesson Learned #317: Update to service objective for Hub DBs
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Today, we worked on a service request where our customer got the following error message scaling database error from General Purpose to Hyperscale "Error message: 'Update to service objective 'xyz' for Hub DBs' is not supported for entity 'DatabaseName'. Following, I would like to share with you our findings. We have some limitations scaling databases to HyperScale that were provided in these two articles: Announcing General Availability (GA) of Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier - Microsoft Community Hub What is SQL Data Sync for Azure? - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn If you receive any of these two messages: Update to…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to migrate data from Elasticsearch to Azure Data Explorer(ADX) using Logstash
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Introduction: Data migration is the process of transferring data from one source to another. It can be a complex and time-consuming task, especially when dealing with large amounts of data. One of the complexity of data migration is data volume and velocity. Handling large amounts of data can be a challenging task, as it may require specialized hardware, software, and network infrastructure to transfer the data in a timely manner. Time and cost are also important factors to consider when migrating data. Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a fast and highly scalable data exploration service that enables real-time analysis on big data. ADX provides a simple and efficien…
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SQL Server 2022: Built-in query intelligence [Ep. 3] | Data Exposed
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In this episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward, take advantage of performance and availability for faster queries and to help ensure business continuity. Accelerate query performance and tuning with no code changes required with new Intelligent Query Processing scenarios and Query Store enhancements. Resources: Intelligent Query Processing: feature family additions Query Store hints in SQL Server 2022 Intelligent Query Processing: degree of parallelism feedback Learn more about SQL Server 2022: https://aka.ms/sqlserver2022 Download SQL Server 2022: https://aka.ms/getsqlserver2022 Get our decks: https://aka.ms/sqlserver2022…
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Power BI Specialist Speak On Frequently Asked Questions
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As Power BI Specialists we see numerous questions coming from business users, customers and end users from novice high level questions to deep technical questions in how to work with business insights. In this video Shawn Kim is hosting a Q&A with Power BI Technical Specialist, Christina Tillbrook to tackle the most popular questions asked by all users. Each question was measured by order of importance and is here to help others in better understanding the basics of Power BI. Questions include: What is Power BI Desktop? What is Power BI Service? What is a Power BI business user? How do individual users in my organization sign up? What's the difference b…
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Re-envisioning the Microsoft Biztalk Business Rules Engine!
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As we prepare to add Rules Management capabilities to Azure Logic Apps, we are interested in how we can best support you to transition your BizTalk workloads to Azure Integration Services (AIS). Please fill out the following survey to share your feedback: Microsoft Forms Continue reading...
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Customizing search on the Windows 11 taskbar
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As an IT admin, you know that keeping track of content saved across Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, and the internet can be challenging for end users. In recent Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds, we added a search box on the Windows taskbar to help them easily find whatever they're looking for. The search box assists people in finding apps, files, settings, help, and more—plus unlocks the power of the web with quick access to online information like time zone conversions, fact lookup, trending searches, and search results for navigating to websites faster. They can also find files and people in their work or school organization using search highlights. After shipping Wi…
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Industrial and commercial energy users are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of managing their energy usage due to multiple factors, such as the energy transition and increased price of gas and electricity, as well as the introduction of zero-emissions targets to address climate change. The increased importance of energy awareness and effective energy management is driving an evolution in energy management, where energy consumers are installing renewable energy generation systems and energy storage (batteries) behind their energy meter. Consumers are self-generating energy to minimize grid energy usage, and export surplus green energy to the grid to earn reven…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – February 2, 2023
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 81 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=31577:name] AGRIVI 360 Farm Insights: AGRIVI 360 Farm Insights simplifies administration and helps farmers make precise agronomic decisions based on real-time field information. This can ensure crop production traceability and enable compliance with quality, safety, and sustainability standards. [attachment=31578:name] Booking for Outlook (LV-Tron): IAdea's LV-Tron, a meeting room booking system, seamlessly integrates with Microsoft…
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Step-by-Step: How to Configure a Private Endpoint to Secure Azure Static Web Apps
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Securing your web apps is essential in today's digital landscape. One method is to use a private endpoint, also known as a private link, in Azure Static Web Apps. This feature enables developers to connect network isolated backends to Azure Static Web Apps resources for increased security and seamless routing. In this blog post, we'll go through how to set up a private endpoint in Azure Static Web Apps and the advantages it has for keeping your web apps secure. Now a private endpoint, also known as a private link, is a network interface that connects to your virtual network using a private IP address. This network interface links you privately and securely to an Az…
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Four habits from the Microsoft Teams team to boost productivity
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As work becomes more flexible, the lines between work and life are increasingly blurred. With the fresh energy that often comes with the arrival of a new year, it is a great time to explore new ways to experience the upsides that come with new work patterns. From timeboxing to taking breaks between meetings, we picked the most popular productivity tips used across our Teams marketing team. Here are our top four work habits to try this year: Habit stacking. Sometimes the hardest part of starting something new is finding a simple way to make it a lasting habit. While it isn’t a new idea, habit stacking pairs a new small activity or habit with an existing one. For exampl…
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Azure Open AI (GPT) with Power Apps - Build a Power App to create Demo or Personal Knowledge Bot
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Azure Open AI (GPT) with Power Apps - Build a Power App to create a demo or personal knowledge bot. Let's build a Power App to use Azure Open AI for Improve Productivity What's needed. Register for Azure Open AI - What is Azure OpenAI? - Azure Cognitive Services Once got approved create azure open ai resource in Azure portal. Select region as East US At the time of writing this article davinci-003 is only available in East US Create a deployment inside the resource. Create a Power App To create a power app first need to create a power flow. Flow is invoked by a powerapp trigger. Text information will be passed to the flow. Power Flow Le…
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New Azure DDoS Solution for Microsoft Sentinel
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Written in collaboration with Amir Dahan Introduction Cybercriminals demonstrate increasingly sophisticated tactics using DDoS attacks as multi-purpose tool. While DDoS attacks are commonly used to take down critical systems, applications, and infrastructure, they also serve adversaries for extortion and political or ideological motives. The crown jewel is using DDoS attacks as a smokescreen to conceal data breaches while the attention is directed to the attack. By overwhelming the targeted website or application with a large amount of traffic, the attackers can exploit vulnerabilities and steal sensitive information. Customers use Azure DDoS Protection s…
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Skilling snack: Windows feature update management
by Guest Chris Morrissey- 0 replies
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This is a good one if you’re new to IT or catching up with the rapid changes of the last couple of years! Brush up on the different types of Windows updates, servicing channels, and delivery tools. Review essential documentation, practical learning modules, and a couple of videos –all in under two hours. Choose whether you want to start with the definitions or jump right into practical advice and a walkthrough of how to upgrade to Windows 11! Time to learn: 113 minutes [attachment=31551:name]READ What is Windows as a service? Brush up on Windows update builds, deployment, servicing channels, and servicing tools. (11 mins) Windows Insider + App C…
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Customizing search on the Windows 11 taskbar
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As an IT admin, you know that keeping track of content saved across Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, and the internet can be challenging for end users. In recent Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds, we added a search box on the Windows taskbar to help them easily find whatever they're looking for. The search box assists people in finding apps, files, settings, help, and more—plus unlocks the power of the web with quick access to online information like time zone conversions, fact lookup, trending searches, and search results for navigating to websites faster. They can also find files and people in their work or school organization using search highlights. After shipping Wi…
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Historical monitoring dashboards for Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pools
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Author: @NickSalch is a Sr. Program Manager in the Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Introduction There are many options available for monitoring your dedicated SQL pool and this blog is part of a series that will walk you through implementing a monitoring solution for Azure Synapse Analytics. This article will walk you through the steps to enable historical monitoring using Azure Monitor Workbook templates on top of Azure Metrics and Azure Log Analytics. Once the workbook is deployed, you will have a rich graphical, interactive set of reports that help you identify and investigate issues with your workload. Pre-req…
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Introducing KAN: An OSS project for Creation and Management of Computer Vision Edge Al Applications
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To address challenges of building scalable computer vision AI solutions, we are releasing KubeAI Application Nucleus for edge (KAN - in Mandarin means “to watch”, “to see”) - a Kubernetes-native solution accelerator that enables you to easily develop, orchestrate, and operate computer vision Al applications for the edge with full control and flexibility. Edge AI applications allow organizations to easily extract actionable insights from unstructured data streams right where the data is generated, enabling the creation of environmentally aware business solutions. Parking operators can improve parking lot utilization by analyzing vehicle patterns. Retailers can impro…
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Create a list across Microsoft 365
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When the ‘information tracking’ inspiration strikes, create, create, create – no matter where you are! Since launching Microsoft Lists in May 2020 – revitalizing SharePoint lists value of many years – we’re pleased to have made much progress on numerous fronts: design, performance, capabilities, templates, integration, mobile, and more. And one major area of investment is the notion of creating a list from wherever you work. “Give a person a list, and they track information for a day. Teach a person to create a list themselves, and they’ll track information for a lifetime.” – Modern Office Axiom This article focuses on raising awareness of new and old…
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Push ASR rules with Security Settings Management on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint managed devices
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In May 2022, we announced the general availability of Security Settings Management for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This release empowered security teams to configure devices with their desired antivirus, EDR and firewall settings without needing to deploy and implement additional tools or infrastructure. Today, close to a million endpoints worldwide have received security policies through Security Settings Management, ultimately saving IT and security teams time and resources managing these policies while helping keep their organizations safer from security and data breaches in the process. As we continue our momentum around Security Settings Managem…