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Automate your alert response actions in Microsoft 365 Defender
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Spoiler (Highlight to read) While Microsoft’s Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution helps prioritize response activities and provides a unified experience that allows for more effective investigation at the incident level, the increasing volume and speed of sophisticated attacks, still challenges the capacity of most security teams. Automation is growing in importance to close the gap to the speed needed to respond to more attacks faster. Automating the response actions to common alerts in can help you stay ahead of threats, protect your organization more effectively, significantly reduce response times, and save manual work for the Security Operati…
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Navigating Data Privacy Regulations with Microsoft Cloud
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As businesses and organizations continue to prioritize data security, privacy, and compliance, they turn to Microsoft Cloud for its commitment to addressing these concerns. Our cloud services are designed with security in mind, and we adhere to industry standards for data protection. In addition, our strict policies and procedures, as well as our automated service operations, ensure that customer data remains private and secure. Compliance is also a crucial consideration for businesses, and that's where Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager comes in. This powerful tool helps businesses navigate the complex landscape of data privacy regulations to help ensure complia…
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Using the Native Elgato StreamDeck Integration with Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft just released a new official plugin for the Elgato Streamdeck which provides you a host of meetings actions at your fingertips. In this video, recorded using Microsoft Teams, I walk through the integration and its uses/benefits. After watching the video head over to Delivering new webinar experiences with Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Community Hub and check out the directions to enable this capability for your own Streamdeck and Teams. Resources: Elgato | elgato.com Delivering new webinar experiences with Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft Teams admin documentation - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn Thanks for visiting – M…
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Microsoft Community Training (MCT) Troubleshoot Guide
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Microsoft Community Training (MCT) Troubleshoot Guide for Azure Support Microsoft Community Training (MCT) is an Azure-based service that enables the efficient and effective delivery of large-scale, widely distributed training programs. The Azure Global Emerging Markets IDC team at Microsoft manages the MCT platform. The ICM credentials to log a ticket on the MCT team are – Owning Service: AGEM: Microsoft Community Training Owning Team: MCT This document walks through root cause and resolution steps for some of the major issues faced by the customers. Please try the resolution steps before logging an ICM ticket to MCT team. Descrip…
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[What's New] Extract Actionable Intelligence from Text-based Threat Intel using Sentinel Notebook
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With special thanks to @ianhelle, @robmead, and @Pete Bryan. In this blog, we introduce the MitreMap Notebook, which lets you input a threat report and infers the most likely MITRE ATT&CK technique(s) that map to the report. Doing this allows you to unleash the value of this unstructured data by identifying the associated motivations and tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by an actor group when carrying out an attack on your enterprise’s digital infrastructure. It also adds context to the Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) in the report, which you can use to detect patterns and trends of cyber-attacks occurring across your workspace. Introduction…
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Announcing public preview of the new Azure Virtual Desktop Web Client User Interface
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Today we are announcing the public preview of the updated User Interface (UI) for the Azure Virtual Desktop Web Client. The new UI offers a cleaner, more modern look and feel. With this update, you can Switch between Light and Dark Mode View your resources in a grid or list format Reset web client settings to their defaults Switch between light and dark mode; Reset user settings to their defaults Switch between Grid and List format to view your resources How to access it The preview will be available to try via a toggle on the web client. This is set to off by default, and you can turn on the toggle to experience th…
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How to improve performance of WP Admin - WordPress on Azure App Service
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WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) used by website developers. There are two parts to WordPress: WP Admin: Also called the backend, admin panel, or admin dashboard, this is the admin area where you can manage your website. You can edit posts and pages, install themes and plugins, add or remove users, and change website settings. Frontend: This is the section which is accessible to your users. This is where your users can read blog posts, make purchases, or participate in a forum, depending on the kind of website you build using WordPress. A relatively common problem is that the WP Admin has low performance even when the fronten…
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Track print activity with improved Universal Print reports
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With Universal Print's easy-to-read graphical data, you can quickly learn what you need to know about print activity in your tenant. Organizations need immediate reporting that keeps usage, cost, and infrastructure health front and center when managing print deployments as Universal Print deployments grow. Fortunately, the Usage and Reports dashboard now has five new data points, graphs, and charts with the option to view data from the previous day, week, or month. A screenshot of the Usage and Reports page's charts, graphs, and data points Your organization's print consumption is tracked over time using resource and activity counts. Here's what's new: Totals…
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Export App Service Certificate and set up a password
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This blog will guide how to export the App Service Certificate from Azure Portal and set up a password for the certificate in Windows and export it with password by using PowerShell. When we create App Service Certificate (Add and manage TLS/SSL certificates - Azure App Service | Microsoft Learn) in Azure Portal, sometime we are not using it in the App Service but use it for Azure VM or on-prem VM. Moreover, we will use it in some Azure resources (such as upload the certificate to Azure Application Gateway). However, after you export the App Service Certificate from Azure Portal, when you are going to upload it to Azure Application Gateway or use it in the A…
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Common causes of SSL/TLS connection issues and solutions
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In the TLS connection common causes and troubleshooting guide (microsoft.com) and TLS connection common causes and troubleshooting guide (microsoft.com), the mechanism of establishing SSL/TLS and tools to troubleshoot SSL/TLS connection were introduced. In this article, I would like to introduce 3 common issues that may occur when establishing SSL/TLS connection and corresponding solutions for windows, Linux, .NET and Java. TLS version mismatch Cipher suite mismatch TLS certificate is not trusted TLS version mismatch Before we jump into solutions, let me introduce how TLS version is determined. As the dataflow introduced in the first …
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Profiling on HB Series with AMD uProf
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Profiling can be performed on Azure HPC VMs with various tools. Today we are going to look at MPI application profiling with AMD uProf. AMD uProf is a tool for performance and system analysis. AMD uProf can gather time and instruction-based profiles. As well as tracing and visualizing MPI processes/threads. Profiling is the analysis of an application’s execution via the measurement of system metrics. When profiling hardware counters can be sampled to verify the occurrence and frequency of certain hardware events. For example, these events could be L1 cache misses or CPU cycles per instruction. Profiling can also include time-based measurements that relate to sp…
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Azure Kubernetes Service Free tier and Standard tier
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The growing adoption of containers for workload deployments has seen the emergence of Kubernetes as the preferred container orchestrator tool in the Cloud Native ecosystem. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the managed Kubernetes offering from Azure, allows customers to offload the operational overhead to Azure, thus letting the user focus primarily on their workloads and business logic. We are seeing two sets of user trends along the Kubernetes adoption curve. First, organizations that are already using containers and/or Kubernetes in their on-premises and cloud environments are looking to AKS to reduce their operational burden and leverage the Azure cloud ecosystem. Secon…
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Announcing public preview for watermarking on Azure Virtual Desktop
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We're pleased to announce Watermarking for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is now in public preview. This feature helps prevent sensitive information from being captured on client endpoints by enabling watermarks to appear as part of remote desktops. AVD watermarking public preview What can I do with AVD watermarking? Enable QR code watermarks on AVD desktops Scan the QR code watermarks to discover the session's connectionID Use the session's connectionID to find the session information via AVD Insights or Azure Monitor Log Analytics Why is this important? Alongside AVD screen capture protection, watermarking protects content on AVD from being…
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JDBC Driver 12.2 for SQL Server Released
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Version 12.2 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server has been released. Version 12.2.0 brings several added features, changes, and fixed issues over the previous production release. Added Added connection property datetimeParameterType to specify the SQL datatype to use for Java date/timestamp parameters Added support for access token callback Added support for authentication=ActiveDirectoryDefault Added support for Java 19 Changed Updated to dynamically check for ExtendedSocketOption class Upgraded dependency versions Consolidated release files into .jre8 for Java 8 and .jre11 for Java 11 and up Fixed Fixed BigDecimal Precision/Scale…
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Healthcare Short: SDOH Predictive Analytics for Personalized Patient or Member Outreach
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Situation Overview According to the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), social determinants of health (SDOH) are the non-medical factors that affect health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. The forces include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies, climate change, and political systems. Business Challenge Providers and payors can take into consideration SDOH parameters when caring for patients and members. Social determinants of health have…
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Integrating Azure Front Door WAF with Azure Container Apps
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Many customers require Web Applications & APIs to only be accessible via a private IP address with a Web Application Firewall on the internet edge, to protect from common exploits and vulnerabilities. Azure Front Door provides global routing and WAF capabilities to satisfy this requirement. Azure Container Apps ingress can be exposed on either a Public or Private IP address. One option is to put Azure Front Door in front of an ACA public endpoint, but currently there is no way (other than in application code) to restrict access to the ACA public IP address from a single Azure Front Door instance. Azure App Service Access restrictions supports this scenario, but…
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Become a Student Ambassador
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What's expected of Student Ambassadors We know you're busy, so expectations are flexible Advance through our milestones to unlock benefits We give you time and resources to succeed We value your character and leadership Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Code of Conduct is intended to provide individuals considering participation in the program, as well as the public, with the standards we put forth for our community. Ambassador Application Resources Learn more information about the program and its benefits - Visit the Student Ambassadors FAQ page Build skills that open doors with hands-on training. Explore Microsoft Learn Student Hub J…
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Time-based scheduler for Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights App is now generally available
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Data Estate Insights is an app built on Microsoft Purview’s platform that serves the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO), catering to their needs for governance and curation analytics and insights. The app offers a range of out-of-the-box dashboards, that use the rich knowledge of the DataMap to create meaningful aggregates for high-level business understanding, and detailed views into the metadata, for deeper dives by Data Stewards and Data Custodians. So far Data Estate Insights dashboards were refreshed based on events in the DataMap that would check for any updates, no more than once a week. The pain of this approach is felt by the Data Stewards and D…
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Group Policy Preferences Drive Map Survey and Feedback
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Heya folks, Ned here again. I just published a survey for IT Pros on Group Policy Preferences Drive Map. It's just a few minutes of your time, totally anonymous (unless you want to talk more) and could help make your life easier someday. Your feedback is invaluable for prioritizing our work, we really welcome your experience. >> Take survey << Group Policy Preferences (aka "GPP") and its Drive Map option are features included in Active Directory. Drive Map is a replacement for logon scripts that automatically connect SMB drives using NET USE or New-SmbMapping. For more information, review Drive Map. If you are not using SMB ma…
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Introducing 'Managed Airflow' in Azure Data Factory
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Today, we are excited to announce the capability to run Apache Airflow DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graph) within Azure Data Factory, adding a key Open-Source integration that provides extensibility for orchestrating python-based workflows at scale on Azure. Azure Data Factory Managed Airflow provides a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that simplifies the creation and management of Airflow environments. In addition, it natively integrates Apache Airflow with Azure Active Directory for a single sign-on (SSO) and a more secure solution (instead of requiring basic auth for logins). What is Apache Airflow? Apache Airflow is an open-so…
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Accelerating Ansys LS-DYNA on Azure using HB-series VMs
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Authored by: Shuichi Gojuki, Cloud Solution Architect, Aimee Garcia, PM AI Benchmarking, Jon Shelley, Principal TPM Manager Ansys LS-DYNA enables users to simulate complex real-world problems. LS-DYNA is an industry leader in explicit simulation software that is used in industries such as automotive, aerospace, bioengineering, military, and construction. It has the capability to accurately predict automotive collision behavior which includes the impacts collisions have on occupants. These real-world simulations allow automotive companies to significantly reduce the number of experimental design car prototypes, which in turn reduces time and expenses. The Az…
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Track print activity with improved Universal Print reports
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With Universal Print's easy-to-read graphical data, you can quickly learn what you need to know about print activity in your tenant. Organizations need immediate reporting that keeps usage, cost, and infrastructure health front and center when managing print deployments as Universal Print deployments grow. Fortunately, the Usage and Reports dashboard now has five new data points, graphs, and charts with the option to view data from the previous day, week, or month. A screenshot of the Usage and Reports page's charts, graphs, and data points Your organization's print consumption is tracked over time using resource and activity counts. Here's what's new: Totals…
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Evolving Microsoft 365 certifications help keep you in sync with the new era of work
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The past couple of years have demonstrated that the future of work is fluid, dynamic, and cloud-powered—and that future is now here. Whether you’re a tech professional tuning your skills or you’re part of an organization that relies on those skills, you know that staying ahead of the curve in this rapidly changing environment requires proactivity and adaptability. Microsoft Learn helps you build skills that open doors, so you can get the most value from Microsoft products and services. Because your career or the success of your organization depends on keeping skills current and relevant to the work you do, we regularly review and update our portfolio of training an…
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Creating Azure Monitor alerts for Cosmos (and other databases) queries
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Introduction Did you ever find yourself in the situation where getting alerted to something happening inside your CosmosDB database would be useful? I'm talking about using raw SQL queries. For example, you would like to get an Azure Monitor alert if a query like "SELECT * FROM orders WHERE orders. status = 'failed' " returns anything. Optimally you would want the original application/service responsible for this domain to raise such an event and perform an action on it. But what if you can't do that or want an alert before the app code gets fixed? With Azure Monitor Alerts we have a very powerful tool to handle any type of alert incidents and taking ac…
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Lesson Learned #315: 'XTP' name is reserved for the files containing In-Memory OLTP data.
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Today, we worked on a service request that our customer got the following two error messages: The file name 'XTP' is reserved for the files containing In-Memory OLTP data or The filegroup name 'XTP' is reserved for the filegroup containing In-Memory OLTP data restoring a backup from OnPremises to Azure SQL Managed Instance. URL: T-SQL differences between SQL Server & Azure SQL Managed Instance - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn For the error: Msg 41927, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 - The file name 'XTP' is reserved for the files containing In-Memory OLTP data. This above error means that we have a file in our Logical Names that is called XTP a…