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About Techies Meetup Are you ready to take your tech game to the next level? Then you don't want to miss the "Techies Meetup" - an exclusive event that will bring together the brightest minds in the tech industry to explore the cutting-edge technologies developed by Microsoft. You can click on the image for the registration link or use the link here : https://aka.ms/TechiesMeetup Visit this link for Microsoft Student resources including FREE training, certification, student clubs and $100 of Azure Credit Student Hub Overview - Microsoft Learn Student Hub This event would be streamed live on YouTube with physical guests …

Also by Jamil Mirza Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM) discovers your externally facing digital assets and provides many useful details about the assets found to help you manage risk impacting your organization. One example of this asset detail is Trackers, which can be associated with Page, Host, or IP Address assets. The definition of Trackers from the Defender EASM official documentation is as follows: Trackers are unique codes or values found within web pages and often are used to track user interaction. These codes can be used to correlate a disparate group of websites to a central entity. Microsoft's tracker dataset …

Odds are, if you are impacted by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) mandates, you already know it. Odds are, if you are reading this post, you are doing research because you are impacted by the mandates. If you are impacted by the mandates, this post is for you. This post is to give you ideas that [we hope] help you on your compliance journey. The open question is likely “how do I become compliant”? Ultimately, there are two options. But before we get to the options of how to become compliant, we first need to address the scope of what needs to become compliant. What about scope? There are thousands of other published pages on th…

Secure Communication to Fetch SAP NetWeaver SAP Control and SAP RFC (Remote Function Call) Metric Data in Azure Monitor for SAP solution (AMS). Introduction: In the previous blog series Part 1 - SAP NetWeaver SOAP & RFC deep dive in Azure Monitor for SAP solutions and Part 2 - Configuring NetWeaver Provider, we have understood the architecture and successfully configured NetWeaver provider as part of AMS (Azure Monitor for SAP) , using HTTP port. This blog provides an overview of enabling secure communication over HTTPS using TLS 1.2 (or higher) certificate. AMS (secure communication): The following diagram shows Azure Monitor for SAP Solut…

As we all know that Azure DevOps services supports four process flow or process templates. Anytime you create a project, you must choose a process or process template based on the process model selected for your organization or collection. Below are standard processes template you can choose. You can refer Microsoft documentation for more details. I came across a business scenrio where customer want to exclude and include some work item types (e.g. Task, Issue). Azure DevOps does not allow us to change the base process template directly. So to customize any process template, we need to first create an inherited process template and make or apply our desired change there.…

Choosing Azure for your app modernization is an important first step, and figuring out how to effectively leverage all that Azure has to offer is the secret to your success. We believe hands-on experience is key to helping you design a plan to modernize, deploy, and manage your web applications. Azure Immersion Workshops are a collection of digital events designed with a focus on technical learning and inspire usage via hands on experience. We are excited to share that the Azure Immersion Workshop to Modernize .NET apps on Azure App Service is now available. The Modernize .NET Apps workshop is designed to help you evaluate and prioritize your applications …

In the previous post we have learned how to use AI to help users write better business mails. We developed an add-in for Outlook that, using the AI models and the APIs provided by Open AI, can generate a business mail starting from one or two sentences and, using the Office SDK, to include it into the body of the mail. For this sample project, we have directly leveraged the APIs provided by Open AI. We created an account on their website and we obtained an API key required to manage the authentication. But what if you're an enterprise customer and you're already using Azure to host many of your applications and services? It would be great if there was a way to u…

Today, we got a service request that our customer reported that they need to change to readonly a database in Azure SQL Managed Instance using the TSQL: ALTER DATABASE xxx SET READ_ONLY WITH NO_WAIT. Currently, this option is not supported and we have many other options to have a database in readonly, like ReadScale for Business Critical, Replication, etc.. However, our customer needs to use the same Azure SQL Managed Instance. When our customer executes the following TSQL ALTER DATABASE XXX SET READ_ONLY WITH NO_WAIT they got the following error message: Msg 5008, Level 16, State 11, Line 3 This ALTER DATABASE statement is not supported. Correct the syntax and e…

Background: Function App supports to integrate Managed Identities to connect to resources that support Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication. There are two types of Managed Identities: System-assigned and User-assigned. However, customer would choose User-assigned Managed Identity when the use case is like the workloads that run on multiple resources and can share a single identity or the workloads where resources are recycled frequently, but permissions should stay consistent. In this blog, we're going to introduce how to assign a User-Assigned Managed Identity (MI) to Function App that use Azure AD for authorization to access Event Hub resource in Event …

The 1st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit: • CU1 KB Article: Cumulative update 1 for SQL Server 2022 (KB5022375) - SQL Server Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model. Please refer to our blog for more details on Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server • Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 RTM Latest Cumulative Update: Download SQL Server® 2022 for Microsoft® Windows Latest Cumulative Update from Official Microsoft Downlo…

On 30 September 2023, Azure Automation will retire Run As accounts, and completely move to Managed identities. All runbook executions using Run As accounts, including Classic Run As accounts would not be supported after this date. Moreover, starting 1 April 2023, creation of new Run As accounts in Azure Automation will not be possible. Renewing of certificates for existing RunAs accounts would be possible only till the end of support. To ensure you are using a supported authentication method, you must migrate all your runbooks to Managed Identities. Benefits of Managed identities Secure authentication to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authenticatio…

The 19th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2019 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about this release or servicing model, please visit: CU19 KB Article: KB5023049 - Cumulative Update 19 for SQL Server 2019 - Microsoft Support Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model. Please refer to our blog for more details on Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server Microsoft® SQL Server® 2019 RTM Latest Cumulative Update: Download SQL Server® 2019 for Microsoft® Windows Latest Cumulative Update from Official Micro…

As a reminder of the comm published on Jan 25, 2023, two new requirements are available on Partner Center for the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program. To avoid service disruption, please prioritize to review and decide the required agreements before they become effective on Feb 28, 2023 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 af…

How skilled are you in migration from on premises to the cloud? Whether you've experienced this process in your company, prepare to do so soon, or have inherited cloud or hybrid environments, welcome to the table! Time to learn: 122 minutes [attachment=32913:name]WATCH Flexible paths to cloud management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager Find out what you need to know to easily transition from your current on-premises endpoint management solution to a cloud-connected solution. Learn about how tenant attach and co-management add the power of the cloud to managing Windows and other devices. (18 mins) W365 + MEM + Intune + ConfigMgr + Cloud Attach + C…

Identity protection has become one of the cornerstones of modern security practices but the way we work and interact with the technology around us has evolved, giving cybercriminals new avenues to exploit. One technique that has grown in popularity over the past few years targets the Active Directory Certificate Services to bypass the protections in place around your Active Directory and gain access to your domain. As biometrics, smartcards, and other forms of authentication become more and more commonplace almost every modern organization has been forced to implement some kind of public key infrastructure (PKI) to issue and manage certificates which serve (among…

SQL Server 2022 brings more security to the database rated as least vulnerable over the last ten years with always encrypted enhancements and SQL Ledger, an immutable ledger to track evidence of tampering. Additional Azure-enabled features including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integration, Microsoft Purview, and Azure Active Directory authentication add even more layers of protection and access control. Learn all this and more on this episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward. Resources: Improve scalability with Buffer Pool Parallel Scan in SQL Server 2022 Improve scalability with system page latch concurrency enhancements in SQL Server 2022 …

SQL Server 2022 brings more security to the database rated as least vulnerable over the last ten years with always encrypted enhancements and SQL Ledger, an immutable ledger to track evidence of tampering. Additional Azure-enabled features including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integration, Microsoft Purview, and Azure Active Directory authentication add even more layers of protection and access control. Learn all this and more on this episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward. Resources: Improve scalability with Buffer Pool Parallel Scan in SQL Server 2022 Improve scalability with system page latch concurrency enhancements in SQL Serve…

Today, I worked in a very interested case. Our customer is trying to run an ALTER TABLE <TableName> to add two columns but this process is taking too much time, even, when the documentation reported "Starting with SQL Server 2012 (11.x) Enterprise Edition, adding a NOT NULL column with a default value is an online operation when the default value is a runtime constant. This means that the operation is completed almost instantaneously despite the number of rows in the table, because the existing rows in the table aren't updated during the operation" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/alter-table-transact-sql?view=azuresqldb-current#adding-not-null…

As you may know, Microsoft has a mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This mission extends to security, and it is critical that we have global reach and impact. I want to share with you one of the coolest ways this is achieved – Microsoft Security community badging program. We want to have a relationship with all our end-users and customers. We start this relationship in public community. This is a great place for anyone to learn about our products, join live webinars with our team, and build up their knowledgebase. Once a user feels like they have a strong foundation and wants to start influencing o…

Chinese University of Hong Kong selected Azure Lab Services as their platform to teach all students digital literacy. Regardless of their major, each student will learn computational skills with a university core course requirement. Azure Lab Services was selected to help the university to prepare each student to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Some reasons include: Inclusive: It is suitable for all students. Versatile: Students can bring their own device. Accessible: Students can enjoy compute from wherever they are. Available: Students can engage in on-demand exercises via high-performance applications at any time. Universal: The university can creat…

Join us for a virtual hackathon and learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET. If you’re a beginning coder, a student, or an expert looking for an opportunity to learn a new skill, don’t miss this opportunity! Hack Together is a virtual hackathon to get started building apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET. In this hackathon, you will kick-start learning how to build apps with Microsoft Graph – the API to access data and insights from Microsoft 365, and develop apps based on some of the most popular Microsoft Graph scenarios. You’ll also have a chance to win exciting prizes and meet Microsoft Graph and .NET Product Group Leaders, Cloud Advocat…

Welcome to our first ever Terraform on Azure update! Over the months we have noticed that you want to know about the latest investments our team is making, but don’t know where to go to find that. We will usually open with updates in our major investment areas, then close with upcoming goals or plans. We hope that through these updates you are given a convenient way to learn about and relay important information to your teams/colleagues about Terraform on Azure. We will be aiming for the next update in April! Special thanks to Tom Archer and Rob Kuehfus for contributing to publishing this article. AzureRM The resources exposed by the AzureRM provider are wh…

When building complex workflows in the cloud with Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines, a very common pattern is to separate different workflow branches into child pipelines. The ADF team is super-excited to announce that we've made creating workflows even simpler with this new preview feature! Now you can customize the output of your pipeline and consume that return value from the calling pipeline. In this simple example of a parent pipeline below, I have an execute pipeline activity that is calling a child pipeline. The executed pipeline will return a custom value after it has been executed. I am then consuming that return value in the subsequent activi…

Last year Microsoft shared plans for several new investments in our SharePoint Server ecosystem. One of those investments is our long-term support for the SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform for SharePoint Server. SharePoint 2013 Workflows are a key scenario for SharePoint Server customers as they power many critical business processes and can operate in purely on-premises deployments. Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager, a new workflow engine to power the SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform for SharePoint Server and replace Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager. SharePoint Workflow Manager is compatible with Share…