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We are pleased to announce the security review for Microsoft Edge, version 111! We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 111 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 107 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 111 introduced 1 new computer settings and 1 new user settings. We have included a spreadsheet listing the new settings in the release to make it easier for you to find them. As a friendly reminder, all available settings for Microsoft …

Introduction: GeoJSON files contain various types of geospatial data, such as point, line, and polygon features, as well as metadata and attributes. They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as creating interactive maps, analyzing spatial patterns, and visualizing geospatial data. In this blog, we will discuss how to transform Parquet files into GeoJSON files using Synapse Notebook, which is a workaround since this transformation is not currently supported in the Copy activity in Azure Synapse pipelines. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in Azure Synapse Analytics. Workspace in Azure Synapse Analytics. Storage account (in this blog, we…

Introduction Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia. This post is about how you can automate the backup of Block Blob Storage using Azure Backup Vault (not to be confused with Azure Recovery Service Vault). I specifically mention Block Blob because append and page blobs are not supported. By automating the backup process of your Block Blob Storage, you can rest assured that your data is safe and secure in case of unexpected data loss. Before we start, let us look at the solution’s high-level design. High-Level Design The following is a similar HLD (high-level design) I have done for a custome…

Form Recognizer is an Applied AI service for all your document understanding needs. With the latest update Form Recognizer now adds new capabilities like document classification, new prebuilt models like the 1098 form (with a few variants) and using Azure OpenAI models to extend field extraction with queries. Form Recognizer has three categories of models, general extraction models which include Read, Layout and the General document model to extract content structure and fields from a form or document. Prebuilt models for extracting a defined schema for a specific document type, examples of prebuilt models include invoice, W-2, ID document and many more. Finally, c…

As a university student, you might have heard about Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform that offers a range of services for businesses and individuals. But did you know that Azure offers a special subscription plan for students that comes with $100 of cloud credit? In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of activating Azure for student subscriptions and highlight some of the exciting things you can do with it. The process of activating Azure for student subscriptions is straightforward. All you need is a valid academic email address, and you can sign up for the Azure for Students offer. Once you've signed up, you'll have access to a range of…

Today, at Embedded World, we announce the General Availability (GA) of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials. AKS Edge Essentials has been developed in response to customer needs for Kubernetes at the operational edge on small-footprint devices for orchestrating workloads and driving business optimization. During the Preview period, we iterated with early adopters to release new features and updates. Our GA milestone signifies that we are now ready to engage with any business ready to go through their own Operational Technology (OT) transformation. We are delighted to have reference implementations and samples available from our launch partners Scalers.ai,…

1. Overview: SAP Connector () is a Enterprise connector which provides a set of actions and triggers to connect to your SAP Service. Ref: SAP - Connectors | Microsoft Learn The SAP connector supports the following message and data integration types from SAP NetWeaver-based systems: Intermediate Document (IDoc) Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) Remote Function Call (RFC) and Transactional RFC (tRFC) The SAP connector uses the SAP .NET Connector (NCo) library. To use the available SAP trigger and SAP actions, you need to first authenticate your connection. You can authenticate your connection with a username and password…

To understand the scope of security considerations to have about this resource, you should know that the Integration Account is a specialized storage, it does not do processing. The multi-tenant implementation for XML validation, Flat File encode-decode and transforms, is to host the functionality in Azure Function for isolation. B2B / EDI connectors (AS2, EDIFACT, X12) also using Integration Account have two generations, the first is hosted on a web app, the later is running directly with the Logic App service. The Azure Function fetches from the Integration Account the schemas and maps. Another way to look at this is that the XML payload is not sent to the Integr…

This blog is an update to the original blog published comparing AKS in Azure and on Azure Stack HCI, a year ago. Since then, we’ve released multiple features and fixes aimed at improving AKS consistency between Azure and on-premises that warranted a fresh blog :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: Features in preview are marked by (*) Feature Set AKS on Azure Stack HCI & AKS on Windows Server AKS Kubernetes Management Cluster/AKS host AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server is a Cluster API based hosted Kubernetes offering. A management Kubernetes cluster is used to manage Kubernetes workload clusters. The management Kubernetes c…

1. What is Tape Backup? In the on-premises world, tape storage is a system in which magnetic tape is used as a recording media to store data. With rapidly growing data volumes, tape storage is the most suitable system for data storage requiring large capacity in the on-premises systems. Tape storage is not used only for backup in case of system failure, but also for archiving data for long-term storage. Tape backup is a term typically applied to old/outdated technologies, but tapes are still being used to back up the data. Many large enterprises like banks, hospitals, telecommunication organizations rely on tapes to ensure important data is securely s…

In the last tutorial, we trained a model, to predict diabetes patient hospital readmission, that we will be using to analyze and identify issues from the Azure Machine Learning’s Responsible AI dashboard. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a Responsible AI (RAI) dashboard with its python SDK. We will show you how to use machine learning tools such as Model Overview, Error Analysis, Data Explorer, Fairness Assessment, Model Interpretability, Casuals and Counterfactuals to discover and solve issues with the model or data. Furthermore, we’ll show how data scientists and stakeholders can better communicate a model’s performance and behavior by using the RAI scorecard…

In this guest blog post, Nic Surpatanu, Chief Product Officer at Tanium, discusses taking control of and securing IT estates and how Tanium works with Microsoft solutions like Azure Active Directory, Defender for Endpoint, and Sentinel. Can you imagine inheriting assets you couldn’t find, only to discover they were hidden behind drywall? Not long ago, I spoke with the CISO of a Tanium customer that had integrated hundreds of thousands of endpoints from an acquired organization. With so many endpoints involved, he initially felt daunted by the task, and for good reason. Discovering assets, assessing device compliance and vulnerability state, fixing gaps, merg…

Now that college basketball excitement is in full swing, here’s a fun free game. The best part is it's easy to play this with your family and friends and you don't need a Microsoft 365 subscription. This is a unique way to participate during the college basketball tournament where you own a set of teams that Excel randomly assigns to you. This isn’t a standard bracket tracker: you don’t have to pick winners and losers or think about stats and upsets. Excel assigns you the teams to root for and puts you in head-to-head competition with your friends. Game animation Getting Started To get started, click here for the men's game, and here for…

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of near real-time custom detections in Microsoft 365 Defender. This new frequency will allow you to respond to threats faster with automated responses and gain valuable time in stopping attacks and protecting your organization. Automation is key to keeping up with attackers 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 remains challenging. That’s why automation is becoming an increasingly impor…

In the first two posts of this series we have developed an Outlook add-in that, using the Open AI models, helps users to generate professional business mails starting from a simple sentence. In the first post, we achieved this goal by directly using the OpenAI APIs; in the second one, instead, we have leveraged the Azure OpenAI service. In both cases, however, we didn't use the model that powers up ChatGPT, because it wasn't available yet at the time of writing, but we leveraged a similar one called Davinci. Since a few days, both OpenAI and Azure OpenAI have finally made available the ChatGPT model, so that developers can integrate it into their experiences. In th…

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of video filters in Teams! Many of us want to be more engaged with our colleagues and be fully present during meetings. But due to demanding schedules we don't always have time to get ready and put our best foot forward. Microsoft Teams empowers users to feel their best with AI powered capabilities that let you soften the appearance of the video feed and add backgrounds. Now, we’re taking it one step further with video filters - allowing you to remove unwanted distractions and better express yourself by bringing your personality to each meeting. The filters enable participants in Teams Meetings to augment thei…

We are delighted to announce the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v9.3. We are thrilled to share that this latest version includes support for SQL Server 2022 as a target for all heterogenous migration scenarios. Overview SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and SAP ASE (formerly SAP Sybase ASE) allow users to convert a database schema to a Microsoft SQL Server schema, deploy the schema, and then migrate data to the target SQL Server (see below for supported versions). What's new? The latest release of SSMA enhances the assessment and conversion capabilities of the tool with a targeted set of fixes desi…

In a few scenarios, you might need to scale multiple databases on a logical server (not part of elastic pool) at once, the azure portal only allows you to scale each database individually. This can be achieved using the following PowerShell script: just modify the parameters like SubID, the resource group and server name and then pick the service tier you want and run the script: Connect-AzAccount Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId "SubID" $ResourceGroup = "ResourceGroup" $Server = "SQLServer" $edition = "Standard" $ServObjective = "S2" $Databases = Get-AzSqlDatabase -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -ServerName $Server | Where-Object {$_.DatabaseName -…

As more and more organizations move towards remote work, communication and collaboration tools have become essential for seamless and efficient workflows. Microsoft Teams is one such tool that allows teams to communicate, collaborate, and stay productive from anywhere. Teams Approvals is a feature within Microsoft Teams that enables users to create, manage, and track approvals directly within Teams. On the other hand, ServiceNow is a powerful platform for managing workflows, incidents, and service requests. Integrating Teams Approvals with ServiceNow can streamline approval processes and improve overall efficiency. There are different ways to implement this integra…

Whenever I shop online, checking the reviews of the products is a tedious task. Sometimes the low-rated reviews are based on delivery, packaging... whereas a few high-rated reviews might be on cost but not on quality. Generally, reviews/ratings are displayed without any context which results in customers needing additional time and effort to get the most value out of it. Hence, we built this prototype using Azure Open AI to present the consolidated information from all the reviews of a product. We fed all the reviews of a specific product to GPT-3 text-davinci-003 model with a prompt to classify the text based on the three categories – Cost, Quality, and De…

Whenever I shop online, checking the reviews of the products is a tedious task. Sometimes the low-rated reviews are based on delivery, packaging... whereas a few high-rated reviews might be on cost but not on quality. Generally, reviews/ratings are displayed without any context which results in customers needing additional time and effort to get the most value out of it. Hence, we built this prototype using Azure Open AI to present the consolidated information from all the reviews of a product. We fed all the reviews of a specific product to GPT-3 text-davinci-003 model with a prompt to classify the text based on the three categories – Cost, Quality, and De…

As organizations seek to simplify, and improve, the employee experience in a do more with less reality providing an intuitive, unified experience becomes paramount. Providing a number of disjointed employee experiences across various pillars like Learning, Organizational Health/Sentiment Analysis, Communications/Employee Engagement, doesn’t improve the overall employee experience but rather adds to additional employee dissatisfaction. Thankfully, the Microsoft Viva suite and Viva Connections Home is here to help. Microsoft Viva suite provides the most comprehensive set of employee experiences all from a single point within the single pane of glass to get work done, Mic…

Purpose: Explain the following T-SQL error: Msg 3930, Level 16, State 1, Line 13 The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction. Solution: This error happens when T-SQL batch is trying to commit a transaction that was already abandoned. When could this happen? We need specific condition for that to happen a. we need to be in try..catch block b. the transaction need face an error (such as primary key constraint violation/ foreign key violation etc.) c. we are trying to commit the transaction. to make it easier to understand here is a …

When working with geospatial data in Azure Maps for geofencing or indoor maps purposes, until today, you needed to upload your data directly to our backend services, where Azure maps would store, process, and make it available. However, if you already use Azure and have data in an existing storage account, you no longer need to upload your data again and create a duplicate in Azure Maps. With the new Azure Maps Bring your own storage services, you can now securely register your existing data and give Azure Maps access. Meaning you have all the control over your data, where it is stored, and how it is encrypted, especially where you have requirements that guarantee that yo…