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Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and automatically scale the infrastructure to run jobs efficiently at any scale. In this blog post, we are discussing about how to integrate an external Grid Engine Scheduler to send jobs to CycleCloud for cloud bursting (Enabling on-premises workloads to be sent to the cloud for processing, known as “cloud bursting”) or hybrid HPC scenarios. For demo purpose, we are creating 2 subnets and using one subnet for external scheduler node …

Background Introduction Azure Application Insights is a powerful tool for monitoring the performance and availability of your applications. By sending web requests to your application at regular intervals from Application Insight’s servers around the world, it can alert you if your application isn't responding or responds too slowly. Since it is a useful tool to check the server's availability, some users may integrate the availability test feature of Application Insight with the API management service. As the Application Insights server is in the public network, we need to ensure that the API Management’s endpoints should be accessible from the public int…

Welcome This is part of the Let's Build Together: LowCode Edition show where you learn how you can use applications and services in Power Platform to accelerate digital transformation of business processes. This show is designed to walk you through how to build End to End solutions using Microsoft Power Apps, automate their processes with Microsoft Power Automate in a span of just 2 weeks. Power Platform skills will open doors for you in your career. Join and complete the Let's Build Together Cloud Skills Challenge Use Case Project – Booking Requests App Watch Live Practical Guide on-demand Solution Considerations before development Be…

How to Participate: Step 1: Don't miss this amazing opportunity, register for the Student Summit here Step 2: Complete this Cloud Skill challenge here Challenge Step 3: Fill the Official Rul Form Microsoft Forms. Microsoft Student Summit Watch Party South Africa When: Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM (GMT+02:00) Where: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Microsoft Student Summit is an event designed for students and rising developers who are passionate about technology and eager to learn new skills and meet like-minded individuals. Attending the Microsoft Student Summit can provide students with a number of benefits, i…

Hello hello, everyone! Happy Friday! Here’s a recap of what’s been going on in the MTC this week. MTC Moments of the Week To start things off, we want to first give a huge shoutout to this week’s MTC Member of the Week - @Kidd_Ip! Kidd is a MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and full time IT pro who has made great contributions to a variety of Tech Community forums across Azure and M365. Way to go, Kidd! Moving to events, on Wednesday, we had our first of two AMA’s. Azure Communication Services and Microsoft Teams joined forces for this event to talk about the possibilities of connecting Teams with the communication capabilities in Azure and the…

You may use this script to easily list the resource groups per subscription, and programmatically remove the delegation based on user input. Notes on using the script: The script will accept a list of subscription ids as input at the command line (separated by commas), OR, a text file with a list of subscription IDs within it. For each subscription, it reads the delegations and outputs on the screen, then asks if you want to remove them. [*]As written, the code will remove BOTH resource group and subscription-level assignments. Adjust the code as needed to ignore subscription-level assignments. [*]This code is provided AS IS and as an example only. …

Generative AI opens up all sorts of possibilities in boosting productivity and you can leverage its power today…easily… Bing Discover in Microsoft Edge. In this HLS Show Me How video I walk you through the needed setup, and then use, of generative AI inline in Microsoft Edge. Resources: Microsoft Edge Insider Download Microsoft Edge Insider Channels Straight from the cutting edge What’s New (microsoftedgeinsider.com) Thanks for visiting – Michael Gannotti LinkedIn | Twitter Michael Gannotti Continue reading...

Welcome to the conclusion of our series on OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel! Back in Part 1, we introduced the Azure Logic Apps connector for OpenAI and explored the parameters that influence text completion from the GPT3 family of OpenAI Large Language Models (LLMs) with a simple use case: describing the MITRE ATT&CK tactics associated with a Microsoft Sentinel incident. Part 2 covered another useful scenario, summarizing a KQL analytics rule extracted from Sentinel using its REST API. In Part 3, we revisited the first use case and compared the Text Completion (DaVinci) and Chat Completion (Turbo) models. What's left to cover? Well, quite a lot - let's get started!…

Introduction Location information can be very simple or very detailed. For a person delivering a package to certain house, an address with street number, name, city, and state could be more than enough information for them to find the right place. For a vehicle tracking system where you have a map with moving dots representing trucks in real-time, these pieces of data may not be enough to provide clear information to a dispatcher. Adding the latitude and longitude of the vehicle to present its current and historical positions is more important. A very common scenario where the location data in place may not be enough to perform a certain task is when a com…

Suppose you have trained an Automated machine learning classification model to accomplish some tasks, and now you want to use this model as a service for inference. Maybe you do not need to run this model in real time, but only a few times a week or even less frequently. The perfect solution for you could be to deploy your model on a batch endpoint. Unfortunately, Azure Automated ML does not support batch endpoints. There is a known limitation that the scoring script that Automated ML creates only works for Online Endpoints. To overcome this limitation, you need to create your own  scoring script that specifies how your model should run and how your input data should …

Introduction Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Application Gateway provides centralized protection for your web applications against common vulnerabilities and exploits. Web applications are increasingly targeted by malicious attacks that vulnerabilities. SQL Injection (SQLi) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) are examples of some well-known attacks. Preventing such attacks in application code can be challenging and may require rigorous maintenance, patching, and monitoring at many layers of the application topology. A centralized web application firewall helps make security management much simpler and gives better assurance to application developers and secu…

Welcome back to our series on OpenAI's Large Language Models (LLMs) and Microsoft Sentinel. In the first installment, we built a basic playbook using the built-in Azure Logic Apps connectors for OpenAI and Sentinel to explain MITRE ATT&CK tactics found in an incident and discussed some of the different parameters that can influence the OpenAI model such as temperature and frequency penalty. Next, we extended this functionality with Sentinel's REST API to look up a scheduled analytic rule and return a summary of the rule's detection logic. If you've been following along, you probably noticed that our first playbook looked up MITRE ATT&CK tactics from the S…

Introduction In an Azure Kubernetes (AKS) cluster, Pods can access physical storage resources such as disks or volumes using Persistent Volumes (PV). To use these resources, Pods need to make a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC), which requests a specific amount of storage from a storage class. This claim can then be matched to an available Persistent Volume. Azure offers several storage solutions that can be used to provision Persistent Volumes in an AKS cluster. This article will provide real-world guidance on securely using Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers to provision Azure File Shares and Azure Blob storage in an AKS cluster. Prerequisites …

This guest blog post is written by Fernando Rocha Silva a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Introduction Location information can be very simple or very detailed. For a person delivering a package to certain house, an address with street number, name, city, and state could be more than enough information for them to find the right place. For a vehicle tracking system where you have a map with moving dots representing trucks in real-time, these pieces of data may not be enough to provide clear information to a dispatcher. Adding the latitude and longitude of the vehicle to present its current and historical positions is more important. A very common…

Sometimes, users will need to install some necessary software/packages in the environment before the task is executed. This can be easily done by using Start task feature of Azure Batch. But when there are many dependencies to be installed, for example 20 packages in Linux and the installation of some of them will take long time such as Tensorflow, it will cause additional problems such as long start task running time when Azure Batch starts Batch node every time or even possible timeout issue or start task failure issue. In order to avoid this issue, user has two options: Custom image and Container. Both of these two features are supported in Azure Batch. T…

Azure Dev Tools for Teaching Is a program designed to provide students and educators with access to a range of Microsoft software and tools for learning, teaching, and research purposes. In this blog post, we explore the benefits and opportunities of Azure Dev Tools for Teaching for universities, including access to essential software and tools, flexibility, and additional resources and support for educators. Discover how this program can empower education and prepare students for success in their future careers. Azure Dev Tool Introduction This program is available for use by universities and other accredited educational institutions worldwide, and it offers a ra…

Welcome back to Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement Show. Today we're going to talk about this architecture erosion and we're also going to talk about technical debt with our Armchair Architects, Uli Homann and Eric Charran. What does architecture erosion mean? The way Eric thinks about architectural erosion is when architects and engineers work together, they construct a system or solution. They have launched that solution into production. It's performing well for a period of time and then change happens. Whether it's a change in requirements, a change in infrastructure, or a change in customer habits, DevOps signals saying that people are u…

Please take a look at the following blog post by @Joseph Pilov (and team) to get detailed explanations, causes, and user actions for the top 25 most common SQL Server Engine errors! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-support-blog/top-25-sql-server-engine-errors-based... You will find error details (E.g., Event ID, Source, component etc.), explanation, causes, and user actions to better understand the error and self-mitigate. Continue reading...

Please take a look at the following blog post by @Joseph Pilov (and team) to get detailed explanations, causes, and user actions for the top 25 most common SQL Server Engine errors! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-support-blog/top-25-sql-server-engine-errors-based-on-support-case-volumes/ba-p/3753927 You will find error details (E.g., Event ID, Source, component etc.), explanation, causes, and user actions to better understand the error and self-mitigate. Continue reading...

Welcome to Azure Data Factory’s February monthly update! Here we’ll share the latest updates on what’s new in Azure Data Factory. You can find all our updates here. We’ll also be hosting our monthly livestream next week on March 14h, 2023! Join us to see some live demos and to ask us your ADF questions! Join the livestream . Table of Contents Data movement Anonymous authentication type supported for Azure Blob storage [Learn more] Updated SAP template to easily move SAP data to ADLSGen2 in Delta format [Learn more] Monitoring Container monitoring view available in default ADF studio [Learn more] Orchestration Set pipeline…

Azure VMware Solution encryption with customer-managed keys is now Generally Available. Customer-managed keys give customers maximum control over their encrypted vSAN data on Azure VMware Solution. With this feature, customers can use Azure Key Vault to generate customer managed keys and centralize the key management process. Azure VMware Solution is a VMware validated first party Azure service from Microsoft that provides private clouds containing VMware vSphere clusters built from dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. It enables customers to leverage their existing investments in VMware skills and tools, allowing them to focus on developing and running their…

Sysmon 1.1 for Linux This update to Sysmon for Linux, an advanced host monitoring tool, adds support for a wider range of distributions (e.g., RHEL) by leveraging BTF enabled kernels. Contig v1.83 This release for Contig, a single-file defragmenter, fixes a bug preventing the 64-bit Contig64.exe from working, fixes a path parsing bug, and adds support for ARM64. ProcDump 1.4.1 for Linux This update to ProcDump for Linux, a flexible tool for manual and trigger-based process dump generation, adds the capability to generate dumps based on the contents of an exception message. Process Monitor v3.93 Process Monitor, a utility for observing real-time …

We’re excited to announce the Microsoft Teams Productivity Summit is back. During this event, we’ll share fresh content tailored to help you drive real innovation in your organization. Throughout the week of April 17thth – April 21st, we will discuss the Microsoft Viva employee engagement platform, Microsoft Teams call queue scheduling app, Microsoft Teams Premium, Power Automate in Teams, AI in Teams, and Frontline worker scenarios. RSVP through the session-specific registration links listed below, and feel free to forward this invite to anyone else within your organization. Session agendas details are listed in each registration link. In addition, targ…