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In this Data Exposed episode with Anna Hoffman and Perry Skountrianos, we will discuss the new capability in SQL Server 2022 that introduces new cross platform T-SQL commands to perform a snapshot backup of your user databases. We will cover the use cases to when database administrators and developers would want to leverage this capability, along with an end-to-end demo and usage considerations. Resources: Create a Transact-SQL snapshot backup - SQL Server Continue reading...

In this Data Exposed episode with Anna Hoffman and Perry Skountrianos, we will discuss the new capability in SQL Server 2022 that introduces new cross platform T-SQL commands to perform a snapshot backup of your user databases. We will cover the use cases to when database administrators and developers would want to leverage this capability, along with an end-to-end demo and usage considerations. Resources: Create a Transact-SQL snapshot backup - SQL Server View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...

We are excited to announce all Microsoft Sentinel out-of-the-box (OOTB) content and solutions are available in content hub allowing customers to easily discover and manage packaged solutions for end-to-end SOC use cases based on products, domains, or industry. With this, there are changes coming soon in Q2 FY23 to complete OOTB content centralization. The goal of these changes is to enable a consistent and a scenario-driven approach to onboarding OOTB content as per need. This article provides information on the changes with actions needed. The Microsoft Sentinel content hub enables discovery and on-demand installation of OOTB content and solutions in a single step…

Small and large businesses today need a productive and secure cloud virtualization space. Windows 365 Cloud PCs and Azure Virtual Desktop VDI resources are that! Whether your organization has already chosen a solution or not, quench your appetite for the latest best practices with this week’s selection. Start at the top for side-by-side comparisons of Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 or jump right into the solution that fits your interest. Time to learn: 101 minutes [attachment=34602:name]READ Manage Cloud PCs and Virtual Desktops - Training Explore the differences between Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 so you better understand how to c…

Register Now Microsoft’s Power Platform empowers everyone to be a maker. Those who understand a challenge best are the same people best equipped to solve them. Until now programming languages and coding experience have stood in the way of creating sophisticated and effective solutions. The Power Platform toolset brings this power to all. Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help you meet your mission by leveraging your existing investments. Microsoft Federal is hosting a FedMake event focused on helping the Federal Civilian Government meet their mission using the Power Platform. This is a no-cost, in-person, hands-on, hackathon style event facilitated by…

Processing health insurance claims can be quite complex. This complexity is driven by a few factors, such as the messaging standards, the exchange protocol, workflow orchestration, all the way to the ingestion of the claim information in a standardize and scalable data stores. To enable operational, financial, and patient-centric data analytics, the claims data stores are often mapped to patient health records at the cohort, organization, or even population level. What is X12 EDI? Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) defines a messaging mechanism for unified communication across different organizations. X12 claims based processing refers to a set of standards fo…

Written by Henry Yan (Sr. Product Marketing Manager) Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency. Cloud environments are dynamic in nature with applications commonly deployed as code and continuously scaling up and down. This makes it more challenging for organizations to secure their applications and gain visibility into application traffic. Organizations need a holistic view of their environment and granular controls to be able to understand risk exposure and protect against emerging …

Author(s): Gilles L'Hérault is a Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. It’s one thing to be a great Azure Service, it’s another to also be easy and efficient to manage. This is part one of our “Enterprise readiness” series for Azure Synapse Data Explorer. We will focus on how customers can leverage enterprise ready features to keep their data safe. Part two will cover how we help customers “keep the lights on” (i.e., Running operation costs) for their Azure Synapse Data Explorer investment while not overburdening their existing operational load. Keeping the data safe When working with Azure Synapse Data Explorer, it'…

It took less than a week for OpenAI’s ChatGPT to reach a million users, and it crossed the 100 million user mark in under two months. The interest and excitement around this technology has been remarkable. Users around the world are seeing potential for applying these large language models to a broad range of scenarios. In the context of enterprise applications, the question we hear most often is “how do I build something like ChatGPT that uses my own data as the basis for its responses?” The combination of Azure Cognitive Search and Azure OpenAI Service yields an effective solution for this scenario. It integrates the enterprise-grade characteristics of Azu…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 48 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=34558:name] AI Producer - Managed Application: Democratize video production and enhance your Microsoft Teams meetings with AI Producer. This managed application allows users to engage and share information through live webinars, townhall meetings, interactive events, and broadcasts. [attachment=34559:name] Analytics 365: Analytics 365, a native app for Microsoft Teams, promotes collaboration and customer engagement to drive bus…

Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool that you can use to visualize and analyze data from various sources. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to connect Power BI to an Azure Database for MySQL flexible server to ensure that you can get the most out of your data. Today we’re happy to announce that now, with a single click, you can open a database connection to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server in Power BI Desktop. With Power BI Desktop, you can build advanced queries, models, and reports that visualize data. You can also build data models, create reports, and share your work by publishing it to the Power BI service. Power BI Desktop is free to…

Azure Availability Zones (AZ) provide protection from datacenter failures by using in-region redundancy between datacenters in separate zones, each with its own independent infrastructure. If a zone is impacted by an outage, another zone will be used instead, automatically. Availability Zone support in North Europe makes the service processes in this region more resilient to datacenter outages, without requiring user intervention or extra charges. To ensure you also keep your data safe and available in the face of a datacenter outage, link your workspace to a dedicated cluster that uses Availability Zones (now enabled by default in regions that support AZ). For mor…

Welcome back to our series on OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel! Today we will explore another use case for OpenAI's wildly popular language model and take a look at the Sentinel REST API. If you don't already have a Microsoft Sentinel instance, you can create one using a free Azure account and follow the Sentinel onboarding quickstart. You'll also need a personal OpenAI account with an API key. Ready? Let's get started! One of the tasks that security practitioners face is how to rapidly consume analytics rules, queries, and definitions to understand why an alert was triggered. For example, here is an example of a relatively short Microsoft Sentinel analytics rul…

For many in education, Microsoft Teams is the collaboration platform that allows students and educators to chat, share files, and collaborate on projects. Like many apps, Microsoft Teams uses cache to store temporary data, such as chat history and files. While the cache is useful for improving performance, it can also become cluttered over time and slow down the app. Deleting the cache can help improve Microsoft Teams performance by reducing the amount of temporary data stored which can also free up storage space. The Microsoft Teams cache can be deleted manually by deleting all the files and folders in the %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams directory for each user profile…

So you are a code first developer, meaning you write code for a living. You may be considering using a low code platform or you're already using it. In this article, we will look at Microsoft Power Platform and specifically Canvas apps. We will at Power Platform in a specific way namely debugging. So what do we mean by debugging? When you code, you need to figure out that the code does what it should. For example, you are fetching data from somewhere and you want to transform it in such a way that you're able to get the data you need from it and can display it. As a developer, you have a few different approaches you use for "debugging" namely: - log/assertio…

Imagine you've just launched a new product, and you're eager to hear what customers think about it. You want to create a customer satisfaction survey that's both visually appealing and user-friendly. So, where do you start? Microsoft Forms, of course! With Microsoft Forms, you can create a custom survey that looks professional and captures valuable insights. You can choose from a range of AI-generated themes or upload your own images to create a personalized cover page and theme for your survey. For this case, let’s say you are launching a new laptop. It’s so good that you want to use an image of the laptop as the cover page and theme. Make sure to select backg…

Today we’re very excited to announce the public preview of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes with the Remote Desktop client for Azure Virtual Desktop! This new feature allows you to subscribe to a workspace or connect to a particular desktop or Remote App via two URI schemes, ms-avd and ms-rd, and allows for fast and efficient end user connection to AVD resources. The Remote Desktop client for Windows is the currently supported client for URI schemes. As we proceed through Public Preview, we will evaluate support for other clients as well. Please refer to our documentation for known limitations and example commands. Key benefits Enable customers…

No Dia Internacional da Mulher, celebramos o potencial de mulheres e meninas em todos os lugares e suas ideias e inovações que estão moldando nosso futuro. O mercado de tecnologia é um dos que mais cresce no mundo e ao longo de décadas, tivemos mulheres como pioneiras na inovação, marcando a história da humanidade e trazendo vida à nossa era digital, desde o primeiro algoritmo. No entanto, atualmente enfrentamos um gap da presença feminina na área de tecnologia. As mulheres representam somente 25% da força de trabalho na indústria digital (ONU Mulheres Brasil, 2018) e ganham até 34% a menos do que homens no setor (PNAD – IBGE, 2018). Essas disparidades nascem na ra…

Heya folks, Ned here again. With the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25314, we have started disabling the Remote Mailslot protocol by default. This is a precursor to deprecation and eventual removal from Windows. You aren't using this extremely legacy protocol unless you're also using the deprecated and disabled-by-default SMB1 protocol, so 99.97% of you have nothing to worry about. For those who are, a bit more information: Remote Mailslots The Remote Mailslot protocol is a very old, simple, unreliable, insecure inter-process communication method. A server creates a mailslot and a client writes messages to it using NetBIOS datagrams as a transport…

This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits Hello to our Great NTA non-profit organizations. A few organizations recently inquired about how they can use the LinkedIn Sales Navigator solution with Dynamics 365 Sales. The LinkedIn Sales Navigator solution is available for Dynamics 365 Sales Professional. Administrator must integrate the solution with your sales professional app and add the contr…

First impressions matter! Especially if it is the first call from a new or potential patient. Phone calls are a direct method of patient care and outreach and must be routed efficiently and to the right person. Teams Phone can provide your patients & care givers with a convenient way to communicate quickly, while protecting the clinic from being inundated with calls that can be handled by other channels. In a typical clinic, you will need the ability for patients to ask follow-up questions from their appointments or refill prescriptions, but items like billing and scheduling are handled by centralized departments at another location. Your basic call routing sc…

This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits Non-profit organizations often operate on limited budgets, making it challenging to invest in expensive technology infrastructure. However, technology can be a game-changer for non-profit organizations, helping them to operate more efficiently and serve their communities better. Microsoft NTA provides non-profits with access to cutting-edge technology and res…

Thousands of enterprise customers globally entrust the Microsoft Edge mobile app to keep their data secure and protected while browsing on mobile devices. Today, we're announcing a new way for users to download and access files securely on mobile devices, beginning with version 111 of the Edge mobile app. Instead of downloading and saving files locally on mobile devices - which can put enterprise data at risk - users can now securely download and save files from the Edge mobile app to OneDrive so they can access them later. Previously, customers with high bars for security fought potential data leakage on mobile devices by blocking users from saving files to local …

Scenario: You have an Event hub which receives events from Databricks. Suddenly, you observe that after receiving few messages, you encounter below error: AMQPConnectionError: Unable to open authentication session on connection b'EHProducer-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'. Please confirm target hostname exists: b'xxxxxxx.servicebus.windows.net' You start Wondering! May be your Event Hub namespace doesn’t exist or someone has deleted accidentally. You navigate to Azure portal and check Event Hub namespace exists and even you were continuously receiving messages in Event Hubs. Then what could be the reason for the above error to be encounte…

As part of the Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Initiative, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we’re excited to highlight women-owned businesses, their solutions, and their journeys growing their business on the marketplace during Women’s History Month in March. This month, the marketplace community blog will feature a series of interviews with women leaders in our ISV community. Today on International Women’s Day, we kick-off this series with Harmke Alkemade, AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and Co-Founder at Friendly Flows. Friendly Flows enables workflow solutions that power cross-functional, collaborative activity. The Friendly F…