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We have heard a lot of buzz about the cloud of the last several years as more and more organizations begin to move existing workloads to the cloud, or deploy new ones there. One thing that can sometimes be overlooked is data protection in the cloud. There’s lots of things that can happen to your data, from an accidental deletion to someone maliciously deleting files, not to mention the ever present threat of ransomware. Let’s face it, sometimes things also just happen, like an application upgrade goes awry and we need to roll back to an earlier point in time. No matter what the case, data protection remains one of the most critical but overlooked aspects …

Set up a high performance hybrid quantum compute environment in your own Azure Quantum workspace, and run your code on real quantum machines. See the latest advances, core concepts, and Microsoft’s distinct topological approach to get us closer to realizing the world’s first scalable quantum machine with Azure Quantum Computing. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Azure Quantum VP, Krysta Svore, joins host Apoorva Nori, to share what it is and how to set it up. Run your quantum code on real hardware. Bring the best of classical and quantum computing together. Create and build a Quantum workspace — all you need is a browser. …

The ever-growing volume of advanced cybersecurity attacks challenges even the most advanced Security Operations (SOC) teams. To help SOC teams address these challenges, Microsoft 365 Defender can now automatically disrupt advanced attacks like ransomware and BEC campaigns. It uses high-confidence eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) signals across endpoints, identities, email, and SaaS apps to stop attack progression and limit the impact to organizations. While in Private Preview, Microsoft 365 Defender disrupted a total of 38 BEC attacks across 27 organizations – clearly showcasing the efficacy and impact the new capability will have to support SOC teams. To help…

Start monitoring Delivery Optimization usage and performance across your organization today! Following the Windows Update for Business reports announcement back in November 2022, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Delivery Optimization Windows Update for Business report. We genuinely appreciate those of you who participated in the public preview! You helped us verify the accuracy of the new data tables and revise the layout. Your responses helped us identify and address all critical issues, so it can now be offered to all Delivery Optimization users. In this article, find guidance to: Get started with Windows Update for Business reports Cus…

We’re pleased to announce the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector (Preview) for Power Apps, a low-code platform that enables you to build custom applications quickly and easily. Use the connector with Microsoft Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps to connect to and query data from a MySQL flexible server. Most applications need to connect to a data source to enable a use case for your needs. With the connector enabled in Azure Database for MySQL, you'll have a fully functional app that you can customize and share on any device. The connector allows you to perform read, write, and delete operations with data stored in Azure Database for MySQL. …

Welcome to our series on OpenAI and Microsoft Sentinel! Large language models, or LLMs, such as OpenAI's GPT3 family are taking over the public imagination with innovative use cases such as text summarization, human-like conversation, code parsing and debugging, and many other examples. We've seen ChatGPT write screenplays and poetry, compose music, write essays, and even translate computer code from one language to another. What if we could harness some of this incredible potential to help incident responders in a Security Operations Center? Well, we sure can - and it's easy! Microsoft Sentinel already includes a built-in connector for OpenAI GPT3 models that …

Start monitoring Delivery Optimization usage and performance across your organization today! Following the Windows Update for Business reports announcement back in November 2022, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Delivery Optimization Windows Update for Business report. We genuinely appreciate those of you who participated in the public preview! You helped us verify the accuracy of the new data tables and revise the layout. Your responses helped us identify and address all critical issues, so it can now be offered to all Delivery Optimization users. In this article, find guidance to: Get started with Windows Update for Business reports Cus…

In this tutorial, we will show how to use the free Azure Data Explorer (ADX/Kusto) cluster offering and the Kusto Logstash connector to collect, ingest and analyze real-time Bitcoin rates and The New York Times news reports, including the ability to visualize news reports and their corresponding categories within a selected time frame. The end result: a dashboard that presents news reports and Bitcoin rates, over time. We will use Logstash's http_poller plugin to pull real-time data from external sources into Kusto. Then, we'll use Kusto to transform, query and visualize the data. Here is the high-level architecture of this tutorial: Step 1: Crea…

We will show how to call Azure Function App HTTP trigger from Logic App using HTTP action and AAD OAuth certificate; in this article, we will be using a self-signed certificate: 1. Using Windows PowerShell, Create and export a self-signed certificate. $cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -subject "certificateSubject" Export-Certificate -Cert $cert -FilePath certificateFileName.cer -Type CERT 2. Export the certificate created in step 1 to pfx base64 encoded bytes. $mypwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "password" -Force -AsPlainText $cert | Export-PfxCertificate -FilePath pfxFileName.pfx -Password $mypwd $pfx_cert = [sy…

Building a startup like every other path requires putting in effort and being dedicated and most importantly, staying focused. For a startup to last long and survive the storms, it needs to be based on a good idea. What makes an idea worth it? What are some things you should take note of while building your startup? In the last blog of this series, we wanted to respond to this and other questions. You might have related to building a startup. This blog is based off a Microsoft Learn path, Build an early-stage startup. This Microsoft Learn path contains some of the best tips you can ever get to help you build a successful startup. These tips have helped me when work…

Overview As a student, there are several reasons why learning Azure Cosmos DB (Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database service) can be beneficial: High Demand: Azure Cosmos DB is a rapidly growing technology that is in high demand in the industry. It is used by organizations across various sectors and industries, including healthcare, finance, e-commerce, and more. Learning Azure Cosmos DB can increase your employability and make you a more competitive job candidate. Scalability: Azure Cosmos DB is designed to be highly scalable, enabling it to handle large volumes of data and provide high performance. As data continues to grow in volume…

Hack Together is a hackathon for beginners 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 and develop apps based on the given Top Microsoft Graph Scenarios, for a chance to win exciting prizes. Check out our announcement post to learn more about the hack: Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET. Hack Together will run online from March 1-15, 2023. Hear from our team – why you should join us. Register today! In the first week of Hack Together, we hosted two live sessions to kickstart Hack Together and show you how to get started building apps with Mic…

Hack Together is a hackathon for beginners 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 and develop apps based on the given Top Microsoft Graph Scenarios, for a chance to win exciting prizes. Check out our announcement post to learn more about the hack: Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET. Hack Together will run online from March 1-15, 2023. Hear from our team – why you should join us. Register today! In the first week of Hack Together, we hosted two live sessions to kickstart Hack Together and show you how to get started building apps with Mic…

Introduction Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia. This is part 2 of Monitoring Storage Replication, if you missed part 1 you can find it HERE. In part 1, we configured an Automation Runbook to collect replication data for Storage Accounts and stored it in a custom table in a Log Analytics workspace. In this post, I will demonstrate how you can leverage that data stored in Log Analytics to generate Azure Alerts which trigger a Logic App and send a customized email to the owner of the Storage Account which is defined as a tag value of the Storage Account. Pre-Requisites Before we begin, plea…

We are happy to announce that SCOM 2019 & SCOM 2022 now have support for OpenSSL 3.0 which means that we are officially adding support for the latest Linux versions such as Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 via the Universal Linux MPs! The latest support matrix for SCOM 2019 can be seen HERE The latest support matrix for SCOM 2022 can be seen HERE Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are highly popular Linux flavours with a vast and committed user-base, and supporting their latest needs is a priority for us and it is in line with our increased focus on making SCOM the tool-to-use for Linux Monitoring. For SCOM 2019, you can start monitoring Ubuntu …

Storage queues are like service bus queue, the messages are not designed to store permanent like blobs/files, once the receiver processes the messages, they would be deleted. As queues use a publisher subscriber model, and the data is transient it may be easiest to recreate the queue. Please follow the below steps to migrate Azure Queue Data from one Storage account to another storage account: List all queues from the source storage account. create queues with the same names in the Target Storage account. Read every message from the source and write them to the destination. Guidelines: Your client must have network access to both the source and destination …

PgBouncer is widely used with Postgres to provide connection pooling. It is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install piece of software. The general idea is to specify n number of connections allowed to PgBouncer and m connections allowed to Postgres itself where m is much less than n. A typical configuration is to set PgBouncer to transaction mode. This allows PgBouncer to multiplex the “real” connections to Postgres as transactions are committed or rolled back. Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server offers PgBouncer as a built-in option, wherein customers can easily enable PgBouncer from Azure Postgres server parameters and update the app connection string to tal…

Hello from the Project Team! The February updates for Project for the web are as follows: New Features Extended Timeline Zoom ~ Get a more complete picture of your long-term project in the Timeline view by using 4 new zoom scale options. Custom Working Calendars ~ Set your team’s custom work week directly in Project for the web. Upcoming Features Advanced Dependencies ~ Set non-default dependencies between tasks such as Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish and Start-to-Finish dependencies. Assigned to Me ~ View and update project tasks assigned to you in the “Assigned to me” tab in Planner, Tasks in Teams, and To Do. Continue reading...

Azure Databricks announced today the general availability of Model Serving. Azure Databricks Model Serving deploys machine learning models as a REST API, allowing you to build real-time ML applications like personalized recommendations, customer service chatbots, fraud detection, and more - all without the hassle of managing serving infrastructure. This is the first real-time inference feature to launch under this service. To learn about the full announcement, you can read the original post here or join our webinar. "With Databricks Model Serving, we can now train, deploy, monitor, and retrain machine learning models, all on the same platform. By bringi…

We are excited to announce the release of Storage Explorer 1.28.0 that will help enhance our developer’s experience while accessing a variety of storage services! Storage Explorer 1.28.0: Storage Explorer strives to make it easy for developers to quickly access and manage many storage services under different accounts. After analyzing customer research and telemetry, version 1.28.0 will include new updates/features that will benefit our developers’ journey. To highlight a few features, the Storage Explorer 1.28.0 now allows for Text preview enhancements and downloading multiple blobs at once when filtering based on a tag:   Text Pre…

As we know, we can link existing Azure function app to Azure static web app. After that, the Azure Functions app will be mapped to the /api route of your static web app. In the following example, function app tonytesthttp has been linked to static web app. When we try to access the function app outside static webapp, we will encounter Bad Request error. We understand that the static web app must do something to block the request. We can try to unlink the function app from static web app. However, you will find the function app still encounters the same error. How can we make our function app back to normal? If you read the official…

Who can attend Techies Meetup? Everyone and anyone interested in technology. Our goal is to empower all attendees, giving you all access to the tools, resources and knowledge you need to succeed in tech. We want to connect students and rising developers who are passionate about technology and eager to learn new skills with like-minded individuals both in-person at Microsoft's Office in Nigeria and online. Technology is evolving and we want to provide you all with the resources you need to evolve too. This 2hours hybrid event will cover a variety of topics. What should you expect to learn at Techies Meetup? The event begins at exactly 11:00am GMT+1 and …

We’re on a mission to make Azure Database for PostgreSQL the best destination for migrating or modernizing your open-source enterprise workloads to Azure. For this reason, we are dedicated to releasing features and capabilities that are integral to developing mission critical applications in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. Today we’re excited to share the recent feature announcements available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server that will help protect your data more securely, improve credential management, and provide better control over your databases. Improve database security and credential management with the general availability o…

Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server represents the realization of our efforts to deliver an intuitive and fully managed MySQL database service that you can onboard easily and operate effortlessly. Today, we’re pleased to announce a new set of integrations with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server and the Microsoft Power Platform that make it easier to develop with our service and offer the ability to do more with less by using low-code tools to analyze data, automate processes, and build apps. Build low-code apps using the Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Apps (public preview) You can now use the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Ser…

Overview: Azure Open-Source Day was buzzing with excitement as we unveiled the Public Preview of JSON Support (RedisJSON) for Active Geo-Replication in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tiers! This exciting new feature brings document-style data storage capabilities to Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise, allowing you to store, query, and search JSON-formatted data and objects on active geo-replicated caches. Now, developers can use a rich set of JSON commands and functions to interact with their data in up to five geo-replicated regions, ensuring that their data remains highly available and accessible to their data from anywhere. Additionally, this…