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Organizations are seeing massive growth in their digital estate as they continue their digitization journey. Your business runs on content – proposals, contracts, invoices, designs, plans, training videos, and more. Every day, customers add over 1.6 billion new documents to Microsoft 365. Microsoft Syntex brings advanced AI from the Microsoft Cloud to your M365 content, simplifying your everyday business processes at scale. With this exponential content growth, it’s increasingly important to manage and govern your digital estate diligently. For many organizations, Microsoft SharePoint site content sprawl and oversharing are real problems, no matter your size or geogr…

Attestation signing for Windows device drivers was introduced to allow a fast path for testing critical driver functionality and security fixes. For retail audiences however, our intention has always been that drivers should be signed through the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) release signing process creating a consistent baseline for defining a high-quality driver. Offering attestation signed drivers to non-test audiences contradicts the quality expectations Microsoft holds itself to. Attestation Signed Driver Publishing Update Moving forward, requests for Microsoft to publish attestation signed drivers targeting retail audiences to Windows Updat…

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 Nonprofit Operations Toolkit is built on Microsoft’s Power Platform and integrates seamlessly with Office 365 capabilities. The toolkit consists of Power Apps that use familiar tools such as Excel and SharePoint to keep critical information accurate and accessible. The toolkit makes use of key tables included in the Dynamics 365 Nonprofit Accelerator includin…

We got a service request that our customer reported that after a planned maintenance the extended event that they created Lesson Learned #1: Capturing a TSQL Command Timeout - Microsoft Community Hub is not longer captures the events. In this situation, we saw that the Azure SQL Database was scaled up and our customer is not using the parameter called STARTUP_STATE , so, our customer needs to start it manually. CREATE EVENT SESSION (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn CREATE EVENT SESSION ssEventoTimeout ON DATABASE ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_batch_completed ( ACTION (sqlserver.client_app_name,sqlserver.client_connection_id,sqlserver.client_…

We got an error while copying a database from one server to another server or the same server using T-SQL command: create database testcopy2 as copy of testcopy(Service_Objective='S2') Msg 40619, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The edition 'Standard' does not support the database data max size '3221225472'. Steps to reproduce this error: 1. Create the source db with Maxsize=3GB/4GB with any SLO(Vcore or DTU). Here I am using General Purpose 2 vcore as an example. 2. From SSMS try to create a new db(target db) as copy of testcopy with (Service_Objective='S2') or any other SLO in DTU mode. It will fail with this error below Msg 40619, …

The landscape for cyberattacks has become more complex in recent years. In 2022, Microsoft security researchers tracked a 130% increase in organizations that encountered ransomware over the last year. According to a Centrify study, historically, 74 percent of data breaches originated from compromised privilege access credential abuse. Today's organizations need a new security model that more effectively protects people, devices, apps, and data wherever they're located. One of the most effective ways to limit the compromise of your endpoints is to run standard users. Today, we're announcing that Microsoft Intune Endpoint Privilege Management, part of the Microsoft In…

With hybrid work becoming the norm and workplaces more complex than ever, technology plays an even greater role in employee productivity. According to an Omdia report, going forward, more than half the workforce is set to work in a mobile or hybrid fashion over the long term. This means that C-level IT and business executives are embracing new technology, processes, and people practices supporting and securing new work styles. As work styles become increasingly diverse and the talent shortage in IT continues, maintaining a positive technology experience for a hybrid workforce while ensuring strong security becomes critical yet challenging for organizations. For far …

Around the world, employees have overwhelmingly embraced remote work. Of those given a choice, 87 percent opted for at least three days of out of office. How can companies meet the needs of their employees while navigating macroeconomic uncertainty? Today, we're announcing the general availability of Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management as part of the new Microsoft Intune Suite. This lightweight VPN solution allows workers to access on-premises resources from unenrolled personal mobile devices. Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management (MAM) allows companies to embrace bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies instead of purchasing corporate devic…

Working from the office, from home, or anywhere in between, the endpoint is now the new workplace. More than ever, helping your workers quickly overcome technical barriers to healthy and performant endpoints is mission-critical. Microsoft Intune Remote Help launched in April of 2022. It was the first of many Microsoft advanced endpoint management solutions planned for release. Today we launched the Microsoft Intune Suite that includes Remote Help. We continue to invest in Remote Help to deliver added security value, help drive efficiency for both users and IT support, and add functionality for the helper to resolve issues more quickly and easily. Our roadmap for Remote…

For organizations that strive to achieve a Zero Trust security model, reducing the risk of cyber-attacks involving unmanaged devices is mission-critical. Microsoft is expanding the device types that Microsoft Intune can manage to specialty devices. With the launch of the Microsoft Intune Suite, IT can proactively manage and configure purpose-built devices that may be widely used across the organization, such as Teams Room and AR/VR devices, wearable headsets, and other devices that may be unattended. Device diversity continues to grow as employees use an assortment of devices as part of their job. Each device increases management responsibilities and the attack sur…

Microsoft knows that migrating a large organization to a new unified endpoint management (UEM) platform can be difficult. We in Microsoft Intune are committed to making the journey easier. For many organizations, the benefits of switching to Intune are clear, but the process of moving from one endpoint management solution to another can seem complicated. This is why we've spoken to IT leaders, IT admins and SecOps stakeholders from across the globe over the past few years: to learn where we can do more and create a program that better addresses those needs. The resulting ‘Invitation to Intune' initiative is for large commercial organizations. with 5,000+ users, that ar…

Misconfiguration exploits, a growing volume of vulnerabilities, lack of visibility and a flood of duplicative recommendations continue to challenge the security teams while exposing organizations to significant risks. To mitigate risks at scale and bolster your threat prevention strategy, we have shared our strategy for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management last year to help mitigate risks proactively at scale and bolster your threat prevention strategy. Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of premium capabilities in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to identify, assess, prioritize…

Introduction The SQL injection attack (SQLI) remains one of the most critical attack in OWASP Top 10 and it consists of injection of a SQL query via the input data from a client to the web application. Azure Web Application Firewall (Azure WAF) detects SQLI attacks and applies block mitigations by default. In certain instances, this could be a false positive that requires investigation and creation of Azure WAF exclusions. In order to complete a successful investigation, full context about the attack is needed and a process that guides you through the investigation is required. Such a guided investigation process is automated in this Microsoft Sentinel Noteb…

Purpose Maintaining compliance with security frameworks and standards can be challenging and difficult. This is due to several reasons such as increasing number and complexity of requirements, dealing with limited skills and resources, and working with multiple teams responsible for maintaining compliance who do not share the same compliance expertise (e.g. compliance/audit, engineering/operations). A traditional approach to monitoring compliance using limited point-in-time assessments is neither scalable nor effective. This approach involves wasted resources on manual activities (interviews, sample audits, information gathering), can provide a narrow and an inac…

Many customers try to move app services to across resource groups, subscriptions or app service plan. Under certain situation, moving app services to another app service plan is necessary. For example, density of app service is high. However, when changing app service plan, a common issue could occur - the existing app service plan is not found in the drop-down list. This article will explain why it happens and will be helpful to get more insights of it. Moving an app to another app service plan We are able to simply change app service plan from Azure portal following steps in official document. Manage App Service plan - Azure App Service | Microsoft Lear…

Creating a resume to stand out is very important as you embark on your job search journey. In the first part of this blog, we shared some tips on things to take note of when working on your resume. You can read that blog here: How to create an outstanding resume Both the last blog and this one is based off tips shared in this Microsoft Learn path. You should check it out. Now let's dive right in. Ready? Let's go! The next section we want you to include in your resume is Experiences/Projects. This section should contain experiences and projects you have worked on. Depending on the type and amount of professional experience you've acquired, determi…

Background: There would be scenarios where Customers would require to find the Storage Account capacity with segregation of soft delete, Version, snapshot and Active data. Calculate the size of a Blob storage Blob Inventory: The Azure Storage blob inventory feature provides an overview of your containers, blobs, snapshots, and blob versions within a storage account. Use the inventory report to understand various attributes of blobs and containers such as your total data size, age, encryption status, immutability policy, and legal hold and so on. The report provides an overview of your data for business and compliance requirements. For more details, p…

Introduction In part 1 we saw how to send a custom event telemetry to an Azure Application Insights instance through PowerShell. We did track our Azure Virtual Network IP addresses consumption, we will now automate this tracking every 30 minutes through a Timer Trigger Azure Function App. The Azure Function will be deployed through Bicep. Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) that uses declarative syntax to deploy Azure resources. It provides concise syntax, reliable type safety, and support for code reuse. According to Microsoft documentation Bicep offers the best authoring experience for your infrastructure-as-code solutions in Azure. …

New features in Teams (free) on desktop and web Easier to invite Teams for work or school users to Teams (free) meetings You can now include Teams for work or school account users to meetings you create on desktop in Teams (free). Just type the recipient’s email address the normal way in the recipient field when creating a new meeting and the invited recipient can then accept the invite to have it in their Teams calendar, allowing easier meeting joins. Learn more about how to Create a meeting in Microsoft Teams (free). You can just type the work or school user’s email address into the recipient field and then select them when prompted to invite them t…

Every month, our team curates content around a particular theme. This month's content will empower you to build scalable serverless apps with Power Platform and Azure — all using low code. Explore the latest on Power Platform, Power Apps, and Dataverse with new learning content from Microsoft SMEs. --- Featured Content on Low Code Fusion development teams and low code as a traditional developer Do you want to empower your development team to build better apps, faster? Power Apps can be a powerful tool for citizen developers and traditional developers alike. Learn how a new software development paradigm called Fusion Development teams can help. W…

Welcome to the February 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! This month is all about Teams Premium. We had a big announcement earlier this month that highlighted the new features and use cases in Teams Premium. What I am most excited about are the new AI features being built into Teams and to see AI being deployed in a useful way for everyday knowledge workers. New AI features such as Intelligent Recap allow all of us to be more productive and focus on tasks that matter. Rather than taking meticulous notes or recalling key moments from meetings, Intelligent Recap will do that work for us while we focus on other tasks and connections. I will not go through every feature de…

Welcome to the monthly Healthcare and Life Sciences blog recap, February edition! Check out the highlights below: Azure DevOps OpenAI’s GPT-3 to Triage Azure DevOps Bugs: Interested in tracking and managing defects in your code? Learn how you can use Open AI to track Azure DevOps Bugs. Read the post here. Setup Azure DevOps Self Hosted Agent: Lean how to set up Azure DevOps self hosted agent on-premise and troubleshooting guidelines. Read the post here. Exclude & Include Work Item Types in Azue DevOps Projects: Learn how to customize Azure DevOps standard process templates. See the post here. Importing Business Requirements from Microsoft Word i…

Welcome to the February 2023 update. This month we are bringing the ability to manually sort row and column values in PivotTables to users of Excel for the web. For Insiders, those using Excel for Windows can check out automatic recalculation optimization and blocking untrusted XLL add-ins; and those using Excel for Mac, Power Query Editor to import data from SQL Server databases - as well as from additional sources such as SharePoint, local files, OData, and many others. Curious to see how we at Excel utilize and implement your feedback? You can now see which features are a direct result of your feedback as they'll be marked with the Feedback In Action tile #FIA. …

Total Identity Compromise: DART lessons on securing Active Directory When the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) is engaged during an incident, almost all environments include an on-premises Active Directory component. In most of these engagements, threat actors have taken full control of Active Directory –i.e., total domain compromise. Total domain compromise often starts with the compromise of a regular non-privileged user rather than a domain admin. Threat actors can use that account to discover misconfiguration and attack paths in Active Directory that lead to full domain control. Oftentimes, threat actors leverage freely available tools such a…

Introducing Azure Communication Services UI Library to Xamarin & .NET MAUI Azure Communication Services provides Calling Composite experiences on mobile platforms, a library that makes it easy for developers to include a calling experience into their application. With a goal of empowering more mobile developers worldwide; the Azure Communication Services team is excited to share that we have created a .NET MAUI and Xamarin sample to showcase how to introduce calling capabilities into your current applications. What is the UI Library The Azure Communication Services UI library offers Composites, that takes only a couple lines of code to add and configu…