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Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool that can help healthcare workers communicate, collaborate, and provide quality care to their patients. One of the benefits of using Teams in healthcare is that it can easily be extended to provide a secure platform for telehealth appointments. With Teams Premium, you can customize the lobby and pre-join experience with your organization’s logos and colors. You also have the option to publish video backgrounds across the organization so your staff can easily select them when sharing video during a telehealth appointment. In this post, you will learn how to customize the meeting experience in Teams to create a more personal and…

Are you an open source developer who wants to learn how to build intelligent apps, and with other, likeminded people in your country or region? To help bring open source communities across the globe together, Microsoft is hosting a series of events around the world that will be based on Azure Open Source Day and provide attendees numerous additional experiences & benefits. Connect and network with local open source developers, with food & venue provided In-person and virtual watch parties for Azure Open Source Day Additional technical commentary and advanced content presented by Microsoft subject matter experts, partners, and open source thoug…

With more than 1000 identity attacks occurring each second1, government agencies are tasked with serving the public amidst the most challenging cybersecurity environment in history. Protecting the freedom of citizens makes them a prime target for bad actors across the cyberthreat ecosystem, from nation-state attacks on our infrastructure to identity compromise. Expanding security threats put federal agencies and their most critical data at risk. With recent innovations like phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA) from Azure Active Directory - part of Microsoft Entra - government customers can deliver on their policy objectives, while adhering to cybers…

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! What’s happening in week #1 of Hack Together? In the first week of Hack Together, we’ll host two live sessions to kickstart Hack Together a…

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There’s been a lot of interest in the ad-hoc/virtual visit workflow and the use of a custom launcher. We have customers doing this today, which helps simplify the use of communication platform interfaces in the context of physician and clinician workflow. One topic that comes up is specifically how this fits into the EMR. Whereas the EMR Virtual Appointments with Teams for Epic and Oracle Health (Cerner) are packaged offerings, doing tailored launch deployment has a few more steps to it—but it doesn’t require moving mountains either :> . It can also be done with other EMR platforms where there isn’t a pre-packaged connector available. In this video, I dis…

A new Azure SQL DB feature in late 2022, sp_invoke_rest_endpoint lets you send data to REST API endpoints from within T-SQL. It sounds like a simple feature, but has the potential to change the way you architecture your database applications and data transformation processes. Learn more in this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition with Rob Farley. Resources: sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint (Transact-SQL) (Preview) Real-time streaming in Power BI Datasets - Execute Queries Github About Rob Farley: Rob Farley lives in Adelaide, Australia where he runs the local data and analytics user group, as well as being a mentor, conference presenter, stand…

I've written before about the power of Microsoft Purview data policies, and more recently about the Microsoft Purview DevOps policies (see here). In this article, I will detail how you can use DevOps policies as an inexpensive solution to provision access at-scale for IT/DevOps personnel tasked with monitoring and auditing SQL system health, performance, and security. Microsoft Purview governance is well known for its ability to map, search and classify a customer's data estate. But there is a lot more. For example, the Microsoft Purview Data policy App is seamlessly integrated with the data map and can help you provision user access to data sources and datasets. I…

Join Microsoft at GTC, a global technology conference running March 20 – 23, 2023, to learn how organizations of any size can power AI innovation with purpose-built cloud infrastructure from Microsoft. Microsoft’s Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure is uniquely designed for AI workloads and helps build and train some of the industry’s most advanced AI solutions. From data preparation to model and infrastructure performance management, Azure’s comprehensive portfolio of powerful and massively scalable GPU-accelerated virtual machines (VMs) and seamless integration with services like Azure Batch and open-source solutions helps streamline management and automation…

This month, we’re taking a closer look at change management in IT administration. Highlighting a few innovations and resources that’s been developed to help IT departments of large and small organizations manage change effectively. We also recently completed the migration of our Office 365 community to Microsoft 365 on Tech Community, bringing the previously disconnected spaces together and improving the overall experience. Lastly, learn more about the highly anticipated Microsoft 365 Conference that will be held in Las Vegas in May. Let’s dive in! Effectively managing change (Without too many spoilers, change management is going to be a recurring theme in…

The Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) is an ecosystem of independent software vendors and managed security service providers that have integrated their solutions to better defend against a world of increasing threats. Learn about Azure Marketplace offers from members Silverfort and odix below: [attachment=33597:name] Silverfort Unified Identity Protection Platform: Silverfort consolidates security controls across corporate networks and cloud environments to block identity-based attacks. The platform continuously monitors all access attempts by users and service accounts, and it analyzes risks in real time using an AI-based engine to enforce adap…

Symptom When we are browsing any site hosted on IIS and then we are getting HTTP Error 503 Service Unavailable error. Cause Some required IIS components are NOT loading properly. e.g. (The Module DLL <path-to-DLL> failed to load. The data is the error.). This can happen when that feature is not installed properly on the server. Sample errors for reference. The Module DLL C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\webdav.dll failed to load. The data is the error. Resolution First check if the Application Pool for server is started, and if stopped restart it. If the Application Pool is started and stopped again then review the Windows Applicatio…

The emergence of 5G technology has paved the way for a new breed of real-time and mission-critical apps that enable ubiquitous computing by extending connectivity from the cloud to the edge. Microsoft is committed to empowering customers with cloud-to-edge solutions, and our partner ecosystem is essential to making this a reality. Our partners are building solutions that are specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of 5G networks, powered by Azure Private 5G Core and enterprise solutions. These solutions have everything needed to get started, including network planning services, spectrum assignment, certified professional installation, and all the nec…

Recently, we assisted a customer who was facing slowness issues with their classic ASP web application. However, we encountered some unusual behavior. Despite detecting a slowdown of over 15 seconds in the IIS logs, the Failed Request Tracing logs did not generate any data for the "Time taken" field. To identify the root cause of the issue, we collected Perfview ETW for the classic ASP application, allowing us to load all the events and identify the modules and events that were taking the longest time to load during the problem. Here are the steps we followed : Please install the Perfview tool from Releases · microsoft/perfview Open the Perfview tool on t…

DTDL, a language to define digital twins, is being updated to version 3, along with a new open-source parser that supports v2 and v3. In this article we are explaining the new features available in v3, such as new core language updates, new feature extensions, migrating from v2 to v3 as well the new DTDL parser for .NET. If you are new to DTDL, check out the modeling guide for Azure Digital Twins and IoT Plug and Play to learn what it's designed and used for. Feature Extensions DTDL v3 has been designed to allow adding language features without requiring a new major language version. Instead, we can add extensions that can be versioned independentl…

This is part 3 of a series related to Synapse Connectivity - check out the previous blog articles: Synapse Connectivity Series Part #1 - Inbound SQL DW connections on Public Endpoints Synapse Connectivity Series Part #2 - Inbound Synapse Private Endpoints In this article we are going to talk about Synapse Managed Virtual Network and Managed Private Endpoints. 1 - Synapse Managed VNET and Data Exfiltration 2 - Managed Private Endpoints 3 - Synapse Managed VNET flavors 3.1 - Option 1 - Synapse with NO VNET 3.2 - Option 2 - Synapse with Managed VNET 3.3 - Option 3 - Synapse with Managed VNET + DEP (Data Exfiltration Protection) 3.3.1 - Alternat…

Programming can sometimes be challenging and tedious whether you are a beginner or experienced developer. The frustration comes in spending long periods of time searching for code snippets to unblock coding barriers like errors or finding the best code syntax to solve a problem. Thanks to the breakthroughs in OpenAI Codex GPT-3, developers can use the AI pair programming solution that translates natural language to code in GitHub Copilot in dozens of programming languages including Python, JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, and more. In this session, we will be exploring how to use GitHub Copilot by simply describing in short sentences what we want, to solve common busin…

We are excited to join our partners live at embedded world this year! Our Azure IoT team will be out in force to discuss advancements in embedded technology, provide real-life case studies of partner solutions, and answer questions you have about our secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud technologies. Starting on 14 March and ending on 16 March, Microsoft and our partners will host sessions that include a range of topics from technology demonstrations to industry-specific case studies. NXP, Lenovo, and NVIDIA are just a few of the partners presenting with the Azure team. We hope you will join us! Register for the events with limited seating or just plan to drop into …

Continue reading to learn more about: ADX Dashboards reached General Availability JSON Path ‘Add as filters’ support Conditional formatting supports != Materialized Views scripting General Availability: ADX Dashboards We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated General Availability of ADX Dashboards! ADX Dashboards which are part of the Azure Data Explorer web UI, have a user-friendly interface, allowing users to quickly explore and analyze their data without the need for extensive technical knowledge. They offer a range of customization options and are designed to handle big data. When working with ADX Dashboards users also gain: Easy cre…

Beginning with Windows 11, version 22H2, new features and enhancements are delivered more frequently using servicing technology. Today I'll outline what will be offered in the March 2023 monthly quality update so you can better support these experiences in your organization. The same, familiar monthly update process Before I outline what's in the next update, I want to emphasize that these features and enhancements are being delivered as part of the normal Windows monthly update process. Users with eligible devices running Windows 11, version 22H2 can install the February 2023 optional non-security preview release today by visiting Windows Update settings (Setting…

Did you know that the Microsoft 365 admin center includes advanced deployment guides to help you deploy Microsoft Purview products? You can’t innovate without knowing where your data is. Gain visibility, manage data securely, and go beyond compliance with Microsoft Purview. Safeguard all your data across platforms, apps, and clouds with comprehensive solutions for information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance. "A survey of US decision-makers showed that to meet their compliance and data-protection needs, almost 80 percent had purchased multiple products, and a majority had purchased three or more.”  Source: Febr…

Issue While trying to restore the backup of an On-prem DB (That was moved from 1 server to another & Contained memory optimized table) on a managed instance, there could be a possibility of DB corruption if proper precautions are not taken. Error The impacted DBs might appear in Restoring state when we login to SSMS as shown below: If the application is connected to the DB previously, a connection refresh throws the error message shown below: Msg 64, Level 20, State 0, Line 2 A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer av…

When starting out with anything new, the key is how to get started quickly. Sometimes even knowing where to start can be difficult. For those of you working, or wanting to work with Terraform, I would like to introduce you to NubesGen. The capability to generate Bicep is still in preview, but it uses the same process. It’s a homegrown project built by folks here at Microsoft that allow you to easily generate Terraform templates using best practices. The NubesGen project is open sourced, so you can contribute to the project or raise an issue from the GitHub repo. I am going to walk you through how to quickly get started using NubesGen and have a ready to use templa…