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Monitoring Kubernetes clusters activity with Azure Managed Grafana and Calico
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Authors: Reza Ramezanpour, Dhiraj Sehgal and Tommy Falgout Cloud computing revolutionized how a business can establish its digital presence. Nowadays, by leveraging cloud features such as scalability, elasticity, and convenience, businesses can deploy, grow, or test an environment in every corner of the world without worrying about building the required infrastructure. Unlike the traditional model, which was based on notifying the service provider to set up the resources for customers in advance, in an on-demand model, cloud providers implement application programming interfaces (API) that can be used by customers to deploy resources on demand. This allows t…
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Heya folks, Ned here again. Starting in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25276, the Pro editions of Windows now disable SMB insecure guest authentication fallbacks by default. Guest logons don't require passwords & don't support standard security features like signing and encryption. Allowing a client to use guest logons makes the user vulnerable to attacker-in-the-middle scenarios or malicious server scenarios - for instance, a phishing attack that tricks a user into opening a file on a remote share or a spoofed server that tricks a client into thinking it's a legitimate one. The attacker doesn't need to know the user's credentials and a bad password is ignor…
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Build your first Web Application with Microsoft Azure
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About the Author I am pursuing my bachelor's degree from IIT Roorkee, India and a Beta Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. I am passionate about Web Development and Open-Source Contribution. I also like sharing tech information with others. Web Apps is one of the Azure services which enables users to host web applications for FREE. Azure Web Apps host user interactive websites. Now, why should students consider using Azure to build websites? Auto Scale: Azure promises 99.95% availability in its service level agreement for web apps. In helps users to scale up or scale out the web apps instances when required. Easy Deployments: Users can dire…
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Microsoft Planner integration with Viva Goals is here!
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Announced at Ignite 2022, the integration of Microsoft Planner with Viva Goals is now available. This capability enables you to view your teams' Planner tasks and update the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in Viva Goals that relate to your Planner work. You can automatically track your team's progress towards your high-level key results based on the completion of day-to-day tasks in Planner. For more information about Viva Goals, check out the Make Your Goals a Reality with OKRs and New Capabilities from Microsoft Viva Goals and 4 goal-setting trends for 2023 and how Microsoft Viva Goals can help articles. Continue reading...
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Make Your Goals a Reality with OKRs and New Capabilities from Microsoft Viva Goals
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As we enter a new year, more gyms are packed, more books are read, but within the first month, about a third of individuals will see a dissolution of their goals. Setting goals and sticking to them isn’t just a challenge for personal pursuits—it holds true for your professional life too. Organizations and business leaders are looking for ways to weather the uncertainty and economic pressures while creating an engaged workforce to achieve business objectives. One of the major challenges they face is building organizational clarity and purpose, while also trying to “do more with less”. This is where combining a goal-setting strategy with the right technology …
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BingAds SDK December 2022 Release (V13.0.15)
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We are pleased to announce the following new features, improvements, and bug fixes in the BingAds SDK December 2022 Release (V13.0.15). Key Features New API Interfaces AdInsight API: GetTextAssetSuggestionsByFinalUrls GetRecommendations [*]CustomerManagement API: New interface for SignupCustomer [*]Reporting API: Hotel Ad reporting Video reporting [*]CampaignManagement API: OnlineConversionAdjustment HotelAds New bidding schemes (PercentCpc, Commission) [*]Bulk service Bulk support for OnlineConversionAdjustment Bulk support for Hotel Ad entities, i.e. HotelAdvanceBookingWindowCriterion, HotelCheckInDayCri…
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Reach your learning goals with learning paths and collections
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In January, many of us are thinking about our goals, priorities, and aspirations for the new year. An important aspect of this is personal growth and development: what new skills do we want to develop, or experiences do we want to have? Unfortunately as the year goes on, people often forget to prioritize learning. As we get caught up in day-to-day work tasks, we put activities for longer-term growth and development on the back burner. That’s why it’s crucial for companies to create a culture of learning by embedding employee learning into everyday tools and experiences where people spend time at work. Led by people, facilitated by technology A culture of learnin…
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Configure your TempDB max size in Azure SQL Managed Instance
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In September 2022, we announced the option to configure the number of TempDB files and their growth increments. For more details, read Improve your SQL Managed Instance performance with new TempDB configurations. Today we are pleased to announce a new option to configure your TempDB max size. As expected, your new TempDB configuration will persist upon a server restart, an instance update management operation or a failover. What are TempDB size, used space and free space? TempDB size is the sum of the file sizes of all TempDB files. A TempDB file size is an allocated (zeroed) space for that TempDB file. Initial file size for all TempDB files is 16 MB. That…
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Meet the Skilling Champion Vlad Catrinescu
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The MVP Program has a long-term commitment to skilling through technical communities. In this interviews series focusing on skilling initiatives, we will be highlighting MVPs who actively contributes to the Skilling Program. Vlad Catrinescu, Canada Tell us a little about yourself. What is your focus as an MVP and what do you do professionally? “I’m an Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP which the name of the official category. The category is quite big, but I specialize in the Microsoft 365 collaboration stack, mostly from an IT PRO point of view. You will often see me speaking about Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, PowerShell, and more. Professional…
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Lesson Learned #281: Export fails due to system out of memory exception
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We found today an out of memory exception raised by SQL Server Management Studio exporting a database. This exception may occurs because, for performance improvement the export process, this process uses memory to extract schema model and depending how large is your schema objects definition, for example, how many tables, contraints, indexes, etc.. you could reach this error message. To avoid this specific exception, using the parameter /p:Storage=File with SqlPackage redirect the backing storage for the schema model used during extraction to storage instead of memory. Use the following command line to include /p:Storage=File - sqlpackage.exe /Action:Export /ssn:t…
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Lesson Learned #280: Cannot bulk load. The file "xyz" does not exist or you don't have file access
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Our customer has the following scenario: They need to import CSV file from a blob storage to Azure SQL Database. To perform this operation our customer is using BULK insert option. CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'Password123!!!!' CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL [JM_Scope] WITH IDENTITY = 'SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE', SECRET = 'sv=2021-06-08&ss=b&srt=sco&sp=rwdlaciyx&se=2023-01-13T16:39:22Z&st=2023-01-13T08:39:22Z&spr=https&sig=k6XYHDjqsco7fyuGt...' CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE [JM_EXT_DSource] WITH ( TYPE = BLOB_STORAGE, LOCATION = 'https://blogstorage.blob.core.windows.net/import/', CREDENTIAL = [JM…
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Ask a Student Ambassador Anything about Tech
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You are not Alone Yes, you are not alone on this Tech journey. Whatsoever you are facing now, we have students that have gone through them too and that are doing amazing things today. Wouldn't you like to hear from some of these students? Register for the Event Click on the image below to register for the event You can also click here to register for the event Connect and Network During this event, you have the opportunity to speak directly with current Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors who are students like you and ask them any questions you may have about their experience, the program, and the tech industry as a whole. This …
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How to use PHP8 for App Service Windows
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Note that official support for PHP 8 will only be available on Linux, as a result of this App Service will only support PHP 8 on Apps Service Linux instances. For additional information on this topic: PHP on App Service, php.internals: Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows. This article will demonstrate on how to use PHP 8 for App Service Windows, since there would be no official support from Microsoft for it, please use at your own risk. Generally, we are following this post: How to use a Custom PHP runtime for App Service Windows - (azureossd.github.io) to download a custom PHP runtime and map Handler for it. 1. Create a new Web app for Windows using …
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Introducing tamper protection for exclusions
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Tamper protection is a feature of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that prevents antivirus tampering and misconfiguration by malicious apps and actors. Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integrate to allow enterprises to selectively enable and disable tamper protection in their environment. We received customer feedback to expand protections. One of the most requested features for tamper protection is protection of antivirus exclusions. With that in mind, the Microsoft Defender team has implemented new functionality that allows (path, process, and extension) to be protected when deployed with Intune. Microsoft has enabled functionality tha…
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4 ways to get your client policy synchronized with the Intune service.
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With any client/server application there are times when things are not in sync between the server and the client, and you want to correct that. Most of the time there are automated ways this will happen, perhaps on a schedule or a triggered event. Inevitably there are also times when you want that resync to happen NOW and not wait until the normal automated processes kick off. There are four ways to do this for Intune devices and while they are very similar, there are differences in what you can expect from them. In Intune the primary method most admins will be familiar with is from the Admin console. This will tell the software client to do a normal, scheduled…
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Lesson Learned #279: Slow between calls to Azure SQL Elastic Database Pool
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It is not the first time, that we used to have this type of service requests that our customers reported slow connections in an Elastic Database Pool. Following I would like to share some details about my lessons learned about this topic. Besides following the best practices about connection and command retry-logic, connection pooling and redirection, we need too know several topics: Connection Pooling definition: as Connecting to a data source can be time consuming. To minimize the cost of opening connections, drivers uses an optimization technique called connection pooling, which minimizes the cost of repeatedly opening and closing connections. This is c…
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Exchange Server 2013 End of Support Coming Soon
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On April 11, 2023, less than 90 days from today, Exchange Server 2013 reaches End of Support! After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide: Technical support for problems that may occur Bug fixes for issues that are discovered and that may impact the stability and usability of the server Security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered and that may make the server vulnerable to security breaches Time zone updates Exchange Server 2013 will continue to run after this date, of course; however, due to the risks listed above, we strongly recommend that you migrate from Exchange Server 2013 as soon as possible. If you haven't started your migration fro…
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Deploy Azure Firewall to inspect traffic to a private endpoint
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Introduction Preventing sensitive data, such as customer personal records like Date of Birth or SSN, from traversing the internet helps you maintain compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA and payment card industry (PCI). It is critical for customers in the financial services, healthcare, and government sectors. Azure Private Link, when combined with Azure Firewall, ensures sensitive traffic not only stays on the Azure network but is also monitored, audited, and secured. Securing traffic using Azure Firewall To help meet data security, customers use Azure Firewall to inspect traffic flowing between their on-premises networks & cloud infra. …
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How to easily teach yourself Azure Arc-enabled data services | Data Exposed
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In the episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Lior Kamrat, we will be talking about how to get started with Azure Arc-enabled data services, the newly announced Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing Zone Accelerator and the Jumpstart ArcBox flavor – “ArcBox for DataOps." Resources: Announcing Landing Zone Accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Introduction to Azure Arc landing zone accelerator for hybrid and multicloud Announcing Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps Continue reading...
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There is a growing need for the deployment of tools or agents on on-premise servers in bulk. Its highly time consuming to manually deploy the agent in bulk. Microsoft Azure uses Azure Arc for the agents/tools/application deployments and can be combined with Azure policy for large scale mass deployment. In the below usecase Log Analytics and Dependency agents pushed via the policy. Agents can be deployed manually using Azure portal, though for large environment, it is recommended to push these agents via custom Azure Policy or using PowerShell automation scripting. [attachment=30121:name] Deployment using Azure Policy Below usecas…
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Lesson Learned #278: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available
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In some situations, our applications at the moment of the connection could face this type of error message: " Error 64: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.) and/or following with for System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException "A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake." Following, I would like to share with you my experience in this type of issues. Normally, this type of error message came from a TCP layer reset (either cl…
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How to easily teach yourself Azure Arc-enabled data services | Data Exposed
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In the episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Lior Kamrat, we will be talking about how to get started with Azure Arc-enabled data services, the newly announced Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing Zone Accelerator and the Jumpstart ArcBox flavor – “ArcBox for DataOps." Resources: Announcing Landing Zone Accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Introduction to Azure Arc landing zone accelerator for hybrid and multicloud Announcing Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps Jumpstart ArcBox for DataOps View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...
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Microsoft Bookings, Beyond the conventional- Using it for reservations and ticketing
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Microsoft Bookings as you all know is an appointment scheduling software. A lot of customers use Microsoft Bookings for use cases such as connecting with sales leads, having virtual appointments with doctors, connecting with candidates for recruitment, appointments with tech-support among others. However, some of our customers have used it very creatively for reservations and as a ticketing system. In this blog, we will highlight some of these incredible scenarios, Bookings customers have achieved. We will also walk you through on how to configure for those use cases. Using Microsoft Bookings to reserve a parking space. We recently came across a customer w…
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As we shared in November 2021, Stream (Classic) will be retired as customers transition to the new Stream platform built on SharePoint. Today, we are sharing the update that Microsoft will retire Stream (Classic) on February 15, 2024 for all customers except GCC, and we will turn off upload functionality in August 2023.1 The successor service, Stream (on SharePoint), entered general availability in October 2022, and has been widely popular since we first announced it more than two years ago. In 2022, billions of videos were uploaded to the service, and its use continues to grow rapidly because of how simple it is to create, discover, and view video across Microsoft 365. …
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What’s New: Fusion Incident Investigation Notebook
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Microsoft Sentinel leverages machine learning technology, Fusion, to automatically detect multistage attacks by identifying combinations of anomalous behaviors and suspicious activities that are observed at various stages of the kill-chain. On the basis of these discoveries, Microsoft Sentinel generates incidents that would otherwise be difficult to catch. These incidents comprise two or more alerts or anomalies. By design, these incidents are low-volume, high-fidelity, and high-severity. To help security analysts better understand and investigate Fusion incidents, we released an investigation notebook “Guided Investigation - Fusion Incident” that is available in t…