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Bookable time coming soon to Outlook
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Microsoft Bookings in Outlook is coming to help you reduce the back and forth in scheduling, while helping you maintain control of your calendar. You'll be able to keep custom bookable time (via a new event drop down in the calendar pane) to share with others so they can easily find a time to schedule a 1:1 meeting with you according to your availability and preferences. When someone books a time slot with you using your personal booking page, you will both receive an email confirmation. Attendees can update or cancel scheduled meetings with you directly from your personal bookings page. All users with the following subscriptions will have access to Bookab…
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Benchmarking Azure HPC SKUs for Financial Services Workloads
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Financial Services Industry (FSI) is one of the largest consumers of HPC environments in the cloud. To evaluate the performance of these systems, it is important to use benchmark tests that accurately reflect the type of workloads of those systems. In this article, we will attempt to benchmark the most common virtual machine types used in Azure in these environments with relevant benchmarks to the industry. One of the key considerations when choosing an HPC benchmark test is the type of workload that the system will be expected to handle. Different HPC applications have different computational needs, so it is important to select a benchmark test that reflects the spe…
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What’s new in Windows Autopatch: January 2023: FastTrack support
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With the coming of a new year, many people take the opportunity to set intentions for the future. We here on the Windows Autopatch team have chosen a single word to set the tone for 2023: more. In that spirit, we’re making more episodes of Behind the screens with Windows Autopatch – including . More represents not only the vision that drives Autopatch: help IT professionals do more with less, but also the spirit of innovation that inspires our product team. We want to make Autopatch more accessible, more useful, and more valuable to more enterprises. More resources for onboarding In order to help more enterprises get started with Windows Autopatch, the Fas…
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Modern Work Superheroes | January News You Can Use
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I’ll be honest. I am not really one for New Years' resolutions. But what I have found myself doing in the new year is evaluating and working to change the way I go about my day-to-day habits. As 2022 began came to a close, I took a hard look at my ways of working and routine and didn’t really like what I saw. Getting stuck in hours of meetings in the spirit of FOMO, realizing I skipped lunch (and sometimes breakfast), or only walked a handful of steps in a day were all things I was noticing. This got me thinking about how I could improve or even enhance my hybrid work experience. Would I work better from a loft in Paris for a month (I actually did this, and the ans…
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Structured streaming in Synapse Spark
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Author: Ryan Adams is a Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. In this post we are going to look at an example of streaming IoT temperature data in Synapse Spark. I have an IoT device that will stream temperature data from two sensors to IoT hub. We’ll use Synapse Spark to process the data, and finally write the output to persistent storage. Here is what our architecture will look like: Prerequisites Our focus for this post is on streaming the data in Synapse Spark so having a device to send data and the setup of IoT Hub are considered prerequisites. Their setup will not be covered in this article. …
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Troubleshooting SQL Insights
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SQL Insights for Azure SQL Db allow you to have a quick look into the resource usage of your Azure SQL Resource in a graphical way, but when we need to troubleshoot it, it sometimes presents a challenge. This article is based on troubleshooting done to solve a case related to the metrics that were not visible on the SQL Insights (Preview) tab. This feature SQL Insights (Preview) uses a Linux virtual machine to collect metrics for Azure SQL, and it can use credentials stored in Azure Key Vault to authenticate on the SQL Databases. First step to troubleshoot, we need to check status for the Virtual machine if it is Collecting with errors or Not Collecting. You…
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What’s new in Windows Autopatch: January 2023: FastTrack support
by Guest Lior_Bela- 0 replies
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With the coming of a new year, many people take the opportunity to set intentions for the future. We here on the Windows Autopatch team have chosen a single word to set the tone for 2023: more. In that spirit, we’re making more episodes of Behind the screens with Windows Autopatch – including . More represents not only the vision that drives Autopatch: help IT professionals do more with less, but also the spirit of innovation that inspires our product team. We want to make Autopatch more accessible, more useful, and more valuable to more enterprises. More resources for onboarding In order to help more enterprises get started with Windows Autopatch, the Fas…
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How to Manage Microsoft Defender on Windows Server via Intune
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As companies adopt Microsoft Defender, there are certain questions coming from customers in terms of EPP management. These questions are mostly focusing on Microsoft Defender management in Windows Servers. I’d like to touch base on different management options for different customer scenarios. I have on-premises environment, and I cannot move to cloud We can use legacy management options such as Active Directory GPOs and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (aka. System Center Configuration Manager - SCCM) for sure. However, these tools might not be the best possible solutions that would be agile enough - since these two options wait for a certain amount of ti…
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Lesson Learned #277: Failed to connect to xyz.database.windows.net:1433-Could not connect (sequence)
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We got an issue when our customer using Node.Js they got the following error message: Failed to connect to xyz.database.windows.net:1433 - Could not connect (sequence) at Connection.socketError (C:\...\tedious\lib\connection.js:1395:28) at C:\...\tedious\lib\connection.js:1176:14 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:78:11) { code: 'ESOCKET', isTransient: undefined } RequestError: Requests can only be made in the LoggedIn state, not the Connecting state at Connection.makeRequest (C:\...\tedious\lib\connection.js:2204:24) at Connection.execSql (C:\...\tedious\lib\connection.js:1734:10) at executeStatement (C:\...\NodeJsVsCode\ConnectTe…
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Unable to Load Service Fabric Explorer
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Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) is an open-source tool for inspecting and managing Azure Service Fabric clusters. Service Fabric Explorer is a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. To launch SFX in a web browser, browse to the cluster's HTTP management endpoint from any browser - for example https://clusterFQDN:19080. Service Fabric explorer may not load for numerous reasons. Most frequent reasons could be access denied while trying to access or unable to choose the right certificate. Following steps provide some useful insights on investigation steps and mitigations to be followed in such scenarios. 1. Check the status of the cluster and certificate that is …
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Azure Data Factory trigger is not initiated when uploading a file using Java SDK
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Symptoms: Uploading files using Java SDK class DataLakeFileClient fails to initiate the ADF trigger. Uploading files using Azure Portal initiates the trigger as expected. ADF trigger is configured to ignore empty blobs. Analysis: Whenever a file is created using ADLS Gen2 REST API, there are 3 operations called at the backend i.e. CreateFile, AppendFile and FlushFile. Microsoft.Storage.BlobCreated event is triggered when a blob is created or replaced. Specifically, this event is triggered when clients use the CreateFile and FlushWithClose operations that are available in the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 REST API. As CreateFile API c…
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Meet the Skilling Champion Jonas Rapp
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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. Jonas Rapp, Sweden Tell us a little about yourself. What is your focus as an MVP and what do you do professionally? “I’m a Business Applications MVPs. I’ve been a “developer” for close to 30 years now, but when I went into the Dynamics CRM area in 2009; I started to focus both on deployment and on development. What do I mean by that? Dynamics CRM – now Dataverse – has all the components we need for a full solution, and I can focu…
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What is Zero Trust and is it the Future of Cybersecurity?
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Zero Trust is a security concept that questions the traditional perimeter-based security architecture. Instead of trusting that all resources within an organization's firewall are secure, Zero Trust assumes that all access requests, regardless of origin or destination, should be considered as originating from an untrusted network. Guiding principles for the Zero Trust security strategy are as follows: Verify explicitly: All available data points must be used to authenticate and approve users, devices, and requests. Use least privilege access: Users and devices are allowed the bare minimum of access required to execute their functions, and that access is revi…
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Lesson Learned #276: ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint importing a bacpac
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Today, I worked on a service request where our customer faced the following error: The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "Table1". The conflict occurred in database "DatabaseName", table "Table2". Full error message: Microsoft.Data.Tools.Diagnostics.Tracer Verbose: 0 : 2023-01-11T11:11:35 : Executing Step 341, Not Tracked, Type 'EnableConstraintsStep', Section 'None', Operation '0', Ignorable Errors 'None', Script is as follows: PRINT N'Checking constraint: table1_table2_updatedby_foreign [dbo].[Table1]'; ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Table1] WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT [table1_table2_updatedby_foreign]; Microsoft.Data.Tools.Diagnostics.Tracer E…
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Windows Virtual Machine in Azure Portal
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A Virtual Machine (VM) is like any physical laptop, smartphone, or server that we use in our day-to-day life. It has features like CPU, memory, storage size, and different networking ports with boot disk similar to the gadgets mentioned above. But these are virtual computers unlike laptops, smartphones that are physical and tangible. They exist as code and can be referred to as a computer inside a computer. Virtual machines are a part of Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that allows you to have the flexibility of virtualization without having to invest in the underlying infrastructure. Advantages of VMs: The portability, fle…
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A Look at Different Options for Storing and Searching Sentinel Archived Logs
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As an Azure Sentinel user, you may have encountered the need to store and search your log data for extended periods of time. This could be due to regulatory requirements or simply as a means of maintaining a secure backup of your log data. In this blog, we'll examine the various options available for storing and searching Sentinel logs beyond the default 90-day retention period. We'll cover the main features of each option and provide guidance on how to implement them in your organization. We'll explore the options for storing and searching Sentinel logs, including their capabilities and key selection criteria. Learn how to choose the best solution for your organiz…
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GCC-H M365 Monthly Webinar: Connect • Collaborate • Create (January)
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Registration is open for the January GCCH M365 Webinar: Connect – Collaborate – Create on Tuesday, January 24, 12-1pm EST. To register, please go here. Once registered, you will receive a calendar invite. Please feel free to forward to those who may be interested and benefit from working more productively. January agenda to include a continuation of our OneDrive sessions (part 2 of 3). Full agenda to be released prior to the event. Topics being considered include: Intranet/Hub site integration with Teams Power Automate integration with Teams Teams Live Events Microsoft Planner Thanks to everyone who participated in the November and December web…
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Windows 365 for Gov AMA January 17th at 6:00 AM PST| 9 AM EST
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woman and man collaborating in windows at desk on a laptop We are excited to announce a Windows 365 for Gov AMA on Tuesday, January 17th at 6:00 AM PST| 9 AM EST ! Join us as our experts discuss how you can use Windows 365 for Gov and answer your questions and collect feedback. An AMA is a live text-based online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. Feel free to post your questions about Windows 365 for Gov now through the end of the event in the Comment on this …
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Easily migrate your Symantec DLP policies to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
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With everyday work and collaboration becoming digital, organizations are looking to transition from traditional data loss prevention (DLP) solutions to cloud DLP solutions. Cloud DLP solutions not only help protect sensitive information in cloud services and applications, but also empower organizations to scale faster and keep up with the explosion of data and data types. Research shows that DLP professionals at organizations that predominately use cloud DLP solutions are twice as likely to say that cloud DLP solutions help both balance data protection and employee productivity, and are easier to scale[1]. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is a unified and clo…
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Getting started with the Dataverse Healthcare API
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Customers have been excited about some of the recent healthcare-focused product updates. These allow customers to get farther, faster, when leveraging the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare platform. In 2022, the business applications tools, which already aligned to the FHIR data model, introduced Dataverse Healthcare (FHIR) APIs, enabling integration using FHIR bundles. This means that healthcare customers who leverage FHIR for interoperability can experience quicker time-to-value when using Dynamics 365 CRM apps and custom business applications in Power Apps. As customers get started, there are a couple of areas where they have brought me questions: What d…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – January 11, 2023
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 136 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=29962:name] Alluvio by Riverbed: The Alluvio Unified Observability portfolio unifies data, insights, and actions to give IT teams seamless digital experiences and end-to-end performance. It includes visibility tools for IT infrastructure monitoring and managing digital experience and application performance. [attachment=29963:name] ArcGIS for Retail: Understand your retail business from a new perspective with ArcGIS for Retail…
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Monitoring Synapse serverless SQL pool query history
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This article will walk you through the different ways of how to monitor serverless SQL requests. By reviewing this article, you will understand what to see, compare and how to troubleshoot the query execution behavior. At the end of this article, I will also share how to create a solution to retain historical data from SQL requests forever. Historic SQL Serverless query analysis is one of the crucial needs of data engineers. Serverless monitoring supports 5 main ways to analyze query history and performance. This includes Synapse Monitor Hub, DMVs, QPI library, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Data Explorer (not covered on this article). Let's start by revie…
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SAP Applications and Microsoft Defender for Linux
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What is “Defender”? This blog is about “Microsoft Defender for Endpoint” for Linux, hereafter referred to as MDE. The term “Defender” is used across multiple products and technologies. An overview of Microsoft 365 Defender is illustrated here What is Microsoft 365 Defender? | Microsoft Learn The typical audience for this blog is SAP Basis administrators and consultants. Enterprise Security is a specialist role and the activities described in this blog should be planned in conjunction with the Security Administrators. The objective of this blog is to provide a basic understanding of MDE on Linux and how to operate, check and troubleshoot problems on SAP VMs…
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Tips for Internal Investigations While Maintaining Privacy
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The landscape for education is continuously changing as new mediums for expression, communication, and interaction evolve. Children and young adults adapt to new technology with legendary ease, but how can schools ensure that those explorations stay safe? Especially with the porous boundaries enabled by mobile devices and uncapped levels of information. In this month’s episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks, we explore how schools can conduct internal investigations while maintaining the privacy and safety of students within the K-12 education system. Joining us as the episode guest is Randyll Newman, Supervisor of Student Data and Information Security for Prince Will…
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Modernizing embedded development on Azure Sphere with Rust
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Exciting news Rustaceans and Azure Sphere enthusiasts!! You can now use Rust to develop applications on Azure Sphere. We had made an announcement in June 2022 about previewing Rust on Azure Sphere in this post -Previewing Rust on Azure Sphere - Microsoft Community Hub. Rust and Azure Sphere are a good match – a programming language that can improve safety of code with strict compile time safety checks alongside Azure Sphere’s secure identity, update, and end-to-end encrypted communication services for internet-connected devices should provide greater security to the customer applications. Rust offers embedded developers a new level of performance a…