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We can follow the below steps to remove the Server header from HTTP response for PHP 8.x apps on Linux App Service (which uses Nginx server) - We will be following the steps described here to change the configurations of Nginx: NGINX Rewrite Rules for Azure App Service Linux PHP 8.x #create a copy of the default configurations cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /home/site/default #add the following properties in the copied file /home/site/default server_tokens off; more_clear_headers Server; #create a startup script /home/site/start.sh (feel free to rename it) #!/bin/bash cp /home/site/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/default service ngin…

IoT security solution design is a crucial undertaking that needs to be approached from all angles. Due to the variety and diversity of device-based security risks that IoT solutions are susceptible to, it is essential to make sure that security is included in the solution from the beginning. The security of the IoT solution throughout its lifecycle must be ensured by collaboration between IoT solution developers, operators, and device manufacturers. Modeling Threats: A Good Place to Begin Threat modeling is a systematic approach to identifying and mitigating potential security threats in a system. It's a critical step in designing a secure IoT solution as it h…

Join us for our next community call on February 28, where we will be discussing the new Adoption Score. Our monthly community calls are every 4th Tuesday of the month and will shift to 8:10 AM and 5:10 PM PT, to follow best practices. If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the calendar invites, program assets, and previous call recordings. We look forward to seeing you there! Continue reading...

Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft 365 Government price updates - into effect March 1st 2023 On August 2021 we announced an update to our pricing for Microsoft 365 (which applies to all commercial customers: Enterprise, US Government, and Business). Announcing Windows 365 and AVD for Government AMA February 22nd Join us for our Windows 365 and/or Azure Virtual Desktop in government Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) with members of the engineering and product teams On February 22nd at 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM (PST)| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM EST. What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2023 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in…

Introduction I am Chukwuebuka (Malcom) Okonkwo and asprining Data Analyst and Winner of DataFest Africa 2022 Datathon. I am currently a Data Analyst Intern at Hamoye.com and a Chemical Engineering Undergraduate who passionate about Data, its transformation, Exploration, interpretation/Analysis and telling a story from the data using charts, Reports and Dashboards to find insights which can be used to make informed decisions. Project Have you ever wondered what could be the cause of poor air quality? or maybe the air is fresh during a certain season but in another season, it is hard to breathe properly. Has it ever occurred to you that there are particles in…

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. Model-driven app design to focuses on adding components such as forms, views, and charts and dashboards to tables using an app designer tool. Additionally, relationships connect tables together in a way that permits navigation between them and ensures that data is not repeated unnecessarily. Benefits of the model-driven approach There are some no…

Introduction Have you ever wondered what could be the cause of poor air quality? or maybe the air is fresh during a certain season but in another season, it is hard to breathe properly. Has it ever occurred to you that there are particles in the atmosphere that contribute to poor air quality and the concentration of these particles are affected by weather conditions? This project aims to analyze the air quality of a Beijing using data on its weather conditions from 2010–2014 and also explore how the weather affects the quality. The tools I used to perform this analysis are Python and Power Bi. If you new to Python or PowerBI Microsoft Learn has some …

Azure DevOps supports the deployment of the builds from release pipelines to the on-premise environments using self-hosted pipeline agents. This article describes creating an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent in an on-premise Windows machine and some standard troubleshooting steps in case any issue. Process Microsoft made creating Azure DevOps self-hosted agents easy in an on-premise environment. This section describes how to do it. Create an Agent pool and download the agent Follow the below steps to create an agent pool in Azure DevOps and download the agent. Open Azure DevOps portal and navigate to the organization where you want to add …

Microsoft constantly delivers innovation and improves Microsoft 365 services to help every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Changes are rapid and this is the reality of any cloud service. While committed to enhancing the end user experience, we are also dedicated to helping customers establish effective change management practices. This will enable admins to focus on delivering the most productive and secure experiences to their businesses. Our continuous goal is to build trust and to ensure that while benefiting from the cutting-edge innovations cloud services offer, customers can still thrive on predictability, relevance, and consistency. …

We are excited to announce that support for UTF-8 and Japanese collations in Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL pools is now generally available! What is UTF-8? UTF-8 allows storing of multilingual characters in data types CHAR and VARCHAR. For UTF-16 to store those multilingual characters, the data types NCHAR and NVARCHAR were needed. This means your schema definition is with only needing to use CHAR and VARCHAR data types, even if you store multilingual characters! Learning more about UTF-8 When your data has a mix of Latin alphabet characters and other multilingual characters, you will save space and improve performance by using UTF-8. This is because …

As more and more industries are digitizing their operations, there is a need for simulation to enable these digital transformations. Simulation helps industries meet their business and operations goals by changing the environment variables and predicting the outcomes. Azure Digital Twins (ADT) is a powerful way of simulating changes in the real world to reduce costs and operational overhead. For example, a manufacturing factory can have a representation in Azure Digital Twins, and customers can use the digital representation to observe its operations with the existing setup. However, if customers want to simulate changes and compare the cost of operation, quality o…

Azure HPC OnDemand Platform is a solution accelerator to deploy a complete HPC cluster solution in Azure. Simply put, there are lots of resources that need to deployed and properly configured to create a working HPC cluster in Azure. If the resources are not configured correctly, it's easy to encounter performance issues or security concerns. AzHOP helps in making sure that the resources are properly configured and ready to use. AzHOP uses Open OnDemand to provide a web-based interface to access the HPC cluster including submitting jobs, monitoring jobs, access files etc. It also makes it possible to deploy interactive applications on the HPC cluster that the users can ac…

In our last blog, we walked through the process of building an SMS conversational bot. Today we want to showcase a similar bot, but this time built completely on top of low code connectors for Power Automate. It is incredibly easy and exciting to leverage Azure Communication Services connectors in conjunction with Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT to build a conversation bot. For this blog, we will be building Anton, a personal trainer bot for Contoso Gym. See the preview: To follow along you will need: An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free. Enable Event Grid resource provided on your subscription. See instru…

As more customers standardize on the Synapse data platform, enabling machine learning workflows through Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) becomes particularly interesting. This is especially true as more customers look to bring their data engineering and data science practices together and mature capabilities on both sides. The goal of this blog post is to highlight how Synapse and Azure ML can work well together to deliver key insights. This is motivated by a scenario where a customer modernized their data platform on Azure Synapse but was looking to improve their data science practices through Azure ML. The focus of this blog is to expose existing functionality, …

Today we announced the limited public preview of our new Azure HPC + AI storage service - Azure Managed Lustre. I’m beyond humbled and honored to be writing our first HPC tech blog on this new first-party storage solution. In this first blog, it makes most sense to address, perhaps, the most commonly-asked question that our partners have had through our private preview program - How do I test how fast an Azure Managed Lustre cluster can go? We run running several flavors of tests every day on clusters ranging in size from 8TiB to 750TiB in our scale and performance testing. I’ll provide a glimpse into some of those at the end of this article but here’s…

Voices of Healthcare Cloud is a webinar series hosted by myself, @Vasu Sharma, Aaron Porzondek & @Joshua Thompson. My name is Shelly Avery, I am currently a Dir, Healthcare Specialist for Health and Life Sciences focusing on the largest Payor and Provider customers in the US, Vasu is a Sr Customer Success Manager for Microsoft 365 for Health and Life Sciences & Josh is a Sr Account Executive for Healthcare. The goal of this webinar series is to highlight how Healthcare is seeing positive business and clinical outcomes with cloud technology. We will be bringing new and creative solutions to you at least once a month, so we hope you tune in live or catch the …

The ever-growing volume of advanced cybersecurity attacks challenges even the most advanced Security Operations (SOC) teams. Image 1 shows a timeline of a typical human-operated ransomware attack where the attacker encrypted hundreds of devices in just minutes. It demonstrates how quickly threat actors spread and execute attacks and highlights the criticality to quickly identify and contain high-impact attacks to limit the impact to organizations. To help SOC teams address these challenges, we announced automatic attack disruption in Microsoft 365 Defender last year at Microsoft Ignite. This capability uses high-confidence Extended Detection and Response (XDR) sign…

As a result of the October 26th, 2022, order from the Mexican Government, Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the United Mexican States will not be observed in 2023 calendar year. In a subsequent order by the Mexican Government, it was declared that Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and the state of Baja California near the Mexico-U.S. border will continue to honor the DST schedule defined by the United States in 2007 which starts on the second Sunday of March (March 12, 2023) at 2:00 AM and ends on the first Sunday of November (November 5, 2023) at 2:00 AM. Microsoft will release Windows Updates in support of these DST changes for Mexico as follows: A n…

Introduction In our previous blog “A Proactive Approach to Cloud Security Posture Management with Microsoft Defender for Cloud,” Yuri Diogenes emphasized the importance of proactive security posture management and outlined a successful organizational structure for security teams. He delved into the core elements of posture management, including monitoring secure score improvement, enforcing governance rules, and engaging in proactive hunting. Building on that discussion, we now turn our attention to the vital aspect of proactive hunting in this follow-up article. Our goal is to provide technical insights and practical tips for reducing the attack surface and minim…

If we talk about pre-covid times, people were working in offices, data was monitored\controlled using proxy servers and firewalls etc in place. End users were keeping files using roaming profile or folder redirection. File sharing was allowed over SMB. Authentication and authorization were there using Kerberos in Active Directory. In some organizations, USB Stick\Hard Disk was not allowed in office or might be the USB port itself was blocked and such configurations were endless. And then COVID-19 came, halting all our day-to-day activities. This unprecedented situation pushed users along with IT Admins to start working from home forcing administrators to ch…

You can now use the Microsoft Intune admin center to view recommendations and insights for your Configuration Manager sites. These recommendations can help you improve the site health and infrastructure along with enriching the device management experience. With so many features and updates available, implementing the right available resources for your infrastructure management is essential. You might be new to the management world, or even if you have been managing your company’s infrastructure for a long time, this feature will provide you with insights that can help you to level up. We are currently providing recommendations that can help in following…

Hyper-V is a virtualization technology that is as valuable to college and university students as it is to developers and system administrators. Students can run many operating systems and apps on a single physical machine using Hyper-V virtual machines. This can be especially useful for computer science and engineering students who need to experiment with various software environments and coding projects. By enabling Hyper-V on their Windows 11 computer, students can save time and costs by eliminating the need for physical hardware, while also obtaining the flexibility and convenience of running different operating systems and applications on a single device. This …

I have a customer with some very large storage accounts – of course as the size of an account gets larger so does the cost. Customers can use Blob Lifecycle Management rules to control when blobs are moved to a lower tier (hot -> cool -> archive), but they can also use blob inventory rules to analyze the blobs contained in that storage account. Each blob has an access tier property which denotes which type of storage that blob is present in. This post helps to automate the retrieval of those details and publish it into a Log Analytics workspace for analysis and reporting. The basic flow for this process is as follows: - Enable blob inventory rules on the …

Azure Data Explorer is a fast and highly scalable data exploration service for log and telemetry data. Using Azure Data Explorer web UI, you can explore your data from end-to-end, starting with data ingestion, running queries, and ultimately building dashboards. Each ADX dashboard is a collection of tiles, optionally organized in pages, where each tile has an underlying query and a visual representation. Using the web UI, you can natively export Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries to a dashboard as visuals and later modify their underlying queries and visual formatting as needed. In addition to ease of data exploration, this fully integrated Azure Data Explorer dashboar…