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Azure SQL VM: Azure Backup & restore for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines [Ep.10] | Data Exposed
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In the next episode in the Azure SQL VM series, join Anna Hoffman, Logan Carrington, and Kartik Pullabhotla as they discuss various options for Azure Backup and restore on SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. Resources: Back up SQL Server databases to Azure - Azure Backup Azure SQL Virtual Machine Reimagined Series Continue reading...
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Connecting to Snowflake using Key-Pair Authentication in Azure Data Factory
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Azure Data Factory is one of the widely used Data Integration tools for Snowflake and is used to copy and transform data. It integrates with Snowflake natively as a Source and as a Sink. As of this date, Data Factory supports secure authentication using a Snowflake account through passwords. Azure Key Vault can be utilized for managing the passwords in Data Factory. This article describes the workaround method for connecting to Snowflake from Azure Data Factory using Key-pair Authentication. It uses Snowflake's ODBC driver with self-hosted integration runtime to connect via Key-pair authentication. Setting up Self-hosted Integration Runtime. The ODBC connec…
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Leverage Flexible Server’s Business Critical service tier for mission critical applications
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When selecting an Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server service tier for their application workloads, users have three options to consider – Burstable, General Purpose, and Business Critical. The Burstable service tier is best for workloads, such as low usage web servers, proofs-of-concept, and small databases or database build environments that don’t continuously require the full CPU. The General Purpose service tier is best for workloads that require balanced price-performance and scale for hosting web and mobile applications as well as other Tier 2 enterprise business applications. The Business Critical service tier is ideal for mission critical Tier 1 w…
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What is the 5G Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF)?
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With the functionality of the 4G Mobility Management Entity (MME) now decomposed, the 5G Core Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) receives all connection and session related information from the User Equipment (UE) (N1/N2) but is responsible only for handling connection and mobility management tasks. All messages related to session management are forwarded over the N11 reference interface to the Session Management Function (SMF). As a mobile network comprises many AMF instances, a Globally Unique AMF Identifier (GUAMI) is employed. The UE specifies this in the first Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message it sends, which is routed to the required AMF by the Rad…
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New Cluster-Wide Control For Virtual Machine Live Migrations In Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI
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Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Azure Stack HCI, version 21H2 and later versions of both Overview: There is a new enhancement in the ability to manage the number of parallel live migrations within a cluster, making it easier to change and ensuring consistency. Previously, changing it required setting it on each node of the cluster, and remembering to set it when a new server is added to the cluster. This meant it was easy to have inconsistencies across the nodes. Hyper-v has a setting to limit the number of live migrations that a server can participate in. If an administrator wanted to change this value to be optimized for their systems, they would hav…
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Manage your multi-cloud identity infrastructure with Microsoft Entra
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A single solution to centrally manage your entire identity infrastructure with Microsoft Entra. Whether hybrid across your on-premises systems and the Microsoft Cloud, or across services spanning multiple clouds, like AWS, Google Cloud Platform and your favorite SaaS apps. Joey Cruz, from the identity team at Microsoft, highlights the comprehensive capabilities of Microsoft Entra, including unified identity management, that spans beyond your Microsoft estate and beyond Azure Active Directory. He demonstrates new and unique capabilities for the day-to-day management of your users and workloads. Passwordless auth for non-Microsoft services. Custo…
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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 more about offers from MISA partners Check Point and Difenda in the Azure Marketplace: [attachment=29590:name] CloudGuard AppSec: With deep application contextual analysis, CloudGuard AppSec from Check Point delivers web application and API protection while eliminating the tradeoff between the level of application security and the complexity of managing it. [attachment=29591:name] Difenda Managed Detection and Resp…
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Azure SQL VM: Azure Backup & restore for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines [Ep.10] | Data Exposed
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In the next episode in the Azure SQL VM series, join Anna Hoffman, Logan Carrington, and Kartik Pullabhotla as they discuss various options for Azure Backup and restore on SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. Resources: Back up SQL Server databases to Azure - Azure Backup Azure SQL Virtual Machine Reimagined Series View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...
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New year, new rituals with Microsoft Viva Insights
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While the fresh slate of a new year may be a perfect time to take up something new, you can use Microsoft Viva Insights all year long to build work rituals. Viva Insights helps guide individuals and teams towards better work habits that improve productivity and wellbeing. For the TLDR crowd, highlighting the ways Viva Insights can help you or deep dive below to see how you can cultivate new positive rhythms in your workday. Book focus time Do you have a big project this year likely to demand large chunks of your time and focus? Maybe this is the year you build a new skillset and want to focus on learning and development. No matter what tops your list o…
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Connecting with patients 1:1 and via conference calls
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A while back, I had posted about Virtual Visits to summarize some of the key information that was coming up in many conversations. The topic is still top of mind for many organizations, and one of the common additional questions is “how does this fit with making regular outbound calls?” Great question! In short, both of these use the same communication platform from Microsoft, so you’re not having to implement multiple point-solutions to achieve different types of communication (whew). In fact even Microsoft’s Digital Contact Center Platform uses the same foundation (though in this post, we’re not focused on contact centers). Through the course of the da…
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High level Steps to create Content and best practices to create courses on the MCT portal
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Content Management synopsis Continued: High level Steps to create Content in the MCT portal, Enabling Global Content across organizations and Best practices to create courses on the portal Planning and producing material that is relevant, approachable, and effective for a target audience is known as content creation. One of the key components of any online learning program is content creation. To assist administrators in adding new content to the portal, the Microsoft Community Training platform offers a specialized set of functions. The easy and high-level steps to get started with content management on the management po…
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Initial access techniques in Kubernetes environments used by Kinsing malware
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Sunders Bruskin, Security Researcher, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Abstract Kinsing is a known malware that targets Linux environments for cryptocurrency purposes. Kinsing uses some unique techniques that target containerized environments, making it also common in Kubernetes clusters. The evolving behavior of Kinsing has been analyzed in several different blog posts. In this blog post, we will focus on a specific angle of Kinsing: the initial access techniques in Kubernetes environments. While Kinsing uses multiple initial access vector techniques, in Microsoft Defender for Cloud, we recently observed two methods that are especially common: Exploitation o…
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Setting up Row Level Security (RLS) on an Azure SQL DB/SQL MI by utilizing Azure AD groups
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Scenario: We have 2 Azure AD groups (RLS_11 & RLS_12) , each containing 1 or more Azure AD users. We have to set up Row Level Security (RLS) on a table belonging to an Azure SQL DB. Problem: The Azure portal doesn`t provide a graphical interface on the database for you to set permissions needed to set up RLS. Solution: We can achieve our goal by using t-sql commands. For this test, please ensure you have an Azure AD ID that has enough elevated permissions to add the 2 Azure AD groups. Also needed are at least 2 Azure AD IDs that are added to the 2 Azure AD groups (1 in each AAD group). As noted above, the Azure AD groups used for this test are RLS_1…
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AKS Design Review Series - Part 1.1: Networking - Ingress / Egress
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AKS Architecture Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed service, meaning that Microsoft manages the control plane components (i.e., API Server, Controller Manager, etcd DB & Scheduler) for you and offloads significant operational overhead from you as an administrator. There are also agent nodes that live inside the cluster, which run your application workloads and are customer managed. Those are going to basically get placed into your own secure Virtual Network (VNET) in Azure and they're going to be exposed with private IP addresses. While AKS is a managed service, it is also worth mentioning that it is not a Platform as a Service …
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OT Cloud Enablement – Azure Active Directory Tenant
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In our journey to help cloud enable Operational Technology (OT) environments, we have published the following articles: Extending Operational Technology to Azure OT Cloud Enablement - Cloud Adoption Models Today we are going a little deeper into what was discussed in the OT Cloud Enablement - Cloud Adoption Models article to explore Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant design considerations for an OT environment. Once the Azure AD tenant design has been finalised, decisions on Identity and Access Management (IAM), network topology and connectivity, resource organisation, security, management, governance and, platform automation and DevOps can then be made. …
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Part 3: Architectural Cost Optimisation – Practical Design Steps for Architects and Developers
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Did you miss part one and part two of this this multi part series on ‘Cost Optimisation’? In part 3 of this multi-part blog series, I am going to cover, as per the title ‘Architectural Cost Optimisation’. In prior posts I have spoken about foundational primitives, what you can change and tune in the cloud without changing your applications. But you know what? Architectures can evolve, and they should evolve fueled by business efficiency and cost savings. If you are an architect or developer joining us today, you are unbelievably lucky because with every day you get new levers to pull. The major two Hyperscalesrs (Azure and AWS) released more than 2000 new fea…
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Azure Container Registry: the first cloud registry to support the OCI Specifications 1.1
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Azure Container Registry (ACR) now has support for the OCI v1.1-RC Specifications. The update continues the journey of standardizing OCI Distribution-based registries to store, discover and distribute all types of artifacts, including adding references to existing images and other OCI artifacts. It started 4 years ago when ACR added support for Helm Chart distribution using the existing registry services users have already configured for their secure environments. We knew Helm adoption would require support across all registries which initiated the OCI Artifacts and ORAS projects. As supply chain initiatives drove the need for distributing detached signature…
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How to manage the VIP swap in cloud service extended support via Powershell
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You can swap between two independent cloud service deployments in Azure Cloud Services (extended support). Unlike in Azure Cloud Services (classic), the Azure Resource Manager model in Azure Cloud Services (extended support) doesn't use deployment slots. In Azure Cloud Services (extended support), when you deploy a new release of a cloud service, you can make the cloud service "swappable" with an existing cloud service in Azure Cloud Services (extended support). In this blog, we can see how to have a version update via Powershell and REST API. It will cover the following sections: PowerShell command to create a CSES. Using staging and production static public ip …
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We recently made our new Kusto data connection available in public preview: Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link. Azure Cosmos DB is a fantastic transactional NoSQL database. It is able to scale to meet big data requirements, is multi-region capable (with multi-master), has very predictable low latency (with even an SLA on latency) and supports geospatial data. Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a phenomenal big data analytics platform. It is able to scale to petabytes, is optimized for time series, supports structured, semi-structured (JSON) & unstructured (text) data and has great geo spatial capabilities. Those two technologies greatly co…
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Now in Public Preview: Approval workflow for data asset curation
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As part of public preview, we have enabled workflows for Self-service data access workflow for hybrid data estate and Approval workflow for business glossary Continuing our journey on workflows, we are now happy to introduce approval workflow for asset curation in Microsoft Purview. You can now streamline the entire approval process for asset updates like adding a business term, changing a classification, adding or removing owners, etc. by defining a workflow as per your organizational needs. With the enablement of approval workflow, the updates are saved to the Purview data catalog only after approval by data owners. To get started with asset update workflow crea…
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HLS Community Connection - Jan 19th- Building New Team Meeting Habits
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Come join the Health and Life Science Community Connection team on Jan 19th for a quick 30-minute session focused on Building New Team Meeting Habits. It’s a new year and a great time to learn how to make the most of your workday. This session will provide you tools in the Office 365 platform which will help with keeping Team meetings productive. Topics of focus in this session: Bookings with Me in Outlook, Speaker Coach in Teams, and leveraging Adobe PDFs in Teams. This session is open to all. We look forward to seeing you there! What Building New Team Meeting Habits Teams Webin…
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Lab Guide - Azure AD CBA on Mobile
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I like solutions that are both secure and user-friendly at the same. (Who doesn't?) I also know that it can be real hard to build such solutions on your own so I'm happy when the Azure AD teams provide the bits I need for implementing the authentication parts in a good way :) When I noticed a post about Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) on mobile with YubiKeys I wanted to take things for a spin: Azure AD Certificate-based Authentication (CBA) on Mobile The blog post itself is just a teaser, but it provides links to the configuration docs so I thought I would follow those. Unfortunately I felt the instructions were missing a few details for doing a qu…
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Register for the upcoming live webinar covering Power BI incremental refresh!
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Health and Life Sciences Power BI User Group presents: Intro to Incremental Refresh Live Webinar Thursday, January 12 1:00-2:00 PM ET Register here Continue reading...
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Lesson Learned #268:Error occurred during the pre-login handshake-The semaphore timeout period
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In many situations, we used to have service request with the error message: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The semaphore timeout period has expired.) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 121). For example, in this service request our customer got the following error message using SQL Server Management Studio: Answer: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Error connecting to 'servername.database.windows.net'. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Failed to connect to serv…