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Blog Post Contributors: Rohitha Hewawasam (Principal Software Engineering Manager), Kent Weare (Principal Product Manager) Being able to gain insights into the health and performance of your workflows is an important operations activity. Recently, we have updated Azure Logic Apps (Standard) to provide in-product metrics that help customers monitor the health and performance of their workflows. Locating Metrics Metrics are enabled automatically and can be located in the left navigation panel within the Monitoring section. From within this list, we will find the following metrics available: Workflow Action Completed Count: The number of act…

Join the Azure Load Testing product team for an AMA (Ask Microsoft Anything) on Wednesday, February 22 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time! Join the text event live, or drop your early questions at: Azure Load Testing AMA Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load-testing service built for Azure that makes it easy to generate high-scale load and identify app performance bottlenecks. Learn more about the performance testing service in the GA blog post. Post questions you have about getting started with the service, advanced testing scenarios, and feedback to the AMA chat at Azure Load Testing AMA. Join in live, February 22 9:00 AM Pacific Time, or drop…

Overview A global enterprise wants to migrate thousands of VMware vSphere virtual machines (VMs) to Microsoft Azure as part of their application modernization strategy. Their first step is to exit their on-premises data centers and rapidly relocate their legacy application VMs to the Azure VMware Solution as a staging area for the first phase of their modernization strategy. What should the Azure VMware Solution look like? Azure VMware Solution is a VMware validated first party Azure service from Microsoft that provides private clouds containing VMware vSphere clusters built from dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. It enables customers to leverage their…

When building your application, you are bound to meet with databases at one point or another. Databases are where information about your application is stored and managed. For example, if you are registering new users, you will need to store data on their username, password, and other details. Other than just storage, you may need to ensure your data is safe and easily scalable. This is where database systems come in handy. The two most used are relational databases and NoSQL databases. While this post will cover the basic differences between relational and NoSQL databases, you can read more about what to consider when deciding which database to use. Relational Dat…

Are you getting 50002 Error or 50008 Error return code in your EventHub? If that’s the case, you are in the right place. In this documentation, we will go through what these two return codes are and how to prevent your EventHub to throttle. [50002 Error - ServerBusyException] Pre-requisite: Are you getting 50002 Error from your EventHub? Is your Throughput appropriately configured? Is your load evenly distributed across all partitions? If so, keep on scrolling down, as you may find the answer to your problem. I. What is a Throughput Unit? The throughput capacity of Event Hubs is controlled by throughput units (TU). If the TU has gone beyond l…

Do you want to visualize your real-time events data in Power BI dashboard with the processed Event Hubs data produced from Azure Stream Analytics jobs with a no-code and low-cost method? Thanks to the new Power BI output feature in the no-code editor of Azure Stream Analytics, creating real-time dashboards in Power BI is now more efficient and streamlined than ever before. It doesn’t require any separate database to cache the data for the visualization refreshing. To build the real-time dashboard in Powe BI with the dataset produced from no-code editor of Azure Stream Analytics, you will need 1). an event hub with event data available; 2). a Power BI workspace with…

Volunteer Engagement is part of a powerful tool that helps organizations manage their volunteers in a streamlined and efficient way. With the portal, volunteers have a self-service platform where they can manage their profiles and engagements, while volunteer managers can post engagement opportunities and manage volunteer applications in a centralized system. The portal is connected to Volunteer Management, which means that all applications made through the portal are automatically received as participation records in Volunteer Management. This makes it easy for organizations to track their volunteer hours and manage their engagement opportunities in one place. To …

Welcome to the new Logic Apps Aviators community. We're excited to share our first newsletter with you. Read more about this new initiative and catch up on recent Microsoft news from us and our community. In this issue: Introducing the Azure Logic Apps Aviators community News from our product group News from our community Introducing the Azure Logic Apps Aviators community Welcome to our new Azure Logic Apps community initiative called #LogicAppsAviators. The goal of this community is to bring together like-minded integration enthusiasts to share knowledge, create upskilling opportunities and have some fun along the way. Be on the…

Have you heard about AI or specific terms like ChatGPT or OpenAI? You might even have formed an opinion whether to allow it or not for your students. > But have you thought about it for your own part, what you could use it for? In this article, we explore a specific use case, generating a summary for a course, something that takes time to do as you need to write the text, find proper links and other things. Let's be honest, you love teaching, and this is just boring "admin" work. References: - What is Azure OpenAI Service? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Learn - Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service - Training | Microsoft Learn - O…

Have you heard about AI or specific terms like ChatGPT or OpenAI? You might even have formed an opinion whether to allow it or not for your students. > But have you thought about it for your own part, what you could use it for? In this article, we explore a specific use case, generating a summary for a course, something that takes time to do as you need to write the text, find proper links and other things. Let's be honest, you love teaching, and this is just boring "admin" work. References: - What is Azure OpenAI Service? - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Learn - Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service - Training | Microsoft Learn - O…

Azure Logic Apps (Standard) offers an integration with Azure Monitor Logs to monitor workflow executions. This article shows you how to configure Azure Logic Apps to send system-generated logs to Azure Monitor Logs by using the Diagnostic Settings configuration. Setting up Diagnostic Settings can now be enabled in Azure Logic Apps (Standard) and allows you to emit telemetry to Azure Monitor and other services such as Azure Event Hubs. To enable Diagnostic Settings: Navigate to an Azure Logic Apps (Standard) instance and then select Diagnostic Settings from the left navigation. Next, click on Add diagnostic setting. Enable Workflow R…

Overview of all steps Customized OCR solutions offer the ability to define unique categories within a document or image. Through working with various clients on custom OCR solutions, we often hear the question: "How well does this solution perform on my data?" We have developed an approach that allows for both benchmarking Microsoft’s Forms Recognizer against custom data using Forms Recognizer Studio and training a custom model with ground truth annotations in one process. Please consult this short summary of all steps to get you started. We will provide deep dives on how to execute the benchmark end-end throughout the blogpost. Annotating a ground truth u…

The year 2022 marked a turning point for GitHub and all its users, with the announcement of the general availability of two revolutionary services for developers: GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot. A Codespace is a development environment hosted in the cloud and accessible via a web browser through one click, with the same graphical interface as the local Visual Studio Code IDE. GitHub Copilot is an AI empowered pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code in different programming languages (like Python, C++, Javascript and more). But to give you a deeper understanding of what these services are and how you could benefit from them, let me tell…

The blog talks about controlling SAS in terms of permissions and expiry time via Stored Access Policy. When working with SAS, in case a SAS gets compromised, to prevent any un-authorized access via that SAS, the only option to revoke SAS is to recycle the Access Keys being used to sign the SAS. This in turn will affect all the SAS that have been signed using those set of keys. Also, if you are using those keys anywhere in the application, you will have to update the configuration on all those places. To prevent this, we can make use of a stored access policy. The advantage of using the storage access policy is that you can control expiry time and permissions…

In this blog post, we’ll explore how Azure Data Factory (ADF) or Synapse Pipelines can be used for orchestrating large query ingestions. With this approach you will learn, how to split one large query ingest into multiple partitions, orchestrated with ADF. Common use-cases for this are: Event tables requiring a certain query complexity ( e. g. window-functions requiring serialized datasets, currently not supported by materialized views). Backfill scenarios, for example for new created materialized views or derived event tables, based on existing very large datasets. (For materialized views there are built in functionalities doing the backfill, see also Create …

Pair programming is a software development technique in which two developers work together on the same code at the same time, with one typing and the other reviewing and offering suggestions. This technique can increase productivity and promote knowledge sharing, as well as improve code quality through increased collaboration and code review. Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process in which tests are written before writing the actual code. The tests serve as a guide for the development process and help ensure that the code meets the requirements and behaves as expected. The TDD cycle consists of writing a test, running it to see if it fails, w…

Introduction Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia. We all know how frustrating it can be to receive a call about a storage account not replicating or being unable to fail over. To help prevent this from happening, I am going to show you how to monitor the replication of your storage accounts. Keep in mind that replication logs are not available as part of the storage account's diagnostic settings. Pre-Requisites Before we begin, please ensure that you have the following prerequisites in place: Azure Subscription Automation Account Log Analytics workspace High-Level Steps The p…

Before we get started, this post assumes you have a passing knowledge of Threat Modeling and the ledger feature in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. If you are not familiar with either of these, consider reading my colleague and co-author’s thoughts on threat modeling: An annotated read of the Threat Modeling Manifesto « Simone On Security, and listen to Episode 53 of the Azure Security Podcast, where Sarah and I interview my colleague, Pieter Vanhove about ledger. You can also read about how ledger is used in the real world in our new case study Microsoft Customer Story-Qode Health Solutions secures COVID-19 vaccination records with the ledger feature in A…

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all have had a wonderful February so far. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening in the MTC this week! MTC Moments of the Week To kick things off, we’re shining our MTC Member of the Week spotlight this week on @Bernie Murtagh! Bernie is a Senior Member of the MTC who’ll be celebrating 5 years with us in April, and we appreciate you for your valuable contributions to the community! Next, over in Events, we had our February Windows Office Hours, which takes place every third Thursday of the month. These Office Hours are a great opportunity to interact with Windows experts - like @Joe Lurie, @David_Guyer, @A…

Integration runtime is a core component of Azure Data Factory. Users can use the integration runtime created by default in Azure Data Factory or create it themselves, depending on the actual situation. Since there are multiple types of Integration runtimes, it is necessary to properly select the most suitable type during actual use. We're excited to share a new article to help you determine the right integration runtime configuration for your scenario. In this article, you will find two sections: A comparison of the different types of integration runtimes Example architectures for integration runtimes In the first part, we will explain i…

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Also by Jamil Mirza Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM) discovers your externally facing digital assets and provides many useful details about the assets found to help you manage risk impacting your organization. One example of this asset detail is Trackers, which can be associated with Page, Host, or IP Address assets. The definition of Trackers from the Defender EASM official documentation is as follows: Trackers are unique codes or values found within web pages and often are used to track user interaction. These codes can be used to correlate a disparate group of websites to a central entity. Microsoft's tracker dataset …

Odds are, if you are impacted by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) mandates, you already know it. Odds are, if you are reading this post, you are doing research because you are impacted by the mandates. If you are impacted by the mandates, this post is for you. This post is to give you ideas that [we hope] help you on your compliance journey. The open question is likely “how do I become compliant”? Ultimately, there are two options. But before we get to the options of how to become compliant, we first need to address the scope of what needs to become compliant. What about scope? There are thousands of other published pages on th…

Secure Communication to Fetch SAP NetWeaver SAP Control and SAP RFC (Remote Function Call) Metric Data in Azure Monitor for SAP solution (AMS). Introduction: In the previous blog series Part 1 - SAP NetWeaver SOAP & RFC deep dive in Azure Monitor for SAP solutions and Part 2 - Configuring NetWeaver Provider, we have understood the architecture and successfully configured NetWeaver provider as part of AMS (Azure Monitor for SAP) , using HTTP port. This blog provides an overview of enabling secure communication over HTTPS using TLS 1.2 (or higher) certificate. AMS (secure communication): The following diagram shows Azure Monitor for SAP Solut…