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Power Platform CLI Exposed: PAC CLI Overview
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Are you a pro-code developer and do you want to become more productive with the help of the Power Platform CLI? In this episode of Low Code Revolution, Daniel Laskewitz is joined by Kartik Kanakasabesan who will tell us all about why we should use the Power Platform CLI. Continue reading...
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Helping IT admins save time and effort managing Microsoft Viva
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The Microsoft 365 Commercial Support team resolves customer support cases and provides support to help you be successful and realize the full potential and value of your purchase. Our support services extend across the entire lifecycle and include pre-sales, onboarding and deployment, usage and management, accounts and billing, and break-fix support. We also spend a considerable amount of time working to improve the supportability of Microsoft 365 services to reduce the number of issues you experience as well as minimize the effort and time it takes to resolve your issues if they do occur. Today, we’re excited to share more about some of our supportability work wit…
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Lesson Learned #267: Rename failed for Database 'XXX' in Azure SQL Database
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Our customer got the following errror message "The operation cannot be performed since the database 'digordercontrol-db-test' is in a replication relationship. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 40680)" trying to rename a database. Our customer got the following error message using SQL Server Management Studio trying to rename a database. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Unable to rename XXX. (ObjectExplorer) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Rename failed for Database 'XXX'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) For help, click: Microsoft – Cloud, Computers, Apps & Gaming -…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – January 4, 2023
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 133 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=29455:name] AI Assist: Aisera’s AI Assist supports service desk teams through ticket automation, classifying and routing tickets and cases to reduce bounce rates and improve resolution times. AI Assist can also recommend similar tickets and cases, knowledge articles, and next-best actions. [attachment=29456:name] BUI Cyber MXDR: BUI's Cyber MXDR service runs on Microsoft security technology and delivers compliance reporting; monit…
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Key points: There is a need to give external customers access to data in a Power BI Embedded dashboard which is very common in SaaS and multitenant applications. Solution involves using a service principal and managed identities to authorize external users. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Azure AD for applications to use when connecting to resources that support Azure AD authentication. Can be implemented using either a system-assigned or user-assigned managed identity. To implement the solution: Define a user-assigned managed identity (in a managed app). Authorize the user-assigned managed identity to have the necessary…
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Improve Spark pool utilization with Synapse Genie
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Synapse genie visual image @Rajeshdadi , @KranthiMedam, @ravitejabhalla @InnovatorsClub Synapse Genie Framework improves Spark pool utilization by executing multiple Synapse notebooks on the same Spark pool instance. It considers the sequence and dependencies between notebook activities in an ETL pipeline which results in higher usage of a full cluster for resources available in a Spark pool. When to use Genie utility? Synapse Genie is helpful when you have a set of related notebooks that are part of a Synapse pipeline. In any group of notebooks, the workload varies from small to large. By executing such varied workloads on a single Spark pool instance…
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What’s New in Microsoft EDU webinar – January 2023
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Join us in January 2023 for the next "What's New in Microsoft EDU" webinar! These 30 minute webinars are put on by the Microsoft Education Product Management group and happen once per month, at both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as many global time zones as possible around the world. And don’t worry – we’ll be recording these and posting on our Microsoft Education YouTube channel in the new “ , so you’ll always to able to watch later or share with others! Here is our January 2023 webinar agenda: What’s new in Microsoft Teams for EDU Windows new in Windows 11 22h2 What’s new in M365 EDU AMA - Ask Microsoft EDU Anything (Q&A) …
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How to reduce the deployment time using the file compression technique in Azure App Service
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Uncompressed file uploads are slower than uploading the compressed file to the artifact when using the GitHub Workflow. The time taken for a sample Node application to Azure App Service was 50mins to an hour for completing the deployment, that was triggered using GitHub Action Workflow. The screenshot below shows the total duration for the task to complete using the default GitHub Action workflow: To help mitigate the problem for reducing the deployment time significantly I have added the following steps in the GitHub Action workflow. Please note as I am using the ubuntu-latest OS to run the GitHub Action so there might be different method for file co…
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Lesson Learned #266: Avoiding duplicate statistics
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer reported that the statistics update maintenance plan is taking too much time. This is causing that all these operations (rebuild and update statistics) are taking more time that the maintenace windows that they have. I would like to share with you my findings how to reduce this time. I found we're updating too many statistics and we worked in two main operations: Avoiding to update statistics of are related to indexes: I saw that our customer is rebuilding the indexes and after it updating all statistics. If you already rebuilt the indexes remember that the statistics associated with this index will…
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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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Windows OS Platform
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Welcome to the Windows Core OS platform team blog. We own the core of the Windows operating system, primarily, the virtualization platform, silicon support (Intel, AMD, and Arm), kernel, storage file system and hyperconverged storage infrastructure including Spaces Direct. In addition, we also build and deploy a specially crafted operating system based on Windows for the Azure Cloud. We migrated our old blog which was focused purely on Windows kernel to incorporate the full stack of tech owned by the team. The team will continue use this blog to talk about the internals of upcoming features in the Windows Core OS Platform space, very similar to my previous blog on …
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Forbidden characters in filenames, and INF encoding
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Brief reminder that filenames within your submissions cannot contain any of the following characters: ! * ' ( ) ; : @ & = + $ , / ? % # [ ] Additionally, INFs included in your submissions must following the encoding requirements: General Unicode requirement in INF files - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn Continue reading...
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Microsoft R Application Network usage & retirement
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If you are using the Microsoft R Application Network website or CRAN Time Machine snapshots, then please read through the Microsoft R Application Network retirement post. The retirement post covers the timeline and steps to be taken. Continue reading...
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Attack Simulation Training: New insights into targeted user behavior
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Attack Simulation Training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that measures behavior change and automates the deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It allows security teams to run intelligent simulations and measure users for a baseline awareness of phishing risk, provide actionable insights and recommendations to remediate risk with hyper-targeted training designed to change behavior, and then measure behavioral progress against that benchmark through repeated simulation. Today we are excited to announce that Attack Simulation Training now provides enhanced user telemetry in the simulation reports! This is…
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Identify Digital Assets Vulnerable to Subdomain Takeover
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Subdomain takeover vulnerabilities are, in most cases, the result of an organization using an external service and letting it expire. However, that expired subdomain is still a part of the organization's external attack surface, with domain DNS entries pointing to it. An attacker could then claim this subdomain and take control of it with little to no effort, a considerable blow to an organization's security posture. How does this happen? For example, a company might enlist a service desk provider, "FreshDesk.' It would point a subdomain like "support.mycompany.com" to FreshDesk and then claim this domain with the Freshdesk service to activate it. However, a proble…
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Microsoft recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Microsoft. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warran…
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Azure App Modernization with Power Apps
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Do you want to do modern app development but you’re still on the mainframe? In this session April Dunnam is joined by Jim Dugan to discuss how to leverage the Power Platform to modernize mainframe development. Continue reading...
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The Automate tab is growing beyond your web browser and onto your desktop! Starting today, the Automate tab is now available for all eligible users in Excel for Windows and Mac. Previously, this tab was only available in Excel on the web. With this new tab, create and modify scripts that automate your repetitive tasks using Office Scripts. Enhance your workbook by connecting popular applications like Microsoft Teams or SharePoint to build workflows with Power Automate. Combine these productivity technologies to have Power Automate schedule your Office Script. This tab represents the first stage of uniting automation solutions across platforms. We’re eager to hear …
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The Azure Networking Map
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Hi, I have blogged many maps to describe the Azure landscape. These have proven helpful and I've received a lot of positive feedback about them. The networking piece in Azure is taking more and more space, so I thought it deserved its own map. This map is primarily intended to describe native services, although in any Azure deployment, you will find third-party and open-source products as well. It is by no means exhaustive, but should help you find your way in the vast Azure Networking landscape. Feel free to zoom into the raw image for better readability. I have divided this map into the following categories: L3-L7: mostly about connectivity …
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Microsoft R Application Network retirement
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In June 2021, we announced that Microsoft Machine Learning Server & Microsoft R Open will be retired on July 1, 2022. In continuation with the retirement process, the Microsoft R Application Network (MRAN) website and CRAN Time Machine will be retired on July 1, 2023. How does this change affect me? After January 31, 2023, we will no longer maintain the CRAN Time Machine snapshots. Existing snapshots will be available until June 30, 2023. Microsoft R Application Network website and CRAN Time Machine will be shut down on July 1, 2023. For R users, the “checkpoint” package will only serve CRAN snapshots up to January 31, 2023 and will cease to function entirely…
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Azure DevOps Pipelines: Environments and Variables
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Introduction This is part of a series on Azure DevOps pipelines, previously we discussed Azure DevOps Pipelines: tasks, jobs, and stages. At this point you are familiar with core components of Azure DevOps pipelines (tasks, jobs, and stages) and are looking how to best leverage some additional components such as environments and variables. Environments and variables are two key components when it comes to Azure DevOps pipelines security and governance. Additionally, if done right they assist with reusability of your pipelines. Environments Azure DevOps environments are defined as “a collection of resources that you can target with deploy…
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Switching to Key Vault Secrets usage for Function App based Microsoft Sentinel Data Connectors
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Overview Microsoft Sentinel’s REST – API based data connectors a lot of times use secrets and keys that customers would prefer to keep secured in a vault from where they can effectively manage (retrieve, update, delete, manage access, etc.) these secrets and keys. In this article, we’ll talk about securing API secrets and keys using an Azure Key Vault. Content Hub solution when deployed may not necessarily deploy the Azure Key Vault resources as a part of the solution deployment to account for varied usage of Azure Key Vaults. However, Azure Function apps can use keys stored in AKV using AKV references without any changes in the Azure Function App code. Inte…
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Simulating desired throughput with Azure Load Testing
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The most common way to load test applications is to simulate a specific number of virtual users. But what if you want to test the system to make sure it can handle a desired number of requests per second (RPS) ? For example, you may want to load test a payment gateway service for the number of transactions that can be processed every second. RPS or throughput is a crucial metric that reveals fundamental information about the tested system. Every system has a critical point in terms of throughput. Once the system reaches the critical point, it might keep the throughput around the same level, but the response times go up or the requests get throttled. In this article yo…
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Microsoft R Application Network retirement
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In June 2021, we announced that Microsoft Machine Learning Server & Microsoft R Open will be retired on July 1, 2022. In continuation with the retirement process, the Microsoft R Application Network (MRAN) website and CRAN Time Machine will be retired on July 1, 2023. How does this change affect me? After January 31, 2023, we will no longer maintain the CRAN Time Machine snapshots. Existing snapshots will be available until June 30, 2023. Microsoft R Application Network website and CRAN Time Machine will be shut down on July 1, 2023. For R users, the “checkpoint” package will only serve CRAN snapshots up to January 31, 2023 and will cease to function entirely…
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I can't access my database! I deleted my "Azure Key Vault" / "key" and the TDE doesn't work.
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If we have a Customer-managed TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) and we delete by mistake the entire "Azure Key Vault" or just the "Key" object, the database will be inaccessible: Don't worry, this problem is solvable. Every "Azure Key Vault" or its "keys"/"secrets"/"certificates" objects have the "soft-delete" feature enabled, so if you delete any of these elements, Azure keeps a backup copy of them for 90 days: Azure Key Vault soft-delete | Microsoft Learn We need to recover the "Azure Key Vault" (AKV) or the Key object. We can follow these steps in the Azure Portal: Case 1 - [ Deleted key object] Go to the Azure K…