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Feature and expedited update management in Intune now generally available
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We are excited to announce that Windows feature updates and expedited quality updates in Microsoft Intune are now generally available! These features use the Windows Update for Business deployment service to provide greater control over specifying updates to devices. Additionally, you can take advantage of rich reporting that provides detailed status and error state for each device in the policy. Let's jump in to learn more about: Feature updates Expedited quality updates Feature update and expedited quality update reports Best practices for managing Windows updates in Intune Feature updates A feature update profile enables you to control which Windows f…
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Bridging Cloud services and AI solutions at the Edge
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Microsoft is excited to announce the open-source release of Azure DeepStream Accelerator (ADA) in collaboration with Neal Analytics and NVIDIA. Creating an integrated edge and cloud AI solution is difficult. To tackle this challenge Microsoft partnered with Neal Analytics and NVIDIA to build an open-source solution that bridges the gap between Cloud services and AI solutions deployed on the edge; enabling developers to easily build Edge AI solutions with native Azure Services integration. Our goal is to support 1) Developers utilizing existing Azure services to leverage the power of computer vision at the edge via DeepStream “and” 2) Enable the DeepStream developer…
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Lesson Learned #252: SELECT TOP 100 FROM HeapTable is taking too much time
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Today, I worked on a case that our customer reported a performance issue running SELECT TOP 100 * FROM HeapTable. This table has around 500K rows and is taking around 2 minutes. Even using SELECT TOP 100 Id From HeapTable we got the same performance issue. Following I would like to share my lessons learned about it. Lessons Learned #1: Review if the amount of data that the table has for these 100 rows is high: But, it is a normal data varchar, nvarchar, etc.. no LOB data. So, no issue about the amount of data to download or issue a network level. Lessons Learned #2: Review the TSQL and the execution plan: The TSQL is: SELECT TOP 100 * F…
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Lesson Learned #251: Error 40532 using Private Endpoint IP in the server name
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We use to receive cases where our customers wants to connect to their Azure SQL Database servers using the Private Endpoint IP instead the Azure SQL DB FQDN. Two main errors you could face: Error 40532: Cannot open server "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" requested by the login. The login failed. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 40532) A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - The target principal name is incorrect.) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -2146893022) In this article we are going to explain why and how to mitigate those. Regarding the error 40532: …
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Initialize a Managed Instance replication Subscriber with a PITR backup
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Initialize Transaction Replication subscription from a Point-in-time-restored backup (Managed Instance to Managed Instance) Use INITIALIZE FROM LSN with a PITR backup This article provides you with steps for initializing a Managed Instance transactional replication subscription with a point-in-time-restored (PITR) backup of the published database. The Publisher and Distributor is hosted on Managed Instance, and the Subscriber is either hosted on the same or a different Managed Instance. Instead of creating and applying a snapshot to the Subscriber, the steps will point-in-time-restore a backup of the Publisher database and create the subscription based on a Lo…
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Initialize a Managed Instance replication Subscriber with a backup
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Initialize Transaction Replication subscription from a Backup (on-premise to Managed Instance) Initialize with Backup sample script This article provides you with a sample script for creating a transactional replication with the Publisher and Distributor hosted on-premise and the Subscriber being a Managed Instance database. Instead of creating and applying a snapshot to the Subscriber, the script will show you the steps to initialize the Subscriber with a backup of the Publisher database. The script keeps details as simple and straightforward as possible to demonstrate the replication feature itself, and to allow for a quick setup to test specific fun…
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Post-mortem: Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3 compatibility issue
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Overview We would like to extend our apologies to all our customers that have been impacted by the incident caused by an incompatibility between Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 7.3. This article reviews the root cause of the issue, how long it took to implement a solution and exposes the corrective actions that we are taking. Teams involved: Customer experience team PowerShell team Compute SDK team Azure PowerShell team Summary of GitHub issues: Type Related Items Issue GenericArguments[0] ... violates the constraint of type 'T' error since PowerShell 7.3.0.5 preview · Issue #18721 · Azure/azure-powershell …
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What's new in Microsoft Forms | December 2022
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We are excited to introduce you to some new features we are going to release shortly! Form design experience is modified to help you create an attractive form more easily and we also made some changes in distribution to meet more complex and tricky scenarios. Besides, we launched several new polls in Teams, which may help you improve engagement in meetings and raise audience interaction. Now, let’s dive into the new features! Facelift your survey and engage with audience through thousands cover page theme When you need to design a customer satisfaction survey, registration form and other types of form, you must worry about how to raise the response rate. Why n…
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10 Years of a Thriving Technical User Group
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When it comes to building a vibrant user group, no community is the same. However, one thing is certain across all user groups, is that people are at the heart of it all. It was 2012 when the Azure Sydney User Group launched, and a decade later the community has grown from strength to strength and so too has the evolution of the technology. Microsoft Azure MVP Sam Alavi, together with Microsoft AI MVP Arafat Tehsin, are the current leaders of the Azure Sydney User Group, and have been a driving force in nurturing the community over the last few years. Together, they overcame the challenges of the pandemic and led the group to celebrate its 10th year anniversary in la…
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Welcome to the Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management Tech Community
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Welcome to the Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (MDEASM) Tech Community! Understanding your external attack surface is critical in this era of digital expansion and hybrid work, as unmanaged resources and shadow IT create an increasingly severe security risk. Since we launched MDEASM over the summer, we've been thrilled to work with organizations of all sizes and complexity that use its unique global attack surface discovery technology to strengthen their security posture. In the MDEASM Tech Community, we'll share the latest content about how network teams, security defenders, and incident responders can get the most out of MDEASM's indu…
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Azure PostgreSQL connections performance – How to identify and resolve issues
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One challenge with PostgreSQL is that on a busy database, it consumes significant amount of resources when handling large number of concurrent connections. A common symptoms on a busy servers with high connections count is high CPU utilization and connection latency. This is common with applications that have client connections for noticeably short durations (less than 60s). In this scenario, the time spent on processing connections and disconnections can affect the overall database performance. In-fact effective connection management is among the top most discussed issue by our customer. In my earlier post titled “How to leverage built-in connection pooler (PgBouncer) in…
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Cross the Hurdles: Innovate in the Classroom with Power Platform
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Low code in the classroom More and more we see teachers implementing the Power Platform tools to teach students future-ready skills, innovate the classroom, and decrease the gap between the university and the workforce. An example of this is the initiative by Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa. Here, Lecturer Feziwe Khomo from the Department of Finance and Management, Accounting and Informatics Faculty has started the quest to upskill and introduce the students to the Microsoft Power Platform. The goal of this project was to teach working with an agile iterative approach and to apply a backward design method. The project initiative was highl…
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Process Azure Event Hubs data using Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
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Background The purpose of this blog post is to share an architectural pattern which I worked on with a customer team to process Azure Event Hubs data using Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows. Its more common to process Azure Event Hubs Streams using one of the Stream processing services like Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Functions or Apache Spark with Azure Databricks but using Azure Data Factory in more of a batch fashion is a perfectly valid pattern for certain use cases so thought it would a good idea to document for the benefit broader community. What will you learn? I will share my thoughts on what use cases would be a good fit for this architectu…
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Viva Engage / Yammer Festival Recap 2022
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In December 2022, we partnered with SWOOP Analytics to host our 2022 Viva Engage Yammer Community Festival . We curated and designed this event with and for our customers and for you to learn from each other. We’ve broken them up into a few themes, listen to a few or all of them and get ready to take notes! Customers Highlights • Marks & Spencer – highlighting humanity during difficult times • Coles – Frontline focus • Kaiser Permanente – Activating your champion program • Uncief - 15X Growth in readership Storyline Storyline is a new adding to Viva Engage and Yammer and we have customers who are already using…
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Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 5d) - Premium eDiscovery - Communications
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Before we start, please not that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate the in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that offi…
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Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview
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If you wish to jump to a more relevant section of this series for what you are attempting to accomplish, use the links below. OVERVIEW (Part 0) 0 - Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview 0a - Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0a) - Permissions DATA CLASSIFICATION (Part 1) 1 - Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 1) - Sensitive Information Types 1a - Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 1a) - Exact Data Match 1b - Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 1b) - Trainable Classifiers INFORMATION PROTECTION (Part 2) 2 - Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbe…
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We are excited to announce the public preview of viewing Databases for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server. The feature surfaces all the active databases and their configurations for each of the Arc enabled SQL Servers in Azure. Customer Scenario Today, customers and partners manage hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of active databases. For each of these databases, it is essential to be able to create an accurate mapping of the active configurations. This could be for inventorying or even reporting purposes. Centralizing this database inventory in Azure using Azure Arc allows you to create a unified view of all your databases in one place regardless …
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New Work vertical in Windows Search
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We’re pleased to announce the release of a major addition to Windows Search designed and created for workplace search: the Work vertical. The new Work vertical is available now in Windows Search to users signed in to a work account. What is the Work vertical? The Work vertical is a new dedicated canvas for quick and reliable organization-wide search in Windows Search. It’s tailored for workplace search and work results are a click away and always visible. It provides a coherent, complete, and consistent search experience, bringing together Microsoft 365 and third-party data. It simplifies the overall workplace search experience and improves the…
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End user passwordless utopia
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With all the different technologies available in Azure and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), it’s easy to miss the bigger picture and how they all play into the end user experience. This includes: Azure AD Multifactor authentication (MFA) Passwordless authentication Conditional Access and authentication strength Device registration Primary Refresh Token Enterprise Apps/single sign-on (SSO) Intune Autopilot Temporary Access Pass Some of the above promote convenience, and some are for security. When using these technologies, we can lessen the authentication burden on users and increase our security posture. My goal is to demons…
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What’s new in the MSIX Packaging Tool: December 2022
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The latest build (v1.2022.1003.0) of the MSIX Packaging Tool is now available. We've added new features with this release to reduce the effort during repackaging. Here is a rundown of the major improvements in the latest release, which you can download from the Microsoft Store. MPT–PSF Integration (via MPT command-line interface) Additional capabilities MPT – PSF Integration (via command-line interface) The Package Support Framework (PSF) is an open-source kit that helps you apply fixes to your existing desktop applications when you don't have access to source code, so that it can run in a MSIX container. Previously, once the required PSF Fix was identifie…
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How to migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database offline using Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
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In this episode of Data Exposed with Carlos Robles and Anna Hoffman, we will discuss the recent public preview release of the Azure SQL Database offline migrations using the Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio. The new migration capability in the Azure SQL Migration extension provides an end-to-end experience to modernize SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. The extension allows you to perform a migration readiness check with actions to remediate possible migration blockers, export the assessment results, and get right-sized Azure recommendations. These recommendations include an all-new elastic recommendation model to meet your database performance needs.…
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Simplify deployment of Microsoft 365 with new and updated deployment guides
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As a Microsoft 365 admin, you need to deploy services for your users and your organization efficiently, comprehensively, and securely. Getting the most out of your investment has everything to do with how quickly you can configure, deploy, and get the right products to the right users. To help minimize time to deployment and free you up to do more, the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center along with setup.microsoft.com deliver just that – a streamlined approach to Microsoft 365 deployment built on FastTrack best practices. Resources available on support.microsoft.com or learn.microsoft.com offer a wealth of information, traini…
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Deploying Microsoft 365 just got easier - Introducing advanced deployment guides!
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Simplify Microsoft 365 deployment with guided checklists, curated content from product, and FastTrack lead engineering teams. Ensure your cloud IT environment is secure from day one with the Microsoft 365 advanced deployment guides. You can set up Defender for Endpoint, Office, and Cloud Apps, and run the Security Analyzer. You can save weeks of effort in deploying products. More than 100,000 IT pros have made use of the Microsoft 365 advanced deployment guides to plan and implement Microsoft 365 deployments. Get deployed fast and with confidence! All Microsoft 365 customers can use in-product automation, including advanced deployment guides. …
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Azure Learn Article: Deploy private 5G networks on Azure
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The fourth industrial revolution, often referred to as Industry 4.0, is here. Industry 4.0 brings with it modern industrial applications that will change the way businesses operate. These applications have improved processing power and connectivity. They collect and process data from across an organization to help businesses run more strategically and efficiently. As enterprises scale, they need solutions that can handle these workloads. To meet these requirements, modern enterprises need both private 5G networks and multiaccess edge computing (MEC) solutions. Private LTE/5G networks give businesses the speed, security, mobility, and quality of service they need to…
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Customer Managed Key feature in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server is GA in number of Azure regions!
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PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. The origins of PostgreSQL date back to 1986 as part of the POSTGRES project at the University of California at Berkeley and has more than 35 years of active development on the core platform. Customer Managed Key (CMK) in PostgreSQL Flexible Server Since announcing General Availability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server slightly over a year ago, we have seen dramatic adoption with customers in number of industries that work with sensitive data.…