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Hotfix: JDBC Driver 10.2.2 for SQL Server Released
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We recently released an update to Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server, version 10.2.2. The update addresses a few issues on top of the 10.2.1 release. Fixed issues Clear prepared statement cache on idle connection resiliency reconnections 1982 Fix for setting KeepAlive extended options 1986 Fixed issue where the driver may assert when canceling a statement 1987 Fixed callable statement index out of bounds error 1988 Fixed issue not checking for DONE token errors so exceptions are ignored 1990 Fixed query cancellation bug 1996 Getting the latest release The latest bits are available to download from Microsoft, from the GitHub repository, and via Ma…
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Leverage advanced hunting to better understand your discovered devices
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Microsoft Defender For Endpoint’s device discovery capabilities provide the opportunity to better understand which devices exist on your corporate network and the ability to protect your estate by improving your posture. We have all heard of instances, such as the NASA breach using a Raspberry Pi device, where attackers physically breached an environment, insert a device that’s connected to the network, and then use the device to exercise malicious activity. For more flexibility and additional discover capabilities, Microsoft offers advanced hunting, a query-based threat hunting tool within M365 Defender to help you gain more visibility into managed and unmanaged …
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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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Holographic Microsoft Teams features empower hybrid collaboration in the industrial metaverse
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Microsoft HoloLens 2 customers are using mixed reality to expedite the ways they ensure process compliance, improve efficiency, and learn on the job with step-by-step holographic instructions in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides. They’ve also used real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams meetings in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist. Now they can do both at the same time with the latest release of Dynamics 365 Guides, which combines these two mixed reality apps into a single seamless experience. Users can intuitively switch between process and collaboration activities or do both simultaneously. Easy access to the information they need and the people they’re working with…
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Feature Focus with Microsoft MVPs: S6-E5 | Microsoft Teams for EDU & Approvals in Teams
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Thanks to all of you who checked out our MVP Feature Focus 5 with Laurent Carlier, who shared best practices for using Microsoft Teams for EDU, and Fátima Blancas, who walked us through how to configure approvals in Teams. They’ve shared their blogs with us continuing the conversation! Please check them out below. And if you missed the episode, catch it and previous episodes here: aka.ms/InsideMSTeams. As always, we welcome your feedback on what we can continue to do to help make the show a key resource in your deployment, adoption, management, and securing of Microsoft Teams. EDU in Teams with Laurent Carlier Laurent Carlier | LinkedIn Microso…
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MSSparkUtils is the Swiss Army knife inside Synapse Spark
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I've been reviewing customer questions centered around "Have I tried using MSSparkUtils to solve the problem?" One of the questions asked was how to share results between notebooks. Every time you hit "run" in a notebook, it starts a new Spark cluster which means that each notebook would be using different sessions. Making it impossible to share results between executions of notebooks. MSSparkUtils offers a solution to handle this exact scenario. What is MSSparkUtils? MSSparkUtils is a built-in package to help you easily perform common tasks called Microsoft Spark utilities. It is like a Swiss knife inside of the Synapse Spark environment. Some sc…
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Demystifying data consumption using Azure Synapse Data Explorer
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Author: @SuryaJ is a Program Manager in the Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Introduction Continuing the series of Demystifying Data Explorer, in this blog, let’s take a look at the various ways of retrieving, consuming and visualizing data from Azure Synapse Data Explorer: Querying through KQL / SQL using tools such as Azure Synapse Data Explorer Web UI, Kusto Explorer, Azure Data Studio, and SQL Server Management Studio. Visualize data using ADX Dashboards, Power BI, Excel, Grafana, Kibana, Redash. Use Apache and Synapse Spark notebooks, Jupyter notebooks to interact with data in Azure Synapse Data Explorer. Orchestrate the data…
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Announcing Deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) Protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell
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Exchange Online PowerShell is the administrative interface that enables admins to manage Exchange Online using the command line. For years, admins have used Remote PowerShell (RPS) which is enabled by default and is easy to use. PowerShell (PS) cmdlets in Exchange Online use Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol for client to server communication. You might already be aware that we made REST-based Exchange Online PowerShell v3 module generally available in September 2022. As we continue to enhance the security of our cloud, our plan is to move the Exchange Online admin experience to REST-based APIs. As part of that plan, we will be deprecating the legacy RPS protocol. Th…
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Announcement: Introducing Azure Integration Services Landing Zone Accelerator
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To support customers being able to efficiently deploy Azure Integration Services in an enterprise manner, we are pleased to announce the publishing of the Azure Integration Services Landing Zone Accelerator. In this landing zone, we will cover Key Design Areas and follow with Design Considerations and Design Recommendations. The Key Design Areas include: Identity and Access Management Network Topology and Connectivity Security Management Governance Platform Automation and DevOps We have also provided Reference Implementation scripts that allow customers to efficiently provision these resources that use the recommendations featured in our Key Design Areas. …
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Power BI and Accessibility
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Do you have team members or an audience with web accessibility needs? Are you also using Power BI to display dashboards? Let's review what is accessibility and options that are available within Microsoft Power BI to address those needs. Accessibility Web accessibility is the practice of ensuring that as many people can interact with websites/applications without barriers. These features may help someone with hearing, vision, motor, or other differences. Power BI Accessibility Features Microsoft is committed to following accessibility standards, and with this comes the ability to design accessible reports, accessible tools to help thos…
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Lesson Learned #250: All started with the phrase: In PowerBI Direct Query is slow-ColumnStore Index
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In some situations, customers that are using PowerBI and Direct Query reported performance issues depending how the query has been defined by PowerBI. In this scenario, I would like to share with you how we fixed this performance issue using ColumnStore Index and Partitioning. We are going to use two techonologies that will help a lot in our performance issues ColumnStore Index is the standard for storing and querying large data warehousing fact tables. This index uses column-based data storage and query processing to achieve gains up to 10 times the query performance in your data warehouse over traditional row-oriented storage. You can also achieve gains up to 10…
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WordPress on Azure App Service - Top features you must know about
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As the name suggests, WordPress on Azure App Service is built on top of Azure App Service and takes advantage of all the advanced features in Azure App Service to build, deploy, and manage your WordPress applications. But that is not all; WordPress on Azure App Service makes use of other Azure Products like MySQL Flexible server, Azure CDN, Azure BLOB storage, Azure VNET, and Azure Front Door to give you the best WordPress experience. In addition to using these Azure Products, the WordPress on Azure App Service team at Microsoft makes sure that you get the latest versions of all underlying technology. In this article, we will go through the top features of WordPres…
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Microsoft Ignite & Microsoft MVP - Regional Spotlight
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As we reported in our previous post Microsoft Ignite & Microsoft MVP - Global Experience, Microsoft hosted a hybrid Microsoft Ignite event in October 2022. This year, the event hosted six Regional Spotlight events and added local flavor to the global conference in the UK, China, France, Germany, Japan, and LATAM. In this post, we featured the MVPs in the Regional Spotlight events in the UK, China, France, Germany, and Japan. Spotlight on the UK M365 Apps & Services MVP in Finland Karoliina Kettukari joined three sessions as a speaker: Learnings through the career journey of a (female) leader in IT (delivered in English) was one of the Connecti…
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Disaster Recovery Strategy in Azure Databricks using the Hive External Metastore (SQL DB)
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Disaster Recovery Strategy in Databricks using the Hive External Metastore In this article we will discuss the disaster recovery approach to take with an Azure Databricks environment using an Hive External Metadata store. We will be covering the following items: Background What needs to be replicated? Recovery Solution Strategy Implementation Steps Sync of notebooks and jobs from the control plane: Data Replication Metastore Replication Implementation Background A proper DR strategy and recovery pattern is critical for your Databricks enviornment. You need to weigh the appropriate tools, the costs, the replication of the data, the RPO…
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MSTICPy Hack Month - January 2023
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MSTICPy is the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center’s (MSTIC) Open-Source library of Python tools to help security analysts when investigating incidents or hunting for threats. As an Open-Source project MSTICPy is available to everyone via GitHub and is open to contributions to anyone. Since its release MSTICPy has had some great contributions from members of the community. However, we know that whilst many people want to contribute to an Open-Source project it can be a daunting prospect to contribute for the first time and knowing where and how to contribute is key. In January 2022 we ran our first Hack Month for MSTICPy, helping community members contribute new…
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Azure SQL Year in Review & AMA 2022
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Recap all the 2022 Azure SQL and SQL Server updates in a Year in Review Data Exposed Live episode with Anna Hoffman, Bob Ward, Muazma Zahid, Davide Mauri, Niko Neugebauer, Erin Stellato, and Drew Skwiers-Koballa. Resources: Azure SQL News and Data Exposed Update - Year in Review 2022 Blog Continue reading...
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Announcement: BizTalk Server Migration to Azure Integration Services Architecture Guidance
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As customers consider moving their on-premises integration workloads to Azure, they naturally have questions about best practices. In this content, we focus on educating customers on the differences between BizTalk Server and Azure Integration Services, provide guidance on what Azure services to use when and provide recommendations on how you setup and execute a BizTalk Migration project. You can read the content in its entirety on Microsoft Learn or jump to specific topics below: Benefits of Migration Azure Integration Services Introduction BizTalk Server vs Azure Integration Services What Azure technology to use when BizTalk Migration Approach Best Pract…
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Azure Container Apps on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes – Run your container apps anywhere
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Today, we are announcing the Technical Preview of the ability to run Azure Container Apps on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes Clusters, targeting AKS and AKS-HCI. Azure Container Apps enables developers to rapidly build and deploy microservices and containerized applications. Developers can leverage the highly optimized developer productivity capabilities of Azure Container Apps without dealing with the complexity of Kubernetes, while Operators are able to provide developers with a highly productive platform but retain the ultimate control of the underlying Kubernetes cluster(s). Common uses of Azure Container Apps include: Deploying API endpoints Hosting backgrou…
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Azure DevOps Pipelines: Tasks, Jobs, Stages
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Introduction When starting in Azure DevOps Pipelines one can immediately become inundated with terminology that may seem foreign or question what pipeline structure will lead to the most flexibility and streamlining of their build/deployment process. This post will focus on the hierarchy of Tasks->Jobs-Stages. My intent will be to cover Environments and Variables in a follow up post and then templating in one after that. What is a Pipeline? An Azure DevOps Pipeline is the next generation of what is today referred to as Classic Build and Releases. I have heard them called YAML Pipelines, Multi-Stage Pipelines, and just Pipelines. They have been around n…
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Azure SQL News Update: A Year in Review
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Read the 2022 recap of all the Azure SQL and SQL Server news or catch the live episode! If you missed the episode, you can find them all at https://aka.ms/AzureSQLYT. This one also features a special Ask Me Anything with product group members. You can read this blog to get all the updates and references mentioned in the show (including the awesome speakers we had on). Since we did things a little differently this month, here’s the special December update which contains the year in review (i.e., all the big updates this year): SQL Server on Azure VMs Public Preview General Availability · Configure availability group through the A…
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Microsoft Bookings now supports custom domains
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Microsoft allows organizations to own more than one domain (the default domain is onmicrosoft.com). Learn more about creating domains here: Add a domain to Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Docs. We are enabling two controls for domain use in Microsoft Bookings: You can specify which domain will be used from the domain list for Bookings using OWA mailbox policy. Once the default domain policy is configured and deployed, any newly created Bookings calendars will have the configured domain in the SMTP address. For example, Bookings pages can be created with a domain, “contoso.com” instead of, “contoso.onmicrosoft.com”. You can also configure domains for specific…
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Azure AD authentication for MySQL - Flexible Server from end-to-end
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The Azure Database for MySQL team just announced General Availability of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Flexible Server. In this post, I’ll walk through how to configure applications to use Azure AD authentication. In general, this process involves: Creating a User-assigned Managed Identity. Creating an Azure AD administrator for MySQL – Flexible Server. Connecting to a MySQL flexible server from an App Service without using secrets. Modifying the application code by using the Azure Identity Library. Create a User-assigned Managed Identity Flexible Server leverages a User-assigned Managed Identity (UMI) to request access tokens. …
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Use Natural Language & Prompts with AI Models | Azure OpenAI Service
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For your next application, leverage large-scale, generative AI models with a deep understanding of language and code, using Azure’s OpenAI service. Interact with models using natural language, prompts, and few-shot learning. Use the Azure OpenAI Studio to experiment and test your models before bringing them into your code to deliver differentiated app experiences, all with Azure’s enterprise-grade security built-in. Build new experiences with models: • GPT-3 generates content based on natural language input • Codex translates natural language instructions directly into code • DALL-E 2 generates realistic images and art from natural language descripti…
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Use an Azure Event Grid Custom Topic as a Message Broker
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Asynchronous messaging and event-driven communication are critical assets when building a distributed application composed of several internal and external services. This sample shows how to use an Azure Event Grid Custom Topic as a message broker in a multitenant scenario to send messages to multiple Azure Service Bus queues in different namespaces, one for each tenant. You can find the companion code on GitHub. Azure Event Grid is a highly scalable, serverless event broker that you can use to integrate applications using events. Events are delivered by Event Grid to subscriber destinations such as applications, Azure services, or any endpoint to which Event Grid has …
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Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3 is now in Public Preview
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We are excited to announce the preview availability of Apache Spark™ 3.3 on Synapse Analytics. The essential changes include features which come from upgrading Apache Spark to version 3.3.1 and upgrading Delta Lake to version 2.1.0. Check out the official release notes for Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Apache Spark 3.3.1 for the complete list of fixes and features. In addition, review the migration guidelines between Spark 3.2 and 3.3 to assess potential changes to your applications, jobs and notebooks. Below is an extended summary of key new features that we are highlighting of importance in this article for you to check out in more details. Related to Apa…