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Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 5g) - Premium eDiscovery - Processing
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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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Azure Marketplace new offers – December 13, 2022
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 108 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=28289:name] Acalvio ShadowPlex: ShadowPlex Cyber Deception from Acalvio provides early detection of advanced cybersecurity threats with precision and speed. The AI-driven solution detects deception across on-premises and cloud workloads. [attachment=28290:name] Alpine Linux 3.16: Ntegral has packaged Alpine Linux 3.16, a lightweight security-oriented distribution based on musl, libc, BusyBox, and OpenRC, to enable you …
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Windows Admin Center version 2211 is now generally available!
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Today, we are releasing our latest version of Windows Admin Center – version 2211! Thank you to our customers, partners, and fans for helping us to continue to improve and make Windows Admin Center better! In this release, we’ve made improvements across our entire product! From updates to our platform, to enhancing your Azure Stack HCI management tooling, to introducing unique new features to Windows Admin Center in Azure, and so much more. This is a long blog post, but we hope you’ll read on and share our excitement for the new features we’re introducing this winter. If you’re impatient like me, you can download right away! Happy Holidays! What's new…
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3 tools to help you move to Azure | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
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Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge from hardware to software and the stack in between. In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition, Melody Zacharias shows you 3 of her favorite newer tools from Microsoft to make both your migration and DBA/Developer life more pleasant. Resources: Azure SQL migration extension for Azure Data Studio Download Data migration assistant Download ADS View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...
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3 tools to help you move to Azure | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
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Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge from hardware to software and the stack in between. In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition, Melody Zacharias shows you 3 of her favorite newer tools from Microsoft to make both your migration and DBA/Developer life more pleasant. Resources: Azure SQL migration extension for Azure Data Studio Download Data migration assistant Download ADS Continue reading...
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud based, next generation business application. It provides an analytical method of keeping track of the customers' needs, records, transactions, behaviors and/or trends, etc... Microsoft Dynamics 365 combines two separate systems known as Dynamics AX (ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning) and Dynamics CRM (CRM - Customer Relationship Management). Because its Cloud based, changes are tracked and stored in the same place. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a leading CRM solution in the Charity and Non-profit sector. It helps boost and track fundraising efforts, increase volunteer engagement and keep all efforts organized and trackable by making all…
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Introducing new touch and collaboration experiences on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
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Earlier this year, we announced the certification of Neat Board and Yealink Meeting Board — a new form factor for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android where audio, video, touch display, and compute are combined in a single unit to instantly transform any space into a Teams meeting space. With the release of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android update 3 (App version: 1449/1.0.96.2022120503), we are delighted to launch several touch-enabled experiences that make meeting and collaborating easier on Teams Rooms on Android, especially with boards. Walk up and use Microsoft Whiteboard Before this release, whiteboarding on Teams Rooms on Android was only possible in a Teams …
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Lesson Learned #248: Working with sp_wait_for_database_copy_sync and SQL Auditing.
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Based on this public documentation Auto-failover groups overview & best practices - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn , we received several questions about how to identify if any data has been not synced between primary and secondary when we performed a force failover in Azure Transparent Failover Group. As you could see in this public documentation Auto-failover groups overview & best practices - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn about sp_wait_for_database_copy_sync "sp_wait_for_database_copy_sync prevents data loss after geo-failover for specific transactions, but does not guarantee full synchronization for read access. The delay caused by a sp_wai…
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Listen to your favorite Microsoft Tech Community Blog articles, powered by Azure Speech Services!
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We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with the Azure Speech Services team, part of Azure Cognitive Services, to enable text to speech conversion of all the blogs in the Microsoft Tech Community. Keep up to date with all the latest updates, stories and features for your favorite Microsoft products by clicking on the icon at the top of any article and try it out today! Continue reading...
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Try an improved Quick Assist experience
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Install the Windows 11 or Windows 10 December 2022 quality update for a seamless and improved Quick Assist experience! Whether you use the Microsoft Store app or the original app, you can help your clients, colleagues, family, and friends with their PC problems over a remote connection with Quick Assist. Let's quickly review Quick Assist as a client management tool, then show you how we've improved it and what you'll need to start using it today. Quick Assist as a client management tool Quick Assist is a Windows application that enables others to share their device with you over a remote connection. You may have used it to remotely connect to a client's or colleag…
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Azure Active Directory Identity Protection user account enrichments removed: how to mitigate impact
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As of September 30, 2022, alerts coming from the AADIP connector no longer contain the following fields: CompromisedEntity ExtendedProperties["User Account"] ExtendedProperties["User Name”] Below we’ll describe the impact to different areas and offer mitigation steps where possible. All mitigations offered below utilizes the IdentityInfo table, that is available to customers of the UEBA solution. If you have not already, enable the UEBA solution to sync the IdentintyInfo table with your Azure AD logs. Follow the instructions in this document. (If you don't intend to use UEBA in general, you can ignore the last instruction about selecting data sources…
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How to deploy your free private Minecraft server with Azure for Student?
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Introduction Student students love to play Minecraft! They can build a free private server if they join Azure for Student and have a basic knowledge in Azure. This post, we will guide you on how to setup a free private Minecraft server that is good for 6-7 players in Azure for free, as student can have $100 USD of credit every year. On the other hand, students can taste, learn, and build some in Azure thought the server building process or even get into AI with Minecraft and GPT3 OpenAI or reinforcement learning with Minecraft using Microsoft Research Project Malmo. Full Demo Deploy an Azure VM instance 1. Your Azure console. In the search bar type…
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Lesson Learned #247: All started with the phrase: In PowerBI Direct Query is slow - Indexed views
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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 scenarion, I would like to share with you how we fixed this performance issue using Indexed View. For this example, I download a demo database Release Wide World Importers sample database v1.0 · microsoft/sql-server-samples · GitHub and duplicate rows of a table Fact.Sale until having 234.767.360 rows. I choose HyperScale Database tier basically as a medium size database for OLAP. Lesson Learned #1: If you need to know how many rows per table instead of using SELECT COUNT() for performance improv…
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Azure Custom Neural Voice introduces new emotional styles to support brand voices
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Custom Neural Voice, a feature of Azure Cognitive Services for Speech, is a great way to create a highly natural synthetic voice that sounds almost identical to your voice actor. This synthetic voice can then be used in a variety of different scenarios including voice assistant, customer service bot, audiobooks, language learning, news reading and many more. Since its launch, Custom Neural Voice has empowered organizations such as AT&T, Duolingo, Progressive, and Swisscom to develop branded speech solutions that delight users. (For more details, read the Innovation Stories blog.) Microsoft has made it simple for customers to train a branded voice or character v…
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Using Operation Results API to check the progress of deployment slots swap operation in App Service
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Currently there is no standard REST API to monitor swap operation, apart from using the activity logs. Web Apps - Swap Slot Slot - REST API (Azure App Service) | Microsoft Docs However, we have recently found the following way to monitor the Swap operation and the same API is being used by Azure portal as well to update the Swap status and it's comparatively fast. Please refer to the steps below: First call the POST Slot-Swap API & it will trigger the swap operation as shown below: https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{SubscriptionID}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/{name}/slots/{slot}/slotsswap?api-ve…
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Bram’s Story to Open Door to People Seeking Hope
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In this article, we feature a Microsoft Azure MVP in the Netherlands, Bram van den Klinkenberg, who established a new global community, Neurodivergence and Mental Health in IT. He was diagnosed with ADHD and suffered from health issues. And now, he devotes himself to giving a helping hand to the people who look for hope. Bram posted his personal story on LinkedIn and shared that he was struggling with mental health issues and burnout last May. With the help from his wife, family, friends, psychologist, and employer, he is trying to deal with his ADHD and mental health issues to improve his personal and work life. During his journey through dealing and coping…
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Investigate Azure Spring Apps Networking Issue with the new Connect feature
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In A Simple Network Connection Test Tool for Azure Spring Cloud we demonstrated a way to build a very simple App for DNS resolve and TCP ping tests in Azure Spring Apps. Azure Spring Apps published a new Connect Feature that allows you access the shell environment inside your application instances to do advanced troubleshooting. This blog aimed to describe how to directly access the shell environment inside your application instances to investigate common networking issues. Step 1: Connect to an app instance for troubleshooting Step 2: Investigate Azure Spring Apps Networking Issue in the Console Step 1: Connect to an app instance for troubl…
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Introduction to Comprehensive End-to-End Testing in Azure
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Table of Contents What's end-to-end testing Why it's important? Shifting-left testing Benefits of shifting-left testing [*]Introducing Playwright [*]Introducing Azure Load Testing [*]Introducing Azure Chaos Studio Scenarios for using Azure Chaos Studio include: [*]Summary & coming next What's end-to-end testing End-to-end testing, also known as E2E testing, is a type of software testing that involves testing the entire solution, from start to finish, to ensure that it functions as expected. This includes testing all components, subsystems, and interfaces, as well as all end-user scenarios and use cases. Why it's important?…
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Listen to your favourite Microsoft Tech Community Blog articles, powered by Azure Speech Services!
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We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with the Azure Speech Services team, part of Azure Cognitive Services, to enable text to speech conversion of all the blogs in the Microsoft Tech Community. Keep up to date with all the latest updates, stories and features for your favourite Microsoft products by clicking on the icon at the top of any article and try it out today! Continue reading...
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Modern device strategy: How Surface helps retailers navigate second wave of digital transformation
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If 2020 taught us anything, no business is resilient to everything, but retailers who laid their digital tracks early were better equipped to adapt to this new world. Faced with supply chain disruptions and unprecedented increases in employee turnover, retailers need more help than ever from technology and digital tools to improve employee engagement and customer experiences. This second wave of digital transformation has triggered enduring structural changes that are redefining a new normal. Retailers are connecting their physical locations with digital experiences to better serve customers and build a more connected organization from the sales/shop floor to the c…
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December edition of the GCC-H M365 Monthly Webinar: Connect • Collaborate • Create.
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Our GCC-H Customer Success Manager (CSM) team will be hosting the webinar Tomorrow Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 9-10 am PT |12-1pm ET . We have a great lineup this month to help your personnel increase productivity and effective collaboration with the M365 suite: Dan Carroll (Principal PM) will give an overview on Cross-Cloud Collaboration, and this will kick off a series of topics dedicated to helping users understand how to successfully interact with their partners across the Microsoft cloud ecosystem. Top trainer Michael Adamczyk is back to begin a 3-part series on OneDrive Capabilities to drive more productive work in meeting your missions. The GCC-H CSM team …
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Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series (Part 5h) - Premium eDiscovery - Processing
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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 Number (Part 5e) – Premium eDiscovery - Holds
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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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Develop your network integration skills with our new ramp guide
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As the cloud continues to evolve, your work as a network engineer will only get more stimulating—and challenging. Your role overseeing your company’s computer infrastructure is as demanding as it is essential, and that’s why we’ve developed a new Azure Skills Navigator guide dedicated to helping network engineers like you not only get started on Azure, but develop your specialty in networking solutions. It’s essential to stay informed about the latest cloud technology to stay competitive in today’s employment market. From migrating workloads to the cloud and managing hybrid connectivity to empowering remote workers and supporting strategic scenarios that enable digital…
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Introducing enhanced company branding for sign-in experiences in Azure AD
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Hello friends, I'm thrilled to announce that we have redesigned the company branding functionality to allow more flexible and user-centric customization of the built-in identity flows for Azure AD and Microsoft 365 apps. The new experience controls apply to sign-in for users in the directory and for external users, including use cases for B2B, B2E and first-party applications running on Azure AD. You can try the public preview today. Your users, your experience We added these customization options based on your feedback that you wanted more control over the experience for your users. For those building customer facing apps, we know from our experien…