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UPDATE: 2/15/17: We will deliver updates as part of the planned March Update Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems. This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates today. Continue reading...

本記事は、Windows for IT Pros のブログ “Simplified servicing for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1: the latest improvements” (2017 年 1 月 13 日 米国時間公開) を翻訳したもの Continue reading...

EMET 5.52 is the latest version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) and is now available for download. EMET 5.52 is a minor update from EMET 5.51 to address the following: ** An issue with the EAF mitigation that causes some applications to hang on Windows 7 SP1. A fix to the MSI installer to allow in-place upgrade behavior. Continue reading...

2017 年 1 月 11 日 (日本時間)、マイクロソフトは計 4 件 (緊急 1 件、重要 3 件) の新規セキュリティ情報を公開し Continue reading...

Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security TechNet Library. MSRC team Continue reading...

2016 年 12 月 14 日 (日本時間)、マイクロソフトは計 12 件 (緊急 6 件、重要 6 件) の新規セキュリティ情報を公開し Continue reading...

Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security TechNet Library. MSRC team Continue reading...

こんにちは、村木ゆりかです。 以前よりマイクロソフト セキュリティ アドバイザリ 2880823、そして、このブログでもご案内しているとおり、証明書に利用されているハッシュ アルゴリズム SHA-1 の安全性の低下に伴い、利用廃止が進められています。 マイクロソフトでは、2017 年 2 月 14 日 (米国時間) ~~2017 年中旬 ~~ 2017 日 5 月 9 日 (米国時間) より、SHA-1 の TLS サーバー証明書を利用するウェブサイトを、Microsoft Edge および Internet Explorer 11 で閲覧した場合、信頼しないサイトとして警告を表示します。インターネットに公開しているウェブサーバーの管理者は、自サイトが 信頼しないサイトとして表示されないように、いまいちど確認をお願いいたします。 補足：すべての構成やシナリオに対応するために Microsoft Edge および Internet Explorer 11 における SHA-1 廃止に受けたタイムラインについて 2017 年中旬へ変更しました。2017 年 5 月より、SHA-1 証明書を利用したサイトを閲覧した場合、警告を表示し保護します。また、Windows 10 の次のリリースにおいては、SHA-1 証明書を既定のブラウザでブロックするようにアップデートを行う予定です。すぐに、SHA-1 証明書を利用したサイトをブロックしたい場合は、the Microsoft Edge Developer Blog にある手順に従い、…

Hybrid work and rapidly shifting economic factors continue to create challenges for distributed teams and organizations. Leaders and communicators need new tools to scale culture and create meaningful connections among employees, and empower everyone to contribute. Viva Engage launched last year as an evolution of the Yammer Communities app for Teams, bringing communities and conversations into Microsoft Viva. Today, Microsoft announced that new experiences for leaders, communicators and knowledge sharing in Viva Engage are now rolling out to Viva suite customers. In addition, Yammer web and mobile applications will continue to evolve to be part of Microsoft Viva and be r…

Yammer has been powering community experiences in Microsoft for over a decade. In that time, we’ve seen our customers use Yammer to influence their company culture, bring employees together during times of trial, share knowledge and empower employees with a voice that positively influences change within their organizations. During this period, you’ve inspired us, you’ve shaped us, and you’ve grown with us. Six months ago, we took the first step to rebrand the Yammer Communities app for Teams to Viva Engage, to align Yammer more closely with our Viva suite of employee experiences. Since then, we’ve continued to add new functionality to both Viva Engage and the Yammer apps …

Introducing a new admin center to directly manage and enable capabilities for Viva Engage. This admin experience will be available within the Viva Engage Teams application for Microsoft Viva customers. Admins will now be able to easily plan the rollout of Viva Engage within the organization – configure and customize the application, manage security and compliance, manage core and premium Viva Engage features and overall build engagement for employees. The following roles can access the Engage admin center: Microsoft 365 Global admin, Engage admin (Yammer administrator), Yammer network admin, Answers admin (Knowledge manager) and Corporate communicator role. The Engag…

We are happy to announce that User Managed Identity support for Auditing Azure SQL Database is in Public Preview now. Auditing for Azure SQL database has started supporting User Managed Identity. Auditing can be configured to Storage account using two authentication methods, managed identity, and storage access keys. For managed identity you can use system managed identity or user managed identity. To know more about UMI in azure refer here. To configure writing audit logs to a storage account, select Storage when you get to the Auditing section. Select the Azure storage account where logs will be saved, you can use two storage authentication types i.e., manag…

This post was co-authored by Yinhe Wei, Ke Wang, Lei He, Sheng Zhao, Qinying Liao, Yan Xia, and Nalin Mujumdar An important element of language learning is being able to accurately pronounce words. Speech service on Azure supports Pronunciation Assessment to empower language learners and educators more. Pronunciation Assessment is generally available in American English, British English, Australian English, French, Spanish and Chinese, with other languages available in preview. The Pronunciation Assessment capability evaluates speech pronunciation and gives speakers feedback on the accuracy and fluency of the speech, allowing users to benefit from various a…

We are pleased to announce the security review for Microsoft Edge, version 110! We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 110 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 107 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 110 introduced 13 new computer settings and 13 new user settings. We have included a spreadsheet listing the new settings in the release to make it easier for you to find them. As a friendly reminder, all available settings for Microsof…

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with a Microsoft Integration expert, Daniel Probert, from Affinus to discuss BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services migrations. In this video, Daniel will share some of his real-world experience of migrating customers to Azure Integration Services. This is Part 4 of a multi-part series where I speak with Integration experts to tap into their experiences and share with the community. To view the previous videos in this series, please refer to the following post. In my conversation with Daniel, we cover the following topics: What are some examples of BizTalk migrations that you have been involved in? What i…

Today, we have a service request that our customer needs more information about a login failed ocurred in their databases. Following, I would like to share a recommendation about it. If your application returned a login failed, for example, as below using SQL Server Management Studio: Cannot connect to servername.database.windows.net. =================================== Login failed for user 'XXX'. (.Net SqlClient Data Provider) ------------------------------ For help, click: Microsoft – Cloud, Computers, Apps & Gaming ------------------------------ Server Name: servername.database.windows.net Error Number: 18456 Basically, if you ena…

A picture showing Let's Build Together Low Code Edition Welcome to the Let's Build Together: Low-Code Edition Finding content or coming up ideas on what to build with Power Platform can be a challenging thing to do right? With Let’s Build Together: LowCode Edition, we will walk you through on how to build End to End solutions using Microsoft Power Apps, automate their processes with Microsoft Power Automate in a span of just 2 weeks. Power Platform skills will open doors for you in your career. In this show, we will do the following: Build a Booking Requests App with PowerApps Automate the Booking Request Process with Power Automate Build a Mobile Sales A…

Auditing is a powerful security feature which is widely used by many customers. Customers must maintain audit logs for longer retention periods for their security & Compliance requirements. If you have longer retention periods, the audit logs for Azure Database can be huge and the storage can become costly. To save cost and maintain your audit logs for longer retention periods, you can compress the log files with help of a copy data tool from Azure data factory. You can configure the pipelines to compress and decompress audit log files using known compression technologies like WinZip, zipdeflate etc. In This blog I will show detailed steps below to create the pipeline…

Issue: While trying to either establish data sync for the first time or reestablish data sync after any schema/application changes the following common error codes (messages) may be generated. The document describes the error codes & their possible mitigation techniques. Error 1- >WARNING: Table with object_id 1490872428 was not found, DataSync.xx_dss_updatemetadata was provisoned using this object_id! >WARNING: owner_scope_local_id 0 was not found for object_id 1490872428 Error 2- >WARNING: Tracking Records for Table [dbo].[aa] may have 2072 invalid records! >WARNING: Tracking Records for Table [dbo].[bb] may have 2072 invalid records!…

PowerBI and Jupyter are both popular tools for data visualization and analysis, but they have some differences in terms of their use cases, functionality, and target audience. PowerBI is a business intelligence tool from Microsoft that provides a visual and interactive way to analyze data from various sources, including spreadsheets, databases, and cloud services. It is user-friendly, easy to use, and ideal for business users who want to create dashboards, reports, and charts without the need for deep technical skills. PowerBI also has a cloud-based version that allows users to share and collaborate on their data and visualizations. Jupyter is an open-source web-base…

In this article we will learn how to setup Azure container registry. As you know we use container registry stores and manages private container images and other artifacts, like the way Docker Hub stores public Docker container images. Let's create a container in Visual Studio that we can push to GitHub and then deploy to Azure Container Registry. If you want to follow along on your local computer, you'll need Docker Desktop installed. This allows you to run containers locally before pushing them to a remote hosting environment, like Azure App Service, or a more complex orchestration environment, like Azure Kubernetes Service. You can download the Docker Desktop installed …

Azure DevOps email notifications are great, sometimes project team members doesn’t want to get notified for each and every state change in a User Story, Tasks and Bug and only a specific few want to get to notified whenever a bug is created or closed (skipping the intermediate states). And some team members ask for all the fields in the email body they want additional fields instead of the fields that were changed. I have also seen the customer requirement where they want to be notified only specific date and time in a week with summarized work items(e.g. send email of all tasks are in close state under a particular user story). Though the 1st one is easily achievabl…

The recent developments with AI have presented several opportunities for developers to build intelligent solutions. How can rising developers take positive advantage of this with the help of Power Platform? You are a rising developer working for a specific company or part of developer/student community that constantly works with new trends and technologies. The key ask from your company/community is to compile a weekly newsletter with the latest trends about a specific technology (.NET, Python, React or Power Platform) for developers to stay up to date and make decisions on what new features, if any, should they deep dive on. Here are key learn materials for t…

The recent developments with AI have presented several opportunities for developers to build intelligent solutions. How can rising developers take positive advantage of this with the help of Power Platform? You are a rising developer working for a specific company or part of developer/student community that constantly works with new trends and technologies. The key ask from your company/community is to compile a weekly newsletter with the latest trends about a specific technology (.NET, Python, React or Power Platform) for developers to stay up to date and make decisions on what new features, if any, should they deep dive on. Here are key learn materials for thi…

Powerful Devs 2023 Feb 15th, 2023, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT The Powerful Devs Conference will highlight how developers can leverage the Power Platform to build applications faster and with far less effort. Connect with industry recognized ProDev influencers, Microsoft Cloud Advocates, trusted and diverse community leaders, and members of the Power Platform Team. Register NOW Event Agenda Watch live at YouTube 09:00 PT Welcome with Dona Sarkar and Greg Hurlman 09:05 PT Keynote with Charles Lamanna 09:35 PT The Pro Devs toolbox for Power Platform integration with April Dunnam and Scott Durow 10:05 PT Power Pages hearts developers with Sand…