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Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2022 RTW
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We’re excited to announce the final release of Azure DevOps Server 2022! You can upgrade from Azure DevOps Server 2022 release candidates or previous versions of TFS and Azure DevOps. You can find the full details in our release notes. Here are some key links: Azure DevOps Server 2022 ISO Azure DevOps Server 2022 Web Install Release Notes Azure DevOps Server requirements and compatibility Installation documentation We’d love for you to install this release candidate and provide any feedback at Developer Community. Continue reading...
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Azure AD Authentication for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now in General Availability!
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We’re pleased to announce general availability of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server! With Azure AD authentication, you can connect to Flexible Server and manage database user identities and other Microsoft services in a central location, simplifying permission management. When you are configuring authentication for accessing a MySQL flexible server, you have three options: MySQL authentication only – The default option, this provides for native MySQL Authentication such that the MySQL login and password is used to access Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. Azure Active Directory au…
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Announcing general availability of RDP Shortpath
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We are pleased to announce the general availability of RDP Shortpath for public networks. RDP Shortpath improves the transport reliability of Azure Virtual Desktop connections by establishing a direct UDP data flow between the Remote Desktop client and session hosts. This feature is enabled by default for all customers. We started deploying RDP Shortpath in September and now the feature is 100% rolled out. What is RDP Shortpath for public network? RDP Shortpath lets user sessions directly establish a Unified Data Platform (UDP) flow between client and session host using the Simple Traversal Underneath NAT (STUN) and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) pr…
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How to automate On-Demand Azure Backup for Azure Virtual Machines using PowerShell
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This guest post is authored by Swathi Dhanwada, Customer Engineer 2, who is frequently seen answering Azure Backup community queries. Azure Backup supports multiple backups of Azure Virtual Machines per day using Enhanced Policy. For hourly backup, the minimum RPO is 4 hours and the maximum is 24 hours. You can set the backup schedule to 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 hours respectively. Learn how to back up an Azure VM using Enhanced policy. This feature is only available to unprotected VMs that are new to Azure Backup. VMs that are already protected with existing policy can't be moved to Enhanced policy. To overcome this, you can run an multiple on-demand backup of a V…
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Microsoft Teams Productivity Summit - Day 2 morning session- Teams Phone: Ignite 202
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Microsoft’s flagship Ignite conference took place in October 2022 in Seattle, WA. The company highlighted upcoming capabilities and investments it’s making to improve employees’ hybrid work experiences. Microsoft Teams Phone and Teams Rooms represent key pillars in Microsoft 365, the world’s leading productivity suite. In the session hear from Microsoft Health Life Sciences technical SMEs discuss recent innovations and trends with Microsoft Teams Phone solutions. Target Audience: IT Professionals Continue reading...
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Cool Features in Microsoft Teams Meetings (Part 1)
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Greetings to our lovely NTA non-profits. This article will help you uncover some pretty cool features within Microsoft Teams that can help take your meetings to the next level. Live Transcription This first awesome feature was created for accessibility purposes as well as making your designated note taker's job 100% easier. The automatic transcribing feature is perfect for someone who may have missed the meeting and wants to later go back to the meeting recap in the chat to read everything that was discussed or for someone who needs to read captions in real time due to, for example, a hearing impairment or language barrier. This visual aid appea…
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Dynamic alert details - The force awakens
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About year ago, we released the alert enrichment blog post covering a few new (at the time) capabilities in scheduled analytics rules. The dynamic alert details section explained why and how we can set the name, description, severity and MITRE ATT&CK tactics. This resulted in many users thinking to themselves – “why stop there?” Why not allow customizing all the alert properties, making the alert investigation-oriented and minimizing the pivots to the raw events. Microsoft Sentinel is a SIEM + SOAR solution and as such, it collects event log data from a range of sources including alert providers. Alert providers are different since the detection logic i…
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Microsoft To Do now supports auto population of tasks due today in the My Day list!
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We are excited to announce that Microsoft To Do now supports auto population of tasks due today in the My Day list! With this new feature, your tasks will automatically appear in My Day on their due dates. This will help you stay on top of your priorities and stay organized throughout the day. This is in addition to the existing capability in which you can add tasks manually in My Day. To access this new feature, simply open your Microsoft To Do app and click on the My Day list. You will see a list of all of your tasks due today, including any tasks that were previously added to your lists and are due today. We have started the…
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Update: ODBC Driver 17.10.2 for SQL Server Released
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Version 17.10.2 of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server has been released. Version 17.10.2 brings a few fixes to the driver. Fixes Fix error when retrieving numeric column with Regional=Yes Fix intermittent lack of error when server is stopped during bcp out operation Fix error when stored procedure call contains unquoted string parameter Fix a crash when receiving invalid data from server Fix unsigned custom installer action DLL Next steps For Windows installations, you can directly download the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server. Linux and macOS packages are also available. For installation details see the online instructions for Li…
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Azure AD OAuth Proof of Possession (PoP) for Azure Logic Apps
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Azure AD OAuth Proof of Possession (PoP) for Azure Logic Apps Logic Apps supports bearer-type authorization schemes for Azure AD OAuth access tokens, which means that the “Authorization” header for the access token must specify the “Bearer” type. We have now added the support for PoP-type authorization schemes for Azure AD OAuth access tokens, which means that the “Authorization” header for the access token must specify the “PoP” type. For now, the PoP support is only available in consumption Logic Apps How do you get the PoP token This sample uses a daemon app and shows how to use Proof Of Possession (PoP) tokens which is now available…
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Infrastructure Chaining with Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence
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Imagine you are a Threat Hunter or a SECOPS Analyst. You were alerted to a possible suspicious IP Address communicating with a system within your network. Questions you can use the IP address to answer are if it is anywhere else on the network, what systems or servers are communicating with it, whether its behavior indicates command and control beaconing, and if data is leaving the network to communicate with it. Overall, in and of itself, a single IP Address provides valuable - but limited - information. Even if the analyst initiates a block on that IP, an adversary can move the C2 communication channel to another entity entirely out of view. After answeri…
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Announcing the Public Preview of AVD Insights at Scale
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I’m excited to announce the public preview of one of our most requested native monitoring features – Azure Virtual Desktop Insights at Scale. This update provides the ability to review performance and diagnostic information across multiple host pools in one view. Previously, Azure Virtual Desktop Insights only supported the ability to review information related to a single host pool at a time. In many cases this limited visibility into issues that may have an impact across multiple host pools. Key Benefits Ability to report across multiple host pools, resource groups, and subscriptions at once. New Round-Trip Time reporting by gateway region. …
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Microsoft Teams Productivity Summit - Day 1 afternoon session - Employee Engagement with Viva Engage
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Viva Engage is an employee experience, powered by Yammer, that connects people across the company so that everyone is included and engaged. The Viva Engage app in Teams helps organizations build community, spark engagement with leadership, harness knowledge and answers, and build personal networks. During this session you’ll learned how we’re improving Viva Engage to be a place to more deeply connect with leaders, create and run more robust social campaigns, and to be a hub for getting answers to questions. In addition, learn about the rich set of analytics we have planned to support these areas. Target Audience: IT Professionals, HR, Corp Communications and…
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How Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB) helps you succeed in your cloud security journey
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We hear your challenges of keeping up with security innovation: Organizations often find it challenging to keep up with security for all the new services and features from cloud providers. While these rapid innovations offer flexibility and can greatly accelerate value for organizations and their customers, securing an organization at the speed of innovation can be difficult. In today's rapidly evolving cloud security landscape, we often hear from our customers about these common challenges that you too might be facing: How to understand the security profiles of each cloud service and which configurations and recommendations are critical to protect your cl…
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Logic App Standard Flow History Cleaner
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Flow History Cleaner Application that deletes the Tables and the Queues in the Logic app Standard storage account. it will help you in the development process, especially if there are stuck flows in the running state How to download the application Open the Kudo Kudu service overview - Azure App Service from Logic app site Then chose CMD Execute the below command to clone the GitHub repository git clone GitHub - mbarqawi/FlowHistoryCleaner the above commend will create a folder FlowHistoryCleaner Then you will have to publish the solution to be able to use the executable Cd FlowHistoryCleaner dotnet…
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Microsoft Teams Productivity Summit - Day 1 - Teams + ServiceNow Integration
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Session Title: Deliver great employee experiences with ServiceNow and Microsoft Teams integration In today’s digital world, organizations demand a conversational experience for the enterprise that can free up resources, so employees can focus on higher-value work. To meet this demand, ServiceNow and Microsoft have partnered to seamlessly embed workflows in Microsoft Teams to improve employee productivity and enable faster case resolution for agents. In this session, we reviewed how: - Employees can have their problems solved more effectively - your organization can help them, without interrupting the flow of work - Learn recommendations from Micros…
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How to activate your non-profit organization’s Azure credits
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Microsoft NTA for Black and African American Communities program offers free licenses, technology grants and steep discounts on enterprise software and services, such as Office 365, Power BI, Dynamics and $3500 a year in Azure credits to eligible nonprofit organizations like you to help increase the impact of your missions. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform enabling organizations to easily build, deploy and manage applications and services in the cloud, reducing or removing the cost of expensive onsite equipment upgrades and maintenance whilst delivering unparalleled flexibility. Organizations use Azure to host websites and apps, databases, and entire W…
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Customer Managed Keys for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now in General Availability!
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We’re pleased to announce general availability of customer managed keys! By default, Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server encrypts data at rest. With customer-managed keys (CMKs), you can bring your own key (BYOK) for an extra layer of data encryption. CMK is an asymmetric key that is stored in a customer-owned and managed Azure Key Vault instance. Data encryption key (DEK) is designed for use by the Azure Database for MySQL service to encrypt/decrypt data. The CMK, also known as the Key Encryption Key (KEK), is used to encrypt and decrypt the Data Encryption Key. So that's encryption within encryption! To configure data encryption using CMK, all you nee…
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Zero Trust with Azure Network Security
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Written in collaboration with @andrewmathu Introduction As more organizations continue to migrate workloads into the cloud and adopt hybrid cloud setups, security measures and controls can become complicated and difficult to implement. The zero-trust model assists and guides organizations in the continuous digital transformation space by providing a reliable framework to manage complexity, secure digital assets and manage risk. The Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originated from an uncontrolled network regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, instead of believing everything behind…
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Interactive Web-based 3D Visualization of large scientific datasets using Azure Batch
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Scientific computing has long relied on HPC systems to accelerate scientific discovery. What constitutes an HPC system has continued to evolve. Access to computing keeps getting democratized and HPC is no longer limited to multi-billion dollar government laboratories and industries who can afford the infrastructure. Anyone with access to the Internet can now easily leverage the ubiquitous cloud for their computing task du jour! Azure natively supports HPC by providing hardware suitable for high performance computing needs together with software infrastructure to make it easy to harness these resources. In this post, we focus on one such Azure infrastructure component, Azu…
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Traditional Outlook attachment search now rolling out to Microsoft Search
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Microsoft Outlook lets you quickly choose whether to send the document as a traditional attachment or upload it to OneDrive and share a link to the file. Sending a link to the OneDrive or SharePoint file keeps the size of your email message small. If you choose to send a copy of the file, the entire file is attached to the email, just like it would be if you selected a file on your computer. Now with Microsoft Search you can now discover traditional attachments shared in Microsoft Outlook. A screenshot of a traditional Outlook attachment in Office.com with Microsoft Search NOTE Traditional attachments in Microsoft Search are only visible to…
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Apps designed for collaboration can help keep employees in the flow of work by bringing the apps, data, and workflows to the user. With Adobe Acrobat Sign and Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe has played a vital role in bringing collaborative apps to Teams. Building on this momentum, we’re excited to announce the new integration of Adobe Acrobat into Microsoft Teams. This new experience helps remove the friction of switching between apps for organizations that prefer to work with their PDFs through Adobe Acrobat. This new integration may help result in more efficiency, improved security, and reduce costs. Managing PDFs in Microsoft Teams with Adobe Acrobat This deep i…
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Apps designed for collaboration can help keep employees in the flow of work by bringing the apps, data, and workflows to the user. With Adobe Acrobat Sign and Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe has played a vital role in bringing collaborative apps to Teams. Building on this momentum, we’re excited to announce the new integration of Adobe Acrobat into Microsoft Teams. This new experience helps remove the friction of switching between apps for organizations that prefer to work with their PDFs through Adobe Acrobat. This new integration may help result in more efficiency, improved security, and reduce costs. Managing PDFs in Microsoft Teams with Adobe Acrobat This deep i…
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Notes from the field: Using app-only authentication with customized RBAC roles in Exchange Online
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Many Exchange Online customers are in the final phase of migrating to OAuth (or what we call Modern authentication) and finally disabling Basic authentication for their clients. The latest summary with migration resources is at Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – September 2022 Update. In this post, I focus on Exchange Online PowerShell as the client used for administration. In the past, it was used with Basic authentication as that was the only available authentication option. But that has changed, and the article Understanding the Different Versions of Exchange Online PowerShell Modules and Basic Auth tells you the whole story. What I would like to …
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Azure Kubernetes Service: Opções de RBAC na prática
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Introdução Quando você está construindo um cluster AKS para seu time, uma das primeiras perguntas que você precisa fazer é: Como você vai gerenciar o acesso aos diferentes grupos ou pessoas? Como ter algo simples de gerenciar, mas ainda seguro? Ao utilizar o Portal do Azure para criar uma novo cluster do AKS, ele oferece as seguintes opções: Portal do Azure, tipos de autenticação Local accounts with Kubernetes RBAC Azure AD authentication with Kubernetes RBAC Azure AD authentication with Azure RBAC Essas opções estão resumidas neste documento e em seus artigos referenciados. Se você ainda não tem tanta experiência com o Kubernetes e o …