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Heya folks, Ned here again. The latest Windows Server Summit is coming December 6th, 2022. Join us for demos, sessions, and live Q & A on Windows Server and: Securing your infrastructure Getting the most from new Windows Server 2022 capabilities Efficiently managing hybrid workloads Seeing my dogs in demos Free registration: Windows Server Summit | Microsoft Event Agenda Products / topics included Opening Rick Claus Sonia Cuff Executive “fireside chat” Roanne Sones Rick Claus High-level hybrid & migration themes, Azure Arc, AHB for Azure Stack HCI and AKS, with Win…
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Redeeming Azure for Student from your GitHub Student Pack when you do not have an Academic Email
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Learn to ship software like a pro. There's no substitute for hands-on experience. But for most students, real world tools can be cost-prohibitive. That's why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends. Sign up for Student Developer Pack Accessing Azure for Student Access to Microsoft Azure cloud services and learning resources – no credit card required Benefit but you have you login using a validated student account to access Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit. Cloud Virtual Events Getting Started Step 1. Linking your personal Microsoft Account to your GitHub valida…
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SQL Server 2022: Introducing SQL Server 2022 General Availability [Ep. 1] | Data Exposed
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The latest release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2022, is now available. Join Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward in this episode of Data Exposed as they walk you through the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet. With continued innovation in performance, security, and availability, SQL Server 2022 integrates seamlessly with the rest of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, which unifies operational databases, analytics, and data governance. Resources: Learn more about SQL Server 2022: https://aka.ms/sqlserver2022 Download SQL Server 2022: https://aka.ms/getsqlserver2022 Get our decks: https://aka.ms/sqlserver2022decks What’s new for SQL Server 2022: https:…
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SQL Server 2022: Introducing SQL Server 2022 General Availability [Ep. 1] | Data Exposed
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The latest release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2022, is now available. Join Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward in this episode of Data Exposed as they walk you through the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet. With continued innovation in performance, security, and availability, SQL Server 2022 integrates seamlessly with the rest of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, which unifies operational databases, analytics, and data governance. Resources: Learn more about SQL Server 2022: https://aka.ms/sqlserver2022 Download SQL Server 2022: https://aka.ms/getsqlserver2022 Get our decks: https://aka.ms/sqlserver2022decks What’s new for SQL Server 202…
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Purpose The purpose of this post is to walk through the process of creating an event driven alerting mechanism for Azure Policy compliance. Assumptions General knowledge of Azure, PowerShell, and resource creation, both in the portal and with command-line interfaces. Challenge Many organizations use Azure Policy to track, measure, maintain, and enforce regulatory policy compliance. These regulatory compliance initiatives could be standard baseline initiatives that have been assigned or they could be customized regulatory compliance initiatives, created just for that particular organization. Regardless of the regulatory compliance initiative ty…
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Building a POC for TLS inspection in Azure Firewall
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Authored by - Deepak Maheshwari This blog post will provide a step-by-step guide to build a Proof of Concept (POC) Lab that uses the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Inspection feature of Azure Firewall Premium by using the Certification Auto-Generation mechanism, which automatically creates the following three resources for you: Managed Identity Key Vault Self-signed Root CA certificate Azure Firewall TLS Inspection requires Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to issue certificates. Setting up a PKI system is a complex process, as it requires deploying some additional resources such as Windows Virtual machine(s) to host Active Directory Certificate Servic…
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Students, kick-start your tech career with a Microsoft Certification!
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Earning a Microsoft Certification does more than just build technical skills; certifications can help you stand out, gain confidence, and even get paid more. Microsoft Certifications also validate your skills and abilities, while proving your commitment to learning the latest technologies. TO START, YOUR FREE STUDENT LEARNING JOURNEY WITH CLOUD READY, PLEASE LOGIN WITH YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT. YOU WILL ACCESS SEVERAL PLATFORMS DURING YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY. YOU CAN REVIEW THESE PLATFORMS AND OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR WHICH ACCOUNT TO USE ON THIS PAGE. Get Started NOW SIGN IN with your Microsoft Account Personal or Institutional M365 Verify your stu…
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We are excited to announce that applications to attend BlueHat 2023 are now open BlueHat 2023 will be the 20th version of the BlueHat conference and will once again be on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, USA, from February 8 – 9, 2023. Hosted by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), BlueHat is where the security research community, and Microsoft security professionals, come together as peers, to connect, share, and learn.
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New on Microsoft Learn: Advance your security posture from chip to cloud
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Where do you start with improving your organization's security posture? You've heard about growing cyber threats and security statistics, hardening, and Zero Trust. Now a new learning module brings it all together with practical guidance to help secure your environment from chip to cloud. Just to give you an idea of what's in the learning module, this article outlines: The basics of Zero Trust from chip to cloud Leveraging Microsoft Intune's capabilities as an example of how to advance your security posture Tools to monitor and report on your security posture The basics of Zero Trust from chip to cloud While keeping up with the latest threats in your fiel…
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (November 2022)
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Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying to help our readers a bit more, whether that is learning, troubleshooting, or just finding new content sources! We will give you a bit of a taste of the blog content itself, provide you a way to get to the source content directly, and help to introduce you to some other blogs you may not be aware of that you might find helpful. If you have been a long-time reader, then you will find this series to be very similar to our prior series “Infrastructure + Securi…
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Announcing Public Preview of Role Based Access Control for Applications in Exchange Online
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If, as an administrator, you’ve ever consented to app-only permissions like Mail.Read in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), you are likely familiar with the coarse-grained nature of these permissions. Access is granted at a tenant-wide resource scope which leads to over-privileged applications. Today, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Applications in Exchange Online. The Preview introduces a new set of resource-scoped permissions for Exchange Online to help you better protect access to your tenant’s data. Scoped access covers email, contacts, and calendar data using Microsoft Graph or Exchange Web Services APIs. This …
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Business Event Tracking - Feedback Opportunity
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Hi all, we are looking for feedback regarding Business Event Tracking (aka BAM) in Azure Integration Services. We have put together a survey to collect feedback and provide customers the opportunity to influence our upcoming roadmap and investments. Please note: This survey focuses on Business Event Tracking and not Application Monitoring. Business Event Tracking can be defined as capturing key business data attributes as they move through integration interfaces and being able to store it in a data store. Subsequently, the data is accessible to other stakeholders including business SMEs and operational analysts through reports, dashboards and alerts. As a result,…
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General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.11 new and updated features
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The Azure Sphere 22.11 release includes the following components: Update to the image signing keys used by the Azure Sphere Security Service Updated Azure Sphere OS Updated Azure Sphere SDK for Windows and for Linux Updated Azure Sphere extensions for Visual Studio and for Visual Studio Code If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud. To install the latest SDK, see the installation Quickstart for Windows or Linux: Quickstart: Install the Azure Sphere SDK for Windows Quickstart: Install the Azure Sphere SDK for Linux Highlights in this release include a new Malloc version, an upgraded…
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Microsoft’s vision for identity goes beyond traditional identity management to give our customers an entire toolset to secure access for everyone and everything in multicloud and multiplatform environments. Earlier this year, we significantly advanced this vision with the launch of Microsoft Entra and the new Microsoft Entra admin center. We’re now pleased to announce the staged rollout of the Entra admin center for Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) customers. Starting this month, waves of customers will begin to be automatically directed to entra.microsoft.com from Microsoft 365 in place of the Azure AD admin center (aad.portal.azure.com). …
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Introducing Machine Learning based recommendations in Azure AD Access reviews
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Many of you are already using Azure AD access reviews to govern access of your employees, guests, and workload identities to sensitive resources. Over the years, one of the top requests from our customers is to make the review process easier so that reviewers can make quicker and more accurate decisions. Today, I’m excited to share that we’ve vastly enhanced our recommendations in access reviews using sophisticated machine learning models that determine users’ affiliation to the group being reviewed, based on the organization’s reporting structure. This additional recommendation makes the entire process much easier for reviewers, thereby increasing reviewer efficiency, re…
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Migrate Kubernetes workloads running on VM’s using Azure Migrate – Planning & Execution
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This article details about a Lift and shift migration scenario which was tested successfully using Azure Migrate and is considered unique for two reasons. The Virtual Machines were running Kubernetes workloads and all kinds of databases like Postgres, MySQL, Mongo DB etc. IP retention was a prime requirement for the customer as they had certificates binded with the Load Balancer IP. Customer had ~700+ Virtual machines running Kubernetes workloads from two environments (Dev and QA) and we migrated each environment in just a day and ensured that all the servers had their IP retained and their Kubernetes workloads started working exactly the same manner as …
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Using AI and machine learning to deliver the help you need
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The Microsoft 365 commercial support team resolves customer support cases and provides support to help you be successful and realize the full potential and value of your purchase. Our support services extend across the entire lifecycle and include pre-sales, onboarding and deployment, usage and management, accounts and billing, and break-fix support. We also spend a considerable amount of time working to improve the supportability of Microsoft 365 services to reduce the number of issues you experience as well as minimize the effort and time it takes to resolve your issues if they do occur. We’re excited to welcome one of our Microsoft 365 supportability team member…
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New on Microsoft Learn: Advance your security posture from chip to cloud
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Where do you start with improving your organization's security posture? You've heard about growing cyber threats and security statistics, hardening, and Zero Trust. Now a new learning module brings it all together with practical guidance to help secure your environment from chip to cloud. Just to give you an idea of what's in the learning module, this article outlines: The basics of Zero Trust from chip to cloud Leveraging Microsoft Intune's capabilities as an example of how to advance your security posture Tools to monitor and report on your security posture The basics of Zero Trust from chip to cloud While keeping up with the latest threats in your fiel…
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Top 23 questions about Microsoft’s Operator Connect Accelerator Program: ANSWERED
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1. Question: Why has Microsoft developed the Accelerator program? Answer: The program was conceived to assist operators speed their time to market for delivering Operator Connect services. Operators often have rigorous product planning and lifecycle processes that can take 6-12 months to launch a new service. Accelerator helps to alleviate this with a range of outsource PaaS and other wholesale offerings. 2. Question: How quickly will Accelerator get me into market? Answer: Typically, an Accelerator partner will take between 30 to 60 days to onboard an Operator. The variance in timescales is largely down to what elements you choose to outsource to the Accelerator p…
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Author: Luke Moloney is a Senior Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Data Exfiltration Protection (DEP) is a feature that enables additional restrictions on the ability of Azure Synapse Analytics to connect to other services – enabling you to further secure your Azure Synapse Analytics deployment. There are a couple of key things to know about DEP: DEP can only be enabled at Azure Synapse Analytics workspace creation and cannot be disabled at a later point. If you want to disable DEP, you will have to create a new Azure Synapse Analytics workspace and migrate all artifacts. DEP enables you to limit the communication from A…
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Content Pop Out, Meetings with Separate Displays in Microsoft Teams
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Content Pop Out is a welcome feature that landed in public preview in July and went into General Available in August. It makes productivity and engagement in meetings much easier if you are using a multi or ultra-wide monitor setup, as you can have content being shared on a separate window from the meeting. How to enable 1. Join a Teams meeting from a Teams desktop client (Windows or Mac) as an attendee or presenter. 2. When content (shared screen, PowerPoint Live, Whiteboard or other apps) is shared by another presenter in the meeting, click the “Pop Out” button in the meeting toolbar to pop out the content into a separate window. This can be done as the p…
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MCT (Microsoft Community Training): Content Management Synopsis
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Content Management Synopsis Microsoft donated more than $30 billion in technology discounts and grants to more than 300,000 nonprofits worldwide last year. In the recent speech made by Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft he said Nonprofits are a notable example of the possibilities of the recent introduction of more than 100 updates across the Microsoft Cloud to help you do more with less. He said Nonprofits are on the frontlines of so many of our world’s most pressing challenges, and they epitomize what it means to do more with less. He further mentioned the commitment to ensure technology can help them help the world. And over the next five year…
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Timeline visualization - one way of using the powerful Time Pivot chart (Kusto Explorer)
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About the author: I’ve been proudly serving Microsoft since the times Bill Gates was still seen regularly around the Redmond campus. I’ve been working on Compute management services in Azure Core for ten years, focusing on reliability and scalability. I indulge in crafting telemetry data and doing deep datamining on it, doing service-related analytics, and finding uncommon uses of Kusto, like generating operational scripts (even generating Kusto stored functions :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:), and doing interesting transforms of a service’s stored data based on a transaction log asynchronously streamed to Kusto. I’ve been using Kusto for many years in our servi…
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Configuration Manager technical preview version 2211
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Authorization failure message in admin service now shown in Status message viewer We have introduced audit messages about authorization failure in admin service. You can now view request details and status messages. These messages will be shown in “All Status Message” at “Status Message Queries” in “Monitoring” ribbon. Previously these failures were logged in log files. With the new audit messages, we intend to avoid inconvenience of log files rollback. Details about the user, resource access attempts and the number of attempts for all the authorized requests made by user in a day will now be available. We are also auditing read operations for HTTPS reques…
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Updates to Windows App Management in Intune with Winget
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Steps for how to import and publish apps into Intune, without hunting down the packages — including EXEs and MSIs, how to self-install apps from the Company Portal, and best practices to smooth your transition if you’re using the Windows Store for Business. As part of our series on Windows Management, Jason Githens, from the Intune engineering team, joins Jeremy Chapman to give a deep dive on the updates for easily adding apps into Intune, powered by winget, the new Windows Package Manager. Install directly from the source of truth. Intune can now instruct managed PCs to install apps from ISV locations using winget. Self-install your own apps f…