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Announcing GA of revamped Custom Logs features
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Over the last few years, we’ve received extensive feedback around the need for a better custom logs experience in Azure Monitor Logs. To address it, the team stepped back, analyzed needs in the space, and rebuilt from the ground-up the full custom logs feature set. The features have been in preview for several months now, being vetted by many Log Analytics customers including some of the largest retailers, banks, and healthcare providers in the world. With preview feedback addressed and services now fully scaled out to meet the complex needs of these users and more, we are today excited to announce the revamped custom logs features are now generally available! Today,…
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Microsoft Entra Change Announcements – November 2022 Train
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Hello everyone, Our change management announcements cover all changes across Microsoft Entra where we communicate product retirement news biannually and breaking/feature change announcements quarterly. In between these announcements, you will see specific blog posts for new product and feature launches. For example, since our Sept Change Announcements Blog, we launched the general availability of a new region in Japan. Today, we're sharing our November train for feature and breaking changes. We also communicate these changes on release notes and via email. We also continue to make it easier for our customers to manage lifecycle changes (deprecations, retirements…
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Azure portal October 2022 updates
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Mobile > Azure Active Directory Introducing Azure AD on Mobile Azure Kubernetes Service > Fleet Management Fleet Management Create and Manage Experience Release Databases > SQL servers Access SAMI on Azure SQL server Mobile > Virtual Machines and Network Security Groups Manage VM network security rules on mobile Intune Updates to Microsoft Intune Let’s look at each of these updates in greater detail. Mobile > Azure Active Directory Introducing Azure AD on Mobile The new Azure Active Directory experience on the Azure Mobile App allows users to view high level information at the tenant overview lev…
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Windows 365 makes it easy to configure and deploy a PC in the cloud. Once configured, you may ask yourself, “How are Cloud PCs different from a system management perspective? Should I do anything different for these endpoints?” The fact is you can manage your Windows 365 environment the same way you have been managing your physical fleet of Windows endpoints. But there are a few configurations that can improve the experience for you and your users. This blog will provide guidance on each of the features below to help you get the most out of your investment in Windows 365. Cloud PC Dynamic Groups and Filters Conditional Access policies specifically for Cloud PCs Endp…
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Quick Polls in Microsoft Outlook - HLS Show Me How
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Today I got a question from a customer by way of the account team. They wanted to know how to embed a quick poll quickly in Microsoft Outlook. Thankfully the ability to quickly send out an embedded poll within Outlook is a straightforward process. In the HLS Show Me How video I walk through the process of creating/embedding a poll, and then the experience on receipt and responding to the poll. Resources: Create a poll in Outlook - Microsoft Support Outlook help & learning (microsoft.com) Thanks for visiting – Michael Gannotti LinkedIn | Twitter Continue reading...
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We are excited to announce the preview (in selected regions) of new premium-series hardware configurations for Azure SQL Hyperscale databases. Based on the latest generation of Intel® Xeon Scalable processors (3rd gen - Ice Lake) and AMD EPYC™ 7763v (Milan) chipsets, this premium-series hardware offers significantly improved performance and scalability over the standard-series (previously known as ‘Gen5’) hardware offerings and allows you to migrate your performance demanding workloads to Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. In addition, a new memory optimized option within the premium-series provides more memory per vCore to meet the needs of your most memory-intensive wo…
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Announcing preview of 128 vCore provisioned compute size on Azure SQL Standard-series (Gen5)
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We are excited to announce the public preview of 128 vCore provisioned compute size for Azure SQL Standard-series (Gen5) General Purpose and Business Critical databases and elastic pools. Enabling customer demands for increased scalability, Standard-series (Gen5) provisioned databases and elastic pools can now scale to 128 vCores and 625 GB of memory, beyond the previous max of 80 vCores and 415GB of memory. What are the benefits of 128 vCore compute size? 128 vCore compute sizes run on latest Intel Xeon Platinum 8307C (Icelake) and AMD EPYC™ 7763v (Milan) chipsets. More cores improve workload throughput, and newer chipsets improve single core performance. …
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November in HLS – Healthcare Shorts, Azure Cognitive Services, and More
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Welcome to the monthly Healthcare and Life Sciences blog recap, November edition! Check out the highlights below: Voices of Healthcare Cloud Medicaid Recertification with Technology: Learn how you can use technology to enable Medicaid recertification now that PHE is ending. Watch the episode here. Viva Monthly Live Viva Topics and SharePoint Syntex: In this episode, see how you can use Viva Topics and SharePoint Syntex to unlock the knowledge and expertise within your organization. See how here. Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP Testing: Are you interested in understanding and setting up Endpoint DLP testing in Microsoft Purview? See the detailed i…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – November 30, 2022
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 94 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=27135:name] Cloud Native Stack Virtual Machine Image: NVIDIA’s Cloud Native Stack VMI is a GPU-accelerated virtual machine image (VMI) that enables advanced functionality for developers, including better GPU performance, utilization, and telemetry. [attachment=27136:name] Demography: TensorGo’s Demography API detects faces in videos and returns gender, ethnicity, and estimated age in real time by using advanced machine learning…
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The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity
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This monthly series features training content aligned to Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity (SCI) solutions on Microsoft Learn. This month is all about Microsoft Security Virtual Training Days. These free and in-depth virtual training events help professionals of all levels grow their technical skills and gain confidence to navigate what’s ahead. Visit the Microsoft Security Virtual Training Days page to view and register for upcoming events in your region. NEW Virtual Training Day: Secure Access and Management The new Secure Access and Management Virtual Training Day replaces the Zero Trust Virtual Training Day and features new, extended co…
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Move Azure SQL Managed Instance across the virtual networks
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In this blog that is continuation of #sqlmiops series, we will present a feature for moving Azure SQL Managed Instance from one to another subnet located in a different virtual network. This capability comes as an enhancement of the existing capability for moving the instance to another subnet. The experience and set of commands that can be used for executing the move are the same as when going between subnets located in the same virtual network. Readiness of the destination subnet When moving an instance to a different virtual network, the same requirements apply as if it were being moved between subnets in the same virtual network: Destination subnet …
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Azure Kubernetes Service: RBAC options in practice
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Introduction When you are building an AKS cluster for your team, one of the first questions you need to ask is: how are you going to manage access to the different groups or people? How to have something simple to manage but still secure? When using the Azure Portal to create a new AKS instance, it gives you with the following options: Local accounts with Kubernetes RBAC Azure AD authentication with Kubernetes RBAC Azure AD authentication with Azure RBAC These options are summarized in this doc and its referenced articles. If you don't have so much experience with Kubernetes and Azure yet, the official documentation can be overwhelming. This art…
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Well-Architected for SAP workloads - Continuous Improvement through Operational Excellence
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Table of Contents Well Architected Framework for SAP Assessments Track Continuous Improvements using the Milestone Assessments Feature Reviewing the results of the Well-Architected for SAP Assessment Useful resources Authors Summary Operational excellence is about creating efficient processes that support a SAP workload. Since operations will be the longest phase of the SAP workload lifecycle, teams must be equipped with operational best practices to manage the day-to-day changes - failure to do so can impact the success of an organization and therefore it’s critical to ensure operations evolve with the platform to support the…
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Azure Synapse Analytics November Update 2022
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Azure Synapse Analytics November Update 2022 Welcome to the November 2022 update for Azure Synapse Analytics! This month, you’ll find sections on increased Spark performance, the new Kusto Emulator, as well as additional updates in Apache Spark for Synapse, Synapse Data Explorer, and Machine Learning. Table of contents Apache Spark for Synapse Increasing Spark performance [*] Synapse Data Explorer ADX Emulator Ingesting files from AWS S3 Azure Stream Analytics ADX output [Generally Available] Open Telemetry exporter Streaming support in Telegraf connector Protobuf support in Kafka sink Table Level Sharing support via Azur…
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Clearing the Microsoft Teams Cache - Centrally Managed with PowerShell and Microsoft Intune
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Microsoft Teams is increasingly becoming the central hub in companies worldwide. Many have introduced Microsoft Teams as a collaboration platform or as a replacement for Skype for Business. For some time now, telephony systems from other manufacturers have also been replaced by Microsoft Teams. Microsoft offers different models of how telephony can be handled, for example: Direct Routing or Operator Connect. When Microsoft Teams is used as a telephony solution, functions such as browsing through the address book become an unconscious but enormously important task that all users use. From time to time there are problems in this (or other areas) …
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SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: November 2022
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Gobble, gobble - time to gobble up all the updates that landed for SharePoint and related tech in the month of November 2022. Below and in the related podcast, you’ll find details about a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename (GA), three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. We also pulled audio from Cathy Dew, Senior product manager from the SharePoint team, to give share more behind the design and application of SharePoint site templates. …
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Handling 429 throttling problem in Azure Logic Apps across multiple runs
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Problem You have a logic app that has a connector action that is failing with 429 – too many requests across multiple runs. Cause Having multiple logic app runs running at the same time and using the same connection. Resolution Distribute the action executions over two connections using the following steps: Add a Control – Switch action. Set the Switch On value expression to rand(1,3), this will return either a value of 1 or 2 randomly. Set the Case Equals to 1 to execute the action using the first connection Connection1. Add an action inside the Case that uses Connection1. Add another action inside the Default case t…
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ADX Web updates – November 2022
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Welcome to November updates! Continue reading to learn about: Additional capabilities for conditional formatting in Dashboards Focus on the data you care about using Pie charts (Dashboards) New file upload experience Conditional formatting in Dashboards Conditional formatting helps in surfacing anomalies or just interesting data points in a result set. We revamped our conditional formatting component in table, stat and multi stat visuals to include much more. Now you can either format a visual by using conditions or by applying themes to numeric columns or discrete values to non-numeric ones. The formatting can be applied to a specific column or …
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Power Platform University Programme
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Microsoft and the Project Management Institute (PMI) Power Platform University Hub. The University Hub teaches students how to solve a wide range of business problems with low-code—one of the fastest growing technologies in the job landscape today. Low-code platforms mean that organizations no longer need to be dependent on professional developer skills for all of their solutions. Gartner® forecasts that by 2025, 70 percent of new enterprise applications will use low-code technologies.1 Power Platform University enabling student developers to create business solutions The Power Platform University Hub provides students with an integrated curri…
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams | November 2022
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From meetings to devices, from large meetings to 1;1 chats, we keep finding ways to innovate in a fashion that you can continue to easily collaborate. Between finding devices to ensure everyone in the meetings in included to leveraging AI enhancements for transcription, Microsoft Teams ensure that you have the information at your fingertips. Learn more about the November features in the What’s New in Microsoft Teams! Meetings Calling Devices Chat and Collaboration Management Government Meetings Use a 1-click Instant Poll for a quick check-in during Teams meetings Defined binary responses to get immediate answers to your spoken poll questio…
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Upskill on Java with this 23-part video series
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The number of Java developers in the world is estimated at around 7 million. It's also used on a variety of platforms from desktop apps, web apps, mobile apps and much more. It was first developed in 1995. Java in teaching Given the sheer size of the amount of Java developers in the world and that's it's used by most of the major companies makes Java a good choice to be taught in academia. There are many resources out there for teaching Java outside of videos series discussed in this article like: - Learn Java - Dev.java - Java Tutorial (w3schools.com) - Java Tutorial - GeeksforGeeks Web development Many of the world's Java developers works with…
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The importance of using DAX variables / the Kusto/ADX edition
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The importance of using DAX variables the Kusto/ADX edition Why use variables – the vanilla version You probably heard about DAX variables and saw recommendations to use variables when writing DAX measures. There are two main reasons for using variables: - Readability of the DAX syntax - Performance Readability also includes being able to debug a measure by returning the different variables to make sure that they contain the right values. Performance is about calculating expressions once instead of many times. If you use a measure or an expression more than once or calculate a table more than once, it is a good idea to store the value of the…
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[Azure SQL DB] - How to create and manage your cross subscription Auto-Failover groups (FoG)
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Using auto-failover groups is an important feature to build a high resilient architecture, allowing you to manage the replication and failover for several databases across regions, using a common endpoint to communicate to them. Reference: Failover group architecture Configure an auto-failover group - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn Sometimes we want to separate our production resources and our disaster recovery resources using different Azure subscriptions. In this scenario we need to create a Cross Subscription Failover Group (FoG). Starting with an important aspect, by the time this article was written, creating and managing a cross su…
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FCI failed to do failover because of ReAclDirectory : Failed to apply security when applying patch
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Customer was trying to apply SQL2014 SP3 in Failover cluster instance. They applied patch to passive node, then failover to that node. Failover failed. Issue occurred every time. They can mitigate failover issues by uninstalling SQL2014 SP3. According to cluster logs, we can see: 00005f04.00005968::2022/10/07-00:06:42.743 INFO [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (CAxxxxxDB)>: [sqsrvres] Request to bring SQL Server online 00005f04.00005968::2022/10/07-00:06:42.743 INFO [RES] SQL Server <SQL Server (CAxxxxxDB)>: [sqsrvres] SQL Server resource state is changed from 'ClusterResourceFailed' to 'ClusterResourceOnlinePending' 00001554.00003fa4::2022/10/07-00:06:4…
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A Ride on the Wild Side with Hacking Heavyweight Sick Codes
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Beverage of Choice: Krating Daeng (Thai Red Bull) Industry Influencer he Admires: Casey John Ellis What did you want to be when you grew up? A physician and nearly did Hobbies (Present & Past): Motorcycling & Australian Football Bucket List: Continuing to discover new software Fun Fact: He currently has 2,000 tabs open “People keep … A Ride on the Wild Side with Hacking Heavyweight Sick Codes Read More » Continue reading...