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Written in collaboration with Amir Dahan Introduction Cybercriminals demonstrate increasingly sophisticated tactics using DDoS attacks as multi-purpose tool. While DDoS attacks are commonly used to take down critical systems, applications, and infrastructure, they also serve adversaries for extortion and political or ideological motives. The crown jewel is using DDoS attacks as a smokescreen to conceal data breaches while the attention is directed to the attack. By overwhelming the targeted website or application with a large amount of traffic, the attackers can exploit vulnerabilities and steal sensitive information. Customers use Azure DDoS Protection s…

This is a good one if you’re new to IT or catching up with the rapid changes of the last couple of years! Brush up on the different types of Windows updates, servicing channels, and delivery tools. Review essential documentation, practical learning modules, and a couple of videos –all in under two hours. Choose whether you want to start with the definitions or jump right into practical advice and a walkthrough of how to upgrade to Windows 11! Time to learn: 113 minutes [attachment=31551:name]READ What is Windows as a service? Brush up on Windows update builds, deployment, servicing channels, and servicing tools. (11 mins) Windows Insider + App C…

As an IT admin, you know that keeping track of content saved across Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, and the internet can be challenging for end users. In recent Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds, we added a search box on the Windows taskbar to help them easily find whatever they're looking for. The search box assists people in finding apps, files, settings, help, and more—plus unlocks the power of the web with quick access to online information like time zone conversions, fact lookup, trending searches, and search results for navigating to websites faster. They can also find files and people in their work or school organization using search highlights. After shipping Wi…

Author: @NickSalch is a Sr. Program Manager in the Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Introduction There are many options available for monitoring your dedicated SQL pool and this blog is part of a series that will walk you through implementing a monitoring solution for Azure Synapse Analytics. This article will walk you through the steps to enable historical monitoring using Azure Monitor Workbook templates on top of Azure Metrics and Azure Log Analytics. Once the workbook is deployed, you will have a rich graphical, interactive set of reports that help you identify and investigate issues with your workload. Pre-req…

To address challenges of building scalable computer vision AI solutions, we are releasing KubeAI Application Nucleus for edge (KAN - in Mandarin means “to watch”, “to see”) - a Kubernetes-native solution accelerator that enables you to easily develop, orchestrate, and operate computer vision Al applications for the edge with full control and flexibility. Edge AI applications allow organizations to easily extract actionable insights from unstructured data streams right where the data is generated, enabling the creation of environmentally aware business solutions. Parking operators can improve parking lot utilization by analyzing vehicle patterns. Retailers can impro…

When the ‘information tracking’ inspiration strikes, create, create, create – no matter where you are! Since launching Microsoft Lists in May 2020 – revitalizing SharePoint lists value of many years – we’re pleased to have made much progress on numerous fronts: design, performance, capabilities, templates, integration, mobile, and more. And one major area of investment is the notion of creating a list from wherever you work. “Give a person a list, and they track information for a day. Teach a person to create a list themselves, and they’ll track information for a lifetime.” – Modern Office Axiom This article focuses on raising awareness of new and old…

In May 2022, we announced the general availability of Security Settings Management for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This release empowered security teams to configure devices with their desired antivirus, EDR and firewall settings without needing to deploy and implement additional tools or infrastructure. Today, close to a million endpoints worldwide have received security policies through Security Settings Management, ultimately saving IT and security teams time and resources managing these policies while helping keep their organizations safer from security and data breaches in the process. As we continue our momentum around Security Settings Managem…

Spoiler (Highlight to read) While Microsoft’s Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution helps prioritize response activities and provides a unified experience that allows for more effective investigation at the incident level, the increasing volume and speed of sophisticated attacks, still challenges the capacity of most security teams. Automation is growing in importance to close the gap to the speed needed to respond to more attacks faster. Automating the response actions to common alerts in can help you stay ahead of threats, protect your organization more effectively, significantly reduce response times, and save manual work for the Security Operati…

As businesses and organizations continue to prioritize data security, privacy, and compliance, they turn to Microsoft Cloud for its commitment to addressing these concerns. Our cloud services are designed with security in mind, and we adhere to industry standards for data protection. In addition, our strict policies and procedures, as well as our automated service operations, ensure that customer data remains private and secure. Compliance is also a crucial consideration for businesses, and that's where Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager comes in. This powerful tool helps businesses navigate the complex landscape of data privacy regulations to help ensure complia…

Microsoft just released a new official plugin for the Elgato Streamdeck which provides you a host of meetings actions at your fingertips. In this video, recorded using Microsoft Teams, I walk through the integration and its uses/benefits. After watching the video head over to Delivering new webinar experiences with Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Community Hub and check out the directions to enable this capability for your own Streamdeck and Teams. Resources: Elgato | elgato.com Delivering new webinar experiences with Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft Teams admin documentation - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn Thanks for visiting – M…

Microsoft Community Training (MCT) Troubleshoot Guide for Azure Support Microsoft Community Training (MCT) is an Azure-based service that enables the efficient and effective delivery of large-scale, widely distributed training programs. The Azure Global Emerging Markets IDC team at Microsoft manages the MCT platform. The ICM credentials to log a ticket on the MCT team are – Owning Service: AGEM: Microsoft Community Training Owning Team: MCT This document walks through root cause and resolution steps for some of the major issues faced by the customers. Please try the resolution steps before logging an ICM ticket to MCT team. Descrip…

With special thanks to @ianhelle, @robmead, and @Pete Bryan. In this blog, we introduce the MitreMap Notebook, which lets you input a threat report and infers the most likely MITRE ATT&CK technique(s) that map to the report. Doing this allows you to unleash the value of this unstructured data by identifying the associated motivations and tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by an actor group when carrying out an attack on your enterprise’s digital infrastructure. It also adds context to the Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) in the report, which you can use to detect patterns and trends of cyber-attacks occurring across your workspace. Introduction…

Today we are announcing the public preview of the updated User Interface (UI) for the Azure Virtual Desktop Web Client. The new UI offers a cleaner, more modern look and feel. With this update, you can Switch between Light and Dark Mode View your resources in a grid or list format Reset web client settings to their defaults Switch between light and dark mode; Reset user settings to their defaults Switch between Grid and List format to view your resources How to access it The preview will be available to try via a toggle on the web client. This is set to off by default, and you can turn on the toggle to experience th…

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) used by website developers. There are two parts to WordPress: WP Admin: Also called the backend, admin panel, or admin dashboard, this is the admin area where you can manage your website. You can edit posts and pages, install themes and plugins, add or remove users, and change website settings. Frontend: This is the section which is accessible to your users. This is where your users can read blog posts, make purchases, or participate in a forum, depending on the kind of website you build using WordPress. A relatively common problem is that the WP Admin has low performance even when the fronten…

With Universal Print's easy-to-read graphical data, you can quickly learn what you need to know about print activity in your tenant. Organizations need immediate reporting that keeps usage, cost, and infrastructure health front and center when managing print deployments as Universal Print deployments grow. Fortunately, the Usage and Reports dashboard now has five new data points, graphs, and charts with the option to view data from the previous day, week, or month. A screenshot of the Usage and Reports page's charts, graphs, and data points Your organization's print consumption is tracked over time using resource and activity counts. Here's what's new: Totals…

This blog will guide how to export the App Service Certificate from Azure Portal and set up a password for the certificate in Windows and export it with password by using PowerShell. When we create App Service Certificate (Add and manage TLS/SSL certificates - Azure App Service | Microsoft Learn) in Azure Portal, sometime we are not using it in the App Service but use it for Azure VM or on-prem VM. Moreover, we will use it in some Azure resources (such as upload the certificate to Azure Application Gateway). However, after you export the App Service Certificate from Azure Portal, when you are going to upload it to Azure Application Gateway or use it in the A…

In the TLS connection common causes and troubleshooting guide (microsoft.com) and TLS connection common causes and troubleshooting guide (microsoft.com), the mechanism of establishing SSL/TLS and tools to troubleshoot SSL/TLS connection were introduced. In this article, I would like to introduce 3 common issues that may occur when establishing SSL/TLS connection and corresponding solutions for windows, Linux, .NET and Java. TLS version mismatch Cipher suite mismatch TLS certificate is not trusted TLS version mismatch Before we jump into solutions, let me introduce how TLS version is determined.   As the dataflow introduced in the first …

Profiling can be performed on Azure HPC VMs with various tools. Today we are going to look at MPI application profiling with AMD uProf. AMD uProf is a tool for performance and system analysis. AMD uProf can gather time and instruction-based profiles. As well as tracing and visualizing MPI processes/threads. Profiling is the analysis of an application’s execution via the measurement of system metrics. When profiling hardware counters can be sampled to verify the occurrence and frequency of certain hardware events. For example, these events could be L1 cache misses or CPU cycles per instruction. Profiling can also include time-based measurements that relate to sp…

The growing adoption of containers for workload deployments has seen the emergence of Kubernetes as the preferred container orchestrator tool in the Cloud Native ecosystem. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the managed Kubernetes offering from Azure, allows customers to offload the operational overhead to Azure, thus letting the user focus primarily on their workloads and business logic. We are seeing two sets of user trends along the Kubernetes adoption curve. First, organizations that are already using containers and/or Kubernetes in their on-premises and cloud environments are looking to AKS to reduce their operational burden and leverage the Azure cloud ecosystem. Secon…

We're pleased to announce Watermarking for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is now in public preview. This feature helps prevent sensitive information from being captured on client endpoints by enabling watermarks to appear as part of remote desktops. AVD watermarking public preview What can I do with AVD watermarking? Enable QR code watermarks on AVD desktops Scan the QR code watermarks to discover the session's connectionID Use the session's connectionID to find the session information via AVD Insights or Azure Monitor Log Analytics Why is this important? Alongside AVD screen capture protection, watermarking protects content on AVD from being…

Version 12.2 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server has been released. Version 12.2.0 brings several added features, changes, and fixed issues over the previous production release. Added Added connection property datetimeParameterType to specify the SQL datatype to use for Java date/timestamp parameters Added support for access token callback Added support for authentication=ActiveDirectoryDefault Added support for Java 19 Changed Updated to dynamically check for ExtendedSocketOption class Upgraded dependency versions Consolidated release files into .jre8 for Java 8 and .jre11 for Java 11 and up Fixed Fixed BigDecimal Precision/Scale…

Situation Overview According to the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), social determinants of health (SDOH) are the non-medical factors that affect health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. The forces include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies, climate change, and political systems. Business Challenge Providers and payors can take into consideration SDOH parameters when caring for patients and members. Social determinants of health have…

Many customers require Web Applications & APIs to only be accessible via a private IP address with a Web Application Firewall on the internet edge, to protect from common exploits and vulnerabilities. Azure Front Door provides global routing and WAF capabilities to satisfy this requirement. Azure Container Apps ingress can be exposed on either a Public or Private IP address. One option is to put Azure Front Door in front of an ACA public endpoint, but currently there is no way (other than in application code) to restrict access to the ACA public IP address from a single Azure Front Door instance. Azure App Service Access restrictions supports this scenario, but…

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Data Estate Insights is an app built on Microsoft Purview’s platform that serves the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO), catering to their needs for governance and curation analytics and insights. The app offers a range of out-of-the-box dashboards, that use the rich knowledge of the DataMap to create meaningful aggregates for high-level business understanding, and detailed views into the metadata, for deeper dives by Data Stewards and Data Custodians. So far Data Estate Insights dashboards were refreshed based on events in the DataMap that would check for any updates, no more than once a week. The pain of this approach is felt by the Data Stewards and D…