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Announcing Availability on National Clouds – WordPress on Azure App Service
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WordPress on Azure App Service has been gaining popularity since it has been made generally available. Read the GA Announcement here: Announcing the General Availability of WordPress on Azure App Service - Microsoft Community Hub We received multiple requests to make the service available in National clouds. We are excited to announce that WordPress on Azure App Service is available on all National Clouds. What are national clouds? National Clouds, also known as sovereign clouds, are physical and logical network-isolated instances of Azure that are confined within a country to honor residency, sovereignty, and compliance requirements within geographical…
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Customer Offerings: Well-Architected Framework Cost Optimization Assessment
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Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson (Cloud Solution Architect/Engineer) here to talk to you a little bit about a customer offering we have known as the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) Cost Optimization Assessment. I must admit, being a father of 6 children, I tend to gravitate towards cost savings where I can, so as a result, the Well-Architected cost pillar just fits the bill for me (no pun intended...or maybe there is). First, we’ll touch a little bit on the Azure Well Architected Framework (WAF), and then go over what we cover in one of the cost optimization assessments. A brief overview of the Well Architected Framework (WAF) In the world of Azure, there are a …
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Image as choice in Microsoft Forms
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Inserting image as choices is a long expected feature from forms and quizzes users. Today, we are excited to share you can now add image as answers in Microsoft Forms. Starting from December, it will be gradually rolling out globally, hope you can explore these new updates when it's available to you. Images as answer is supported in both forms and quiz. We understand that visualization is critically important in teaching and learning to assist students digest context easier and create connection with knowledge faster, especially for young kids when they are still growing language skills. How to insert image You can insert images in multiple choi…
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How to build Power Apps Custom Controls using TypeScript
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I recently learned about 2 exciting ways that you can use your coding skills to extend the functionality of the Power Platform. The 2 ways: Using your experience of working with APIs to build custom connectors that allow Low Code Applications to connect to external and your favorite data sources Tools & Concepts: VS Code, Power Platform CLI (pac), Postman, GitHub, APIs [Focus for this blog] Bringing in your coding skills to build custom controls that will be deployed to the Dataverse to be accessed by citizen developers as drag-and-drop controls for their applications. Learn why you should build custom controls in this 2-minute video: Tool…
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Steps to install and setup PgBouncer connection pooling on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
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@Parikshit Savjani in the previous blog post explained about the Pgbouncer and the importance of using a connection pooling with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Besides, he showed the performance improvements with a simple benchmark test with pgbench, and shared the steps to install the pgbouncer in a VM. The blog post is intended to focus on steps for install and setup the PgBouncer as a sidecar pattern enabling connection pooling between a containerized application and Azure DB for PostgreSQL Single-Server. If you are looking to install and run PgBouncer on Ubuntu VM, you should move on to the last blog post Steps to install and setup PgBouncer connection pooling proxy w…
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Microsoft Student Developer Day at Microsoft Reactor India to empower & encourage students
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Microsoft Student Developer Day was held at Microsoft Reactor India to empower & encourage students to share learning with the community via the Microsoft Reactor platform. We are super excited for Microsoft Student Developer Day at Reactor India! Student Dev Day India 25th November 2022 On Demand Agenda: Introduction to Cloud Computing | Speaker - Aadyaa Srivastava Getting started with Azure Functions | Speaker - Dwitrisha Saha Building Machine Learning Model using Azure Custom Vision | Speaker - Rohit Yadav & Arpita Das Azure DevOps 101 | Speaker - Abhinav Sharma Networking Cloud Skill Challenge: https://aka.ms/msdevday Event Host: Vivek S…
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AKS Container Insights logging level and associated costs
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When migrating your services to AKS, you could potentially run into an issue, which has to do with logging levels and the volume of data that is being sent to Container Insights. This is especially true when you need to run hundreds or even thousands of pods, as AKS clusters are pretty chatty and generate a ton of logs. You may notice a massive volume of metrics being pushed from the containers running inside the pods into container insights (mostly CPU and Memory metrics). By default, these are collected every minute for every container. As a result of this and the quantity of pods you have, you will be looking at GBs of data being pushed to Container Insi…
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Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller Logs
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By default, the Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller writes logs and traces to stdout / stderr. These logs and traces are stored in the ContainerLog table. You can navigate to an autogenerated query from inside the Container Insights blade from the Azure Portal. During an engagement, we faced an issue with viewing these logs and traces. We could view the logs in the “Live Logs” tab inside the Portal, but none of these got sent to Log Analytics workspace and we were unable to retain and run Kusto queries against that data. As it turned out, after a troubleshooting session with a colleague, the reason the Nginx Ingress Controller logs and traces were…
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1. What is JDBC? Java Database Connectivity is an API for the programming language Java, which defines how a client may access a database. JDBC APIs can be used to connect to most of the Relational Database (RDB). Some of the supported RDBs include MS SQL Server, AWS Aurora, My SQL, Snowflake etc. 2. Why JDBC? JDBC Connector in Logic App allows you to connect to a RDB for multiple use cases: Like replicating data from your source of truth database to any warehouse database for analytical purposes. IoT use cases to dump event data to your database. etc... [*] Since JDBC works on plug and play model you can bring in JDBC drivers of a…
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How Azure Backup Immutability help you protect against Ransomware threats
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Ransomware attacks deliberately encrypt or erase data and systems to force your organization to pay money to attackers. These attacks target not just your data, but even your backups. The best way to prevent falling victim to ransomware is to implement preventive measures and have tools that protect your backup data - one such feature is Immutable Vault. Immutable Vault (currently in preview) can help you protect your backup data by blocking any operations that could lead to loss of existing recovery points. Enabling this property helps you ensure that recovery points once created cannot be deleted before their intended expiry. While this helps prevent data loss,…
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Thousands of themes coming!
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Based on the latest user research, we observed that themed forms or surveys could visually create better context and connections to further motivate audience, eventually more likely to motivate participants to engage. Have you ever though that Microsoft Forms theming experience could be such handy solution able to add unique flavor to create better emotional connections between you and your audience? Winter is coming, such a beautiful season full of celebration and thankfulness. A sneak peek for popular themes highly adopted by our lovely users in some special occasions such as team celebration, Christmas event preparation or Thanksgiving party. …
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How Azure Backup Soft Delete protects from Accidental deletes, Malicious and Ransomware threats
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Azure Backup’s Soft Delete provides protection of backup data against accidental, malicious, or human-operated ransomware attacks deleting. It is enabled by default on newly created vaults. With Soft Delete enabled, the deleted backup data is retained for 14 additional days to recover with no data loss. The additional 14 days of retention for backup data in the "soft delete" state don't incur any cost to you. If you need to ensure that your Soft Delete should not be disabled, then you can further strengthen your backup security posture by turning Always-on setting making it irreversible. How does it work Let’s say you have a Recovery Services vault w…
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Building an Azure Service Tag Lookup utility with KQL and a Free Cluster
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Author(s): Gilles L'Hérault is a Principal Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Context Dealing with IP addresses is a fact of life when architecting solutions in Azure. ADX has specific functions that will accelerate time to insights when dealing with IP networking. This post will go over a real-life scenario using special KQL function that will blow your mind! Imagine you have some host (e.g. an on-premises Virtual machine), and it wants to talk to an azure service over many different IP addresses and obviously you do not want to create Firewall rules for every IP address. Service tags will help you do that. The …
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Public preview of SSIS Projects for VS 2022
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We’re happy to announce the popular and long-awaited SQL Server Integration Services Projects extension is now available for Visual Studio 2022! You can get latest download from SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022 - Visual Studio Marketplace, and visit documentation page for installation and troubleshooting guidance. Continue reading...
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Error during enabling CDC on an Azure SQL DB- 'Msg 22830, Level 16, State 1, Line 274'
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Issue An issue was noticed recently while enabling CDC on an azure SQL DB that is restored from a copy of another DB. The command that was executed was 'EXEC sys.sp_cdc_enable_db'. You may receive an error as shown below: Error In addition to the error above- here is the error text : MESSAGE 'Msg 22830, Level 16, State 1, Line 274 Could not update the metadata that indicates database db is enabled for Change Data Capture. The failure occurred when executing the command 'SetCDCTracked(Value = 1)'. The error returned was 15517: 'Cannot execute as the database principal because the principal ''dbo'' does not exist, this type of principal cannot be …
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[Replication consistency] Compare all tables between two databases at once with Table Diff
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When using a SQL Server Replication we need to make sure that our replication is healthy and also the data across replicated articles are consistent (some workloads can change the subscriber database) The tablediff utility is used to compare the data in two tables for non-convergence, and is particularly useful for troubleshooting non-convergence in a replication topology. Although this utility is amazing, nowadays our database environments has hundreds of tables in one database, and so we can potentially have hundreds of articles being replicated across two databases. Comparing table by table could not be feasible and we might need a method to compare all t…
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Protect embedded image in email body while processing the mails in Logic Apps
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If there are any inline image/signature logo in the email body, then the 'When a new email arrives (V3)' Office 365 Outlook trigger, will consider the inline image as attachments and for all the inline attachments we will have the Inline property is set to true in the trigger output. In the below input email, I have included an image and Microsoft logo in the signature. Please find the below logic App Trigger output for the above mail, We see there are two attachment objects in the trigger output which implies both the inline images (including logo in the signature) is considered as attachment. Note: All the inline images will ha…
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Migrate seamlessly your ADX cluster to Lsv3-series for reduced costs and better performance
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Azure Data Explorer support of Lsv3-series SKUs was announced in June 2022. The Lsv3-series comes in 2 flavors: Lsv3 (Intel) and Lasv3 (AMD). Since the announcement 100s of Kusto clusters and 1000s of cores have migrated to the new SKUs. The Lsv3/Lasv3 SKU families are now the Storage Optimized preferred SKUs of Kusto. Specifically, when comparing to “older” SKU families such as Dsv2, Dv2, Ls and Lsv2, the benefits of migrating to the Lsv3/Lasv3 families are remarkable: More modern CPUs Lsv3 Intel CPUs: Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper threaded configuration Lasv3 AMD CPUs: EPYC™ 7763v processor in a multi-threaded configuration …
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Reclutamiento con Microsoft
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El mercado laboral cada día es más demandante, para aquellas personas que están buscando una oportunidad; a veces tenemos las habilidades técnicas, pero ¿alguna vez habías pensado en el proceso que vas a tener en tus entrevistas y durante tu búsqueda de trabajo? Esto es super importante, ya que muchas veces, por la falta de preparación en una entrevista (por ejemplo, si no sabes cómo contestar a determinada pregunta) o hasta por el tipo de formato que subiste tu curriculum vitae (Word o PDF) – de eso depende si continuas en el proceso de selección. Para ayudarte ante todas estas situaciones, este 28 de noviembre comienzan las series de charlas que tendremos …
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Moving a Windows 365 Cloud PC From One DC Region to Another - MS Hosted Network
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From time to time, your employees may need to relocate from a location to another. Or more often, a new Microsoft Datacenter might pop on a location that is nearer to your employees. Those are some of the examples when you need to move your Windows 365 Cloud PC from one Microsoft Datacenter to another. In this blog post, we will take a look at the steps required to move your Cloud PC workload in a Microsoft Hosted Network configuration. When the time comes to move your Cloud PC to another location, most important thing to consider is; this is not an actual “move” or “migration”. Meaning your Cloud PC is not moving from one location to another, instead you are able …
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How to use Azure DevOps to publish cloud service extended support
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Azure cloud service extended support(CSES) is a new Azure Resource Manager based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services product. Cloud Services (extended support) has the primary benefit of providing regional resiliency along with feature parity with Azure Cloud Services deployed using Azure Service Manager. It also offers some ARM capabilities such as role-based access and control (RBAC), tags, policy, and supports deployment templates. For the classic cloud service, we have Azure DevOps built-in pipeline task Azure Cloud Service Deployment task - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Learn to help us manage the CI/CD progress easily and the task for CSES is not ready y…
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Polls with image – make your next poll more engaging and intuitive
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We are excited to share you that image has been supported in Teams Poll! With an image in the poll, we hope it can help you to: Engage with audience in visualized way – use image to make polls interesting and fun. Better explain a complex concept – using an image as part of the question like math diagrams or the design proposals. Inserting an image into a poll Click the ‘image’ button in question text box, select the image (within 5Mb) from your local drive, and preview in the window after uploaded. You can launch directly or save as draft after inserting an image. Note: 2:3 (width: height) image works best in the layout, we recommend y…
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Troubleshooting external data and access policies in Azure SQL and SQL Server
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The article is published here on the Azure SQL Blog: Troubleshooting external data and access policies in Azure SQL and SQL Server Continue reading...
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Troubleshooting external data and access policies in Azure SQL and SQL Server
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In this article you will find an overview of all the new metadata that was added to support customers using external data and access Policies from Microsoft Purview. You will find this interesting if you are in a technical role and have access to a SQL database, for example as a DBA or developer or need to create reports on who has access to your systems. Background If you are one of the early adopters of the new Microsoft Purview based data and access policies (a.k.a. external policies) you are already familiar with what it does and how it works. For all others I recommend looking at the following articles: Private Preview: controlling access to Azure SQL at …
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Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption on Windows 11 22H2
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The security and privacy of customer data is a core priority for Azure and Windows. Encrypting data across different layers of device and transport is a universal technique to prevent exploits from accessing plaintext data. In Azure, we have a multitude of offerings to provide different levels of data confidentiality, encryption and isolation across workloads types (Azure Confidential Computing – Protect Data In Use | Microsoft Azure). One of such is VM memory encryption with Intel’s Total Memory Encryption – Multi Key (TME-MK), providing hardware accelerated encryption of DRAM. With the latest Intel 12th Gen Core CPUs (Alder Lake) offering this capability, we are delight…