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The next topic has to do with runtime security, where you need to make sure that your runtime context is not vulnerable. One thing you should keep in mind is that when a plain Kubernetes cluster is created, it is very open, by default, in terms of flexibility it gives to the developer to deploy and do things in the cluster. For that reason, once you have identity access control properly configured, you would then want to make sure that your runtime environment is also secure. It’s important that you place a security baseline for your cluster, so your developers can only do the things that you want to allow them to do. This was traditionally a difficult task to ach…

Today, we have a service request that our customer faced the following error message: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid reading a Resultset or doing any operation with the database. Following, I would like to share my lessons learned with this issue. First, I would like to check if this error is raising by SQL Database. For this reason, I wrote down this small TSQL-code: create procedure MyCodeTest(@state as int) as select @state Calling EXEC MyCodeTest 'X' we got the following error: Msg 8114, Level 16, State 1, Procedure MyCodeTest, Line 0 [batch Start Line 1] Error converting data type varchar to int. …

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We'll start by installing the Azure CLI command [or opening an Azure Cloud Shell]. After you've installed Azure CLI, set your default account using az login: az login Then, lookup your most used subscription ID and set it as default using: az account set -s $subid Run az configure to get Azure CLI's current settings, we'll tweak them a bit: az configure You'll encounter the below output: Let's have a quick run through. Cloud Name means the current Azure Cloud that you're using. This does not need to be changed unless you're using Azure Government. defaults need some more elaboration. As you can see, my default locatio…

Power Platform French Summit is the annual conference for French-speaking Power Platform users which was launched in 2020. Followed by its second edition we featured on our blog last year The Rise of Hybrid Events, we share how the latest conference inspired citizen developers. Microsoft MVPs and communities co-organized the Power Platform French Summit 2022 #PPFS2022 in November 2022 and delivered the , 68 sessions, and three Ask the Speakers sessions with 93 speakers. The in-person event attendees visited the Microsoft France conference center, and the online attendees watched the streaming sessions on YouTube Live and/or LinkedIn Live. As a result of the cross…

Quick Question How Good are you with answering business questions using Microsoft Power BI? You don't have to rate yourself on any scale, I have a challenge for you. Consider the use case described below and the accompanied data, carry out a detailed analysis using Microsoft Powr BI. This is the only way to convince me how good you are with answering business questions. Use Case Description The goal of this project is to optimize inventory management for the FitCapacity company by analyzing sales and inventory data. Using the business database, you are to analyze sales data to identify which products have the highest turnover rate a…

Logic Apps Standard now supports File System connector in App Service Environment. This enables customers to connect to any on-premise file shares with in the VNET from their workflows. How to use it File System connector only works on Logic Apps (Standard) hosted on App Service Environment. Create a new logic app in the App Service Environment and add a new workflow. To use the File System actions/triggers select the File System connector from the Built-in tab. Create a new connection to use the connector triggers/actions. Once connection is created, all actions/triggers can be used like any other connector. Creating a new connection To create a ne…

Welcome back to another episode of Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement show. So today we're going to talk about something a little theoretical. We're going to talk about the relationship between architecture and ambiguity. What do you do when the specs aren't entirely clear, or the plans aren't entirely clear? What people need isn't entirely clear? We're going to discuss that with our architects. It's not uncommon for people to come to architects with very vague statements or questions that aren't really precise. Or a problem needs to be solved, but it's not really clear what that problem is. What can architects do to help with ambiguity?…

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD). Microsoft 365 Government Community Call Join Jay Leask and other members of the Government Community live on LinkedIn! Where to Start with Microsoft Teams Apps in Gov Clouds Customers in our Office 365 government clouds, GCC, GCCH, and DoD, are continuing to evolve how they do business in the hybri…

Hello and welcome to the new marketplace community! This community supports anyone who is building cloud applications and is a tool for people in the ISV Success program to help you reach more customers, go to market faster, and unlock growth. We’re so glad you are here and we’re excited to help you maximize the marketplace opportunity. Cloud marketplaces are gaining momentum as customers look to centralize their cloud portfolio and maximize the value of their cloud budget. Microsoft is making investments in the marketplace to benefit SaaS providers and ISV partners, regardless of their size, scope, or history. Over the past year, the marketplace has matured to a …

One of the most difficult aspects to building enterprise-ready data integration pipelines is capturing just the latest changed data from disparate sources quickly. Change Data Capture (CDC) is a set of technologies and techniques that enables data engineers to discover changed records as they occur at the source. Azure Data Factory (ADF) has recently added many new CDC-enabled connectors to process change data from SQL, Storage, Cosmos DB, and many other sources. Much of the feedback that we received from our users about this has been centered around making it easy to configure and to continuously detect changes at the source. We heard your feedback and are …

Al adaptar tu CV, mejorar tu LinkedIn y crear tu marca personal ¡puede ayudarte a encontrar el trabajo de tus sueños! Te compartimos algunos consejos que te ayudarán a conseguir una oportunidad laboral en una gran empresa de tecnología (Big Tech) como estudiante o recien egresado: Ten una fuerte presencia en línea (personal branding): Crea un perfil profesional de LinkedIn que destaque tus habilidades y experiencias, y asegúrese de que se actualice regularmente. Obtén experiencia: Participa en hackathones, competencias de programación o participa en voluntariados/prácticas profesionales para mostrar tus habilidades y obtener experiencia en el mundo real. Crea un…

Analysts estimate the financial cost of downtime due to an IT outage at hundreds of thousand dollars an hour, depending on company size. Aside from monetary damage, any unexpected outage can also result in loss of data, reduced employee productivity, and can become an overall impediment to your company’s business progress. It’s critical to back up your data regularly and be vigilant of any new threats so that your business can continue running unimpeded. Defend your data with Azure Azure’s end-to-end BDR solution is simple, secure, scalable, and cost-effective. In fact, companies using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery have achieved a 93% reduction in unpla…

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. The origins of PostgreSQL date back to 1986 as part of the POSTGRES project at the University of California at Berkeley and has more than 35 years of active development on the core platform. Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication in PostgreSQL Flexible Server Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication is a mechanism of connecting to Azure Database for PostgreSQL using identities defined in Azure AD. With Azure AD authentication, y…

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. The origins of PostgreSQL date back to 1986 as part of the POSTGRES project at the University of California at Berkeley and has more than 35 years of active development on the core platform. Customer Managed Key (CMK) in PostgreSQL Flexible Server Since announcing General Availability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server slightly over a year ago, we have seen dramatic adoption with customers in number of industries that work with…

The idea on this blog post came from an issue opened by an user on the Windows Containers GitHub Repo. I thought the problem faced by the user should be common enough that others might be interested in a solution. Get-Credential cmdlet pop-up If you use PowerShell, you most likely came across the Get-Credential cmdlet at some point. It’s extremely useful for situations on which you want to set a username and password to be used in a script, variable, etc.. However, the way Get-Credential works is by providing a pop-up window for you to enter the credentials: On a traditional Windows environment, this is totally fine as the pop-up window shows up, you ente…

Microsoft Sentinel offers many ways to automate tasks. Watchlists are a key component to correlate data sources in detection rules, queries, hunting, and playbooks. It can be a tedious task to keep watchlists updated if their contents are based on dynamic and changing data. Fortunately, the process of editing existing watchlists or creating new ones based on the results of alerts generated in Sentinel can be fully automated using Logic Apps. There are many watchlist actions configurable in Logic Apps – here is a post by Benjamin Kovacevic covering them. This article will show an example of adding items to a watchlist based on the results of an alert. The steps for …

Happy new year and welcome back to the quarterly newsletter from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook discussing what’s new and coming soon when using sensitivity labels, powered by Microsoft Purview Information Protection. We pick up where we left off in October 2022. From Bolt-On to Built-In: Recap In October 2022, We shared our vision to help customers modernize their information protection experience in Microsoft 365 Apps, starting with a new configuration for Office apps that disables Microsoft’s legacy sensitivity labeling add-in (Azure Information Protection Add-in). We launched a preview program for customers to start using the built-in replaceme…

Our newest round of Access bug fixes was released on January 4th. In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel. If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you’re on the current monthly channel version 2212, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.15928.20198 or greater. Bug Name Issue Fixed When exporting to Dataverse, and filtering the list of available sites, Access may export to the wrong site When exporting to Dataverse, there is a list of available Dataverse sites to export to, and you may filter this list by typing i…

Current Requirements/Limitations for Enabling Zone Redundancy On Azure App Service App Service Support for Availability Zones App Service Possible Issues and Solutions Related with Zone Redundancy Scenario 1 Symptom: Web sockets error when accessing an App service web app in an app service plan which has enabled Zone Redundancy. Error: Failed to start the transport 'WebSockets': Error: There was an error with the transport. Root Cause: This issue happened when these 3 conditions are met. Zone Redundancy enabled. Web Sockets set to on (in App service Settings -> Configuration -> General Settings) ARR affinity set to off (in App servi…

In this article, we show how compressing mapped (aligned) genomic sequencing data (BAM files) using the CRAM standard can reduce storage size (and cost) by around 63% at a compression cost of under a penny (< $0.01 USD) per sample. We demonstrate our results on a set of 62 whole genome sequencing (WGS) samples from the 1000 Genomes Project. We also give detailed instructions on how to use this method on your own data. Introduction Organizations that work with genomic data often need to store large amounts of sequencing information for large numbers of samples for long periods of time. This can result in substantial storage costs, especially when the data n…

New year, new blog series - one aimed at celebrating and empowering IT administrators, the superheroes of organizations everywhere. The role of admins has expanded beyond just ensuring efficient management of existing technology to broadly driving the success of digital workplace tools. With each post in this series, we will explore different aspects of IT administration as a role and as an industry. We’ll also highlight investments we’re making at Microsoft to address emerging needs of IT admins. Have a story to share or topic you’d like us to cover? Comment below and we may pick it up! In case you missed it 2022 saw a broad return to in-person act…

Hi, Jonas here! Or as we say in the north of Germany: "Moin Moin!" I’m a Microsoft Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Engineering (or short Sr. CSA-E) and in this article I want to talk about how to automate the hybrid world. Over the years Microsoft has developed more and more automation tools such as Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions or Azure Automation. While Azure Automation is not the latest tool in the automation tools family, I dedicate this blog to this amazing tool and hopefully provide you with an easy-to-follow how-to guide. Table of contents Azure Automation in a nutshell A Hybrid worker in a nutshell Azure Arc in a nu…

If you have ever taken any training modules or learned something new by going through the official documentation, the material you used was probably written or co-authored by one or many contributors. These individuals often are volunteers who offer their time and expertise to cover knowledge gaps in our portfolio or to keep the existing content current. In this series, we’ll be interviewing repeat contributors to the Microsoft Learn platform to get to know them better and to learn what motivates them to keep contributing. Today we are interviewing Kate Baroni. Kate is a Principal Engineer with the FastTrack for Azure (FTA) team. In her 20+ years at Microsoft, s…

Introdução Por padrão temos no Azure Devops a opção de escalar os agents por Azure Virtual machine scale sets vm-scale-set, porém, temos a opção de utilizar o KEDA para escalar os agents. Já temos um artigo no blog da Microsoft sobre o KEDA, porém, mais a ideia desse artigo é mostrar como utilizar o KEDA para escalar os agents do Azure Devops no Kubernetes. O código fonte desse artigo está disponível no github Pré-requisitos Ter um cluster Kubernetes criando um cluster Kubernetes Ter um container registry criando um container registry Integrar o Kubernetes com o container registry integrando o Kubernetes com o container registry Habilitar o KEDA n…