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Lesson Learned #416: Unveiling User Activity Insights in Azure SQL Databases
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Today, I got an interested service request where our customer needs to know the user activity for a very dense elastic database pool. During the troubleshooting I wrote, as an example, this Powershell script that tracks useful information about connectivity and execution. I hope that you could find of your interest. Motivation: Our customer needed a way to get a bird's-eye view of who's doing what in their packed elastic database pool. The challenge was clear: track user connections and activities swiftly and efficiently. Enter the PowerShell Script: Customization Made Easy: The script starts with a bunch of settings you can tweak. Put in yo…
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Enhancements to Microsoft Purview policies for Arc-enabled SQL Server
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A recent change in Microsoft Purview extends and makes it easier to create data policies for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Servers. With this change: Policies on Linux Arc-SQL are now supported. Prior to this, only policies on Windows Arc-SQL were supported. Microsoft Purview seamlessly adapts to updates made to the app registration used to enable Azure AD authentication for Arc-SQL. It is now simpler to register an Arc-SQL data source in Microsoft Purview and then enable policies, given that capturing the Application Id of the Arc-SQL app registration is not needed anymore. Policies on whole resource groups and subscriptions are now enforced on Arc-SQL data sources withou…
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Google typically releases a new Android version annually during the late third or early fourth quarter of the calendar year. They also require that apps uploaded to the Google Play Store are optimized to run on at least the previous year’s API version by mid-fourth quarter. API versioning is the practice of managing changes to an API to prevent breaking changes. Android 14 is soon expected to be releasing by Google. Our Microsoft Intune app protection policies (APP) and mobile device management (MDM) teams have been working hard to make sure Microsoft Intune customers are supported on the new operating system (OS) release. In this post, we’ll share some of what we’ve foun…
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Goal Broadcasts for Leaders: Communicating Goals to Your Team Just Got Easier
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If you manage an organization or team, you may have wondered... How do I give regular updates to my team on goal progress and context on the "why”—without adding even more work to my plate tracking down data points, gathering information from key stakeholders, and choosing the right format? How do I keep the team focused and motivated as priorities shift? What are the right rhythms of business for communicating goals to my team? And your employees are wondering... Is our team “doing well”? How are we progressing towards our goals? Am I working on the right things? How am I contributing? When can I expect communication from my leaders in an ac…
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Welcome to the Microsoft Learn Contributor Home!
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At Microsoft Learn, we’re passionate about learners. But we’re also passionate about our contributors – those of you who lend your time and expertise to improve our content and experiences. Today, we’re announcing the release of a new hub for contributors: Microsoft Learn Contributor Home. This experience showcases all the options for contributing, all in one place. Whether you’re an Azure pro with customer experience to share or a passionate student looking to build your GitHub portfolio, everyone has something to contribute to Microsoft Learn! The page also features stories from contributors just like you – people who love sharing their knowledge with thei…
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Customer review: Teamflect eliminated manual work, streamlining employee engagement and reviews
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Teamflect, a solution published to Microsoft AppSource, provides an all-in-one employee engagement tool integrated with Microsoft Teams. By automatically interoperating with task lists, calendars, and dashboards, Teamflect fits seamlessly into your organization's daily workflows. Employees and managers can easily align company goals and individual objectives and key results (OKRs), recognize effort, and help employees grow with constructive feedback. Microsoft interviewed Jill Trevino, Human Resources Director, Illinois Heartland Library Systems, to learn what she had to say about the platform. What do you like best about Teamflect? I love the customiza…
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Lesson Learned #415:PerfStat: Performance Stats Collection for Azure SQL Managed Instance
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Following the two articles published some days ago: Lesson Learned #412:PerfStat: Performance Stats Collection for SQL Server (OnPrem) Using DiagManager - Microsoft Community Hub and Lesson Learned #413:PerfStat: Performance Stats Collection for Azure SQL Database - Microsoft Community Hub Today, I would like to share the script adapted for Azure SQL Managed Instance, the script is the same that we have located here: https://sqlperfstats.blob.core.windows.net/zip/sql-azure-perf-stats/sql-azure-perf-stats.zip but I changed the PowerShell to use Azure SQL Managed Instance. Once your followed the instrucctions given in our article: Lesson Learned #413:PerfStat…
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Private endpoints GA for Azure SQL Managed Instance
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Announcing the general availability (GA) of private endpoints for Azure SQL Managed Instance In our earlier blog post titled Private endpoints for Azure SQL Managed Instance we announced the public preview of private endpoints for the managed PaaS database offering from the SQL Server family of products. Owing to the convenience, management and security benefits granted by private endpoints to the network and database administrators, private endpoints have been a hotly anticipated feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance. Today we share the big news: private endpoints for Azure SQL Managed Instance are now generally available (GA) in all public Azure regions…
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Video Transcription using Azure Speech and MoviePy
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Video Transcription using Azure Speech and MoviePy Video content is becoming more prevalent than ever before. However, extracting valuable information from videos can be time-consuming and challenging. That's where Azure Speech, a powerful service provided by Azure AI Services, comes into play. Azure Speech offers state-of-the-art speech recognition capabilities, allowing us to transcribe spoken words in videos accurately and easily. This blog post explores the seamless integration of Azure Speech and MoviePy, a popular Python library for video editing and manipulation, to effortlessly transcribe videos into text files. By combining these two technologie…
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Protecting Azure VMware Solution VMs and datastores on Azure NetApp Files with Cloud Backup for VMs
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Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Scenario Simplified deployment and management Policy-based backup management Restoring a virtual machine or VMDK from backup Management capabilities Summary Additional Information Abstract This article describes how Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines can be used to backup and restore Azure VMware Solution virtual machines on Azure NetApp Files datastores. Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines takes VM-consistent backups which leverage native Azure NetApp Files snapshot technology resulting in fast, space-efficient restore points that help you meet your recovery point objectives and reduce …
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Stop Azure SQL Database
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We have several cases where our customers are looking for ways to stop an Azure SQL Database. Some common scenarios where our customers request this option are when they want to decommission an Azure SQL Database and want to ensure that no one is using the database, or because the customer wants to save some money and stop the database during the hours they are not using it. Stopping an Azure SQL Database is not currently supported, but there are several options that could be helpful in these scenarios: Serverless Compute tier: Change the database to Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier. Serverless is a compute tier for single databases in Azu…
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Availability of Defender Vulnerability Management Standalone and Container vulnerability assessments
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Organizations are increasingly challenged to stay aligned with evolving business requirements and protect against expanding attack surfaces with a diverse portfolio of devices outside of traditional organizational boundaries, adding complexity to the vulnerability management process. Vulnerability management solutions provide understanding of their overall security risk posture and where to prioritize. In recent years, Microsoft has established itself as a leading solution for vulnerability risk management (VRM) by leveraging its industry-leading threat intelligence and security expertise. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management provides end-to-end capabilities…
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New multicloud CNAPP innovations in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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With almost 90% of organizations adopting a multicloud strategy1, successfully securing across your entire environment has never been more important. Vulnerabilities in code, overprivileged access, critical misconfigurations, and evolving threats can lead to sensitive data exposure and breaches, driving cloud security to the top of the concern list for many enterprises. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is pioneering this new era of security by offering a holistic approach to multicloud management. Trusted by industry professionals as a leading Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Defender for Cloud integrates security and compliance capabilities for apps, da…
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Remote Help for Android coming soon to public preview
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In March, we announced enhancements to Remote Help as part of the Microsoft Intune Suite. Our plans include extending Remote Help to Android and macOS. We’re pleased to announce that Remote Help will come to Android in public preview this month with a focus on enabling remote assistance of Android Enterprise Dedicated devices for frontline workers. Frontline workers often work in complex and challenging environments where they may encounter technical issues requiring immediate attention. In these situations, access to remote assistance can be critical to ensuring that operations run smoothly. Remote Help allows frontline workers, regardless of location, to receive real…
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3 Ways Microsoft is Shaping the Future of Frontline
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Frontline workers are the first to interact with your customer and the first to manage on-the-ground operations. But due to labor shortages and fragmented processes, it becomes difficult for them to focus on the 20% of their work that really matters when 80% of their time is consumed with manual processes, gaps in information and device overload. This bogs operations and customer experiences down and plagues every industry with burnout and retention issues for their frontline workers. At Microsoft, we are innovating around how automated solutions and next-generation AI can help frontline workers and the organizations they serve in three major ways: Intelli…
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Intune helps frontline workers get their device to work for them
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To reduce the complexity for IT managing the expanding device ecosystem used by frontline workers (FLW), Microsoft Intune is introducing new capabilities that provide more control, more device choice, and simplified ways to resolve endpoint issues. Today we’re announcing the preview of Remote Help for Android, support for PICO Neo3 Pro/Pro Eye and PICO 4 Enterprise, the general availability of Zebra Lifeguard Over the Air (OTA) integration with Intune and the general availability of shared device mode support for Microsoft 365 apps. Frontline workers have seen a great number of challenges in recent years, with increased workloads and safety precautions accelerating the…
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Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
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Enroll as a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program at no cost and get access to exclusive tools, benefits, and resources. ✨ Connect your organization with everything it needs to build and deploy customer-centric AI solutions: Get started here Continue reading...
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Data Mapper Patterns: Distinct Values
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In this post, we are going to discuss how we can retrieve distinct values from an array of records. We will be able to achieve this using the Distinct Values function. Pre-requisites To build this demo, we will need a sample file and schema. Within the SampleFiles.zip attachment in this post you will find a sample message and a schema that can be used for both the Source and Destination. Within this file, you will notice that we have two instances of the value 12. We would like have a distinct list of values and subsequently exclude one of these 12s. { "Array":[ { "value":12 }, { "value":12 …
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Help Protect your Exchange Environment With Microsoft Sentinel
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TL;DR; Sentinel + Exchange Servers or Exchange Online = better protected We recently published two solutions in the Sentinel content hub catalog to assist you with better detecting threats and misconfigurations of your Exchange environment. One solution is focused on on-premises Exchange Server and the second is for Exchange Online. Both solutions can be used simultaneously when you have a hybrid Exchange environment. Why now? In the past years, we have seen an increase in attacks against messaging environments. Taking control of an Exchange Server or abusing someone’s mailbox can have catastrophic consequences for your organization. Analyzing previous …
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Getting Started with Azure OpenAI and GPT Models
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Introduction In this post, we’ll explore how you can get started using Azure OpenAI. We’ll take a look at setting up a resource using the Azure Portal, learn how to deploy a model, and experiment with the model in Azure OpenAI Studio. If you’d like to see a quick overview of everything covered in this post, check out the following “getting started” video. Getting Started with Azure OpenAI in 6-ish Minutes Let’s dive right in! Step 1: Create an Azure OpenAI Resource Head over to the Azure Portal and locate the search bar at the top of the page. Search for Azure OpenAI, select that option, and then select Create. Once you’ve naviga…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – August 8, 2023
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 81 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=47148:name] AffableBPM Data Simplifyer Software as a Service: AffableBPM will boost your digital transformation and streamline operations by replacing outdated flat file systems with its cloud-based Data Simplifyer. Minimize local storage and enable data-driven decisions. [attachment=47149:name] Aidaxis for Microsoft Teams & Microsoft Outlook (Desktop): The Aidaxis GPS app optimizes user learning by guiding them in real tim…
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Project Server: Project Subsite Lists Lack Essential Forms
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Limited Functionality: Project Subsite Lacks Essential Forms ** Edit 8/9/23 Although this was initially reported with 2016, I understand the same could occur with 2019 or the Subscription Edition. The mitigation would be the same ** Problem Description: Consider the following scenario, A new site template is created. The site template is associated with an Enterprise Project Type (EPT) A new project is published using this EPT, for which a new SharePoint site is created. While working within this new site, a user attempts to add a new list item to deliverables, issues, or risks. In this situation, instead of seeing the new form, they ma…
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Microsoft Planner gives you and your teams an intuitive, collaborative, and visual task management experience for getting work done. Read on below to explore a set of rich new features that have rolled out recently to enhance your experience using Planner in your day-to-day task management. When your team work evolves and grows, and you find you need more enhanced capabilities to manage your cross-team projects , don’t miss the update below that will enable you to move over your existing Planner plans into Microsoft Project for the web for a free one-month trial. Then, head over to the summer roundup blog of new Project features that have been rolling out. Bring yo…
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What's New in Sales Copilot – August 2023
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In July 2023, we announced Microsoft Sales Copilot. Integrated seamlessly into your daily tools across Microsoft 365 and Teams, Sales Copilot harnesses the power of generative AI and customer data to keep sellers in their flow of work so that they can spend more time with customers. Additionally, this means that Microsoft Viva Sales is now part of Microsoft Sales Copilot. Viva Sales, which kickstarted our mission to empower every salesperson in the world, is being renamed to Sales Copilot, where we will continue to reimagine sales in even bigger ways. This month, we’re thrilled to bring one of our biggest updates ever, with a suite of new features and improvemen…
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Announcing a Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA August 10th at 9 AM PT
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A group of people in a meeting with banner for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA If you are an IT admin looking to get answers to your questions around Microsoft 365 copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise this is the event for you to attend. Please join us on Thursday, August 10th at 9 am PT for our Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat Enterprise AMA How does this AMA work? We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat enterprise. They will be standing by in our AMA space during the live hour -- to provide guidance, discuss best practices, and, of course, answ…