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We recently made our new Kusto data connection available in public preview: Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link. Azure Cosmos DB is a fantastic transactional NoSQL database. It is able to scale to meet big data requirements, is multi-region capable (with multi-master), has very predictable low latency (with even an SLA on latency) and supports geospatial data. Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a phenomenal big data analytics platform. It is able to scale to petabytes, is optimized for time series, supports structured, semi-structured (JSON) & unstructured (text) data and has great geo spatial capabilities. Those two technologies greatly co…

As part of public preview, we have enabled workflows for Self-service data access workflow for hybrid data estate and Approval workflow for business glossary Continuing our journey on workflows, we are now happy to introduce approval workflow for asset curation in Microsoft Purview. You can now streamline the entire approval process for asset updates like adding a business term, changing a classification, adding or removing owners, etc. by defining a workflow as per your organizational needs. With the enablement of approval workflow, the updates are saved to the Purview data catalog only after approval by data owners. To get started with asset update workflow crea…

Come join the Health and Life Science Community Connection team on Jan 19th for a quick 30-minute session focused on Building New Team Meeting Habits. It’s a new year and a great time to learn how to make the most of your workday. This session will provide you tools in the Office 365 platform which will help with keeping Team meetings productive. Topics of focus in this session: Bookings with Me in Outlook, Speaker Coach in Teams, and leveraging Adobe PDFs in Teams. This session is open to all. We look forward to seeing you there! What Building New Team Meeting Habits Teams Webin…

I like solutions that are both secure and user-friendly at the same. (Who doesn't?) I also know that it can be real hard to build such solutions on your own so I'm happy when the Azure AD teams provide the bits I need for implementing the authentication parts in a good way :) When I noticed a post about Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) on mobile with YubiKeys I wanted to take things for a spin: Azure AD Certificate-based Authentication (CBA) on Mobile The blog post itself is just a teaser, but it provides links to the configuration docs so I thought I would follow those. Unfortunately I felt the instructions were missing a few details for doing a qu…

Health and Life Sciences Power BI User Group presents: Intro to Incremental Refresh Live Webinar Thursday, January 12 1:00-2:00 PM ET Register here Continue reading...

In many situations, we used to have service request with the error message: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The semaphore timeout period has expired.) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 121). For example, in this service request our customer got the following error message using SQL Server Management Studio: Answer: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Error connecting to 'servername.database.windows.net'. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Failed to connect to serv…

Are you a pro-code developer and do you want to become more productive with the help of the Power Platform CLI? In this episode of Low Code Revolution, Daniel Laskewitz is joined by Kartik Kanakasabesan who will tell us all about why we should use the Power Platform CLI. Continue reading...

The Microsoft 365 Commercial Support team resolves customer support cases and provides support to help you be successful and realize the full potential and value of your purchase. Our support services extend across the entire lifecycle and include pre-sales, onboarding and deployment, usage and management, accounts and billing, and break-fix support. We also spend a considerable amount of time working to improve the supportability of Microsoft 365 services to reduce the number of issues you experience as well as minimize the effort and time it takes to resolve your issues if they do occur. Today, we’re excited to share more about some of our supportability work wit…

Our customer got the following errror message "The operation cannot be performed since the database 'digordercontrol-db-test' is in a replication relationship. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 40680)" trying to rename a database. Our customer got the following error message using SQL Server Management Studio trying to rename a database. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Unable to rename XXX. (ObjectExplorer) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Rename failed for Database 'XXX'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) For help, click: Microsoft – Cloud, Computers, Apps & Gaming -…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 133 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=29455:name] AI Assist: Aisera’s AI Assist supports service desk teams through ticket automation, classifying and routing tickets and cases to reduce bounce rates and improve resolution times. AI Assist can also recommend similar tickets and cases, knowledge articles, and next-best actions. [attachment=29456:name] BUI Cyber MXDR: BUI's Cyber MXDR service runs on Microsoft security technology and delivers compliance reporting; monit…

Key points: There is a need to give external customers access to data in a Power BI Embedded dashboard which is very common in SaaS and multitenant applications. Solution involves using a service principal and managed identities to authorize external users. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Azure AD for applications to use when connecting to resources that support Azure AD authentication. Can be implemented using either a system-assigned or user-assigned managed identity. To implement the solution: Define a user-assigned managed identity (in a managed app). Authorize the user-assigned managed identity to have the necessary…

Synapse genie visual image @Rajeshdadi , @KranthiMedam, @ravitejabhalla @InnovatorsClub Synapse Genie Framework improves Spark pool utilization by executing multiple Synapse notebooks on the same Spark pool instance. It considers the sequence and dependencies between notebook activities in an ETL pipeline which results in higher usage of a full cluster for resources available in a Spark pool. When to use Genie utility? Synapse Genie is helpful when you have a set of related notebooks that are part of a Synapse pipeline. In any group of notebooks, the workload varies from small to large. By executing such varied workloads on a single Spark pool instance…

Join us in January 2023 for the next "What's New in Microsoft EDU" webinar! These 30 minute webinars are put on by the Microsoft Education Product Management group and happen once per month, at both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as many global time zones as possible around the world. And don’t worry – we’ll be recording these and posting on our Microsoft Education YouTube channel in the new “ , so you’ll always to able to watch later or share with others! Here is our January 2023 webinar agenda: What’s new in Microsoft Teams for EDU Windows new in Windows 11 22h2 What’s new in M365 EDU AMA - Ask Microsoft EDU Anything (Q&A) …

Uncompressed file uploads are slower than uploading the compressed file to the artifact when using the GitHub Workflow. The time taken for a sample Node application to Azure App Service was 50mins to an hour for completing the deployment, that was triggered using GitHub Action Workflow. The screenshot below shows the total duration for the task to complete using the default GitHub Action workflow: To help mitigate the problem for reducing the deployment time significantly I have added the following steps in the GitHub Action workflow. Please note as I am using the ubuntu-latest OS to run the GitHub Action so there might be different method for file co…

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer reported that the statistics update maintenance plan is taking too much time. This is causing that all these operations (rebuild and update statistics) are taking more time that the maintenace windows that they have. I would like to share with you my findings how to reduce this time. I found we're updating too many statistics and we worked in two main operations: Avoiding to update statistics of are related to indexes: I saw that our customer is rebuilding the indexes and after it updating all statistics. If you already rebuilt the indexes remember that the statistics associated with this index will…

Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) is an open-source tool for inspecting and managing Azure Service Fabric clusters. Service Fabric Explorer is a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. To launch SFX in a web browser, browse to the cluster's HTTP management endpoint from any browser - for example https://clusterFQDN:19080. Service Fabric explorer may not load for numerous reasons. Most frequent reasons could be access denied while trying to access or unable to choose the right certificate. Following steps provide some useful insights on investigation steps and mitigations to be followed in such scenarios. 1. Check the status of the cluster and certificate that is …

Welcome to the Windows Core OS platform team blog. We own the core of the Windows operating system, primarily, the virtualization platform, silicon support (Intel, AMD, and Arm), kernel, storage file system and hyperconverged storage infrastructure including Spaces Direct. In addition, we also build and deploy a specially crafted operating system based on Windows for the Azure Cloud. We migrated our old blog which was focused purely on Windows kernel to incorporate the full stack of tech owned by the team. The team will continue use this blog to talk about the internals of upcoming features in the Windows Core OS Platform space, very similar to my previous blog on …

Brief reminder that filenames within your submissions cannot contain any of the following characters: ! * ' ( ) ; : @ & = + $ , / ? % # [ ] Additionally, INFs included in your submissions must following the encoding requirements: General Unicode requirement in INF files - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn Continue reading...

If you are using the Microsoft R Application Network website or CRAN Time Machine snapshots, then please read through the Microsoft R Application Network retirement post. The retirement post covers the timeline and steps to be taken. Continue reading...

Attack Simulation Training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that measures behavior change and automates the deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It allows security teams to run intelligent simulations and measure users for a baseline awareness of phishing risk, provide actionable insights and recommendations to remediate risk with hyper-targeted training designed to change behavior, and then measure behavioral progress against that benchmark through repeated simulation. Today we are excited to announce that Attack Simulation Training now provides enhanced user telemetry in the simulation reports! This is…

Subdomain takeover vulnerabilities are, in most cases, the result of an organization using an external service and letting it expire. However, that expired subdomain is still a part of the organization's external attack surface, with domain DNS entries pointing to it. An attacker could then claim this subdomain and take control of it with little to no effort, a considerable blow to an organization's security posture. How does this happen? For example, a company might enlist a service desk provider, "FreshDesk.' It would point a subdomain like "support.mycompany.com" to FreshDesk and then claim this domain with the Freshdesk service to activate it. However, a proble…

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Do you want to do modern app development but you’re still on the mainframe? In this session April Dunnam is joined by Jim Dugan to discuss how to leverage the Power Platform to modernize mainframe development. Continue reading...