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In 2022, many organizations emerged from the crisis-response mode of the past few years with renewed focus on application innovation and investing for growth. Azure delivered several new experiences to improve the speed, flexibility, and cost of your app modernization projects across the spectrum of languages, frameworks, and budgets. According to Gartner, 90 percent of enterprise applications will still be in use by 2025. Azure App Service is the leading platform to support your enterprise modernization journey with a lot of innovations in store for the new year. But first, let’s take the time to celebrate and appreciate the exciting announcements from the year that was.…

Join us on Tuesday, December 20th, 2022, 5pm EDT, for the monthly Microsoft 365 Meetup for Government meeting. This month's topic: “Most Valuable M365 Features of 2022” where top Microsoft and Planet Technologies experts, SMEs and trainers will highlight and review their top picks for the most valuable M365 features released in 2022. This is your chance to enhance your knowledge of all the new M365 features and learn about new ones you didn’t know about. After the experts present their favorites, a lively Q&A will follow, and you can voice your opinions about your favorites from 2022. Presenters/Contributors: Nelson Chu, Modern Work Technical Speci…

Overview Windows Autopilot is designed to both streamline and tailor your deployment flow to your users. By simplifying your deployment configuration, you'll experience higher levels of success, as well as greater user satisfaction during deployments. One of the key factors that can improve your success is to avoid targeting changes to policies and applications while devices are being provisioned. In this post, we highlight targeting guidelines to create successful Windows Autopilot experiences. First, let’s get a better understanding of how targeting impacts device provisioning in Intune. How Intune processes changes to device membership and assignments …

NEW SERIES: Security Experts Roundtable coming January 25, 2023 REGISTER NOW:  https://aka.ms/SecurityExpertsRoundTable Introducing the Security Experts Roundtable webinar series There is a lack of security content that covers timely, newsworthy topics, that is both educational and engaging. After all, we all spend a lot of time in learning mode. Why can’t it be fun? If you’ve ever wondered what your fellow security colleagues think about the latest vulnerabilities, security news, and emerging trends, look no further. The Security Experts Roundtable launches in January to deliver the webinar series of your dreams. For experts, by experts …

Before we start, please not that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate the in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that offi…

Empowering today’s digitally connected, distributed workforce requires the right culture powered by the right technology. One critical challenge facing employees, whether remote or in the office, is the hidden cost of context switching between applications. The traditional workplace model is centered around business applications and requires users to constantly switch between siloed apps, distracting from the flow of work and putting the burden on the user to retain context. Quantifying the impact on business productivity, a recent Harvard Business Review article found that employees on average waste 10% of their day reorienting to new context. Collaborative ap…

Microsoft has been working with the EESSI consortium for the past two years and provided Azure Credits to support the hosting of EESSI’s geographically distributed CernVM-FS servers on Azure and for the building, testing and benchmarking of the EESSI software layer across different types of CPU generations. As the year draws to a close, this article provides a brief summary of progress to date, specifically in relation to accessing EESSI using Azure HPC-on-demand, and looks at what’s planned for 2023. What is EESSI? The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) is a collaboration between different European partners in the HPC community…

Introduction Even though the Azure Update Center is already in preview many of our customers are still using Azure Update Management (the solution that uses Automation Account and Log Analytics workspace) to patch their servers. During one of these engagements, we realized that some of the Operating System Settings for Windows Update was not configured the way business required and this leads to erratic reboots and servers not patching on their expected schedules. We needed a way to ensure our machines have the appropriate settings. Requirements Machines do not have to be Domain Joined Machines that were previously domain joined need to have their …

We have just released the new Visual Studio extensions for SSAS 2022 and SSRS 2022. Microsoft Analysis Services Projects 2022(SSAS) and Microsoft Reporting Services Projects 2022(SSRS) provide project templates and design surfaces for building professional data models and act as a report designer for creating professional reports respectively. Our team of engineers have worked on the Feedback tickets, feature recommendations, customer suggestions, marketplace comments and have solved a plethora of problems that our customers were facing with the application. We received customer feedback that there were compatibility issues with the latest VSIX version when used with t…

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Multi-region replication for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. The feature allows you to extend a managed HSM pool from one Azure region to an other thereby enhancing the availability of mission critical cryptographic keys with automated key replication and maximizing read throughput and latency with the closest available region. To learn more, see the Multi-region replication product documentation. Continue reading...

Outline Introduction Prerequisite Build the Solution Introduction As a program manager have you ever been faced with a task where you have to repeatedly fill a certificate with details of participants of an event or perform a repetitive task involving filling a template? Performing such task over and over again could get tiring especially when it seems like the list is inexhaustible. Microsoft Power Automate tool helps to perform tasks like that by helping to populate the template with the right details but this requires having a Premium connector which is a paid service on the Power Automate tool. Fortunately, there is a way around performing …

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Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Fifth Refresh Release is now available! We are excited to announce that the 9.0 Fifth Refresh release of the Service Fabric runtime has started rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK, and Service Fabric runtimes can be downloaded from the links provided in Release Notes. The SDK, NuGet packages, and Maven repositories are already available in all regions. This release will only be available through manual upgrades. Clusters set to automatic upgrades will not receive this release. For how to configure upgrades, please see classic or managed documentation. Pac…

Azure Service Fabric 9.1 First Refresh Release is now available! We are excited to announce that the 9.1 First Refresh release of the Service Fabric runtime has started rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK, and Service Fabric runtimes can be downloaded from the links provided in Release Notes. The SDK, NuGet packages, and Maven repositories are already available in all regions. This release will only be available through manual upgrades. Clusters set to automatic upgrades will not receive this release. For how to configure upgrades, please see classic or managed documentation. Pac…

If you want to lift & shift/migrate your existing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages to the cloud, so they can run on SSIS integration runtime (IR) in Azure Data Factory (ADF), you’ll need to inject/join your SSIS IR to a virtual network (VNet) in the following scenarios: You want to access on-premises data stores/resources from SSIS packages running on Microsoft-managed SSIS IR without configuring and managing a self-hosted IR as proxy by yourself. To learn, see the pros and cons of using VNet or no VNet. You want to use Azure SQL Database server/managed instance that’s configured with a private endpoint/IP firewall rule/virtual networ…

Many of us have always wanted to build our own bot, but writing code in a programming language like Python or JavaScript can be intimidating. However, it is possible to build a bot without writing a single line of code, using a tool called Azure Logic Apps. Now, what are Azure Logic Apps? Azure Logic Apps is a cloud platform that allows you to create and run automated workflows with minimal coding required. It is fully managed by Microsoft Azure, meaning you don't have to worry about hosting, scaling, or maintaining your solution. The platform also provides hundreds of pre-built connectors, making it easy to connect and integrate apps, data, services, and system…

As a meeting organizer or participant, take Microsoft Teams to the next level with advanced capabilities for personalization, deeper AI integration, and better meeting protection with Microsoft Teams Premium. For Teams admins, see the easy steps to enable Teams Premium, as well as your configuration options. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, gives a hands-on tour for customized, intelligent, and secure meetings. Let your brand shine. Personalize meetings in Teams with custom logos, backgrounds, and themes. Present and follow meetings in your preferred language. Captions are translated live from 40 different spoken …

Before we start, please not that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate the in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that offi…

This article is available via direct short link at Microsoft Teams Premium preview now available You may have seen the announcement regarding Microsoft Teams Premium at Ignite. If not check out the better way to meet blog by Nicole Herskowitz. Today, we are excited to share that we are making Microsoft Teams Premium broadly available for preview as a limited trial for our commercial customers through the Microsoft 365 admin center. The features under this offering began rolling out this December and will continue to roll out through January. This article provides information on how to enroll into the trial and configure these features for your users. Team…

Hi hello and happy Friday, MTC! As we approach the end-of-year holidays, I’m going to make some slight adjustments to the weekly recap schedule. The next two recaps will come out on Thursdays (December 22 and December 29), and then I will resume my Friday posting the following week (January 6). So, with that covered, let’s dive into what’s been going on in the MTC this week! MTC Moments of the Week Our MTC Member of the Week spotlight goes to @SvenSieverding! A developer and consultant for SharePoint and Office 365, Sven has been a great help in the community this week, even getting a few best responses in the SharePoint forum! Keep it up, Sven…

Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix. All the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be perf…

We recently released an update to Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server, version 11.2.2. The update addresses a few issues on top of the 11.2.1 release. Fixed issues Fixed potential connect to the wrong SQLServer host when multi-threading 2005 Fixed Idle Connection Resiliency bug 2004 Fixed callable statement index out of bounds error 2002 Fixed check for DONE token when fetching result sets 2001 Fixed intermittent error: "Internal error during decryption: Tag mismatch!" 2000 Getting the latest release The latest bits are available to download from Microsoft, from the GitHub repository, and via Maven Central. Add the JDBC 11.2.2 RTW driver to your…

Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18.6.5 for SQL Server was released this week to fix a potential driver crash. Fixed: Fixed potential crash when invalid metadata is received from the server. For more details, see the release notes. The updated driver can be downloaded directly from Microsoft. David Engel Continue reading...

As Microsoft’s mission is to put customers first and “do more with less”, Microsoft Purview has been constantly innovating, to help our customers “govern more with less total cost of ownership”. After announcing the general availability of Microsoft Purview’s Data Estate Insights App in July of 2022, the team has been laser-focused on improving total cost of ownership for deriving insights from the Data Map, through various levels of optimization. These performance improvements have provided customers with savings of up to 65%. Here are some of the notable improvements that have led to better customer experience and lowest costs to customers. Dynamic selecti…