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Get started with Microsoft Dataverse Web API
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Would you like to access Dataverse outside of the Power Platform or Dynamics? Check out the recent article published by Tim Hanewich, Dataverse Web API 101. Tim covers the fundamentals including Authentication, the OData Protocol, and the basic Dataverse CRUD (Create, Read, Update & Delete) operations while using Postman to handle the authentication and CRUD requests. You can find more details here on the Microsoft Dataverse Web API. Continue reading...
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Newsworthy Highlights Microsoft To Do app for iOS and Android launching in GCC We are excited to announce that the iOS and Android apps for Microsoft To Do (a tool for managing and sharing tasks and lists) is rolling out to GCC (Government Community Cloud) users. The rollout begins in late August, with plans to be completed by mid-September. This launch will add the mobile apps to the web and Outlook functionality that GCC accounts already have today. Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – September 2022 Update Starting October 1st, we will start to randomly select tenants and disable basic authentication access for MAPI, RP…
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Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365: Spoof and Impersonation
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Microsoft Support is excited to continue this blog series to demystify how Microsoft 365 email protection works. Earlier, we covered how phishing has the potential to cause damage to an organization. Now, we’ll go over the two threat vectors most commonly seen in phishing attacks—spoofing and impersonation, and how Microsoft 365 protects your users against them. We will look at what spoofing and impersonation techniques are, the difference between them, and how your Microsoft 365 Defender policies apply protection against spoofing and impersonation in your organization to keep you secure from business email compromise. You can customize all spoofing and impersonati…
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Windows Autopatch, How it Works | Automate updates to Windows PCs and devices
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Go inside our new cloud service with ring-based deployment built-in for the automation of software update management for Windows, Microsoft Edge and your Office and Microsoft 365 apps, including Teams. Windows Autopatch will provide upcoming support for Windows 11 upgrades. If you’re using our premium subscription services, it may be available to you at no additional cost. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, reverse engineers Windows Autopatch service to show how it works (within Intune and Azure Active Directory), how to get it running, and the time saving configurations it makes on your behalf. Automate software updates and policies to your Window…
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Building Volumetric UI with MRTK3
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MRTK3 represents a significant step forward in the maturity of our user interface design tooling in MRTK. Over the last year (and more) we've invested significant resources into modernizing our design systems for UI in mixed reality, as well as overhauling the component libraries and tooling for building out these UI designs in Unity. If you've had experience with MRTK in the past, you'll know that building beautiful, modern user interfaces for mixed reality applications has never been an easy task. High-quality volumetric UI requires unique tools and systems, and organizing all of it under a cohesive design language is even harder. Throughout the course of developing mor…
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Protect passwords with enhanced phishing protection
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Phishing is a huge problem Did you know cybercrime is expected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, up from $6 trillion in 2021?[1] Across Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Defender for Office, we saw over 35.7 billion phishing attempts and over 25.6 billion attempts to attack our customers by brute-forcing with stolen passwords. Not only are attackers motivated and creative, but their attacks are growing more and more sophisticated. Attackers don't break in, they log in. Because of this, our SmartScreen team has been developing a way to keep passwords safer. We're excited for you to protect your organization with enhanced phishing protect…
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Faster. Smaller. Windows 11, version 22H2 update fundamentals
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With the release of Windows 11, version 21H2, Microsoft made significant improvements to Windows's strong update foundation. This included a redesigned cumulative update resulting in a 40% reduced package size, reduced download size for those devices more current than others, improved update orchestration via Unified Update Platform (UUP), and increased support for servicing language packs. Windows 11, version 22H2 builds on this strong update foundation, with performance improvements for feature updates and cumulative updates. Let's take a closer look. Feature update improvements IT pros want small updates As a member of the Azure Edge & Platform Fundamentals…
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Defense-in-Depth Updates for Azure Identity SDK and Azure Key Vault SDK plus Best Practice Implementation Guidance
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Summary Today, Microsoft released a new version of the Azure Key Vault Software Development Kit (SDK) and Azure Identity SDK that includes defense-in-depth feature improvements. We also published best practice guidance to help protect applications and services that allow externally controlled input into the Azure Key Vault client URI for processing. While most applications using … Defense-in-Depth Updates for Azure Identity SDK and Azure Key Vault SDK plus Best Practice Implementation Guidance Read More » Continue reading...
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Using Azure serverless Functions and Infrastructure as Code to automate service creation
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Using Azure serverless Functions and IaC to automate service creation Thursday 22 September 2022 | 12:00 PM BST/ 7AM ET/ 7PM HKT Register Now: Microsoft Reactor | Microsoft Developer This session is part of the 'Solve real-world problems with Microsoft Azure serverless and IaC' series This series will teach you how to use Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDK-TF) and Microsoft Azure serverless services. First, you will learn how to build everything as code, and we will teach you how to solve several real-world problems with just Azure Functions and short-lived Azure container instance. All projects covered in the series are opensource. What is the session…
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Getting Started with Databases: SQL and Data Visualizations Basics
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Getting Started with Databases: SQL and Data Visualizations Basics Speakers: Korey Stegard-Pace and Carlotta Castelluccio When: WED, SEPT 21 · 18:00 CEST RSVP: Getting Started with Databases: SQL and Data Visualizations Basics, Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 6:00 PM | Meetup What is this session about? The importance of learning SQL cannot be argued against. The requirement for SQL skills on job description expands to more than just traditional developer roles. This follow-along session will help you get started with learning SQL by showing real examples of how to read and write to a SQL database. Data is only important by what we can learn from it so…
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How to Build a Custom Connector from Scratch
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Day 3 of the 30DaysofFusion Program Summary Today, we have just built a custom connector wrapping the chucknorris io free JSON API from scratch and used it in a Power Automate and I'm sure you agree that it's a fun and easy process, right? But why do you need to create a custom connector? Connector Use case[/url] Team XYZ (a fusion team) comprises of a Business Manager (citizen developer building low code solutions on Power Platform), IT Admin, Researcher and Pro-Dev. The Researcher has identified a new External Service (with a free & public API) that would greatly benefit their business goals and they would like to access it directly from their system. …
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Auto scale up/down the Managed instance
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Request: If the customer needs to configure auto scaling for SQL Managed Instance, where the vCores can be increase and decrease automatically on specific time. Solution: You may take a look for this blog where it has a full example but for Azure SQL DB, you may customize it according to your needs: How-to auto-scale Azure SQL Databases - Microsoft Tech Community Or you can follow the solution provided below: Find below the steps you need to follow to create a Runbook to change the properties of the Managed instance, kindly note that this is a sample to help you out to set a base for your request then you can customize it according t…
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Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Third Refresh Update Release
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Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Third Refresh is now available! We are excited to announce that 9.0 Third 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 will be available in all regions within 7-10 days. Key Announcements Azure Service Fabric will block deployments that do not meet Silver or Gold durability requirements starting on 9/30/2022. 5 VMs or more will be enforced with this change to help avoid data lo…
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Summary Today, Microsoft released new versions of the Azure Key Vault libraries and Azure Identity libraries as part of the Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) that includes defense-in-depth feature improvements. We also published best practice guidance to help protect applications and services that allow externally controlled input into the Azure Key Vault client URI for processing.
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Optimized Training and Inference of Hugging Face Models on Azure Databricks – Part 2
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In this two-part blog series, we explore how to perform optimized training and inference of large language models from Hugging Face, at scale, on Azure Databricks. In the first part we focused on optimized model training, leveraging the distributed parallel infrastructure available on Azure Databricks to train deep learning-based models, and using DeepSpeed to optimize the training process. In this second part, we focus on model inference, also leveraging the distributed parallel infrastructure available on Azure Databricks and using DeepSpeed to optimize the inference process. The code for this blog series is available at this GitHub repository, as a…
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Optimized Training and Inference of Hugging Face Models on Azure Databricks – Part 1
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In this two-part blog series, we explore how to perform optimized training and inference of large language models from Hugging Face, at scale, on Azure Databricks. In this first part we focus on optimized model training, leveraging the distributed parallel infrastructure available on Azure Databricks to train deep learning-based models, and using DeepSpeed to optimize the training process. Part two focuses on model inference, also leveraging the distributed parallel infrastructure available on Azure Databricks and using DeepSpeed to optimize the inference process. The code for this blog series is available at this GitHub repository, as a series of Databri…
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Observability with Azure Container Apps
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This post is part of the Zero To Hero series for #ServerlessSeptember, a month-long initiative to learn, use, and celebrate, all things Serverless On Azure. Check out the main site at https://aka.ms/serverless-september to read other posts, participate in a Cloud Skills Challenge, explore a Serverless Hack, and participate in live Q&A with product teams on #AskTheExpert. In past weeks, @kendallroden wrote about what it means to be cloud native and @Anthony Chu showed the various ways to get your apps running on Azure Container Apps. Today, we will talk about the observability tools you can use to observe, debug, and diagnose your Azure Container Apps. …
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File Share Graph Connector for Microsoft Search: Improvements and upcoming features
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Introduction With an ever-increasing requirement for data driven decision-making, organizations want to store the information in its entirety. This information is maintained in multiple systems inside an organization and is accessed by multiple users. Because the systems are siloed, the users spend a lot of time searching and gathering the information. Microsoft Graph Connectors empower search administrators to create connectors to various data sources (on-prem and cloud) so that the users can search the data from multiple sources in a single place using Microsoft Search, the workplace search solution. Microsoft Graph Connectors – An overview F…
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is now available on Android company-owned personally enabled devices
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With an increasing number of users choosing to access company resources from mobile devices to improve productivity, organizations are tasked with balancing more employee flexibility with where and how they work while maintaining effective security practices. To do this, organizations are implementing mobile threat defense (MTD) solutions that give IT and security teams greater visibility into the threats directed at their diverse mobile fleet. We are excited to announce that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is now available on Android Enterprise (AE) company-owned personally enabled (COPE) devices. This release adds to the already existing support for installation on …
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Data Collection Rules Creation Impacting Sentinel UEBA ML Model
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We all know for a SOC to be successful; it is imperative for the SOC engineer and SOC analyst to be in constant communication about new connectors and their intended configurations. In some organizations role and responsibilities are separated whereas in others, one individual may play both parts. If separated, they must ensure both team members understand how data sources are connected, the configuration that makes up that connection, how the data is formatted after ingestion and even where that data lands so they can make use of it. In order to ensure all of the required data is inspected by User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) machine learning model, the AMA deploymen…
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Form Recognizer’s Read OCR targets advanced document text extraction scenarios
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With Cha Zhang, Yi Zhou, Wei Zhang. Microsoft Read OCR technology, now in its third publicly available (GA) release is available as a cloud service and Docker container as part of Microsoft Cognitive Services’ Computer Vision API. Starting with version 3.0, Form Recognizer adds the Read OCR model to its document intelligence product line. Customers no longer need to choose between two cloud services when deciding whether to use OCR or the higher-end document intelligence capabilities. They now have access to the full range of document processing capabilities within a unified API and SDK experience. Form Recognizer block diagram Read OCR in Form Recognizer…
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Microsoft Tech Days: Putting the Ops into DevOps
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Working in IT Ops and interested in learning more about DevOps – specifically the operations elements – but not sure how to get started? April, Esther, Barbara and John will take you through an end-to-end scenario explaining how you can automate your processes and maintenance tasks, update firewalls - and make sure no-one overwrites your hard work! Event Date: Tuesday 20th September Event Time: 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 6.30pm IST RSVP: aka.ms/techdays After joining the session you’ll be able to: Understand why workflows like Git, Source Control and CI/CD are so important Understand the DevOps Cycle and its importance in terms of observability (plan, co…
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Create Azure Service Health Alerts for All Resource Groups
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Introduction I recently had a customer requirement for creating Azure Service Health Alerts. The way access was provided in Azure, meant that only specific users had access to their respective Resource Groups. We also did not want these users to receive alerts for all Resources in the Subscription [Default scope for Service Health Alerts]. Process Description: This led to the creation of a PowerShell Script that will cycle through each Resource Group and create Service Health Alerts for all Contributors or Owners. Script Explanation *Please only run this script in PowerShell 7 and above as I am using the -Parallel switch Breaking the script int…
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Error “SameKeyMaterialNotFoundOnRemoteServer” while coping Azure SQL DB to a different server
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We received some support cases when customers encounter following error “SameKeyMaterialNotFoundOnRemoteServer” while trying to copy an Azure SQL Database to a different server when TDE is enabled using customer Managed Key. First of all, let me explain how the Database copy works. A database copy is a transactionally consistent snapshot of the source database as of a point in time after the copy request is initiated. As the copy is created using the geo-replication technology. Once replica seeding is complete, the geo-replication link is automatically terminated. All the requirements for using geo-replication apply to the database copy operation. Therefore, all…
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Microsoft Azure at HashiConf Global 2022
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HashiConf Global 2022 is right around the corner on October 4 - 6, 2022. For the first time in 2+ years, we will have folks on site in Los Angeles to represent the great work that the Microsoft Terraform on Azure engineering team has done to ensure that your experience of using Terraform with Azure is great. We are excited to see all of our incredible customers in person and share what is new and interesting in the world of IaC and Azure as well as what is coming in the near future. We plan on making the most of this event so you will have a number of options to hear from us and chat directly with us. We will have an incredible booth that you should be sure to stop…