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AI21 Jamba-Instruct launches on Azure AI Models-as-a-Service
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In collaboration with AI21, Microsoft is excited to announce AI21’s Jamba-Instruct foundation chat completion model available now as a serverless API within Azure AI’s Models-as-a-Service. This marks a new collaboration between AI21 and Microsoft, and the first time Jamba-Instruct is widely available through a cloud partner. “We are thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Jamba-Instruct to Microsoft Azure customers. This collaboration underscores our shared commitment to empowering enterprises with innovative AI solutions,” said Pankaj Dugar, SVP, GM North America of AI21. “Microsoft's dedication to putting customers first and making cutting-edge techn…
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Experience the revamped Forms with your Microsoft account
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We've recently updated the end-to-end experience for Microsoft account holders, from form creation to response analysis, making it more modern and intuitive. This exciting revamp gives you a fresh look on the landing, portal, design, and result pages. Whether you're planning a family reunion, organizing a party, or simply doing a check-in, the new Forms offers a seamless and enjoyable experience from start to finish. Let's explore the new experience together! To give you a better sense of the revamped experience and put it to good use, let's create a party invitation together. Summer is here—imagine you’re planning a barbecue at your place, inviting friends over fo…
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MidDay Café Episode 55 – AI and the Employee Experience
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As the capabilities, and transformational power of AI, continue to evolve at a quickening pace, organizations are grappling with choices around when and how to implement and its impact on organizations and their employee experience. Microsoft is committed to helping organizations begin today building that AI muscle so they can assess and be prepared to adapt new modes of work and workstreams ushered in by this rapidly evolving age of Enterprise AI. In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti have a sit-down discussion around AI, the need to build AI muscle at an individual and organizational level now, and its impact on the employee experience. Also d…
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How to deploy SAP IQ-NLS Solution using Azure Premium Files on Azure.
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[JUSTIFY]SAP IQ High-Availability can be achieved with IQ Multiplex architecture [ SAP Note 2477758], but not when deployed in NLS mode. As per the SAP First Guidance for SAP IQ 16.x, here, Multiplex Architecture is not available/evaluated for the SAP-NLS solution. This blog outlines one of the methods for deploying SAP IQ-NLS utilizing Azure Premium Files on the Azure platform. [/JUSTIFY] Overview [JUSTIFY]Several customers leverage SAP IQ for storing historical data, extracting aged data from the SAP BW system to enhance SAP BW performance and achieve cost efficiency. It's crucial to meticulously design and implement the SAP IQ architecture to ensure that data…
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Microsoft Education is committed to supporting educators and learners with engaging and inclusive learning experiences, wherever teaching and learning happens. Whether you teach and learn in a physical classroom, online, or in a hybrid mode, Microsoft Education has the tools and resources to help you achieve your goals. One of the ways we do this is by integrating our products and services with popular Learning Management Systems (LMS). Building on our previous work to bring Microsoft 365 documents, Microsoft Teams collaboration, OneNote Class Notebooks, and Microsoft Reflect into LMS platforms, our new integration of Teams Assignments represents a leap forward in bringin…
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New on Microsoft AppSource: June 7-13, 2024
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We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 193 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: [HEADING=2]Get it now in our marketplace[/HEADING] [attachment=55216:name] Buddiz - AI for Schools & Higher Ed Colleges: Buddiz provides AI tools and solutions for schools, colleges, teachers, students, and parents, incorporating interactive chatbots into lesson planning and learning experiences. An advanced dashboard furnishes real-time analytics. [attachment=55217:name] ChatGPTeMail: Najtech's ChatGPTeMail add-in for Microsoft Outlook lets you compose and respond to emails …
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Lesson Learned #504: Inserting Records from a CSV File using OPENROWSET into TempDB
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Today, I would like to share how to insert records from a CSV file stored in Azure Blob Storage into a temporary table in TempDB in Azure SQL Database using OPENROWSET and a format file. First, we need to create a database scoped credential and an external data source to access the Azure Blob Storage. CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL MyCredential WITH IDENTITY = 'SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE', SECRET = 'sv=2022-11-02&ss=bfqt&srt=sco&sp=rwdlacupiytfx&se=2024-06-30T16:56:42Z&st=2024-06-21T08:56:42Z&spr=https&sig=tAjokk5xO9kc%3D'; CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE MyDataSource WITH ( TYPE = BLOB_STORAGE, LOCATION = 'https://blobs…
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Microsoft options for VMware migration
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Spoiler (Highlight to read) Looking to migrate from VMware to Windows Server 2025? Contact your Microsoft account team! Windows Server 2025 is the most secure and performant release yet! Download the evaluation now! Looking to migrate from VMware to Windows Server 2025? Contact your Microsoft account team! Windows Server 2025 is the most secure and performant release yet! Download the evaluation now! The 2024 Windows Server Summit was held in March and brought three days of demos, technical sessions, and Q&A, led by Microsoft engineers, guest experts from Intel®, and our MVP community. For more videos from this year’s Windows Server Summit, please find …
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Announcing Azure Monitoring Agent support in Azure Landing Zones
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Hello and welcome to another blog post about Azure Landing Zones, the best practice framework for accelerating your cloud adoption journey. In this post, I will share with you some of the latest updates and enhancements that we have made to Azure Landing Zones. One of the main components of Azure Landing Zones is the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA), which enables you to collect and analyze data from your virtual machines, virtual machine scale sets, and hybrid resources. AMA provides a unified agent experience for Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, and other services. AMA replaces the legacy Log Analytics agent a…
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Getting Started with Azure App Service: A Beginner's Guide to Web App Deployment
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I'm Mahnoor Javaid, an enthusiastic Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador (MLSA) I’m delighted to present my blog, "Getting Started with Azure App Service: A Beginner's Guide to Web App Deployment", developed in collaboration with the Microsoft Learn team. This blog will take you through getting started with Azure App Service with a comprehensive beginner's guide! Learn the step-by-step process of deploying your first web app using Azure. From navigating the Azure portal to mastering deployment via Azure CLI, unlock the secrets to seamless web app deployment. Get ready to elevate your skills and bring your projects to life with Azure App Service! Azure App Service …
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Contributor Stories: Konstantinos Passadis
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If you’ve ever engaged with the content on the Microsoft Learn platform, it's highly likely that the material you utilized was written or co-authored by dedicated contributors. These contributors, often volunteers, generously offer their time and expertise to fill knowledge gaps within our content portfolio by suggesting valuable updates to our material, sharing their knowledge within the Microsoft community, and/or answering questions on the Q&A area of the Microsoft Learn platform! In this interview series, we aim to acquaint ourselves with some of these valuable contributors. Through these conversations, we seek to understand their motivations for sharing…
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Week of June 20, 2024: Azure Updates
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[HEADING=1]Public Preview: Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration[/HEADING] Status: In Preview The upgrade policy of a Virtual Machine Scale Set determines how virtual machines can be brought up to date with the latest scale set model. Before today, upgrade policies were available for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Uniform Orchestration. Now the same upgrade policies available for Uniform Orchestration are available for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration. The upgrade policies available for Virtual Machine Scale Sets are Automatic, Manual and Rolling. Additionally, if using a Rolling upgrade polic…
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Granular RBAC permissions for endpoint security workloads
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By: Laura Arrizza – Sr Product Manager | Microsoft Intune The built-in role ‘Endpoint Security Manager’ is used to manage policies and features within the Microsoft Intune admin center Endpoint security blade or, admin actions can be limited by using the custom role with the ‘Security baselines’ permission. With Intune’s June (2406) release, we’ll begin adding new permissions for each endpoint security workload to allow for additional granularity and control. The ‘Security baselines’ permission previously included all security policies and now, it will only include security workloads that do not have their own permission. [HEADING=1]New granular permiss…
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Process Monitor v4.01
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Process Monitor v4.01 This update to Process Monitor colorizes the activity operation icons - Registry, File System, Network, Process and Thread, and Profiling Events. Continue reading...
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JSON Type & Aggregates Public Preview in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
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The native JSON type allows JSON documents to be stored in a binary format. This binary format allows for efficient query processing and in-place modifications of JSON documents. The JSON aggregates - JSON_OBJECTAGG & JSON_ARRAYAGG enable easy aggregation of relational data into a JSON document. Learn more in this episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Umachandar Jayachandran. Resources: JSON data type (preview) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn JSON_OBJECTAGG (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn JSON_ARRAYAGG (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continu…
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Video interactivity gets a boost with new Microsoft Stream features
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If videos are a part of your marketing strategy – and they should be – you'll be happy to know that Microsoft Stream has just rolled out several new features to help you boost your content. We’ve put a summary of Stream’s new capabilities below. Creating useful and compelling video content is a difficult task if you’re creating from scratch. Fortunately, with Microsoft Clipchamp and Stream, you’ve got an end-to-end video creation ecosystem already baked into your Microsoft 365 business license. Clipchamp became generally available to Microsoft 365 customers in 2023 and has already established itself as one of the most intuitive and powerful video editors on the …
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General availability: Database compatibility level 160 in Azure SQL Database
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Database compatibility level 160 is now the default for new databases created in Azure SQL Database across almost all public regions. The alignment of SQL versions to default compatibility levels are as follows: 100: in SQL Server 2008 and Azure SQL Database 110: in SQL Server 2012 and Azure SQL Database 120: in SQL Server 2014 and Azure SQL Database 130: in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database 140: in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database 150: in SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database 160: in SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Database For details about which feature, or features compatibility level 160 enables, please see Intelligent query processin…
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Stop Worrying and Love the Outage, Vol III: Cached Logons
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This is the third article in a series: Stop Worrying and Love the Outage, Vol I: Group Policy and Sharing Violations Stop Worrying and Love the Outage, Vol II: DCs, custom ports, and Firewalls/ACLs Hello, Chris Cartwright here from the Directory Services support team. This is the third post in a series where I try to provide the IT community with some tools and verbiage that will hopefully save you and your business many hours, dollars, and frustrations. Occasionally, we get cases for users working remotely that are unable to log on with a message that the domain is not available. More often than not, this is caused by an overly enthusiastic Cached…
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Update on the Deprecation of Admin Audit Log Cmdlets
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We wanted to tell you that an update was published related to the deprecation of Admin Audit Log cmdlets in Microsoft 365. The update was posted on the Security, Compliance, and Identity Blog and you can see it here: Update on the Deprecation of Admin Audit Log Cmdlets. While the scope here is a bit more than "Exchange Online", we know that some of our customers were interested in this. The blog post discusses cmdlets that are being deprecated as well as how to accomplish those tasks after deprecation. The Exchange Online Team Continue reading...
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Update on the Deprecation of Admin Audit Log Cmdlets
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We wanted to provide you with an important update to the deprecation schedule for the two Admin Audit Log cmdlets, as part of our ongoing commitment to improve security and compliance capabilities within our services. The two Admin Audit Log cmdlets are: Search-AdminAuditLog New-AdminAuditLog As communicated in a previous blog post, the deprecation of Admin Audit Log (AAL) and Mailbox Audit Log (MAL) cmdlets was initially planned to occur simultaneously on April 30th, 2024. However, to ensure a smooth transition and to accommodate the feedback from our community, we have revised the deprecation timeline. We would like to inform you that the Admin Audit Log …
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SharePoint News Connector Retirement
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[HEADING=1]A Step Forward in News Sharing and Collaboration for SharePoint[/HEADING] SharePoint News connector has been a valuable tool in our Microsoft Teams experience, seamlessly integrating SharePoint news into our team channels. As we strive for innovation and collaboration, we are transitioning away from the SharePoint News connector to embrace alternative, more integrated solutions. SharePoint News Connector Our decision to move beyond the SharePoint News connector is driven by our commitment to providing a seamless and collaborative environment. With current advancements in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, we can leverage alternatives, ensuri…
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Fight fraud across the full identity lifecycle with Transmit Security and Microsoft
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In this guest blog post, Ravit Aviv, Director of Technology Alliances at Transmit Security, offers ways businesses can launch a formidable defense against AI-based cyber activity and threat actors and build long-term digital resilience with the help of Transmit Security and Microsoft. In an increasingly digital world, securing identities has never been more critical. The 2023 Digital Defense Report by Microsoft highlights the alarming frequency and sophistication of identity attacks, underscoring the need for robust security solutions. The report reveals the following findings: The volume of password attacks increased more than tenfold in 2023, rising from 3 b…
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“Reflecting on OneDrive and SharePoint” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast
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You might call this episode ShareDrive or OnePoint, if you dare. It blends the focus of two product managers spanning the OneDrive and SharePoint product boundaries. In this episode, you’ll hear from Stephen Rice (Principal product manager) from our OneDrive companion pod, Sync Up … and he chats/interviews your very own Intrazone host, me, Mark Kashman. It's a little bit of an M365 multi-verse as we interview each other – PM-to-PM, pod-to-pod, Intrazone-to-Sync Up. You'll hear our takes on our respective products - Stephen on OneDrive and me on SharePoint. In the end, it's a bountiful double bonus for you - the benefit of the best of both pods and a lot of updates …
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How to break the token theft cyber-attack chain
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We’ve written a lot about how attackers try to break passwords. The solution to password attacks—still the most common attack vector for compromising identities—is to turn on multifactor authentication (MFA). But as more customers do the right thing with MFA, actors are going beyond password-only attacks. So, we’re going to publish a series of articles on how to defeat more advanced attacks, starting with token theft. In this article, we’ll start with some basics on how tokens work, describe a token theft attack, and then explain what you can do to prevent and mitigate token theft now. [HEADING=2]Tokens 101 [/HEADING] Before we get too deep into the …
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Announcing Windows Admin Center in Azure for Windows Client machines
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In 2022, we introduced Windows Admin Center in Azure, making it easy for you to manage your Windows Server Azure VMs directly from the Azure Portal. Since its release, we’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response and feature requests we’ve received. Over the last 2 years, we expanded to support Azure Arc-enabled Windows Servers and Azure Stack HCI clusters, providing you access to Windows Admin Center for your on-premises machines without. We’ve heard you and added secure, password-less authentication, giving you single sign-on using your Entra ID credentials. We also increased the performance by over 50% leveraging Azure Front Door as our content delivery network. We …