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Azure Data Factory is Azure's cloud ETL service for scale-out serverless data integration and data transformation. Often customers leverage Data Factory to perform bulk load or incremental load activities. Amongst the most commonly used activities for such purposes are Copy activity to copy data among data stores located on-premises and in the cloud & ForEach activity defines a repeating control flow in your pipeline. This activity is used to iterate over a collection and executes specified activities in a loop. The loop implementation of this activity is similar to the Foreach looping structure in programming languages. One of the most common and frequent scenario is…

Version 19.2 of the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server has been released. Version 19.1 includes new features that improve security in the driver. Features Support for TLS 1.3 with TDS 8.0 Support for the Server Certificate connection string keyword, and the SSPROP_INIT_SERVER_CERTIFICATE initialization property For more details, see the release notes. The updated driver can be downloaded directly from Microsoft. David Engel Continue reading...

We love hearing feedback from every customer and user. It helps us continue to build great experiences using Azure Data Factory (ADF). Based on feedback, the launching of the ADF Studio user interface (UI) has been re-designed to enable new users to easily discover how to launch the ADF studio from the Azure portal. Users will also be able to locate training content and access Quick Starts, Tutorials, Template Gallery before jumping into the studio. We hope this update helps to make your experience smoother, quicker, and more productive. We are always open for additional feedback so share your comments below or provide suggestions and vote via our Ideas fo…

Parameterizing Managed Connections with Logic Apps Standard Introduction Logic Apps Standard introduces a resource structure that can host multiple workflows within the same application. With a one-to-many mapping, workflows in the same logic app and tenant share computing and processing resources, providing better performance due to their proximity. This model also simplifies deployment of logic apps, with a stronger separation of concerns between the infrastructure – the Logic App Standard app, associated App Service plans, storage repositories – and the groups of workflows that are executed under the app, simplifying the process of deployment automati…

We have recently announced many exciting features coming to the OneNote app on Windows. These include a refreshed visual interface that is in the process of rolling out to everyone, and other cool features, such as inking and dictation to help you capture notes more naturally and quickly. The simplified single line ribbon is now available to everyone, bringing the option to have a smaller footprint with the power of the classic ribbon. So is our improved sharing experience. It provides you with a single place to share your notebooks with others and manage who has access to them. We want to make OneNote the place for all your notes with the best note-taking e…

Process Explorer This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL and handle viewing utility, adds dark theme support, multipane view in the main window with a new threads pane, startup performance optimization and more. Handle This update to Handle, a tool that displays information about open handles for any process in the system, adds CSV output with a new -v switch and has an option to print the granted access mask with -g. Process Monitor This update to Process Monitor, a utility for observing in real time file system, Registry, and process or thread activity, adds a command-line option for setting the filter driver’s altitude. Sysmon …

Today we’re excited to announce the public preview of filters for apps! Filters for apps provides a new way to manage Conditional Access (CA) assignment for apps and workload identities at scale. Protecting all apps is key to achieving a Zero Trust security posture. Currently, policies explicitly list apps. With filters for apps, admins can tag applications with custom security attributes and apply Conditional Access policies based on those tags, rather than individually selecting apps. With this approach there is no limit on the number of apps covered, and new apps you add with the attributes are automatically included in the policies! Attribute assignment build…

Today we are announcing the availability of 220+ SAP S/4HANA events on Azure. A homologous announcement from SAP is found here. Many companies rely on SAP S/4HANA and an assortment of custom applications, SaaS services, or other commercial solutions to run their Given this diverse deployment topology, they require their SAP S/4HANA applications to work together with other applications that run on Azure. A way to achieve this is by integrating both systems using an event-driven approach. You can now configure your SAP Event Mesh (SAP’s event broker) to This way, your applications on Azure can react to system state changes that originate in an SAP backend applicatio…

Azure Backup recently launched the public preview of immutable vaults that can help you protect your backup data better against ransomware attacks and other malicious actors. Immutable vaults protect your backups by blocking any operations that could lead to loss of recovery points if misused. Further, you can lock the immutability setting to make it irreversible, which can prevent malicious actors from disabling immutability and deleting backups. Immutability is supported for Recovery Services vaults as well as Backup vaults. How it works Backup data stored using Azure Backup is not accessible directly and the only way to access or manage this data is through …

Production deployments of Kubernetes continue to soar as customers increasingly containerize their applications. With the growth in application modernization customers are looking to rapidly scale their Kubernetes deployments by building very large clusters or adopting a multi-cluster strategy. They expect instantaneous connectivity when spinning up and scaling out application instances. Specialized applications, such as gaming apps, expect superior data path throughput for rich application experience. The increased east-west traffic flows necessitate fine-grained monitoring and tracing for troubleshooting. Network Security is another important aspect as customers wish to…

Interview with Amir Haque Ross: Welcome to our session, where we will talk to a Microsoft Expert about an ongoing important initiative for our Microsoft 365 customers. We are going to speak with Amir from Modern Work Supportability team today, but first, a little background. Since 2015 Microsoft has been working hard to enable use of modern authentication for client connectivity in Exchange Online. After releasing support for Modern authentication in all currently supported versions of Outlook & working with our partners, we started planning to turn off the use of Basic authentication. It has been a known fact that use of Basic authentication results i…

Let's start with an introduction to the data curation process. Based on data governance industry-standard, data curation is an end-to-end process of preparing and managing data. As an outcome of the process, business users can better understand and use data in their daily activities. In the case of Purview, all data assets are categorized into three buckets - "Fully curated", "Partially curated", and "Not curated", based on certain attributes of assets being present. An asset is "Fully curated" if it has at least one classification tag, an assigned Data Owner and a description. If any of these attributes is missing, but not all, then the asset is categorized as "Parti…

The October 2022 Cumulative Update Preview release for Windows includes the following time zone updates for Jordan: Clocks will not be advanced by an hour at 12:00 a.m. on October 28, 2022, for the Jordan time zone. The Jordan time zone will permanently shift to the UTC + 3 time zone. This change is for customers running the following Windows versions: Windows 10, version 20H2 Windows 10, version 21H1 Windows 10, version 21H2 Windows Server 2022 Windows 11, version 21H2 Windows 11, version 22H2 Jordan customers running other, supported versions of Windows will see the relevant changes in the November 2022 monthly quality update. For Microsof…

Approximate query processing was introduced to enable operations across large data sets where responsiveness is more critical than absolute precision. Approximate operations can be used effectively for scenarios such as KPI and telemetry dashboards, data science exploration, anomaly detection, and big data analysis and visualization. Approximate query processing family has enabled a new market of big data HTAP customer scenarios, including fast-performing dashboard and data science exploration requirements. Today, we are announcing preview of native implementation of APPROX_PERCENTILE in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. This function will calcul…

By Mark Stanfill - Sr. Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft Intune IT admins working with PowerShell scripts may encounter a common issue where the User Principal Name (UPN) value at the device level does not match the UPN in the portal. The Intune device object contains several fields related to the UPN of the device. These fields each refer to a user object, but the relationship is not always intuitive based on the name of the property alone. This article details why this is, how to correctly obtain the primary user value, and some common questions we receive regarding how to modify this field. Relationship between Intune user and device objects and Azu…

This is a session recap from BRK219H – Governance & Security Practices for Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, Viva and Loop Guidance… at Microsoft Ignite 2022 Speakers: Karuana Gatimu, John Gruszcyk Thirteenth of October: It´s the end of the second day of #msignite in the Washington Convention Center in Seattle. In front of a breakout room is a very long row of attendees, and they are waiting to get in the room for the session with Karuana Gatimu and John Gruszcyk about Governance and Security Practices for Microsoft 365. Some attendees in line are discussing B2B direct identities and the expiring policy of Microsoft Teams. After a few…

One of the top industry trends we see today is the convergence of compliance, data protection, and privacy requirements. Traditionally, these areas have been viewed as separate efforts, often driven by independent teams. Now, due to changes in regulations and increased cybersecurity risk, these three areas are converging. What does this mean for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs)? This month's episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks explores this trend and what it means for your organization. Joining us as the episode guest is Alym Rayani, General Manager for Compliance and Privacy Marketing at Microsoft. Alym is on the fo…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 142 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=25247:name] appCURE Studio v3 Standard Edition: appCURE's proprietary technology enables applications to be captured from older operating systems and repackaged, ready to be delivered to Windows 10 and Windows 11. appCURE has a high success rate for fixing compatibility issues with older apps, removing the need for redevelopment or complex workarounds. [attachment=25248:name] Conversation Analytics: Powered by advanced AI models, this…

In this video, we’ll review Azure Virtual Desktop’s approach to security, reliability, and resiliency and highlight new capabilities designed to give admins more tools to protect users Continue reading...

In this video we’ll review best practices, existing tools, and new capabilities available in Azure Virtual Desktop to help admins deliver a cost optimized experience. Continue reading...

Voices of Healthcare Cloud is a webinar series hosted by myself, @Vasu Sharma & @Joshua Thompson. My name is Shelly Avery, I am currently a Dir, Healthcare Specialist for Health and Life Sciences focusing on the largest Payor and Provider customers in the US, Vasu is a Sr Customer Success Manager for Microsoft 365 for Health and Life Sciences & Josh is a Sr Account Executive for Healthcare. The goal of this webinar series is to showcase how Healthcare is seeing positive business and clinical outcomes with cloud technology. We will be bringing new and creative solutions to you at least once a month, so we hope you tune in live or catch the on-demand recordin…

Prerequisites You’ve already created a GitHub repository and maybe have some initial commits but are now wanting to share this with members of your team or the greater GitHub community. Why You’d like a level of confidence that the code that’s merged into the main branch is consumable without having to fix build errors. Of course, this process will not guard against logic errors, but this article will also document requiring pull requests (PRs) so that at least one other developer is reviewing commits before merging changes into main. Steps The screenshots in this document are from our fhir-link repository. Fhir-link (pronounced “fire link”) i…

With the announcement of Microsoft Store for Business retiring in early 2023, organizations that use Windows Autopilot to register devices and create and manage Windows Autopilot profiles will need to use a different platform. Microsoft Intune and the Microsoft 365 admin center are two available options. Microsoft Intune If you don't already use Intune, you can use an Intune tenant to register devices and create and manage Windows Autopilot profiles. To access a free Intune tenant, refer to Microsoft Intune Licensing for more information. Using Intune to register devices and create and manage Autopilot profiles doesn't require a paid subscription. Once you have…

Azure Kubernetes Service KubeCon NA 2022 Announcements Welcome to KubeCon North America 2022! At KubeCon NA 2022, we are announcing several new features for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to give you increased performance and help you operate your Kubernetes clusters and workloads at any scale. We’ve also continued to innovate in the open on improving the security posture and landscape. The end result? A seamless and secure platform for your applications every need. Performance and operating at scale More and more customers are looking for additional performance and scale capabilities for their applications running on AKS. We are continuing to ma…

Retention in Logic Apps Standard differs from Logic Apps Consumption. There are two settings that should be configured for the retention job to work properly, and especially for the logs in the Storage Containers. We create containers dynamically to store large action's inputs and outputs. These will get cleaned up based on run retention setting on the Logic App. Once the run retention time is reached, those containers will be deleted by the platform. You do not need to manually delete them. Limits and configuration reference guide - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Docs Default retention period for Single-Tenant (Logic Apps Standard) is 90 days. For t…