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Healthcare Short: Rounding for Patient Experience
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Story Background In an in-patient setting, a Nurse Leader can capture valuable details about the patient experience and drive actions and activity all from a single, business configurable, mobile application. This is one example of extending the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare without code to meet the needs of a narrow use case while unlocking the data so they can be minded for insights to improve the patient experience. Business Challenge Patient experience management is fragmented between systems and faces challenges to adequately meet real-time needs as well as aggregation to derive insights. Practitioners enter and manage service request needs sit outside…
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New features in Microsoft Forms for education | September 2022
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Easy creation & more quiz type If you are the educator who have a lot of existing homework or quizzes in Word or PDF files, now you can easily create a Microsoft form by importing these files. In http://forms.office.com, you can see the “Quick import” icon in the upper left corner. After importing, you can still edit following the suggestion before sending it out. Besides that, more form templates designed for education is released in http://forms.office.com. We know many of you need to assign a timed quiz or homework for students after class. You can now enable the time duration in the settings pane. Students will see the live timer d…
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What's new in Microsoft Forms | September 2022
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Convert Word/Pdf to Microsoft Forms with 1-click If you have lots of existing quizzes or surveys from word document or PDF document, you can now import and convert them into Microsoft Forms by using our latest “Quick convert” functionality. You want to change a little bit? No problem! After importing, you can still edit following the suggestion before sending it out. Go to http://forms.office.com and try it now! If you want to know more detail, please refer to this blog. Release date: Aug 2022 Enable time limit in your test Are you still worry about your students will not finish the quiz in a certain period? We are excited to share that …
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Newly launched app with intuitive and easy-to-access polling experience for your Teams meetings
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Polls is a newly released app in Teams meetings, aims to provide an intuitive and easy-to-access experience when you are searching for a polling tool in Teams meetings. You can find it in multiple locations in Teams via top navigation bar, message extension, sidebar navigation (“…” button) and Teams app store. In addition, you can add it directly to your meetings or chats without login or setup process. Scenario 1 – Add Polls app when scheduling a Teams meeting Today, you can install the Polls app when you’re scheduling a Teams meeting, so that you can leverage the polling experience to engage directly with your audience or drive for decisions and alig…
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Azure Monitor implements Private Link DNS resolution differently from other Azure services. This article details the more common pattern for DNS resolution to support Private Endpoints, walks through an example from the client perspective using a Storage Account, then describes how Azure Monitor differs and how this may impact your Private Link architecture. How most Azure services implement Private Link For those Azure PaaS services where your resource has a globally-unique endpoint, such as Azure Storage, the platform adds a resourcename.privatelink.servicedomain… CNAME DNS record to your resource name when you enable a Private Endpoint on the resource. …
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Copy Dataverse data from ADLS Gen2 to Azure SQL DB leveraging Azure Synapse Link
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We have added a new template in the ADF and Azure Synapse Pipelines template gallery that allows you to copy data from ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) Gen2 account to an Azure SQL Database. This template is a code sample, to be used as guidance for customers that are using the preview feature of incremental updates in Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse, which provides incremental folders to help query and analyze the incremental updates made to Dataverse data during a user-specified time internal. More detail about incremental updates can be found here. This template uses a Lookup activity to retrieve the model.json file from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2…
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Join the Java on Azure Team at VMware Explore 2022
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The VMware Explore 2022 conference is just around the corner – from August 29 through September 1 at the San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Microsoft is a Diamond sponsor – and it will be difficult to miss us as we feature several of our services in our booth (1101 on the Expo floor). Microsoft enables digital transformation in the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Our partnership with VMware places our shared customers first and features many solutions across Hybrid Cloud, Desktop-as-a-service, Application Modernization, and Security. At VMware Explore, you can learn more about how we collaborate to help customers maximize existing and future techn…
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Az Stack HCI: Software Defined Networking (SDN) extensions reach General Availability for WAC
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Software Defined Networking is Azure-inspired Networking in your datacenter and at the edge, learn more below: Plan for and deploy SDN infrastructure on Azure Stack HCI - Learn | Microsoft Docs Implement Datacenter Firewall and Software Load Balancer on Azure Stack HCI - Learn | Microsoft Docs Manage Azure Stack HCI tenant networks - Learn | Microsoft Docs SDN Extensions reach general availability for WAC The rumors are true - SDN Infrastructure, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Logical networks, Virtual Networks, Load Balancers, and Gateways are finally out of preview! Our team has been hard at work improving both the general health of these features a…
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Lessons Learned from the Azure Database Support Blog Series | Data Exposed
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In this episode of Data Exposed, Jose M Jurado and Anna Hoffman show us the Azure Database Support blog series where you can find the most common issues faced by Azure SQL customers and how Microsoft Support Engineers fixed them. Resources: Azure Database Support Blog Series Continue reading...
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Lessons Learned from the Azure Database Support Blog Series | Data Exposed
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In this episode of Data Exposed, Jose M Jurado and Anna Hoffman show us the Azure Database Support blog series where you can find the most common issues faced by Azure SQL customers and how Microsoft Support Engineers fixed them. Resources: Azure Database Support Blog Series View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Docs and ! Continue reading...
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Learn Live TidyFridays series - ML with R
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In many countries across the globe September for students and educators is the time to come back from vacations and start a new academic year. This year we have in plan for all students and R developers a learning experience to boost their academic year beginning. Every Friday starting September 2, 2022 through September 23, 2022 join us for a new live learning series where you will be guided by subject matter experts through Learn modules around machine learning fundamentals and R programming in real time along with developers around the globe. This series is based on the Create Machine Learning models with R and Tidymodels learning path and each episode wi…
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Introducing Adoption Score – helping customers get the most out of Microsoft 365
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Today, we are pleased to introduce Adoption Score, a set of metrics and tools for Microsoft 365 admins and IT leaders to improve the everyday experiences of their workforce and to help organizations get the most out of their investment in Microsoft 365. Adoption Score will start rolling out today to replace the former Productivity Score dashboards and introduce new features, new controls, new guidelines, and new purpose. And importantly, Adoption Score is backed by Microsoft’s continued commitment to user-level privacy – meaning no one in a customer’s organization can use Adoption Score to access data about how an individual user is using apps and services in Microsoft 36…
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2022-08-25 — What's new?
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Project Bonsai Bonsai now exposes all objective-specific metrics to users during assessments. When training with goals, Bonsai computes objective-specific metrics that may be useful to the user in addition to the standard metrics of goal satisfaction and goal robustness. For example, metrics about the percentage of episodes the object spent in the target region for drive objectives. Previously, objective metrics were displayed during training but unavailable during assessments. To view objective metrics, navigate to the assessment reports page and use the pickers under Performance histograms to select the metrics you want to view. New partner blog by Neal Analytics a…
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Announcing Striim Cloud integration with Azure Synapse Analytics for continuous data integration
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Azure partner Striim recently launched Striim Cloud, a fully managed solution to stream data from on premises and cloud sources to Azure Synapse for near real-time analytics. Why Striim Cloud with Azure Synapse? Striim Cloud is hosted on Azure and is fully managed by Striim for data streaming use cases like low latency, near real-time replication, data transformation, and loading large volume of data to Azure Synapse for real-time analytics. It is a fully managed, simple-to-configure service which is designed for you to stand up data pipelines and data streaming in under 10 minutes, from any supported source to Azure Synapse. Striim Cloud takes care of initia…
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What's the difference between Azure Synapse (formerly SQL DW) and Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace
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There has been confusion for a while when it comes to Microsoft Docs and the two distinct sets of documentation for dedicated SQL pools. When you do an internet search for a Synapse related doc and land on Microsoft Docs site, the left-hand navigation has a toggle switch between two sets of documentation. You will also see notes in many docs trying to highlight which Synapse implementation of dedicated SQL pools the document is referencing. Dedicated SQL pools exist in two different modalities. Standalone or existing SQL Data Warehouses were renamed to “dedicated SQL pools (formerly SQL DW)” in November 2020. Ever since, dedicated SQL pools c…
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Overview: Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and automatically scale the infrastructure to run jobs efficiently at any scale. As enterprises increasingly move to using Azure Active Directory for their authentication needs this blog explores how Azure AD and OpenSSH certificate-based authentication may be used to provide authentication to a Slurm cluster. We also utilise the recent Azure Bastion native client support feature to provide remote access to the Login Nod…
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Search for practitioners, route messages, and manage queues in healthcare scenarios
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Healthcare providers and payors have common themes in their daily challenges. The topic of finding the right resource comes up all the time. From a simple “find a specialist” application that initiates immediate collaboration, to rules-based virtual visit queues, to match-making for shift-swaps, to targeting groups for user outreach. As these conversations continue, certain technical concepts come up, along with requests for resources and samples. This post covers details about out of the box resource management capabilities, leveraging them for healthcare scenarios, and some technical snippets to get a jump start on your project. Universal resource manageme…
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Lesson Learned #237: Long running operation failed with status 'NotFound' creating a database
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Several days ago, I worked on a service request that our customer is using Microsoft.Azure.Management.Sql ( NuGet Microsoft.Azure.Management.Sql 3.0.0-preview) component that automatize, using REST-API, operations like creation of Azure SQL Servers and Azure SQL Database, etc.. In some situations, we could receive this type of error message {"Long running operation failed with status 'NotFound'."} and I would like to share with you how to mitigate it and best practices. First of all, we need to know that all operations are asyncronous and even when we received the confirmation of the creation of the resource we might wait a couple of minutes to have all ele…
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Updates to the modern servicing model for SQL Server 2017 and future versions of SQL Server on Linux
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We would like to announce the recent change made to the Announcing the Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server - Microsoft Tech Community that applies for SQL Server on Linux/Container releases only. We are moving forward with a Linux apt mainstream servicing lifecycle for SQL Server 2017 and later: For SQL Server 2017 and above we will only have Cumulative Update (CU) based General Distribution Releases (GDRs), thus simplifying it for users to download the required updates through one single branch which is the CU (Cumulative Update) branch. Users need to subscribe and use only one single repository, that is the CU repository, to get all the critical fixes, …
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Q: Who is adding a bunch of DNS records to my environment?
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The other day a client asked everyone in operations who added some odd DNS records, everyone on the admin team denied making any changes, no one in engineering did it either. They determined the user that made the new record but then got curious, what if folks had added many other records but no one had noticed? I decided to generate a list of who had created DNS records to cross-reference with the list of folks we expected. Auditing is like backups, enabling it is a higher priority after a big mistake. Fortunately, with DNS we can figure out a few neat things without digging through auditing logs. When a user creates a DNS record that user is made the …
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New Azure Architecture - Detect mobile bank fraud
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In a typical case of online fraud, the thief makes multiple transactions, leading to a loss of thousands of dollars. That's why fraud detection must happen in near real-time. This article presents a solution that uses Azure technology to predict a fraudulent mobile bank transaction within two seconds. We've built it with customers. Read the article here: Detect mobile bank fraud - Azure Architecture Center Let's dig into the architecture: An event-driven pipeline ingests and processes log data, creates and maintains behavioral account profiles, incorporates a fraud classification model, and produces a predictive score. Most steps…
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New UEFI CA memory mitigation requirements for signing
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Microsoft, in conjuncture with partners in the PC ecosystem, has developed a set of capabilities and new operating environment conditions for UEFI based systems. This environment will leverage common, architecturally defined mitigations to improve the device security and boot process. For software running in this environment there are new requirements that must be adhered to. For the continuity of our joint customers, it is critical we move the UEFI third-party ecosystem forward together. Starting November 30th, 2022 the memory mitigations described below will be required for all applications to be signed by the Microsoft third-party Unified Extensible Firmware…
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Creating a Power Platform solution for insulin calculations
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In this episode, we're going to be talking to a group of university students who built a Power App in only three hours with no prior experience to manage insulin levels. This group of university students participated in their very first Power Platform hackathon and built a very cool insulin tracking application on Power Apps. Meet the students Akshay Venkataramana, is studying at Heriot-Watt University. he is about to enter my fourth year and I'm doing computer science with a specialization in software engineering. Isaac Diaby, and an ethical hacking student, at Abertay University and is also economics major. David Cannon, is a second year computing scienc…
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Release : SQL Server Migration Assessment (SSMA) v9.1
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Overview SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and SAP ASE (formerly SAP Sybase ASE) allow users to convert a database schema to a Microsoft SQL Server schema, deploy the schema, and then migrate data to the target SQL Server (see below for supported versions). What's new? The latest release of SSMA enhances the assessment and conversion capabilities of the tool with a targeted set of fixes designed to improve quality and conversion metrics. This release includes the following: Data migration at scale After converting source schema to SQL compatible target schema, data migration is the next crucial activity.…
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How to use Azure in IntelliJ IDEA (Video)
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When you’re developing your applications and deploying them to the cloud, having the right tools can save you time and help eliminate context switching. If you’re using IntelliJ IDEA for your Java development, you can create, deploy, and work with your apps in Azure without leaving your IDE. In this video, we show you how to setup IntelliJ IDEA to work with Azure and highlight the top features you could use while working with your apps in the cloud. The video covers: Setting up Azure in IntelliJ IDEA Deploying your app to the cloud (we use the Spring PetClinic sample app) Working with your deployed applications and databases without leaving your IDE Crea…