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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi Zhang, Yuki Chen, and Dang The Tuyen! Check out the full list of researchers … Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q3 Security Researchers! Read More » Continue reading...

By Hugo Affaticati (Technical Program Manager) and Jon Shelley (Principal TPM Manager) Useful resources: NeMo Megatron from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron Container from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NGC Below are the full results obtained with NVIDIA NeMo Megatron and Azure NDm A100 v4-series virtual machines (VMs) and a discussion on the parameters. NVIDIA NeMo Megatron is an end-to-end framework for training & deploying large language models (LLMs) with millions and billions of parameters. Full results: All the results were obtained with the container 22.06-hotfix and BF16 data type on GPT-3 architecture. Performance of the benchmark is…

By Hugo Affaticati (Technical Program Manager – Microsoft), Annika Brundyn (Solutions Architect – NVIDIA) and Jon Shelley (Principal TPM Manager – Microsoft) Useful resources: NeMo Megatron from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NeMo Megatron Container from NVIDIA: NVIDIA NGC Below are the steps one needs to take to run GPT-3 architecture models with NeMo Megatron on NDm A100 v4-series on Azure, powered by NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA InfiniBand networking. NVIDIA NeMo Megatron is an end-to-end framework for training & deploying LLMs with billions and trillions of parameters – NVIDIA. Deploy the environment: Deploy and set up a …

Want to simplify your on-premises management of updates? Try the public preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP)! Following on a successful limited private preview, the UUP on premises is available for commercial organizations now. UUP on premises is an integration with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Configuration Manager. This new capability simplifies Windows content management and streamlines the process for upgrading to Windows 11 for those who manage Windows devices with these update management platforms. Prepare yourself and your organization for the complete transition of servicing to UUP by early 2023. Let's see how UUP on premises simp…

Take advantage of expedited quality updates in Intune and Windows Update for Business to address zero-day security vulnerabilities and fast-tracking installation of security updates. It works seamlessly if you are managing a mix of Windows 10 and 11 devices, ensuring quick deployment even in complex environments. This feature is available to those enrolled in Windows Update for Business deployment service. Working closely with Intune users, we have invested in improving the experience by adding new and more intuitive alerts and notifications. To help you get the very best out of the expedite capability, this blog explores: Prerequisites for expedited updates Mo…

Welcome to the fourth part of the learning series “Serverless image classification with Azure Functions and Custom Vision”! About me Hi, I am Foteini Savvidou! a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador from Greece. I am an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) interested in wireless communications, IoT, AI, cloud technologies and biomedical engineering. I am also Microsoft MVP and Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. Always passionate about teaching and learning new things, I love helping people expand their technical skills through organizing workshops and sharing articles …

Learn how you can build a simple personal assistant in under 10 minutes that'll show a Microsoft 365 user the meetings they have left for the day. Show upcoming meetings for a Microsoft 365 user Recently, I published an article on freeCodeCamp that shows you how you can build in just 10 minutes a simple personal assistant that shows upcoming meetings for the signed-in user. Showing upcoming meetings is a common scenario when integrating Microsoft 365 in work applications. It shows you how to get information from the user's calendar and check their availability for a particular time slot. And it's also a great way to get started with building…

Storage Event Trigger in Azure Data Factory is the building block to build an event driven ETL/ELT architecture (EDA). Data Factory's native integration with Azure Event Grid let you trigger processing pipeline based upon certain events. Currently, Storage Event Triggers support events with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and General-Purpose version 2 storage accounts, including Blob Created and Blob Deleted. Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a common data integration pattern that involves production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events. Data integration scenarios often require customers to trigger pipelines based on events happening in storage account, su…

Introduction There are many good reasons to enable Azure Diagnostics on your Azure PaaS resources, for example, auditing who has been accessing a Key Vault, troubleshooting failed requests to a Storage Account, doing a forensics analysis to a compromised Azure SQL Server, etc. Azure resource logging is recommended as part of the Operational Excellence and Security pillars of the Well Architected Framework. Furthermore, you’ll also increase your Azure Secure Score, as enabling auditing and logging is one of the assessed controls of your security posture. Azure customers mostly prefer to enable Azure Diagnostics at scale and ensure recommended best practices…

Azure Data Factory to ADX Free Cluster If you are using Azure Data Factory and need to connect to an Azure Data Explorer Free Cluster, this walkthrough will show you how to create the linked service using System Managed Identity. First make a note or copy the URL for your free cluster, example of the one we are using in the walkthrough: From Data Factory select Manage -> Linked Services -> New. Select ADX as the Linked Service Data Store. Provide a Name and Description and for Authentication method select System Assigned Managed Identity. For Account selection method select Enter manually and enter …

In a function app, usually we use appsetting AzureWebJobsStorage to connect to storage. This blog shows you how to configure a function app using Azure Active Directory identities instead of secrets or connection strings, where possible. Using identities helps you avoid accidentally leaking sensitive secrets and can provide better visibility into how data is accessed. This will not work if the storage account is in a sovereign cloud or has a custom DNS. Below are the steps to do configuration. 1. Enable system assigned identity in your function app and save it. 2. Give storage access to your function app. Search for Storage Blob Data Owner,…

Dashboards tell a story through visualizations, and are an excellent way to view your data and see all of your most important insights at a glance. Azure Data Explorer dashboards in the web UI natively support the Kusto Query Language over data hosted in Azure Data Explorer. These dashboards will help you progress quickly from raw data to shared insights. In the new module, you will create a dashboard from a query in Azure Data Explorer web UI. Add new tiles. Create dashboard parameters, and cross-filters for the parameters. Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer More ADX MS Learn modules: MS Learn: Introduction to Azure Data Explorer , MS Learn:…

This article assumes that you already have created and published Python Bot using the link below: Provision and publish a bot in Azure - Bot Service | Microsoft Learn But you might end up facing some issues like below: Container pythonbot_### didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8000, failing site start Container pythonbot_### for site pythonbot has exited, failing site start Failed to find attribute 'app' in 'app'. Probable causes: App Service configured as Messaging Endpoint could have been missing one or more of the following configurations: App Service --> Configuration --> Application Settings: MicrosoftAppId (Application Id …

October 23, 2022 is the 14th anniversary of Small Basic. I rewrote my Small Basic program as SFF730-10. Happy 14th Birthday, Small Basic!! See Also 13th Anniversary of Small Basic Continue reading...

After seeing everyone in person at the San Francisco VMware Explore event, we are even more excited for Barcelona! If you want to know about Azure, the work we are doing with VMware, or just have a great conversation, we’d love to talk to you so stop by our booth! We will even have some cool stickers too. This year we will have a bunch of sessions with Microsoft employees on stage, so if you're building out your schedule check them out: Microsoft Keynote: Transform your VMware Workloads with Microsoft Azure Speaker: Jeff Woolsey, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft Date/Time: Wednesday, November 9 @ 9:00 - 10:00 CET Jeff will share how customers c…

With the number of data breaches increasing and the average cost per breach having been as high as $4.24 million in 2021, it is imperative for companies to ensure state-of-the-art protection for their data. Encryption of data at rest and in transit is already standard today and oftentimes even a regulatory requirement. Data in use, however, is posing a bigger challenge, but confidential computing is here to solve this. “It protects data when in use, as well as at rest and in transit, thanks to the enclaves that encrypt and isolate code and data in a zero-trust environment, where even Azure as the cloud provider does not have access”, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in hi…

Engage your knowledge workers with purpose-built solutions to improve engagements, efficiency, and productivity within Microsoft Teams leveraging the Teams App Platform.   This HLS Community Connection session was focus on the Microsoft Approvals App and Power Automate for simple approvals. We walked through; The Approvals app user interface. How to create an approval request in a Microsoft Teams channel post and chat message. Where to view approval requests created in Microsoft Teams. How to integrate Microsoft Approvals + Adobe Sign or DocuSign. Continue reading...

Hello and Happy Friday, MTC! We’re back with your weekly community recap after taking a break for Microsoft Ignite. To catch up on all the announcements from last week, make sure you check out our Microsoft Ignite 2022 | Live Update Feed! Now let's see what’s been going on this week in the MTC… MTC Moments of the Week To kick things off, our MTC Member of the Week shoutout goes to @Kurt Mayer, who’s been a huge help in the Microsoft Intune Community recently! Big kudos to you, Kurt :) To unpack the latest updates from Ignite, we had a two-for-one Windows 365 event special with 2 episodes of Windows in the Cloud. On Tuesday, Director of Product …

Meet Maya, Category Manager at Contoso, an e-Commerce company. Communicating effectively is at the core of everything she does. Maya works visually. She’s an avid user of Visio with a Visio Plan 2 subscription and often creates diagrams to help explain her thoughts and ideas clearly. On this particular workday, Maya is using Visio to visualize her team structure, help to improve operational efficiency, brainstorm a new project with her team, and create a professional-looking infographic for an upcoming presentation. Visualizing team structure Today is the start of the new fiscal year, and Maya wants to visualize her team structure to assign responsi…

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two or three preview releases in between. This cadence should provide time for feedback and allow us to deliver features and fixes in a timely manner. This third 5.0 preview includes fixes and changes over the previous preview release. Fixed Fixed ReadAsync() behavior to register Cancellation token action before streaming results. #1781 Fixed NullReferenceException when assigning null to SqlConnectionStringBuilder.Encrypt. #1778 Fixed missing H…

On October 5, 2022, the Jordanian government made an official announcement ending the winter-time Daylight Saving Time (DST) time zone change. Starting at 12:00 a.m. Friday, October 28, 2022, the official time will not advance by an hour and will permanently shift to the UTC + 3 time zone. The impact of this change is as follows: 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. Microsoft plans to release an update to support this change; however, there may be insufficient time to properly build, test, and release such an update for all the p…

Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Fourth Refresh is now available! We are excited to announce that 9.0 Fourth 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 available in all regions. Packages and Versions Service Fabric Runtime Ubuntu 18 - 9.0.1114.1 Ubuntu 20 - 9.0.1114.1 Windows - 9.0.1121.9590 [*]Service Fabric for Windows Server Service Fabric Standalone Installer Package - 9.0.1121.9590 [*].NE…