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Trying Out Machine Learning
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In this post, I share my recent experience with trying out machine learning including resources I used, my takeaways, and where I would want to go next with learning about ML. Approaching ML Recently, my team and I got started with exploring machine learning. We started with reading this awesome introductory blog post, ”Machine Learning for Everyone.” This served as a map of what kind of capabilities exist under the umbrella of machine learning and helped clear up some of the mysticism that often surrounds terms like machine learning and AI. Our interest was specifically ways we could apply neural networks to healthcare as a follow up to our project, Chest…
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CI/CD improvements related to pipeline triggers deployment
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The CI/CD in ADF uses ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates that contain the pipeline, dataset, linked services, triggers, etc. definition. The deployments require turning off all the triggers in the data factory using PowerShell (PrePostDeploymentScript.ps1). Most of the time, this is okay. Still, when you had mission-critical pipelines, say an event trigger-based or a pipeline that required zero-latency start, it may cause latency or even loss of events due to the triggers being turned off during deployments. The problem gets worse when deployments take longer. While it is essential to turn off the updated triggers for a safe deployment since those contai…
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Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 9b) - Compliance Manager - Run an Assessment
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Before we start, please note that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate them in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to tha…
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Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 9c) - Compliance Manager - Improvement Actions
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Before we start, please note that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate them in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to tha…
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Skill up with Microsoft Learning Partners
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“Certified teams responsible for core IT activities are generally 20% more productive than uncertified staff” Trained and certified teams translate to performance boosts across the organizational and personal spectrum. IDC found that certified teams responsible for core IT activities are generally 20% more productive than uncertified staff.1 Skillsoft’s 2021 annual IT Skills and Salary Survey found that, after certification 49% of respondents felt that the quality of their work had improved; 39% of respondents were more engaged with their work; and 27% were faster at performing their jobs.2 The key to effective upskilling How do you ensure that your tra…
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As organizations look for new ways to connect staff, customers, and partners, we’re excited to share news about increased interoperability of Azure Communication Services with Microsoft Teams with the general availability of Azure Communication Services support for Teams users. This enables the development of applications that connect people to the Teams platform and the potential to realize even more from communication investments. This new capability makes it possible to: Develop specialized business applications that enable calling experiences for Teams users directly within the app. Create new workflows for apps that require custom management of incoming a…
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Microsoft Viva Engage is now generally available
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Today, we’re excited to announce that Microsoft Viva Engage, the newest app within Microsoft Viva, is now generally available for customers worldwide. Viva Engage is an evolution of the Yammer Communities app that brings new capabilities and experiences to help people strengthen their work relationships, find and share knowledge, and feel included all within Microsoft Teams. For users that already use the Communities app, this change will happen automatically and introduces new features designed to connect people, amplify their voice and perspective, and find belonging at work. People at the Center The personalized Home shows you a feed of con…
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Viva Engage is here!
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Starting today, the Yammer Communities app for Teams is now Viva Engage, the newest app for Microsoft Viva, designed to connect people, find and share knowledge, express yourself, and find belonging at work. Viva Engage gives leaders new tools to shape culture and align their workforce through new communication and engagement opportunities. For employees, it provides new ways to build a sense of community, strengthen relationships with coworkers, share their work and perspective, and find answers to their questions – all within Microsoft Teams desktop, web, and mobile. Viva Engage will be coming to Outlook soon. Viva Engage is available at no additional cost …
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Azure Data Community Newsletter Jul/Aug 2022
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The Azure Data Community Council has spent much of the last 18 months establishing the guard rails for how the Council would work. From establishing a meeting cadence, to how meetings progress, how the community can reach them with questions or feedback and even establishing a member’s term. In early May 2022, we opened applications to replace Board/Council members that had reached the end of their term. We explained the role, responsibilities, and requirements. We laid out how the application and selection process would work. Requirements to join the Council were: Must be in a leadership role in a current Azure Data Community User Group. Must be able to sign …
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Better engage with your audience with a submission animation and dynamic result view in Teams Poll
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We know many of you are using Teams Poll to better engage with your audience and we are glad to share some of the optimizes. Submission animation A “Thank-you” message will be displayed after successful poll submission, which aims to provide confirmation and establish inclusive experience of acknowledgement and appreciation of participation. After the animation, audience will see the result if presenter shared. Dynamic Result View We are enhancing the result view for Choice and Quiz Question in Teams Polls: Optimized the layout and animations to encourage more participants. In the quizzes, we also highlight…
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How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.2 Compute
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This article is a part of series articles for Azure Monitor. Please refer to How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.1 overview first before reading this post. This post dives deeply for Compute category among monitoring categories as highlighted blue. Article No monitoring category monitoring target Note 2 compute Reboot monitor reboot frequency CPU monitor CPU usage Memory monitor memory usage 3 compute/ inside OS log file monitor event log and syslog Process monitor …
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How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.1 overview
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Azure Monitor can be used for centralized monitoring and analysis of log data by using Kusto query, thus Azure Monitor allows you to effectively monitor and visualize Azure resources. Azure Arc also empowers Azure Monitor to expand its capability to on-premise and other public clouds. You can monitor every resources across environments, Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, on-premise and others, with Azure Monitor and Azure Arc, then Azure Monitor minimize your effort to manage all the resources regardless locations or environments. Refer to Azure Monitor overview article for the detail. [attachment=20984:name] [attachment=20985:name] Azure Monitor is a very powerful so…
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Learnings from a Custom Neural Voice Proof of Concept
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Custom Neural Voice (CNV), a Speech capability of Cognitive Services on Azure, allows for the creation of a highly realistic humanlike voice that can convert text input into speech. This can be used to personalize a customer experience or enhance a brand image with a custom persona all while enabling localization and accessibility through multiple languages. It’s an incredible technical achievement and one that is just beginning to unravel its potential use cases. This blog seeks to document some of the learnings that a Microsoft Technical Account team had in working through a proof of concept (PoC) with a large media content provider on CNV. This is not a technica…
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Azure Synapse Compatibility Checks
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Introduction Are you thinking to migrate to Synapse? Did you know that Synapse does not support all SQL features but aren’t certain about which ones apply to you? Looking to build a large database but aren’t sure of what engine to use? If you answered Yes to any of these questions you came to the right place. We will give you a very brief introduction to the major analytical databases, and if you think Synapse may be a good fit for your SQL workload this package will help you identify incompatibilities so you can plan your migration effort. Link to public github repo: silvam-microsoft/SynapseCompatibilityChecks: Detects incompatibilities migrating fr…
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BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Update 4
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CU4 for BizTalk Server 2020 is now available for download. For details on fixes and download link, please follow the master KB: KB5009901 - Cumulative Update 4 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 You may want to bookmark this index page for updates related to BizTalk Server: Service Pack and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server As with CU3, the EN download is available by default. All other language packages will be made available on need basis. If a download is not available for the supported BizTalk language that you need, please contact us for the same. As a quick reminder, for BizTalk Developer Tools please also update/install vers…
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Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh update (2.1) is now available! The Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh update (2.1) release includes a stability fix for Linux only. Packages and Versions Service Fabric Runtime Ubuntu 18 - 9.0.1086.1 Ubuntu 20 - 9.0.1086.1 Current Breaking Changes Customers running Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters will not be able to scale out or reimage (manual or auto via VMSS OS Image Update) nodes or create new Linux clusters without upgrading to this version of Service Fabric (9.0.1086.1). Also, if your application requires JDK, then you will need to install a JDK of your choice since SF will not install the …
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Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fifth Refresh update (5.1) is now available! The Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fifth Refresh update (5.1) release includes a stability fix for Linux only. Packages and Versions Service Fabric Runtime Ubuntu 18 - 8.2.1483.1 Current Breaking Changes Customers running Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters will not be able to scale out or reimage (manual or auto via VMSS OS Image Update) nodes or create new Linux clusters without upgrading to this version of Service Fabric (8.2.1483.1). Also, if your application requires JDK, then you will need to install a JDK of your choice since SF will not install the JDK as part of the SF insta…
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Skilling up on Azure? Explore this quarter’s key new resources
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With the wealth of learning resources available for you to skill up on Azure, where do you start? If you’re on your own, in a work group, or in a large enterprise, figuring out where to begin and how to proceed with your learning journey can be challenging. This post is like a multi-tool—it gives you quick access to all the different Microsoft Learn resources available to you. Plus, it explains how these resources support your skilling journey in diverse ways and can help you take your skills to the next level, whether you’re just starting out in IT or you’re a seasoned professional. Our aim is to help you map out—and take the next steps on—your personal learning j…
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Introducing tenant blocks via admin submissions
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We are excited to announce that you can now block suspicious entities when submitting emails, URLs, or attachments for Microsoft to review. In the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (https://security.microsoft.com), security operations team can now block the sender or domain, URL or attachment while submitting suspicious emails, URLs or attachments from the admin submission flyout panel. You’ll no longer need to switch to the Tenant allow/block list page to block a suspicious entity. Let’s look at how it works! Blocking email addresses or domains through email admin submission flyout From the Emails tab under the submissions portal in Actions &…
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Register for the upcoming live webinar covering all things data gateways!
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Health & Life Sciences Power BI User Group presents: Gateway to Becoming an Expert on Gateways Live Webinar Hosted by the Power BI Product Team Thursday, September 8 12:00–1:00 PM ET REGISTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the Health & Life Sciences Power BI User Group To enable collaboration, several Power BI specialists at Microsoft have created a Power BI Community user group dedicated to customers in the provider, payor, pharma, health solutions, and life sciences industries. Members will have ac…
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Build powerful apps for Teams users With Azure Communication Services, our goal is to continue to help businesses transform their communication experiences to meet the needs of their customers and their employees. More specifically, Azure Communication Services interoperability with Microsoft Teams provides the flexibility and scalability needed to build custom app experiences that connect people to the Teams platform, getting more value out of their communication investments. Today we are excited to announce a step further in the interoperability with Microsoft Teams with the general availability of Azure Communication Services support for Teams users. …
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New transactable offers from Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria and SciMar ONE in Azure Marketplace
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Microsoft partners like Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria and SciMar ONE deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=20969:name] Bako: Provide cost-effective safety and security with this visitor management system from Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria. Available as an Android app or in a desktop version, Bako can be integrated with your company's security or facility management systems to centralize reporting. Bako protects visitor data, ensures privacy, and provides peace of mind. The back end is hosted on Microsoft Azure, which ensures continual availability. Enter…
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Boost Azure MySQL Business Critical flexible server performance by 30% with the Ev5 compute series!
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Overview Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers based on the Business Critical tier with Ev5 show outstanding performance, with up to 30% more QPS (queries per second) and 50% lower latency compared to Ev4. Ev5-series virtual machines run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper threaded configuration, which provides a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads. This new processor features an all core turbo clock speed of 3.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. Featuring up to 672 GiB of RAM, these virtual mac…
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Thought Leadership Series: Wireless Security- How to Better Protect Devices and Networks
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The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Tech Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Jennifer Minella, Founder and Principal Advisor, Network Security, of Viszen Security and the author of “Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise.” The thoughts below reflect Jennifer’s views, not the views of Jennifer’s employer, and are not legal advice. In this blog post, Jennifer talks about wireless security. Brooke: What was your journey into c…
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Co-authoring for files with sensitivity labels is now generally available on Android and iOS devices
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With hybrid work here to stay, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to facilitate seamless collaboration among workgroups and across organizations while keeping their data secure and compliant. Work is more flexible than ever, and employees now regularly use multiple devices to collaborate asynchronously and stay productive throughout their day. Mobility is a key piece of this story, and today we're announcing full cross-platform support for seamless secure collaboration in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Co-authoring on documents protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection is now generally available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Office Mobil…