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One of the biggest factors in delivering a great Cloud PC experience comes down to simple physics: deploying Cloud PCs as geographically close to users as possible. Windows 365 leverages the global network and datacenter footprint of Azure to provide geographically distributed Cloud PC deployment options to help ensure that every user in your organization will have a great Cloud PC experience, regardless of where they work. In practical terms, that means selecting the right Azure datacenter for each user's Cloud PC and mitigating against datacenter capacity or availability issues. Creating a worry-free software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that enables you to deliver W…

Hardening represents a means of investigating and reducing the number of systems across your organization with potential weaknesses, and then taking steps to securing them from malicious actors and their increasingly creative cyberthreats. Hardening has been applied across the industry to servers, software applications, operating systems, databases, networks, projects, repositories, services, policies, platforms, and more. In this article, we'll explore how we're hardening Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). Specifically: The context behind hardening What is DCOM and DCOM authentication hardening? Addressing critical vulnerabilities and why hardening matte…

Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) is the web client used when accessing a Service Fabric (SF) cluster from a web browser. The version of SFX used is determined by the version of your SF cluster. We are providing this update to make customers aware that switching from the default web client to use the older SFX web client could increase their risk when an attacker has already gained access to a privileged account. Affected versions Prior to SF runtime version 8.1.316, the vulnerable version of SFX (SFXv1) was the default client in the SF runtime. From SF version 8.1.316 onward, the default SFX client is SFXv2, which is not vulnerable to this attack. · SFXv1 is shipped in…

The Azure Arc team is excited to announce generally availability of Automatic VM extension upgrades for Azure Arc-enabled servers. VM extensions allow customers to easily include additional capabilities on their Azure Arc-enabled servers. Extension capabilities range from collecting log data with Azure Monitor to extending your security posture with Azure Defender to deploying a hybrid runbook worker on Azure Automation. Over time, these VM extensions get updated with security enhancements and new functionality. Maintaining high availability of these services during these upgrades can be challenging and a manual task. The complexity only grows as the scale of your service…

The Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes now supports Dapr v1.9.0. Dapr is a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions. The Dapr v1.9.0 release offers several new features, including pluggable components, resiliency metrics, and app health checks, as well as many fixes in the core runtime and components. Learn how to get started with the Dapr extension Learn more about Dapr Read the release notes for Dapr 1.9.0 Highl…

Last week we wrapped up another amazing Ignite! In case you were unable to attend, check out all the recorded sessions here. This year at Ignite, we announced several new innovations within the Microsoft Entra portfolio of identity solutions. These include: Public preview of Microsoft Entra Identity Governance General availability of certificate-based authentication (CBA) in Entra Upcoming Conditional Access authentication strenhgth public preview General availability of Microsoft Entra Workload Identities in November To learn more, check out President, Identity and Network Access, Joy Chik’s Identity Innovations blog! …

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we, we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment tod…

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this blog series we, we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environmen…

Automate Defender for DevOps Recommendation Remediation Logic Apps are a workflow automation feature of Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) in which you can create and run automated workflows that integrate your apps, data, services, and systems. This blog walks through creating a Logic App that you can use to auto-remediate the Defender for DevOps Recommendation in MDC called “GitHub repositories should have Dependabot scanning enabled” by enabling Dependabot on a GitHub repo. Security Operators will find this Logic App particularly useful because they do not need to be familiar with GitHub or login to GitHub to enable Dependabot scanning. Instead, SecOps can…

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we, we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment tod…

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we, we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment tod…

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment today. …

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment today. …

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this blog series we, we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environmen…

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we, we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment tod…

For Ignite this year, we asked a panel of our MVP Community real world experts to join us at Ignite and share what they felt were the most impactful, currently available, Teams features for IT pros and their users. The on-demand session, Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Tips and Tricks from our experts, these MVPs presented 9 topics and demos in a 40-minute session. Many of you reached out saying you loved the session but wanted a deeper dive into the topic. In this series we will hear from each of our presenters, as they will walk you through their demos and share tips, tricks, and resources so you can reproduce these experiences in your environment today. …

Pilot Things, pioneer and expert in sensor-native applications, has launched Power IoT in partnership with Kerlink, a premier provider of LoRaWAN products. What are the main issues with IoT projects? I believe we all agree that the following are common issues faced in IoT projects development: complexity, projects stuck in the Proof-of-Concept phase (POC), long time Return on Investment (ROI). We believe IoT is complex because it requires a combination of networking and software skills to build end to end solutions integrating IoT sensors data. As a software developer you have to learn networking technologies which is not your job. Microsoft Powe…

Summary A common data engineering task is explore, transform, and load data into data warehouse using Azure Synapse Apache Spark. The Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool Connector for Apache Spark is the way to read and write a large volume of data efficiently between Apache Spark to Dedicated SQL Pool in Synapse Analytics. The connector supports Scala and Python language on Synapse Notebooks to perform this operations. The intention of this Guide is not explain all the Connector features if you require a deeper understanding of how this connector works start here. Scenario Usually, customers do this kind of operation using Synapse Apache Spark t…

One of the biggest factors in delivering a great Cloud PC experience comes down to simple physics: deploying Cloud PCs as geographically close to users as possible. Windows 365 leverages the global network and datacenter footprint of Azure to provide geographically distributed Cloud PC deployment options to help ensure that every user in your organization will have a great Cloud PC experience, regardless of where they work. In practical terms, that means selecting the right Azure datacenter for each user's Cloud PC and mitigating against datacenter capacity or availability issues. Creating a worry-free software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that enables you to deliver W…

Hardening represents a means of investigating and reducing the number of systems across your organization with potential weaknesses, and then taking steps to securing them from malicious actors and their increasingly creative cyberthreats. Hardening has been applied across the industry to servers, software applications, operating systems, databases, networks, projects, repositories, services, policies, platforms, and more. In this article, we'll explore how we're hardening Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). Specifically: The context behind hardening What is DCOM and DCOM authentication hardening? Addressing critical vulnerabilities and why hardening matte…

The Microsoft Education team has a history of listening to educators and working closely with the community as we launch new updates and develop new concepts. As part of this effort, today we are thrilled to announce a new webinars series put on by our Microsoft Education Product Management group. The series is called “What’s New in Microsoft EDU” and this 30-minute webinar will happen once per month, at both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as many global time zones as possible around the world. And don’t worry – we’ll be recording these and posting on our Microsoft Education YouTube channel in a new “What’s New in Microsoft EDU” playlist, so you’ll…

During our last hackathon, my team and I worked on creating a Power Virtual Agent that can search through a SharePoint term set. Our use case was providing a bot through teams to help answer questions about acronyms, jargon, etc. that was unfamiliar to employees – especially new employees. Prerequisites SharePoint contributor, group manager, or term store admin permissions PowerPlatform with access to Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate Why When I first joined Microsoft, I felt initially overwhelmed by all of the new information coming at me. The classic expression that everyone uses is drinking from a fire hose and it certainly felt like it. However, …

When we restore or copy an Azure SQL Database and this database has resource tags, we cannot restore the tags because they are not in the backup. What can we do if we have a policy that requires certain tags to create a new database? in this case, I will provide a solution. We have an Azure SQL Database with two tags: "environment" and "customer" AZURE PORTAL: For now, it's not possible. AZURE CLI: az sql db hugo [ ~ ]$ az sql db restore --dest-name dbTest_tags_copy --edition Standard --service-objective S3 --name dbTest --resource-group rgHCtest --server srv-hc-test --subscription df371903-cbe0-4634-a402-xxxxxxxxx --time …

Microsoft Learn - Take control of your learning journey as you prepare to teach Microsoft curriculum. Learning paths on Microsoft Learn correspond to our Microsoft curriculum and supporting teaching materials. These paths will guide you through the content and enable you to build your own technical skills at your own pace as you prepare to teach your classes. Microsoft Virtual Training Days - Participating in our live or recorded deliveries of Microsoft official courses will accelerate your own learning journey. This experience will enable you to go through the same experience that you may be looking to create for students within your own courses. Attend our training…

Summary  Security researchers at SOCRadar informed Microsoft on September 24, 2022, of a misconfigured Microsoft endpoint. This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between Microsoft and prospective customers, such as the planning or potential implementation and provisioning of Microsoft services.    Upon being notified of … Investigation Regarding Misconfigured Microsoft Storage Location Read More » Continue reading...