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NET Conf 2022 Student Zone Are you a student wanting to learn .NET? We have a pre-conference day with a ton of content you don't want to miss! We will have two sessions, a midday session at 12:00 PM UTC and an evening session at 10:30 PM UTC. 7 November, 2022 Event format: Livestream 2 x sessions Midday and Evening UTC TimeZone Register NOW Midday session registration Evening session registration Join the .NET Conf Student Zone Microsoft Learn, Cloud Skills Challenge and Win Swag Microsoft Forms Topic: Coding, Languages, and Frameworks (including GitHub & AI coding) As part of .NET Conf this year, we are hosting a .NET …

Welcome The only reason you wouldn't love Power Platform is if you haven't heard about it. These days, we have loads of career success stories just because these people learn Microsoft Power Platform and brough more value to their organization. Higher Education students are redefining their career by learning Power Apps too. In this series, we will show you how to acquire this skill and demonstrate to your potential employers how much value you can bring to the table. Use Case When Building a Solution Before you build an application, you should have some thought and break down what you want to do before building. This process is often …

Introduction With the introduction of new Azure Monitor Logs capabilities like Basic Logs and Logs Archive we are happy to introduce a new way to query and explore your logs - search job. Search job allows users to run a reduced KQL a-synchronous query that explores big quantities of data and produces a persistent result set that may be the basis of further exploration. Read more about Azure Monitor Logs new capacities in our Microsoft Ignite Announcement. Basic Logs and Archive Basic Logs and Archive offers a unique set of capabilities for Logs users. Basic Logs a cheaper tier of logs that allows users to collect and retain Logs cheaply, while maintai…

Overview By default, Azure Data Factory reports lump sum charges for billing, meaning that at the factory level, we add up charges across all pipelines within a factory, and tell you how much you have spent on these pipelines. In many cases, these aggregate numbers should suffice. But in others, these numbers lack the clarity and transparency that we thrive to provide customers. For instance, if you are running data pipelines for multiple teams, you may want to determine the cost for each pipeline, for proper book-keeping and/or charge backs. Now, Azure Data Factory will help you with this endeavor, with built-in per pipeline detailed billing view. Moreover, w…

This week we are releasing a public preview of a new Rooms API in Azure Communication Services. In this blog post, we will discuss Rooms’ capabilities, target scenarios, and will set you up with next steps to try Rooms. Using Rooms, you can now build rich communication experiences with a higher degree of control and structure. Rooms primarily focus on two scenarios: Virtual appointments, such as a virtual visit to your doctor or financial advisor. Virtual events such as webinars and all-hands meetings. What is a Room? A Room is a container manages activity between Azure Communication Services end-users. A Room offers application developers better con…

Offline download preview For everyone in the tech industry, it’s likely that we can all unite against one common enemy…bad internet connection. How many times in a work day do you either hear or say the phrase “…can you hear me now…” on a video call? Unfortunately, this feature won’t help you there, but it can help you in your AKS hybrid deployments! In the September release of AKS hybrid, we are excited to announce a preview release of offline download! Offline download allows you to install and upgrade your AKS hybrid clusters in a disconnected environment. Unreliable or intermittent connectivity is one of the most common reasons behind the need to run AKS…

Table of Contents Abstract Intended audience Overview SQL server backup and recovery Common SQL server BU/R challenges Azure NetApp Files storage-based snapshot technology SQL server 2022 snapshot technology SQL server snapshot backup and recovery workflow Backup command sequence Restoring and cloning SQL databases Summary Links to additional information Abstract This article provides guidance on how to use T-SQL snapshots to backup Microsoft SQL Server 2022 leveraging Azure NetApp Files snapshots on Azure virtual machines. Co-author(s): Pat Sinthusan, NetApp Intended audience This blog p…

Overview A few months ago we released the Azure Communication Services UI Library for iOS & Android (Azure Communication Services UI Library Now Available for iOS and Android). Today we are excited to share our first efforts with Cross-Platform development. To help empower more mobile developers around the world we have created a Xamarin sample to showcase how to introduce calling capabilities into their current applications. The sample will walk through steps on how Xamarin developers can create a binding for the iOS and Android platform. These binding libraries allow a Xamarin application to consume and third-party native library. Using the Samples …

Many of us use PowerShell every day and we each use various versions in our personal and corporate environments. PowerShell 7 has some awesome features that many of us don’t even know about. Thomas Maurer and I took some time to speak to the PowerShell Team to find out all about PowerShell 7. We were joined by Jason Helmick, Michael Greene, Damian Caro, Danny Maertens, and Stephen Bucher...all of whom taught us so much in this video. PowerShell 7 is open source, it’s cross platform and it a great tool for every ITPro and developer. In the video watch how you can get started by installing PowerShell 7 (on a Windows, Mac or Linux device – yes, it’s truly cross platfo…

Last week we announced the retirement of Integration Service Environment – ISE. This service infrastructure had a dependency on the Classic Cloud Services, which is being retired at the end of August 2024. ISE will retire at the same date. As we know you might have some questions, here is a list of the most common questions related to this topic. When is ISE retiring? Retirement will happen on 31 August 2024. You must have your workloads migrated off ISE instances by that date. Existing instances will be supported during this transition period. What happens after 31 August 2024? After 31 August 2024, customers will no longer have access to their de…

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 bring new and creative solutions to you at least once a month, so we hope you tune in live or catch the on-demand record…

Windows 10, version 22H2 is now available through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business, and can be downloaded today from Visual Studio Subscriptions, the Software Download Center (via Update Assistant or the Media Creation Tool), and the Volume Licensing Service Center. Today also marks the start of the 30-month servicing timeline for this General Availability Channel release. Windows 10, version 22H2 (also referred to as the Windows 10 2022 Update) offers a scoped set of improvements in the areas of productivity and management. For devices running Windows 10, versions 20H2, 21H1, or 21H2, you can take advantage of an enablement package…

Compliance for Exposed Secrets Discovered by Defender for DevOps Azure Policy helps enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale. You can now create a custom Azure Policy to add DevOps security to your centralized compliance dashboards. This blog walks through creating a custom Azure Policy that leverages the Defender for DevOps Recommendation in MDC called “Secret scanning findings should be resolved.” This policy gives Security and Compliance Teams visibility into discovered secrets found in both Azure DevOps and GitHub repositories that have been onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Objectives: Create a custom AuditIfNotExist…

Introduction to Network Trace Analysis 2: Jumping into TCP Connectivity Howdy everyone, I hope you're hungry we have a feast of information we will be going through today. Our topic will be the transmission control protocol (TCP) and what you need to know. Now TCP is a monster so to keep this post from being too long, I'll save TCP performance for another day. Why is this important? You may be wondering why I am dedicating a full post to a single protocol, well it's really very simple. All your favorite applications and protocols use TCP! HTTP SMB Windows Communication Foundation And many more! Another reason we are spending so much time o…

PDF documents are widely used in business processes. Digitally created PDFs are very convenient to use. Text can be searched, highlighted, and annotated. Unfortunately, a lot of PDFs are created by scanning or converting images to PDFs. There is no digital text in these PDFs, so they cannot be searched. In this blog post, we demonstrate how to convert such PDFs into searchable PDFs with a simple and easy to use code and Azure Form Recognizer. The code will generate a searchable PDF file that will allow you to store the document anywhere, search within the document and copy and paste. Blog content: Azure Form Recognizer overview Searchable vs non-searchable PDFs How …

Quando vamos criar um logic app pelo portal do Azure, somos apresentados com duas opções de plano de hospedagem: Até ai parece tudo tranquilo, esta descrição nos leva a crer que devemos começar pelo plano de consumo, fazer nossas provas de conceito, laboratórios e quando estivermos prontos podemos passar para o plano standard. Mas na prática, quando olhamos um pouco mais a fundo, percebemos que não conseguimos migrar de forma automática nossos fluxos criados em plano de consumo para o plano standard e além disso, encontramos outras sub-opções dentro de cada um destes planos. Por que essa falta de conexão entre um plano e outro? E qual a vantagem de uso de…

Purpose: The purpose of this blog is to share the one of the failure scenarios that users may encounter during the deployment of Private Endpoint via Managed Application or ARM template. Symptom: In complete mode (Deployment modes - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Learn), the resources in resource group that are not specified in the template will be deleted by Resource Manager. However, during the deployment of Private Endpoint, the Network Interface (NIC) is being generated automatically as a separate resource with random given name so this means that this NIC cannot be defined in the template. As a result, the NIC is not defined in the ARM template will …

We had the great honor of being able to talk about the lessons learned from the Azure Database Support Blog Series in Data Exposed about the work done for all Azure SQL Database Support Team. A huge thanks to Anna Hoffman and all her team from for giving us this opportunity. In this episode of Data Exposed, Anna Hoffman and myself show 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. Enjoy! Continue reading...

When using CMK to protect data at rest, customers are responsible for and in a full control of a key lifecycle management (key creation, upload, rotation, deletion), the key used for encryption of the Database Encryption Key (DEK), called TDE protector, is a customer-managed asymmetric key stored in a customer-owned and customer-managed Azure Key Vault (AKV). If the server loses access to the stored Database Encryption Key (DEK) in AKV, in up to 10 minutes a database will start denying all connections with the corresponding error message and change its state to Inaccessible. The only action allowed on a database in the Inaccessible state is deleting it. For more in…

Microsoft and Rogers Business are bringing new levels of mobility and flexibility to Microsoft Teams customers in Canada. Rogers Business was the first Canadian carrier to implement Microsoft Direct Routing and the first to offer Operator Connect. Now, as the first partner to implement Teams Phone Mobile, Rogers Business extends the strength and quality of their mobile network to organizations that support the needs of mobile and hybrid workers. With Teams Phone Mobile, customers can assign a single, business-provided number for calling to and from the user’s mobile phone and all their Teams endpoints. With Teams Phone Mobile, your users stay connected and producti…

Heya folks, Ned here again. I recently wrote up all the changes that are now available to Windows Server Azure Edition - or are coming soon - and a number of them help out in file server and storage scenarios. Storage Replica compression, new SMB over QUIC options, hotpatching of Desktop Experience file servers, running edge file servers on Azure Stack HCI instead of just Azure, etc. Be sure to check it out at: Ignite 2022: What's new in Windows Server Azure Edition - Microsoft Community Hub And, of course, Windows Server 2022 non-Azure Edition brings its own goodies to this space, in areas such as SMB Compression, SMB security changes, new Storage Migratio…

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer asks about: How to know the connection time invested to connect to the database in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. How to know the time invested running a real queries to know the latency of the network, roundtrips and execution time. Following, I would like to share a small PowerShell Script that giving some parameters your could know by your own these numbers. All this information is based on this article 1) Download the code from below. #Licensed under the MIT license. #Azure Connection and Execution Time Spent #THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARR…

This blog is a session recap from T503 - Re-energize your workforce in the office, at home, and everywhere in between at Microsoft Ignite 2022. Energy, a hot topic in this modern world. Not only to drive our machines and homes, but to drive ourselves at work or at home. Energy is a big force of nature that will allow you to jump forward. After the big “you know what- period”, we can’t go back to the way we worked before 2019. We need new rules, new setups, new guidelines and more, in order to thrive in this modern age. A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced their Microsoft Work Trend Index, that has three urgent pivots every leader needs to make in order to…

This is a session recap from BRK33 - Create rich connections and customer experiences with Microsoft Teams Phone and contact center capabilities at Microsoft Ignite 2022. Speakers: Mahendra Sekaran, Vice President of Microsoft Teams Engineering Pete Daderko, Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Teams Effective communication and collaboration are important in the new way of hybrid work, Microsoft Teams is an important part of that hybrid work and ensures that users in organizations can communicate whenever they want from wherever they want. Telephony in Microsoft Teams helps users in this modern way of working and Microsoft Teams Phone users have now pa…

Blog Post Contributors: Rama Krishna Rayudu (Principal Software Engineering Manager) and Kent Weare (Principal Product Manager) Batching support is a capability found in Azure Logic Apps (Consumption) that allows developers to send and process messages together in a specific way as groups. This solution collects messages into a batch and waits until your specified criteria is met before releasing and processing the batched messages. Batching can reduce how often your logic app processes messages and help you manage the message flow within your interfaces. For additional information regarding how the Batch feature works, please refer to our documentation. Rec…