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Adoption Score helps customers get more out of Microsoft 365 by providing visibility into how your organization works with Microsoft 365, surfacing insights into where you can further improve user experiences, and helping you take action on items that matter to you. Today we’re excited to announce three new capabilities in Adoption Score, as well as support for new roles focused on adoption, which will be gradually rolling out in public preview to tenants who have activated Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. These capabilities help IT admins and adoption specialists maximize their organizations’ investment in Microsoft 365 whilst maintaining our strong comm…

Innovate at scale with cloud-native architectures Cloud-native is the core of application innovation and modernization. When we talk about cloud-native we are referring to technologies and development patterns that empower organizations to build and run scalable applications, quickly. The speed and agility of cloud native is made possible by some foundational pillars – modern architectures like microservices or composite applications deployed in containers, using an API first approach for your apps, infrastructure, and data, while taking advantage of DevOps and automation, on infrastructure you can count on to be elastic. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) brings all th…

This blog is a session recap from BRK31 - Microsoft Teams: Supercharge the who, where, and how of work at Microsoft Ignite 2022. Do you spend a lot of time working in Microsoft Teams? Since March 2020, like many people, I have been working predominantly via Microsoft Teams, training people to use Microsoft Teams, attending community events via Microsoft Teams. You could say Microsoft Teams is my life. So I was very excited to see the Microsoft Teams announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2022. In previous conferences, Nicole Herskowitz's sessions have always been a great summary of all the Teams announcements and this year's session entitled Microsoft Teams: Supercha…

Cloud telephony and communications play a critical role in our customers’ digital transformation journeys. Partnerships with telecommunications leaders such as Verizon Business Group combine the power of Microsoft’s productivity applications with the quality, reliability, and coverage of the Verizon network, unlocking new opportunities for mobile and hybrid work. Mahendra Sekaran, Vice President of Microsoft Teams Engineering and Alex Dole, Vice President of Product Management for Verizon Business Group talk about delivering quality, scale, and cost efficiencies customers can realize through innovative wireless and mobility solutions, including Teams Phone Mobile. …

Microsoft Purview has been generally available since September 2021, and it has gained considerable mind and market share with its cloud-scale data ingestion and a rich knowledge graph of your data estate, also known as Purview Data Map. This year, our goal has been to make Microsoft Purview the “best-in-class” governance platform for business and governance users by enriching the Data Map with business and governance context and making it relevant for the Data Stewards, Chief Data Officers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. With that in mind, we have collaborated with our top enterprise customers to light up key capabilities that will help drive governance in organizat…

Banner image for Microsoft Ignite event happening October 12-14, 2022. Energized and empowered employees are the key to success in the current economic environment, which means embracing a people-first approach, enabling employees to stay connected and helping people learn and stay in the flow of work. The role of IT to drive success in their organizations has grown. The focus for IT is to continue improving end user experiences while maximizing investments in digital workplace tools. To address these needs, we are making continuous investments in Microsoft 365 admin center to help IT admins and other newly emerging roles in the IT department manage day-to-day admin ta…

DevOps Security Workbook Workbooks provide a flexible, customizable canvas for data analysis and the creation of rich visual reports. The new DevOps Security workbook in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) provides you with a unified interactive experience enabling you to quickly gain visibility and insights into your DevOps security posture in coordination with the newest MDC service Defender for DevOps. The DevOps Security workbook provides you with a customizable foundation that helps you visualize the state of your DevOps posture for the connectors you have configured. You can investigate credential exposure, including types of credentials and repo locations. Th…

Strong telecommunications partnerships are key to providing quality and choice for Microsoft Teams voice services. Microsoft’s collaboration with BT offers our UK customers clear, robust, and reliable cloud communications services -- foundational to a successful digital transformation journey, particularly as mobile and hybrid work continue to evolve. Mahendra Sekaran, Vice President of Microsoft Teams Engineering and Andrew Small, Managing Director, Global Portfolio at BT met up to discuss the partnership between Microsoft and BT, as well as the variety of factors can make the digital transformation journey significantly different for each organization. W…

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Active Directory Connector (ADC) for Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance. Active Directory Connector Overview Azure Arc-enabled data services support Active Directory (AD) for Identity and Access Management (IAM). The Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance uses an existing on-premises Active Directory (AD) domain for authentication. To facilitate this, Azure Arc-enabled data services introduce a new Kubernetes-native Custom Resource Definition (CRD) called Active Directory Connector. It provides Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instances running on the same data controller the ability to perform Active Directo…

We are announcing the general availability of Azure PowerShell modules version 9. This new version features the following new or improved capabilities: Added 12 new modules supporting new services Discovery mechanism for Azure cmdlets Support for central configuration New feedback mechanism for Azure PowerShell users Following the release cadence we announced previously, this is the second version introducing breaking changes in 2022. Support for new services and resource types We are committed to making Azure resources manageable via the command line tool of your choice. Supporting this commitment, over the last 6 months, the Azure PowerShell modu…

Starting with Az v8.2.0 we are providing suggestions when PowerShell cannot find a command, as shown in the animated GIF. We not only detect typos, but also many other use cases such as when the required module is not installed. Azure PowerShell gives a suggestion against a typo in the command name. Use cases Typo For typos, Azure PowerShell tries to find commands that are similar to the input. If any are found, the candidates will be displayed as recommendations. To do this, we maintain a static table of mappings from all the commands to modules. The table ships with each release of Az.Accounts module. Because of this, no network requests ar…

How many pre-provisioned IOPS does your workload need to run smoothly and efficiently? This seems like an easy question to ask but difficult to answer, given that if you over-provision the IOPS you’ll incur extra charges and if you under-provision it, it’ll cause some serious throttling and performance degradation. And the situation only gets trickier if your workload is unpredictable or bursty. While scaling IOPS after-the-fact doesn’t cause a server restart, scaling it manually becomes a tedious and tough task in the long run. With Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, we’re on a mission to enable customers to bring their MySQL workloads with a minimal oper…

Author(s): Sean Mirabile is a Program Manager in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Summary Azure Data Factory and Synapse Analytics Pipelines have a wealth of linked service connection types that allow them to connect and interact with many services and data stores. The Workspace UI provides the most important properties that are needed for the connection. However, at times we need more control that the UI doesn’t offer. In this tutorial, we will focus on customer scenario to see how you can find all the available properties for the Linked Service you are working with, then how to incorporate that property into your Linked Service d…

During a mailbox migration to Exchange Online, the migration process can expose some data inconsistencies in the form of bad (missing) items and/or large items. A bad item is a corrupt item/property in the source mailbox that cannot be copied to the target mailbox. A large item is an item in the source mailbox that is larger than the maximum message size in Exchange Online. Bad items and large items cannot be migrated to Exchange Online. Bad items and large items can also be encountered during onboarding public folders as well as off-boarding. Bad item limits (BIL) and large item limits (LIL) are used to set the maximum number of items allowed before a migration reques…

Introduction Cobalt Strike is a commercial Command and Control framework built by Helpsystems. You can find out more about Cobalt Strike on the MITRE ATT&CK page. But it can also be used by real adversaries. In this post we describe how to use RiskIQ and other Microsoft technologies to see if you have Cobalt Strike … Hunting for Cobalt Strike: Mining and plotting for fun and profit Read More » Continue reading...

For nearly 20 years, BlueHat has been where the security research community, and Microsoft security professionals come together as peers, to share, debate, challenge, learn, and exchange ideas in the interest of creating a safer and more secure world for all. We are extremely excited to announce that BlueHat is back in-person and the 2023 … BlueHat 2023 Call for Papers is Now Open! Read More » Continue reading...

Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) uses a SQL query language that has been augmented with powerful temporal operators to analyze data streams. One way to optimize a Stream Analytics job’s performance is to leverage parallelism in query. A parallel job divides the workload of queries into multiple streaming nodes and reduces the overall execution time. We strongly recommend that you use the Azure Stream Analytics Tools extension in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for testing and debugging queries locally. For a job to be parallel, you need to align partition keys between all inputs, query steps, and outputs. The Job Diagram Simulator in VS Code allows you to simulate a job…

This step-by-step blog explains how to use Web PubSub trigger in python functions. What is Azure Web Pubsub: Web PubSub is an Azure-managed service that helps developers easily build real-time web applications using websockets and publish-subscribe pattern. Any platform supporting WebSocket APIs can connect to the service easily, e.g. web pages, mobile applications, edge devices, etc. The service manages the WebSocket connections for you and allows up to 100K *concurrent connections. It provides powerful APIs for you to manage these clients and deliver real-time messages. Web PubSub v.s. SignalR: Azure Web PubSub service FAQ Azure Web PubSub trig…

Learn interactively how to turn your React app into a Microsoft 365 app with Microsoft Graph Toolkit. The easiest way to connect your app to Microsoft 365 Using Microsoft Graph Toolkit is the easiest way to connect your app to Microsoft 365. Toolkit's components help you retrieve relevant data from Microsoft 365 and show it in your app in any way you want. And with toolkit's authentication providers, setting up auth is a matter of adding a few lines of code. Never again fiddle with setting up a login, handling access tokens, building web requests, and dealing with errors. Learn Microsoft Graph Toolkit interactively To help you learn what Microsoft …

Timeseries insights will be retired on March 31st, 2025. Meanwhile most of the customers are transitioning to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) for their (Industrial) Internet of Things use cases. Azure Data Explorer provides the best data analytics platform for streaming telemetry data. To further accelerate the transition, we upgraded the Timeseries insights client visualization component to work on ADX. The name for the new client library is "Kusto Trender". The code is available on GitHub under the MIT license. Samples can be accessed via the Kusto Trender Samples Gallery. Kusto Trender is compatible with all Kusto offerings (Azure Data Explorer, Synapse Azure D…

Kusto team has been busy working with our customers over the last few months to bring exciting new GA & Preview features at Ignite 2022, with a raft of improvements and innovations. Today, we are announcing a set of exciting new features that further improve the service’s performance, security, management, and integration experiences: Integration Cosmos DB synapse link to Azure Data Explorer (Preview) Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database for web, mobile, gaming, and IoT application that needs to handle massive amounts of data, reads, and writes at a global scale with near-real response times. ADX native ingestion of …

This blog is mainly about how to retrieve the CSES configuration via PowerShell and REST API. It will cover the following sections: PowerShell command to get the CSES configuration PowerShell to send out REST API request to get the CSES configuration Sample to retrieve OS Family, OS Version and any other data Prerequisites No matter PowerShell command or Rest API request will be used to get the information, the PowerShell Azure Az module is necessary. For the installation details, please refer to this document. PowerShell command to get the CSES configuration To use Get-AzCloudService (Az.CloudService) | Microsoft Learn to get the CSES …

If you remember back in May 2022, we blogged about moving to a new model for how we communicate our Access feature priorities vs. the Microsoft Public Roadmap. We promised we would communicate updated priorities as plans evolved. New feature development priorities will be listed in regular blog posts but in the Microsoft Public Roadmap we will only list those new features that our engineering team has 90% confidence will be shipping in the month listed. We just completed our plans for the next semester (which for us is 6 months Oct-March) and we wanted you to see our updated priorities and why we made them. Our focus for the next year is really in t…