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Prompt Like a Pro: Transform your messages with Microsoft Copilot in Teams
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Effective and efficient communication is key when it comes to managing your workday. Whether you’re collaborating with colleagues, discussing project details, or simply sharing updates in a chat, the way you convey your thoughts changes depending on who you are talking to. Microsoft Copilot in Teams’ chat and channels compose box is a powerful tool that helps take your messages to the next level. In this blog, we’ll cover what this AI-powered tool is, how to access and prompt with it, as well as an exciting new feature: Custom tone. [HEADING=1] Rewrite your messages with Copilot in Teams chat and channels[/HEADING] Copilot can assist you in crafting more polished a…
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Advanced Project Planning with Microsoft Planner: Dependencies and Critical Path in Timeline View
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One of the top challenges in team initiatives is determining when the work will be completed, ensuring it meets deadlines, and understanding which tasks to prioritize so the project finishes on time. This is particularly difficult with multiple interdependencies. The tools teams use for work management need to drive more momentum and efficiency, helping team members reach the desired outcomes faster. Microsoft Planner offers advanced features like Dependencies and Identification of Critical Path all supported in the Timeline view to address these pain points and enhance these processes, making managing projects more efficient and precise. [HEADING=1]Advanced Task Depen…
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New on Azure Marketplace: June 7-13, 2024
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 147 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: [HEADING=2]Get it now in our marketplace[/HEADING] [attachment=55090:name] AbanteCart: AbanteCart is an open-source e-commerce platform with an intuitive admin interface, multiple payment gateways, and flexible product management. With AbanteCart, you can easily manage products, process orders, and engage with customers through a user-friendly interface and a wide range of powerful features. [attachment=55091:name] Ackee Analytics: Ackee is a self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics…
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Build scalable cross-subscription applications with Azure Load Balancer
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We are thrilled to announce that Azure cross-subscription Load Balancer is now available for public preview in all Azure public and national cloud regions. This capability enables you to have your Azure Load Balancer components in different subscriptions. For example, you could have the load balancer’s frontend or backend instances in a different subscription from the one that the load balancer belongs to. The matrix below shows some of the scenarios that cross-subscription load balancing enables: Subscription 1 Subscription 2 Load Balancer Backend pool resources and Frontend IP address Load Balancer and Backend pool resources F…
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Tilaa uutiskirje kumppanikoulutuksista
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Vihdoinkin voit saada automaattisesti tiedon tuoreimmista EMEA-alueen kumppanikoulutuksista omaan postilaatikkoosi noin kahden viikon välein. Koulutuksia on eri ratkaisualueista niin myyjille kuin teknisillekin henkilöille. Hyödynnä laaja tarjoama ja kehitä omaa osaamistasi. Tilaa uutiskirje tästä linkistä. Continue reading...
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Fabric Security explained in a Layered Approach
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[HEADING=1]Overview[/HEADING] As a SaaS service, Fabric offers a complete security package for the entire platform. The Fabric platform comprises of experiences like include Lakehouse, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehouse, Power BI, and others. To understand the security in Fabric we have broken down Fabric components into the following layers: [HEADING=1]Fabric Components[/HEADING] Data - Where the data actually resides inside Fabric (Warehouse/Lakehouse/Eventhouse/OneLake/Fabric clusters) Items - These are the building blocks of the Fabric platform. They're the objects that you create and manage in Fabric. There are different types of …
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Simple Self-Troubleshooting Steps for Function App Not Seeing Triggers
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Sometimes, on the Azure portal, you might see an error message on the Function App like "we were not able to load some functions in the list due to errors." There are many reasons for this symptom, such as connection errors with the storage account, runtime being down, indexing failure, and the synctriggers failure that we'll discuss. To confirm whether your issue is indeed due to synctriggers, you could press F12 in your browser to activate developer mode and search for the keyword "batch" under the "Network" tab. This endpoint is used by the Azure portal to call various internal services of the Function App (e.g., retrieving app settings, site informat…
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Microsoft AI Tour and Community Engagements in Seoul
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The Microsoft AI Tour, a global event series aimed at enhancing AI skills for decision-makers and developers. The tour has been held in various locations around the world. Many attendees at these events had the opportunity to learn about the latest AI technologies, interact with Microsoft leaders and technical experts, and enjoy a unique opportunity to further utilize Microsoft AI technology in the future. In this blog article, we present the vibrant event filled with diverse participants, along with a community gathering held the day before, featuring an executive speaker from Microsoft, Scott Hanselman (VP of Developer Community). April 30, 2024 – Microsof…
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Vulnerability Assessment on Azure Container Registry with Microsoft Defender and Docker Hub
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Hello everyone, welcome to my latest blog post! My name is Suzaril Shah and I am a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and a Microsoft Certified Trainer from Malaysia. I am excited to share my two favorite image analysis solutions to protect images hosted on Azure Container Registry. Please note that it is not my intention to compare these two solutions because I love working with both Microsoft Defender for Containers and Docker Scout altogether and they complement each other. If anything, they should be used alongside each other to further enhance container security on ACR. [HEADING=1]Introduction to Container Technology[/HEADING] Containers help…
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Introducing Downloadable HTML report for Azure Load Testing
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Azure Load Testing is a cloud-based service that helps you run performance and load tests on your web applications and APIs. You can easily create, configure, and execute load tests using JMeter scripts or custom code, and monitor the results in real-time on the Azure portal. You can also integrate your load tests with your CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub actions. Until now, you could only view the load test results on the Azure portal, which required internet access and RBAC permissions. Now, you can download the report as an HTML file and share it with your stakeholders or teammates offline. The HTML report contains the same charts and metrics as the onl…
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Use GPUs with Clustered VMs through Direct Device Assignment
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for more powerful and efficient computing resources is ever-increasing. Microsoft is at the forefront of this technological revolution, empowering customers to harness the full potential of their AI workloads with their GPUs. GPU virtualization makes the ability to process massive amounts of data quickly and efficiently possible. Using GPUs with clustered VMs through DDA (Discrete Device Assignment) becomes particularly significant in failover clusters, offering direct GPU access. Using GPUs with clustered VMs through DDA allows you to assign one or more entire physical GPUs to a single vir…
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Enhancing Performance in Azure Container Apps
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Azure Container Apps is a powerful platform for running serverless, containerized applications and microservices. In the team’s ongoing commitment to improving Azure Container Apps’ performance, we’ve recently made significant improvements to make the scaling and load balancing behavior of Azure Container Apps more intuitive and better align with customer expectations to meet their performance needs. Hopefully, some of the insights from our experience in working with Envoy and KEDA will be helpful to you. [HEADING=1]Load Balancing Algorithm Update[/HEADING] In the past, Azure Container Apps relied on the ring hash load balancing algorithm to distribute in…
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Copilot Use with Clinical Trials Manager-Researcher – Copilot for Microsoft 365 Starter Series
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Are you looking for a way to reduce the time and effort required to complete your tasks in Microsoft 365? Do you want to optimize your workflows and processes to achieve more with less resources? Do you want to see how Copilot for Microsoft 365 can help you solve real-world challenges frequently encountered in the Pharmaceutical Industry today? In this recorded Webinar learn how Clinical Trials Managers and Researchers can leverage the power of Microsoft Copilot in their role to reduce repetitive tasks. Resources: Get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365—Features and Plans | Microsoft 365 Cop…
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Pharma Sales Trainer Enablement with Copilot – Copilot for Microsoft 365 Starter Series
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Are you looking for a way to reduce the time and effort required to complete your tasks in Microsoft 365? Do you want to optimize your workflows and processes to achieve more with less resources? Do you want to see how Copilot for Microsoft 365 can help you solve real-world challenges frequently encountered in the Pharmaceutical Industry today? In this recorded Webinar learn how Pharma Sales Trainers can leverage the power of Microsoft Copilot in their role to reduce repetitive tasks. Resources: Get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365—Features and Plans | Microsoft 365 Copilot Lab (cloud.mic…
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We have cases where our customers want to access from Azure SQL Database to Azure Storage Account(SA) using Private Endpoint(PE). For additional information how you can configure PE for your storage account, please visit the following link: Tutorial: Connect to a storage account using an Azure Private Endpoint. The process involves configuring the private endpoint for the storage account to allow secure and private communication between the Azure resources and your storage account. I would like to clarify that the use of a private endpoint is a connection from a VNET to a resource. However, Azure SQL DB is not VNET integrated and, as a result, it is not po…
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A/B Testing, Session Affinity & Regional Rules for Multi-region AKS clusters with Azure Front Door
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[HEADING=1][/HEADING] In this article we will explore how A/B testing in multi-region environments can be performed leveraging Front Door session affinity and an ingress controller to ensure consistent user pools as we scale up our traffic. We will also explore how we can use origin group rewrite rules on existing paths to ensure traffic is routed for specific user sets to specific locations. [HEADING=2]Azure Front Door Rulesets and Session Affinity[/HEADING] Azure Front Door is a content delivery network (CDN) that provides fast, reliable and secure access between users and applications using edge locations across the globe. Front Door, in this insta…
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Microsoft Entra ID Governance licensing clarifications
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In the past few weeks, we’ve announced the general availability of Microsoft Entra External ID and Microsoft Entra ID multi-tenant collaboration. We’ve received requests for more detail from some of you regarding licensing, so I’d like to provide additional clarity for both of these scenarios. [HEADING=2]One person, one license[/HEADING] Included in the first announcement of more multi-tenant organization (MTO) features to enhance collaboration between users, we stated that only one Microsoft Entra ID P1 license is required per employee per multi-tenant organization. Expanding on that, the term “multi-tenant organization” has two descriptions: an organizatio…
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Breaking the Speed Limit with WEKA: The World's Fastest File System on top of Azure Hot Blob
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Abstract Azure Blob Storage is engineered to manage immense volumes of unstructured data efficiently. While utilizing Blob Storage for High-Performance Computing (HPC) tasks presents numerous benefits, including scalability and cost-effectiveness, it also introduces specific challenges. Key among these challenges are data access latency and the potential for performance decline in workloads, particularly noticeable in compute-intensive or real-time applications when accessing data stored in Blob. In this article, we will examine how WEKA’s patented filesystem, WekaFS™, and its parallel processing algorithms accelerate Blob storage performance. About WEKA The…
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Enhance productivity with devices certified for Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork, enabling effortless communication and collaboration. By using devices certified for Microsoft Teams, you can elevate your meeting and calling experience. These devices are carefully tested and certified to ensure they complement the Teams environment and make every interaction more engaging and productive. [HEADING=1] Why use devices certified for Teams?[/HEADING] Devices certified for Teams are specifically designed to enhance your Teams experience. Let’s explore some the benefits below: Quality and Compatibility: These devices undergo thorough testing and certification to ensure they meet the highest standards of quali…
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Announcing the General Availability of Change Actor
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Change Analysis Identifying who made a change to your Azure resources and how the change was made just became easier! With Change Analysis, you can now see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions. Audit, troubleshoot, and govern at scale Changes should be available in under five minutes and are queryable for fourteen days. In addition, this support includes the ability to craft charts and pin results to Azure dashboards based on specific change queries. What’s new: Actor Functionality Who made the change This can be either ‘AppId’ (client or Azure s…
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Octo Tempest: Hybrid Identity Compromise Recovery
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Have you ever gone toe to toe with the threat actor known as Octo Tempest? This increasingly aggressive threat actor group has evolved their targeting, outcomes, and monetization over the past two years to become a dominant force in the world of cybercrime. But what exactly defines this entity, and why should we proceed with caution when encountering them? Octo Tempest (formerly DEV-0875) is a group known for employing social engineering, intimidation, and other human-centric tactics to gain initial access into an environment, granting themselves privilege to cloud and on-premises resources before exfiltrating data and unleashing ransomware across an environment. T…
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Azure Communication Services May 2024 Feature Updates
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[HEADING=1]Data Retention with Chat threads[/HEADING] Developers can now create chat threads with a retention policy between 30 and 90 days. This feature is in public preview. This policy is optional – a developer can choose to create a chat thread with infinite retention (as always) or set a retention policy between 30 and 90 days. If the thread needs to be kept for longer than 90 days, you can extend the time using the update chat thread property API. The policy is geared for data management in organizations that have a need to move data into their archives for historical purposes or delete the data within a given period. Existing chat threads …
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5 ways to dramatically speed up your cloud application teams
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Working with applications teams and partners developing cloud native apps on Azure, you quickly learn developer time is valuable, enthusiasm & flow state is critically important. Whenever an application team has to wait for an environment, wait for a access, a service now ticket, a support case, admin access to install tooling, productivity is dramatically effected, projects can be 2x longer and of lower quality. Equally, it's important to have a designed, governed secure environment when using the public cloud, so your workload teams start right, and stay right! This covers all the normal design pillars of a well architected solution, reliability, secur…
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Announcing GA of Advance Notifications for Azure SQL Managed Instance
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We are pleased to announce the GA release of Advance Notifications for Azure SQL Managed Instance. [HEADING=1]What are advance notifications?[/HEADING] Advance notifications allow you to prepare for planned maintenance events on your SQL Managed Instance resources. They alert you 24 hours before a planned maintenance event. Advance notifications work hand-in-hand with SQL Maintenance Windows – with the two combined, you gain control over when your managed instances receive updates and receive a notification ahead of time. [HEADING=1]Why should I configure advance notifications?[/HEADING] Getting advance notification can help you to efficiently prepare your sys…
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Enhance productivity with Microsoft Teams certified devices
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Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork, enabling effortless communication and collaboration. With Microsoft Teams certified devices, you can elevate your meeting and calling experience. These devices are carefully tested and certified to ensure they complement the Teams environment and make every interaction more engaging and productive. [HEADING=1] Why use Teams certified devices?[/HEADING] Teams certified devices are specifically designed to enhance your Teams experience. Let’s explore some the benefits below: Quality and Compatibility: These devices undergo thorough testing and certification to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality and reliabili…