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The following steps can be followed for both our Java and Tomcat offerings on Linux App Service. Note that, if you are using a custom image, you could enable webSSH and collect dumps using jcmd, if present. 1. Go to the Kudu Site of the WebApp via Advanced Tools blade: 2. Click on SSH to ssh into the Application Container: 3. Get the PID of the Java Process (your application): [There are multiple ways to get it. We can use ps -ef | grep java | grep -v grep command, or simply run jcmd] 4. Finally, execute the following command to collect the Thread Dump and save it as a file. jcmd <PID of Java Process> Thread…

Regularly updating your package dependencies is one of the recommended ways of ensuring your software is up to date and secure. As developers, we feel that manually going through this process is quite a tedious and sometimes painful experience. Dependabot is a component that can be included as part of your development processes to handle these package updates automatically. When using Github, Dependabot is natively integrated so it is as easy as creating a Dependabot Github Action in your repository to trigger the version updates automatically. Depending on your customization, this action can be triggered at a pre-set interval and it will create pull requests to ke…

This blog contains important information about KMS IP addresses changes that may impact Windows Virtual machine activations for customers who configured custom routes or firewall rules to allow KMS IP addresses. Who will be affected? In July 2022, we announced two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53, in Azure Global Cloud via Azure Update - Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud. We expect that most Azure Windows Virtual Machine customers will not be impacted; however, Azure Global Cloud customers who have followed trouble-shooting guides, like the ones listed below, to configure custom routes or firewall rules that allow …

Written in collaboration with @ShabazShaik and @gusmodena. Introduction: Azure Firewall is a cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security that provides the best of breed threat protection for your cloud workloads running in Azure. It’s a fully stateful firewall with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. With any firewall solution, it is imperative to log the traffic that is being processed by the firewall for auditing and troubleshooting purposes. To achieve this goal, you have Diagnostic Logs that you can configure on the firewall which helps you with monitoring of all the traffic and metrics on the firewall. Today …

Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. The retail evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate properly with this release before it is deployed broadly to devices in the Retail feed. The Retail feed will continue to deliver OS version 22.07 until we publish 22.09 in two weeks. This evaluation release includes enhancements and bug fixes for only the OS; it does not include an updated SDK. Areas of special focus for compatibility testing with 22.09 should include apps and functionality utilizing: Wired eth…

Previously we announced that the support story for the Mirantis Container Runtime (formerly Docker EE) on Windows will be transitioning to Mirantis Inc. in September 2022. We would like to supplement this announcement with a reminder that in accordance with the transition, both the DockerMsftProvider API and the "Windows Server with containers" images published by Microsoft on the Azure Gallery will be deprecated. Communications on this subject have been sent to all Azure subscription owners impacted by this transition over the past year, this post serves as a public reminder of this change. Note: If you are using Windows containers on AKS or AKS on prem (Azure Sta…

Azure for students is a benefit availed to ongoing students whereby you get $100 worth of free credit to build and experiment with the cloud. As a student the credits are invaluable but how do you make sure you take advantage of the benefit, maximize it as well as reduce your spend? In this blog we will cover how you can optimize costs, use available services and tools to plan and monitor your spend. At the end, you will maximize efficiency while using the cloud. Take advantage of free services available There are over 25 free services you can use with your student subscription. To access all the free services available, go to Azure Education Hub. Under t…

Over the last few years, all the major cloud providers produced a lot of extremely useful and extremely valuable informational materials. Yet, in our on-going goal of achieving a high level of abstraction to make our information more comprehensible, we are frequently missing the simplicity of the explanation. The Azure Well-Architected initiative helps to address this gap by providing tools, programs, and processes that are based on a common framework, called the Azure Well-Architected Framework. This framework focuses on architecting workloads that meet reliability, performance efficiency, security and cost efficiency guidelines for a particular workload type. All…

This is the next segment of our blog series highlighting Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors who achieved the Gold milestone and have recently graduated from university. Each blog in the series features a different student and highlights their accomplishments, their experience with the Student Ambassador community, and what they’re up to now. Today we meet Sheena Narula who is from India and recently graduated from Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management with a master's degree in computer applications. Responses have been edited for clarity and length.  When you joined the Student Ambassador community in 2020, did …

Note: This post contains references to the term slave, a term that Microsoft no longer uses. When the term is removed from the software, we'll remove it from this post. Together with key investments focused on improving the overall product experience, the August 2022 release of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server provides two major capabilities: On-demand backups Server logs This blog post includes additional details about these new capabilities and the August 2022 release. On-demand backup Backup and restore is the cornerstone of the business continuity and disaster recovery offering in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server…

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. You can deploy WAF on Azure Application Gateway or WAF on Azure Front Door Service. This blog provides the steps to validate the deployment of a sample coffeeshop application in GCP and how to apply Azure WAF to implement security controls for access to the application. The Coffeeshop application has been modified from the online sample SQL injection application In this blog post: We will deploy our Coffeeshop application into GCP We will then publish this application via the Azure App Gateway Next, we will restrict access…

Two file types are required for the on-premises update management with Unified Update Platform. In July we announced a private preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP) for organizations to manage updates on premises. This preview prepares you to experience your Windows updates in a unified format, no matter the channel through which you get these updates. If you are one of these IT admins in the private preview or plan on trying it out in the future, this brief update is just for you. Specifically, we have observed that if you use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), you need to add .msu and .wim MIME types on your WSUS servers to support UUP on premises. There a…

By Hugo Affaticati, Technical Program Manager Introduction Azure is pleased to share results from our MLPerf Inference v2.1 submission. For this submission, we benchmarked our NC A100 v4-series, NDm A100 v4-series, and NVads A10 v5-series. They are powered by the latest NVIDIA A100 PCIe Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA A100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPUs respectively. These offerings are our flagship virtual machine (VM) types for AI inference and training and enable our customers to address their inferencing needs, ranging from 1/6 of a GPU to eight GPUs. These series are all available making AI inference accessible to all. We are excited …

This article is an addition to New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps Introduction to Azure API Management APIs enable digital experiences, simplify application integration, underpin new digital products, and make data and services reusable and universally accessible. With the proliferation and increasing dependency on APIs, organizations need to manage them as first-class assets throughout their lifecycle. Azure API Management helps customers meet these challenges: Abstract backend architecture diversity and complexity from API consumers Securely expose services hosted on and outside of Azure as APIs Protect, accelerate, and observe APIs Enab…

Caching can make our applications faster and more robust and is at the core of a lot of websites and services we use every day. It can sometimes feel intimidating to approach such a broad topic and manage different caching layers, data synchronization, timeouts, failures, and coordinate everything. In this episode of Data Exposed with Jody Donetti and Anna Hoffman, Jody discusses how FusionCache can handle all of that for you, automatically and with minimal effort. Resources: Official FusionCache repo Creating a simple REST API with .NET Core, Azure SQL Database and FusionCache Reference to the Google Award that Fusioncache won View/share ou…

Learning and upskilling is top of mind for everyone, whether they are information workers or part of the frontline workforce. No matter how your employees work – from a desktop computer, tablet, or mobile phone – Viva Learning makes it easy to learn seamlessly in the flow of work. In this blog, we’ll dive into the Viva Learning mobile app and how it’s optimized for on-the-go learning. The Viva Learning mobile app features most of the same capabilities available on desktop in a mobile-friendly and intuitive interface. Employees can access Viva Learning through the Microsoft Teams mobile app – just select the ellipses to expand the app menu and find the Viva Learning…

Caching can make our applications faster and more robust and is at the core of a lot of websites and services we use every day. It can sometimes feel intimidating to approach such a broad topic and manage different caching layers, data synchronization, timeouts, failures, and coordinate everything. In this episode of Data Exposed with Jody Donetti and Anna Hoffman, Jody discusses how FusionCache can handle all of that for you, automatically and with minimal effort. Resources: Official FusionCache repo Creating a simple REST API with .NET Core, Azure SQL Database and FusionCache Reference to the Google Award that Fusioncache won Continue reading...

For SAP workloads, most systems utilize managed disk storage for SAP software and the database. Until now, resizing the disks required a downtime as the VM had to be stopped and deallocated. However, a new feature recently generally available in Azure allows online expansion of data disks, without any interruption. Resize without downtime | Azure Docs Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage | Azure Updates Simply put, you can increase size of the data disks in Azure. You then inform the operating system of the VM about the changes and you perform few online commands within the OS to enlarge your filesystems, giving you…

Frontline workers are essential to every industry and deserve technology solutions to support their work. To tailor these digital tools to this diverse population, Microsoft conducted research to define frontline workers and identify endpoint management trends. This blog will explore findings from a survey and interviews of 324 IT decision makers (ITDMs) that manage frontline organizations. This research focused on healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries in the United States. Then, we will share how this research aligns with Microsoft’s endpoint management solution for the frontline. Defining frontline workers Frontline workers can be defined as “customer…

Two file types are required for the on-premises update management with Unified Update Platform. In July we announced a private preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP) for organizations to manage updates on premises. This preview prepares you to experience your Windows updates in a unified format, no matter the channel through which you get these updates. If you are one of these IT admins in the private preview or plan on trying it out in the future, this brief update is just for you. Specifically, we have observed that if you use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), you need to add .msu and .wim MIME types on your WSUS servers to support UUP on premises. There a…

In both our personal lives and at work, we’re always looking for ways to improve our productivity and efficiency. Apps redefine the realm of what's possible to achieve through better collaboration, easy access to information, and reduction of process complexity, costs, and time. Many companies use an average of 200-plus apps to handle everything from project management to budgeting, communications to issue reporting. And as they serve the needs of different functions across organizations, the number of apps continues to grow. Millennials and members of Gen Z, who make up more than half of today’s workforce, expect to have the same modern IT experiences in the workp…

Introduction When administrating an Azure environment, or any environment really, one will most likely find a way to track changes that were introduced. There are a number of ways to do this. Within Azure can query the Subscription or Resource Group Deployment, the downside though is this approach is limited to just the scope you are querying on. What if this is a larger organization with multiple subscriptions? You could also rely on a well-established CI/CD pipeline, a third-party governance tool, or in this case query Azure directly via the Resource Graph Explorer. For this blog will focus on using the Azure Portal offering of the tool; however, want to not…

Show me the money! You have a use case which a Bot can easily fulfil. You now ask your team how much it would cost. You are unable to get a straight answer. What is the Bot Cost Structure There are three cost factors: The hosting plan, the channel(s) and any auxiliary services. App Service plan All bots are hosted on an App Service Plan. See pricing details. Based on the expected interaction rate with the bot, you will need to choose the right tier. Channels As mentioned in the documentation for this, you will be charged based on your channel tier, either premium or not. Today only the DirectLine and WebChat are co…

Author(s): Arshad Ali and Abid Nazir Guroo are Program Managers in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Introduction Data Lakehouse architecture has become the de facto standard for designing and building data platforms for analytics as it bridges the gap and breaks the silos created by the traditional/modern data warehouse and the data lake. This blog post introduces you to the world of data lakehouse and it goes into details of how to implement it successfully in Azure with Azure Synapse Analytics. What is a Lakehouse Traditionally, organizations have been using a data warehouse for their analytical needs. As the business requir…