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Azure Static Web Apps automatically builds and deploys dozens of frontend frameworks, one of them is Nuxt. Today, we're excited to share that you can deploy Nuxt 3 applications with universal rendering to Azure Static Web Apps. While Nuxt 2 is known for its ease of use, Nuxt 3 brings even faster performance and improved developer experience with a thrilling new set of underlying technologies and features. With the release of Nuxt 3’s release candidate in April 2022, developers witnessed a complete re-architect of the framework. Nuxt 2 apps that have been upgraded with Nuxt Bridge also work with Azure Static Web Apps. What’s new in Nuxt 3? Zero-con…

Hi everyone, Today we’re sharing our thoughts around managing and securing cloud authentication sessions. In the past, “authentication session management” referred to static updates to the session duration. That approach no longer provides adequate security for modern usage patterns where a user’s context changes multiple times after the initial authentication. This can occur due to moving between locations, a need to collaborate inside and outside of an organization or multi-device scenarios. So how can we secure authentication sessions without affecting user experience and productivity? Or how do Zero Trust principles apply to authentication sessions? Thes…

With Cha Zhang, Yung-Shin Lin, Yaxiong Liu, Jiayuan Shi, and links to research papers by Qiang Huo and colleagues. The new Form Recognizer 3.0’s document layout analysis model extracts new structural insights like paragraphs, titles, subheadings, footnotes, page headers, page footers, and page numbers. These features are best used with unstructured documents because they allow you to understand the document structure for better semantic understanding of your documents. The latest model also enhances existing features like extraction of text (OCR), tables and selection marks that customers use Layout for today. Form Recognizer functional blocks What is documen…

Há pouco tempo me deparei com um problema de desempenho em uma Azure Function. Não foi um troubleshooting complexo, porém a causa raiz desse problema foi muito interessante, por isso decidi abordá-lo aqui no blog. Meu foco aqui não é explicar o que são Azure Functions, caso não esteja familiarizado com essa tecnologia, leia mais sobre Azure Functions em Azure Functions Overview. Azure Functions Triggers e Bindings Azure Functions é um serviço do tipo PaaS (Platform as a Service). Elas permitem que sua aplicação seja implantada e executada sem a necessidade de provisionar e configurar a infraestrutura de servidores. Esse tipo de arquitetura é conhecida como…

To export Azure SQL database using Sqlpackage and Managed Identity: Step1 Enable system assigned managed identity on an Azure VM Step2 - Enable AAD auth on Azure SQL server - Conn to Azure SQL database via AAD admin - Create contained user for the managed identity (using Azure VM name as contained username) create user <vmname> from external provider; alter role db_owner add member <vmname>; Step3 On the Azure VM where we enabled System assigned Managed Identity, execute below to test getting access token: # Using PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest, make a request to the local managed identi…

Welcome to Part 2 in a series about using the Enterprise Policy as Code project to deploy and manage Azure Policy in your environment. This article covers integration with Azure Landing Zones and how to integrate the policies applied in that solution with this code. Later parts in this series discuss different applications and features of the Enterprise Policy as Code project and these are detailed below. Getting Started Integrating with the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Azure Landing Zones (this article) Dealing with brownfield environments and decentralized policy management How do you manage multiple tenants Tips for writing custom policies and initiati…

A warm welcome! In #30DaysOfDataScience we will go from understanding the Python language to working with real life data and finally creating Machine Learning models both on Azure and in Python. The main role is understanding our data and using the knowledge to make decisions such as fraud detection, customer segmentation and product pricing. Register for the Program set to kick off on the 17th October to 17th November 2022. The program journey. The program is set to start on the 17th of October, before then you need to register as part of the program then start learning on Microsoft Learn using the Cloud Skills Challenge modules. …

Introduction Azure Data Factory is good for data transformation, in this blog we will discuss how to convert CSV file into Json and explain about the aggregate activity. Main Idea In ADF, a JSON is a complex data type, we want to build an array that consists of a JSONs. The idea is to create a DataFlow and add a key "Children" to the data, aggregate JSONs to build an array of JSONs using the aggregate activity. We will use a dummy value (constant 1) and by this dummy value we will do the grouping to build the array. Pre-requisites we will require: A basic knowledge on ADF including how to create a new pipeline and add activities/ dataflows to a pi…

Starting on October 1, 2022, Microsoft is starting to disable an outdated way of logging into Exchange Online known as “basic authentication.” This outdated method is vulnerable to various forms of password attacks. The newer authentication standard is based on a standard called OAuth and the Microsoft implementation of this standard is called “modern authentication.” Some customers might run into problems once the outdated log in method is disabled for their organization, such as not being able to sign into email. When basic authentication is disabled for your organization, and various email clients are still using it, there are two things to know: How to tempo…

6 October, 2022 | 12:00 PM Event format: Live Stream Topic:: Cloud Native: Serverless Register Microsoft Reactor | Microsoft Developer This session is part of the Series Description This series will teach you how to use Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDK-TF) and Microsoft Azure serverless services. First, you will learn how to build everything as code, and we will teach you how to solve several real-world problems with just Azure Functions and short-lived Azure container instance. All projects covered in the series are opensource. What is the session about? Make learning FUN! This session will explain how the game works and give a recap of Mic…

This is the next segment of our blog series highlighting Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors who achieved the Gold milestone, the highest status level attainable, and 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 Someleze Diko who is from South Africa and recently graduated from the Durban University of Technology with a Diploma and an Advanced Diploma in information technology. Responses have been edited for clarity and length.   When you joined the Stude…

Happy Friday, MTC, and happy end of the month! We’re heading into October, which also means Microsoft Ignite is right around the corner! Excited to share some of those highlights as we get closer to the event. Now let's take a look at what’s going on in the MTC this week… MTC Moments of the Week To kick things off, this week’s MTC Member of the Week spotlight is on @L z., a valued contributor who just celebrated their 5-year anniversary as a member of the MTC this month! Congrats! This week, we had another great AMA about Windows 365 with members of the Microsoft engineering and product teams, including @Robert_Nishi, @Christian_Montoya, @Abr…

We are excited to tell you about the many new Teams features we have added in August and September. This month marks the availability of collaborative annotations in meetings, an improved front row experience in Microsoft Teams rooms, intelligent chat translation on mobile devices, and more. If you’re interested in learning even more about innovations in Microsoft Teams, make sure to attend the Microsoft Ignite conference from October 12th – 14th, digitally or in person. We look forward to hearing from you in the comments. Teams Performance Meetings Calling Devices Chat and Collaboration Power Platform and custom development Management Teams fo…

In today's shifting economic climate, Microsoft is focused on helping organizations in every industry use technology to overcome challenges and emerge stronger. That's why I'm pleased to kick off a series of posts exploring how Surface provides the best devices for the modern cloud. Let's start with the financial services industry's unrivaled demands for timely, accurate information across global markets. Consider that Reuters transmits more than 276,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Key people can log in from anywhere. And, like it or not, hybrid work is here to stay. So how do you make it work? Hybrid work requires more sophisticate…

Not too long ago, it was the first day of school, then it was the first NFL game and we just passed the first day of fall. As seasons change, I am reminded of the things that I should do but often don’t. Either I forget or avoid. So it is for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCDR) efforts. About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post with some points about DR (Disaster Recovery - Microsoft Tech Community) then, about seven years ago, I posted a DR ‘reminder’ (Disaster Recovery – A Reminder - Microsoft Tech Community). Those were both ‘pre-cloud’ – which seems so long ago. In any event, a post from me around BCDR for cloud components is well past due. NOTE:…

Have you ever played with Postgres source code and weren't sure if you broke anything? Postgres has a quite comprehensive regression test suite that helps to ensure that nothing is broken. You can, of course, run those tests on your machine and check if your version of Postgres works properly. But it always works on your machine, right? What about other environments? In this blog post, you will learn about how to enable and use the Postgres CI (plus how to contribute to it!) based on my experience and learnings creating my first patch to Postgres. Specifically, you’ll learn: How to enable PostgreSQL’s CI for your GitHub fork How to Build and Test Postgres…

Hello everyone, In March 2022, we announced our simplified change management process, which allows customers to predictably plan their deployments, and in June, we introduced Microsoft Entra as our new product family that encompasses all of Microsoft’s identity and access capabilities. Since that time, we’ve continuously improved Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), released a public preview of an enhanced “My Apps” experience, and launched the general availability of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management and Microsoft Entra Verified ID. To match the growth of our identity and access product family, we’ve expanded our change management process to c…

LEDBAT is the background data transfer product built into the Windows networking stack and recommended by the Windows Data Transport team for moving bulk data without interfering with foreground traffic. LEDBAT has a couple of advantages that make it our choice for the Windows networking stack. LEDBAT automatically leverages any unused bandwidth in the network and in the blink of an eye relinquishes the bandwidth to any foreground traffic that is present in the network. Also, LEDBAT is what we call a pluggable congestion controller. That means that it is fully integrated into the Windows networking stack at the TCP layer and gives you all of the goodness of Windows TCP in…

The Database Templates feature in Azure Synapse Analytics helps organizations create data models based off existing industry focused templates. After creation of the Lake Database (using a chosen database template), the Map Data tool can be used to map attributes between source and destination. This will create data flows and pipelines in order to complete the data ingestion process. When there is a need to ingest data from multiple sources into a single destination entity, these sources will need to be joined while performing the mapping. The "Additional Source" button in the Map Data tool helps achieve these joins. The documentation does not provide more detai…

We have gotten several questions from our customers related to recent reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Exchange Server. The MSRC team has released a blog post on this subject, with more information and mitigations that you can apply to your Exchange servers right away. We will keep updating these posts as the situation develops and we continue working on this: MSRC - Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server The Exchange Server Team Continue reading...

For Azure Functions - Adaptive sampling is enabled by default. Fixed-rate sampling is not supported. Ingestion sampling only applies when no other sampling is in effect. Therefore, this is also disabled by default in the wake of point #1 above. If you expect data (invocations) under Monitor but do not find it as shown in screenshot below, you have either changed Host.Results category to Warning (or above) level; or your application telemetry is getting sampled. To fix the former, open Host.json file and change the Host.Results category to Information level. { "logging": { "fileLoggingMode": "always", "logLevel": { …

Summary Microsoft is investigating two reported zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. The first vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, while the second, identified as CVE-2022-41082, allows remote code execution (RCE) when PowerShell is accessible to the attacker. At this time, Microsoft is aware of limited … Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Read More » Continue reading...

Sysmon v14.1 This update to Sysmon, an advanced host monitoring tool, adds a new event type, FileBlockShredding that prevents wiping tools such as Sysinternals SDelete from corrupting and deleting files. Coreinfo v3.6 This update to Coreinfo, a utility that reports system CPU, memory and cache topology and information, now has an option (-d) for measuring inter-CPU latencies in counter ticks. AccessEnum v1.35 This update to AccessEnum, a tool that summarizes account permissions on files and folders, fixes a version number mismatch in its version information. BgInfo v4.32 This update to BgInfo, a tool for displaying system information on screen d…