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How many major cities like London and New York been affected by Covid-19 and how can we use historical data to explore how these effects might impact us in a post-Covid world? This was the question posed at a Microsoft Data + AI Hackathon held in partnership with the University of Oxford and Observable HQ at the New York City Reactor Meetup space Attendees were encouraged to develop new insights based on the following criteria: Is data retrieved from an Azure data storage service? (Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage) Is data processed using an Azure data analysis service? (Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse) Is data visualized using an Azure data visualiza…

Welcome to the new series focused on Azure Custom Vision and Azure Functions! In this series, you are going to train a TensorFlow image classification model in Azure Custom Vision and run the model in an Azure Function. About me Hi, I am Foteini Savvidou, a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador! I am an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) interested in wireless communications, IoT, AI, cloud technologies and biomedical engineering. Always passionate about teaching and learning new things, I love helping people expand their technical skills through organizing workshops …

We kicked off our monthly customer Viva series Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences with Microsoft Principal PM, Dan Holme, from the Viva Engage product team. Dan covered how Viva Engage helps build meaningful relationships at work as well as facilitates employee communities all within the flow of work. *Viva Monthly Live Agenda: Introductions What’s New in Microsoft Viva (10 Minutes) HLS Smartter Health Viva Solution Highlight (5 Minutes) Viva Guest Presentation (30 Minutes) -This month Viva Engage with Principal PM Dan Holme Open QA (15 Minutes) This week's session was hosted by Microsoft's Jasmine Hoegh, Jim Warner, Jaspreet Dhamija, and Michael Ganno…

The 2022 Microsoft Student Summit starts on October 7! At this one-day virtual event, higher education students have the opportunity to: Discover and connect virtually with their local Microsoft student developer community Build new tech skills and apply them in fun challenges and activities Get inspired to start innovating! Scott Hanselman, Partner Program Manager at Microsoft, and Khushboo Verma, Software Engineer at Microsoft and former Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, will kick off the summit which will be held throughout October in eight regions across the globe. Local hosts and speakers will cover career advice, introductions to cloud-enable…

In light of our recent .NET on Azure Functions Roadmap update, we’re excited to share today that Azure functions v4 now generally supports .NET framework 4.8 in an isolated process. You can now build production Serverless Apps with Azure Functions v4 in the .NET Isolated Worker model with .NET Framework 4.8. The isolation model decouples your function process from the Azure Functions runtime, giving the flexibility to target different versions of .NET, and more efficiently manages dependencies and service registrations.  The journey from v1 .NET framework to v4 .NET Framework The .NET framework in an isolated process is now generally available i…

We’re not shy about using our own products and services internally here at Microsoft, and as such, we’re already taking advantage of recently moving our internal video platform—Microsoft Stream—under the Microsoft 365 umbrella. The transformation of our corporate video platform has made it easier for our employees to create, upload, edit, and publish enterprise videos, says Marc Mroz, a product manager for Microsoft’s Office Media group, who explained that the new, modern Microsoft Stream experience is benefitting from now being located within SharePoint specifically. “Many people were already familiar with what they can do in SharePoint,” says Mroz, who has…

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Security Operations Guide. Security operations (SecOps) teams continuously perform tasks to provide a high-quality, reliable approach to protect, detect, and respond to email and collaboration-related security threats within an organization. When Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is used, SecOps needs to onboard the new tools and tasks into their existing playbooks and workflows. We often hear this presents a challenge for teams and raises questions, such as: “Where do I start? What actions/tasks should I take? How do I integrate with my existing tools and processes?” …

This post is part of the Zero To Hero series for #ServerlessSeptember, a month-long initiative to learn, use, and celebrate, all things Serverless On Azure. Check out the main site at https://aka.ms/serverless-september to read other posts, participate in a Cloud Skills Challenge, explore a Serverless Hack and participate in live Q&A with product teams on #AskTheExpert When you’re running a function app, you want to be prepared for any issues that may arise, from 4xx errors to trigger failures. Azure Functions offers built-in integration with Azure Application Insights to monitor function executions. You can also leverage intelligent and interactive diagnostics…

In Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team, we often find ourselves using the rich data available in Office 365 to help us with our investigations. During this process there are a couple of questions we consistently stumble across: Where can I go to find ‘x’ data? (Location) How far back does our data go? (Availability) Just like traditional endpoint-based data, log data in cloud services is available based on factors largely outside of the investigator’s control. As an investigator, it is our job to work with what’s available, and sometimes work a little bit of magic to make the unavailable available! To begin, there are some differences worth highlighting in d…

A few weeks ago, we released the Kusto Emulator, a Docker Image exposing a Kusto Query Engine endpoint that you use to create databases, ingest and query data locally on your computer or in a CI/CD pipeline agent. The online documentation contains an installation guide for the Kusto Emulator. We now published a , going through the installation process step by step, to better get you started! Continue reading...

Um gateway é um ponto central, uma porta de entrada para o que se busca. O Microsoft Graph é exatamente isso, disponível na forma de uma API Web RESTFul (Microsoft Graph Dev Center | APIs and app development) permite que você acesse os recursos de serviço da nuvem Microsoft. É um modelo de programação unificado que você pode usar para acessar dados do Microsoft 365, Windows e Enterprise Mobility + Security. Isso significa dizer que podemos acessar e manipular dados de usuários do Azure AD e Azure AD B2C, Serviços principais do Microsoft 365 como Reservas, Calendário, Tarefas, Pesquisa da Microsoft, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook/Exchange, Pessoas (contatos do Outlook), Planne…

I am sure you are excited and would like to learn how to perform this miracle of providing timely solutions to business problems, follow us as we guide you through the journey in this article. Have you always wanted to learn Power Platform or looking for learning content that can show you how to build a solution that involves Power Apps, Power Automate, and Microsoft Power BI? Then, this content is for you. Power Platform skill is a valuable skill that will open doors for you in your career In this article, we will cover the following: Build A Facility Maintenance App with Microsoft Power Apps Automate Facility Maintenance Process with Power Automate Fac…

Ledger is a new feature that offers the power of blockchain in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022. We’re making the data in the SQL database verifiable using the same cryptographic patterns seen in blockchain technology, while keeping the flexibility and performance of a traditional database. Ledger databases are centrally managed databases that can also cryptographically attest to other parties, such as auditors or other business parties. Ledger ensures your data can be trusted and hasn't been tampered with. How it works Each transaction that the database executes is cryptographically hashed (SHA-256). Transactions are cryptographically linked together, l…

Introduction Have you ever wondered how to determine if any devices are still using a storage account blob, file, table, or queues? In this blog post I will talk about the process of setting up monitoring to understand if/what devices are still communicating to a storage account. What we will not cover is how to determine what the purpose of the storage account is or the impact of removing the storage account. This is an exercise that would need to be done by yourself and may include others within your organization. Before we start setting the solution up, we first need to understand our options for collecting the data. To collect the data for a storage ac…

At Microsoft, I have delivered about 40+ Cost Optimisation Assessments as part of WAF for customers and I wanted to share some of the common cost savings that I offer to my customers based on real world experience. I have broken this down in the various components, storage, compute (IaaS), licensing, monitoring and PaaS. As per Cloud Cost Optimization | Microsoft Azure: I have covered these 7, plus more, right here. Storage General-purpose v2 storage accounts support the latest Azure Storage features and incorporate all of the functionality of general-purpose v1 and Blob storage accounts. General-purpose v2 accounts are recommended…

Azure Cloud Shell automatically has the latest version of Terraform installed. Also, as Terraform is run from the cloud it automatically uses information from the current Azure subscription and you can securely save the Terraform state file in Azure Storage. Best of all, you can still do all your authoring of Terraform from VS Code. Btw, the last section on the Terraform state file in Azure storage is documented here on Microsoft Docs, however I have captured the complete solution here. Four easy steps: Connect to CloudDrive (Azure Files Share) Copy files from this reop to Azure CloudDrive Setup the Terraform State in Azure Blob Storage Sign into Azu…

Running Terraform locally in Windows along with the Azure CLI gives you a bit more flexibility in large corporates due to eliminating the need to connect to Azure Cloud Shell from VS Code, which in itself can be a challenge with things like conditional access which may block authentication from remote locations where Azure Cloud Shell runs from. To get things setup remotely, you need a few things. Five easy steps: Install Terraform locally Install Bash (optional) Can use PowerShell or the Command Prompt [*]Install the Azure CLI [*]Setup the Terraform State in Azure Blob Storage [*]Sign into Azure CLI from VS Code 1. Install Terraform…

Improvements to the console When performing a search on any node in the console, the hint text in the search bar will now indicate the scope of the search. By default, all subfolders are searched when you perform a search in any node that contains subfolders. You can narrow down the search by selecting the “Current Node” option from the search toolbar. If you want to expand the search to include all nodes, then select the “All Objects” button in the ribbon. For more information, see Console changes and tips. Improvements to the dark theme Pop-ups in the Health attestation dashboard will now adhere to the dark theme. Enable…

Hello and Happy Friday, MTC’ers! Yesterday was the start of the Autumnal Equinox, which means the seasons are a-changin’. In the spirit of the season, let’s fall into this week’s community recap! MTC Moments of the Week First, we want to give a shoutout to this week’s MTC Member of the Week, @osxhone! They just joined the MTC this week and have already been given a Best Answer for their help in the OneDrive forum. Welcome, osxphone! This week, we had our monthly Windows Office Hours, which takes place every third Thursday of each month here in the MTC. These office hours are a great opportunity to interact with and ask questions to a broad grou…

In this blog post we are going to describe how to check if global virtual network peering is supported on the virtual cluster hosting this instance. If you are interested in other posts on how-to discover different aspects of SQL MI - please visit the SQL Managed Instance How-tos series, which serves as a placeholder for the series. The auto-failover groups feature allows you to manage the replication and failover of all user databases in a managed instance to another Azure region. One of the most important requirements is that the connectivity between the virtual network subnets hosting the primary and secondary instance must be established and maintain…

Yesterday we announced that some exciting new capabilities to Viva Engage, like Leadership Corner and Answers within Microsoft Viva. Viva Engage connects employees and leaders through communities and conversations. We’re announcing powerful new leadership capabilities to unlock the potential of your organizations. Leadership Corner is a new experience for employees to engage directly with key leaders. Employees can: See and participate in activities from their leaders Take surveys and join the discussion with #Campaigns and AMAs (Ask Me Anything) Connect with new leaders across the company For leaders, communicators, and their delegates we…

In this article, we feature four MVPs in Colombia, Japan, Spain, and the United States, who started technical community activities when they were a student. They tell us their growth history of how a student community leader became a professional engineer. Colombia - Amal Hosni Viteri, M365 Apps & Services MVP “Being part of the communities is an experience not to be missed!” Amal is a conference organizer and speaker who focuses on Microsoft Teams and a storyteller of how Microsoft technology helps people. She started learning about technologies from her cousin’s books. some books her cousins had. Amal continued her technology journey in …

Microsoft FastTrack for Azure The FastTrack for Azure (FTA) team has released an open-source solution to check any Canada federal department's compliance requirements against the 12 mandated guardrails. With the "Government departments responsible for continuously auditing their cloud environments", the FastTrack for Azure team worked directly with several departments to build and deploy the solution to shorten time for evidence package gathering and assist in this requirement. The GC Solution Accelerator is a multi-lingual solution built and deployed using Azure native tools which periodically scans customers’ environment and provides a simplified…

The Healthcare Shorts: Virtual Visit Back-up or Ad-hock Virtual Visits has prompted an explosion in conversations with customers who have the need and desire, and are ready to start now. One of the questions we get is “How do I start using this?” which is exciting, and doesn’t require advanced technical skills. In fact, there are a ton of existing posts on this blog and documentation resources have the details and samples you need to get started. That said, it helps to have a bit of guidance on the overall steps to get started with the solution, some specific links to the posts that will come in handy, as well as some frequently asked questions. Whether you’re read…

We are happy to announce General Availability(GA) of the ability to reverse migrate an Azure SQL Database from Hyperscale tier to General Purpose tier. Previously, migration into the Hyperscale tier was a one-way migration with no easy way to move back to any non-Hyperscale tier. Reverse Migration to the General Purpose service tier now allows customers who have recently migrated an existing Azure SQL DB database to the Hyperscale service tier to move back, should Hyperscale not meet their needs. This provides additional mobility for their SQL Database data. Once in the General Purpose tier, they have the flexibility to remain on that tier or move their database to other …