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Hybrid workspaces are continuously evolving, with changes like increasingly varied work locations and the shift of more workplace communications and interactions to collaboration platforms, such as Microsoft Teams. These apps make hybrid work possible through their flexibility and seamless digital collaboration. Yet, at the same time, organizations’ security and compliance leaders are scaling imperatives like compliance management across platforms and expanding traditional office settings, because industry regulations and corporate policies must protect data and employees, regardless of where work takes place. Compliance and regulatory risks in collaboration and cloud-dri…

The Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program offers assurance to organizations that their data and privacy are secured when deploying 3rd party applications. This includes apps built for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, OneNote, and Project. The Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program is a two-step approach to app security and compliance: Publisher Verification provides identity verification of app publishers, so users are assured the apps they utilize are authentic. Microsoft 365 Certified apps have undergone self-attestation and a comprehensive 3rd party audit to ensure proper data handling, encryption, antivirus, and firewall security like th…

Hello! It’s been just over 30 days since Entra Verified ID became Generally Available (GA). I’m thrilled to share with you our latest update, developed by Emilia Borisova this summer: Verified Coupons (e.g., a ticket for an exclusive event). Thanks, Ankur Patel Head of Product, Microsoft Entra Verified ID ___________________________________________ My name is Emilia Borisova, and I’m an intern on the Decentralized Identity Team. I’m excited to share that the feature I designed and developed over the course of my internship is now available for preview. This feature provides functionality for setting a limit on the number of times a Veri…

For many people living in the Northern hemisphere, the end of summer can symbolize the transition to falling leaves as we enter autumn. For students however the end of summer may mean the return to college or university and all the opportunities that it may hold. The beginning of the academic year is an exciting time for those of us at Microsoft as well as we get ready to support the aspirations of students looking to learn skills that will prepare them for their future career. Connect, get inspired, and innovate Microsoft is committed to enabling students the opportunity to connect with their peers and acquire the skills they will need to land the jobs that t…

Microsoft’s own human resources (HR) portal - known internally as HRWeb - gets personal, thanks to the modern SharePoint experience in Microsoft 365. Microsoft employees use HRWeb to check on benefits, adjust withholdings, find a specific company policy, and more. I use it to check health benefits, get career guidance, learn about official company holidays, and print out tax info when it's tax season here in the US. HRWeb is a one-stop shop internal human resources site that serves a variety of important employment information for all 160,000+ employees worldwide. Read the full article: "Microsoft’s HR portal gets personal, thanks to the modern experience in S…

By: Jack Davis – Sr. Product Manager | Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Intune With the recent general availability of custom compliance, customers now have the ability to further define what device compliance means for their organization's managed Windows devices. Custom compliance uses a PowerShell script and an associated JSON file to define one or more rules. The process works like this: The PowerShell script runs on a device to discover and report on the settings defined in the JSON file. Then, the JSON file defines the acceptable values for those settings. Depending on your custom compliance script complexity, manually building a JSON file to evalua…

Today, we are happy to announce that language interpretation is Generally Available (GA) for Microsoft Teams Meetings! Here at Microsoft, we serve a diverse set of global customers, including governmental institutions that hold parliament meetings in multiple languages, multinational and multilingual corporations, businesses that work with vendors around the world, and many more. This feature was built to support customers and users who need to communicate in the virtual world across languages. Our language interpretation feature will allow professional interpreters to convert the speaker’s message into another language without disrupting the speaker’s original flow …

In June, Databricks announced that they are open sourcing Delta Lake 2.0. Delta Lake is quickly becoming the format of choice in data science and data engineering. To import Delta Lake into a Synapse dedicated SQL Pool you would need Azure Data Factory/Synapse Pipelines or Spark to handle the Delta Lake files. This is not ideal because it adds extra overheads of complexity, time, and costs. As an intellectual challenge, I wondered if it's possible to import Delta Lake files directly into the dedicated SQL Pool and support features like time-travel. It turned out to be a great little project and a great way of learning about Delta Lake. I have upl…

Here is a recap on the latest and greatest features and updates introduced in the last few months. In case you have missed them they are broken down into the following sections: Cost and Performance Improvements Tools and User Experience Data Ingestion Engine Learning and Readiness Cost and Performance Improvements Free Cluster Upgrade Option – Cost and Performance Improvements An in-place seamless upgrade from the free cluster to a full-blown ADX cluster that offers additional benefits. The upgrade path is easy and can be done with a few clicks through the wizard which allows you to associate your cluster with an Azure subscription. …

You can use client side decryption of properties on Azure Spring Apps by following the steps below: Add the encrypted property in your .properties file in your git repository. It would look like: message={cipher}f43e3df3862ab196a4b367624a7d9b581e1c543610da353fbdd2477d60fb282f Update the Config Server on Azure Spring App to use the git repository which has our encrypted property. You could do it directly from Azure Portal or use Azure CLI: az spring-cloud config-server git set -n myspringcloud --uri <git_repo_url> In your Spring Boot application, add the decryption key in the bootstrap.yml file. (You would need to create it if it does no…

We are happy to share that built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup is now generally available! (Read our earlier blog post for more context around the evolution of backup alerting) With this solution, users receive default alerts for critical scenarios related to backup security and job failures, that are integrated with Azure Monitor. You can monitor these alerts at scale via either the Azure Monitor dashboard or via Backup center, and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice. Screenshot of alerts tile in Backup center To recap, below are the main benefits of using built-in Azure Monitor alerts for backup: Ability…

We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 2.1.5. The update addresses a couple of issues that are important to our customers. Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.5 include: Fixed Added CommandText length validation when using stored procedure command types. #1726 Fixed Kerberos authentication failure when using .NET 6. #1727 Removed union overlay design and used reflection in SqlTypeWorkarounds. #1729 To get the new package, add a NuGet reference to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in your application. For the list of changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.5, you can also see the Release Notes. If you encounter…

We developed and open-sourced this Log Monitor tool in 2019 to bridge the differences between how Windows applications often log information and how the container ecosystem works. 2019 Blog Post: Windows Containers Log Monitor Opensource Release - Microsoft Tech Community GitHub Repo: windows-container-tools/LogMonitor at main · microsoft/windows-container-tools (github.com) Unlike Linux applications that log to STDOUT, Windows applications log to Windows log locations such as ETW, Event Log, and custom log files. Since many container ecosystem logging solutions are built to pull from the STDOUT pipeline as standard with Linux, Windows containers app logs hist…

We are pleased to announce online migration for Azure Database for MySQL. Using online migration customers can now migrate an instance of Azure Database for MySQL - Single Server or their on-premises MySQL instance to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with minimal downtime by using Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This fully managed service is designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms. DMS supports migrations for MySQL versions - 5.7 and 8.0 and support source servers - MySQL, Azure DB for MySQL - Single Server, and Amazon RDS MySQL that migrate to Azure DB for MYSQL – Flexible Server. …

As previously announced, IE11 is being retired through two phases – a redirection phase in which devices are progressively redirected from IE to Microsoft Edge over the next few months after June 15, 2022, and a Windows Update phase, in which IE will be permanently disabled. For organizations that are ready to remove IE, you don’t have to wait for redirection or the Windows update to do so. What is the Disable IE Policy? After configuring IE mode, you can disable IE11 as a standalone browser on your organization’s devices and replicate the user experience that will be rolled out with the future Windows Update that will permanently disable IE. Given its gradual nat…

SharePoint Online is Microsoft’s premier SharePoint experience thanks to the rich integration that is possible with cloud services and the ability to rapidly innovate with a cloud-focused engineering model; however, we also recognize that SharePoint Server has been and will continue to be a critical part of the collaboration and business process strategy for many of our customers. Last year we showed our commitment to our on-premises customers with the release of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and today we’d like to share some exciting news about new investments we’re making in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, as well as other updates to the SharePoint Serv…

Co-authors: Meng-Ru (Raymond) Tsai Senior Program Manager, Azure HPC+AI, Microsoft Tang Chao, Solutions Architect, NetApp Virgilio Inferido, Member of Technical Staff, NetApp Giancarlo DiPasquale, Azure HPC Architect, Microsoft Richard Paw, Director, Semiconductors & EDA, Azure Global, Microsoft. Jon Austin, Azure HPC Architect, Microsoft Objective NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is a full featured ONTAP NAS solution that runs on the Azure High Performance Compute (HPC) stack. It is a complementary offering to the fully managed Azure NetApp Files, Enterprise-grade NAS. This article provides benchmark reference and architectural guidan…

We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 4.0.2. The update addresses several issues that are important to our customers. Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.0.2 include: Fixed Fixed connection failure by not requiring Certificate Revocation List (CRL) check during authentication. #1718 Parallelized SSRP requests on Linux and macOS when MultiSubNetFailover is specified. #1720, #1747 Added CommandText length validation when using stored procedure command types. #1721 Fixed NullReferenceException during Azure Active Directory authentication. #1722 Fixed null SqlBinary as rowversion. #1724 Fixed table's collation overriding with…

The Summer is over, and the TAAG Team is ready to help you increase your productivity and maintain your flow state. Overview No matter your role, every information worker has two primary applications they switch between: Outlook for their emails, and Teams for chats, files, and team related work. What if there was a way to combine the two? Keep it all in Teams, while maintaining your flow state? The Teams App Acceleration for Government (TAAG) team is going to show you how to achieve that and be more productive. Register In order to accomadate different schedules, we will be offering two options for this topic. Click on the link below to reg…

Microsoft strives to increase not only the security of the ecosystem, but also maintain our commitment to an open and inclusive ecosystem. Code signing is a part of that. It establishes the identity of the publisher of the application as well as the integrity that it has not been modified since publication. However, code signing is often difficult to do; whether that is obtaining a certificate, securing it, or operationalizing a secure service to integrate with build pipelines. Microsoft is committed to security, and we want to empower developers to have the toolsets to build and distribute applications securely. Azure Code Signing does just that. Azure Code Signing aims …

We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 4.1.1. The update addresses several issues that are important to our customers. Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.1.1 include: Fixed Fixed connection failure by not requiring Certificate Revocation List (CRL) check during authentication. #1706 Parallelized SSRP requests on Linux and macOS when MultiSubNetFailover is specified. #1708, #1746 Added CommandText length validation when using stored procedure command types. #1709 Fixed NullReferenceException during Azure Active Directory authentication. #1710 Fixed null SqlBinary as rowversion. #1712 Fixed table's collation overriding with…

We are pleased to announce a fun new spin on that old familiar tune. Starting today, a remix version of the Microsoft Teams ringtone is available. The sound of an incoming Teams Call has become ubiquitous with the feeling of productivity. Getting work done starts with those first few notes of that jingle and it can be good to bring in a fresh spin to a classic melody. There have been incredible remixes created by Teams enthusiasts and community members over the years and it is finally time to bring that energy to the Teams platform in musical form. Calum Newton, who goes by CandyMoore.mp3 on social media, created an incredible remix of the ringtone, s…

This article will be constantly updated with new notebook content and resources related to big data analytics for security in Microsoft Sentinel. With special thanks to @Chi_Nguyen and @Ed_Gardner. Introduction It has never been harder to keep hybrid environments secure. Microsoft’s Security Research teams are observing an increasing number and complexity of cybercrimes occurring across all sectors of critical infrastructure, from targeted ransomware attacks to increasing password and phishing campaigns on email, according to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report. The 2022 Cost of Insider Threats reported that threat incidents have risen by over …

The amount of information we create has grown exponentially, and more often is distributed across multiple sources, making finding the right information, at the right time, increasingly difficult. Large enterprises typically use 15-20 disparate systems to store their information- including popular industry standard applications as well as custom line of business applications. Enterprises want to search across these data sources with minimal context switching. Microsoft Graph connectors helps enterprises merge all these data sources with Microsoft 365 content, to surface the information across multiple endpoints using Microsoft Search. Microsoft Graph connectors helps…