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Are you (or your customers) considering moving on-premises SQL Server instances and associated apps to Azure? In case you do, questions might start popping up. Look no further: Migrating SQL Server Workloads FAQ - Azure SQL | Microsoft Docs is a go-to FAQ where you can find not only desired answers at one place but also a guidance through references to the rich Azure documentation. When migrating SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, it is recommended to assume a holistic view, as it is rarely only SQL Server that is moved to the cloud. The first FAQ section therefore covers question on how to Modernize applications and SQL Server workloads when moving workloads to Az…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 141 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=22387:name] AD Self Service Portal: Through the convenience of a web-based interface, AD Self Service Portal from Hosting Controller empowers Active Directory users to update their user profiles, reset their passwords, and unlock their domain accounts. [attachment=22388:name] Advantech iFactory Smart Factory Solution: Advantech iFactory Smart Factory Solution uses Microsoft Azure IoT Hub to enable domain-focused solution partners t…

Form Recognizer is an Applied AI service for all your document understanding needs. With Form Recognizer you can extract content from a variety of file formats with the Read API. Use document type agnostic models like Layout and General Document to extract content, fields and structure including tables, paragraphs and selection marks from any document. Prebuilt models targeting specific document types like invoices, W-2 forms or Health Insurance Cards extract a defined set of fields in addition to the structure. For a truly custom experience, train a custom model to extract the specific fields needed from any document type. Today, you can start using the new generally ava…

The Microsoft MVP Award Program recently launched three new Award Categories at the end of July 2022 for the first time since AI was added in 2017. Mixed Reality is one of the new categories. In this article, we explore how a Japanese Mixed Reality MVP, Kenta Iwasaki (as known as Iwaken), is empowering student developers through his community Iwaken Lab., to support students who love innovation and enable them to create social impact using their favorite technology. Kenta organizes weekly meetings with student community members and professional mentors to enable more than 60 unique attendees to interact with other members through technical discussions. I…

You might need to run custom Linux scripts in WordPress on Azure App Service for achieving specific goals, such as, updating Nginx settings, running WP-CLI commands, and installing system packages. This article is intended to guide you in running custom shell or bash scripts. There are two ways in which you could run a shell script in WordPress on Azure App Service. Web SSH – run shell commands and scripts that are non-persistent The start-up File – run shell commands and scripts that need to be persistent 1. Using Web SSH As we have mentioned earlier, web SSH can be used to run commands and scripts that are non-persistent. For example, navigating folder…

We recently released an update to Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server, version 11.2.1. The update addresses a couple issues in the 11.2.0 release. Fixed issues Made com.microsoft.azure:msal4j an optional dependency again 1893 Fixed query cancellation bug that intermittently occurs in batch queries 1897 Getting the latest release The latest bits are available to download from Microsoft, from the GitHub repository, and via Maven Central. Add the JDBC 11.2.1 RTW driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project (choose .jre8, .jre11, .jre17, or jre18 for your required Java version)…

Calling all MR Partners! Want to help create better mixed reality experiences for all? The new Fall Insider Flight Preview is now ready for testing! Calling all MR Partners: Test the new Insider Flight for HoloLens today! Read more information and instructions on how to load the new Insider Flight build in the detailed Release Notes here. This new build comes jam packed with numerous new features and improvements, so be sure to test it with your own application(s) that currently run on HoloLens 2 to ensure a smooth process when the build is officially shipped this fall! Note: We recommend using the Dev Channel for testing as it will be …

Having visibility into the devices on a network is very important for an organization to help prevent cyberattacks in an ever-expanding threat landscape. Additionally, the more information that can be discovered about the devices, the easier it is to manage them and to protect your network. Having the ability to locate, identify, and accurately classify devices in real-time means you can quickly discover vulnerable devices and carry out intelligent prioritization. Leveraging Microsoft Defender for Identity as a data source for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint device discovery can help improve discovery coverage and fine tune the classification accuracy. In this…

Across the globe we see the celebration of wonderful cultural moments. In living up to our mission statement – “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”, we here at Microsoft provide solutions to empower organizations to celebrate these cultural moments with their employees throughout the year. We are introducing Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) cultural site templates. Our second cultural template we are delivering celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. There is a lot of content and structure that appears by default – to save you time – and all can be further customized to meet the unique needs of your organization. The…

Batteries are the lifeblood of some of the most exciting tech products coming to market. Laptops and cellphones—of course—but now cars, home automation, security IoT, and industrial IoT sensors or gateways provide new capabilities far away from outlets and power lines. Batteries extend beyond the constraints of grids, the planning of previous builders and installers, and the constraints of time, budget, and convenience. With our MT3620 22.07 Azure Sphere OS, we’ve improved battery life performance as much as 50 percent in some key scenarios, and we’re targeting additional improvements across a variety of OS components that impact power utilization. Like all Azure S…

We have great news for functional consultants with advanced skills, senior or principal functional consultants for Microsoft partners, and expert IT professionals, developers, or information workers. The new Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert certification is now available. This certification aligns closely with real-world roles in the field today and gives functional consultants who manage the supply chain an upward certification path. To earn this certification, you must pass Exam MB-335: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert. Prerequisites for the certification also include…

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…

Overview Several businesses are exploring and enabling Signavio Process Manager integration with SAP Solution Manager to activate greater collaboration between IT and business leadership. This blog is to share one of the ways to configure & secure the integration of the SAP Solution Manager system hosted on Azure Platform with Signavio using Application Gateway and Azure Firewall. Refer here for more information on SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and Signavio. Courtesy Signavio documentation SAP Signavio Process Manager and SAP® Solution Manager 7.2 integration Reference Network Flow Architecture Reference Architecture Key components …

Four Business Applications MVPs from across APAC, Jeevarajan Kumar in New Zealand, Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam in Australia, and Doher Drizzle Pablo (as known as Drizzle) and Paul Soliman in Philippines, presented at the Be Digital Bootcamp in collaboration with PETRONAS. PETRONAS is a Malaysian based oil and gas company, working with Microsoft as a customer and partner. This initiative empowered 50 Malaysian graduates on the benefits of Power Platform. The inspirational MVP trainers presented an interactive hybrid hands-on learning lab session on Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents to increase their value for employability or to empow…

Welcome to our monthly update for Teams for Education and thank you so much for being part of our growing community! We’ve been working on some great new updates that we’re excited to share with you, so here’s what’s new this month. Enjoy! What's New in Assignments and Grades Reading Progress – Phonics Rules Insights dashboard Reflect – Now a Featured Tab Forms in Teams Meetings updates Parent Connection for Teams mobile Introducing a new Partner App in Teams: Kami Introducing three Office Partner Add-ins integrated with Teams 1. What’s New in Assignments and Grades Timed Quiz support in Assignments A highly requested feature for those of you that use…

Overview In this How To, I will show a simple mechanism for writing a payload to Azure Blob Storage from Azure API Management (APIM). Some examples where this approach is useful: Claim-Check Claim-Check pattern is used to split a large message into a claim check and a payload. The claim check is sent to a downstream system which has a reference to the location of the payload. The downstream system then retrieves the payload for handling. You might want to do this when working with technology that are not optimised suited for very large messages (Service Bus) either by a size limitation or associated cost, or when you do not need to process all messages. Messag…

On September 12th, Apple released iOS 16, which will be followed by the iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura releases in October. We’ve been working hard to ensure that Microsoft Intune is prepared to provide Day zero support for Apple’s latest operating systems (OS) so that all existing Intune features that are currently available for managing Apple devices will continue to work seamlessly as users upgrade their devices. We’ll continue to upgrade our service and release new features that integrate elements of support for the new OS versions. Declarative Device Management (DDM) With Intune’s 2208 service release, we announced support for DDM for User Enrolled device…

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 Jatin Pandya who is from India and recently graduated from JECRC University with a Bachelor of Technology, majoring in computer science and engineering. Responses have been edited for clarity and length.  When you joined the Student Ambassador community …

The demand for mobile apps is growing 5x faster than IT departments can deliver. The average cost to develop an app is 70% less with Power Platform than with traditional coding methods, however, 85% of organizations struggle to find technical talent to build applications. Two Business Applications MVPs from Skillar, Nadeeja Bomiriya and Sahan Wijayasekera, partnered with the largest IT community in Australia, the Australian Computer Society (ACS). They hosted the ACS Power Apps App in a Day Workshop and reached a new professional audience to educate and influence the future technologists. “Right now, there is a massive opportunity for digital transformation engagem…

5G is not just a wireless network upgrade, it enables new application architecture paradigms which allow you to achieve business use cases that were unthinkable a few years ago! Key 5G characteristics such as very low latency, coverage of large and broad areas, high bandwidth, and very importantly as a differentiator versus Wi-Fi, QoS, reliability, security, slicing, and even network APIs to interact with the network from your apps make those new scenarios possible. We’re excited to share this Infographic or “cheat sheet” we created explaining the key topics related to 5G, fundamental characteristics of 5G, new possible topologies (5G Private MEC and 5G Publ…

Welcome to Azure Data Factory’s August monthly update! Here, we’ll share the latest updates on what’s new in Azure Data Factory. You can also find all our updates in our What's New in ADF page. We’ll also be hosting our monthly livestream THIS week on September 15th at 11am PST / 2pm EST! Join us to see some live demos and to ask us your ADF questions! Join the livestream . Table of Contents Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) Exclude pipeline triggers that did not change in deployment [Blog] Data flow Appfigures REST-based connector added as Source (Preview) [Doc] Cast transformation added – visually convert data …

See how to create confidential clouds that host sensitive data in public clouds with Intel Software Guard Extension, as part of Azure confidential computing. Protect your sensitive information in the Cloud. Mitigate privileged access attacks with hardware enforced protection of sensitive data, and protect against data exfiltration from memory. Beyond security, we’ll demonstrate machine learning analytics on multi-party data. Data center security expert, Mike Ferron-Jones from Intel, gives you an exclusive look at Microsoft’s work with Intel. Protect in-use data. Keep sensitive data protected while it is actively in use in the processor a…

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Introduction Security analysts can use anomalies to reduce investigation and hunting time, as well as detect new and emerging threats. Typically, these benefits come at the cost of a high benign positive rate, but Microsoft Sentinel’s customizable anomaly models are tuned by our data science team and trained with the data in your Microsoft Sentinel workspace to reduce, providing out-of-the box value. If security analysts need to tune them further, the process is simple and requires no knowledge of machine learning. Read this blog to find out which capabilities were supported in Public Preview and how to tune anomalies: Democratize Machine Learning with Customi…

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of data virtualization capabilities in Azure SQL Managed Instance, with improved query performance and managed identity as a new supported option for authenticating to storage accounts. The data virtualization enables you to execute Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries on files storing data in common data formats in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 or Azure Blob Storage and combine it with relational data stored locally in the managed instance using logical joins. This way you can transparently access external data while keeping it in its original format and location. There is no data duplication or need to run and mai…