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As we look ahead toward .NET 7, it’s a good time to provide an update on the isolated worker model and how we are thinking about the .NET roadmap for Azure Functions. In a previous post, we introduced the isolated process model, which decouples your function code from the core Azure Functions host, in contrast to the traditional model where we run them together in the same process. Functions V4 supports .NET 6 in both models, and the isolated process model also supports .NET 7 (public preview) and Framework 4.8 (public preview). In this update, we’ll re-cap some of our recent updates, outline some changes to look forward to, and expand on our thinking about future version…

Kubernetes-native apps are the future. Today's top developers build software with resiliency and resource efficiency in mind for any cloud environment. Network with community members and peers to learn about the latest Java innovations on Kubernetes. It's a free, one-day online event, so attend a few sessions or stay on for the whole thing. Join us for a full day of sessions, including those presented my Microsoft Java product and Advocate teams, to help you gain valuable industry insights and vital job skills from the Java-4-Kubernetes community experts. Microsoft's event schedule includes: What's up at Eclipse Adoptium? -- by George Adams Take the s…

Are you or your end-users annoyed with update notifications? Do you struggle to reach compliance? Well fear not, because Microsoft has developed an optimization that applies a pending Microsoft 365 Apps update while a machine is in idle or locked mode, even if apps are running. We refer to this feature as update under lock, and it uses Click-To-Run technology.   Benefits of this feature Update under lock helps you reach compliance within your timeframes without disrupting your internal users, and potentially reduces the need for abrupt forced updates, making updates more reliable by saving app state before closing. Zero notifications, zero disruptions! …

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 Welcome to #ServerlessSeptember | Building Cloud Native Apps 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. Last week, @kendallroden wrote about what it means to be cloud native and how Azure Container Apps provides a serverless containers platform for hosting all of your cloud native applications. Today, we’ll walk through a few ways to get your apps up and running on …

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 Welcome to #ServerlessSeptember | Building Cloud Native Apps 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 If you have been working with Azure functions for a while, you may know Azure Functions is a serverless FaaS (Function as a Service) offered provided by Microsoft Azure, which is built for your key scenarios, including building web APIs, processing file uploads, r…

An App Service Environment is an Azure App Service feature that provides a fully isolated and dedicated environment for running apps securely at high scale. Organizations may require an isolated environment for running App Service apps for many reasons, such as where physical separation of data is a compliance requirement in a certain country or regulated industry or where organizations want dedicated resources to achieve very-high scale. An App Service Environment provides a single-tenant deployment of Azure App Service that runs in your virtual network. Using an App Service Environment, developers host applications from only one organization, using one of their v…

Security and privacy are critically important when using the cloud to store and process sensitive data. Our vision at Azure confidential computing is to enable organizations to achieve the highest levels of privacy for their most sensitive workloads. To achieve this, we’ve extended encryption to protect “data in-use” via new technologies, complementing industry standard protections for “data at-rest” and “data in-transit”. Earlier this year, we announced the general availability of the DCsv3-series Virtual Machines, which enable more performance, memory, and security capabilities. This offering takes silicon-level protection to the next level. Intel Software Guard …

With Microsoft Teams being the preferred platform for real-time collaboration, signing documents during meetings was a need to be covered. Teams Store has many integrations with e-signature providers and by offering them a ready to implement solution so their customers can sign documents during meeting was a common ask. Teams Ecosystem Engineering developed a proof of concept so any ISV or customer can implement signing documents during meetings. This application will let the document owner select the document to sign and add it to a meeting. Depending on the role of the attendees (signers or viewers), users will be able to sign or see the document during the meeting…

Build a Logical Enterprise Data Warehouse using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 and Synapse Serverless SQL pools Overview A common pattern in Modern Data Warehouse architecture is to land your source data in its existing format into a data lake followed by transforming and loading it into an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for reporting and analytics. In Microsoft Azure, this translates to loading data into Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS), transforming data with Synapse or Azure Data Factory Pipelines, storing data in an Azure Synapse Dedicated Pool database or other Azure relational data store, and building reports over that data in Power BI, Excel, or ot…

Hello everyone, The August update of AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server is now available! This release has a number of important updates in our underlying Kubernetes infrastructure including Kubernetes 1.23.* support. We also moved the Windows container runtime to containerd. As always, you can try AKS on Azure Stack HCI or Windows Server any time using our get-started guide. If you do not have the hardware handy to evaluate AKS on physical hardware you can use our eval guide to set up AKS on a Windows Server Azure VM. Here are more details about the changes you'll see in this update: Support for Kubernetes 1.23.3 and 1.23.5 I'm ha…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Scenario Preparation Installation of sample application Manage WordPress application with ACS Enable application consistent snapshots Upgrade test Summary Additional Information Abstract In this article, we describe how NetApp Astra Control® can simplify development & testing (dev & test) use cases for applications running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), using Azure NetApp Files as the storage service. We demonstrate how Astra Control enables application teams to easily test production applications running on AKS for compatibility with newer AKS v…

Written in collaboration with @ShabazShaik and @gusmodena. Introduction: Azure Firewall is a cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security service 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. Multiple customers are looking for a feature that provides a centralized view of the Firewall rules and recommendations based on all the traffic passing through their Firewalls. In this blog we will discuss in detail about the Policy Analytics which help you with enhanced Logging and Firewall rule management …

During the everyday work of the SOC, suspicious and malicious events surface from many sources. Events which are identified by SIEM and XDR systems are aggregated into alerts, and those alerts become incidents. However, at times a possible security breach is reported by other means - such as a phone call, an email, hunting results or a customer request. Those incidents need to be documented when it has been reported, partially investigated, or even resolved. As part of our journey to build better incident management capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel, we would like to announce the "Manual incident creation" feature, along with the "delete incident" capability. With…

Introduction: In the Service Bus Peek&Lock receive mode, there are three API that might be invoked after a message is Peeked. Complete() API – Message received. Completes the receive operation on a message. Abandon() API – Message deliver failed， put the message back to queue with delivery count increased Defer() API – Indicates that the receiver wants to defer the processing of the message. This article will analyze a scenario where messages are abandoned instead of completed when using the JMS approach of the Service Bus receiver. There are mainly 3 sections in this article: What is JMS? JMS and Service Bus integration? How to mitigate the 'me…

We work closely with customers using Azure Policy and have seen many different methods of deploying and maintaining it, from manual to over-complicated automated methods, everyone has a unique way of doing it. This code was developed to make policy deployment and management simpler while providing full flexibility for complex environments. The driver was looking at the over-engineered methods and incomplete solutions being used and trying to produce something that could easily be implemented and managed by people with little knowledge of infrastructure as code, while still being scalable and maintainable. The solution allows you to deploy policies, initiatives (set…

On 1 November 2022, Azure will no longer accept connections from older versions of the Operations Manager agent, also known as the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA), that use SSL V1. If Operations Manager agent is setup to send data to Log Analytics as per Connect Operations Manager to Azure Monitor, please upgrade your agent to the latest version by that date. We encourage you to be on the latest version of the agent. Agents that are on version 10.19.10177.0 (2019 UR3 or newer) or 10.22.10056.0 (2022 RTM) won't be affected. If you're on an agent prior to that, your agent will be unable to connect to Azure Log Analytics. Required action Please upgrade to…

During the everyday work of the SOC, suspicious and malicious events surface from many sources. Events which are identified by SIEM and XDR systems are aggregated into alerts, and those alerts become incidents. However, at times a possible security breach is reported by other means - such as a phone call, an email, hunting results or a customer request. Those incidents need to be documented when it has been reported, partially investigated, or even resolved. Today we would like to announce the "Manual incident creation" feature, along with the "Delete incident" capability. With the "manual incident creation" feature, analysts can now create an incident manually in …

Where To Start The following are a complete set of resources geared to those new to Azure Static Web Apps; what it is, and how best to start learning and utilizing. Introduction to Azure Static Web Apps: 5-minute video explaining what Azure Static Web Apps is: Docs, "What is Azure Static Web Apps?" https://azurestaticwebapps.dev/blog/building-swa Building first Static Web App: "#02: Building SWA" article on #30DaysOfSWA https://azurestaticwebapps.dev/blog/building-swa Short workshop walking through learn modules https://github.com/microsoft/workshop-library/tree/main/short/intro-   What is Azure Static Web Apps? | Microsoft Docs …

Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying to help our readers a bit more, whether that is learning, troubleshooting, or just finding new content sources! We will give you a bit of a taste of the blog content itself, provide you a way to get to the source content directly, and help to introduce you to some other blogs you may not be aware of that you might find helpful. If you have been a long-time reader, then you will find this series to be very similar to our prior series “Infrastructure + Se…

Voices of Healthcare Cloud is a webinar series hosted by myself, @Vasu Sharma & @Joshua Thompson. My name is Shelly Avery, I am currently a Dir, Healthcare Specialist for Health and Life Sciences focusing on the largest Payor and Provider customers in the US, Vasu is a Sr Customer Success Manager for Microsoft 365 for Health and Life Sciences & Josh is a Sr Account Executive for Healthcare. The goal of this webinar series is to showcase how Healthcare is seeing positive business and clinical outcomes with cloud technology. We will be bringing new and creative solutions to you at least once a month, so we hope you tune in live or catch the on-demand recordin…

Hello hello, everyone! Here is a quick recap of this week in the MTC. MTC Moments of the Week Our Member of the Week shoutout this week goes to @dscheikey. Your contributions to the Excel community have been so helpful, and we appreciate you! Over in Events, we had a new episode of Unpacking Endpoint Management live with hosts @Danny Guillory and @Steve Thomas (GLADIATOR), who chatted with Product Managers @Eric Orman and @Donna_Ryan from the Windows 365 team about endpoint management of Windows 365 Cloud PCs. You can also bookmark Unpacking endpoint management: the series for links to previous episodes on demand and details on upcoming episodes. …

There’s a known issue with the noncompliance messaging details that appear in Company Portal for Windows 10/11 devices. When a device is identified as noncompliant due to having a Windows build outside the ranges an admin specifies in the Intune compliance policy, a remediation message is displayed in the Company Portal indicating the operating system (OS) needs updating along with a valid range of OS versions. However, when multiple OS ranges are specified in the policy by configuring the Valid operating system builds compliance setting, the message in the Company Portal will only display the first OS build range rather than all acceptable ranges. The compliance p…

Hi! Welcome again to my second article in the series on Power Pages. In the last article, I introduced you to Power Pages, explaining in detail what it entails and it's amazing features. In today's article, we will be going a step further in learning how to use Azure AD B2c as an Identity provider for setting up authentication on your website. I'm Favour Adeshina a Beta Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador from Nigeria, and an advocate of Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. I believe that youths and students should be empowered with tech skills, which will in turn bring about innovations in society. As a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, I actively teach and man…

In July, we announced a new way to share and express yourself in Microsoft Viva Engage and Microsoft 365 called storyline. Storyline empowers everyone within your organization to connect and contribute, and enables your leaders to reach and engage employees. Through storyline, people can share updates, experiences, and perspectives to reach followers and colleagues across the organization. You can find, follow, and share to storylines from the applications you use every day including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and Microsoft Viva. Meet Storyline How to get Storyline Yammer Network Admins will need to opt-in to public preview for their orga…

On June 6th, 2012, when we launched the world-class platform-as-a-service (PaaS) named Azure Websites—and later expanded to Azure App Service—one of our central promises was to offer a plan that always remained free. Our goal back then was to give developers the flexibility to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs on their own terms, regardless of price. Today, we remain just as committed to that goal—and are doubling down on our commitment to improving and growing the free tier alongside our premium offerings. The free tier captures the world-class benefits of the App Service platform Like the other App Service plans—from Basic to Isolated to Premium—the…