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Two file types are required for the on-premises update management with Unified Update Platform. In July we announced a private preview of the Unified Update Platform (UUP) for organizations to manage updates on premises. This preview prepares you to experience your Windows updates in a unified format, no matter the channel through which you get these updates. If you are one of these IT admins in the private preview or plan on trying it out in the future, this brief update is just for you. Specifically, we have observed that if you use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), you need to add .msu and .wim MIME types on your WSUS servers to support UUP on premises. There a…

In both our personal lives and at work, we’re always looking for ways to improve our productivity and efficiency. Apps redefine the realm of what's possible to achieve through better collaboration, easy access to information, and reduction of process complexity, costs, and time. Many companies use an average of 200-plus apps to handle everything from project management to budgeting, communications to issue reporting. And as they serve the needs of different functions across organizations, the number of apps continues to grow. Millennials and members of Gen Z, who make up more than half of today’s workforce, expect to have the same modern IT experiences in the workp…

Introduction When administrating an Azure environment, or any environment really, one will most likely find a way to track changes that were introduced. There are a number of ways to do this. Within Azure can query the Subscription or Resource Group Deployment, the downside though is this approach is limited to just the scope you are querying on. What if this is a larger organization with multiple subscriptions? You could also rely on a well-established CI/CD pipeline, a third-party governance tool, or in this case query Azure directly via the Resource Graph Explorer. For this blog will focus on using the Azure Portal offering of the tool; however, want to not…

Show me the money! You have a use case which a Bot can easily fulfil. You now ask your team how much it would cost. You are unable to get a straight answer. What is the Bot Cost Structure There are three cost factors: The hosting plan, the channel(s) and any auxiliary services. App Service plan All bots are hosted on an App Service Plan. See pricing details. Based on the expected interaction rate with the bot, you will need to choose the right tier. Channels As mentioned in the documentation for this, you will be charged based on your channel tier, either premium or not. Today only the DirectLine and WebChat are co…

Author(s): Arshad Ali and Abid Nazir Guroo are Program Managers in Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team. Introduction Data Lakehouse architecture has become the de facto standard for designing and building data platforms for analytics as it bridges the gap and breaks the silos created by the traditional/modern data warehouse and the data lake. This blog post introduces you to the world of data lakehouse and it goes into details of how to implement it successfully in Azure with Azure Synapse Analytics. What is a Lakehouse Traditionally, organizations have been using a data warehouse for their analytical needs. As the business requir…

Auditing for Azure SQL database has started supporting User Managed Identity. Auditing can be configured to Storage account using two authentication methods, managed identity and storage access keys. For managed identity you can use system managed identity or user managed identity. To know more about UMI in azure refer here To configure writing audit logs to a storage account, select Storage when you get to the Auditing section. Select the Azure storage account where logs will be saved, you can use two storage authentication types i.e., managed identity and storage access keys. For managed identity, we support system and user managed identity. By defau…

Following our release cadence, we are pleased to announce the release of SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) for Linux. To download the latest RC 0 container images, please use the ‘2022-latest’ tags for both RHEL and Ubuntu based container images. Please see SQL Server 2022 public preview is now available on Linux blog for detailed instructions on how to get started with the container images. To install the SQL Server 2022 RC 0 packages, follow these steps: For RHEL based installations see RHEL: Install SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs For Ubuntu based installations refer: Ubuntu: Install SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server …

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This article explains how to use Azure Portal to configure and view logs for your Azure database for PostgreSQL. Note: This blog post applies to both Single Server and Flexible Server. Azure Database for PostgreSQL allows you to configure and access PostgreSQL server logs. There are various scenarios to use the logs, such as identifying errors, troubleshoot suboptimal performance, and repair configuration issues. Azure PostgreSQL logs are available on every node of a flexible server. You can ship logs to a storage server, or to log analytics service. This post discusses how you can configure Azure Database for PostgreSQL logs and shares methods to ac…

Today we're sharing details on the new app-only authentication method and end-of-service account creation. We'll also take a deep dive into the device registration process, including some new capabilities to help resolve device issues, and touch on new reporting availability. For those hoping to get an update on when Windows Autopatch might be available for Education and Government customers, know that there's work in progress in that area, but nothing more we can share at this time. Stay tuned! Windows Autopatch today When we introduced Windows Autopatch back in April, we had a feeling that the service might catch on. Gartner's recently released "Magic Quadrant" …

Introduction Azure Synapse Studio is the primary tool to use to interact with the many components that exist in Azure Synapse Analytics, allowing you to perform a wide range of activities against your data and build a fully integrated analytics solution. Integrating Synapse Studio with a Source Control System such as Azure DevOps Git or Github has been shown as one of Studio’s preferred features to leverage collaborative work and source control. Working collaboratively and tracking code changes in an integrated analytics platform that combines data warehousing, big data analytics, data integration, and visualization, can be quite challenging. Multidisciplinary…

It’s been a while since our last MEC, and a lot has changed since then. The MEC Technical Airlift is a free, digital event for IT professionals who work with Exchange Online and/or Exchange Server day-to-day, and ISVs and developers who make solutions that integrate with Exchange. MEC will be THE place for the Exchange community to come together to explore new innovations and information. It features a variety of learning opportunities, deep technical breakout sessions, and time with members of our passionate engineering teams. You'll also hear from some of the best-known names in Exchange around the world and get engaged in the community. First and forem…

Building a holistic data protection and governance strategy is a big task. How can you get started? In this month’s episode of the Uncovering Hidden Risks podcast, we chat with Igor Tsyganskiy, President and CTO of Bridgewater Associates. He is responsible for the end-to-end tech and core investments, including security and governance. Guest host Rudra Mitra, Corporate VP of Microsoft Purview at Microsoft joins host Erica Toelle to also share his perspective on building holistic and scalable security and compliance solutions. Here are some of the topics we cover in this episode: What are your biggest concerns or challenges as President & CTO around d…

Following the completion of our acquisition of Peer5 this last year, both teams have been committed to building a better hybrid workplace for a new era of communications. Over the past year, Microsoft and Peer5 have been working hard to bring that vision to fruition with the integration of Peer5 and Microsoft Teams. Today, we are excited to introduce a new standalone offer, Microsoft eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network), designed to enhance live video streaming across your organization. This new offer is a WebRTC-based solution that leverages peer-to-peer streaming technology and is available for $0.50 per user per month with an annual subscription. …

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 181 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=21903:name] .NET SDK on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS: .NET is a free, open-source developer platform created by Microsoft for building many different types of applications. With this build from AskforCloud, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries, to build for web, mobile, desktop, games, IoT, and more in C#, F#, and Visual Basic. [attachment=21904:name] Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud for Service Providers: Acron…

Exciting news from the Microsoft Viva world landed this past month, plus several new creator experiences across the SharePoint team site landscape. Plus, some nice, related tech across Microsoft 365. August 2022 brought tech goodness of all kinds: Viva Goals GA, Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights updates, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS (beta), new SharePoint team site templates, new web parts and site theme, co-authoring encrypted documents on mobile, new OneDrive home experience, To Do in Outlook for Windows, and more. We also hear from Ankur Madan and Sahil Baid discuss progress in the mobile Lists space, namely bringing access to the Lists - MSA Preview…

Today we're sharing details on the new app-only authentication method and end-of-service account creation. We'll also take a deep dive into the device registration process, including some new capabilities to help resolve device issues, and touch on new reporting availability. For those hoping to get an update on when Windows Autopatch might be available for Education and Government customers, know that there's work in progress in that area, but nothing more we can share at this time. Stay tuned! Windows Autopatch today When we introduced Windows Autopatch back in April, we had a feeling that the service might catch on. Gartner's recently released "Magic Quadrant" …

Co-Authors: Lotta Åhag, Gustav Kruse, Erik Rosendahl. This post will guide you through how we, Lotta Åhag and Gustav Kruse, used Azure AutoML and the 'Enterprise Scale ML (ESML) solution accelerator for Azure', to build an end-2-end machine learning solution in 6 weeks. The value of the solution is estimated to reduce 3.35 tons of Co2 emissions of propane and decrease electricity usage of 90MWh per year after putting the solution into production. The ecological impact is much higher - fewer quality rejections will save a lot of resources including coal (and gas) needed to produce the steel. We collaborated with the Epiroc Data Scientist, Erik Rosendahl, who worked wi…

Are you working with unit measurement data and the data is one unit and you need it another unit? There could be many reasons that you need to convert the value, whether this is due to regional requirements or to simplify for reporting. Great news, the Kusto team have introduced several unit conversion functions to Azure Data Explorer that will help with this. Below you will find the list of unit conversion functions that have been added along with examples. convert_angle - Converts one angle unit to another. Conversion units available for angles: Arcminute, Arcsecond, Centiradian, Deciradian, Degree, Gradian, Microdegree, Microradian…

Detailed description This is a Breaking change when using window functions inside partition operator sub-query scope. Window functions require a serialized/ordered input. There is a bug in Azure Data Explorer logic that allows using window functions inside the partition operator when the ordering is performed outside the partition query scope like this: T | where Timestamp > ago(1d) | order by Timestamp asc | partition by key ( extend next_value = next(value) ... ) This kind of query currently works unintentionally and sometimes the output is not correct. We’re planning to make a change that will fail this kind…

We are excited to announce the release of SCOM management pack for Certificate monitoring! This has been a long standing ask in User Voice (Windows Certificate Monitoring in SCOM) and this MP enables SCOM customers to monitor certificates deployed in their IT infrastructure for Certificate expiration and validation. Certificates are crucial pieces in successful functioning of Server-to-server, Server-to-client communication & Cloud services. While they are time bound and linked to other certificates, there are multiple applications dependent on these certificates. If they expire or become invalid or fail CRL, then multiple services, applications & users cou…

Introduction Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia. I decided to make this post for a couple reasons. The first reason is to demonstrate how you can quickly build a hub between your own lab and your internet devices using Azure and how easy it is. No more port forwarding in your router, public IP addresses in your VMs, everything will route through the Azure gateway, and you will get an any-to-any type of connectivity. The second reason is to demonstrate some important concepts such as: Site-to-Site VPN Point-to-Site VPN BGP Azure AD authentication for VPN Note that everything I will demonstrate here can …

In early 2023, the Intune App SDK for iOS will be ending support for Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) and older versions of the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL). Note: All Microsoft support and development for ADAL, including security fixes ends in December 2022 as announced in Update your applications to use Microsoft Authentication Library and Microsoft Graph API. We recommend customers using ADAL or older versions of MSAL with the Intune App SDK for iOS apps to update to the latest major MSAL version and a minor version not older than 6 months. For example, as of September 1st, 2022, MSAL version 1.2.0 would be the oldest supported versi…

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 highlight 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 recordi…