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As we mentioned in our recent blog post, April 13, 2023 (which marks the end of support for Exchange Server 2013) is approaching quickly. To help Exchange 2013 customers move to a newer version of Exchange Server, here’s an overview of Exchange 2013 decommissioning process. This article focuses on the removal of Exchange 2013 from an environment that already has a Exchange Server 2016 and/or Exchange Server 2019 installed. We won’t go into the steps required to upgrade to Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019. To get those details, see the Exchange Deployment Assistant and create a custom step-by-step deployment checklist for your environment. Also check out the Exchange Serv…

The Amazon Web Services S3 connector allows you to ingest AWS service logs, collected in AWS S3 buckets, to Microsoft Sentinel. The types we currently support are AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and AWS GuardDuty. This article describes common methods for verifying and troubleshooting an Amazon Web Services S3 connector for Microsoft Sentinel. Learn how to connect Microsoft Sentinel to Amazon Web Services to ingest AWS service log data. Issue: Microsoft Sentinel doesn’t receive data from the Amazon Web Services S3 connector or one of its data types The logs for the AWS S3 connector (or one of its data types) aren’t visible in the Microsoft Sentinel workspace fo…

Welcome back to our monthly ADX web UI updates! Continue reading to learn about improvements and new features: Dashboard iframe embedding Funnel visual Status bar now supporting new stats for Datetime datatype Close a single tab functionality .Net and Node.jS support in Sample App Generator Simplifying JSON selection Dashboard iframe embedding It is now possible to embed Azure Data Explorer dashboards in 3rd party apps. This comes on top of allowing embedding of the Monaco editor in 3rd party apps. Dashboard embedding allows you to easily share data with your customers in a way that allows them to interact and explore it. Using the various feature f…

As a developer, you need to make decisions when it comes to building, deploying, and securing your application. Frequent questions you might ask are: Which cloud services should I use with my code? Which libraries do I need to use? How should I set up my local development environment? How do I provision the necessary infrastructure for my application? How do I know that what I’m doing incorporates security best practices? The Azure Developer CLI helps you answer these questions. It provides you with a clear path for building your application in the cloud. Azure Developer CLI (azd) —a new, open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes to get started …

Function App under at least a Premium plan could have unlimited execution time. However, it might caused a duplicated invocation issue with a ServiceBus trigger because the "PeekLock" duration is up to 5 minutes (including renew). It is a tutorial to reproduce such the scenario. STEP 1: In Azure portal, create a new Premium python Function App and a Service Bus + Queue STEP 2: Download the sample code and apply some changes. https://cchlab.blob.core.windows.net/cchlab/cchlabsbf.zip In "host.json", please specify the Function App timeout and the ServiceBus PeekLock timeout as below. In "ServiceBusQueueTrigger1/function.json", please setup …

This article is a part of series articles for Azure Monitor. Please refer to How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.1 overview first before reading this post. This post dives deeply for Compute/Inside category among monitoring categories as highlighted blue. Article No monitoring category monitoring target Note 2 Compute Reboot monitor reboot frequency CPU monitor CPU usage Memory monitor memory usage 3 Compute/Inside OS Log file monitor event log and syslog Process mo…

We know that one of the core request from form desingers is to get more response for the surveys or form. Also, trying to make the invitation message be attractive, sending the form to multiple places, and keep reminding people manually take designer a lot of effort. Now, we are exciting to share that MS Forms new invitation channel can help you! All-in-one people picker help you quickly find the group in-org In Forms’ new sending experience, you can search individual people, email group, Teams chatgroups/meeting chat and Teams channel in our all-in-one people picker. Some of your audience get used to Teams but the others still leave in Outlook? No worries!…

If you checked out our WAC 2208 Public Preview of SDN extensions, you may be presented with a notification like the below when attempting to load Virtual Networks and/or Logical Networks: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. Why is this Happening? This will only take place on Windows Admin Center (WAC), Public Preview 2208. All older versions of WAC builds are not impacted. Additionally, we are looking to automate this change and may remove this article or edit by stating it is no longer relevant. The connection between the Network Controller client and Windows Admin Cente…

Are you looking to take the next step in your cloud journey and pivot away from managing file servers? Why not look at Azure Files! In short; Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, Network File System (NFS) protocol, and Azure Files REST API. Azure file shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments. SMB Azure file shares are accessible from Windows, Linux, and macOS clients. NFS Azure file shares are accessible from Linux or macOS clients. Additionally, SMB Azure file shares can be cached on Windows servers with Azure File Sync for fast access …

Join us on Tuesday, August 30th, 2022, 5pm EDT, for the monthly Microsoft 365 Meetup for Government meeting. This month's topic: Zero Trust is essential for modern security architecture and a core protection framework for agile growth. Unlike old models that assume a level of trust once an asset is approved, Zero Trust never stops reviewing the asset as a potential threat. In this session, AvePoint will review what a Zero Trust model means to the collaboration workspaces of your digital workplace and solutions that can help minimize impact on users. Register Here to join our August 2022 Meeting. Not part of the group? Join Here to become part …

We continue to enhance Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Identity Governance to help you meet security needs and preserve employee productivity at scale. Recent enhancements include the introduction of multi-stage access reviews and custom workflows in entitlement management using Azure Logic Apps. Based on your feedback, we’ve made it even easier for you to automate your processes for access lifecycle management with a new preview of automatic assignment policies in entitlement management. In this preview, Azure AD adds and removes users’ access across groups, Teams, SharePoint sites, and apps as their attributes change (such as when someone joins, moves between…

There’s a team at Microsoft working hard to help the company’s 220,000-plus employees adopt Microsoft Viva. The Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE), focuses on Microsoft’s own digital transformation through world-class employee experiences. When Microsoft Viva was announced in 2021 as a modern platform dedicated to employee growth, well-being, and productivity, the MDEE team was tasked with rolling out new technologies, accelerating usage, and collecting feedback and best practices. To accomplish this, the team centered around these key areas: Activating sponsors Educating employees Listening to employee feedback Partnering with HR and Learning teams…

Microsoft partners like Audioburst, Fivetran, Skkynet, and YData Labs deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=21457:name] Audioburst - Audio Content Analysis: Audioburst’s enhanced content analysis tools extract actionable data points, enhance search and discovery, improve recommendations, and provide monetization opportunities using NLP and AI on Azure. [attachment=21458:name] Fivetran Data Pipelines: Fivetran automatically ingests and centralizes your data from hundreds of data sources using over 180 data connectors. Fivetran data pipelines support a variet…

Let’s say that your organization is in Exchange hybrid setup and you already migrated some mailboxes to Exchange Online. Now you need to convert some of those migrated user mailboxes to shared mailboxes. How do you do this? This is a question that we get from our customers a lot. The tricky part here arises because the mailboxes have already been migrated to Exchange Online. This means you can’t simply use Set-RemoteMailbox -Type Shared as per the documentation. Moreover, because they’re objects that are synced from Active Directory (AD) just modifying them from the Exchange admin center in the cloud won’t work because the object is mastered on-premises. Finally, you m…

Many of the sys.dm_os_ring_buffer entries support matching XEvent (security_error, resource_monitor)_ring_buffer_reported events. For example: How It Works: What are the RING_BUFFER_RESOURCE_MONITOR telling me? - Microsoft Tech Community outlines the resource monitor report. The logic: When a ring buffer record is recorded the matching XEvent is fired when enabled. A bit of confusion comes from the naming. When querying sys.dm_os_ring_buffers the ring buffer name is not the same as the event name. For example: RING_BUFFER_RESOURCE_MONITOR is the name of the ring buffer, and the event is resource_monitor_ring_buffer_recorded when exposed as the XEvent. …

About a year ago, we launched the Azure Monitor Agent (or AMA) as a powerful new agent from Azure Monitor and a simpler world of data collection. A lot of you adopted it already. Some witnessed a 50% cost reduction with the agent's filtering capabilities while others saw a reduction of 2000 person-hours using Data Collection Rules to centrally manage agent configuration. We also made a bunch of improvements (view past releases) in response to your growing needs around security, reliability, supporting new information, resource types, distros, operating systems, and network perimeters, to make the agent even more powerful and resilient. If you haven't already, adopt and mi…

As documented in Use Azure tags in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), you can use Azure tags on an AKS cluster to associate its related resources to a given workload or tenant. For some resources, such as a managed data disk created via a persistent volume claim or an Azure Public IP created by a public Kubernetes service, you can also use Kubernetes manifests to set Azure tags. Azure tags are a helpful mechanism to track resource usage and charge back their costs to separate tenants or business units within an organization. This article explains how to set Azure tags for AKS clusters and related resources. Azure Tags Tags are metadata elements that you apply to …

Polls app has been widely adopted in Teams meetings in driving engagement and alignment, high demand raised the bar in launching polls in a faster and productive way. To better assist Teams meeting organizers collect feedback and engage with audience, we’ve released the new poll question types of Rating and Ranking. Teams meeting users can utilize them in the following scenarios: Scenario 1 – Use Rating Poll to check the sentiment and preference of participants At the end of the meeting or session, many of the presenter may want to know how does the audience feel about today’s meeting, is this meeting efficient enough or are they satisfied with the content you…

Starting with a predefined template is one of the long-running requests from our customers. Today, we are excited to share that Forms introduced various templates based on most frequently asked categories. Moreover, those templates are tailored for different user segmentations, of which Education scenarios are our top focuses. Visit https://forms.office.com to explore more. Starting from this September, teachers, students, or staff will be able to grab a jump start and customize to save retyping time. Directly on top of Forms Portal Page, Educators will see 4 main template categories: Feedback and evaluation survey Registration and application form Acad…

Objective: This doc will help you have a better understanding of the self-hosted portal architecture, and the binding behind the scene. In some cases you might need functionality beyond the customization and styling options supported in the managed developer portal. If you need to implement custom logic, which isn't supported out-of-the-box, you can modify the portal's codebase, available on GitHub . For example, you could create a new widget to integrate with a third-party support system. How to build and publish a self-hosted developer: Please go over the following document to build and publish a self-hosted developer portal, we will not expand t…

Introduction Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides server authentication and channel defenses (encryption and integrity verification) for communication between two applications such as a web browser and a web server. Optionally, TLS can provide client authentication, too. Most TLS connections today use X.509 certificates, and core to certificates are root Certificate Authority (CA) certificates. For a client to successfully establish a secure connection to a server using TLS, the client system must trust the CA that issued the server’s certificate. The word ‘trust’ in this scenario means the client has the CA’s root certificate installed in the client system. …

This is the next segment of our blog series highlighting Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors who achieved the Gold milestone and have 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 Arsalan Khattak who is from Pakistan and recently graduated from the National University of Modern Languages - Islamabad with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Responses have been edited for clarity and length.  When you joined the Student Ambassador community in 2019, did you have s…

Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Scenario Provision persistent storage in Azure Machine Learning studio with Azure NetApp Files Pre-requisites Note on Connectivity Preparing the working environment Azure Cloud Shell and Extensions Setting variables Deployment steps Provisioning of services Preparing repository Creating Azure Machine Learning studio resources Start training job Results of training job Deployment steps - Azure Machine Learning studio notebooks Preparation and requirements Provisioning Compute instance Configuring compute instance Accessing Azure NetApp Files from notebook Sn…

To monitor the overall health & reliability of graphics drivers supporting Software Digital Rights Management (SWDRM), we have developed a new ecosystem measure that provides visibility into the health of graphics drivers when hitting media engine errors. Percent of machines using PresentAT that hit one or more media engine errors during video playback on the Netflix app, which supports Software Digital Rights Management (SWDRM). This measure monitors media engine errors that arise for driver versions using Present AT on Netflix app. (PresentAt on Netflix app (Software Digital Rights Management) where the % of machines hit one or more media engine errors - Windows…