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Overview: The managed identities can be used both in the Azure Batch Account and Azure Batch Pool, which may cause confusion in some situations. This blog is aimed to help you understand the differences between the usage of the managed identity in the Azure Batch Account and in the Azure Batch Pool. The managed identity configured on the Batch account only grants permission for the Azure Batch Account to authenticate to other services but not for Azure Batch nodes (or Pool VMs). If the purpose is to grant the Azure Batch nodes access to other Azure resources, then you are looking for the managed identity configured in the Azure Batch Pool. Outline: Overall…

We are pleased to announce that we will start deploying RDP Shortpath for public networks on September 6th. We anticipate the regional deployments will be complete by the end of September, first delivering the feature to validation host pools before going live in production host pools. RDP Shortpath improves the transport reliability of Azure Virtual Desktop connections by establishing a direct UDP data flow between the Remote Desktop client and session hosts. This feature will be enabled by default for all customers. What is RDP Shortpath for public network? RDP Shortpath lets user sessions directly establish a Unified Data Platform (UDP) flow between client and…

Made with MRTK is a monthly series where we share sample projects that leverage the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK). You’re welcome to leverage the resources provided to create your own experiences or iterate on the samples provided. For those new to MRTK, the toolkit provides a set of components and features used to accelerate cross-platform MR development in Unity. To learn more, visit aka.ms/mrtk! Growing up in the DC area, I loved everything there was to love about visiting the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum! Upon entering the museum, you’re greeted by massive aircraft and the chance to see so many awesome artifacts in-person. I’ve personally always been fond of…

Continuing with our release cadence, we’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 0. Since the first public preview in May 2022, anyone can download SQL Server 2022 RC0 to try the new features in this release. SQL Server 2022 is the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation across performance, security, and availability. It is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, which unifies operational databases, analytics, and data governance. RC0 brings the following new features and capabilities to SQL Server 2022: Query Store Degree of parallelism (DOP) feedback - im…

The article is published here on the SQL Server Blog: New granular permissions for SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL to improve adherence with PoLP - Microsoft Tech Community Diagram: Split of VIEW SERVER/DATABASE STATE into VIEW SERVER/DATABASE PERFORMANCE STATE and VIEW SERVER/DATABASE SECURITY STATE Continue reading...

In the last 3 years, the SQL Security team has put more emphasis on enabling customers to use SQL Server while adhering to the Principle of least Privilege (PolP). As part of that effort, all new features in the next SQL Server release: SQL Server 2022, can be controlled with more granular permissions. SQL Ledger is a good example of such a new feature. It comes with separate permissions for creating (ENABLE LEDGER) vs dropping ledger tables (ALTER LEDGER); a separate permission to view ledger content (VIEW LEDGER CONTENT) for auditing purposes; and another independent permission to generate a ledger digest (GENERATE LEDGER DIGEST). Besides new features, a lot of effor…

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Government | July 2022 Features currently available to Microsoft commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments now rolling out to customers in the US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD). Microsoft open sources its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool Microsoft is excited and proud to open source its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool. A key requirement of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, SBOMs are lists of ingredients that make up softwa…

In this post, I share my recent experience with trying out machine learning including resources I used, my takeaways, and where I would want to go next with learning about ML. Approaching ML Recently, my team and I got started with exploring machine learning. We started with reading this awesome introductory blog post, ”Machine Learning for Everyone.” This served as a map of what kind of capabilities exist under the umbrella of machine learning and helped clear up some of the mysticism that often surrounds terms like machine learning and AI. Our interest was specifically ways we could apply neural networks to healthcare as a follow up to our project, Chest…

The CI/CD in ADF uses ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates that contain the pipeline, dataset, linked services, triggers, etc. definition. The deployments require turning off all the triggers in the data factory using PowerShell (PrePostDeploymentScript.ps1). Most of the time, this is okay. Still, when you had mission-critical pipelines, say an event trigger-based or a pipeline that required zero-latency start, it may cause latency or even loss of events due to the triggers being turned off during deployments. The problem gets worse when deployments take longer. While it is essential to turn off the updated triggers for a safe deployment since those contai…

Before we start, please note that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate them in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to tha…

Before we start, please note that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate them in the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to tha…

“Certified teams responsible for core IT activities are generally 20% more productive than uncertified staff” Trained and certified teams translate to performance boosts across the organizational and personal spectrum. IDC found that certified teams responsible for core IT activities are generally 20% more productive than uncertified staff.1 Skillsoft’s 2021 annual IT Skills and Salary Survey found that, after certification 49% of respondents felt that the quality of their work had improved; 39% of respondents were more engaged with their work; and 27% were faster at performing their jobs.2 The key to effective upskilling How do you ensure that your tra…

As organizations look for new ways to connect staff, customers, and partners, we’re excited to share news about increased interoperability of Azure Communication Services with Microsoft Teams with the general availability of Azure Communication Services support for Teams users. This enables the development of applications that connect people to the Teams platform and the potential to realize even more from communication investments. This new capability makes it possible to: Develop specialized business applications that enable calling experiences for Teams users directly within the app. Create new workflows for apps that require custom management of incoming a…

Today, we’re excited to announce that Microsoft Viva Engage, the newest app within Microsoft Viva, is now generally available for customers worldwide. Viva Engage is an evolution of the Yammer Communities app that brings new capabilities and experiences to help people strengthen their work relationships, find and share knowledge, and feel included all within Microsoft Teams. For users that already use the Communities app, this change will happen automatically and introduces new features designed to connect people, amplify their voice and perspective, and find belonging at work. People at the Center The personalized Home shows you a feed of con…

Starting today, the Yammer Communities app for Teams is now Viva Engage, the newest app for Microsoft Viva, designed to connect people, find and share knowledge, express yourself, and find belonging at work. Viva Engage gives leaders new tools to shape culture and align their workforce through new communication and engagement opportunities. For employees, it provides new ways to build a sense of community, strengthen relationships with coworkers, share their work and perspective, and find answers to their questions – all within Microsoft Teams desktop, web, and mobile. Viva Engage will be coming to Outlook soon. Viva Engage is available at no additional cost …

The Azure Data Community Council has spent much of the last 18 months establishing the guard rails for how the Council would work. From establishing a meeting cadence, to how meetings progress, how the community can reach them with questions or feedback and even establishing a member’s term. In early May 2022, we opened applications to replace Board/Council members that had reached the end of their term. We explained the role, responsibilities, and requirements. We laid out how the application and selection process would work. Requirements to join the Council were: Must be in a leadership role in a current Azure Data Community User Group. Must be able to sign …

We know many of you are using Teams Poll to better engage with your audience and we are glad to share some of the optimizes. Submission animation A “Thank-you” message will be displayed after successful poll submission, which aims to provide confirmation and establish inclusive experience of acknowledgement and appreciation of participation. After the animation, audience will see the result if presenter shared. Dynamic Result View We are enhancing the result view for Choice and Quiz Question in Teams Polls: Optimized the layout and animations to encourage more participants. In the quizzes, we also highlight…

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 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 monitor …

Azure Monitor can be used for centralized monitoring and analysis of log data by using Kusto query, thus Azure Monitor allows you to effectively monitor and visualize Azure resources. Azure Arc also empowers Azure Monitor to expand its capability to on-premise and other public clouds. You can monitor every resources across environments, Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, on-premise and others, with Azure Monitor and Azure Arc, then Azure Monitor minimize your effort to manage all the resources regardless locations or environments. Refer to Azure Monitor overview article for the detail. [attachment=20984:name] [attachment=20985:name] Azure Monitor is a very powerful so…

Custom Neural Voice (CNV), a Speech capability of Cognitive Services on Azure, allows for the creation of a highly realistic humanlike voice that can convert text input into speech. This can be used to personalize a customer experience or enhance a brand image with a custom persona all while enabling localization and accessibility through multiple languages. It’s an incredible technical achievement and one that is just beginning to unravel its potential use cases. This blog seeks to document some of the learnings that a Microsoft Technical Account team had in working through a proof of concept (PoC) with a large media content provider on CNV. This is not a technica…

Introduction Are you thinking to migrate to Synapse? Did you know that Synapse does not support all SQL features but aren’t certain about which ones apply to you? Looking to build a large database but aren’t sure of what engine to use? If you answered Yes to any of these questions you came to the right place. We will give you a very brief introduction to the major analytical databases, and if you think Synapse may be a good fit for your SQL workload this package will help you identify incompatibilities so you can plan your migration effort. Link to public github repo: silvam-microsoft/SynapseCompatibilityChecks: Detects incompatibilities migrating fr…

CU4 for BizTalk Server 2020 is now available for download. For details on fixes and download link, please follow the master KB: KB5009901 - Cumulative Update 4 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 You may want to bookmark this index page for updates related to BizTalk Server: Service Pack and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server As with CU3, the EN download is available by default. All other language packages will be made available on need basis. If a download is not available for the supported BizTalk language that you need, please contact us for the same. As a quick reminder, for BizTalk Developer Tools please also update/install vers…

Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh update (2.1) is now available! The Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh update (2.1) release includes a stability fix for Linux only. Packages and Versions Service Fabric Runtime Ubuntu 18 - 9.0.1086.1 Ubuntu 20 - 9.0.1086.1 Current Breaking Changes Customers running Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters will not be able to scale out or reimage (manual or auto via VMSS OS Image Update) nodes or create new Linux clusters without upgrading to this version of Service Fabric (9.0.1086.1). Also, if your application requires JDK, then you will need to install a JDK of your choice since SF will not install the …

Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fifth Refresh update (5.1) is now available! The Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fifth Refresh update (5.1) release includes a stability fix for Linux only. Packages and Versions Service Fabric Runtime Ubuntu 18 - 8.2.1483.1 Current Breaking Changes Customers running Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters will not be able to scale out or reimage (manual or auto via VMSS OS Image Update) nodes or create new Linux clusters without upgrading to this version of Service Fabric (8.2.1483.1). Also, if your application requires JDK, then you will need to install a JDK of your choice since SF will not install the JDK as part of the SF insta…

With the wealth of learning resources available for you to skill up on Azure, where do you start? If you’re on your own, in a work group, or in a large enterprise, figuring out where to begin and how to proceed with your learning journey can be challenging. This post is like a multi-tool—it gives you quick access to all the different Microsoft Learn resources available to you. Plus, it explains how these resources support your skilling journey in diverse ways and can help you take your skills to the next level, whether you’re just starting out in IT or you’re a seasoned professional. Our aim is to help you map out—and take the next steps on—your personal learning j…