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The HTTP TRACE method vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-38115, is a critical security concern within Internet Information Services. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit the HTTP TRACE method, which can be misused for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Such attacks can enable malicious actors to intercept and manipulate user data, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data breaches, and other security incidents. Identify the issue To diagnose the issue, open your PowerShell console and run the following command to check if the server is responding to the TRACE method. Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://<your_address>:<port> …

We’re thrilled to invite you to the HR Tech Conference, taking place September 24-26 in Las Vegas. This premier event is considered the world's leading conference and expo for HR and IT professionals and the perfect opportunity for you to explore the latest AI-powered innovations in HR technology to help reimagine your employee experience. At the HR Tech Conference, you'll have the chance to connect with thousands of HR and IT decision-makers from around the globe. This event is known for its comprehensive agenda, featuring keynote sessions, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops led by industry experts. Whether you're looking to stay ahead of the latest trends, n…

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions functionality in Azure Event Hubs in the Premium and Dedicated tier. With this, Event Hubs has now achieved 100% Kafka compatibility until Apache Kafka version 3.0 to further tap into the Apache Kafka ecosystem and empower customers who want to leverage the Apache Kafka APIs on Azure Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service. Kafka Streams is a client library for building applications and microservices that process data in real-time from multiple Kafka topics. Kafka Transactions enable you to produce and consume messages atomically across multiple partitions a…

Summer is a wonderful time in the Northeastern United States, but it’s so brief. With sunny days calling me outside, it’s a constant tension between getting just one more thing done at my PC or taking a break for a walk or run. To help with that struggle and still enjoy all the season has to offer, I need to be even more focused on the task at hand. Luckily, technology helps me—from turning on “Do not disturb” mode in Teams, which helps maintain concentration time, to using Microsoft Copilot transcriptions to catch up on content. In that spirit, I’m highlighting three new capabilities we’re rolling out (some won’t arrive until after this post is published) in Microsoft In…

The M365 Community Days NYC 2024, held on July 26th at the Microsoft Times Square Office, was a premier event for anyone looking to enhance their knowledge and skills in Microsoft 365. This conference brought together industry experts, Microsoft MVPs, and dedicated community leaders to deliver informative sessions on the latest Microsoft 365 features and technologies. Attendees had the opportunity to network with other IT professionals, engage in hands-on labs, and participate in various fun activities and social events. The event was not only educational but also a fantastic way to connect with like-minded professionals and enjoy the vibrant atmosphere of New York City. …

By: Abigail Stein – Product Manager | Microsoft Intune With Intune’s August (2408) service release, Managed Home Screen (MHS) is now supported on Android Enterprise fully managed devices in addition to Android Enterprise dedicated devices. With the update to supported devices for MHS, Microsoft Intune now offers more options to select for your home screen experience for Android Enterprise corporate owned devices. By default, your devices are pre-configured with an OEM built launcher. Launchers provide the background interface and organize access to other applications. To create a customized and consistent look and feel across these devices, you can choose to r…

We are excited to share the latest advancements in Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra disks, the next generation of Azure disk storage. We have enhanced the backup and disaster recovery experience for Pv2 and Ultra disks to help you protect your workloads with ease. In addition, we have improved the security measures for Virtual Machines (VMs) equipped with Pv2 and Ultra. Pv2 and Ultra disks offer high throughput, high input/output operations per second (IOPS), and low latency for scenarios ranging from input/output (IO)-intensive workloads like SAP High-performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA) to general purpose applications across Relational Database Management Syst…

You’ve asked how to manage mobile and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scenarios. With mobile device management (MDM), of course! Device management is an important part of a larger security strategy, so we’ve collected resources to help you get started or improve with MDM. Learn about deployment and management of Windows and various mobile platforms, endpoint and app management, update management, and how to handle management and deployment as securely as possible. [ATTACH type=full" alt="timer-icon.png]63636[/ATTACH] Time to learn: 136 minutes Go deeper on the following MDM-relate…

Today, we’re excited to announce that the ability to specify multiple different VM sizes in your Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) with Flexible Orchestration Mode with Instance Mix. This new capability allows you to specify up to five different VM sizes to use in your VMSS deployments. Not only does this simplify the management of your scale sets, but it also allows you to optimize your deployments for either price or capacity through allocation strategies. Benefits Single API call: In one API call, you can specify and deploy up to five VM sizes in your scale sets. Optimized deployments: You can optimize for the available capacity in Azure regions/zones with …

1. Introduction We recently introduced a OneDrive Sync Health dataset in Microsoft Graph Data Connect. This provides a list of all devices running Sync, including details about whether they have enabled Folder Backup and are running into any errors. This ensures that any files being created or updated are properly synchronized with the OneDrive cloud. This makes sure that even if your computer is lost or broken, your files are safely stored. However, there is another potential issue you should track as a OneDrive administrator. There could be users that are not running OneDrive Sync at all. These users could be saving files locally to their desktops or lapto…

[ATTACH type=full" alt="Phi3getstarted.png]63625[/ATTACH] After the release of Phi-3 at Microsoft Build 2024, it has received different attention, especially the application of Phi-3-mini and Phi-3-vision on edge devices. In the June update, we improved Benchmark and System role support by adjusting high-quality data training. In the August update, based on community and customer feedback, we brought Phi-3.5-mini-128k-instruct multi-language support, Phi-3.5-vision-128k with multi-frame image input, and provided Phi-3.5 MOE newly added for AI Agent. Next, let's take a look [HEADING=2]Multi-language support[/HEADING] In previous versions, Phi-3-mini had …

Adoption of Generative AI technologies is accelerating, driven by the transformative potential they offer across various industry sectors. Azure AI enables organizations to create interactive and responsive AI solutions customized to their requirements, playing a significant part helping businesses harness Generative AI effectively. With the new custom field extraction preview, you can leverage generative AI to efficiently extract fields from documents, ensuring standardized output and a repeatable process to support document automation workflows. [HEADING=3]Field Extraction using Large Language Models [/HEADING] To extract fields from documents using Large Lan…

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are transforming the world as we know it. With the power of data, you will have countless opportunities to create something new, unique, and exciting. Whether you are a seasoned data scientist or a curious beginner, you need a platform that can help you build, train, deploy, and manage your machine learning models with ease and efficiency. Azure Machine Learning has always been the backbone for machine learning tasks, and we want to further help you in your machine learning journey by improving the way you write code. The VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning has been in preview for a while and we are excited to a…

[JUSTIFY]We're excited to announce the general availability of integrated vectorization with Azure OpenAI embeddings in Azure AI Search. This marks an important milestone in our ongoing mission to streamline and expedite data preparation and index creation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and traditional applications. [ATTACH type=full" alt="Integrated vectorization simplifies RAG pipelines]63613[/ATTACH]Integrated vectorization simplifies RAG pipelines[/JUSTIFY] [HEADING=1][JUSTIFY]Why is vectorization important? [/JUSTIFY][/HEADING] [JUSTIFY]Vectorization is the process of transforming data into embeddings (vector representations) in order…

Today, we are excited to announce that Text to Speech (TTS) Avatar, a capability of Azure AI Speech service, is now generally available for developers, enterprises and content creators. This service brings natural-sounding voices and photorealistic avatars to life, enhancing customer engagement and overall experience. With TTS Avatar, developers can create personalized and engaging experiences for their customers and employees, while also improving efficiency and providing innovative solutions. The TTS Avatar service provides developers with a variety of pre-built avatars, featuring a diverse portfolio of natural-sounding voices and an option to create custom sy…

The Phi-3 model collection is the latest in Microsoft's family of Small Language Models (SLMs). They are designed to be highly capable and cost-effective, outperforming models of similar and larger sizes across various benchmarks in language, reasoning, coding, and math. The availability of Phi-3 models expands the selection of high-quality models for Azure customers, offering more practical choices as they compose and build generative AI applications. Since the launch in April 2024, we have received lots of valuable feedback from our customers and community members on areas for improvement in the Phi-3 models. Today, we are proud to announce Phi-3.5-mini, Phi-3.5-vision,…

Check out the latest expert briefings, Teams Insider Podcast, Microsoft Teams Operator Connect updates and upcoming community events. [HEADING=1]Expert Briefings[/HEADING] Searching for Teams Messages [ATTACH type=full" alt="Searching for Teams Messages.png]63591[/ATTACH] Empowering.Cloud In our latest community briefing, MVP Nikki Chapple explains the three methods to search Microsoft Teams messages. The three methods to search for Teams Messages are: User search, content search and eDiscovery Standard [*]User Search: For end-users, quick and shows threaded conversation, security trimmed [*]Content Search and eDiscovery Standard: For admin…

New Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs can help maximize productivity for anyone in graphics-intensive fields such as graphic design, video editing, 3D modeling, and data visualization. With Windows 365, you can stream your Windows experience from the Microsoft cloud to any device and benefit security, increase connection speeds, and reduced latency. [ATTACH type=full" alt="Main.png]63587[/ATTACH] [HEADING=3]Run demanding workloads with GPU-enabled Cloud PCs.[/HEADING] [ATTACH type=full" alt="1.png]63588[/ATTACH] Benefit from on-device generative AI experiences and machine learning models — like the Small Language Model, PHI 3 Mini running offline a…

On August 20, the Viva People Science team held the fifth webinar in its AI Empowerment series. This session was focused on driving Copilot and AI adoption at a team level, complementing what we have learned in earlier sessions about driving this change at an organizational level. I was joined by colleagues from across the Viva Glint team, including Bryan Dobkin (Principal People Scientist), Suni Kasibhatla (Customer Experience Program Manager) and Julie Morris (Program Manager). As a team of internal Copilot Champions, Bryan, Suni and Julie provided an outline of the Copilot adoption initiatives they have been driving within Viva Glint. They discussed the strategy…

As organizations continue to harness the power of Generative AI for building [URL='https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/search/retrieval-augmented-generation-overview']Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)[/URL] applications and agents, the need for efficient, high-performance, and scalable solutions has never been greater. Today, we're excited to introduce [URL='https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/search/vector-search-how-to-configure-compression-storage#option-1-configure-quantization']Binary Quantization[/URL], a new feature that reduces vector sizes by up to 96% while reducing search latency by up to 40%. [HEADING=1]What is Binary Quantization?[…

[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Anomaly Detector, one of Azure AI services, enables you to monitor and detect anomalies in your time series data. This service is based on advanced algorithms, SR-CNN for univariate analysis and MTAD-GAT for multivariate analysis. This service is being retired by October 2026, and as part of the migration process The algorithms were open sourced and published by the new time-series-anomaly-detector · PyPI package. We offer a time series anomaly detection workflow in Microsoft Fabric data platform. [HEADING=1]Time Series Anomaly Detection in Fabric RTI[/HEADING] There are few options for time series anomaly detection in Fabri…

A new spoofing technique labeled “EchoSpoofing” was recently reported that impacted select Proofpoint customers. This blog provides a brief overview of how this particular attack exploited their specific architecture and describes the architecture best practices implemented by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that protect against EchoSpoofing and spoofing attacks broadly. What is “Spoofing”? Spoofing is a tactic used by threat actors to disguise their identity by manipulating data, such as the email sender address, to appear as a trusted source through impersonation. The goal of this technique is typically to deceive individuals or systems into taking actions—…

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 128 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: [TABLE width=95%] [TR] [th width=100%] [HEADING=2]Get it now in our marketplace[/HEADING][/th] [/TR] [TR] [td width=15%][ATTACH=full]63560[/ATTACH][/td] [td width=85%]acoris Template Selector: The acoris Template Selector simplifies document creation by providing quick access to business templates directly in SharePoint. It allows customization for different departments, saving time and increasing productivity. The user-friendly interface and easy deployment make it an efficient tool …

We are excited to introduce new SharePoint design ideas feature with AI powered suggestions for improving the structure of your SharePoint content. With this feature, authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft SharePoint to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart. [ATTACH type=full" alt="pic1.png]63555[/ATTACH] Design ideas identify the text and webpart content of the section you are currently authoring, and suggesting new layouts, backgrounds, text formatting, and image webparts to enhance your section. The author then clicks on the suggestions to try and apply different ideas. [ATTACH type=full" alt="pic2.png…

Deleting a Job also deletes all Tasks that are part of that Job, and all Job statistics. This also overrides the retention period for Task data; that is, if the Job contains Tasks which are still retained on Compute Nodes, the Batch service deletes those Tasks' working directories and all their contents. When a Delete Job request is received, the Batch service sets the Job to the deleting state. All update operations on a Job that is in deleting state will fail with status code 409 (Conflict), with additional information indicating that the Job is being deleted. We can use below PowerShell command to delete one single job using job id: [iCODE]Remove-AzBa…