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Expanding Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) support to new devices and form factors
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Earlier this year at Enterprise Connect, we announced new silicon and OEM partnerships for meeting room devices built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP). Since then, we have collaborated closely with our partners to make MDEP more widely available. Today, we are excited to announce that MDEP now provides native support for Microsoft Teams Desk Phones and Microsoft Teams Panels. This expansion, achieved through close collaboration with Microsoft Teams, enables our device partners to rapidly adopt MDEP across the breadth of Teams' Android-based devices. "We are thrilled to bring the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform to Teams Phones and Teams Panel…
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Upcoming June 2024 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call
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Join us for our next community call on June 25, 2024, where we'll showcase how you can maximize your AI transformation with Copilot investments and enable your admins, adoption managers, and senior leaders to drive user enablement, satisfaction, and impact. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour for both of our sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively). If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the calendar invites, program assets, and previous call recordings. Continue reading...
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Pricing Update: Token Based Billing for Fine Tuning Training 🎉
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We’re updating our billing for fine tuning with the Azure OpenAI Service to bill based on the number of tokens in your training file – instead of the total elapsed training time. Model Previous Price New Price Babbage-002 $34 / hour $0.0004/1K tokens Davinci-002 $40 / hour $0.006/1K tokens GPT-35-Turbo (4k) $45 / hour $0.008/1K tokens GPT-35-Turbo (16K) $68 / hour $0.008/1K tokens GPT-4 $102 / hour $0.080/1K tokens Why make this change? If you’ve fine-tuned before – or thought about it and decided against it – you may have strug…
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Azure Sphere OS version 24.06 is now available for evaluation
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Azure Sphere OS version 24.06 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. The retail evaluation period for this release provides 14 days (about 2 weeks) of testing. During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate properly with this release before it is deployed broadly to devices in the Retail feed. The 24.06 OS Retail Eval release includes a security update. For more information on Azure Sphere OS feeds and setting up an evaluation device group, see Azure Sphere OS feeds and Set up devices for OS evaluation. For self-help inquiries or technical support, review the Azure Sphere support options. Continue readi…
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Myths and misconceptions: Windows 11 and cloud native
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Let’s discuss the myths around the move to cloud-native management, with Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra ID, and Windows 11. In this post, we will address some common questions and misconceptions by sharing insights and perspectives gathered from the conversations we’ve had with organizations of all sizes from around the globe this past year. We understand that as an IT pro a big part of your role is to help manage change, and to mitigate risks when implementing those changes. So, when considering a joint move to cloud-native management and keeping up to date with Windows 11, why does the task seem so daunting? Is it a singular, monolithic project—or two distinct,…
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Partner Case Study Series | Iraya Energies
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[HEADING=2]Using Microsoft Azure to serve the data needs of the energy industry[/HEADING] Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with offices in Singapore, the Philippines, Denmark, Norway, and the United States, Iraya Energies employs a talented mix of data scientists, geoscientists, and engineers. The tech startup became a Microsoft partner in December 2018 and has utilized Microsoft Azure for a few years. ElasticDocs Intuitive Knowledge Container, the company’s flagship product, is a cloud-enabled web solution that organizes, structures, and accesses unstructured data for the energy industry. It’s available in a Software-as-a-Service model through the Microsoft Az…
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Effective strategies for conducting Mass Password Resets during cybersecurity incidents
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You're in the middle of a cyber incident, and you know certain accounts have been compromised, but you are not certain of the full extent of the Threat Actor’s impact. What do you do? Oftentimes, Microsoft Incident Response will recommend a mass password reset. This helps you regain control of your identity plane, deny other avenues of access, and disrupt any persistence the attacker may have established in your environment. However, and especially for larger organizations, navigating mass password resets can be a complex task. In this blog post, we'll discuss the practical challenges of performing a mass password reset, how to prepare to carry one out, and best practices…
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Microsoft 365 data residency offerings now available in Spain
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We are excited to announce that Microsoft 365 and its associated data residency offerings – Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo capabilities – are now available for commercial customers in our new cloud region in Madrid, Spain. With the availability of Microsoft 365 will now offer Multi-Geo and ADR add-ons to provide customers provisioned in Spain with greater control over the location of their cloud data. Multi-Geo allows customers to configure in which geographies their Microsoft 365 user data is stored at rest, on a per-user basis and within a single tenant. Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams are available for Multi-Geo con…
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General availability of Azure WAF Bot Manager1.1 Ruleset
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Today, we are launching the general availability of Bot Manager1.1 ruleset in Azure WAF integrated with Azure Front Door. Bot Manager1.1 extends all the rules in the existing Bot Manager1.0 ruleset and adds multiple new rules to provide comprehensive bot management capabilities to web applications. The new capabilities introduced in this ruleset include new Goodbots rules and a new Badbots rule. The main value prop of the new ruleset is to reduce false positives in good bot detections and increase true positives in malicious bot detections. Benefits of the new rules in the Goodbots rule group: Improving SEO rankings due to good bots crawling webs…
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3 Microsoft marketing campaigns that can help position your AI-powered solutions
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The transformation to AI-based automation is a new reality for businesses worldwide. By 2025, it's expected that 95% of all new digital workloads will deploy to the cloud and 90% of enterprise apps will use AI technology. As a Microsoft partner, you can leverage three customizable ready-to-use marketing campaigns to drive demand and convert leads. The Era of AI campaign allows you to market your Azure AI solutions to help your customers quickly adopt and deploy Microsoft Copilot, solidify their technology foundation, leverage AI-infused SaaS apps and services, learn to use AI securely and responsibly, and much, much more. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is a r…
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Part 6: Introducing Deployment Stacks to Azure Data Factory
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] This is part 6 on our series on Azure Data Factory CI/CD. This section will cover how to incorporate Azure Deployment Stacks into your Azure DevOps Pipelines. Part 1 Architecture and Scenario Creating resources in Azure Create Azure Storage Containers Create Azure Key Vaults Create Azure Data Factory: With Key Vault Access Part 2 Configure Azure Data Factory Source Control Construct Azure Data Factory Data Pipeline Publishing Concept for Azure Data Factory Configure Deployed Azure Resources. Part 3 The YAML Pipeline Structure The Publish Process ARM Template Parameterization ADF ARM Template Deployme…
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Keeping our Outlook Personal Email Users Safe: Reinforcing Our Commitment to Security
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At Microsoft, our aim is to provide a modern and secure email experience for our users, leveraging the latest technologies to enhance functionality and ease of use. When it comes to Outlook, we want to ensure our customers' emails, documents, calendar, and contacts are safeguarded from unauthorized access, tampering or loss. Today, we're announcing changes to Outlook for personal use to enhance the security of our consumer customers. These changes are aligned to the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI). They are: The deprecation of Basic Authentication for Outlook personal email accounts effective September 16, 2024 A reminder of end of support for the Mail &…
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Discover the Learning Accelerators at ISTELive 24
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We can't wait to meet you in person at ISTELive 24 in Denver, June 23-26, 2024! Join us for an exciting week of live demos, theater sessions, PD workshops, and so much more. Educators at the Microsoft booth at ISTE, titled: ISTELive 24 in Denver, June 23-26, 2024, Booth #1300. Live demos, theater sessions, PD workshops. As you think about the next school year, ISTELive is a great opportunity to dive into our Learning Accelerators, a new category of AI-enhanced learning tools included in Microsoft 365 at no cost for Education. These tools help streamline the creation, review, and analysis of practice assignments while providing students real-time coaching to …
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Boxfusion and Skypoint offer transactable partner solutions in Azure Marketplace
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Microsoft partners like Boxfusion and Skypoint deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=54230:name] Botsa: Botsa works with Microsoft Teams to provide a simple, familiar, and user-friendly interface for your employees to improve internal communications and processes. By handling routine queries, Botsa frees up your staff to focus on more complex tasks, increasing overall productivity and transforming your workplace experience. Reduce operational costs by automating common queries and processes. [attachment=54231:name] Skypoint AI Platform for Senior Livin…
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Prevent SQL Injection attacks on your PostgreSQL servers
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SQL injections are one of the most common and popular application attack vectors used with the goal of retrieving sensitive data from companies. When you hear about stolen financial information, defaced web sites or even systems takeover, they often happen through complex hacking attempt, which in many cases starts with common SQL injection vulnerabilities being exploited. Fortunately, you can follow some very easy techniques to prevent SQL injection affecting your system with PostgreSQL backend. [HEADING=2]What is SQL Injection?[/HEADING] SQL injection (SQLi) is a common cybersecurity exploit that targets commercial and open-source relational data…
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How to budget your Azure cloud spend with Microsoft Cost Management
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] If you are using Azure for your cloud applications, you might be wondering how to manage your costs effectively. You might have heard of Microsoft Cost Management, a service that helps you monitor, analyze, and optimize your cloud spending[1]. But did you know that Microsoft Cost Management also offers a powerful feature called Budgets? Budgets are a way to set spending limits and track your costs against them. They help you avoid surprises in your bill, align your spending with your business goals, and empower your teams to make informed decisions[2]. In this article, you will learn the benefits of having a budget in Microsoft …
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Copilot Deployment Kit in Viva Amplify now generally available
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We are excited to announce the general availability of the Copilot Deployment Kit in Viva Amplify. Transform your organization to a new way of working with the power of AI in Copilot for Microsoft 365! Leveraging Microsoft’s internal Copilot deployment learnings and best practices, this Copilot Deployment Kit will help you drive awareness and adoption of Copilot by enabling employees to learn how to get ready for Copilot, what Copilot can do for them in their Microsoft 365 apps, and where to learn more. Pre-built Copilot Deployment Kit available on campaign home page in Viva Amplify. Includes 8 pre-drafted communications and campaign brief with obje…
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Save the Date for Global DevOps Experience on June 15!
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The Global DevOps Bootcamp, an annual event series that has captured the attention of the DevOps community worldwide by hosting local events to share the latest DevOps and relevant technologies as well as case studies, is being rebranded as the "Global DevOps Experience" (GDEX). This exciting event will take place on Saturday, June 15, 2024. This event series will feature insights on DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience (DevEx), leveraging technologies such as Azure, AI, and GitHub. DevOps communities from around the globe will come together to share their knowledge and experience. Microsoft MVPs and Regional Directors are planning various loc…
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Boosting Code Security with GHAS Code Scanning in Azure DevOps & GitHub
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Code scanning, a pipeline-based tool available in GitHub Advanced Security, is designed to detect code vulnerabilities and bugs within the source code of ADO (Azure DevOps) repositories. Utilizing CodeQL as a static analysis tool, it performs query analysis and variant analysis. When vulnerabilities are found, it generates security alerts. CodeQL CodeQL is a powerful static analysis tool used for showing vulnerabilities and bugs in source code. It enables developers to write custom queries that analyze codebases, searching for specific patterns and potential security issues. By converting code into a database format, CodeQL allows for sophisticated, database…
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RAG on structured data with PostgreSQL
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RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is one of the most promising uses for large language models. Instead of asking an LLM a question and hoping the answer lies somewhere in its weights, we instead first query a knowledge base for anything relevant to the question, and then feed both those results and the original question to the LLM. We have many RAG solutions out there for asking questions on unstructured documents, like PDFs and Word Documents. Our most popular Azure solution for this scenario includes a data ingestion process to extract the text from the documents, chunk them up into appropriate sizes, and store them in an Azure AI Search index. When your RAG is on…
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Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hub
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Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs. Azure Chaos Studio is a managed service that uses chaos engineering to help you measure, understand, and improve your cloud application and service resilience. Chaos engineering is a methodology by which you inject real-world faults into your application to run controlled fault injection experiments. Azure Chaos Studio has added a new fault action for Azure Event Hubs called Change Event Hub State. This fault action lets users disable entities within a targeted Azure Event Hubs namespace either partially or fully to test messaging infrastructure for maintenance or failure scenarios for an application dep…
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Our latest work to improve Azure Functions cold starts
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We continually work to improve performance and mitigate Azure Functions cold starts - the extra time it takes for a function that hasn’t been used recently to respond to an event. We understand that no matter when your functions were last called, you want fast executions and little lag time. In this article: How we measure cold start and the work done to improve it in the Azure Functions platform. What you can do to optimize your functions to improve your app’s cold start performance. Provide your feedback on Azure Functions cold start. [HEADING=1]How we measure Azure Functions cold start[/HEADING] In measuring Azure Functions performance, we prioriti…
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Tuning logical replication on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
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Native logical replication is a built-in feature which was introduced in PostgreSQL 10. It is aimed to replicate data between tables in two separate Postgres databases using a replication identity, usually a primary key. It follows a publisher and subscriber model where there can be one or more publishers or subscribers. The publisher and subscriber databases can be on the same Azure Database for Postgres - flexible server or on two different servers. The typical use-cases for logical replication are: Sending incremental changes in a single database or a subset of a database to subscribers as they occur. Sending the change to subscribers could also help in eve…
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Upcoming Changes to Supported Versions of Visual Studio for Remote Debugging with Azure App Service
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You can attach the Visual Studio debugger to any .Net process running on Azure App Service. This allows you to debug the deployed web app as though it's running locally. For more information about how to attach Visual Studio debugger for a web app deployed to Azure App Services please refer to: Remote Debug ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service (Windows) Troubleshoot with Visual Studio - Azure App Service | Microsoft Learn Over the past few years, we have received feedback from our customers regarding the opening of ports on local machines to use remote debugging with App Service. This often requires multilevel approvals and leads to configurational & …
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps’ Shadow IT Discovery Capabilities Now Support MacOS
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The rapid growth of SaaS apps makes it challenging to gain visibility across the apps used in an organization’s environment. SaaS apps are often used without the awareness of IT departments, a phenomenon known as Shadow IT. Moreover, the swift adoption of generative AI apps introduces an additional layer of security complexity and risks. Organizations need effective app security solutions more than ever to ensure that employees only access approved and safe apps. A key aspect of combating Shadow IT is ensuring comprehensive visibility into all the apps used in an organization’s environment, which includes the identification of all SaaS apps used by employees, regar…