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Issue I have seen situations where customers use FTP with the "User name physical directory (enable global virtual directories)" option for FTP User Isolation and receive the "530-User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible" error. However, when they switch to the "FTP root directory" option for FTP isolation, it works without issues. [ATTACH type=full" alt="hridaydutta_0-1724080659665.png]63285[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type=full" alt="hridaydutta_2-1724079777825.png]63286[/ATTACH] Solution The FTP User Isolation option "User name physical directory (enable global virtual directories)" enable each user has their own physical directory, and glob…

In today's rapidly evolving AI landscape, the integration of AI tools into the workplace is no longer a distant future but a present reality. Our latest research, The state of AI change readiness eBook, delves into current employee readiness for AI-related change and its implications for organizations on their AI journey. [HEADING=1] 4 key findings from the 2024 state of AI change readiness eBook:[/HEADING] Engaged employees are 2.6x as likely to say they fully support AI being integrated in their workplace and are eager to contribute to the success of the transformation. This study finds early indication that strong employee experience does have a positive relation…

Welcome to the August 2024 edition of Azure Functions newsletter! We'll share the latest news for Azure Functions here on the Apps on Azure blog. [HEADING=1]Azure Functions monthly community live stream[/HEADING] Join us for our upcoming on August 20, 2024, at 8:00 AM PST (15:00 UTC). Tune in to hear from Nikita Nallamothu and Thiago Almeida as they discuss the latest releases in Azure Functions, and cover performance testing and cost optimizing HTTP function apps using Azure Load Testing. Mark your calendars for this informative session! Subscribe to the Azure Developers YouTube channel! [HEADING=1]Product News[/HEADING] Following i…

In this blog post, guest blogger Martin Bald, Sr. Manager DevRel and Community at Microsoft Partner Wallaroo.AI, will go through the steps to easily operationalize LLM models and put in place measures to help ensure model integrity. He will touch on the staples of security, privacy, and compliance in avoiding outputs such as toxicity, hallucinations etc. using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] With the emergence of GenAI and services associated with it such as ChatGPT, enterprises are feeling the pressure to jump on the GenAI train and make sure they are not left behind in the AI adoption stampede. …

[TABLE width=100%] [HEADING=1]Release News[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Teams[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Retirement of Auto install approved apps in Teams admin center[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Windows 365[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Inbound Access to Port 3389 Closed by Default for Windows 365 Cloud PCs[/HEADING] [TABLE width=100%] [HEADING=1]Newsworthy Highlights[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Elevating Government Productivity: Microsoft 365 Copilot at the Forefront[/HEADING] The digital transformation within government sectors is accelerating, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a pivotal role in this evolution. Microsoft is leading t…

Are you ready to connect with OneDrive product makers this month? We’re gearing up for the next call. And a small FYI, we are approaching production a little different: The call broadcasts from the Microsoft Tech Community, within the OneDrive community hub. Same value. Same engagement. New and exciting home. Join the OneDrive product team live each month on our monthly OneDrive Community Call (previously ‘Office Hours’) to hear what's top of mind, get insights into roadmap updates, and dig into a special topic. Each call includes live Q&A where you'll have a chance to ask the OneDrive product team any question about OneDrive - The home of your files. [A…

If you're a small or medium-sized business looking to enhance your operations with Microsoft tools, mark your calendar for an exciting opportunity! On Wednesday, September 25th, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PT, Microsoft will be hosting a live Microsoft Tools for Small and Medium Businesses Ask Me Anything (AMA) event, featuring experts ready to answer your questions and provide personalized advice. This AMA is your chance to connect with Microsoft professionals who specialize in helping small and medium businesses (SMBs) leverage the power of Microsoft Teams, Copilot for Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and more. Whether you're looking to streamline your workflows, improve co…

[ATTACH type=full" alt="GabeHo_0-1723747362164.png]63223[/ATTACH] I thought it'd be fun this week to run a bit of an experiment and use Copilot to help me figure out how to best amplify this blog, while hopefully showing you some prompts along the way and inspiring you to think about how you could use Copilot in your daily tasks! Social media is a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes, but especially so for small and medium-sized businesses that rely on it as a means to reach new customers and drive sales. But Marketers are always pressed for time, and juggling strategy and content creation can be overwhelming and time-consuming. How do you create enga…

Today, the Arc Jumpstart team is excited to announce the general availability of ArcBox 3.0! Since it was first introduced in 2021, ArcBox has been our most deployed product and widely used by our field sellers and the Jumpstart community. ArcBox remains an invaluable resource for IT professionals, DataOps teams, and DevOps practitioners, providing comprehensive solutions to evaluate how to deploy, manage, and operate Arc-enabled environments. [ATTACH type=full" alt="2024-08-12_13-57-13.png]63218[/ATTACH] [HEADING=1]Jam-packed release[/HEADING] In this jam-packed release, we wanted to address some of the biggest pain points our users shared…

[ATTACH type=full" alt="Näyttökuva 2024-08-19 142126.png]63217[/ATTACH] [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Mikä on Microsoftin MVP-ohjelma? Miten pääsen mukaan?[/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Tule mukaan MVP x AI Day -tapahtumaan 10.9. kuulemaan vastauksia ja muutakin![/HEADING] Järjestämme yhdessä Suomen Microsoft MVP:iden kanssa (Most Valuable Professional) teknisen päivän kumppaneiden teknisille asiantuntijoille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneet MVP-toiminnasta (mvp.microsoft.com). Tapahtumassa esiintyy nykyisiä suomalaisia MVP-henkilöitä, jotka puhuvat heitä lähellä olevasta AI-aiheesta ja kertovat oman MVP-tarinansa. Lounaalla on mahdollisuus verkostoitua ja tutustua kolleg…

In this guest blog post, Srija Reddy Allam, Cloud Security Architect at Fortinet, describes the usefulness and vulnerability of APIs in modern business as well as how to secure them with Fortinet solutions. Applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) have become integral parts of modern business. Whether we are using our phones, visiting websites, or interacting with applications, it's the APIs that perform the tasks behind the scenes. Despite their significance, these applications and APIs are highly vulnerable, posing a potential threat to business operations. According to Forbes, in 2023, hackers gained access to the health information of more tha…

Kicking off a new weekly series that aims to explore new ways in which Copilot in Excel can help empower and inspire the way you work. This week, the focus is on how Copilot can create calculated column formulas to improve your tables. The posts highlight formulas that can split full names, concatenate values to create email addresses, work with date columns, convert text to numbers, and show additional units of measure. Here is an example from Monday, of how Copilot can help split existing columns into multiple columns using a single prompt: [ATTACH type=full" alt="Use Copilot to create new columns given a text prompt]63215[/ATTACH]Use Copilot to create new colum…

Azure AI Document Intelligence is an AI service that provides you with a simple set of APIs and a studio experience to effectively extract content, structure like tables, paragraphs sections and figures, and fields, predefined for specific document types or custom fields for any document or form. With the Document Intelligence APIs, you can effectively split, classify, extract fields or content from any document or form at scale. Document Intelligence continues to provide more value for your document processing needs. We recently announced a reduction in price for the custom extraction model from $50/1000 pages to $30/1000 pages, we also lowered the price for commitmen…

By far, one of the most popular uses of large language models is RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) combines the power of large language models with the knowledge of a search engine. This allows you to ask questions of your own data and get answers that are relevant to the context of your question. [ATTACH type=full" alt="RAG diagram]63210[/ATTACH] We want to empower all developers to build RAG applications, so we're excited to announce RAGHack: a global hackathon with live streams, prizes, and advice from experts. [ATTACH type=full" alt="RAG AI Hack Banner.png]63211[/ATTACH] RAGHack is your opportunity…

Azure Custom Policies Azure custom policies are used to extend and customize the behavior of Azure services to meet specific requirements that are not addressed by the built-in policies. Reference on how to fix common issues while creating custom policies can be found here : Troubleshooting Common Custom Policy Issues in Policy Development Custom Policy for Sending logs to Log analytics workspace and Storage Account We use custom policies to send logs to a Log Analytics workspace and a Storage Account in Azure to ensure that all required logs are consistently and automatically collected and stored for analysis, auditing, and compliance purposes…

Recently, we faced a requirement to upgrade large number of Azure SQL databases from general-purpose to business-critical. As you're aware, this scaling-up operation can be executed via PowerShell, CLI, or the Azure portal and follow the guidance mentioned here - Failover groups overview & best practices - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn Given the need to perform this task across a large number of databases, individually running commands for each server is not practical. Hence, I have created a PowerShell script to facilitate such extensive migrations. # Scenarios tested: # 1) Jobs will be executed in parallel. # 2) The script will up…

[ATTACH type=full" alt="aswa-community.jpg]63185[/ATTACH] Sejam bem-vindos a primeira edição da Comunidade do Azure Static Web Apps! Todo mês, nós compartilharemos os conteúdos que a Comunidade Técnica criou, seja em formato de artigos, vídeos, podcasts que falam sobre o Azure Static Web Apps. Quer ter o seu conteúdo compartilhado no TechCommunity no #ThisMonthInAzureStaticWebApps? Veja como! 1 - Crie um artigo, vídeo, podcast ou até mesmo algum projeto Open Source que fale ou tenha relação com o Azure Static Web Apps. 2 - Compartilhe o seu conteúdo no Twitter, LinkedIn ou Instagram com a hashtag #AzureStaticWebApps 3 - Compartilhe ta…

The MDTI and Unified Security Operations Platform teams are excited to introduce an MDTI premium data connector available in the Unified Security Operations Platform and standalone Microsoft Sentinel experiences. This connector enables customers with an MDTI premium license and API license to apply the powerful raw and finished threat intelligence in MDTI, including high-fidelity indicators of compromise (IoCs), across their security operations to detect and respond to the latest threats. Microsoft researchers, with the backing of interdisciplinary teams of thousands of experts spread across 77 countries, continually add new analysis of threat activity observed a…

Microsoft Defender for Containers secures Kubernetes clusters deployed in Azure, AWS, GCP, or on-premises using sensor data, audit logs and security events, control plane configuration information, and Azure Policy enforcement. In this blog, we'll take a look at Azure Policy for Kubernetes and explore the Gatekeeper engine that is responsible for policy enforcement on the cluster. Each Kubernetes environment is architected differently, but Azure Policy is enforced the same way across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in AWS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in GCP, and on-premises or IaaS. Defender for Containers uses an open-s…

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of OSSKU Migration in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This new feature enables users to take an existing AKS node pool and update the OSSKU for an in-place move between Ubuntu and Azure Linux. Previously when OSSKU was immutable, users had to create new node pools and explicitly drain their workloads into them, which was both labor intensive and required additional VM quota. In this blog post we will dive into how to use this feature, the tech stack that supports it, and some considerations to make sure the upgrade goes smoothly. [HEADING=1]Using OSSKU Migration[/HEADING] OSSKU Migration is supported b…

With the deprecation of Log analytics agent (also called MMA or OMS), it’s a great opportunity to discuss its successor – the Azure Monitor Agent or in short - (AMA), and why it is so much better and keeps improving! AMA is a lightweight log collection agent, designed to consume as little resources as possible when collecting metrics and logs from your server. It can be installed on various flavors and OS versions of both Linux as well as Windows machines hosted in Azure, on-premises or any other cloud environments. When installed on non-Azure machines, AMA requires the installation of Azure Arc agentry to provide mirroring and centralized cloud management capabil…

[HEADING=1]What are Dev Containers?[/HEADING] A development container essentially packages up your project's development environment using the Development Container Specification ([iCODE]devcontainer.json[/iCODE]). This specification enriches your container with metadata and content necessary to enable development from inside a container. Workspace files are mounted from the local file system or copied or cloned into the container. Extensions are installed and run inside the container, where they have full access to the tools, platform, and file system. This means that you can seamlessly switch your entire development environment just by connecting to a different co…

Spoiler (Highlight to read) Windows Server 2025 is the most secure and performant release yet! Download the evaluation now! Looking to migrate from VMware to Windows Server 2025? Contact your Microsoft account team! Windows Server 2025 is the most secure and performant release yet! Download the evaluation now! Looking to migrate from VMware to Windows Server 2025? Contact your Microsoft account team! The 2024 Windows Server Summit was held in March and brought three days of demos, technical sessions, and Q&A, led by Microsoft engineers, guest experts from Intel®, and our MVP community. For more videos from this year’s Windows Server Summit, pleas…

In this blog series dedicated to Microsoft's technical articles, we'll highlight our MVPs' favorite article along with their personal insights. Michael Blumenthal, M365 MVP, United States [ATTACH type=full" alt="Michael Blumenthal.jpg]63138[/ATTACH] Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 - Introduction | Microsoft Learn “This is a great resource for M365 Tenant Admins and Service owners wanting guidance on how to mature the operation and usage of their tenant." *Relevant opportunity (Please refer to the [Resources] section in the content above for more details.): Join the Maturity Model Practitioners Kevin McDonnell, M365 MVP, United Kingdom [ATTACH…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 229 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]62963[/ATTACH][/td] [td width=85%]Adaptive Analytics Suite: Adaptive Analytics Suite from Spektra Systems is a platform that offers advanced analytics to adapt to changing business needs. It provides real-time insights, predictive capabilities, and robust data analysis to help organizations make informed decisions.[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=15%][ATTACH=…