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Database mail and connection pool depletion
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Database Mail (DBMail) in SQL Server is a feature that allows you to send emails directly from SQL Server, but it has limitations when sending a large volume of emails. The issues you’re experiencing with DBMail not being able to send massive emails could be due to several factors. DBMail relies on the .NET Framework’s [iCODE]SmtpClient[/iCODE] class, and any issues with this underlying component could affect DBMail’s functionality. The SmtpClient class implementation pools SMTP connections so that it can avoid the overhead of re-establishing a connection for every message to the same server. An application may re-use the same SmtpClient object to send many…
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AI-as-a-Service: Architecting GenAI Application Governance with Azure API Management and Fabric
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The past year has seen explosive growth for Azure OpenAI and large language models in general. With models reliant on a token-based approach for processing requests, ensuring prompt engineering is being done correctly, tracking what models and api’s are being used, load balancing across multiple instances, and creating chargeback models has become increasingly important. The use of Azure API Management (APIM) is key to solving these challenges. There have been several announcements specific to the integration of Azure Open AI and APIM during Microsoft Build 2024 to make them easier to use together. As the importance of evaluating analytics and performing data scien…
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Deployment rules for Notebooks: Enhancing Efficiency with Microsoft Fabric.
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Introduction. Fabric Notebooks, an integral component of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, offer a powerful platform for interactive data exploration, analysis, and collaboration. Designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows, Fabric Notebooks provide users with a versatile environment to write, execute, and share code and visualizations alongside workspaces. Fabric Notebooks empower users to engage in interactive data analysis using programming languages such as Python and R. By seamlessly integrating code execution with explanatory text and visualizations, Fabric Notebooks streamline the workflow for data exploration and interpretation. Moreover, noteb…
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Announcing: General Availability of Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code
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[HEADING=1]About Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code [/HEADING] The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code enables developers to build, discover, try, and consume APIs in your API center: Build APIs - Make APIs you're building discoverable to others by registering them in your API center. Shift-left API design conformance checks into Visual Studio Code with integrated linting support. Ensure that new API versions don't break API consumers with breaking change detection. Discover APIs - Browse the APIs in your API center, and view their details and documentation. Try APIs - Use Swagger UI or REST client to explore API requests and respon…
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Azure Linux Partner Showcase: Isovalent
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This month’s partner showcase is with our partner Isovalent which is now a part of Cisco. We are highlighting how Cilium, Azure Linux and Azure Kubernetes Service bring value to our mutual customers. The Azure Linux team is excited to have Isovalent as a partner! From Isovalent: “Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) uses Cilium natively, wherein AKS combines the robust control plane of Azure CNI with Cilium’s data plane to provide high-performance networking and security. Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is an enterprise-grade, hardened distribution of open-source projects Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon, built and supported by the Cilium creators.” The already expansi…
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A very common task for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory and Synapse Analytics Pipelines is to receive unstructured files, land them in an Azure Data Lake (ADLS Gen2) and load them into structured tables. This often leads to a very common issue with unstructured files when “SOMETHING HAS CHANGED” and the unstructured file does not meet the defined table format. If issues are not handled properly within the pipeline, the data workloads will fail and users will be asking "WHERE'S MY DATA???" You then need to communicate with the owner of the file, have them fix the issues, then rerun the pipeline after the issues have been fixed. Along with unhappy users, rerunning faile…
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Logic App Standard Storage issues investigation using Slots
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Logic Apps require an Azure Storage Account file share to host their files. Even though the Logic App site will work without a storage account, it will not be scalable across multiple instances. Unfortunately, if the storage is inaccessible due to DNS or other network issues, both the main site and the Kudu site will not work, resulting in the following error: [iCODE]System.Private.CoreLib: The network path was not found. : 'C:\\home\\data\\Functions\\secrets\\Sentinels'[/iCODE] Usually, to resolve network issues, we need the Kudu console working, but in this case, it is not because the site is broken. The option below should only be used when the site is…
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Build Your Dream With Autogen
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The motivation - Is it possible to solve multi step tasks? The short answer is Yes. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in a variety of applications, such as language generation, understanding, and reasoning, they struggle to provide accurate answers when faced with complicated tasks. According to this research (More agents is all you need), the performance of large language models (LLMs) scales with the number of agents instantiated. This method is orthogonal to existing complicated methods to further enhance LLMs, while the degree of enhancement is correlated to the task difficulty. [HEADING=1]The Application[/HEADIN…
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Announcing new Windows Autopilot onboarding experience for government and commercial customers
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By: Maggie Dakeva – Sr. Product Manager & Juanita Baptiste – Sr. Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Organizations are increasingly adopting a hybrid workplace and Windows Autopilot provides flexibility to deliver devices to users anywhere with internet connectivity. With more and more adoption of Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Intune is enhancing this solution to support a greater variety of scenarios and use cases. Today, Intune is releasing a new Autopilot profile experience, Windows Autopilot device preparation, which enables IT admins to deploy configurations efficiently and consistently and removes the complexity of troubleshooting for both commercial…
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Announcing: Public Preview of Resubmit from an Action in Logic Apps Consumption Workflows
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Announcing: Public Preview of Resubmit from an Action in Logic Apps Consumption Workflows Introduction We are happy to introduce Resubmit Action in the Consumption SKU. This is a feature that customers have been asking for a long time, and we are glad to finally deliver it to Consumption SKU. Resubmit action has been part of Standard SKU for a while, and we have gotten positive feedback from customers. Standard SKU announcement. Background Resubmit from trigger has been a feature available for many years, however customers are looking for more flexibility around being able to resubmit from any action within the workflow. This will give customers more …
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Azure Logic Apps PeekLock caching and Service Bus queue Lockduration
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This article is about optimizations when integrating the “When messages are available in a queue (peek-lock)” Logic App trigger with an Azure Service bus queue. Under high load scenarios or business flows takes from 1 to 5 minutes, stateful logic apps which are triggered by “When messages are available in a queue (peek-lock)” trigger, may need some adjustments for optimizing performance and avoiding degradation issues like the below mentioned: { "code": "ServiceProviderActionFailed", "message": "The service provider action failed with error code 'BadRequest' and error message 'The lock supplied is invalid. Either the lock expired, or the messag…
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The introduction of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enhancement as a component of the GPT-4 Turbo Vision Preview was aimed at generating higher-quality responses for dense texts, transformed images, and number-heavy financial documents. Although, the recent announcement regarding the GPT-4 Turbo 2024-04-09 General Availability (GA) model indicated that the OCR enhancement is not included in this GA version. This blog post delves into the details of how OCR enhancement functions, the additional system prompts used for OCR enhancement, and provides a code snippet that demonstrates how to replicate the OCR enhancement behavior in the GPT-4 Turbo 2024-04-09 GA model by mo…
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Act now: Updated benefits in partner-led offerings to land the adoption of Azure
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Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate are two comprehensive offerings built to work together and enable simpler adoption of Azure—the foundation of the Microsoft Cloud. These offerings provide software and services partners the critical opportunity to support customer organizations from cloud migration to innovation, with Microsoft guidance, enablement, and funding to deliver expert value and win more business. What’s new as of April 1, 2024: Expanded eligibility for partners who build software: Azure Innovate has expanded eligibility for ISVs meeting specific performance criteria (details here). Use Azure Innovate to infuse AI into solutions, a…
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IDC Guest Blog: How micro-credentials can optimize skills in the organization
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There’s no question about it: People are the make-or-break element of a high-performing IT organization. To stay competitive, organizations must ensure that they have the right people with the right skills in the right positions. But with accelerating tech advancements, doing so has never been tougher. IDC data reveals that IT skills shortages are widening in both scope and severity. According to 811 IT leaders responding to the IDC 2024 IT Skills Survey (January 2024), organizations are experiencing a wide range of negative impacts relating to a dearth of enterprise skills. Nearly two-thirds (62%) of IT leaders tell IDC that a lack of skills has resulted in missed…
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How do I Make my LLM Chatbot Better?
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Earlier posts in this series: Part 1: Is my Chatbot Ready for Production? – A 10,000 foot overview to LLMOps Part 2: How do I Evaluate my LLM Chatbot? - A guide to different LLM chatbot evaluation techniques and how to implement them Part 3: How do I Monitor my LLM Chatbot? - A guide to monitoring LLM chatbot security and performance Feedback is a critical, often overlooked, component of the LLMOps lifecycle. User feedback is a great way to gauge application success and guide new features or enhancements on the roadmap. Although feedback can be captured in many ways, the ultimate goal is application improvement. In the age of LLMs, feedback is more…
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Announcing UNISTR and || operator in Azure SQL Database – preview
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We are excited to announce that the UNISTR intrinsic function and ANSI SQL concatenation operator (||) are now available in public preview in Azure SQL Database. The UNISTR function allows you to escape Unicode characters, making it easier to work with international text. The ANSI SQL concatenation operator (||) provides a simple and intuitive way to combine characters or binary strings. These new features will enhance your ability to manipulate and work with text data. [HEADING=1]What is UNISTR function?[/HEADING] The UNISTR function takes a text literal or an expression of characters and Unicode values, that resolves to character data and returns it as a UTF-…
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This blog post will give you an overview of benefits and best practices you will get harnessing APIs and an API Manager solution when integrating AI into your application landscape. Adding Artificial intelligence (AI) to existing applications is becoming an important part in application development. The correct integration of AI is vital to meet business goals, functional and non-functional requirements and build applications that are efficient to maintain and enhance. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play a key part in this integration and an API Manager is fundamental to keep control of the usage, performance, and versioning of APIs – especially …
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How Surface embedded firmware has evolved over 10+ years
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Behind the scenes at Surface, a dedicated team of engineers ensures the hardware and software components of our devices function seamlessly. A crucial part of this integration is the embedded firmware — the software that operates on the microcontrollers and other low-level components of Surface devices. Have you ever wondered what happens after you press the power button and see the spinning circle that shows your system is booting up? That's when the embedded firmware kicks in, managing power, thermal conditions, security, connectivity and other critical features—ensuring your device “just works.” In this post, we'll explore the history of embedded firmware in Sur…
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Enhanced Filtering for Connectors - Improving Deliverability and Minimizing False Positives
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Enhanced Filtering for Connectors (EFC) helps ensure that emails retain their original IP address and sender information when being routed through various services before being routed to Exchange Online by allowing for more accurate identification of spoofing attempts. We’re rolling out an update that will reclassify messages with authentication issues and reduce false positives (e.g., the misidentification of legitimate emails as spoofed). What's changing? When email messages travel through different servers, they can get modified along the way. Sometimes, these modifications unintentionally break the authentication process. Specifically, if a previous server in…
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Enhancing Training Search Experience using Azure AI Video Indexer
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Training and development are vital for Companies often have vast archives of training videos, webinars, and recorded sessions. However, efficiently finding the right training content from video archives can be challenging. This example demonstrates how Azure AI Video indexer, combined with Azure Open AI, can make finding relevant video content easier for learners and trainers. Organizations struggle with the following issues in managing their training video archives: Difficulty in locating specific content: Employees often spend excessive time searching for specific training modules or information within hundreds of training videos. Inconsistent search results: Poor…
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Logic app Standard Storage issue investigation using Slots
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Logic Apps require an Azure Storage Account file share to host their files. Even though the Logic App site will work without a storage account, it will not be scalable across multiple instances. Unfortunately, if the storage is inaccessible due to DNS or other network issues, both the main site and the Kudu site will not work, resulting in the following error: [iCODE]System.Private.CoreLib: The network path was not found. : 'C:\\home\\data\\Functions\\secrets\\Sentinels'[/iCODE] Usually, to resolve network issues, we need the Kudu console working, but in this case, it is not because the site is broken. We can make it work without a storage account by u…
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Unleashing the Potential of AI & Data Science: A quick summary into Microsoft's Tools for students
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[HEADING=1]Unleashing the Potential of AI & Data Science: A Deep Dive into Microsoft's Tools[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]Introduction[/HEADING] Hi, I am Khalid Abdelaty a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, studying Computer Science Student @ Tanta University in Egypt. I am fancisanted by the opportunity of AI and the ability to analyze and interpret data. This blog post explores the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science, and how Microsoft's suite of tools can revolutionize these processes. We'll take an in-depth look at Azure Machine Learning, the new AI Studio, and provide a comprehensive guide to using these tools effecti…
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New Login Experience for Azure Subscriptions with az login
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] If you have multiple Azure subscriptions, you might have experienced the frustration of logging into the wrong one with the az login command. This can cause errors and confusion when you try to run commands or access resources in the wrong subscription. Fortunately, there is a new login experience that makes it easier to select the right subscription. This feature was announced at the Build 2024 conference and is available in version v2.61.0 of the Azure CLI. old az login experience [HEADING=1]How to use the new az login experience[/HEADING] To use the new login experience, you need to update your Azure CLI to the lates…
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Collaboration of 100+ Communities at Global Azure 2024
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The annual Global Azure event, where Microsoft Azure communities worldwide gather to learn about Azure and AI, was held again this year as Global Azure 2024 on April 20. Microsoft MVPs, Regional Directors, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, and community leaders came together, organizing events in 105 cities across 101 communities, creating a new chapter in Global Azure history. This blog post showcases some local events as well as features reflections from the Global Azure Admin Team, who contributed to the event's success. Global Azure Skopje 2024 in Skopje, Macedonia In Skopje, Macedonia's capital, two local communities, the Macedonian .Net Comm…
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Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, 2024 edition
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Now in its 3rd year, POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024 is not only bigger than previous years but some of my Postgres friends who are speakers tell me the event is even better than past years. Sweet. Formerly called Citus Con (yes, we did a rename), POSETTE is a free and virtual developer event happening Jun 11-13 that is chock-full of Postgres content—with 4 livestreams, 42 talks, and 44 speakers. And while POSETTE is organized by the Postgres team here at Microsoft, there is a lot of PG community involvement. For example, 31 of the 44 speakers (~70%) are from outside Microsoft! We have also tried to be quite transparent about the talk selection process used …