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Lesson Learned #499: HikariCP Retry Policy - The connection is closed
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message: 19:28:43.232 [main] WARN com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase - AppExample-ConnectionPooling - Failed to validate connection ConnectionID:3 ClientConnectionId: 8351bddc-acbb-4669-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx (The connection is closed.). Possibly consider using a shorter maxLifetime value. 19:28:43.234 [AppExample-ConnectionPooling connection closer] DEBUG com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase - DotNetExample-ConnectionPooling - Closing connection ConnectionID:3 ClientConnectionId: 8351bddc-acbb--xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx: (connection is dead). Following I would like to share my experience with this error.…
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Changes coming to the Azure Update Delivery service tag
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Azure Update Delivery service tag is being deprecated starting July 1, 2024. If your Azure Firewall is configured to receive Windows updates using this service tag, you'll need to migrate away from the service tag and use Azure Firewall application rules instead. In this article, let's talk about the Azure Update Delivery service tag, what's changing, and specific actions to take today. [HEADING=1]What is the Azure Update Delivery service tag?[/HEADING] Azure Firewall service tags are collections of IP addresses and ranges associated with a named resource. They simplify the process of configuring your firewall. The tags are automatically updated to reflect change…
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AUTHENTICATION IN AZURE LOAD TESTING SERIES: GENERATE AND REFRESH ACCESS TOKENS WITH JMeter
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Whenever you run load tests on your endpoints in Azure Load Testing, there might be a situation where your endpoints require an access token. We have seen that before load testing these endpoints, most users generate an access token and store it in the Azure Key Vault. They then pass this token as a variable in the Header of the request as a bearer token to authenticate at the endpoint. But there might be a few problems with this approach: Sometime has elapsed between the act of storing the token in the key vault and the start of execution of the test. There can be a case where the token might expire during the test run and the request at the endpoints start thro…
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This is the monthly news from Microsoft. This month deals with Microsoft Defender. There is much good information in this article. I hope you get as much out of it as I did. Microsoft Defender XDR Monthly news June 2024 Edition [attachment=53430:name] This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from May 2024. Legend: [attachment=53431:name] Product videos [attachment=53432:name] Webcast (recordings) [attachment=53433:name] Docs on Microsof…
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Azure Database Migration Service consistent snapshot without locks (Preview)
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Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now offers preview support for consistent snapshot without locks, which can help businesses migrate their databases to Azure while the databases remain operational. With this feature, users can take a consistent snapshot of a MySQL server without losing data integrity at source. When MySQL Consistent Snapshot without locks is enabled, after the initial load, a reconciliation phase occurs to ensure that the data written to the target is transactionally consistent with the source server from a specific position in the binary log. Using this feature, there’s no need to take a read lock on the server, as tables are read at …
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How Generative AI Can Power Knowledge Management for Your Business
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As a business leader, you know the value of having access to the right information at the right time. Whether you need to make strategic decisions, solve problems, or answer customer queries, you want to leverage the knowledge that is stored in your documents and databases. But how can you find the most relevant and accurate answers from the vast amount of unstructured data that you have? One possible solution is to use generative AI, a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content based on existing data. Generative AI can help you transform your unstructured data into a searchable and interactive knowledge base that can power natural language conversatio…
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What’s New in Copilot | May 2024
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Welcome to the May 2024 edition of What's New in Copilot for Microsoft 365. Every month, we highlight new end-user and admin features in Copilot for Microsoft 365, enabling you to better prepare, plan, and roll out Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps you use every day. This month, we’re excited to share how admins can manage risk and compliance requirements for AI apps in the new Microsoft Purview AI Hub, automate tasks across the organization using Copilot extensions, and more. We’re also adding exciting new capabilities that enable you to act on employee suggestions quickly using Copilot in Glint, use Copilot in Planner to …
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MVP’s Favorite Content: MS Learn Plan, Blogs, SQL, Windows
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In this blog series dedicated to Microsoft's technical articles, we'll highlight our MVPs' favorite article along with their personal insights. Masayuki Mokudai (もくだいさん), M365 MVP, Japan Overview of Plans on Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Learn “When you want to share the knowledge you've gained from your actual work with your colleagues or juniors, you might feel that "The learning modules designed for Microsoft's MCP preparation lack certain things and contain unnecessary information." You can resolve the gap between the exam prep learning modules and the knowledge required for your company's tasks by creating your own learning modules. Combine existing [m…
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New on Azure Marketplace: May 9-11, 2024
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 66 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: [HEADING=2]Get it now in our marketplace[/HEADING] [attachment=53367:name] aaPanel: aaPanel is a versatile web hosting control panel that simplifies server management for administrators, developers, and businesses. It offers an intuitive interface, extensive features for server configuration, website deployment, and application management. aaPanel streamlines the entire process of creating, modifying, and optimizing online presence, empowering users to focus on core business activities…
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How do I Monitor my LLM Chatbot?
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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 The LLMOps journey does not end when an application is deployed to Production. Continuous monitoring is needed to ensure security and performance and is crucial to a successful LLM powered app. For this blog, think of monitoring as visibility into application and user behavior in near real-time while the application is in Production. Foremost, monitoring is an important mechanism in application defense. There are many com…
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Lesson Learned #498:Understanding the Role of STATMAN in SQL Server and Its Resource Consumption
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer reported a performance issue and they reported that this query: SELECT StatMan([sC0], [LC0], [sB0000]) FROM (SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT [sC0], [LC0], step_direction([sC0]) over (order by NULL) AS [sB0000] FROM .. TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM (@samplePercent PERCENT) WITH (READUNCOMMITTED) ) AS _MS_UPDSTATS_TBL_HELPER ORDER BY [sC0], [sB0000] ) AS _MS_UPDSTATS_TBL OPTION (MAXDOP 16, RECOMPILE). I would like to share my lessons learned here. It is important to mention that STATMAN is not a function that you can directly call in our queries. Instead, it refers to an internal process within SQL Server that is responsible for upd…
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European Cloud Summit and Collaboration Summit
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Wiesbaden, Germany added 3,000+ tech enthusiast and hosted the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Cloud AI Pitch Competition between May 14-16, 2024. We were pleased to attend the European Cloud and Collaboration Summits – to participate and to gain so much back from everyone. It was a packed week filled with insights, feedback, and fun. Below is a recap of various aspects of the event - across keynotes, general sessions, breakout sessions, and the Expo Hall. You can review some great pics the ECS event team took and posted; we sprinkled our own throughout this article. The event in a nutshell: 3,000+ attendees 212 speakers overall – 121 …
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Exploring the Capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB using Open MongoDB shell.
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Previously we introduced Getting started with Azure Cosmos Database (A Deep Dive) blog which is an end-to-end introduction of Azure Cosmos DB. In this blog we are going to talk about one of the Azure Cosmos Database API known as Azure Cosmos Database for MongoDB. You have been developing applications while leveraging the knowledge on MongoDB, as a developer, you are looking for a service that scales your database, offers automatic sharding without requiring any configuration, high availability and cost effective. Azure Cosmos Db for MongoDB has you covered. In this blog, I will help you transition to start using the service. If you are a beginner and anxious abou…
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Extend Copilot for Sales with custom data and insights from your own apps
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Optimize the sales process by integrating internal and external data with Copilot for Sales. Create enriched email summaries, customized meeting prep documents, and actionable meeting recaps to improve customer interactions. Copilot uses AI to generate insights and suggest actions based on comprehensive data, ensuring sales teams have all the necessary information at their fingertips. Create custom AI experiences using Copilot Studio with zero code. By adding Copilot extensions, users can connect to external data sources and build tailored AI skills. Eric Boocock, Copilot for Sales Principal Program Manager, shares how Copilot for Sales works and how to bui…
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Azure AI Search Database Selection: Optimizing Performance and Scalability for Your Business
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In today's data-driven world, selecting the right database for your specific use case is crucial for optimizing performance, ensuring scalability, and maintaining security. Azure AI Search, combined with Azure OpenAI and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern, provides a powerful framework for building advanced generative AI applications. These solutions are tailored to meet diverse needs across different industries. In this blog, we'll explore the use cases for various databases available through Azure AI Search and highlight their applications in real-world scenarios across different verticals such as nonprofits, healthcare, financial services, retail, automot…
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Public Preview: App Service Authentication Logs on Diagnostic Settings
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A new log “AppServiceAuthenticationLogs” is now available in Public Preview for App Service resources on Windows. This would include Web Apps, Functions, and Logic Apps. If you would like to have more visibility into your App Service Authentication and would like to troubleshoot or self-diagnose issues, you can enable this log category to help with these scenarios. App Service Linux resources and Functions Consumption Plan (Linux and Windows) currently does not support this log. You may still see this log as an option in the Diagnostic Settings. However, if your resource is one of the unsupported scenarios, you will not see any logs despite enabling “AppServiceAut…
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Partner Blog | Microsoft Build 2024: Empowering Partners through AI and Cloud Innovation
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[HEADING=3]By Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions[/HEADING] Microsoft Build 2024 centered on the transformative impact our AI technology has on organizations that are leveraging it to boost efficiency, elevate customer experiences, and achieve groundbreaking innovations. This year, we had more than 60 announcements at our annual flagship developer event, ranging from the latest AI features for Windows to the expanded capabilities of Microsoft Copilot, new tools for developers, and cost-efficient, accessible cloud solutions. For partners, these new and enhanced technologies present unparalleled opportunities for…
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Introducing Personal Data Encryption for developers
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Personal Data Encryption (PDE) along with BitLocker constitutes Windows data protection on Windows devices. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that provides encryption for entire volumes, addressing the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned devices. However, there are some cases in which BitLocker protection alone might not be sufficient. For example, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) bus sniffing, targeting devices that do not have BitLocker TPM + PIN options set, or trying to get encryption keys by sniffing the unsecured bus between the CPU and TPM can all put BitLocker protected personal data at risk. Direct Memory Acce…
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Public Preview: Creating Web App with a Unique Default Hostname
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App Service now allows you to create web apps with unique default hostnames to avoid a high-severity threat of subdomain takeover. This feature is currently in Public Preview and is only available for web apps on multi-tenants. App Service Environment (ASE) resources are not supported. Functions and Logic Apps (Standard) are currently out of scope, but we have plans on supporting them soon, so stay tuned. This feature would require you to “opt-in” to create a site with a unique default hostname. This means that when you create a site through the portal, you will need to select the option to enable the feature; Azure Portal will be fully deployed by June 7t…
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Migrate data to Azure Managed Lustre retaining POSIX attributes
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] This blog will utilize manual steps on for exporting data to blob storage in order to retain specific POSIX attributes. The exporting of data is achieved using the Lustre HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) interface. The Managed Lustre system will need to have HSM enabled and setup in advance. See this article: Blob integration For more information around setting up automatic synchronization to Azure BLOB Storage for Azure Managed Lustre refer to this blob post: Automatic Synchronization to Azure BLOB Storage. [HEADING=1]Connect client to the Lustre file system[/HEADING] Client machines running Linux can access Azur…
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Windows news you can use: May 2024
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With so much going on this month, let's get you caught up on how Windows 11 management and security improved. We'll jump into what you need to know as an IT admin or decision maker to get ahead of your competition. In line with our Microsoft Secure Future Initiative,[1] the latest features, capabilities, services, and tools prioritize security above all else. And remember, keeping your Windows environment updated helps you keep it protected. [HEADING=1]New in Windows security[/HEADING] [iNTUNE] Automatically check for Windows device health with device enrollment attestation in Microsoft Intune (now in preview). Help ensure that device enrollment certificates are boun…
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Azure SQL DB standby replica is now generally available | Data Exposed
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Learn more about enabling disaster recovery for Azure SQL Database at a lower cost using standby replica which does not incur license costs. Standby replica is Generally Available (GA). Resources: Configure a license-free standby replica (preview) for Azure SQL Database General Availability of license-free standby replica for Azure SQL database Azure SQL DB license-free standby replica Azure SQL DB High Availability & Disaster Recovery overview View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...
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Demystifying Microsoft Entra ID, Tenants and Azure Subscriptions
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] As a startup or an new customer exploring Microsoft Azure, you may find the terminology around identity and access management a bit perplexing. Terms like Tenant, Subscription, and Microsoft Entra ID, are crucial to understanding how to effectively manage and secure your Azure environment. This blog post aims to demystify these concepts and provide a clear, concise understanding of how they interrelate. [HEADING=1] What is Microsoft Entra ID (Former Azure Active Directory)?[/HEADING] Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (AAD), Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service. It p…
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Leading Successful Tech User Groups: Insights from MVPs
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Leading a tech user group can be a challenging yet rewarding experience. In this article, we will explore the journey of a user group leader, from the initial challenges of growing the group to the key factors that contributed to its sustained growth and engagement. We are highlighting Internet of Things and Microsoft Azure German MVP, Damir Dobric, AI United States MVP Adam Wisniewski, and Data Platform MVP Data Platform Bernat Agulló Roselló. By leveraging key factors such as support, coordination, planning, engagement, technology, and valuable content, Damir, Adam, and Bernat each overcame initial challenges and achieved sustained growth and engagement in the s…
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Exploring Copilot for Security to Automate Incident Triage
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When speaking with Copilot for Security customers, automation is often brought up as a topic of exploration. Customers are eager to extend their existing SOAR investments or workflows to include Copilot because they recognize the capabilities this new technology brings and believe it has the potential to further increase productivity. Today, Copilot for Security offers two ways of performing automations: 1) Promptbooks which are prompts chained together to achieve a specific task and 2) a LogicApp Connector to fuse the power of Copilot for Security directly into your workflows. In this post, we will explore how the LogicApp connector and set of capabilities could…