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Using Admin State to Control Your Azure Load Balancer Backend Instances
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Today, Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming traffic across healthy backend pool instances. It accomplishes this by using health probes to send periodic requests to the instances and check for valid responses. Results from the health probe then determine which instances can receive new or continued connections and which ones cannot. You might want to override the health probe behavior for some of the virtual machines in your Load Balancer backend pool. For example, you might want to take an instance out of rotation for maintenance or testing, or you might even want to force an instance to accept new connections even if the health probe marks it as unhealthy. In …
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Addressing common Entra Id protection deployment and maintenance issues
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Entra ID tenants face threats from bad actors who use password spray attacks, multifactor spamming, and social phishing campaigns. Many organizations do not prioritize protecting Entra ID because they worry about affecting their end users. One straightforward way to protect Entra ID is to use risk based conditional access policies that combine conditional access policies with the risk signals from Entra ID Protection. In this blog, I will discuss some of the mistakes that we see organizations make that cause delays in the deployment and leave their tenants insecure. This blog will answer questions about Entra ID tenants using third party identity providers to authenticate…
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Hibernation support now available for Azure Virtual Desktop
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Today we are happy to announce the general availability of hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop. Explore additional capabilities that make it easier to save compute costs for your idle resources. [HEADING=1]Hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop[/HEADING] In November 2023, we announced the public preview of hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop. Hibernating a session host virtual machine (VM) deallocates the machine while persisting the VM's in-memory state. When a VM hibernates, you don't pay for the compute cost associated with the VM. Instead you pay only for the storage and networking costs associated with the VM. When the session host virtu…
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Lesson Learned #497:Understanding the Ordering of uniqueidentifier in SQL Server
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer asked about how SQL Server sorts the uniqueidentifier data type. We know that uniqueidentifier store globally unique identifiers (GUIDs). GUIDs are widely used for unique keys due to their extremely low probability of duplication. One common method to generate a GUID in SQL Server is by using the NEWID() function. However, the ordering of GUIDs, especially those generated by NEWID(), can appear non-intuitive. I would like to share my lessons learned how to determine the ordering method using uniqueidentifier and NEWID(). We know that a GUID is a 16-byte value typically represented in a standard format of 32 hex…
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We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 54 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=53295:name] CCH SureAddress for CCH SureTax: This offer from Wolters Kluwer validates addresses individually or in bulk for Microsoft Dynamics 365. CCH SureAddress validates the following: company information page, location page/list, customer page/list, vendor page/list, ship-to address page/list, order address page/list, bank account page/list, contact page/list, responsibility center page/list, and job page/list.…
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Think like a People Scientist: Designing a survey that meets your organization's needs
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On May 28th, we held the fourth webinar in our "Think Like a People Scientist" series where I was joined by Kate Feeney (Principal People Scientist) and Christina Rasieleski (Senior People Scientist) from our Viva People Science team. This was an insightful session aimed at guiding organizations to design effective surveys that align with their strategic goals. Here's a brief summary of our conversation: Survey Design Principles: The webinar focused on how to design a survey that serves the organization's purpose, starting from understanding business, talent, and cultural priorities to incorporating industry trends and best practices, and applying key survey desi…
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Understanding the New AKS Deployment Safeguards
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Introduction Last week at Build, we've introduced a new feature in Public Preview for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) called Deployment Safeguards. Deployment Safeguards, as a part of Azure Policy for AKS, provides a configurable and fast way to make sure your Kubernetes deployment follow through best practices and limits that are set beforehand. In this article, we will explore how it works in real time and how can we use it to tailor AKS to your needs. Playground Setup For the sake of this article, I'll create a new cluster from scratch. There are a few things we need to set up first. For my test environment, I'm running these commands on WS…
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Viva Connections Partner Showcase - Lightning Tools
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We are excited to share a Partner Showcase story on Lightning Tools. Director, Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools is highlighting their solutions and extensions which available for the customers from the Microsoft AppSource or directly from their web site. Viva Connections is a company-branded employee experience destination that seamlessly integrates news, conversations, and resources within the apps and devices you use daily. It is designed to foster a culture of inclusion, allowing everyone’s ideas and voices to matter, while providing employees with the flexibility to engage and participate from anywhere. Microsoft AppSource is an online store that con…
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Working with Data in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL using Open PSQL 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 PostgreSQL. Imagine a scenario where you are developing a multi-tenant application, as a developer, you have been working with PostgreSQL for years, you have joined a team that is developing an application that needs to handle data for thousands of tenants, each with isolated data. The team decides to use Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. [HEADING=1]What is covered in this Blog [/HEADING] Challenges w…
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How to use Cosmos DB at extreme scale with large document sizes
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] First, let’s provide an overview of how Cosmos DB is being used in this scenario. As per the architectural overview shown below, there are an ecosystem of Customer systems that emit data, these hit a pipeline and are then inserted into Cosmos DB via a Batch process. The original design from 2019 had only a single container, Data, which contained all of the documents that were ingested into Cosmos DB. As the Data Container grew and reached a point where Query performance and RU/s became prohibitive. An Index Container was introduced to function as an 'Index' for the Data Container. This design change mandated the following …
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Managing a Distributed API Estate Efficiently with Azure API Management and Self-Hosted Gateways
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Azure API Management (APIM) is a cloud-based service that enables you to create, publish and manage your APIs behind a secure, consistent façade. You can create and manage policies that control access to your APIs, enforce usage quotas, and transform requests and responses. Azure APIM gateways are the proxy for handling API requests. Self-hosted gateways (SHGW) are a capability of Azure APIM which allow you to deploy an instance of the API gateway component of APIM outside of Azure, such as on-premises or on a different cloud platform. Self-hosted gateways are unique to Azure APIM. API Center is an Azure service that provides a central point of discovery, re…
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Part 2: Migrate Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium using Azure Databricks - How-To
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This post is authored in conjunction with Leo Furlong, Senior Solutions Architect, at Databricks. Many customers choose to migrate their Azure Analysis Services semantic models to Power BI Premium due to the benefits and enhanced functionality described in the Power BI documentation. As customers migrate their semantic models to Power BI, native connections to Azure Databricks SQL become available due to the built-in Databricks SQL connector in Power BI. Databricks SQL Serverless combined with Power BI semantic models can provide customers with a number of benefits including a separation of compute and storage; instant, elastic compute; data refreshes charged by th…
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Part 1: Migrate Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium using Azure Databricks - Why
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This post is authored in conjunction with Leo Furlong, Senior Solutions Architect, at Databricks. In the world of data analytics and business intelligence, the tools and platforms you use can significantly impact the efficiency and capabilities of your data operations. Two major shifts in the landscape are the migration from Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium and the move to Azure Databricks SQL as the underlying data source for Power BI. Let's dive into why these changes are worth considering. [HEADING=1]Migrating from Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium[/HEADING] Azure Analysis Services has been a staple in the enterprise semantic layer…
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What's New in Copilot for Sales - May 2024
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Microsoft Copilot for Sales is reimagining sales. Integrated seamlessly into your daily tools across Microsoft 365 and Teams, Copilot for Sales harnesses the power of generative AI and customer data to keep sellers in their flow of work so they can spend more time with customers. This month we’re bringing exciting capabilities to Outlook by unifying the sidecar for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot for Sales, adding global entity search, and adding inline editing for from suggested CRM updates! We’re also excited to announce the preview of Copilot for Sales extensibility using Microsoft Copilot Studio! You can enrich out-of-the-box skills and bring your own skills …
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Memory Protection for AI ML Model Inferencing
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This article was originally posted on Confidential Container Project's blog by Suraj Deshmukh & Pradipta Banerjee. Read the original article here and the source for this content can be found here. [HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] With the rapid stride of artificial intelligence & machine learning and businesses integrating these into their products and operations, safeguarding sensitive data and models is a top priority. That's where Confidential Containers (CoCo) comes into picture. Confidential Containers: Provides an extra layer of protection for data in use. Helps prevent data leaks. Prevents tampering and unauthorized access to sensitive data…
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Microsoft at SAP Sapphire 2024
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Microsoft and SAP have been partners and customers of each other for over 30 years, collaborating on innovative business solutions and helping thousands of joint customers accelerate their business transformation. The Microsoft Cloud is the leading cloud platform for running SAP workloads in the cloud, including RISE with SAP, and we are super excited to share our presence this year at SAP Sapphire 2024, SAP's flagship event of the year. [HEADING=1]Join us at SAP Sapphire 2024[/HEADING] Join Microsoft at SAP Sapphire 2024 taking place in Orlando from June 3-5, 2024, and in Barcelona from June 11-13, 2024. This blog provides you details on our amazing session lin…
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Introduction Customers evaluating or already using SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) need to estimate how much time a database restore would take to complete. This estimation could be required when designing an SLA and/or SLO, or to assess whether a database with certain characteristics would be able to fit into predefined recovery time objectives (RTO). This Point-In-Time Restore Service Level Expectation (SLE) solution was created to provide guidance for the expected time it would take to restore a database to a point in time, by providing a database restore time expectation based on input parameters. Note that this SLE was built for PITR database restore operation…
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Congratulations and Welcome to our new Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) Regional Leaders
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The Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) Advisors would like to extend a special welcome to the new group of Regional Leaders joining us from all over the world! We are looking forward to growing our global communities together with your support! Curious who the new Regional Leaders are? Check them out here! Discover the details about MGCI. [HEADING=2]How to become MGCI Regional Leader[/HEADING] Earlier this year we opened nominations to invite additional regional leaders into MGCI from the request of the community to have more local regional volunteers around the world to help facilitate more support, activities, and excitement regarding how to produce …
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New T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2022 | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
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Not yet up to speed on all the new T-SQL Enhancements available in SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Database? Want to learn nine new capabilities in just nine minutes? Join MVP Lenni Lobel on Data Exposed to learn about DATE_BUCKET, DATETRUNC, LEAST and GREATEST, STRING_SPLIT ordinal, GENERATE_SERIES, TRIM improvements, IS DISTINCT FROM, Windowing improvements, and bit functions… each with a live demo, all in just 9 minutes! Resources: Code About Leonard Lobel: Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, Data Platform) is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy tow…
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Think like a People Scientist: Designing a survey that meets your organization's needs
by Guest Avneeta_Solanki- 0 replies
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On May 28th, we held the fourth webinar in our "Think Like a People Scientist" series where I was joined by Kate Feeney (Principal People Scientist) and Christina Rasieleski (Senior People Scientist) from our Viva People Science team. This was an insightful session aimed at guiding organizations to design effective surveys that align with their strategic goals. Here's a brief summary of our conversation: Survey Design Principles: The webinar focused on how to design a survey that serves the organization's purpose, starting from understanding business, talent, and cultural priorities to incorporating industry trends and best practices, and applying key survey desi…
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Hunting for MFA manipulations in Entra ID tenants using KQL
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Cloud security is a top priority for many organizations, especially given that threat actors are constantly looking for ways to compromise cloud accounts and access sensitive data. One of the common, and highly effective, methods that attackers use is changing the multi-factor authentication (MFA) properties for users in compromised tenants. This can allow the attacker to satisfy MFA requirements, disable MFA for other users, or enroll new devices for MFA. Some of these changes can be hard to detect and monitor, as they are typically performed as part of standard helpdesk processes and may be lost in the noise of all the other directory activities occurring in the Microso…
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Introducing Azure Load Balancer health event logs
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We’re thrilled to announce that Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs! These new logs are published to the Azure Monitor resource log category LoadBalancerHealthEvent and are intended to help you monitor and troubleshoot your load balancer resources. As part of this public preview, you can now receive the following 5 health event types when the associated conditions are met. These health event types are targeted to address the top issues that could affect your load balancer’s health and availability: LoadBalancerHealthEventType Scenario DataPathAvailabilityWarning Detect when the Data Path Availability metric of the frontend…
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Using USB4SAP and Data Factory to extract SAP data for PowerBI in live and cache mode
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[HEADING=1]USB4SAP and Data Factory [/HEADING] With USB4SAP, Data Factory users can access SAP data. This data can be used to refresh PowerBI semantic models in live and cache mode. USB4SAP provides deep integration into your SAP system (for raw tables data, as well as modeled information like reports, queries, CDS, BW extractors etc). SAP tables data extraction with delta / CDC capabilities (ADF connector) using #USB4SAP (without the need for SLT or Change Pointers activation ). Specifically for integration with customers SAP systems you can leverage USB4SAP connector for: PowerBI live and cached mode Onelake based integration REST based synchronous API i…
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Accessing a third-party NAS with SMB in Windows 11 24H2 may fail
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Heya folks, Ned here again. With the publication of Windows 11 24H2 Release Preview, customers are trying out the new OS prior to general availability. If you were in the Windows Insider Canary or Dev release program for the past few years, nothing I'm about to share is new. But if you weren't and you're now having issues mapping a drive to your third-party network attached storage (NAS) devices using SMB, this article is for you. [HEADING=1]What changed[/HEADING] In Windows 11 24H2, we've made two major security changes that can affect mapping drives to third-party consumer NAS or routers with USB storage: By default, SMB signing is required on all con…
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Securing access to any resource, anywhere
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Zero Trust has become the industry standard for safeguarding your entire digital estate. Central to Zero Trust is securing identity and access, which is essential for protecting resources, enforcing security policies, and ensuring compliance in today’s dynamic digital landscape. With Microsoft Entra, we help our customers create a trust fabric that securely connects any trustworthy identity with anything, anywhere. Driven by the adoption of multicloud strategies in the era of AI, customers are encountering more challenges in securing access, not just across multiple public and private clouds, but also for business apps and on-premises resources. Unlike securing acc…