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EVENT RECAP | European Collaboration and Cloud Summits 2024
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Wiesbaden, Germany added 3,000+ tech enthusiast between May 14-16, 2024 – in attendance at the European Collaboration and Cloud Summits. We, too, were pleased to attend – to participate and gain so much input 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 multifaceted Expo Hall. Beyond reading below, review tons of great pics the ECS event team took and posted; we sprinkled our own throughout this article. ECS24 in a nutshell: 3,000+ attendees 212 speakers overall – 121 MVPs, 11 RDs, 42 from Microsoft 241 sessio…
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Learn about Xe's ISV Success for Business Applications solutions in Microsoft AppSource
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Microsoft ISV Success for Business Applications offers platforms, resources, and support designed to help partners develop, publish, and market business apps. Learn more about offers from Xe on Microsoft AppSource: [attachment=53207:name] Xe Global Business Payments for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: This plug-in from Xe enables transactions to be booked, captured, and reconciled within your Dynamics 365 Business Central environment. There's no need for file extraction, uploading, and downloading, and accounts payable teams don't have to leave Dynamics to make payments internationally. This reduces the risk of manual errors, file corruption, and fr…
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Accessibility in Surface Copilot+ PCs: Innovation meets inclusivity
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Surface products are built to empower everyone on the planet to achieve more. When we develop inclusive products, we also create a more comfortable and empowering computing experience for everyone. Our journey involves continuous learning from the disability community, placing them at the heart of our design process to develop solutions that empower and support their potential. Our accessible offerings are comprehensive, ranging from an ecosystem of adaptive accessories to adaptive features built into our hardware and software. With the new Copilot+ PCs from Surface, we have built adaptability into the fabric of our hardware and software, resulting in products tha…
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Simplify triage with the new Alert Timeline
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Every second counts when it comes to detecting and responding to potential security breaches, and in today's ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, tools that facilitate rapid triage and decision-making become essential for upholding strong security hygiene. Today, we're excited to introduce the latest feature to our rich reporting feature set —the alert timeline—a new view that minimizes the time needed for triage and investigation without compromising the quality of analysis. Simplifying alerts for faster response Alerts are an important factor to consider amongst the broader data-mix of events, alerts, and incidents. Alerts are primarily i…
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Microsoft Entra ID Tenant Starters Guide: Understanding Identity Management and Licensing
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Microsoft Entra ID Tenant is a cloud-based identity and access management service that helps you manage your organization's users, devices, applications, and resources[1]. It is a powerful and flexible solution that enables you to securely connect your employees, customers, and partners to the digital resources they need, while protecting your organization from unauthorized access and identity threats. In this guide, you will learn the basics of Microsoft Entra ID Tenant, how to access and use it, how to manage licenses for different Microsoft products and services, and how to address some common challenges and scenarios related to ide…
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Introducing spotlight settings in Viva Connections
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Viva Connections is excited to roll out new features for the spotlight component, giving operators enhanced control and customization on what content appears in spotlight. Now, operators can easily pin important content to the spotlight, edit, reorder, and manage up to 11 pinned items. These pinned items take priority and appear in the spotlight first, while also staying in the spotlight indefinitely (which can be modified at any time). Additionally, the new spotlight settings in Viva Connections will allow for adding multiple SharePoint sites as news sources for spotlight from Connections directly, ensuring a varied and dynamic content display following the pinned…
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What's New in Excel (May 2024)
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Welcome to the May 2024 update. This month, filtering for comments is rolling out to Excel for the web, and the new regular expression (REGEX) functions are rolling out to Insider Beta for Excel for Windows & Mac. Excel for Web: Filtering for Comments #FIA Excel for Windows & Mac: New Regular Expression (REGEX) Functions (Insiders) [HEADING=1] Excel for Web [/HEADING] #FIA Filtering for Comments You can now filter comments that are active, resolved, or ones that @mention you so that you can find the comments you're looking for. Filtering to a certain set of comments will update which comment indicators you see on the worksheet so…
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Host and Deploy Images on Azure Container Registries (ACR) via App Service - A step-by-step guide
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Learn how to host images on Azure Container Registry and deploy a Web App via the App Service plan. A step-by-step guide by Suzaril Shah Welcome to my latest blog post! I'm Suzaril Shah, a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, and today I'm excited to share a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to efficiently host your images on Azure Container Registry (ACR) and deploy a web application using an App Service plan. Whether you're a developer, IT professional, or just a tech enthusiast looking to expand your Azure knowledge, this guide is designed to walk you through the process seamlessly. From setting up your ACR to deploying your app, I'll cover all the necessa…
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Business-in-a-box: Applying AutoGen and multi-agent systems to an enterprise context
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Contributors: Priya Kedia, Shikha Agrawal, Nyuk Ching Lee, Ming Gu, Sunil Sattiraju, Naveen Gopalakrishna, Scott Holden, Daniel Csillag Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing how businesses engage with customers and streamline internal processes. However, scaling these innovations beyond a handful of use cases remains a significant challenge. Typically, enterprises build separate applications for different use cases— for example, a HR chatbot for the HR team, a legal advice RAG application for the legal team, and a customer service assistant for their frontline teams—each requiring its own knowledge base and tools. While a shared platform can be built, maximizing…
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Best Practice Guidance for PTU
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Co-authors: Luca Stamatescu, Alex Shen, Ming Gu, Michael Tremeer Contributors: Ranjani Mani In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, proficiency with Azure OpenAI is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge. Enhanced by the latest announcements at Build 2024, this guide from our Global Black Belt team focuses on the effective management of Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) to optimize both performance and cost-efficiency in AI deployments. This document provides essential strategies for strategic PTU management, alignment with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, and the latest Azure API management tools, empowering you to fully utilize the capabilities …
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Announcing the Public Preview of Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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We recently announced the public preview of Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration. Standby Pools is a new service that enables you to increase your scaling performance by creating a pool of pre-provisioned virtual machines from which your scale can pull from when scaling out. Standby pools reduce the time to scale out by performing various initialization steps such as installing applications/ software or loading substantial amounts of data. These initialization steps are performed on the virtual machines in the standby pool before to being moved into the scale set. There is more to quickly scaling out than s…
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GenAI Gateway Accelerator
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Every app will be reinvented with Generative AI and new apps will be built that weren’t possible before. Generative AI helps to build intelligent apps using the Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities. As the number of intelligent applications grows alongside the adoption of various large language models (LLMs), enterprises encounter significant challenges in efficiently federating and managing generative AI resources. Key issues include ensuring resiliency and high availability of models, tracking model usage and implementing chargeback mechanisms for users, managing increased latency, and addressing data sovereignty concerns. This demands for a centralized solution “Gen…
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Tech for Social Impact announces winner of Hack4Good
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[HEADING=2]The winning design from the Healthcare team will help Care Design NY assist individuals with IDD in accessing essential support and services.[/HEADING] We’ve just wrapped up the second annual Microsoft Tech for Social Impact (TSI) Hack4Good hackathon in our NYC Times Square office. The event brought together TSI employees with customers and partners working in seven participating teams to design and build innovative hacks, creatively leveraging AI to accelerate nonprofit missions through innovative use cases across a number of sector categories, including Healthcare, Humanitarian Care and Relief, Social Services, Research, Supply Chain, Museums and Archi…
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Collaboratively build AI apps and share resources with hubs and projects
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At Microsoft Build '24 last week, we announced the general availability of Azure AI Studio. With this release, we are also introducing hubs, which enable developers to self-service create project workspaces and access shared company resources without needing an IT administrator's repeated help. Hubs provide a central way for a team to govern security, connectivity, and computing resources across playgrounds and projects. Project workspaces that are created using a hub inherit the same security settings and shared resource access. Teams can create as many project workspaces as needed to organize their work, isolate data, and/or restrict access. By balancing e…
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ProcDump 3.3 for Linux and Process Explorer v17.06
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ProcDump 3.3 for Linux This update to ProcDump for Linux includes improvements related to containerized workflows. Process Explorer v17.06 This update to Process Explorer fixes an issue resulting in the application window not being displayed, and updates the process suspend and resume menu items. Continue reading...
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Secure Model Deployments with Microsoft Entra and Managed Online Endpoints
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Microsoft Entra ID token-based auth mode for managed online endpoints in Azure Machine Learning is now generally available. This new auth mode makes identity and access management easier when using models hosted on Azure. Plus, to deploy models securely and efficiently, Azure Machine Learning offers another great feature: managed online endpoints. In this blog, we’ll see how Microsoft Entra ID helps with endpoint authentication/authorization, and learn some important concepts about Azure Machine Learning managed online endpoints and how to use them with Microsoft Entra ID. [HEADING=1]Managed Online Endpoints: A Turnke…
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Lesson Learned #496:Verifying Network Route to Azure SQL Database via VPN in Windows
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Today, I worked on a service request where our customer was using a VPN, but the network routes seemed to indicate it was not working and was using the ISP IP instead of the VPN IP. I found that can be challenging to verify whether your connection is indeed passing through the VPN or directly via your ISP. In this article, I would like to share my lessons learned to determine which route your connection to Azure SQL Database is taking using PowerShell in Windows. First, running in PowerShell ping servername.database.windows.net we are going to have the IP address of gateway. Remember, that Azure gateway might be more than 1 IPs. ping servername.d…
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Public Preview announcement - Azure DMS consistent snapshot without locks
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We’re pleased to announce that Azure DMS now provides preview support for consistent snapshot without locks, which businesses can use to migrate databases to Azure while those databases remain operational. MySQL Consistent Snapshot without locks is a new feature that allows users to take a Consistent Snapshot of a MySQL server without losing data integrity at source. When you enable this option, a reconciliation phase will occur after the initial load. This is to ensure that the data written to your target is transactionally consistent with the source server from a specific position in the binary log. With this feature, we don't take a read lock on the serve…
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Partner Case Study Series | Submittable: Growth and AI transformation
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Submittable’s social impact platform enables foundations to manage the end-to-end process for grants, corporate giving, and awards. With Submittable, customers collect and review applications, award funds, track change, and report on results. “We enable the social impact sector to work more efficiently and more equitably,” says Sam Caplan, Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable. “We focus on creating a trust-based environment and deepening relationships between funders, nonprofit organizations, and the communities they serve.” To multiply its impact, Submittable joined the Digital Natives Partner Program, a select group of innovative ISV partners that Micr…
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MGDC for SharePoint: New, Updated and Upcoming Datasets
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In this post, I’ll cover some exciting news on Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint as of May 2024. This feature delivers rich data assets to SharePoint and OneDrive tenants. If you're new to MGDC for SharePoint, start by reviewing this post: Links about Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint. [HEADING=2]TL;DR[/HEADING] We have been busy updating our existing SharePoint datasets in MGDC and adding new ones. You can see the full list at Datasets, regions, and sinks supported by Microsoft Graph Data Connect - Microsoft Graph. We have updated our 3 publicly available datasets, just published 1 new dataset and will deliver 3 new da…
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8 trilhas de aprendizado para iniciantes no GitHub
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O GitHub é mais que um serviço de hospedagem de código - é uma plataforma onde milhões de pessoas desenvolvedoras ao redor do mundo se conectam, colaboram, inovam e aprendem em uma comunidade vibrante. Neste artigo, mostro 8 repositórios com trilhas de cursos gratuitos criados pela comunidade técnica da Microsoft, uma fonte confiável de recursos e conhecimento, oferecendo várias trilhas de aprendizado para iniciantes em diversas áreas da tecnologia. IoT para iniciantes Explore o vasto universo do Internet das Coisas (IoT) através de nosso currículo de 12 semanas. Com 24 aulas cuidadosamente elaboradas, você será guiado pelos fundamentos do IoT, desde agr…
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Best Practices to Manage and Mitigate Security Recommendations
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In the fast-evolving landscape of cloud security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) stands as a robust Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). One of its standout features is the premium Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution, known as Defender CSPM. Among the myriads of advanced capabilities offered by Defender CSPM, the "Governance Rule" feature is a game-changer. This empowers security teams to streamline and automate the assignment, management, and tracking of security recommendations. In this blog, we'll delve into best practices for leveraging Governance Rule to ensure effective, efficient, and timely remediation actions and explore prac…
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Updates for Town Hall in Microsoft Teams and Teams Live Events
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Our goal in Teams is to make hybrid work and communication easier and more inclusive than ever before. This pursuit is core to the effort we put into creating meaningful connections between people through our end-to-end events platforms, whether one-to-one meetings or large one-to-many hosted digital events. We introduced our new digital streaming event solution for large events, town hall, in September 2023. Town hall has continued to drive new, exciting experiences for our customers, such as the ability to bring multiple presenters on stage, send out attendee emails, and see real-time health analytics for the event. As we move forward, we are excited to continue to shar…
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Cost Optimization for General Purpose VMs using Hibernation now Generally Available
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During Microsoft Ignite 2023, we previewed the ability to hibernate VMs, making it easier for customers to save Compute costs. Hibernating a VM deallocates the machine while persisting the VM’s in-memory state. While the VM is hibernated, customers don’t pay for the Compute costs associated with the VM and only pay for storage and networking resources associated with the VM. Customers can later start back these VMs when needed and all their apps and processes that were previously running simply resume from their last state. Today we are excited to announce that hibernation for general-purpose VMs is now generally available. In addition, customers can now use hibern…
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Discover The Age of Copilots, now on-demand
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Great things are here and on the horizon. Microsoft Copilot innovation, combined with the familiarity and scale of Microsoft 365, unlocks productivity and transforms business processes for everyone across all functions and every industry in this new era of AI. We want to share the on-demand recording of the Microsoft 365 Community Conference opening keynote that puts it all into perspective: The Age of Copilots, plus a bonus video from Microsoft Build highlighting custom copilots from SharePoint. (aka: "Click to Copilot") First, Jeff Teper (President of Collaboration Apps and Platforms at Microsoft) presented a 75-minute vision and strategy session in Orland…