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[HEADING=3]Overview[/HEADING] Believe it or not, not all data is meant for analytics. Sometimes reporting requirements include flat data that is not inherently dimensional. This often includes querying large tables with low cardinality columns. Think of: Audit trails – understanding who accessed what at a certain point in time or what events occurred when Financial transaction data – querying financial transactions by invoice id Web analytics – identifying which pages were accessed at what date, time and location This type of data can have millions or billions of rows to sift through. So where does this type of reporting fit into your reporting enviro…

Introduction Database migrations are complex and requires considerable knowledge of both source and target databases. In general, these migrations involve understanding differences between the database systems and ensuring a smooth database object conversions and data migrations. For customers migrating from Db2 to Azure database for PostgreSQL, we have built a custom tool that can convert database objects from Db2 to Azure Database for PostgreSQL. If the target database is Azure SQL (or SQL Server on-premises), Microsoft provides SSMA for Db2 tooling that does both object conversion and data migration. System Requirements Windows 10, Windows 11 …

We are ecstatic to share the release of general availability (GA) support for our Conversational PII redaction service in English-language contexts. GA support ensures better Azure SLA support, production environment support, as well as enterprise-grade security. Conversational PII (Personally Identifiable Information) redaction is one the many high quality, cost effective, task-optimized language AI capabilities offered by Azure AI Language. This collection of machine learning and AI algorithms in the cloud have helped many customers and enterprises across the globe develop intelligent applications and include models for summarization, sentiment analysis, health text …

In line with our commitment to provide seamless and efficient experiences for Azure Virtual Desktop users, we've recently implemented Preferred app group type—an enhancement that improves how resources are displayed in the feed for users assigned to both RemoteApp and Desktop applications. Previously, people could be assigned both types of resources in their feed, but this could cause session connectivity issues. To address this, users are now required to specify the preferred application group type. With this update, only the preferred application group type resource will show in the feed to users that have been assigned both RemoteApp and Desktop. This prevents users fr…

This impressive group of partners built impactful, innovative solutions using Microsoft technologies. Each win delivering real impact for customers across the globe. We will celebrate these outstanding achievements together with all our partners across the globe at the digital readiness event, MCAPS Start for Partners in July and at Microsoft Ignite which we’ll be hosting digitally and in-person in Chicago on November 18-22, 2024. Read our announcement blog - https://aka.ms/POTYA2024_announcement Learn more about the winners at – https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/inspire/awards/winners Continue reading...

As developers, we must be vigilant about how attackers could misuse our applications. While maximizing the capabilities of Generative AI (Gen-AI) is desirable, it's essential to balance this with security measures to prevent abuse. In a previous blog post - Best practices to architect secure generative AI applications, I covered how a Gen AI application should use user identities for accessing sensitive data and performing sensitive operations. This practice reduces the risk of jailbreak and prompt injections, as malicious users cannot gain access to resources they don’t already have. However, what if an attacker manages to run a prompt under the identity of…

MCAPS Start for Partners is a partner-focused digital event that will be delivered alongside our event for Microsoft sellers from the Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions global organization to kick off the new fiscal year. Attendees will gain new insights into how to accelerate AI opportunities and growth during a live keynote with Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Nick Parker, President, Industry & Partnerships, and Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. [HEADING=1]MCAPS Sessions[/HEADING] Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: The road…

We’re excited to announce that the migration tool for Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) customers to move their apps to Microsoft Entra ID is now generally available! Customers can begin updating their identity management with more extensive monitoring and security infrastructure by quickly identifying which applications are capable of being migrated and assessing all their AD FS applications for compatibility. In November we announced AD FS Application Migration would be moving to public preview, and the response from our partners and customers has been overwhelmingly positive. For some, transitioning to cloud-based security is a daunting task, but the …

Do you have a Microsoft Fabric Free Trial that expires soon, or are you planning to move your Power BI Workspaces using Premium capacity (P SKUs) to Fabric capacity (F SKUs)? Numerous Power BI and Fabric customers are currently faced with these scenarios. As long as the Fabric F SKU is either 1) in the same Azure Region as your Power BI Premium P SKU, or 2) in the same Azure Region as your Power BI (Fabric) tenant for the Fabric Free Trial, the process should be a point-and-click exercise for a Workspace. I've created the following two videos that are intended to provide some guidance on this topic for customers: Create a Microsoft Fabric Node in Azure and Att…

Today we're announcing the general availability of the Codeless Connectors Platform (CCP) in Microsoft Sentinel that provides partners, advanced users, and developers the ability to create custom connectors for ingesting data to Microsoft Sentinel. [HEADING=1]How is this CCP different from the previous version?[/HEADING] The initial version of the CCP was announced in January of 2022. Since then, we've improved upon the platform and the legacy release is no longer recommended. This new version of the CCP has the following key improvements: Better support for various authentication and pagination types. Supports standard data collection rules (DCRs).…

YAML is a popular format for defining configuration files, especially for cloud-native applications that run on Kubernetes. However, writing and maintaining YAML files can be challenging, as they are prone to errors, hard to read, and require a lot of manual work. In today’s video, we’re showing Microsoft Copilot in Azure, a powerful AI assistant that among many other things, helps you write better YAML files faster and easier. The video above showcases how to use Copilot in Azure for YAML editing for applications being deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) The video features: How to create a new YAML file for a deployment specification using …

Have you ever thought about having a single place to manage all your APIs? It could make it easier to find and control your services. Azure API Center is a solution that will help you do this. It offers a single platform for creating, publishing, managing, and monitoring APIs. In this article, we will learn more about this service, its features, benefits, and how it can help you. [HEADING=1]New Free Training Course on Microsoft Learn: Introduction to Azure API Center![/HEADING] Before we get started, we just had to share some great news! There's a new free training course on Microsoft Learn about the Azure API Center. It's a great way to get started with thi…

The term retrieval augmented generation, or RAG for short, has emerged as a hot topic in AI discussions. Let's dive into what RAG is and learn how you can leverage it with just a few lines of code or clicks to effortlessly create powerful AI apps. RAG uses information from additional sources to enhance the output of a large language model (LLM). If you’ve used LLMs like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, you’ve probably gotten your fair share of hallucinations, responses that are wrong, often to the point of silliness. In fact, Microsoft Copilot comes with a warning: “Copilot uses AI. Check for mistakes.” RAG grounds the responses in authoritative external knowledge ma…

To enhance Microsoft technology integration within overseas educational institutions in China, partnering with Duke Kunshan University was a pivotal starting point. This initiative is a direct response to the current trends and challenges in domestic technology outreach in the academic sector. The strategic approach aims to position Microsoft technologies as integral to global educational frameworks, aligning with our overarching business strategy of expanding our global footprint. Many overseas universities have branches in China, where we engage with faculty and career departments to ensure the promotion of the Microsoft Student Ambassador and the Microsoft for Startups…

As per the previous blog (Integrate Azure Open AI in Teams Channel via Logic App - Microsoft Community Hub) which only supports for plain text conversation. For now, Azure Open AI released GPT-4o model which integrates text and images in a single model, enabling it to handle multiple data types simultaneously. This post is to introduce how to upgrade to GPT-4o with capability for image processing. Prerequisite Most of the prerequisites are the same, just instead of GPT-3.5, we need to have a GPT-4o deployment in Azure Open AI environment. Since GPT-4o is not available for all the regions, so you need to refer to the document (Azure OpenAI Service models…

Happy Pride month! Show off your Pride in Excel with a special theme for Mac and iOS users. Welcome to the June 2024 update. This month, prompt Copilot in Excel to work with columns & formulas in Excel for web, Windows, and Mac; navigate and perform tasks more quickly with KeyTips in Excel for Mac, now available to Beta Channel users; and view and open your most recently accessed Excel files from the home screen on your iOS device, now available to Insiders. Excel for web, Windows, and Mac - Copilot in Excel: Working with Columns & Formulas Excel for Mac: - KeyTips (Insiders) Excel for iOS: - Recent Files Widgets (Insiders) [H…

The AI age is here. 79% of leaders surveyed in the latest Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual Report agree their company needs to adopt AI to stay competitive. But 68% of employees surveyed said they struggle with the pace and volume of work. Employees don’t have time to innovate with new technologies like AI when they’re bogged down by repetitive tasks run on old devices. And that’s how companies get left behind as competitors charge forward with advances shaped by next-generation technology. To drive value in this era of rapid change, employees need tools that remove productivity roadblocks and clear the way for creativity and innovation. Modern devices incorporate n…

Today we embark on another chapter of the Microsoft Teams story in VDI, with the public preview of a new optimization architecture that brings closer alignment between physical and virtual desktops. Last year we released a fully revamped Teams app, built on the premise of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence, providing a foundation for game-changing new AI-powered tools. Now we are bringing a new media engine that will elevate the user experience in virtual desktops with new features, and further quality, performance and reliability improvements. Before Microsoft embarked on this journey, we listened to several years’ worth of customer feedback.…

Today Microsoft launched a brand new Applied Skill Credential related to Active Directory Domain Services Administration. Here’s a video of me talking about it: An applied skill is a hands on test where you perform a set of real world tasks based on a couple of scenarios. The ability to administer Active Directory is a foundational skill required by and utilized on a daily basis by millions of organizations around the world. Even organizations that use Azure and Office 365 often have their identities synchronized to Entra from an on-premises Active Directory domain or forest. Taking this 60 minute long free practical exam gives you a credenti…

[HEADING=2]Drizti delivers ‘personal supercomputing’ wherever and whenever it’s needed[/HEADING] A graduate of the Microsoft BizSpark program and now a Microsoft Silver competency partner, Drizti Inc. is a Toronto startup delivering a fully interactive high-performance computing (HPC) platform for “personal supercomputing” on Microsoft Azure. Drizti's vision is to make supercomputing technology accessible directly to the PC of every scientist, developer, and engineer wherever they are and whenever they need it. The company’s HPCBOX platform on Azure Marketplace uses Azure big compute capabilities to deliver turnkey solutions for simulation engineering, machine learning…

O Azure Arc facilita o gerenciamento em ambientes híbridos e multi-cloud por meio de um único painel. Com o Azure Arc, é possivel aplicar os recursos de gerenciamento e segurança do Azure aos seus recursos de outras nuvens, e on-premises, como servidores, clusters Kubernetes e serviços de dados. Gerenciar recursos do Azure Arc em diferentes redes e firewalls pode apresentar alguns desafios como por exemplo precisar expor pontos de extremidade públicos para seus recursos, o que pode aumentar o risco de acesso não autorizado e ataques maliciosos. Desta forma, o Azure Arc Private Links é uma solução que facilita e segura a conexão entre seus recursos do Azure Arc e o…

In the recent Boost your marketing with GenAI and Through Partner Marketing webinar, we explored the top trends in marketing powered by generative AI (GenAI) and ways to leverage tools like Microsoft Copilot to accelerate go-to-market strategies. Microsoft Through Partner Marketing managers Diana Rocha and David  Rosenstock, sat down with industry expert Jess Lin to uncover exclusive insights and practical advice on how to empower brands and partners to transform their businesses and unlock new opportunities with GenAI. What was our most inspiring insight from the webinar? With GenAI, you can create synthetic personas to fast-track market research and test creat…

Azure Sphere OS version 24.06 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes a bug fix in the Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud. [HEADING=1]Fixed bugs and common vulnerabilities in the 24.06 release[/HEADING] The 24.06 release includes updates to mitigate against the following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE): CVE-2023-52160 For self-help technical inquiries, please visit Microsoft Q&A or Stack Overflow. If you require technical support and have a support plan, please submit a support ticket in Microsoft Azu…

Recently, I received a question about unattended uninstall for SQL Server Express edition. This article describes how to perform this task. We need to take in consideration before to proceed User that performs the process must be a local administrator with permissions to log on as a service. You can review more information about required permissions here. If the machine has the minimum required amount of physical memory, increase the size of the page file to two times the amount of physical memory. Insufficient virtual memory can result in an incomplete removal of SQL Server. On a system with multiple instances of SQL Server, the SQL Server browser servi…

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of the new Geo-Replication feature for Azure Service Bus in the premium tier. This feature ensures that the metadata and data of a namespace are continuously replicated from a primary region to a secondary region. Moreover, this feature allows promoting a secondary region at any time. The Geo-Replication feature is the latest option to insulate Azure Service Bus applications against outages and disasters. Other options are Geo-Disaster Recovery and Availability Zones. [HEADING=1]Differentiation[/HEADING] There are currently two features that provide Geo-Disaster Recovery in Azure Service Bus for the Premium tie…