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We wanted to tell you that an update was published related to the deprecation of Admin Audit Log cmdlets in Microsoft 365. The update was posted on the Security, Compliance, and Identity Blog and you can see it here: Update on the Deprecation of Admin Audit Log Cmdlets. While the scope here is a bit more than "Exchange Online", we know that some of our customers were interested in this. The blog post discusses cmdlets that are being deprecated as well as how to accomplish those tasks after deprecation. The Exchange Online Team Continue reading...

We wanted to provide you with an important update to the deprecation schedule for the two Admin Audit Log cmdlets, as part of our ongoing commitment to improve security and compliance capabilities within our services. The two Admin Audit Log cmdlets are: Search-AdminAuditLog New-AdminAuditLog As communicated in a previous blog post, the deprecation of Admin Audit Log (AAL) and Mailbox Audit Log (MAL) cmdlets was initially planned to occur simultaneously on April 30th, 2024. However, to ensure a smooth transition and to accommodate the feedback from our community, we have revised the deprecation timeline. We would like to inform you that the Admin Audit Log …

[HEADING=1]A Step Forward in News Sharing and Collaboration for SharePoint[/HEADING] SharePoint News connector has been a valuable tool in our Microsoft Teams experience, seamlessly integrating SharePoint news into our team channels. As we strive for innovation and collaboration, we are transitioning away from the SharePoint News connector to embrace alternative, more integrated solutions. SharePoint News Connector Our decision to move beyond the SharePoint News connector is driven by our commitment to providing a seamless and collaborative environment. With current advancements in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, we can leverage alternatives, ensuri…

In this guest blog post, Ravit Aviv, Director of Technology Alliances at Transmit Security, offers ways businesses can launch a formidable defense against AI-based cyber activity and threat actors and build long-term digital resilience with the help of Transmit Security and Microsoft. In an increasingly digital world, securing identities has never been more critical. The 2023 Digital Defense Report by Microsoft highlights the alarming frequency and sophistication of identity attacks, underscoring the need for robust security solutions. The report reveals the following findings: The volume of password attacks increased more than tenfold in 2023, rising from 3 b…

You might call this episode ShareDrive or OnePoint, if you dare. It blends the focus of two product managers spanning the OneDrive and SharePoint product boundaries. In this episode, you’ll hear from Stephen Rice (Principal product manager) from our OneDrive companion pod, Sync Up … and he chats/interviews your very own Intrazone host, me, Mark Kashman. It's a little bit of an M365 multi-verse as we interview each other – PM-to-PM, pod-to-pod, Intrazone-to-Sync Up. You'll hear our takes on our respective products - Stephen on OneDrive and me on SharePoint. In the end, it's a bountiful double bonus for you - the benefit of the best of both pods and a lot of updates …

We’ve written a lot about how attackers try to break passwords. The solution to password attacks—still the most common attack vector for compromising identities—is to turn on multifactor authentication (MFA). But as more customers do the right thing with MFA, actors are going beyond password-only attacks. So, we’re going to publish a series of articles on how to defeat more advanced attacks, starting with token theft. In this article, we’ll start with some basics on how tokens work, describe a token theft attack, and then explain what you can do to prevent and mitigate token theft now. [HEADING=2]Tokens 101 [/HEADING] Before we get too deep into the …

In 2022, we introduced Windows Admin Center in Azure, making it easy for you to manage your Windows Server Azure VMs directly from the Azure Portal. Since its release, we’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response and feature requests we’ve received. Over the last 2 years, we expanded to support Azure Arc-enabled Windows Servers and Azure Stack HCI clusters, providing you access to Windows Admin Center for your on-premises machines without. We’ve heard you and added secure, password-less authentication, giving you single sign-on using your Entra ID credentials. We also increased the performance by over 50% leveraging Azure Front Door as our content delivery network. We …

Effective and efficient communication is key when it comes to managing your workday. Whether you’re collaborating with colleagues, discussing project details, or simply sharing updates in a chat, the way you convey your thoughts changes depending on who you are talking to. Microsoft Copilot in Teams’ chat and channels compose box is a powerful tool that helps take your messages to the next level. In this blog, we’ll cover what this AI-powered tool is, how to access and prompt with it, as well as an exciting new feature: Custom tone. [HEADING=1] Rewrite your messages with Copilot in Teams chat and channels[/HEADING] Copilot can assist you in crafting more polished a…

One of the top challenges in team initiatives is determining when the work will be completed, ensuring it meets deadlines, and understanding which tasks to prioritize so the project finishes on time. This is particularly difficult with multiple interdependencies. The tools teams use for work management need to drive more momentum and efficiency, helping team members reach the desired outcomes faster. Microsoft Planner offers advanced features like Dependencies and Identification of Critical Path all supported in the Timeline view to address these pain points and enhance these processes, making managing projects more efficient and precise. [HEADING=1]Advanced Task Depen…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 147 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=55090:name] AbanteCart: AbanteCart is an open-source e-commerce platform with an intuitive admin interface, multiple payment gateways, and flexible product management. With AbanteCart, you can easily manage products, process orders, and engage with customers through a user-friendly interface and a wide range of powerful features. [attachment=55091:name] Ackee Analytics: Ackee is a self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics…

We are thrilled to announce that Azure cross-subscription Load Balancer is now available for public preview in all Azure public and national cloud regions. This capability enables you to have your Azure Load Balancer components in different subscriptions. For example, you could have the load balancer’s frontend or backend instances in a different subscription from the one that the load balancer belongs to. The matrix below shows some of the scenarios that cross-subscription load balancing enables: Subscription 1 Subscription 2 Load Balancer Backend pool resources and Frontend IP address Load Balancer and Backend pool resources F…

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[HEADING=1]Overview[/HEADING] As a SaaS service, Fabric offers a complete security package for the entire platform. The Fabric platform comprises of experiences like include Lakehouse, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehouse, Power BI, and others. To understand the security in Fabric we have broken down Fabric components into the following layers: [HEADING=1]Fabric Components[/HEADING] Data - Where the data actually resides inside Fabric (Warehouse/Lakehouse/Eventhouse/OneLake/Fabric clusters) Items - These are the building blocks of the Fabric platform. They're the objects that you create and manage in Fabric. There are different types of …

Sometimes, on the Azure portal, you might see an error message on the Function App like "we were not able to load some functions in the list due to errors." There are many reasons for this symptom, such as connection errors with the storage account, runtime being down, indexing failure, and the synctriggers failure that we'll discuss. To confirm whether your issue is indeed due to synctriggers, you could press F12 in your browser to activate developer mode and search for the keyword "batch" under the "Network" tab. This endpoint is used by the Azure portal to call various internal services of the Function App (e.g., retrieving app settings, site informat…

The Microsoft AI Tour, a global event series aimed at enhancing AI skills for decision-makers and developers. The tour has been held in various locations around the world. Many attendees at these events had the opportunity to learn about the latest AI technologies, interact with Microsoft leaders and technical experts, and enjoy a unique opportunity to further utilize Microsoft AI technology in the future. In this blog article, we present the vibrant event filled with diverse participants, along with a community gathering held the day before, featuring an executive speaker from Microsoft, Scott Hanselman (VP of Developer Community). April 30, 2024 – Microsof…

Hello everyone, welcome to my latest blog post! My name is Suzaril Shah and I am a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and a Microsoft Certified Trainer from Malaysia. I am excited to share my two favorite image analysis solutions to protect images hosted on Azure Container Registry. Please note that it is not my intention to compare these two solutions because I love working with both Microsoft Defender for Containers and Docker Scout altogether and they complement each other. If anything, they should be used alongside each other to further enhance container security on ACR. [HEADING=1]Introduction to Container Technology[/HEADING] Containers help…

Azure Load Testing is a cloud-based service that helps you run performance and load tests on your web applications and APIs. You can easily create, configure, and execute load tests using JMeter scripts or custom code, and monitor the results in real-time on the Azure portal. You can also integrate your load tests with your CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub actions. Until now, you could only view the load test results on the Azure portal, which required internet access and RBAC permissions. Now, you can download the report as an HTML file and share it with your stakeholders or teammates offline. The HTML report contains the same charts and metrics as the onl…

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for more powerful and efficient computing resources is ever-increasing. Microsoft is at the forefront of this technological revolution, empowering customers to harness the full potential of their AI workloads with their GPUs. GPU virtualization makes the ability to process massive amounts of data quickly and efficiently possible. Using GPUs with clustered VMs through DDA (Discrete Device Assignment) becomes particularly significant in failover clusters, offering direct GPU access. Using GPUs with clustered VMs through DDA allows you to assign one or more entire physical GPUs to a single vir…

Azure Container Apps is a powerful platform for running serverless, containerized applications and microservices. In the team’s ongoing commitment to improving Azure Container Apps’ performance, we’ve recently made significant improvements to make the scaling and load balancing behavior of Azure Container Apps more intuitive and better align with customer expectations to meet their performance needs. Hopefully, some of the insights from our experience in working with Envoy and KEDA will be helpful to you. [HEADING=1]Load Balancing Algorithm Update[/HEADING] In the past, Azure Container Apps relied on the ring hash load balancing algorithm to distribute in…

Are you looking for a way to reduce the time and effort required to complete your tasks in Microsoft 365? Do you want to optimize your workflows and processes to achieve more with less resources? Do you want to see how Copilot for Microsoft 365 can help you solve real-world challenges frequently encountered in the Pharmaceutical Industry today? In this recorded Webinar learn how Clinical Trials Managers and Researchers can leverage the power of Microsoft Copilot in their role to reduce repetitive tasks. Resources: Get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365—Features and Plans | Microsoft 365 Cop…

Are you looking for a way to reduce the time and effort required to complete your tasks in Microsoft 365? Do you want to optimize your workflows and processes to achieve more with less resources? Do you want to see how Copilot for Microsoft 365 can help you solve real-world challenges frequently encountered in the Pharmaceutical Industry today? In this recorded Webinar learn how Pharma Sales Trainers can leverage the power of Microsoft Copilot in their role to reduce repetitive tasks. Resources: Get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Training | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365—Features and Plans | Microsoft 365 Copilot Lab (cloud.mic…

We have cases where our customers want to access from Azure SQL Database to Azure Storage Account(SA) using Private Endpoint(PE). For additional information how you can configure PE for your storage account, please visit the following link: Tutorial: Connect to a storage account using an Azure Private Endpoint. The process involves configuring the private endpoint for the storage account to allow secure and private communication between the Azure resources and your storage account. I would like to clarify that the use of a private endpoint is a connection from a VNET to a resource. However, Azure SQL DB is not VNET integrated and, as a result, it is not po…

[HEADING=1][/HEADING] In this article we will explore how A/B testing in multi-region environments can be performed leveraging Front Door session affinity and an ingress controller to ensure consistent user pools as we scale up our traffic. We will also explore how we can use origin group rewrite rules on existing paths to ensure traffic is routed for specific user sets to specific locations. [HEADING=2]Azure Front Door Rulesets and Session Affinity[/HEADING] Azure Front Door is a content delivery network (CDN) that provides fast, reliable and secure access between users and applications using edge locations across the globe. Front Door, in this insta…

In the past few weeks, we’ve announced the general availability of Microsoft Entra External ID and Microsoft Entra ID multi-tenant collaboration. We’ve received requests for more detail from some of you regarding licensing, so I’d like to provide additional clarity for both of these scenarios. [HEADING=2]One person, one license[/HEADING] Included in the first announcement of more multi-tenant organization (MTO) features to enhance collaboration between users, we stated that only one Microsoft Entra ID P1 license is required per employee per multi-tenant organization. Expanding on that, the term “multi-tenant organization” has two descriptions: an organizatio…

Abstract Azure Blob Storage is engineered to manage immense volumes of unstructured data efficiently. While utilizing Blob Storage for High-Performance Computing (HPC) tasks presents numerous benefits, including scalability and cost-effectiveness, it also introduces specific challenges. Key among these challenges are data access latency and the potential for performance decline in workloads, particularly noticeable in compute-intensive or real-time applications when accessing data stored in Blob. In this article, we will examine how WEKA’s patented filesystem, WekaFS™, and its parallel processing algorithms accelerate Blob storage performance. About WEKA The…