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[HEADING=2]Spotlight on AI in your DevOps Lifecycle[/HEADING] Explore the transformative power of artificial intelligence in DevOps with our comprehensive series, "Spotlight on AI in Your DevOps Lifecycle." This series delves into the integration of AI into every stage of the DevOps process, providing invaluable insights and practical guidance. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, these episodes will equip you with the knowledge to leverage AI effectively in your development and operations lifecycle. Speakers Sessions: Register Now. Event Series | Microsoft Reactor DevOps in the era of Generative AI: Foundations of LLMOps …

Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying to help our readers a bit more, whether that is learning, troubleshooting, or just finding new content sources! We will give you a bit of a taste of the blog content itself, provide you a way to get to the source content directly, and help to introduce you to some other blogs you may not be aware of that you might find helpful. If you have been a long-time reader, then you will find this series to be very similar to our prior series “Infrastructure + Securi…

[HEADING=1]Silent yet powerful, APIs are the unsung heroes of our digital era! [/HEADING] [JUSTIFY]Welcome! Your presence here, fully engaged in this article, indicates an insightful understanding of the immense importance and catalytic role that APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, play in shaping our technology-driven lives today! Findings show that businesses across sectors have been amassing APIs year after year, a trend that has sharply escalated in recent months due to groundbreaking advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Have you ever counted the number of APIs used within your organization? Moreover, do you know how many of …

At this year's Microsoft Build, we introduced the Phi-3 series of small language models (SLMs), a groundbreaking addition to our Azure AI model catalog. The Phi-3 models, which include Phi-3-mini, Phi-3-medium, represent a significant advancement in the realm of generative AI, designed to deliver large model performance in a compact, efficient package. [HEADING=3]The power of Phi-3 models[/HEADING] The Phi-3 series stands out by offering the capabilities of significantly larger models while requiring far less computational power. This makes Phi-3 models ideal for a wide range of applications, from enhancing mobile apps to powering devices with stringent ener…

Welcome to the Viva Glint newsletter. Our recurring communications will help you get the most out of the Viva Glint product. You can always access the current and past editions of the newsletter on our Viva Glint blog. Viva Glint’s next feature release is scheduled for June 1, 2024. Your dashboard provides date and timing details of a short maintenance shutdown two or three days before the release. Follow along with what features are ahead by checking out the Viva Glint product roadmap. Newsletter news! You let us know that you’re excited to see and use new Glint features when you read about them. Starting with the next release, our newsletters will be sen…

[HEADING=1]1. Visual Studio Solution[/HEADING] In this section it will be demonstrated how to create the Visual Studio solution with a Windows Forms application and the Windows Application Packaging Project project used to generate the MSIX file. In case you prefer, you can skip this step, since the solution is already available on jenkins_msix repo. [HEADING=2]Create the Windows Form application[/HEADING] On Visual Studio 2019, select Create a new project, select the Windows Forms app project template and click Next: Provide the project name WinForms.App and click Next: I am choosing the .NET 6.0 framework, but feel free to use any o…

Other lesson learned about HikariCP has been when we enabled setLeakDetectionThreshold working on a service request was receiving the following error message: 20:21:42.089 [AppExample-ConnectionPooling housekeeper] WARN com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyLeakTask - Connection leak detection triggered for ConnectionID:1 ClientConnectionId: b9b5344d-f970-XXX-xxxxxxxxxx on thread main, stack trace follows java.lang.Exception: Apparent connection leak detected at com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource.getConnection(HikariDataSource.java:100) The learned lesson here was, that, in the context of connection leak detection in HikariCP, it is not only the closing of the connection tha…

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.…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…