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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…

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…

I have a hard drive from an old HP Windows XP laptop and want to access some files on there, but I'm having trouble. I bought an adapter for the hard drive so I can plug it into my pc as an external hard drive, but when I try to open it or right-click it, it won't load. One time I had to restart my pc after trying to open the drive. I don't think it's encrypted, and I just can't figure out what's wrong with it. Continue reading...

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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

[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…

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…

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…

I replaced the electronics module in my HP Designjet 130 (because the existing one was broken).I took the electronics module from another working printer I had (HP Designjet 130nr).The electronics module was working fine in the HP Designjet 130nr, but the printer hardware was partly worn out/damaged, that's why I wanted to put the electronics module in the HP Designjet 130.At startup I get the following symptoms:The display shows a blank lit front panel and the yellow led flashes (cannot turn off the printer or enter the restricted utilities menu "EEPROM clean, factory reset, etc."--nothing m Continue reading...

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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…

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…

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…

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…

[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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…