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Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News

Andre_Heim — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:46:33 GMT

Microsoft Ignite 2024 is ongoing and we already saw a big wave of announcements which sometimes are difficult to keep up with.

For that, the Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News is a helpful resource having all the announcements with their respective description in one place.

Bookmark Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News and crawl through all what's coming now and in the next couple of weeks/months.

Azure Updates and Retirements

Andre_Heim — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 05:58:25 GMT

Whenever you want to know, what services are coming to Azure, check the Azure Update Website.

Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In contrary, if you want to know, what Azure Services are getting retired, check this out in you Azure Portal under Advisor. There, go to Workbook and click on the Service Retirement Workbook.

Azure Blogs - Articles from 14-Oct-2024 to 20-Oct-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:32:58 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Covering: Anomaly Detector, Azure Bot Services, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure ML, Azure Open Datasets, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Video Indexer, Computer Vision, Content Moderator, Custom Vision, Data Science VM, Face API, Azure Form Recognizer, Azure Immersive Reader, Kinect DK, Language Understanding (LUIS), Microsoft Genomics, Personalizer, Project Bonsai, QnA Maker, Speaker recognition, Speech to Text, Speech translation, Cognitive Service for Language, Text to Speech, Translator, Azure Metrics Advisor, Health Bot, Azure Percept, Azure Applied AI Services, Azure OpenAI Service

Building an AI Dev Space With a Little Assistance from Aspire

Azure PostgreSQL with Azure Open AI to innovate Banking Apps: Unlocking the Power of AI Extension

Evaluating generative AI: Best practices for developers

Responsible AI: from principles to practice - New Blog Series

Generative AI with JavaScript FREE course

Bot Framework: Build an AI Security Assistant with ease

Azure AI for an API Platform

Coming in November: AI-3022: Implement AI Skills in Azure AI Search

Building a Contextual Retrieval System for Improving RAG Accuracy

New Hugging Face Models on Azure AI: Phi-3 Variants from the Community

Unveiling the Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Day: Get the Framework to Develop AI Solutions

Selecting the Optimal Container for Azure AI: Docker, ACI, or AKS?

Virtual Event: How to support your customers in navigating the Regulatory and AI landscape today.

Certificación AI-900 (Fundamentos de IA) con Chicas en IA

Mastering AI adoption: Essentials to building, operating and optimizing GenAI workloads on Azure

Responsible Synthetic Data Creation for Fine-Tuning with RAFT Distillation

Pytorch PEFT SFT and convert to ONNX Runtime

Analytics

Covering: Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Lake Analytics, HDInsight, Power BI Embedded, R Server for HDInsight, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Graph Data Connect, Azure Chaos Studio

Updated Fabric GitHub Repo for 250M rows of CMS Healthcare data

Performing ETL in Real-Time Intelligence with Microsoft Fabric

Azure SQL Managed Instance Cross Subscription Database Restore using Azure Data Factory

Create Azure Data Factory Managed Private Links

Bot Framework: Build an AI Security Assistant with ease

New Low-Cost Log Options, Automation, AI & SIEM Migration | Microsoft Sentinel Updates

Securing Your Data Pipelines: Best Practices for Fabric Data Factory

Cross Subscription Database Restore for SQL Managed Instance Database with TDE enabled using ADF

Compute

Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Quantum, Azure Spot Virtual Machines, Azure VMware Solution, Batch, Linux Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Virtual Machines, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure VM Image Builder, Azure Functions, Service Fabric

OpenHCL: the new, open source paravisor

Announcing the open sourcing of OpenHCL

Microsoft Virtualization Migration Options

Comprehensive Nvidia GPU Monitoring for Azure N-Series VMs Using Telegraf with Azure Monitor

VMware HCX Troubleshooting with Azure VMware Solution

Rapidly scope NC2 on Azure using Nutanix Sizer

Azure VMware Solution Security Design Considerations

Azure Elastic SAN for Azure VMware Solution: now Generally Available

Announcing Public Preview of new attach/detach disks API for VMs/VMSS

Fine-tuning a Hugging Face Diffusion Model on CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm

Deploying HCX for VM Migration - Part 1

Seeking Advice for Automating VMSS Scaling Based on On-Premises SQL Data

Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available

Routing options for VMs from Private Subnets

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Selecting the Optimal Container for Azure AI: Docker, ACI, or AKS?

Kubernetes - Consumo de memória elevado em aplicações que escrevem em disco

Accelerating Java Applications on Azure Kubernetes Service with CRaC

Secure, High-Performance Networking for Data-Intensive Kubernetes Workloads

Databases

Covering: Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Edge, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure VM, Table Storage, Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, Azure Confidential Ledger

Deploying .dacpacs to Multiple Environments via ADO Pipelines

Azure PostgreSQL with Azure Open AI to innovate Banking Apps: Unlocking the Power of AI Extension

Connect Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL to your ASP.NET Core application.

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Azure Database for MySQL - September 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap

September 2024 Recap: Azure Postgres Flexible Server

Online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance is now GA

Cross Subscription Database Restore for SQL Managed Instance Database with TDE enabled using ADF

Develop a Library Web API: Integrating Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB with ASP.NET Core

Lesson Learned #510: Using CProfiler to Analyze Python Call Performance in Support Scenarios

Failed to Restore SQL Managed Instance Database Backup from Azure Blob Storage

Seeking Advice for Automating VMSS Scaling Based on On-Premises SQL Data

Migrating from Amazon QLDB to ledger tables in Azure SQL Database: A Comprehensive Guide

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Catch the highlights from Azure Developers – .NET Aspire Day 2024!

Building an AI Dev Space With a Little Assistance from Aspire

How we build GitHub Copilot into Visual Studio

What’s new in System.Text.Json in .NET 9

Evaluating generative AI: Best practices for developers

Building Real-Time Web Apps with SignalR, WebAssembly, and ASP.NET Core API

Automate Markdown and Image Translations Using Co-op Translator: Phi-3 Cookbook Case Study

Breaking change for Window Server 2022 Image Users with .NET 6

Generative AI with JavaScript FREE course

GitHub e GitHub Copilot - Raccolta di risorse utili

.NET Conf 2024 Student Zone

Building Web Apps – A 6-Lesson Course on Linkedin Learning

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Deploying .dacpacs to Multiple Environments via ADO Pipelines

Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Installation of Argo CD

GitHub e GitHub Copilot - Raccolta di risorse utili

Career growth, learning, and fun, oh my! Your guide to GitHub Universe 2024

GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time

Certifícate con Learn Live GitHub en Español

Get certified with Learn Live GitHub series!

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

New features for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

No New Articles

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Announcement: Introducing the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model (Public Preview)

Recap of Logic Apps Community Day 2024

Upload file with non-ASCII filename in Http request via multipart/form-data in Logic App STD

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Strengthening Security in Azure IoT Hub: Transitioning to TLS 1.2+ and Planning for TLS 1.3

Management and Governance

Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Azure Portal, Network Watcher, Azure Automanage, Azure Resource Mover, Azure Chaos Studio, Azure Managed Grafana

Join Marketplace at Microsoft Ignite!

Secure, High-Performance Networking for Data-Intensive Kubernetes Workloads

Advanced Alerting Strategies for Azure Monitoring

Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

Microsoft Virtualization Migration Options

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

No New Articles

Networking

Covering: Application Gateway, Bastion, DDoS Protection, DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Load Balancer, Firewall Manager, Front Door, Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall, Azure Orbital, Route Server, Network Function Manager, Virtual Network Manager, Azure Private 5G Core

Transition from VNET integration to public access or Private Link using the Azure CLI

Routing options for VMs from Private Subnets

Security

Covering: Defender for Cloud, DDoS Protection, Dedicated HSM, Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Sentinel, Key Vault, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Microsoft Azure Attestation, Azure Confidential Ledger

New Copilot for Security Plugin Name Reflects Broader Capabilities

New Low-Cost Log Options, Automation, AI & SIEM Migration | Microsoft Sentinel Updates

Phish, Click, Breach: Hunting for a Sophisticated Cyber Attack

Welcome to the Microsoft Incident Response Ninja Hub

Save money on your Sentinel ingestion costs with Data Collection Rules

What to do if your Sentinel Data Connector shows as [DEPRECATED]

Welcome to the Microsoft Defender Experts Ninja Hub

Escalating cyber threats demand stronger global defense and cooperation

Leverage Microsoft Azure tools to navigate NIS2 compliance

Storage

Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Share, Files, FXT Edge Filer, HPC Cache, NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Data Box, Disk Storage, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple

Accelerate metadata heavy workloads with Metadata Caching preview for Azure Premium Files SMB & REST

Failed to Restore SQL Managed Instance Database Backup from Azure Blob Storage

Web

Covering: App Configuration, App Service, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Maps, Azure SignalR Service, Static Web Apps, Azure Communication Services, Azure Web PubSub, Azure Fluid Relay, Web App for Containers

Deploy Mkdocs page on Azure Web App

How to Test Network on Linux Web App with Limited Tools

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

New features for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI

Swiss DCs Partner Update Call September 2024

Primo_Amrein — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:38:03 GMT

Please find attached the pdf slides from this quarter's partner Swiss DCs update call. The recording and AI recap is here: Regular Partner Q&A Call on CH DC-20240920_140148-Meeting Recording.mp4 (sharepoint.com)

Main info covered:

New Public Story

5 years Swiss DCs

Azure

More powerful NVIDIA GPUs NVv5 now generally available in Switzerland North in two zones, enabling e.g. resource-intensive applications such as CAD for Virtual Desktop
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore available very soon in Switzerland North

Modern Work

GPU cloud PCs in Windows 365 available in Switzerland

Final Call

Similar to established areas with mature DCs such as DE / FR / UK, there is no local DC Lead any longer in Switzerland
Please approach your Microsoft partner team or Martin Abrle for Swiss DCs requests
I will delete the call series for the future as I transitioned to the role of AI National Skills Director
Thank you VERY MUCH for the past collaboration and everything you've done for Swiss DCs!

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 12-Aug-2024 to 18-Aug-2024

Andre_Heim — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:08:58 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Azure Bot Directline channel vs Directline speech channel

Simple Linear Regression with Phi3-vision and State Graphs

How to Evaluate & Upgrade Model Versions in the Azure OpenAI Service

Unveiling Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations and hourly pricing

Integrate Logic App workflows as plugins with Semantic Kernel: Step-by-step guide

Experience the Power of Our Expanded Collection of 60+ Realistic Multilingual Voices

Localizing GitHub Repositories with LLMs

Season of AI in Durban: Igniting the Future of Data and AI

Integrating Azure AI Content Safety with API Management for Azure OpenAI Endpoints

RAGHack: Free global hackathon Sept 3-13

SAP & Teams Integration with Copilot Studio and Generative AI

Azure AI Document Intelligence now previewing field extraction with Generative AI and more

Viva People Science Research: The state of AI change readiness

Deploying LLM Inference Endpoints & Optimizing Output with RAG

Differences between Pre-Training and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)

Microsoft MVP x AI Day -tapahtuma 10.9.2024 kumppaneille

Azure AI Document Intelligence now previewing field extraction with Generative AI and more

Azure Static Web Apps Community Standup: Create a RAG App with App Spaces

Optimizing SLM with ONNX Runtime: Phi-3 on CPU with Sidecars for App Service

Analytics

Azure Fabric Lakehouse Connector is failing while getting files with wildcard in Azure Data Factory

ADX Web UI updates - July 2023

Securing Microsoft Fabric: User Authentication & Authorization Guidelines

Optimizing fleet management with Microsoft connected fleets reference architecture

Compute

Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Extending Microsoft Copilot for Security Capabilities with Azure Function Apps

Windows Server 2025: The upgrade and update experience

Microsoft is headed to VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas

Azure Functions Newsletter – August 2024

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Using Defender XDR Portal to hunt for Kubernetes security issues

Leveraging Azure native tooling to hunt Kubernetes security issues

Inside Look: How Azure Kubernetes Service supports OSSKU Migration between Ubuntu and Azure Linux

Gatekeeper: Enforcing security policy on your Kubernetes clusters

Asynchronous HTTP APIs with Azure Container Apps jobs

Databases

How to check if Azure SQL Managed Instances are enrolled (or not) on November 2022 Feature Wave?

Using MI Link to transfer CLR binaries from SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance

General Availability: Maintenance window support for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale named replica.

Database Watcher: Your perfmon in the cloud | Data Exposed

Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database

General Purpose to Business Critical Azure SQL database upgrade

Automate shrink database in Azure SQL

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Importing a Database into VS Code

The ultimate guide to developer happiness

.NET and .NET Framework August 2024 updates

.NET Conf 2024 – Celebrating the Release of .NET 9! – Save the Date!

New cloud-ready application templates for accelerating your development

.NET 9 Preview 7 is now available!

Transforme o Desenvolvimento com .NET Aspire: Integração com JavaScript e Node.js

.Net 9 Preview 6 now available on App Service

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

GitHub Availability Report: July 2024

Epic delivery plan in Azure Devops

Localizing GitHub Repositories with LLMs

Azure DevOps Timeline/Roadmap Native Function

How to level up your Git game with GitHub CLI

GitHub Model Catalog - Getting Started

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Apply critical update for Azure Stack HCI VMs to maintain Azure verification

Introducing ArcBox 3.0 General Availability

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Face Check is now generally available

Let's move away from API keys!

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Integrate Logic App workflows as plugins with Semantic Kernel: Step-by-step guide

Logic Apps Standard Monitoring Dashboards

Logic Apps - Tracked properties for HTTP action`s INPUTS not working

Unlock inline PowerShell capabilities to streamline Logic Apps workflows

Announcing Public Preview of API Management WordPress plugin to build customized developer portals

Unable to connect via Logic Apps SFTP-SSH connector

[Azure Service Bus] JMS messages getting dead-lettered

Azure Logic Apps with Route tables to find Next hop IP address as empty.

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

No New Articles

Management and Governance

Trouble Installing Microsoft Site Recovery - Process Server Service Keeps Terminating

Get tailored insights with our Advisor Well-Architected assessments

Learn about Derek Coleman & Associates’ transactable partner solution in Azure Marketplace

New on Azure Marketplace: August 1-11, 2024

Revolutionizing log collection with Azure Monitor Agent

Troubleshoot Policy Issues for Sending logs to Log Analytics/Storage Account for Azure Resources

Azure FinOps: Introduction and Assessments

High Scale log collection in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

No New Articles

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

No New Articles

Networking

I Azure Firewall and WAF integrations in Microsoft Copilot for Security

Creating a Local Network Virtual Appliance in Azure for Oracle Database@Azure

Integrating Workload profile Container App with Front Door and Application Gateway Private Link

Adopting Public IPv6 for Three-Tier Web Applications

Azure Firewall Application Rules - "MSSQL" not available in Rule Collection Groups

Web app and API vulnerabilities, and how to secure them with Azure and Fortinet

Getting Started with Azure WAF REST API for Azure Front Door: A Step-by-Step Guide

Security

Using Defender XDR Portal to hunt for Kubernetes security issues

Leveraging Azure native tooling to hunt Kubernetes security issues

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s Safe Deployment Practices

Storage

No New Articles

Web

Azure Static Web Apps Community Standup: Create a RAG App with App Spaces

Optimizing SLM with ONNX Runtime: Phi-3 on CPU with Sidecars for App Service

Azure Static Web Apps Community: Criação de uma App (RAG) com App Spaces e Azure Static Web Apps

Create and Deploy Linux WebJobs on Azure App Service

.Net 9 Preview 6 now available on App Service

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

No New Articles

Azure Blogs - Articles from 15-July-2024 to 21-July-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:11:36 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Use WebGPU + ONNX Runtime Web + Transformer.js to build RAG applications by Phi-3-mini

Leveraging phi-3 for an Enhanced Semantic Cache in RAG Applications

From Paper to Pixels: Azure AI in Historical Document Digitization and Translation

Enhancing Document Extraction with Azure AI Document Intelligence and LangChain for RAG Workflows.

New Video Course: Generative AI for Beginners

Fine-Tune and Integrate Custom Phi-3 Models with Prompt Flow in Azure AI Studio

Connect with Application Insights in 'not Local auth mode' using OpenTelemetry

Tracing LangChain Code on Azure with OpenTelemetry and Application Insights

Responsible AI Innovation From Principles to Practice: Developer Resources

Using App Spaces to build a chat agent with OpenAI’s Node.js SDK

Save Big on Hosting Your Fine-Tuned Models on Azure OpenAI Service

Running Phi-3-vision via ONNX on Jetson Platform

Announcing Custom Categories Public Preview in Azure AI Content Safety

Pre-Job Health Checks on AKS: A Guide to Stable AI Workloads

Why? and How to Ground a Large Language Models using your Data? (RAG)

Build Powerful RAG Apps Without Code Using LangFlow and Azure OpenAI

Fine-Tune and Integrate Custom Phi-3 Models with Prompt Flow: Step-by-Step Guide

Ready, Set, AI: What our People Science research tells us about AI Readiness

Exploring the Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Service

AI on the road: Azure OpenAI Service helps drive better decision making for the transportation sector

Analytics

Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Partner Case Study Series | Exasol With Azure and Power BI

Microsoft Purview integrates with ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API to support compliance

Microsoft Purview Data Governance will be generally available September 1, 2024

Compute

Announcing Preview of New Azure Dlsv6, Dsv6, Esv6 VMs with new CPU, Azure Boost, and NVMe Support

Converting Azure Virtual Machines running Windows from SCSI to NVMe

Azure Capacity Reservations with Automatic Consumption

Recovery options for Azure Virtual Machines (VM) affected by CrowdStrike Falcon agent

New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints

Azure Update Manager to support CIS hardened images among other images

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Microsoft Copilot in Azure Series – AKS Cluster configuration and management

Azure Capacity Reservations with Automatic Consumption

Pre-Job Health Checks on AKS: A Guide to Stable AI Workloads

Comparing feature sets for AKS enabled by Azure Arc deployment options

Use cases of Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters

Databases

Effectively troubleshoot latency in SQL Server Transactional replication: Part 1

Effectively troubleshoot latency in SQL Server Transactional replication: Part 2

Three New Capabilities to Modernize your SQL Server Anywhere with Azure Arc | Data Exposed

101 of Troubleshooting SQL Server on Linux

Connect Azure SQL Server via User Assigned Managed Identity under Django

Oracle Database@Azure Achieves Extensive Certifications: Elevating Security, Reliability, and Trust

Migrating SLURM Job Accounting from Azure Database for MariaDB to MySQL Flexible Server

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

.NET 9 Preview 6 is now available!

Introducing Learn Cloud: A VS Code Extension to simplify your First Deployment to the Cloud.

Learn how to build Python Web Apps from our 6-part series!

[Mitigated] Azure Lab Services - Lab Plan Outage

.NET 6 will reach End of Support on November 12, 2024

Introducing CoreWCF and WCF Client Azure Queue Storage bindings for .NET

Mastering your cloud journey: Essentials to Innovating, Migrating and Modernizing, on Azure

Azure Lab Services - Maintenance update outage

[Mitigated] Azure Lab Services - Maintenance update outage

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

DevOps Conference Returns: Global DevOps Experience

Study guide: GitHub Actions certification

Limiting access to reorder Azure DevOps backlog

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Comparing feature sets for AKS enabled by Azure Arc deployment options

Azure Monitor: How To Get Alerts for Disconnected Arc Agents

Three New Capabilities to Modernize your SQL Server Anywhere with Azure Arc | Data Exposed

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

No New Articles

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

The Rising Significance of APIs - Azure API Management & API Center

Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Thursday, July 25th

Configuring a Disaster Recovery Solution for Azure Service Bus with Basic Tier

Step by step Guidance on Logic App Standard Load Testing and Optimization

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

No New Articles

Management and Governance

Azure Capacity Reservations with Automatic Consumption

FabSoft, Just Software, and Volo offer transactable partner solutions in Azure Marketplace

Mastering your cloud journey: Essentials to Innovating, Migrating and Modernizing, on Azure

Azure Landing Zones Accelerators for Bicep and Terraform. Announcing General Availability!

Azure Monitor: How To Get Alerts for Disconnected Arc Agents

Empowering accessibility and innovation through cloud-based telemedicine with Microsoft Azure

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

Mastering your cloud journey: Essentials to Innovating, Migrating and Modernizing, on Azure

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Learn Live Series - Crie uma LOB com OpenAI, Azure Communication Services e MS Graph (Parte II)

Enable location analytics with Azure Maps

Networking

Azure Virtual WAN configuration best practices

Portal extension for Azure Firewall with DDoS protection

VPN Gateway - BGP AS PATH - Steer which VPN tunnel traffic will flow form Azure to OnPrem

Use cases of Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters

Security

Make OT security a core part of your SOC strategy with Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud PoC Series - Microsoft Defender for APIs

Storage

Introducing CoreWCF and WCF Client Azure Queue Storage bindings for .NET

Web

Introducing Learn Cloud: A VS Code Extension to simplify your First Deployment to the Cloud.

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

No New Articles

The Importance of Validation HostPools in AVD Deployments: Lessons from the CrowdStrike Global Issue

Azure Blogs - Articles from 8-July-2024 to 14-July-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:30:49 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Introducing the Azure AI Model Inference API

Open AI Whisper

Azure OpenAI Extension for Function Apps Hands-on Experience

Running Open AI Whisper Model on Azure

Deploy a Phi-3 model in Azure AI, and consume it with C# and Semantic Kernel

Fine-Tune and Integrate Custom Phi-3 Models with Prompt Flow: Step-by-Step Guide

Four steps to expanding your AI skills with Python and Microsoft Learn

Building the Ultimate Nerdland Podcast Chatbot with RAG and LLM: Step-by-Step Guide

Comprehensive AI Safety and Security with defense in depth for Enterprises

From Principles to Practice: Developer Resources for Responsible AI Innovation

Streamlining SAP Processes with Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform

Accelerate data democratization in era of generative AI using Denodo Platform and Microsoft Fabric

Use WebGPU + ONNX Runtime Web + Transformer.js to build RAG applications by Phi-3-mini

Azure Video Indexer & Phi-3 introduce Textual Video Summary on Edge: Better Together story

Fast Transcription Public Preview in Azure AI Speech

Supply chain AI for the new era of value realization

GenAI Mastery: Crafting Robust Enterprise Solutions with PromptFlow and LangChain

Analytics

Accelerate data democratization in era of generative AI using Denodo Platform and Microsoft Fabric

Compute

NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput now generally available

General Availability Announcement: Azure VM Regional to Zonal Move

Where Does One Machine End and the Next Begin?

Microsoft Virtualization Migration Options

Azure OpenAI Extension for Function Apps Hands-on Experience

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Public Preview of the Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Generally Available

Microsoft Copilot in Azure Series - Kubectl

Databases

Say hello to the Talking Postgres podcast

Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server

Announcing SSMS 20.2 ... and getting feedback for SSMS 21

Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack

Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR

Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31

Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR

Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU27

Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR

Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU13

Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR

SQL Server 2022 分散型可用性グループにおける同期失敗

Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure VM: Tips and Tricks from the Field

Increasing Security for SQL Server Enabled by Azure Arc

Azure Database for MySQL - June 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Unlocking the Potential of Phi-3 and C# in AI Development

C# 13: Explore the latest preview features

.NET and .NET Framework July 2024 servicing releases updates

Why and How to Execute GraphQL Queries in .NET

.NET 9 Preview 6 is now available!

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 RTW now available

GitHub Availability Report: June 2024

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Supercharge your datacenters with Hyper-V and virtualized GPUs

Apply critical update for Azure Stack HCI VMs to maintain Azure verification

Increasing Security for SQL Server Enabled by Azure Arc

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication enhancements

Simplified Zero Trust security with the Microsoft Entra Suite and unified security operations platform, now generally available

Microsoft Entra Suite now generally available

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Integrating Logic App with Semantic Kernel: A Detailed Guide and Demo

Azure API Center - The ultimate service to streamline API Governance across your organization.

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Azure Sphere – Image signing certificate update

Management and Governance

What's the difference between Azure savings plans for compute and Azure reservations?

New on Azure Marketplace: June 27-30, 2024

Public Preview Announcement: Azure Policy Built-in Versioning

Using Azure Automation to perform Azure Site Recovery post failover tasks in virtual machines

Govern your Azure Firewall configuration with Azure Policies

Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure VM: Tips and Tricks from the Field

Azure Monitor: How To Stop Log-Based Alerts for Specific Resources

Introducing Agent and Gateway Extensions in Azure Monitor SCOM MI

Information protection: Auto labelling policy vs Information protection: Label Policy

Azure Verified Modules - Monthly Update [June]

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

Microsoft Virtualization Migration Options

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Anywhere365 integrates Azure Communication Services into their Dialogue Cloud Platform

Networking

Dual-region deployments using Secure Virtual WAN Hub with Routing-Intent without Global Reach

Single-region deployment without Global Reach, using Secure Virtual WAN Hub with Routing-Intent

Azure WAF Public Preview: JavaScript Challenge

Save Costs with Basic SKU Application Gateway for more features and less fixed costs

Govern your Azure Firewall configuration with Azure Policies

Security

Microsoft Security Service Edge now generally available

Unified Security Operations Platform - Technical FAQ!

Guidance for handling “regreSSHion” (CVE-2024-6387) using Microsoft Security capabilities

Storage

Web

Memory Dump Collection using Procdump.exe for App Service (Windows)

Anywhere365 integrates Azure Communication Services into their Dialogue Cloud Platform

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

No New Articles

Swiss DCs Partner Update Call June 2024

Primo_Amrein — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:02:10 GMT

Please find attached the pdf slides from this quarter's partner Swiss DCs update call. The recording and AI recap is here: Regular Partner Q&A Call on CH DC-20240621_140141-Meeting Recording.mp4 (sharepoint.com)

Main info covered:

New Public Customer Story

Luzerner Kantonsspital with partner Polypoint

Azure

Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o available as Provisioned Throughput in Switzerland North - PAYG not yet available, will be listed here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/concepts/models
Azure VMware Solution now generally available in Switzerland North
More powerful NVIDIA GPUs NVv5 now generally available in Switzerland North, enabling
e.g. resource-intensive applications such as CAD for Virtual Desktop
Azure Storage Actions (preview), a fully managed platform that helps customers automate
data management operations for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage
Please approach me if your customers have a need for further workloads in Swiss DCs

Defender

Announcement Post | LinkedIn
Covered solutions: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint MDE, Microsoft Defender for
Identity MDI and Microsoft Defender XDR as underlying platform
Be aware of a few specific points per the pdf or call recording

Next Call

Current call series will be extended, next call will be on Friday Sept 20 2024 14.00
Please approach me if you'd like to join as well

EMEA Partner Community Calls (German, French, English)

Karina_Battaglia — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:02:47 GMT

Join us for our June series of the EMEA Azure Partner Community Calls in English, French and German.

Topics:
➡ Leadership top of mind / Closing the year
➡ Partner Journey: programs, designations, specializations & resources
➡ Partner-Led AMM / Azure Innovate learnings & best practices
➡ Resources / What's next?

:laptop_computer: Register to our upcoming Azure session (FR, EN & DE): EMEA Azure Partner Community Calls (microsoft.com)

See you there!

Azure Blogs - Articles from 13-May-2024 to 19-May-2024

Andre_Heim — Wed, 22 May 2024 04:26:35 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Global AI Bootcamp 2024 with MVP Communities

The LLM Latency Guidebook: Optimizing Response Times for GenAI Applications

Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure

A Guide to Optimizing Performance and Saving Cost of your Machine Learning (ML) Service - Part 2

Get Started with Azure AI Services | Open AI and Deployment Models

Choosing the Right Tool: A Comparative analysis of the Assistants API & Chat Completions API

Evaluate Small Language Models for RAG using Azure Prompt Flow (LLama3 vs Phi3)

[AI Search] Minimum RBAC role for AI search when selecting it as data source in AI studio playground

Finetune Small Language Model (SLM) Phi-3 using Azure Machine Learning

How AI and digital transformation are driving inclusion, productivity, and accessibility

Security consideration of Azure OpenAI with Retrieval Augmented Generative pattern (part 1 of 3)

Unlock power of data in Azure- With SQL Server on Linux Azure VMs and Azure AI search

Build a chatbot service to ensure safe conversations: Using Azure OpenAI & Azure Content Safety

Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure

Microsoft Build 2024: Essential Guide for AI Developers at Startups and Cloud-First Companies

Sharpist 2024 - AI Hackathon in Uzbekistan

Real-time predictions with the azure_ai extension (Preview)

Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Building AI solutions with partners: Empowering transformation with copilots

Create your own copilot using Azure Prompt flow and Streamli

Analytics

Getting started with Private Clusters on HDInsight on AKS for securing your analytics workloads

Scale Real-Time Streams to Delta Lakehouse with Apache Flink on Azure HDInsight on AKS

Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL

Step-by-Step Guide: Building and Integrating Custom Package in ADF Workflow Orchestration Manager

Compute

Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Azure Lab Services - Lab Plan Outage

The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice

VMware HCX Troubleshooting with Azure VMware Solution

Unlock power of data in Azure- With SQL Server on Linux Azure VMs and Azure AI search

Public Preview: Migrate virtual machine backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy

The Impact of RedHat Linux 7 Extended Life Cycle Support on Azure Guest Patching Customers

Azure VMware Solution Security Design Considerations

General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU

Setting Up Slurm Cloud Bursting Using CycleCloud on Azure

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Azure Machine Learning Service for Kubernetes Architects: Deploy Your First Model on AKS with AZ CLI v2

Secure your Container Apps with Key Vault Certificates

Getting started with Private Clusters on HDInsight on AKS for securing your analytics workloads

Advance Networking in Azure Kubernetes: A Comprehensive Overview Part1

Scale Real-Time Streams to Delta Lakehouse with Apache Flink on Azure HDInsight on AKS

SQL Server Always On Availability group on AKS with DH2i’s DxOperator and Rancher by SUSE

New: Secure Sandboxes at Scale with Azure Container Apps Dynamic Sessions

Deep Dive: Secure Orchestration of Confidential Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service

Automate AKS Deployment and Chaos Engineering with Terraform and GitHub Actions

Databases

Lesson Learned #485: Index Recomendation or the Importance of Index Selection in SQL Server

Lesson Learned #486: Snapshot Isolation Transaction Failed Due to a Concurrent DDL Statement

Microsoft wins Cloud Marketplace Partner of the Year Award from MongoDB

Buffer pool performance parameters for Azure Database for MySQL

NL to SQL Architecture Alternatives

What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2024 edition

French language collation not working on Synapse Serverless SQL

Lesson Learned #487: Identifying Parallel and High-Volume Queries in Azure SQL Database

Scale Real-Time Streams to Delta Lakehouse with Apache Flink on Azure HDInsight on AKS

SQL Server Always On Availability group on AKS with DH2i’s DxOperator and Rancher by SUSE

General Availability: Data API builder

Lesson Learned #488: A severe error occurred on the current command. Operation cancelled by user.

Data API builder is now Generally Available | Data Exposed

Spatial Workflows in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

Cumulative Update #13 for SQL Server 2022 RTM

Azure Custom Policy- PostgreSQL Product - Compliance Report not Available- New Feature Request

Lesson Learned #489:Investigating CPU Spikes with Query Store Overall Resource Consumption Report

Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL

MVP’s Favorite Content: Microsoft AI, SQL, Power Platform

Unlock power of data in Azure- With SQL Server on Linux Azure VMs and Azure AI search

Lesson Learned #490: Monitoring Access from Specific Applications to Azure SQL Database

The Art of SQL Server Tuning

April 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Real-time predictions with the azure_ai extension (Preview)

Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

What’s new in Orleans 8 for Scalable Distributed Applications

Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact in the enterprise with Accenture

Unlock Your Python Potential with Azure

What to expect from Microsoft Learn at Microsoft Build

.NET and .NET Framework May 2024 Servicing Updates

The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 00007FFBFBEE2CAD.

Building Better Apps: Better Together

Join the GitHub Challenge - Microsoft Build Edition!

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact in the enterprise with Accenture

Azure CI/CD: Govern seamlessly from start to finish

Securing Git: Addressing 5 new vulnerabilities

Scaling accessibility within GitHub and beyond

Get Certified with GitHub

Automate AKS Deployment and Chaos Engineering with Terraform and GitHub Actions

Certifícate con GitHub

Join the GitHub Challenge - Microsoft Build Edition!

The most common way to publish custom jar files as a Maven artifact in Azure DevOps

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

No New Articles

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

How to Apply Easy Auth on Web App under a High-security policy environment

Announcing a new login experience with Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI

Easily detect CVE-2024-21427 with Microsoft Defender for Identity

New developments in Microsoft Entra ID Protection

Completing DFSR SYSVOL migration of domains that use Entra ID passwordless SSO

Microsoft Entra delivers increased transparency

Meet us at Identiverse: May 28-31 in Las Vegas

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Securing your API Management service from day one with Defender for APIs

Logic Apps Aviators Community Day 2024

Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - May 2024

Data mapper improvements

Upcoming Data Mapper improvements

Setting up Azure API on Postman and Azure CLI – Step-by-step guide

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

No New Articles

Management and Governance

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Unlock savings potential with Azure Advisor's Cost Optimization workbook

New on Azure Marketplace: April 26-30, 2024

Slash Your Azure Bill: Top Tips for Startups

Troubleshooting Common Custom Policy Issues in Policy Development

Introducing Microsoft Learn for Organizations Playbook, customizable Plans

Slash Your Azure Bill: Top Tips for Startups

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

No New Articles

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Did you know Azure Maps is HIPAA compliant?

Azure Communication Services at Microsoft Build 2024

Discover Azure Programmable Connectivity: A developer's gateway to innovative mobile applications

Networking

Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU

Advanced routing capabilities using Application Gateway Rewrite Rules

Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall

Azure Front Door server variable enhancement general available

Organizing rule collections and rule collection groups in Azure Firewall Policy

Skilling snack: Advanced network security

Security

Secure your Container Apps with Key Vault Certificates

Securing your API Management service from day one with Defender for APIs

Host Microsoft Defender data locally in Switzerland

Preparing for CMMC 2.0: Build New or Fix Old?

Easily detect CVE-2024-21427 with Microsoft Defender for Identity

Loop DDoS Attacks: Understanding the Threat and Azure's Defense

A BlackByte Ransomware intrusion case study

Storage

General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Storage migration: Combine Azure Storage Mover and Azure Data Box

Web

How to Apply Easy Auth on Web App under a High-security policy environment

PHP 8.3 now available on App Service

The All-Inclusive Update for Everything TLS on App Service

A Step-by-Step Guide to Datadog Integration with Linux App Service via Sidecars

Azure Communication Services at Microsoft Build 2024

Did you know Azure Maps is HIPAA compliant?

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

How to integrate continuous integration and deployment with WordPress on App Service

How to set up staging slots in WordPress on App Service

Announcing Memory intensive SKUs for App Service Environment v3

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

No New Articles

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 22-Apr-2024 to 28-Apr-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:12:59 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Join tech enthusiasts at MS Build '24: Exploring AI, Machine Learning, Azure, and More!

Unveiling Generative AI Bulk Processing and Ingestion Pattern

Improving RAG performance with Azure AI Search and Azure AI prompt flow in Azure AI Studio

Getting Started - Generative AI with Phi-3-mini: A Guide to Inference and Deployment

Live Session: Crie Aplicações Inteligentes com TypeScript, Azure OpenAI e GitHub Copilot

AI want to learn – Last but not least

GoEX: a safer way to build autonomous Agentic AI applications

Unlock the Power of Small Language Models with Phi-3 and Azure AI Studio

Introducing Meta Llama 3 Models on Azure AI Model Catalog

Next-Gen Customer Service: Azure's AI-Powered Speech, Translation and Summarization

El desafío de la innovación Hackathon del 28 de mayo al 10 de junio

Cursos de Python, Dados, IA e GitHub para Mulheres

Coding suggestion with my personal GPT using Open AI

LeVar Burton joins Vasu Jakkal to share his hope for transformative technologies like generative AI

Introducing Snowflake Arctic in Azure AI model catalog

Reducing the Environmental Impact of Generative AI: a Guide for Practitioners

A Solution for ML Pipeline in Multi-tenancy Manner

Generative AI and the path to personalized medicine with Microsoft Azure

Train a Simple Recommendation Engine using Azure Machine Learning Designer

Build your first ML-Model with ML.NET Model Builder

Building Your Own Copilot for Credit Card Selection

Cursos de Python, Dados, IA e GitHub para Mulheres

Azure IaaS, Silk Platform, and Silk Instant Extracts: Relational Databases to Azure AI

This National Small Business Week, make sure everyone in your company understands AI

Supporting Federal Agencies in Their Implementation of the Executive Order on AI – Part 1

Introducing Phi-3: Redefining what’s possible with SLMs

Streamline controls with Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

Path to Production Azure OpenAI Instances - PowerSchool Power Buddy

Analytics

The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024

Power BI Azure Maps visual - reference layer & Power BI Embedded support

Azure Synapse Store Procedure Error while updating

Auto Classify Power BI Reports

MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: How to create custom columns in Power BI

Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024

Compute

Update 2403 for Microsoft Configuration Manager current branch is now available.

Dual-Region Azure VMware Solution design with Global Reach, using Secure Virtual WAN

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Key announcements for AKS from KubeCon Europe 2024

IBM Maximo Application Suite migration and modernization with Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Public Preview of Edge Storage Accelerator

Databases

About Talk Selection for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

Release: Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio v1.5.4

Announcing Oracle Database@Azure in United Kingdom South

Database Schema Compare Tool

Upgrade to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server for better performance with easy migration

Huge performance gains: Migrate now to Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries

General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore

General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Approximate Vector Search with KMeans and Azure SQL | Data Exposed

Build Great AI Apps using Azure SQL DB Hyperscale | Data Exposed

Enhancing Azure Connectivity: Sharing PaaS instance across customer tenants on Azure

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Refactor your C# code with primary constructors

Introducing .NET MAUI Community Tookit v8: TouchBehavior support is here!

Implementing a functionality with GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04

GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment

CodeQL zero to hero part 3: Security research with CodeQL

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Partner Case Study Series | DevOpsGroup: Migration to Azure DevOps

Connect ServiceNow to Azure DevOps with No Code and Real-Time 2-Way Sync

GitHub Actions, Arm64, and the future of automotive software development

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Public Preview of Azure Arc Site Manager

Sneak peek at new Azure edge infrastructure at Hannover Messe 2024

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Collaborate across M365 tenants with Entra ID multi-tenant organization

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

A workbook for Logic App (standard) run history and resubmitting multiple runs.

Unlocking the Power of Azure Integration Services: A Webinar You Can't Miss!

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Investigating Industrial Control Systems using Microsoft’s ICSpector open-source framework

Public Preview of Edge Storage Accelerator

Management and Governance

The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024

Protecting your IP in the Azure Marketplace

Retrieve the same list of "Active"Risky users (as in portal) using KQL with Log Analytics Workspace

New on Azure Marketplace: April 1-9, 2024

Public preview: Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience

New and improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

Azure Migrate availability for Southeast Asia

Release: Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio v1.5.4

Upgrade to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server for better performance with easy migration

Intelligent FinOps in Azure

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.

Networking

Perform bulk NSG rule rollout across multiple target NSGs

Wired for Hybrid - What's New in Azure Networking - April 2024 edition

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions

Network traffic observability with virtual network flow logs

General availability: Virtual network flow logs

General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement

Understanding the core concept and routing of vWAN with Example.

New and improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Security

Microsoft Security Exposure Management introduces: Critical asset protection

Understanding Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

Introducing our CNAPP mastery e-book!

Examining the Deception infrastructure in place behind code.microsoft.com

5 ways a CNAPP can strengthen your multicloud security environment

Introducing our CNAPP mastery e-book!

Storage

No New Articles

Web

Deploy a Gradio Web App on Azure with Azure App Service: a Step-by-Step Guide

Improving App Service networking configuration control

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

No New Articles

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 15-Apr-2024 to 21-Apr-2024

Andre_Heim — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:39:22 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Mastering Serverless Chatbots with Azure and LangChain.js: A Comprehensive Guide

Intelligent Load Balancing with APIM for OpenAI: Weight-Based Routing

Visionary Disruption: High-level Insights with Azure Video Indexer & GPT-4 Turbo with Vision

02 Model and capability evaluation (pre-fab, OSS, fine-tuning, bespoke training)

Advanced RAG with Azure AI Search and LlamaIndex

Learn the basics of Generative AI—Register Today!

Patient Referral Document Summarization using Azure OpenAI

Build a serverless AI chat with RAG using LangChain.js

Azure OpenAI offering models - Explain it Like I'm 5

IA y NET LATAM - Episodio 2: Grabación y recursos

Azure QnA Maker- Activating Dialog at the same time using branch switch choices

Partner Spotlight: Using Data for Good with AI

Azure AI Translator announces new features as container offering.

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024

Exploring AI Development and Management: A Journey through Contoso Chat and LLM Ops

Microsoft AI Tour : Paris, Berlin, São Paulo

Recording - Beyond Newsletters: Reimagining communications & engagement in the age of AI

The top three AI questions answered at AFP ICON

Using Bing with GenAI: from Sales Strategy to Compete Analysis

Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available

Introducing Meta Llama 3 Models on Azure AI Model Catalog

A policy proposal on our approach to deepfake tools and responsible AI

Unlocking industrial data for AI: Microsoft partners with leading connectivity providers

Image Analysis with Azure Open AI GPT-4V and Azure Data Factory

Learn how to apply Microsoft's Generative AI technologies to your business

Armchair Architects: What Is Responsible AI?

Build your first ML-Model with ML.NET Model Builder

Azure IaaS, Silk Platform, and Silk Instant Extracts: Relational Databases to Azure AI

Data Discovery: The First Step to AI Readiness

AI/ML with Microsoft Fabric and SAS Viya. A Match made in the AI God's Heaven?

Analytics

Data Warehouse Script Generation in Microsoft Fabric: A Comprehensive Guide

Microsoft Fabric: Integration with ADO Repos and Deployment Pipelines - A Power BI Case Study.

Power Query activity is executing but not returning and keeps loading forever

Microsoft Fabric - Multi-Tenant Architecture

Azure Data Factory\ Synapse Analytics: Validate File\Folder before using!

Building a Real-Time medallion architecture using Eventhouse in Microsoft Fabric

The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024

AI/ML with Microsoft Fabric and SAS Viya. A Match made in the AI God's Heaven?

Compute

Announcing GA of enhanced patching for SQL Server on Azure VM with Azure Update Manager

Linux and Open Source on Azure Quarterly Update - April 2024

Prepare for upcoming transitions in Defender for Servers

General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.

Linux on Microsoft Azure?

VMware HCX Troubleshooting with Azure VMware Solution

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Streamline your container build and publish with .NET 8

Setting up Sentinel for Kubernetes Monitoring

How to Set Up Sentinel Data Connectors for Kubernetes and GitHub

Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters, Image Build Environment and Container Registries with Sentinel

Controlling AKS egress using an HTTP Proxy

Databases

Announcing GA of enhanced patching for SQL Server on Azure VM with Azure Update Manager

General availability of enhanced Geo-Disaster recovery with read replicas

Easily deploy a pgvector-enabled PostgreSQL server to Azure

Online migration from Single Server to Flexible Server using MySQL Import and Data-In Replication

Online Migration to PostgreSQL Flexible Server on Azure from Single Server

Build Great AI Apps using Azure SQL DB Hyperscale | Data Exposed

Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2

Generally available: Bulk delete operation for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

Azure Database for MySQL - March 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap

SQL MI Restore with valid SAS key failing with Operating System Error 86

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Streamline your container build and publish with .NET 8

VS Code Day Skills Challenge

¡Registrate al reto del VS Code Day!

The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024

Build & test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy

What's New in the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET

Building a scalable gateway with .NET for Microsoft AI

Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day

Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2

Linux and Open Source on Azure Quarterly Update - April 2024

Single, Short, Specific - Prompting GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

Trusted Signing is in Public Preview

Using open source to help the earth

Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024

Issue when build & upload NuGet on internal Azure Artifacts Feed using YAML within Organization.

A short guide to mastering keyboard shortcuts on GitHub

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Apply critical update for Azure Stack HCI VMs to maintain Azure verification

Onboard to Azure Arc with Security in Mind

Public Preview of Edge Storage Accelerator

Cloud operations for Windows Server through Azure Arc

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Enforce least privilege for Entra ID Company Branding with the new Organizational Branding role

Microsoft Graph activity logs is now generally available

Support tip: Migrate your classic Conditional Access policies

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview

Intelligent Load Balancing with APIM for OpenAI: Weight-Based Routing

Generally available: Bulk delete operation for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

OpenTelemetry Collector for legacy IoT scenarios

Setting a Blueprint for Industrial Edge Application Interoperability

Azure IoT’s industrial transformation strategy on display at Hannover Messe 2024

Management and Governance

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

Harness any IaC framework with the new extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments

Introducing Seamless Integration with Confluent Cloud on Azure via Service Connector

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience

Optimizing Cost using the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Azure Advisor Service Retirement Notebook

Learn about DRUID's partner solution in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities

Transitional approaches in Cloud Transformations: Cutover planning and the role of middleware

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

New on Azure Marketplace: March 26-31, 2024

Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024

Introducing Query editor: Empowering Users with PromQL in Azure Monitor Metrics!

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

No New Articles

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.

Networking

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview

Security

Copy simulations in Attack Simulation Training is now GA

Prepare for upcoming transitions in Defender for Servers

Welcome to the Microsoft Defender Experts Ninja Hub

Setting up Sentinel for Kubernetes Monitoring

How to Set Up Sentinel Data Connectors for Kubernetes and GitHub

Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters, Image Build Environment and Container Registries with Sentinel

Microsoft Defender Endpoint (MDE) for SAP Applications on Windows Server

Ingesting Non-Microsoft Cloud Security Data into Microsoft Sentinel for Gov & DIB customers part 2

Ingesting Non-Microsoft Cloud Security Data into Microsoft Sentinel for Government & DIB Customers

Expanding Privacy protection in Microsoft Defender for Individuals

Become a Microsoft Unified SOC Platform Ninja

Storage

Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption

How to copy all Azure Storage Queue data between two different Storage Accounts with Python

Data Protection for SAP Solutions

Web

What's New in the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET

Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps

Announcing Java 21 and Tomcat 10.1 on Azure App Service Windows and Linux!

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI now has autoscale

Accelerate developer onboarding with the configuration-as-code customization in Microsoft Dev Box

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 18-Mar-2024 to 24-Mar-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:40:18 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Vulnerability Descriptions enhanced with AI

Custom DHCP support in Azure

Feel empowered and ready for AI with our new webinar series!

Learn how to power your AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud at NVIDIA GTC.

Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

How to engage nonprofit leaders with AI: Creating organizational alignment across leaders

Building a multimodal multi-agent framework with Azure OpenAI Assistant API

Passed Azure AI-102! (AI Engineer) - Thoughts and Tips for future takers

ntroducing Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6: AI PCs built for business

Getting Started with OpenAI Whisper on Azure

MVP Drive Success at Microsoft AI Tour in SF and NYC

Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027

How to Use Artificial Intelligence with Azure Communication Services

Learn Live: Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge

Microsoft AI Tour : Sydney, Bengaluru, Tokyo

Journey Series for Generative AI Application Architecture - Model references and evaluation models

Enable AI and productivity in your organization

Get started with Function Calling through Assistants API on Azure OpenAI

New Azure NC H100 v5 VMs Optimized for Generative AI and HPC workloads is now Generally Available

Journey Series for Generative AI Application Architecture - Fine-tune SLM with Microsoft Olive

Analytics

How to export data from Defender for Endpoint to Azure Data Explorer

Customizing Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Copilot Studio

Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage

Apache Kafka Cluster - TLS encryption on HDInsight

Azure SQL Database Watcher and Azure Data Explorer Integration

Combine FinOps best practices and Microsoft tools to streamline and optimize your workloads

Integrating Azure Data Factory and the Microsoft Intune Export API

Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure enables customers to drive value from their data more easily

Now Generally Available: Apache Airflow™ on Astro - An Azure Native ISV Service

Purview Insider RIsk Management - File upload to cloud False Detection

Compute

Deploy an Azure Functions from Azure DevOps, when Shared Access Key is disabled

Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8

Update to Azure Functions Service Bus extension v5.x by 31 March 2025 for continued support

Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025

HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Get started with Function Calling through Assistants API on Azure OpenAI

New Azure NC H100 v5 VMs Optimized for Generative AI and HPC workloads is now Generally Available

Optimize GPU compute costs: Pause your VMs to save!

Community images in Azure - A new way to share images on Azure

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS

Generally Available: Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS (Linux only)

Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS

Generally Available: Host Network Security Group (NSG) control in AKS

Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS

Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS

Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters

Windows GPUs for AKS

Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service now in General Availability (GA)!

Azure at KubeCon Europe 2024 | Paris, France - March 19-22

Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage

Databases

RestorableDroppedDatabases in Azure SQL DB & their naming convention

Speed up vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with pgvector indexes

Connect to Azure Cosmos DB using Managed Identity from Logic App

Private Link based networking is now generally available in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Harness the Power of the Migration Service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Upcoming changes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - Part 3

Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Enabling Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux

February 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Introducing database watcher for Azure SQL

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

Redis license update: What you need to know

Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions goes GA

Azure SQL Database Watcher and Azure Data Explorer Integration

Introducing Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP

Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Meet Microsoft SQL Product Leader - Sanjay Mishra | Data Exposed

Introducing Regular Expression (Regex) Support in Azure SQL DB

Lesson Learned #479:Loading Data from Parquet to Azure SQL Database using C# and SqlBulkCopy

Azure Database for MySQL - February 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap

Introducing Copilot in Azure SQL Database (Private Preview)

What’s in a name? Hello POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

Bypassing Row-Level Security (RLS) in Azure SQL Server for ADF Copy Activity

Lesson Learned #481: Query Performance Analysis Tips

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

Join me at JDConf 2024 to celebrate all things Java

“Ubisoft: Custom search supports game development” :studio_microphone: – The Intrazone podcast

Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL

Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls

IA y NET LATAM - Episodio 1: Grabación y recursos

How to use Comments as Prompts in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

Can Azure Key Vault be used by older .NET Frameworks?

Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8

Adding Apple Privacy Manifest Support to .NET iOS & .NET MAUI apps

How to use GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

¡Prepárate para la certificación GitHub Foundations!

New Boards Hub on as default

Quick Copy and Import Test Case by Plan or Suite ID

Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL

Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects

GitHub Foundations Certification: A Comprehensive Guide

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Azure Arc, Azure Monitoring and Azure Workbooks

Networking errors when enabling SQL Server by Azure Arc

Logical Networks in Azure Portal for HCI: Setting the Stage for Software Defined Networking

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Act now: Turn on or customize Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies

Upgrade your tenant restrictions to v2

Follow the Breadcrumbs with Microsoft Incident Response and MDI: Working Together to Fight Identity

Introduction to Conditional Access

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

App Service *.azurewebsites.net TLS Cert Renewal for Web Apps, Functions, and Logic Apps (Standard)

Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Wednesday, March 27th

Introducing the New Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption: Faster, Smoother, and More Reliable

Breaking Changes to Azure API Management Workspaces

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Monitoring Azure Sphere fleet and device health

Management and Governance

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

Microsoft Automation and Integration day in Toronto!

[Cost Management] Cannot edit or delete Budgets

Azure Monitor: Create Dedicated Clusters Using Any Commitment Tier

New on Azure Marketplace: March 8-14, 2024

Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025

Azure Arc, Azure Monitoring and Azure Workbooks

Announcing the Microsoft Automation and Integration day in Toronto!

Grow your FinOps practice with the Microsoft community

Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

No New Articles

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

How to Use Artificial Intelligence with Azure Communication Services

Networking

Custom DHCP support in Azure

Logical Networks in Azure Portal for HCI: Setting the Stage for Software Defined Networking

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

Azure Virtual Network now supports updates without subnet property

Security

How to export data from Defender for Endpoint to Azure Data Explorer

MDTI Standalone Portal Retirement and Transition to Defender XDR

Microsoft Sentinel delivered 234% ROI, according to new Forrester study

Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30, 2025

How Microsoft Incident Response and Microsoft Defender for Identity work together to detect and respond to cyberthreats

Protect Against OWASP API Top 10 Security Risks Using Defender for APIs

How to connect Azure Key Vault from Python App Service using managed identity

Migrating from Windows Information Protection to Microsoft Purview

Storage

Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage

Storage Assessment Beginners Guide

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Web

Build a full-stack React application with Azure Static Web Apps and managed functions

Deploy an Azure Functions from Azure DevOps, when Shared Access Key is disabled

Build a full-stack, server-rendered Nuxt site with Azure Static Web Apps

Deploy full-stack, server-side rendered SvelteKit applications to Azure Static Web Apps

Build full-stack Next.js apps with Azure Static Web Apps

How to Leverage Artificial Intelligence with Azure Communication Services

Action required: Upgrade your App Service apps to Node 20 LTS by 30 April 2025

Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service Versions 31 March 2025

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view

App Service *.azurewebsites.net TLS Cert Renewal for Web Apps, Functions, and Logic Apps (Standard)

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

Announcing General Availability of Azure App Service Automatic Scaling

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

Public Preview: Faster reauthentication

How to Break Free from Traditional VDI with W365

New on Azure Marketplace: March 8-14, 2024

Recording: How to Break Free from Traditional VDI with W365

Swiss DCs Partner Update Call March 2024

Primo_Amrein — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:13:50 GMT

Please find attached the pdf slides from this quarter's partner Swiss DCs update call. The recording is too large to share here, please approach me directly in the next four weeks if you would like to access it. Main info covered:

New Public Customer Stories

Azure OpenAI at Rhaetian Railway with startup ParetoLabs
SAP on Azure at Canton Aargau
M365 at Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel
Azure OpenAI at startup Apiax
M365 at Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum
Azure OpenAI at Pictet with startup Unique

Azure

Microsoft Dev Box launched in Switzerland North, same price as in European DCs
Archive Tier within Azure Backup in Switzerland North
Azure NetApp Files Backup in both Switzerland North and West
Bsv2/Basv2 now GA in Switzerland North – Bsv2 also in Switzerland West
NDA update on Azure VMware Solution
NDA update on more powerful GPUs NVv5 for Virtual Desktop, enabling resource-intensive applications such as CAD
Please approach me if your customers have a need for further workloads in Swiss DCs

M365

M365 Backup available as public preview, including Swiss DCs – invoicing follows the pay-as you-go model as part of Microsoft Syntex per-user licensing
M365 Copilot Local Data Residency, as long as M365 tenant is located in Swiss DCs
- Was added to Product Terms on March 1 2024, publicly also documented
- Stored data is “content of interactions”: the user's prompt and Copilot's response, including citations to any information used to ground Copilot's response
- Data isn't used to train foundation LLMs
- LLM located outside Switzerland, processing happens there as publicly documented

Next Call

Cadence switched to quarterly calls
Next call will be on June 21 2024 14.00
Participants who joined at least one call in the last 12 months were invited, please approach me if you'd like to join as well

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 4-Mar-2024 to 10-Mar-2024

Andre_Heim — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:45:52 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Store and query embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with pgvector

Optimizing Azure OpenAI: A Guide to Limits, Quotas, and Best Practices

RAG techniques: Cleaning user questions with an LLM

The AI Study Guide: #MarchResponsibly with AI

Enrich your Data Estate with Fabric Pipelines and Azure OpenAI

A Reference Architecture for Siemens and Microsoft Customers in the Industrial AI Space.

Building AI Bots, Extending Copilot for Microsoft 365, and more with .NET and Teams Toolkit

Defend against cyber threats with AI solutions from Microsoft

RAG techniques: Function calling for more structured retrieval

How to Manage and Scale AI Models with Workload Orchestration

Towards AI Powered and Secure Carrier-Grade Open RAN Platform

6 ways generative AI helps improve accessibility for all with Azure

#MarchResponsibly with AI: Insights & Best Practices

Analyze complex documents with Azure Document Intelligence Markdown Output and Azure OpenAI

AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Study Guide

Healio - Healthcare Chatbot using C# Semantic Kernel, planner and Azure OpenAI

Modernize and build intelligent apps with support from Microsoft partner solutions

Paralympian Lex Gillette’s top 7 AI tools for accessibility

What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Data operates as the currency of AI

Journey Series for Generative AI Application Architecture - Fine-tune SLM with Microsoft Olive

The AI Study Guide: #MarchResponsibly with AI

Get Started with Milvus Vector DB in .NET

March 9-15: Global AI Bootcamp Local Event Information

Analytics

Enrich your Data Estate with Fabric Pipelines and Azure OpenAI

MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: How do I process Deltas?

MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: How can I use Delta State Datasets?

Announcing Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Data Lake Storage

Tackle large volumes of data with new solution from SLB for Azure Data Manager for Energy

Compute

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

Support proxyVmSize in Azure VM Image Builder service DevOps task

Generally available: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20

Optimize your Azure costs

How to optimize your Azure compute spend with savings plan and reserved instances

A Deep Dive look into CMG App-Registrations (Part 1)

A Deep Dive look into CMG Cloud Components (Part 2)

Navigating the CentOS End-of-life (EOL) in Azure

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Azure Container Apps Newsletter – March 2024

Dapr v1.13.0 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Simplifying Azure Kubernetes Service Authentication Part 3

Announcing Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

End-to-end TLS with AKS, Azure Front Door, Azure Private Link Service, and NGINX Ingress Controller

Databases

Store and query embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with pgvector

Records are not getting updated/deleted in Search Index despite enabling Track Deletions in SQL DB

PostgreSQL Making Index creation faster

Load Test Emulation for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server using mysqlslap

Azure SQL MI premium-series memory optimized hw is now available in all regions with up to 40 vCores

Reading Azure SQL audit log from Azure Storage using sys.fn_get_audit_file returns empty result

Instant File Initialization for the transaction log | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed

Como gerenciar conexões SQL no .NET Core

Decoding the TLS 1.3 protocol handshake during a connection to an Azure SQL DB with Wireshark

FHIRlink Power Platform connector General Availability

Clustering the BizTalk EntSSO Master Secret Server, SQL and MSDTC services on Azure IaaS

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Get Started with Milvus Vector DB in .NET

Como gerenciar conexões SQL no .NET Core

March 2024: Exploring open source at Microsoft, and other highlights for developers

Unleashing JavaScript Applications: A Guide to Boosting Memory Limits in Node.js

Azure PowerShell Tips and Tricks

Global Student Team's Journey in Building Microsoft Learn Path Modules

Modernize and build intelligent apps with support from Microsoft partner solutions

Load Test Emulation for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server using mysqlslap

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Keeping repository maintainer information accurate

How GitHub uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12 is now generally available

GitHub Foundation Certification Series

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Dapr v1.13.0 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

So, you think you’re ready for enforcing AES for Kerberos?

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Migrating managed X12 decode to built-in X12 decode in Logic Apps Standard

FHIRlink Power Platform connector General Availability

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation

Management and Governance

Announcing the 2024 Imagine Cup Semifinalists!

Optimize your Azure costs

Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty: Empowering Digital Transformation with Data Sovereignty

New on Azure Marketplace: February 23-29, 2024

Announcing the Public Preview of Change Actor

Public preview: Change Actor

Azure Verified Modules - Monthly Update [February]

Empowering women through digital skills

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

No New Articles

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure

Networking

MidDay Cafe Episode 50 - Events Copilot and More!

Guarding the Gates: Exploring Supported Scenarios for Azure DDoS Protection and Public IP Prefixes

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

End-to-end TLS with AKS, Azure Front Door, Azure Private Link Service, and NGINX Ingress Controller

Security

Monthly news - March 2024

Microsoft Copilot for Security and NIST 800-171: Access Control

Securing the Clouds: Achieving a Unified Security Stance and threat-based approach to Use Cases

Guarding the Gates: Exploring Supported Scenarios for Azure DDoS Protection and Public IP Prefixes

Improving Threat Hunting Efficiency using Copilot for Security

Announcing persistent views and UX enhancements in Threat Explorer

MDTI Standalone Portal Retirement and Transition to Defender XDR

New on Azure Marketplace: February 23-29, 2024

Defend against cyber threats with AI solutions from Microsoft

Introducing our Security 101 course for beginners!

Frequently Asked Question about TLS and Cipher Suite configuration

Storage

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones

Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China

Web

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

Improved Next.js support (Preview) for Azure Static Web Apps

Tick-tock! Upgrade your App Service Environment before time runs out

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

Windows 365 Healthcare Virtual Webinar

Azure Blogs - Articles from 26-Feb-2024 to 3-Mar-2024

Andre_Heim — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:17:31 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

How to Learn Generative AI with Microsoft’s Free Course

Cost Optimized hosting of Fine-tuned LLMs in Production

Announcing the Winners of the First AI Chat App Hack

Learn how to power your AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud at NVIDIA GTC.

Microsoft Copilot personal and work experiences explained

Build your own private ChatGPT style app with enterprise-ready architecture

AI Chat App Hack: See All The Submissions!

🤖🧵Microsoft Fabric AI Hack Together: Create, Evaluate, and Score a Churn Prediction Model

Fine Tuning with Function Calling on Azure OpenAI Service

AI Chat App Hack: Watch all the streams!

Unleashing the Power of SAM in Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Studio

What is AI? Jared Spataro at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit

How to Develop Your AI Coding Skills with Azure Enablement Show (Part Two)

How to Develop Your AI Coding Skills with Azure Enablement Show (Part One)

Generate embeddings with the Azure AI Vision multi-modal embeddings API

Implementing MLOps for Training Custom Models with Azure AI Document Intelligence

Load Testing Azure OpenAI With JMeter

Azure AI Language: Sentiment Analysis with Durable Functions

Mistral Large, Mistral AI's flagship LLM, debuts on Azure AI Models-as-a-Service

AI/ML ModelOps is a Journey. Get Ready with SAS® Viya® Platform on Azure

Analytics

Connectivity from IaaS(VM) and PaaS service(ADF) to ADLS account with public network access disabled

Update records in a Kusto Database (Public Preview)

Migration Guide for HDInsight 5.1 - Hadoop cluster

Securing Azure HDInsight: ESM Support with Ubuntu 18.04, Cluster Updates, and Best Practices

Microsoft Fabric for multitenant SaaS

Migration of Apache Spark from HDInsight 5.0 to HDInsight 5.1

The ABCs of ADX: Learning the Basics of Azure Data Explorer | Data Exposed: MVP Edition

🤖🧵Microsoft Fabric AI Hack Together: Create, Evaluate, and Score a Churn Prediction Model

MICROSOFT FABRIC & CONTENT SAFETY: ANALYTICS ON METADATA

🤖🧵Fabric + AI HackTogether Wrap-Up: How to submit and get ready for Fabric Community Conf

Compute

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

Scaling Up in the Cloud: The WEKA Data Platform and Azure HPC Windows Grid Integration

Azure VMware Solution Security Design Considerations

Public preview: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js

Azure Functions: Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js is now in Preview

Announcing the release of CycleCloud 8.6

Azure VMware Solution Performance Design Considerations

Clustering the BizTalk Master Secret Server and MSDTC service on Azure IaaS

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Best Practices for using Azure Container Registry and Docker Hub

How to Set Up Sentinel Data Connectors for Kubernetes and GitHub

General availability: Application Gateway for Containers

Public preview: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

Generally Available: Capacity Reservations support in AKS

GA: Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service

Public preview: Disable network policy in AKS for migration

Public preview: AKS support for node soak duration for upgrades

New Storage and Networking MS Learn modules for Windows containers on AKS

Introduction and Deployment of Backstage on Azure Kubernetes Service

Zero-trust Security for Windows Container-based application with Calico

Path and hostname-based routing in Azure Container Apps with NGINX

Running GPU accelerated workloads with NVIDIA GPU Operator on AKS

Announcing Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

What’s new in Azure Linux: Community, events, new features, and more.

Generally Available: Node Soak Duration for Upgrades

Databases

Introducing the azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL

The azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, definition and demo

Issue during SQL Server 2008 R2 installation on Windows Server 2019 in Azure

Get ready for take off with Microsoft at SQLBits 2024

Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-February 2024

General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for MySQL Import supports Percona XtraBackup for migrations to Flexible Server

Podcast about transitioning from developer to PostgreSQL specialist, with Derk van Veen

Updates from 162.1 and 162.2 releases of SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem

Azure Data Studio 1.48 is now available

Azure SQL DB - Failed to add database to failover group - find out why

Some] SQL Server and Azure SQL DB Security Fundamentals | Data Exposed

Upcoming changes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - Part 2

What’s in a name? Hello POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

General Availability of PostgreSQL 16 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

Tips for tuning Postgres LIKE & ILIKE queries via pg_trgm on Azure

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 2023 Highlights

Draw.io Azure infrastructure diagrams through code like an artist

Enhancing JavaScript Application Performance with Node.js Memory Tweaks

Don't miss the 2024 Azure Developers JavaScript Day!

Load Testing Azure Service Bus

Game Bytes · February 2024

Accelerate developer onboarding with the configuration-as-code customization in Microsoft Dev Box

GitHub Copilot Analysis, Customized Rules, and more come to the Azure Migrate application and code assessment

GitHub Copilot Learning Pathway: Accelerate your business with AI

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Azure DevOps blog closing -> moving to DevBlogs

Get AzureDevOps Build and Release Name and Number into the Build

GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available

How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned

Keeping secrets out of public repositories

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Migrate VMs to Azure Stack HCI

Azure Stack HCI version 23H2 is generally available

Troubleshooting Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Preview Deployments

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Refreshed Identity and Access Management CAF documentation

Zero Trust: Rapid Offboarding with Intune and Microsoft Entra ID

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

IP address changes for Azure Service Bus and IP/DNS Changes for Azure Relay

Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - March 2024

Scaling up: Customer-driven enhancements in the FHIR service enable better healthcare solutions

Clustering the BizTalk Master Secret Server and MSDTC service on Azure IaaS

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation

Management and Governance

Refreshed Identity and Access Management CAF documentation

Terraform on Azure February 2024 Update

Optimize and secure your cloud with new Azure Optimization skilling events

Leverage anomaly management processes with Microsoft Cost Management

New on Azure Marketplace: February 15-22, 2024

Learn about AffableBPM’s partner solution in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor

New feature: easily assign regulatory compliance policies to your Azure Landing Zone

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

GitHub Copilot Analysis, Customized Rules, and more come to the Azure Migrate application and code assessment

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

No New Articles

Networking

IP address changes for Azure Service Bus and IP/DNS Changes for Azure Relay

Azure Virtual Network now supports updates without subnet property

General availability: Application Gateway for Containers

Public preview: Internet inbound for Network Virtual Appliances in Virtual WAN Hubs

Security

How to Set Up Sentinel Data Connectors for Kubernetes and GitHub

Storage

New Storage and Networking MS Learn modules for Windows containers on AKS

General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.

Web

No New Articles

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

News and best practices for securing Cloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI)

Accelerate developer onboarding with the configuration-as-code customization in Microsoft Dev Box

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 12-Feb-2024 to 18-Feb-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 05:45:00 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

:paperclip:Chat Service demo running Phi-2 LLM locally with Semantic Kernel

Assess how your organization feels about Microsoft Copilot

Azure AI Language: Sentiment Analysis with Durable Functions

The future of LLM: Scopriamo la RAG

Build an LLM-based application, benchmark models and evaluate output performance with Prompt Flow

Harness the Future: How to Develop Your AI Coding Skills with Azure Enablement Show (Part One)

Visual Studio Code GitHub Copilot or any Extension Auto Update Enable/Disable.

The story so far with nonprofits and AI

Vision Transformer Learning with AML (Part 1)

Build an LLM-based application, benchmark models and evaluate output performance with Prompt Flow

Drive customer engagement with the power of AI

Streamlining Azure Marketplace Deployments

Microsoft Semantic Kernel and AutoGen: Open Source Frameworks for AI Solutions

Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge Pitch Winner: Watch Out

Protect unmanaged or 3rd party MDM managed iOS/Android devices with MDE

Microsoft and SAP collaborate to modernize identity for SAP customers

Announcing a new way to give feedback on Microsoft Learn

Build, benchmark, evaluate and deploy real-time inference endpoint with Prompt Flow

Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI

Building AI Agent Applications Series - Assembling your AI agent with the Semantic Kernel

Microsoft Fabric AI Hack Workshop: Build a Custom Object Detection Model | Feb 20, 2024

Drive sustainability transformation faster with new data and AI capabilities

Analytics

Understanding OneLake Architecture: The OneDrive for Data

Labeling with Microsoft Purview Data Map now supports Dataverse, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake

🤖🧵Microsoft Fabric AI Hack Together Kickoff: Ready, Set Hack! Do more with AI in Microsoft Fabric

Partner Blog | Register for the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!

Microsoft Fabric AI Hack Workshop: Build a Custom Object Detection Model | Feb 20, 2024

Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (January 2024)

Compute

Converting an AWS Lambda Function in Go into an Azure Function using LLMs

Accelerating OpenFOAM Integration with Azure CycleCloud

Azure VMware Solution Security Design Considerations

Choosing the Right Azure Spot VM for Rendering Workloads Using MoonRay

Public preview: Upgrade policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Flexible Orchestration

Rapidly scope NC2 on Azure using Nutanix Sizer

Azure VMware Solution Performance Design Considerations

Azure Functions Newsletter – February 2024

Continued innovation with Azure VMware Solution

Test your Patches! A Staged Patching Solution with Azure Update Manager

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus

Simplifying Azure Kubernetes Service Authentication Part 1

Simplifying Azure Kubernetes Service Authentication Part 2

Using Azure Python SDK to manage Azure Container Apps - Part 1

Windows containers in Kubernetes: Automating nodepool management with Calico’s Windows HPC Support

Databases

SQL Server - Minimum downtime schema updates

Azure Database for MySQL - Single Server retirement - Key updates and migration tooling available

Leveraging Redis Insights for Azure Cache for Redis

Azure SQL Managed Instance - Log Space Growth Alert using Azure Runbook/PowerShell

General availability: serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2024

General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc

Let's explore Databases in Azure

Encryption and Ledger in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed

Cumulative Update #25 for SQL Server 2019 RTM

Encryption and Ledger in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed

SQL Server サービスが OS の起動時に自動起動してこなかった場合の対処策について

Released: SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django v1.4

Microsoft Drivers 5.12 for PHP for SQL Server Released

JDBC Driver 12.6 for SQL Server Released

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

Our Vision for .NET 9

.NET February 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.2, 7.0.16, .NET 6.0.27

Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces

Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8

.NET Framework February 2024 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Microsoft JDConf 2024 Announces Keynote Speaker and Breakout Sessions – Java, Cloud and AI

Powering advancements of AI in the open: Apply now to GitHub Accelerator

Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game

Step by Step Practical Guide to Architecting Cloud Native Applications

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Get started with v4 of GitHub Actions Artifacts

February patches for Azure DevOps Server

GitHub Availability Report: January 2024

End of SSH-RSA support for Azure Repos

JUnit Attachments Support for Publish Test Results

Enforcement of Defender CSPM for Premium DevOps Security Capabilities

Azure Pipelines deprecated tasks retirement schedule

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Hyper-V VM Migration to Azure Stack HCI, version 23H2

Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Avoid the complexity when utilizing Entra ID multi-tenants and School or Work/Microsoft Accounts

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Intelligent App Chronicles: Azure API Management as an Enterprise API Gateway

APIs in Action: Unlocking the Potential of APIs in Today's Digital Landscape

Announcing the availability of TLS 1.3 in Azure API Management in Preview

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Microsoft's commitment to Azure IoT

Management and Governance

Hunting for QR Code AiTM Phishing and User Compromise

Streamlining Azure Marketplace Deployments

Benefits of moving to Azure Monitor SCOM managed instance

New on Azure Marketplace: February 1-7, 2024

Step by Step Practical Guide to Architecting Cloud Native Applications

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

No New Articles

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

No New Articles

Networking

Announcing New Monitoring and Scaling Updates in Azure Firewall

Consistent DNS resolution in a hybrid hub spoke network topology

Azure Firewall: Flow Trace Logs and Autoscaling based on number of connections are now generally available

Azure Firewall: Parallel IP Group update support is now in public preview

Security

General availability: Improvements in Azure Key Vault

Batch pool with user assigned Managed Identity and Key Vault extension

Enforcement of Defender CSPM for Premium DevOps Security Capabilities

Storage

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication

Announcing general availability of FSLogix 2210 hotfix 3!

Web

Building an Azure Static Web Apps site using WordPress on App Service as a headless CMS

Migrating your JBOSS EAP apps to Azure App Service

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

Discover the power of Azure Virtual Desktop

How to run Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 5-Feb-2024 to 11-Feb-2024

Andre_Heim — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:41:57 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

AI Guide Dog: How Technology Boost Accessibility

GenAI Solutions: Elevating Production Apps Performance Through Latency Optimization

Announcing OpenAI text-to-speech voices on Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech

Azure OpenAI Service announces Assistants API, New Models for Finetuning, Text-to-Speech and more

AI is for nonprofits: The journey starts here

Leveraging Generative AI for Efficient Security Investigation Summaries

Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI

AI for Developers

Semantic Kernel introduces SQLPlugin and UploadPlugin for efficient data insights.

How to use Semantic Kernel Bot in-a-box to interact with data using natural language & AI

Microsoft Semantic Kernel and AutoGen: Open Source Frameworks for AI Solutions

Enable Chat History on Azure AI Studio with Azure Cosmos DB

Upcoming Events to Expand Your Azure AI Knowledge

Building AI Agent Applications Series - Using AutoGen to build your AI Agents

Right-size your PTU deployment and save big

:paperclip:Chat Service demo running Phi-2 LLM locally with Semantic Kernel

Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard)

Converting an AWS Lambda Function in Go into an Azure Function using LLMs

CoPilot for genomics report interpretation!

Don’t miss out on the newest skilling resources for Azure

Analytics

ADX Web updates – Jan 2024

To BE or not to be – case sensitive using Power BI and ADX/RTA in Fabric

Introducing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure for Communications

ADX Continuous Export to Delta Table - Preview

Enable Chat History on Azure AI Studio with Azure Cosmos DB

RealTime Lakehouse with Apache Flink and Apache Iceberg

Synapse Spark mssparkutils run multiple and log analytics

Azure Data @ Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2024 | Data Exposed Exclusive

The Philosophy of the Federal Cyber Data Lake (CDL): A Thought Leadership Approach

Compute

Azure VMware Solution Security Design Considerations

Azure VMware Solution Performance Design Considerations

Lightbits for Azure VMware Solution

Preview of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions

Converting an AWS Lambda Function in Go into an Azure Function using LLMs

Test your Patches! A Staged Patching Solution with Azure Update Manager

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Migration and Modernization solutions for Windows-based applications to Azure Kubernetes Services

CAST - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Firewall considerations for gMSA on Azure Kubernetes Service

Simplifying Azure Kubernetes Service Authentication Part 1

UnifyCloud - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Creating Azure Container Apps using Azure Python SDK

Active Directory and Kubernetes – everything you need to know about gMSA with Windows Containers

Using Azure Python SDK to manage Azure Container Apps - Part 1

Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus

Databases

Advanced Monitoring for PostgreSQL Using Log Analytics

November 2023 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Enhance Monitoring with Azure Postgres Grafana Dashboard

How to connect to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server in a private network configuration

Hands-free tempdb | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed

January 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

SQL Server - Minimum downtime schema updates

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

CAST - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Don’t miss out on the newest skilling resources for Azure

UnifyCloud - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

My Top 10 NEW Visual Studio Features of 2023 for .NET Developers

The architecture of SAST tools: An explainer for developers

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Regenerating secrets for Azure DevOps OAuth applications

Azure Boards + GitHub improvements in private preview

Introduction to Azure DevOps Workload identity federation (OIDC) with Terraform

Get started with v4 of GitHub Actions Artifacts

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Hyper-V VM Migration to Azure Stack HCI, version 23H2

Troubleshooting Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Preview Deployments

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Auto Rollout of Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID

Deep Dive of Microsoft-managed Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID

How to use customer identity and access management (CIAM) with Azure API Management

Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Check in preview

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Common issues of Azure Automation connector in logic app(consumption) and logic app standard

How to use customer identity and access management (CIAM) with Azure API Management

Intelligent App Chronicles: Azure API Management as an Enterprise API Gateway

Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard)

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

No New Articles

Management and Governance

New Article - What is Azure Monitor?

Common issues of Azure Automation connector in logic app(consumption) and logic app standard

Azure Landing Zones Accelerators for Bicep and Terraform. Announcing General Availability!

New on Azure Marketplace: January 26-31, 2024

Streamlining Azure Marketplace Deployments with MODM

Generate Azure Policy Compliance Alerts By Sending Custom Data to Log Analytics - Part 2 - Automated

Hardening your defense in depth with secrets awareness in Azure command line tools

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

Migration and Modernization solutions for Windows-based applications to Azure Kubernetes Services

CAST - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Azure Communication Services February 2024 Feature Updates

Networking

Firewall considerations for gMSA on Azure Kubernetes Service

IPv6 Transition Technology Survey

Security

Create Tasks Repository in Microsoft Sentinel

Become a Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Ninja

Enforcement of Defender CSPM for Premium DevOps Security Capabilities

Hunting for QR Code AiTM Phishing and User Compromise

General availability: Improvements in Azure Key Vault

Storage

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions

Integrity protect your Azure blob storage data with Azure confidential ledger

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central

Web

Azure Communication Services February 2024 Feature Updates

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

How AVD powered by Intune can meet your configuration and management needs

Azure VMware Solution Performance Design Considerations

Tips for your migration to Azure Virtual Desktop

Discover the power of Azure Virtual Desktop

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 29-Jan-2023 to 4-Feb-2023

Andre_Heim — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 06:15:08 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

How to use Azure Open AI to Enhance Your Data Analysis in Power BI

Enabling data clean rooms with confidential computing

A Guide to Optimizing Performance and Saving Cost of your Machine Learning (ML) Service - Part 1

Drug Details in Doctor’s Prescriptions: A Named Entity Recognition Approach using Prompt Flow

Build it with AI: Tawi's Home-Based Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) Toolkit

Azure AI Speech launches new zero-shot TTS models for Personal Voice

Analyze Videos with Azure Open AI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and Azure Data Factory

The potential of AI for nonprofits

Master Generative AI with Azure OpenAI Service: A Comprehensive Guide for Students

Healio - Healthcare Chatbot using C# Semantic Kernel, planner and Azure OpenAI

Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning

Azure AI Services & Azure Machine Learning Cost Analysis

Azure OpenAI Insights: Monitoring AI with Confidence

Building AI Agent Applications Series - Understanding AI Agents

A Guide to Optimizing Performance and Saving Cost of your Machine Learning (ML) Service - Part 2

Optimizing ML Models in Production in The Cloud or At the Edge Using A/B Testing

What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Are you ready to go from GenAI experimentation to solutions deployed at scale?

Achieve generative AI operational excellence with the LLMOps maturity model

Harmonizing AI-enhanced physical and cloud operations

Azure OpenAI Insights: Monitoring AI with Confidence

Analytics

How to use Azure Open AI to Enhance Your Data Analysis in Power BI

Use Streaming Ingestion to Azure Data Explorer with Azure Stream Analytics

General availability: Israel Central region added to Azure HDInsight

General availability: Italy North region added to Azure HDInsight

Data MVPs and Microsoft Fabric Super Users in the Era of AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition

Microsoft Fabric for those who know nothing about Fabric

Azure Data Factory: How to split a file into multiple output files with Bicep

Interpreting Script activity output json with Azure Data Factory\Synapse analytics

Introducing Dashboards Base Queries: Enhancing Productivity and Consistency

Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints

Compute

Enabling data clean rooms with confidential computing

Preview of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions

Large-scale docking for drug design on Azure

A Azure Functions continuous deployment from Azure Repos successful without updating the Function App

Public Preview: New major version of durable Functions extension

Public Preview: Azure Functions Support for Java 21 on Linux

Public Preview: Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Generally Available: VMware Cloud Director Availability for Azure VMware solution with Run commands

Why Azure Image Builder - Getting Started

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates

Enabling data clean rooms with confidential computing

CAST - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Public preview: Istio add-on for AKS now supports plug-in certificate authority (CA)

Public preview: Upgrade support in Istio add-on for AKS

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports

Visual Studio Code extension update for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Public preview: Node OS API options feature for AKS

Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS

Generally Available: Outbound type migration in AKS

Generally Available: Kube-reserved resource optimization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

UnifyCloud - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

AKS enabled by Azure Arc is now available on Azure Stack HCI 23H2

Observability on Azure Container Apps

Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes now available on Azure Marketplace!

Troubleshooting Guide: Resolving Azure App Services Image Pull Issues from Azure Container Registry

Databases

Harness the Power of the Migration Service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

More vCore options for SQL MI Business Critical for better price/performance and flexibility

Generally Available: Support for Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups

General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

General Availability: Read replica in special regions with Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

General Availability: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1.5

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.2 Preview 5

Azure SQL Managed Instance pools: new features

Invoking REST APIs with SQLCLR and Newtonsoft's Json.NET

QTip: Connect to Azure SQL DB using Entra SPN (service principal)

Podcast highlights on benchmarking Postgres performance, from Path To Citus Con Episode 11

Azure SQL DB license-free standby replica | Data Exposed

Save money with Arc SQL Server licensing - what you need to know | Data Exposed

How to Change Collation of an Azure SQL Managed Instance When There Are Dependency Errors

January 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

How to create linked servers from SQL managed instance using Entra Authentication (part 1)

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Lab Services, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure Load Testing

CAST - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Azure Migrate - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

UnifyCloud - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Infra in Azure for Developers - The How (Part 2)

Autogen: Microsoft’s Open-Source Tool for Streamlining Development

Release Radar · January 2024 Edition

Dev Tunnels: A Game Changer for Mobile Developers

Generally available: Up to 50 test fail criteria in Azure Load Testing

Introducing the SharePoint Embedded Visual Studio Code extension

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, DevOps tool integrations, Azure Load Testing

Customer Success: Meesho’s GenAI Approach with Github Enterprise and GitHub CoPilot

Hybrid

Covering: Microsoft Azure Stack, Azure Arc

Azure Arc Enabled Servers (ESU) - BackBilling

AKS enabled by Azure Arc is now available on Azure Stack HCI 23H2

Uploading files from IOT edge using Azure ARC Managed Identity

Save money with Arc SQL Server licensing - what you need to know | Data Exposed

Troubleshooting Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Preview Deployments

Possible MAC address assignment strategies for tenant VMs running on Stack-HCI environment

Generally Available: Azure Stack HCI latest feature release

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI now available!

Announcing HCIBox support for Azure Stack HCI 23H2

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

QTip: Connect to Azure SQL DB using Entra SPN (service principal)

Introducing More Granular Certificate-Based Authentication Configuration in Conditional Access

Integration

Covering: API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps , Service Bus

Azure Logic App workflow (Standard) Resubmit and Retry

Azure Logic Apps : HTTP Request OR Custom Connector

Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - February 2024

Generally available: Support for up to 100 TB of storage for the FHIR service

Announcing the availability of TLS 1.3 in Azure API Management in Preview

Internet Of Things

Covering: Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure Percept, Windows for IoT

Use Streaming Ingestion to Azure Data Explorer with Azure Stream Analytics

Uploading files from IOT edge using Azure ARC Managed Identity

Management and Governance

Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API

Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts

Azure Monitor- Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API

Course Blueprint

Migrating from the Azure MMA to AMA Agent

Microsoft Cost Management updates—January 2024

Introducing Azure Verified Modules!

Monitoring for an Azure Server Going Offline

Improved exports experience

Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

Enabling data clean rooms with confidential computing

New on Azure Marketplace: January 19-25, 2024

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services

No New Articles

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box, Azure Site Recovery

Harness the Power of the Migration Service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Get started with Azure partner-led offerings: Azure Migrate and Modernize, and Azure Innovate.

Azure Migrate - Modernizing your .NET apps to Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services

Mixed Reality

Covering: Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, Object Anchors

No New Articles

Mobile

Covering: Azure Maps, MAUI, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin, Azure Communication Services

Transitioning Smoothly from Twilio to Azure Communication Services

Dev Tunnels: A Game Changer for Mobile Developers

Enhance your indoor maps with real-time map feature styling

Networking

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager topology view now generally available

Virtual Network Gateway in Virtual Hub and BGP IP NAT

SDN: Migrating from Rest Name to Static IP | Remove worries of DNS!

Improvements to configuring networking in Azure portal

Security

Become a Microsoft Unified SOC Platform Ninja

Enable your key business needs within Microsoft Sentinel with step-by-step guidance

Learn more about LinkedIn Smart Link Phish Campaigns

Monthly news - February 2024

About Setting Auto-labeling with match SITs

What's New: CrowdStrike Falcon Data Replicator V2 Data Connector is now Generally Available!

Bridging the Gap Between Code and Cloud with Defender for Cloud

Storage

Announcing the general availability of NFS Azure file share snapshots

AzCopy support for Entra ID authentication

Announcing the Public Preview of Metadata Caching for Azure Premium SMB File Shares

Reflecting on 2023—Azure Storage

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

Web

Transitioning Smoothly from Twilio to Azure Communication Services

Seeking Insights on Marketing/Campaign Emails with Azure Communication Services

A Glimpse into the Future: The Sidecar Pattern on Linux App Service

App Service Environment v1 and v2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Troubleshooting Guide: Resolving Azure App Services Image Pull Issues from Azure Container Registry

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

Enhance your indoor maps with real-time map feature styling

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure

Why Azure Image Builder - Getting Started

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI now available!

Proactive: Azure Blogs - Articles from 15-Jan-2023 to 21-Jan-2023

Andre_Heim — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:20:42 GMT

AI + Machine Learning

Building your own copilot – yes, but how? (Part 1 of 2)

Comparative study of Azure Open AI GPT model and LLAMA 2

The Power of Video Moderation of Azure AI Content Safety

Security Best Practices for GenAI Applications (OpenAI) in Azure

How to Convert Audio to .WAV for Speech Service Using MoviePy

AI Chat App Hack: A Guide for Technical Students

Ethical AI: Nurup Naimju’s Vision for Responsible Growth in AI Entrepreneurship

Hack Together: The Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack

Dive into the World of AI with the Semantic Kernel Cookbook

Analyze Videos with Azure Open AI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and Azure Data Factory

Ethical AI: Nurup Naimji’s Vision for Responsible Growth in AI Entrepreneurship

Microsoft and Cognite extend partnership to build industrial data operations platform on Microsoft Fabric and Azure OpenAI Service

Microsoft at Legalweek: Secure data and gain efficiencies with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery enhanced by generative AI

Analytics

How to build an End-to-End Analytics Solution with Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric

Python Data Science Day 2024: Unleashing the Power of Python in Data Analysis

Enable Microsoft Fabric Copilot for Your Organization: A Comprehensive Guide

Continued region expansion: Azure Data Factory is generally available in two more regions

Hack Together: The Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack

Ingest data using Splunk Universal forwarder into Azure Data Explorer

Optimizing Vector Similarity Search on Azure Data Explorer – Performance Update

Processing Millions of Events using Databricks Delta Live Tables, Azure Event Hubs and Power BI

Leveraging Azure Event Hub, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI for Real-Time Data Analytics

ADX Query Performance Unleashed: Best Practices and Pro Tips

Master Microsoft Fabric: Your Ultimate Guide to Certification and Expertise

Microsoft and Cognite extend partnership to build industrial data operations platform on Microsoft Fabric and Azure OpenAI Service

Microsoft at Legalweek: Secure data and gain efficiencies with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery enhanced by generative AI

Compute

How to easily migrate an existing SAP system VMs to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set

Protecting Azure VM against Zonal/Regional outages using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup

Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch

Cost-effective genomics analysis with Sentieon on Azure

Azure VMware Solution Performance Design Considerations

ConfigMgr CMG Least Privilege Setup Approach

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Container Apps, Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry

Active Directory and Kubernetes – everything you need to know about gMSA with Windows Containers

Announcing the availability of the new gMSA on AKS workshop

Troubleshooting Guide: Resolving Azure App Services Image Pull Issues from Azure Container Registry

Deploy apps to Azure Container Apps easily with .NET Aspire

Databases

QTip: Configure Azure SQL DB to receive alert when failover occurs in failover group or geo replica

Lesson Learned #477:NEXT VALUE FOR function cannot be used if ROWCOUNT option has been set

Lesson Learned #476:Identifying Sleeping Sessions with Open Transactions in Azure SQL Database

Lesson Learned #478: Identifying TLS Version Using Azure SQL Auditing

Public Preview of Transparent Data Encryption and Credential Rotation for Arc SQL Managed Instance

General Availability: Azure MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations

Public preview: Partition merge now supports shared throughput databases

Save up to 50% on your compute costs: SQL MI Business Critical improved its storage-to-vCore ratio

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale – lower, simplified pricing!

SQL Managed Instance DTC implementation – lessons learnt

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Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory External Identities

Easily Manage Privileged Role Assignments in Microsoft Entra ID Using Audit Logs

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Protecting Azure VM against Zonal/Regional outages using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup

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Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Services