Your guide to Microsoft OneDrive @ Ignite 2020

by Scott Muniz | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Countdown to Microsoft Ignite 2020  (September 22-24, 2020) has officially begun as we are less than a week away from sharing with you our product innovations , roadmap and customer stories. This year’s event will be a free 48-hour all-digital experience. If you have not registered yet, secure your spot today and browse the session catalog to build your personalized schedule.

Here’s a quick rundown of sessions to get you started if you’re looking to learn more about OneDrive.

Note: The links will be active on 9/22.

Keg Segment

KEY04 | The Future of Work by Jared Spataro

When, where, and how we work is fundamentally changing. Microsoft is in a unique position to understand the secular trends that are reshaping the future of work today, and for decades to come. Learn about the risks and durable trends impacting teamwork, organizational productivity, and employee wellbeing. Jared Spataro, CVP of Modern Work, will share the latest research and a framework for success for every IT professional and business leader to empower People for the new world of work, as well as the latest innovation in Microsoft 365 and Teams empowering human ingenuity at scale.

Tuesday, September 22 | 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM PDT

Tuesday, September 22 | 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM PDT

Wednesday, September 23 | 2:00 AM – 2:20 AM PDT

Digital Breakout

DB158 | “Enabling collaboration, communication, and knowledge sharing with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Project Cortex, and more” by Jeff Teper

Organizations are moving to a hybrid workplace to support the needs of remote and onsite employees. Jeff and team dive into how teams collaborate fluidly with the latest innovations across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists and OneDrive. He’ll also showcase how organizations can improve employee engagement, communications, and knowledge sharing through SharePoint, Yammer, and Project Cortex.

Tuesday, Sept. 22nd | 12:15pm – 12:45pm PDT

Tuesday, Sept. 22nd | 8:15pm – 8:45pm PDT

Wednesday, Sept. 23rd | 4:15am – 4:45am PDT

DB136 | Embrace a New Way of Work with Microsoft 365 by Angela Byers and Shin-Yi Lim with Ed Kopp (Rockwell Automation) and Magnus Lidström (Scania)

In an unprecedented time of workplace transformation, opportunities to thrive belong to those who embrace and adapt to the new normal. How do we collaborate remotely, stay connected and produce excellent work as a team? How do we stay productive while working from home? Join us for a new way to think about and manage work with Microsoft 365. Learn how Microsoft 365 makes it easier for your team to organize, share and track work all in one place – so you save time and accomplish more together.

Wednesday, September 23 | 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM PDT

Wednesday, September 23 | 8:15 PM – 8:45 PM PDT

Thursday, September 24 | 4:15 AM – 4:45 AM PDT

Ask the Experts

ATE-DB136 | Ask the Experts: Embrace a New Way of Work with Microsoft 365

There will also be two (2x) Ask the Experts opportunities focused on files, lists and tasks running in different time zones to ensure everyone has a chance to connect with our engineering and marketing teams for Q&A. Add them to your session calendar:

Wednesday, September 23 | 9:00 PM – 9:30 PM PDT

Thursday, September 24 | 5:00 AM – 5:30 AM PDT

Pre-Recorded for On Demand

OD315 | “What’s new and coming to OneDrive” by Jason Moore and Ankita Kirti

OneDrive is the intelligent files app for Micrososft 365. In this session, we cover upcoming innovations and explore how new functionality empowers you to work with all files across Microsoft 365, from any device; and to share and collaborate on files seamlessly with people inside and outside your organization. We demo the latest features for Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android as well as share our upcoming feature roadmap.

Skilling Videos

Check out more content and resources in the Virtual Hub and Microsoft Tech Community Video Hub – all links will be live when Ignite officially kicks off.

External sharing & collaboration with OneDrive, SharePoint & Teams by Rafael Lopez-Uricoechea and Stephen Rice

Microsoft 365 provide a rich set of solutions for collaborating with users both inside and outside of your organization. This session offers an in-depth look at existing and brand-new external sharing capabilities. Learn best practices for configuring external sharing and educating users on how to best leverage Microsoft Teams,OneDrive and SharePoint for collaborating with others.

Deployment and configuration of OneDrive sync by Gaia Carini and Carter Green

Are you ready to roll out OneDrive? Learn about how to plan and execute your rollout of OneDrive sync app to get your users into the “ideal state” maximizing creativity and collaboration. Come hear the best tips, tricks, and shortcuts to ensure a quick and easy deployment as well as the upcoming admin and end user features of OneDrive sync.

Driving OneDrive adoption with a remote workforce by Randy Wong and Lauren Khoo

Whether you are working at your office, from home or on the go , OneDrive is essential in connecting you to all your files as well as driving collaboration. Explore best practices , tips and tricks for adopting OneDrive when working remotely. Discover training material for users and admins.

Monitor and manage SharePoint in Microsoft 365 by Dave Minasyan, Rk Menon and Trent Green

SharePoint admins, this session is for you. The intelligent intranet is personal, collaborative, and ever changing. In this session, we’ll focus on upcoming enhancements to the SharePoint admin center – an updated home page, new site management, content services reporting, combined OneDrive admin settings, and more. Join in to see what’s coming to monitor and manage the state of your organization’s intranet get informed of all the latest enhancements, and utilize the new experiences to stay productive

What’s new to easily migrate your content to Microsoft 365 by Eric Warnke and Yogesh Ratnaparkhi

Join us for a demo-driven session on how to migrate your organization’s content into Microsoft 365 with ease and speed! We’ll focus on three areas: moving off legacy file shares, content from SharePoint Server on-premises, and other clouds storage providers like Box, Dropbox, and G Suite. Learn about our comprehensive set of first-party tools, services, and partner ecosystem to successfully migrate your content to Microsoft 365. Learn all you need to know about Migration Manager (aka.ms/MigrationManager), the SharePoint Migration Tool (aka.ms/SPMT), and Mover (aka.ms/Mover).

Turbocharging Microsoft 365 cloud user experiences by Shyam Narayan

Microsoft 365 provides features and platform capabilities designed to make all user experiences better, faster, and easier to govern. Learn how to improve and optimize the performance of SharePoint sites and portals. Explore new ways to drive information architecture and navigation, and how to avoid common pitfalls. This session will highlight both existing investments and new announcements to further turbocharge your Microsoft 365 overall experience.

What’s new in Security & Compliance in SharePoint and OneDrive by Sesha Mani

Microsoft runs on trust, as digital data grows exponentially in your organization it is super critical to safeguard your sensitive corporate data. Microsoft is leading the way in enterprise-grade security and comprehensive compliance solutions. In this session you will learn what’s new and upcoming for SharePoint and OneDrive services in Security & Compliance areas. We will also cover how we help you achieve zero trust security with existing controls/policies in SharePoint and OneDrive.

Simplify email and data migration to Microsoft 365 with Microsoft’s migration service [FastTrack] by Tom Wisnowski

Did you know that FastTrack can help migrate your data when you move to Microsoft 365? Come learn about your migration options: self-serve, partners, and FastTrack experts can help you migrate your data at no additional cost. Find out what’s new with our migration services, see a demo of our Migration Hub and hear real-world customer stories. We’ll show you how simple it is to get started and securely migrate email and data to Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. 

Virtual Booth (Thursday, 9/24)

Toward the end of Ignite, the OneDrive and SharePoint product group will host Virtual Booths via Microsoft Teams. This is a time to see product demos, ask questions and provide feedback directly to the product group team members.

Use this time to learn, connect and engage across several focus areas for OneDrive and SharePoint (links coming soon):

Other product related, pre-Ignite 2020 session guides

You can also review the following related guides to other technology:

• Microsoft Ignite 2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Planner, Stream, Visio and Lists by @Mark Kashman
  

• “Your Guide to Microsoft Teams @ Ignite 2020” by @MicrosoftTeamsTeam 
• “Official Guide to Yammer and Employee Engagement at Microsoft Ignite 2020” by @Michael Holste 
• “Microsoft Search at Ignite 2020” by @Bill Baer 
• “Buckle up and get ready for Ignite 2020!” by @Microsoft365Dev [Developer blog]
• “Guide to Microsoft Ignite 2020 – Task Management Edition” by @Shin-Yi Lim 

Learn more at Microsoft.com/Ignite and follow the action on Twitter: @MS_Ignite, @SharePoint, @OneDrive, @Project, @MSVisio and @MicrosoftStream.

The OneDrive team is really looking forward to engaging with all of you.  Be sure to stay connected to the OneDrive community blog where we’ll share more information about the announcements. 

Thank you for your time,

Ankita Kirti

Product Marketing Manager, OneDrive

Are you excited about the Surface Duo? Let’s talk Dual Screen Development!!

by Scott Muniz | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Resources for Surface Duo Development:

Want to start building apps for Surface Duo? Quick links to help you get there!

1. Bookmark | Azure for Mobile Developers
2. Read | Introduction to dual screen devices
3. Install | Surface Duo SDK  – Download SDK Here
4. Validate | Test Your Emulator
5. Develop | Native, Cross-Platform or Mobile Web
6. Subscribe | Surface Duo Blog

What is the Surface Duo?
The Surface Duo is an Android-powered dual-screen device from Microsoft that has built-in support for Microsoft 365 (the productivity cloud from Microsoft) and has a unique 360-degree hinge that enables multiple “postures” for device usage. I am writing a series of posts about it here if you want to learn more.

Or check out my sketchnote below for an overview.
Sketchnote: Microsoft Surface Duo Briefing

Am I excited about Surface Duo?
Yes, yes I am!! This is the first-generation device so obviously we will learn a lot from having the device out there in the real-world.  But the reason I am excited about it is that it represents a change in how we are thinking about mobile device “affordances” (design capabilities) and gives us a chance to rethink what a mobile experience could be. Plus, I love the fact that we can develop for the device using native apps (Android) or multi-platform frameworks (Xamarin, React-Native) or mobile web!

What kinds of ideas can we think about here?
I’m starting to play with the SDK and device, but I want you to think about three things that might be interesting:

• Dual-Screen = Side By Side Apps.
  What 2 apps do you always use together (or close together in time?) What could you do if you were able to have them run concurrently? For me, this could be “watch TV and tweet at the same time” or “Listen and Learn” where I am on a Teams call in one screen and taking notes on OneNote in another. (And yes, having M365 on the device is :party_popper:)

• Hinge = Multiple Postures.
  The Surface Duo has a 360 degree hinge. So you can fold it flat (into a phone), tent it (to watch video), fold it partly (to resemble books for reading) or fold it out (into a full-size tablet to read paper-size articles). Or you can set it up like a laptop and have one side be where your virtual keyboard pops up. As a user, would there be specific postures that make it more productive to use specific apps? What kinds of new experiences can we develop now?

• Android + M365 (+ Edge)
  This is the first dual-screen mobile device that will have both Android and M365 app ecosystems available to the user. This means support for both enterprise and consumer experiences, and the ability to create “paired” experiences that target specific tasks or apps that support your multi-tasking behaviors. Think about how this could transform the way folks work in the field, or on the go? Drag-and-drop capability to transfer data by touch between screens. Pairing a native or M365 app on one screen with a mobile web app on the other. What would a progressive web app look like on these devices?
  

If this sounds interesting – come join my Table Talk session at Microsoft Ignite. We’re talking about “Why We’re Excited To Be a Developer Right Now” and I can’t wait to learn more about your ideas for dual-screen apps!

MYSTERY MEMORY LEAK: WHERE DID MY MEMORY GO?!

by Scott Muniz | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Hello,

My name is Jeffrey Worline, and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Performance Team at Microsoft. This blog addresses how to troubleshoot unaccounted memory usage or leak to include identifying and data collection.

If you already determined the process consuming memory, check out my previous blog post: Memory Leaks in a Process

Scenario

• When you cannot reconcile the amount of RAM being used with task manager, resource monitor, or perfmon collection.
• Large chunk of RAM being used but you cannot see where or by what.

Troubleshooting

Scenario A

When large amount of RAM is being used by not accounted for in task manager or resource manager. How do we find or account where that mystery memory is being used? RAMMap from Sysinternals is the tool needed for the job.

1. First, when looking in task manager and at the memory usage by processes to view memory usage, ensure you also look in the Memory box on the performance tab – the amount of cached, paged pool, and non-paged pool memory usage.

2. Download RAMMap
3. Launch RAMMap to have it take a snapshot of memory usage.

Glossary and Guide to the column and row headings

Stages of memory

• Active: Pages of physical RAM in active use by the specified category (usually a process working set or the system working set).
• Standby: Pages of physical RAM not actively being used. These are still left in physical RAM but will be repurposed first by the memory manager (either returned to the active list or zeroed out and reused) if something needs physical ram for active pages.
• Modified: Similar to Standby, but these are pages of physical RAM that have been changed and must be flushed to disk before reusing them.
• Modified no write: Similar to modified pages but have been marked not to write out to disk.
• Transition: Pages that are in transition between any of the other categories
• Zeroed: Pages that have been zeroed out and are ready to be used – they can be quickly allocated for new physical memory allocations
• Free: Free pages are free to be used but have some type of “dirty” data in them so they must be zeroed for security reasons before given to a user process.  These are usually pages that have been freed by an existing process.
• Bad: These are physical pages that have been marked as bad.

Areas of interest would be the following rows to check for high memory consumption to account where the rest of your memory is being used.

TIP:

If you have a memory leak and get to the point of almost running out of memory, the normal procedure is to reboot the machine in order to clear out the memory. You can use RAMMap to clear areas of memory negating the need to reboot the machine.

Types of memory usage

• Process Private: Memory allocated for use only by a single process.
• Mapped file: Mapped “views” of files are when the contents of that file are mapped to virtual addresses in memory.
• Shareable: Pages that have been marked as shared can be used by multiple processes.
• Paged Pool: Kernel pooled memory that can be paged to disk.
• Nonpaged Pool: Kernel pooled memory that cannot be paged to disk.
• Session Private: Memory that is private to a particular logged in session. This will be higher on RDS Session Host server.
• Metafile: Metafile is a part of the system cache containing NTFS metadata and used to increase the performance of the file system.
• AWE: You will typically see this used by SQL or other database applications.
• Driver Locked: These are pages that have been locked in physical RAM by a driver. Usually see this usage with Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines.
• Large Page: Normal page size for Windows memory is 4kb on x64 systems. But with large pages, the size is 2mb. SQL Server and Oracle support the concept of Large Pages when allocating memory.

In this snapshot, you can see that about half of the physical RAM being used is by Mapped Files:
 

4. In this example, next we would click on the Physical Pages tab
5. Now at the bottom of the tool select “Use” for the Filter and “is” select “Mapped File” from the drop down.

This will now show you all the mapped file entries.

6. Next, I would click on the File Name column heading to group similar file names so at this point I could look to see if all the mapping were going to the same path or general path to help determine what is causing all the mapped files.

This information is not something you will see any place else other than an RAMMap or memory dump.

Scenario B
On a VMWare or Hyper-V system, the hypervisor can take memory away from one VM and give it to another VM. It does this by using a driver loaded in the VM to “lock” the memory at the kernel level which can then be given to another VM. If too much memory is taken away, this will cause working set trimming and general performance issues. Standard perfmon memory counters will not provide the info to account for the missing memory. This driver locked or “ballooned” memory can be seen 4 different ways depending on the OS.

VMWare console – Memory and processor utilization for each VM will be clearly seen in the VMWare console. If you have access to the console, then this is the preferred method to see the state of memory in the VM.

VMware performance counters – When VMWare tools are installed, VMware performance counters are also created. These can be manually loaded in Performance Monitor or use the logman.exe method below to set up perfmon collection.

Example of Logman to collect VMWare processor and memory counter:

The following will configure the counters, set logging to circular with max file size of 300 mb, and take a counter reading every 3 seconds.

• The resultant log will be place in c:perflogs.

<<Start Search>>, enter “CMD.exe” w/o the quotation marks and then press Enter.

• Copy and paste the following command into the command prompt window:

Logman.exe create counter PerfLog-Short -o "c:perflogsPerfLog-Short.blg" -f bincirc -v mmddhhmm -max 300 -c "LogicalDisk(*)*" "Memory*" "Cache*" "Network Interface(*)*" "Paging File(*)*" "PhysicalDisk(*)*" "Processor(*)*" "Processor Information(*)*" "Process(*)*" "Thread(*)*" "Redirector*" "Server*" "System*" "Server Work Queues(*)*" "Terminal Services*" "VM Processor*" "VM Memory*" -si 00:00:03

• Start the log with:

Logman.exe start PerfLog-Short

• To stop perfmon log:

Logman.exe stop PerfLog-Short

Example output from Perfmon:

Example Sysinternals RAMMap:

– Jeffrey Worline

Talking about Citus & Postgres at any scale

by Scott Muniz | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

I recently gave a talk about the Citus extension to Postgres at the Warsaw PostgreSQL Users Group. Unfortunately, I did not get to go in person to beautiful Warsaw, but it was still a nice way to interact with the global Postgres community and talk about what Citus is, how it works, and what it can do for you.

If you are already familiar with Postgres then this talk should be a good introduction to all the powerful capabilities that Citus gives you. The tl;dr is this: Citus is an open source extension to Postgres that transforms Postgres into a distributed database. Citus uses sharding and replication to distribute your data and your Postgres queries across a distributed database cluster.

Shining a light on the performance speedups of Citus (via demo)

Every so often, I try to rethink how I talk about Citus as Postgres and the needs of applications evolve. One thing we have not done very much is talk directly about the performance improvements in Citus. Sometimes it’s actually slower, but at scale can be a lot faster. Therefore, I introduced every Citus feature with some benchmarks that show the performance compared to a (large) Postgres server.

The talk is also worth watching for the demo (the demo starts at 46:52) where I compare the performance of Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL against a single Postgres server. For the demo, I use GitHub archive data in an analytics use case, and the demo shows >250x speedups for analytical queries with Citus!

Click here to watch the video of my talk at Warsaw PostgreSQL Users Group, on Citus: PostgreSQL at any Scale. The demo starts at 46:52, but the introductory discussion should be useful, too.

Props to the organizers of the Warsaw PostgreSQL Users Group—especially Alicja Kucharczyk—for the time they spend organizing Postgres talks for their community. And for inviting me to give a talk to their Postgres users group. I really appreciated all the good questions, too.

If this is your first intro to Citus & you want to learn more

Here are a few of the getting-started next steps I usually recommend to developers:

• Download Citus packages locally: Citus is open source, so it’s easy to download and try out.
   
• Try Citus on Azure: And in the months since Microsoft acquired Citus Data last year, we have also integrated Citus into our managed Postgres service on Azure: Citus is now available as Hyperscale (Citus), a built-in deployment option in Azure Database for Postgres. So you can also try out Citus on Azure.

• Read the Citus open source docs: docs.citusdata.com has tutorials for multi-tenant SaaS applications and real-time analytics dashboards, a use case guide for time series data, details on pretty much every Citus feature, installation instructions for how to set Citus up locally on a single server as well as installing on multiple servers.. the Citus docs are quite useful.