More Insights with Azure Time Series Insights’ Power BI Connector

by Contributed | Feb 10, 2021 | Technology

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

The Azure Time Series Insights Power BI Connector allows you to integrate both Azure Time Series Insights and Power BI allowing you to augment the powerful analytics of TSI with the data visualization and easy sharing capabilities of Power BI.  

The Time Series Insights team is regularly adding new features to its service and we wanted to share some details on the latest release of the Power BI Connector that for users working with IoT data to create reports and dashboards of metrics in Power BI.   

If you’re new to Time Series Insights, check out the IoT Show episode showing how Time Series Insights can be used for industrial IoT analytics and explore the Time Series Insights Gen2 demo environment!  

New Features in Time Series Insights Power BI Connector

Cold Store Support

The Power BI Connector now supports querying data across both Warm and Cold stores so you can export both your recent and historical data out to Power BI!

Multitenancy Support

The Power BI connector can now be used by any user with access to the Time Series Insights environment, regardless of the Azure AD Tenant they belong to. Read more about our access policies to learn how to provide access to a Time Series Insights environment.

Increased Raw Data Limit

When exporting raw data out from Time Series Insights, users can now take up to 250,000 raw events.

Power BI Connector Custom Query

The Time Series Insights Explorer generates a custom query for the Power BI Connector to use. See more about how to use the Power BI Connector here.

[View of Time Series Insights Explorer]

The Explorer now allows you to modify your query by changing the type of data exported, the  storage layer (Warm or Cold) to run your query against, and the time range of your query. Choosing the “fixed” time range means the data in the search span you’ve charted will be exported to Power BI. Choosing the latest time range means that Power BI will grab the latest data with the search span you’ve chosen (e.g. If you chart 1 hour of data and choose the “latest” setting, Power BI Connector will always make queries for the latest 1 hour of data from the current time.)

The custom query generated by the explorer now includes a parameter called “storeType”, in addition to “isSearchSpanRelative”. These parameters change based on your selection of store type and time range in the Explorer, respectively.

Users can add or modify the individual GetEvents or AggregateSeries queries within the “queries” parameter in a text editor, as well, before exporting to Power BI! Read more about the Time Series Insights query APIs and the Time Series Expression (TSX) syntax.

Other parameters in the query such as the “clientDataType” and “environmentFqdn” parameters help the Power BI Connector know which environment to query and which API version to use. We don’t recommend modifying these parameters.

{
    "storeType": "WarmStore",
    "isSearchSpanRelative": true,
    "clientDataType": "RDX_20200713_Q",
    "environmentFqdn": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.env.timeseries.azure.com",
    "queries": [
        {
            "aggregateSeries": {
                "searchSpan": {
                    "from": "2020-12-09T00:03:16.245Z",
                    "to": "2020-12-22T16:56:58.000Z"
                },
                "timeSeriesId": [
                    "Device_1210101_AV_101"
                ],
                "interval": "PT2H",
                "inlineVariables": {
                    "PresentValue": {
                        "kind": "numeric",
                        "value": {
                            "tsx": "$event['PresentValue'].Double"
                        },
                        "filter": null,
                        "aggregation": {
                            "tsx": "avg($value)"
                        }
                    }
                },
                "projectedVariables": [
                    "PresentValue"
                ]
            }
        },
        ...
    ]
}

The Time Series Insights Explorer requires that you download the latest version (December 2020 or 2.88.321.0) of Power BI Desktop to use the new features listed above.

Any existing reports using queries generated by the previous versions of the Power BI Connector and Time Series Insights Explorer will continue to be supported by the latest version of the Power BI Connector.

Pricing

Customers are charged $0.01 per GB scanned by each Cold Store query (see pricing details for your region) and Warm Store queries are free.

Each query made by the Time Series Insights Power BI Connector to Cold Store will incur charges, as well.

Next Steps

• Watch the IoT Show Deep Dive into analyzing IoT data using Time Series Insights.


• Learn how to create a Time Series Insights environment.


• Learn how to use the Power BI Connector.

February 2021 – Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

by Contributed | Feb 10, 2021 | Technology

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

Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap
This link is filtered to show GCC, GCC High and DOD specific items.  For more general information uncheck these boxes under “Cloud Instance”.
New to filtering the roadmap for GCC specific changes? Try this:

Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Here are a few ways that you can stay on top of the Office 365 updates in your organization.

Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector
Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments.

Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions

• Office 365 Platform (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• Office 365 U.S. Government GCC High endpoints


• Office 365 U.S. Government DoD endpoints

• Compliance (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• Enterprise Mobility & Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (GCC, GCCH)


• Microsoft Cloud App Security (GCCH)


• Microsoft Defender for Identity Security (GCCH)


• Azure Information Protection Premium

• Exchange Online (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• SharePoint  (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• OneDrive (GCC, GCCH, DoD) 


• Teams (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

• Office ProPlus (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• PowerApps (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• Power Automate US Government (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• Power BI (GCC, GCCH)


• Planner (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• Outlook Mobile (GCC, GCCH, DoD)


• My Analytics (GCCH, DoD)


• Dynamics 365 US Government
  
  

February Webinars & Remote Work Resources

February Edition Sections:

• Highlighted 


• Microsoft Teams – IT Admins & Planning


• Microsoft Teams – End Users & Champions


• Security & Compliance


• Device Management


• Blogs & Articles of Interest

Microsoft Lists adoption for Government – Microsoft Tech Community

Microsoft Lists is available 100% worldwide across all commercial, government, and education Microsoft 365 plans.

Announcing Microsoft 365 Meetup for Government – Microsoft Tech Community

We are pleased to announce, a public community group for leaders, innovators, professionals, and end-users across both industry and government who are interested in Microsoft 365!

Microsoft 365 for Government User Group Meeting – Year in Review materials – Microsoft Tech Community

We met to discuss the big changes that happened within the Microsoft government cloud instances: GCC, GCC High, and DoD.

Microsoft CMMC Acceleration Program Update – January 2021 – Microsoft Tech Community

We are actively building out our program by developing resources for both partners and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies to leverage in their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) journey. These tools cannot guarantee a positive CMMC adjudication, but they may assist candidate organizations by improving their CMMC posture going into a formal CMMC review in accordance with CMMC Accreditation Body (AB) standards. While we plan to release resources and guidance in waves, please keep in mind we are dependent upon the CMMC AB finalizing the CMMC guidance itself.

Bringing your ServiceNow Service Desk into Teams with AtBot – Microsoft Tech Community

While you have many choices for how to bring your service desk into Teams, AtBot provides the most complete solution to facilitate this integration. A bot in Teams offers users a friendly and intuitive way to ask for help. From being able to answer simple questions, drawing on your existing knowledge base, to providing step-by-step resolution instructions, and ultimately creating and assigning new service tickets for issues that the bot cannot resolve.

Microsoft Teams recorded meeting storage in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint – Microsoft Tech Community

The change from using Microsoft Stream to OneDrive for Business and Microsoft SharePoint for meeting recordings will be a phased approach. While GCC customers can opt out starting October 5 they are unable to opt in (this feature will be rolled out to all GCC customers starting January 11, 2021, unless they’ve opted-out).

Getting to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Server and hybrid configurations – Microsoft Tech Community

With the retirement of Skype for Business Online in sight, we’re working to ensure customers transition to Microsoft Teams by July 31, 2021, including users homed online in hybrid configurations. But Skype for Business Online customers aren’t the only ones who can benefit from upgrading to Teams. Organizations using Skype for Business on-premises have also experienced the transformational impact Teams can have on communication, collaboration, and culture.

Keep your Federation Trust up-to-date – Microsoft Tech Community

Microsoft periodically refreshes certificates in Office 365 as part of our effort to maintain a highly available and secure environment. From Jan 23rd, 2021, we are making a certificate change on our Microsoft Federation Gateway every six weeks that could affect some customers as detailed in this knowledge base article. The good news is you can easily avoid any disruption.

Release News

Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise now available to GCC and GCC-High

The user experience in GCC, GCC High, and DoD when launching Microsoft Forms from forms.office.com is changing to be consistent with the rest of the office portal apps

Microsoft Forms owners in GCC, GCC High, and DoD cloud instances will be able to collect survey responses from specific users or security groups

Retirement of AD-RMS for Exchange Online

Changes to Microsoft To Do access for on-premises Exchange accounts – GCC Jan. 22

TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support is being deprecated by Microsoft. Customers should remove their dependencies on TLS 1.0 and 1.1 and upgrade to TLS 1.2 as soon as possible

The Planner app in Teams will be renamed to the Tasks app with an updated experience powered by Planner and To Do – GCC Feb.

Teams meeting recordings can now be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint instead of Stream – GCC Jan. 19, GCCH & DoD March

Records Management and Information Governance License Enforcement – GCC, GCCH, DoD Feb.

SharePoint January 2021 Product Update details

The ability to include computer sound while sharing content is available in Teams for Windows now and is coming to Teams for Mac OS soon

Introducing Teams Calling Essentials for US and Canada – GCC Feb. 1

Simplified channel notification settings – GCC

MC236677 – Reminder: Azure SSL/TLS certificate changes

What is changing?
We originally communicated last November (MC226863) that on 02 Nov 2020, DigiCert replaced the certificate of the Intermediate Certificate Authority (ICA) “DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA”, which issues SSL/TLS certificates used by Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) services in the US Gov Cloud.

When is it changing?
Starting on 08 Feb 2021, Azure AD Identity services will be switching the Certificate Authorities.

Will this change affect me?
We expect that most customers will not be impacted. You may be impacted, however, if you have applications that explicitly specify a list of trusted ICAs, either by hard coding them (“certificate pinning”) or by operating a trust store. You need to ensure, all the Root CAs and ICAs for US Gov Cloud are trusted.

For more information to determine if you may be impacted, please refer to Azure TLS Certificate Changes

For a full list of certificates, refer to Certificate authorities used by Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs

MC236526 – Exchange Online support for Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS) retiring

We are retiring Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD
RMS) support in Exchange Online as of February 28, 2021. Moving forward, we
recommend the utilization of Azure Rights Management Service (Azure RMS).

Key Points: 

·        Timing: February 28, 2021 

·        Action: review and assess impact for your organization 

How this will affect your organization?

Exchange Online includes Information Rights Management (IRM) that
provides online and offline protection of email messages and attachments.
Although Exchange Online uses Azure Rights Management Service (Azure RMS) by
default, your organization may have configured Exchange Online to use
on-premises Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS). AD RMS support
in Exchange Online is retiring, and will be fully replaced with Azure
RMS. 

What you need to do to prepare?

If your organization is already using Azure RMS to encrypt email
in Exchange Online, there is nothing for you to do. 

Otherwise, follow these steps to migrate to Azure RMS

·        If your organization has
already set up Azure RMS, you can enable the service in Exchange Online by
running the following Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet:

Set-IrmConfiguration -AzureRMSLicensingEnabled $true  

If your organization has not yet set up Azure RMS, you’ll need to migrate. For
information, see Migrating from AD RMS to Azure Information Protection.

MC236224 – Updates coming to Power Apps Data Loss Prevention

Starting 4 February 2021, Power Apps will proceed with enforcing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies when apps are launched. This enforcement is in addition to the DLP enforcement that occurs when connections are added to apps in Power Apps Studio. This enforcement change was previously communicated in Message Center (MC208818) and turned on and then turned off as unexpected behavior was observed. The unexpected behavior has since been resolved.

What are Data Loss Prevention Policies?
Your organization’s data is likely one of the most important assets you are responsible for safeguarding as an administrator. Power Apps and Power Automate allow rapid build and rollout of high value applications that allow users to measure and act on the data in real time. Users often have good intentions but might overlook the potential for exposure from data leakage to services and audiences that shouldn’t have access to the data. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies enforce rules of what connectors can be used together by classifying connectors as either Business Data only or No Business Data allowed. Simply, if you put a connector in the business data only group, it can only be used with other connectors from that group in the same app. Please see this article for further information on DLP.

What specifically is changing?
Typically, as a Power Apps maker you are informed of any DLP policy (as configured by the tenant or environment admin) violations while adding a connection to an app in Power Apps Studio. However, if DLP policies are edited by admins *after* an app is created, then users could continue to use the app even if it didn’t adhere to the latest DLP policy. This upcoming change ensures Power Apps not adhering to the latest published DLP policies no longer run until they comply with the latest DLP policy applicable for the environment.

MC235387 – Azure SSL/TLS Certificate Changes

What is changing?

DigiCert replaced the certificate of the ICA “DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA”. This certificate links the SSL/TLS certificates used by some Azure AD services in the Public and US Government Clouds to a trusted root DigiCert certificate. The change made by DigiCert will affect service certificates that are newly issued or re-issued after 2 Nov 2020. Previously issued certificates will remain unaffected, as DigiCert does not intend to remove the existing ICA certificate until all those previously issued certificates have expired.

For specific information on the existing and new certificates see the entries for “DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA” under CAs used by Azure AD Identity services.

For more details about the DigiCert changes see the DigiCert documentation.

Note: We expect that most customers will not be impacted. You may be impacted, however, if you have applications that explicitly specify a list of trusted ICAs, either by hard coding them (“certificate pinning”) or by operating a trust store.

When will this change occur?

Azure AD services intend to limit re-issuing SSL/TLS certificates from DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA until after the 2020 holiday season; however, certificates may need to be re-issued sooner if any security-related concerns arise. For that reason, it is important that you prepare for re-issued certificates as soon as possible.

MC235267 – Service reminder – Intune certificate updates: Action may be required for continued connectivity

As we shared in MC225591 and in this blog post, Microsoft Intune has begun updating our Root certificates to comply with Azure’s new certificate policy. We anticipate updates will be completed on or around February 10, 2021. Most management scenarios will work without administrator action, however, there are a few different configurations that may require you to take action to ensure your continued connectivity to Intune.

MC235123 – Prevent/Fix: eDiscovery Compliance Security Filters

We want to notify you that we’re performing a Fix/Update: on eDiscovery Compliance Security Filters(Compliance Boundaries) to avoid cases where documents served up from SharePoint Online may not be within the correct Compliance Boundary.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates one or more users in your organization are using core eDiscovery or Advanced eDiscovery in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. If you are using Compliance Boundaries this message may apply to you and your organization.

How this will affect your organization?

Users may be experiencing issues when they search all SharePoint sites and attempt to export unindexed items with search hits or individually when the executing user has a security filter applied to their account.

This applies to the following export options:

·        All items, including ones that have unrecognized format, are encrypted, or weren’t indexed for other reasons

·        Only items that have an unrecognized format, are encrypted, or weren’t indexed for other reasons

To fix this issue – you need to avoid exporting unindexed or partially indexed items from SharePoint sites when compliance boundaries (security filters) are enabled for the executing user.  If you don’t fix this issue – documents served up from SharePoint Online may not be within the correct Compliance Boundary. 

We’re in the process of rolling out a modification to the User Interface and cmdlet that will block these actions when attempting to export the results of a search that includes all SharePoint sites and when a security filter is enabled on the executing user.

What you need to do to prepare?

While we work on a permanent fix, you can avoid cases where documents served up from SharePoint Online may not be within the correct Compliance Boundary by running a content search and exporting the report. The report will include a file called results.csv which includes a field called location. The distinct locations from this file can then be used to craft one or more searches by specifying the locations individually and exporting using the second option, All items, including ones that have an unrecognized format, are encrypted, or weren’t indexed for other reasons.

MC234420 – Final reminder: retiring SharePoint 2010 workflows

We retired SharePoint 2010 workflows from Microsoft 365 on November 1, 2020. You may have received an extension until March 1, 2021.

Please note that there will be no extensions beyond March 1, 2021.

When this will happen?

Effective March 1, 2021, Microsoft will remove the ability to run, create, and/or execute SharePoint 2010 workflows.

MC234377 – Reminder: Starting February 1, 2021 use the new, more performant and reliable OneDrive Sync Client for syncing

This is a reminder that the old Groove client end of life journey started in 2017 with the introduction of OneDrive Sync application, bringing, among other features, advanced capabilities for sharing, and collaboration. Now that full functional parity has been achieved between Groove.exe and the OneDrive Sync client, Groove.exe will be retired. Support for Groove ended on January 11, 2021.

Key Points:

·        Major: Retirement

·        Timing:

o   February 1, 2021, Groove.exe sync with SPO will no longer allow users to to sync their OneDrive and Shared Libraries using Groove.

·        Action: Review resources and assess impact

How this affects your organization?

We are now in the process of fully retiring the Groove client when used to sync with SharePoint Online. On February 1, 2021, Groove.exe sync with SPO will be terminated and users will no longer be able to sync their OneDrive and Shared Libraries using Groove.

What you need to do to prepare?

Users are advised to switch to the OneDrive Sync Client and use it to sync their business files as well as OneDrive and Shared Libraries in a more reliable, performant, and collaborative way.

MC234263 – Updated subject lines for email communications from Message center

As part of the renewal of email notifications from Message center, subject lines for “Message Center Major Change Update Notification” and “Message Center Data Privacy Message Notification” will be updated.

When this will happen?

We will be making this change in mid-February and expect to complete by the end of February.

How this will affect your organization?

·        “Message Center Major Change Update Notification” will be updated to “Major update from Message center”

·        “Message Center Data Privacy Message Notification” will be updated to “Data privacy notification available in Message center.”

Note: sender display name and email address (o365mc@microsoft.com) will not be updated.

What you need to do to prepare?

If you are an admin subscribed to these Message center emails and are using a rule to filter them, you may need to update the rule to reflect the new subject lines.

MC234252 – Reminder: Configuration Change in Guest access for Microsoft Teams

As originally communicated in MC228482 (December ’20), we’re making some changes to the default setting for Guests in Microsoft Teams

Beginning on February 8th, 2021, we are turning on Guest access in Microsoft Teams by default for any customers who have not configured this setting.  This will bring Teams Guest capability into alignment with the rest of the suite, where the setting is already on by default.

Key Points:

·        Timing: February 8th, 2021

·        Admin control: Admin center UI

·        Action: Review and set appropriate configuration

How this will affect your organization?

When this change is implemented if you have not already configured Guest access capability in Microsoft Teams, that capability will be enabled in your tenant. With guest access enabled, you can provide access to teams and other resources to people outside your organization while maintaining control over your corporate data.

What you need to do to prepare?

Prior to this change taking effect on February 8th 2021, if you want Guest access to remain disabled for your organization, you will need to confirm that the Guest access setting is set to “Off” instead of “Service default”.

MC234097 – (Final notice) Office 365 Video to Microsoft Stream migration: retirement date and timelines for GCC

As previously communicated in Message center (MC223541, September 2020 and others since 2016), we will be retiring Office 365 Video and replacing it with Microsoft Stream.

Our reports indicate you still have content in Office 365 Video that is ready to be migrated. Office 365 Video will be retired on March 1, 2021 and content will be automatically migrated to Microsoft Stream.

Summary of key dates

·        Now – You can run the migration on your own, automatic migrations will be run for organizations that did not change the migration setting to delay or to delete my content.

·        March 1, 2021 – Office 365 Video is retired, and automatic migrations begin for any remaining organizations that delayed migration.

·        March 1, 2022 – Redirection for links and embed codes from Office 365 Video to Stream will no longer be maintained.

How does this affect me?

If you haven’t delayed the migration, Microsoft has begun automatically migrating Office 365 Video content to Microsoft Stream.

To check the migration timing setting for your tenant Office 365 Video portal administrators should go to the Office 365 Video portal and click Portal settings > Migration.

If you have delayed your migration, you need to develop a plan to migrate to Microsoft Stream on your own schedule. However, on March 1, 2021 we will begin automatic migrations for any remaining Office 365 Video customers.

MC230065 – (Updated) Skype for Business Online Connector retirement

Updated January 12, 2021: We have updated the post with additional details for clarity.

Skype for Business Online Connector will no longer be available for download after February 15, 2021.

Teams PowerShell module is where we will continue to invest. All new features, bug fixes and improvements will be delivered via Teams PowerShell module.

Key Points:

·        Major: Retirement

·        Timing: February 15, 2021

·        Action: Review and assess the impact for your organization.

How this will affect your organization?

Administrators can continue to use Skype for Business Online Connector till July 31, 2021 but after Feb 15, 2021 will not be able to download the module.

We recommend using Teams PowerShell module for all existing and future needs.

MC236374 – M365 Compliance Center Information Governance solution update

We are clarifying how users access label policies and retention policies in Microsoft 365 compliance center.

When this will happen?

We will roll out this update in early February 2021.

How this will affect your organization?

Microsoft Information Governance (MIG) capabilities govern your data for compliance or regulatory requirements.

Currently, you access both label policies and retention policies via Information governance > Retention.

With this change, you will access label policies via Information governance > Label policies and retention policies via Information governance > Retention.

MC236329 – Large gallery view and Together Mode for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70573

This new Teams feature allows users to change layout to Together mode or Large gallery during a meeting conducted in Edge or Chrome browsers.

When this will happen?

We will begin rolling this out in late-January and expect to be complete by late-February.

How this will affect your organization?

This release will improve the experience for users who join Teams meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers by positioning up to 50 invitees into a virtual space by removing each individual background people have and replacing them with a common background.

MC236221 – Power Platform admin center – Help + Support experience – Planned Maintenance

We have maintenance planned for the Help + Support experience within the Microsoft Power Platform admin center to perform infrastructure changes. During the maintenance window listed below, users will be unable to update or gather specific support case details using the Power Platform admin center.

Maintenance window start: 31 January 2021, 1:00 AM UTC
Maintenance window end: 31 January 2021, 6:00 AM UTC

How does this affect me?
This will not impact customers’ ability to create new support cases or receive support for Microsoft products. Some customers may see an error message when updating existing support cases.

If users encounter issues outside of this maintenance window, please contact support.

MC235978 – Limiting the maximum supported value for StartRow to 50,000

We’re making some changes to SharePoint Online Search. To continue to provide a high performance search experience, we’re limiting the maximum supported value StartRow to 50,000.

Key Points:

·        Timing: Starting late February 2021 through late May 2021 

·        Action: review and assess for your organization

How this will affect your organization?

As part of this configuration change, users who run queries using the StartRow parameter (at rest API) with values exceeding 50,000 will be throttled. All queries using StartRow (< 50,000) – will not be impacted.

MC235567 – Power Platform – Update to Add-CustomConnectorToPolicy data loss prevention (DLP) PowerShell cmdlet

We recently announced changes to our data loss prevention (DLP) policies (MC231184). As part of this change, the Powershell cmdlet Add-CustomConnectorToPolicy would no longer support the addition of custom connectors to tenant level policies. Additionally, we announced that custom connectors added to tenant level policies would not be shown on the data loss prevention page (DLP UI) in the Power Platform admin center.

How does this affect me?
On 22 January 2021, we updated our DLP policies for the Powershell cmdlet Add-CustomConnectorToPolicy to re-enable supporting the addition of custom connectors to tenant level policies.

Custom connectors added to tenant level policies through this Powershell cmdlet will continue to not be shown on the data loss prevention page (DLP UI) in the Power Platform admin center.

Stay informed of data loss prevention policies by visiting this page.

MC235513 – Announcing Teams location picker support for security groups and distribution lists

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70587

Data loss prevention (DLP) for Microsoft Teams will soon support security groups (SGs) and distribution lists (DLs) as part of the Teams location picker.

When this will happen?

Rollout will begin in mid-February and is expected to be complete by mid-March 2021.

How this will affect your organization?

With this update to the Teams location picker, you will have more granular control of DLP policy scope within Microsoft 365 compliance center, such as the ability to include or exclude particular departments, business units, or geo-specific security groups.

Note: The DLP policy applies to the existing membership of SGs or DLs. The policy will be updated automatically with any changes in membership.

MC235453 – Intune Plan for Change: Microsoft 365 apps version 16.44 and higher to install on macOS 10.14 and higher

Starting with version 16.44, Microsoft 365 apps are supported only on macOS 10.14 and higher. In March, Microsoft Endpoint Manager will deploy Microsoft 365 apps to only macOS 10.14 and higher.

How this will affect your organization?

Given that Microsoft 365 has ended support for macOS 10.13.x in November 2020 (MC223176) you may not be affected; you have likely updated your OS or devices. You will not be impacted if you are currently managing macOS 10.14 or higher devices. However, if you are currently managing macOS 10.13.x devices that have Microsoft 365 apps installed, these app installations can be updated up to version 16.43 using Microsoft Auto Update. But Microsoft 365 apps are no longer supported on macOS 10.13.x and will not receive any security updates or bug fixes in the future. It is recommended that these devices are upgraded to macOS 10.14 or higher to install the latest Microsoft 365 apps.

What you need to do to prepare?

If you are currently managing macOS 10.14 or higher devices, no action is required. Older versions of Microsoft 365 apps can be manually added to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin center per the documentation here.

MC235387 – Share Teams conversation to Outlook coming to GCC

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70546

Your users will soon be able to share Teams channel conversations as well as Teams chat messages to Outlook from Microsoft Teams desktop apps and Teams on the web.

Key points:

·        Timing: late February through mid-March 2021

·        Roll-out: tenant level

·        Control type: user control

·        Action: review and assess

How this will affect your organization?

Share to Outlook allows users share a copy of a Teams channel conversation or chat to others via an Outlook email from within the Teams app. This feature allows users to share conversations or status updates with users outside their immediate team and outside your organization.

MC235288 – (Updated) SharePoint spaces to be available by default in New menu

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67135

Updated January 22, 2021: Note: The PowerShell cmdlets will be available as part of the January 29, 2021 update to the SharePoint Online Management Shell. We apologize for any inconvenience.

SharePoint spaces allows the creation and sharing of immersive or browser-based mixed reality environments using assets such as 3D models, 360° images and videos, and 2D content such as videos, images, and office documents. In October 2020 (MC224942), SharePoint spaces became generally available.

We are now including spaces in the site level +New menu by default.

Key points:

·        Timing:

o   Targeted Release (organization): early February 2021

o   Standard Release: mid-February through mid-April 2021

·        Roll-out: tenant level

·        Control type: admin control

·        Action: review and assess by 2/19/2021

MC235242 – We have renamed 10 Azure Active Directory Roles

In July 2020 and August 2020, (MC218295) we advised you that we would be renaming 10 Azure Active Directory (AD) built-in roles names to make them consistent with those that appear in Microsoft 365 admin center, the Azure AD portal, and Microsoft Graph. After a delay, we are pleased to announce that the rollout is complete.

Key points:

·        Timing: available now

·        Roll-out: tenant level

·        Control type: admin UI

How this will affect your organization?

You will now see these 10 updated Azure AD names in the Microsoft 365 admin center, Azure AD portal, and Microsoft Graph API.

What you need to do to prepare?

If you have PowerShell script or application that leverages these roles by display name, please double-check that you have made any necessary adjustments.

MC235180 – Teams desktop app for Mac: Include computer sound in a meeting

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67168 and 67169

The Microsoft Teams desktop app for MacOS will soon allow users include their computer’s sound when sharing either their desktop or a window in a meeting.

When this will happen?

·        Rollout for production and GCC tenants begins in late January and should be complete in early February 2021.

·        Rollout for GCCH and DoD tenants begins in mid-February and should be complete by late February 2021.

MC235111 – Microsoft Teams Revised In-meeting Share Experience

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70560

Microsoft Teams desktop users on Windows and Mac will soon have a revised share experience while in meetings.

Key points:

·        Timing: mid-February through mid-March 2021

·        Roll-out: tenant level

·        Control type: user control

·        Action: review and assess

MC234416 – (Updated) Text formatting (bold, italic, underline) available in Microsoft Forms

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68894

Updated January 20, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Text formatting (bold, italics, and underline) is coming to Microsoft Forms to help survey and quiz designers differentiate and emphasize content.

When this will happen?

·        We will begin rolling out to production tenants in mid-January and expect to be complete early February (previously late January).

·        We will begin rolling out to government tenants in early February (previously late January) and expect to be complete in early March (previously early February).

MC234414 – Microsoft Lists and SharePoint Lists: column settings in Grid view

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68714

We are providing Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists owners and members with new capabilities in Lists Grid view (previously Quick Edit).

When this will happen?

·        Targeted Release (organization): mid-January through early February 2021.

·        Standard Release: early February through early March 2021.

How this will affect your organization?

The Lists “Grid” view (previously Quick Edit) will now allow users to pin a column to the filter pane, format the column, show/hide columns, and hide their column(s). Before this update, users were required to exit Grid view to accomplish these common tasks. 

MC234409 – Forms adds option to share with specific users or user groups

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 79246

With this update, Microsoft Forms owners will be able to easily collect survey responses from specific users or security groups.

When this will happen?

Rollout is planned for mid-February though the end of February 2021.

How this will affect your organization?

Form owners will see a new response collection option when navigating to Share > Send and collect responses .

When a Form owner selects Specific people in my organization can respond, they can then specify one or more individuals or user groups by using their email address.

MC234048 – Microsoft Teams connector apps webhook URL security improvement

Connectors support in Microsoft Teams is transitioning to a new webhook URL format to enhance security. In the future, connector webhook URLs will contain the name of the tenant in them.

Old URLs continue to work for now, but users will be prompted to re-create connectors.

When this will happen?

We will begin transitioning to the new webhook URLs on Monday January 11, 2021; however, existing webhooks URLs will continue to work for three (3) months to allow for migration time.

What this means for your organization?

We’re transitioning to a new webhook URL format where

Users with a Teams connector app will see a prompt to migrate to the new webhook URL configuration on the Connectors configuration page.

MC233466 – New Teams meeting lobby settings – only invited users join directly

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68730

Teams meeting organizers can have greater control over their meetings by enabling a new lobby setting where only Calendar meeting invited users will be able to join directly.

When this will happen?

·        For Production and GCC environments: roll out will start in early February and will be complete by mid-February.

How this will affect your organization?

Meeting organizers will be able to ensure that only Calendar meeting invited users can bypass the lobby after they schedule a new meeting. They do this by changing the meeting option Who can bypass the lobby to People I invite. Anyone else with the meeting invitation will be sent to the lobby.

MC233463 – Start Meet Now from Outlook desktop client (Windows)

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68838

We’ve made it easier than ever to start a Teams meeting through the addition of the Meet Now button in Outlook.

When this will happen?

·        Rollout for production and GCC tenants begins in late January and should be complete in mid-February 2021.

MC232974 – Announcing Exchange Online service encryption using Microsoft managed keys for government clouds

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68871

You will soon have access to Exchange Online service encryption using Microsoft managed keys.

When this will happen?

Rollout has begun and is expected to be complete by end of March.

How this will affect your organization?

Exchange Online service encryption using Microsoft managed keys provides default encryption for all of Exchange Online data-at-rest. With Microsoft managed keys, data-at-rest always stays encrypted by default. Microsoft manages all cryptographic keys including the root keys in this case.

Customers still have the choice to bring their own encryption keys by onboarding to Customer Key.

MC232966 – Microsoft Lists app for iOS

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64161

Your users will now be able to access their SharePoint lists on the go anytime anywhere using Microsoft Lists app for iOS.

When this will happen?

Releasing to the iOS app store in mid-January

MC232965 – Microsoft Teams: Touch Bar Meeting Controls for Mac

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68906

Teams Meeting controls for MacBooks with Touch Bars that allow users to mute/unmute, turn camera on/off, open/close sharing tray, open/close participants panel, open/close chat panel and raise/retract hand.

Note: If your organization does not use Mac OS you can disregard.

When this will happen?

We will roll this feature out in early January and complete by the end of January.

MC232126 – SharePoint page authoring – new first run experience

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70667

We are introducing a first-run, optional interactive experience, to guide new users through the basics of creating their first SharePoint page or news post.

When this will happen?

We will be gradually rolling this out from early January through the end of February 2021.

How this will affect your organization?

The first time that SharePoint users (who have permission) create a new page or news post, they will see an opportunity to take a product tour. Users will learn how to pick a template, add/edit sections and web parts, title their page, and choose a title image.

MC231373 – (Updated) Announcing built-in sensitivity labeling for Office and Outlook – GCC and GCCH

Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 63662 and 68848

Updated January 29, 2021: We have updated the post for additional clarity. Thank you for your patience.

You will soon be able to apply sensitivity labels natively in Microsoft 365 applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook as part of the Microsoft Information Protection framework.

When this will happen?

Rollout will begin in mid-January and is expected to be complete by late February 2021.

MC231223 – (Updated) New meeting options for managing large Teams meetings in Outlook for Windows – GCC

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 78699

Updated January 26, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

When organizing Teams meetings in Outlook for Windows for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists, Teams users will soon see a prompt to set meeting options.

Key points:

·        Timing: mid-April (previously mid-February) through mid-May (previously mid-March)

·        Roll-out: tenant level

·        Control type: user control

·        Action: review and assess

How this will affect your organization?

This feature is part of the Teams add-in for Outlook for Windows and ships with the Teams Windows desktop build. It is available when the correct version of Teams is automatically updated on the user’s desktop. It does not rely on an Outlook update.

MC230680 – (Updated) Meeting Reactions in Teams Meetings

Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 65946 and 68905

Updated January 26, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Meeting Reactions feature allows users to react to participants during a meeting. Reactions will be available on Teams Desktop and Teams Mobile apps.

When this will happen?

·        Production and GCC environments: will start rolling out in early February (previously late January) and will be complete by mid-February (previously early February).

·        GCCH and DOD tenants: start rolling out in early March (previously mid-February) and will be complete by mid-March (previously late February).

How this will affect your organization?

In a Teams meeting, participants can choose from four different reaction types – like, heart, applause, and laugh – and send it to meeting attendees from the new reactions and raise hand flyout in the control bar.

MC230126 – (Updated) Introducing tags in Microsoft Teams for GCC

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68841

Updated January 07, 2021: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Tags enable targeted communication by allowing users to message members of a tag.

When this will happen?

This feature will begin rolling out in mid-January 2021. We expect the rollout to be complete early March 2021.

How this will affect your organization?

Using tags, team owners can organize users based on a common attribute, such as role, project, skill, training, or location. After applying tags to team members, the owner can create a channel post, @mention the tag, and notify only users who have that tag.

MC229945 – (Updated) Introducing an enhanced Teams Calling experience

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68771

Updated January 29, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are simplifying the calling experience in the Teams desktop app (Windows and Mac) by providing a streamlined view that combines contacts, voicemail, and calling history.

Key points:

·        Timing: mid-February (previously mid-January) through late February (previously January)

·        Roll-out: user level roll-out v tenant level

·        Action: review and assess 

How this will affect your organization?

When your users update the Teams desktop app, they will see the new calling experience. A streamlined view shows contacts, voicemail, and calling history at once, making it easier to initiate or return a call with a single click.

MC229395 – (Updated) Announcing general availability of Graft APIs for Advanced eDiscovery

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63068

Updated January 21, 2021: We will not be moving forward with this rollout at this time. We will provide a new Message center notification when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

With this update, you will be able to script common eDiscovery actions using the Microsoft Graph REST APIs.

When this will happen?

We will communicate via a new Message center post when we are ready to proceed.

How this will affect your organization?

Graph APIs will become available in production as common scenarios are completed. Monitor Graph API availability in the Changelog for Microsoft Graph.

MC228909 – (Updated) Microsoft Information Protection: manage Exact Data Match in Microsoft 365 compliance center

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67100

Updated January 12, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below with more details for GCC-High and DoD customers. Thank you for your patience.

You will soon be able to manage Exact Data Match (EDM) from Microsoft 365 compliance center, providing an alternative to using PowerShell.

When this will happen?

We will begin rollout in mid-December and expected to complete it by early January.

·        For GCC-High and DoD the rollout will complete in early February.

MC228368 – (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Profile menu update, relocating profile menu links to a new menu in the title bard

Access to Settings, Zoom Controls, Keyboard Shortcuts, About, and Check for Updates is moving from the Me Menu to a new menu in the title bar. The Me Menu will be focused on account management, where users can switch to another account or tenant through the first level of the Me Menu. The following links will be moved out of the Me Menu into a new menu in the title bar:

·        Zoom Controls

·        Keyboard Shortcuts

·        About

·        Check for updates

Key Points:

·        Timing: Rollout to standard release in late January and GCC in early February

·        Action: Review and assess

MC228044 – (Updated) Announcing Advanced Audit: up to one year log retention for gov clouds

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68878

Updated January 20, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Advanced Audit will now retain all Exchange, SharePoint, and Azure Active Directory audit records for one year, by default.

When this will happen?

Rollout will begin in late January (previously December) and is expected to be complete by end of February (previously January).

MC227507 – (Updated) Multi Window Meeting rolling out to GCC-High and DoD

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68892

Updated January 5, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re pleased to share that we will be making several of the new features previously announced in Reimagining virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning available to users of Teams in GCC-High and DoD.

We’ll start rolling the features out for Teams desktop app on Windows and Mac (VDI environments are not yet supported). You’ll have the option to turn the New Meetings Experience on through Teams settings. To learn how to turn on the settings, please visit New Meeting and Calling Experience in Microsoft Teams in GCC.

When this will happen?

These new experiences will be available, for users to turn on in late January (previously December).

A few weeks after this rollout, we will make these as default behavior but still allow users to turn them off if they like. Eventually in early 2021, the option to turn these experiences off will be removed. This timeline is subject to change and we will provide appropriate notice for each phase through Message Center as we proceed.

How this will affect your organization?

Users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content.

In January 2021, users will be able to turn on the new experience via the user setting: General > Turn on new meetings and calling experiences.

Known limitations:

·        Meeting notes will launch to the main Teams client.

·        Support for full screen content viewing will be coming in the future.

MC224422 – (Updated) Windows 10 native notifications in Teams

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66742

Updated January 07, 2021: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With this update, your users will be able to choose their preferred means of Teams notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in notification system or via their native OS notification system.

When this will happen?

·        Windows 10 native notifications: mid-January (previously mid-December) through mid-February(previously mid-January).

MC223082 – (Updated) Microsoft To Do web app available for GCC

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67144

Updated January 11, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Microsoft To Do web app will soon be available for GCC customers.

Key points:

·        Timing: Beginning at the end of February (previously December) and complete in mid-March (previously January).

·        Roll-out: tenant level

·        Action: review and assess

MC221022 – (Updated) Insider risk management solution availability for government clouds

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64187

Updated January 12, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

You will soon be able to minimize internal risks with a new Microsoft 365 compliance offering: Insider risk management.

When this will happen?

We will being rolling out this offer at in early November (previously end of September) and expect to complete the rollout by end of January (previously November).

MC220415 – (Updated) Admin setting for PSTN participant phone number masking in Teams meetings

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67091

Updated January 20, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With MC209349 (April 2020) and MC217648 (July 2020), we added a level of privacy for participants who call in to a Teams meeting via audio conferencing (PSTN) by automatically masking any PSTN participant phone number to users from outside of your organization who might be on the call.

We are now adding an admin control for this feature.

When this will happen?
We will begin rolling out this out in early February (previously December) and expect the rollout to be complete by the end of February (previously mid-January).

MC218569 – (Updated) Microsoft Teams Multi-Window Chat

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65602

Updated January 29, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Multi-Window Chat is a new Microsoft Teams feature which enables users to multitask more efficiently by popping out their chat conversations into separate windows.

When this will happen?

·        Complete for GCC

·        Complete for GCC-High

·        DoD will begin in mid-March and expect to complete by mid-April

28 January 2021 – GCC

28 January 2021 – GCC High

28 January 2021 – DOD

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 114

by Contributed | Feb 10, 2021 | Technology

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

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 89 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications Afinitis Pandemic – Sales Optimisation: Has your business been hit hard by the turbulence of COVID-19 trading conditions? This fully automated business intelligence solution from Afinitis 20:20 provides a powerful, easy-to-use framework to help you implement actions that will drive greater sales results. AutoQL by Chata: AutoQL from Chata Technologies is an embeddable conversational AI solution that lets users query databases in their own words and immediately receive answers.  Bizagi Digital Process Automation Platform: Bizagi’s platform combines robotic process automation, digital process automation, and artificial intelligence. It can handle deep and complex process automation as well as simpler processes across the enterprise. BlueSpice Mediawiki 3.1.12: This image provided by Kobalt contains BlueSpice, an open-source MediaWiki enterprise distribution. BlueSpice features an intuitive layout, a WYSIWYG editor, page templates, user and administrator dashboards, and full-text search across articles and files. Care Director: Allscripts Care Director fills logistical gaps to help healthcare organizations achieve better patient outcomes, make plans actionable at the point of care, and ensure appropriateness of care across all settings.  Cerebra Digital Oil Field: Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics provides digital assistants from its Cerebra platform to aid decision-making, reduce production deferment, and enhance the profitability of oil fields. Cerebra Plant Quality Diagnostics & Prognostics: This app from Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics provides digital assistants to aid manufacturing plants in digital twin configuration, automated root cause analysis, and process simulation. Cibersecurity Center Oesia: Available in English and Spanish, Oesía’s framework provides a model set to international cybersecurity standards, such as ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, and ISO 22301. Citrix Workspace Standard: Citrix Workspace provides users with unified, secure, and reliable access to all apps and data on any device, whether they’re in company offices, working from home, or anywhere in between. CODA Footprint Proactive Managed Security for MSPs: Start delivering proactive managed security services in minutes with CODA Intelligence’s AI-driven SaaS platform, CODA Footprint. The platform helps managed service providers prioritize response to risk scenarios based on vulnerabilities identified in customers’ digital assets. Datadobi License: Datadobi’s solutions help customers migrate and protect data. DobiMigrate moves your file and object data to Microsoft Azure, and DobiProtect lets you keep business-critical NAS data on Azure to protect against cyberthreats, accidental deletions, and software vulnerabilities. eCubeApps Free online forms: eCube Apps is a cloud-based business data collection and analysis solution that can be used for customer satisfaction surveys, field data collection, online registrations, opinion polls, and online examinations. Effie Vision: Available in English, Russian, and Ukrainian, Effie Vision helps retailers monitor their shelves and stock availability while also tracking the stock of competitors. Dashboards facilitate management decisions and planogram compliance. Encoding Managed Service: Bitmovin’s solution provides massively distributed cloud video encoding. Built for cloud or hybrid cloud implementations, the encoder offers virtually unlimited scalability and power. eSiteview: eSiteview improves operational excellence and safety at industrial plants by making it possible to work remotely via a simple browser interface. ExLookOnline: ExLook Online from BB System Co. Ltd. is an add-on service that makes in-house Microsoft Outlook information available on smartphones. This app is available only in Japanese. G @ P: OPENTECH’s G @ P solution is a modular system for automating the technical, logistic, administrative, and financial aspects of real estate assets. This app is available only in Italian. Gitlab Community Edition With Ubuntu: This image from Cognosys contains Gitlab Community Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. GitLab is an open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. GO Intranet: GO Intranet, built on Microsoft SharePoint, fosters collaborative employee experiences to help your organization thrive. Reach employees in their preferred language through robust multilingual capabilities, including automated social translation. Holo4Med Telemedicine Platform: Through a patient-monitoring portal and the use of Microsoft HoloLens2 mixed-reality glasses, the Holo4Med Telemedicine Platform enables remote support for patient care. IBLook Telework support Attendance management: IBLook from BB System Co. Ltd. is an integrated presence management tool for teleworking that can be used in combination with Microsoft Teams. This app is available only in Japanese. Industry 4.0 IIoT and Automation for Manufacturers: The Upkip solution from Interconsult Bulgaria provides a comprehensive digital environment for monitoring factory utilization and the conditions of individual machines. InfoTech Visitors Management System (VMS): InfoTech’s Visitors Management System (VMS) lets companies keep a record of all visitors who enter the office and different areas or departments. This app is built on the Microsoft .NET platform. Interlake Archive on Demand: Interlake Archive on Demand consolidates the production phases of archive and distribution on Microsoft Azure. This app is available only in German. Kleya, Welcome to Portugal: Kleya’s wide-ranging services are designed for retirees, investors, expatriates, and others relocating to Portugal. Kleya can facilitate home buying, registration with the local health service, acquisition of driving permits, and banking assistance.  Klyck Sales Enablement China: Klyck.io is a sales enablement platform that delivers measurable results, solves business problems, and enables sales teams to drive higher revenue. Kong Mesh 1.1: Built on top of Envoy and focused on simplicity, Kong Mesh 1.1 enables microservices transformation with out-of-the-box service connectivity and discovery, zero-trust security, traffic reliability, and global observability across all traffic, including cross-cluster deployments. Logistia Route Planner: Logistia Route Planner considers the number of drivers, the number of addresses, the start and stop addresses, driver schedule, car volume, and many other elements to create ideal delivery routes. LTI Vnspect: LTI’s Vnspect is a platform for virtual inspection that helps insurers conduct pre-risk surveys, inspect and assess claims, and remotely review the quality of the repair work with real-time interaction between the claimant and repair vendor. Matchbook Services – Integrate and Master Data: Matchbook is a SaaS solution that solves data quality problems by automating the process of matching records. With comprehensive data steward functionality and an intuitive UI, Matchbook gives you the ability to unlock the true value of your data. MINISIS TDR: The MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository offers a step-by-step approach to long-term digital preservation, helping organizations store and preserve vast amounts of information with its archiving and cataloging functionalities. MTM-Easy: Designed for industrial production departments, MTM-Easy is a cloud-based solution to calculate methods-time measurement (MTM) reference times based on icons. MTM analyzes the methods used to perform a task and sets a time for expected task completion. myflexifile: The myflexifile app helps organize personal or business files, eliminating the risks of file transfers through a web platform with no capacity limit. This app is available in English and Spanish. NComputing WVD Thin Clients for Raspberry Pi: NComputing’s simple-to-deploy and centrally managed Linux thin clients extend the affordability of Windows Virtual Desktop deployment. The RX-series thin clients are cloud-ready and optimized for Windows Virtual Desktop or Remote Desktop Services on Microsoft Azure.  Nous A2Z – AWS to Azure Migration Accelerator: Nous A2Z is an intuitive, GUI-guided, full-stack migration accelerator tool. Use it to migrate storage, databases, virtual machines, and workloads from Amazon Web Services to Microsoft Azure at reduced risks, costs, and complexities. Okera Secure Data Access Platform: Okera’s modular platform provides data lake access control, enabling large enterprises to use data resources responsibly and at scale. It consists of a data access service, a unified metadata registry, a secure policy builder, and an audit engine. Overhaul. Logistics Risk Management and Visibility: The Overhaul platform connects global, multimodal supply chain ecosystems to provide overarching risk management and real-time visibility. Oversee SaaS: Oversee provides complete control over supply chain and production processes, workforce efficiency, inventory, and location tracking. This app is available in English, Latvian, and Russian. Oxycar: Oxycar is a SaaS mobility package that arranges carpooling between employees and includes tools for creating environmental and social reports to help with corporate social responsibility and carbon dioxide emission declarations. Profit.co SSO App: The Profit.co app enables you to define objectives and key results at every level of your organization. Profit.co integrates with Microsoft Teams, so users can check their results from within Teams. An active Profit.co account is required to use this app. Prosci Adkar Change Management TPSOC: The Prosci ADKAR Model is a goal-oriented change management model that guides individual and organizational change. By outlining the goals and outcomes of successful change, the ADKAR Model equips your leaders to facilitate change and support your employees.  Quasar IoT blockchain payments: QUASAR is a cost-efficient private blockchain solution that connects the Internet of Things economy with traditional financial systems. By providing digital wallets to IoT devices, these devices can make and receive payments with minimal transaction costs and at high speeds. Riverbed Client Accelerator: Riverbed Client Accelerator removes data congestion and latency to boost application performance, helping users get the most out of their enterprise application investments.  Shift Claims Automation: Shift Claims Automation, built around Shift Technology’s highly accurate AI decision engine, makes it easy for insurers to automate claims and accelerate claims processing and settlement. Shift Claims Fraud Detection: Shift Claims Fraud Detection, an automated, AI-powered solution, flags potentially fraudulent insurance claims across all lines of business with a 75 percent hit rate. Smart City: Smart City enables cities to digitize infrastructure by automating and integrating data from IT, OT, IoT, e-Gov, and SCADA systems. Through AI, Smart City provides city administrators with real-time data and video analytics insights to help them overcome challenges of urbanization and make their districts better for citizens. Spectrum Spatial for Big Data: Spectrum Spatial for Big Data runs natively within Microsoft Azure to create scalable, elastic services and provide address validation, geocoding, and spatial processing at scale. Straatos BPM Platform: Straatos is a cloud-based business process management platform that enables organizations to rapidly build and manage workflow solutions and business apps for their digital transformation needs. Sunrise Surgical Care: Sunrise Surgical Care delivers clinical and operational efficiencies to the operating room, and it helps hospitals and other healthcare organizations support a single, continuous patient record.  Syntropy Stack: Syntropy Stack is a platform with programmable APIs that enables you to create encrypted connections with a few clicks and automate that by integrating the network configuration into your CI/CD pipeline. Tricentis LiveCompare: Tricentis LiveCompare uses AI-powered impact analysis to compare your current SAP system with a proposed custom release or a standard SAP update. Turing Computer Vision: Turing Computer Vision classifies objects and evaluates images and videos. Use cases include product quality assurance, personnel security, and thermal anomaly detection. Turing Knowledge Mining: Turing Knowledge Mining offers automatic document processing, enabling users to extract important information from unstructured data and transform it into structured data. Whistleblowing Service: Opentech’s app based on the Globaleaks platform helps companies maintain compliance with stringent policies on confidentiality, digital anonymity, data retention, data protection, and data encryption. This app is available only in Italian. Zetaris Cloud Data Fabric 9.1: The Zetaris full-stack data platform enables swift migration of legacy data warehouses and data lakes to Microsoft Azure Synapse. Consulting services Application and DB modernization – 1-hour briefing: This free briefing from Nordcloud will discuss application modernization options, database modernization options, and the scale and automation advantages of Microsoft Azure. Whether you’re rebuilding code or replatforming databases, Nordcloud can set you up for success. Application Modernization in Cloud: 1-Week Briefing: If you’re considering moving your apps to Microsoft Azure but are uncertain of what it takes to migrate, manage, and scale them, Adfolks can help. This briefing will cover the challenges and benefits of the cloud journey. Azure Analytics Platform: 8-Week Implementation: In this offer, Reinsight will implement a secure, scalable, and future-proof analytics platform based on Microsoft Azure. The platform will be able to easily import client data from multiple sources into a modern data warehouse based on the data lake concept. Azure API Management in a Box – 4 weeks: Available in English and Norwegian, Sopra Steria’s service provides an acceleration pack for establishing a Microsoft Azure API Management instance. Sopra Steria’s script is based on Azure DevOps, YAML, ARM-templates, and the infrastructure-as-code principle. Azure Cloud Ready Assessment – 5 days: After interviews and roadmap sessions with stakeholders in your organization, RawWorks will help you define an IT roadmap toward Microsoft Azure. RawWorks will investigate your environment to define its strengths, weaknesses, and gaps. Azure IoT & Digital Twin – 6-Week Proof of Concept: Kagool’s free proof of concept using Microsoft HoloLens, Azure IoT Hub, and your IoT data will create a scalable, always-up-to-date digital version of your environment. Kagool will then produce a strategy roadmap and a total cost of ownership estimate for an IoT and digital twin solution. Azure Migration: 4-Week Assessment & Recommendation: Let Preeminent Solutions help you plan your datacenter migration to Microsoft Azure. Engineers from Preeminent Solutions will assess your on-premises datacenter using Microsoft tools and give you insight into cost, migration methodology, and security configurations. Azure Monitoring: Reduce operational overheads and cloud complexity with this managed service from Infront. Infront will manage your Microsoft Azure assets under a model of least privilege and role-based access control so you can ensure high availability and save money through optimization. Azure Stack Hub Migration: 1-Day Implementation: This service from UKCloud will enable customers to migrate workloads and data from any platform or location (including on-premises environments) to Microsoft Azure Stack Hub using professional services and tools. AzWatcher – Azure Security: 2-Week Assessment: To help you to improve your security posture, Eighty20 Solutions will review your Microsoft Azure environment(s) based on a number of frameworks and standards, then provide you with prioritized list of issues and recommendations. BDO Digital Identity & Security Workshop: 1 Day: Every cloud implementation should use a well-founded role-based access model (RBAC). In BDO DIGITAL’s workshop, you’ll learn the basics of how to securely implement various authentication options. You’ll also gain insight into Microsoft Azure Active Directory. BT CAF Discovery Assessment: 4 weeks: BT Enterprise will review your organization’s IT and managed services to gather information that will be used to develop a transformation strategy involving Microsoft Azure. The assessment will wrap up with a results document and a playback session with the BT lead. BT CAF Strategy and Vision workshops: 4 days: This series of workshops from BT Enterprise will bring key business stakeholders, IT personnel, and application owners together to map out the benefits associated with a transformation involving Microsoft Azure. Caloudi Migration Consultant: Caloudi’s migration consulting service will deliver assessments, insights, analysis, and recommendations to help you plan your cloud journey. Make a bold move to embrace cloud services and realize increased flexibility, security, stability, and mobility. Cloud FinOps & Analytics – 2-Week Implementation: In this engagement, Protiviti consultants will work with you to set up Protiviti’s cloud FinOps solution in your Microsoft Azure tenant, which will provide visibility into cloud spending, usage, and chargeback metrics within a Microsoft Power BI dashboard. Cloud Lab Service-Plan and implement: 2 weeks: Dun Yang Technology Co. Ltd. will enable instructors to establish a laboratory in a public-cloud Microsoft Azure environment. Afterward, the lab will be able to be rapidly set up for students or other invitees. This service is available only in Chinese. Cloud Platform Optimization: 10-Day Assessment: Xavor Corporation’s team of experts will analyze your databases and network to deliver a comprehensive audit and recommendations on security, workload performance, rightsizing, and cost-saving opportunities. Cloud Ready – Assessment Workshops (4 Weeks): B3’s workshop series will adapt the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure to Nordic requirements and focus on how different laws apply to your situation. This service is available only in Swedish. Codec Azure Managed Service: Let Codec complement the skillset of your IT team by managing your Microsoft Azure environment. Codec will provide assistance with governance, cost management, change control, and security. Data Hub implementation: Four weeks: In this engagement, Anchormen will implement Anchormen Data Hub so your organization can accelerate data projects by up to eight times. Anchormen Data Hub is powerful, scalable, and based on Microsoft Azure reference architectures. Datashield Managed Azure Sentinel Security Services: In this service, Datashield will provide around-the-clock management of Microsoft Azure Sentinel, with incident validation and remediation, continuous active hunting, detailed investigations, custom playbooks, and more. DevOps Maturity Assessment: 2-4 Weeks: Using tools, interviews, and stakeholder workshops, Contino will benchmark your organization’s DevOps maturity. Customers will receive gap analysis reporting, a definition of baseline metrics, and other deliverables. Enterprise Cognitive Search: 1-Day Workshop: Brillio’s free workshop will showcase its enterprise search modernization framework and consider the complexity of participants’ search environments. Brillio will also convey the capabilities of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. E-Schooling – VDI: 5-Day Assessment: Nubiral’s offer, available in Spanish and only for customers based in Mexico, will involve implementing Microsoft Azure Lab Services. This will allow customers to provide on-demand access to pre-configured virtual machines to support students and work environments. FastTrack Workshop: 2 Days: This workshop from Onrego will determine your business goals and digital transformation drivers. Based on your goals, Onrego will focus on organizational readiness, cloud adoption planning, and gap analysis. LiveCloud: 1-Week Implementation: After a preliminary assessment, Processor Informatica S.A. will migrate your on-premises workloads, databases, and virtual machines to Microsoft Azure. This will be followed by a workshop and a knowledge transfer session.  Local to Cloud IaaS Migration: 4-Week Implementation: In this implementation, OfficeTechHub will migrate your local network to private and secure Microsoft Azure infrastructure. OfficeTechHub will offer your organization ongoing support, management, and maintenance. Mainframe MIII: 10-Week Assessment: Atos can help you extract savings from mainframe budgets that can be used for modernization efforts. The Atos mainframe modernization framework accelerates Microsoft Azure consumption and reduces risks commonly found in traditional modernization projects. Managed Cybersecurity Operation Center Service: PhakamoTech’s managed cybersecurity service using Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Azure Lighthouse will provide continuous threat detection, vulnerability lifecycle management, and security data source architecting and configuration. SimpleAz – Windows Virtual Desktop Proof of Concept: 6 Weeks: Experience Windows Virtual Desktop with this proof of concept from Eighty20 Solutions. Eighty20 Solutions will enable your users to validate the capabilities of Windows Virtual Desktop and evaluate if it’s the right solution for your organization. Suri Cybersecurity Assessment – 4 Weeks: With a four-week cybersecurity assessment, Suri Services will help your company evaluate and strengthen IT security. Suri Services also will provide a path to adopt Microsoft Azure. This service is available only in Spanish. Suri Infrastructure Assessment – 4 Weeks: Is your company looking at digital transformation? An assessment from Suri Services will help businesses of all sizes optimize resources and adopt Microsoft Azure. This service is available in Spanish. Windows Virtual Desktop – 1-Week Implementation: Deliver a productive virtual desktop experience with this offer from Brio. Brio will implement Windows Virtual Desktop so your users can access your environment anywhere, anytime, and from any device. Wragby’s wC1000 Custody: 10-Week Implementation: In this engagement, Wragby Business Solutions & Technologies will implement its wC1000 solution designed for asset custodians and the financial services industry. wC1000 utilizes Microsoft Power BI and various Azure services to provide rich analytics and drive efficiency.