Holographic Microsoft Teams features empower hybrid collaboration in the industrial metaverse

Holographic Microsoft Teams features empower hybrid collaboration in the industrial metaverse

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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Microsoft HoloLens 2 customers are using mixed reality to expedite the ways they ensure process compliance, improve efficiency, and learn on the job with step-by-step holographic instructions in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides. They’ve also used real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams meetings in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist. Now they can do both at the same time with the latest release of Dynamics 365 Guides, which combines these two mixed reality apps into a single seamless experience. Users can intuitively switch between process and collaboration activities or do both simultaneously. Easy access to the information they need and the people they’re working with is at their fingertips, ensuring everyone can take action with confidence in the industrial metaverse.

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Teams users share their screens as holograms

A holographic window layout including familiar Microsoft Teams functions and a shared screen as a hologram for remote viewing and collaboration on HoloLens 2.

People working on desktop computers and mobile phones have enjoyed sharing their local screens with one another for years, and now HoloLens 2 users can keep up with what people in the meeting are seeing too. This inclusive definition of hybrid work helps people join a meeting on the device best suited for their environment and workflow. HoloLens 2 users see a live video stream of any shared screen as a hologram in their space. The holographic shared content can be freely moved and sized to meet the demands of spatial workflows.

Access Teams calendar and join meetings from HoloLens 2

A holographic calendar view showing all meetings for a particular day as selectable buttons which can be used to join a Microsoft Teams meeting from within Dynamics 365 Guides on HoloLens 2.

When immersed in Dynamics 365 Guides, users can swiftly check their calendar to see what’s on the agenda for that day, looking forward to prepare for tomorrow or backward in time to recall what happened yesterday. They’re supported with real-time indicators for current and upcoming meetings on each agenda line. HoloLens 2 users can call people directly, browse and add Teams contacts to ongoing calls, or join a regularly scheduled meeting just as they would do on any other device. One meeting, any device, anywhere. These meetings can be recorded as usual, so that training or other step-by-step procedures and actions happening on HoloLens 2 are preserved for others to view later.

Streamline discussions with file sharing and text chat

A holographic Microsoft Teams call in progress with a chat window containing a link to a PDF document which has been selected and opened as a holographic image.

When collaborating with remote participants in a one-on-one or group Teams call, HoloLens 2 users can now contribute to the conversation through text chat and access any image or PDF file shared there as holograms. These holographic windows can be opened or closed at will and resized or repositioned with ease. The HoloLens 2 user is in control of where and how they absorb the information while working in the real world.

The addition of OneDrive file access at any time brings a world of reference material to Dynamics 365 Guides users. This new feature ensures people have the information they need, whenever and wherever they go. No desk or laptop required.

Share knowledge from desktop to HoloLens 2

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With the mixed reality toolbar in Teams desktop, remote participants can add 3D markup to the real world. The desktop user draws on the screen and their ink is automatically attached to the space in view for the HoloLens 2 user. This type of 2D to 3D interaction is at the heart of hybrid work in the industrial metaverse.

Best of all, these systems work out of the box. Simply sign in to Dynamics 365 Guides on HoloLens 2 with your work email address and get a familiar view of Teams and OneDrive. 

Ways to use the new Dynamics 365 Guides features

Here are some common ways to use the new features in an impromptu call, one-on-one, or as part of a scheduled Teams meeting on the calendar:

  • Support calls: To connect with a remote participant for discussion when encountering emergent scenarios.
  • Dynamics 365 Guides demonstration: To provide instruction to individuals or groups through scheduled Teams meetings.
  • Remote inspections: To expedite approval from a remote inspector who can now see through the eyes of anyone, anywhere.
  • Collaborative authoring: To collaborate with a subject matter expert to discuss creating or updating steps within a guide.

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Drupal Releases Security Updates to Address Vulnerabilities in H5P and File (Field) Paths

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Security, Technology

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Drupal has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting H5P and the File (Field) Paths modules for Drupal 7.x. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to access sensitive information and remotely execute code.

CISA encourages users and administrators to review Drupal’s security advisories SA-CONTRIB-2022-064 and SA-CONTRIB-2022-065 and apply the necessary update.

CISA Consolidates Twitter Accounts

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Security, Technology

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CISA has consolidated its social media presence on Twitter. Three accounts — @ICSCERT, @Cyber, and @CISAInfraSec — are no longer active. Additionally, the @USCERT_gov Twitter account is now renamed @CISACyber. The following current active Twitter accounts will include posts on content previously covered on the now-inactive accounts.

  • @CISACyber will cover updates relevant to the industrial control systems community along with the latest vulnerability management info, threat analysis, and other info relevant to the cybersecurity community.
  • @CISAgov will continue to provide agencywide content or non-urgent ICS updates.
  • @CISAJen will continue to include posts across a variety of topics coming straight from the CISA director.
    CISA encourages followers of the @ICSCERT, @Cyber, and @CISAInfraSec Twitter accounts to follow @CISACyber and @CISAgovTwitter accounts to keep receiving important CISA messages and information.

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

by | Dec 14, 2022 | Security, Technology

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CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses a significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: To view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow in the “Date Added to Catalog” column, which will sort by descending dates.

Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog as a living list of known CVEs that carry significant risk to the federal enterprise. BOD 22-01 requires FCEB agencies to remediate identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect FCEB networks against active threats. See the BOD 22-01 Fact Sheet for more information.

Although BOD 22-01 only applies to FCEB agencies, CISA strongly urges all organizations to reduce their exposure to cyberattacks by prioritizing timely remediation of Catalog vulnerabilities as part of their vulnerability management practice. CISA will continue to add vulnerabilities to the Catalog that meet the specified criteria. 

Microsoft Bookings now supports custom domains

by | Dec 14, 2022 | Technology

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Microsoft allows organizations to own more than one domain (the default domain is onmicrosoft.com). Learn more about creating domains here: Add a domain to Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Docs.


 


We are enabling two controls for domain use in Microsoft Bookings:



  1. You can specify which domain will be used from the domain list for Bookings using OWA mailbox policy. Once the default domain policy is configured and deployed, any newly created Bookings calendars will have the configured domain in the SMTP address.

    For example, Bookings pages can be created with a domain, “contoso.com” instead of, “contoso.onmicrosoft.com”.


  2. You can also configure domains for specific users. When users with the custom Outlook Web App (OWA) policy create a Bookings calendar, it would be created with the custom domain and not the default domain.


Please note, this change will not impact Bookings calendars that have already been created. Only new calendars will be created using the configured domain.


 


How can you start using Custom domain?


 


Add your choice of a domain name as per the process defined here. Admins can use Powershell commands to user this new feature as defined in detail here: Custom domain support in Bookings.

If you are enjoying Microsoft Bookings, read more about these recently released features:



  1. Introducing follow-up reminders in Microsoft Bookings

  2. Announcing Microsoft Bookings Power Automate connector – now available in Preview!


 


Did you know? The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is where you can get the latest updates on productivity apps and intelligent cloud services. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, or view Bookings roadmap items here. 

Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

by | Dec 13, 2022 | Security, Technology

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Education accelerator gets new sample applications and updated data model

Education accelerator gets new sample applications and updated data model

by | Dec 13, 2022 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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Educational institutions are looking for modern data solutions that improve their ability to accurately assess and quickly respond to students’ and educators’ needs. We designed the Microsoft Dynamics 365 education accelerator to help partners expedite the development of these solutions. The December release includes new sample applications and data model enhancements that partners can use as a blueprint for their development work with education customers.

What’s new in the December release of the education accelerator

  • New sample program registration portal for students and program management app for administrators
  • Enhancements to the data model to:
    • Respond to partner feedback about previous releases

New sample program registration portal and program management app

Partners can use the education data model, Power Pages, and a model-driven application to deliver a streamlined program registration solution to their education customers. The program registration solution is completely customizable. Education customers can use it to manage registration for a variety of academic and non-academic programs, such as tutoring services, sports teams, and community service opportunities.

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Education accelerator data model better aligns with OEA and industry standards

OEA is a process to get started on the data modernization and artificial intelligence journey. Developed by education systems in collaboration with Microsoft Education, the OEA framework includes modules for the Ed-Fi and Schools Interoperability Framework data standards.

The OEA framework uses Azure Synapse Analytics, an analytical data store, while the education accelerator uses Dataverse, a transactional data store. The enhanced data model brings analytical and transactional data together in one platform, enabling partners to build solutions that align with industry data standards.

More data model enhancements based on partner feedback

The December release also includes enhancements that Microsoft partners requested:

  • Combined K-12 and Higher Education data models
  • New Course Requirement entity and enhanced Program Requirements entity
  • New Grade Scale entity and calculations for course credits attempted and earned, grade points, and grade point average (GPA)
  • Enhanced entity definitions, attribute definitions, and sample data
  • Deprecated free-form text fields where relationships exist or we could use a lookup

Next steps

Get started right away with version 5.0 of the education accelerator on Microsoft AppSource. The data model, solutions, sample applications and data, Power BI reports, and UX controls that come with the education accelerator are available to any Microsoft Power Platform developer.

Read the documentation: Dynamics 365 education accelerator | Microsoft Learn

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Azure Marketplace new offers – December 13, 2022

Azure Marketplace new offers – December 13, 2022

by | Dec 13, 2022 | Technology

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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 108 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:


 


 


 













































































































































































































































































































































































































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CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories

by | Dec 13, 2022 | Security, Technology

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

CISA has released three (3) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on December 13, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.

CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:

•    ICSA-22-347-01 ICONICS and Mitsubishi Electric Products
•    ICSA-22-347-02 Schneider Electric APC Easy UPS Online
•    ICSA-22-347-03 Contec CONPROSSYS HMI System (CHS)

Drive data architecture modernization with Denodo Platform on Azure Marketplace

by | Dec 12, 2022 | Technology

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In this guest blog post, Mitesh Shah, Director – Cloud Product Management at Denodo, discusses how Denodo Platform offerings via Microsoft Azure Marketplace can help modernize your cloud data architecture and accelerate cloud adoption.


 


Businesses that are modernizing data warehouses or data lakes using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics want simple, governed, more flexible hybrid cloud data integration. This is possible via a virtual data access/data delivery architecture powered by data virtualization, enabling real-time analytics with minimal data movement and zero data replication. Data virtualization is a modern, logical form of data integration; other approaches include extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes and change data capture (CDC).



No matter the size of the business, having a single source of truth is invaluable. Businesses have numerous tools and techniques at their disposal, making it more difficult to establish the right combination when it comes to the overall cost, time to implement, and skills required to establish a modern, digitally driven architecture as part of their cloud transformation journey.


 


The data virtualization approach integrates any kind of structured and unstructured data that is outside the data lake (Azure Synapse), across other cloud systems (in a multi-cloud deployment), or in a different geography to support compliance requirements in real time. This also eliminates the need for multiple tools to manage a variety of cloud services separately and provides the auto-scaling support to manage reporting and data integration workloads across a variety of data sources in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment.


 


Use cases for the data virtualization approach


Users normally think of their cloud migrations in terms of moving their data to the cloud. Yes, that’s an important aspect of any migration, and several bulk load tools can facilitate that. The challenge is minimizing any kind of business disruption to the numerous applications (business intelligence tools, application programming interface connectors, web services) that leverage the data sources that are migrating to the cloud, such as data warehouses or databases. Data virtualization can simplify migrations by introducing a virtual data access layer, which can not only minimize business disruption but also provide flexibility to organizations, enabling them to manage migrations at their own pace.



Here are some other example scenarios:



  • Customer 360/single view of the data: Data virtualization can help by integrating the data from newer applications as part of merger and acquisitions activity. Organizations can combine all data across Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and more.

  • Marketing and website analytics: Combine/consolidate all marketing data (from Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Google Ads, LinkedIn) in one place, for better business insights.

  • Business intelligence/reporting: Data virtualization makes analytics more effective by integrating the right data sets across multiple data repositories (Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB).

  • Sales and social media analytics: Data virtualization enables seamless Dynamics 365 CRM integration with a variety of other applications, such as ServiceNow, Google Analytics, Twitter data, and Azure Data Lake Storage, composed of CSV/XLS/Parquet files to drive intelligent campaigns and empower sales cycles with faster conversions and closings.

  • Data marketplace and data as a service (DaaS or API management): Adopt a logical data architecture, which can help democratize all enterprise data while providing centralized control in a distributed data landscape. The web-based data catalog tool provides a single point for secure, enterprise-wide data access and governance. This facilitates the corporate data marketplace, which then provides visibility into the enterprise data ecosystem and enables data to be shared without compromising data security.


Common challenges to keep in mind
Businesses face a variety of challenges that could have a direct impact on their growth and investment:



  • IT resource constraints/cost management: Not having a full-fledged IT team is quite common, and this is especially challenging when organizations are trying to enable self-serviceability. Managing a tight budget in a competitive environment is equally challenging.

  • Siloed/disparate data: This is a common challenge, and while there are multiple ways to address it, such as building ETL pipelines and/or replicating data, many can result in high costs, latency, and other secondary challenges.

  • Data security/compliance in the cloud: Without a centralized security layer, enabling such capabilities as Active Directory integration, data masking, data encryption, and row-and-column-based authorization to support General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other regulations can be a huge burden.


A self-service option in Azure Marketplace: Denodo Platform
Powered by data virtualization, the Denodo Platform addresses the key challenges above. It enhances data management in the cloud and streamlines many elements of this potentially complex journey.


 


Denodo recently announced two new offers, Denodo Professional and Denodo Standard, in Microsoft Azure Marketplace. They are targeted to mid-market users, to help them accelerate their SaaS integration and cloud adoption at an affordable cost using a pay-as-you-go model. Enterprise users can use Denodo Enterprise and Denodo Enterprise Plus offers to access advanced capabilities such as a full-featured data catalog and artificial intelligence/machine learning-powered query optimization for faster, more efficient BI reporting in the cloud.



Denodo is excited to offer a 30-day free trial of Denodo Professional via Azure Marketplace. After that, you pay only $6.27/hour for your data integration and management needs. Sign up to get in touch with our team about the offering, or you can start the free trial subscription directly from the marketplace. You can also take advantage of annual pricing via a private offer. All Denodo Platform offerings in Azure Marketplace are co-sell ready, and they enable you to start you cloud data integration journey in a self-service manner.