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Whether it’s for reporting and offloading queries from production, there are things you need to keep in mind when using a Geo Replicated Azure SQL Database Readable Secondary. Discuss with MVP Monica Rathbun the challenges when it comes to performance tuning, what to keep in mind, and what to expect.
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Your feedback informs us on what you want added, improved, and enhanced in Project for the web. As you may be aware, UserVoice will be retired at the end of June 2021. We value your input and want to keep the momentum of our conversations going. Please continue to provide us your suggestions either within the app or in the comment section below.
The updates for June are as follows:
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Email marketing is one of the top advertising channels. For every dollar you pay, you expect to receive a significant return on your investment. However, have you yet to achieve a high Return On Investment (ROI) from your email marketing efforts? If not, here are some tips to get on the right track to achieve high sales figures and big profits.
One crucial factor that plays an essential role in all email marketing strategies is the subject line. The subject line is one of the first few emails that will arrive in the recipients’ inboxes. Thus, your subject line must be catchy, attractive, eye-catching, and personalized to make sure that your emails stand out from the crowd. However, before you get into the subject line personalization, you must understand the benefits of doing so. This article will provide you with valuable tips that will help you personalize your emails and achieve high marketing conversion rates.
Personalization is the best way to differentiate your brand from the rest. Studies have shown that email marketing strategies that focus on offering customers personalization achieved better results and achieved higher levels of response and engagement. In fact, a recent study revealed that email marketing strategies that provide customers personalization gained twice the response rate as those which did not. So, in this case, personalization is not only about making your emails stand out from the crowd, but it is also about convincing your customers to give your emails a second look.
Personalization is also an important email marketing strategy to counter the “spam” problem. Studies show that spam messages often receive the worst open rates of any email marketing strategy. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that your emails don’t end up in the spam folder. The easiest way to do this is to personalize your email marketing strategies.
Another email marketing strategy that many companies overlook is designing sponsorship email campaigns. Typically, sponsorship email campaigns are characterized by text-based content. However, plain text proves to be much more effective than the typical image-based email copy. A plain text sponsorship email campaign is often more compelling for your target audience because text is more informative and unique than the average image-based email copy. Furthermore, the text is more customizable, allowing you to design email copy that is specific to your target audience. Finally, one can enhance email campaigns designed for mobile devices with custom graphics and images. One reason why mobile email campaigns are much more successful is that these devices are easier to access and use on a regular basis. Because of this, you must invest time in ensuring that your email designs are accessible across all different types of mobile devices. By investing time and effort into making sure that your email campaigns are accessible across various mobile devices, you will be able to enjoy a higher level of revenue per customer.
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The pandemic has permanently changed how organizations of all sizes work. A substantial increase in hybrid and remote work has presented new compliance challenges, and organizations have responded by growing their compliance functions. A recent study shows that there were 257 average daily regulatory alerts across 190 countries in 2020 and keeping up with regulatory changes continues to be the top compliance challenge[1].
To help organizations simplify compliance and reduce risk, we built Microsoft Compliance Manager, generally available since September 2020. Compliance Manager translates complex regulatory requirements into specific recommended actions and makes them available through premium assessment templates, covering over 300 regulations and standards. By leveraging the universal mapping of actions and controls, premium assessment templates allow customers to comply with several requirements across multiple regulations or standards with one action, providing an efficient solution to manage overlapping compliance requirements. Premium assessment templates along with built-in workflows and continuous compliance updates allow organizations to constantly assess, monitor, and improve their compliance posture.
To meet customers where they are in their compliance journey, we are excited to announce that Compliance Manager premium assessment templates will no longer require a Microsoft 365 E5 or Office 365 E5 license as a prerequisite. This update enables all enterprise customers to assess compliance with the regulations most relevant to them and meet their unique compliance needs. Starting July 1st, 2021, all Enterprise customers, both commercial and government, can purchase premium assessment templates as long as they have any Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription. Customers who have already purchased a premium assessment template or are using the default templates included with their subscription will not experience any disruption or change. Customers with Microsoft 365 E1/E3 or Office 365 E1/E3 subscriptions will now be able to see the list of 300+ premium assessment templates in their tenants. The capability to create a new template, customize an existing template, or add customized actions to a given template will continue to require a Microsoft 365 E5 or Office 365 E5 subscription.
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Get Started
Navigate to the Microsoft 365 compliance center or sign up for a Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance trial to get started with Compliance Manager premium assessments today! Compliance Manager premium assessment SKUs can be purchased in Microsoft admin center.
Learn more:
Shilpa Bothra,
Product Marketing Manager
On behalf of the Compliance Manager team.
[1] Cost of Compliance, 2021, Thompson Reuters
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It’s been nearly two years since we first announced the July 31, 2021 retirement of Skype for Business Online. Hundreds of upgrade workshops and millions of successful Skype for Business Online to Teams transitions later, we’re closing in on this significant milestone.
With a month before service retirement, we encourage remaining Skype for Business Online customers to continue transitioning users and workloads to Teams. Here’s some additional guidance to help ensure a successful journey to Teams:
Organizations that have not yet upgraded to Teams Only will be scheduled for Microsoft assisted upgrades to Teams to help with last-mile technical elements of the transition. Scheduling notifications are sent to tenant admins within the Microsoft 365 Message Center and Teams admin center 90 days before the date of the assisted upgrade. Even after scheduling, customers may still self-upgrade prior to the assisted upgrade date to better control the timing of their upgrade experience.
Assisted upgrades will begin in August 2021 with tenant-specific dates shared in the scheduling notifications mentioned above. Organizations that are scheduled for assisted upgrades after July 31, 2021 will be able to use Skype for Business Online until their upgrade is complete.
The assisted upgrade experience will differ slightly depending on whether organizations have a Skype for Business Online-only or a Skype for Business Online with hybrid environment.
The duration of the upgrade will vary by volume of users and the characteristics of the deployment. In most cases, users within a tenant will be upgraded within 24 hours of the start of the upgrade. During this time, end users will still have access to Skype for Business Online functionality. Once the upgrade has completed and users sign out of Skype for Business Online, they’ll start using Teams for messaging, meetings, and calling. Post-upgrade, all new online users will be added in Teams Only mode.
Learn more about the post-upgrade experience.
Regardless of whether an organization manages all aspects of the upgrade or use the assisted process, our guidance includes steps to ensure meetings and contacts are successfully migrated from Skype for Business Online to Teams.
Here are a few other things to know about the retirement of Skype for Business Online:
The following upgrade resources are available to help enable a successful transition to Teams and prepare for the retirement of Skype for Business Online:
Organizations that have completed their transitions can attest to the transformational benefits Teams brings. And while the retirement of Skype for Business Online has us a little nostalgic, we can’t be more excited about how Teams helps our customers accomplish more across work, school, and life.
See you in Teams!
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In April, I showed how to unpack and repack Power Apps .msapp files of Canvas Apps in the blog post Power Apps Source Code file editing for Canvas Apps (microsoft.com) Using this functionality, we can view and edit the source code of Canvas Apps. In a recent announcement (Canvas source code tool integrated with Power Platform CLI | Microsoft Power Apps), Microsoft announced that the same functionalities are now available within the Power Platform VS Code Extension of Visual Studio Code!
This means that after installing this extension, we can do the same unpacking and packing without leaving Visual Studio Code.
This posts will show how easy it is to use Visual Studio Code so we can unpack and (re)pack .msapp files of Canvas Apps:
1) First install the Power Platform VS Code Extension in your Visual Studio Code Client using the Visual Studio Marketplace (Power Platform VS Code Extension – Visual Studio Marketplace).
2) After installing the extension a computer restart may be required. We can from this moment on, run commands from within Visual Studio using the built-in Terminal.
In my example I saved the text file with commands as a Power Shell file (.ps1). In this type of files, short cuts like F8 can be used to run selected commands:
Notice the improved commands where referencing (input and output) files is much easier now!
In the Marketplace screenshot above, you can see that the extension is in Preview at the moment.
Please be aware of this and read the announcement link above on how to report issues.
Originally published at Power Apps: source code edit for Canvas Apps in Visual Studio Code » Knowhere365
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The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have released Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA): Russian GRU Conducting Global Brute Force Campaign to Compromise Enterprise and Cloud Environments.
The CSA provides details on the campaign, which is being conducted by the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). The campaign uses a Kubernetes® cluster in brute force access attempts against the enterprise and cloud environments of government and private sector targets worldwide. After obtaining credentials via brute force, the GTsSS uses a variety of known vulnerabilities for further network access via remote code execution and lateral movement.
CISA strongly encourages users and administrators to review the Joint CSA for GTSS tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as mitigation strategies.
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ADF does not directly support copying a folder/multiple files from SharePoint Online, but there are workarounds to achieve this. Two additional steps needed here as compared to single file copy are:
Below is how the pipeline flow would look like:
Web1 – Get the access token from SPO
Web2 – Get the list of files from SPO folder
ForEach1 – Loop the list of file names
Copy1 – Copy data with HTTP connector as source
Step1:
Grab Access token from SPO
Copy file from SharePoint Online leverages AAD/service principal authentication and SharePoint API to retrieve files.
a) Register AAD Application
b) Grant SharePoint site permission to your registered App (need site owner permission on SharePoint)
Full details on how to register app and also granting permissions is mentioned in prerequisites here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/connector-sharepoint-online-list#prerequisites
c) Create an ADF Pipeline. Start with creating a Web Activity to get the access token
Headers:
Debug run to check if the activity succeeds and also check the activity output to see if it returns the access token in the payload. You can also verify the same using Postman client to check if the token is valid.
Step 2:
Get the list of Files
Headers:
Debug run to see if the activity succeeds, and check it shows the list of files under the folder in the output.
Step 3:
Loop the list of relative file names
Step 4:
Create Copy activity
a) HTTP linked service
b) Configure copy activity HTTP source
Dataset properties:
Tip: You can test with a static access token gotten from the previous Web activity output first. You can also use expression (add dynamic content): @{concat(‘Authorization: Bearer ‘,activity(‘WebActivityName’).output.access_token)}
c) Configure Linked Service properties
2. Create Copy sink as below
Successful pipeline run as follows:
Thanks to @Jijo Puthooran for helping me in authoring this blog.
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Hello everyone,
Continuing our normalization journey, we added to the networking and DNS schemas the Authentication, Process Events, and Registry Events schemas and delivered normalized content based on the two. We also added ARM template deployment and support for Microsoft Defender for Endpoints to the Network Schema.
Special thanks to @Yuval Naor , @Yaron Fruchtmann , and @Batami Gold , who made all this possible.
Why should you care?
Deploy the Authentication, Process Events, Registry Events, or Network Session parser packs in a single click using ARM templates.
Join us to learn more about the Azure Sentinel information model in two webinars:
Why normalization, and what is the Azure Sentinel Information Model?
Working with various data types and tables together presents a challenge. You must become familiar with many different data types and schemas, write and use a unique set of analytics rules, workbooks, and hunting queries for each, even for those that share commonalities (for example, DNS servers). Correlation between the different data types necessary for investigation and hunting is also tricky.
The Azure Sentinel Information Model (ASIM) provides a seamless experience for handling various sources in uniform, normalized views. ASIM aligns with the Open-Source Security Events Metadata (OSSEM) common information model, promoting vendor agnostic, industry-wide normalization. ASIM:
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Ofer Shezaf Principal Product Manager, Azure Sentinel |
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CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.11
Manage Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Framework projects on any platform
Retrieve details of a Power App by its name
Previously we only supported retrieving details of a Power App from an environment using its ID, however in this release we have enhanced the command to enable you to return a Power App by its name making it much more user friendly.
To retrieve details of a Power App by its name, execute:
m365 pa app get --displayName App
Update description of a SharePoint Online site
Previously we supported the ability to update properties on SharePoint Online site, however one property that was not supported was the description property. In this release, we have enhanced commands to provide support for updating this on both modern and classic sites.
To update the description on a modern SharePoint Online site, execute:
m365 spo site set --url https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/ModernSite --description "something"
To update the description on a classic SharePoint Online site, execute:
m365 spo site classic set --url https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/ClassicSite --description "something"
SPFx v1.12.1 support added to spfx doctor
The spfx doctor command has been updated to support the latest version of SharePoint Framework.
The command helps you verify that all prerequisites for building solutions using a particular version of the SharePoint Framework are met in your development environment. It starts by detecting the version of SharePoint Framework that you want to use.
First, it looks at the current project. If you didn’t run the command in the context of a SharePoint Framework project, the command will try to determine the SharePoint Framework version based on the SharePoint Framework Yeoman generator that you have installed either in the current directory or globally.
Based on the determined version of the SharePoint Framework, the command will look at other dependencies such as Node.js, npm, Yeoman, Gulp, React and TypeScript to verify if their meet the requirements of that particular version of the SharePoint Framework.
If you miss any required tools or use a version that doesn’t meet the SharePoint Framework requirements, the command will give you a list of recommendation how to address these issues.
To verify if your environment meets the requirements to work with the SharePoint Framework, execute:
m365 spfx doctor
Remove role from Azure AD application
In the previous CLI release we added a command that enabled to you define custom roles on Azure AD applications that you can use to assign permissions to users or apps. In this release we have added the ability to remove a custom role.
To remove a role published by an Azure AD application registration by its name, execute:
m365 aad app role delete --appName "My app" --claim "Product.Get"
Update Azure AD application registration
We have added a new command that gives you the ability to update an Azure AD application registration.
In this first iteration of the command, we only support the ability to update the application URI property value.
To update the application URI of an Azure AD application registration specified by its name, execute:
m365 aad app set --name "My app" --uri https://contoso.com/e75be2e1-0204-4f95-857d-51a37cf40be8
Clear Microsoft 365 Groups from the tenant recycle bin
When Microsoft 365 Groups are deleted in a Microsoft 365 tenant, they are soft deleted and are moved to the tenant recycle bin which they will remain for 30 days at which point they will be automatically hard deleted, however whilst the group remains in the recycle bin it is not possible to create new groups with the same name.
Whilst an administrator can manually hard-delete groups from the recycle bin via the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal however this can be inconvenient if you wish to bulk hard-delete these groups. We have added a command that removes all of the groups in the recycle bin in a single command to make this easier.
To remove all deleted Microsoft 365 Groups in the tenant, execute:
m365 aad o365group recyclebinitem clear
Reset CLI configuration option to its default value
We recently introduced commands that enables you to personalise the behaviour of the CLI to your own preferences using the cli config commands. In this release we have added the ability for you to reset these options back to their default values.
To reset the showHelpOnFailure to its default value, execute:
m365 cli config reset --key showHelpOnFailure
Alternatively, to reset all configuration options to their default values, execute:
m365 cli config reset
Microsoft 365 Activation Report Commands
We have added commands that enables administrators get an understanding of how many users have activated Microsoft 365 on desktops and devices as well as who has made those activations.
To get the count of Microsoft 365 activations on desktops and devices, execute:
m365 tenant report office365activationcounts
To get the count of users that are enabled and those that have activated the Office subscription on desktop or devices or shared computers, execute:
m365 tenant report office365activationsusercounts
To get details about users who have activated Microsoft 365, execute:
m365 tenant report office365activationsuserdetail
Generate SharePoint Framework solution from a HTML file
SharePoint Framework is the extensibility model of choice in Microsoft 365, whether that is extending SharePoint Online or Microsoft Teams, it is the go-to framework for in house development.
We have introduced a command that simplifies the creation of a SharePoint Framework solution package that generates a SharePoint Framework web part that uses a local HTML file as the contents of the web part.
To generate a web part that shows the weather for Amsterdam, load web part contents from a local file, allow the web part to be deployed to all sites and expose the web part in Teams as a personal tab, execute:
m365 spfx package generate –webPartTitle “Amsterdam weather” –webPartDescription “Shows weather in Amsterdam” –packageName amsterdam-weather –html @amsterdam-weather.html –allowTenantWideDeployment –enableForTeams all
Have you ever been forced to resubmit lot of failed Power Automate flow runs manually?
This script will resubmit all failed flow runs of a Power Automate flow created in an environment.
This script helps you to quickly remove SharePoint API permissions.
Remove pending SharePoint API permission requests
When building SharePoint Framework solutions connected to APIs secured with Azure Active Directory, you’ll easily end up with many pending permission requests.
This script helps you to quickly remove pending SharePoint API permission requests.
npm i -g @pnp/cli-microsoft365
docker run --rm -it m365pnp/cli-microsoft365:latest
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