by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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General
- Copy tiles on Azure dashboards
Intune
- Updates to Microsoft Intune
Let’s look at each of these updates in greater detail.
General
Copy tiles on Azure dashboards
You can now copy any tile on a dashboard onto the same dashboard, another existing dashboard, or even to a new dashboard.
Demo Steps:
- Navigate to dashboards by opening the menu from the top left of the portal and select “Dashboard”. This should bring you to the dashboard experience.
- Hover over the tile you want to copy, and you should see an ellipses show up on the top right of the tile. Click into the ellipses to open the tile’s context menu.
- Select “Copy” from the listed options.
- Select the dashboard you would like to pin to. A pane will open to the right of the screen where you can select which dashboard to pin to. By default, the current dashboard you are on should be selected. If you want to copy to a dashboard that is shared with you, you will need edit permissions in order to pin to that dashboard.
- Click “Pin” to copy the dashboard.
INTUNE
Updates to Microsoft Intune
The Microsoft Intune team has been hard at work on updates as well. You can find the full list of updates to Intune on the What’s new in Microsoft Intune page, including changes that affect your experience using Intune.
Azure portal “how to” video series
Have you checked out our Azure portal “how to” video series yet? The videos highlight specific aspects of the portal so you can be more efficient and productive while deploying your cloud workloads from the portal. Check out our most recently published videos:
Next steps
The Azure portal has a large team of engineers that wants to hear from you, so please keep providing us your feedback in the comments section below or on Twitter @AzurePortal.
Sign in to the Azure portal now and see for yourself everything that’s new. Download the Azure mobile app to stay connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. See you next month!
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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Microsoft Viva Topics is our newest addition to Microsoft Knowledge and Content Services – helping you automatically organize and discover knowledge and expertise across your organization.
At Microsoft Ignite in March, we spotlighted a handful of our continuing enhancements to Viva Topics, including our vision for topic management. Today, we’re announcing our next feature to help you manage topics.
Topic management dashboard
Viva Topics was built to scale. Many of our early customers have discovered tens of thousands of topics in their content. Managing thousands of suggested and published topics over time is crucial to their success with Viva Topics.
With the topic management dashboard, knowledge managers can track topics discovered by Viva AI, as well as how topics are progressing through the topic lifestyle stages: Suggested, Confirmed, Published, and Removed. You’ll find the dashboard on the Manage Topics tab of the topic center.
Topic management dashboard
This feature will begin rolling to Targeted Release in May 2021, and is being tracked under Roadmap ID 81977.
Roadmap
We’re continuing to listen to and work with our customers to deliver new features and drive transformational user experiences. Check back with us in June to see what new capabilities and features we’ve added to Viva Topics. You can also visit the Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap for a full view of what’s coming soon to Microsoft Viva.
And to read about recent enhancements to SharePoint Syntex, check out our SharePoint Syntex Blog.
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 2.1.3. The update addresses a couple of issues that are important to our customers.
Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.3 include:
Fixed
- Fixed wrong data blended with transactions in .NET Core by marking a connection as doomed if the transaction completes or aborts while there is an open result set #1051
- Fixed race condition issues between SinglePhaseCommit and TransactionEnded events #1049
To get the new package, add a NuGet reference to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in your application.
For the list of changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.3, you can also see the Release Notes.
If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, head over to the SqlClient GitHub repository and submit an issue.
David Engel
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by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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Introducing the Mentorship Activity Report
Interested in earning the Most Valuable Mentor designation? Enhance your application by including your community mentorship Activity Report.
Time and time again we hear that measuring the impact of mentorship is a challenge and often does not include a full overview of the experiences of both the mentor and the mentee. And since we believe that both the mentor and mentee are impacted when mentorship is done right and now, we have an activity report that highlights the metrics that matter.
The activity report includes the number of mentorships you have participated in as well as the feedback from your mentors and mentees. This gives you a 360 view of how you have helped develop yourself and others.
Check your report out now – it can be accessed from your mentorship and profile pages.
As always you can continue to use the Teams App, desktop, or mobile versions as well. The login instructions are outlined below.
1) Teams App
Instructions:
Step 1: Sign up for Microsoft’s Humans of IT Community
Step 2: Click the ‘apps’ button in the bottom left side of the Teams navigation & search for Tribute, then select add.
Step 3: Use your HoIT login credentials to login to the Community Mentors App. Note: In the field that says “Enter Your Organization Name”, please fill in “Microsoft Humans of IT”.
2) Desktop Version
Instructions:
Step 1: Sign up for Microsoft’s Humans of IT Community
Step 2: Visit site for Desktop version: https://aka.ms/CMPdesktop
Step 3: Use your HoIT login credentials to login to the Community Mentors App. Note: In the field that says “Enter Your Organization Name”, please fill in “Microsoft Humans of IT”.
3) Mobile Application
Click to download on iOS and Android, or simply scan the QR codes below!
Important Note: Make sure you’re on the latest version to get access to all the newest features. The latest version is 3.1.
Instructions:
Step 1: Sign up for Microsoft’s Humans of IT Community
Step 2: Download app
Step 3: Use your HoIT login credentials to login to the Community Mentors App. Note: In the field that says “Enter Your Organization Name”, please fill in “Microsoft Humans of IT”.
Scan these QR codes to get the direct link to download our Community Mentors mobile app
Thanks everyone for your interest in the Community Mentors Program! As you know, a big part about mentorship is about the fit – that is why we’ve launched the Community Mentors mobile app so that you’re in the driver’s seat of your own mentorship journey.
Become a mentor/mentee on our Community Mentors app today!
- Go to https://aka.ms/communitymentors and download our mentorship app.
- Watch our newly released Community Mentors App: Walkthrough Demo
- Once you’re in the app, explore new featured stories, mentorship enhancements, reactions, and notifications.
We hope that you enjoy exploring these new features!
Happy Mentoring!
#HumansofIT
#TechforGood
#CommunityMentors
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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Hello everyone, here is part 4 of a series focusing on Endpoint Protection integration with Configuration Manager. This series is recorded by @Steve Rachui, a Microsoft principal premier field engineer.
This tutorial focuses on how Configuration Manager can be used to manage the integrated Windows Firewall settings.
Next in the series Steve focuses on how Configuration Manager can be used facilitate onboarding of a Windows device into Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
Posts in the series
Go straight to the playlist
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0 Preview 3 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server.
Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two preview releases in between. This cadence should provide time for feedback and allow us to deliver features and fixes in a timely manner. This third 3.0 preview includes many fixes and changes over the previous 3.0 Preview 2 release.
Please note the first item in the list of breaking changes from previous GA releases. If you use Azure Managed Identity authentication with a user-assigned identity, you will need to update your connection information.
Breaking Changes over preview release 3.0.0-preview1
- For User-Assigned, Azure Managed Identity (MSI) authentication, the `User Id` connection property now requires `Client Id` instead of `Object Id` [read more about the new Azure.Identity library dependency]
- `SqlDataReader` now returns a `DBNull` value instead of an empty `byte[]`. Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting `AppContext` switch **Switch.Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.LegacyRowVersionNullBehavior** [read more about this change]
Preview 3 also includes many bug fixes and performance improvements. For the full list of changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0 Preview 3, please see the Release Notes.
If you missed our 3.0 Preview 1 announcement, the most notable new feature in 3.0 is Configurable Retry Logic.
Configurable retry logic is available when you’ve enabled an app context switch. Configurable retry logic builds significantly more transient error handling functionality into SqlClient than existed previously. It will allow you to retry connection and command executions based on configurable settings. Since it is even configurable outside of your code, it can help make existing applications more resilient to transient errors that you might encounter in real-world use.
For a detailed look into this feature, check out the blog post Introducing Configurable Retry Logic in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v3.0.0-Preview1.
Other changes in preview 3 include:
Added
- Added support for “Active Directory Default” authentication mode #1043
- Added support for connection-level and command-level registration of custom key store providers to enable multi-tenant applications to control key store access #1045 #1056 #1078
- Added IP address preference support for TCP connections #1015
Fixed
- Fixed corrupted connection issue when an exception occurs during RPC execution with TVP types #1068
- Fixed race condition issues between SinglePhaseCommit and TransactionEnded events #1042
To try out the new package, add a NuGet reference to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in your application and pick the 3.0 preview 3 version.
We appreciate the time and effort you spend checking out our previews. It makes the final product that much better. If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, head over to the SqlClient GitHub repository and submit an issue.
David Engel
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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Today, I worked on a very interesting service request that our customer is facing the following error message “MSDTC on server ‘xxxxx’ is unavailable” using a distributed transaction Distributed transactions across cloud databases (preview) – Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs
Following I would like to explain what is happening.
Scenario based
In the first scenario, if the first connection is a readonly (Using ApplicationIntent=Readonly connecting to ReadScale out, the error message that your are going to receive is: “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.”
In the second scenario, if the first connection is a readwrite and the second is readonly (Using ApplicationIntent=Readonly connecting to ReadScale out, the error message that your are going to receive is: MSDTC on server ‘xxxxxx’ is unavailable
In both situations, the issue is related that it is needed to have a readwrite mode in both connections that the distribution transaction will take effect.
As a workaround, if you are not able to modify the code, you could disable the ReadScale out of your Azure SQL DB. You could see this link to obtain more details.
Enjoy!
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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In April, we announced our first ever Azure Fundamentals specialization on Coursera’s platform. Today, we are excited that AI Fundamentals and Data Fundamentals are now live on Coursera and a part of the Microsoft Azure Learning Collection. These new Specializations come amid rapid cloud adoption and offer students a strong set of skills that are in high demand in today’s workforce. In fact, according to Burning Glass, the number of Azure-related jobs is projected to grow 38 percent over the next ten years.
What skilling content is included in the new Microsoft Azure AI and Data Specializations?
Microsoft AI Fundamentals: In this Specialization, students can gain foundational knowledge about core artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and become familiar with services in Microsoft Azure that can be used to create AI solutions. Upon completing the Specialization, students will be prepared for the Microsoft Certified AI-900 Azure Fundamentals Exam. Here is a preview of the courses offered in the AI Fundamentals Specialization:
- Artificial Intelligence: learn the key AI concepts of machine learning, anomaly detection, computer vision, natural language processing, and conversational AI.
- Machine Learning: learn how to use Azure Machine Learning to create and publish models without writing code.
- Computer Vision: learn how to use the Computer Vision service to analyze images.
- Natural Language Processing: learn how to use the Text Analytics service for advanced natural language processing of raw text for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, named entity recognition, and language detection.
- Preparing for AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Exam: test your knowledge in a series of practice exams mapped to all the main topics covered in the AI-900 exam, ensuring you are well prepared for certification success.
Microsoft Data Fundamentals: In this Specialization, students can learn directly from Microsoft Azure experts about the core database concepts in a cloud environment. Students will build foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure, and prepare for the Microsoft Data Fundamentals DP-900 exam. Here is a preview of the courses offered in the Data Fundamentals Specialization:
- Explore Core Data Concepts: learn the fundamentals of database concepts in a cloud environment, get basic skilling in cloud data services, and build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services.
- Azure SQL: learn about SQL and see how it is used to query and maintain data in a database, and the different dialects that are available.
- Azure Cosmos DB: explore non-relational data offerings, provisioning and deploying non-relational databases, and non-relational data stores with Microsoft Azure.
- Modern Data Warehouse Analytics: learn about the processing options available for building data analytics solutions in Azure and explore Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and HDInsight.
- Preparing for DP-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Exam: test your knowledge in a series of practice exams mapped to all the main topics covered in the DP-900 exam, ensuring you are well prepared for certification success.
Scholarship opportunities for Women in Cloud
As a part of this initiative, we are teaming up with Women in Cloud to offer their members over 600 scholarships to all three specializations and the respective certification exam vouchers at no cost.
“Digital skilling is becoming a critical necessity in today’s world and women are struggling to get access to career building education. That is why we are excited to partner with Microsoft and Coursera on this special initiative,” said Women in Cloud President Chaitra Vedullapalli
Applicants who are accepted into this program will enroll in and complete the three Azure digital skilling Specializations via the Coursera platform: Azure Fundamentals, AI Fundamentals and Data Fundamentals. What’s more, scholars who complete these trainings will also receive a certification voucher for each Specialization to take the respective exams for free. In addition to free Azure skilling, scholars can also expect career support from the Women in Cloud community. Microsoft, Women in Cloud, and Coursera are committed to equipping women interested in upskilling and contributing to an inclusive, skills-based economy.
Enroll in the AI Fundamentals and Data Fundamentals Specializations today!
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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Microsoft Teams provides the a customized experience for customers, not only enabling them to pick and choose the apps they can allow in their tenant but also providing the capability to rebrand apps in order to integrate them completely in their ecosystem.
When an app publisher publishes an app to the global app store, they do so generically – the app that they’ve built looks and feels the same for all customers who use it. But customers often take these publicly available apps and integrate them into internal business processes so completely that they want their users to see the apps as an extension of other internal tools – they want any seams between internal processes and tools and external tools to be invisible to their employees. This introduces a need for app branding configuration, where customers can take apps that are published to the global store and re-brand them as internal tooling. Doing so reduces roadblocks in users’ cognitive understanding and adoption of the app, and reduces enterprises’ reticence to adopt 3P apps.
Today, some customers build custom apps in order to re-brand the available third-party apps which is not an optimal experience. With app customization, admins will be able to simply customize the available third-party and Microsoft apps through Teams admin center and publish it to their users in a few friendly experience steps.
The app customization feature allows developers to specify which properties of the app can be customized by the tenant. Admins can then rebrand or customize these properties in their Teams Admin Center as per their tenant’s requirements.
How should developers use it?
App developers with customers’ requirement around re-branding the app can now opt in by specifying the properties of the app that can be customized by their customers. App developers can allow one or more of the following properties to be customized by enabling it in the app manifest: Short name, Short description, Full description, Website URL, Terms of use URL, Privacy policy URL, Color icon, Outline icon, Accent color.
Once enabled, the developers can submit the updated manifest for their customers to adopt. Please refer the link to learn more.
How should admins use it?
Admins can now discover the apps that allow customization directly from the Manage apps page in Teams admin center. We have added a new Customizable column which indicates whether an app can be customized. ‘Yes’ tag will be presented for all apps that are allowed to be customized by the app publisher.
The Customize button on the top bar of the App Catalog page will be activated if the developer has offered customization.
This will open a side panel that will have all the app properties that can be customized by the app publisher. Admins can customize the app directly from the side panel on the Manage apps page.
Admins can also access this side panel using the Customizable icon on the widget on the App details page or using the Customize button under the Actions button on the top right of the App details page.
After customizing the properties, the updated values will immediately show up on the app details page and within 24 hours to the end users in the tenant.
We would like more and more apps to be able to utilize the App customization feature. If you would like to enable the feature for your app, please refer to the developer docs for more information. You can learn more about the feature by referring to the admin docs.
Tell us what you think
We value your feedback. If you have any questions, you can refer the FAQs or you can reach out to us on Microsoft Q&A or Stackoverflow.
References
Developer docs: Update manifest with App customization changes
Admin docs: Customize Microsoft apps in Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
Tarun Singh and Sukhmani Lamba, Program Managers – Microsoft Teams
by Contributed | May 21, 2021 | Technology
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