New on Microsoft AppSource – July 12, 2023

New on Microsoft AppSource – July 12, 2023

by | Aug 19, 2023 | Technology

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

In this post collected from https://appsource.microsoft.com/blog, the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem welcomes 112 new offers.

























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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Agile Marketing Analytics – Power BI Dashboards: Agile Analytics’ marketing dashboards provide an instant solution to your data analysis needs, enabling you to convert mass amounts of data into actionable insights that help you better understand your overall performance and make better-informed business decisions.
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Aptean Accelerate Bundle Beverage Drink-IT edition – Manufacturing: Designed to help alcoholic beverage manufacturers streamline business, Drink-IT for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central addresses unique industry challenges, including tax management, sales and purchase conditions, and event management.
Aptean Accelerate Bundle Beverage Drink-IT edition - Wholesale and Distribution.png Aptean Accelerate Bundle Beverage Drink-IT edition – Wholesale and Distribution: Designed to help alcoholic wholesalers and distributors streamline business, Drink-IT for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central addresses industry challenges, including tax management, sales and purchase conditions, and alcohol balance.
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Aptean Advanced Check Management for Food and Beverage: Aptean Advanced Check Management extends the check printing features in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, increasing the productivity of accounts payable personnel and enabling you to apply brand imagery and signatures.
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Aptean Claims for Food and Beverage: Aptean Claims for Food and Beverage helps you manage sales and purchasing processes more efficiently, enabling you to easily create and manage return orders and credit memos for sales and purchasing without leaving Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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B2F Consignment Management: Available in Turkish and English, B2F Consignment Management for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central helps you manage the sales of products you receive on consignment from suppliers or that you sell on consignment to customers.
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bossPayment LSV: The LSV extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central enables you to use bossPayment to create a direct debit file in the PAIN.008 format of the ISO20022 standard, automating and simplifying the process of collecting outstanding invoices. This application is available only in German.
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CBS SIFO Leasing: Cloud Business Solutions SIFO Leasing automates the routine processes of sending collection notices and mass messaging for marketing, integrates with banks for online payments, and includes virtual office tools for customers. This application is available only in Spanish.
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COSMO Process Manufacturing Pack: COSMO Process Manufacturing Pack is an industry software bundle for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that makes it easier to develop, produce, and track process-manufactured products.
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DocSolutions for MES: DocSolutions for MES connects your ERP system to your content management system, enabling you to store, organize, and share your documents and manufacturing execution systems (MES) files in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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Easy Item Tracking: Easy Item Tracking lets you edit and view item tracking lot/serial numbers and expiration dates in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central documents, journal lines, and item reclassification journals, allowing you to better manage inventory levels, track stock movement. and reduce errors.
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Elfsquad CPQ for Power BI: Elfsquad’s application connects your Elfsquad Management System data to Microsoft Power BI using an OData connection, enabling you to dive into your manufacturing data and extract valuable insights and trends.
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eloomi Learning Management System: Anchored in simplicity and continuous innovation, eloomi is a modern learning experience solution designed to help you streamline your onboarding, upskill and reskill your talent pool, manage compliance, and drive true people development.
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EV Fashion Intercompany: Tired of complex intercompany setups? EV Fashion Intercompany for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central makes managing activities across interconnected companies easier than ever. This application is available in Danish and English.
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Exobe Device Insight: Designed for Microsoft Intune users, Exobe’s report for Microsoft Power BI provides insights into device compliance and encryption across your organization so that you can quickly identify areas of concern and act as needed.
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Flex DocFinance Connector: Connect the Flex Finance and Flex Starter apps with DocFinance and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to allow the exchange of data necessary for the management of treasury and main banking operations. This application is available in Italian.
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Flex EI: Flex El from Divimast enables organizations to manage Italian electronic invoicing through Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This application is available in Italian.
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Flex Finance: Ideal for general ledger management, Flex Finance complements the standard functionalities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and is integrated with leading treasury software and corporate banking services such as DocFinance. This application is available in Italian.
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FLYX Digital Loyalty: FLYX is an API-based solution that empowers businesses with the speed and flexibility needed to increase customer loyalty and drive traffic to stores. Build creative, personalized digital loyalty experiences that meet your customers’ expectations.
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Item Import Tool: Apply IT Clad’s template when you create an item in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to ensure the proper item type, category code, replenishment system, base unit of measure, and other important fields are populated correctly.
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ModeXpress Integration: Supported in Belgium and the Netherlands ModeXpress Integration for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central helps you manage shipments and receipts, delivering full control and visibility over your logistics to ensure reliable delivery of products and efficient management of incoming stock.
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Mrkt Point of Sale: Whether you’re a mobile or fixed retailer, small business owner, or part of a large corporation, the MRKT point of sale solution provides seamless integration and automation to streamline workflows and boost performance.
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Multi-Entity Management: Multi-Entity Management for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central centralizes and automates the processing of purchase orders, receipts, payroll, invoices, and more to maintain data integrity and reduce the potential for human error.
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Ongoing WMS Connector: Connect Ongoing WMS to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central via the Golden EDI Integration Platform to increase efficiency in your warehouse or outsource the warehousing to one of the third-party logistics providers using Ongoing WMS.
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Packing List: Designed to help you manage packing lists used for shipping and receiving, the Packing List add-on for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extends item cards with packing list information and enables you to assign lists to customers and vendors.
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Powerblox Lifecycle Management: Powerblox Lifecycle Management helps you manage the lifecycle of your items, customers, and vendors in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Prevent the production, transfer, and ordering of discontinued items, prevent purchases from certain vendors, and more.
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Powerblox Warehouse Scanning: Powerblox Warehouse Scanning for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central enables you to register all your warehouse transactions on a mobile scanner. Automate your warehouse operations, define which users can perform which tasks, and more.
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Purchase Requisition: The Purchase Requisition extension helps automate the procurement request process that flows from different functions of an organization to the procurement department by sending all users’ procurement requests through Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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QE Approval Workflow: QE Approval Workflow facilitates and streamlines the workflow approval process in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, automating manual processes and reducing the time and errors associated with manual approvals. This application is available in Spanish.
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QE Factura E: QE Factura E for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central facilitates issuing, sending, and managing electronic invoices in accordance with the standards and requirements established by local tax authorities. This application is available in Spanish.
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Sales Cockpit for Dynamics 365 Business Central: Sales Cockpit is a Microsoft Power BI application that offers a comprehensive view of posted sales transactions, sales orders, and simple receivables transactions in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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Simulated GL for Bonus: The EOS Simulated GL for Bonus app enables you to calculate the amounts of bonuses to be paid to your customers or recognized by your vendors, manage a periodic bonus forecast, and more in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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VirtlX 360-degree Employee Engagement Platform: Ditch the spreadsheets and gain unique insights into employee engagement, satisfaction, and well-being while transforming your employee value proposition with VirtlX’s all-in-one management platform built for Microsoft Dynamics 365.
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Zoho Expense: Zoho Expense automates travel and expense management for your business, enabling you to securely store digital receipts, streamline approvals, accelerate reimbursement, simplify accounting, and more for all aspects of corporate travel.
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Zoho Inventory: Zoho Inventory is a powerful, easy-to-use inventory and order management solution that helps businesses of all sizes to meet their end-to-end inventory management needs. Keep track of inventory, manage orders, track shipments, and control warehouses from a single interface.
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Zoho Subscriptions: Zoho Subscriptions is cloud-based subscription management solution crafted to help your growing business handle all the busy work that comes with subscription billing so you can focus on growing your business.

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AddPro SOC with XDR: Gain proactive security with reports and recommendations, customized automation, around-the-clock incident response, and more by adding AddPro SOC to your organization’s Microsoft Sentinel deployment.
 

Adoption and Change Management: 1-Day Workshop: Tailored to your organization’s needs, Covenant Technology Partners’ workshop focuses on how to successfully deliver business results with Microsoft 365. Deliverables include customized, actionable recommendations you can follow to support your adoption journey.
 

ApproveIt 365: 2-Hour Implementation: IDYN will quickly implement ApproveIT 365, a cloud-based integration solution that integrates e-signing into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central using DocuSign. Send quotes to customers from Business Central and let them safely e-sign via DocuSign.
 

Avanade AWS Connect Accelerator: 3-Week Implementation: Avanade’s AWS Connect Accelerator simplifies the integration of Amazon Connect’s contact center suite with the customer service workspace and omnichannel capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service.
 

Better Be Secured by adista: Available only in French, adista’s offering will help secure your Microsoft 365 tenant by implementing a zero-trust strategy using Azure Active Directory conditional access, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Intune, and other Microsoft security tools and services.
 

Celsior Business Intelligence Fast Start: 1-Hour Workshop: Accelerate data-driven decisions with actionable insights delivered quickly and cost effectively via Celsior’s customizable dashboard templates for Microsoft Power BI. Unleash the power of your data to gain a competitive edge.
 

ConnectIT 365: 4-Hour Implementation: Learn how you can gain more control over how your data is processed and formatted with IDYN’s ConnectIT 365, a cloud-based integration solution that can be used as a toolkit for imports and exports in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
 

Custom Application with Power Apps and Power Automate: 1-Month Implementation: Prolifics will provide a low-code solution for small businesses seeking to streamline operations and improve efficiency, using Microsoft Power Platform to automate processes and eliminate the complexities of traditional custom development.
 

Cyber Protection Pack for Microsoft 365: Acquiring the necessary skills, experience, and processes to optimize security services can be a daunting task. Global Micro Solutions aims to enhance your overall Microsoft security score, enabling you to make the most out of your Microsoft 365 investment.
 

DEX AI Solution for Power Platform and OpenAI: 4-Week Implementation: DEX Consulting will implement its DEX AI solution, integrating Microsoft Power Platform and Azure OpenAI to provide a conversational AI system that can be used with in-house data in as little as 10 minutes.
 

Digital Transformation with Microsoft Power Apps: 1-Day Catalyst Envisioning Workshop: Working with the Microsoft Catalyst framework to help drive your digital transformation, 2AT will showcase the value Microsoft Power Apps can bring to your organization. This offer is available only in Dutch.
 

Direct Banking: 4-Hour Implementation: IDYN’s Direct Banking is designed to optimize your banking processes in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Eliminate manual bank reconciliations; import bank accounts, statements, and transactions directly from Ponto or Cobase Bank Connector; and more.
 

Dynamics 365: 4- to 6-Week Custom Implementation: Definity First’s custom implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides a personalized solution that includes data migration, contact and opportunity configuration, custom Microsoft Power BI reporting, and technical training.
 

Dynamics 365 Business Central: 1-Day Implementation: Automate processes and streamline your business with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation services from Goom Spain. This offer is adaptable to companies of all sizes across business sectors.
 

Dynamics 365 Business Central Admin Training: 1-Day Workshop: Gain comprehensive insight into the administration of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in this workshop from Business Systemhaus. Topics include roles, rights, profiles, apps, and add-ons. This offer is available in German.
 

Dynamics 365 Business Central for Distribution: 8-Week Implementation: TEXO’s implementation is designed for customers requiring just the core financial and distribution modules in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This service does not include third-party integrations or customizations.
 

Dynamics 365 Business Central for Distribution: 12-Week Implementation: Ideal for companies with one to two warehouses and 10 or fewer users, TEXO’s 12-week implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central will automate and streamline your processes and help you manage your business.
 

Dynamics 365 for Sales: 1-Day Workshop: Exigo Tech’s offer includes an assessment of your sales practices, identification of key pain points, and development of a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales solution to address them. Help your sales teams achieve growth targets, generate leads, increase account value, and win customers.
 

Dynamics 365 Quick Startup: 2- to 3-Week Implementation: Definity First’s team of experts will evaluate your business needs and create a lightly customized Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution that addresses your requirements while keeping implementation time and cost to a minimum.
 

Infosys Modern Identity and Access Solution with Microsoft Entra: Infosys will empower your organization to provide secure access to everything by delivering identity and access management, cloud infrastructure management, and identity verification using Microsoft Entra.
 

Managed Windows Workstations: 6-Week Implementation: Today’s business challenges need modern solutions. Global Micro Solutions offers a combined hardware and software solution designed to secure your remote workforce and streamline management and device deployment for Microsoft Windows workstations.
 

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures: 5-Month Implementation: Integrating IT systems between organizations can incur significant costs and introduce technical challenges. Cyclotron helps organizations overcome these challenges using Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and third-party migration tools.
 

Microsoft 365 Keep On Track Advisor Services: Available from Advania Finland, Microsoft 365 Keep on Track Advisor Services help you discover and prioritize Microsoft 365 cloud changes, adapt the end-user experience to changes in the technical environment, and more.
 

Microsoft 365 Managed Service: Advania Finland’s team will manage your Microsoft 365 environment on your behalf, implementing best practices and ensuring the environment is secured and up to date so your teams can stay connected and productive.
 

Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Fundraising and Engagement: 12-Week Implementation: Improve your interaction with donors and voters as well as the impact of your mission with synalis’s implementation of a Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Fundraising and Engagement solution that aggregates data and empowers employees.
 

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: 10-Day Implementation: IT Partner’s implementation of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides advanced endpoint security and threat protection to help organizations detect, investigate, and respond to attacks and security breaches at their endpoints.
 

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Continuous Improvement Support Services: Barhead’s team will advise you on how to get the most from Dynamics 365 Finance, helping you drive efficiencies, establish a strict governance model, and maximize your return on investment.
 

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Migration: 4- to 6-Week Implementation: Definity First will meet with your team to gain insights into your business objectives, analyze your IT landscape, provide insights into the licensing and costs, and migrate your organization to Dynamics 365.
 

Microsoft Teams: 4-Week Implementation: Offering a range of solution development and integration options to meet your business requirements, Cloud Cover IT’s engagement will guide you through the process of designing, deploying, and developing custom Teams solutions.
 

Microsoft Teams Envisioning and Design: 4-Day Workshop: Cloud Cover IT’s immersive workshop will equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to unleash the full potential of Microsoft Teams in your organization and improve collaboration, communication, and productivity.
 

Microsoft Viva: 8-Hour Workshop: Centric will introduce you to Microsoft Viva, the digital platform that brings employee insights, communications, knowledge and training, goals, and engagement under one roof to help organizations create a thriving culture with engaged employees and inspiring leaders.
 

Office 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Cutover Email Migration: 7-Day Implementation: IT Partner will provide planning, design, and a seamless migration of email service from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another while minimizing disruptions and ensuring continuity for your users.
 

Power Platform Admin and Governance CoE Starter Kit: 4-Week Implementation: Designed to elevate your Microsoft Power Platform adoption maturity and ensure efficient and controlled growth, FPT’s CoE Starter Kit will help you develop a strategy for managing, monitoring, and adopting Power Platform at scale. 
 

ShipIT 365: 1-Day Implementation: IDYN’s implementation of ShipIT 365 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central enables you to book and print shipments with your preferred carrier, track and trace your shipments with real-time updates, and enjoy a low cost of ownership with no vendor lock-in.
 

ShipIT 365: 4-Hour Consultation: IDYN offers consulting services for ShipIT 365, a cloud-based integration solution that helps businesses ship orders with over 1000 carriers using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Save time and money on shipping, get real-time visibility into shipments, and more with ShipIT 365.
 

Viva Connections Essentials Package: 5-Week Implementation: FRONTIS will work with you to explore use cases that address your business needs, then jump-start Microsoft Viva Connections usage by setting up dashboards, news feeds, and resources to help you transform the employee experience and achieve results.
 

Viva Connections Premium Package: 8- to 12-Week Implementation and Adoption Monitoring: FRONTIS’ customized implementation of Microsoft Viva Connections seamlessly integrates with your organization’s systems and includes promotional materials to empower and engage users and accelerate adoption.
 

Viva Connections Starter Package: 2-Week Exploration Workshop: FRONTIS offers an exploration workshop to help you understand the benefits of Microsoft Viva Connections, a personalized destination for employees to discover the relevant news, conversations, and tools needed to excel in their daily work.
 

Viva Goals: 4-Week Implementation: Elevate your objectives and key results (OKR) writing and achieve business objectives faster with Freedom Systems’ implementation of Microsoft Viva Goals. This offer includes training in effective OKR writing that aligns with your strategic priorities.
 

Viva Goals Adoption and OKR Writing Service: 2-Week Implementation: Freedom Systems’ engagement will help you communicate the concept and benefits of OKRs to secure buy-in from senior executives, assess your goal-setting practices, design a tailored OKR framework, and deploy Microsoft Viva Goals.
 

Viva Goals Business Transformation: 3-Month Implementation: Optimize your organization’s goal-setting processes, take your OKR writing to the next level, and achieve success faster with Freedom Systems’ tailored implementation of Microsoft Viva Goals.

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Finance Clear Tax Integration for Dynamics 365

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Ibiz Standard Enhancement

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Konsolidator Financial Consolidation and Reporting

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Nucleus Lite Document Management Solution for Banking and Financial Services

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AppSource is continually expanding the library of line-of-business apps that work with Microsoft products and technologies. Be sure to check out the full app library to see how Microsoft’s partner ecosystem is working to support businesses across industries and regions.

The Return of Sync Up: The Official OneDrive Podcast!

by | Aug 18, 2023 | Technology

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

Like this blog, the Sync Up Podcast is a one-stop shop for learning all about the latest and greatest features of OneDrive. Hosted by myself (Stephen Rice) and Arvind Mishra, each episode aims to shed light on how OneDrive connects you to your files, helps you share and collaborate anywhere and works seamlessly across your devices. We also strive to give you a behind the scenes look at how we build OneDrive and what might be coming down the path! 


 


Subscribe to Sync Up on Apple, Spotify or your favorite podcast app!


 


If you haven’t listened or aren’t subscribed, here are a few of the latest episodes!


 


Behind the Blue – OneDrive’s New Design – August 2, 2023


with Christopher Wymer and Lyndsey Gill


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The new OneDrive Design is on its way! On this episode of Sync Up, Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra discuss the colors, rounded corners and nuances of OneDrive’s new look with expert designers Christopher Wymer and Lyndsey Gill! They walk through the inspirations, challenges and magic that went into bringing this new, refreshed OneDrive to your screens! 


 


Jason Moore Strikes Again – July 13, 2023


with Jason Moore


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Jason Moore, former host of the Sync Up podcast, is back for a special bonus episode on the past, present and future of OneDrive! Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra as they talk with Jason Moore about OneDrive’s history, as it grew from just an idea to a beta of 5000 users to the massive service that it is today! They talk about the early days of SkyDrive, how the product evolved over time and how it will continue evolve into the future! Stick around to the end for a sneak peak at Jason Moore’s hit song about OneDrive!


 


A New Home for OneDrive! – June 29, 2023


with Lesha Bhansali and Ihcene Cheriet


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OneDrive is getting a new home! Join Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra as they go behind the scenes of the latest OneDrive features in the Sync Up podcast. They talk with the experts and designers for three great features that are coming in the next two months! First, Lesha Bhansali lifts the veil on the new OneDrive Home, People View and Meeting Views that are designed to get you to your files as fast as possible. Second, Ihcene Cheriet will talk about the new, simplified Share Dialog that makes sharing easier than ever, and the new Manage Access experience which helps you stay in control of your content!


 


Sync Up Revived! – June 13, 2023


with Miceile Barret and Irfan Shahdad


https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/27073593/height/128/theme/modern/size/standard/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/0078d4/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward


The Sync Up Podcast is back! Stephen Rice and Arvind Mishra have brought the Sync Up podcast back from the brink to give you the best insights into the OneDrive product! This month, we talk about all the amazing features we announced at the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference with Product Managers Irfan Shahdad and Miceile Barret! We talk about OneDrive Home, simplified sharing, colored folders (YES!), people and meeting views, new filters, and whether popcorn is better than M&M’s for movie snacks. 


 


About the hosts


Stephen Rice is a Principal Product Manger for the OneDrive team, where he has worked the past 9 years. He focuses on enabling collaboration across Microsoft 365, whether you are working with partners inside or outside of your organization! In his free time, Stephen enjoys playing games such as Magic: The Gathering and enjoying Star Wars, which he reviews on his other podcast, the Ion Cannon Podcast.


 


Arvind Mishra is a Principal Product Manager on the OneDrive team, where he’s worked for the past 1.75 years. Prior to Microsoft he worked at several consumer subscription startups, and way before that, he worked at Microsoft, as a Product Manager supporting the User Experience scenarios in Windows, including Search and Organization. Now that he’s back at Microsoft, he’s working on, surprise: consumer subscriptions, supporting OneDrive’s efforts to help customers ensure all their important stuff is safely backed up to the cloud. In his spare time, he also enjoys all things Star Wars, and playing not enough video games.

3 ways mixed reality empowers frontline workers

3 ways mixed reality empowers frontline workers

by | Aug 17, 2023 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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

Manufacturers worldwide are investing heavily in digital transformation, overhauling almost every aspect of their operations and business models. But one key group—frontline workers —are still awaiting their digital renaissance.

Today, many organizations feel their workers are not empowered or digitally well-equipped. Manufacturers struggle with high turnover and the challenge of training and upskilling new workers. Downtime and worker productivity remain nearly universal issues.

To help address these issues, Microsoft is investing in frontline worker enablement across a broad range of technologies. This includes new solutions to help frontline workers deliver exceptional service with next-generation AI, as well as on our ongoing investment in mixed reality hardware and solutions. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides cultivates collaborative environments where people put knowledge into action. Here are three ways mixed reality is addressing frontline worker training, support, and knowledge transfer across industries:

1. Resolve issues quickly with remote support and collaboration

Unplanned downtime is costly. The average manufacturer confronts over 800 hours of equipment downtime a year, or 15 hours per week. Industrial manufacturers consequently spend almost USD50 billion on downtime every year.1 In these high-pressure situations, communication across functions can either speed resolution or create blockers to forward progress.

Historically, manufacturing environments fostered knowledge silos with valuable insights confined to individuals, groups, or departments. Mixed reality shifts this dynamic. Workers can share real-time, situational video of their environment, allowing others to experience it firsthand—regardless of location. Expert guidance, troubleshooting, or step-by-step instructions are immediate. This eliminates the need to travel, while minimizing downtime and production disruptions.

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Gone are the days where access to experts, communication barriers, or information silos dictate how knowledge is shared or when assets are repaired. Working on assembly or service lines requires specialized skills and expertise. Access to individuals with the relevant, hands-on experience, however, is not always possible. With Dynamics 365 Guides, when specialized skills are required, experts are a Microsoft Teams call away. 

Together, Dynamics 365 Guides and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist with Teams connect workers beyond their physical limits. A communication hub, Teams enables collaboration across the workforce. Its integration with Dynamics 365 Guides allows workers to extend this to the physical world on any device.

2. Accelerate training with information in context

Frontline workers are the backbone of industry operations. These roles demand technical savvy, quick decision-making, and resiliency. Traditional in-place training and onboarding processes are often ineffective or add to the cognitive burden of overwhelmed frontline workers.

Hands-on training with physical assets is expensive, time-consuming, and at times dangerous. Inconsistent quality or impersonal training is often the result. However, holographic environments can mitigate these on-ramping risks. Embracing mixed reality accelerates learning by introducing relevant, task-specific knowledge in new immersive and data rich environments.

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Using 3D models and digital twins, frontline workers receive a better understanding of the machines and processes at hand. Related materials are retrieved or amended instantly, nurturing knowledge exchange, which is further enhanced by AI. Mixed reality is the eyes and ears of AI. Delving into operation nuances for personalized, in-depth learning becomes easier. When integrated, mixed reality and AI accelerate worker training, shortening steps and supplying users with the working knowledge they need for the task at hand.

With Dynamics 365 Guides frontline and service workers can start accelerating their role-based knowledge today. Workers receive purpose-built, interactive guidance on complex machinery, assembly protocols, or maintenance steps when and where they need it.

3. Ensure transfer of information, insights, and skills

As employees near retirement, their wealth of expertise needs to be captured and shared. These experts understand the assets and processes that keep production moving. Retaining and transferring that knowledge is vital. There’s just one problem: Manufacturing is experiencing a talent exodus. Globalization, unemployment, and a rapidly aging workforce together are compounding operational challenges. Organizations are rightfully concerned. One-third of manufacturing executives claim retaining and replacing high-performing employees as a strategic priority in 2023.2 Mixed reality is poised to help solve this by capturing information for informed decision-making and greater productivity.

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Mixed reality facilitates knowledge retention and transfer across an organization through the creation of immersive experiences and simulations, regardless of location or device. The versatility of mixed reality makes up-skilling faster and more accessible. Dynamics 365 Guides offers industrial workers the opportunity to document unique situational processes and procedures not included in asset operating manuals. Step-by-step instructions, annotations, and “on the ground” insights are placed in context and immediately accessible throughout the day.

With Dynamics 365 Guides embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service mobile, mixed reality is democratized for every worker. Organizations now have asset, maintenance, and service information at their fingertips. This combination in one app improves worker accuracy, productivity, and efficiency—while offering powerful guidance on the device at hand.

Realize your future manufacturing potential

Mixed reality is a key part of an emerging technology category known as the industrial metaverse. Its foundational cross-platform technologies—including AI, cloud to edge, digital twins, machine learning, and mixed reality—are shifting our relationship with data from stationary to dynamic experiences.

Mixed reality is an essential glue that visualizes the diverse elements of the industrial metaverse. Seamlessly integrating the physical and digital, mixed reality creates immersive experiences that transcend traditional industrial operations. Guides overlays information atop real-world assets and scenarios, making knowledge available in context where it is needed most.

Prepare your workforce for their smart manufacturing future with mixed reality. Learn how Dynamics 365 Guides can help realize tangible business outcomes.

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1Manufacturing Without Unplanned Downtime Could Become A Reality Sooner Than You Think, Forbes.

22023 manufacturing industry outlook, Deloitte.

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AI at your service with Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service

AI at your service with Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service

by | Aug 17, 2023 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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

This post was co-authored by Michael Mendoza, Director of Service Transformation, Hitachi Solutions.

The era of AI is here, and it’s transforming how companies service customers in the field.

The field service industry is always evolving. Shifting customer preferences and demands, unpredictable economic forces, and tight labor markets have all required field service leaders to continuously adapt and innovate to succeed.

That said, Michael Mendoza, Director of Service Transformation at Hitachi Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner, expects that AI will bring about the most dramatic change yet for the field services industry: “It’s no exaggeration to say that the advent of AI promises to completely redefine what is possible, offer groundbreaking new opportunities to delight customers, and differentiate and reinvent service delivery for every organization on the planet.”

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Helping to drive that redefinition is Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service, an AI-powered assistant that helps accelerate field service productivity and deliver the proactive, “always on” support that customers expect. Three key areas where Copilot impacts field service organizations include:

  • Personalizing service experiences for customers to address issues quickly.
  • Helping frontline technicians work more efficiently.
  • Optimizing service operations for increased productivity.

Let’s walk through a common service scenario to see Copilot’s benefits in action.

Personalizing service experiences

New data from Microsoft’s 2023 Work Trend Index Annual Report reveals 63 percent of frontline workers struggle with having to do repetitive or menial tasks that take time away from more meaningful work. Let’s say a service manager for a parts manufacturing company receives an email in Outlook from a customer asking for a technician to come fix a broken circuit on an assembly machine. Before Copilot, the service employee had to find and review the account information and then create a work order separately in Dynamics 365 Field Service. This meant manually copying and pasting or re-entering information from the email into the required fields. The service manager also had to search for past work orders to better determine which service technicians had the right skills and knowledge to fix the issue, as well as which tools and parts were needed for the job.

But now, with Copilot’s AI capabilities and seamless Outlook integration, work order management is streamlined and available at the service manager’s fingertips.

I’m looking forward to providing customers with the ability to work with Field Service features directly in Outlook and Teams without having to switch applications while working with the tools they already use to communicate with customers and technicians.

Bill Caldwell, Director, Service Delivery at Hitachi Solutions

Now, Copilot processes the language in the customer’s email content to identify that creating a work order is the best next action, and suggests the service manager create a work order—all from their Outlook view. With a quick tap, the service manager can create the work order that Copilot has automatically generated (based on its historical knowledge of past work orders pertaining to that machine and incident type) by inserting the customer information, incident, parts needed, technician skills required, and service activities needed. It can also prioritize work orders by intelligently assessing even vague language to determine whether something is urgent or not based on customer language in the subject or the body of the email.

Hitachi Solutions has been privately previewing Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service and is already seeing benefits for customers. One particular benefit is that, with Copilot’s work order capabilities in Outlook, its service managers can immediately assign resources to solve customer issues, without leaving the flow of work. This means customers experience faster response times and enhanced service delivery. In addition, service managers have an easier time managing customer service requests, resulting in greater efficiency. And, most importantly, Hitachi knows that Microsoft is guided by our AI principles and Responsible AI Standard and decades of research on AI, grounding, and privacy-preserving machine learning. That means it can assure customers that it has measures in place to help protect against data leakage.

Helping frontline technicians work more efficiently

The most recent interaction a customer has with your company is also their final impression. Giving your frontline workers the information and tools, they need to be more productive, effective, and efficient in the field ultimately translates to happier, more loyal customers. New data from Microsoft’s 2023 Work Trend Index Annual Report reveals that 65 percent of frontline workers are optimistic that AI will help them in their job.

With Copilot, the technician no longer wastes valuable time determining what tools they need, making wrong guesses, or finding experts who can provide helpful information. Instead, the technician has the relevant information from the Copilot-generated work order and can focus on completing the service tasks at hand. For example, because Copilot uses next-generation AI to create a properly worded and concise description of the work the client needs performed in the work order summary, the technician has a clear understanding of the problem and what needs to be done to complete the task. This means technicians can resolve issues faster and with higher accuracy, minimizing customer downtime and inconvenience, and creating a better customer experience.

Optimizing service operations

Whether dealing with an inspection, installation, or maintenance issue, a happy field service customer is one who receives high-quality service, feels valued, and has a positive overall experience with the service provider—factors that are all ultimately rooted in operational excellence. Timeliness is crucial in field service, and customers value service organizations who prioritize their requests and strive to resolve their issues quickly and effectively without the need for multiple visits or repeat service calls. Now, right in Outlook, the system leverages the power of the Field Service scheduling engine to provide suggestions, so the work order can be dispatched immediately upon creation and even create a reply to the customer with available times for technicians with the appropriate skill set to solve their issue. That means faster, more efficient service.

With Copilot and the power of next-generation AI, service organizations can deliver the personalized and proactive support that customers demand and expect.

Next-generation field service with AI—are you ready?

Service in the era of AI is an exciting time, and Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service is an innovative new capability for empowering field service teams to do their best work and deliver an exceptional customer experience. This is just the beginning of AI for field service, and we can’t wait for what’s to come.

Watch a brief video of Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service in action.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RW18MMY

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Indirect Providers | Check out the new Insights workspace functionality in Partner Center

by | Aug 17, 2023 | Technology

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

Now you will have the ability to view your reseller’s partner capability score, which is the measurement framework  that gauge performance, skilling, and customer success to attain a Partner Solutions Designation. The Solutions Partner Designations differentiates partners with broad technical capabilities, a dedication to skilling and training, and a proven ability to successfully deliver solutions for customers in specific Microsoft Cloud solution areas.


 


This report allow you to develop targeted outreach to resellers, encourage program awareness, offer business development coaching, and provide guidance on how they can increase customer reach and expansion of their technical skilling, enablement, and support.


 


Nurture your resellers on their journey to attaining a Solutions Partner designation with this new functionality you have available through Partner Center and develop a solid relationship with the reseller community.


 


Review your reseller’s partner capability score and implement next steps accordingly.


 


Review your reseller’s partner capability score

Introducing New Performance Tiers for Azure Managed Lustre: Enhancing HPC Workloads

Introducing New Performance Tiers for Azure Managed Lustre: Enhancing HPC Workloads

by | Aug 16, 2023 | Technology

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Introduction


In the realm of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads, the need for agile and powerful storage solutions cannot be overstated. Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) has emerged as a game-changing solution, providing managed, pay-as-you-go file systems optimized for these data-intensive tasks. Building upon the success of its General Availability (GA) launch last month and in direct response to customer feedback that we received during our Preview period, we’re excited to unveil two new performance tiers for AMLFS, designed to cater to the diverse array of customer needs. This blog post explores the specifics of these new tiers and how they embody a customer-centric approach to innovation.


 


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40 MB/s per TiB Option: Optimizing Cost and Capacity


The 40MB/s per TiB performance tier represents a significant milestone for Azure Managed Lustre users. It directly addresses the needs of customers dealing with larger datasets, providing a lower-cost option without compromising on performance. Built on the exceptional speed, reliability, and low-latency characteristics of Azure Managed SSDs, the 40MB/s per TiB configuration, ensures that organizations can unlock the power of HPC and AI without incurring exorbitant costs. This tier offers a default maximum file system capacity of 768 TiB. With this option, Azure Managed Lustre becomes an even more accessible solution for enterprises seeking scalable and cost-effective storage solutions.


 


500 MB/s per TiB Option: Tailored Performance for Massive Throughput Requirements


Azure recognizes that not all workloads require massive storage capacities. The introduction of the 500MB/s per TiB performance tier specifically speaks to the needs of customers dealing with smaller datasets. Constructed on top of Azure Managed SSDs, this tier strikes a balance between performance and capacity, ensuring that users can access a storage solution that aligns precisely with their requirements. With a minimum file system size of 4 TiB, this option empowers organizations to avoid over-provisioning on capacity to meet their performance requirements, allowing customers to efficiently manage their resources. This granular approach to performance tiers demonstrates Azure’s commitment to catering to a wide spectrum of customer needs.


 


Pricing


The introduction of these performance tiers underscores Azure’s dedication to listening to its customers and iterating its offerings to match real-world demands. While pricing details for these new options are set to be published next month, we want to be completely transparent. Below is a glimpse of the anticipated pricing across different regions for the 40 MB/s per TiB and 500 MB/s per TiB performance tiers:


 
























































































Region

40 MB/s per TiB


(per GB per month)

500 MB/s per TiB


(per GB per month)

Australia East

$0.090

$0.396

Brazil South

$0.145

$0.680

Canada Central

$0.090

$0.365

Central India

$0.090

$0.403

Central US

$0.102

$0.418

East US

$0.083

$0.340

East US2

$0.083

$0.340

North Europe

$0.083

$0.374

SouthCentral US

$0.100

$0.408

Southeast Asia

$0.090

$0.421

Sweden Central

$0.088

$0.444

UK South

$0.086

$0.467

West Europe

$0.088

$0.444

West US2

$0.083

$0.340

West US3

$0.083

$0.340

 


[Note: Actual pricing details will be found on the official Azure pricing page next month (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-lustre/)]


 


The introduction of the 40 MB/s per TiB and 500 MB/s per TiB performance tiers for Azure Managed Lustre marks a significant step forward in the realm of HPC and AI storage solutions. These options cater to a diverse range of workloads, from large-scale datasets to smaller, performance-intensive tasks. Azure’s responsiveness to customer feedback and its focus on aligning its services with actual user needs further solidify its position as a leading cloud service provider. As the industry continues to evolve, Azure Managed Lustre remains at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions that empower organizations to thrive in the digital age.


 


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Copilot in Teams: August 2023 Updates

Copilot in Teams: August 2023 Updates

by | Aug 15, 2023 | Technology

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

With AI deeply embedded, Teams is the smart place to work. But what does it really mean to be smart?  For us, it means that when AI is present, it is there to help you level up your work in a way that does not replace you or take away from your agency. We believe that AI should augment and amplify your potential, abilities, and productivity. With Copilot in Teams, you’ll experience a whole new way to work and be able to do things you’ve never been able to do before.  


 


When Microsoft 365 Copilot was first announced in March, it was the start of Teams adding intelligence in ways that unlock new possibilities across communication and collaboration. This blog highlights what’s been announced for Copilot in Teams and some examples of ways you can engage with Copilot to get the most value – regardless of if you are participating in the Early Access Program (EAP) or not.  Let’s take a look at where things started and where we are today. 


 


Our first milestone, was announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Teams meetings. The Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experience – available in Teams and in the browser – is an entirely new experience that works alongside you.  It uses the power of Microsoft Graph to bring together data from across the internet, your documents, presentations, email, files, meetings, chats, documents, and 3rd party applications. It has the potential to save you a lot of time and effort throughout your work day. Using your own words to ask Copilot a question or selecting a suggested prompts – right in Teams – you will be able quickly find what you need to move your work forward.  For example, rather than having to take time searching through your recent emails, chats, meetings notes, presentations, and other documents to prepare for a meeting – you can just ask Copilot. Copilot will find and summarize everything related to the project your meeting is about so that you don’t have to.  In addition, you can get updated on the latest news related to a specific topic, summarize outstanding project deliverables with potential risks, and so much more. 


 


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Copilot in Teams meetings makes your meetings even more effective by becoming a powerful tool that helps you complete common meetings tasks.  You can get up to speed quickly on anything you’ve missed when you join late, capture unresolved issues before the meeting ends, list all the questions that were left unresolved, identify the right people for specific follow-ups, or even create a table of the pros and cons for a decision that was being discussed.  One of my personal favorites to use following an active discussion is to create a table of all the questions asked and their answers.  It makes it easy to share back with the team in case any else had similar questions or as a starting point for a Frequently Asked Questions document.  Just by using your own words or using a suggested prompt you can get the information you need without disrupting the discussion during a live meeting or afterwards with Intelligent Recap.  


 


 


Most recently, at Inspire, we announced the next wave of Copilot in Teams with Copilot in Teams Phone and Copilot in Teams Chat, bringing the same great functionality from meetings to impromptu chats and calls. With Copilot in Teams Phone, you can make and receive calls from your Teams app on any device, and get real-time summarization, and insights. You can ask Copilot to draft notes for you and highlight key points, such as names, dates, numbers, and tasks during your call – for both VoIP and PSTN calls. Imagine needed to kick off a new project with a partner outside of your organization.  You give the partner a call to provide an outline of the project and discuss the tasks that they will need to collaborate with you on.  As your conversation unfolds, Copilot is summarizing the call and capturing the partners questions on timing, their feedback, as well as next steps.  After the call, you can use this information to quickly send a follow-up note to confirm the project plan based on your conversation. 


 


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Copilot in Teams chat will help you stay on top of your conversations by quickly getting up to speed, summarizing or recapping your chats, and synthesizing key information across your Teams chat threads.  The best part? You’ll be able to do all this without interrupting your conversation flow or endlessly scrolling through chats. To fully understand the potential of Copilot in Teams chat think about all the times that you have been away from work – whether in back to back meetings for a day, or out on vacation for 3 days. While you were away, the conversations don’t stop. Imagine that your team is working on a new marketing campaign.  While you were away your team was using chat to discuss potential ideas. Rather than endlessly scrolling through the chat conversation, you can just ask Copilot questions to get a quick summary of what you missed over the past 3 days, the top ideas that were discussed, and a list of action items to follow-up on. You can even ask Copilot to create a table of the final ideas along the pros and cons discussed.  This way you get back in the loop quickly without having to interrupt the team so everyone can continue focus on next steps for the new campaign. Catching me up after being away from active chats and asking for documents I need to review are a few things I find myself regularly asking Copilot to do in Teams chat.  


 


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If you’re interested in going even deeper, check out this episode of Inside Microsoft Teams , where we explore how Copilot in Teams Meetings, Phone, and chat work with the lead product managers responsible for building each experience. We are excited to continue to innovate and transform the way work happens, together.  Stay tuned as we roll out more updates in the coming months. 


 

Azure Firewall: New Monitoring and Logging Updates

Azure Firewall: New Monitoring and Logging Updates

by | Aug 14, 2023 | Technology

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

Contributors: Eliran Azulai and Yuval Pery


 


Monitoring, management, and innovation are core pillars of Azure Firewall. With this in mind, we are delighted to share the following new capabilities:  


 



  • Resource Health is now in public preview

  • Embedded Firewall Workbooks is now in public preview

  • Latency Probe Metric is now in general availability


 


When you monitor the firewall, it’s the end-to-end experience that we continuously strive to improve. Our aim is to empower you to make informed decisions quickly and maximize your organization’s security demands. Understanding the importance of having visibility into your network, this release focuses on making it easier for you to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your firewalls more efficiently.


 


Azure Firewall is a cloud-native firewall as a service offering that enables customers to centrally govern and log all their traffic flows using a DevOps approach. The service supports both application and network-level filtering rules and is integrated with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence feed to filter known malicious IP addresses and domains. Azure Firewall is highly available with built-in auto-scaling.


 


Resource Health is now in public preview


 


With the Azure Firewall Resource Health check, you can now view the health status of your Azure Firewall and address service problems that may affect your Azure Firewall resource. Resource Health allows IT teams to receive proactive notifications regarding potential health degradations and recommended mitigation actions for each health event type. For instance, you can determine if the firewall is running as expected with an “Available” status or if there was downtime due to platform events with an “Unavailable” status.


 


This preview is automatically enabled on all firewalls and no action is required to enable this functionality. For more information, see Azure Resource Health overview – Azure Service Health | Microsoft Learn


 


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Easily view the resource health status and history of your firewall


 


 


Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview


The Azure Firewall Workbook presents a dynamic platform for analyzing Azure Firewall data. Within the Azure portal, you can utilize it to generate visually engaging reports. By accessing multiple Azure Firewalls deployed throughout your Azure infrastructure, you can integrate them to create cohesive and interactive experiences.


 


With the Azure Firewall Workbook, you can extract valuable insights from Azure Firewall events, delve into your application and network rules, and examine statistics regarding firewall activities across URLs, ports, and addresses. It enables you to filter your firewalls and resource groups, and effortlessly narrow down data sets based on specific categories when investigating issues in your logs. The filtered results are presented in a user-friendly format, making it easier to comprehend and analyze.


 


Now, Azure Firewall predefined workbooks are two clicks away and fully available from the Monitor section in the Azure Firewall Portal UI:


 


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View valuable insights in a dashboard view using Azure Firewall Embedded Workbooks


 


Latency Probe metric is now generally available


 


The Latency Probe metric is designed to measure the overall latency of Azure Firewall and provide insight into the health of the service. IT administrators can use the metric for monitoring and alerting if there is observable latency and diagnosing if the Azure Firewall is the cause of latency in a network. This troubleshooting metric is helpful for proactively engaging in potential issues to traffic or services in your infrastructure.


 


Azure Firewall latency can be caused by various reasons, such as high CPU utilization, throughput, or networking issues. As an important note, this tool is powered by Ping Mesh technology, which means that it measures the average latency of the ping packets to the firewall itself. The metric does not measure end-to-end latency or the latency of individual packets.


 


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View the overall latency of the Azure Firewall using the Latency Probe metric


 


Learn more


When you’re ready to try these new capabilities, just navigate to Azure Firewall Monitoring in the Azure Portal, and select Logs, Metrics, or Workbooks to use these new features. If you do not have logs, navigate to Azure Firewall Diagnostic settings to get started. And continue to provide us with feedback! To give us feedback just tap the feedback icon surenj_3-1691777219188.pngin the Azure Portal. Your feedback is invaluable in crafting an improved experience that caters to your specific needs.



Learn more in the following support articles:
Latency Probe metric – Microsoft Learn


Resource Health – Microsoft Learn


Azure Firewall Workbook – Microsoft Learn


Azure Firewall – Microsoft Learn


Azure Firewall Manager – Microsoft Learn


 


About the author


Suren Jamiyanaa is a Product Manager in Azure Network Security. She joined the team in 2019 where she focuses on innovating the Azure Firewall product for customers in a modern cloud network strategy.