by Contributed | Nov 20, 2020 | Azure, Microsoft, Technology
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General
- Move resources from a resource group to another region
- Filter pills update
Intune
- Updates to Microsoft Intune
Let’s look at each of these updates in greater detail.
General
Move resources from a resource group to another region
You can now navigate to a resource group and start the journey to move resources to another region. You will then be guided to the Azure resource Mover hub upon clicking a notification, where you can add missing dependencies, customize destination properties and track the progress of your moves. The experience also provides the ability for you to test the move by using the ‘discard’ option.
- In the Azure portal, open the relevant resource group.
- In the resource group page, select the resources that you want to move.
- Select Move > Move to another region.
- In Source + destination, select the target region to which you want to move the resources. Then select Next.
- In Resources to move, select Next.
- In Select resources, select resource you want to move. You can only add resources supported for move. Then select Done.
- In Move resources, select Next at the bottom of the screen.
- In Review + Add, check the source and target details.
- Select Proceed to begin adding the resources.
General
Filter pills update
To bring consistency to the filtering experience while also making it fully accessible and WCAG 2.1 compliant, we have enhanced the filter pills to now open dialogs. This new experience provides a consistent, intuitive approach for filtering as well as accessibility for all our users.
- Navigate to “All resources” and select “Location” filter
- Set “Operator” as “Contains” and Value as “US”, then select “Apply”
- The table is now updated to reflect the new filter (only locations with US in the name)
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 video:
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 | Nov 20, 2020 | Microsoft, Office 365, Technology
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As you may have heard, Microsoft Teams usage is up, WAY up and we recently announced a new “daily collaboration minutes” metric. To quote: “This quarter, Microsoft 365 users around the world generated more than 30 billion collaboration minutes in a single day as people communicated, collaborated, and co-authored content across work, life, and learning.” Read more from that announcement here.
That is an astounding number of daily collaboration minutes. While not all of them are spent in meetings, many are, and we know that our Teams Community loves to record meetings! So today I’m pleased to announce we just shipped our most recent Teams Diagnostic for Meeting Recordings.
From working with you all in Support we know that top support case drivers include Meeting Recording availability and end user capability (i.e. the Meeting Recording button is grayed out!). These issues typically fall into two categories, either the impacted user isn’t allowed to record meetings via Policy settings or, in some areas of the world, Stream is not available in your region. Luckily our Diagnostic can identify both of these issues and tell you how to fix them.
But wait! There’s more! In case you missed it, we recently began rolling out a change to Teams Meeting Recording Storage. If you’re signed into your M365 Tenant Admin portal you can read all about it in the following Message Center Post: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and Sharepoint.
You should also carefully review the following documentation that goes over these changes in detail:
Use OneDrive for Business and SharePoint or Stream for meeting recordings
And of course, our Diagnostic can help you identify if you’re using Stream or have switched to OneDrive SharePoint storage. In fact, if you are in a part of the world where Stream is not available, we are very pleased to inform you that you can Opt-in to OneDrive SharePoint storage to enable Teams Meeting Recording functionality!
As always we’ve provided you with a shortcut to get directly to the diagnostic. In your Admin portal, click on the Need Help button and then type in Diag: Meeting Recording like in the following screenshot:
Screenshot of the Need Help dialogue
If you’re currently experiencing issues getting Teams Meeting Recording to work for some or all users, please give the new Diagnostic a try. Beyond checking your policy settings and storage location the Diagnostic does a lot more, so be sure to check it out. And, we’re constantly working on new diagnostics and expanding our existing ones; for a full list, click here.
We’ll be back soon with additional Teams Meeting Recording troubleshooting tips and tricks, stay tuned for ‘Dude, where’s my recording?’ and other fun stuff.
Happy Collaborating!
Microsoft Teams Support
by Contributed | Nov 19, 2020 | Azure, Microsoft, Technology
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We are excited to share several new Azure Migrate-related assets to help you learn how to discover, assess, and migrate your workloads, and walk you through different migration scenarios.
- Azure Migrate L100 deck Learn how to discover, assess, and migrate infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud with Microsoft’s first-party migration service, Azure Migrate.
- Azure Migrate L300 deck Take an in depth look at Azure Migrate use cases. This deck gives a more detailed description of different server migration scenarios – agentless VMware, agentless Hyper-V and agent-based migrations for physical servers, AWS servers and servers from other clouds.
- We also have several click-through demos to walk you through various migration scenarios:
- AWS to Azure Migrate Demo
- Physical to Azure Migrate Demo
- Hyper-V to Azure Migrate Demo
- VMware to Azure Migrate Demo
To stay up to date with the latest Azure Migration Resources, check out our GearUp page. To learn more about Azure Migrate, read documentation here.
by Contributed | Nov 19, 2020 | Azure, Microsoft, Technology
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In this episode with Amit Banerjee, you will review new Software Assurance core benefits for high availability and disaster recovery can make running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine cheaper than before. You will also see how all SQL Server releases can benefit from the FREE passive replica cores and help bring down the cost of running SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine.
by Contributed | Nov 19, 2020 | Azure, Microsoft, Technology
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These last weeks we got several cases that our customers reported the following error message: Login timeout expired – A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online.
TCP Provider: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond, in the following video I would like to share with you what is the issue, how to identify, fix and prevent it.
Enjoy!
by Contributed | Nov 19, 2020 | Azure, Microsoft, Technology
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As many of you may know I run the Glasgow Azure User Group, and over the last three years I’ve had the privilege to hear a good number of excellent speakers deliver their sessions at the group’s meetups. Recently Tricia Sinclair, delivered a brill session going into Azure DevOps Boards. Something I use daily, but don’t even scratch the surface of functionality wise. So, Tricia’s session opened a whole new world to me.
DevOps Boards and Excel
During her session Tricia mentioned there was a plugin for Excel that allowed you to bulk import or modify DevOps Board items, which I had no idea existed!
This plug in is part of the Azure DevOps Office Integration 2019 feature that allows non-developers to interact with Azure DevOps. Now I don’t believe this tool is only for non-developers, I think it can help everyone that needs to interact with DevOps Boards.
To get to work with this feature you need to have Excel 2010 or later installed, the plug, be a member of the project you want to interact with, have the relevant permissions to modify items in the project you want to interact with and of course be using Azure DevOps. For a full list of prerequisites please do check out the official documentation.
Use Excel to create items in Azure DevOps Boards
Using Azure DevOps Boards to keep track of work items, bugs, whatever it might be is an awesome way to create visibility for you and your team, however, it can be a bit tiresome entering a bunch of those things at a time. And being able to bulk load would be handy and this is what the plugin allows you to do!
Once you install the plug in when you open Excel, you have a tab called Team, which allows you to connect with Azure DevOps within Excel.
So, if you have a new Azure DevOps Project and want to bulk import a bunch of tasks for the team to work through you can do that by connecting Excel to the Project and starting the list.
Create a new DevOps List from Excel
You can also do this if you have new tasks or bugs or issues, to add to an existing project. And I will be using this feature in the future to track my work, especially when I’ve been neglecting my duties and not adding my tasks to the team board.
Update items from Excel to your Azure DevOps Board
What about updating items, you can do that as well. Which again allows you to create items, update items, add more information to items. All of that is available.
The best way I have found to bulk update tasks on an existing project is to have a query setup that pulls the items I want to update and then use that to help pull the information into Excel.
Opening up the plug in within Excel, this time I tell it I want to pull the information from the query.
Pull information from DevOps into Excel
Once the information is pulled down I can update the items that I need to, either bulk closing items, or reassigning the items to others.
It’s also a great opportunity to link any items together using the “Links and Attachment” button or even uploading any supporting information for that item.
Add files to your DevOps Items
Speed up those admin tasks
As I said at the top of this blog post I don’t think this is something only for non-developers I think this is a great tool for everyone, if you set aside time at the end of your week to go through and update your Azure DevOps Board this can help speed things up. I’d love to hear if you are using this plugin and if it’s helping to speed up the management of your items or not!
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