Bring Dynamics 365 into the flow of work with Teams—at no additional cost

Bring Dynamics 365 into the flow of work with Teams—at no additional cost

by | Jul 14, 2021 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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Today at Microsoft Inspire, partners and customers will learn how the Microsoft cloud can help them navigate their transformation journey, make the shift to hybrid work, innovate everywhere across their organization, and build it all on a foundation of trust and security.

We’ll also share how partners can capitalize on the opportunities ahead of us in the upcoming year.

One of the announcements I’m most excited about is how we’re activating the flow of work in Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Dynamics 365. With the world changing faster than ever before, none of us have time to waste when we’re trying to get work done. Searching for information, finding an expert to help your customer, or switching between apps all day longall of these things slow down the flow of work and keep us from delivering customer experiences that matter.

With Dynamics 365 and Teams, we’re speeding up the flow of work, enabling anyone in an organization to view and collaborate on Dynamics 365 records, from within the flow of work with Teamsat no additional cost. No other technology vendor enables organizations to activate this capability without the need to pay for multiple underlying software licenses.

Think about the incredible potential when you activate the flow of work with Dynamics 365 in Teams:

  • A service engineer can enable an agent to fix a customer’s issue by adding notes with troubleshooting steps to the customer service case record.
  • Finance teams can streamline order fulfillment, sharing purchase orders and payment details with their counterparts in sales.
  • A field technician can notify sales teams about products nearing end-of-life, so the sales team can proactively reach out with replacement options.
  • And a sales team can close deals faster, by understanding signals from the marketing department around demand generation.

Only Microsoft is enabling this kind of innovation and accessibility without adding new costs for an organization. We’re so excited to see how our customers and partners build on this innovation and unlock new capabilities for their organizations.

Make sure to read my blog post with Jared Spataro to learn more about this announcement, and how we’re building the Microsoft cloud for a new world of work.

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From collaborative apps in Microsoft Teams to Cloud PC—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 at Inspire

From collaborative apps in Microsoft Teams to Cloud PC—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 at Inspire

by | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Microsoft 365, Technology

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Announcing new hybrid-work innovations to the Microsoft cloud—the cloud built for a new world of work.

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From collaborative apps in Microsoft Teams to Cloud PC—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 at Inspire

Introducing a new era of hybrid personal computing: the Windows 365 Cloud PC

by | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Microsoft 365, Technology

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As some regions begin to make their way out of the challenges and disruption of the past 18 months, we’re seeing a new world of work emerge. Organizations everywhere have transformed themselves through virtual processes and remote collaboration. And as people embrace hybrid work—with people returning to the office, continuing to work from home, or…

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Create Private AKS Cluster using Bicep

Create Private AKS Cluster using Bicep

by | Jul 13, 2021 | Technology

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Overview


This is a blog on how to use a modular approach for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in provisioning a private AKS cluster and other related resources. The Bicep modules in the repository are designed keeping the AKS baseline architecture in mind. You can start using these modules as is or modify to suit your own needs.


Architecture


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Setup


The Bicep modules will provision the following Azure Resources under subscription scope:



  1. A Resource Group with Baseline variables

  2. Hub VNet with required subnets

  3. Azure Firewall Subnet

  4. Azure Bastion Subnet

  5. A jumpbox subnet

  6. Spoke VNET with AKS cluster subnet and additional subnet for other services like Azure Container Registry etc.

  7. Azure Firewall and required routes

  8. Azure Bastion resource and a jumpbox VM without public IP for securing traffic

  9. Azure Container Registry for storing images.

  10. A Private Endpoint for ACR

  11. Private DNS Zone

  12. AAD Enabled, Managed Private AKS Cluster with monitoring Addon and Azure Policy enabled

  13. Private AK Cluster need the UDR routes enabled via Firewall.


Resource Provisioning


Clone the repo


git clone https://github.com/ssarwa/bicep

cd bicep

# You could use deploy.azcli as your working file. Don’t run the script as is!

Login to Azure


az login


az account set -s <Subscription ID>

Initialize variables


# Change the variables as required (baseline and location) on deploy.azcli

# Deploy the bicep script

az deployment sub create -n $baseline‘Dep’ -l $location -f main.bicep

The deployment could take somewhere around 20 to 30 mins. Once provisioning is completed you can use the cluster for your needs.


Next Steps



  1. Enable GitOps using Flux operator for Application deployment

  2. Enable IaC using CI/CD pipelines on Github Actions

VMware Releases Security Update

by | Jul 13, 2021 | Security, Technology

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

VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.

CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0014 and apply the necessary update.

Bring Dynamics 365 into the flow of work with Teams—at no additional cost

Use guided integration to set up Fraud Protection for your business

by | Jul 12, 2021 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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Adopting new systems can be a complex process that can lead to spending time and resources learning and setting up instead of focusing on your core business. When setting up a fraud protection system, you need to focus your resources on measuring the business impact and optimization rather than spending time doing setup tasks.

To simplify the Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection integration process, we have added a guided process experience.

The integration experience functionality, available as preview, provides a guided integration process for each product capability, with well-defined start and end points. We have included out-of-the-box snippets and step-by-step instructions that can be started from within the product. The guided processes are interactive and provide step-by-step integration instructions, including information about why something is required.

The integration processes have been grouped by the stages that you need to follow to set up a comprehensive fraud protection workflow.

Enable core integration

To integrate with Fraud Protection APIs, you must have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) application and set up device fingerprinting. Your Azure AD application is used to acquire access tokens, and device fingerprinting is used to get input for fraud assessments. These are the first steps needed to set up Fraud Protection. The integration wizard will walk you through this setup.

Integrate APIs

To benefit from the full suite of Fraud Protection functionality, next you will need to integrate your system with real-time APIs. Depending on your business scenarios, you may need to integrate with specific sets of APIs.

The real-time API integration experience has been split into two categories Purchase Protection and Account Protection based on the assessment types that are most pertinent to your business needs.

Each integration experience provides a milestone-based approach. When you successfully complete an API integration, you will be guided to the next integration phase so you will be able to track your progress.

Integration experiences can be launched more than once and can be personalized based on user input. For example, you may want to run the steps for integrating the Purchase API twice if you have two different online store fronts and want to integrate both.

Next steps

To learn more about integration experience capabilities, visit the Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection Portal or take a guided tour.

Join the Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection Insider Program to get an early view of upcoming features, to discuss integration best practices, and to learn how to combat fraud.

If you’re not currently using Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection, check out the free trial.

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