Azure Advocates Weekly Round Up – A Blazing Week at Microsoft Ignite!

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Content Round Up

 

Microsoft Graph + Logic Apps + Microsoft Teams ToDo Scenario
Ayca Bas

Wouldn’t it be nice to receive your list of assigned tasks every morning on Microsoft Teams?

Build a flow using Azure Logic Apps to automate Microsoft Teams Flow bot for sending To-Do tasks every morning at 9 AM! In this article you will learn about the queries and responses of Microsoft Graph To-Do APIs in Graph Explorer, how to register your app in Azure Active Directory, building Azure Logic Apps Custom Connector to consume Graph To-Do API for getting the tasks and finally creating a Logic Apps flow to automate sending tasks from Microsoft Teams Flow bot every morning.

 

Blogpost about file upload in the browser with azure blob storage sdk v12
Alvaro Videla Godoy

This article explains how to add a serverless API to an Azure Static Web App, to generate SAS keys that authorize users to upload images to Azure Blob Storage. The examples use the latest Azure SDK for JavaScript.

 

Serverless ToDoMVC app using Azure Static WebSites, Azure Functions, Vue.Js, Node and Azure SQL

The ToDoMVC app has been around for a while and it is a great sample app to get started on front-end building. But what about the full-stack? And what if we want to create a complete Serverless Full-Stack solution? Well with Azure Static Websites, Azure Functions, Node and Azure SQL, this is much simpler than anyone could expect! Let’s see how simple is that!

 

Develop a Serverless Integration Platform for the Enterprise

Integrating different systems is critical. Let’s see how we can create a completely #Serverless Enterprise Integration Platform using the tools #Azure offers: #AzureFunctions, #LogicApps and #ServiceBus.

 

Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – Byte
Thomas Maurer

Today, I want you to introduce you to Azure Stack Hub Partner Byte. Join our Australian partner Byte as we explore how they are using the Azure Stack products to simplify operations, accelerate workload deployment, and enable the teams to focus on creating value rather than “keeping the lights on”.

 

Writing safe orchestrator functions with the Durable Task Analyzer
When using Durable Functions, the orchestrator function will replay several times. This behavior puts some restrictions on the code that can run in the orchestrator. The Durable Task Analyzer, a Roslyn code analyzer written for Durable Functions,  helps you write deterministic C# code, safeguarding the replay behavior. In this post, Marc Duiker demonstrates the code violations and their solutions.

 

Livestream: Deep Dive VM and Kubernetes Management to any Infrastructure with Azure Arc
Thomas Maurer

Azure Arc has the ability to managed multi-cloud and on-premise. Join us on the second day of the Azure Hybrid Cloud Webinar Series to learn and discover how to manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure on your corporate network or other cloud providers, similar to how you manage native Azure virtual machines. When a hybrid machine is connected to Azure, it becomes a connected machine and is treated as a resource in Azure. Azure Arc provides you with the familiar cloud-native Azure management experience, like RBAC, Tags, Azure Policy, Log Analytics, and more.

 

Azure Stack Hardware Experience App (NDA until Ignite)
Thomas Maurer

As you know, Microsoft Ignite 2020 has gone virtual this year. We have some great sessions, engagement options, the Cloud Skills Challenge, and much more for you. However, one part I would have missed this year would have been the expo hall, where I could look at all the new Azure Stack hardware. That is why the Azure Stack team created a mobile app that allows you to look at Azure Stack hardware and new form factors through augmented reality (AR) in the comfort of your environment.

This app allows you to look at some of our Azure Stack hardware portfolio, including Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI, and the all-new Azure Stack Edge and Azure Stack Edge pro devices, running at the edge in your Hybrid Cloud environment.

 

Writing an Azure Function in node.js to implement a webhook
Integrating disparate systems can be a fiddly business. Find out how @Zegami developed an Azure Function App in node.js to create a serverless bridge between their CRM system and accounts API.

 

5 Reasons to go Serverless with Azure
At some point, you’ll need to hook up your mobile application to some database in the cloud and becoming a cloud engineer to do that would be quite overkill and really unnecessary when you can easily get the services of all cloud professionals by going serverless. Here are 5 reasons why you want to go serverless with the azure platform as a mobile applications developer.

 

Step-by-Step: How to deploy a container host with Windows Admin Center
Anthony Bartolo

Last week Microsoft released a new version of the Containers extension on Windows Admin Center. This release was focused on helping IT Admins getting their container hosts up and running without much effort. 

 

AzUpdate: Post Ignite recap, Responsible AI, Azure Auto Manage, Azure Resource Mover and more
Anthony Bartolo

Well Microsoft Ignite 2020 is over and while out Fitbit counters may not have captured as many steps as last year… it doesn’t mean that there wasn’t a plethora of Azure news shared.  Here are the headlines we are covering this week:  The IT Professional’s role in the Responsible use of AI, Azure Auto Manage for VMs, Move resources to another region with Azure Resource Mover, New Windows Virtual Desktop Capabilities, Hybrid Cloud announcements surrounding Azure Arc and Azure Stack as well as the Microsoft Learn module of the week.

 

Data Ingestion into Azure Data Explorer with Kafka Connect and Strimzi
Abhishek Gupta

In this blog, we will go over how to ingest data into Azure Data Explorer using the open source Kafka Connect Sink connector for Azure Data Explorer running on Kubernetes using Strimzi. Kafka Connect is a tool for scalably and reliably streaming data between Apache Kafka and other systems using source and sink connectors and Strimzi provides a “Kubernetes-native” way of running Kafka clusters as well as Kafka Connect workers.

 

Public Preview: Run Steeltoe .NET Applications in Azure Spring Cloud
Shayne Boyer

Earlier this month at SpringOne, we announced general availability of Azure Spring Cloud. Today we are bringing you another exciting update and launching the public preview of Steeltoe .NET application support in Azure Spring Cloud.  

 

Azure Stack Hardware Experience App
Thomas Maurer

As you know, Microsoft Ignite 2020 has gone virtual this year. We have some great sessions, engagement options, the Cloud Skills Challenge, and much more for you. However, one part I would have missed this year would have been the expo hall, where I could look at all the new Azure Stack hardware. That is why the Azure Stack team created a mobile app that allows you to look at Azure Stack hardware and new form factors through augmented reality (AR) in the comfort of your environment.

This app allows you to look at some of our Azure Stack hardware portfolio, including Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI, and the all-new Azure Stack Edge and Azure Stack Edge pro devices, running at the edge in your Hybrid Cloud environment.

Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – Byte
Thomas Maurer

Today, I want you to introduce you to Azure Stack Hub Partner Byte. Join our Australian partner Byte as we explore how they are using the Azure Stack products to simplify operations, accelerate workload deployment, and enable the teams to focus on creating value rather than “keeping the lights on”.

 

 

Docker image deploy: from VSCode to Azure in a click
Lucas Santos

In this article, we explore the newest integration between Azure and Docker CLI on VSCode!

 

CloudSkills.fm Podcast – Azure Architecture with Thomas Maurer
Thomas Maurer

In this episode we dive into Azure Architecture with Thomas Maurer. Learn about Enterprise Scale Landing Zones, Azure Bicep, the Well Architected Framework, and more.

Thomas Maurer works as a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. As part of the Azure engineering team (Cloud + AI), he engages with the community and customers around the world to share his knowledge and collect feedback to improve the Azure platform.

Calling all Unreal enthusiasts… help Kippy Escape!

Calling all Unreal enthusiasts… help Kippy Escape!

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Kippy the robot wakes up to find itself stranded on an island… and it’s up to you to solve a series of puzzles and help it find a path to its rocket ship! Kippy’s Escape is a new open source sample app for HoloLens 2, built with Unreal Engine 4 and Mixed Reality UX Tools for Unreal. It’s now available for download from the Microsoft Store; once you’ve played through, you also can check out the repository from GitHub and dig into how it was made.

 

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We built Kippy’s Escape to highlight Unreal Engine’s HoloLens 2 support, the HoloLens 2’s capabilities, and the UX components provided out-of-the-box by the Mixed Reality Toolkit. We wanted to inspire developers to imagine what they could create with Unreal and HoloLens 2. As such, we came up with three guiding principles for the experience: that it needed to be fun, interactive, and have a low barrier to entry. We wanted the experience to be intuitive enough that even a first-time mixed reality user wouldn’t need a tutorial to go through it.

 

Key HoloLens 2 features helped make the game feel fun. Eye tracking allowed us to fire off material and sound attributes, highlighting key pieces of the game without being too distracting or overwhelming. Spatial audio helped make the levels feel at home in the player’s surroundings. Being able to grab objects, push buttons and manipulate sliders engages the player in such innovative ways, it was important to make sure these connection points felt natural.

 

The Mixed Reality UX Tools plugin provided us with a set of extensible components to make the game interactive. Hand interaction actors enable both direct and far manipulation of holograms out-of-the-box. At the start of Kippy’s Escape, the user is given the opportunity to set the location of the game. Hand beams extending from the user’s palm make it easy to manipulate large holograms that are far away, like the placeholder scene. The scene is able to be dragged and rotated using UX Tools’ bounds control component. On the second island, the user must pick up gems with manipulators attached and place them in their matching slots. A slider component appears on the fourth island, triggering the final bridge to be raised.

 

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We hope you enjoy Kippy’s Escape, and better yet, that it inspires you to re-use and even build off the experience. We would love to see posts of your reactions to Kippy’s Escape, and even any spin-offs from the experience, on social media- that’s why we’ve open sourced it!

 

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For the full story of how Kippy’s Escape was made, check out this article.

New MSIX Pre-recorded sessions – Septemeber 2020

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Last week was the Microsoft Ignite 2020 digital event.  Along with the event we have a lot of new content on MSIX for IT Pros and developers.  Check out the new sessions below:

 

MSIX in the Enterprise – A state of the union for MSIX.  The MSIX platform is continuing to grow and adapting to customer needs. Let’s walk through what’s new in the past year for the MSIX platform and what it means for your enterprise.  We will also cover the plans upcoming for the MSIX platform.

 

Reduce developer friction with Azure Code Signing – Azure Code Signing is a service from Microsoft to enable developers and IT Pros to minimize the friction in code signing. The session will walk through the basics and importance of code signing and how Azure Code Signing will help reduce the challenges involved in signing your apps and code.

 

Using MSIX with CI/CD Pipelines for Code Changes – With MSIX and Azure DevOps you can go from making a code change in your repo to getting the updated release of your application on users’ machines in a matter of minutes. Join us for this demo-driven session as we demonstrate how to use MSIX CI/CD Pipelines to automate building, packaging, and deploying your desktop applications.

 

John Vintzel @jvintzel

Program Manager Lead, MSIX

 

New MSIX pre-recorded sessions – September 2020

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

Last week was the Microsoft Ignite 2020 digital event.  Along with the event we have a lot of new content on MSIX for IT Pros and developers.  Check out the new sessions below:

 

MSIX in the Enterprise – A state of the union for MSIX.  The MSIX platform is continuing to grow and adapting to customer needs. Let’s walk through what’s new in the past year for the MSIX platform and what it means for your enterprise.  We will also cover the plans upcoming for the MSIX platform.

 

Reduce developer friction with Azure Code Signing – Azure Code Signing is a service from Microsoft to enable developers and IT Pros to minimize the friction in code signing. The session will walk through the basics and importance of code signing and how Azure Code Signing will help reduce the challenges involved in signing your apps and code.

 

Using MSIX with CI/CD Pipelines for Code Changes – With MSIX and Azure DevOps you can go from making a code change in your repo to getting the updated release of your application on users’ machines in a matter of minutes. Join us for this demo-driven session as we demonstrate how to use MSIX CI/CD Pipelines to automate building, packaging, and deploying your desktop applications.

 

John Vintzel @jvintzel

Program Manager Lead, MSIX

 

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 87

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 87

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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 82 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Applications

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Ackee – Web Traffic Analytics on Ubuntu 18.04: This image offered by Tidal Media contains Ackee on Ubuntu 18.04. Ackee delivers self-hosted web analytics, enabling you to analyze the traffic of your sites without being tracked. Ackee has an API and a web interface, and it strikes a good balance between analytics and privacy.

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Advanced hMail Mail Server on Windows Server 2016: Specially hardened for Azure Marketplace, Tidal Media’s Advanced hMailServer image on Windows Server 2016 is fully configured for quick and easy deployment. It runs as a Windows service and supports IMAP, POP3, and SMTP email protocols.

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Advanced hMail Mail Server on Windows Server 2019: Specially hardened for Azure Marketplace, Tidal Media’s Advanced hMailServer image on Windows Server 2019 is fully configured for quick and easy deployment. It runs as a Windows service and supports IMAP, POP3, and SMTP email protocols.

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AhnLab CPP: AhnLab CPP is a centralized cloud workload protection platform that focuses on providing optimized protection, unified management, and flexibility for workloads in hybrid environments. It uses IPS/IDS, application control, and antivirus functionalities to protect Windows and Linux servers.

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Ampache – Music Streaming Server on Ubuntu 18.04: This image from Tidal Media contains Ampache on Ubuntu 18.04. Ampache enables you to maintain a simple, secure, and fast web front end that runs on PHP. Access music and videos from anywhere with an internet-enabled device.

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Arcserve Continuous Availability: Powered by asynchronous replication technology, Arcserve Continuous Availability delivers automatic failover and data protection for Windows and Linux applications and systems on-premises and in the cloud.

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AVEVA Unified Engineering: Unified Engineering on Microsoft Azure provides end-to-end integration of conceptual and front-end engineering design (FEED) into an environment that handles all process simulation and engineering (1D, 2D, and 3D) from one data hub with bidirectional information flow.

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AzuraCast – Web Radio Management Server on Ubuntu: This image offered by Tidal Media contains AzuraCast on Ubuntu. AzuraCast is an open-source web radio management suite. Get your radio station running in minutes, then manage your media, playlists, DJs, and more from a simple web interface.

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C3 Thermal Scanning Solutions: Driven by artificial intelligence, Twayne Communications’ C3 thermal scanning solutions offer quick, effective, and contactless detection of COVID-19 symptoms. Scanners support HIPAA compliance and tested for safety, security, and accuracy.

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ChainDoc: Based on a private server blockchain network where only document hashes are saved, ChainDoc ensures documents’ content, form, and time of publication remain unchanged. Meet the challenge of communicating with customers via a durable medium by using Atende’s ChainDoc.

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Checkingas: Checkingas on Microsoft Azure delivers visibility into fuel levels in propane and natural gas tanks. The solution also provides Microsoft Power BI dashboards that empower users to make data-driven decisions. This app is available only in Spanish.

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Claim Genius Free Trial: Claim Genius uses AI to assess auto damage, determine whether to repair or replace damaged parts, and predict total loss based on photos, enabling insurance carriers to speed up claims processing and significantly reduce loss adjustment expenses.

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Coding.Ai – Medical Coding Automation: Coding.Ai automates medical coding to help healthcare organizations cut costs and reduce administrative burdens. Decrease claim denials related to erroneous coding and gain greater insight into the coding process through a robust analytics dashboard with custom reporting.

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Compliance Recording AI Analysis Microsoft Teams: AGAT Software Development’s SphereShield for Microsoft Teams performs audio and video analysis on recorded meetings for data-loss prevention and e-discovery needs. Featuring advanced AI and NLP analytics, SphereShield can transcribe audio to more than 70 languages.

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Cosmos Forms Return to Work Offer: Cosmos Forms’ Return to Work offer provides customers a rapidly deployable, easy-to-use mobile solution to screen and check in employees and visitors to support their organization’s return-to-work processes and protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Covid-19 Workforce Wellness: BroadReach Consulting’s COVID-19 Workforce Wellness solution on Microsoft Azure monitors the daily health of employees to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the workplace and beyond. Employees answer a simple five-question survey every day to be evaluated for infection.

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CT-SAP-Chatbot: Account Manager Bot is a smart chatbot that incorporates functionalities from SAP and Salesforce, enabling users to check on account receivables and invoices just by entering a client’s name rather than logging in to SAP and carrying out additional steps.

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eDiscovery and Archiving for Microsoft Teams: AGAT Software Development’s SphereShield for Microsoft Teams offers a next-generation archive and e-discovery solution that captures all content and makes it searchable via a variety of parameters.

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Eventador Platform: Using SQL with Apache Flink, Eventador on Microsoft Azure provides data scientists and analysts with a robust platform for quickly and securely processing vast amounts of real-time and streaming data using simple data APIs.

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Factory Insights as a Service: Factory Insights as a Service is a SaaS-based cloud solution that allows manufacturers to improve the impact, speed, and scale of their digital transformation initiatives. PTC’s lean, accelerated approach vastly reduces setup, integration, and validation efforts.

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Filezilla On Windows Server 2016: Cognosys offers a hardened, enterprise-ready image of Filezilla on Windows Server 2016. Filezilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, SFTP, and FTPS file management tool that helps users quickly move files between computers and web servers.

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Filezilla On Windows Server 2019: Cognosys offers a hardened, enterprise-ready image of Filezilla on Windows Server 2019. Filezilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, SFTP, and FTPS file management tool that helps users quickly move files between computers and web servers.

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FUJITSU Manufacturing Industry Solution COLMINA V2: COLMINA accelerates manufacturers’ digital transformation by implementing a three-layer structure that provides overall optimization of manufacturing processes via a cyberphysical system (CPS). This app is available only in Japanese.

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Funkwhale – Music Sharing Server for Ubuntu 18.04: Get rapid access to your favorite playlists, tracks, and artists with Tidal Media’s hardened image of Funkwhale on Ubuntu 18.04. Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen to and share music in an open, decentralized network.

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GDS Collaboration Platform: The GDS Collaboration Platform from Samsung SDS facilitates collaboration and communication by using large, high-resolution GDS files (200+ GB) that include all related information. It supports various chip/mask layout formats and simultaneous visualization for multiple users.

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Gift & Entertainment Registration: Based on the Microsoft Power Platform, CSI Interfusion’s Gift & Entertainment Registration solution helps properly manage and maintain good employee-client relationships. It digitizes gift receipt, approval, and declaration processes to help prevent bribery and conflicts of interest.

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Gitbucket – Plan Projects, Code, Test, and Deploy: Tidal Media’s image of Gitbucket, a web-based version control repository hosting service for source code and development projects, features a GitHub-like user interface, Git repository hosting via HTTP and SSH, a repository viewer, a wiki, and a plug-in system.

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HR Onboarding Bridge to Office 365, Azure AD or AD: Aquera’s HR Onboarding Bridge imports employee information from human resource management system apps to Office 365, Active Directory, and Azure Active Directory. Automate hiring, terminations, rehires, and more with HR Onboarding Bridge.

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ICONICS Suite 10.96: ICONICS provides automation software solutions that visualize, historicize, analyze, and mobilize real-time information for any application on any device. ICONICS Suite 10.96 includes the GENESIS64, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX Suite, and MMX automation solutions.

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iEdge: Advantech’s iEdge drives effective equipment management for optimized productivity. It provides equipment connectivity with standard industrial protocol support (Modbus, OPC-UA, ODBC, etc.) and a user-friendly interface for equipment status monitoring and management.

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InCyber TPIT – True prediction of insider threats: InCyber’s True Prediction of Insider Threats (TPIT) solution on Microsoft Azure provides an ongoing risk ranking for all employees, contractors, consultants, and so on, enabling CEOs or CSOs to take preventive measures to avoid major losses to their organization.

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Infosys SAP S/4HANA – Intelligent Order Creation: The SAP S/4HANA – Intelligent Order Creation solution uses the Azure Cognitive Services Form Recognizer to extract information from incoming documents, apply machine learning algorithms to it, and present data in the form of key-value pairs.

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Inventory Count Auditing Application: ISYX Technologies’ Inventory Count Auditing application helps organizations match their physical inventory count with the inventory availability in their ERP system. Ensure proper forecasting and better inventory management while reducing costs.

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iSpring Suite Full Services Business License: iSpring Suite on Microsoft Azure extends PowerPoint to allow for rapid e-course authoring, enabling users to easily develop quality courses, videos, lectures, and assessments that work on any device.

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JetPatch 4.0.1: JetPatch provides end-to-end vulnerability remediation by automating the patch management process. Execute patch rollout workflows by endpoint groups and maintenance windows, and eliminate patch blind spots with discovery of devices, operating systems, and apps across your organization.

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Localization for Serbia: This extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central supports Serbian legal requirements, including VAT forms, VAT books (issued/received invoices), and more. The advanced pack features integration with banks, modified prepayment invoices, and credit memos.

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LOMT Pool Testing: Laboratory Optimizer for Mass Testing (LOMT) is laboratory software to manage COVID-19 pool testing. It allows a lab to test two to 30 as many people by reducing the quantity of assays, reagents, and time spent on each test.

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Navidrome – Streaming Media Server on Ubuntu: This ready-to-run image from Tidal Media contains Navidrome on Ubuntu. Navidrome lets you stream your music from any browser or mobile device. Easily share your music and playlists with your friends and family.

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Nodejs On Windows Server 2016: This image offered by Cognosys contains Node.js on Windows Server 2016. Node.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

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Nodejs On Windows Server 2019: This image offered by Cognosys contains Node.js on Windows Server 2019. Node.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

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OBS On Windows Server 2016: This image offered by Cognosys contains OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio on Windows Server 2016. OBS Studio is open-source software for video recording and live streaming that allows you to use native plug-ins for high-performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python.

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OBS On Windows Server 2019: This image offered by Cognosys contains OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio on Windows Server 2019. OBS Studio is open-source software for video recording and live streaming that allows you to use native plug-ins for high-performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python.

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OpeNgine DevOps Accelerator: OpeNgine, a DevOps accelerator for Microsoft Azure infrastructure and continuous integration/continuous delivery, offers out-of-the-box deployment architectures and integrations. Accomplish the full DevOps lifecycle with a smaller team, less expertise, less complexity, and higher margins.

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Passport 360 – Client Package Transact: Made for large-scale enterprises in high-risk environments, Passport 360 helps clients manage complex health and safety regulations, streamlining compliance and onboarding processes. Passport 360 integrates with the APIs of all major ERP, supply chain, safety, and HR applications.

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Pritunl – Self-hosted VPN Server on Ubuntu 18.04: This ready-to-run image offered by Tidal Media contains Pritunl on Ubuntu. Pritunl is an enterprise VPN server that allows you to virtualize your private networks across datacenters and provide local network access to remote users.

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RetailHarvest: Through analytics and business intelligence, retailHARVEST reduces the loss of sales due to inventory shortages and reduces the cost of extra inventory due to poor distribution of products. This app is available in Spanish.

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SaaS Cloud Based LMS iSpring Learn: Move to virtual classrooms and deliver corporate training with iSpring Learn, an easy-to-use e-learning platform. iSpring Learn supports 11 languages, screen sharing, online meetings, reports in XLSX format, and more.

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SenservaPro: Made for Microsoft Azure administrators and Azure security auditors, the SenservaPro scanner locates security configuration concerns, ranks security risks, and helps you safeguard Office 365 migrations.

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Smart Survey – feedback simplified and organized: Make surveys more enjoyable for your customers with Smart Survey, which features status indicators and a hassle-free experience. Multidevice compatibility enables users to access Smart Survey from any device or platform, and dual input feedback helps you identify the quality of survey responses.

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Sonerezh – Music Broadcasting Server for Ubuntu: This image offered by Tidal Media contains Sonerezh on Ubuntu. Sonerezh is a self-hosted audio streaming application that lets users access their music from a web browser. Sonerezh features auto-transcoding to mp3 and automatic metadata extraction and file import.

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Squid On Windows Server 2016: This image offered by Cognosys contains Squid on Windows Server 2016. Squid is a content accelerator used by thousands of websites around the world to ease the load on their servers.

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Squid On Windows Server 2019: This image offered by Cognosys contains Squid on Windows Server 2019. Squid is a content accelerator used by thousands of websites around the world to ease the load on their servers.

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Streama 1.9.1 – Media Streaming on LINUX Centos 7: Tidal Media offers a preconfigured, ready-to-run image of Streama 1.9.1 on CentOS 7. Streama is a powerful and easy-to-use streaming application and file manager, with features including a built-in media player, batch file operations, and media metadata.

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SymbioSys eApplication-as-a-Service: SymbioSys eApplication-as-a-Service enables insurers to easily configure and customize electronic application forms for the needs of life, annuity, pension, and health insurance carriers, along with the necessary regulatory compliance.

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SymbioSys Underwriting-as-a-Service: Designed for global insurance underwriting needs, SymbioSys Underwriting-as-a-Service on Microsoft Azure improves your organization’s underwriting efficiency by facilitating informed decision-making for quick policy issuance.

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Teradata Data Stream Controller VM: The Teradata Data Stream Controller virtual machine provides administrative functions and metadata storage for the Data Stream Utility and is a key component of the backup and restore functionality of Teradata systems on Microsoft Azure.

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timeghost: Designed for Office 365, timeghost tracks project time and reminds users of all their daily Office 365 activities. timeghost is installed directly in Microsoft Teams and provides a feed that ensures users don’t forget even the smallest task.

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Veso Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: This preconfigured image of Veso Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from Tidal Media offers a quick and easy way to move your media storage to the cloud. The ad-free, open-source media server features media transcoding, a media player, and more.

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Welch Allyn RetinaVue Care Delivery Model: The Welch Allyn RetinaVue care delivery model from Hillrom helps primary healthcare providers preserve the vision of patients living with diabetes and achieve the “triple aim” of healthcare: improved patient satisfaction, improved population health, and reduced per-capita costs.

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Work Resumption Solution: Built on the Microsoft Power Platform, CSI Interfusion’s Work Resumption solution enables organizations to collect data for insights into employee health status, resource allocation, and more. Drive informed decision-making and keep workers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Zegami Image Analysis & Annotation: Transact: Zegami is an AI-enabled image analysis platform for scientific and medical imaging. It combines advanced analysis tools with a unique visualization interface, enabling users to rapidly categorize, label, and clean large image datasets.

Consulting services

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Azure AI in a Day – 1 Day workshop: In this workshop from FyrSoft, you’ll find out how to build machine learning models, bots, and AI-infused apps. You’ll also discover new ways to use Microsoft Azure AI, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Search, and more.

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Azure Cloud Adoption Discovery – 4 week Assessment: Whether you’re looking to bring some in-house servers to the cloud or digitize paper-based processes, RedBit Development will determine how your organization can use Microsoft Azure to modernize and optimize your business.

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Azure Cloud Migration: 1 wk Assessment: Murdock Martin Consulting’s assessment, aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, will provide a solid foundation for customers migrating enterprise workloads to Azure.

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Azure Customer Data Platform 8-Week Workshop: This engagement from Computer Enterprises Inc. will demonstrate how you can use Microsoft Azure to combine data ingestion, cleanup, storage, security, and big data analytics. Computer Enterprises Inc. will develop an initial custom data analytics product to prove immediate value.

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Azure Governance CIE: 4 Hour Workshop: Save money on your Microsoft Azure resources with TechStar Consulting Inc.’s workshop, which will focus on governance and security controls. You’ll learn about subscription management, cost governance, role-based access control, disaster recovery options, and more.

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Vision AI Made Simple by New Azure IoT Central Template

Vision AI Made Simple by New Azure IoT Central Template

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

We just made building video analytics solutions simpler from edge to cloud with a new Azure IoT Central application template. This application template integrates Azure Live Video analytics video inferencing pipeline and OpenVINO™ AI Inference server by Intel® to build an end to end solution in a few hrs.

The number of IP cameras is projected to reach 1 billion (globally) by 2021. Traditionally, these types of cameras are used for security and surveillance. With the advent of video AI, businesses increasingly want to use their cameras to extract insights that help improve their profitability and automate (or semi-automate) their business processes. Such video analytics applied to live video streams help businesses react to real-time events and derive new business insights by observing trends over time.

Building a video analytics solution involves multiple complicated phases. This is relatively elaborate instrumentation that requires significant technical expertise and time. These solutions typically start with setting up new cameras or leveraging existing IP cameras for video traffic. IP cameras are versatile devices that support comprehensive configuration and management based on ONVIF standards. Once the IP cameras are set up, you need to ingest the video feeds, process the video, and prepare frames for analysis using inference servers that use specific AI models. These inference servers must be highly performant so that the solution can scale to dozens of cameras at any facility. The results from video analytics need to be collected and stored along with the relevant video for business applications to consume.

Using the new Azure IoT Central application template you can design, define, deploy, scale, and manage a live video analytics solution within hours. Video analytics template supports object and motion detection scenarios with key value propositions, as shown in the following illustration.

 

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Figure 1. Customer & Partner value proposition from Video Analytics – Object and Motion detection app template

 

In our mission to democratize video analytics, Microsoft and Intel collaborated to build end-to-end video analytics solutions using IoT Central. These solutions leverage:

  • Live Video Analytics on IoT Edge (LVA) to capture, record, and analyze live video. LVA is a platform for building AI-based video solutions and applications that include AI applications to live video. You can generate real-time business insights from live video streams, process data near the source to minimize latency and bandwidth requirements and apply the AI models of your choice. LVA provides a flexible programming model to design live video workflows and defines an extensibility model for integrating with inference servers. This frees you up to focus development efforts on the business outcome rather than setting up and operating a complex, live video pipeline.
  • For real-time analysis of live video feeds, the video pipeline leverages OpenVINO™ Model Server (OVMS), an inference server that’s highly optimized for AI vision workloads and developed for Intel® architectures. OVMS is powered by OpenVINO™ toolkit, a high-performance inference engine optimized for Intel® hardware on the Edge. An extension has been added to OVMS for easy exchange of video frames and inference results between the inference server and LVA, thus empowering you to run any OpenVINO™ toolkit supported model, and select from the wide variety of acceleration mechanisms provided by Intel® hardware. These include CPUs (Atom, Core, Xeon), FPGAs, VPUs.
  • Azure IoT Central is a platform for rapidly building enterprise-grade IoT applications on a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. IoT Central simplifies the initial setup of your IoT solution and reduces the management burden, operational costs, and overhead of a typical IoT project. This enables you to apply your resources and unique domain expertise to solving customer needs and creating business value, rather than needing to tackle the mechanics of operating, managing, securing, and scaling a global IoT solution.

The IoT Central application template brings the goodness of Azure IoT Central, Live Video Analytics, and Intel components integration to enable building scalable solutions in a few hrs. as described in tutorials

 

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Figure 2. Block diagram of Video Analytics – Object and Motion Detection app template

 

The app template stitches the following components, 

  1. Cloud Services – IoT Central Video Analytics Application Template to stich the end-end solution & Azure Media Services for video snippet storage
  2. Edge Modules – Video processing pipeline (Live Video Analytics), hardware optimized OpenVINO™ AI Inference server by Intel, IoT Central gateway module to for protocol & identify translation of RTSP & Camera, RTSP Server (Live 555) for pre-recorded video strams
  3. Connecting & managing IP Camera, RTSP streams and AI module configuration

The IoT Central application template natively provides device operators view for object and motion detection scenarios, as shown in the following illustration.

 

 

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Figure 3. Dashboard from IoT Central template for Video Analytics – Object & Motion Detection

 

The dashboard in the new Video Analytics – Object & Motion Detection template for IoT Central is shown above. The template requires,

  1. IP cameras (any IP cameras that support RTSP on the ONVIF conformant products page devices that conform with profiles G, S, or T), or You can leverage simulated video stream that we ship as part of this template for demonstrations. 
  2. Linux server powered by your choice of Intel® acceleration technology (CPUs such as Atom, Core, Xeon, or FPGAs, or VPUs)
  3. Azure subscription to host relevant cloud services.

 

Don’t forget to check out the IoT Show episode  for application template details.  
ASK: Try out our comprehensive tutorial that will walk you through the creation of a Video Analytics solution in just a few hours.

 

Get started today

  1. You can use the new Video Analytics for Object & Motion Detection template to build and deploy your live video analytics solution.
  2. You can build Video Analytics solution within hours by leveraging Azure IoT Central, Live Video Analytics, and Intel.
  3. You can learn more about Live Video Analytics on IoT Edge here, and try out some of the other video analytics scenarios via the quickstarts and tutorials here. These show you how you can leverage open source AI models such as those in the Open Model Zoo repository or YOLOv3, or custom models that you have built, to analyze live video.
  4. You can learn more about the OpenVINO™ Inference server by Intel® in Azure marketplace  and its underlying technologies here. You can access developer kits to learn how to accelerate edge workloads using Intel®-based accelerators CPUs, iGPUs, VPUs and FPGAs. You can select from a wide range of AI Models from Open Model Zoo