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How to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster
This article contains a few recommendations for reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. If you want to minimize the number of unused cores, you can use the following general guidelines to improve the density of your...
Voices of Healthcare Cloud – 2022 Lookback
Voices of Healthcare Cloud is a webinar series that showcases how Healthcare is seeing positive business and clinical outcomes with cloud technology. We bring new and creative solutions to you at least once a month, so we hope you tune in live or catch the on-demand...
Lesson Learned #264: Python and PyODBC error messages.
Today, I worked on a service request that our customer got several issues that I would like to share with you my findings here. 1) pyodbc.Error: ('HY000', '[HY000] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Connection is busy with results for another command (0)...
Azure Boards – Organize and Plan All of Your Work
In our daily work we constantly encounter what I like to call ‘The Time Thieves.’ These are the things that take away our ability to be proactive in our day-to-day job. They are the reasons we fall behind in our work and can’t always meet delivery dates. I’ve listed...
CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise....
Lesson Learned #263:Mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server in DBMail
Several days ago, I worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message: The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using XXX. Exception Message: 1) Exception Information ===================...
Lesson Learned #262: Database Wait Stats and Log Analytics.
Yesterday, we received a question from our customer that needs to know if it is possible to receive an email or alert about the main database wait stats usage for performance monitoring. Following, I would like to share an example how to do it. Once we have enabled...
Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 19, 2022
mozilla -- multiple_products An OAuth session fixation vulnerability existed in the VPN login flow, where an attacker could craft a custom login URL, convince a VPN user to login via that URL, and obtain authenticated access as that user. This issue is limited to...
Azure Marketplace new offers – December 27, 2022
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 103 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace AnalyticVue: AnalyticVue delivers a secure, Azure-based...
Software Installation Using Machine Configuration and Azure Policy
I did a post a while ago on installing software onto virtual machines using policy state change events as the trigger. Now with the general availability of Azure Automanage Machine Configuration (formerly Azure Policy Guest Configuration) it’s time for a bit of an...
Polls app in Teams meeting – FAQs
What’s the difference between ‘Poll’, ‘Polls’ and ‘Forms’ app in Teams? Poll, Polls, and Forms are 3 different apps (icon shown below) for the polling experience in the context of Teams meetings. App Name Icon Description Polls (plural) Polls app is dedicated for...
Lesson Learned #258: Python vs Connection Refused with Login timeout expired
Today, I worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message using Python code: pyodbc.OperationalError: ('HYT00', '[HYT00] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Login timeout expired (0) (SQLDriverConnect)'). I would like to share with...
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