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Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure portal for Log Analytics – 03/04 – Investigating
Initial Update: Thursday, 04 March 2021 14:50 UTCWe are aware of issues within Log Analytics and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience Data access issues and missed or delayed alerts in WestUS2 regionWork Around: NoneNext Update: Before 03/04 17:00...
Caught in a bad romance
It’s day four of National Consumer Protection Week and we’ve been discussing ways we can look out for each other during the pandemic. Today’s topic – romance scams. Check out and share this short video. Beyond the job losses and economic fallout of the...
Considerations of Data Partitioning on Spark during Data Loading on Clustered Columnstore Index
Authors: Sumit Sarabhai and Ravinder Singh Reviewers: Arvind Shyamsundar, Denzil Ribeiro, Davide Mauri, Mohammad Kabiruddin, Mukesh Kumar, and Narendra Angane INTRODUCTION Bulk load methods on SQL Server are by default serial, for example, one BULK INSERT...
Windows Admin Center Capabilities
Windows Admin Center is a tool I wish I had had when I was managing servers. When the tool was first announced in 2017 under the name Project “Honolulu”, I was intrigued. I was working for a managed service provider at the time and was mostly focusing on...
Experiencing Data Access issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 03/04 – Investigating
Initial Update: Thursday, 04 March 2021 07:16 UTCWe are aware of issues within Application Insights and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience intermittent data gaps and incorrect alert activation in US Gov Virginia region.Work Around: NoneNext...
Long-term backup retention on Azure SQL Managed Instance
Many applications have regulatory, compliance, or other business purposes that require you to retain database backups beyond the 7-35 days provided by Azure SQL Managed Instance automated backups. By using the long-term retention (LTR) feature, you can store...
Download baselines from Community hub in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 2103
Update 2103 for the Technical Preview Branch of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager has been released. Community hub now supports contributing and downloading configuration baselines including the child configuration items. This integration allows administrators...
Organize Business glossary terms using hierarchies.
Azure Purview aims to enable effortless discovery of data by data consumers from across the organization. But for data consumers to meaningfully reason over the data, it must be consistently defined. This is where a business glossary can help. When we announced...
Resources for Getting Started with Mixed Reality for Unity
Following the announcement of Microsoft Mesh, our Cloud Advocacy team received an abundance of requests for more information on how to get started with Mixed Reality. Fortunately, this is an area our Cloud Advocacy team specializes in helping the community! But...
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.2
We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 2.1.2. The update addresses several issues that are important to our customers. Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.2 include: FixedFixed issue connecting with instance name from a...
MCAS Ninja Training has been updated!
The Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) Ninja Training March 2021 update is Here! Check it out at http://aka.ms/mcasninja! Feedback Let us know if you have any feedback or relevant use cases/requirements for this portion of Cloud App Security by...
MCAS Data Protection Blog Series: MCAS DLP Walk-Through
MCAS DLP Walk-Through March 2021 Hi everyone! Welcome to the fourth blog of my MCAS Data Protection Blog Series! If this is your first time seeing this blog, check out my landing page for some more information about me and links to previous blogs!...
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