by Contributed | Aug 11, 2022 | Technology
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We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. Given the significant number of new solutions, we want to acknowledge the top 10 most widely used solutions on monthly bases and to provide quick update on the following roadmap items.
Here are the latest roadmap items around SharePoint Framework and store:
- SharePoint Framework 1.16 in autumn 2022 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint
- Native support of Microsoft Teams JavaScript SDK v2 for SPFx solutions
- Viva Connections product type in AppSource for easier acquire of the Viva apps to your environment – no ETA
- Support for SharePoint Framework solutions in the Microsoft Teams store – no ETA
- Support SharePoint Framework extensibility for list and library new, edit and view panels
- and more…
We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
These are the most widely used solutions and their providers last month:
Ichicraft Widgets: Your Digital Workplace
Ichicraft Widgets allows users to personalize their digital workplace in SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. It offers the user a canvas that can be filled with configurable widgets (blocks) that clearly display up-to-date and personalized information. This increases the productivity and involvement of employees in the organization.
Solution details:
Bitalus-StockQuotes
Show Stock information on your SharePoint Homepage with a couple of clicks. The Stock Quotes Web Part displays the configured stock information with display options. The integrated Field Template offers great flexibility to define your own look and feel. For static monitors, the integrated “Autorefresh” function offers the ability to configure an update interval in minutes. This way, the stock information will stay up to date without any page refresh.
Solution details:
Navigator 365 – Sharepointalist, Inc.
SharePoint & Teams content aggregation with search, grouping and filtering. Navigator 365 for Teams & SharePoint displays aggregated content with rich search, grouping, filtering, and layout capabilities. This versatile app works as a SharePoint web part, Microsoft Teams tab and Microsoft Teams personal app.
Solution details:
Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint
Ensure your internal communications are seen with SharePoint push alerts and newsfeed. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint simplifies your labyrinth of essential content into an easily navigable widget. Cross-channel performance metrics and customizable dashboards are included.
Solution details:
Employee Directory Plus – Support | HR365
SharePoint Employee Directory Plus is free, fully featured 30 days trial for one office 365 tenant upto 999 users. Employee Directory Plus displays information of employees in the organization in visually manner and allows you to find any user in fraction of seconds with various filters to select, departments, skills, Job title, manager, location, etc. It helps in retrieving important information on the fly. Now it comes multiple options to exclude users, enhanced performance and new fields i.e. date of joining, date of birth, etc.
Solution details:
HM Munich GmbH – Table of Contents
Dieses WebPart hilft Ihnen qualitativ hochwertige Dokumentationen zu erstellen. Die Modern Pages sind ideal für Ihre Dokumentation von Inhalten (als eine Art Wikipedia) im Office 365. Ohne ein Inhaltsverzeichnis ist der Überblick schnell verloren.
Solution details:
Modern FAQ
The Modern FAQ app provides users a better way to search for the answers to the questions they have in mind. It also helps the organizations to prepare the frequently asked questions, and answers categorized and presented to the users in a readable and most understandable format.
With a clean, user-friendly interface, users or employees can find the relevant information at the right time. The grouping of questions and answers will help the users to find the answers more effectively.
Solution details:
Image Map – APPS 365 LTD
Supercharge your processes and navigation by using any image to deliver interactive visual content. Create hotspot navigation with image maps. Create eye catching and interactive images with clickable regions to supercharge navigation with the Image Maps Web Part. Offer a more intuitive interface and add life to your site.
Description
Solution details:
Qualtrics Feedback
Add a way for your employees to easily give you feedback from within Viva Connections. Easily add a card to your Viva Connections surface to allow your employees to give you feedback in their flow of work. This card will link to your survey and let your employees know when feedback is due.
This Add-in requires a Qualtrics Employee Experience License.
What is Qualtrics Employee Experience?
The Qualtrics Employee Experience suite allows you to:
- Fix problems before they become part of your culture through predictive analytics.
- Go beyond measurement. Drive immediate change through automated actions.
- Transform experiences across the entire employee lifecycle.
Solution details:
My Links – Dalikoo
My Links is a SharePoint app where you can add and manage your web links through an intuitive interface. The links can point to locations across your Microsoft 365 environment as well as any web site on the Internet.
After installing My Links in a SharePoint page and adding your links, you can also install the My Links web part in another location and your original links will be available to you at the new location. My Links can be installed in multiple SharePoint locations, always providing you quick access to your original links list. Furthermore, you can update your links using the same intuitive interface from any location where the app is installed.
Solution details:
Resources
Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework.
Happy coding! ?
by Contributed | Aug 10, 2022 | Technology
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Today Data Exposed goes live at 9AM PT on LearnTV. Every 4 weeks, we’ll do a News Update. We’ll include product updates, videos, blogs, etc. as well as upcoming events and things to look out for. If you missed the episode, you can find them all at https://aka.ms/AzureSQLYT. This month we’ll recap all the updates and announcements in the database space July.
You can read this blog to get all the updates and references mentioned in the show. Here’s the August 2022 update:
By the way, this was a special episode, because we filmed it live, for the first time in over two years, from the studios on Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA! If you missed the live stream, you won’t want to miss this in-person action: https://aka.ms/AzureSQLYT. Here are some of the references from our awesome guests:
- SQL Server 2022 (CTP 2.1 available!), Bob Ward
- Azure SQL Database, Davide Mauri and Drew Skwiers-Koballa
- SQL Server on Azure SQL VM, Mohamed Kabiruddin:
- Microsoft Purview, Daniel Perlovsky
Product updates
We technically discussed this in the last update, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw the important announcement and that is SQL Server 2012 has reached end of support. Please see the blog to see the four options you have if you find yourself with SQL Server 2012 instances.
The other big update (apart from the updates already covered by our guests) is the general availability of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance. This new hardware is what led to the study by Principled Technologies which shows how Azure SQL Managed Instance significantly outperformed Amazon RDS. Offering between double and five times the performance depending on workload, the three SQL Managed Instances tested also offer better price/performance by as much as 90.3%. The new hardware is available across different service tiers and might offer you more storage and more memory per vCore if you need it.
Other database updates
Starting in 2022 we’re trying to keep you updated on what’s going on with other database services at Microsoft, as we understand that oftentimes you’re using more than one service. Here are the updates I gathered from July 2022.
Videos
We continued to release new and exciting episodes this month. Here is the list, or you can just see the playlist we created with all the episodes!
- Daniel Perlovsky: How to explore your data estate using the Microsoft Purview data catalog
- [MVP Edition] Wolfgang Strasser: Track your data supply chain using Azure Purview
- Aditi Gupta: Backup and Restore your Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server workload
- Pieter Vanhove: Bringing the power of blockchain to Azure SQL Database and SQL Server with ledger
- [SQL Insider Series] Stephen Giles: Azure SQL DB – Automating scale up and down
We’ve also had some great Data Exposed Live sessions. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see them all and get notified when we stream. Here are some of the recent live streams.
- May the 4th be with Azure SQL (News Updates): this was a Star Wars-themed episode and it was so fun! Check it out for costumes, themed demos and slides, and fun!
- Azure SQL & SQL Server 2022: Intelligent Database Futures
- Azure SQL News Update: 2021 Year in Review
- Welcome to SQL Server 2022 Live!
Blogs
As always, our team is busy writing blogs to share with you all. Blogs contain announcements, tips and tricks, deep dives, and more. Here’s the list I have of SQL-related topics you might want to check out.
- Azure Blog, data-related
- Microsoft SQL Server Blog
- SQL Server Tech Community
- Azure SQL Tech Community
- Azure Database Support (SQL-related posts)
Events
We have several in-person and virtual events coming in the next couple months. Here are a few to put on your calendar and register for from the Azure Data team:
August 8-12: Visual Studio Live!, Microsoft HQ
September 19-22: Data Platform Summit, Virtual
September 24: Data Saturday Dallas
October 1: Data Saturday Atlanta
And, if you can’t make it to our events, find new, on-demand Data Exposed episodes released every Thursday at https://aka.ms/dataexposedyt
Microsoft Learn module of the month
Jumping the gun on the pick of the month, but in the case that any of you are newer to Azure SQL, it’s been a long time since I highlighted the Introduction to Azure SQL module. In this module, you’ll start with a brief history of why and how Microsoft built Azure SQL. You’ll then learn about the various deployment options and service tiers, including what to use for your organization, and when. These options include Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine. Understanding what platform as a service (PaaS) encompasses and how it compares to a traditional SQL Server environment will help you understand what you do and don’t get when you move to the cloud.
Anna’s pick of the month!
OK this month my pick of the month is a new thing I’m dipping my toes into on TikTok. The goal is to start sharing database tips in a short, consumable fashion while I walk my dog. Check it out, follow along, and let me know what you think! It’s running on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@analyticanna), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/analytic.anna/reels/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/AnalyticAnna).
Until next time…
That’s it for now! Be sure to check back next month for the latest updates on LearnTV. We also release new episodes on Thursdays at 9AM PT and new #MVPTuesday episodes on the last Tuesday of every month at 9AM PT at aka.ms/DataExposedyt.
Having trouble keeping up? Be sure to follow us on twitter to get the latest updates on everything, @AzureSQL.
We hope to see you next time, on Data Exposed :)
–Anna and Marisa
by Contributed | Aug 9, 2022 | Technology
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Microsoft has released security updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in:
- Exchange Server 2013
- Exchange Server 2016
- Exchange Server 2019
IMPORTANT: Updates are released in a self-extracting auto-elevating .exe package. Please see this post for more information. Older version of update packages can be downloaded from Microsoft Update Catalog.
These SUs are available for the following specific builds of Exchange Server:
The SUs address vulnerabilities responsibly reported to Microsoft by security partners and found through Microsoft’s internal processes. Although we are not aware of any active exploits in the wild, our recommendation is to immediately install these updates to protect your environment.
These vulnerabilities affect Exchange Server. Exchange Online customers are already protected from the vulnerabilities addressed in these SUs and do not need to take any action other than updating any Exchange servers in their environment.
More details about specific CVEs can be found in the Security Update Guide (filter on Exchange Server under Product Family).
Manual enablement of Windows Extended Protection
Addressing some of CVEs released this month requires admins to enable Windows Extended protection on your Exchange servers. To help you enable this feature, we have developed a script for this process. Please carefully evaluate your environment and review all known issues mentioned in the script documentation before enabling Windows Extended protection on your Exchange servers.
Please note that enabling Extended Protection (EP) is only supported on specific versions of Exchange (please see documentation for full list of prerequisites).
The current version of this script can be found at https://aka.ms/ExchangeEPScript and the documentation is at https://aka.ms/ExchangeEPDoc. For script and documentation changes and suggestions, please engage with us via GitHub to ensure proper issue and change tracking. The script provided to enable Extended Protection will automatically perform an automatic update if the computer on which it is executed has an internet connection (direct or via proxy). However, if you don’t have internet access, make sure to download the latest version of the script as we are continuously improving it.
It is important that you fully understand Windows Extended Protection prerequisites and all known issues before running the script in your environment. Enabling Extended Protection affects communication between your Exchange servers and between clients and servers.
Update installation
Update paths available:
Inventory your Exchange Servers / determine which updates are needed
Use the Exchange Server Health Checker script (use the latest release) to inventory your servers. Running this script will tell you if any of your Exchange Servers are behind on updates (CUs and SUs).
Update to the latest Cumulative Update
Go to https://aka.ms/ExchangeUpdateWizard and choose your currently running CU and your target CU to get directions for your environment.
If you encounter errors during or after installation of Exchange Server updates
If you encounter errors during installation, see the SetupAssist script. If something does not work properly after updates, see Repair failed installations of Exchange Cumulative and Security updates.
Known issues with this release
We are not aware of any known issues with this release.
FAQs
My organization is in Hybrid mode with Exchange Online. Do I need to do anything?
While Exchange Online customers are already protected, the August 2022 SUs do need to be installed on your on-premises Exchange servers, even if they are used only for management purposes. You do not need to re-run the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) after installing updates.
Do I need to install the updates on ‘Exchange Management Tools only’ workstations?
Servers or workstations running only the Management Tools role (no Exchange services) do not need these updates.
NOTE: This post might receive future updates; they will be listed here (if available).
The Exchange Server Team
by Contributed | Aug 9, 2022 | Business, Microsoft 365, Technology
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Today, we’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of OneDrive. We’re excited to share even more features to help you access everything you need, whether you’re working alone on a project, collaborating with your team, or sharing photos and videos with your family.
The post OneDrive turns 15: Delivering new and intuitive experiences appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.
Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.
by Contributed | Aug 8, 2022 | Technology
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Make Insightful decisions with Social Media Analytics
Problem Statement
Imagine you are a product developer for a healthcare company who wants to find trending topics around your recently developed product. Or, you are a researcher for a company who wants to search around what is trending on the market to come up with new innovative product(s)..
You’ll first need to find a way to scrape different news sites and search popular social media platform, like Twitter, to find trending topics.
Also imagine, after all the scraping the company wants to map relevant geolocations, search through hashtags, find authors, translate languages in real-time and even run text analytics to retrieve sentiment analysis. Now you want to show this on a dashboard to make a case for your research to your business executive!
Possible solution…
In order to create this solution from scratch you’d need to create some sort of a web application to go and fetch different news sites (e.g. News API). Then authenticate/authorize yourself with Twitter and hit Twitter’s search endpoints. Store all this data and use it to hit the Bing Maps endpoint, then hit the Azure Cognitive Services to run translation and text analytics. Then, finally wrap it all up with mapping all the information on to the dashboard and visualize the result in PowerBI!
That’s a lot of time spent on development, integration, and design to get to the finished solution.
Enter… Social Media Analytics Solution!
Checkout the Github repo: microsoft/Azure-Social-Media-Analytics-Solution-Accelerator (github.com)
There will be a follow-up post with learnings!
Please comment for any questions.
Thanks for reading :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
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