Azure Marketplace new offers – November 30, 2022

by Contributed | Nov 30, 2022 | Technology

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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 94 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:

Get it now in our marketplace
	Cloud Native Stack Virtual Machine Image: NVIDIA’s Cloud Native Stack VMI is a GPU-accelerated virtual machine image (VMI) that enables advanced functionality for developers, including better GPU performance, utilization, and telemetry.
	Demography: TensorGo’s Demography API detects faces in videos and returns gender, ethnicity, and estimated age in real time by using advanced machine learning models.
	Face Detection: TensorGo’s Face Detection API uses computer vision to detect faces in an image or video and return a bounding box around individual faces.
	Facial Landmarks: TensorGo’s Facial Landmarks API localizes a human face in an image or video and tracks the facial points to predict and track behaviors over time.
	FTP Server Basic on Windows Server 2019: This preconfigured image from Tidal Media includes a minimized FTP Server on Windows Server 2019. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) lets you transfer computer files between a server and client.
	Heart Rate Estimation: TensorGo’s Heart Rate Estimation API uses non-invasive computer vision techniques to estimate the heart rate of a subject in a video.
	Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022: Cloud Infrastructure Services’ Hyper-V Server lets you deploy nested virtualization on Microsoft Azure to host multiple operating systems and containerized virtual machines.
	Jenkins on Debian 10 with Support: This virtual machine from ATH provides Jenkins 2.361 on Debian 10. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that runs servlet containers and version control tools for CI/CD tasks.
	Jenkins on Debian 11 with Support: This virtual machine from ATH provides Jenkins 2.361 on Debian 11. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that runs servlet containers and version control tools for CI/CD tasks.
	Jenkins on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Support: This virtual machine from ATH provides Jenkins 2.361 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that runs servlet containers and version control tools for CI/CD tasks.
	Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Support: This virtual machine from ATH provides Jenkins 2.361 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that runs servlet containers and version control tools for CI/CD tasks.
	License Plate Recognition: TensorGo’s License Plate Recognition API uses optical character recognition to identify vehicles in traffic and extract their license plate numbers.
	Low Light and Infrared Face Detection: TensorGo’s Low Light IR Face Detection API overcomes environmental conditions to identify faces and people from video captured in low lighting or by an infrared (IR) camera.
	LTAPPS Timesheet: The LTAPPS Timesheet is a time-tracking app for Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, whether desktop or mobile, that lets employees and managers track hours, overtime, and absences.
	People Detection: TensorGo’s People Detection API lets you detect people moving in videos, regardless of which direction they are facing, the light levels, and their clothing.
	People Segmentation: TensorGo’s People Segmentation API provides real-time detection and segmentation of people in an image or video, allowing you to home in on individuals in crowds.
	Pose Estimation: TensorGo’s Pose Estimate API can track the pose and orientation of a person or object from an image or video to determine whether the person is standing, sitting, or performing activities.
	Rocky Linux 8 – Generation 2 Virtual Machine: ProComputers has preconfigured this minimal, ready-to-use generation 2 virtual machine containing Rocky Linux 8, cloud-init, and the Microsoft Azure Linux Agent.
	Rocky Linux 9 Minimal: Ntegral has preconfigured this minimal virtual machine containing Rocky Linux 9 for use on Azure. Rocky Linux is used for enterprise cloud environments including Node.js, web, and database applications.
	Ruby on Rails: Data Science Dojo has packaged Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 20.04 to enable students, developers, and organizations focused on web-based products to easily create Ruby-based data science apps.
	Salesken – AI Assistance: Salesken is a real-time, Azure-based sales assistant that provides AI-driven conversation insights from contextual clues and talking points, enabling you to navigate sales discussions with ease.
	SmartDA: SmartDA is an app for Microsoft Teams that provides a versatile and personalized internal assistant using Intumit’s conversational AI to answer user questions about Microsoft 365.
	Traffic Analyzer: TensorGo’s Traffic Analyzer API detects vehicles, pedestrians, and road signs from images or videos, identifying the location and number of vehicles and people.
	Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS: Ntegral provides this preconfigured image of Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS for use on Microsoft Azure. Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution used to serve enterprise workloads such as Node.js, web, and databases.
	Veritas InfoScale for the Cloud (Ireland): Veritas’s InfoScale is a comprehensive availability and storage management solution delivering a common platform across physical, virtual, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
	Veritas InfoScale for the Cloud (Singapore): Veritas’s InfoScale is a comprehensive availability and storage management solution delivering a common platform across physical, virtual, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
	Veritas InfoScale for the Cloud (United States): Veritas’s InfoScale is a comprehensive availability and storage management solution delivering a common platform across physical, virtual, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
	VSM for Microsoft Teams: Virsae’s VSM Everywhere is a centralized network management and optimization platform to ensure that your Microsoft Teams and contact center environments operate at peak performance.
Go further with workshops, proofs of concept, and implementations
	Azure ARC and Azure Stack HCI: 1-Day Workshop: Available only in German, Bechtle’s practical workshop will present an overview of Microsoft Azure ARC and Azure Stack HCI, as well as use cases to manage your infrastructure uniformly.
	Azure DevOps Best Practices: 1-Day Workshop: Learn from PetaBytz about best practices, tips, tricks, and working demos for Microsoft Azure DevOps to get the most out of your Agile software development stack.
	Business-driven Web Analytics Solution: 5-Week Implementation: Polestar will deliver dashboards built on Microsoft Power BI to help you track web statistics across your analytics stores by using Microsoft Azure Data Factory and Azure Services.
	Cloud Deployment, Migration, and Modernization Services: ISM’s Cloud Deployment, Migration, and Modernization services are targeted to optimize costs and line-of-business delivery for your enterprise IT landscape by using greenfield implementations on Microsoft Azure.
	Cloud End-to-End Managed Services: ISM offers complete management of part or all of your Microsoft Azure environment, whether standalone or hybrid, in alignment with ITIL and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.
	Cloud Migration Service: 3-Week Implementation: NCS will accelerate your migration and adoption of Microsoft Azure through this low-risk, cost-optimized service that includes strategic planning, technical design, delivery validation, and more.
	DevSecOps Automated Pipeline Process: Implementation: Vismaya India will analyze your traditional automated pipelines and manual development processes, then implement an automation solution built on Microsoft Azure DevOps.
	Hybrid Cloud Sync Services: AlgoSystems’ Hybrid Cloud Sync Services will provide you with a modern and reliable file solution built on Microsoft Azure File Sync and Azure Backup to support your business and users.
	Infrastructure as Code on Azure DevOps: 1-Week Implementation: Drawing on expert experience, PetaBytz will use industry best practice blueprints to drive your adoption of Microsoft Azure DevOps to optimize delivery of business products and services.
	Innovation Jumpstart: 6-Week Proof of Concept: Quisitive’s Innovation Jumpstart helps organizations build a ready-to-execute app roadmap and rapidly prototype a solution built on Microsoft Azure.
	Network Management on Azure for Multi-cloud: 2-Week Proof of Concept: Metanext will implement Aviatrix for Microsoft Azure to improve your management of networks and security in your multi-cloud environment. This offer is available only in French.
	Quickstart Service for Prisma Cloud: 6-Month Implementation: Palo Alto Networks’ Quickstart Service for Prisma Cloud CPSM delivers visibility, compliance, and governance for threat detection and behavior analytics on Microsoft Azure.
Contact our partners
Alfresco Consultation: 2-Hour Briefing
Analytics Solution: 4-Week Assessment
Angles for SAP
Anomaly Detection
Application Modernization on Azure: 4-Week Assessment
ARGOS Cloud Security for Microsoft Sentinel
Azure Database Migration: 2-Hour Briefing
Azure Migrate: 1-Hour Briefing
Beak Vulnerability Detection & Response
Canopy Remote Device Management Software
Cisco Cyber Vision
Clobotics REA
Cloud Discovery, Assessment, and Advisory Services
Cloud Readiness: 8-Day Assessment
Data Discovery for Manufacturing and Construction: 3-Week Assessment
Data Governance: 8-Week Assessment
DevOps (CI/CD) for z/OS Mainframes
DevOps Consulting
DrAid AI Cognitive Service
Enable Customer Success for Cloud Adoption Framework: 4-Hour Briefing
FONS Galen
Forcepoint Email Security V8.5.5
Hf.flow Application
Holistic Business Case Solution for Microsoft 365: 4-Week Assessment
Honeywell Forge Performance+ Industrial Asset Performance
IBM Cloud Pak for Data on ARO – BYOL
Info-Tech Mobile Attendance App
Managed GitHub Enterprise Server
mirro.ai Mood Analyzer (SaaS)
Panoptica Cloud Native Application Security For Developers
Percy Intranet
Prime Unified Messaging Platform
Process Runner for Microsoft 365
Proximus Identity Governance: Assessment
Quorum Cyber Managed eXtended Detection & Response (XDR)
ReversingLabs File Enrichment
SAP & Microsoft Analytics Combined: 5-Day Assessment
Seavus Application Modernization: 4-Week Assessment
Spark Unified Media Platform
Spicy Managed Microsoft Sentinel Service
SPiDER TM (Japan)
SPiDER TM 5.5 (South Korea)
Spirent for Azure Public Multi-access Edge Compute
Stipra
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 – Hardened BYOS (x86_64)
Sustainability Data Insights
SymphonyAI Sensa – SensaAML (AI-based Anti-Money Laundering)
US Exports Bill of Lading
US Imports Bill of Lading
US Imports Bill of Lading Commodity Details
Veridis Carbon Management
WeTrack
Windows 365 Cloud PC
Yanomaly Asset Health Monitoring

Academy365: The training conference arrives to Madrid!

by Contributed | Nov 29, 2022 | Technology

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Today, the technology sector is growing very rapidly across Europe and requires many trained, prepared, and qualified professionals to help large, medium, and small companies meet the new global challenges ahead. A report by the agency DigitalES estimates that there are currently more than 120,000 unfilled jobs in Spain related to software development, communications, security, Cloud, Big Data, AI, and AR/VR.

From the Spanish Microsoft Technical Communities, we have always tried to bring technology to all people. That’s why we’ve designed a new type of event focused on learning with the aim of training professionals who are starting to work with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and who need to get the most out of its services.

In 2021, We Designed Academy365

This new type of event was born last year under the name of Academy365, and it was organized by a few Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and coordinators of MadPoint, the Microsoft 365 Technical Community of Madrid. As the objective of the event was to train the attendees, we organized an agenda of level 100 and 200 sessions, and we got several Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) professionals to help us teach attendees about Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Planner, Power Automate, Intune, Security, and other technologies.

Last year, Academy365 was broadcasted as a virtual experience on Twitch, and it was a success in Spain, with an average of 300 attendees on each training and an extraordinary reception. Attendees finished the event with a diploma that certified they had received quality training from our MCT and MVP people.

Example of one of our sessions during 2021

MadPoint coordinators prepared a professional-quality broadcast of the event, leveraging Microsoft Teams’ NDI capabilities, which allow us to extract video and audio signals from each trainer inside a Teams meeting and take that signal to a professional production environment such as OBS Studio.

Here you can check the recording of last year, in which you can see how Microsoft Teams helped us to have a fantastic production:  YouTube – Academy365

In addition, Academy365 is a solidarity event. Last year we collaborated with the Food Bank Foundation of Madrid, which is a non-profit organization that is responsible for helping the neediest families, bringing them food and helping them as much as possible, especially on Christmas dates. All the amounts received by sponsors and individuals were invested in helping many families.

And this year?

This year we want to resume the physical events experience, and we have designed a second hybrid edition. Attendees can join online on Twitch, but they can also come in person to the Global Sports Innovation Center in Madrid. This center is powered by Microsoft, and it is a non-profit association that facilitates synergies and provides its members with value-added services that enable sports entities and companies to grow and develop with the help of experienced professionals in sports tech ecosystem.

In person attendees will be able to receive the training live from our speakers and will have some additional surprises, as we are preparing an innovation tour of the center, a Metaverse Corner and some additional activity thanks to our friends at Microsoft Education.

As for the online experience, we maintain our Twitch broadcast. We will combine live speakers and speakers by Microsoft Teams in a single production.

This year we have a very interesting agenda, where Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Viva will be the main protagonists. In addition, we can learn about security, Mixed Reality, Power Apps, migrations, development, accessibility, and Windows 365.

If you live in Spain and you are interested in our event, we recommend that you visit our website to know all the details and register for the event.

Here are the most important links:

• :calendar: Event schedule and agenda: http://academy365.madpoint.net


• :admission_tickets:️ Event registration: https://bit.ly/registro-academy365


• :fork_and_knife_with_plate: If you want to donate for our solidarity cause: https://donar.bamadrid.org/op-kilo/academy365-2022

Thank you very much, and we wish you a Merry Christmas from our community.

Deep Dive into Teams Calling and Audio-Conferencing Capabilities & Communication Credits

by Contributed | Nov 28, 2022 | Technology

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

Microsoft Teams has been in extensive use for collaboration features such as IM, Teams meetings, 1:1 or group calls, files collaboration, etc., and has been explored by all organizations without any additional financial costs with existing Microsoft 365 licenses. This has been a boon to organizations for increasing productivity. However, one of the added functionalities of Microsoft Teams, which comes in handy, is to replace traditional telephone systems by enabling the Teams integrated Cloud telephone system that includes Calling Plans and PSTN Audio conferencing options for dial out and dial in capabilities—all without any additional on-premises PSTN infrastructure set up.

The Catch with Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing Features

Availability across a given tenant is based on the initial data residence location (or organization billing address), and it must align with Microsoft 365 calling and conferencing features available for the given region. For Example, any M365 tenant initially set up with a billing address in India or China is devoid of Audio-conferencing Capabilities by design.

For a complete list of the latest M365 Audio Conferencing and Calling Plans region-wide availability, please Click here. This link is handy for all architect professionals while setting up new tenants to decide on an initial data residence location and to check on available MS Teams audio conferencing features. Owing to taxation regulations and compliance, the M365 tenant’s initial or billing location cannot be updated later, and the given tenant is devoid of the required features.

Microsoft Teams PSTN/calling and conferencing features can be categorized as follows:

• Dial out to domestic/telephone numbers for users enabled with the respective calling plans.


• Dial out from an Audio-Conferencing meeting to add someone else from anywhere in the world.


• Dial out from an Audio-Conferencing meeting to your mobile/office phone with the user logged into Microsoft Teams app.


• Dial in (Toll/Toll Free Numbers) and dial out capabilities to MS Teams meetings.


• Dial into a meeting using the service numbers or Toll-Free numbers enabled for given tenant.

Audio conferencing features for given users are based upon enablement of the given Audio-Conferencing licenses: as a part of Microsoft Business Voice, Microsoft Teams Phone standard, MS Teams phone with Calling, E5 license, or as an M365 Add-on license.

For leveraging and billing purposes of calling features across MS Teams, Microsoft has categorized all countries across the globe into two zones which is Zone A and another zone for rest of the countries not included in the aforementioned. For example, Albania, Argentina, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Israel and many more. To access the update list of M365 Zone A countries please click here.

Microsoft Teams Audio conferencing licenses can be categorized in to 2 types:

• Pay per minute.


• Standard subscription per user

Audio conferencing pay per minute, which is only available as part of volume licensing, allows organizations to pay for all the Audio-Conferencing usage on a per-minute basis. All the inbound and outbound calls are charged based upon the standard pay per minute charges.

On the other end, Audio conferencing standard subscription license enables free dial in capabilities for toll numbers and 60 minutes per user a month for dial out to non-premium numbers in ANY of the Zone A countries. Thus, this license does not enable licensed users to place calls to any other non-Zone A countries within the pooled minutes. Those calls are separate, and any charges are counted against communication credits.

Minutes are pooled against an office 365 subscription are calculated at tenant-level and can be leveraged and shared by all the licensed users in the tenant. If a customer has purchased subscriptions for 500 Audio Conferencing licenses—with 400 users in the United States, 50 users in Australia, and 50 users in Dubai, then all 500 users share a pool of Audio-conferencing minutes. This is calculated as 500 users x 60 min = 30,000 minutes for conferencing dial-out minutes per calendar month. This may be used to place outbound calls to non-premium numbers in any of the Zone A countries. The minutes pooled for an Audio-Conferencing tenant is always based upon the licenses assigned to a user rather than total licenses available across the given tenant. 

Call Charges are Calculated Against the Call Destination

The organizer’s country of residence, and the participant initiating the call, do not change the calling charges. Furthermore, calls placed between Zone A: non-Zone A and between non-Zone A: non-Zone A, they are always charged on a per minute basis against the Communication Credits rather than a minute pool for the tenant’s Audio-Conferencing.

To ease the burden of carrier calling charges and facilitate users struggling with internet connectivity, MS Teams Toll free conference number bridges the cost to the organization rather than the caller. All Toll-free conference calls are billed on a per minute basis in tenant Communication Credits and are never calculated against Audio-Conferencing minutes.

Communications Credits: Convenience to Pay for Audio-Conferencing and Calling Plan minutes

In laymen terms, these are a prepaid top-up amount across the tenant to be used for calls not included in Audio conferencing options.

Communication Credits Help Organizations Ensure Users Are Never Caught Without the Ability to:

• Add toll-free numbers to Audio-Conferencing meetings, auto attendants, call queues. (Toll Free Numbers are charged on a minute basis.)


• Dial out from an Audio-Conference meeting to add someone else from anywhere in the world or add your mobile or office phone in non-Zone A countries.


• Dial any international phone number when enabled only with Domestic Calling Plan subscriptions.


• Dial international phone numbers beyond what is included in a Domestic and International Calling Plan subscription.


• Dial out and pay per minute once the monthly minute allotment is exhausted.


• Dial out and pay per minute for all outgoing calls if you have a Pay-As-You-Go Calling Plan.

Communication Credits are specifically utilized for the below scenarios.

• Tenants enabled with Audio-Conferencing pay-per-minute.


• Enabling Toll-free Bridges across a given tenant, billed per minute.


• Dial-out calls exceeding Audio-Conferencing minutes per calendar month are billed per minute using Communications Credits at published rates to that destination.


• Dial-out calls to destinations not in the Zone A countries list are billed per minute using Communications Credits at the published rates to that given destination.

For users to leverage the Communication Credits across given Tenant, they are required to be assigned with Communication Credit license, which grant them access to the balance. The minimum amount of Communication Credit balance can be a minimum of $50. Setting up a toll-free number across a given tenant does require a positive Communication Credit.

Below is a quick reference diagram to understand the various types of meeting participant types and how the MS Teams calling charges are applied.

With a subscription to pay per license, Audio-Conferencing Dial-in capabilities are considered free of cost with Toll number. Zone A dial out users are considered with Tenant pool minutes. Non-Zone A Dial out users and users with toll free dial in are charged per minute from Communication Credits.

With only Audio-Conferencing pay-per-minute licenses enabled, the dial in calls with a toll conference bridge and Zone A dial out users are charged against Communication Credits (owing to non-availability of any polled minutes). Toll free dial in users and Non-Zone A dial out users total against Communication Credits.

In conclusion, Toll Free and Calling capabilities to Non-Zone A countries can come with a hefty financial consideration; hence, proper planning and stringent controls in place are required for tracking MS Teams calling budgets to ensure a seamless experience for the required users. 

Bio:

Sanjay Kumar Pendyala has a decade plus of experience across architecting, operations, and maintenance of Microsoft collaboration and cloud Technologies. Currently serving as an Infrastructure Architect with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Sanjay Kumar has a technical expertise across architecting and administration of SharePoint On-premises, Azure IAAS/PAAS, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Azure AD, Yammer, Power Automate platform, Graph API automation), and he has been working for a few fortune 500 clients.