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I can’t see my customer in the reports in partner earned credit
I have a client who has an Azure Subscription (Azure Plan) and my Guest user has an Admin RBAC on the subscription scope, but I can’t see my customer in the reports on partner earned credit.
For that reason, I am not able to reach the partner designation because my partner punctuation in the designation does not appear.
My user is a guest in the customer tenant and has already linked my partner ID in the Management Partner Blade.
I need help. Thanks in advance for your time.
I have a client who has an Azure Subscription (Azure Plan) and my Guest user has an Admin RBAC on the subscription scope, but I can’t see my customer in the reports on partner earned credit.For that reason, I am not able to reach the partner designation because my partner punctuation in the designation does not appear.My user is a guest in the customer tenant and has already linked my partner ID in the Management Partner Blade.I need help. Thanks in advance for your time. Read More
Microsoft joins Intel Foundry Accelerator USMAG Alliance
The Intel Foundry Accelerator United States Military, Aerospace, and Government (USMAG) Alliance pulls together Intel Foundry’s leading-edge process capabilities with trusted partners in EDA, IP, and design services. Microsoft is pleased to officially join this alliance.
In joining the Intel Foundry Accelerator USMAG Alliance, Microsoft brings not only the near infinite infrastructure scaling needed for leading-edge silicon designs, but also adds the Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench, a proven cloud-based semiconductor design and collaboration platform to create a secure environment where DIBs and their suppliers can develop advanced silicon solutions for MAG applications.
Microsoft is a leader in providing secure, scalable engineering environments used by leading commercial semiconductor companies. Defense Industrial Base suppliers will be able to access advanced resources such as Azure AI/ML, Microsoft generative AI, and the advanced secure collaboration capabilities provided by the Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench, allowing for accelerated engineering collaboration within and across Program Offices and DIBs.
The Azure environment provides support for data at higher classification levels (IL4/IL5/IL6 and higher). Azure government regions meet compliance requirements for CUI, ITAR, FedRAMP, CMCC, etc.
Microsoft joining the Intel Foundry Accelerator USMAG Alliance Program will enable silicon suppliers to the US government the ability to create chips at the scale and complexity previously only accessible to the largest commercial semiconductor companies.
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Copilot Use for Pharma Marketer – Copilot for Microsoft 365 Starter Series
Are you looking for a way to reduce the time and effort required to complete your tasks in Microsoft 365? Do you want to optimize your workflows and processes to achieve more with less resources? Do you want to see how Copilot for Microsoft 365 can help you solve real-world challenges frequently encountered in the Pharmaceutical Industry today?
In this recorded Webinar learn how Pharma Marketer can leverage the power of Copilot for M356 in their role to automate repetitive tasks and be more productive.
To see the whole post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
Resources:
Get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Training | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365—Features and Plans | Microsoft 365
Copilot Lab (cloud.microsoft)
Learn about Copilot prompts – Microsoft Support
Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 documentation | Microsoft Learn
Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Microsoft Adoption
To see the entire series: click here
Thanks for visiting!
Jaspreet Dhamija – LinkedIn
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Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters through Azure Monitor
Last year at BUILD we announced the public preview of the Network Observability add-on. Today we’re excited to share a massive upgrade to the network observability capabilities available to AKS customers.
What’s new?
We are excited to announce Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS), a suite of services built to significantly enhance the operational capabilities of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Advanced Network Observability is the inaugural feature of the ACNS suite bringing the power of Hubble’s control plane to both Cilium and Non-Cilium Linux data planes. With Advanced Network Observability, customers can now pinpoint network-related issues with more precision and detect root causes faster. The offering provides pod level packet statistics, DNS statistics, L4 connections and enhanced debugging capabilities with network flow logs and DNS error tracking.
How can Azure customers use the new offering?
ACNS is integrated deeply with existing Azure Monitor capabilities for monitoring AKS clusters. Using the new capabilities requires no extra configuration from customers. Customers can enable advanced network observability with a single command. The metrics are then ingested automatically by Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus. Additionally, customers can visualize the metrics in pre-built dashboards in Azure Managed Grafana. Customers have access to 6 pre-built dashboards in Azure Managed Grafana covering a breadth of signals from cluster traffic to DNS and pod level flows.
How to get ACNS
To get started with ACNS capabilities, please see our onboarding documentation
Read more about ACNS:
Documentation: What is Advanced Container Networking Services?
Azure Blog: Announcing Advanced Container Networking Services for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
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“Nested” Channel Menu/List
Hey all,
I have a client who can see a down arrow for a teams channel that I built for all private channels in the team. He wants me to build a 2nd set of “nested” channels, but I have no idea how this function works and I can’t find anything by google.
What my client sees:
What I see (no “nested menu”)
My client says he click on the down arrow and it will hide all private channels. It will then become an up arrow and can show all private channels again. The client is asking me to make a “2nd nested menu” with another private channel.
I believe what he wants is a second group of channels that will use this menu option.
However, I can’t even see this as a feature on my end. I feel a bit silly, but I have no idea how my client has this feature or how/if I can even make a “group” of channels appear/disappear with the icon.
Any advice is appreciated.
Hey all,I have a client who can see a down arrow for a teams channel that I built for all private channels in the team. He wants me to build a 2nd set of “nested” channels, but I have no idea how this function works and I can’t find anything by google.What my client sees: What I see (no “nested menu”)My client says he click on the down arrow and it will hide all private channels. It will then become an up arrow and can show all private channels again. The client is asking me to make a “2nd nested menu” with another private channel.I believe what he wants is a second group of channels that will use this menu option.However, I can’t even see this as a feature on my end. I feel a bit silly, but I have no idea how my client has this feature or how/if I can even make a “group” of channels appear/disappear with the icon.Any advice is appreciated. Read More
Word 365 I need to change the customized the text highlight color
Does anyone know how to add more colors to the TEXT HIGHLIGHT COLORS. I am not asking for the FONT COLOR.
Thanks
Does anyone know how to add more colors to the TEXT HIGHLIGHT COLORS. I am not asking for the FONT COLOR.Thanks Read More
First look at In-Browser Protection with Edge for Business
Today, it’s time for another blog post in the unmanaged devices series.
We’ll look at a newly introduced feature called in-browser protection with Edge for Business. This new preview feature is a welcome addition to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) and its session policies. Session policies monitor or restrict certain users’ activities in risky situations, such as working from unmanaged or non-compliant devices.
Until now, session policies have worked with reverse proxy technology to monitor and restrict; the new in-browser protection feature will deliver these capabilities straight from the Microsoft Edge for Business browser.
In this post, I’ll discuss the differences between these options, how to enable the new feature, and what the user experience looks like.
https://myronhelgering.com/first-look-at-in-browser-protection-with-edge-for-business/
Today, it’s time for another blog post in the unmanaged devices series. We’ll look at a newly introduced feature called in-browser protection with Edge for Business. This new preview feature is a welcome addition to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) and its session policies. Session policies monitor or restrict certain users’ activities in risky situations, such as working from unmanaged or non-compliant devices.Until now, session policies have worked with reverse proxy technology to monitor and restrict; the new in-browser protection feature will deliver these capabilities straight from the Microsoft Edge for Business browser.In this post, I’ll discuss the differences between these options, how to enable the new feature, and what the user experience looks like. https://myronhelgering.com/first-look-at-in-browser-protection-with-edge-for-business/ Read More
Trying to use 2 variables to color a cell
Hello, I have been trying to change a cell’s fill color based on 2 variables, and haven’t been able to crack it. If the values in D are greater than 30, AND, the value in C is “TRUE”, then the cell in D should have a red fill. In this example, D11 should have a red fill. Thank You
Hello, I have been trying to change a cell’s fill color based on 2 variables, and haven’t been able to crack it. If the values in D are greater than 30, AND, the value in C is “TRUE”, then the cell in D should have a red fill. In this example, D11 should have a red fill. Thank You Read More
Display html file into SharePoint online modern page.
Hi,
In old SharePoint site we can use Content Editor Webpart and call HTML page and display it into SP page.
But since Content Editor Webpart is not available in SPO then how HTML page can be displayed to SPO modern page, any supported web part available?
Please suggest.
Hi,In old SharePoint site we can use Content Editor Webpart and call HTML page and display it into SP page.But since Content Editor Webpart is not available in SPO then how HTML page can be displayed to SPO modern page, any supported web part available?Please suggest. Read More
slow boot up
am on windows 11 pro 24h2 my boot up time is about 40 ces wen i was on a older windows 11 23h2 it was about 4 sce to bootup any help well be good am on a m,2 ger 3 and 4 32 gbs ram i5 8600k cpu any help be good thanks
am on windows 11 pro 24h2 my boot up time is about 40 ces wen i was on a older windows 11 23h2 it was about 4 sce to bootup any help well be good am on a m,2 ger 3 and 4 32 gbs ram i5 8600k cpu any help be good thanks Read More
Spreadsheet data format
Hello folks,
Everytime I download a excel spreadsheet, the dates converte to the brazilian format (dd/mm/yyyy).
I tried a lot of ways to fix it but it doesnt work. I need it to be uploaded in the US format (mm/dd/yyyy).
Can someone help me with this?
Hello folks, Everytime I download a excel spreadsheet, the dates converte to the brazilian format (dd/mm/yyyy). I tried a lot of ways to fix it but it doesnt work. I need it to be uploaded in the US format (mm/dd/yyyy). Can someone help me with this? Read More
Leverage Microsoft Fabric Delta Lake tables for reporting over billions of rows
Overview
Believe it or not, not all data is meant for analytics. Sometimes reporting requirements include flat data that is not inherently dimensional. This often includes querying large tables with low cardinality columns. Think of:
Audit trails – understanding who accessed what at a certain point in time or what events occurred when
Financial transaction data – querying financial transactions by invoice id
Web analytics – identifying which pages were accessed at what date, time and location
This type of data can have millions or billions of rows to sift through.
So where does this type of reporting fit into your reporting environment? In Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse and Power BI Report Developer paginated reports!
I wanted to test reporting on a Fabric Delta Table with over 6 billion rows of data. To do this I:
Loaded the Yellow Taxi Data 4 times to create a table with 6.5 billion records (with a year added to the date fields each time the data was loaded)
Compacted and Z-Ordered the table
Created 3 parameter tables by extracting the unique values for each column I want to filter on
This optimizes the paginated report parameter lookup
Created a paginated report in Power BI Report Builder
Published the paginated report to the Microsoft Fabric service
Ran the report and spilled my coffee when the results returned in just a few seconds
Create and load Delta Tables in the Fabric Lakehouse
Here’s the PySpark code to create, load and optimize the Delta tables:
# ## 1 – Load Taxi Data
# ##### **Step 1 – Load Data from Taxi Data to create a Delta Table with 6.5 Billion Rows**
# NYC Taxi Data info
blob_account_name = “azureopendatastorage”
blob_container_name = “nyctlc”
blob_relative_path = “yellow”
blob_sas_token = “r”
# Fabric parameters
delta_path = ‘abfss://<yourworkspaceid>@onelake.dfs.fabric.microsoft.com/<yourlakehouseid>/Tables’
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, concat,add_months, expr
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
import delta
from delta import *
# Allow SPARK to read from Blob remotely
wasbs_path = ‘wasbs://%s@%s.blob.core.windows.net/%s’ % (blob_container_name, blob_account_name, blob_relative_path)
spark.conf.set(
‘fs.azure.sas.%s.%s.blob.core.windows.net’ % (blob_container_name, blob_account_name),
blob_sas_token)
print(‘Remote blob path: ‘ + wasbs_path)
# SPARK read parquet
df = spark.read.parquet(wasbs_path)
print(‘Register the DataFrame as a SQL temporary view: source’)
df.createOrReplaceTempView(‘source’)
# Display top 10 rows
print(‘Displaying top 10 rows: ‘)
display(spark.sql(‘SELECT * FROM source LIMIT 10’))
# get count of records
display(spark.sql(‘SELECT COUNT(*) FROM source’))
# 1,571,671,152
# only project certain columns and change longitude and latitude columns to string
df = df.select(
col(‘vendorID’),
col(‘tpepPickupDateTime’),
col(‘tpepDropoffDateTime’),
col(‘startLon’).cast(‘string’).alias(‘startLongitude’),
col(‘startLat’).cast(‘string’).alias(‘startLatitude’),
col(‘endLon’).cast(‘string’).alias(‘endLongitude’),
col(‘endLat’).cast(‘string’).alias(‘endLatitude’),
col(‘paymentType’),
col(‘puYear’),
col(‘puMonth’)
)
table_name = f'{delta_path}/Tables/taxitrips’
# write the first 1.5 billion records
df.write.format(“delta”).mode(“overwrite”).save(table_name)
for x in range(3):
# add another year to the dataframe data fields and write another 1.5 billion records 3 times
df = df.withColumn(“tpepPickupDateTime”, expr(“tpepPickupDateTime + interval 1 year”))
df = df.withColumn(“tpepDropoffDateTime”, expr(“tpepDropoffDateTime + interval 1 year”))
df = df.withColumn(“puYear”, col(“puYear”) + 1)
df.write.format(“delta”).mode(“append”).save(table_name)
delta_table = DeltaTable.forPath(spark, table_name)
# ##### **Step 2 – Optimize the Taxi data table**
delta_table.optimize().executeCompaction()
delta_table.optimize().executeZOrderBy(“puYear”, “puMonth”)
# ##### **Step 3** – Create Dimension tables
# Create dimension over columns we will want to filter on in our report, vendorID, puYear and puMonth
# read from Delta table to get all 6b rows
df = spark.read.format(“delta”).load(table_name)
print(df.count())
# create vendor table
dimdf = df.select(“vendorid”).distinct()
dimdf.sort(dimdf.vendorid.asc())
dimdf.write.format(“delta”).mode(“overwrite”).save(f'{delta_path}/vendors’)
# create year table
dimdf = df.select(“puYear”).distinct()
dimdf.sort(dimdf.puYear.asc())
dimdf.write.format(“delta”).mode(“overwrite”).save(f'{delta_path}/years’)
# create month table
dimdf = df.select(“puMonth”).distinct()
dimdf.sort(dimdf.puMonth.asc())
dimdf.write.format(“delta”).mode(“overwrite”).save(f'{delta_path}/months’)
Create the Paginated Report with Power BI Report Builder
I then created a very simple paginated report with filters over Vendor, Year and Month.
The data source connection type is Azure SQL Database connecting to the Fabric Lakehouse SQL Endpoint. (At this time, the Lakehouse connector does not support parameters):
I built a simple table report with the 3 parameters:
Publish and test in Microsoft Fabric
I published the report to the Fabric workspace and ran it:
Ok the report is not pretty but the performance sure was! According to my Garmin, the report 44 records from over 6 billion rows in 3 seconds.
When run in SQL Script, the equivalent report query ran in less than 2 seconds:
A count over all records returned in less than 6 seconds:
Flat file reporting is not as flashy as Power BI analytical reports and visualizations. However, there are many use cases for it and the speed of reporting over Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse Delta Tables is pretty amazing!
Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse and Delta Lake tables
Delta Lake vs. Parquet Comparison | Delta Lake
Delta Lake Small File Compaction with OPTIMIZE | Delta Lake
Delta Lake Z Order | Delta Lake
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Build 2024 Wrap-Up: Elevating Sales with Copilot Extensibility Preview
At the start of this year, we embarked on an exciting journey to revolutionize our Microsoft Copilot for Sales solution with a new extensibility story. Our goal was to empower customers and partners to enrich Copilot with their own data and insights using their preferred tools. Recently, we reached a significant milestone by launching this solution in preview, making Copilot for Sales one of the first role-based Microsoft Copilots that can be seamlessly extended through Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Additionally, we partnered with nine innovative ISVs to enhance our Copilot; resulting in the delivery of multiple extensions across chat, embedded canvas experiences, and our contextual side car, showcasing the versatility and potential of our platform.
We also had the privilege of showcasing these groundbreaking achievements at the 2024 Microsoft Build conference. The response from attendees, customers, MVPs, and our partner and ISV community was overwhelmingly positive. We were inspired by the enthusiasm and numerous unique use cases shared with us, highlighting the potential of Copilot Studio to transform sales processes with new extensible solutions.
What we presented at Build
Our presence at Build included three key sessions:
Mechanics Presentation for Extending Copilot for Sales with Microsoft Copilot Studio
This session demonstrated how Copilot for Sales can seamlessly integrate data from both internal and external systems using generative AI. Attendees were shown how to use zero-code solutions to connect their data with Copilot Studio, creating custom AI skills that enhanced sales workflows. Key highlights included enriching email summaries with CRM data, generating personalized meeting prep documents, and utilizing external data to inform sales interactions. The session also covered how to set up and test these extensions within Copilot Studio, ensuring that users could easily replicate these enhancements in their own environments.
Watch the video:
Extending Copilot for Sales with Microsoft Copilot Studio
During this session participants learned they can extend Microsoft Copilot for Sales using Microsoft Copilot Studio to empower sales teams with data and insights from any in-house or partner sales application. Copilot for Sales is purpose built to deliver actionable insights from Dynamics 365 Sales or Salesforce CRM, and during the session we showed in live demos how to use Copilot Studio to incorporate data and insights from any sales application –from account planning to eSignature and more!
Demo: Extend Copilot for Sales with Data and Insights from Any Sales App
In this in-person demo, participants watched us demonstrate how to easily extend Microsoft Copilot for Sales using Microsoft Copilot Studio. We showed how building an extension can empower your sales teams with data and insights from any in-house or partner application into both chat and non-chat experiences within Copilot for Sales. All your sales data, right in the flow of work within the Microsoft 365 applications you know and love!
Moving Forward
The momentum from Build 2024 marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Copilot for Sales. We are eager to see how our partners and customers will leverage these new extensible capabilities to drive innovation and achieve their business goals. Stay tuned for more updates and success stories as we continue to expand and enhance our ecosystem.
As mentioned earlier in this article, we announced our preview release in the May 2024 Copilot for Sales blog. Use the links below to get more details!
Check out our Microsoft Mechanics video about extensibility.
Watch our breakout session at Microsoft Build (on-demand)
Learn how to use the preview release to extend Copilot for Sales with partner applications. Today you can extend the following out of the box capabilities:
Email summary
Key sales information
Opportunity summary
Record details
To extend additional capabilities sign up for preview support from the product team.
Get started
Ready to join us and other top-performing sales organizations worldwide? Reach out to your Microsoft sales team or visit our product web page.
Ready to install Copilot for Sales? Have a look at our deployment guide for Dynamics 365 Sales users or our deployment guide for Salesforce users.
Learn more
Ready for all the details? Check out the Copilot for Sales product documentation.
Ready for the latest tips…and more? Copilot for Sales Tip Time can serve as a foundation for your training of Copilot for Sales users, customers, or partners! This content includes use cases and demonstrates how each feature will benefit sellers, administrators, and sales managers.
Looking for the latest adoption resources? Visit the Copilot for Sales Adoption Center and find the latest information about how to go from inspiration to adoption.
Stay connected
Want to stay connected? Learn about the latest improvements before everyone else at https://aka.ms/copilotforsalesupdates. Join our community in the community discussion forum and we always welcome your feedback and ideas in our product feedback portal.
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Conditional formatting – using information from two columns
Hello everyone,
I’m looking for some assistance with setting up conditional formatting in Excel. Here’s what I need to accomplish:
Highlight cells in Column D if the corresponding cell in Column C is 1 or greater. ANDThe date in Column D is today’s date or earlier.
Note: The dates in Column D are being pulled from another worksheet.
The ultimate goal is to have the cells in Column D highlighted when the date is earlier than TODAY (which will always change) and the number in the adjacent Column C cell is 1 or greater.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hello everyone,I’m looking for some assistance with setting up conditional formatting in Excel. Here’s what I need to accomplish:Highlight cells in Column D if the corresponding cell in Column C is 1 or greater. ANDThe date in Column D is today’s date or earlier.Note: The dates in Column D are being pulled from another worksheet.The ultimate goal is to have the cells in Column D highlighted when the date is earlier than TODAY (which will always change) and the number in the adjacent Column C cell is 1 or greater.Thanks in advance for your help! Read More
Changes to Classic site custom scripting?
I support and maintain several legacy Classic SharePoint collections. I signed into my classic SharePoint site Tuesday, June 18, 2024, and discovered that my ability to work with scripting had been blocked. Mainly the Content Editor and Script Editor webparts were no longer there. I checked my SharePoint Admin à Sites and found that for many of my collections that scripting had been blocked. So, my questions are:Where would I have seen that this was going to happen?Where do I go to see any other things that are coming down the road for Classic?When did this change officially go into effect?Why are some of my collections blocked and others aren’t?Is there a way to permanently set scripting to ALLOWED for a classic site? Read More
Ideas for speeding up techcommunity site?
Hi – I would probably use techcommunity.microsoft.com alot more if the response time would improve for me on my browser.
I am using Google Chrome but I have same experience in Edge.
turned off ad blocking.
allowed third party cookies and javascript.
cleared all cache and deleted all my cookies.
Version 126.0.6478.114 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Any suggestions would be g
Hi – I would probably use techcommunity.microsoft.com alot more if the response time would improve for me on my browser.I am using Google Chrome but I have same experience in Edge. turned off ad blocking.allowed third party cookies and javascript.cleared all cache and deleted all my cookies.Version 126.0.6478.114 (Official Build) (64-bit) Any suggestions would be g Read More
GCP Audit Logs to Sentinel via private Networking
Hi, I wanna know if there is a connector in Sentinel for GCP Audit Logs like Codeless Connector for Pub/Sub but with the Option to do that over a private network connection?
thanks
Hi, I wanna know if there is a connector in Sentinel for GCP Audit Logs like Codeless Connector for Pub/Sub but with the Option to do that over a private network connection?thanks Read More
Check boxes
Good Day,
I’m using Excel build 16.0.17823.42304 and I’m unable to use check boxes in my workbook. I don’t have the developer tab option nor the check box option within forms. Can check boxes be used in this build?
Good Day, I’m using Excel build 16.0.17823.42304 and I’m unable to use check boxes in my workbook. I don’t have the developer tab option nor the check box option within forms. Can check boxes be used in this build? Read More
Preferred app group type settings enhance user feed display
In line with our commitment to provide seamless and efficient experiences for Azure Virtual Desktop users, we’ve recently implemented Preferred app group type—an enhancement that improves how resources are displayed in the feed for users assigned to both RemoteApp and Desktop applications. Previously, people could be assigned both types of resources in their feed, but this could cause session connectivity issues. To address this, users are now required to specify the preferred application group type. With this update, only the preferred application group type resource will show in the feed to users that have been assigned both RemoteApp and Desktop. This prevents users from connecting to two different sessions simultaneously.
What does this mean for you?
The Preferred app group type setting is a mandatory configuration that determines whether users will see Desktop or RemoteApp in their feed if both have been published to them. If a user is assigned to both a Desktop and a RemoteApp application group, only the application group type specified in the Preferred app group type setting will be displayed in their feed. We urge all organizations using Azure Virtual Desktop to proactively set the Preferred app group type to either Desktop or RemoteApp.
Note: This update is being deployed progressively. Some have already received the update, while others will receive it over the coming weeks. You will be alerted via an Azure Service Health notification prior to this update. Currently, no host pools in the US have been updated.
How do I update the settings?
To determine the current setting and to update the Preferred app group type, you can use Azure Portal, PowerShell, or Azure REST API. It’s important to note that you can only change the group type to Desktop or RemoteApp. Reverting it to “Not Set” is not an option.
In Azure Portal
When this setting has not been set Azure Portal will display:
In PowerShell
To view the setting run:
get-AzWvdHostPool -Name <host pool name> -ResourceGroupName ResourceGroupName <resource group name> | ft name, preferredAppGroupType
If the value has not yet been set, you will see “None” listed:
Via the Azure REST API
If the value has not yet been set, you will see “None” listed:
How do I set the Preferred app group type?
To set the Preferred app group type, you can use Azure Portal, PowerShell, or Azure REST API.
In the Azure Portal
You will need to select either Desktop or RemoteApp in the dropdown menu:
In PowerShell
To set this value run:
Update-AzWvdHostPool -Name <host pool name> -ResourceGroupName <resource group name> -PreferredAppGroupType <RailApplications or Desktop>
Via the Azure REST API
In the body of your Azure REST API PUT request, you will need to include:
“preferredAppGroupType”: “<RailApplications or Desktop> “,
Benefits of updating Preferred app group type
This update is part of our ongoing efforts to optimize Azure Virtual Desktop and ensure it meets the evolving needs of organizations and their users. By enforcing the Preferred app group type, we aim to streamline the user experience and reduce the likelihood of session connectivity issues. We appreciate your cooperation in making these adjustments, and we’re here to support you through this transition. If you have any questions or need assistance, please refer to our documentation or contact Azure support.
Continue the conversation. Find best practices. Bookmark the Azure Virtual Desktop Tech Community.
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Announcing conversational PII detection service’s general availability in Azure AI language
We are ecstatic to share the release of general availability (GA) support for our Conversational PII redaction service in English-language contexts. GA support ensures better Azure SLA support, production environment support, as well as enterprise-grade security.
Conversational PII (Personally Identifiable Information) redaction is one the many high quality, cost effective, task-optimized language AI capabilities offered by Azure AI Language. This collection of machine learning and AI algorithms in the cloud have helped many customers and enterprises across the globe develop intelligent applications and include models for summarization, sentiment analysis, health text analytics, opinion mining, and much more.
The PII detection service supports a rich set of features with fine-tuned models for various use cases, included text based, conversation based with Conversational PII, as well as Native Document PII redaction where the input and output are structured document files in .pdf, .docx and .txt file format. These services can help to detect sensitive information and protect an individual’s identity and privacy in both generative and non-generative AI applications which are critical for highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare or government, enabling our customers to adhere to the highest standards of data privacy, security, and compliance.
We have been proud to regularly iterate on the collaboration and feedback from a variety of satisfied customers of the service since its initial release in private then public preview before this GA release and are pleased to now announce the general availability of Conversational PII.
The Conversational PII redaction service expands upon the Text PII redaction service, supporting customers looking to identify, categorize, and redact sensitive information such as phone numbers and email addresses in unstructured text. This Conversational PII language model is specialized for conversational style inputs, particularly those found in speech transcriptions from meetings and calls. This includes improved performance in input complexities such as:
Text with filler words common when transcribing spoken text (like “um” and “uh”).
Multiple speakers in the text, such as a customer service agent and a customer troubleshooting an issue. Notably, the service should be able to handle sensitive information like a phone number even when one speaker is interrupted by the second when relaying the information.
Non-complete sentences, as is common in transcripts of natural speech conversations.
Sensitive information, like a name, being spelled out letter-by-letter instead of as a full word (“A as in apple, B as in boy, H as in house, and I as in igloo.” instead of “Abhi”).
Image: Two examples of complex conversational input being identified and redacted.
We’re thrilled to see and hear feedback on these new features in use and are excited to continue enabling our customers through delivering new solutions down the line. To learn more about additional Azure AI Language releases, see our blog post on our Build 2024 conference announcements.
For more details and resources, please explore the following links:
Learn more about the solution on our Conversational PII redaction Documentation
Explore Azure AI Language and its various capabilities
Access full pricing details on the Language Pricing page
Find the list of sensitive PII entities supported
Try out Azure AI Studio for a code-free experience
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