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Announcing the 3-year retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service
Windows Server 2025 and the Windows Server Annual Channel, offer a comprehensive array of enhanced features, heightened security measures, and improved overall performance, and with image portability customers can now run Windows Server 2022 based containers on these new versions. To maximize the experience for customers, not only will Windows Server 2025/Annual Channel provide the most efficient versions of Windows Server yet, but also streamline the upgrade process. In pursuit of an enhanced user experience and an unwavering commitment to safety and reliability, we will be retiring Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in 3-years time.
What does this mean for me?
Windows Server 2022 will be retiring on AKS in March 2027. You should prepare to upgrade to a supported Windows Server version before March 2027.
How can I upgrade my Windows nodepools?
You can follow the Windows Server OS migration process outlined in the AKS documentation to upgrade to Windows Server 2025 or Annual Channel when they’re released on AKS. Portability is key feature available for Windows Server 2025/Annual Channel and onwards, the host and container image no longer need to be upgraded in tandem, older images can now work on newer hosts (ex. running Windows Server 2022 image on Windows Server 2025 host).
Kubernetes version 1.34 will be the final version where Windows Server 2022 is supported on AKS. When Kubernetes version 1.34 is at the end of life on AKS, Windows Server 2022 will no longer be supported. Upgrades to Kubernetes 1.35 on AKS will be blocked if there are any remaining Windows Server 2022 node pools in the cluster.
Windows Server 2025 on AKS and will offer numerous advantages and enhancements. At a high level, Windows Server 2025 introduces enhanced performance and reliability and improved networking support, including density improvements. Learn more about Windows Server 2025 from our recent announcements at Containers – Microsoft Community Hub.
Our commitment centers on customer satisfaction and success, guiding our efforts to provide ample resources and time for upgrading to our premier operating system. Our aim is to simplify the upgrade process, enabling customers to fully leverage the benefits of Windows Server 2025/Annual Channel.
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Upcoming preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024
Microsoft 365 offers the cloud-backed apps, security, and storage that customers worldwide rely on to achieve more in a connected world – and lays a foundation for leveraging generative AI to go even further. However, we know that some customers have niche yet important scenarios that require a truly long-term servicing channel: regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates for years at a time, process control devices on the manufacturing floor that are not connected to the internet, and specialty systems like medical testing equipment that run embedded apps that must stay locked in time. For these special cases, Microsoft continues to offer and support the Office Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC). Today we are pleased to announce that the commercial preview of the next Office LTSC release – Office LTSC 2024 – will begin next month, with general availability to follow later this year.
About this release
Like earlier perpetual versions of Office, Office LTSC 2024 will include only a subset of the value found in Microsoft 365 Apps, building on the features included in past releases. New features for Office LTSC 2024 include: new meeting creation options and search enhancements in Outlook, dozens of new Excel features and functions including Dynamic Charts and Arrays; and improved performance, security, and accessibility. Office LTSC 2024 will not ship with Microsoft Publisher, which is being retired, or with the Microsoft Teams app, which is available to download separately.
While Office LTSC 2024 offers many significant improvements over the previous Office LTSC release, as an on-premises product it will not offer the cloud-based capabilities of Microsoft 365 Apps, like real-time collaboration; AI-driven automation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; or cloud-backed security and compliance capabilities that give added confidence in a hybrid world. And with device-based licensing and extended offline access, Microsoft 365 offers deployment options for scenarios like computer labs and submarines that require something other than a user-based, always-online solution. Microsoft 365 (or Office 365) is also required to subscribe to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365; as a disconnected product, Office LTSC does not qualify.
As with previous releases, Office LTSC 2024 will still be a device-based “perpetual” license, supported for five years under the Fixed Lifecycle Policy, in parallel with Windows 11 LTSC, which will also launch later this year. And because we know that many customers deploy Office LTSC on only a subset of their devices, we will continue to support the deployment of both Office LTSC and Microsoft 365 Apps to different machines within the same organization using a common set of deployment tools.
Office LTSC is a specialty product that Microsoft has committed to maintaining for use in exceptional circumstances, and the 2024 release provides substantial new feature value for those scenarios. To support continued innovation in this niche space, Microsoft will increase the price of Office LTSC Professional Plus, Office LTSC Standard, Office LTSC Embedded, and the individual apps by up to 10% at the time of general availability. And, because we are asked at the time of release if there will be another one, I can confirm our commitment to another release in the future.
We will provide additional information about the next version of on-premises Visio and Project in the coming months.
Office 2024 for consumers
We are also planning to release a new version of on-premises Office for consumers later this year: Office 2024. Office 2024 will also be supported for five years with the traditional “one-time purchase” model. We do not plan to change the price for these products at the time of the release. We will announce more details about new features included in Office 2024 closer to general availability.
Embracing the future of work
The future of work in an AI-powered world is on the cloud. In most customer scenarios, Microsoft 365 offers the most secure, productive, and cost-effective solution, and positions customers to unlock the transformative power of AI with Microsoft Copilot. Especially as we approach the end of support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 in October 2025, we encourage customers still using these solutions to transition to a cloud subscription that suits their needs as a small business or a larger organization. And for scenarios where that is not possible – where a disconnected, locked-in-time solution is required – this new release reflects our commitment to supporting that need.
FAQ
Q: Will the next version of Office have a Mac version?
A: Yes, the next version of Office will have both Windows and Mac versions for both commercial and consumer.
Q: Will the next version of Office be supported on Windows 10?
A: Yes, Office LTSC 2024 will be supported on Windows 10 and Windows 10 LTSC devices (with the exception of Arm devices, which will require Windows 11).
Q: Will the next version support both 32- and 64-bit?
A: Yes, the next version of Office will ship both 32-and 64-bit versions.
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Cumulative Update #12 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates.
To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit:
CU12 KB Article: https://learn.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/sql/releases/sqlserver-2022/cumulativeupdate12
Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model. Please refer to our blog for more details on Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server.
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2022 RTM Latest Cumulative Update: https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=105013
Update Center for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
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Known issue: iOS/iPadOS ADE users incorrectly redirected to Intune Company Portal website
We recently identified an issue where users with iOS/iPadOS devices enrolling with Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) are unable to sign in to the Intune Company Portal app for iOS/iPadOS. Instead, they’re incorrectly prompted to navigate to the Intune Company Portal website to enroll their device, and they are unable to complete enrollment. This issue occurs for newly enrolled ADE users that are targeted with an “Account driven user enrollment” or “Web based device enrollment” enrollment profile and just in time (JIT) registration has not been set up.
While we’re actively working on resolving this issue, we always recommend organizations using iOS/iPadOS ADE to have JIT registration set up for their devices for the best and most secure user experience. For more information review: Set up just in time registration.
Stay tuned to this blog for updates on the fix! If you have any questions, leave a comment below or reach out to us on X @IntuneSuppTeam.
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How to monitor the performance of your on-prem & multi-cloud SQL Servers w/ Azure Arc | Data Exposed
Learn how to use Azure Arc to monitor key performance metrics for your SQL Servers located in your data center, at the edge, or even in other public clouds.
Resources:
https://aka.ms/ArcSQLMonitoring
https://aka.ms/ArcDocs
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Last chance to nominate for POTYA!
This is your chance to be recognized as part of the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards! Nominate before the April 3 deadline.
Celebrated annually, these awards recognize the incredible impact that Microsoft partners are delivering to customers and celebrate the outstanding successes and innovations across Solution Areas, industries, and key areas of impact, with a focus on strategic initiatives and technologies. Partners of all types, sizes, and geographies are encouraged to self-nominate. This is an opportunity for partners to be recognized on a global scale for their innovative solutions built using Microsoft technologies.
In addition to recognizing partners for the impact in our award categories, we also recognize partners from over 100 countries/regions around the world as part of the Country/Region Partner of the Year Awards. In 2024, we’re excited to offer additional opportunities to recognize partner impact through new awards – read our blog to learn more and download the official guidelines for specific eligibility requirements.
Find resources on how to write a great entry, FAQs and more on our the Partner of the Year Awards website.
Nominate here!
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Mastering Azure Cost Optimization – A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction
Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia.
I understand and you probably do as well, that cost savings in the cloud is a very hot topic for any organization.
Believe it or not, there is a huge number of people (including me) doing their best to allow you to get the best value for your money. This is imperative for us.
The plan here is to highlight the most used cost savings artifacts as well as the most effective cost savings actions you can take for cost savings.
I will give you some personal tips, but most of the content already exists and therefore my objective is to have a consolidated article where you can find the best and latest (as of March 2024) cost optimization content.
The content will vary from teams ranging from Product Groups to Cloud Solution Architects which can cover anything from the ins and outs of people actively working on our products to the people actively deploying and implementing them in the field.
Key Strategies for Azure Cost Optimization
There are a huge number of areas where cost optimization can be applied to. These range from doing some type of remediation to just understanding and having ways to visualize your spendings.
I don’t intend to cover every single possible way to achieve cost savings but here is what I will cover:
Hybrid Benefit (both Windows and Linux)
Reservations (for several resource types)
Savings Plan
Idle Resources
SKUs
Resizing
Logs
Workbooks
Dashboards
FinOps
In my experience, if you invest some time and take a good look at the above list, you will be able to achieve good savings and be able to invest those savings in more innovative (or maybe security) initiatives in your company.
Hybrid Benefit
Azure Hybrid Benefit is a cost-saving feature that allows you to use your existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance or qualifying subscription licenses to run workloads in the cloud at a reduced cost. This benefit now also extends to Linux (RHEL and SLES) and Arc-enabled AKS clusters. You can also leverage Hybrid Benefit on Azure Stack HCI. It’s an effective way to reduce costs for organizations that have already invested in Microsoft or Linux licenses and are looking to migrate or extend their infrastructure to Azure.
@arthurclares has a nice blog post on this.
For information on Hybrid Benefit for Arc-enabled AKS clusters, check this page.
For more information on Hybrid Benefit for Azure Stack HCI, check this page.
Reservations and Savings Plans
Azure Reservations help you save money by committing to one-year or three-year plans for multiple products. This includes virtual machines, SQL databases, AVS, and other Azure resources. By pre-paying, you can secure significant discounts over the pay-as-you-go rates. Reservations are ideal for predictable workloads where you have a clear understanding of your long-term resource needs.
The Azure Savings Plan is a flexible pricing model that offers lower prices on Azure resources in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a one or three-year period. Unlike Reservations, which apply to specific resources, the Savings Plan applies to usage across any eligible services, providing more flexibility in how you use Azure while still benefiting from cost savings.
@BrandonWilson already has a nice blog post on this.
Idle Resources
Identifying and managing idle resources is a straightforward way to optimize costs. Resources such as unused virtual machines, excess storage accounts, or idle database instances can incur costs without providing value. Implementing monitoring and automation to shut down or scale back these resources during off-peak hours can lead to significant savings.
@anortoll has already blogged about this and the post has workbooks that can be used to locate those idle resources.
@Dolev_Shor available here.
SKUs
Selecting the SKUs for your Azure resources is crucial for cost optimization. Azure offers a variety of SKUs for services like storage, databases, and compute, each with different pricing and capabilities. Choosing the most appropriate SKU for your workload requirements can optimize performance and cost efficiency.
A classic example is the over sizing of Virtual Machines. However, there are other resources to consider too. For instance, you deploy an Azure Firewall with the Premium SKU, but do you really need premium features such as TLS or intrusion detection? Another example are App Service plans which in the v3 SKU can be cheaper and enable you to buy Reservations.
Here is a blog post by Diana Gao on VM right sizing.
Here is another blog post by Werner Hall on right sizing of Azure SQL Managed Instances.
Logs
Analyzing logs can provide insights into resource utilization and operational patterns, helping identify opportunities for cost savings. For instance, log analysis can reveal underutilized resources that can be downsized, or inefficient application patterns that can be optimized. Azure offers various tools for log analysis, such as Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, to aid in this process.
However, logs can also be the source of high cloud spending. The key is to understand what you need to log, what type of logs you need and strategies to minimize the cost of storing those logs.
For example, when you are ingesting logs in Log Analytics, depending on the log you are ingesting, you can configure certain tables in the Log Analytics workspace to use Basic Logs. Data in these tables has a significantly reduced ingestion charge and a limited retention period.
There’s a charge to search against these tables. Basic Logs are intended for high-volume verbose logs you use for debugging, troubleshooting, and auditing, but not for analytics and alerts.
Depending on the amount of data being ingested, you could also leverage commitment tiers in your workspace to save as much as 30 percent compared to the PAYG price.
Furthermore, you could also structure your logs to be archived after a period of time and save on costs.
Refer to this page to learn more about these options and to this page to learn more about best practices.
Workbooks
Azure Workbooks provide a customizable, interactive way to visualize and analyze your Azure resources and their metrics. By creating workbooks, you can gain insights into your spending patterns, resource utilization, and operational health. This can help identify inefficiencies and areas where cost optimizations can be applied.
Many workbooks are available. A few examples are:
Azure Advisor workbook
Azure Orphan Resources workbook
Azure Hybrid Benefit workbook
Dashboards
Azure Dashboards offer a unified view of your resources and their metrics, allowing for real-time monitoring of your Azure environment. Custom dashboards can be configured to focus on cost-related metrics, providing a clear overview of your spending, highlighting trends, and pinpointing areas where optimizations can be made.
You can make your own dashboards, but a few are already available, and you can customize them to your needs.
@sairashaik made available two very useful dashboards available here and here.
Another one which has been available for a long time is the Cost Management Power BI App for Enterprise Agreements.
FinOps
FinOps, or Financial Operations, is a cloud financial management practice aimed at maximizing business value by bringing financial accountability to the variable spend model of the cloud. It involves understanding and controlling cloud costs through practices like allocating costs to specific teams or projects, budgeting, and forecasting. Implementing FinOps practices helps organizations make more informed decisions about their cloud spend, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Learn how to implement your own FinOps hub leveraging the FinOps Toolkit.
Additional Resources
The following are some additional resources which provide valuable information for your Cost Optimization journey.
Advisor Cost Optimization Workbook
Cost Optimization Design Principles
Conclusion
Optimizing costs in Azure is a multifaceted endeavor that requires a strategic approach and a deep understanding of the available tools and features. By leveraging Azure’s Hybrid Benefit for both Windows and Linux, making smart use of Reservations for various resources, adopting Savings Plans, and diligently managing Idle Resources, businesses can achieve substantial cost savings.
Additionally, the careful selection of SKUs, appropriate resizing of resources, thorough analysis of logs, and effective use of Workbooks and Dashboards can further enhance cost efficiency. Lastly, embracing FinOps principles ensures that cost management is not just an IT concern but a shared responsibility across the organization, aligning cloud spending with business value. Together, these strategies form a robust framework for achieving cost optimization in Azure, enabling businesses to maximize their cloud investments and drive greater efficiency and innovation.
As always, I hope this was informative to you and thanks for reading.
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Partner Blog | Microsoft Copilot for Security generally available on April 1
By Julie Sanford, Vice President, Partner GTM, Programs & Experiences
As malicious actors continue to intensify their use of AI, security professionals must also incorporate AI into their solutions to counter the increasing threat. To support our partners and customers in securing their businesses, we are excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Copilot for Security in all commerce channels, including CSP, on April 1, 2024. This new Copilot provides Microsoft partners with a powerful resource to safeguard their organizations, while improving the security services and solutions they offer.
Copilot for Security is the first generative AI security product designed to defend organizations at the speed and scale of AI. This announcement continues our AI momentum following the recent general availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot for Finance, Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, and Copilot for the education market.
We have also added new resources for Copilot for Microsoft 365 ready to help you deliver more value, adoption, and seat growth with customers. Read our blog for these updates.
Copilot for Security is designed to complement, rather than replace human skills. Our partners bring their experience, skills, and established methods for dealing with vulnerabilities. This new tool enables them to apply their expertise to services and offerings that AI solutions without human insights cannot match.
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Microsoft Secure Tech Accelerator: Securing AI– RSVP now
Join us April 3rd for another Microsoft Secure Tech Accelerator! We will be joined by members of our product engineering and customer adoption teams to help you explore, expand, and improve the way you secure and implement AI.
In this edition of Microsoft Secure Tech Accelerator, we are focusing on Microsoft Copilot for Security, Securing AI, and Exposure Management. We want to help you understand how you can make sure that the way you implement your AI tools is secure. We’ll also cover some of the newly available solutions in the Microsoft Security suite that allows you to make securing your AI easier.
As always, the focus of this series is on your questions! In addition to open Q&A with our product experts, we will kick off each session with a brief demo to get everyone warmed up and excited to engage.
How do I attend?
Choose a session name below and add any (or all!) of them to your calendar. Then, click RSVP to event and post your questions in the Comments anytime! We’ll note if we answer your question in the live stream and follow up in the chat with a reply as well.
Can’t find the option to RSVP? No worries, sign in on the Tech Community first.
Afraid to miss out due to scheduling or time zone conflicts? We got you! Every AMA will be recorded and available on demand the same day.
Agenda: April 3, 2024
Start time
Session title
7:00 a.m. PT
Copilot for Security: Customize your Copilot (deep dive + AMA)
8:00 a.m. PT
Secure AI applications using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
(deep dive)
8:30 a.m. PT
Transform your defense: Microsoft Security Exposure Management
(deep dive + AMA)
More ways to engage
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What’s new in Defender: How Copilot for Security can transform your SOC
What’s new in Defender: How Copilot for Security can transform your SOC
Today at Secure, we announced that Microsoft Copilot for Security will be generally available on April 1. Copilot equips security teams with purpose-built capabilities at every stage of the security lifecycle, embedded right into the unified security operations platform in the Defender portal. Early users of Copilot for Security have already seen significant measurable results when integrated in their SOC, transforming their operations and boosting their defense and posture against both ongoing and emerging threats. Read on to learn about the capabilities to GA on 4/1 embedded in the Defender portal for Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel data and how early access customers are already enjoying its value.
Prevent breaches with dynamic threat insight
Copilot for Security leverages the rich portfolio of Microsoft Security products to produce enriched insights for security analysts in the context of their workflow. At GA, you will be able to use Copilot for Security with Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Threat Analytics in the Defender portal to tap into high-fidelity threat intelligence on threat actors, tooling and infrastructure and easily discover and summarize recommendations specific to your environment’s risk profile, all using natural language. These insights can help security teams improve their security posture by prioritizing threats and managing exposures proactively against adversaries, keeping their organizations protected from potential breaches.
Identify and prioritize with built-in context
“Copilot for Security is allowing us to re-envision security operations. It will be critical in helping us close the talent gap.” Greg Petersen Sr. Director – Security Technology & Operations, Avanade
Automation of common manual tasks with Copilot frees up analyst time and allows them to focus on more complex and urgent demands. For example, analysts need to understand the attack story and impact to determine next steps, and this often requires time and effort to collect and understand all of the relevant details. To make this task faster and easier, Copilot’s incident summaries, with AI-powered data processing and contextualization, provides this content readily available, saving significant triage time. Complimenting Microsoft Defender XDR’s unique ability to correlate incidents from a variety of workloads, Copilot’s incident summary provides the attack story and potential impact directly in the incident page. At GA, asset summaries become available for use in investigation. The first of these is a device summary, where Copilot provides highlights about the device based on all cross-workload information available in Defender XDR, as well as other device data integrated in from Intune. This further improves efficiency during triage and enables analysts to more quickly assess and prioritize incidents, leading to faster response.
As part of incident investigation and response, analysts often reach out to employees to get more information about unusual activity on their devices or to communicate about an incident or a limitation in access. New at GA, Copilot now makes this faster by generating tailored messages with all the details an employee would need and enabling analysts to send those messages through Microsoft Teams or Outlook – directly from the portal. Copilot links directly to many tasks that would normally require going to another view or product – another example of added efficiency for security teams.
During Early access, 97%* of security professionals reported they would make consistent use of Copilot capabilities in their day-to-day workflows.
Accelerate full resolution for every incident
“Copilot for Security can democratize security to the end user. It is no longer just with the subject matter expert. The average analyst training time used to be a couple of months, and that can reduce drastically if you’re using Copilot.” Chandan Pani, Chief Information Security Officer, LTIMindtree
During an incident, every second counts. With additional Copilot capabilities, like guided response and automated incident reports, analysts of all levels can move an average of 22% faster* and accelerate time to resolution.
Guided response, provided by Copilot during incident investigation and report in the Defender portal, helps analysts determine what to do next, based on the specific incident at hand.
Example recommendations include:
Triaging an incident with a recommended classification and threat category
Steps to take to contain an incident, such as suspending a compromised account
Investigation actions, such as finding all emails that were part of a phishing campaign
How to remediate an incident, such as resetting a user’s password
Action recommendations are provided with links to the next steps, which can be taken directly in the Copilot window, reducing time spent switching views.
After successfully closing out an incident, analysts often spend time drafting reports for peers and leadership to provide a summary of the attack and remediation steps taken. Using Copilot, an incident report is easily generated with the click of a button, instantly delivering a high-quality summary ready to share or save for documentation. For GA, exporting the report to a detailed formatted PDF is now available, making for a great executive-shareable report.
Elevate analysts with intelligent assistance
“Copilot for Security allows us to quickly analyze Python and PowerShell scripts. This means that staff with less experience can quickly analyze scripts, saving valuable time in the cybersecurity area where time is so important.” Mark Marshall, Assistant Chief Information Officer , Peel District School Board
Security teams are made up of individuals with a variety of different skillsets and levels of experience, and as demands and requirements change, up-leveling becomes critical. It can take time and expertise to learn how to effectively manage hunting jobs or analyze malicious scripts, which many organizations simply don’t have. Copilot makes expert tasks significantly simpler, reducing the time spent onboarding new recruits and training analysts while driving faster results.
For example, Copilot assists less experienced analysts with hunting during an investigation in the Defender Portal. An analyst can now create KQL queries simply using natural language – for example just asking for “all devices that logged on in the last hour”. The user can then choose to run the generated query or have Copilot execute them automatically. Copilot can also recommend the best filters to apply after results are surfaced or suggest common next steps. Security teams see significant benefits with this as more senior analysts are now able to delegate threat hunting projects to newer or less experienced employees.
Another task commonly reserved to more experienced analysts is reverse engineering PowerShell, Python or other scripts, often used in HumOR and other attacks, and not every team even has this expertise. Copilot’s script analysis feature gives security teams the ability to examine these scripts easily, without needing any prior knowledge of how to do so. This feature is also into the investigation process with a button prompting a user to “analyze with Copilot” anytime an alert contains a script. The resulting analysis is a line-by-line explanation of what the script is trying to do, with excerpts from the script for each explained section. Wit this, an analyst can quickly tell if a script is potentially harmful or not. New at GA, these capabilities extend to suspicious file analysis as well (executable or other), delivering details about the file’s internal characteristics and behavior and an easy way to assess maliciousness.
Interested in getting started with Copilot for Security?
The pace of innovation in AI is moving at lightning speed and we expect many more security teams to see significant benefits of the technology with the general availability of Copilot for Security. To learn more about Microsoft Copilot for Security, click here or contact your Microsoft sales representative.
Learn more about Copilot skills for Defender XDR announced at early access : Operationalizing Microsoft Security Copilot to Reinvent SOC Productivity
*Microsoft Copilot for Security randomized controlled trial (RCT) with experienced security analysts conducted by Microsoft Office of the Chief Economist, January 2024.
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Certification
Hi! I work in LE and I will be teaching some of our staff Detentions 101. As a perk of taking the class I would love to have those who take the class be Sharepoint “Certified” through Microsoft. Is that possible?
Hi! I work in LE and I will be teaching some of our staff Detentions 101. As a perk of taking the class I would love to have those who take the class be Sharepoint “Certified” through Microsoft. Is that possible? Read More
Azure Container Apps Managed Certificates now in General Availability (GA)!
General Availability (GA): Azure Container Apps Managed Certificates!
Managed Certificates on Azure Container Apps will allow you to create certificates free of charge for custom domains added to your container app. The service will also manage the life cycle of these certificates and auto-renew them when they’re close to expiring.
To learn more, see Azure Container Apps managed certificate documentation.
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Azure at KubeCon Europe 2024 | Paris, France – March 19-22
Note: Brendan Burns’ “Welcome to KubeCon EU 2024” blog post will be live on March 19 at aka.ms/kubeconblog. Please check back at that time.
Are you as excited as we are for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024? We can’t wait and hope you’ll join us for some awesome Microsoft Azure KubeCon + CloudNativeCon related events and activities happening in Paris March 18-22!
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Essentials Day (March 18): New for this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, we’ve added an in-person, hands-on, introductory workshop for those just getting started with AKS. The full-day event will be in Paris on March 18. Registration is required for this free event and space is limited. Learn more and register.
Azure Day with Kubernetes (March 19): Join our Microsoft experts in-person in Paris on Tuesday, March 19 from 9am to 5pm for an exclusive opportunity to learn best practices for building cloud-native and intelligent apps with Kubernetes on Azure. Registration is required for this free event and space is limited. Learn more and register.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (March 20-22):
Don’t miss the Microsoft keynote on Wednesday March 20 9:40am to learn about how to Build an Open Source Platform for AI/ML.
Check out sessions by Microsoft engineers on diverse topics including Notary project, what’s new in containerd 2.0, strategies for efficient LLM deployments, OpenTelemetry, Confidential Containers, Network Policy, OPA, special purpose operating systems, and more!
Brendan Burns, Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft CVP, will share his thoughts on the latest developments and key Microsoft announcements related to cloud-native intelligent application development in his KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 blog on March 19th.
And of course, swing by our Microsoft Azure booth #G1 from March 20th to 22nd! We’ll have short sessions and demos on all things cloud native and AI, an Xbox Forza racing competition with a chance to win some cool prizes, and some sweet swag. Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Brendan Burn’s latest Kubernetes Best Practices book when you visit the Microsoft booth!
We look forward to seeing you in Paris!
– Microsoft Azure team
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Sync Up Episode 09: Creating a New Future with OneDrive
Sync Up Episode 9 is now available on all your favorite podcast apps! This month, Arvind Mishra and I are talking with Liz Scoble and Libby McCormick about the power of Create.Microsoft.com and how we’re bringing that power into the OneDrive experience! Along the way, we learn a little more about ourselves, about TPS reports, and much more!
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As always, we hope you enjoyed this episode! Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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Unlock the power of video with Microsoft Stream
Hi Microsoft 365 Insiders!
Experience seamless video collaboration with Microsoft Stream, a powerful platform that enables you to create, share, and view videos securely across the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day. You can use it to easily create useful and interesting video content, and leverage features like sharing, transcriptions, translations, chapters, search, and more.
Read the full overview in our latest blog!
We have also shared out on X/LinkedIn:
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Hi Microsoft 365 Insiders! Experience seamless video collaboration with Microsoft Stream, a powerful platform that enables you to create, share, and view videos securely across the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day. You can use it to easily create useful and interesting video content, and leverage features like sharing, transcriptions, translations, chapters, search, and more. Read the full overview in our latest blog! We have also shared out on X/LinkedIn:X: https://twitter.com/Msft365Insider/status/1767581318089482328LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7173347029945966592 Thanks! Perry SjogrenMicrosoft 365 Insider Social Media Manager Become a Microsoft 365 Insider and gain exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Microsoft 365. Join Now: Windows | Mac | iOS | Android Read More
Can’t Enable DKIM in Office 365
AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon (using the same email server) are now requiring that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC be enabled for emails sent to those addresses. I saw a report that Google will soon require this too. My problem is that to enable DKIM, I have to create 2 CNAME records. I have created these records on 4 accounts on 4 different providers. I have another account that actually works, but DKIM was enabled even without the CNAMES. I also passed the DMARC check on that account, so I know that I have managed to put in the correct entries in the CNAME records. But, I still get the error message about needing the CNAME records before enabling DKIM.
Another curiosity is that on none of my accounts can I detect CNAME records, even CNAMEs that were already there? What do I have to do to enable DKIM on these accounts (a total of 6 accounts on 4 different hosts)?
AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon (using the same email server) are now requiring that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC be enabled for emails sent to those addresses. I saw a report that Google will soon require this too. My problem is that to enable DKIM, I have to create 2 CNAME records. I have created these records on 4 accounts on 4 different providers. I have another account that actually works, but DKIM was enabled even without the CNAMES. I also passed the DMARC check on that account, so I know that I have managed to put in the correct entries in the CNAME records. But, I still get the error message about needing the CNAME records before enabling DKIM. Another curiosity is that on none of my accounts can I detect CNAME records, even CNAMEs that were already there? What do I have to do to enable DKIM on these accounts (a total of 6 accounts on 4 different hosts)? Read More
Unable to enter network after launching updat KB5034848
Today I reactivated my computer and updated with the latest version of windows 11 (23H2, X64 KB5034848). Some time later I lost connection to the internet, while my router and another laptop is still able to access the internet.
Using the help tool, I get the message that the internet can not be accessed using a fixed IP address. Automatic IP address assignment with DHCP is active (has not been changed after updating windows).
What to do?
Today I reactivated my computer and updated with the latest version of windows 11 (23H2, X64 KB5034848). Some time later I lost connection to the internet, while my router and another laptop is still able to access the internet.Using the help tool, I get the message that the internet can not be accessed using a fixed IP address. Automatic IP address assignment with DHCP is active (has not been changed after updating windows).What to do? Read More
Publishing a SaaS offer for PowerApps a canvas app in AppSource
Hello,
We have been trying for many months now to publish our PowerApps canvas apps as a SaaS offer, thereby allowing us to have transactable, licensed customers.
Through a lot of effort, we managed to get some support where we were told quite vaguely how to achieve this, but without any meaningful guidance we are struggling as we are a small ISV with expertise in our actual business, and Power Platform. We are not, however, experts in SQL (that’s being generous) or in creating APIs which seem to be a requirement to keep track of user licenses and feeding the data to our canvas app.
If anyone here has any info on this, or how they might have achieved it themselves it would be massively appreciated, as we can’t seem to get there by ourselves and MS support is very difficult to find.
It does feel as though the app development part is so much simpler than getting it onto the marketplace, which is surely the wrong way round.
Thank you,
Craig
Hello, We have been trying for many months now to publish our PowerApps canvas apps as a SaaS offer, thereby allowing us to have transactable, licensed customers. Through a lot of effort, we managed to get some support where we were told quite vaguely how to achieve this, but without any meaningful guidance we are struggling as we are a small ISV with expertise in our actual business, and Power Platform. We are not, however, experts in SQL (that’s being generous) or in creating APIs which seem to be a requirement to keep track of user licenses and feeding the data to our canvas app. If anyone here has any info on this, or how they might have achieved it themselves it would be massively appreciated, as we can’t seem to get there by ourselves and MS support is very difficult to find. It does feel as though the app development part is so much simpler than getting it onto the marketplace, which is surely the wrong way round. Thank you,Craig Read More
Assigned to me in planner – Project capability
Hi
Reading through the various comments and reports, it states that the ability for planner to pull through Project tasks through to your Planner “Assigned to me” tasks is due in March.
Can anyone confirm when this will be happening date wise as it looks like there is a bit of a delay?
Thanks,
Omar Warrak
Hi Reading through the various comments and reports, it states that the ability for planner to pull through Project tasks through to your Planner “Assigned to me” tasks is due in March. Can anyone confirm when this will be happening date wise as it looks like there is a bit of a delay? Thanks, Omar Warrak Read More
RAISE Summit Paris 2024 PRO Ticket
Hello everyone!
I just won a PRO ticket for the Paris RAISE Summit 2024.
The ticket price on the official website is €799, and I want to sell it for half price.
Can you please help me with where I can sell it, or maybe someone from here wants to buy it?
Hello everyone!I just won a PRO ticket for the Paris RAISE Summit 2024.The ticket price on the official website is €799, and I want to sell it for half price.Can you please help me with where I can sell it, or maybe someone from here wants to buy it? Read More