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Microsoft Tech Community - October 11 2019 Weekly RoundupTable of Contents Product NewsRelated AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesInteresting PerspectivesUpcoming EventsFeatured GroupsMember of the WeekProduct NewsAVAILABLE NOW Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 46 On Monday, October 7, Microsoft announced 82 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria for Azure Marketplace and went live. Join the conversation in the Azure space. New capability simplifies bulk management for users and groups On Monday, October 7, Microsoft announced the public preview of a capability to help you easily perform bulk management activities on users and groups in the Azure AD administration portal by uploading a CSV file.?Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Inclusive Classroom October updates for Reading, Writing, Math and Communication On Monday, October 7, Microsoft announced a set updates across Microsoft Education's?Learning Tools?capabilities. Join the conversation in the Education space. New transactable offers from SoftNAS, Sophos, and Teradata in Azure Marketplace On Tuesday, October 8, Microsoft announced Microsoft partners like SoftNAS, Sophos, and Teradata deliver transact-capable offers, which customers can purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Join the conversation in the Azure space.Windows Virtual Desktop now available for Microsoft 365 Business Subscribers On Tuesday, October 8, Microsoft announced?the general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) for Microsoft 365 Business Subscribers.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft 365 Business blog. Cumulative Update #10 for SQL Server 2016 SP2 On Wednesday, October 9, Microsoft announced the 10th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2016 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space. Cumulative Update #17 for SQL Server 2017 RTM On Wednesday, October 9, Microsoft announced the 17th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2017 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space. Azure Sphere 19.09 release is live in Retail feed On Wednesday, October 9, Microsoft announced the Azure Sphere 19.09 release is live in the retail feed. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space. Dark mode, drag and drop and more—read about all the new iPhone and iPad features with iOS 13 On Thursday, October 10, Microsoft announced Microsoft To-Do added some excellent?new features specific to iOS or?iPadOS?13?this week. Join the conversation in the Microsoft To-Do space. 16 new built-in roles—including Global reader—now available in preview On Thursday, October 10, Microsoft announced 16 new built-in roles for Azure AD—including the highly requested?Global reader—are now in public preview. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. New transactable offers from Juniper Networks, Check Point, and Codefresh in Azure Marketplace On Thursday, October 10, Microsoft announced Microsoft partners like?Juniper Networks, Check Point, and Codefresh deliver transact-capable offers, which customers can purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Join the conversation in the Azure space. MSAL for Android, iOS and macOS are now Generally Available On Thursday, October 10, Microsoft announced the General Availability of Microsoft Authentication Libraries (MSAL) for?Android,?iOS and macOS. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Related AnnouncementsAzure Sphere joins IoT Tech Community On Tuesday, October 8, Microsoft announced the Azure Sphere Engineering Team is excited to join the IoT Tech Community. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space.Handy ResourcesWhat am I looking at? - Using Notebooks to gain situational awareness. Being a SOC analyst is a demanding job, and one of the challenges that analysts need to overcome is building and maintaining a wide breadth of knowledge. When we think about a good analyst, we often think of the knowledge required in a purely technical sense, network protocol understanding, log analysis, or host forensics. However, there are some less technical elements that an analyst needs to also have at hand.? For instance, the organizational context surrounding a given alert: who is the user involved, where does the machine sit on the network, do the IP addresses make sense? This contextual knowledge plays a large role when triaging alerts and investigating threats and can turn a seemingly innocuous logon event into a major incident.?? Deploy Microsoft 365 Enterprise infrastructure, even if you’re not an enterprise Although designed for enterprise organizations (those with more than 500 employees), Microsoft 365 Enterprise can also be used by medium and smaller businesses that have more than 300 employees, the limit for Microsoft 365 Business and need Office 365 ProPlus, Windows 10 Enterprise licenses, or advanced threat protection and identity management.Windows Containers and Rancher 2.3 Container technology is transforming the face of business and application development. 70% of on-premises workloads today?are running?on the Windows Server operating system and enterprise customers are looking to modernize these workloads and make use of containers.? Sync up- a OneDrive Podcast : Episode 2. "Files find you" Sync Up?is your monthly podcast hosted by the OneDrive team taking you behind the scenes of OneDrive, shedding light on how OneDrive connects you to all your files in Microsoft 365 so you can share and work together from anywhere. You will hear from experts behind the design and development of OneDrive, as well as customers and Microsoft MVPs. Each episode will also give you news and announcements, special topics of discussion, and best practices for your OneDrive experience. How to Restrict Access to AIP Audit Logs to a Single Country or Region. In the?first installment?of this 3-part blog series, we showed you how to create a custom AIP tracking portal that allowed end users to see access activity for their protected documents. Today’s blog will focus on how you can empower your security and/or compliance professionals to access AIP labeling activity by other users within your organization. But, with an added bonus. The sample solution demonstrates how you could ensure that?only the right administrators have access?to?user’s?labeling data?and?within the right country or region. Extended Security Updates and Configuration Manager Support for Windows 7 comes to an end on January 14, 2020, and to remain current and supported, customers need to make the shift to Windows 10. For help planning and deploying Windows 10, Microsoft offers?guidance and other resources to accelerate the migration. Rename DC to preserve OLD Name and IP address One of the needs that arise during an Active Directory upgrade is to have to rename the new Domain Controllers with the Name and IP of the old ones. This should be avoided, application owners should be advised about the impact of this misconfiguration and guided on who to properly configure them. Unfortunately, there are still environments that face this ask so I thought I would write a short how-to just to help to wants to insist this way or maybe mess around in a lab. Fuzzy Matching in Power Query for Microsoft Excel Imagine this.?We have been given a list of products from company A and a list of products from company B. Our job is to match products between the two lists. But each company might have slightly different names for the same item.How does the PXE boot process work Within the IT department imaging devices for end users is something that we’ve probably all had to do at some point, either manually or with an automation product such as Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit?(MDT) or System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM).? HLS Show Me How - Update Microsoft Teams Phone Microsoft Teams Phones make joining Teams meetings as simple as pick up the phone. Additionally, when paired with Microsoft 365 PSTN services these phones provide the further benefit of traditional phones. Best of all from an IT standpoint these phones can be easily managed through the Teams Admin console. In this Show Me How video I demonstrate how easy it is to remotely update a?Yealink T58A Microsoft Teams Phone.SharePoint Development Community (PnP) – October 2019 updateLatest monthly summary of SharePoint Development guidance for SharePoint Online and on-premises is now available from the SharePoint Dev Blog. Check the latest news, samples and other guidance from this summary. Reconnect Series: Christos Sakellarios Christos Sakellarios?is a Reconnect member from Athens, Greece. He received MVP Awards from 2016-2018 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. The Shiproom: Brains, Hoops, and Managed Desktops The Microsoft Managed Desktop team is thrilled to share an especially "brainy" episode of?The Shiproom?- you'll see what we mean - featuring Courtney Cole, who serves as Vice President of Technology for?Pacers Sports and Entertainment. HLS Show Me How - M365 Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Teams Chat & Channel Messages Customers in regulated industries, like mine in the Healthcare and Life Sciences bucket, are rightly concerned with safeguarding against the sensitive data getting outside of their organizational boundaries. With the native DLP (Data Loss Prevention) that comes with Microsoft 365/Office 365 E3 customers have been able to set up robust policies to safeguard data in SharePoint/Exchange/OneDrive. With Microsoft Teams leveraging SharePoint under the hood for file storage this meant that content stored in a Team was covered as well. The one area not covered, Microsoft Teams Chat and Channel messaging. In this HLS Show Me How I demonstrate how to set up DLP policies that not only cover SharePoint/Exchange/OneDrive but also cover Microsoft Teams Chat and Channel messaging. New Data Exposed episode: It’s just SQL: Restoring a database to Azure SQL DB from backup In this video, Jeroen ter Heerdt shows how to restore a database to Azure SQL from a BACPAC file. Preinstall Microsoft Store Apps - What you need to know (OEM) If you are an OEM or an ISV working with an OEM to provide your app to be included in a PC image, you will need to provide the OEM with a 'preinstall package'. This post will review what a preinstall package is and how to generate them. Note that preinstall packages can only be created by Microsoft. Preinstalled apps also must be free and can't be changed to paid.PowerShell Basics: How to Force a Full Password Sync in AzureAD Connect Before starting this post, the team would like to thank all the contributions shared by the?PowerShell community found on Reddit?for their support on exploring PowerShell automation capabilities.? The outpouring of suggestions and sharing of scripts was awesome and has resulted in another question asked for us as a community to address. Bringing R Workloads to Azure Machine Learning Service This solution was designed by?Josh Lane?and?Shashank Banerjea?who are Software Engineers in Microsoft.??The following Guest post has been developed by?Shashank Banerjea. Co-Management at Microsoft At Microsoft we have been driving several key initiatives for?the?device management strategy which aligns with Modern management and Zero Trust Networking. With our north star goal, we started our?co-management journey last year to concurrently manage Windows 10 devices by using both Configuration Manager?(a.k.a SCCM or ConfigMgr)?and Microsoft Intune. One?of?the key driving factors?was?for?us to start leveraging additional cloud-powered capabilities like conditional access. The purpose of this post?is?to share the progress and plan for our?co-management roadmap at Microsoft. This is one of the first posts?on?co-management where we share what we have done so far, and we will share in depth details for different?co-management?workload transition experience and learning in coming months.? New Data Exposed episode: How to manage R packages in Azure SQL Database with sqlmlutils Currently, Azure SQL Database has?ML Services with R available in preview. In this video, Anna Hoffman gives a brief overview of how you can use?an open source package called sqlmlutils to easily connect and add/remove packages to Azure SQL Database. You can find a full example of using R, sqlmlutils, and revoscale in?this GitHub repository. Get the most from your meetings with Microsoft Teams Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts focused on helping you get the most out of your meetings with Microsoft Teams. Every day millions of people around the world rely on Teams to communicate better through meetings, calls and chat. In this series, we share best practices and highlight new communication features in Teams designed to help you and your teams stay connected and accomplish more together. 2020 Imagine Cup: Your Questions Answered If you’re a student developer looking for a chance to showcase your skills on an international stage, make an impact in your community, and win some amazing prizes, our global technology competition, Imagine Cup, is the place to be. Hailed as the “Olympic games for technology students”, we believe that anything is possible when student creativity and passion are combined with Microsoft technologies. Community Mentors App Update + Feedback Survey Hello fellow Humans of IT! As you've probably noticed,?our?Humans of IT Community?has taken on a fresh new look and feel, along with an exciting new charter focused on tech for good and holistic skills vital for successful careers in tech.?Missed our announcement when we first launched this new community? Read all about it?here.Data migration from FastTrack for Microsoft 365 FastTrack is your advisor to help deploy Microsoft 365 at no additional cost to your eligible subscriptions. FastTrack is built from engineering expertise based on our work with over 60,000 organizations. We’d like to focus today on our data migration services. MVP BLOGS Friday Five: Validate Azure Resource Move with Postman, Cascadia Code, and more! Check out the top five MVP blogs of the week. Interesting PerspectivesStaff receiving updates to Teams at different time periods?Contributor Toby McDaid was starting to roll out Teams across his business and finding that users were not receiving their automatic updates all at once. He wanted to understand how the automated updates work for Teams (or O365 apps in general). MVP Christopher Hoard was able to share supporting documentation as well as insights to help solve the issue. Search formula, in table searching in 2 rows.Occasional Contributor Jorn Hobbelen needed an excel formula to help format the cells on his spreadsheet to highlight in specific colors and was having trouble getting the whole table to display as needed. Regular Contributor Patrick Reagan was able to provide a formula to help with his issue and format the entire table.?Powerapps filter Gallery New Contributor Christina Hoeglinger was creating a power app to view and make entries in a sharepoint list. She was having difficulty with what gallery displayed when a selection from a drop down list was made and needed help to make this function work. MVP Chris Webb provided her with an alternate option that would allow her app to display the data the way she intended. Upcoming EventsDocument Acknowledgement and Attestation with Microsoft PowerPlatform – Webcast Organizations large and small require employees and even external entities to read, review, and accept terms.? This is can be part of on-boarding, regulation and compliance acceptance, or even terms of service. Leveraging Microsoft’s PowerPlatform and Office 365 we can securely store policy related documents, use Flow to automate document acknowledgement and attestation, use PowerApps to provide a mobile friendly app to review and accept policy documents, and finally we can build beautiful dashboards to visualize that status of a given document acceptance process. This Monday, October 14th, Microsoft’s?Michael Trachtenberg?will be presenting a walk-through of building the solution for Document Acknowledgement and Attestation with Microsoft PowerPlatform live online! Join us and bring your questions.Get ready for Yammer at Microsoft Ignite! #YearOfYammer Microsoft Ignite?is less than a month away and 2019 is turning out to be the year of Yammer. The event is sold out, but you can watch online if you missed your chance to be in Orlando. We'll have a lot to share for IT Pros, Community Managers, Business Decision Makers, and end users.? Featured SpaceFeatured Space Yammer With lots of news this week and a big presence at Microsoft Ignite next month, join the Yammer community to stay up to date! Member of the WeekHotCakeX A member since March 2019, HotCakeX is an incredibly prolific and knowledgeable contributor especially in the Microsoft Edge Insiders Discussions space. Thanks for being a member of the community! ................
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