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Microsoft Tech Community - December 6 2019 Weekly RoundupTable of Contents Product NewsRelated AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesInteresting PerspectivesUpcoming EventsFeatured GroupsMember of the WeekProduct NewsAVAILABLE NOW Update 1910 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager current branch is now available On Friday, November 29, Microsoft announced Update 1910 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager current branch is now available. Join the conversation in the Configuration Manager space. Azure Information Protection Documentation Update for November 2019 On Friday, November 29, Microsoft announced the documentation for Azure Information Protection?been updated on the web and the latest content has a?November 2019?(or later) date at the top of the article. Join the conversation in the Azure Information Protection space. New Enhancements to Office 365 Message Encryption with Azure Information Protection On Monday, December 2, Microsoft announced three enhancements made to the consumption of protected emails. Join the conversation about the Azure Information Protection space. Release: SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v8.5 On Tuesday, December 3, Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant v8.5. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Data Migration space. Azure AD Domain Services classic migration now available On Tuesday, December 3, Microsoft announced two new highly requested improvements to Azure AD Domain Services. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 53 On Wednesday, December 4, Microsoft announced continuing to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 97 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space. UPDATE: Hardware Partner Center – SHA 1 signing deprecation notice On Wednesday, December 4, Microsoft announced signing changes for Hardware Dev Center are now live. Join the conversation in the WinHEC Online space. Upcoming change in the way migration batches for public folders are created On Wednesday, December 4, Microsoft announced a new mandatory parameter,?SourcePfPrimaryMailboxGuid, is being added to the New-MigrationBatch command for public folder migrations from Exchange 2013 (or later) on-premises to Exchange Online, which is being rolled out now. Join the conversation in the Exchange space. Auto renewal for Office 365 groups expiration policy now available On Wednesday, December 4, Microsoft announced the Office 365 groups expiration policy now includes auto-renewal based on activity. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Update 19.11 for Azure Sphere OS now available in Retail feed On Wednesday, December 4, Microsoft announced the Azure Sphere OS public preview 19.11 quality release is now available via the Retail feed. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space. EDR capabilities for macOS have now arrived On Wednesday, December 4, Microsoft announced Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) endpoint and detection response (EDR) capabilities for macOS devices are now generally available. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Defender ATP space. Bring identities from disconnected ADs into Azure AD with just a few clicks! On Thursday, December 5, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure AD Connect cloud provisioning. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Add family school & sports calendars in On Thursday, December 5, Microsoft announced enhancements to the add calendar feature in . Join the conversation in the Outlook space. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) DevOps Tools is released in preview On Thursday, December 5, Microsoft announced SSIS DevOps Tools extension is available in?Azure DevOps?marketplace. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space. COMING SOON Office Apps for Windows 10 Mobile: End of Support for Windows Phones On Friday, December 6, Microsoft announced the Office apps for phones using Windows 10 Mobile – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote -- will reach end of support on January 12, 2021.?Join the conversation in the Office Apps space. Related AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesSharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: November 2019 This month’s SharePoint and related tech certainly doesn’t disappoint. You’ll find a whole host of eagerly awaited tech goodies, like SharePoint home sites, the new files experience in Microsoft Teams, Save for later and more. Consider this the all-inclusive recap plus the embedded?Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop: November 2019?podcast episode – the bonus monthly audible companion – both to help answer, "What's rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Microsoft 365?" Microsoft Teams highlights from Ignite 2019 We hope you had as much fun at Microsoft Ignite 2019 as we did! Thank you to everyone who joined us for?keynotes, breakout and theater sessions, and conversations on the expo floor. We announced many new Microsoft Teams functionalities and want to make sure you have everything you need to know in one location. [OOO] Tips for keeping up with Yammer after a holiday break or extended leave With your whole company’s employees in one network, and conversations across multiple Yammer communities every day, the temptation to ‘keep on top of’ Yammer might seem a little overwhelming. How to fix SQL Patch Error 1648: No valid sequence could be found for the set of updates. Recently we worked on a support case where we were having trouble installing SQL Server Patch. This was SQL Server 2016 SP2 and we were trying to install?KB4524334 CU10 for SQL Server 2016 SP2. There was failure while upgrading PolyBase feature. (This can happen with other features also so same can be followed to fix them as well). The screenshot was something similar. Microsoft TechNet Wiki Gurus Needed For Dec-2019! Apply Within! No One Turned Away!!! Each month the TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the best articles posted that month. This is your chance to?be announced as MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU?OF?THE MONTH! November in HLS - Teams, Forms, Accessibility, Ignite and Healthcare Analytics It’s the last day of November and time for a recap of the busy month! We have a variety of posts to empower you and your organization including upcoming and recorded webcasts, event highlights, and instructional videos. Don't hesitate to reach out to us if there are topics you would like to see covered before the end of the year! Microsoft Ignite 2019 Teaser: Five Teams Updates for Healthcare The 2019 Microsoft Ignite conference that was held on November 4th-8th this year was filled with exciting Teams product announcements! We want to highlight a few features that have been widely requested by our healthcare customers. Download Azure Data Factory support files While we hope you have a seamless experience creating data factory pipelines, issues do occasionally arise. When reaching out to Microsoft support, download the support files of the resource with one click in the UX. This will download a zip file that has all the information needed for us to investigate, diagnose, and solve whatever issue you may be having. Lesson Learned #114: Could Row Level Security changes the execution plan of a query? Today, I worked on a service request that remember me the impact that we could have using row level security afterwards that our databases has been developed. How to configure the number of error logs for your SQL Server instance on Linux You might have noticed in the past that the default behavior in SQL Server on Linux is to keep 128 error logs in the LOG folder. Azure Logic Apps Integration with SAP Azure Logic Apps is an Azure cloud service that helps you schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. TechNet Guru Winners October 2019 All the votes (for October) are [finally] in! Undervaluing Device Management is Bad for Business Why is it so easy to fall behind on keeping workplace user devices?secured, productive?and?enjoyable to use? That’s the question my team began investigating a few years ago on our mission to help customers accelerate their paths to a modern workplace.?Step-by-Step: Managing Groups via Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph moduleIn my previous blog post, I explained how we can manage Azure AD users by using?Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module. In there I also shared many examples. In this blog post I am going to show how we can manage Groups, using same method.? Restore your Azure Database for MySQL server into a different Azure subscription, the right way If you are working on Azure, as a standard practice for governance and security, your cloud team may require you to create and maintain separate Azure subscriptions for production, development, and test environments. Separate Azure subscriptions provide optimal isolation and control between environments to ensure that administrators or operations team members restrict access to production environments while developers get the freedom to create, delete, and break things at their will in their own contained environment without any risk of impacting production. This strategy works very well and is widely adopted by Azure customers.?Advanced hunting data schema changes Hello?there,?Hunters! As announced in?a?previous?blog post,?we will be making?changes to?how?Advanced hunting?will?expose?information through its schema.Speeding up the Development of Natural Language Processing Solutions with Azure Machine Learning Natural Language?Processing (NLP) systems are used to ease the interactions between computers?and humans using natural language. It is?used in a variety of scenarios and industries?from?personal assistants?like?Cortana,?to?language translation?applications,?to?call centers?responding to specific users’?requests.??In recent years, NLP has seen significant growth both in terms of quality and usability. Through new deep learning methods and state-of-the-art (SOTA) Deep Neural Network (DNN) algorithms, businesses are able to adopt Artificial Intelligence solutions to meet their customer’s needs. Unfortunately, finding the correct algorithm to use in different scenarios and languages remains a challenge. To help researchers and data scientists find the best fit for the problem at hand, Microsoft is open-sourcing the?Microsoft NLP Recipes repository?containing best practices in building and evaluating NLP systems across multiple tasks and languages. Premier Offerings: System Center Configuration Manager and Intune Power BI Dashboard Integration As SCCM Engineers we have all been asked at some stage about custom dashboards and reports that are available or that can be created to monitor the SCCM environment, check the status of client activity, client health, deployments or content to provide to support teams, SCCM administrators and managers.?As a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft I get asked the same questions by customers. Kathleen McGrow's #Leaveofpurpose One of life’s most important questions is?What are we doing for others??I try to answer that question when each year, for the past 20 years, I have gone on a medical trip to volunteer. I greatly enjoy doing hands on nursing care and have been able to give back to patients in the Philippines, South America, and South Africa. In my most recent trip to South Africa, I learned the term #LeaveOfPurpose from the #TshembaFoundation for which I was volunteering. Reconnect Series: Jim Szubryt Jim currently leads the container platform program for Windows containers and container security for Accenture’s internal IT. “Developing the end-to-end containers platform has been a two-year journey for the team I lead,” said Jim. “Moving legacy .NET apps from IaaS to Windows was challenging. We chose Azure Service Fabric as it was the most mature option for hosting Windows containers.” Using Azure Lighthouse and Azure Sentinel to Monitor Across Multiple Tenants Azure Lighthouse provides capability for cross-tenancy management of Azure services for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and organizations with multiple Azure tenants, all from a single Azure portal. Azure Lighthouse is integrated with Azure Sentinel allowing organizations to easily manage Azure Sentinel workspaces from across multiple tenants. In this blog we will show you how to configure Azure Lighthouse, and how to use its capabilities to investigate an attack as it targets several customers at once. Support Tip: How to enable Intune app protection policies with the Office mobile preview app Several of our customers are a part of the new Office mobile app's?Google Play beta?and TestFlight programs. This mobile app combines Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app; for more information, see the TechCommunity announcement?Introducing Office – Your new go-to mobile app for getting work done. You may have noticed that the Office app is not listed as a targetable app for App Protection Policy in our admin console today. We are aiming to make it available for all tenants to target once the Office app becomes generally available. Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 submissions after end of Extended Support Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 driver submissions for the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP), will continue to be available through January 2023. These submissions will continue to be made available past the end of Extended Support on January 14, 2020, to ensure the best reliability of drivers for our Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Volume Licensing customers, who have elected to participate in the?Extended Security Updates?(ESU). Survey for NetApp FAS customers Heya folks,?Ned?here again. We have a quick survey for all our customers who use NetApp FAS.How Data Virtualization is making the world of data more peaceful, productive, and profitable Data is quite possibly the world’s most valuable resource. Recent assertions kicked off a debate about whether data is even more valuable than oil. A resource with this much value should be available to as many people who can benefit from it as possible. At the same time, however, access to data must respect privacy and security for all. How is Azure IoT Central Making IoT Even Easier New breakthrough features were recently released in Azure IoT Central to help you accelerate time to value. Azure IoT Central is becoming a real IoT Solutions Platform, reducing time and costs associated with developing, managing and maintaining enterprise-grade IoT solutions. In fact, with IoT Central you can provision an IoT application in 15 seconds, customize it in an hour and go to production the same day. With IoT Central, you get connected, stay connected, and transform your business. REMINDER: Driver Shiproom Schedule for 2019 Please keep in mind as the holidays draw near, that Driver Shiproom has black out days. HDC will continue to process your submissions. However any Shipping Label that requires "Microsoft Review" will be delayed. Office 365 ATP – Ignite Recap and Product Updates Following an incredible Ignite conference in November, I’d like to share a short summary of the product enhancements we’ve announced. Below you’ll find links to the full Ignite sessions as well as a few other helpful links, so please take a look! Microsoft 365 Enterprise is all about business scenarios Microsoft 365 Enterprise is much more than just a large group of integrated features and services. Think of it as a box of building blocks, some of which are required for a foundation and some that can be used to create buildings on the campus of an organization. The buildings are designed for different purposes but serve larger organizational needs and goals. Support Tip: Accept Apple’s new T&C to ensure Intune can communicate with Apple as expected We recently posted the following message in the Message Center (which you can also see in the Tenant Status blade on the Service Health tab in Intune). If you use Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager, Apple Volume Purchase Program or the Device Enrollment Program, you'll want to accept Apple's new Terms and Conditions. If you've got any questions on this change, we can try to help, or contact Apple for assistance.? Microsoft 365 Business Monthly Update If you're a business with less than 300 employees, Microsoft 365 Business is the comprehensive solution for you that combines your favorite productivity tools like Word, Excel, Outlook mobile and Microsoft Teams with a multi-layered security solution that helps protect your business against advanced threats. And, it comes with easy to use management tools that get your business up and running quickly. “External sharing is extra caring” ? The Intrazone podcast Microsoft 365 provides a rich set of solutions for collaborating with users both inside and outside of your organization (such as partners, vendors, clients, or customers). In this episode, we cover various levels of “extranet” to discover best practices when using and configuring Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive for external collaboration. An example of Polybase for Oracle Here is the topology of the environment. Microsoft Managed Desktop Can Help Boost Engagement A core principle of?Microsoft Managed Desktop?is the notion that modern management can give people fantastic experiences on workplace devices that stay current and secure with Microsoft 365. Premier Offerings: System Center Configuration Manager and Intune Power BI Dashboard Integration As SCCM Engineers we have all been asked at some stage about custom dashboards and reports that are available or that can be created to monitor the SCCM environment, check the status of client activity, client health, deployments or content to provide to support teams, SCCM administrators and managers.?As a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft I get asked the same questions by customers. Speeding up the Development of Natural Language Processing Solutions with Azure Machine Learning Natural Language?Processing (NLP) systems are used to ease the interactions between computers?and humans using natural language. It is?used in a variety of scenarios and industries?from?personal assistants?like?Cortana,?to?language translation?applications,?to?call centers?responding to specific users’?requests.??In recent years, NLP has seen significant growth both in terms of quality and usability. Through new deep learning methods and state-of-the-art (SOTA) Deep Neural Network (DNN) algorithms, businesses are able to adopt Artificial Intelligence solutions to meet their customer’s needs. Unfortunately, finding the correct algorithm to use in different scenarios and languages remains a challenge. To help researchers and data scientists find the best fit for the problem at hand, Microsoft is open-sourcing the?Microsoft NLP Recipes repository?containing best practices in building and evaluating NLP systems across multiple tasks and languages. Application state – I want the easiest, most trouble-free deployment for the database As more and more applications convert to cloud native with Kubernetes as a normalizing layer,?the ability to have portability between public clouds also becomes easier. Theoretically,?an application?can now move easily between AWS/Azure/GCP.? Step-By-Step: Building a Hyper-V Lab in Azure with Windows Server 2019 I was recently challenged with having to create technical demos for a Microsoft Ignite the tour session called “Migrating to Windows Server 2019”?(watch the recording here?- awesome session). The demos for this talk centered around taking a bunch of Windows Server 2008 R2 systems running “core infrastructure services” (Active Directory, DHCP and File Servers) and moving those workloads over to systems running Windows Server 2019. This was simulating an on-prem environment that was going through a modernization process.? I’ve been making technical demos for a long time now – so it should have been easy to pull off. Fire up my Hyper-V lab server and make some VMs.? Premier Offerings: Onboarding Accelerator - Implementing Microsoft Intune Features As a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, I run into numerous instances where our customers have raised the need for them to have greater control and flexibility in using the Microsoft Premier Services. Azure Sentinel correlation rules: the join KQL operator In the SIEM world, rules are often called correlation rules. While this is not always the case, and therefore I prefer the term detection rules, it conveys the importance of correlation for SIEM. What makes SIEM different from specialized security controls is the ability to correlate between events from multiple sources. Find your free time with Microsoft Search Kick start 2020 by finding your free time with Microsoft Search… Mine Knowledge of File Names and Paths with a Python Custom Skill Azure Cognitive Search is the Microsoft product for Knowledge Mining, a process to extract information from unstructured or semi-structured data. However, extracting knowledge of file names or paths is not trivial. In this article you will learn how to do it using Azure Functions for Python, that?went to GA?on August 19th, 2019. BitLocker, Intune, and Raven Hello Paul Bergson, back again with another story about my dog Raven.? From time to time we get a visit from a family member and they will bring their dog along, problem is we have never socialized Raven with other dogs.? She has no interest in sharing any of her toys but like a four year old human, she takes them out of her toy box (yes she has one) and leaves them laying all over the house.? When our visiting canine begins to play with one of Raven’s toys, she gets jealous and just waits to get it away from her visitor.? If she had a choice, she would stop any dog from ever touching her toys.? Unfortunately for Raven she does not have any type of protective measures, to guard against strangers accessing her stuff that is laying around the house “at rest”. A behind the scenes look at how we secure the Microsoft 365 platform Hey everyone, and welcome to this first post on a topic that we will be talking a lot more about over time! Microsoft 365 is one of the world’s largest enterprise and consumer cloud services, and customer trust is the foundation of our business: customers and people all around the world rely on us to securely operate and maintain some of their most critical assets. To maintain that trust, we invest heavily in securing the infrastructure that powers our services and hosts this data on behalf of our customers – keeping customer data private and secure is THE top priority for our business. This post, and the other ones we’ll share in this series, will shed light on what we do behind the scenes to secure the infrastructure powering the Microsoft 365 service. Just finishing week 49 of 2019, here is your IoT weekly digest I missed to publish last week's weekly recap... which makes this one a bit longer than usual, but bear with me, it's worth going through over the weekend! Significant update to "Exchange AD Deployment Site" post One of more popular on-premises blog posts on our blog is a post called?Exchange Active Directory Deployment Site. It deals with methodology for installation of new Exchange servers into live production environments, while having as little impact to existing users as possible. Lustre on Azure Azure has?Lv2?VM instances which feature NVMe disks that can be used for a Lustre filesystem. This is a cost effective way to provision a high performance filesystem on the Azure. The disks are internal to the physical host and do not have the same SLA as?premium disk storage?but, when coupled with HSM, can be a fast on-demand high performance filesystem. Use ‘data virtualization’ extension of ‘Azure data Studio’ to create external tables for Oracle Use T-SQL to create external tables for Oracle is cumbersome and error-prone. You may refer the?article?if you are interested. Today I’m going to show you how to use ‘data virtualization’ extension of ‘Azure data Studio’ to do it. You may still run into error , however you can modify the ‘script’ to correct it. Video Tutorial: Administration Service in Configuration Manager current branch Hello everyone,?Steve Rachui,?a principal field engineer, specializing in endpoint management technologies brings us another video tutorial.? This session focuses on the Configuration Manager administration service introduced in current branch version1810. The tutorial focuses on current branch 1906 and presents details of what the administration service is, why it matters, use case scenarios for both on-premises and internet scenarios and wraps with tips and tricks. FAQs from Exchange and Outlook booths at 2019 Microsoft Ignite During Microsoft Ignite 2019, we had a bunch of Microsoft employees and Exchange MVPs in the Exchange and Outlook booths on the show floor. We send them there to answer our customer’s questions.MVP Blogs Ignite Live blog: MTG10 - Get the most out of meetings with Microsoft Teams At this session, James Skay - Senior Product Marketing Manager in Microsoft, covered the best practices regarding the Teams meetings – different types of meetings and when to use what, as well as getting familiar with a meetings lifecycle, in order for to users to get the maximum from their meetings experience. Ignite Live Blog: TMS40 Managing Microsoft Teams Effectively Managing Microsoft Teams Effectively is the fourth session in the?Journey to Teams?learning path. It was the one I’d wanted to blog about when MVP’s were presented with the opportunity to do so. Why? I strongly believe in the effective management of Microsoft Teams - but also because I knew Anne Michels was delivering the session. For anyone who has seen Anne live, they’ll know that she is one of the most passionate and engaging speakers in Microsoft - and I personally saw her knock it out the park in a Teams Architecture session back in Berlin last December during Microsoft Ignite the Tour. Friday Five: Power BI Desktop – Database Connectors, SQL Saturday Pordenone 2020, and more! Check out the top 5 MVP blogs from last week! Friday Five: Getting Started With Power BI, Microsoft Ignite 2019, and more! Check out the top 5 MVP blogs from this week! Interesting PerspectivesAdd Outlook as an App in Teams? New Contributor Benjamin Jongenburger wanted his team to use Teams as their main hub for communication. He wanted to?add an app in the left bar (in either the web or the desktop version) with which they could?reach their Outlook inbox (web version), but he was unable to find how to do this.?MVP Christopher Hoard was able to provide guidance, linking him to an article explaining step by step how to enable this in Teams.? Extract different player names referring to an identical text string into separate columns. Contributor Stephen Castellano needed guidance on a previously solved issue in Excel, but this time applying it to two different players in the formula. He attached the document where the previous work had been done, in hopes of help expanding on the formula to use. MVP Sergei Baklan, who helped with the original formula, was able to provide an update to solve his issue.? Vertical Section - Sharepoint pages New Contributor Patrick Holland was trying to add a Vertical Section to a modern SharePoint page but was running into issues applying it. Valued Contributor John Wynne was able to provide guidance on building out the site to help enable the view .? Upcoming EventsAnnouncing the Office Pro Plus Deployment AMA! We are very excited to announce an Office Pro Plus Deployment 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA)?for Office Pro Plus! The AMA will take place on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PTFeatured SpaceFeatured Space Azure Marketplace Check out the latest updates in the Azure Marketplace blog! Member of the Week HYPERLINK "" \h Chris Mendoza A member since March, Chris is a fantastic contributor in the Excel space. Thanks for being a member of the community! ................
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