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Microsoft Tech Community - December 20 2019 Weekly RoundupTable of Contents Product NewsRelated AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesInteresting PerspectivesUpcoming EventsFeatured GroupsMember of the WeekProduct NewsAVAILABLE NOW Ring in the New Year with automated user provisioning from SAP SuccessFactors to Azure AD On Monday, December 16, Microsoft announced the public preview of automated inbound user provisioning from SAP SuccessFactors to Azure AD and on-premises AD. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Introducing Azure Active Directory authentication for Azure Database for PostgreSQL On Tuesday, December 17, Microsoft announced the?public preview of the Azure Active Directory integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Join the conversation in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL space. Microsoft Teams Rooms December update On Tuesday, December 17, Microsoft announced?the content camera is now also available for Surface Pro-based systems (i.e. Logitech Smartdock, Crestron SR & Polycom MSR). Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space. Released: December 2019 Quarterly Exchange Updates On Tuesday, December 17, Microsoft announced the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.?These updates include fixes for customer reported issues as well as all previously released security updates.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft Exchange space. MSIX Core is now available!! On Wednesday, December 18, Microsoft announced MSIX Core 1.1.0.0 is now available for download. Join the conversation in the MSIX Packaging & Tools space Workplace Analytics - December 2019: Feature?updates On Wednesday, December 18, Microsoft announced feature updates for Workplace Analytics for December 2019. Join the conversation in the Workplace Analytics space. Azure AD B2C phone sign-in experience is now in public preview! On Wednesday, December 18, Microsoft announced?Azure AD B2C now supports phone-based sign-in and sign-up for apps using B2C custom policy. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 55 On Wednesday, December 18, Microsoft announced continuing to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 78 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.?Join the conversation in the Azure space. Office 365 Video Retirement & Migration Timelines Multiple Tenants On Thursday, December 19, Microsoft announced Office 365 Video customers in most regions are now able to migrate their video content to Microsoft Stream using an administration migration tool. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Stream space. Process Monitor v3.53, Process Explorer v16.31 On Thursday, December 19, Microsoft announced updated versions of Process Monitor and Process Explorer. Join the conversation in the Sysinternals space. What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2019 On Friday, December 20, Microsoft announced what’s new in Teams in the month of December.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space Announcing version 1.2 of the Cluster Creation extension On Friday, December 20, Microsoft announced the second update (version 1.2) to the Cluster Creation extension in Preview. Join the conversation in the Windows Admin Center space. COMING SOON Plan for changes coming in the Azure Sphere February release On Thursday, December 19, Microsoft announced a number of enhancements to the OS and SDK to further strengthen the security of devices at customer sites and ensure supportability from GA onward for Azure Sphere's general release in February 2020. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space. Related AnnouncementsUpdated Guidance for Organizing Teams and Channels, including Private Channels On Thursday, December 19, Microsoft announced update our guidance for organizing your hub for teamwork.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space. Handy ResourcesHow to refresh database staging environments for Azure Synapse Analytics It’s common for large data analytics solutions to have multiple staging environments such as development, testing, and quality assurance to ensure stable feature releases to production. When using SQL analytics capabilities within Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly known as SQL Data Warehouse), it’s recommended to decouple these environments in separate databases to ensure these environments do not impact one another and periodically refresh these staging environments with production data. Oftentimes this refresh can be simply achieved through the database backup and restore capabilities which can be done cross or in-place a logical SQL Server. Many developers have multiple subscriptions or resource groups hosting each of these environments and would like to also refresh by restoring environments across these two boundaries. This blog outlines how to simply refresh and sync your staging environments with production data when environments reside in different Azure subscriptions or resource group. Known Issue with BitLocker Key rotation for Windows 10 1909 devices in Intune We’ve discovered an issue with the BitLocker Key rotation feature in Intune on recently updated Windows 10 devices. When you configure a Windows 10 device version 1909 to support rotation of the BitLocker recovery key, you can select that particular device in the console and enable the “BitLocker Key rotation” remote action. How to configure the management endpoint of a service fabric cluster with a custom domain This is useful in a scenario where you need to configure your own custom domain on the management endpoint of a SF cluster. With this, you’ll be able to make management operation using this custom domain with PowerShell, Service Fabric Explorer etc. Validating ATP for Azure Storage Detections in Azure Security Center Advanced threat protection (ATP) for Azure Storage provides an additional layer of security intelligence that can be used to detect unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit storage accounts. This feature can be enabled via Azure Security Center or on?each individual Azure Storage account. The main difference is that if you enable on Azure Security Center, it will apply to all storage accounts in the subscription that Azure Security Center is enabled. (Nearly) Everything you need to know about computer vision in one repo In recent years, we've seen extraordinary growth in Computer Vision, with applications in image understanding, search, mapping, semi-autonomous?or?autonomous vehicles?and many more.?The ability for models to understand actions?in a video,?a task that was?unthinkable just a few years ago, is now something that we can?achieve with relatively high accuracy?and in near real-time.?Azure Active Directory reliability series Service reliability and availability is one of the top considerations for our customers in choosing an Identity and Access Management solution. With Azure AD being the largest enterprise cloud identity service, reliability and security of our service as a top priority for Microsoft Identity Engineering. Running a service at this scale, complexity and mission criticality to be highly available is a complex task that requires on-going resilience investments, and practical verification. With this blog we are starting a new Azure AD reliability blog series where we will share our principles, provide insights into how our service is designed, and give you real-time examples of what this means for our customers. Mitsui said goodbye to ADFS using Azure AD new capability staged user rollout I love it when customers meet their business goals using newly available identity capabilities! This post in the ‘Voice of the Customer’ series is such a story. Mr. Ichinose, IT Manager Mitsui & Co and Mr. Saze, Project Manager, Mitsui Knowledge Industry, describe how Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) staged user rollout simplified the transition from Active Directory Federation Services to Azure AD authentication. Mitsui & Co. is a company with offices and customers all over the globe. If you are curious about how a large company transitioned users from a legacy system to Azure AD with ZERO support calls, this post is for you. Deploying NTT Data UniKix in Azure, Part 2 - Configure TPE and compile the ACCT Application This post continues the steps to deploy?NTT Data UniKix?on Azure. In?Part 1, you deployed the preconfigured VM from Azure Marketplace. In this post, you will configure the TPE and BPE, then compile and deploy the ACCT Demo application. Next, you will connect to the ACCT application using any 3270 emulator you choose. For this blog, I used?x3270, a freely available open-source emulator. Infopath with SharePoint 2016 gives 5566 error, The custom code in the form cannot be run. Infopath with?SharePoint 2016 "GetUserProfileByName" fails with?5566 error,?"The custom code in the form cannot be run. This functionality may be deactivated on the server. For more information, contact the server farm administrator. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." How to secure your IoT deployment during the security talent shortage There’s a 3-million-person shortage of cybersecurity pros globally. Three million! Security teams are stretched and overextended, sometimes leaving organizations without coverage for new initiatives. IoT, in particular, requires complex work to clearly define a security strategy as the vulnerabilities and requirements of IoT environments continue to evolve. While organizations have good reason to be cautious, we recognize that IoT deployments offer too much business value to ignore or postpone. Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer and Azure Sphere Managing Director, doesn’t want you to think about IoT and security as a binary choice: you don’t have to steal from one to feed the other. SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 64 In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts –?Vesa Juvonen?(Microsoft),?Waldek Mastykarz?(Rencore), discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development.? Vesa and Waldek are joined by?Thomas G?lles?–?team lead responsible for modern workplace solutions at Solvion (MVP) in Austria.? Jira Server App for Microsoft Teams Since the release of the Jira Cloud app for Microsoft Teams, we’ve seen significant usage and many delighted customers. At the same time, we know there is a large Jira Server community looking for a similar integration – and we could not ignore this huge market need. We are pleased to answer this demand with our new Jira Server version of the Jira integration for Microsoft Teams. Troubleshooting Office Client Policy Service (OCPS) The Office cloud policy service?(OCPS) is a cloud-based service that enables you to apply policy settings for Office 365 ProPlus on a user’s device.? The policy settings roam to whichever device the user signs into and uses Office 365 ProPlus.? As end users become increasingly mobile, IT Pros need a single approach to secure Office 365 ProPlus for traditional on-premises domain devices, Azure AD registered devices, Azure AD Joined, and Hybrid Azure AD joined devices.? OCPS applies to all scenarios above without the need to download and replicate any content such as Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) on-premises.? The goal of this blog is to provide some transparency of how the service works to help IT Pros during their validation phase and to encourage transition from classic domain-based policy to OCPS service for Office 365 ProPlus. Create a Secure Azure Sphere App using the Grove Shield Sensor Kit Azure Sphere is a secured, high-level application platform with built-in communication and security features for internet-connected devices. It comprises a secured, connected, crossover microcontroller unit (MCU), a custom high-level Linux-based operating system (OS), and a cloud-based security service that provides continuous, renewable security.Searching ATP for Azure Storage Alerts in Log Analytics Workspace Following up on my?previous post?about the new detection for ATP for Azure Storage alerts, I received the following question:?I’m trying to find the alert that I received in my workspace and my search results com up blank. Why? This is actually expected and can easily be reproduced, here my result when I search for alerts where the name contains “malware” (based on the alert of my?previous post).Reconnect Series: Vijay Samavedam Vijay Samavedam?is a Reconnect member from Hyderabad, India. He was awarded a Windows Consumer MVP Award in 2010. Vijay currently works as a SQL Server Database Consultant at UPS. His main responsibilities in this role include providing database support for in-house UPS applications and configuring high availability solutions like Readscale AGs, Distributed AGs and Mirroring.Securing ALL your cloud apps with Microsoft For most customers, cloud apps run the workplace. While we see an average of 129 IT-managed applications, Discovery data from our Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) shows that the total number of apps accessed by employees in large organizations often exceeds 1,000. [Customer story] How Marie Curie Engages Employees with Yammer Marie Curie?is the leading UK charity for people living with a terminal illness, and their families. It directly supports over 50,000 terminally ill people a year, and provides information, advice and support to many more. Over 14,000 people work or volunteer for Marie Curie in a range of roles, from nurses that provide overnight care in people’s homes, to shops that raise funds, and experts in research and policy work. Microsoft US Sovereign Cloud Myth Busters - A Single Domain Should Not Span This article is the second of a series in the?Microsoft Tech Community Public Sector Blog?that explore myths of deploying Microsoft Cloud Services into the *US Sovereign Cloud with Azure Government and Microsoft 365 US Government (GCC High). Azure Event Hub || Read events from Azure Event Hub using Storage SAS Token To read the events from Azure Event hub using Storage SAS Token. Azure Migrate - What's in a name? Azure Migrate?was first announced at Microsoft Ignite 2017.? Since it went generally available in early 2018 it's undergone a number of changes, continuously adding functionality.? Ingest activity events via Microsoft Cloud App Security into Azure SentinelProcess In a discussion with one of my customers, there was a requirement to ingest Box activity events into Azure Sentinel. Create a Secure Azure Sphere App using the Grove Shield Sensor KitMonitor v3.53, Process Azure Sphere is a secured, high-level application platform with built-in communication and security features for internet-connected devices. It comprises a secured, connected, crossover microcontroller unit (MCU), a custom high-level Linux-based operating system (OS), and a cloud-based security service that provides continuous, renewable security.How to debug inline Python code in Azure Data Explorer Azure Data Explorer supports running Python code embedded in Kusto query language using the?python() plugin. The plugin runtime is hosted in a sandbox, an isolated and secure Python environment. The python() plugin capability extends KQL (Kusto Query Language) native functionalities with the huge archive of OSS Python packages. This extension enables you to run advanced algorithms, such as ML, AI, statistical, and Time Series Analysis as part of the query. KQL tools aren't convenient for developing and debugging Python algorithms. Therefore, the best practice is to develop the algorithm on your favorite Python IDE such as Jupyter, PyCharm, VS, or VS Code. When the algorithm is complete, copy and paste the python code into KQL. To improve and streamline this workflow, Azure Data Explorer supports integration between Kusto Explorer or Web UI clients and VS Code for authoring and debugging KQL inline Python code. Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News (December, 2019) Hi there! You are reading the next issue of the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News series! Applying for the Project Cortex Preview Program Welcome to the Project Cortex blog! In November 2019, we announced that we will be admitting a limited number of additional customers to our Project Cortex Preview Program. The announcement garnered a lot of interest from our customers and we were pleased to hold our first Preview Program office hours call this week to share quick demos of the product and discuss the preview program requirements. Install ConfigMgr CB 1902 using PowerShell The document outlines the steps required to install SCCM CB 1902 with SQL 2017 using PowerShell. These steps can be used on a disconnected network. The scripts included in this document can also be added to MDT to automate the install of SCCM CB 1902. Samsung Galaxy Note10 delivers OneDrive Gallery experience In August, we?announced?that Microsoft OneDrive will begin powering the photos and cloud storage experience on Samsung Galaxy phones and devices. Samsung is now rolling out the new experience to Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ devices in Europe with the US to follow. Soon your Note10 will natively integrate OneDrive with Samsung Gallery to store your photos and videos in the cloud. When you store your camera roll with OneDrive, your photos and videos will be backed up, protected, and accessible from your phone, PC, Mac, and web browser. With your photos in OneDrive, you’ll won’t need to worry about losing a memory even if you lose your phone. Windows Scheduler task to backup your data to storage account using AzCopy Utility & SAS token Prerequisites :?? Azure storage account with valid a SAS token. Building a React Native module for Windows React Native offers a wide range of modules to extend the core functionalities of the platform, developed either by the community or by the React team himself. These modules range from UI controls, helpers and services. Some of them are "generic" and they perform tasks which don't require access to any specific platform feature. For example,?Redux?is a very popular state management library used in React applications but since, by default, everything is stored in memory, it basically runs everywhere. In fact, the same library can be used either with web applications (using React) or native applications (using React Native). Accelerate MariaDB Performance with the Heimdall Proxy One of the main causes of slow application performance is?the inefficient?SQL interaction between the?application and database. Today,?costly?in-house?resources?are spent on developing a data access layer.?For IT organizations?you?often have?several?constraints: 1)?project?priority?conflicts?and?2) third-party applications?cannot be changed. Yet?these applications?need increased scale.? Using the Heimdall Proxy to Split Reads and Writes for MySQL To?scale?the?database?tier efficiently, database clusters are?often?separated into?a writeable primary and read replicas.?This requires the application to route queries to the appropriate database instance. Microsoft Ignite the Tour 2019: Highlights from Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, and S?o Paulo! On November 13th,?Microsoft Ignite the Tour?kicked off in Paris, and went on to visit Beijing, Tokyo, and S?o Paulo to provide technical training led by over 350 Microsoft experts, through more than 100 deep-dive sessions and workshops. We spoke to CPMs who attended the event in these four cities to get their highlights of the conference. Managing Teams Meeting Rooms with Intune We’ve heard a few questions recently from customers looking for guidance how to manage your Microsoft Teams Rooms devices with Intune. This post answers a few of the frequently asked questions and provides general guidance. If you’ve discovered additional tips or tricks on your deployment journey, or have other feedback or suggestions, let us know by commenting on this post! [Event Recap] Humans of IT @ Microsoft Ignite 2019 This was a phrase that was mentioned by attendees many times over as they participated in our Humans of IT sessions – pre-day, breakouts, theaters, Unconferences and story hours – throughout the week. In just six days, thousands of attendees found a safe and welcoming space for them to connect with one another on a personal level, develop valuable insights and skills on complex but critical topics including examining the intersection of race and gender, accessibility and inclusive design, mental health, parenting in tech, transitioning from military careers to tech and more. Above all, they learnt the importance of embracing their humanity as technical professionals. Hyper-V for Developers on Windows 10 Hyper-V is more known as a server virtualization technology; however, since Windows 8, it is also available in the client operating system. In Windows 10, Microsoft improved the experience drastically to make Hyper-V an excellent solution for developers and IT Pros. Polybase for beginners. In regards to Polybase, I have seen some confusion from customers about what it is, the problems that it solves and when to use it; so I decided to come up with a brief blog post to explain Polybase in some short paragraphs. Applying SQL Server 2017 CU18 on secondary replica running on Linux OS may fail with script failure If SQL Server 2017 is running on Linux operating system and if you have databases configured using Always ON feature, post-applying CU18, on secondary replica the script upgrade may fail with following error. Updating DOM elements with JQuery following partial postbacks from Update Panels in webforms While working on implementing some of functionality on my online favorites manager which I encourage everyone to check out, I came across the following problem. How Application Context, Assignment and Exclusions Work in Intune This post is not about any new functionality or changes to the service, it’s about app assignment fundamentals that have been around for a while in Intune but are not always completely understood. The aim of this post is to provide you with enough technical information about how app assignments work to help you better plan and troubleshoot your app deployments. I focus most on Windows 10 apps rather than iOS/Android device apps, but many of the concepts apply across the board. Let me know if the details in this “how it works” matches your expectations/assumptions! We’re always open to your feedback and perspective. MVP Blogs How to write a book in just three months: With 17 MVPs and the help of Teams!In August of this year, AI and Data Platform MVP?Leila Etaati, based in Auckland, NZ, reached out to the AI MVP community to see who might be interested in collaborating on a book project about Microsoft’s AI solutions. A result of the hard work of?17 MVPs using Teams to coordinate and collaborate, the book was completed and released just?three months later. Friday Five: Introduction To ARM Templates, Setup your Github repository on Azure DevOps, and more! Check out five top MVP blogs from the week! Interesting PerspectivesMicrosoft 365 retention and SharePoint Online deletion policy Aroh Shukla's team has defined a policy that included Exchange email, SharePoint Sites, and OneDrive sites. Aroh noticed a few SharePoint sites have to be deleted. The Retention for SharePoint Online sites are turned off. Aroh wanted to know what could be done to delete the sites, including what would happen if the Retention policy was completely deleted. MVP Tony Redmond was able to advise Aroh on what would happen if the retention policy was deleted. Wildcard in Match Occasional Contributor Neil Jacobson?was trying to use a wildcard in the Match function but it kept returning the error of "n/a" . He also included a screenshot to show the work he had done which also displayed the error. Super Contributor Peter Bartholomew?provided a different array constant in place of one of the rows to help solve his issue.? Office 365 A1 Plus for faculty licenses New Contributor Tom Maltpress?needed to check that his faculties' Office 365 A1 Plus licenses could install Office 365 on their?institute devices. They were currently using Office 2019 Pro Plus, but wanted to?deploy 365 instead. MVP Christopher Hoard was able to assist Tom by making sure the faculty met the right criteria for the 365 install?and instructions on how each member could retrieve their 365 install.? Upcoming EventsJoin SharePoint Conference 2020, the largest conference dedicated to SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Please join us at the?2020 SharePoint Conference?at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada May 19 - 21, 2020! Featured SpaceFeatured Space Microsoft Edge Insider Discussions Are you excited about the new Edge browser? Help make it better and join the discussion! Member of the WeekThijs Lecomte A member since September 2018, Thijs is an active contributor in a number of spaces including Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune and Security, Privacy & Compliance. Thanks for being a member of the community! ................
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