Announcing the extension of Azure IP Advantage to Azure Stack



Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup – January 19, 2018 Check out this week’s issue of Weekly Roundup for an at a glance view of hot topics and conversations. Table of Contents Product News Discussions Handy Resources Interesting Perspectives Upcoming Events Featured Group Member of the Week PRODUCT NEWS DISCUSSIONS Call Queues: Agent Opt In/Out feature has been rolled out to all customersOn Monday, January 15, Microsoft announced that the Call Queue Agent Opt In/Out feature is now rolled out to all Skype for Business Online customers with Phone System (formerly CloudPBX) SKU in all Regions. Join the conversation in the Skype for Business space.Azure Analysis Services now available in East US, West US 2, and moreOn Monday, January 15, Microsoft announced that Azure Analysis Services is now available in 4 additional regions including?East US,?West US 2,?USGov-Arizona?and?USGov-Texas.?Join the conversation in the Azure Analytics space.Announcing the extension of Azure IP Advantage to Azure StackOn Monday, January 15, Microsoft announced the extension of Azure IP Advantage to Azure Stack. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessmentsOn Tuesday, January 16, Microsoft announced a new feature that allows you to customize rules in Azure Security Center related to firewalls, auditing, password policies, and more, and add additional rules to exactly match your desired Windows configurations. Join the conversation in the Azure Security + Identity space.Accelerate your business revolution with IoT in ActionOn Tuesday, January 16, Microsoft announced updates to Azure IoT Suite that are making IoT solutions easier and more robust than ever. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure patibility Level 140 is now the default for Azure SQL DatabaseOn Tuesday, January 16, Microsoft announced that Compatibility Level 140 is now the default for new databases created in Azure SQL Database across almost all regions. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.ADF v2: Visual Tools enabled in public previewOn Tuesday, January 16, Microsoft announced the release of visual tools for ADF v2. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Call Queues and Auto Attendant training January 2018 updateOn Wednesday, January 17, Microsoft announced that the Call Queues and Auto Attendant training in Skype for Business has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the service. Join the conversation in the Skype for Business space.Announcing IoT extension for Azure CLI 2.0On Thursday, January 18, Microsoft announced a new open source?IoT extension?that adds to the capabilities of?Azure CLI 2.0.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.January 2018 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-inOn Thursday, January 18, Microsoft announced another set of updates for?Get & Transform?— a powerful set of Excel 2016 features based on the Power Query technology, which provides fast, easy data gathering and shaping capabilities. Join the conversation in the Excel space.Microsoft Bookings now has multi-day bookings and customizable time incrementsOn Thursday, January 18, Microsoft announced two highly-requested features to Bookings related to flexibility and customization. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Bookings space.OneDrive sync on Windows now supports IRM protected SharePoint document librariesOn Friday, January 19, Microsoft announced an update to the OneDrive sync client that supports syncing IRM protected SharePoint libraries which will hit all users by the end of January. Join the conversation in the OneDrive for Business space.HANDY RESOURCES HYPERLINK ""Windows Analytics AMAOn January 16, 2018, Microsoft hosted a Windows Analytics AMA to help answer questions. The summary from this event will be available when it’s ready in the Windows Analytics AMA space.How Azure Security Center helps analyze attacks using Investigation and Log SearchEvery second counts when you are under attack. Azure Security Center (ASC) uses advanced analytics and global threat intelligence to detect malicious threats, and the new capabilities empower you to respond quickly. This blog post showcases how an analyst can leverage the Investigation and Log Search capabilities in Azure Security Center to determine whether an alert represents a security breach, and to understand the scope of that breach.Welcome to the Diversity and Tech community!Today, I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new Diversity and Tech community, and I am excited to make it part of the broader Microsoft Tech Community. I’m Shona, community lead for this awesome new community focused on diversity and inclusion within the tech industry, and my team and I look forward to partnering with all of you to run impactful programs that will help you to not only get to know like-minded peers who are passionate about diversity and inclusion, but also to benefit from a host of inspirational panel sessions, tech role model features, an upcoming Community Mentors Program and more.Watch: The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson [1801]The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson is a great (and fun!) way to get a deep dive into what’s happening right now in enterprise mobility and modern workplace. Brad Anderson (CVP, Enterprise Mobility Management) and Simon May (Principal Program Manager) explore the trends they’ve seen in the last month by working closely with customers. In this episode, Brad and Simon discuss major stories of 2017, usage growth of Intune and Configuration Manager, new Intune features released in December, predictions for 2018, and more.Office 365 Finance Pros Webinar: Spend Less Time Gathering and Validating DataOur?Office 365 Finance Pros webinar series?is designed to give you tips, tricks & best practices which will help you be more successful in your day-to-day work. Join us for our first episode and learn ways to speed up the tedious process of gathering, validating and transforming data so you can focus on meaningful work.How I Grew My Career in 2017This time of the year, just after welcoming 2018, it seems last year went by so very fast. I always love reminiscing a little bit. Partly because I feel so many things are otherwise forgotten, and partly because each year seems to have been the best year so far. I’ve worked in IT almost all my life – 28 years and counting. Each year I try to learn more complex and technically challenging areas – I crave the feeling of?not?knowing something that I think I should know, while at the same time withstanding the uncertainty of not knowing enough of a subject.Customer Story - WinTourS - tour operators softwareWinTourS AG, founded in 2002, specializes in the development of software solutions for tour operators. Tour operators are responsible for operating and providing vacations by contracting, booking, and packaging together the various components of a tour, such as your hotel, transportation, meals, guides, optional tours, and flights.?Our clientele is very diverse, ranging from small, special-interest businesses, medium-size companies, and large brokers of flights with Germany's largest airline. With that said, the products they offer to their customers are varied - small-group cycling and hiking trips, polar expedition cruises on a nuclear-powered icebreaker, and everything in between. It's critical for the WinTourS software solution to be modular and highly customizable to fit the wide variety of our clients'? products and offerings. This is one of the main reasons we chose Microsoft Access as our application development tool.Today on Azure Friday: Azure BackupEven though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Kelly Anderson stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how simple it is to set up Azure Backup, how its built-in security features can protect your backup data from ransomware, and how easy it is to restore your data from Azure.INTERESTING PERSPECTIVESPromoted links image links?A SharePoint user had an issue showing images in a promoted links area in SharePoint. Contributor Christopher Webb was able to offer advice and eventually solved his issue.Disable “Leave Group” functionality in Office 365 GroupsIt was asked whether it was possible to configure Office 365 Groups so that users cannot leave a group. Responses included setting up a private group as well as suggesting workarounds.Search multiple perf countersA question was posed as to how to add CPU % Processor Time to the query as a new column in Azure Log Analytics. Microsoft employee Noa Kuperberg was able to offer guidance and answer the question.UPCOMING EVENTSAnnouncing the January Office International Video Closed Caption SurveyFrom January 12th?to January 29th?2018 we are running a Survey to help us evaluate and shape the quality of closed captions in our training videos. If you speak Danish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese or Vietnamese you can enter by completing the survey for your language.SharePoint Conference North America – Save the DateThe SharePoint Conference North America is less than ~123 days away, if you’re an IT Professional, implementer, decision maker, business user, or developer you don’t want to miss this SharePoint Conference. The SharePoint Conference North America promises to be 2018’s premier event for SharePoint and related technologies, featuring over 140 sessions (8,400 hours) of content under one roof.? In addition, SharePoint Conference North America is the host for this years SharePoint Virtual Summit where we’ll share the latest innovations, vision, and strategy across SharePoint and OneDrive.? Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of the action, live, and in-person.FEATURED SPACE Diversity and TechWe launched the brand new Diversity and Tech community this week. Join the conversation and help to champion diversity and inclusion in the industry!MEMBER OF THE WEEKRob EllisA member of the community since July 2016, Rob is an active contributor especially in the Office 365 and the SharePoint spaces. Thanks for being a member of the community, Rob! ................
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