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Microsoft Tech Community - January 10 2020 Weekly RoundupTable of Contents Product NewsRelated AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesInteresting PerspectivesUpcoming EventsFeatured GroupsMember of the WeekProduct NewsAVAILABLE NOW Announcing Office Scripts (Preview) On Tuesday, January 7, Microsoft announced the availability of?a?public preview?of?Office Scripts?in?Excel on the web. Join the conversation in the Excel space. Security Baseline recommendations now available in Office Cloud Policy Service On Tuesday, January 7, Microsoft announced a new feature in the Office Cloud Policy Service that will allow you to easily find and configure policies that are recommended by Microsoft as security baseline policies. Join the conversation in the Office 365 space. Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2019 RTM On Tuesday, January 7, Microsoft announced the 1st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2019 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space. Office What’s New Management Preview Updates Now Available On Wednesday, January 8, Microsoft announced two updates to the Office What's New Management Preview. Join the conversation in the Microsoft 365 space. SQL Server 2019 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 now Generally Available On Wednesday, January 8, Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2019 package native to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ecosystem, fully supported for production use, starting with CU1. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space. The Microsoft Fluid Framework preview is starting to roll-out On Wednesday, January 8, Microsoft announced the?early preview of the Fluid Framework experience?that is starting to roll out to tenants?configured for Targeted Release. Join the conversation in the Microsoft 365 space. Introducing Private Link for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single server On Friday, January 10, Microsoft announced the public preview of?Azure Private Link?support for the Azure database for PostgreSQL Single server. Join the conversation in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL space. Introducing Private Link for Azure Database for MySQL On Friday, January 10, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Private Link support for the Azure Database for MySQL. Join the conversation in the Azure Database for MySQL space. Introducing Private Link for Azure Database for MariaDB (Preview) On Friday, January 10, Microsoft announced the public preview of?Azure Private Link?support for the Azure Database for MariaDB. Join the conversation in the Azure Database for MariaDB space. Updates to Microsoft Online Services TermsOpen source drivers now available for real-time cores on the Azure Sphere-certified MT3620 On Friday, January 10, Microsoft announced new drivers and samples are now available for the MediaTek MT3620 M4 real-time cores. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space. COMING SOON Plan for changes: Azure Sphere February release - Part 2 On Thursday, January 9, Microsoft announced changes coming in the February release of Azure Sphere. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space. Related AnnouncementsUpdates to Microsoft Online Services Terms The Microsoft Online Services Terms are now updated based on customer feedback regarding data processing in the Microsoft Cloud, among other data? protection responsibilities. Handy ResourcesIngesting Alien Vault OTX Threat Indicators into Azure Sentinel One of the key capabilities of Azure Sentinel has always been its ability to work with data from multiple sources including Threat Indicator Providers who can provide their data directly into the environment via the?Microsoft Security Graph. But what if you have a source of indicators or other enrichment data that you want to use in Azure Sentinel but no connector to ingest it with? While Ofer Shezaf has written a great?blog post?about creating custom connectors and Ian Hellen wrote up an outstanding blog about using OTX data in?Jupyter Notebooks in Sentinel, this blog post is going to expand upon their work by walking through adding a custom Sentinel Playbook (Azure Logic App) to connect to?Alien Vault’s Open Threat Exchange (OTX)?REST API to ingest threat indicators for use in hunting and alerts. While this blog is specifically about using AlienVault OTX, one could use this same methodology with most any API based data source. Microsoft TechNet Wiki Gurus Needed For Jan-2020! 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! How To Install Log Analytics Gateway Using Load Balancers In Azure Hello everyone, after a long time, I am back with a new post. Today I will drive you through the configuration of a load balance?Log Analytics?Gateway?(formerly?OMS Gateway?and briefly referred below as LAGW) installed on Azure Virtual machines, using the?Azure Load Balancer. Getting Started with Microsoft Search and Dark Mode The Microsoft 365 admin center and the Azure portal both support Dark Mode, the popular setting available in Windows 10, MacOS, and most smartphones. Many users find it easier on their eyes, but there may be a dark side to this trend: Dark Mode and your company logo might not get along. [Customer Story] How the largest UK rail operator uses Yammer to empower LGBT+ Communities In February of this year we launched the LGBT+ network via Yammer at?Govia?Thameslink Railway (GTR). We are the largest UK rail operator and have stations at over 200 locations across the South East of?England. Microsoft US Sovereign Cloud Myth Busters - Active Directory Does Not Require Restructuring This article is the?third?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).? Jumpstart analyzing your Hindi text data using the NLP repository In our?first blog?last month we introduced the?NLP Recipes repo. In this blog, we would like to help new users navigate from cloning the repo to running their first Jupyter notebook and eventually adapting the code to their own dataset. New year’s resolutions: What’re your 2020 #DevGoals? Edition 1 – Python and Machine Learning It’s that time of year again! Time to set goals for expanding your programming skills while perfecting what you already know. This year, why not make a resolution to learn a new computer language? A new language under your belt—or new tools and services— doesn’t just give you more choices when deciding what projects to work on. It also helps you to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the computer language(s) you already know as you figure out why the new language does things the way it does. Getting Started with Bulk Operations with Microsoft Search Although you can create and publish every bookmark, location, Q&A, and acronym (rolling out now) individually, it isn’t very efficient. Instead, consider using bulk import and export operations. This article describes how, as an administrator, Search admin, or Search editor, you can use the export options available in the Microsoft Search admin center to obtain a CSV (comma separated values) file into which you can enter new acronyms, bookmarks, locations, and Q&As. You can then use the import tool and this CSV file to make them available to users of Microsoft Search. SharePoint Access Request e-mails are not delivered, but alerts work I recently worked on a few cases where SharePoint “Access Request” e-mails are not delivered, but “Alert” e-mails work. Since Alert e-mail are working, we know that outgoing e-mail is configured properly. However, when users request access to a new site, the access request email would never make it to the site admin entered in the “Access Request Settings”. Azure App Service EasyAuth and Azure Active Directory Flows The built in authentication feature of App Service aka EasyAuth, implements the following Azure Active Directory Flows namely Implicit Flow, Authentication Code Flow and Hybrid Flow.Overcoming 3 Common Barriers to Yammer AdoptionIf you are looking to roll out Yammer to your organization, you will likely meet some resistance. It’s natural!? Not everyone is going to be as passionate as you are about the virtues of Yammer,?so you need to be prepared to empower your employees to give Yammer a try. Below are three common barriers to Yammer adoption I’ve experienced?and?how I addressed them.???New Data Exposed episode: Deployment options for Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database provides a number of options to optimize your deployment to best fit your needs. In this video we explain the different options and their aspects. Empower Firstline Workers from Day One with enhanced identity and access management capabilities Companies at the forefront of digital transformation recognize how critical it is to enable all of their people with the right technology and tools. That’s why in industries like retail, hospitality, and manufacturing, there’s a movement underway to digitally empower the Firstline Workforce—the more than two billion people worldwide who work in service- or task-oriented roles.? Congratulations to our next Student Partner Group + new Gold milestone recipients! In September 2019, I?announced?some exciting changes to the Microsoft Student Partner program to further enable our on-campus leaders to make an impact in their local communities through hosting workshops, mentoring fellow students, and building unique skills to take forward into their own career journey. It’s been incredibly exciting to see how our first group of Student Partners for the 2019/2020 program year have leveraged their passions to empower those around them and inspire social good in their communities through technology. Latest SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 65 In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts –?Vesa Juvonen?(Microsoft),?Waldek Mastykarz?(Rencore), discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development. Driver Shiproom Schedule for 2020 Updating the Driver Shiproom schedule for 2020. Working with Azure Service Principal Accounts When I worked with on-prem IT infrastructure I was always keen to automate parts as much as possible, whether that was setting up a scheduled task to stop and start services on temperamental servers or automating the patching of the servers.? One thing that was often essential to these automation tasks was a service account.?? SharePoint E-Mail enabled lists are not displayed in the Outlook Address List I recently worked on an issue where lists in SharePoint were enabled for incoming e-mail and created in Active Directory / Exchange using the “Directory Management Service. ?These new lists should be created as e-mail enabled contacts with an external e-mail target address in Exchange. However, after setting an e-mail address on a SharePoint list, these contact would never show up in Outlook or OWA. Using Azure DevOps to create a CI/CD pipeline for an Android application built with React Native In the previous posts?I have written on this blog I have talked about many specific tasks related to React Native for Windows: how to build a native module, how to setup a CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps, etc. However, one of the advantages of React Native is the ability to target multiple platforms leveraging the same codebase and, at the same time, achieve the same quality of a native application. This is made possible by the different render targets, which translates the various JSX controls into native controls of the platform where the application is running. And thanks to native modules, we can also build plugins which, under the hood, use Android, iOS or Windows APIs to perform a task. SSL certificate occasionally disappears from HTTPS binding TLDR: A couple of Metabase compatibility entries referring to SSL may interfere with the server certificates that are used in HTTPS bindings. Determining the public IP address of your CloudShell session CloudShell is a great tool for performing command line work against resources in Azure. One of the challenges around using CloudShell to remotely SSH or use PowerShell Remoting into IaaS VM resources, especially when you have a locked down configuration. This is because each time you start a new CloudShell session, a container is spun up to host that session. This container is assigned a new private and public IP address. Availability Groups in Big Data Clusters. Two or more replicas in the same node? Big Data clusters supports high availability for all its components; most notably for the SQL Server master it provides an Always On Availability Group out of the box. You can deploy your big data cluster by using the HA configurations as explained?here. Seamlessly onboard streaming workloads to Azure Synapse Analytics Native streaming capabilities for ingestion and near real-time analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL Data Warehouse) have been available since the?launch at Microsoft Ignite. Onboarding and managing your streaming workloads for SQL analytics has never been easier. Protecting your information and staying compliant with Microsoft Teams Adopting Microsoft Teams in your organization brings the benefits of chat-based collaboration and an integrated hub for your calls, meetings, apps, and content. This is why there are more than 20 million daily active users of Teams. Lync and Skype for Business Server Base OS Upgrade Supportability With the?imminent end-of-life of support for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2, we’ve received questions from customers surrounding the supportability of upgrading the base OS with Lync or Skype for Business Server installed on it.? With this in mind, we wanted to provide a few key points in this area. Implementing Lookups in Azure Sentinel part #1: reference files In this blog post “Active Lists out; make_list() in”,?@Ofer_Shezaf?referred to one of the uses of Active Lists (ArcSight) or reference sets (QRadar), namely implementing correlation. But Active Lists, reference sets, and the appropriately named Lookups in Splunk have another important use: lookups. In this blog post, I take an initial stub at doing lookups in Azure Sentinel. IoT in Action: How Edge AI is reshaping retail The retail landscape is undergoing a drastic transformation. As technology advances, IoT and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are becoming increasingly affordable and will soon become ubiquitous across the industry. SAP on Azure General Update – January 2020 Azure M-series v2 (Mv2) is Generally Available and is Certified for Hana memory sizes up to 11.5TB. Streamline deployment and management of Microsoft Teams with Office 365 ProPlus As more and more Office 365 customers adopt Microsoft Teams, we’ve heard from many of you that you want to deploy and manage Teams the same way you deploy and manage other Office 365 apps. To streamline that process, we made Teams available through Office 365 ProPlus alongside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive. We first provided this option to customers on the monthly channel?several months?ago. Starting on January 14, 2020, customers on the semi-annual channel will start to receive Teams through Office 365 ProPlus as well. With that date approaching, we want to remind you how to configure Office 365 ProPlus and Teams updates to meet the needs of your organization.? MVP Blogs Friday Five: Azure DevOps, Windows Admin Center for Managing Hybrid DataCenters, and more! Check out five top MVP blogs for this week! Interesting PerspectivesSome bugs and suggestions with the latest versions (Canary) Super contributor tistou had some suggestions for the latest version of the Edge browser. HotCakeX offered some good follow-ups and clarifications. fawkes from the Edge team noted these suggestions and thanked them for their input. Formulas to calculate total and other bits Occasional Contributor Sajidah Ahmad wanted input on some simple formulas to complete a bird list in Excel. John Alsdorf, Riny van Eekelen and MVP Sergei Baklan offered great suggestions and tweaks to help. Creating an Automated Process Occasional Contributor Paola Lopez wondered about creating an automated process using Access that can be integrated with SharePoint. Contributor George Hepworth was able to offer guidance towards implementing this process. Upcoming EventsWebinar Series: Introduction to Power Platform in a Clinical Setting (Jan 22 and 29th) Join the Microsoft and Nihilent account team as we review the art of the possible in building a clinical business app with no code, leveraging Microsoft Power Platform applications. This is a 2-part webinar series for IT and Business Decision Makers kicking off on Jan 22nd. From Take-Off to Landing: 6 Steps to a Successful Microsoft Teams Pilot – Register Today! Your journey to Microsoft Teams can be turbulence-free with the right planning. However, organizations need to be sure they have a formal framework with checkpoints in place. If not, your pilot can slowly turn into production or stall without the necessary course corrections you need to scale and soar to new heights.”Featured SpaceFeatured Space Azure Synapse Analytics Check out a brand new blog and conversation space for Azure Synapse Analytics! Member of the WeekPeter Bartholomew A member since September 2018, Peter is a super contributor especially in the Excel space. Thank you for being a member of the community! ................
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