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Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup – June 8, 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 AVAILABLE NOWStandard SSD Disks for Azure Virtual Machines is now in public previewOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Standard SSD Managed Disks, a new type of durable storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Office 365 group in Microsoft FormsOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced you can now easily create Office 365 group forms directly in the Forms portal. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Forms space.Allow authenticated but anonymous responses with one response per personOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced a new, recently released feature to address one of the top feedback items on?User Voice?-?Authenticated + anonymous + one response per person. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Forms space.Introducing List Sharing and Steps in Microsoft To-DoOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced Microsoft To-Do has added two of the most requested features: the ability to collaborate and share lists; and break down tasks into smaller steps or subtasks. Join the conversation in the Microsoft To-Do space.New Planner capabilities bring task management directly into SharePoint sitesOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced that rolling out today, SharePoint integration goes even deeper with new features for embedding Planner into SharePoint sites. Join the conversation in the Planner space.Speech services now in previewOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced Microsoft Speech service is now available as a preview. Join the conversation in the Azure Cognitive Services space.Working with files in your Microsoft Teams bot (Preview)On Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced that bots can now?send and receive files in Microsoft Teams in the public developer preview. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.Microsoft Azure Stack expands availability to 92 countriesOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure Stack is now available in 92 countries. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Admins- welcome to the Microsoft 365 admin centerOn Tuesday, June 5th, Microsoft announced the expansion of the integrated and intuitive Microsoft 365 admin experience to users of Office 365.?Join the conversation in the Office 365 space.Page Locking comes to OneNote Class NotebooksOn Tuesday, June 5th, Microsoft announced enabling lock pages in OneNote Class Notebooks. Join the conversation in the Education space. Join the conversation in the Education space.?What's new in Microsoft Teams - June RoundupOn Tuesday, June 5th, Microsoft announced a number of new features in Microsoft Teams. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.Skype Room Systems v2 3.1.112.0 UpdateOn Tuesday, June 5th, Microsoft announced that SRSv2 3.1.112.0 has been available as an automatic update to all devices since June 5th. Join the conversation in the Skype for Business space.Enhanced User Experience for Office 365 Advanced Threat ProtectionOn Wednesday, June 6th, Microsoft announced recent enhancements to?Office 365?threat protection services.?Join the conversation in the Security, Privacy & Compliance space.Modernize your SharePoint team sites by connecting them to new Office 365 groupsOn Wednesday, June 6th, Microsoft announced that you can now further modernize your existing (classic) sites by connecting them to new Office 365 groups. Join the conversation in the SharePoint space.Azure Data Lake Tools for VSCode supports Azure blob storage integrationOn Wednesday, June 6th, Microsoft announced the integration of VSCode explorer with Azure blob storage.?Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Enriching the Admin Experience For Office 365 Advanced Threat ProtectionOn Thursday, June 7th, Microsoft announced an update to the Office 365 admin experience. Join the conversation in the Security, Privacy & Compliance space.Windows Autopilot: What’s new and what’s nextOn Thursday, June 7th, Microsoft announced you can now deliver new Windows 10 devices directly to your users without IT having to touch the device. Join the conversation in the Windows 10 space.Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure now in public previewOn Thursday, June 7th, Microsoft announced Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure is now in public preview. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Process more files than ever and use Parquet with Azure Data Lake AnalyticsOn Thursday, June 7th, Microsoft announced Azure Data Lake Analytics now offers some new, unparalleled capabilities for processing files of any formats including Parquet at tremendous scale. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Windows Update for Business: Enhancements, diagnostics, configurationOn Thursday, June 7th, Microsoft announced that Windows 10, version 1803 offers new features and improvements for Windows Update for Business that improve control and visibility, and help you better manage secure, targeted deployments.?Join the conversation in the Windows 10 space.Azure AD Conditional Access support for blocking legacy auth is in Public Preview!On Thursday, June 7th, Microsoft announced the Public Preview of Azure AD Conditional Access support for blocking legacy authentication. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space. Updates to metadata handling and list templatesOn Friday, June 8th, Microsoft announced continual updates to classic SharePoint experiences to be used in the newer user interface as well.? A number of list templates now have updated user interface support. Join the conversation in the SharePoint space.Skype for Business on Mac 16.18 update released!On Friday, June 8th, Microsoft announced that Skype for Business Mac update 16.18.51 shipped yesterday and is available for download. Join the conversation in the Skype for Business space.MSIX support introduced in Insider Build 17682On Friday, June 8th, Microsoft announced that starting with Build 17682, the Windows client platform supports MSIX. Join the conversation in the MSIX ING SOONRegenerative Maps alive on the EdgeOn Monday, June 4th, Microsoft announced that Mapbox will integrate its Vision SDK with the Microsoft Azure IoT platform, enabling developers to build innovative applications and solutions for smart cities, the automotive industry, public safety, and more. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.HANDY RESOURCES How I choose which services to use in AzureLast year, Azure MVP and Pluralsight author, Barry Luijbregts, hosted a Pluralsight webinar called?Keep your dev team productive with the right Azure service. It was fantastic to learn Barry’s thought process on how he selects which Azure services and capabilities to use for his own projects, and when he consults for his clients. Recently, we asked Barry to share his process in this blog post and on an episode of?Azure Friday?with Scott Hanselman.Use Azure Monitor to integrate with SIEM toolsOver the past two years since introducing Azure Monitor, we’ve made significant strides in terms of consolidating on a single logging pipeline for all Azure services. A majority of the top Azure services, including Azure Resource Manager and Azure Security Center, have onboarded to Azure Monitor and are producing?relevant security logs.Member Spotlight: Anubha KushwahaI am Anubha Kushwaha, and I’m joining Microsoft as software engineer in the AR/VR team in June. I’m a computer science student and I picked up this stream when I first got introduced to programming in school. I was always fascinated by the way code could do so many things. I started trying multiple things, starting off with Android, to Web Dev, to cloud infrastructure, and many more. I started enjoying making things and ultimately now I guess I am a "woman in tech."Offering the largest scale and broadest choice for SAP HANA in the cloudEnterprises have been embarking on a journey of digital transformation for many years. For many enterprises, this journey cannot start or gain momentum until core SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscapes are transformed. The last year has seen an acceleration of this transformation with SAP customers of all sizes like?Penti,?Malaysia Airlines,?Guyana Goldfields,?Rio Tinto,?Co-op, and?Coats?migrating to the cloud on Microsoft Azure. This cloud migration, which is central to digital transformation, helps to increase business agility, lower costs, and enable new business processes to fuel growth. In addition, it has allowed them to take advantage of advancements in technology such as big data analytics, self-service business intelligence (BI), and Internet of Things (IOT).Use Azure Data Lake Analytics to query AVRO data from IoT HubOne of the common patterns of Internet of Things applications is called “cold path” and consists of storing all data produced by IoT devices in the cloud for later processing. To make such an implementation trivial, Azure IoT Hub?supports routing?of messages coming from devices directly to cloud storage services. IoT Hub can also apply simple rules based on both properties, and the message body can route messages to various custom endpoints of your choice. IoT Hub will write blob content in AVRO format, which has both message body and message properties.Get started with U-SQL: It’s easy!Azure Data Lake Analytics combines declarative and imperative concepts in the form of a new language called?U-SQL. The idea of learning a new language is daunting. Don’t worry!?U-SQL is easy to learn. You can learn the vast majority of the language in a single day. If you are familiar with SQL or languages like C# or Java, you will find that learning U-SQL is natural and that you will be productive incredibly fast.Azure is the best place for analyticsThe confluence of cloud, data, and AI is foundational to innovation and is driving unprecedented change. This week at Spark + AI Summit, we talked about how Microsoft enables organizations to take advantage of Azure to build advanced machine learning models and intelligent applications virtually anywhere.What's Next For OneDrive with engineering Partner/GPM Jason MooreThis week, Jason Moore, OneDrive engineering partner and group program manager and I chat about the new features we?announced at SPCNA last week. We dig into how engineering balances the voice of the customer with understanding the product truth when deciding what feature sets they plan to develop next.Mellanox uses Azure to accelerate network designWhat do you do when your networking powers 60 percent of the HPC systems on the?Top500 supercomputer list and you have 70 percent market share for 25G and faster network adapters? You continue to push the boundaries of performance to keep your position. But developing high-speed, low-latency networking gear is not an easy process, and you need to have an efficient IT infrastructure to hold your mission.Detecting script-based attacks on LinuxLast month, we announced the extension of?Azure Security Center’s detection for Linux. This post aims to demonstrate how existing Windows detections often have Linux analogs. A specific example of this is the encoding or obfuscation of command-lines.Managing Risk: Microsoft Data Governance Solutions for Financial ServicesFinancial regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (2002) or MiFID (2004) embedded the importance of data governance deep into the operations of your company more than a decade ago. But when was the last time your firm thoroughly reviewed its approach to data governance? Right now, do you keep everything—just in case you might need it for an audit, report, or legal case? Are you outsourcing archiving to a third party? And, how do you plan to ensure your data governance keeps up with exponential data growth and a regulatory landscape that continually evolves?All SPC18 podcast episodes recapThe pod’waves were hot at?SharePoint Conference North America 2018?(SPC18). Nine podcast shows produced 11 new podcast episodes onsite from the Expo Hall of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Hosts, guests, conversations, insights, laughs, news and non-stop perspectives – all to keep you informed and up-to-date in the most personable and expert of ways.Teamwork devices at InfoComm this weekIt’s been a great week at?InfoComm?in Las Vegas, showing our broad portfolio of conferencing and collaboration devices which will be enabled for Microsoft Teams. ?Hear the latest on our announcements for iOS, Android and Mac at SPCNA 2018Our final SPCNA video is with Ryan Hoge, Principal GPM for our OneDrive mobile team and Jonathan Leung, PM for OneDrive Sync for Mac. We had a chance to talk about their work as part of our work from any device, anywhere strategy and how that continues to evolve. With our iOS and Android apps now in their 6th?year of release, we discuss the newest features and functionality and how that is supporting a move from mobile as a consumption device to a mobile-first climate in the industry.We’re forming a Security Customer Advisory Board. Space is limited.This year in autumn, we plan to hold a live event to kick off a Security Customer Advisory Board (CAB) for several of our products (AIP, ASC, Azure ATP, and MCAS). Help us determine what topics we should focus on by taking this survey.Using STMicroelectronics starter kits to connect to Azure IoT in minutesMicrosoft partners with silicon vendors such as?STMicroelectronics?to simplify and accelerate the development of embedded systems, so our customers can move projects from proof of concepts to production faster. One of the most common issues in IoT project development is the passage from proof of concept to production, from a handful of devices to deployment and management of devices at an IoT scale and from development hardware to mass produced silicon.8 reasons to choose Azure Stream Analytics for real-time data processingProcessing big data in real-time is now an operational necessity for many businesses.?Azure Stream Analytics?is Microsoft’s serverless real-time analytics offering for complex event processing. It enables customers to unlock valuable insights and gain competitive advantage by harnessing the power of big data. Here are eight reasons why you should choose ASA for real-time analytics.INTERESTING PERSPECTIVESforms. keeps on REFRESHING on its own every 2 seconds (like someone is pressing F5)Contributor Jennifer Vitug reported an error in Microsoft Forms, and others had similar issues. Several Microsoft employees chimed in and the issue was resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.Office365 secure score – Not scoringPeople posted about issues getting Secure Score points from reports. Microsoft employee Anthony Smith has been very responsive in helping address these issues.Microsoft Teams Group Disable from Exchange ClientsA question was asked about disabling groups created either from Teams, Planner or from Power BI. MVP Vasil Michev offered great insight into this issue.UPCOMING EVENTSAnnouncing the Office International SharePoint SurveyFrom May 28th?to June 25th?we are running a Survey to help us evaluate the accuracy and relevance of SharePoint search queries in languages other than English. To make it worth your while, we’ll be giving away a $100 Amazon Voucher to?3?lucky survey participants.Announcing the Windows Server Summit – Tuesday, June 26, 2018Please join us at the?Windows Server Summit?– a half-day virtual event dedicated to Windows Server professionals. This event will bring the Windows Server community together and function as a platform for customers to learn more about Windows Server, get updates on the new features and functionalities, and get their questions answered in an interactive Q&A. ?Spark + AI Summit: Data scientists and engineers put their trust in Microsoft Azure DatabricksMicrosoft will have a major presence at Spark + AI Summit, 2018, in San Francisco, the premier event for the Apache Spark community. Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, will deliver a keynote on how Azure Databricks combines the best of Apache? Spark? analytics platform and Microsoft Azure Data Services to help customers unleash the power of data and reimagine possibilities that will improve our world.The Community Led Comms Vnext Launches in Denver this SummerHave you heard about the cool new conference on the block:?Comms vNext?! If not, read on for all the details, and then don't forget to register right away - tickets are limited and almost already half gone!Bring the power of serverless to your IoT application and compete for cash prizesWe are inviting you to participate in the?Azure IoT on Serverless hackathon?for your chance to win* a piece of the?$20,000 prize pool.Microsoft Business Applications Summit: July 22-24 in Seattle!We’re excited to announce registration is open for the?first-ever?Microsoft Business Applications Summit,?coming to Seattle July 22–24! Combining the best of the Microsoft Data Insights Summit, Convergence, and the Dynamics 365 Technical Conference, this new event is designed to help you create the best, lasting solutions for your business. Don’t wait –?secure your spot today!Microsoft Ignite: Learn, Connect, ExploreWhere will you be in September? We hope to see you in Orlando at Microsoft Ignite from the 24th?through the 28th?for a week of learning, meeting like-minded people, and seeing the future of tech.This year’s conference will be amazing—we’re offering more deep dives, workshops, and hands-on opportunities than ever before, including 700+ sessions and 100+ expert-led and self-paced workshops. And there will be plenty of opportunities to make connections that could help your career or just help solve that one problem that’s been bugging you for months.FEATURED SPACE Microsoft To-DoWith a recent blog post, Microsoft To-Do is an active space to discuss this popular product. Join the conversation!MEMBER OF THE WEEKArul TresoldiA member of the community for just one week, Arul has been an active contributor in the Excel community. Thanks for being a member, Arul! ................
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