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Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup – April 27, 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 NOWNew in MyAnalytics: manager 1:1 insights, adoption resources, and shortened onboarding timeOn Monday, April 23, 2018, Microsoft announced the following updates and releases in My Analytics: manager 1:1 insights, new user adoption resources, and shortened onboarding time. Join the conversation in the MyAnalytics space.Azure IoT Hub SDK officially provides native iOS supportOn Monday, April 23, 2018, Microsoft announced a recent release of a port of Azure IoT Hub C SDK for iOS platform. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.OneDrive Brings New Sharing and Collaboration Features to Mac, iOS and AndroidOn Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Microsoft announced new sharing and collaboration features for OneDrive for Mac, iOS and Android. Join the conversation in the OneDrive for Business space.How Azure Security Center helps detect attacks against your Linux machinesOn Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Microsoft announced that Azure Security Center (ASC) is now extending its Linux threat detection preview program, both on cloud and on-premise. Join the conversation in the Azure Security + Identity space.Planner tab in Microsoft Teams now includes the Schedule view and Charts viewOn Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Microsoft announced that the Planner tab in Microsoft Teams now includes a few more popular features from the web version. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Planner space.Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and Azure Toolkit for Eclipse integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark 2.2On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Microsoft announced that to provide more authentication options, Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and Azure Toolkit for Eclipse now support integration with HDInsight clusters through Ambari for job submission, cluster resource browse and storage files navigate. Join the conversation in the Azure Analytics space.Office 365 for iPad & iPhone - April 2018 release detailsOn Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Microsoft announced an updated version of?Office for iPad & iPhone?to?Office 365?subscribers - Version 2.12 (18040200) in 35 languages, released on April 9th. The Office International team translated this release. Join the conversation in the Office International community.New performance counters diagnose user application responsiveness on Remote Desktop Session HostsOn Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Microsoft announced a new feature that allows system administrators to diagnose application responsiveness problems in Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) with ease, introducing two new counters, User Input Delay per Process and User Input Delay per Session, to give you a new way to more precisely analyze responsiveness issues. Join the conversation in the Windows Server for IT Pro space.Azure Container Instances now generally available On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless way to run both Linux and Windows containers.?Join the conversation in the Azure Compute space.Azure Analysis Services integration with VNets via On-Premises Data GatewayOn Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Microsoft announced Azure Analysis Services now provides integration with cloud data sources residing on?Azure Virtual Networks?(VNets).?Join the conversation in the Azure Analytics space.Replicated Tables now generally available in Azure SQL Data WarehouseOn Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Microsoft announced that Replicated Tables, a new type of table distribution, are now generally available in?Azure SQL Data Warehouse?(SQL DW).?Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Accelerate real-time big data analytics with Spark connector for Microsoft SQL DatabasesOn Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Microsoft announced you can now use the built-in JDBC connector in Apache Spark to connect to Azure SQL Database or SQL Server to read or write data from Spark jobs. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Office 365 for Windows Desktop – April 2018 Release detailsOn Thursday, April 26, 2018, Microsoft announced the release of?Office for Windows Desktop?version 1804. Join the conversation in the Office International community.Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics v1.9 released On Thursday, April 26, 2018, Microsoft announced a new release of Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) version 1.9.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics space.Azure AD B2B Collaboration for Hybrid OrganizationsOn Thursday, April 26, 2018, Microsoft announced a public preview that lets you give Azure AD B2B users access to on-premises apps, without needing to manually create on-prem accounts for them. Join the conversation in the Azure AD B2B Collaboration space.HDInsight tools for VS Code now supports argparse and Spark 2.2On Thursday, April 26, 2018, Microsoft announced that HDInsight Tools for VSCode now supports argparse and accepts parameter based Pyspark Job submission. Join the conversation in the Azure Analytics space.Per disk metrics for Managed & Unmanaged Disks now in public previewOn Thursday, April 26, 2018, Microsoft announced the public preview of per disk metrics for all Managed & Unmanaged Disks.?Join the conversation in the Azure Compute space.OS Disk Swap for Managed Virtual Machines now availableOn Thursday, April 26, 2018, Microsoft announced the availability of the OS Disk Swap capability for VMs using Managed Disks. Join the conversation in the Azure Compute space.Increase in SharePoint Online storage allocationOn Friday, April 27, 2018, Microsoft announced?a 20x increase in the SharePoint Online per user license storage allocation.?Join the conversation in the SharePoint space.Office 2019 Preview is ready for Commercial customersOn Friday, April 27, 2018, Microsoft announced the Office 2019 Commercial Preview of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Project, Visio and?OneNote?for Windows 10.?Join the conversation in the Office Apps space.Office for MAC 2016 - April 2018 Release detailsOn Friday, April 27, 2018, Microsoft announced that on?April 11th, 2018,?Microsoft released?Office 2016 for Mac?Version 16.12 (Build 180410) in?27 languages. Join the conversation in the Office International community.Microsoft Forms is Enterprise Ready now!On Friday, April 27, 2018, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Forms, a simple app for creating surveys, quizzes, and polls, is generally available to all Office 365 commercial customers. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Forms space. HYPERLINK "" \l "M176" Update 1804 for Configuration Manager Technical Preview Branch – Available Now!On Friday, April 27, 2018, Microsoft announced update 1804 for the Technical Preview Branch of System Center Configuration Manager has been released. Join the conversation in the System Center Configuration ING SOONPropel your IoT platform to the cloud with Azure Time Series Insights!On Monday, April 23, 2018, Microsoft announced two key capabilities that Azure Time Series Insights will be delivering later this year. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Microsoft Authenticator Account Backup and Recovery: Coming soon to an iOS device near you!On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Microsoft announced your Microsoft Authenticator app will keep your account credentials, so you won’t get locked out of your accounts when you move to a new device, rolling out to all iOS users in the next few weeks. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Identity Manager space.HANDY RESOURCES Office 365 Finance Pros Webinar: Visualize InsightsTurning data into insights isn't enough. You must be able to make your analysis actionable and clearly communicate your findings. In this episode, you’ll learn how to create impactful visualizations without having to manually adjust your data, call attention to main insights with simple visual cues, and tell a more persuasive story using proven visualization principles. (This episode was aired live April 26, 2018.)Migrating your apps, data and infrastructure to Azure is easier than everCloud computing is fundamentally changing IT and transforming businesses at an unprecedented pace. And, companies are rapidly turning to the cloud for the opportunities it brings – increased agility, faster innovation, and efficient operations, just to name a few. With new Azure innovation and cost-saving offers, there has never been a better time to move your apps, data?and?infrastructure to Azure. Here’s why…Storage scenarios for Cray in AzureWhen you?get a dedicated Cray supercomputer?on your Azure virtual network, you also get attached Cray? ClusterStor? storage. This is a great solution for the high-performance storage you need while running jobs on the supercomputer. But what happens when the jobs are done? That depends on what you’re planning to do. Azure has a broad portfolio of storage products and solutions.The edge of possibility: best practices for IoT-driven infrastructure transformationCorporate IT infrastructure has changed a lot in the past decade. From a relatively simple bounded space, with a defined “inside” and “outside,” IT networks have evolved to incorporate a wider range of devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and a growing amount of traffic from additional diverse networks, including the public Internet. However, nothing has the potential to disrupt traditional infrastructure topologies more than the Internet of Things (IoT).?Bing Custom Search: Build a customized search experience in minutesIt’s a little over five months since we launched the Bing Custom Search for general availability, and we're happy to see a considerable number of websites around the world that are now powered by Bing Custom Search. You can use the Bing Custom Search offering for either powering your site search or building the vertical search experience through multiple relevant domains.Seven Principles for United States Financial Institutions to Evaluate Cloud Service ProvidersFinancial institutions are looking to cloud computing technologies to reduce costs, improve agility, and differentiate their services. Although the benefits are clear, there are certain risks with the cloud that must be evaluated in context of the cloud service providers (CSPs) that you are considering. It’s important to remember that not all CSPs are the same.Azure #CosmosDB: Secure, private, compliantAzure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure's geographic regions with a single click. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive?service level agreements?(SLAs), a feature that no other database service can offer. HYPERLINK "" \l "M2458" Get the Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET DevelopersIf you’re a .NET developer, we’re excited to introduce a new resource that can help you learn about Azure:?The Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers!Organizing subscriptions and resource groups within the EnterpriseOne of the common questions members of the Core Services Engineering and Operations teams frequently get when speaking to customers at the Executive Briefing Center here in Redmond is how do our engineering teams secure our Azure footprint for our Line of Business applications while still giving developers the freedom to go fast, have visibility into our environment and use the capabilities of Visual Studio Team Services for CI/CD, Release, and much more.Simplifying kiosk management for IT with Windows 10This post outlines the investments Microsoft is making to simplify the configuration and management of kiosk devices, improving Windows 10 as a kiosk platform for IT organizations. Our investments in kiosk and Firstline Worker scenarios are part of a bigger mission to?simplify IT in the modern workplace. You see kiosks everywhere you go: in airports, supermarkets, movie theaters, restaurants, banks, and many other places. Kiosks have many forms and functions. What most people don’t realize is that many of them are powered by Windows.Today on Azure Friday: Ingest, prepare, and transform using Azure Databricks and Data FactoryToday's business managers depend heavily on reliable data integration systems that run complex ETL/ELT workflows (extract, transform/load and load/transform data). Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can iteratively build, debug, deploy, and monitor your data integration workflows (including analytics workloads in Azure Databricks) using Azure Data Factory pipelines.Today on Azure Friday: Virtual Kubelet IntroductionRia Bhatia joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Virtual Kubelet and Azure's provider, the ACI Connector. The ACI Connector paired with Kubernetes enables you to quickly spin out container instances from an AKS cluster. This is the fastest way to scale a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud.Today on Azure Friday: Azure Container Instances GAJustin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Azure Container Instances provide a new compute primitive in the form of on-demand containers. ACI provides efficient, granular compute that starts in seconds with simple packaging and no VM management. Discover use cases and ways to leverage ACI in new and existing infrastructure in this episode!Today on Azure Friday: Get started with Azure for .NET developersAzure MVP Barry Luijbregts stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how .NET developers can easily get started with Azure. They talk about the free e-book:?Getting started with Azure for .NET developers?and they discuss and show some of the awesome tools that can help you get started with Azure today.INTERESTING PERSPECTIVESUser Group for ITPro WomenMicrosoft employee Cathy Moya posted about a new user group for ITPro Women, receiving quite a few interested responses.OneDrive for Business Share Experience on Local PCA user indicated an issue sharing OneDrive for Business content from their local PC. A number of users offered guidance, notably to make sure the latest version is installed as well as troubleshooting tips.Team structure best practiceContributor Bradley Allison asked about the best practices for structure in Microsoft Teams. Christopher Webb and MVP Steven Collier offered valuable input.UPCOMING EVENTSOutlook Customer Manager AMADo you have questions about Outlook Customer Manager? On May 2, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT, there will be an opportunity to ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) in the Outlook Customer Manager AMA space.Announcing the April Office International Competition on Office365We're looking for feedback on how the localized (non-English) features of?Office365 and their help content are landing in your market. Our April competition just launched and will run from April 16th?to April 30th. This?What’s new in Office 365?article is updated monthly, showing the new features by month and across all platforms. We’d like to get your feedback on anything that has released since October 2015 – you get to choose! Did we get translations for Morph, Clutter, Dictate, Designer, QuickStarter, Researcher, Learning Tools, Accessibility, Snippets, Resume/CV Assistant, Icons, Editor, Zoom or 3D Models right for time around? If not have you a better translation in mind? If so let us know. We are also keen to know what the user experience is for these Office365 features? How can we improve the user experience within the software or in the content for you? We would love to hear from you!?Explore innovative tech and endless possibilities at Microsoft IgniteOn September 24–28, Microsoft will gather the tech industry’s brightest minds to see the future of tech at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida—and you can join them.?Registration?for Microsoft’s largest and most comprehensive conference for enterprise technology is open now.Train an IoT-equipped drone and compete to win at Microsoft BuildAre you ready for Microsoft’s ultimate developer event? You probably already know?Microsoft Build, happening May 7–9 in Seattle, Washington, is where you need to be to connect with the experts, discover new tools, and boost your skills around cloud technologies, AI, mixed reality, and more. Sure, there will be great speakers and tech sessions galore—but did you know you could win a drone?Learn from experts and play with emerging tech at Microsoft BuildMicrosoft’s largest developer conference, Microsoft Build, is around the corner, and?there’s still time to register. Programmers and Microsoft engineers will gather May 7–9 in Seattle, Washington, to discuss what’s next in cloud, AI, mixed reality, and more. The event will feature incredible technical sessions, inspiring speakers, and interactive workshops—as well as plenty of time to connect and celebrate.Join us for SharePoint Conference North America May 20-23On May 21st, the SharePoint Conference North America will kick off in Las Vegas, NV.? This year the event will include over 160 sessions for IT Pros, Developers, and Business Users focused on helping you make the most out of your investments in OneDrive, SharePoint and Office 365. This conference is a premier opportunity to hear experts from Microsoft and around the world share their experience and knowledge about a variety of topics such as cloud services, best practices & real-world project insights.Announcing a special performance by The B-52s at SharePoint Conference North America!We are thrilled to announce the world-renowned B-52s will headline at SharePoint Conference North America - Join us for Burgers and Brews with a special performance by The B-52s at an exclusive super-sized poolside SharePoint party at the MGM Grand.? Attendance is included with your conference pass and restricted to attendees only.?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!FEATURED SPACE Office AppsWith a recent blog post, the Office Apps space is a great place to discuss the latest Office Apps news and best practices. Check it out today!MEMBER OF THE WEEKGourab DasguptaA member since March of this year, Gourab has offered great contributions, especially in the Excel space. Thanks for being a member of the community, Gourab! ................
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