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Microsoft Tech Community - March 27 2020 Weekly RoundupTable of Contents Product NewsRelated AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesInteresting PerspectivesUpcoming EventsFeatured GroupsMember of the WeekProduct NewsAVAILABLE NOWMicrosoft Defender ATP service notification improvementsOn Sunday, March 22, Microsoft announced to help customers stay informed on Microsoft Defender ATP service?notifications?and announcements, extending capabilities to better integrate with the Microsoft 365 Service Health & Message Center?pages.?Join the conversation in the Microsoft Defender ATP space.Secure Configuration Assessment (SCA) for Windows Server now in public previewOn Sunday, March 22, Microsoft announced extending secure configuration assessment capabilities to cover Windows Servers 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Defender ATP space.ADF adds Managed Identity & Service Principal to Data Flows Synapse stagingOn Sunday, March 22, Microsoft announced ADF Data Flows have added support for managed identity and service principal with data flows when loading into Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW). Join the conversation in the Azure Data Factory space.Windows Admin Center and SMS: Don’t Just Shift, Facelift!On Monday, March 23, Microsoft announced Storage Migration Service and Windows Admin Center now have the ability to create and migrate straight to new Azure VMs on the fly, an option that both reduces a ton of steps and gets you into hybrid cloud computing. Join the conversation in the ITOps Talk space.Producing live events in Yammer just got easierOn Monday, March 23, Microsoft announced you can now produce live events in Yammer more easily, sharing your webcam and screen without the need for third-party apps or devices. Join the conversation in the Yammer space.Creating custom roles in the Azure portal is now in public previewOn Monday, March 23, Microsoft announced the public preview of custom role management in the Azure portal, making it easier for you to customize the permissions you grant your users or applications to access Azure resources. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space.New, simpler way to sign-in to Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server using Azure ADOn Monday, March 23, Microsoft announced a new, simpler, way to sign-in to your Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. Join the conversation in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL space.Workplace Analytics - March 2020: Feature updatesOn Monday, March 23, Microsoft announced Workplace Analytics feature updates for March 2020. Join the conversation in the Workplace Analytics space.Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 65On Tuesday, March 24, Microsoft announced continuing to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 73 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. Join the conversation in the Azure Marketplace space.SharePoint mobile app will now allow admins to customize their tenant theme with brandingOn Tuesday, March 24, Microsoft announced the SharePoint mobile app will now allow admins to customize their tenant theme in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Join the conversation in the SharePoint space.What’s New in the New Outlook for Mac?On Tuesday, March 24, Microsoft announced updates for Outlook for Mac. Join the conversation in the Outlook space.Hotfix: JDBC Driver 8.2.2 for SQL Server ReleasedOn Tuesday, March 24, Microsoft announced the release of JDBC Driver 8.2.2. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space.Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0 Preview 2On Tuesday, March 24, Microsoft announced ?continuous updates and improvements to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Join the conversations in the SQL Server space.Azure Sphere 20.03 update is now availableOn Wednesday, March 25, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere 20.03 update is now available in the Retail feed. This update includes enhancements and bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS; it does not include an updated SDK. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space.SQL Server 2019 images with current Linux distribution support available in Azure marketplaceOn Wednesday, March 25, Microsoft announced Azure marketplace PAYG (Pay As You Go) images for SQL Server 2019 on RHEL 8.0, Ubuntu 18.04 and SLES 12 SP5 have been made generally available. Join the conversation in the SQL Server space.Support for Service Fabric 6.5 release versions will be extended for 3 months until Aug 1, 2020On Wednesday, March 25, Microsoft announced extending support for Service Fabric 6.5 release versions. Join the conversation in the Azure space.Free edition of SquaredUp SCOM dashboards to support business continuity during COVID-19 crisisOn Wednesday, March 25, Microsoft announced a special edition of SquaredUp's web dashboards (a Microsoft partner and long-term contributor to the SCOM community) will be available completely free to all SCOM users for the next 6 months. Join the conversation in the System Center space.Connect Kibana to Azure Data Explorer with K2Bridge, a new open-source connectorOn Thursday, March 26, Microsoft announced K2Bridge (Kibana-Kusto Bridge), an open-source project that offers connectivity between the familiar Kibana interface to Azure Data Explorer. Join the conversation in the Azure Data Explorer space.Related AnnouncementsHandy ResourcesSecure AND Easy Service Account ManagementLike most companies, we have various automations and tools we use to do everything it takes to run Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager (a.k.a. MEMCM, MECM, SCCM, System Center Configuration Manager, or even SMS but we’ll refer to it as MECM) and Intune. To have those run well we follow the common best practice of using dedicated service accounts.Repair a single node in down status already part of Azure Standalone Service Fabric ClusterSometimes as part of troubleshoot of single node down scenarios you wish to uninstall and reinstall?Service fabric?on same node like FabricGateway.exe or Fabric.exe is not starting if you check in Task Manager of that node; or upgrade or rollback corrupted the node or after you reformat the Windows (given that node has same IP address) otherwise you can refer to how to remove and add node in Standalone cluster.How to Save Your Data Profiler Summary Stats in ADF Data FlowsADF Data Flows provides an interactive data profiler experience.Benchmarking goodness: Comparing Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS on AzureWhen we published our benchmarking ebook more than a year ago, little did we know how enduring this topic would be. But who doesn’t love a good side-by-side comparison? The?Parallel Virtual File Systems (PVFS) on Microsoft Azure?e-book still gives you the scoop from the team's performance tests of Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS.Azure DSC for Zero Trust Windows 10 Devices Managed by IntuneZero Trust is defined?by Microsoft?as model that “assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an open network. Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero Trust teaches us to ‘never trust, always verify.’ Every access request is fully authenticated, authorized, and encrypted before granting access. Micro-segmentation and least privileged access principles are applied to minimize lateral movement.”Modeling IoT Data in Azure Times Series Insights PreviewThe?Time Series Model?(TSM) within Azure Time Series Insights Preview enables IoT architects to create custom models to contextualize IoT telemetry data. Using these models, end users can compute, correlate, explore, and analyze their IoT telemetry data to gain valuable business insights. This article steps through high-level features and benefits of TSM, discusses its three components, and provides a quick tour of the models used in two different environments: a proof-of-concept smart campus for Microsoft's own corporate headquarters, and the?Contoso Wind Farm demo environment.Best practices when decommissioning Exchange 2010As many of you know from the previous post regarding?Exchange On-Premises Best Practices for Migrations from 2010 to 2016?the end of support for Exchange 2010 is quickly approaching. We’ve created this post to cover the best practices for decommissioning an Exchange 2010 environment after the migration has completed.Self-service application access management for the Power Platform using the Power Platform!Providing access to a canvas application built on Power Apps is actually very easily done.? Simply share the application to a security group, and all of those group members will have access to it.Localization migration from AIP classic client to Security and Compliance CenterWith the recent?portal, the need to migrate to?Security and Compliance Center (SCC)?is becoming an important task to achieve as soon as possible.There are 3 main objects in the policy definition that can be migrated to the Security and Compliance portal. Some of the object migrations are automated and some of must be completed manually.Trainable classifier auto-labeling with sensitivity labels webinarThis classification method is particularly well suited to content that isn't easily identified by either the manual or automated pattern matching methods. This method of classification is more about training a classifier to identify an item based on what the item is, not by elements that are in the item (pattern matching). A classifier learns how to identify a type of content by looking at hundreds of examples of the content you're interested in classifying.Helping IT admins set up secure work from home using Microsoft Endpoint ManagerA new endpoint management blog series has been published in the?Enterprise Mobility + Security Blog?to help IT admins quickly enable remote work, where suddenly hundreds of people are using personal PCs and mobile devices at home or are sharing with their family.Azure Data Explorer Newsletter March 2020As Azure Data Explorer (ADX) recently celebrated its one-year GA anniversary on February?9th, and for the first year anniversary this is a good time to start a monthly newsletter highlighting the progress of the service. Since this is the first edition, it will cover the many new features that have been added over the last 12 months.Lesson Learned #126: Deny Public Network Access,Allow Azure Services and Private Link in SQL DatabaseIn the latest days, we received a lot of questions about the new options that we have using Azure SQL Database Firewall and Private Link.?Azure Advisor: Meet your personalized cloud consultant serviceDoes it feel like you’re always firefighting problems, especially when you talk about cloud services? Did you know that Azure has a FREE service that lets you be proactive to potential issues and pitfalls? It’s called Azure Advisor and this blog will discuss how you can use it to become less reactive and more proactive. Come on, who doesn't like FREE?!Virtual Rounding using Microsoft TeamsAs a Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist on healthcare, this week has shown me some of the real challenges facing some of the top healthcare clients in the US and around the world. From the very real challenges of optimizing telework, to finding ways to better optimize online diagnosis software, I was grateful to be comfortable at home, while our Healthcare workers are on the front lines of fighting COVID-19. In talking to my healthcare customer, I was humbled and astounded by the very real challenge of supply shortages that are plaguing our nation and how providers are putting themselves at risk.Connect X-Force Exchange API on Azure SentinelFollow these easy steps for connecting your Threat Intel feed on Azure Sentinel and take full advantage of this solution focused on empower your Blue Team. Defending SMBs from cyber threats with Microsoft 365 BusinessSmall & Medium Businesses (SMBs) are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber threats like targeted phishing or ransomware. Especially during these challenging times, when SMBs are looking to secure their environments as their employees are trying to work remotely from homes.? Compounding matters for SMBs are the lack of resources and enterprise-grade tools to combat these sophisticated attacks. That’s where Microsoft 365 Business steps in.Azure Sentinel Sigma and SOC Prime Integration (Part 1)As a cloud native SIEM solution, our innovation continues to help enterprises protect assets across distributed environments, analyze the growing volume of security data, and prioritize response to real threats.Search as a conversation using LUISThe rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last few years has given a massive push to the idea of conversational interfaces, commonly known as chatbots. Chatbots can maintain a conversation with a user in natural language, understand the user’s intent and send responses based on the organization’s business rules and data. Many chatbots including Cortana, Siri and Alexa can also interact verbally with consumers. In short, chatbots provide a conversational interface using natural language. They are expected to engage users in extended conversations involving followup dialogue.Security Graph API and Sentinel Log Analytics (Part 1)In this blog, I want to discuss a use case that is not very well documented, "... how do I use the Microsoft Security Graph API to connect to my Sentinel's Log Analytics Workspace and query the data?" This is a common ask and once you know the steps, its quite simple. Here in part 1, I will show you step-by-step how to register an application within your Azure Active Directory, Add your application to your Azure Sentinel's Log Analytics Workspace, and finally test your newly registered application to query any data set within your Sentinel's ALA Workspace.Dynamic Monitoring with Azure Monitor Workbooks and Resource TagsAzure Resource Tags are a powerful tool to help organize your Azure Resources. You may have seen Microsoft's?Thomas Mauer recent post on resource tagging, or fellow MVP Tao Yang's post on using?Azure Policy to apply tags. Those are nice posts on why and how to implement and use Tags. This post will detail the built-in value from a monitoring perspective once you're tagging your resources.Learning Process - Preparing yourself for a Data Science projectIn the?September 2015 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine, there is an article on the Automated...- highly recommended reading. It feeds in nicely to a journey in learning Data Science. That article covers the conflict between traditional college-degree education and the newer competency-based learning systems. I prefer both - a degree is extremely useful not just for landing a good job, but more importantly for a well-rounded education as a human being. As we think about learning Data Science, however, this question becomes quite important.How to rehydrate multiple blobs in Azure Blob StorageTo read Azure Storage blobs from the archive tier, you must first change the tier of the blob to hot or cool. This process is known as rehydration and can take up to 15 hours to complete in case of standard priority.Enabling distributed tracing with the Azure SDK for PythonTodays topic is diagnostics with Python applications. I have a fairly complex application, and something is going wrong. Azure provides a capability within?Azure Monitor?called transaction monitoring that tracks a transaction (such as an API call) from your application all the way through to the service that fulfills the request. This is powered by?OpenTelemetry, a distributed tracing framework.Understanding Hardware-enforced Stack ProtectionWe aim to make Windows 10 one of the most secure operating systems for our customers and to do that we are investing in a multitude of security features. Our philosophy is to build features that mitigate broad classes of vulnerabilities, ideally without having the app change its code. In other words, getting an updated version of Windows 10 should make the customer and the app safer to use. This comprehensive?MSDN document?shows all of the security focused technologies we have built into Windows over the years and how it keeps our customers safe. Here is another?presentation?by Matt Miller and David Weston that goes deeper into our security philosophy for further reading.“Crisis management and remote work” ? The Intrazone podcastWe are committed to helping organizations everywhere stay connected and productive during this difficult time. From virus outbreaks like COVID-19 to unexpected weather emergencies, our focus goes to the importance of establishing open the lines of communication and information flow. In this episode, Chris and I highlight three solutions - across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power Apps - that help everyone stay briefed on the situation and any business impacts. Through crisis management and good planning, technology can help business continuity in the move to more and more remote working.Microsoft Teams Live Events Resources for Implementation for COVID19 CommunicationsOver the last two weeks with many organizations looking to facilitate the best possible experience for employees home-bound due to COVID-19 a topic that has come up time and time again is Microsoft 365 Live Events. While Live Events comes in three different flavors (see “Live events across Microsoft 365 in Yammer, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Stream”) Organizations looking to quickly leverage the power and scale of Live Events have been predominantly seeking my help around Microsoft Teams Live Events. By way of follow-up I have been providing these organizations with resources to help them get moving quickly.Azure VMware Solutions and Azure FileSyncAVS (like all other hyperscale cloud providers) is architected on a hyper-converged platform, because of this any workload can be moved and performance many times increases due to the locality of disk I/O.? However, horsepower (vCPU/vMem) scale in parallel with storage.? Many times organizations find themselves in a situation where storage space needed drives the size of the cluster well beyond what they would need for horsepower.?Welcome to Azure Lab Services CommunityWe are the Azure Lab Services team and?would like to welcome you to the new home of blogs and discussions for Lab Services!Excluding and re-including applications within the Office 365 ProPlus SuiteWhen installing Office 365 ProPlus using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT), the standard configuration includes the entire suite of applications by default. In some cases, IT Pros need to exclude one or more of the apps or add back previously excluded ones. The article will go over the various scenarios and provide guidance on how to implement them.If remote working means Remote Desktop for your organization it might be time to look at WVDThe last few weeks have made many of us start evaluating alternatives to some of the technologies that we have relied upon for years or even decades, with a much higher number of employees working remotely until local authorities give the all clear. One of the things that I’ve been hearing from people across multiple locations is that the existing internet and VPN infrastructure they have in place is bursting at the seams, and not all have the option of increasing their internet speeds to scale up. For those of you with on-premises Remote Desktop Services it might be time to start evaluating how?Windows Virtual Desktop?(WVD) might be able assist. ?I’ll cover a couple of different scenarios, but first it’s worth discussing some of the basics of WVD first.Ensuring Security during COVID-19 OperationsIn the cybersecurity community there is a saying “Cyber can impact physical and physical can impact Cyber”.? We normally think of this in terms of warfare, such as what happened with the Ukrainian power grid a few years back.? But as the COVID-19 crisis continues and drives more organizations to enable remote work scenarios, cybersecurity professionals need to be tightly integrated into our organization’s contingency planning to ensure we continue to protect the business.? What we don’t want to have happen is a data breach or other security incident to occur during or immediately following the crisis.?Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly - Episode 76In this session of PnP Weekly, hosts –?Vesa Juvonen?(Microsoft),?Waldek Mastykarz?(Rencore), and typically a special guest from the PnP Community, discuss the latest news and topics around?Microsoft 365?development. This week, Vesa and Waldek are joined by?Brett Lonsdale?–?Office Apps and Services MVP, owner of UK based Lightning Tools developing “gap filler” products like BDC Meta Man and Lightning Conductor for the?Microsoft 365?Suite.How to isolate an Azure VM using Azure Security Center’s Workflow automationAs we wrap up our exploration of Azure ways to automate in the domain of security related tasks, we find ourselves looking into Azure Threat Alerts. A common attack that still occurs in the cloud is brute force attacks against the Azure VMs management ports like SSH for Linux and RDP for Windows. While most organizations use Azure Security Center Just in Time access feature there are some that do not.Run OPM Flow reservoir simulation and visualization software on AzureTo run OPM Flow software on Azure, you just need the right HPC hardware and a shared storage location for the input and output files as our new example workload for?reservoir simulation and visualization?shows.Meet the 2020 Imagine Cup Americas Regional Final JudgesNext week,?ten student teams?from across the Americas will pitch their purpose-driven applications during the Imagine Cup Americas Regional Final. In the final of three regional events in this year’s competition, the two winning teams will be selected by a panel of expert judges to move forward to the 2020 World Championship.? ?Support Tip: PowerShell Script now Available for iOS Passcode Reset Token Known IssueHere's the text from the latest Message Center 207726 (MC) post. Below the text is the PowerShell script referenced in the MC post.?Use Intune MAM to Control Office Mobile Apps and Office 365 ContentAs you all know, well-managed and secure remote access is a key aspect of Microsoft solutions.? As most of us have seen, working remotely has taken on new scale and urgency right now and people across Microsoft have published some great reminders/guidance to help.Migrating your localization settings from AIP to MIPWith the?announcement?earlier this month that we plan to deprecate the AIP (classic) client and label management from the Azure Portal, customers are actively working to migrate their label management from the Azure Portal to the M365 Compliance portal.?How to Manage and Govern Hybrid Servers with Azure ArcA couple of days ago, I wrote a blog post on?how you can onboard a server to Azure Arc.?Azure Arc?for servers extends Azure Resource Manager to allow you to manage machines that are outside of Azure, using Azure management tools like Azure Log Analytics and Azure Policy. In this blog post, we will have a look at how you can manage and govern your servers with Azure Arc by using Azure Guest Configuration Policy.Configuring Office 365 ProPlus updates for remote workers using VPNDue to the dynamic situation with COVID-19 many IT pros are being challenged to assess ways to configure Office 365 Client to update directly from Microsoft CDN. Today, the majority of customers I engage with manage updates using Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), predominately on-premises. The objective of this posting is how to minimize internet egress through customer VPN network for Office updates.Publishing Azure Bot Services to MS teams Store/ Publish your Azure Bot Service for TeamsTest your bot in Teams!Lesson Learned #127: Using Azure SQL Database Private Link and PowerBIToday, I worked on a service request that our customer received an error message connecting from PowerBI to Azure SQL Database using Private Link. The error message was: The server name provided doesn't match the server name on the SQL Server SSL certificate.?SharePoint Online: News from associated sites are not displayed in the hub News WebpartI recently worked on a case where News from associated sites are not displayed in the hub News Webpart.ADF Data Flows Script Intro: Copy, Paste, SnippetsADF Data Flows has a low-code graph-based UI to design and develop data transformations at scale. But the script behind those graphs is very powerful. This article introduces you to the Data Flow Script and how to use it to copy, paste, and share data transformation code.Exporting Azure Container Registry Vulnerability Assessment in Azure Security CenterUsing?Azure Security Center Standard tier with the Container Registries?bundle enabled, you can monitor your ARM-based Azure Container Registry. When a new image is pushed, Security Center scans the image using a scanner from the industry-leading vulnerability scanning vendor, Qualys. For every vulnerability, Security Center provides actionable recommendations, along with guidance for how to remediate the issue.?PowerShell Basics: How to Delete Files Older Than X DaysCurrently spring cleaning your home... or trying to find something to do while stuck at home?? I've recently taken up the task to clean my NAS and other storage devices of files not touched in over 6 months to clear up storage space.? I once again turn to?PowerShell?to automate the task.??Ingest Fastly Web Application Firewall logs into Azure SentinelMany customers implement Web Application Firewalls to filter, monitor or block HTTP traffic to and from a web application and there are many solutions available on the market. Many of these provide logging capabilities which can be utilised to detect malicious request traffic and then ‘log’ or ‘log and block’ that traffic before it reaches web applications.Have you been sent home to work? How can you use technology to stay connected & productive?As we all are aware of the news and what is going on with COVID-19, many of you have been sent home to work for the first time ever.?At Microsoft we have been working remotely for years, so this is not new to us. A group of us have come together to provide a bunch of quick tips and how to videos for working remotely. These are mostly centered around how to use Microsoft Teams to stay connected to your co-workers, friends and family as well as how to stay productive with work.?Microsoft Teams in Office 365 GCC High - CMMC ConsiderationsThe Department of Defense (DoD), its agencies and organizations, and supply chain - Defense Industrial Base (DIB) - have shied away from remote working and SaaS offerings in the cloud for understandable security concerns. However, times have changed. The workforce includes several new generational bands, technology has inhibited new possibilities, and cybersecurity products/tools are far more enhanced than 10 years previously.?Text Annotation made easy with DoccanoSupervised machine learning (ML) models need labeled data, but majority of the data collected in the raw format lacks labels. So, the first step before building a ML model would be to get the raw data labeled by domain experts. To do so, we did a survey of some of the annotation tools and came across?Doccano?as an easy tool for collaborative text annotation. The latest version of?Doccano?supports annotation features for text classification, sequence labeling (Named Entity Recognition NER) and sequence to sequence (machine translation, text summarization) use cases.Premier Offerings: .NET Performance Tuning and OptimizationDebugging and troubleshooting are?necessary?activities?of application development and test procedures. However, production environments and scenarios rarely coincide with development and test environments and scenarios. Such gaps between predictions and real-life often result as CPU and/or memory consumption issues, unexpected service downtimes and negative end-user experience.??Sample forms to help organizations stay connected while working remoteAs organizations respond proactively against the spread of COVID-19, many are adopting remote work to protect public health. This can be a major and sudden change from the traditional way of communication and day-to-day life. From conducting meetings to keeping up team morale, there are unique challenges and qualities to virtual collaboration. We would like to provide some tips and examples of how organizations are using Microsoft Forms to help teams stay safe, productive, and engaged during this difficult time.Migrating On-prem MySQL Server to Azure Database for MySQL through Azure Data Migration ServiceWe?already have a good?migration guide which takes?you from pre-migration to post-migration steps. Adding?to?this,?we also have a tutorial -?“Tutorial: Migrate MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL online using DMS”.Virtual Rounding using Microsoft TeamsAs a Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist on healthcare, this week has shown me some of the real challenges facing some of the top healthcare clients in the US and around the world. From the very real challenges of optimizing telework, to finding ways to better optimize online diagnosis software, I was grateful to be comfortable at home, while our Healthcare workers are on the front lines of fighting COVID-19. In talking to my healthcare customer, I was humbled and astounded by the very real challenge of supply shortages that are plaguing our nation and how providers are putting themselves at risk.Turn Covid-19 downtime into level-up timeRemote work isn't a new concept working with technology, be it sitting in an office in a different country than the customer, or the whole "I don't need to leave my bed to write code". If you work with Azure you should be fairly familiar with the concept of your compute power not being located in your 3 Live Events Questions During COVID-19 - HLS Show Me HowOver the last 3 weeks as COVID-19 has impacted numerous organizations the need to deliver large scale messaging to employees has become an increasingly requested topic for me as a Microsoft Technologist. I have been streaming using Microsoft tech since my days as a public-school teacher back in 1996 in Southern California using Microsoft Netshow so along the years I have picked up a “few” things including a lot of tips around different deliveries. Three questions seem to keep popping up during these recent meetings where folks are looking to implement executive webcasts to their employees working remote from home.Bring rich reporting into your applications with Power BIWhether you are a citizen developer creating a mission critical application for your department, or a ISV building and selling direct to consumer applications, or somewhere in-between, providing a rich interactive reporting experience can make all the difference for adoption of your application.Remote Teaching ResourcesWe have a site? brings together our resources to support customers with the move to remote learning.Deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workersThis blog post will address the enterprise IT admin’s challenge on how to deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workers without saturating the company’s VPN connections. It will show you how to implement a tactical approach which allows an IT admin to stay in control and quickly relief the pain of VPN congestion by offloading content distribution to the Microsoft Content Delivery Network (CDN). Maybe you are in the process of moving off legacy versions of Office and want to keep the pace with e.g. the?Office 2010 end-of-support?approaching fast. There are multiple strategic solutions available (e.g.?Intune?and?Windows Autopilot), but for now we focus on a quick fix.Az Update: Azure Dedicated Host News, Azure Stack Edge with GPU and govern your hybrid serversWith all the changes in Azure, it is sometimes hard to keep track, that's why I thought I would give you a quick update on two exciting things I learned this week. In this update, I want to share a couple of things like new capabilities and benefits for the Azure Dedicated Host, NVIDIA GPU support for Azure Stack Edge, govern and manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc, and more!PolyBase External Objects in an AlwaysOn Availability DatabaseI was recently helping a customer with an issue where he was using PolyBase external objects in an AlwaysOn Availability Database.SQL 2019 PolyBase: Fractional Truncation Issue When Using Data Virtualization in Azure Data StudioConsider the following scenario. You have a table in an Oracle which uses the Oracle date pliance Reporting for AzureThe aim of the workbook is to consolidate many data sources into one report.?Protecting SMB data with Microsoft 365 BusinessAccording to an internal survey, over 80% of SMBs collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and over 30% collect Social Security Numbers (SSNs). Given the amount of sensitive information being processed, it becomes imperative for SMBs to have IT processes in place to protect sensitive data. That’s where Microsoft 365 Business can help.Importing spatial data to PostGISIf you’re new to PostGIS and want to try it out, one of the first things you’ll want to do is to import some data into your database. I want to provide an overview of how to accomplish this. The post provides an introduction to some common data import terminology, details on where to find spatial data and tools for importing data to PostGIS, and specific instructions for how to use each tool to perform the import.MVP BlogsReconnect Series: Ken LinMVP Reconnect is back to spotlight?Ken Lin: The Hong Kong native Application Development MVP from 2003-2017 and Business Applications MVP from 2015-2017. Ken is a long-time member of the Microsoft MVP family with further accreditation from Microsoft Hong Kong and Microsoft Taiwan as a Microsoft Community Star.Friday Five: Teams, Azure and more!Check out the top MVP blogs from the week!Interesting PerspectivesFormula assistance (IF Statement)?New Contributor Toya Wallace?was having issues with their Excel formula in returning a result if numeric values were present or not (which would return a value of "0"). Valued Contributor Subodh_Tiwari_sktneer?took steps to first better understand the formula being used and then provided adjustments to the formula to help Toya get their desired result.?Creating a master detail page in SharePoint Thomas Wagner has a SharePoint list of a running project (with project name, start date, end date etc.) and wanted a new page in SharePoint Online to open, with all project details (relevent documents, tasks, etc.), when clicking on the project. Rob Elliott suggested building this with Power Apps. The Power App could then be embedded in a page on a SharePoint site.[Solved] Google is blocking Edge from using Google DriveHotCakeX noticed that Google was blocking Edge from using Google Drive. Fereydoun Memarzanjany indicated that User Agents are getting deprecated, but can't be completely removed considering the amount of problems it will cause for older legacy websites, which explained the issue.Upcoming EventsAnnouncing a Microsoft 365 AMA!We are very excited to announce a Microsoft 365 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA)?for Microsoft 365! The AMA will take place on Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the?Microsoft 365 AMA Space?in the Microsoft 365 Community. Featured SpaceFeatured SpaceAzure Lab ServicesCheck out the brand new blog and conversation space for Azure Lab Services!Member of the WeekSudharsan KesavanarayananA member since May 2018, Sudharsan is a great contributor in the SharePoint space. 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