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Improve cyber supply chain risk management with Microsoft Azure
For years, Microsoft has tracked threat actors exploiting federal cyber supply chain vulnerabilities. Supply chain attacks target software developers, systems integrators, and technology companies. Tactics often include obtaining source code, build processes, or update mechanisms to compromise legitimate applications. This ... continue reading

Building Xbox game streaming with Site Reliability best practices
Last month, we started sharing the DevOps journey at Microsoft through the stories of several teams at Microsoft and how they approach DevOps adoption. As the next story in this series, we want to share the transition one team made ... continue reading
How to use composite indexes and correlated subqueries with Azure Cosmos DB
Tim Sander joins Scott Hanselman to discuss composite indexes and correlated subqueries. A Request Unit, or RU, is the measure of throughput in Azure Cosmos DB. Learn how to optimize queries with a composite index to decrease the RUs needed ... continue reading
How to connect virtual networks across Azure regions with Azure Global VNet peering
Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how virtual network peering enables you to connect networks seamlessly in Azure Virtual Network. The virtual networks appear as one for connectivity purposes. The traffic between virtual machines uses the Microsoft backbone infrastructure ... continue reading
Video Tutorial: Administration Service in Configuration Manager current branch
Hello everyone, @Steve Rachui a principal field engineer specializing in endpoint management technologies brings us another video tutorial. This session focuses on the Configuration Manager administration service introduced in current branch version1810. The tutorial focuses on current branch 1906 and ... continue reading
Bring identities from disconnected ADs into Azure AD with just a few clicks!
Howdy folks, Today we’ve got some amazingly cool news to share. If you work in a large enterprise, you probably already know how big the challenges can be when your company makes an acquisition and you suddenly get asked to ... continue reading
Easier management of PolyBase and relational data through SQL Server 2019
The days when a database administrator (DBA) could specialize solely in a single database technology are rapidly ending. Today, we're much more likely than ever before to be asked to bring together many types of data from diverse sources. Although ... continue reading
Use Azure Automation to onboard VMs to Log Analytics
Hello, Chris Wallen here and in this post, I'm going to show how you can use an automation runbook to onboard Windows and Linux VMs to a Log Analytics workspace. Before we get started with the code portion, there are ... continue reading
Step-By-Step: Building a Hyper-V Lab in Azure with Windows Server 2019
I was recently challenged with having to create technical demos for a Microsoft Ignite the tour session called “Migrating to Windows Server 2019” (watch the recording here - awesome session). The demos for this talk centered around taking a bunch ... continue reading
BitLocker, Intune, and Raven
Hello Paul Bergson, back again with another story about my dog Raven. From time to time we get a visit from a family member and they will bring their dog along, problem is we have never socialized Raven with other ... continue reading

What’s new with SQL Server 2019 Linux features
With SQL Server 2017, Microsoft entered the world of multi-OS platform support for SQL Server. For many technical professionals, the ability to run SQL Server on the same open source operating system as the rest of the application stack is ... continue reading
Premier Offerings: Onboarding Accelerator – Implementing Microsoft Intune Features
As a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, I run into numerous instances where our customers have raised the need for them to have greater control and flexibility in using the Microsoft Premier Services. More and more customers are demanding greater ... continue reading
How to configure persistent memory for SQL Server on Linux
With the release of SQL Server 2019 on Linux, Microsoft introduced persistent memory (PMEM) support on Linux. This is an exciting development, as previous versions of SQL Server on Linux didn't support PMEM. Let's look at how to configure the ... continue reading

Microsoft Security—a Leader in 5 Gartner Magic Quadrants
Gartner has named Microsoft Security a Leader in five Magic Quadrants. This is exciting news that we believe speaks to the breadth and depth of our security offerings. Gartner places vendors as Leaders who demonstrate balanced progress and effort in ... continue reading
Survey for NetApp FAS customers
Heya folks, Ned here again. We have a quick survey for all our customers who use NetApp FAS. Https://aka.ms/NASurvey It will take just a minute and is completely anonymous. We hope you can provide a little info on how you ... continue reading
Step-by-Step: Managing Groups via Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module
In my previous blog post, I explained how we can manage Azure AD users by using Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module. In there I also shared many examples. You can access it via https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ITOps-Talk-Blog/Step-by-Step-Managing-Users-via-the-Azure-Act... In this blog post ... continue reading

Achieve operational excellence in the cloud with Azure Advisor
Many customers have questions when it comes to managing cloud operations. How can I implement real-time cloud governance at scale? What’s the best way to monitor my cloud workloads? How can I get help when I need it? Azure offers ... continue reading

Enabling collaborative bot development across your organization for any user
This post was co-authored by Omar Aftab, Partner Director of Program Management, Power Virtual Agents. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling organizations to improve their business in areas like customer service and employee engagement by automating some of the most ... continue reading
Premier Offerings: System Center Configuration Manager and Intune Power BI Dashboard Integration
Introduction As SCCM Engineers we have all been asked at some stage about custom dashboards and reports that are available or that can be created to monitor the SCCM environment, check the status of client activity, client health, deployments or ... continue reading

Spear phishing campaigns—they’re sharper than you think
Even your most security-savvy users may have difficulty identifying honed spear phishing campaigns. Unlike traditional phishing campaigns that are blasted to a large email list in hopes that just one person will bite, advanced spear phishing campaigns are highly targeted ... continue reading

Faster and cheaper: SQL on Azure continues to outshine AWS
Over a million on-premises SQL Server databases have moved to Azure, representing a massive shift in where customers are collecting, storing, and analyzing their data. Modernizing your databases provides the opportunity to transform your data architecture. SQL Server on Azure ... continue reading
How to use Azure Ultra Disks with Azure Virtual Machines
Aung Oo joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Azure Ultra Disks. Ultra Disk is a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container ... continue reading
How to share SQL tables and views using Azure Data Share
Jie Feng joins Scott Hanselman to show how to share SQL tables and views using Azure Data Share. Azure Data Share now supports snapshot-based sharing for SQL-based sources, including Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. Data Providers can use ... continue reading
PowerShell Basics: How to Manage Azure Resources via PowerShell
PowerShell automation can be powerful when harnessed correctly. Whats more is that its capabilities can expand well beyond on-premises. To get started on this journey, this post will look at how to manage Azure Resources via PowerShell to further our ... continue reading
Windows 10 IOT updates fail at reboot with “Reverting changes”…Why can’t it just be easy?
Let me answer the question from the title before we get started, nothing is ever as simple as you think it is going to be. In a large organization there are usually lots of different environmental factors that can impact ... continue reading

Use Azure Automation to Install and Configure the Log Analytics Extension
Hello, Chris Wallen here and in this post, I'm going to show how you can use an Azure Automation runbook to deploy and configure the Log Analytics extension to a group of virtual machines running either Windows or Linux. Before ... continue reading

Gartner Names Microsoft a Leader in the 2019 Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) Magic Quadrant
We often hear from customers about the explosion of data, and the challenge this presents for organizations in remaining compliant and protecting their information. We’ve invested in capabilities across the landscape of information protection and information governance, inclusive of archiving, ... continue reading

Insights from one year of tracking a polymorphic threat
A little over a year ago, in October 2018, our polymorphic outbreak monitoring system detected a large surge in reports, indicating that a large-scale campaign was unfolding. We observed as the new threat attempted to deploy files that changed every ... continue reading
Managing security with Azure Lighthouse and Azure Arc
I've previously blogged about Azure Lighthouse, for managing multiple difference Azure tenancies. This capability is useful for both Managed Service Providers, with support arrangements for multiple customers, and for large or complex Enterprise organizations (for example, if there are sub-brands ... continue reading
A year of bringing AI to the edge
This post is co-authored by Anny Dow, Product Marketing Manager, Azure Cognitive Services. In an age where low-latency and data security can be the lifeblood of an organization, containers make it possible for enterprises to meet these needs when harnessing ... continue reading