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Introducing a New Flexible Way of Bringing Identities from Any Source into Microsoft Entra ID!

Introducing a New Flexible Way of Bringing Identities from Any Source into Microsoft Entra ID!

Hello everyone, I'm thrilled to announce that Microsoft Entra API-driven provisioning is now in public preview! With today’s announcement, we’re expanding our support for HR-driven provisioning to address the most common customer asks, including:  Automatically provisioning cloud-only users and hybrid users (users ... continue reading
BlackByte 2.0 ransomware attack chain by order of stages: initial access and privilege escalation, persistence and command and control, reconnaissance, credential access, lateral movement, data staging and exfiltration, and impact.

The five-day job: A BlackByte ransomware intrusion case study

As ransomware attacks continue to grow in number and sophistication, threat actors can quickly impact business operations if organizations are not well prepared. In a recent investigation by Microsoft Incident Response (previously known as Microsoft Detection and Response Team – ... continue reading
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Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI

Today’s world is awash with data—ever-streaming from the devices we use, the applications we build, and the interactions we have. Organizations across every industry have harnessed this data to digitally transform and gain competitive advantages. And now, as we enter ... continue reading
A blue screen with three panels titled Databases, Insights and Governance highlighting the three product suites making up the intelligent data platform. Under Databases is SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, under Insights is Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and Databricks, and Under Governance is Microsoft Purview.

Gain Deeper Insights with Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

Data is foundational to any digital transformation strategy, yet many organizations struggle to understand what data they have, how to extract insights from it, and how to govern it—according to a 2022 Evanta survey1, over half of Chief Data Officers ... continue reading

5 reasons Databricks runs best on Azure

For any organization running big data workloads in the cloud, exceptional scale, performance, and optimization are essential. Databricks customers have multiple choices for their cloud destination. Azure Databricks is the only first-party service offering for Databricks, which provides customers with ... continue reading
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Around the clock with Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory

On February 3-4, the Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory teams are partnering on a learning event for the community to come together to learn about Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory, meet the engineering teams behind these services, and ... continue reading
Azure Advisor: Meet your personalized cloud consultant service

Azure Advisor: Meet your personalized cloud consultant service

Does 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 ... continue reading
How to use Azure Data Box for Migrations

How to use Azure Data Box for Migrations

Data is something we all have, at home I have about 2TB of data stored on various hard drives, some of it’s duplicated, some of its backups, some of its super important while the rest is just random stuff I ... continue reading

Azure HDInsight and Azure Database for PostgreSQL news

I’ve been committed to open source software for over a decade because it fosters a deep collaboration across the developer community, resulting in ground-breaking innovation. At the heart of open source is the freedom to learn from each other and ... continue reading
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Integrate Microsoft cloud services with your Azure SQL Database managed instance

When you migrate your SQL Server data estate to Azure SQL Database managed instance, what you get is not just a good old SQL Server, secured and enriched with the newest features, and without a burden of managing backups, patching, ... continue reading