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- Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
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Enhancing Security and Scalability with Reusable Workflows in GitHub and Pipeline Templates in Azure
Introduction In the world of modern software development, efficiency, security, and scalability are paramount. Leveraging template workflows and reusable workflows in CI/CD pipelines can significantly enhance these aspects. This blog explores the security and scalability benefits of using template and reusable workflows in both GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
How to Check the status of Local Authentication in Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer)
Need to check if local authentication is disabled for Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer)? We have two options to enable the authentication as per the documentation found on Microsoft Learn: Quickstart: Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer) Studio - Azure AI services | Microsoft .... After enabling authentication, you'll need to test and verify which types are active.
New Login Experience for Azure Subscriptions with az login
Introduction If you have multiple Azure subscriptions, you might have experienced the frustration of logging into the wrong one with the az login command. This can cause errors and confusion when you try to run commands or access resources in the wrong subscription. Fortunately, there is a new login experience that makes it easier to select the right subscription. This feature was announced at the Build 2024 conference and is available in version v2.61.0 of the Azure CLI.
Building Intelligent Apps with Azure Cache for Redis, EntraID, Azure Functions, E1 SKU, and more!
We're excited to announce the latest updates to Azure Cache for Redis that will improve your data management and application performance as we kickoff for Microsoft Build 2024. Coming soon, the Enterprise E1 SKU (Preview) will offer a lower entry price, Redis modules, and enterprise-grade features. The Azure Function Triggers and Bindings for Redis are now in general availability, simplifying your workflow with seamless integration.
Microsoft Build 2024: Essential Guide for AI Developers at Startups and Cloud-Native Companies
Microsoft Build 2024 starts May 21st. Register now to attend virtually. Microsoft Build, the annual conference where developers can dive deep into the latest Microsoft technologies, kicks off May 21st. Generative AI is rapidly evolving. Take for example, the recent launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
Azure Custom Policy- PostgreSQL Product - Compliance Report not Available- New Feature Request
If you try to create custom policy to add diagnostic settings for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Cluster for log analytics and assign policy at subscription level, you will find that compliance report says "no resources found" even if you have deployed resources under same subscription Below is the screenshot of resources deployed in subscription: Custom Policy is Assigned at Subscription Level: Here in Below Screenshot, Compliance Report says "no resources": A read operation should be...
Get Certified with GitHub
GitHub and Microsoft are helping you to boost your tech career with the Get Certified with GitHub livestream series! Starts from June 5th until June 26th. These sessions are designed to help you get certified on the GitHub Foundation Certification and to help you explore essential tools like GitHub Copilot and GitHub Codespaces.
Troubleshooting Common Custom Policy Issues in Policy Development
We develop Azure Custom Policies when we need flexibility and advanced capabilities which cannot be achieved by existing built- in policies provided by Azure. We can add multiple custom policies for any Azure Product which can be modified and changed at any point of time. In summary, Azure custom policies provide a powerful and flexible framework to design tailored identity experiences, integrate with external systems, and meet advanced security and compliance requirements.
How to use Comments as Prompts in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can run in various environments and help you be more efficient in your daily coding tasks. In this new series of content, we will show you how GitHub Copilot works in Visual Studio specifically and how it helps you being more productive. In the second short video in this series, my colleague Bruno Capuano will use comments to trigger GitHub Copilot to generate code directly inline in the current file.
How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can run in various environments and help you be more efficient in your daily coding tasks. In this new series of content, we will show you how GitHub Copilot works in Visual Studio specifically and how it helps you being more productive. In the first short video in this series, my colleague Bruno Capuano shows you how you can install GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat for Visual Studio.
How to Get Started with Copilot in Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse is a a scalable cloud database and data service as a result users can define workflows and business rules while still having access to security and data management capabilities. Furthermore, Dataverse facilitates appropriate data modelling by creating relationships between related tables.
Step-by-Step: Creating Customized Applications with Power Virtual Agent to Empower Your Business
Introduction Today's world is driven by data, which demands comprehensive solutions that can access and integrate data across multiple platforms. The Power Platform meets this demand by enabling users to bring their own data into the system with Power Virtual Agent. This feature allows enterprise users to connect their data to Power Apps and Power Pages, improving business productivity and functionality.
Microsoft Resources for Startups, Students and Developers at GitHub Universe 2023
GitHub Universe 2023 starts today focusing on enabling developers, enterprise leaders, and security professionals through two days of expert sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities. Opportunities to learn about harnessing AI as a paired programmer, applying AI to application security, and enhancing the overall developer experience will be discussed and shared throughout the conference.
Eraser: Clean Slate for your Kubernetes Nodes
In today's fast-paced world of containerized applications, Kubernetes has emerged as the cornerstone for orchestrating and managing containers. However, to keep your Kubernetes clusters secure, efficient, and primed for success, it's crucial to maintain clean and clutter-free nodes.
Announcing GitHub Universe Cloud Skills Challenge!
GitHub is the home for all developers—a platform where you can share your work with the world, fork projects, collaborate with others, and create your own software. Codespaces and GitHub Copilot set the stage for a new era of developer productivity, enabling you to focus on what matters most: your code.
Tips and Tricks to Bring Your AI Idea to Life - a new Reactor show
Artificial Intelligence is advancing at an astonishing pace, poised to transform our daily lives in ways we can hardly imagine. Do you have a brilliant idea for an AI project? Are you eager to turn that vision into a reality?
¿Cómo configurar GitHub Copilot Chat en VS Code?
Antes de comenzar a configurar Copilot Chat, es importante comprender todo el potencial de esta poderosa herramienta. Copilot Chat es una innovadora solución de programación en pareja (paired programming) impulsada por Inteligencia Artificial, que aprovecha las capacidades de GPT-4 de OpenAI, diseñada específicamente para servir como una interfaz de usuario conversacional.
Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge
Aprende y desarrolla habilidades esenciales de IA con el Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge al completar cualquiera de las cuatro colecciones únicas en Microsoft Learn. Únete a la vibrante comunidad técnica en tu región local, asiste a sesiones en vivo y construye una red sólida mientras avanzas en los desafíos. A medida que avanzas en los desafíos, tendrás la oportunidad de explorar experiencias adicionales adaptadas a tus preferencias y objetivos de aprendizaje.
Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge
Learn and develop essential AI skills with the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge Sign up for the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge and you'll get a head start on immersive and curated AI training content across Microsoft products and services, as well as four awesome AI-themed challenges. Whether you're just starting out or looking to change careers, this program will teach you the essentials of AI, Machine Learning, MLOps, and Cognitive Services.
Step-by-Step: How to Setup Copilot Chat in VS Code
Before we dive into the step-by-step instructions for setting up Copilot Chat, it's important to understand the full potential of this powerful tool. Copilot Chat is an innovative AI-powered paired programing solution, leveraging the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4, specifically designed to serve as a conversational user interface. With its natural language processing abilities, Copilot Chat enhances your coding experience by providing a personalized and flexible environment.
How to Build a World Cup Tournament Tracker with Microsoft Power Platform
Microsoft Power Platform is a line of business intelligence, app development, and app connectivity for software applications. It is a whole ecosystem that depends on its constituent applications to build solutions. Power Platform is a so-called low code platform, which means that the apps can be used by business users without extensive knowledge of code. Power Platform is a system that allows users to perform three key actions on data: Build, Automate, and Analyze.
Azure DevOps for Beginners: How to Set Up Your Account, Organization, and Repository
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Explore Innovative Technologies with Microsoft Reactor's Post Student Summit Event Series
About the series Microsoft Student Summit was a free global event held virtually in several regions and languages last March, designed for developers wishing to acquire new technical skills and join an inclusive community of like-minded people. If you missed it, don't worry, you can still watch it on demand. However, the Student Summit was not only a moment in time. It was only the beginning of a learning journey with Microsoft Reactor.
How to Detect Duplicate Files on your Computer via PowerShell
File management might be tedious, but it is sometimes required, especially when storage space is limited. PowerShell is an excellent tool for automating most activities, and identifying duplicate files on your computer is an excellent application of the tool. The script below will detect and report (rather than delete) all files in the directory and subdirectories, group them by size, filter out groups with only one file, and report on the duplicate files with their full path and creation time.
Managing Workflows with the GitHub Actions Extension for VS Code
If you're a developer, you've probably heard of GitHub, one of the most widely used sites for hosting and sharing source code. Have you ever heard of GitHub Actions? This amazing tool enables you to automate your workflow and make it more effective than ever before. Taking advantage of this cutting-edge technology is already simple, but the new GitHub Actions addon for VS Code makes it even more so. What are GitHub Actions?
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Microsoft Resources for Teachers at SIGCSE 2023
As technology continues to have an important role in education, educators have asked for help in staying current on the latest developments and resources in order to provide their students with the best tools and platforms available. The Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) conference brings together educators from K-12 to college and university to discuss the most recent research, developments, and best practices in computer science education.
How to Delete Microsoft Teams Cache for All Users via PowerShell
For many in education, Microsoft Teams is the collaboration platform that allows students and educators to chat, share files, and collaborate on projects. Like many apps, Microsoft Teams uses cache to store temporary data, such as chat history and files. While the cache is useful for improving performance, it can also become cluttered over time and slow down the app.
Re: Step-By-Step: How to Create a Windows 11 VM on Hyper-V via PowerShell
As mentioned previously, Hyper-V is a virtualization technology that is not only useful for developers and IT administrators, but also for students. Using Hyper-V, students can install multiple operating systems and applications on a single physical machine. In a previous blog post, we covered steps to enable Hyper-V in Windows 11 via the Graphic User Interface (GUI). However, as many pointed out, there is a quicker way to accomplish this.
How to Secure an IoT Solution: A Beginner's Guide
IoT security solution design is a crucial undertaking that needs to be approached from all angles. Due to the variety and diversity of device-based security risks that IoT solutions are susceptible to, it is essential to make sure that security is included in the solution from the beginning. The security of the IoT solution throughout its lifecycle must be ensured by collaboration between IoT solution developers, operators, and device manufacturers.
Step-By-Step: Enabling Hyper-V for Use on Windows 11
Hyper-V is a virtualization technology that is as valuable to college and university students as it is to developers and system administrators. Students can run many operating systems and apps on a single physical machine using Hyper-V virtual machines. This can be especially useful for computer science and engineering students who need to experiment with various software environments and coding projects.
GitHub Copilot Update: New AI Model That Also Filters Out Security Vulnerabilities
Artificial intelligence (AI) is put to good use in GitHub Copilot, a powerful Visual Studio Code extension that offers real-time code suggestions to coders. GitHub Copilot has been evolving and growing in quality ever since its release, and it now features an enhanced AI model, a new vulnerability filtering system to detect insecure coding patterns and additional functionalities.
How to Build an AI-Powered Developer Newsletter with Power Platform and ChatGPT3
The recent developments with AI have presented several opportunities for developers to build intelligent solutions. How can rising developers take positive advantage of this with the help of Power Platform? You are a rising developer working for a specific company or part of developer/student community that constantly works with new trends and technologies.
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Step-by-Step: How to Configure a Private Endpoint to Secure Azure Static Web Apps
Securing your web apps is essential in today's digital landscape. One method is to use a private endpoint, also known as a private link, in Azure Static Web Apps. This feature enables developers to connect network isolated backends to Azure Static Web Apps resources for increased security and seamless routing. In this blog post, we'll go through how to set up a private endpoint in Azure Static Web Apps and the advantages it has for keeping your web apps secure.
Zero Trust Machine Learning Security Solution Considerations
Machine Learning solutions have the potential to revolutionize industries and improve daily life, but it also exposes a new type of attack surface for cybercriminals. As machine learning becomes increasingly widespread in crucial domains like healthcare, banking, and security systems, it is critical for teams to examine the security risks and mitigations for Machine Learning solutions in advance.
Implementing Zero Trust: A Guide to Securing Your Data
Data protection is a critical role for security and compliance teams, and it is essential to make sure that data is secure at all times, including when it is at rest, in use, and when it leaves the organization's control. In this blog post, we will go through the three main components of a data protection plan as well as the initial deployment goals for establishing a Zero Trust approach to data security. Know your data This is the first step in safeguarding data with Zero Trust.
What is Zero Trust and is it the Future of Cybersecurity?
Zero Trust is a security concept that questions the traditional perimeter-based security architecture. Instead of trusting that all resources within an organization's firewall are secure, Zero Trust assumes that all access requests, regardless of origin or destination, should be considered as originating from an untrusted network.
Re: How to Manage Containers with Windows Admin Center
As a Windows admin you know that managing containers is not as easy as managing VMs. Using PowerShell commands, writing docker files, and so on can be a daunting process - specially if you just want to containerize an existing application.
Azure Static Web Apps Community Standup: Create a RAG App with App Spaces
At the last Azure Static Web Apps Community Standup through theYoutube - Microsoft Azure Developerschannel, it was demonstrated how to create a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application usingAzure Static Web AppsandApp Spaces. The event was led byDheeraj Bandaru, who is Product Manager of Azure Static Web Apps at Microsoft. Dheeraj was joined bySkyler Hardle, who is Senior Manager of Apps Spaces at Microsoft.
What is GitHub Codespaces and how can Students access them for free?
GitHub Codespaces are a hosted developer environment operating in the cloud that can be run with Visual Studio Code. You can customize the development experience for any development project on GitHub, pre-installing dependencies, libraries, and even Visual Studio Code extensions and settings. You can also select the type of virtual machine you wish to utilize based on the resources you require. There are several models available, starting with a 2-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, and 32 GB of storage.
How to display Azure Monitor alerts with smart lights and no code
Jun 22 2021 02:57 AM Ever since IT Pros started building servers, we’ve been monitoring them – Are they operational? Are they responsive? Are they running out of disk space? The challenge is ... who is monitoring the monitoring? While it’s common to send notifications to email, automatically create a helpdesk service ticket or even post an alert in a Microsoft Teams channel, I have to watch those other systems to know if a monitoring alert has fired (activated).
Am I billed for an Azure Virtual Machine if I shut it down?
Jun 17 2021 03:00 AM Come to the cloud, it has consumption-based billing! But what does that mean, exactly? Is my virtual machine free if it is shut down? Let's explore the billing components of an Azure Virtual Machine. Resources in Azure all have particular cost meters and charging methods. Each product page details what those are. For consumption-based billing, you need to broaden your perception of what the word "consumption" means.
How to move your resources across regions and into Availability Zones using Azure Resource Mover
Jun 08 2021 12:01 AM Azure always provides customers choice to select the region that best suits their needs. With the new service Azure Resource Mover, customers now have a platform level capability that allows them to move to new regions across the globe and expand their resiliency options by moving their resources into Azure Availability Zones.
Deep dive: Logging on to Windows
Jun 07 2021 03:00 AM Logging on to your computer is certainly faster than it used to be, yet there are a bunch of technical steps that happen in the background. At our ITOps Talk: All things hybrid event, senior developer Steve Syfuhs took us through the details, including access to cloud resources.
AzUpdate: Azure VM Cross Region Restore, Azure Firewall Premium and more
Feb 19 2021 12:01 AM Just under two weeks before MS Ignite but the news keeps on coming. This week's news includes Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available, Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview, Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available, Azure Machine Learning updates for native terminal is now generally available and as always, the Microsoft Learn Module of the Week.
AzUpdate: Azure File Shares Soft Delete, Azure Edge on the International Space Station and more
Between ITOpsTalks: All Things Hybrid and the upcoming Microsoft Ignite, the news just keeps on coming. Here's what the team is covering this week: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts, Create and run jobs in your Azure IoT Central application, Public Preview of Power BI embedded generation 2, Connecting Azure to the International Space Station with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and as always our Microsoft Learn Module of the week.
Mount Blob storage on Linux VM NFS 3.0
Hello Folks! Not so long ago I was working on an internal project that required me to deploy Linux VMs that were hosting a workload that saved a copy of any number of video live feeds to blob storage for safeguard and for future replays. I also needed it to be mounted automatically when the VM was created. I know that are several ways to map storage in a VM.
OPS105: Virtualized and Hybrid Backup Deep Dive
Feb 02 2021 08:30 AM Ben Armstrong explains the challenges and evolution of backups, from Windows Server to Hyper-V, Azure and Containers. Speaker: Ben Armstrong, Principal Program Manager Lead This session includes: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 Where's my data?
OPS101: Securing your Hybrid environment - Part 1 - Azure Security Center
Now more than ever, organizations are challenged with keeping their employees productive working remotely and interacting with their customers over digital channels. At the same time there has been an increase in evolving digital security threats as bad actors recognize an opportunity to disrupt your business. Moreover, security resources are stretched, and prioritization is important.
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