Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of infrastructure management, the demand for efficient, scalable, and reliable solutions has never been higher. As organizations increasingly embrace cloud-native architectures and adopt Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, the role of infrastructure professionals has expanded, presenting new challenges in the development and maintenance of infrastructure configurations.   The Challenges Faced by Infrastructure Professionals Complexity of IaC: Managing infrastructure through code introduces a layer of complexity. Infrastructure profe ..read more

The domain name code.microsoft.com has an interesting story behind it. Today it’s not linked to anything but that wasn’t always true. This is the story of one of my most successful honeypot instances and how it enabled Microsoft to collect varied threat intelligence against a broad range of actor groups targeting Microsoft. I’m writing this now as we’ve decided to retire this capability.   In the past the domain ‘code.microsoft.com’ was an early domain used to host Visual Studio Code and some helpful documentation. The domain was active until around 2021, when this documentation was moved ..read more

Introduction As generative AI's adoption rapidly expands across various industries, integrating it into products, services, and operations becomes increasingly commonplace. However, it's crucial to address the environmental implications of such advancements, including their energy consumption, carbon footprint, water usage, and electronic waste, throughout the generative AI lifecycle. This lifecycle, often referred to as large language model operations (LLMOps), encompasses everything from model development and training to deployment and ongoing maintenance, all of which demand diligent resour ..read more

Very often, Solution Providers have enterprise scenarios for deploying ML pipelines, where involves multiple tenants and each tenant may have their own Azure subscription. There are some situations when designing the enterprise solution, for example: Each tenant may want to keep their own data non-shared. Each tenant has their own computing and hosting environment for ML training, retraining, and inferencing. Each tenant may have different needs for retraining, with different scheduling, using different data sets. Even for the same ML algorithm, each tenant may use different parameters. The w ..read more

We are pleased to announce the security review for Microsoft Edge, version 124!   We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 124 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 117 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit.   Microsoft Edge version 124 introduced 14 new computer settings and 14 new user settings. We have included a spreadsheet listing the new settings in the release to make it easier for ..read more

On April 23rd, the Viva People Science team hosted the third webinar in the 'Think like a People Scientist' series. The topic was how to influence internal stakeholders without formal authority, including executives, HR colleagues, managers, and employees.     Joe Dunn and Beth Demko, both People Scientists on our Viva team, shared resources and frameworks for influencing different stakeholders at various stages of the Glint process. They discussed common obstacles, as well as tips for overcoming them during survey design, survey administration, reporting, action taking, and rei ..read more

Greetings Nonprofit leaders! Microsoft Philanthropies would like to invite you all to participate in a new and fun way to get involved with AI!    So many organizations have expressed interest in AI yet are hesitant on where to start or how to use it. In efforts to get you familiar with AI, I invite you to head over to Microsoft Designer and challenge you to create any 3D illustration you’d like that represents you and your organization.     For example, our team challenged each other to design a 3D illustration of ourselves doing something we love. Below is an example ..read more

We are kicking off our Viva Glint Cohort program! Whether you are a customer new to Viva Glint, migrated to Viva Glint, or soon to be migrating – all are welcome! The purpose of this program is to foster a collaborative learning environment where you can share knowledge, experiences, and challenges with other Viva users of a shared interest.  These opportunities will help you learn how other companies like you are developing their listening programs and how they are using Viva to solve organizational and industry challenges. We have created an online space for you to collaborate, and ..read more

Introduction   When you use Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint, the data will commonly be visualized in Power BI.   Once you get the data in Power BI, you will find that creating additional custom or calculated columns can be very helpful. They will help you with your visualizations and enable additional ways to pivot the data.   How to Create a Custom Column   Creating a new custom or calculated column in Power BI is fairly easy. When editing a dashboard, you go to the Data column on the left and click the ellipsis (…) on the top line (name of the query) and selec ..read more

Dear Users,   We will be updating the Lab Account service on May 24th, 2024, from 1PM to 11PM UTC. During this time, please expect downtime affecting common operations. The service will be fully operational after the updates are applied.   We'll promptly remove the maintenance banner upon completion of the maintenance task. Your patience and cooperation are highly appreciated.    - Lab Services team ..read more