Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup – October 13, 2017
Check out this week’s issue of Weekly Roundup for an at a glance view of hot topics and conversations.
Table of Contents
- Product News Discussions
- Handy Resources
- Interesting Perspectives
- Upcoming Events
- Featured Group
- Member of the Week
PRODUCT NEWS DISCUSSIONS
Beautifully useful: Introducing a new look for OneDrive
On October 9, 2017, Microsoft announced a new OneDrive experience across web and mobile that makes finding what’s important to you easier, while keeping you better up to date with what is going on with your files.Join the conversation in the OneDrive for Business space.
Announcing Azure Files share snapshots public preview
On October 9, 2017, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Files share snapshot. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.
.NET: Manage availability zones and more
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft announced release 1.3 of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.
GA of Customer Key in Office 365 at Ignite
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft announced general availability of Customer Key in Office 365. Join the conversation in the Security, Privacy & Compliance space.
Introducing the IT Roadmap planning tool preview
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft announced a new tool called IT Roadmap for Microsoft 365. Join the conversation in the IT Resources & Training space.
Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database ranked #1 Database as a Service for developer satisfaction
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft announced Azure SQL Database was announced the winner in the category of Database as a Service (DBaaS) developer satisfaction, with two first runner-up awards for developer training and engagement at SlashData’s Future Developer Summit. Join the conversation in the Azure Data & Storage space.
Announcing support for X.509 CA on Azure IoT Hub
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft announced support for X.509 Certificates Authorities on Azure IoT Hub. Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space.
Monitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft announced that Azure IoT Hub is now fully integrated withAzure MonitorandAzure Resource Healthto provide you with rich, frequent data about the operations of your Azure IoT Hub, and diagnose problems quickly.Join the conversation in the Azure IoT space.
Quarterly Microsoft Azure SOC reports: Compliance at warp speed
On October 10, 2017, Microsoft published six new Service Organizational Control (SOC) reports. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.
Send your Azure alerts to ITSM tools using Action Groups
On October 11, 2017, Microsoft announced new integration capabilities to Azure alerts through the ITSM Action. Join the conversation in the Azure Log Analytics space.
ADAL.NET 3.17.0 released
On October 11, 2017, Microsoft announced version 3.17.0 of ADAL.NET. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.
Announcing Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL availability in Canada and Brazil
On October 11, 2017, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in Canada (Central and East) and Brazil (Brazil South) data centers. Join the conversation in the Azure Data & Storage space.
Take your Sway wherever you go with Print and Export
On October 12, 2017, Microsoft announced that you can now easily print a Sway orexport it as a Word or PDF document. Join the conversation in the Sway space.
HANDY RESOURCES
Relive the moments: Microsoft Ignite highlights for SharePoint, Office, AI, and more!
In case you missed some Microsoft Ignite coverage—or you just want to refresh your memory—we’ve prepped this roundup to bring you the best of Microsoft Ignite.
Better Together: Microsoft Teams & PowerApps – End to End Productivity in the Cloud
Whenever I speakto customers I am usuallynot discussing just one part of Office 365. There is power in integrating the capabilities together, rather than using them individually. This is the strong suit of the entire Office 365 suite and often we don't talk enough about it. With the advent of Microsoft Teams we have an opportunity to pull these capabilities together into one seamless experience that will make people more productive.Knowing this, imagine how excited I was whenAudrie Gordonfrom the PowerApps team joined me on my showCoffee in the Cloudto show an integration of many of the major components of Office 365. Her team is using this solution to produce video content for her PowerApps community. She uses Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, PowerApps and PowerBI. Wow! What I loved most was this is using out of the box components that most Office 365 users have access to. No special code or admin rights are required to replicate this tool.
Point-to-Site (P2S) connection using OpenVPN infrastructure
One question that we are frequently asked is to establish a Point-to-Site (P2S) connection from a client computer based on a Unix-like operating system (like Linux and FreeBSD) and the Virtual Network (VNet) on Azure with the objective to manage their Virtual Machine deployed on cloud. In this article we want to illustrate a custom solution for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployment model that addresses this request and, for which, we have provided asample codethat automates the setup of the architecture on Azure.
Office 365 Groups at Microsoft Ignite
Last month atMicrosoft Ignitein Orlando, we spent five action-packed days with customers, hearing about their Office 365 Groups journey and answering their questions. Office 365 Groups is the membership service providing a single identity for teams across Office applications and services.
How Azure Security Center uses machine learning to enable adaptive application control
While the threat landscape has changed dramatically over the last several years, malware detection continues to be one of the biggest issues. There is an endless race - attackers develop new malware, security vendors create new signatures to detect it, a new variant of the malware is created to avoid detection, and the cycle continues. Malware is not the only type of application that can expose a server to risk. Unauthorized software can introduce vulnerabilities that are exploited by attackers. Most organizations lack the necessary application tracking and controls, leaving them blind to these risks.
Eugene Lin on making sharing and collaboration easier
Our final Ignite video is with Eugene Lin, Principal Program Manager responsible for the OneDrive/SharePoint sharing model across Office 365. In his session, Eugene gives us aninsider's look at the sharing model for OneDrive and SharePoint, with explanations of all the external sharing options available and when to use them.Make sure to check out his session,Enable external sharing and collaboration with OneDrive and SharePointfor more details on all the new functionality rolling out to OneDrive over the next few weeks as well as how to lock down and manage sharing.
How Azure Security Center unveils suspicious PowerShell attack
In honor ofNational Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM),we have a new post in our series highlighting real-world attacks that Azure Security Center helped detect, investigate, and mitigate. This post is about an attack which used PowerShell to run malicious code and collect user credentials.
Hardening Azure Analysis Services with the new firewall capability
Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) is designed with security in mind and takes advantage of the security features available on the Azure platform. For example, integration with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides a solid foundation for access control. Any user creating, managing, or connecting to an Azure Analysis Services server must have a valid Azure AD user identity. Object-level security within a model enables you to define permissions at the table, row, and column levels. Moreover, Azure AS uses encryption to help safeguard data at rest and in transit within the local data center, across data centers, between data centers and on-premises networks, as well as across public Internet connections. The combination of Transport Layer Security (TLS), Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), and RSA-based 2,048-bit encryption keys provides strong protection against would-be eavesdroppers.
Microsoft Cognitive Services – How Content Moderator helps to boost online safety
Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications and enhance their ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication. Think about the possibilities: being able to add vision and speech recognition, emotion and sentiment detection, language understanding, and search, to applications without having any data science expertise.
Put your databases on autopilot with a list and shift to Azure
The sheer volume of data generated today and the number of apps and databases across enterprises is staggering. To stay competitive and get ahead in today’s marketplace, IT organizations are always looking at ways to optimize how they maintain and use the data that drives their operations. Faced with constant demands for more scale and reliability amid the ongoing threat of cybersecurity attacks, IT organizations can quickly stretch their staffing and infrastructure to the breaking point. In addition to these operational issues, businesses need to look at how to best harness their data to build better apps and fuel future growth. Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to automate basic database administration tasks, from daily management to performance optimization with best in class AI-driven intelligent PaaS capabilities. Azure SQL Database is the perfect choice to deliver the right mix of operational efficiencies, optimized for performance and cost, enabling you to focus on business enablement to accelerate growth and innovation.
Unifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service
We’ve seen an increase in container workloads running in production environments and a new wave of tooling that’s cropped up around container deployments. Microsoft Azure has a number of different partners in the container space and today we’re featuring a new product from Sysdig.Sysdig Secure, run-time container securityand forensics.
Understanding UserVoice- An interview with Jason Moore
Our deep dive with our engineering team continues with Group Program Manager Jason Moore. Many of you saw Jason and I in ourOneDrive- Past, Present and Futuresession. In the past year, we have released over 100 new features and functionality to OneDrive and 47 of them, came from you via our UserVoice channel. Here from Jason how we approach UserVoice and making the hard decisions on what is next for engineering and OneDrive.
Free Webcast – Global Workforce: The new culture of work
“I consider myself a student of history. I don’t know of a time in the developed world, ever, where something as critical to the functioning of business has been owned completely by the youth – that being technology [today],” says Cam Marston, President, Generational Insights. Generational differences and biases around technology skills are just a couple of the challenges in today’s new culture of work. So how do organizations manage this divide between generations, cultures, and geographies? Watch this month’s Modern Workplace episode, “Global Workforce: The New Culture of Work” to see Marston and Kelly Joscelyne, Chief Talent Officer at Mastercard, discuss their strategies.
Free Webcast – Microsoft 365 Enterprise
The workplace is transforming - from changing employee expectations, to more diverse and globally distributed teams, to an increasingly complex threat landscape. From these trends, we are seeing a new culture of work emerging. Our customers are telling us they are looking to empower their people with innovative technology to embrace this modern culture of work.WatchMicrosoft 365 Enterprise: Empower your employees to learn how Microsoft 365 delivers a complete, intelligent, and secure solution to empower employees. Microsoft 365 brings together Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security.
Access Recap from Ignite 2017
Microsoft Ignite 2017 - what an amazing time! During this weeklong event at the end of September, Juan Soto (Access MVP) and Michal Bar from the Access product team had the pleasure of meeting Access customers and developers from all around the world, discussing Access and answering questions.
INTERESTING PERSPECTIVES
Anyone else’s top link bar in Modern experience disappear?
Contributor Matt Coats reported his tenant no longer had access to the Top Link Bar in his SharePoint sites while using the Modern experience. Others confirmed it was a bug and Microsoft employee Sam Larson confirmed a fix.
Will a membership update in Office 365 groups guarantee access to Microsoft Teams as well?
It was asked, given that Microsoft Teams is officially backed up by Office 365 groups, if a user is added to Office 365 group that’s part of a Team, will that give him access to the Team as well in Microsoft Teams? Several people responded explaining and confirming this was the case.
Anxious to see more
There was new activity on this thread where Microsoft employee Polly Davidson offered answers to some questions involving roadmap around Microsoft To-Do and Wunderlist.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Windows Server Management (Project Honolulu) AMA
Do you have questions about Windows Server Management (Project Honolulu)? On October 17th, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT, there will be an opportunity to ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) in the Windows Server space.
Co-management with Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager
Do you have questions about co-management with Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager? On October 19th, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT, there will be an opportunity to ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) in the Windows Server space.
Announcing the October Office International Sway Contest
From October 12th to October 26th the Office International team are running a contest in search of the top language issues on localized versions of Sway. We are giving away a $100 Amazon voucher to the top three contributors in three categories:Highest creation of new, original posts, Best new, original post, New, original post with largest international impact.
FEATURED SPACE
Microsoft Ignite
We’re continuing to add session content, so check out our community!
MEMBER OF THE WEEK
Bryant Boyer
A member since April 2017, Bryant has offered great content and contributions primarily in the Excel space. Thanks for being a member of the community, Bryant!