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Microsoft Tech Community -
November 13th 2020 Weekly
Roundup
Table of Contents
• Product News
• Related Announcements
• Handy Resources
• Interesting Perspectives
• Upcoming Events
• Featured Groups• Member of the Week Product News New Sentry Connector for Microsoft Teams Millions of people use Microsoft Teams to be productive across different workstreams, and the latest Sentry app in Microsoft Teams is here to keep you up to speed on emerging alerts and issues in your DevOps environment. Improved incident queue in Microsoft 365 Defender If you enjoyed working on alerts in the alert queue of Microsoft 365 Defender or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, we are excited to tell you that we have expanded the features of our incident queue. Now you can benefit from the sophisticated incident correlation logic of the incident queue without losing the capabilities you had in the alert queue. Announcing Microsoft Endpoint DLP General Availability The new reality of significant numbers of employees working from home or other remote locations indefinitely has created renewed emphasis on providing strong, coordinated, and unified protections across all user touchpoints with sensitive data. Azure Sphere version 20.10 is now available The Azure Sphere 20.10 release includes an updated Azure Sphere OS, Azure Sphere SDK, and extensions for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud. However, to develop apps that use the new features in the OS, you'll need to install the 20.10 SDK and the updated extension for your development environment. Topics and Hashtags in Yammer
Yammer powers communities, knowledge, and employee engagement in Microsoft 365. At Microsoft Ignite, we shared how Yammer is investing in three areas for knowledge: capturing knowledge with questions and answers, organizing it using topics, and spreading it across the organization with Project Cortex. What’s new: Microsoft 365 Defender connector now in Public Preview for Azure Sentinel We’re very pleased to announce that the public preview of the new Microsoft 365 Defender connector is now available, alongside a new Azure Sentinel benefit for Microsoft 365 E5 customers! The M365 Defender connector lets you stream advanced hunting logs - a type of raw event data - from Microsoft 365 Defender into Azure Sentinel. Click here to look at Microsoft documentation page on this connector. What's New: Multiple playbooks to one analytic rule Azure Sentinel playbooks help the SOC automate tasks, improve investigations, and allow quick responses to threats. Azure Sentinel workspaces are meant to be constantly fine-tuned to be used effectively: each analytics rule is created to generate alerts on a single unique security risk; each playbook to handle a specific automation purpose. OneDrive Roadmap Roundup – October 2020 Teams is your hub for teamwork where people collaborate on files, communicate, and streamline processes. In an effort to provide a consistent sharing experience across Microsoft 365—no matter where you share your file, whether through Office apps, Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint, the sharing experience is similar—we’re bringing some of the sharing capabilities you already know to Teams. Data flow zoom improvements Azure Data Factory continues to improve the ease of use of the UX. This week, the data flow canvas is seeing improvements on the zooming functionality. As a user zooms out, the node sizes will adjust in a smart manner allowing for much easier navigation and management of complex graphs. Security Unlocked—a new Podcast on the Technology and People Powering Microsoft Security How are we using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve cybersecurity today? What are the different types of ML algorithms, and how do they differ? Taking it a step further, how do we protect our ML systems? According to the 2020 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, we know adversarial machine learning and attacks on ML systems are part of the future of cybersecurity. Get started configuring Microsoft Edge using Intune for Education
The Microsoft Edge settings in Intune for Education now control all versions of Microsoft Edge. If you’ve previously configured settings for Microsoft Edge version 45 and earlier, you will see an info bubble: Microsoft Insider Risk Management & Communication Compliance Webinar - New Announcements & Updates The Microsoft 365 community is excited to announce new capabilities in Microsoft Insider Risk Management & Communication Compliance to help minimize internal risks by enabling you to detect, investigate, capture, and act on malicious and inadvertent activities in your organization. Java Azure Tools Update October 2020: diagnostic experience and JBoss EAP Welcome to the October update of Java Azure Tools! This is the first blog post for a new monthly update series for all the Azure tooling support we are providing for Java users, covering Maven/Gradle plugins for Azure, Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ/Eclipse and Azure Extensions for VS Code. Follow us and you will get more exciting updates in the future blogs. Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Class Type is Available We are continuing to publish new class types, which are are based on real-world classes that schools have hosted using Azure Lab Services. This newest class type shows how to set up labs for Project Lead the Way (PLTW) classes. Announcing Az Predictor The Azure PowerShell modules expose over 4,000 cmdlets and, on average, ten parameters per cmdlet. Experienced PowerShell users will find the right cmdlet and parameter to achieve their goal but this can be more complicated for casual users. Attack simulation training public preview now open to all E3 customers At Ignite 2020, we announced the public preview of Attack simulation training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Delivered in partnership with Terranova Security, Attack simulation training is a premium feature available to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2, Microsoft 365 E5 and Microsoft Security E5 license holders. It empowers customers to detect, analyze and remediate phishing risk across their users.
Related Announcements & Events 7 reasons to compete in the 2021 Imagine Cup The Imagine Cup was created for students with big dreams, bold ideas, and a vision for bringing them to life with tech. Students just like you! In the 2021 competition, the core components of collaboration, coding, and community are more important than ever – and this year they’re taking the stage in a virtual world. Announcing a Free Curriculum: Web Development for Beginners We have chosen two pedagogical tenets while building this curriculum: ensuring that it is project-based and that it includes frequent quizzes. By the end of this series, students will have built a typing game, a virtual terrarium, a 'green' browser extension, a 'space invaders' type game, and a business-type banking app, and will have learned the basics of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS along with the modern toolchain of today's web developer. Reminder: Upcoming Driver Release Schedule Dates As the U.S. holiday season fast approaches, we wanted to remind you of the Driver Shiproom block out days, and what that means for the release of drivers that require “Microsoft Approval”. It's Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication In my blog Your Pa$$word doesn't matter, I laid out the key password vulnerabilities, and in response to a gazillion “but other creds can be compromised, too” DMs and emails, I wrote All our creds are belong to us, where I outlined vulnerabilities in credentials other than passwords and highlighted the promise of passwordless, cryptographically protected creds like FIDO, Windows Hello, and the Authenticator App. OneNote on Microsoft Surface Duo, the perfect match! Now that Microsoft Surface Duo has been released you can experience it with its ideal companion, OneNote. The dual screens help make your note-taking experience even better. OneNote helps make working on Surface Duo easy and productive, giving you the power to
create notes more effectively than ever before. Read on for an in-depth look at how OneNote on Surface Duo is crafted to optimize your efficiency. Microsoft Tech Community 500K member sweepstakes videos We also asked all Tech Community members to let us know how the Microsoft Tech Community has impacted them by sending in videos that answered the question, “How has the Microsoft Tech Community helped you grow as a professional?”. Take a look at what some members had to say! Collaborating with Qualcomm to Improve AI and ML Dev Experiences It’s an exciting time at Microsoft, with growing investments in edge computing and AI. Much of the future will be influenced by these technologies, and indeed, we are already seeing their power in telco 5G devices, IoT platforms, and low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks. With Microsoft’s recently announced Azure for Operator efforts, we’re in a unique position to drive IoT experiences that leverage edge AI via these emerging 5G and LPWA networks. It's Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication In my blog Your Pa$$word doesn't matter, I laid out the key password vulnerabilities, and in response to a gazillion “but other creds can be compromised, too” DMs and emails, I wrote All our creds are belong to us, where I outlined vulnerabilities in credentials other than passwords and highlighted the promise of passwordless, cryptographically protected creds like FIDO, Windows Hello, and the Authenticator App. Underpinnings of Bot analytics In our previous blogpost, we have seen the magic of Bot Telemetry Logger middleware, like what does it offer and how does it work in harmony with the Application Insights. Today, I will be talking about the Bot Analytics blade. EVENTS Join us for the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint AMA cross platform edition! We’re excited to invite you to the first Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Microsoft TechCommunity! The product team has missed meeting customers at security and tech conferences and expo halls through the year and so we’d like to engage with you virtually. Our goal is to do these at least on a quarterly basis and have them focused on specific topics related to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Open Azure Day | Microsoft Azure - Run Linux apps your way on Azure Nov 18th Learn to natively run Linux and open source in the cloud—and push your apps and data to the next level. Join this free digital event to hear about the latest trends and best practices for
running Linux on Azure from Microsoft insiders and partners, including Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, HashiCorp, Elastic, Cloudera, VMware, and Redis Labs. Announcing a Microsoft Planner AMA on November 17, 2020 We want to hear from you and answer your questions around using Microsoft Planner! We will be hosting an "Ask Microsoft Anything" (AMA) session on Tuesday, November 17th at 9 AM Pacific Time, here, on the Tech Community. Save the date! Container Image Scanning Notification Playbook As a Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), Azure Defender provides protection against cyber threats aimed at servers, no matter whether they are running in Azure, on-premises, or in another cloud platform. For more information about the importance of CSPM and CWPP to manage visibility and control of your cloud workloads, read this article. Handy Resources Collaborating with Qualcomm to Improve AI and ML Dev Experiences It’s an exciting time at Microsoft, with growing investments in edge computing and AI. Much of the future will be influenced by these technologies, and indeed, we are already seeing their power in telco 5G devices, IoT platforms, and low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks. Monitoring your Logic Apps Playbooks in Azure Sentinel In the world of cybersecurity and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) plays a crucial role. Attack simulation training public preview now open to all E3 customers At Ignite 2020, we announced the public preview of Attack simulation training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Delivered in partnership with Terranova Security, Attack simulation training is a premium feature available to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2, Microsoft 365 E5 and Microsoft Security E5 license holders.
Leveling Up Your Azure SQL Database Deployments | Data Exposed: MVP Edition The Basic, Standard, and Premium service tiers fulfill a lot of customers' needs. For some customers, though, the General Purpose, Business Critical, and Hyperscale service tiers offer additional performance and ability that is required for certain workloads. Why We Use Microsoft for Our CMMC Managed Service Customers [Guest Blog] In January of this year, the Department of Defense (DoD) released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification or CMMC. This new maturity model defines five levels of increasing maturity and will require all defense contractors, both Primes and Subs, to comply with one of the five levels and attain independent verification of compliance prior to contract award. Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 104 In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, host – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen is joined by Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer – CTO and Office Development MVP at OnePlace Solutions, located in Sydney, Australia. Differences between the ISV – SAAS product developer and the Corporate Developer are considered during this session. How to setup and run Azure Cloud Shell locally Lately I’ve been building and tearing down complete environments in Azure to test and record demos. To do that I’ve been using a combination of PowerShell scripts, ARM templates and AzureCLI scripts in the Azure Cloud Shell. Some of those scripts require a significant amount of time to run. (especially the ones with gateways). Make the most of the MySQL Flexible Servers (Preview) with Azure CLI Having the right tools can help improve your productivity as you build applications and try to get day-to-day tasks done efficiently. The CLI is the predominantly preferred by developers as a tool for performing everything from one-time tasks to creating automated scripts. To help developers work more efficiently and maximize their productivity, we’ve made many improvements to the Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Servers (Preview) CLI experience. Remote & Hybrid Learning in a Microsoft Environment: A Higher Ed Student Perspective Recently, members of the EDU Engagement team at Microsoft reached out to the Microsoft Student Forum for feedback using Microsoft Education products day-to-day. The Student Forum is a community of higher education and further education students who connect with each other and Microsoft Education experts on best practices, tips & tricks, and personal learnings using Microsoft tools. To learn more or to join the Microsoft Student forum, please fill out this survey. Understanding Azure Analysis Services Processing using Log Analytics
When Azure Analysis Services is processing, how do you know where there are opportunities for improvement? A typical design pattern is to process AAS to ensure that it is fully ready for users, although AAS can be processed asynchronously in a trigger-based cloud world. When Azure Analysis Services sends telemetry data to Log Analytics, the logs can be analyzed to find where the timing is taking for Analysis Services processing. Nest Azure IoT Edge devices to collect insights across industrial networks in Public Preview Azure IoT Edge devices can now be nested to securely collect data across networks organized in hierarchical layers. Industrial customers commonly use layered networks to isolate and secure their most critical assets, as recommended by the ISA-95 standard. Monitoring your Logic Apps Playbooks in Azure Sentinel In the world of cybersecurity and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) plays a crucial role. 7 reasons to compete in the 2021 Imagine Cup The Imagine Cup was created for students with big dreams, bold ideas, and a vision for bringing them to life with tech. Students just like you! In the 2021 competition, the core components of collaboration, coding, and community are more important than ever – and this year they’re taking the stage in a virtual world. Collection of Useful Tools for Performance Test Engineers We recently published an article with a collection of useful tools for QA/Test Engineers, highlighting tools that are sometimes overlooked or that you probably don't know about. If you get a chance please check that list too: Collections of Useful Tools for QA/Test Engineers. Friday Five: Power Automate Tips, Best Practices Analyzer, More! Robin Hobo is an Enterprise Mobility MVP and Senior Solutions Architect from the Netherlands who advises companies about the modern workplace. Robin is broadly oriented and has in- depth knowledge of various solutions like Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Microsoft EM+S (including Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Microsoft Intune). For more, check out Robin’s blog and Twitter @robinhobo. How to use the management certificate get cloud service information by DevOps pipeline Azure DevOps provides developer services to support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications. Developers can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services or on-premises using Azure DevOps Server. Azure DevOps Server was formerly named Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) Using Azure Data Explorer for long term retention of Azure Sentinel logs
One of the common questions that we get from customers and partners is how to save money on their Azure Sentinel bill, retention costs being one of the areas that can be optimized. As you may know, data retention in Sentinel is free for 90 days, after that, it is charged. Organize School and Class Information with Microsoft Lists We know the world of education is becoming increasingly more complex. With hybrid and remote learning, there is more information to track than ever. Fortunately, new technology can help teachers, students, and administrators get organized. Gone are the days of juggling information between paper planners, computer files, and group chats – Microsoft 365 has you covered. Get to know Modern Management in 2020 In 2020, the influx of remote workers and the need to secure access for work from home scenarios was a challenge for traditional endpoint management solutions. The traditional solutions we are familiar with just did not meet the demands we were placing on them. Featured Space Featured Space SharePoint This is the place discuss best practices, news, and the latest trends and topics related to SharePoint, SharePoint Developers, PowerApps & Flow, and SharePoint PowerBI.
Member of the Week Aelisya A member since August 2019, Aelisya is a fantastic contributor, especially in the Microsoft Edge Insider community.
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