Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: James Phillips. Today marks the official start of the 2020 release wave 1, kicking off the deployment of new applications and hundreds of new capabilities and updates across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.This release lands at an unprecedented time for business and society. We are providing support and resources for organizations on the frontlines of the COVID-19 outbreak and prioritizing the seamless business continuity for our Dynamics 365 and Power Platform customers. Our customer commitment includes allowances for uptake of the 2020 release wave 1, as well as the timely release of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. IoT is reaching mainstream adoption across businesses in all market segments. Our vision is to enable Azure to be the world’s computer, giving businesses real-time visibility into every aspect of their operations, assets, and products. Businesses are harnessing signals from IoT devices of all shapes and sizes, from the very smallest microcontroller units (MCUs) to very capable microprocessor units (MPUs). This presents a great opportunity for collaboration between semiconductor manufacturers with extensive expertise in MCUs/MPUs and Azure IoT, an industry leader in IoT. It has been nearly one year since we acquired Express ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Raman Kumar. Today, we're announcing the general availability for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers already benefit from SSE with platform-managed keys for Managed Disks enabled by default. SSE with CMK improves on platform-managed keys by giving you control of the encryption keys to meet your compliance need. Today, customers can also use Azure Disk Encryption, which leverages the Windows BitLocker feature and the Linux dm-crypt feature to encrypt Managed Disks with CMK within the guest virtual machine (VM). SSE with CMK improves on Azure Disk encryption by enabling ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yuemin Lu. Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium and Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks. To provide the best performance and cost balance for your production workloads, we are making significant improvements to our portfolio of Azure Premium SSD disks. With bursting, even the smallest Premium SSD disks (4 GiB) can now achieve up to 3,500 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 170 MiB/second. If you have experienced jitters in disk IOs due to unpredictable load and spiky ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yousef Khalidi. Cloud, edge computing, and IoT are making strides to transform whole industries and create opportunities that weren't possible just a few years ago. With the rise of 5G mobile connectivity, there are even more possibilities to deliver immersive, real-time experiences that have demanding, ultra-low latency, and connectivity requirements. 5G opens new frontiers with enhanced mobile broadband up to 10x faster, reliable low-latency communication, and very high device density up to 1 million devices per square kilometer. Today we’re announcing transformative advances to combine the power of Azure, 5G, carriers, and technology partners around ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Paramita Chatterjee. With the April 2020 release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, administrators will find a simplified configuration experience that makes it easier to discover and manage system settings to meet their organization's unique needs. This simplified experience is available only for Unified Interface customers.The new App Settings area in the out-of-box Sales Hub application improves discoverability and helps administrators quickly and easily configure the sales application from a single place. In addition, if your organization creates custom model-driven apps that are tailored to your business needs, the new unified settings experience can be ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John 'JG' Chirapurath. Today, Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Modern Life and Devices, announced the availability of new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions. In his blog, he shared a few examples of how Microsoft 365 is innovating to deliver experiences powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to billions of users every day. Whether through familiar products like Outlook and PowerPoint, or through new offerings such as Presenter Coach and Microsoft Editor across Word, Outlook, and the web, Microsoft 365 relies on Azure AI to offer new capabilities that make their users even more productive ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. Since last week’s update, the global health pandemic continues to impact every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve. Everyone is working tirelessly to support all our customers, especially critical health and safety organizations across the globe, with the cloud services needed to sustain their operations during this unprecedented time. Equally, we are hard at work providing services to support hundreds of millions of people who rely on Microsoft to stay connected and to work and play remotely. As Satya Nadella shared, “It’s times like this that remind us that each ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Rama Krishnamoorthy. Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications are uniquely able to help organizations digitally transform by unifying data and intelligence from employees, customers, operations, and devices into one source, creating many opportunities to use digital feedback loops to adapt and improve.To that end, we're announcing dual-write, a new capability that enables data to become available natively on Common Data Service across Finance and Operations apps, and model-driven apps in Dynamics 365.The dual-write solution package covers master data scenarios for customers, products, and vendors, and for end-to-end process flows like prospect to cash, and for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. Accelerate classified missions with unparalleled connectivity, high availability, and resiliency across three regions with more than 35 services Azure Government Secret recently achieved Provisional Authorization (PA) at Department of Defense Impact Level 6 (IL6) and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503 with facilities at ICD 705. We’re also announcing a third region to enable even higher availability for national security missions to stay ahead of their unique threats. Built exclusively for the needs of US government and operated by cleared US citizens, Azure Government Secret delivers dedicated regions to maintain the security and integrity ... Read More