Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: David Pennington. With back-to-school time upon us, what would normally be an exciting time for educators and families preparing students to return to class is instead filled with additional stresses presented by a global pandemic. Parents and caregivers are wondering what remote learning will be like and how to get and use the technology their children need to be successful. Teachers are concerned with delivering excellent instruction and making sure everyone is able to learn even when classes are virtual. Everyone is concerned with keeping their family healthy and safe.To help schools implement their ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Brian King and Brett Iwen. As you might already know if you read our post from August, 2020, the hash function for the dimension framework in Dynamics 365 Finance 2020 release wave 2 has changed.After you update to version 10.0.13 or later, you'll need to make sure a one-time update to maintain budget control balances for your active account structures and budget control configurations has occurred.This blog post tells you what you need to know about the batch job and what your users might see during the process.How the budget control update worksWhen you ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. The public preview version of Azure Synapse Analytics has three compute options and four types of storage that it can access (mentioned in my blog at SQL on-demand in Azure Synapse Analytics). This gives twelve possible combinations of querying data. Not all of these combinations currently are supported and some have a few quirks of which I list below. (NOTE: I’ll demo these features at my sessions at European Digital Week on 9/25 (session info), SQL Bits on 10/3 (session info), PASS Summit on 11/10 (session info), and Big Data Conference Europe on ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: MacKenzie Olson. We’re happy to announce the new stable release of Docker Desktop includes the Azure Container Instances - Docker integration. Install or update to the latest release and get started deploying containers to Azure Container Instances (ACI) today. Azure Docker integration The Azure Docker integration enables you to deploy serverless containers to Azure Container Instances (ACI) using the same Docker Command-line (CLI) commands from local development. Use docker run to spin up a single-container or docker compose up to deploy multi-container applications defined with a Docker Compose file. You can also view logs, attach ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Poornima Natarajan. The Microsoft Azure Lighthouse product group is excited to launch a blog series covering areas in Azure Lighthouse where we are investing to make our service provider partners and enterprise customers successful with Azure. Our first blog in this series covers a top area of consideration for companies worldwide—Security with focus on how Azure Lighthouse can be used alongside Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel service to build an efficient and scalable security practice. Today, organizations of all sizes are looking to reduce costs, complexity, and gain efficiencies in their security operations. As cloud security solutions ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lichun Li. As businesses continue to adapt to the realities of the current environment, operational resilience has never been more important. As a result, a growing number of customers have accelerated a move to the cloud, using Microsoft Azure NetApp Files to power critical pieces of their IT infrastructure, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, SAP applications, and mission-critical databases. Today, we release the preview of Azure NetApp Files cross region replication. With this new disaster recovery capability, you can replicate your Azure NetApp Files volumes from one Azure region to another in a fast and cost-effective ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Raja Banerjee and Kishore Mantravadi. In theseuncertaintimes,winning and retainingcustomersrequiresadeeperunderstandingof their brand and interest affinitiestodeliverrelevant, personalized experiences.Dynamics 365 Customer Insights is powered by proprietary Microsoft data fromMicrosoft Graph to enable you to understand your customers better,andthen identify segments of similar customers for targeted and personalized experiences.For example, ifyou'rea home improvement company, knowingwhich brands oftools yourcustomers prefer can help you prioritize the products you offer them.How Customer InsightsworksTo get started withDynamics 365 Customer Insights, firstconnect to your customer data sources,andthenunify them to create a holistic view of your customers.After you do this, youcanenrichyourdatawithyour customers'brand and interest ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Keith Barnett. Microsoft Ignite is just a few days away! This year's all-digital event will bring together a global community of technology professionals to learn where Business Applications technology is heading, and the tools and resources available to help you solve the toughest challenges facing businesses today.Across three daysSeptember 22-24our team of experts will share technical and hands-on content across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, as well answer your questionsall streaming live in your time zone, so you won't miss a thing. To help you navigate the volume and variety of content ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rena Shah. Azure Files is a distributed cloud file system serving file system SMB and REST protocols generally available since 2015. Customers love how Azure Files enables them to easily lift and shift their legacy workloads to the cloud without any modifications or changes in technology. SMB works great on both Windows and UNIX operating systems for most use cases. However, because some applications are written for POSIX compliant file systems, our customers wanted to have the same great experience on a fully POSIX compatible NFS file system. Today, it’s our pleasure to announce Azure ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeremy Winter. As businesses look to the cloud to ensure business resiliency and to spur innovation, we continue to see customer migrations to Azure accelerate. Increasingly, we’ve heard from business leaders preparing to migrate that they could learn from our best practices and want general help thinking about migration, and we started a blog series to help share those even more broadly. In our kick-off blog for this series, we shared that landing zones are a key component to anticipating and mitigating complexities as part of your migration. In this blog, we will cover what landing zones ... Read More