Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup – February 2, 2018

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

Now available: Move conversations in Yammer!On Friday, January 26, 2018, Microsoft announced that you can now move conversations between groups in Yammer. Join the conversation in the Yammer space.

New Apps and Services in Office 365 US GovernmentOn Monday, January 29, 2018, Microsoft announced new apps and services in Office 365 US Government. Join the conversation in the Office 365 space.

Azure ExpressRoute updates – New partnerships, monitoring and simplificationOn Monday, January 29, 2018, Microsoft announced an extended partnership with Cisco to build a new network practice providing Cisco Solution Support for Azure ExpressRoute. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.

Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot now generally availableOn Monday, January 29, 2018, Microsoft announced that Azure Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot, previously in preview as Connectivity Check, is making general availability sporting a new name. Join the conversation in the Azure Compute space.

Introducing Tunnel RelayOn Monday, January 29, 2018, Microsoft announced Tunnel Relay for Microsoft Teams, allowing you to expose local services to the outside work over HTTPS using Azure Service Bus Relay. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.

New ways to use apps and get more done in Microsoft TeamsOn Monday, January 29, 2018, Microsoft announced new features in Microsoft Teams that make it an even more powerful hub for teamwork, enabling you to use apps in new ways, customize your personal workspace, and take quick actions. This marks the biggest single release of new functionality since Teams launched last March. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.

Announcing the general availability of Azure Event GridOn Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Event Grid. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.

New features make Office and OneDrive the best place to work on iPad and iPhoneOn Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced a set of new Office capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive on iOS that will delight and make iPad and iPhone users more productive than ever before. Join the conversation in the OneDrive for Business space.

Shared Office codebase for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android means more features for more users fasterOn Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced the newest version of Office for Mac, version 16.9.0, extending a number of cutting-edge features from Office 365 to Apple users. This release marks the first time in 20 years that Office shares the same codebase across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android for core functionalities. Join the conversation in the Office 365 space.

Extend diagramming to IT with network diagrams in Visio OnlineOn Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced that Visio Online includes new templates and shapes for network diagrams, enhanced canvas capabilities, and the ability to print and export diagrams as a PDF. Join the conversation in the Visio space.

Azure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP now generally available On Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP. Join the conversation in the Azure Data & Storage space.

SharePoint Content Services January 2018 UpdateOn Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced the latest updates to SharePoint Content Services. Join the conversation in the SharePoint space.

New in Stream Analytics: General availability of sub-streams, query compatibility, and more On Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of several features in Azure Stream Analytics. Join the conversation in the Azure Analytics space.

Office 365 for Windows Desktop - January 2018 Release detailsOn Wednesday, January 31, 2018, Microsoft announced Office for Windows Desktop version #1712 (Build 8827.2148) in 44 languages. Join the conversation in the Office International community.

Azure Information Protection Documentation Update for January 2018On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, Microsoft announced that the Documentation for Azure Information Protection has been updated on the web and the latest content has a January 2018 (or later) date at the top of the article. Join the conversation in the Azure Information Protection space.

Microsoft Teams App Studio (Preview)On Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Teams App Studio. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.

Public preview: “What If” tool for Azure AD Conditional Access policiesOn Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced the public preview of the “What If” tool for Azure AD Conditional Access. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space.

Intune APIs in Microsoft Graph – Now generally available

On Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced the general availability of Intune APIs in Microsoft Graph. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Intune space.

Full MeitY accreditation enables Indian public sector to deploy on AzureOn Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced that Microsoft recently became one of the first global cloud service providers to achieve full accreditation by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for the Government of India. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.

Insider Fast: Outlook for Mac adds new authentication flow for Google IMAPOn Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced that with the release of the new build, 16.11 (18013000), Outlook for Mac now supports OAuth for authentication against Google accounts configured via IMAP. Join the conversation in the Outlook space.

New Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UIOn Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced a new set of hands on labs for Azure Data Factory that you can now use to learn how to build those DI patterns using ADF V2. Join the conversation in the Azure Data & Storage space.

Integrate Azure Security Center alerts into SIEM solutionsOn Wednesday, January 31, Microsoft announced the public preview of a new feature called SIEM Export that allows you to export Azure Security Center alerts into popular SIEM solutions such as Splunk and IBM QRadar. Join the conversation in the Azure Security + Identity space.

Print to corporate printers from Azure AD joined Windows 10 devices!On Thursday, February 1, Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Print, a print solution built specifically for Azure Active Directory-joined and Intune-managed devices. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory space.

What’s new in Microsoft Teams – January updateOn Thursday, February 1, Microsoft announced a number of updates to Microsoft Teams. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.

Changes to Office and Windows servicing and supportOn Friday, February 2, Microsoft announced changes to Office and Windows servicing and support. Join the conversation in the Windows 10 space.

HANDY RESOURCES

Microsoft Edge AMAOn January 30, 2018, Microsoft hosted a Microsoft Edge AMA to help answer questions. The summary from this event will be available when it’s ready in the Microsoft Edge AMA space.

Microsoft Tech Summit Birmingham Jan 24-25 2018It was great to return to the NEC in Birmingham (UK) to deliver another incredible Tech Summit event. Over 3,200 unique attendees attended the event across the 2 days. The Microsoft Tech Summit offered attendees access to more than 200 hours of technical content, including keynotes for Microsoft 365 and Azure. The event featured more than 80 breakout sessions, 19 theater sessions, close to 100 hands-on-labs, and 6 workshops.

Using the MySQL sys schema to optimize and maintain a databaseThe MySQL sys schema, which is fully enabled in Azure Database for MySQL 5.7, provides a powerful collection of user friendly views in a read-only database. Building on the MySQL Performance and Information Schemas, you can use the MySQL sys schema to troubleshoot performance issues and manage resources efficiently. The MySQL Performance Schema, first available in MySQL 5.5, provides instrumentation for many vital server resources such as memory allocation, stored programs, metadata locking, etc. However, the Performance Schema contains more than 80 tables, and getting the necessary information often requires joining tables within the Performance Schema, as well as tables from the Information Schema.

Using EXPLAIN to profile slow queries in Azure Database for MySQLAzure Database for MySQL is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution that Microsoft offers on Azure. Using Azure managed services for MySQL (and PostgreSQL), enables one to easily build an intelligent and secure application. Though Microsoft has done a lot of work to optimize database performance, sometimes a simple query can easily become a bottle neck impacting overall database performance. Luckily, MySQL integrates a handy tool – the EXPLAIN statement – that can profile client queries and thus help you identify the root cause of a slow query. You can use an EXPLAIN statement to get information about how SQL statements are executed. With this information, you can profile which queries are running slow and why.

Managing Azure Secrets on GitHub RepositoriesAn increasing number of developers across the globe use GitHub to host their projects, and many of them use GitHub public repositories for their open source work. While this is a great way to contribute and leverage the power of the community, it does come with a unique set of responsibilities. Particularly around managing credentials and other secrets. Examples of Azure secrets are authentication credentials that should not be made public. These include things such as passwords, private keys, database connection strings, and storage account keys that are managed by Azure tenants. In Azure, we take security very seriously. Azure secrets are considered sensitive and should not be made publicly available. An exposed secret could lead to the compromise of your Azure subscription, your cloud assets, as well as on-premises assets and data; putting your applications or services at significant risk.

Going to Legaltech 2018? Stop by and say hi!Going to Legaltech? So are we! Come by and see us. We are at Legaltech in New York this week meeting with some of the world’s leading organizations to talk about Data Governance, eDiscovery, GDPR readiness and how to manage compliance in the Microsoft cloud. Legaltech is the technology event of the year for legal professionals to learn about how technology can make their processes and organizations more efficient and we are excited to participate. Stop by booth #1301 to speak with product experts from the Advanced Data Governance and eDiscovery product teams - see the latest demos, hear about roadmap and get your questions answered directly.

Microsoft Cloud App Security integrates with third party Data Loss Prevention solutionsToday we would like to explain how Microsoft Cloud App Security integrates with third-party Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions – Symantec Data Loss Prevention and Forcepoint DLP. This extends your current DLP engine’s ability to manage sensitive data across enterprise cloud apps. While customers all over the world use Office 365 DLP to protect their sensitive data in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, we also recognize that many customers have already invested in multiple DLP solutions across their environment and want to extend this investment to protect their cloud

applications. At Microsoft Ignite 2017 we showcased how we extend the same DLP capabilities to other cloud applications like Salesforce, Box, and more.

Lambda Architecture using Azure #CosmosDB: Faster performance, Low TCO, Low DevOpsAzure Cosmos DB provides a scalable database solution that can handle both batch and real-time ingestion and querying and enables developers to implement lambda architectures with low TCO. Lambda architectures enable efficient data processing of massive data sets. Lambda architectures use batch-processing, stream-processing, and a serving layer to minimize the latency involved in querying big data.

Office 365 in 2018 | Ask for More 2017 was a record-breaking year with awesome features released by the Office 365 team. Everyone, whether in the SMB or enterprise segment of Office 365, is amazed to see the capabilities made available in the cloud service of Microsoft. The way Microsoft presented the services and integration capabilities in Office 365 last year raised the bar on Microsoft expectations in 2018.

Customer success stories with Azure Backup; Russell ReynoldsThis is the first of a blog series which presents success stories from customers with Azure Backup. Here we discuss how Azure Backup helped Russell Reynolds. Russell Reynolds is a global leadership and executive search firm which helps their clients with assessment, executive search, and leadership transitions within boards of directors, chief executive officers, and other key roles within the C-suite. Having moved to Azure to reduce their IT and datacenter costs, the company started to look for an alternative to their tape backups which was proving both cumbersome and expensive. Enter Azure Backup.

Today on Azure Friday: Running Ansible on AzureKylie Liang shows Donovan Brown how to run Ansible playbooks on Azure using Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. She also demonstrates how to use the Ansible extension for VS Code to accelerate Ansible playbook development using auto-completion and code snippets, and then run it inside Docker or Cloud Shell.

9 tips for meeting with Microsoft TeamsAs we bring Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams, we’ve recently released a several new features which are rapidly enabling you to host and participate in more productive meetings, and invite anyone on the planet to join you. With Audio Conferencing, anonymous join, and meeting and calling support on Edge and Chrome, Teams has more options for attendees not in our organization to join Teams meetings. With virtual lobby, muting all or one attendee, application sharing, and interactive troubleshooting, Teams meeting attendees to have better control of their meeting experience. Lastly, we haven’t forgotten the administrators or help desk professionals – with Call Analytics for Teams, we have also enabled them to monitor call and meeting quality and get detailed analytics for users’ meeting and calling experiences. This makes teams a perfect solution where you can communicate and meet with anyone inside or outside your organization – even if they are not a Teams user. With these improvements, here are 9 tips to having more productive meetings with attendees in and outside your organization.

INTERESTING PERSPECTIVES

Moving a User to Skype for Business Online

A user was having difficulty migrating an account to Skype for Business Online. MVP Habib Mankal was able to offer advice and code samples to help solve the user’s issue.

Outlook Customer Manager blank on Office 2016Contributor Jeremy Tattersall had some issues with the Outlook Customer Manager window only showing “”Show all related” in Outlook. Microsoft employee Sixu Xie was able to resolve the problem.

Changing UPN AD User DomainIt was asked the best way to change the UPN domain once a user has been synced in O365. A number of users had suggestions, including MVPs Adam Fowler and Vasil Michev.

UPCOMING EVENTS

SharePoint Conference North America – Save the DateThe SharePoint Conference North America is less than ~123 days away, if you’re an IT Professional, implementer, decision maker, business user, or developer you don’t want to miss this SharePoint Conference. The SharePoint Conference North America promises to be 2018’s premier event for SharePoint and related technologies, featuring over 140 sessions (8,400 hours) of content under one roof. In addition, SharePoint Conference North America is the host for this years SharePoint Virtual Summit where we’ll share the latest innovations, vision, and strategy across SharePoint and OneDrive. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of the action, live, and in-person.

FEATURED SPACE

VisioWith the launch of the new Visio blog, the Visio space is a great place to get your questions answered and to share knowledge.

MEMBER OF THE WEEKP. R. OrtizA member since July of 2016, P.R. has been an active contributor, answering questions and offering advice, especially in the Office 365 space. Thank you for being a member of the community!