Thom McKiernan

📣 We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 – transition to Azure Data Explorer 📣 We’ll retire Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024. #Azure #Microsoft #Cloud

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The Microsoft Licensing Update October 2024 is out there. Topics this month: Power Apps licensing options, New Office LTSC 2024, staging servers and developer tools licensing and Office Apps on shared devices used by Frontline Workers: https://lnkd.in/ekzQsRBG

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#Azure Weekly Newsletter Highlights for W/E 12th May 2024: 🔹Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3 Family of Small Language Models SLMs with Azure AI (Lee Stott) 🔹Develop #LLM Solutions In Local Environment (Panu Oksala) 🔹Introducing GraphRAG with #LangChain and #Neo4j (Valentina Alto) 🔹Basic understanding on Microsoft #Entra custom claims provider (Chun-Han Chen) 🔹Secure Azure Management Group Creation – Best Practices for Enhanced Security (☁️ Charbel N.) 🔹VNet Flow Logs recipes (Jose Moreno) 🔹How to Refresh Expired Keys in #Redis using #AzureFunctions (Kyle Teegarden) 🔹Unleash the Power of Insights: Azure Resource Graph #PowerBI Data Connector Now Generally Available (Allana Hudson) 🔹Microsoft Fabric #MachineLearning Tutorial - Part 2 - Data Validation with Great Expectations (Barry Smart) 🔹#MicrosoftFabric End-to-End Demo series Part 8 - Good Notebook Development Practices (Ed Freeman) https://lnkd.in/ekGYV6cm

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📰 Exciting news from Preservica! Preserve365 is now available in the UK, providing embedded archiving and Digital Preservation for Microsoft 365 hosted on Azure, with the added assurance of full UK data sovereignty. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft, Preserve365 simplifies compliance by integrating archiving, Digital Preservation and retrieval of long-term and permanent records into the Microsoft 365 and Microsoft SharePoint experience. Read the full news release here: https://lnkd.in/exUfBSnw #DigitalPreservation #MicrosoftSharePoint #Azure #Microsoft365

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Did you know the The Crowley Company’s partner, Preservica, has expanded the availability of Preserve365 to the UK? This means that our UK customers can now take advantage of Preserve365 hosted on Microsoft Azure to safeguard their long-term and permanent records. If you would like more information about Preservica or are interested in signing up for a FREE Preservica Starter Kit, click here: https://lnkd.in/dquydNvM #DigitalPreservation #metadatamanagement #archives #libraries

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I'm back talking about Premium to Fabric migrations/transitions....again! This time in blog form - https://lnkd.in/e6hPVFFN I presented at Power BI & Fabric Manchester UG #pbiMCR, but I was unable to record my session. So I thought the next best thing was to put pen to paper and get something out there. The post walks you through the process of getting you from Power BI Premium to Fabric Capacities. #Blog #Fabric #P2F #PowerBI

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Microsoft Build is in full swing, and if you're interested in staying up-to-date with the latest Azure stack announcements, now is the time to tune in! Alternatively have a look at the Book of News to catchup! #microsoft #azure #copilot #empowering

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Our Head of Cloud Solutions, Oliver Le Prevost, explains the benefits of Azure cloud over on-premises servers in this week's blog. ☁ Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eFbYj9ea #Azure #Cloudsolutions

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Anyone looking to move into AI or Azure Software Development should consider this program. It’s been designed to not overload you, not distract you from you day job. It starts from the basics of software development with Python , right up through Azure Fubdamentals, AI Fundamentals, Azure Data Fubdamentals and Azure AI engineer. As long as you can use a Windows PC or a Mac, this program will get you coding AI in the cloud and Azure AI Assocate Certified.

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#Azure Weekly Newsletter highlights for W/E 5th May: 🔹General Availability of Microsoft Entra External ID (Levent B.) 🔹Public preview: Expanding passkey support in Microsoft Entra ID (Alex Weinert) 🔹Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory (Temidayo Omoniyi) 🔹Your Go-To PowerShell Template for HTTP-Triggered Azure Functions (Adam Bertram) 🔹Bringing GenAI Offline: running SLMs like Phi-2/Phi-3 and Whisper Models on Mobile Devices (Joinal Ahmed) 🔹Where are my Azure Portal Menu Items? (David O'Brien) 🔹Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial - Part 1 - Overview of the Course (Barry Smart) https://lnkd.in/eR5dEzaU

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Nice little article from Simon Clendon on leveraging Log Analytics Workbooks for operational visibility and activity tracking for Azure solutions, the team at Adaptiv leverage this to great effect for our support customers providing insights to integration processing. #LogicAppAviators

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How to get the current Azure Devops iteration name for a project using Power Automate @michelcarlo https://bit.ly/4dMtvPO #AzureDevops #PowerAutomate #RestAPI

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Moving Linux workloads from a compared x86 system to an IBM LinuxONE 4 Express can save over 52% on the total cost of ownership over 5 years. https://lnkd.in/egj4rkkY

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Following the series “Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies”, in Part 3, Francine Anestis explores the Key Features, Architecture, Use Cases, Strengths & Weaknesses, Cost and Maturity Level of Azure Event Hubs. In previous blogposts she explored Apache Kafka & Apache Pulsar https://hubs.ly/Q02DxhV40

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Following the series “Exploring Messaging and Streaming Technologies”, in Part 3, Francine Anestis explores the Key Features, Architecture, Use Cases, Strengths & Weaknesses, Cost and Maturity Level of Azure Event Hubs. In previous blogposts she explored Apache Kafka & Apache Pulsar https://hubs.ly/Q02Dxj-50

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Turbocharge your Microsoft Azure investment. In his latest article our Professional Services Director, Caleb Mills, explores the challenges of managing Microsoft Azure, and how a managed service provider can help: https://lnkd.in/e4i6YSTM Enjoy the read! #MicrosoftAzure #ManagedServices #ITInfrastructure #CloudSolutions

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