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Azure Cosmos DB: A Completely Unofficial Primer 

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    By Ian MoulsterPartner Market Adviser, Partner Business & Development at Microsoft
Ian Moulster is back with a totally unofficial look at Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, a service that is growing at a phenomenal rate as developers and data scientists across the world start taking advantage of its remarkable capabilities....Read more
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How to deploy Linux in WVD when you can’t deploy Linux in WVD 

In my role as a Windows Virtual Desktop Global Black Belt at Microsoft working with customers deploying WVD, I often get asked can we deploy Linux in WVD? The answer is no, but yes. The official answer is we don’t support Linux. In fact, this is the official list of operating systems that we support:...Read more
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Using the Distance Matrix API for Bing Maps 

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    By Jamie MaguireSoftware Architect, Developer, Consultant and Microsoft AI MVP.
The Distance Matrix API allows you to generate travel time and distances (with the help of the Bing Maps Route API) for a given set of origins and destinations. It can also factor in predictive traffic information when generating times thereby allowing you to avoid any potential delays....Read more
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A closer look at Game Stack, with on-demand videos 

On March 17 and 18, we live-streamed a variety of Game Stack-related content that we originally planned to share at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Fortunately, even if you missed it last week, all of the talks are archived and ready to watch!...Read more
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Enterprise-wide orchestration using multiple data factories 

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    By Nicholas HurtSenior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
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    John MallinderSenior Cloud Solution Architect for Data & AI at Microsoft
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    Mark JonesProgram Manager - Azure SQL MI at Microsoft
Building simple data engineering pipelines with a single Azure Data Factory (ADF) is easy, and multiple activities can be orchestrated within a single pipeline. More sophisticated data engineering patterns require flexibility and reusability through Pipeline Orchestration....Read more
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Azure Sentinel: CIDR matching 

KQL has some IPV4 features.  A new one last month is IPV4_is_match : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/ipv4-is-matchfunction Two examples: 1.Using the SigninLogs Table as data. This example takes an IP Address from the log and sees if it is in an allowed range or not.  You define whats allowed or not in the CASE statement. SigninLogs | where...Read more
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What are the top methods to deploy a Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool 

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we are seeing a significant increase in working from home, as well as massive demand for new Windows Virtual Desktop host pools, where organisations are increasing the infrastructure foot print in order to support these additional users.   You may well be being asked to either deploy new WVD host...Read more
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Azure Monitor Workbooks: How to find Virtual Machines that are in, and not in Azure! 

Sorry I’ve been away for while, however I’m back with a few articles on Azure Monitor Workbooks.  Thanks to Alp Babayigit for the idea and use case for this Workbook. I first started with Workbooks when Azure Sentinel was launched and published some articles here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/azure-sentinel-and-azure-arc/ba-p/999379 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/how-to-use-azure-sentinel-to-follow-a-users-travel-and-map-their/ba-p/981716 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/how-to-use-azure-monitor-workbooks-to-map-sentinel-data/ba-p/971818   Summary In this new Workbook, I...Read more
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