by Scott Muniz | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
Group Policy Analytics has gone into public preview with the 2009 release, you can learn more here. There is a known issue with the new “Migration readiness report” where Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that you have uploaded in past releases of Group Policy analytics will be excluded in calculations done in the graphic at the top of the workload, Summary blade and Migration Readiness report.
Below are three workarounds for this issue:
- Force a re-compute of calculations by manually taking GPOs through the “Import” workflow again.
- Use the PowerShell script that was provided to help automatically re-compute the calculations. Follow the instructions hosted on our GitHub repository.
- Wait until a future release of Group Policy analytics in Q4 of this calendar year where we will be doing an automatic re-compute for all GPOs across all tenants.
Upcoming feature improvements
We are working on an experience that lets you easily migrate your Group Policy settings into MDM. Tenants who were in private preview will see a “Migrate” button before anyone else. Today, the “Migrate” workflow supports creation into Administrative Template profiles via the profile creation workflow only.
In future releases, support will be added to migrate to other Device Configuration profiles in addition to Administrative Templates, alongside other user experience improvements to help you on your journey to cloud-based policy management. For tenants not who were not in our preview and want to see the “Migrate” workflow, please reach out to gpanalyticspreview@microsoft.com with your tenant ID.
Let us know if you have any additional questions on this by replying to this post or tagging @IntuneSuppTeam out on Twitter.
by Scott Muniz | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
By: Spencer Shumway – Program Manager | Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Intune
We’ve been working hard since announcing a new reporting framework at last year’s Ignite conference and wanted to provide an update on some new reports that have shipped as well as the current list of migrated/new reports all up. We’d also like to lightly cover the different report types we’ve identified and are delivering:
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Organizational reports are generally broad, contain aggregate data/visualizations, and may be less frequently accessed. You can see the entire estate of the report area (like all of your device compliance) with these reports. Reports of this type are usually located in the Reports menu item on the main left navigation of the MEM console.
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Operational reports are live, and usually have a negative focus to trim down the data to only what an admin needs to take action. You will often see only a subset of your data (like just the non-compliant devices) with these reports. These reports are usually shown inline with the devices or apps workloads in their respective Monitor tabs.
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Historical reports show aggregate data over a period of time, typically with daily data points. These can be found throughout the console.
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Resource reports are located on individual resources like a single app, a single policy, or a single device. When you click on an app you will see examples of resource reports in the Device install status and the user install status report. These report types are operational in nature- as they support troubleshooting and remediation actions, but are defined mainly by where you can find them in the console.
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List view reports aren’t reports in the traditional sense, but they do convey information in the form of lists of objects. As these lists grow in size, they benefit from our reporting framework sort, search, filter, export, and paging controls and so are candidates for migration. A good example of a list view that is supported by our reporting framework is the All devices blade.
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Specialist reports are reports that have been published as diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor after migrating to our new reporting framework. Once available as a diagnostic setting, you can select a destination for your data to be published- event hub, storage, or Log Analytics. These various destinations enable integration with security information and event management (SIEM) tools, custom alerting, custom aggregation and business logic, external data joins, and long term storage.
Some new reports shipping with our 2009 release:
We also want to call out that as part of our new reporting framework, we’ve made available an export API that can reliably download a compressed CSV file containing the contents of the report in minutes instead of the hours it might have used to take. For reports that are available in this API we strongly
recommend that you no longer page through the reports using the Get-MSGraphNextPage or Get-MSGraphAllPages cmdlets. Those cmdlets may have worse performance, or even stop working. You should instead use the new export API as we’ve shown here.
We also plan on making changes to the way we render data in the console to limit reports to rendering 500,000 rows. While sort will only take place on the 500,000 rows displayed, search, filter, and export will still work across the entire dataset, so we recommend using search and filter to narrow the scope of a report that you need to interact with in the UI. If you need access to the full dataset you can quickly download it via export in the UI, or our export API.
Here is the total list of reports now supported by our new framework:
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Removed report
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New report
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Sprint Released (YYMM)
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Device Compliance
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Non-compliant devices operational report (Devices > Monitor)
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1911
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Device Compliance
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Device Compliance organizational report (Reports > Device Compliance)
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1911
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Device compliance trends report (Reports > Device Compliance)
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1911
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Device compliance logging
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1911
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Device List
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New Devices List – With upgraded controls for search, sort, filter, export and with better performance
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2003
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Devices List (EDU)
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New Devices List in EDU console – With upgraded controls for search, sort, filter, export, and with better performance
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2005
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Antivirus agent status organizational report (Reports > Microsoft Defender Antivirus (Preview))
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2009
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Antivirus agent status operational report (Endpoint security > Antivirus)
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2009
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Detected malware organizational report (Reports > Microsoft Defender Antivirus (Preview))
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2009
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Detected malware operational report (Endpoint security > Antivirus)
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2009
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Windows 10 feature updates organizational report (Reports > Windows updates(Preview))
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2009
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Windows 10 feature updates operational report (Devices > Monitor)
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2009
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Group policy migration readiness organizational report (Reports > Group policy analytics (Preview))
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2009
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As a reminder, our sprints are year-month (YYMM), so 1911 was the November 2019 release and 2009 is the September 2020 release.
We will keep posting updates as more reports become available as part of our reporting framework improvements. We’d love to hear any questions or feedback – You can comment on this post orreach out to us on Twitter @spencershum or @IntuneSuppTeam.
by Scott Muniz | Sep 21, 2020 | Azure, Technology, Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
Check out the following deep dive videos to learn more about new Azure Disk Storage capabilities and features:
Understanding disk IO and how to leverage disk bursting
Overview of Azure Disk Storage security features
Run clustered applications on Azure with shared disks
by Scott Muniz | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
Attending Microsoft Ignite virtually this year and missing good ol’ conference swag? Want to win a special limited edition Humans of IT swag box? Here’s your chance – read on to learn more!
You’ve probably already seen these boxes all over social media, but if you haven’t and want to know what’s in the box, click here or here.
ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A MICROSOFT HUMANS OF IT SWAG BOX
3 easy steps:
1. RSVP and attend at least one of the eight Microsoft Humans of IT sessions. View the entire session list at https://aka.ms/MSIgniteHumans. Be sure to hit the RSVP button to guarantee your spot since they are limited capacity only. Unfortunately, only folks who tune in live are eligible to participate as we will be picking winners that same day and session recordings will not be available until after the conference has ended.
2. After the session, comment on this blog post below with your response to the 3 questions below:
– What was your favorite Microsoft Ignite Humans of IT session and why? (Please note: Only entries mentioned Humans of IT sessions will be eligible)
– Why is it so important to embrace the human side of tech?
– How have you connected with other humans during the virtual Microsoft Ignite conference?
3. When you’re done posting the above response, post a tweet with the URL to your response with the hashtags #MSIgnite #HumansofIT so that we can contact you if you’re the winner.
Two winners will be selected at the end of Day 1 (Sept 22) and Day 2 (Sept 23) of Microsoft Ignite.
Terms and conditions apply.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- This giveaway is opened to anyone aged 18 and above in any country where domestic/international shipping from the US is permitted. If you have not reached the age of majority in your legal place of residence, then you must have consent from your parent/legal guardian to participate.
- Each selected winner can only win once. You may submit multiple entries for different sessions, however you will only be eligible to win once.
- Winners must consent to providing us their shipping address so we can deliver this to you.
- Winner may not resell this giveaway item for commercial profit.
- We reserve the right to withdraw/cancel this giveaway if the winner is found to be in violation of the Community Code of Conduct.
- Winners will be notified within 3 days following the drawing via their Tech Community account and/or Twitter handles with prize claim instructions, including a submission deadline of 3 days. If a selected winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize or fails to return any forms, the selected winner will forfeit their prize. If you are a potential winner but have not reached the age of majority in your legal place of residence, we may require your parent/legal guardian to sign all required forms on your behalf.
ENTRY PERIOD
The entry period starts at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time (PT) on September 22, 2020, and ends at 9:30 p.m. PT on September 23, 2020 (“Entry Period”). Please see https://time.is/UTC or another time zone converter for your local time.
We look forward to seeing you at Microsoft Ignite Humans of IT sessions starting tomorrow!
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by Scott Muniz | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
This article is written by Humans of IT Community Ambassador and Business Applications MVP, Nathan Lasnoski (in partnership with Windows Development MVP Min Maung), who shares how artificial intelligence can be used to enable employment and functional opportunities for individuals with cognitive disabilities.
What responsibility does technology (and do technologists) have in creating innovation that leads to the realization and fulfillment of a human being? Does technology create a new generation of unfairly applied have and have-nots? We can use technology to drastically improve the positive tech impact on human involvement and engagement, especially for individuals with disabilities who are often excluded from opportunities within society. In this story we talk about the work done at Clover to enable individuals with cognitive disabilities to engage in opportunities that were previously thought impossible.
USING AI FOR GOOD BEYOND ANY ONE INDUSTRY: EMPLOYMENT FOR THE COGNITIVELY DISABLED
Clover Technologies wanted its warehouses to be the best workplace environments among any of its competitors. To get there, we built a mixed-reality platform leveraging a multi-component scanner, headset, visual, and audio input. The idea was to optimize the picking experience for a worker by providing instructions on where they should go, when, and how, augmenting it with quality control, location awareness, and easy scanning capabilities. Then, this idea expanded further: if we could provide impact to capable workers, why not ones with cognitive disabilities, such as Down syndrome or autism?
Did you know that less than 10% of individuals with Down syndrome and cognitive disabilities are employed? We believe that tech can help empower all individuals to be productive and have the ability to be gainfully employed. Clover, Concurrency (with MVPs Min Maung and Nathan Lasnoski), Microsoft, and Gigi’s Playhouse Down syndrome development centers partnered to do something about it. We realized these individuals could do meaningful warehouse work with a human assistant, and we wanted to simulate this assistance with technology.
AZURE COMPONENTS IN THE OPEN-SOURCE SOLUTION
We combined the headset, audio input, visual input and hand-attached scanner to enable an individual to work in the warehouse. We proved the success of the technology with one individual, then expanded to more, bringing groups from Gigi’s Playhouse to experience the difference. The solution leverages Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, Azure ML, Azure SQL, Azure Speech and location awareness.
The architecture made use of the dispatcher modules to facilitate routing between QnA maker AI models, weather, fun engagement, and third party applications.
You can see here how the project evolved over time. We started with initial pilot capabilities, moved into validation, learnings in a real environment with real people, then moving into open source.
This AI for Good solution is now available on open source in order to increase its impact for good. Large suppliers, manufacturers, and stores are asking to leverage it to improve their own working environments. The result is a better workplace and a larger base of potential employees for companies to hire from. We know of nothing out there that better demonstrates the power of AI to create jobs for those most at risk than this technology. Visit AI For Good Technologies (aitechnologyforgood.com) to join the Open Source Community on GitHub.
WORLDWIDE RELEVANCE
This gets to a critical point about the relevance and impact of this work. When a large company like Clover can achieve this level of impact, leaders at even larger companies can begin to see their own opportunities to help empower others in the community. The impact has been proven out across hundreds of Microsoft customers—in tours, reference calls for the field sales team, and at Microsoft’s DTA. At the DTA presentation, the story “brought the house down” without a dry eye in the theatre, driving excitement about what is possible when leaders see AI not as “nice to have” but “need to have”— in order to transform business operations and people’s work opportunities. Now, as organizations look to survive, recover, and thrive beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, broadening employment opportunities on both the employer and employee side becomes even more compelling than before. How will YOU use your tech skills to help empower others today?
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#AIforGood
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