No more limits: simpler server onboarding for large deployments

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Starting today, there’s no limit to the number of Azure Arc-enabled servers you can add to a resource group! We listened to your feedback and understood that the previous limit of 5,000 servers per resource group didn’t always align with your existing organizational schemes for hybrid and multicloud servers. With this change, you can choose to use a single onboarding script to connect every server to the same resource group, without worrying about partitioning large deployments across multiple resource groups.


 


Looking to get started with a large deployment of Azure Arc-enabled servers? Take a look at the Azure Arc Landing Zone Accelerator to prepare for the deployment, then consider our at-scale onboarding guidance to configure the servers using your automation tooling of choice:



 


Don’t see your favorite automation tooling above? Let us know in the comments so we can continue to improve our at-scale onboarding experience.

Customer journey orchestration levels up with advanced tools in Dynamics 365 Marketing

Customer journey orchestration levels up with advanced tools in Dynamics 365 Marketing

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Marketers design customer journeys to provide the right message at the right time for customers to take the next step. With more opportunities than ever for interaction, you must take care not to overwhelm customers with unwanted messages. That’s why we’re delighted to introduce advanced real-time customer journey orchestration tools in Dynamics 365 Marketing that help you engage customers at key moments without bombarding them with spam.

Engage the right audience effortlessly with the new segment builder

Targeting the right audience is critical for creating highly personalized marketing campaigns that yield high conversion rates and improve engagement. Previously, the segment builder in Dynamics 365 Marketing required a deep understanding of database schemas. The new real-time segment builder in customer journey orchestration is marketer friendly. Easily reach customers through segmenting on demographic, firmographic, and behavioral data.

Here are some of the benefits of the new real-time marketing segment builder:

  • It’s powered by artificial intelligence. Just describe, in plain English, how you’d like to create the segment, then review and use it.
  • There’s no need to memorize relationships between tables. The builder automatically populates all the possible paths between customer profiles and the selected data table for you.
  • View segment size and membership estimates before publishing.
  • Enjoy a consistent creation experience between static and dynamic segments.
  • Include or exclude individual members.
  • Query segments based on their customer data in a consistent manner, without having to worry about which segment type to choose first.
  • Adjust segment refresh frequency after publication.

Screenshot of the new segment builder in customer journey orchestration.

Test your journey triggers to provide seamless experiences

Customers expect consistent and uninterrupted experiences in their interactions with brands. With custom trigger testing, marketers can simulate a customer’s experience, using themselves as a test subject. They can evaluate the journey based on the attributes defined in the custom trigger to identify and address issues before they affect real customers.

Screenshot of the custom trigger test page in Dynamics 365 Marketing customer journey orchestration.

Boost your productivity when sending journey reminders

To improve the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns, it’s crucial to remind customers to take action on key tasks such as filling out a registration form or completing a purchase.

With enhanced real-time customer journey orchestration, it’s easy to set up recurring reminders to streamline the process of moving customers down the funnel. The reminder feature allows sending emails, text messages, and push notifications to increase engagement chances, instead of simply repeating the same marketing messages in the same channels. You can even set the number of repetitions or a time limit to make sure that messages aren’t sent indefinitely.

Track the customer’s exit from the reminder loop, too. By capturing different branches separately, such as cart checked out, cart not checked out, and cart expired, you can target and follow up with each segment appropriately.

Screenshot of the journey reminders page in Dynamics 365 Marketing customer journey orchestration.

Optimize customer engagement by controlling the number of messages sent

Consumers’ mailboxes are overflowing. Marketers must be careful not to overwhelm their customers with email, which can result in lower message engagement rates, increased unsubscribe rates, spam reports, or important messages being missed. With frequency capping, you can optimize engagement by controlling how many messages are sent.

Frequency capping allows marketers to define the maximum number of messages their customers receive through a particular channel per day, week, and month. Transactional messages are always excluded, and individual journeys can be left out of the cap so that important messages can be received. You can view whether a message was blocked by the frequency cap and for which users.

By monitoring engagement rates with marketing messages, you can fine-tune your message frequency. You’ll make sure that you’re striking the right balance between keeping the brand top-of-mind and overwhelming customers with too many messages.

Screenshot of the email frequency cap settings in Dynamics 365 Marketing.

Deliver personalized experiences at scale with advanced customer journey orchestration tools

Real-time journey orchestration now has interactions capabilities to deliver personalized experiences at scale. Reach up to 100 million contacts and deliver up to 300 million monthly interactions through email, text messages, push notifications, or custom channels, and create segments of up to 30 million contacts. That’s up from the previous limit of 100 million outbound interactions to 30 million contacts and 10 million contacts per segment.

Key takeaways about advanced real-time customer journey orchestration

Get greater engagement from your customers in 2023 with Dynamics 365 Marketing. Thanks to our advanced customer journey orchestration features, you’ll interact with customers on their terms, engaging them when and how they expect, without delivering disjointed experiences or spamming them. You’ll spend less time designing and maintaining your customer journeys and feel more confident that you’re delivering seamless, high-quality experiences.

Next steps

Start using our new features and get ready for the ones coming soon:

Consult the release notes to learn more about exciting updates to Dynamics 365 Marketing, including preview and general availability dates.

Not yet a Dynamics 365 Marketing customer? Take a guided tour and get a free trial!

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Azure Marketplace new offers – February 2, 2023

Azure Marketplace new offers – February 2, 2023

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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 81 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:


 




















































































































































































































































































































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AGRIVI.png AGRIVI 360 Farm Insights: AGRIVI 360 Farm Insights simplifies administration and helps farmers make precise agronomic decisions based on real-time field information. This can ensure crop production traceability and enable compliance with quality, safety, and sustainability standards.
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Booking for Outlook (LV-Tron): IAdea’s LV-Tron, a meeting room booking system, seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft Graph API, allowing users to easily schedule and manage room reservations from within their Outlook calendar.


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Data Science Virtual Desktop – Ubuntu 22.04: This offer from Ntegral provides a customized virtual machine image built specifically for data science. Several popular tools for data exploration, analysis, modeling, and development are preinstalled, including Anaconda, Python, Jupyter Hub, Jupyter Lab, Visual Studio Code, and PySpark.


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DevOps All-in-One Platform with Jenkins: This offer from VMLab, an authorized reseller of Websoft9, provides GitLab CE 15.6 with Jenkins 2.375, NGINX 1.22, and Docker 20.10. GitLab CE bundles code review, continuous integration, and continuous deployment into a single UI.


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Firebird 3.0.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: This offer from Tidal Media provides Firebird 3.0.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Firebird is a relational database management system that can scale from an embedded single-user model to enterprise-wide deployments with multiple 2-terrabye databases running and hundreds of simultaneous clients.


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Grid Vision: Built for the utilities industry, the AI-powered Grid Vision Inspect enables virtual inspections of overhead power lines. This improves inspection safety for transmission and distribution utilities globally, and it supports a transition to predictive maintenance of the power grid.


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Grid Vision Asset Guide: Grid Vision Asset Guide allows utilities organizations to consolidate their digitized substation inventory, documents, and images, then visualize that information through an intuitive user interface. Grid Vision Asset Guide can improve inspection planning, capacity planning, and operations.


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hyOffice for Microsoft Teams: Fit for the world of hybrid work, the hyOffice app for Microsoft Teams lets your team see who’s in the office for a meeting and who’s joining virtually. Employees can maintain a favorites list of their team colleagues, schedule their office days based on occupancy, and see meeting participants in the day’s calendar.


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Keycloak on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS: This offer from AskforCloud provides Keycloak on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution, encompasses user federation, strong authentication, user management, and fine-grained authorization.


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KNIME Analytics Platform on Windows Server 2016: This offer from AskforCloud provides KNIME Analytics Platform on Windows Server 2016. KNIME Analytics Platform is open-source software that lets you build analyses of any complexity level, from automating spreadsheets to ETL (extract, transform, load) to machine learning.


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Kubeark Container: Transform your on-premises product into software as a service with Kubeark, a container and app management platform. Using containers managed by Kubeark, your infrastructure costs will be lower, you will gain out-of-the-box high availability, and your DevOps team will be able to run containerized workloads on any infrastructure.


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Locust on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS: This offer from AskforCloud provides Locust on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. Locust is an open-source load-testing tool that allows you to define the behavior of your users in regular Python code instead of being stuck in a UI or restrictive domain-specific language.


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ME Applications Manager with Add-ons (500 Monitors): ManageEngine Applications Manager is an integrated application and server performance-monitoring solution that helps businesses ensure high availability. It provides deep visibility into the performance of a diverse set of apps and infrastructure components, both within the datacenter and in the cloud.


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Melingo Search, Secured and Supported by HOSSTED: This offer from HOSSTED provides Morfix Search by Melingo on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. Morfix Search is a morphological Hebrew-English plug-in for OpenSearch, a community-driven open-source search and analytics suite.


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MongoDB: This offer from Kockpit provides MongoDB Community Server, a distributed document database, on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. MongoDB Community Server’s flexible document model, along with ad hoc queries, indexing, and real-time aggregation, gives you powerful ways to access and analyze your data.


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PureFTPd on Debian 10 Minimal: This offer from Art Group provides PureFTPd on a minimal installation of Debian 10. PureFTPd is a security-focused FTP server that uses simple command-line switches to enable the features you need, such as optional support for an SSL/TLS encryption layer using the OpenSSL library.


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PureFTPd on Debian 11 Minimal: This offer from Art Group provides PureFTPd on a minimal installation of Debian 11. PureFTPd is a security-focused FTP server that uses simple command-line switches to enable the features you need, such as optional support for an SSL/TLS encryption layer using the OpenSSL library.


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PureFTPd on Oracle 8.6 Minimal: This offer from Art Group provides PureFTPd on a minimal installation of Oracle 8.6. PureFTPd is a security-focused FTP server that uses simple command-line switches to enable the features you need, such as optional support for an SSL/TLS encryption layer using the OpenSSL library.


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QGIS Server: This offer from tunnelbiz Studio Sdn Bhd provides QGIS on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. QGIS is an open-source geographic information system that supports viewing, editing, printing, and analysis of geospatial data.


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Minimal: This offer from Ntegral provides a minimal installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has built-in security features such as Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and mandatory access controls to help you combat intrusions and meet regulatory compliance.


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Starbound Game Server on Windows Server 2019: This offer from Tidal Media provides Starbound on Windows Server 2019. Starbound is an action-adventure video game that takes place in a two-dimensional procedurally generated universe. Players can deploy the game server on Azure and modify the game to add new races, biomes, dungeons, or quests. 


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Swift 5 on CentOS: This offer from AskforCloud provides Swift 5 on a CentOS Linux distribution. Swift is an open-source high-performance system programming language with clean and modern syntax. Swift offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code and frameworks, and it’s memory-safe by default.


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Swift 5 on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS: This offer from AskforCloud provides Swift 5 on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. Swift is an open-source high-performance system programming language with clean and modern syntax. Swift offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code and frameworks, and it’s memory-safe by default.


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TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for Azure v 8.1.1: TIBCO Jaspersoft is a reporting and analytics server built for Microsoft Azure that can run alone or be embedded in your application. Use it to to quickly connect to your Azure data sources, then create and distribute beautiful interactive reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.


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Touchcast Metaverse Car Configurator: Touchcast Metaverse Car Configurator gives car buyers a real-time 3D experience instead of static pictures or prerecorded videos. This immersive, hyper-personalized customer journey increases engagement and maximizes conversion rates.


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TrilioVault for Kubernetes (PAYG): TrilioVault for Kubernetes is a cloud-native, application-centric data protection and management platform designed from the ground up to support the scale, performance, and mobility requirements of Kubernetes container environments.


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Ubuntu Web Server: This offer from tunnelbiz Studio Sdn Bhd provides a preconfigured image containing an NGINX web server, the PHP scripting language, and an Ubuntu operating system on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine.


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Yoffix for Microsoft Teams: HybridOffice21’s Yoffix for Microsoft Teams introduces midsize and enterprise clients to flexible-office concepts, such as shared desks, to transparently manage office attendance and to cut costs. Yoffix lets companies manage hybrid work from within Microsoft Teams. Book desks, book parking, and enable collaboration with Yoffix.


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Zammad on Debian 10: This offer from AskforCloud provides Zammad on Debian 10. Zammad is an open-source user support and ticketing solution for managing customer communication across channels such as phone, chat, email, and social media.


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Zammad on Debian 11: This offer from AskforCloud provides Zammad on Debian 11. Zammad is an open-source user support and ticketing solution for managing customer communication across channels such as phone, chat, email, and social media.



Go further with workshops, proofs of concept, and implementations


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Accelerated Cloud Enabler for GitOps (4 Weeks): Devoteam’s Accelerated Cloud Enabler framework provides an automation engine using GitOps. Devoteam will implement a large number of best practices as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated processes, and ready-made templates, ensuring speed, consistency, security, and compliance in your Azure operations.


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Accelerated Cloud Enabler for SIEM (4 Weeks): Devoteam’s Accelerated Cloud Enabler for SIEM will enable your IT security team to work faster and more effectively. Devoteam will implement ACE SIEM, which utilizes Microsoft Sentinel, then train your organization to ensure you can use and adjust your new security operations.


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Accelerated Cloud Enabler for Transformation (8 Weeks): Devoteam will assess your company’s IT environment, break down your applications and solutions into workloads, and design an optimal migration plan for each workload. A structured migration will use automation and Infrastructure-as-Code processes to ensure consistency. This will be followed by testing and a series of workshops.


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AI and Intelligent Automation Workshop: This workshop from Productive Edge will accelerate your adoption of robotic process automation and intelligent automation on Microsoft Azure. You’ll identify potential use cases for automation and be able to take the initiative in standardizing processes and realizing cost savings.


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Automating Administration with PowerShell: This five-day course from John Bryce Training will focus on PowerShell. You’ll learn how to remotely manage single or multiple Windows-based servers and automate day-to-day management and administration tasks. Before taking this course, participants should have experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.


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Azure Cost Analysis: In this assessment, TriStratus will provide greater transparency into your Azure consumption. You’ll save money by uncovering unnecessary expenses, get help setting a budget, and establish notifications and alerts to notify you if spending begins to creep over budgeted levels.


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Azure Data Warehouse: 4-Week Assessment: Taod will analyze your on-premises or hybrid-cloud architectures and work with you to design a new technological architecture based on Microsoft Azure. This offer is only available in German.


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Azure Managed Service (1 Year): In this managed service, experts from TriStratus will drive business optimization and ensure your environment is aligned to Microsoft best practices by continually monitoring against pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework. In addition, TriStratus’ sustainability pillar will help you monitor and reduce your carbon emissions.


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BaseIT Managed Service for SQL: In this managed service, Base-IT will provide proactive and reactive support for your Microsoft SQL Server and databases. Round-the-clock support is available upon request. This offer is available only in German.


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Brand Guardian Intelligent Content Management: 6-Hour Workshop: This collaborative workshop from Wunderman Thompson will identify new solutions to give marketing, creative, and production teams content quality assurance. It’s the first step toward a multi-level engagement involving an Azure-based SaaS solution that provides intelligent content management.


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Data Warehouse Foundation: 4-Week Implementation: R Systems will design an architecture for ingesting your organization’s data sources in a common data warehouse, then use pipelines to move, format, clean, validate, summarize, reorganize, and store them for reporting in a business intelligence dashboard.


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DevOps Live-Site Engineering and Support (10 Weeks): Quadrant’s implementation service will enable customers to onboard to Azure DevOps with tools and technologies to view service-level agreements and product health metrics through built-in dashboards.


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Fully Managed Essential 8 Cybersecurity: Spicy IT’s managed service involves application control, patch management, multifactor authentication, backups, disaster recovery, and more. Businesses will be able to assess their cybersecurity maturity against established benchmarks.


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Managed Cloud Services: Absolute Cloud can help you design, build, and manage comprehensive cloud solutions based on your requirements and goals. To begin, Absolute Cloud’s architects, engineers, and DevOps specialists will work closely with your IT team to help you migrate to the cloud.


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Managed Service for Windows and Linux Servers: Do you require additional smart eyes and hands to ensure your Azure environment is always up and running? IT Relation can provide continuous monitoring to simplify management of servers on Azure. Linux and Windows operating systems are covered, as are production, development, and test environments.


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MicroAge Managed Services for Azure: MicroAge provides managed services such as monitoring Microsoft Azure infrastructure. The standard package caters to cloud service provider clients who would like MicroAge to design, operate, and manage their public cloud infrastructure.


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ML Recommendation Engine: 6-Week Implementation: R Systems will implement its machine learning recommendation engine, powered by Microsoft Azure Synapse and Azure Databricks, so you can get a comprehensive profile of your customers. Gaining a deep understanding of your customers’ interests and purchasing patterns will enable you to better engage your customers and drive sales.


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SAP SuccessFactors and Azure AD Integration (6 Weeks): Whether your organization is using SAP SuccessFactors HCM or SuccessFactors Employee Central, Oxford Computer Group can help you provision SuccessFactors to Azure Active Directory and to on-premises Active Directory.


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SQL Server Health Check: Data Platform will conduct health checks on Microsoft SQL Server systems in your institution’s infrastructure to examine performance and reveal any potential actions for improvement. At the end of the study, suggestions will be presented to you in a report.



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