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Are yer sites and content mean-spirited and aggressive – like our Looney Tunes friend, Yosemite Sam? Let us parlay any angst into an inner admin calm – your Bugs Bunny if you will. You’ll be hootin’-n-tootin’ in no time thanking us for them thar oversharing insights.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Sesha Mani, Partner Group Product Manager at Microsoft focused on security and compliance. We spoke to Sesha about SAM – that’s SharePoint Advanced Management. We cover its core benefits – helping SharePoint and IT Admins address sprawl and oversharing – mapped to what it gives you beyond the core management aspects within the SharePoint admin center. SAM expands on the principles of securing and managing content and data with advanced access policies for secure content collaboration AND advanced sites content lifecycle management.
“When I say whoa, I mean whoa!”– Yosemite Sam. Whoa now, whoa – sit back and enjoy this here episode.
Be sure to visit our show page to hear all episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. And stay connected to the SharePoint community blog and the Syntex community blog where we’ll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users (TheIntrazone@microsoft.com).
‘This town IS big enough to get yer Intrazone anywheres’
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Greetings, Azure Database for PostgreSQL community! As we step into August, it’s time to look back and reflect on the significant updates and features we introduced in July 2023. At Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, our consistent focus is on offering stellar performance, unwavering reliability, and unbeatable security via our flexible server solution. Let’s dive into the key takeaways from the last month.
Feature Highlights Summary
In July, we launched significant updates to optimize your experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server:
Flexible Server now supports PostgreSQL 15 (general availability)
Automation Tasks for managing your Flexible Server with greater ease (preview)
Flexible Server Migration: Parallel table migration support (general availability)
Flexible Server Migration: Automatic Migration of Users, Roles, Permissions, and Ownerships (general availability)
Introducing AMD Compute SKUs for General Purpose and Memory Optimized Tiers (general availability)
We are excited to announce that PostgreSQL 15 is now Generally Available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server in all supported regions. After a successful preview phase, we’re delighted to offer our users the stability, robust features, and security enhancements of PostgreSQL 15.
PostgreSQL 15 includes several new features, performance improvements, and advanced functionalities to address a variety of use cases for developers and DBAs. The upgraded version ensures improved performance, scalability, and efficiency, as well as tightened security controls, reinforcing our commitment to providing our users with the most advanced database solutions. For steps on how to upgrade to PostgreSQL 15, please refer – Major Version Upgrade for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
We are pleased to introduce the preview of “Automation Tasks” for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. This feature enables users to automate common management tasks such as starting / stopping servers on schedule, scaling server resources, or sending monthly cost report.
Automation tasks are designed to be basic and lightweight. These tasks are essentially logic app resources that execute workflows at the Azure resource level, powered by the multi-tenant Azure Logic Apps service. Once an automation task has completed at least one run, users can view and edit the underlying workflow in the workflow designer.
Creating an automation task doesn’t incur immediate charges. Instead, the billing model is based on consumption, where metering and billing are driven by triggers and action executions in the underlying logic app workflow. Task history contains a log of task runs and their status. If you wish to modify a task after its creation, they can edit it inline or adjust the underlying workflow in the workflow designer. For more details, refer Manage Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server using automation tasks.
We’re delighted to introduce the Intra-Table Parallelism feature to the Flexible Server Migration tool for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Designed to simplify the migration of your single server workload to flexible server, this tool now supports simultaneous migration of multiple partitions within a single table. This parallelism substantially minimizes migration time and enhances process efficiency.
This upgrade is particularly beneficial for larger databases, leading to considerable time and resource savings. If you’re contemplating migrating your database to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, the Intra-Table Parallelism feature provides an efficient pathway to expedite the migration process and quicken your database’s operational readiness.
Automatic Migration of Users, Roles, Permissions, and Ownerships
We’ve further upgraded the Flexible Server Migration tool for Azure Database for PostgreSQL by adding the ability to automatically migrate users, roles, permissions, and ownerships from a single server to a flexible server.
This enhancement simplifies the migration process and ensures that all database object ownerships and privileges are correctly assigned to their respective users and roles in the flexible server. This new feature underscores our commitment to making the transition to our flexible server solution as seamless and accurate as possible.
To make the most of these features, refer to our customer guide.
We are delighted to announce that Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now offers you the choice between Intel and AMD hardware. This expanded offering extends to our General Purpose (v5-series) and Memory Optimized (v5-series) tiers. The inclusion of AMD SKUs introduces choice of hardware vendors t for both your primary and secondary servers, thereby providing greater control and flexibility over your workload deployment. As part of our commitment to accessibility, these AMD options are now available in more regions and zones.
For a comprehensive understanding of these offerings, see the service pricing page.
This month, we’re thrilled to spotlight the experience of a renowned global IT solutions provider Fujitsu, who employed Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server in their mission to transform their established EDI solution into a cloud-based offering. Using open-source technologies such as Java and PostgreSQL, they integrated our fully managed PostgreSQL database service into their system, relishing its flexibility, scalability, reliability, and security. The use of our PaaS services significantly reduced operational burden and enabled rapid expansion of their services.
A microservice architecture, linking each PaaS service by API, contributed to superior flexibility, scalability, and improved reliability and stability. This not only increased their operational efficiency but also enhanced the convenience of their cloud services.
This customer story exemplifies the immense potential and robustness of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, particularly when paired with open-source technologies. For a more detailed account of their success, please check out the Fujitsu Japan rebuilt their solution by fully utilizing Azure PaaS.
Conclusion
As we close out July 2023, we celebrate key strides in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server’s development. The launch of PostgreSQL 15, preview of Automation Tasks, enhancements to our Migration tool, and the introduction of AMD Compute SKUs, all contribute to an enriched, efficient user experience.
Thank you for taking the time to stay updated with the recent developments in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We’re excited to see how these new features will contribute to your success.
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We are excited to announce that starting August 7th, 2023, Microsoft Release Planner will support the content in 11 new languages. Users around the world can now view the release plans of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, and English.
This update underscores our commitment to inclusivity. We at Microsoft strongly believe that language should not be a barrier to accessing tools and information. With this update, we aim to provide a more personalized, standardized, and intuitive user experience regardless of where you are in the world.
How to view and manage plans in your preferred language?
Our user-friendly design ensures that the Release Planner automatically loads in your preferred language based on your browser settings. Additionally, you can switch to your desired language through the language switcher in the header.
The Release Planner advantage
The Release planner for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform allows customers to view and manage release plans across all active release waves in a unified and interactive interface while giving them the option to personalize, filter, sort, and collaborate on release plans.
Under the hood, the Release Planner is powered by the Power Apps portal. It is created based on customer feedback to address the constraints of content suitability, discoverability, and personalization. Our goal is to improve the release planning and change management process where it matters most – help customers identify and track their salient capabilities, included in both the current and upcoming release waves.
Here are some of its key features:
Content personalization through ‘My Release plans’
Create a curated list of release plans you would like to follow. All the release plans across various products can be viewed in a unified view.
Collaborate on plans effortlessly and securely
Share your curated list and effortlessly and securely with your stakeholders. Collaborate on individual plans using notes and comments all within the Release Planner experience. Your comments are displayed only to the stakeholders with whom you have shared the plan. The owner of the comment has complete control over editing and deleting the comment.
Filter, sort and group plans based on multiple criteria
Customize your view by using multiple filters, sorting, and grouping criteria. These criteria are available for both ‘All release plans’ and ‘My release plans’ views. You can also view the plans grouped by product theme or timeline.
Thank you for your continued support as we work to make our product more accessible worldwide. We hope this update sparks more creativity and productivity across our global community! Stay tuned for more exciting updates.
Here’s to breaking down barriers and welcoming a world of new possibilities!
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We are delighted to announce that the export to Azure Logic Apps Standard functionality, available in our Logic Apps (Standard) VS Code extension, has reached general availability. This tool provides customers planning to migrate from Integration Services Environment (ISE) or Azure Logic Apps Consumption with a streamlined way to move workflows from those tiers into a Logic Apps Standard project. You can then locally update, test, and debug your workflows to get them ready for redeployment. When you’re ready, you can deploy either directly from Visual Studio Code or through your own DevOps process.
Common usage scenarios
Exporting Logic Apps workflows from ISE to Standard
With ISE being retired on August 31st 2024, customers need a reliable tool to streamline the process of grouping and exporting workflows to Logic Apps Standard. You can find more information on how to use the tool to export workflows from ISE to Logic Apps Standard here. And you can learn more about ISE Retirement and implications on this FAQ.
Exporting Logic Apps workflows from Consumption to Standard
Some customers currently using Logic Apps Consumption are interested in moving their workflows to Logic Apps Standard, to take advantage of a series of benefits that Logic Apps Standard brings, including: native networking integration and isolation, a group of enterprise connectors that runs natively within the Logic Apps runtime, improving performance and removing throttling limits imposed by Azure Connectors, among others benefits. You can learn more about exporting Logic Apps Consumption workflows to Logic Apps Standard here.
native network integration and isolation,
connector isolation, which removes the throttling limits imposed Azure Connectors
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