Azure AI Speech launches new zero-shot TTS models for Personal Voice

Azure AI services Blog > Azure AI Speech launches new zero-shot TTS models for Personal Voice https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/azure-ai-speech-launches-new-zero-shot-tts-models-for-personal/ba-p/4044521 At the Ignite conference on Nov 15, 2023, we announced the public preview of Personal Voice, which is specifically designed to enable customers to build apps that allow their users to easily create and use their own AI …

Monitoring Life Cycle Management Policy Runs

Azure PaaS Blog > Monitoring Life Cycle Management Policy Runs https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-paas-blog/monitoring-life-cycle-management-policy-runs/ba-p/4043629   The blog talks about how you can leverage the existing metrics and diagnostic logging to monitor or track the execution of lifecycle management policies.    To start, with the Lifecycle management, you will be mainly transitioning blobs from one tier to another or …

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2024

Microsoft for Java Developers > Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2024 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-on-visual-studio-code-update-january-2024/ Hi everyone, welcome to the first update for Visual Studio Code for Java of 2024! We hope everyone had a refreshing break. In this blog we have some exciting updates for the new Test Coverage UX as well as reliability …

General availability: Israel Central region added to Azure HDInsight

Azure service updates > General availability: Israel Central region added to Azure HDInsight https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-israel-central-region-added-to-azure-hdinsight/ .

General availability: Italy North region added to Azure HDInsight

Azure service updates > General availability: Italy North region added to Azure HDInsight https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-italy-north-region-added-to-azure-hdinsight/ .

Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes now available on Azure Marketplace!

Azure Arc Blog > Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes now available on Azure Marketplace! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-arc-blog/azure-arc-enabled-kubernetes-now-available-on-azure-marketplace/ba-p/4034060 Earlier this year, Kubernetes Apps in the Azure Marketplace became Generally Available on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With Kubernetes Apps, teams can extend the capabilities of their deployments with a vibrant ecosystem of tested and transactable third-party solutions from industry-leading partners and popular …

Data MVPs and Microsoft Fabric Super Users in the Era of AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition

Azure SQL Blog > Data MVPs and Microsoft Fabric Super Users in the Era of AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/data-mvps-and-microsoft-fabric-super-users-in-the-era-of-ai-data/ba-p/4043871 Taking a step back in this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition to dive into the Microsoft MVP program and learn what Fabric Super Users are.   Watch on Data Exposed   Resources: …

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

Azure service updates > Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/exrguidedportalexperience/ With multi-site resiliency, you can configure your ExpressRoute circuits through more than a single peering location. This helps ensure that your’ private connection to Microsoft remains available even if one of the locations experiences an outage. The experience is targeted at …

Data MVPs and Fabric Super Users | Data Exposed: MVP Edition

Azure SQL Blog > Data MVPs and Fabric Super Users | Data Exposed: MVP Edition https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/data-mvps-and-fabric-super-users-data-exposed-mvp-edition/ba-p/4043871 Taking a step back in this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition to dive into the Microsoft MVP program and learn what Fabric Super Users are.   Watch on Data Exposed   Resources: Become a Microsoft MVP Microsoft Fabric …

Announcing HCIBox support for Azure Stack HCI 23H2

Azure Arc Blog > Announcing HCIBox support for Azure Stack HCI 23H2 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-arc-blog/announcing-hcibox-support-for-azure-stack-hci-23h2/ba-p/4035596 Since HCI 23h2 was announced, HCIBox users have been asking me and the Jumpstart team, "when will HCIBox be ready?" Some are interested in the new cloud deployment features, others are curious about a refreshed AKS on HCI. The wait is over. At …

Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

Azure service updates > Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-business-continuity-center-is-now-available-in-all-regions/ Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

Preview of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions

Apps on Azure Blog > Preview of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/preview-of-distributed-tracing-v2-for-durable-functions/ba-p/4039050 We released Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions to help improve observability!    Durable Functions enables you to write long-running, reliable, event-driven, and stateful logic on the Azure Functions platform using everyday imperative code.    Distributed Tracing allows you to correlate …

Transitioning Smoothly from Twilio to Azure Communication Services

Azure Communication Services Blog > Transitioning Smoothly from Twilio to Azure Communication Services https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-communication-services/transitioning-smoothly-from-twilio-to-azure-communication/ba-p/4043659 Twilio recently announced that their Programmable Video API will be deprecated effective December 5, 2024. Azure Communication Services offers real-time video calling solutions for developers looking to migrate from Twilio’s Video API. Below is  a migration guide to add video to a …

Use Streaming Ingestion to Azure Data Explorer with Azure Stream Analytics

Azure service updates > Use Streaming Ingestion to Azure Data Explorer with Azure Stream Analytics https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/adxstreamingingestion/ Use Streaming Ingestion to output data to Azure Data Explorer with Azure Stream Analytics

Generally Available: VMware Cloud Director Availability for Azure VMware solution with Run commands

Azure Migration and Modernization Blog > Generally Available: VMware Cloud Director Availability for Azure VMware solution with Run commands https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-migration-and/generally-available-vmware-cloud-director-availability-for-azure/ba-p/4042469 Generally Available: VMware Cloud Director Availability for Azure VMware solution with Run commands   Today we are announcing the general availability for VMware Cloud Director Availability, a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution on …

Introducing More Granular Certificate-Based Authentication Configuration in Conditional Access

Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) Blog > Introducing More Granular Certificate-Based Authentication Configuration in Conditional Access https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/introducing-more-granular-certificate-based-authentication/ba-p/2365668 I’m thrilled to announce the public preview of advanced certificate-based authentication (CBA) options in Conditional Access, which provides the ability to allow access to specific resources based on the certificate Issuer or Policy Object Identifiers (OIDs) properties.    Our …

Announcing HCIBox support for Azure Stack HCI 23H2

Azure Arc Blog > Announcing HCIBox support for Azure Stack HCI 23H2 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-arc-blog/announcing-hcibox-support-for-azure-stack-hci-23h2/ba-p/4035596 Since HCI 23h2 was announced, HCIBox users have been asking me and the Jumpstart team, "when will HCIBox be ready?" Some are interested in the new cloud deployment features, others are curious about a refreshed AKS on HCI. The wait is over. At …

A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio

Visual Studio Blog > A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-year-of-cpp-improvements-in-visual-studio/ As we enter the new year, it’s a good time to look back at all the features and improvements we made for C++ developers in Visual Studio in 2023. We’ve made advancements across the IDE, toolchain, and the vcpkg package manager in …

More vCore options for SQL MI Business Critical for better price/performance and flexibility

Azure SQL Blog > More vCore options for SQL MI Business Critical for better price/performance and flexibility https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/more-vcore-options-for-sql-mi-business-critical-for-better-price/ba-p/4043195 Recently, we announced a number of Azure SQL Managed Instance improvements in Business Critical tier. In this article, we would like to highlight the more granular selection of the number of vCores for both premium-series and premium-series memory …

AzCopy support for Entra ID authentication

Azure Storage Blog > AzCopy support for Entra ID authentication https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-storage-blog/azcopy-support-for-entra-id-authentication/ba-p/4037559 AzCopy support for Entra ID authentication using Azure CLI or PowerShell authentication tokens   Using AzCopy version 10.22.0 or newer you can reuse your existing Entra ID authentication tokens from Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI for authentication for blob transfers to and from your …