Change in ourselves helps drive change in the world  

An email from CEO Satya Nadella to Microsoft employees:  Seeing injustice in the world calls us all to take action, as individuals and as a company. Sometimes this action is personal – what do I do to change? Sometimes it is organizational – what changes do I need to make around me? And sometimes it is reflected…

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How to stream Windows Defender ATP hunting logs in Azure Data Explorer

Windows Defender ATP advanced hunting is a query-based threat-hunting tool that lets you explore up to 30 days of raw data. You can proactively inspect events in your network to locate interesting indicators and entities. The flexible access to data fa… Continue reading How to stream Windows Defender ATP hunting logs in Azure Data Explorer

Support Tip: ISV VPP apps not available for iPad or other types of devices

We recently heard from a customer that their Apple Volume Purchasing Program (VPP) apps were unavailable on iPad devices. Through investigation, we discovered that the ISV-published app data was incomplete.
 
The metadata on what device types can … Continue reading Support Tip: ISV VPP apps not available for iPad or other types of devices

How to Get Workflow Definitions Using the REST API

Premier Field Engineer Gunjan Datta provides an example of getting all 2010 and 2013 workflow definitions, using the gd-sprest library to interact with the REST API.

Overview of Demo Environment
For this code example, I will create 8 total workflows:

List Workflows

2010 Published
2010 Un-Published
2013 Published
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Pointer: Domain Time Synchronization in the Age of Working from Home

If you’re looking for tips on how to keep your remote workers connected and synchronized with time (which is critical for domain joined systems), look no further than this blog on Sarath Madakasira’s blog on Domain Time Synchronization in the Age … Continue reading Pointer: Domain Time Synchronization in the Age of Working from Home

Lesson Learned #129:Using Data Source External from Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Managed Instance

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer asked about how to connect from Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. 
 
Well, the first thing that I did is to enable the Public Endpoint of Azure SQL Managed Instance. After… Continue reading Lesson Learned #129:Using Data Source External from Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Managed Instance

Using fibers to expand a thread’s stack at runtime, part 4

Last time, we transported some ephemeral error state from the temporary fiber to the originating thread. A common way of reporting an error in C++ is to use an exception, so let’s use that.

In this case, we capture the result of the callback with a std::variant of an exception_ptr or the formal return value. The exception_ptr is used if th Continue reading Using fibers to expand a thread’s stack at runtime, part 4