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Amazon Connect scheduling now offers new time off balance and group allowance features empowering contact center managers and agents to handle time offs more efficiently. Before this launch, managers had to manually cross-verify time off balances before approving or declining requests, and agents had to contact their managers via email or third party tools to request or change their time off schedule. With this launch, managers can easily import agent time off balances and group allowances in bulk from third party HR systems (for e.g., 120 hours vacation time, 40 hours sick time), and select either an automated or manual approval workflow for their groups. Agents can request time off and receive automatic approvals (or declines) based on their time off balances and group allowances in addition to other time off rules. Post Updated on July 31, 2023 at 06:02PM

Today, AWS Clean Rooms launches two new capabilities that give customers flexibility to generate richer insights: custom analysis rule and analysis templates. These capabilities enable customers to bring their own custom SQL queries into an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration based on their specific use cases. With the custom analysis rule, customers can create their own queries using advanced SQL constructs, as well as review queries prior to their collaboration partners running them. This workflow gives customers built-in control of how their data is used in collaborations upfront, in addition to reviewing query logs after analyses are complete. Using analysis templates, customers can create queries with parameters that provide reusability and flexibility to those running queries in a collaboration. This helps customers expand and automate types of analyses they run frequently with multiple partners, minimize the need to write new SQL code when analyzing collective data sets.  Post Up...

At Microsoft, we continue working on modernizing our services to make them faster, more reliable, and up to date with the latest technologies. In this blog post, we’ll cover how Azure Load Testing helped ensure that the Azure Active Directory (AAD) based authentication mechanism for Azure Cache for Redis meets the performance criteria. Azure Cache for Redis is a fully managed, in-memory cache that enables high-performance and scalable architecture. In May 2023, Azure Cache for Redis launched a password-free authentication mechanism by integrating with AAD. This integration also includes role-based access control functionality provided through access control lists (ACLs) supported in open source Redis. Goal Azure Cache for Redis is a powerful distributed cache that handles tens of thousands of connections concurrently. Since the applications connecting to Redis are extremely sensitive to latency, it’s crucial to minimize the time taken for authentication and establishing new conne...

I noted some time ago that STATUS_ STACK_ BUFFER_ OVERRUN doesn't mean that there was a stack buffer overrun , although that's what it meant at first. Later, the status code was broadened to mean "Program self-triggered abnormal termination", but it was too late to change the name. A security vulnerability report came in that went like this: I have found a stack overflow bug in Explorer. This stack overflow occurs in ucrtbase.dll and Windows.UI.FileExplorer.dll. Since it occurs in Explorer, this can be exploited to escalate privileges. To reproduce, download the attached ZIP file and right-click it. I have also attached Explorer crash dumps for analysis. EXCEPTION_RECORD: (.exr -1) ExceptionAddress: 00007ffcaa19dd7e (ucrtbase!abort+0x000000000000004e) ExceptionCode: c0000409 (Security check failure or stack buffer overrun) ExceptionFlags: 00000001 NumberParameters: 1 Parameter[0]: 0000000000000007 Subcode: 0x7 FAST_FAIL_FATAL_APP_EXIT STACK_TEXT: ucrtbase!abort+...

In the dynamic world of identity and access management, staying up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices is not a luxury — it's a necessity. To help you remain on the cutting edge, you can now subscribe to the Microsoft Entra Developer blog via email! By subscribing, you’ll get the latest updates on Microsoft Entra so you can stay informed and adapt to industry changes. Empowering developers, enhancing skillsets As developers, we understand your time is valuable. Subscribing to the Microsoft Entra Developer blog provides you with relevant, quality content, right in your inbox. Stay informed about the ever-evolving identity landscape and learn how to leverage the power of Microsoft Entra in your projects with practical tips and guides. Here are some benefits of subscribing: Be the first to know about new resources to help you develop with Microsoft Entra. Stay up to date on the latest announcements and feature releases about Microsoft Entra, Microso...

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances, Amazon EC2 M7gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, delivering up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. These Graviton3-based instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth than DDR4. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. C7gd instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. M7gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads, such ...

Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account. Post Updated on July 28, 2023 at 06:42PM

Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads.  Post Updated on July 28, 2023 at 06:30PM

AWS Lake Formation is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. Now, you can add an IAM role or user to be a Read-Only Administrator. Using this role, Read-Only Administrators can access metadata and permissions without making changes. This allows Read-Only Administrators to search metadata without needing access the data and to validate permissions without requiring access to make changes to permissions. Post Updated on July 28, 2023 at 04:38PM

Some time ago, I showed how to duplicate a file while preserving git line history . But what if you want to revive and split off an older version of a file while preserving git line history? You can follow the same cookbook as splitting off a copy of a file. Just do the copy when you are checked out to the point when the file contains the contents you want to copy. git checkout -b split old-commit git mv file file-copy git commit -m "Copy old copy of file at old-commit" git checkout HEAD~ file git commit -m "Restore mainline of file" git checkout main git merge split Once you realize that you just have to end up with an unchanged original and a new file that was moved from an (earlier copy of) that original file, you can reduce the number of commits required to set things up in the desired final state, although it's also a bit more cumbersome. git checkout -b split old-commit git mv file file-copy git commit -m "Copy old copy of file at old-commit"...

大家好，欢迎阅读 Java on Azure 工具的六月更新。在本次更新中，我们将介绍 Azure Spring Apps 标准消费和专用计划支持以及本地存储账户（Azurite）支持。我们希望您喜欢这些功能，并享受使用 Azure 工具包 的流畅体验。请下载并安装 IntelliJ 的 Azure 工具包。让我们开始吧 Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ 提升 Azure Spring Apps Standard Consumption and Dedicated Plan 支持 Azure Spring Apps 引入了一种新的服务付费方式--消费定价计划（consumption pricing plan），该计划现已推出公开预览版。开发人员只需为这些应用程序使用的资源付费。有关详细信息，请参阅 本文档 。 在最新版本中，我们在标准消费和专用计划中添加了对在 Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ 中创建和部署应用程序的支持。创建 Azure Spring Apps 服务实例后，只需右键单击 Java 项目并将其直接部署到计划中即可。下面是一个演示。 [video mp4="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2023/07/asa-consumption-n1.mp4"][/video] Azurite Open-source Emulator 集成 Azurite open-source emulator 可让你在本地计算机上模拟 Azure Blob、Queue和Table 服务。您可以在本地针对存储服务测试应用程序，而无需创建 Azure 订阅或承担任何费用。有关详细信息，请参阅 此文档 。 在最新版本中，我们还将 Azurite open-source emulator 集成到了工具包中。您可以从 Azure Functions 项目运行 Azurite，这样就可以测试 Blob、Queue和Table 服务。在本地安装 Azurite 后，如果缺少 Azure Web Jobs 存储设置，系统会要求你选择云或仿真存储账户。利用这一功能，你可以监控应用程序在本地的运行情况。还可以切换到在云中使用 A...

Hi everyone, welcome to the June update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce Azure Spring Apps Standard Consumption and Dedicated plan support and Local Storage Account (Azurite) support. We hope you like these features and enjoy a smooth experience with our Azure toolkit. Please download and install the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ . Let’s get started. June Release and Feature Summary Azure Spring Apps Standard Consumption and Dedicated Plan Support Azure Spring Apps has introduced a new way to pay for its service – the consumption pricing plan, which is now available in public preview. his new plan is for apps that run on demand or have spikes in traffic. Developers only pay for the resources used by these apps. For more details, please refer to this documentation . With the latest release, we have added the support for creating and deploying apps in Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ to a Standard Consumption and Dedicated plan. After you have created an Azure Sprin...

作者： Kathleen Dollard     原文： New C# 12 preview features - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3 和 .NET 8 Preview 6 的发布推进了C# 12的发展。此预览版包含的功能为将来的性能增强奠定了基础。现在，您能够在库中更方便的使用内联函数。此预览版首次推出了一项实验性功能：拦截器。该功能允许生成器重新路由代码，例如提供特定于上下文的优化。最后， nameof 功能得到增强，您可以在更多的地方使用它。 安装最新的 Visual Studio 预览版或最新版本的 .NET SDK来使用 C# 12 。将项目的语言版本设置为preview，就可查看 C# 12 的功能： <PropertyGroup> <LangVersion> preview </LangVersion> </PropertyGroup> 由于这是实验性的功能，所以 拦截器需要在项目文件中添加一个附加标志 。 nameof 访问实例成员 nameof 关键字现在可用于成员名称，如初始化器、静态成员以及属性： internal class NameOf { public string S { get ; } = "" ; public static int StaticField ; public string NameOfLength { get ; } = nameof ( S . Length ); public static void NameOfExamples () { Console . WriteLine ( nameof ( S . Length )); Console . WriteLine ( nameof ( StaticField . MinValue )); } [ Description ( $ "String {nameof(S.Length)}" )] public i...

Hello prompt engineers, We first introduced OpenAI chat functions with a weather service and then a time-based conference sessions query . Both of those examples work well for ‘point in time’ queries or questions about a static set of data (e.g., the conference schedule). But each time the JetchatAI app is opened, it has no recollection of previous chats. In this post, we’re going to walk through adding some more function calls to support “favoriting” (and “unfavoriting”) conference sessions so they can be queried later. Figure 1: saving and retrieving a favorited session This will result in a very basic form of ‘chat memory’, but it could be extended however your application needs – you even could implement a function to save whole responses (along with an embedding) and make entire conversations available for recall. Building blocks There are two major additions to the JetchatAI sample to support this new functionality: A data store that persists across application restart...

We are excited to announce a new F# syntax feature that is now available in preview, designed to make working with interpolated strings easier than ever before. This feature is modeled after how interpolation works in C#'s raw strings , but maintains backwards compatibility with F#'s triple quoted strings. Interpolated strings are a very convenient way for developers to embed F# expressions into string literals. However, one scenario where working with interpolated strings can become cumbersome is dealing with text that contains many curly braces. That's where the new F# interpolation syntax comes in. Overview One example where this new syntax can be particularly useful is when working with CSS literals in a front-end F# application, such as with Fable . With the new syntax, you can write your CSS without worrying about escaping curly braces, allowing you to focus on the interpolation expressions themselves. Here's an example: Code let transitionMs = 50 let css =...

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Access and AMB Query. These two services help developers seamlessly interact with public blockchains so they can build scalable applications quickly and securely. Post Updated on July 27, 2023 at 04:11PM

In C++, perfect forwarding is the act of passing a function's parameters to another function while preserving its reference category. It is commonly used by wrapper methods that want to pass their parameters through to another function, often a constructor. template<typename T, typename... Args> std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique(Args&&... args) { return std::unique_ptr<T>( new T(std::forward<Args>(args)...)); } The make_unique function takes its parameters, forwards them to the T constructor, and then puts the pointer to the newly-constructed T inside a unique_ptr . Those parameters are forwarded perfectly into the constructor: If the original parameters were rvalue reference, then the constructor receives rvalue reference. If the original parameters were lvalue references, then the constructor receives lvalue reference. But the catch is that it can forward only objects . It can't forward "braced things that are trying to beco...

In the latest preview version of the Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy, we are introducing the preview ability to fail and detect minimal permissions in batch requests, as well as improving the $select guidance to help you build more performant applications. Download Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy v0.10 and check if your apps properly handle API errors. Batching support Batching enables developers to combine several requests into a single batch request to send to Microsoft Graph API. This can save significant network latency and optimize application performance. In this version, we have added support for batch requests to the minimal permissions and random error plugins for Microsoft Graph. Let’s consider the batch request below. This request will return the current users profile, emails and calendar events in a single request. When using the recording mode to record proxy activity, each endpoint used in batch requests is now displayed in the summary output along with the minimal permis...

Starting today, the Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL 1.0) foundation model from Stability AI is available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use SDXL 1.0 with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. Post Updated on July 26, 2023 at 10:58PM

AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL jobs now let you use DataBrew Recipes as steps in the flow of transformations. AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL is a no-code job authoring UI for ETL developers with a flow-diagram interface. AWS Glue DataBrew is a no code data preparation tool for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI. The new integration between the two makes it simpler to deploy and scale DataBrew jobs and gives DataBrew users access to AWS Glue features not available in DataBrew. The integration also works in code-based jobs. Post Updated on July 26, 2023 at 12:17AM

Amazon Redshift today announces the preview release of Apache Iceberg support, enabling users to run analytics queries on Apache Iceberg tables within Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse service used by tens of thousands of customers. Whether your data is stored in operational data stores, data lakes, streaming engines or within your data warehouse, Amazon Redshift helps you quickly ingest, securely share data, and achieve the best performance for the best price. Apache Iceberg, one of the most recent open table formats, has been used by many customers to simplify data processing on rapidly expanding and evolving tables stored in data lakes. Post Updated on July 26, 2023 at 12:26AM

Amazon QuickSight  launches new API capabilities that allow you to programmatically export Paginated PDF Reports and CSV content. With these new APIs, you can export and customize content by passing parameters and session tags for Anonymous users. Optionally as part of the API call you can specify your own S3 destination to where the content should be exported. Post Updated on July 25, 2023 at 07:59PM

Today, we are releasing the July 2023 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. WPF 1 Addresses an issue where XPS documents using LinkTarget aren't rendering properly. Networking Addresses an issue where using proxy with continuous load may lead to memory leak resulting in high memory usage, or potentially OutOfMemoryException. 1 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Getting the Update The Cumulative Update Preview is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update Catalog. Customers using Windows 11, version 22H2, you will now find .NET Framework updates on the Settings > Windows Update > Advanced options > Optional updates page. Advanced system administrators can also take use of the below direct Microsoft Update Catalog download links to .NET Framework-specific updates. Before applying these updates, please ensure that you carefully review the .NET Framew...

The Docker tools for Visual Studio Code has released version 1.26.0, bringing built-in support for building and debugging container images using the .NET SDK. Docker Debugging in VS Code The Docker tools for Visual Studio Code are a set of tools that make it easy for developers to get started with containers. It provides scaffolding of Dockerfiles, integrations to build, run and debug the containers generated from those Dockerfiles, and provides in-editor access to a number of other Docker- and Container-related tools. You can learn more about this tooling at the Visual Studio Marketplace . Previously, the Docker tools provided the ability to scaffold a Dockerfile for a .NET project. This Dockerfile looked something like this: FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/runtime:8.0-preview AS base WORKDIR /app USER app FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0-preview AS build ARG configuration=Release WORKDIR /src COPY ["MinimalApiSharp.csproj", "./"] RUN dotnet restore "Mini...

In July 2022, we announced the public preview of the first Kiota generated SDK for PHP. Today we are announcing the new RC19 version. Since the RC5 announcement, we have improved many of the common scenarios to give you time back to focus on quality and design. The following are some of the improvements you can expect in this new release candidate. Initialization and auth We simplified the authentication setup, abstracting some of the initialization code, so you can start working with calls in less lines. Fluent experience to build requests Following the community’s advice to improve fluent experience, we designed a new pattern to build requests, making the process more intuitive and improving discoverability. New features During this year we have introduced new features apart from the retry handler. Some of them are: Page iterator: simplifies consuming responses carrying paged collections. Batch request builder: combines multiple requests in a single call with ease. Large...

AWS Marketplace sellers can now add additional certifications to their Vendor Insights security profiles, including PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. These are in addition to already available certifications for FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights helps streamline the complex third-party software risk assessment process by enabling sellers to make security and compliance information available through AWS Marketplace. Buyers can more quickly discover products in AWS Marketplace that meet their security and certification standards by searching for and accessing vendor insights profiles. Post Updated on July 24, 2023 at 10:48PM

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now makes it easier to share, discover and access feature groups across AWS accounts. This new capability promotes collaboration and minimizes duplicate work for teams involved in ML model and application development, particularly in enterprise environments with multiple accounts spanning different business units or functions.  Post Updated on July 24, 2023 at 09:38PM

Starting today, you can now easily apply multiple overrides on a demand forecast, eliminating the need to create and select from multiple overrides before publishing a demand forecast. With this release, you can apply multiple overrides, enabling users to apply overrides at different products simultaneously. When you make an override, the override adjustment is aggregated upwards in the hierarchy as well as disaggregated to lower levels of the forecast hierarchy. Post Updated on July 24, 2023 at 07:41PM

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports document compression using the LZ4 compression algorithm. Compressed documents in Amazon DocumentDB are up to 7x smaller than uncompressed documents. Compressed documents require less storage space and IO operations during database reads and writes, leading to lower storage and IO costs. Post Updated on July 24, 2023 at 08:28PM

This will be the first of a series of blog posts which will 'step through' (no pun intended) the generation and evolution of planners available in Semantic Kernel; ActionPlanner, Sequential Planner, and Stepwise Planner. Planners are a critical element of Semantic Kernel, e ach has its own strengths, so it’s important to understand how each planner works so you can pick the best one for your needs.       In Semantic Kernel, you can easily build custom plugins or import ones you have already. Once you have all these plugins registered in the kernel, you now need a way to orchestrate them to accomplish user goals.   Semantic Kernel Planners provide a way to manually orchestrate plugins using the RunAsync function. Or a key superpower of Semantic Kernel comes from having AI automatically combine your plugins to address the needs of your users via planners.   In this blog we will look at the Action Planner. The Action Planner works by identifying the most rel...

For expository purposes, let's look at the code we wrote some time ago which obtains network usage information . using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Windows.Networking.Connectivity; class Program { static async Task DoIt() { var now = DateTime.Now; var states = new NetworkUsageStates { Roaming = TriStates.DoNotCare, Shared = TriStates.DoNotCare }; var profiles = NetworkInformation.GetConnectionProfiles(); foreach (var profile in profiles) { var usages = await profile.GetNetworkUsageAsync( now.AddDays(-1), now, DataUsageGranularity.PerDay, states); var usage = usages[0]; if (usage.ConnectionDuration > TimeSpan.Zero) { Console.WriteLine(profile.ProfileName); Console.WriteLine($"BytesReceived = {usage.BytesReceived}"); Con...

A new month, and a new update for the Power Platform CLI. We are delighted to bring you all a new set of capabilities to help improve your developer experience with Power Platform, so let us get into it. New Capabilities Ability to list and update the settings of an environment. As most of you deploy applications to various environments, sometimes you need to make sure those features are enabled before you deploy them. Take the case of PCF controls, before you deploy the solution with a PCF control, you have to make sure that the PCF Control feature is enabled in the target environment before you deploy the application. To that effect, the Power Platform Command has now got 2 new commands: `pac org list-settings` : to list all the environment attributes ( docs ) `pac org update-settings` : Update the value of the property ( docs ) Here is an example of the new capability, with the filter parameter, if you don’t use the filter parameter, you will see all the parameters and their r...