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Interested in the JFK files? Explore them with Microsoft AI!

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 11:00 PM Martina Grom
Microsoft's AI allows to analyze large amount of data, even interpreting and indexing handwritten documents and learning key topics. In the Microsoft AI.Lab, engineers combined Azure Search and Cognitive Services to analyze more than 34,000 pages and scanned evidence photos related to the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that went public. Read more about burning questions and see the results online.
AI | Cloud | Blog | Cognitive Services | English | Microsoft | Microsoft Research
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Free Book Inside Azure Management v3

Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:00 PM Martina Grom
Are you interested or already working with Microsoft Azure? Download the freshest and latest version of the free e-book "Inside Azure Management v3". This preview release of "Inside Azure Management" is now available with more than 500 pages in 16 chapters covering topics like implementing solutions, containers, migrating workloads, hybrid, automation, backup, costs, governance, monitoring and alerting, analytics, and more. Check it out!
Azure | App | Cloud | English | Governance | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Security | DevOps
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Tips for PowerApps-Working Offline with PowerApps

Friday, March 29, 2019 4:00 PM Toni Pohl
PowerApps provide a good solution for small apps. They run on a device and connect to an online data source. But what happens if no data connection is available, for instance in a building? Well, you can develop a PowerApp that works offline and synchronizes local data to the data source when you're back online. See how this works here!
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Having fun with IoT Flic buttons and Microsoft Flow

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:00 PM Toni Pohl
I just got a cute Flic button to play around with. It takes only some minutes to connect that IoT button to a connector and execute customs tasks. Well, as first step, I simply created a message in a Microsoft Teams channel. See the step-by-step instructions here.
App | Cloud | IoT | Microsoft | Microsoft Teams | Logic apps | Flow | English | Tools
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Groups Governance Toolkit Part 6-Groups statistics

Monday, March 18, 2019 10:00 AM Toni Pohl
To apply governance in an organization, the responsible persons require data. See here, how we can get group data of an Office 365 tenant for further use, for example for a visualization with Microsoft Power BI and all the benefits of such an attractive and interactive tool.
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Groups Governance Toolkit Part 5-External Guests

Friday, March 15, 2019 10:00 AM Toni Pohl
Governance specifies the rules for an organization. The Office 365 collaboration platform allows to invite external users for contributing in groups. In this part, we want to monitor all groups that have external guests and inform the group owners, who has access to a group or a team. See how this works here.
atwork | Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | MVP | Office | Office365 | PowerShell | SharePoint
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Secure a web on Azure with an Azure Active Directory Multi-Tenant App

Friday, March 1, 2019 8:00 AM Toni Pohl
Azure offers a great platform for multiple types of apps and services, Web Apps are one of the PaaS service, we are using much. In some scenarios, it makes sense to host a static website on Azure, but to restrict access just for authenticated users. Well, AAD can help you with that by demanding a successful login with an Office 365 account. See how this works here.
Azure | App | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Tools
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Working with the new Azure PowerShell Az module

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:45 PM Toni Pohl
PowerShell is both a command-line shell and scripting language and perfect for automating administrative tasks. When working with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft recommends to use the new Azure PowerShell Az module. See how to uninstall the outdated Azure PowerShell AzureRM , how to install the new Az module for PowerShell 5.x and 6.x and how to connect and to get a inventory of your resources and a little bit of Cloud Shell here.
Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | PowerShell | Tools
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Detect sentiment with Text Analytics

Monday, February 25, 2019 8:00 AM Toni Pohl
Azure Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services. One is the Sentiment Analysis API that allows to analyze unstructured text for tasks such as sentiment analysis based on Microsoft machine learning algorithms. See the first steps how to use that here.The test works in the same way with Postman as in the previous article.The goal here is to analyze some text to get a positive or negative result of the meaning.So, we just need some Azure logic and a tool to send and get the data. How to detect sentiment with Text Analytics informs about the service we want to consume. Again, we need to create a new Cognitive Service and to get our own access data from the Azure Portal. Once created, we get that data in the service overview and in the keys menu.Then, calling the Computer Vision API is easy: We need a HTTP POST request against the API and modify just the region and the subscription key.https://<region>.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/analytics/v2.0/sentiment?subscription-key=<subscription-key>So, my sample starts with https://westeurope.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/analytics/v2.0/sentiment...In Postman, we just create a new POST request with that URL and some parameters as here:As Headers we add a key "Content-Type" with value "application/json" and the body text that shall be uploaded with that post.As defined, the data we want to submit can be formatted JSON type, as here. First, there's a positive, then there's a negative text, in english language.{         "documents": [             {                 "language": "en",                 "id": "1",                 "text": "We love this trail and make the trip every year. The views are breathtaking and well worth the hike!"             },             {                 "language": "en",                 "id": "2",                 "text": "Poorly marked trails! I thought we were goners. Worst hike ever."             }         ] }See Language and region support for the Text Analytics API for more info.When clicking on the "Send" button, the request should be sent to the API. After some seconds of analyzing, the result will be shown as body, similar as here. Here's the output in JSON format.{     "documents": [         {             "id": "1",             "score": 0.92014169692993164         },         {             "id": "2",             "score": 0.05087512731552124         }     ],     "errors": [] } The return data says, that the first text with id 1 is positive (92%), the second text with id 2 is very negative (5%). A neutral value would be 0.5 (50%). Happy analyzing your text with the Sentiment Analysis API!
AI | Azure | Cloud | Cognitive Services | Developer | English | Microsoft | Tools
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First steps with the Microsoft Vision API

Monday, February 25, 2019 7:00 AM Toni Pohl
Cloud services help to automate simple and complex processes. For analyzing a picture, the Microsoft Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services like the Vision API, (Custom) Computer Vision, Face API, Video Indexer an more. Follow this first sample with Postman to start with the Vision API.
Azure | AI | Cognitive Services | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Tools
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