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Data modeling empowers organizations to visualize their business processes by analyzing, understanding, and clarifying data requirements. Tune into this series to learn how to harness Power BI to create useful data models that will help you define and organize your business processes.

• Episode 1 – Data Modeling 101: Increasing the Impact of Power BI
  Join us for this webinar where we will demonstrate how you can enrich and extend your data through Power BI by creating dimensional data modeling.
• Episode 2 – Learn Advanced Data Modeling with Power BI
  Now that we’ve learned the basics of Data Modeling in Power BI, it’s time to up our game. Join us as we take the next steps to extend our data modeling with advanced features.
• Episode 3 – Data Modeling for Experts with Power BI
  In the last episode we covered more advanced data modeling techniques and features with Power BI. In this episode, we continue our journey into data modeling.

Lower costs, scale quickly, and manage your infrastructure more efficiently with #Azure. Get the e-book for an overview of hybrid cloud fundamentals:

Manage your infrastructure more efficiently, reduce your costs, and achieve global scalability—while meeting local and industry regulations—with a secure and seamless hybrid cloud on Azure. Read this e-book to get an overview of hybrid cloud fundamentals like networking, identity and access management, and security.

Explore specific opportunities for implementing hybrid cloud infrastructure in your organization, including how to:

• Use the hybrid cloud in industries and regions with special regulatory concerns. 
• Consistently deploy apps and data across remote offices. 
• Manage Kubernetes apps at scale. 
• Address implementation and regulation challenges with new Azure hybrid cloud solutions like Azure Stack Hub. 

Download the eBook here:

• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure E-book
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/making-the-most-of-the-cloud-everywhere/

We’re excited to share with you our 2021 Fall edition of Azure Security webinars! The webinars will be held at 08:00-09:00 AM, PST. Sign-up below!

DETAILS
For full details on each webinar, please visit https://aka.ms/SecurityWebinars.

COMMUNITY
To stay informed about future webinars and other events, join our Security Community at https://aka.ms/SecurityCommunity.

• October 4 – Diversity in Cybersecurity | From a Refugee to Microsoft: Impact of Active Allyship
• October 5 – Better Together | Azure Defender and M365 Defender
• October 6 – Azure Sentinel | Turbocharging ASIM: Making Sure Normalization Helps Performance Rather Than Impacting It
• October 7 – Cybersecurity Fundamentals | Combating Manipulated Media – Media Provenance
• October 11 | Azure Sentinel | Become a Notebooks Ninja – Getting Started with Jupyter Notebooks
• October 14 – Cybersecurity Fundamentals | Exploiting Vulnerabilities in Azure Stack Hub
• October 18 – Azure Sentinel | SAP Mini-Series Part 1: Introduction to Monitoring SAP with Azure Sentinel for Security Professionals
• October 19 – Azure Defender for IoT | Agent Based Solution for IoT Device
• October 20 – Azure Security Center | What’s New in the Last 6 Months
• October 21 – Cybersecurity Fundamentals | Hacking AI with Counterfit
• October 25 – Azure Sentinel | Explore the Power of Threat Intelligence in Azure Sentinel
• October 26 – Azure Security Center | Manage Your Security Risk and Compliance Requirements with Azure Security Center
• October 27 – Azure Security Center | Azure Defender for SQL
• October 28 – Azure Sentinel | What’s New in Azure Sentinel Automation
• November 9 – Azure Sentinel | SAP Mini-Series Part 2: Deep Dive – End-to-End Installation of SAP for Azure Sentinel
• November 10 – Azure Sentinel | Decrease Your SOC’s MTTR (Mean Time to Respond) by Integrating Azure Sentinel with Microsoft Teams
• November 16 – Azure Sentinel | Create Your Own Azure Sentinel Solutions
• November 17 – Azure Security Center | NextGen Multi Cloud CSPM in Azure Security Center
• November 22 – Azure Sentinel | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Using the New Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) with Azure Sentinel

To register for any of these webinars, visit:

• Fall 2021 – Azure Security Public Webinars
  https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR_0A4IaJRDNBnp8pjCkWnwhUM1g1RlEzVDEwVzlIRkxRN0IxRTZGM0hVVy4u

Join us as we celebrate 25 years of Sysinternals, the utilities IT pros and developers turn to for help with analyzing, troubleshooting, and optimizing Windows systems and applications.

A fireside chat with Microsoft Azure CTO and Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich. Fast-paced deep dives into the most popular tools. We’ll also be offering some cool prizes so block your calendar. You don’t want to miss this!

For the agenda, visit:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-events/sysinternals-25-a-special-anniversary-event/ev-p/2787286

• Date/Time:
  October 14, 2021
  8:00AM-2:00PM PT
• To attend the event, visit:
  https://aka.ms/JoinSysinternals25
• To add this event to your calendar:
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/gxcuf89792/downloadCalendar?message.id=2787286

Join us on October 20 as we discuss the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. Learn how it applies to migrating on-premises workloads to Azure to help create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary to succeed in the cloud today. Register here:

There’s no single cloud adoption journey: every organization defines its own path. For many organizations, cloud migration is a key first step towards digital transformation. Microsoft recommends using its Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure – proven guidance designed to help create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary for organizations to succeed in the cloud.

In this session you will:

• Learn about the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and how it applies to migrating on-premises workloads to Azure.
• Hear from Canadian customer, Cowan Insurance Group, on their approach for successfully migrating part of their IT infrastructure to Azure.
• Hear from Softchoice and Microsoft Cloud Architects about cloud adoption and migration best practices to embrace and common mistakes to avoid.

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Enroll today.

• Date/Time:
  Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
  1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
• Registration:
  https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/293520/157-GQE-382

This is a consolidation of all Advanced eDiscovery training we have for Microsoft 365.

In this blog post, we share the top resources for eDiscovery users to become masters of the Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365! After each level, we offer you a knowledge check based on the training material you have just completed. The goal of the knowledge checks is to help ensure understanding of the key concepts that were covered.

The training sessions are split into eight different sections in order to better align with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model:

• Overview
• Getting Started
• Identification
• Preservation
• Collection & Processing
• Review & Analysis
• Production
• Advanced

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For the full article, visit:

• Become a Microsoft 365 Advanced eDiscovery NINJA – Microsoft Tech Community
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/become-a-microsoft-365-advanced-ediscovery-ninja/ba-p/2793108

Microsoft 365 is innovating faster than ever. Leveraging content experiences powered by SharePoint, customer adoption has reached over 200 million monthly active users. Our customers are adding over 100 petabytes of new content each month, scaling to exabytes of data and thousands of new content applications built by developers.

One of the biggest challenges organizations face is scaling and automating business content processes. Many organizations use a patchwork of manual activity and disconnected systems. We aim to bring coherence, intelligence, and automation to your content as you navigate new ways of working.

Today, we unveiled new research and resources to help companies adapt to the new world of hybrid work. We are excited to share that Forrester, a leading global research and advisory firm, has cited Microsoft as a Leader in content platforms in their new report The Forrester Wave™: Content Platforms, Q2 2021. According to Forrester’s rankings, Microsoft is a content platform leader with the highest score in the strategy category and the highest score possible in the market presence category.

Read more here:

• Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave for Content Platforms
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/09/28/microsoft-is-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2021-forrester-wave-for-content-platforms/

Microsoft has been transitioning all SIEM roles & responsibilities to Azure Sentinel.  This is a video interview with Microsoft IT’s Mei Lau on the transition.

Mei Lau is leading the migration of Microsoft’s legacy Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system to Microsoft Azure Sentinel, which enables security analysts to quickly connect datasets and rapidly investigate or respond to potential security threats.

Microsoft’s new SIEM can ingest 20 billion events daily, which is a 128 percent gain compared to the old SIEM. Ingesting data in our legacy SIEM would take hours but with Azure Sentinel, it takes 10 minutes, which is 18 times faster.

Lau also advocates for testing out your SIEM so you can get feedback early on.

“If you’re interested in leveraging a cloud SIEM, you can start with a proof of concept and explore how easy it is to ingest the data with the out of the box data connectors,” Lau says. “Once you ingest the data, again, you can write hunting queries as well and see how the data works with a graph or investigation effort.”

Watch the video here:

• VIDEO: Securing the enterprise and responding to cybersecurity attacks with Microsoft Azure Sentinel
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/insidetrack/securing-the-enterprise-and-responding-to-cybersecurity-attacks-with-microsoft-azure-sentinel

Wanna get emails about new services, features or changes to Microsoft 365?

Many Microsoft 365/Office 365 administrators I’ve met haven’t enrolled in email notifications of planned changes to the services. 

This is really important if you don’t visit the M365 Admin Console’s Message Center regularly.  Changes to services are often released to end users and the only way administrators are notified preemptively is through the message center.

Getting this configured so that you, as an administrator, receive email notifications of changes is easy:

1. Log in with your administrator account to the Microsoft 365 Administration Console.  (https://admin.microsoft.com)
2. Click “Health” then ”Message Center” in the left hand menu.  This may require clicking “… Show all”.  This will open the “Message Center” pane.
3. Click on “Preferences”.  This will open the “Preferences” pane.
4. Click “Email”.  This will show the “Email Notifications” area.
5. Be sure “Other e-mail addresses” is checked.
6. Fill out the “Enter up to two email addresses, separated by a semi-colon” with the email address you want be sent notifications.
7. Check off the options you want under “Choose which emails you want to get”

You will receive notifications moving forward that look like this:

For 30 years, our research community at Microsoft has worked across disciplines, institutions, and geographies to envision and realize the promise of new technologies for Microsoft and for society.

Today, we’re inviting the global science and technology community to continue this exploration—because ensuring that future advancements benefit everyone is up to all of us.

Join us at the inaugural Microsoft Research Summit, streaming virtually across three time zones. You’ll have the opportunity to hear from science and technology leaders from around the world—people who are driving advances across the sciences and pushing the limits of technology toward achieving a meaningful impact on humanity.

Register here to see the daily agendas and join Ashley Llorens (VP & Distinguished Scientist, Research and Incubations, Microsoft) and Peter Lee (CVP Research & Incubations, Microsoft) for the inaugural Microsoft Research Summit from October 19-21.

• Date/Time:
  October 19-21, 2021
• Registration:
  https://researchsummit.microsoft.com/home_public/