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YouTube Premium Family in Australia is $32.99 now!

Microsoft has released its own document parser for LLM use! . . Introducing MarkItDown, a 100% open-source, one-stop solution for effortlessly converting any file to Markdown—perfect for text analysis, indexing, and more! Here’s what makes it special: ↳ Converts PDF, Word,

Are you used to working with servers and working in a traditional architecture space for years? Looking to get a grasp on containers, k8s and more cloud native things? I've got a session from MS Ignite that is MADE FOR YOU! Check it out! ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions…

This looks like a pretty effective phishing email!

Surprised when trying to book Virgin Australia flights over the phone today they wanted to charge $40 per person for the privilege, especially when my wife is Platinum status :/ they were willing to waive that fee only for the Platinum passenger.

If you're into Microsoft Education, I've started a section on MSPortals.io - msportals.io/edu - and would love to be linked any Microsoft Education portals or links of significance.

Apparently I am too late to apply formy son to attend a certain high school, despite him starting in 2027 :/

They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

End of my run being a Principal Solutions Architect today. New job in a few weeks :)

"Permanent" - I do not think it means what you think it means.

Aw there's a boardgame I really want but it only ships to US/Canada :( Globalisation hasn't progressed far enough!

Image Search Series Part 1: Chest X-ray lookup with MedImageInsight techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/He… #Microsoft #techcommunity

I tried removing all the negativity from my life but all the fridge magnets fell off.

If you are in Adelaide tomorrow, join me at the Adelaide Azure meetup and hear about ethical use of AI, Azure AI Foundry, time machines and more. It's FREE! -> meetup.com/adelaide-azure… Simon Holman Ryan R. Adam Fowler

Can either of you help me? Virgin Australia Platinum member gets me Hilton Honors Diamond status. Requested over a month ago but hasn't happened. Both sides don't seem to be able to help? Virgin says to contact Hilton, Hilton don't know what to do as they can't see it?

You can't just report an impersonation account on X on the platform, it'll take you off to fill in a form. Doesn't really encourage quick and easy reporting, making users do your work for you in making the platform safer X.

I published the first of several scripts for what I'm calling Operational Groups (stolen from System Center Dudes Operational Collections) :) Goal is to maintain groups based on auth methods registered, MFA/passwordless, risk states, device details, etc github.com/nathanmcnulty/…

I haven't been around for a bit, having a break from social media (LinkedIn a bit still though). I'm back at Microsoft now and having fun.. I'll still respond to mentions and DMs. Take care all!

Administrative Units are sadly very underutilized, and the Restricted Management versions even more so Too many orgs overprivilege their admins because they don't understand how to use AUs :( You should read up and use them whenever you can: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id…