Mastercard & Microsoft join forces to advance digital identity innovations

Currently, verifying your identity online is still dependent on physical or digital proof managed by a central party, whether it’s your passport number, your proof of address, driver’s license, user credentials or other means. This dependence places a huge burden on individuals, who have to successfully remember hundreds of passwords for various identities and are increasingly being subjected to more complexity in proving their identity and managing their data. Working together, Mastercard and Microsoft aim to give people a secure, instant way to verify their digital identity with whomever they want, whenever they want.

The answer to these challenges is a service that would allow individuals to enter, control and share their identity data their way – on the devices they use every day. That’s Mastercard’s intention, working closely with players like Microsoft.

“Today’s digital identity landscape is patchy, inconsistent and what works in one country often won’t work in another. We have an opportunity to establish a system that puts people first, giving them control of their identity data and where it is used,” says Ajay Bhalla, president, cyber and intelligence solutions, Mastercard. “Working with Microsoft brings us one step closer to making a globally interoperable digital identity service a reality, and we look forward to sharing more very soon.”

Access to a universally-recognized digital identity could unlock new and enhanced experiences for people as they interact with businesses, service providers and their community online, including:

• Financial Services: Improve and speed the applicant identification process for establishing a new bank account, loan or payment service account
• Commerce: Enable a more personalized and efficient shopping experience online and in stores, regardless of the payment type, device or service provider
• Government Services: Simplify interactions with government agencies and services – such as filing taxes, applying for passports or securing support payments (e.g., Social Security)
• Digital Services: Streamline and provide easier use of email, social media, movie/music streaming services, and rideshare platforms

“Digital identity is a cornerstone of how people live, work and play every day,” said Joy Chik, corporate vice president, Identity, Microsoft. “We believe people should be in control of their digital identity and data, and we’re thrilled to first work with Mastercard to bring new decentralized identity innovations to life.”

This digital identity initiative could also help solve for common challenges:

• Identity Inclusion: More than 1 billion people, a majority of them women, children and refugees, are not officially recognized; a digital identity can improve their access to health, financial and social services.
• Identity Verification: A single, reusable digital identity can help people interact with a merchant, bank, government agency and countless other digital service providers with greater integrity, lower cost and with less friction.
• Fraud Prevention: A single digital identity can help reduce payments fraud and identity theft of various forms.

This initiative will serve as the foundation for new Mastercard services powered by Microsoft Azure and built-in collaboration with leaders in the banking, mobile network operator and government communities. Microsoft and Mastercard are bringing together their respective strengths – Microsoft’s expertise in identity technology and Mastercard’s expertise in securely orchestrating digital interactions in a complex, multi-stakeholder ecosystem.

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Microsoft and Nielsen accelerate retail innovation through data and AI; announce strategic alliance

Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) today released details around a newly developed enterprise data solution that democratizes one of the largest consumer data sets in the world.  This strategic alliance has been brought to life through Nielsen Connect, powered by Microsoft Azure, the trusted and global-scale intelligent cloud platform.

In today’s rapidly changing marketplace, Microsoft and Nielsen are together focused on helping Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and retail companies find growth and accelerate innovation within an open data environment.

Already, Nielsen Connect is inspiring companies to glean more value from their data and sparking a movement for the industry to reimagine its approach to data strategy.  Through advanced analytics and artificial intelligence services built on Azure, Nielsen Connect is helping companies integrate data assets to more easily spot emerging trends, diagnose performance gaps, and act faster on opportunities to grow. Most notably, this platform enables clients to use their data as an enterprise asset across all parts of their organization.

“Nielsen’s powerful data is as much of an enterprise asset as people and products,” said John Tavolieri, President, U.S. FMCG and Retail and Chief Technology and Operations Officer at Nielsen. “It’s our priority to make sure clients are maximizing their data assets, so Nielsen and Microsoft are breaking down the silos of the status quo. We are helping the retail industry reimagine its approach to data by creating a truly open and global environment of collaboration, encouraging companies to evolve beyond mere data management. Adopting a holistic data strategy will be the only way to win in FMCG and retail.”

“The first critical step toward digital transformation, especially among retailers, is breaking down the barriers between customer and operational data to fuel insights for the business,” said Judson Althoff, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business. “Because retail happens wherever customers are and whenever they choose, Nielsen Connect provides high reliability at a global scale 24/7. Microsoft is a natural partner for Nielsen, trusted by global enterprises to protect their data and power their critical business solutions.”

Grounded by the richest data available in the fast-moving consumer goods space, Nielsen Connect brings clarity to what’s happening in the market from every angle.  Nielsen’s deep media and consumer measurement (including retail point-of-sale data, consumer panel, e-commerce, fresh food and cross-platform media data), is integrated with a robust variety of data sources, including  data provided directly from clients as well as from Nielsen Connect Partners. Nielsen’s reference data, which provides structure to the world’s most robust retail and shopper information, powers this system to make integration across data sources and countries simple. Within this open and agile platform running on Microsoft Azure, customers can easily access data sets via APIs and connectors, allowing them to extract the data they need to fit their own technology strategy.

The joint Microsoft and Nielsen solution is live today and will serve as a one-stop-shop in creating scalable, high-performance data environments that enable greater real-time collaboration for faster results. Through this strategic alliance, the two companies will continue to work toward a mutual vision of an open and connected data universe, empowering a new generation of solutions for the FMCG retail marketplace.

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Microsoft holds annual shareholders meeting

Speaking to shareholders at Microsoft Corp.’s annual meeting on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella highlighted the importance of creating technology that benefits people and society broadly, and the opportunity for Microsoft to help its customers and partners thrive in a world where every company is a software company.

“I’m proud of the progress we made this past fiscal year as we innovate and help our customers digitally transform,” Nadella said. “We create economic opportunity in every community, and this broad impact – coupled with our focus on instilling trust in technology across everything we do – makes me incredibly optimistic about the opportunity ahead.”

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood shared highlights of Microsoft’s record performance over the past year fiscal year including continued growth in its commercial cloud business and strong growth across each service. Hood noted that Microsoft is confident in its ability to execute against its innovation roadmap, positioning the company for continued growth and to deliver shareholder value.

The following proposals were acted on by the company’s shareholders at the meeting. All proposals received above 95 percent of votes cast.

• Re-elected 14 directors to serve until the next annual meeting of the shareholders.
• Approved, on a nonbinding advisory basis, the fiscal year 2018 compensation of the company’s named executive officers.
• Ratified the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company’s independent auditor for fiscal year 2019.

Microsoft’s board of directors consists of John W. Thompson, Microsoft independent chairman; William H. Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock Partners; Hugh Johnston, vice chairman and chief financial officer of PepsiCo Inc.; Teri L. List-Stoll, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gap Inc.; Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft; Charles H. Noski, former vice chairman of Bank of America Corp.; Dr. Helmut Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG; Sandra E. Peterson, former group worldwide chair for Johnson & Johnson; Penny S. Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners; Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.; Arne Sorenson, president and chief executive officer of Marriott International; John W. Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Partnerships; and Padmasree Warrior, chief development officer, NIO Inc. and chief executive officer, NIO USA Inc.

Microsoft acquires FSLogix to enhance the Office 365 virtualization experience

The way Microsoft 365 enables customers to shift to a modern desktop experience puts it at the heart of workplace transformation. A modern desktop with Windows 10 and Office 365 not only offers the most productive and most secure computing experience, it also saves IT time and money, and allows for a focus on driving business results. For many companies, their specific needs require a modern desktop be virtualized.

To help extend our virtualization capabilities and provide an even richer experience for Microsoft 365 customers, we are excited to announce the acquisition of FSLogix.

FSLogix is a next-generation app-provisioning platform that reduces the resources, time and labor required to support virtualization. From small businesses to very large global enterprises across numerous industries, FSLogix solutions enhance customer experience and productivity, while reducing support requirements for IT departments.

In September 2018, we announced Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop – a Microsoft 365 service that empowers customers to run a modern desktop experience on Azure. It is the only cloud-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience that is optimized for Office 365 ProPlus and includes free Windows 7 Extended Security Updates. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale Windows and Office on Azure in minutes, with built-in security and compliance.

With this acquisition, customers will benefit in a number of ways. Through customer engagement, we know that Microsoft Office applications are some of the most highly used and most commonly virtualized applications in any business. Office 365 ProPlus is currently the best Office experience, and, with FSLogix enabling faster load times for user profiles in Outlook and OneDrive, Office 365 ProPlus will become even more performant in multi-user virtual environments (including Windows Virtual Desktop).

We are excited to welcome FSLogix to Microsoft, and we look forward to the impact its technology and its people will have on our customers’ virtualization experience.

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Plan and Implement System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Core Infrastructure

• Install and Configure Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
  • Determine requirements for Installation of System Center Virtual Machine Manager; install VMM server, VMM Administrative Console, and VMM local agents; configure SQL database requirements for the VMM database; add Hosts; upgrade VMM from previous versions of VMM including performing a rolling upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 host clusters; create service accounts for VMM; uninstall VMM; reinstall from a retained database.
• Install and Configure VMM Host Servers
  • Determine requirements for bare metal installation of host servers; perform Hyper-V host deployment to bare-metal machine; integrate Windows Deployment Services (WDS) with VMM to provide PXE services for bare metal deployments.
• Manage VMM Infrastructure
  • Integrate Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) with VMM infrastructure; plan and orchestrate updates and patches on VMM servers, SQL database host agents, and management consoles; create Update Baselines; run compliance scans; remediate host servers and clusters; manage host groups; backup and restore VMM servers.
• Manage VMM Libraries
  • Install and configure library servers; add library servers and library shares to VMM; enable Data Deduplication on library server; synchronize libraries; manage library association; manage object equivalence.
• Implement Highly Available VMM Infrastructure
• Determine component requirements for Highly Available VMM infrastructure; create a highly available VMM management server; create a Hyper-V Host cluster by using Failover Cluster Manager; determine requirements and options for SQL server high availability; determine single site and multi-site high availability options; create highly available library servers; implement Scale-Out File Server; perform Scale-Out File Server cluster deployment to a bare-metal machine; implement Distributed Key Management Solution; determine upgrade scenarios and options for a highly available VMM deployment; perform Cluster-Aware Updating; implement Rolling Cluster Upgrades; implement stretch clusters; manage mixed-mode clusters.
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Implement Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• Implement Core Network Fabric
  • Create logical networks; create logical network sites; create IP pool; configure uplink port profiles; configure virtual port profiles; configure port classifications; create and configure logical switches; configure Hyper-V extensible virtual switches; integrate VMM switches with Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches; implement max bandwidth policies; enable NIC teaming; enable Switch Embedded Teaming (SET); create and configure MAC pools; configure Domain Name System (DNS); configure and enable NIC offload technologies such as virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) and Virtual Machine Multi-Queue (VMMQ), and configure Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) on capable NICs.
• Plan for and Implement SDN solution
  • Plan for software-defined network infrastructure; define and document fabric resource endpoints such as host servers, logical networks, software load balancer (SLB) multiplexers (MUX), VLANs and service credentials; implement SDN using VMM Service Templates; configure for single tenant and multi-tenant scenarios; define front end Virtual IPs (VIPs) in multi-tier scenarios; define back end Dynamic IPs (DIPs) in multi-tier application scenarios; install and configure the SDN Host agent; configure DNS integration with SDN; configure DNS integration with Internal DNS Service (iDNS); create and configure Access Control Lists (ACL) for use in multi-tenant environments; configure virtual subnets.
• Configure Network Controller (NC)
  • Determine usage scenarios and requirements for the Network Controller; implement Network Controller in domain and non-domain environments; test successful Network Controller deployment; query Network Controller resources and provisioning state; define resource objects by using scripts; implement multi-node Network Controller deployments; implement highly available Network Controller resources; set up an Internet Protocol Address Management (IPAM) server.
• Configure and Manage Software Load Balancer (SLB)
  • Determine infrastructure and tenant usage scenarios and requirements for load balancer deployment; configure SLB host agent; configure Border Gateway Protocol (BGP); configure SLB Multiplexer (MUX) to advertise Virtual IP Address (VIP); configure SLB rules to map virtual IP (VIP) and ports to back end Dynamic IPs (DIP) and ports in multi-tier application scenarios; configure NAT for inbound and outbound traffic; configure North-South and East-West load balancing; scale SLB Multiplexers; configure health probes.
• Configure Windows Server Gateway
  • Determine usage scenarios and requirements for Windows Server Gateway (WSG) deployment; deploy WSG using SCVMM Service Templates; implement a Layer 3 gateway; implement Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnelling; implement multi-tenant gateways by using PowerShell; implement IPsec Site-to-Site (S2S) tunnel; create M+N redundancy gateway pools; scale gateway pools; manage gateway by using Network Controller; integrate gateways with SLB; integrate VLAN networks with SDN gateway for Azure hybrid networking; configure BGP routing for gateway; assign gateway pools for tenant usage; configure Windows Server Gateway as a forwarding proxy; implement highly available Windows Server Gateway.
• Manage SDN Infrastructure
  • Install updates on network controllers, Software Load Balancer components, and gateway components; configure health probes; query configuration state health information in load balancer MUX object; configure NC/SLB and GW logs; manage SDN components for service branching and patching considerations; troubleshoot SDN stack by using Network Controller diagnostics.
• Manage Tenant Virtual Networks
• Use network virtual appliances on virtual networks; configure network Quality of Service (QoS) for tenant VM network adapter; connect container endpoints to a tenant virtual network.
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Implement Software-Defined Storage

• Implement Software-Defined Storage Solutions
  • Implement Storage Spaces Direct in hyper-converged scenario by using VMM; implement Storage Spaces Direct in a disaggregated scenario by using VMM; implement storage tiering; implement iSCSI storage; implement Storage Spaces fault tolerance; implement Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs); determine usage scenarios and requirements for SMB 3 storage; configure and enable NIC offload technologies such as SMB Direct on Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and SMB Multichannel on capable NICs for use as part of storage infrastructure; implement SMB file storage; encrypt cluster volumes; implement Storage QoS policies for Min/Max IOPs and Max Bandwidth; implement aggregated and dedicated QoS policies; provision Thin and Thick storage solutions; allocate Storage Array to a Host Group; create a LUN for a Hyper-V Cluster from allocated storage; allocate File Share to a Hyper-V Cluster; implement storage classifications for storage pools.
• Manage Software-Defined Storage
• Implement Storage Replica solutions; implement Hyper-V replica solutions; integrate Hyper-V Replica with Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for secondary on-premises site; implement Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX); determine LUN usage; decommission storage from Hyper-V Host; optimize Storage Spaces Direct storage pools; implement network QoS policies to control RDMA and SMB storage connections; implement SAN copy to rapidly provision VMs.
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Implement Datacenter Compute Solutions with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

• Implement Compute solutions
  • Determine requirements and usage scenarios for virtualized deployments; determine requirements for application deployments in virtualized infrastructure; create and configure virtual machine templates; configure hardware profiles; configure guest operating system profiles; configure application profiles; manage custom properties and placement rules; deploy and manage Nano server containers; perform operating system deployments using unattend.xml options; integrate sysprep with unattend.xml answer file; migrate existing virtual machine deployments to VMM; create and manage checkpoints; clone virtual machines; perform Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) virtual machine conversions; implement and manage Linux virtual machines; deploy virtual machines from an existing VHD, template, P2V conversion, or VMM library; deploy containers by using VMM templates; manage guarded hosts.
• Implement Service Templates
• Create and configure Service Templates; implement availability sets within a template; add tiers to a Service Template; add network components to a Service Template; implement Active Directory Service Template; configure SharePoint Server Service Template; deploy Service Templates; update and modify Service Templates; import and export Service Templates; implement Guest Clustering.
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Secure your Software-Defined Datacenter

• Secure the Compute Environment
  • Determine the requirements for Host Guardian Service, implement Host Guardian Service; implement shielded VMs for new VMs by using templates; implement shielded VMs for existing virtual machines; implement Guarded Fabric solutions; implement DHCP guard; configure Run as accounts and User Roles; implement Role Based Access Control (RBAC); implement Code Integrity solution; implement secure boot for Windows and Linux guests; implement Credential Guard; implement self-service.
• Secure the Network Environment
• Create and use port ACLs with VM networks, VM subnets and virtual NICs; create and use Global Settings for all VMs; implement Datacenter Firewall solutions using VMM; create ACL Rules using Datacenter Firewall; configure and apply Network Controller network policies; secure tenant networks; plan for integration of security appliances into tenant network infrastructure.
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Monitor and Maintain the Software-Defined Datacenter

• Install and Configure System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
  • Determine requirements and usage scenarios for implementing Operations Manager; perform single and distributed deployment options for Operations Manager; install Operations Manager Agents by using Discovery Wizard or the command line; secure user access; create, install, and manage sealed and unsealed Management Packs.
• Monitor and Manage Infrastructure and Virtual Machine Workloads using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
  • Tune Monitoring using Targeting and Overrides; configure maintenance schedules; suspend monitoring temporarily; configure notifications; configure reporting; integrate Operations Manager and VMM; enable Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) tips in VMM; determine requirements and usage scenarios for backing up and restoring Software-Defined Datacenter workloads and Virtual Machine Manager with tools such as Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Microsoft Azure.

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