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Azure

Elevating Teams Notifications using Adaptive Cards

Last week we looked at utilising Teams to make notifications more collaborative. This week I want to show how we can add more visual and interactive elements by adopting Adaptive Cards. What are Adaptive Cards? Adaptive Cards are structured messages which can be used across various Microsoft services as alternatives to plain text. They use JSON […]

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Azure

Better Pipeline Notifications using Teams

Whether running Data Factory, Synapse, or Fabric pipelines, things go wrong – and the de facto response is to send an email. We’ve looked at sending emails from pipelines before, but at scale they can become noise and are easy to ignore. A more effective option is to surface alerts where collaboration already exists, such as Teams. […]

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Azure Data Factory

Sending Emails from Data Factory Pipelines

Not all pipelines in Azure have native options for sending emails. The lucky Fabric folks have an Office 365 connection ready to rock. Data Factory and Synapse don’t have email capability built-in and need another option to send messages. So for everyone who wants more emails for their inbox rules to handle (delete), we’ll build and call […]

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Azure SQL Server

Configuring Database Mail for SQL Agent Notifications in Managed Instance

SQL Agent jobs allow us to schedule and automate tasks on a SQL Server instance. Crucially, when things go wrong we need to know about them. That’s why we use notifications. Setting up Operators and job Notifications is as expected on a Managed Instance. However, when it comes to sending the notifications we may have […]