Where's my Azure Cache in the new portal? - caching

In the old silverlight portal, azure cache was under the service bus category along with ACS. In the new HTML5 portal, I can't find my cache anywhere. Under ServiceBus, it says I have zero, and only shows a link to create a new service bus namespace. Should I contact support?

You have to use the previous portal for managing the Azure Cache. Since the new portal is still in beta - not all features have been ported yet. MSDN still links to the previous portal for provisioning the Azure Cache.
Update by question asker: As seen in the comments, it looks like my browser may have been hanging onto a DNS redirect from windows.azure.com to manage.windowsazure.com. I was able to successfully get back to the silverlight portal using both the provisioning the Azure Cache link and by using #BrentDaCodeMonkey's suggestion.

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Frontend update of a development powerpoint add-in that is managed by the office admin center

I have developed a powerpoint add-in and it is managed through the office admin center. The add-in is distributed to all members of our organisation.
It is deployed as a static website (in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)) that calls an API that is also deployed on GCP. The backend is deployed as a docker container in cloud run. The frontend is deployed as a static website in Cloud Storage.
The Add-In is distributed through the link to the manifest.xml which is stored at GCP. I want to update an API call of my backend that comes from the frontend. I want to send another variable in the json body.
The issue is that when I adapt my frontend and backend in the cloud the backend changes are immediately adapted since another container is called but the changes in my frontend are not updated. So the calls fail. Changes in the static website are not updated automatically. Probably office downloads the static website and stores it. But I somehow need to be able to update the frontend, right? Is there a way to trigger that the add in loads the files from the cloud again?
I already tried to clear the web cache and change the manifest.xml in the cloud.
This question is a duplicate of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1139068/frontend-update-of-a-develoyed-powerpoint-add-in-t.html since I did not get an answer there yet.
Outlook add-ins can take up to 24 hours to appear on app. See Deploy add-ins in the Microsoft 365 admin center for more information on that.
Also you may pay attention to the Cache-Control headers that holds directives (instructions) that control caching in browsers. So, you could set up internet headers on the files stored on the server to let browsers know how frequent they should be requested from the server.

App aproval with partner created enterprise

i'm creating EMM-managed enterprise. This is the recommended method (no signup page nor google account required)
https://developers.google.com/android/management/create-enterprise#emm-managed_enterprises
but, with this enterprise, end user have no IT admin account to connect to managed google play on https://play.google.com/work
what is the correct way to approve applications with this type of enterprises?
EMM Managed enterprise is no longer the recommended method to create an enterprise, Instead, we suggest starting a Customer-managed enterprises.
Additionally, with Android Management API any application added under the application policy behaves based on the configured installType. The play store mode policy determines the behavior of the apps on the device play store.
You will still need to follow all of the policy distribution steps mentioned in this documentation.

Microsoft team - How to maintain user data

I am integrating my SAAS application to Microsoft Teams. Right now integrated as Tab in teams. I am using my own API endpoint to authenticate and authorize the user. I have got some specific information about the user I am getting from API. How can I store it in Team context? Right now I used local storage in the web app. In Teams web app it seems working but I don't think it is working in Desktop app. Is there some API available in teams which helps to maintain the user state with Tabs? similar to userstate in Bots? Please help.
I would think local storage would be troublesome across devices anyway, perhaps consider server-side storage instead.

Azure Caching Platform Options - What Are The Alternatives?

I'm currently building a site that will be hosted in Microsoft Azure. The last site I created in this hosting environment used "Windows Azure Shared Caching". Some of you may already be aware that "Windows Azure Shared Caching" service will soon be deprecated over the next year.
I have applied for the preview release of "Windows Azure Cache". However, I'm finding that my request is still "queued".
I wouldn't mind using "Windows Azure Shared Caching" since the site I'm building will only be live for around 10 weeks and the fact it being deprecated next year doesn't worry me. However, I am unable to create a new caching service through the old Azure Management Portal since new caching has to be done using "Windows Azure Cache".
So my question...
Since my application for the new caching platform is still yet to be approved and I am unable to create a new caching service under the old platform, what other options are there? Have I missed something?
Microsoft is surely making things difficult.
The other option you have is using In-Role Cache for Web/Worker roles (Azure Cloud Services). Any role within the same cloud deployment can access the cache. If you have just 1 web role - this acts very similar to ASP.NET State Server which provides an in-memory cache. However, as you add more web roles - you can choose to distribute this in-memory cache across all roles or use a dedicate worker role for managing the cache.
Dedicated In-Role Cache: worker role uses all available memory
Co-Located In-Role Cache: percentage of available memory is used across all roles
See In-Role Cache FAQ on MSDN for more details.
Your request should have been approved (irrespective of whether yours is a paid/trial/free subscription). If it still hasn't, put the query up here. This is the forum for Cache.
This is a proper release of the Cache Service! The core is very mature and Microsoft is giving great support on top of it. Go ahead and use it!
This flavor of Cache is THE right one for Azure Websites.
Leave a post at the forum for any concerns/issues you have. It is being constantly monitored and replied to.
I guess I am the first to suggest Azure Redis Caching?

Code specifically for Azure?

I heard that apps don’t port directly and they have to be specifically written to work with Azure. I’m new to Azure and did some reading but I don’t see anything from their site or documentation that suggests that you must specifically code for Azure, so is it true?
If this question is better suited for another StackExchange site please let me know.
You should take a look at the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit to see some introductory project labs.
While you theoretically can just "drop in" some apps into a Windows Azure VM, it hardly makes sense to do so. Some apps can be migrated with only minor changes, such as an asp.net website - session state is easily handled by AppFabric Cache, and the Web Role VM is Windows Server 2008 with Full IIS. However, you'd still need to integrate with Windows Azure Diagnostics, to be able to have external visibility to the health of your app.
Further, with the example above, there are more optimal things you can do, such as moving static content to blob storage, and taking load off your VMs. This requires you to upload this content, and then change your IMG and other tag URLs to point to a slightly-different URL.
Just remember that you're moving to Windows Azure to take advantage of its platform and related services, not just to be a rack to host a server. To take advantages of these services, you're going to have to target them specifically, such as:
Access control services
Caching
Connectivity (vpn, service bus)
Diagnostics
Database (SQL Azure)
Synchronization services
Traffic management across data centers
This is somewhat true. Your apps will typically run as-is. You just need to add an azure project to the solution, and add your MVC apps as roles to the Azure Project.
I found O'Reilly's "Programming Windows Azure" to be a good conceptual introduction to Azure.

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