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This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits. Greeting to our great NTA non-profit organizations. In this article, we will guide you through power platform connectors. Connectors are the Power Platform components/tools which enable you to create apps and flows that easily connect to other services in the cloud. A Power Platform connector is an interface around all the necessary APIs and API pr…

Security teams face talent shortages and are unable to scale their security programs to keep up with their growing attack surface. Managed services can deliver expertise to security teams immediately, help address coverage gaps, and add critical capabilities to jumpstart their SOC. Our Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR managed extended detection and response (MXDR) service can bring expertise to your team quickly to triage, investigate and remediate incidents and improve your security posture. Want to learn more? Join Defender Experts for XDR service delivery managers Sebastien Molendijk and Meiko Lopez as they chat with Heike Ritter on season five, episode five o…

A Inteligência Artificial (IA) é um campo fascinante e em rápida evolução que tem o potencial de transformar muitos aspectos das nossas vidas, desde a saúde ao entretenimento. Estamos anunciando novos cursos e os desafios de aprendizagem "AI Kick-off Projects" no Microsoft que podem você a explorar recursos de IA como GitHub Copilot e Azure OpenAI e ganhar mais confiança para aprofundar seus estudos e utiliza-los em seus projetos, seja você um iniciante ou um especialista. Novos treinamentos GitHub Copilot com JavaScript Este módulo ensinará como usar o GitHub Copilot para desenvolver. Durante seu processo de aprendizagem, você usará GitHub Codespaces e a…

Overview The SaaS Accelerator is an opensource project designed to provide a complete SaaS offer integration with the Azure Marketplace commerce engine, along with more capabilities enabled through a rich administration portal. The SaaS Accelerator enables ISVs to publish their SaaS offers without writing code and to complete the technical requirements in less than 20 minutes. This article provides the information you need to get started with it and to understand the SaaS Accelerator from both technical and business value perspectives. Enabling faster time-to-value SaaS offers are very popular for ISVs bringing their software solutions to the Micr…

We're thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Private Link support for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server (available in all public regions). This exciting feature allows you to establish secure connections to your Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers directly within the Azure environment using private endpoints, just as you can with various other Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings and customer-owned/partner services on Azure. Now, you can effortlessly access your MySQL flexible servers from any resource within your dedicated Virtual Network (VNet) or peered VNets, enabling a seamless integration with other Azure services. Bid fa…

In the constantly evolving landscape of modern work, success involves effective meetings and a collaborative workforce. Microsoft understands this well and has introduced Surface Hub 3, an all-in-one hybrid meeting and collaboration device set to transform the way we work. With this device – the only collaboration board designed end-to-end by Microsoft – we are offering consistency and simplicity to organizations that have Surface Hubs and other Microsoft Teams Rooms in their spaces, while delivering the most options for active collaboration so that teams can get more done. Learn more about Surface Hub 3 from Sonia and me in our YouTube video! …

IT admins told us they needed simplified IT management experience for Surface. To address this, we introduced the Surface Management Portal for Intune customers and the Hardware Support Portal for Microsoft 365 users. Today, we're unveiling updates for both. These enhancements aim to further facilitate the hardware management tasks that IT professionals conduct daily with Surface devices. What’s updated: Warranty for accessories: Centralize your warranty claims. File claims not only for Surface devices but also for other Microsoft and Surface accessories all within the same portal. Optimized bulk warranty claims: Elevate your efficiency. You can n…

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into the Windows 11 experience can unlock a new era of productivity for the people across your organization. Today we are offering insights to help you plan better for managing AI capabilities across your Windows estate. Copilot in Windows with Bing Chat Enterprise: availability and control Many people are excited about the availability of generative AI capabilities in Windows 11. As an IT professional, you want to help your organization be at the forefront of AI, but also hold the bar on protecting corporate data that employees may share with AI models. We are here to help you do both. A preview of Copilot …

With Microsoft 365 Copilot, people now have access to a next-gen AI assistant that can alleviate digital debt while boosting productivity, unleashing creativity, and freeing up time for more high-value work. At Build 2023, we announced the ability for developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot by using plugins. Today, at our AI event, we showed examples of how users can leverage plugins to ask Copilot to orchestrate complex tasks using only natural language. Microsoft 365 Chat, which can be accessed within Microsoft Teams and Microsoft365.com, enables that natural-language capability. Now, hundreds of enterprise customers are p…

At Microsoft we are dedicated to enabling our customers to grow and manage their businesses by unlocking their productivity and creativity—and nowhere is there more opportunity to do this than with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Small and medium businesses are the lifeblood of our economy and inherent innovators—nearly three–quarters report they are familiar with AI and half use it daily1. They are ready to leverage this new technology to help them grow faster, be more efficient and compete more effectively. By spending less effort on the time-consuming, day-to-day work we all experience, they can focus more energy on what they love—their business. This is why we recently …

The new Outlook for Windows for IT admins and commercial customers – What you need to know We recently announced the general availability of the new Outlook for Windows for personal accounts. This means that the new Outlook for Windows will start showing up, with the recently introduced redesigned icon, in both personal and commercial Windows 11 devices starting on 9/21. The new Outlook for Windows is enterprise-ready and it brings together the speed of web development with the reliability of a desktop app. We recommend organizations to start or keep testing the new Outlook for Windows so they can provide feedback to help us prioritize our development work. …

Video is one of the most powerful and engaging forms of communication, but when you’re looking for specific details from a video it often takes a fair bit of time to find what you need. You may need to watch the entire video or jump through parts manually to find the details you’re looking for. To help you get the information you need quickly from videos, we’re introducing Copilot in Microsoft Stream as part of Microsoft 365 Copilot1. Copilot in Stream sets a new standard for quickly extracting meaningful information and insights from the videos in your organization. Let’s take a look. Copilot in Stream can quickly summarize a video or answer your questions abo…

We recently announced Python in Excel, bringing one of the most powerful programming languages for data analysis to your spreadsheets. We’ve heard your excitement about leveraging AI with Python in Excel, and today we are thrilled to share how we are combining two of the most exciting new features in Excel so you can create powerful analytics with unprecedent ease with Copilot support for Python in Excel. Python code generation with Copilot in Excel In addition to helping you write formulas, format your data, and do data analysis, Copilot in Excel will help you analyze and explore your data in a new way: writing Python code. Just use everyday language…

Staying safer online in a modern world Where there once was a clear distinction between our online identities and our offline selves, today they are increasingly intertwined. Similarly, where people were previously occasionally offline, today we’re living in a world of constant connectivity. This has brought with it many innovations and improvements to our lives but have also made the risks of cyber attacks seriously disrupting our lives a lot more real. A thriller like 1995’s “The Net” might've seemed like a far-fetched scenario when that movie came out nearly 30 years ago, but today people are living the realities of identity theft on a daily basis. Accordi…

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 96 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=50768:name] Step Filter: The Step Filter is a Microsoft Power BI visual that simplifies filtering for users with its configurable options and autoplay function. It's great for storytelling and creating impressive presentations. [attachment=50769:name] Ivanti Neurons for Digital Experience: Ivanti Neurons for Digital Experience provides IT teams with insights and automation to detect and resolve issues, optimize performance, and impr…

This article is brought to you by the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities Program Technical Team. For information on how to take advantage of the granted offerings or free technical consultation, please visit: Supporting Black Community Nonprofits | Microsoft Nonprofits. Microsoft's Power BI Desktop is a useful application that enables organizations to effectively visualize and analyze data. It is a user-friendly application with a variety of features that cater to both novice and experienced users, making it a useful asset for organizations across industries. The first step in creating Power BI reports and dashboard…

Now, in human-bot conversational interactions, AI can produce more natural, fluent, and high-quality responses than ever before, thanks to the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Azure OpenAI GPT. Consequently, when engaging in verbal conversations, the demand for naturalness and expressiveness in Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices is higher than ever. We are introducing these new voices specifically designed for conversational scenarios. Whether you are creating a speech-based chatbot, a voice assistant, or a conversational agent, these new voices will ensure your interactions are more realistic, lifelike, and engaging. The new realistic voices are perfect matc…

Large Language Models (LLMS) in Computer Vision Computer vision is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that emulates human visual capabilities by using advanced algorithms. Cutting-edge AI technologies reached a level of accuracy that is comparable to human vision in many tasks, such as image classification, object detection, and image captioning. These incredible results have been possible thanks to the introduction of the so-called Large Language Models (LLMS), advanced machine learning models trained on a huge amount of unlabeled data from diverse sources like books, articles and websites, allowing it to capture general patterns and structure of data and to be…

Know the Business Before we go deep, we should first understand the ML model service(s) you are about to create: Number of models you want to run online Number of services you want to maintain Estimated RPS (Request Per Second) on average and at peak for each model or service Pattern of request traffic: weekday-weekend, constant traffic, “Black Friday”, etc. Request and response data type and size: image, text, stream, structured data, etc. Client capabilities: high performance services, IoT devices, desktop app, mobile app, etc. Budget: Knowing the cost of the instance is also an important consideration. Note: The more answers you have to the …

Many healthcare customers have moved to the Viva Glint patient safety survey to help assess and improve their patient safety culture. It was approved as a consistent and reliable measure of patient safety culture by Leapfrog's expert panel in the spring of 2020 and is among the most succinct Leapfrog-approved safety surveys currently available. Seamlessly integrated with Viva Glint, patient safety survey insights are designed to get to healthcare leaders clearly and quickly. Gynelle Miller, Lead Patient Safety and Reliability Specialist at Corewell Health, said that compared to their old safety survey reporting process, her team saved approximately 200 hours of tim…

Introduction: Welcome to the inspiring story of TAWI, Imagine Cup Winners 2023 Team TAWI, Kenya (microsoft.com) Microsoft Imagine Cup Dream it. Build it. Live it. The Imagine Cup is full of opportunities to gain new skills, access exclusive training, unlock mentorship opportunities, and have a chance to win great prizes and make a difference in the world. TAWI is a groundbreaking home-based software tool developed by Monzoto Limited a Microsoft FoundersHub supported company. TAWI is designed to assist children with auditory processing disorder who cannot afford hearing aids. Our co-founding team, consisting of Muna Numan, John Onsongo, Zakariya…

We’re rolling towards conference season and the Azure Data Studio engineers have been working hard on two things: adding new functionality improving stability and performance within the application As always, new features land in preview first. In order to try out anything that is listed as preview, you need to enable the Workbench: Enable Preview Features setting (access Settings using Ctrl/CMD + , ). I’ll remind folks again: we want to hear your feedback, whether it’s positive, constructive, or you simply have a question! Feel free to comment below, but if you encounter any problems, please log an issue (after you have searched to see if alre…

When connecting to Azure SQL Database, it's important to understand the type of connection established. Azure offers two primary connection policies: Proxy and Redirect. Knowing which one you're using can be crucial for performance considerations and troubleshooting. Understanding Connection Types Proxy: In the proxy method, clients initially connect to the Azure SQL Gateway, which then redirects the connection to the appropriate database node. All subsequent data flow between client and database goes through the gateway, potentially introducing an additional layer of latency. Redirect: In the redirect method, after the initial connection via the Azure…