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Today at Microsoft Inspire we announced the new Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, the next generation of our partner program empowering every partner to deliver customer value by leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud. In this post, I am providing more information on the benefits for our partners as well as the other key investments announced today, including new Solutions Partner designations, expanded ISV Success benefits, and investments in the commercial marketplace. Customers’ cloud adoption needs are rapidly evolving. AI is here now, and our partners are already driving innovation and transformation with customers across industries to help them re…

There's a known issue where some iOS/iPadOS 13 and newer devices enrolled in Microsoft Intune don’t return the token needed to allow a passcode reset. We first reported on this issue in the blog post, Support Tip: PowerShell Script now Available for iOS Passcode Reset Token Known Issue and noted in the Remove iOS/iPadOS passcodes documentation. Apple addressed the bug in OS version 13.3.1. However, we’re still seeing occasional impact on iOS/iPadOS devices with versions 13.3.1 and newer. This issue is very rare, but we recently received a case escalation that led us to revisit the reset token issue. We’re working with Apple to better understand why the passcode reset toke…

ur guest contributor for this blog is Yvonne Muench, Senior Director, Marketplace & ISV Journey. Today at Microsoft Inspire 2023, we announced general availability of ISV success, the pathway within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program for partners who develop software, or Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). We gathered with our 400,000 partners to celebrate our shared contributions and impact on businesses and industries worldwide. As we continue our journey together, we are thrilled to share a range of new announcements designed to empower partners of all sizes, which include new expanded benefits, multi-year investments, AI for ISVs, and a simplified journey…

oday at Microsoft Inspire we announced the new Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, the next generation of our partner program empowering every partner to deliver customer value by leveraging Microsoft AI and the Microsoft Cloud. In this post, I am providing more information on the benefits for our partners as well as the other key investments announced today, including new Solutions Partner designations, expanded ISV Success benefits, and investments in the commercial marketplace. Customers’ cloud adoption needs are rapidly evolving. AI is here now, and our partners are already driving innovation and transformation with customers across industries to help them rea…

**These offerings are only accessible by Azure specialized partners.** No matter the customer’s reason for making the move, we understand migration can be complex. We want to help alleviate the customer’s risks and help them get started on their migration with confidence. The AMMP helps you accelerate your customers’ cloud journey with the right mix of best practice guidance, resources, and expert help at every stage. Moving forward with the opportunity this program drives to our partners , we are launching two partner-led offers: Azure Migrate and Modernize and a new, innovation focused offering, Azure Innovate. These two offerings will help you adopt Azure…

Antes de comenzar a configurar Copilot Chat, es importante comprender todo el potencial de esta poderosa herramienta. Copilot Chat es una innovadora solución de programación en pareja (paired programming) impulsada por Inteligencia Artificial, que aprovecha las capacidades de GPT-4 de OpenAI, diseñada específicamente para servir como una interfaz de usuario conversacional. Con sus capacidades de procesamiento de lenguaje natural, Copilot Chat mejora tu experiencia de programación al proporcionar un entorno personalizado y flexible. Al optimizar tu flujo de trabajo, esta herramienta te permite desarrollar más rápido, cambiar el enfoque a la lógica empresarial en lug…

Join our next community call on July 25 to deep dive into Business Assist Text Analytics, a tool that allows you to collect feedback verbatims and generate insights, such as popular topics and sentiment. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour for both of our sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively). If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the calendar invites, program assets, and previous call recordings. Continue reading...

The Microsoft Project team is excited to share a summer round up of updates for Microsoft Project, including much-anticipated features such as task history and access to custom environment projects in Microsoft Teams. TLDR: Head over to the for a host of new features that have been rolling out to Microsoft Project, including setting goals, integrations with Viva Goals, task history and more! Be sure to bookmark the playlist as we’ll be adding new videos over the summer! Read on to dive deeper into these new features across task management and enterprise-ready project management. Project and task management Make your day-to-day task and project ma…

The following update announces a new plan: Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plan: This plan offers you customizable compute options (including memory optimization), single tenancy, and high availability to help you achieve price predictability, cost savings, and performance for running Spring applications at scale. For more information, see Unleash Spring apps in a flex environment with Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plans. The following update is now available in all plans: Azure Migrate for Spring Apps: Discover and assess your Spring workloads for cloud readiness and get a price estimate for Azure Spring Apps using Azure Migrate. Fo…

We are very excited and pleased to announce this edition of the Ninja Training Series. We have compiled several videos, document guides, and other resources to aid users in mastering the Microsoft Priva Ninja training realm. Our goal is to get you the most current links to the community blogs, training videos, Interactive Guides, learning paths, and any other relevant documentation. To make it easier for you to start and advance your knowledge gradually we split content for each Priva module, Risk Management and Subject Rights Requests, into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Introduction to Microsoft Priva Privacy is top of mind fo…

In this blog, we share the new capabilities that make it even easier to validate your applications against Windows client and server operating system updates in a Microsoft-managed test environment. Support for testing Microsoft 365 Apps In addition to validating monthly Windows updates, we also provide you with the ability to set up interoperability tests with other Microsoft 365 applications. Testing against the latest Office 365 builds in preview channel has now reached GA and is available for all! If you’re looking to ensure the compatibility of your apps or add-ons against the latest Office updates or before deploying to your organization the newest Office…

Today we are happy to announce public preview support for multi disk crash consistency mode in Virtual Machine (VM) restore points. A crash consistent VM restore point is an agentless solution that stores the VM configuration and point-in-time write-order consistent snapshots for all managed disks attached to a VM. This is same as the status of data in the VM after a power outage or a crash. VM restore points, announced in July’22, enabled reliable restoration of disks and VMs for data loss, corruption, disaster recovery, and infrastructure maintenance incidents. Using VM restore points, Azure Backup and ISV partners such as Commvault and Veritas offer BCDR solutio…

Today we are excited to launch our first modern UI toolkit to help our customers to confidently design their SharePoint sites and pages. Thank you to all of our customers and MVPs who have contributed to our understanding of your needs and ideas in how we can better set you up for success with this effort. We’ve used Figma, the industry standard tool for web design, to deliver a set of web parts, styles, and templates that make creating engaging sites much easier than was previously possible. Download the file from the Microsoft Community page in Figma. The first iteration of the SharePoint Web UI kit will allow you to design a company and organization news…

With Microsoft Entra ID Governance, you can effectively manage your organization’s security and identity governance needs and boost employee productivity by implementing appropriate processes and enhancing visibility. The Microsoft Entra platform empowers you with the ability to guarantee that the right people have the right access to the right resources. We’re excited to announce the general availability of a set of capabilities in Entitlement Management available through Microsoft Entra ID Governance to help you strengthen your identity governance posture. 1. Extending the access lifecycle with your organization-specific processes and business logic …

Blog 1 Congratulations on starting your journey as a database developer in a new organization! As you embark on this exciting chapter of your career, you'll encounter various challenges and opportunities to enhance your SQL development skills. One tool that can revolutionize your workflow is GitHub Copilot. This is the first blog of our series where we will explore how GitHub Copilot can assist you in your SQL development tasks, providing intelligent code suggestions and speeding up your learning curve. What is GitHub Copilot? GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool developed by GitHub and powered by OpenAI. It leverages machine learning models…

Azure AI Document Intelligence In today's digital era, businesses generate and consume an immense amount of information contained within documents. Unlocking the insights and knowledge hidden within these documents is crucial for organizations striving to enhance productivity, automate processes, and gain valuable insights. That's why we are thrilled to share our revamped product, Azure AI Document Intelligence, formerly known as Azure Form Recognizer. With its enhanced capabilities and expanded scope, Document Intelligence is set to empower organizations across all industries to harness the full potential of document information. Document Intelligence is designed t…

At Microsoft Learn, we’re passionate about helping our community build tech skills that can open doors to new possibilities and empower learning through connection. If you follow the Microsoft Learn Community, you may have already heard about the all-new Learning Rooms, and it’s only natural to ask what they are and how they can help you. Make the most of Microsoft Learn learning rooms Our collection of experiences in the Microsoft Learn Community offers a variety of ways to connect and engage with technical experts who are passionate about the community and who want to help you achieve your learning goals. Learning rooms are an exclusive component of the Mic…

Using pre-trained AI models offers significant benefits, including reducing development time and compute costs. Today we announced the availability of Meta’s Llama 2 (Large Language Model Meta AI) in Azure AI, enabling Azure customers to evaluate, customize, and deploy Llama 2 for commercial applications. Embedding Llama 2 and other pre-trained large language models (LLMs) into applications with Azure enables customers to innovate faster, by tapping into Azure’s end-to-end machine learning capabilities, unmatched scalability, and built-in security. Starting with a great model is just the first step. We’ve learned through our experiences developing GitHub Copilot, …

We are excited to announce that the Falcon family of state-of-the-art language models, created by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and hosted on Hugging Face hub, is now available in Model Catalog on the Azure Machine Learning platform. This exciting addition is a result of the partnership between Microsoft and Hugging Face. With their flagship library, Transformers, and Models hub with over 200,000 open-source models, Hugging Face has become the go-to source for state-of-the-art pre-trained models and tools in the NLP space. Falcon is a new family of language models comprising two base models: Falcon-40B and Falcon-7B. Falcon-40B tops the charts of the Op…

Microsoft partners like Celonis and Silk Technologies deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below: [attachment=45631:name] Celonis EMS: Bringing process analytics, artificial intelligence, and intelligent automation together to help companies achieve execution capacity breakthroughs, the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS) identifies execution gaps, suggests how to maximize capacity, and then automates processes across systems and deploys the right people to eliminate errors, inefficiencies, and delays. [attachment=45632:name] Silk Platform: The Silk Platform moves miss…

A teaser image showing a web browser on Bing Chat Enterprise At Microsoft Inspire, we announced Bing Chat Enterprise, AI-powered chat for work that lets organizations confidently take their first steps generative AI. Bing Chat Enterprise, available in Preview, gives your organization AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data are protected and will not leak outside the organization. What goes in—and comes out—remains protected. Chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to your data, and your data is not used to train the models. Whether researching industry insights, analyzing…

Welcome to the July 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! We are publishing this month’s edition early to cover the announcements made at the Microsoft Inspire conference, in addition to our typical What’s New features. We have a lot to share this month. Let’s dive in! At Inspire, Teams will be hosting two on-demand sessions: Accelerating business growth with Microsoft Teams and Enable AI-powered flexible workplaces with Teams (Phone, Rooms & Premium). We encourage you to register and tune in order to catch up on the latest Teams announcements, including new Copilot integrations for Teams Phone and Teams Chat. These sessions are packed with information on how mu…

Today we are introducing the preview of Microsoft Azure Boost, one of Microsoft Azure’s latest infrastructure innovations. Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built hardware and software, such as networking, storage, and host management. By separating hypervisor and host OS functions from the host infrastructure, Azure Boost enables greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security by adding another layer of logical isolation, and reduces the maintenance impact for future Azure software and hardware upgrades. This innovation enables Azure customers p…

In today’s dynamic business environment, the ability for organizations to adapt and evolve relies on the strength and resilience of their employees, and having a continuous pulse on their people enables this further. Our recent research1 shows that businesses with an engaged workforce performed twice as well financially compared to those with a disengaged workforce. To effectively use employee feedback to improve engagement, organizations must put in place a comprehensive employee listening strategy. We’re excited to announce Microsoft Viva Glint is now generally available as the latest addition to Microsoft Viva. Viva Glint joins Viva Insights, Viva Engage, and Vi…

Microsoft Viva, the employee experience platform, empowers organizations to drive engagement and productivity throughout their workforce. This includes guidance and insights made available to millions of Microsoft Viva users through the Microsoft Viva Digest email, aiming to help employees be their most engaged and productive selves. We are excited to announce that starting in August, a new integrated experience from BetterUp will be available in Microsoft Viva. This experience features inspiring stories from thought leaders and luminaries, personalized insights from evidence-based assessments, and coaching tools to support purpose, performance and productivity. …