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Millions of people across the globe use Microsoft Teams at work and at school. It is one of the world’s most popular collaboration and communication platforms with more than 300 million monthly active users. But did you know that you can build apps that can run inside or extend Microsoft Teams features? Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps for Microsoft Teams. Join live events, connect with Microsoft experts and win awesome prizes! The hackathon opens on June 1, 2023 with our live keynote. Register and start hacking on your project, alone or with a team. Submit your project b…

Microsoft’s’ virtualization stack, which powers the Microsoft Azure Cloud, is made up of the Microsoft hypervisor and the Azure Host OS. Security is foundational for the Azure Cloud, and Microsoft is committed to the highest levels of trust, transparency, and regulatory compliance (see Azure Security and Hypervisor Security to learn more). Confidential VMs are a new security offering that allow customers to protect their most sensitive data in use and during computation in the Azure Cloud. In this blog we’ll describe the Confidential VM model and share how Microsoft built the Confidential VM capabilities by leveraging confidential hardware platforms (we refer to th…

Many organizations, for example, schools during a significant weather event, need to rapidly communicate ad hoc updates via SMS or Email. With Azure Communication Services and Azure OpenAI Services, we can simplify this experience to help you automatically generate templated messages for different communication channels and audiences. If this problem seems familiar, we have built a pre-built solution that can help you. See our manual for step-by-step instructions. The solution uses the example of a a school administrator who needs to send a weather related alert and focuses on three main parts: …

Your diet can often seem very, very complicated. You might be eating fresh kale from your garden, dining at a fine restaurant, existing on a stream of home-delivered takeout, or indulging in all-you-can-eat buffets. Your food could be baked, fried, grilled, roasted, or steamed. And if you’re looking to get six-pack abs or live a healthier life, you might be following Paleo, Keto, Vegan, or intermittent fasting. With so many options, best-selling author Michael Pollan tried to distill his 30 years as a food expert down to its simplest form: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. And what if your goal is to live forever? There are probably 10…

As a Viva Engage community manager, one of the most important and often time-consuming tasks is managing members, especially in large organizations. Starting this week, networks in native mode will now have bulk upload available. This enables community admins to bulk add members via CSV file to the community. Community managers can use this to generate their initial community membership, to bring over members from another community or existing list, or to migrate membership from another community platform. Add up to 20,000 community members Using bulk uploading, community managers can add up to 20,000 members, and the upload may take up to 24 hours to process.…

Howdy folks, Today I’m excited to announce the General Availability of the Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in for Apple devices. This product provides single sign-on (SSO) for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now a part of Microsoft Entra, accounts on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS across all applications that support Apple's enterprise single sign-on feature. This includes older applications your organization depends on that don’t use the latest libraries or protocols and may not have access to the latest Microsoft Entra features. Now any compatible application can benefit from the latest security and identity features we offer without needing to update a single…

A banner image with text: "Microsoft 365 Admin Digest: Your monthly IT admin blog for all things Microsoft 365.” Welcome to the Microsoft 365 IT admin blog, your monthly source of tips, insights, and best practices for managing and optimizing your Microsoft 365 environment. In this edition, we'll explore how you can use different admin roles to empower your adoption specialists and improve your user experience without compromising security or compliance, whether you have a large or small IT team. Learn about enhancements to the admin center and read on to catch up about all things Microsoft 365 administration. Use these roles to appropriately delegate admin cent…

Cyber-security is consistently one of the top concerns for business leaders across every industry and when you consider that the average cost of a breach is upwards of USD4.35 million[1], its no surprise why. While this focus has often led to investment and the implementation of robust security practices, it’s also forced cyber-criminals to rethink their attack strategies. Some of the most rapidly growing threat areas are identity-based attacks where malicious actors look to exploit identities, or the underlying infrastructure and policies that govern them. Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is an emerging security category designed to counter these types of at…

Microsoft continues to invest in HoloLens 2 and the broader Mixed Reality program. So far this year, we’ve brought new immersive collaboration tools to industrial metaverse customers and updates to Dynamics 365 Guides. We are building on this innovation with the rollout of a few other highly anticipated features that will benefit our developer community. We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) will reach General Availability (GA) in Q3 of this calendar year. MRTK3 is the third generation of Microsoft’s open-source project designed to accelerate cross-platform mixed reality development in Unity. MRTK3 is the third genera…

Welcome to the May 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! This month featured a ton of great announcements from Microsoft Build 2023. Be sure to catch-up on all the great features that were revealed to make Microsoft and Microsoft Teams the best place for developers to build the next-gen of collaborative apps. We have a great line-up of new features to announce. This month brings 32 new features to Teams. My personal favorites are Avatars for meetings which can give me a much-needed camera break when I have a full day of on-camera meetings and Intelligent Meeting Recap for Teams Premium users which leverages AI to automatically provide a comprehensive overview of you…

Introduction In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the importance of clean, well-structured URLs cannot be overstated. A well-crafted URL not only improves user experience, but it also boosts your website's SEO ranking. One common issue web developers and content creators face is the presence of trailing slashes in their URLs, which can lead to duplicate content issues and negatively impact search engine performance. In this blog post, we'll share a practical solution based on a recent customer engagement, where we helped them create a file that effectively removes trailing slashes from their URLs. Through step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how to implement t…

In 2019, a staggering statistic from the World Bank revealed that 87% of Nigeria's impoverished population resided in the North. Motivated by this alarming reality, Hriscare International Foundation, a local NGO in Northern Nigeria, embarked on a mission to combat poverty. Fortuitously, during the Microsoft Certified Trainer West Africa boot camp in Abuja that same year, Tabitha Hris, the founder of Hriscare International Foundation, and Collins Ajonye, CEO of GovirtualAfrica, were introduced to the Microsoft Certified Trainers West Africa Bootcamp which was held in Abuja . This encounter highlighted the absence of an active Microsoft community in Northern Nigeria. …

AI is no longer something special only for developers, everyone is excited about its unlimited potential. While ChatGPT has been getting popular since the beginning of this year, a global series event, Global AI Bootcamp, was held in March by local AI communities across the world. More than 70 local events attracted people who were eager to learn about the latest Microsoft AI technologies. One of the local events, 2023 Global AI Bootcamp - Busan!, was the first in-person Global AI Bootcamp in Korea after the pandemic. More than 100 people including non-developers and students registered for this event and learned about the hottest AI topics from Azure OpenAI Servic…

Hello Folks, Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. Each month we bring you an update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what's new with Azure Networking in May 2023. Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage is now generally available for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage in all Azure regions. Virtual Network (VNet) service endpoints provide secure and direct connectivity to Azure services over an optimized route over the Azure backbone network. Some of the advantages you will benefit from are: Integrate cross-region se…

Background introduction API Management allow us to import a function app as an API, the UI offers a straightforward process to import the function app as described on this Microsoft public document. However, in this article we want to go beyond and explore what actions are performed in the background, it will allow us to understand the import process better and will help us dealing with issues while importing the function app. Steps Please review all the steps carefully, they are executed in the following order. Note: The easiest way to see these steps is collecting a HAR trace. 1- It first sends a HEAD request to Microsoft.ApiManagement prov…

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The advancement of large-scale transformer-based deep learning models, which have been meticulously trained on substantial datasets, has undeniably revolutionized the field by achieving unparalleled performance across diverse tasks. Notably, these models have experienced a remarkable growth in size, expanding exponentially over recent years. As platforms such as Hugging Face and Open AI emerge, there arises an increasingly pressing demand for customers to embark on the training and meticulous fine-tuning of these expansive models on an unprecedented scale. This affords organizations the opportunity to tailor the model according to their unique specifications, allowing met…

Overview MLOps is a set of practices and tools that help organizations to manage and deploy machine learning models in a scalable and reliable way. They include cross-functional collaboration, version control and testing, and ensuring the deployment environment is secure and compliant with relevant regulations. By adopting MLOps practices, organizations can improve collaboration between teams, better govern and comply with regulations, and deploy models safely and securely. In this blog, let’s explore how Azure Machine Learning can help adopt MLOps practices, with a special focus on model deployment and safe rollout aspect. At Microsoft Build 2023, we announce…

In this article, I will introduce LangChain and explore its capabilities by building a simple question-answering app querying a pdf that is part of Azure Functions Documentation. Langchain Harrison Chase's LangChain is a powerful Python library that simplifies the process of building NLP applications using large language models. Its primary goal is to create intelligent agents that can understand and execute human language instructions. With LangChain, you can connect to a variety of data and computation sources and build applications that perform NLP tasks on domain-specific data sources, private repositories, and more. As of May 2023, the LangChain GitHub rep…

In my previous article, we explored about the fundamentals of ADX export and leveraging ADX to overcome the challenges with big data export. In this article, we will explore effective techniques to use with ADX export. ADX supports an on-demand export and continuous export. This article describes the techniques about on-demand export. Let's dive into the export command behavior and techniques to control the export behavior. The below export query on my cluster outputs about few millions of records and the command tries to export all the data into the provided storage container using the blob secret. .export async to csv (h@"https://bhaskar.bl…

Welcome to the May 2023 update. This month, we are excited to announce several new features across web and Windows. The option to directly share a link to a table context menu is now generally available for web users, as well as Immersive Reader which lets you customize your reading experience. Enable proper date support and implicit measure support are both available for web and Windows users. Narrator enhancements, available for Windows users, provide a better audio experience for Excel users. Many of these features are the result of your feedback. THANK YOU! Your continued Feedback in Action #FIA helps make Excel better for everyone. Excel for web: A…

Many of our sophisticated customers prefer to interface with Microsoft Purview via scripts rather than via the UI. Microsoft Purview DevOps policies now support a REST API offering full CRUD capability (listing, policies for SQL Performance Monitor, policies for SQL Security Auditor). See the spec here: Devops Policy - REST API (Azure Purview) What are Microsoft Purview DevOps policies used for? Through DevOps policies, you provision access to database system metadata at-scale, securely and inexpensively. Learn more here. Who needs access to database system metadata? Your internal IT/DevOps personnel or your external contractors that are tasked with moni…

We are thrilled to announce the release of new Threat Explorer V3 by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 with improved user experience to detect and investigate potential threats in their email environment. This tool provides real-time insights and recommendations to security analysts, helping them identify and mitigate security risks quickly and effectively. With the new release, Threat Explorer V3 offers enhanced filtering into email security events, allowing administrators to proactively respond to potential threats and prevent security incidents from occurring. Additionally, the tool provides a comprehensive view of email-based attacks, URL clicks, high-risk users makin…