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Send emails via SMTP relay with Azure Communication Service
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We’ve come across multiple cases where customers want to send emails from Applications migrated to Azure through some kind of SMTP service. Though we’ve seen customers opting for O365 for SMTP relay, this can create issues due to throttling limitations in Office Service. Also, managing mailbox and license assignment on Office 365 console is a different story; customers would want to have seamless SMTP relay service experience from single console on Azure. Though Azure Communication service supports sending emails outbound but currently it requires you to integrate it via the ACS SDK that Microsoft provide. In scenarios where you don’t want to modify code and just chang…
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Announcing the Availability of adutil for RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 !
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We’re thrilled to share that adutil, the Active Directory Utility for SQL Server, is now officially supported on RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. If you’ve been waiting for this, your patience has paid off! Let’s dive into the details. [HEADING=1]What Is adutil?[/HEADING] adutil is a powerful tool that simplifies Active Directory integration with SQL Server on Linux-based deployments. It enables seamless authentication, user management, and keytab configuration. Whether you’re running SQL Server on RHEL 9 or Ubuntu 22.04, you can now harness the full capabilities of adutil. [HEADING=1]Getting Started[/HEADING] Join Your Host Machine to the Domain: Before divi…
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What's New in Copilot for Sales - June 2024
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Microsoft Copilot for Sales is reimagining sales. Integrated seamlessly into your daily tools across Microsoft 365 and Teams, Copilot for Sales harnesses the power of generative AI and customer data to keep sellers in their flow of work so they can spend more time with customers. In June, we're adding features to multiple surfaces, including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and to Microsoft Copilot Studio! We're pleased to announce new capabilities in the Outlook suggested actions card, new options for saving email and meetings, and the ability to view recent communications. In Teams, we've added a new action items service and improved discoverability for Sales …
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Using MLX Framework with Phi-3
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Previously, I shared with you how to use Phi-3-mini on AIPC's NPU and iPhone. Some people want to know more about the experience of using macOS and how to use Apple Silicon to accelerate SLM models. This blog will share with you relevant knowledge, including how to use Apple MLX Framework to accelerate Phi-3-mini operation, fine-tune, and combine Llama.cpp for quantitative operation. [HEADING=1]What's MLX Framework[/HEADING] MLX is an array framework for machine learning research on Apple silicon, brought to you by Apple machine learning research. MLX is designed by machine learning researchers for machine learning researchers. The framework is intended to be use…
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Prepare for Your Next Certification
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Have you studied for a certification before and struggled with memorizing some of the content you have read? I have indeed struggled with it! An example is that I studied for the Endpoint Administrator (MD-102) certification, where I had to memorize the different app types in Intune. Do you know what helped me? Flashcards! I am excited to tell you more about a workshop where you can create your own flashcards later in this blog. First, I will give you my tips and tricks for studying for a certification. [HEADING=1]Studying for a Microsoft Certification[/HEADING] Are you looking at starting with a Microsoft certif…
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Create Your First Visual Agent Using AOAI and AI Search - Search Product Catalog Images
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[HEADING=2]Search Product Catalog Images Using Azure Search and OpenAI with Langchain[/HEADING] In the ever-evolving landscape of retail, businesses are continually seeking innovative solutions to streamline their operations and enhance customer experiences. One such breakthrough is the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) to search product catalog images efficiently. This transformative technology not only simplifies the search process but also empowers businesses to provide personalized and seamless shopping experiences for their customers. The Need for AI in Product Catalog Image Search: Traditional methods of searching through …
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Announcing public preview for Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated
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Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, cloud-native, real-time data streaming service that enables you to stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and immediately respond to business challenges. It sits at the center of all the operational and analytical workflows for Azure’s customers – whether they are large enterprises or scrappy startups, enabling them to leverage their streaming data to enable new workflows, all in real time. Data availability and service reliability are core tenets of a cloud-native service and today we are excited to announce the public preview of geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs to complete our …
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Get more device control flexibility with BitLocker settings in Defender for Endpoint
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With hybrid work here to stay and data-centric cyberattacks on the rise, safeguarding sensitive information is critical to every security strategy. While data loss prevention (DLP) is often considered for cloud storage locations, the management of removable storage devices such as USBs is equally important, to help ensure that data-at-rest is encrypted and integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information is maintained. We’re excited to announce that Defender for Endpoint device control support for BitLocker is now in public preview. This new feature provides security admins with more granular control through policy exceptions for BitLocker encrypted devices. …
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Copilot for Security TI Embedded Experience in Defender XDR is now GA
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The Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) and Defender XDR teams are pleased to announce that the Copilot for Security threat intelligence embedded experience in the Defender XDR portal is now generally available. As of today, Defender XDR customers will see a handy AI-powered sidecar in the Threat Analytics, intel profiles, intel explorer, and intel projects tabs in the threat intelligence blade (in brackets below), which returns, contextualizes, and summarizes intelligence from across MDTI and Threat Analytics about threat actors, threat tooling, and indicators of compromise (IoCs) related to their vulnerabilities and security incidents. The embedded exp…
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Copilot in Excel: Working with Columns & Formulas
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Excel Copilot can write complex formulas, including ones that work with text. In this blog post, we’d like to demonstrate Excel Copilot’s ability to work with complex formulas with a dataset containing noteworthy individuals. Here's what we will be showcasing: Organize data by splitting a single column into multiple columns Calculate age by extracting the years from a string of text [HEADING=2]1. Organize data by splitting a single column into multiple columns[/HEADING] We have data that comes in this format: Alan Turing (1912-1954, United Kingdom): However, we would like to make our table cleaner by splitting the data into…
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WebNN: Bringing AI Inference to the Browser
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Imagine having the power of AI-driven facial recognition or real-time image classification directly in your browser. This is the promise of WebNN, a groundbreaking JavaScript API designed to bring neural network inference to web applications. What is WebNN? Web Neural Network API (WebNN) is a JavaScript API that empowers web developers to perform machine learning computations on neural networks directly within web applications. WebNN simplifies the integration of machine learning models into web apps, opening up new possibilities for interactive and intelligent applications right in the browser WebNN is primarily designed for inference tasks rather th…
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Five Key Updates on WS2012 ESUs enabled by Azure Arc
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We have a myriad of key updates for customers enrolled in WS2012/R2 ESUs enabled by Azure Arc! As we continue to refine and expand the offer, investments have focused on reducing friction and improve the usability of WS2012/R2 ESUs enabled by Azure Arc. We’re excited to announce our brand-new usage view, preview of the transition scenario, and improvements to pre-requisites, billing, and included capabilities. The ESU Usage View is now Public Preview for customers in Azure Portal. With the ESU Usage View, customers get visibility into their coverage of Azure Arc-enabled WS2012/R2 servers with Extended security Updates. Moreover, the view surfaces licenses …
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MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: How can I track the lifecycle of a SharePoint site?
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In this post, we’ll cover some details on how to track the lifecycle of a SharePoint Site in the Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC), using the date columns in the SharePoint Site dataset. If you’re not familiar with MGDC for SharePoint, start with Links about Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint. [HEADING=2]All Dates in the Sites Dataset[/HEADING] One of the most common scenarios in MGDC for SharePoint is tracking the lifecycle of a site, which includes understanding when the site was created, how it grows over time, when it stops growing and when it becomes inactive or abandoned. The SharePoint Sites dataset includes several columns that can…
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Simplifying Azure Diagnostics with Category Groups and the New Built-In Policies
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Heinrich and Luke (@Luke_Alderman) here to show you the exiting capabilities enabled by v2 of the unified diagnostics settings Policies. This enables managing diagnostics settings at enterprise scale [HEADING=1]History[/HEADING] As many of you know, deploying diagnostics settings at scale was difficult. Jim Britt wrote a widely used script to automate the generation of Policies. I personally have written ~100 Policy definitions for our customers. Luke and others realized this and introduced the concept of categoryGroups “audit” and “allLogs” to diagnostics settings enabling a uniform approach to diagnostics settings. Subsequently Heinrich got involved working with L…
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Boost engagement with Copilot in Forms
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We have been continuously enhancing Copilot’s capabilities over the past few months, focusing on everything from form creation to distribution, to make it your ultimate form creation assistant. This June, we enabled more capabilities for distributing forms, helping you boost audience engagement and increase response rates. Let’s explore the new capabilities together! Rewrite the invitation message with Copilot The invitation message is the first thing responders see when they receive a form. Crafting a compelling message is key to grabbing their attention and prompting a quick response. When your form is ready to go, Copilot will help you rewrite the default m…
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Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench Alliance enables innovation for semiconductor design
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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench (Azure MSWB), a groundbreaking service on the Azure Cloud built to revolutionize collaborative development in semiconductor design. This new service leverages the performance, scalability and elasticity of Azure Compute and Azure NetApp Files along with decades of semiconductor experience from both Microsoft and its partners. Azure MSWB enables customers to easily and quickly deploy secure chambers, enabling collaboration scenarios ranging from joint debug, co-development and complex multi-vendor design flows. Azure MSWB is production proven, creating the founda…
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Accelerate initiatives like AI and cloud transformation with Keyfactor Command SaaS Lite on Azure
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In this guest blog post, Paul de Curnou, Senior Business Development Manager, Marketplaces at Keyfactor, discusses how businesses can regain control of their public key infrastructure (PKI), the critical infrastructure underlying strategic organizational investments like cloud migrations, AI initiatives, merger and acquisitions strategies, and the digitization of everything from IoT devices to automobiles. Every year Keyfactor surveys IT and security professionals in our State of PKI & Digital Trust for a better understanding of where organizations of all sizes are succeeding and what they are struggling with in public key infrastructure, certificate management…
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Try out SLMs with Ollama in GitHub Codespaces
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If you haven't tried it already, Ollama is a great tool built on top of llama.cpp that makes it easier to run small language models (SLMs) like Phi-3 and Llama3-8B on your own machine, even if your personal computer has no GPU or has an ARM chip. Ollama provides both a command-line interface to chat with the language model, as well as an OpenAI-compatible chat completion endpoint. What if your personal computer can't run Ollama for some reason, like if you're using a ChromeBook or iPad without the ability to install? GitHub Codespaces to the rescue! Codespaces is a way to open any GitHub repository in the browser, inside a web-based VS Code running a containerized …
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Join us in July for Securing AI Apps on Azure!
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Join us in July for a series of free live-streams sharing best practices for securing your AI apps on Azure. You'll learn about managed identity (keyless authentication), user sign-in with Microsoft Entra (for both internal and public-facing apps), data access control for RAG apps, and deployment of a RAG app to a fully private network. Check out the session details below, or register for the entire series now. And don't worry, if you miss a session, you can catch up on the YouTube recording after. [HEADING=1]Using Keyless Auth with Azure AI Services[/HEADING] July 2nd, 2024 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC) Ready to go keyless and never worry about compromis…
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Azure SQL Managed Instance Zone Redundancy to begin billing
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[HEADING=1]Azure SQL Managed Instance with Zone Redundancy to begin billing in Italy-North, Israel-Central, and West-Europe[/HEADING] Microsoft Azure continues to enhance its services, ensuring that customers have access to the latest innovations and features. The latest update is particularly exciting for businesses operating in Italy, Israel, and West Europe: Azure SQL Managed Instance with Zone Redundancy is available in these regions and starts billing for all configurations. [HEADING=2] [/HEADING] [HEADING=2]What is Azure SQL Managed Instance?[/HEADING] Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed database service that offers the best of SQL Server with th…
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Exploring Generative AI: A Hands-on Course on Prompt Engineering for non-tech students - Part 2
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[HEADING=3]Introduction [/HEADING] Welcome to Part 2 of our exploration into generative AI, where we delve deeper into the practical applications and creative potential of this innovative technology. This article highlights concrete examples from students projects of the course ‘Prompt Engineering’ at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento (Italy). The aim is to showcase how students leveraged generative AI in unique ways. In particular, we'll focus on two fascinating projects: "Generative Music" and "Personal Chef," which exemplify the versatility and impact of generative AI in diverse fields. Core element of these projects is the use of a structured…
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Use budget management and forecasting to bring your FinOps practice into the era of AI
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As you expand your use of the cloud, cost management becomes increasingly important. But lack of visibility into spending practices can hamper your cloud cost management efforts. With cloud costs constantly fluctuating and decision-making often decentralized in large organizations, gaining visibility into expenses can be challenging. The right cloud management tools can help reveal and eliminate hidden costs associated with the cloud and provide a holistic view of all your cloud cost centers. Budget management and forecasting can make understanding and optimizing your cloud costs easier. Budget management refers to the process of overseeing and tracking financial plans…
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External Data Sharing With Microsoft Fabric
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Organizations leveraging Microsoft Fabric can now use the external data sharing feature to allow users from another Microsoft Fabric tenant access their data. The data stays in the provider's OneLake storage location and no data is moved. Instead, this cross-tenant sharing creates a link, called a OneLake shortcut, and the recipient of the share tenant creates a pointer back to the provider tenant. Users in the recipient tenant are provided a read only access to the data. The data is shared across tenant boundaries, and the recipient can use it with any OneLake compatible Fabric workload in their own tenant. What makes external sharing solution so seamless and frictionles…
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What's new in Microsoft Intune June 2024
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As spring turns to summer, and sprouts appear in my garden, I think about all the preparation I’ve made for their environment—turning the soil, setting up the watering system, adding peat moss—and know that the yield will be greater and the harvest better. Such is the case with Microsoft Intune. As we continue to enhance the capabilities, each one an investment, the cumulative result is a richer and more robust management experience. Below, we highlight some of the newest features. [HEADING=1]New troubleshooting tool for mobile devices[/HEADING] Part of diagnosing an issue is not only defining what is wrong but also what is not wrong. Our customers asked for a simpl…
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Sync Up Episode 11: Live from Microsoft 365 Conference!
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The latest edition of Sync Up is live now in your favorite podcast app! This month, Arvind Mishra and I are explored all the announcements and energy of the Microsoft 365 Community Conference! Even better, we had on-site interviews with a host of OneDrive experts! Mark Kashman (you read that right, the Mark Kashman, of Intrazone!) talked about our experiences at the conference, including the 🤖 Age of Copilots, the magic of in-person conferences, and some of the amazing SharePoint-related features that were shown off! Lesha Bhansali shared how OneDrive is available everywhere, from Windows to Mac to Teams to Outlook, making it easy for your users to be produc…