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Azure Communication Services August 2024 Feature Updates
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The Azure Communication Services team is excited to share several new product and feature updates released in July 2024. (You can view previous blog articles.) July updates: Closed Captions (Native UI Library) Rooms Roles and Capabilities (Native UI Library) File sharing in Teams meetings Support for Teams Breakout rooms End of call survey (Native) Transfer to voicemail [HEADING=1]Closed Captions[/HEADING] Closed Captions are now generally available in the Native UI Library for Android and iOS. This feature applies to a range of scenarios in which closed captions are essential, enhancing the experience for users with hearing impairments and ens…
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Tackle Complex LLM Decision-Making with Language Agent Tree Search(LATS) & GPT-4O
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional abilities in performing natural language tasks that involve complex reasoning. As a result, these models have evolved to function as agents capable of planning, strategising, and solving complex problems. However, challenges persist when it comes to making decisions under uncertainty, where outcomes are not deterministic, or when adaptive decision-making is required in changing environments, especially in multi-step scenarios where each step influences the next. We need more advanced capabilities… This is where GPT-4’s advanced reasoning capabilities and Language Agent Tree Search (LATS) come together to addres…
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Partner Blog | Unlock the marketplace opportunity with certified software designations
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By Dan Rippey, Senior Director, Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, Global Partner Solutions Through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, we invest in key initiatives like Solutions Partner designations, which play a pivotal role in driving success in the marketplace for both partners and customers. This distinction helps partners showcase their validated skills, so customers can confidently choose the right partner for their needs. When you become a Solutions Partner* with certified software**, customers can easily identify the quality, capability, reliability, and relevance of your software solution. That credibility is good for your business right no…
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Practical Guide to Azure Custom Neural Voice: Essential Tips for Success
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="A teaser image generated by DALL E 3]63886[/ATTACH]A teaser image generated by DALL E 3 Custom Neural Voice (CNV) is a feature of Azure Cognitive Services that allows you to create a personalized, synthetic voice for your applications. This text-to-speech capability enables you to develop a highly natural-sounding voice for your brand or characters by using human speech samples as training data. Recently, I worked on a project involving the generation of a custom voice, and I encountered some features and hidden issues not covered in the official documentation. Therefore, I would like to share some tips and tricks in this article. S…
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Work Smarter: Copilot Productivity Tips
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="GabeHo_0-1722633507600.png]63880[/ATTACH] Here’s the unfortunate news: collecting information from various sources and creating presentations with that information can be a very time-consuming task for your sales & marketing employees. Whether it's personalizing sales presentations or converting financial data into executive briefs, your employees can spend countless hours each week crafting engaging slide decks that reflect your brand's identity. But here’s the good news: Copilot in PowerPoint can reduce the time your team spends on these tasks. Instead, they can spend that time on more impactful work, like building relationships…
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Automating Disk Cleanup in Azure Using PowerShell, Azure Resource Graph and LastOwnershipUpdateTime
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[HEADING=2]Automating Disk Cleanup in Azure Using PowerShell, Azure Resource Graph and LastOwnershipUpdateTime[/HEADING] Managing resources in Azure efficiently is crucial for cost optimization and operational efficiency. Recently, a new property, [iCODE]LastOwnershipUpdateTime[/iCODE], was introduced for Azure disks, which helps track the last state change of a disk. In this blog, we'll explore how to automate the cleanup of unattached disks older than 60 days using PowerShell and Azure Resource Graph queries. [HEADING=3] [/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Introduction[/HEADING] In this post, we'll cover: How to query Azure resources to find unattached disks using [iCOD…
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Architecting secure Gen AI applications: Preventing Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks
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As developers, we must be vigilant about how attackers could misuse our applications. While maximizing the capabilities of Generative AI (Gen-AI) is desirable, it's essential to balance this with security measures to prevent abuse. In a recent blog post, we discussed how a Gen AI application should use user identities for accessing sensitive data and performing sensitive operations. This practice reduces the risk of jailbreak and prompt injections, preventing malicious users from gaining access to resources they don’t have permissions to. However, what if an attacker manages to run a prompt under the identity of a valid user? An attacker can hide a prompt in…
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Now Available: Microsoft Viva Glint 360 Feedback
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In today's dynamic work environment, continuous development and self-awareness are critical and crucial for employees and their personal and professional growth. Viva Glint 360s can provide leaders and high potential employees with tremendous value, such as increased self-awareness, enhanced performance, opportunities to learn and grow, and help organizations achieve their business and engagement goals. 360 Feedback is available now and included with Viva Glint. We’ve streamlined the 360 process making it easy for HR teams to manage programs, raters to give feedback and employees to interpret results and take action. Take a quick look at how it works and read on fo…
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Introducing Simplified Subscription Limits for SQL Database and Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pool
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We are introducing new and simplified subscription limits for Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW). These updates are designed to reduce customer confusion and improve the overall quota management experience. What's changing? [ATTACH type=full" alt="raj_tiwari_3-1724655785839.png]63872[/ATTACH] New vCore based limits: The new limits will be based on vCores per Subscription per Region, which will be directly equivalent to DTU and DWU. Default logical servers limit: All new and existing subscriptions will now be subject to a maximum default limit of 250 logical servers. The previous limits on Logical Ser…
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Learn governance from Microsoft Digital, Microsoft’s own IT department
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Just because you build it (or implement it) does not mean employees will simply adopt it. It takes planning, discussion, and communication. Good rollout methodologies do include good implementation – implementation based on planned compliance and adherence to our privacy and security policies. At Microsoft, our IT team balances employee self-service with managed guardrails to protect the business. As we scale any solution, app, or service scales for use by our employees and guests, we focus on end user readiness, adoption, and proactive feedback loops that lead to informed decisions and course correction. This article provides insights directly from Microsof…
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Automatic Regeneration of Azure Managed Connectors Connection keys in VS Code Extension
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Starting with version 4.57.6, the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code will automatically regenerate the connection keys required to allow the extension to access Azure Managed Connections. This will allow the same Azure Managed Connection to be used for projects for longer than 7 days without any user intervention. Notice that this will not renew the key, for security purposes, but generate a new key and update the configuration to use the newly generated key instead. The connection keys will be evaluated at two points in time to make sure the Azure Managed Connection keys are not expired: When the project is opened in VS Co…
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Understanding and Resolving the HTTP Error 503 Service Unavailable Error in IIS
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Symptom Here’s a common scenario that many System Administrators, DevOps engineers, and Developers might encounter when users attempt to browse a site hosted on IIS, they receive an HTTP Error 503 Service Unavailable message as below. [ATTACH type=full" alt="PradeepSharma_0-1724522676304.jpeg]63866[/ATTACH] Initial phase : This is what users see on the page, but there are several ways an engineer can troubleshoot and address this issue. The "503 Service Unavailable" message typically appears when the application pool is in a stopped state. But why would an application pool be stopped, especially when it should be running to support website usage? Surp…
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Understanding and Resolving the HTTP 413 (Request Entity Too Large) in IIS
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Introduction The "HTTP 413 (Request Entity Too Large)" error is encountered when a client attempts to send a request that exceeds the server's configured size limit. This is particularly common with large file uploads or extensive data requests. In this blog, we’ll explore the causes of this error in IIS, how to resolve it, and specifically how to adjust configurations for WCF services. What is the HTTP 413 Error? The HTTP 413 status code, "Request Entity Too Large," indicates that the server refuses to process a request because the payload size exceeds the server’s allowable limits. This error typically occurs when sending large files or extensive data in r…
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See what's possible with Copilot in Excel (part 2)
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In this week's Copilot series, the focus is on how you can benefit from using the Copilot chat helper in Excel. The daily posts cover how to get started using the chat helper, asking for help understanding and writing formulas, as well as functions, and learning how to use PivotTables. Monday, 19-Aug – Let Copilot in Excel help you get started[ATTACH type=full" alt="Picture of Copilot in Excel pane showing the above prompt with 10 initial steps you can try to get started with Excel.]63860[/ATTACH]Picture of Copilot in Excel pane showing the above prompt with 10 initial steps you can try to get started with Excel. Tuesday, 20-Aug - Have Copilot in Excel explain …
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How Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Avalara make sales tax easy
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In this guest blog post, Brenda Connell, writer for Avalara, explains how e-commerce creates a challenging sales tax landscape for businesses of all sizes, and how Avalara and Microsoft Dynamics 365 help these businesses stay compliant and avoid fines and penalties. Sales tax used to be somewhat simple: A business sold its products or services from its physical location, then collected and remitted sales tax based on the laws of that jurisdiction. The business did that because it had nexus — the connection to a jurisdiction that creates an obligation to collect sales tax. In 2018, that all changed with just one court decision — a case that completely upended…
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Developing a Comprehensive Analytics Platform for Daily Pandemic Updates within Fabric
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In this tutorial, we will create a complete solution using Microsoft Fabric to monitor news related to the MPOX virus at a specific time. This solution is essential for healthcare professionals as it allows for a quick response to the changing situation by sending alerts when significant negative information is identified. What is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive data management solution that leverages artificial intelligence to integrate, organize, analyze, and share data across a unified and multi-cloud data lake. It simplifies analytics by providing a single platform that combines various services such as Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, …
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Building Trust with Responsible AI: Ensuring Content Safety and Empowering Developers
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Hi, I'm Chanchal Kuntal, a pre-final year student at Banasthali Vidyapith and a Beta Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador (MLSA). In the fast-paced world of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a critical tool driving innovation across industries. From healthcare to finance, AI systems are transforming how we live and work. However, with great power comes great responsibility. As AI continues to permeate our daily lives, the need for responsible AI practices has never been more pressing. This blog delves into the concept of responsible AI, the importance of content safety, and how these practices empower developers to create trustworthy and impactful AI solut…
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Securing your AI Apps on Azure: Recordings and Slides!
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In July, we put on a 6-part live stream series all about securing your AI apps on Azure, covering topics like keyless authentication, user login with Microsoft Entra, RAG data access control, and private network deployment. If you missed the live streams, you can still catch up by watching the recordings, downloading the slides, and trying out the sample projects. [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] Ready to go keyless and never worry about compromised keys again? All the Azure AI services support keyless authentication using role-based access control, making it possible for you to authenticate to the services with either your logged in local user identity or your deploye…
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As we are aware, Azure Files currently does not support identity-based connections. This means that even if we can use identity-based host connections to replace the AzureWebjobsStorage, which uses a SAS token, we still cannot remove the file share connection strings (WEBSITE_CONTENTAZUREFILECONNECTIONSTRING) that also rely on a SAS token. Therefore, we are unable to disable the SAS token in the storage account. For now, when creating function apps in the consumption/EP plan, we have the option to create an app without Azure File. In this scenario, we can bypass the SAS token requirement for Azure Files and solely utilize managed identity to access the storage acco…
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Automatic Regeneration of Connection ACL keys in VS Code Extension
by Guest WSilveira- 0 replies
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Starting with version 4.57.6, the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code will automatically regenerate the keys required to allow the extension to access Azure Managed Connections. This will allow the same Azure Managed Connection to be used for projects for longer than 7 days without any user intervention. Notice that this will not renew the key, for security purposes, but generate a new key and update the configuration to use the newly generated key instead. The ACL connection keys will be evaluated at two points in time to make sure the Azure Managed Connection ACL connection keys are not expired: When the project is opened …
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End-to-end Stable Diffusion test on Azure NC A100/H100 MIG
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You're welcome to follow my GitHub repo and give it a star：GitHub - xinyuwei-david/david-share [HEADING=3] [/HEADING] [HEADING=3]E2E Stable Diffusion on A100 MIG[/HEADING] A100/H100 are High end Training GPU, which could also work as Inference. In order to save compute power and GPU memory, We could use NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), then we could run Stable Diffusion on MIG. I do the test on Azure NC A100 VM. [HEADING=3]Config MIG[/HEADING] Enable MIG on the first physical GPU. root@david1a100:~# nvidia-smi -i 0 -mig 1 After the VM reboot, MIG has been enabled. [ATTACH type=full" alt="xinyuwei_0-1724492592775.png]63794[/ATTACH] Lists all avail…
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How to make AI training faster
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You're welcome to follow my GitHub repo and give it a star：GitHub - xinyuwei-david/david-share [ATTACH type=full" alt="xinyuwei_0-1724472736934.png]63787[/ATTACH] [HEADING=2]Factors Affecting AI Training Time[/HEADING] In deep learning training, the calculation of training time involves multiple factors, including the number of epochs, global batch size, micro batch size, and the number of computing devices, among others. Below is a basic formula illustrating the relationship between these parameters (note that this is just a basic illustrative formula, mainly explaining proportional and inversely proportional relationships; actual training may require consid…
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Where do I go if I have questions about Azure Maps?
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[CENTER][CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="PersonAzureMapsQ.jpeg"]63785[/ATTACH][/CENTER][/CENTER] As you might expect, just looking around on your own, or asking Co-pilot, you can find comprehensive help like [URL='http://samples.azuremaps.com']Samples.AzureMaps.com[/URL], with its full sample set available on GitHub, and resources for Azure Maps on the [URL='https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/']Microsoft Learn website[/URL]. Here are some key sections that might be useful: [LIST=1] [*][B][URL='https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/']Azure Maps Documentation[/URL][/B]: This includes detailed …
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What’s New in Copilot for Sales - August 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. For August, we've enhanced our recent communications card in Outlook with support for quick view of meeting recaps and recurring meeting support. We've added time of day support to our existing date support in record creation and editing; and to wrap-up our enhancements in Outlook this month, we've streamlined CRM tasks with actionable messages in email banners. In Teams, we've added the a…
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Migrating from Azure APIM STv1 to STv2: New Options and Considerations
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As the support for Azure API Management (APIM) STv1 platform ends on August 31, 2024, it’s crucial for customers to migrate their instances to the STv2 platform. This blog will focus on the new migration options introduced to facilitate this process, as outlined in the attached document. Why Migrate to STv2? With the end of support for STv1, instances on this platform will no longer have a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Migrating to STv2 ensures continued support and access to the latest features and improvements in Azure APIM. New Migration Options Over the past year, several limitations in the migration process have been addressed to make it easier f…