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We are happy to announce the launch of the new contact editor in Outlook Mobile, designed to enhance your contact experience on both iOS and Android platforms. This editor enables users to seamlessly add and edit contacts in a compliant manner and will replace the use of the devices’ native editors in Outlook Mobile. We have received feedback about compliance concerns in the previous native Android and iOS editors related to managing and enforcing Intune policies for contact editing in Outlook Mobile. Many users have also shared feedback about the inconsistent experience across different devices with the former editors. [ATTACH=full]61594[/ATTACH]The new…

We wanted to demystify the process of syncing and provisioning of various recipient objects in Exchange Online. Some of this content might be already familiar to you but some will be new and will (hopefully) help you understand and troubleshoot most issues around Exchange objects provisioning. Due to the extensiveness of the topic, this will be a series of blog posts instead of one, and to ensure there’s a way for everyone to understand the content, regardless of your experience, we will start with the basics. [HEADING=1]Architecture Fundamentals[/HEADING] The simplest architecture when referring to Exchange on-premises is a ‘single forest’ topology, where you ha…

We are excited to introduce the new quarantine release integration within Microsoft Defender for Office 365 as part of the hunting experience. This enhancement allows Security Operators (SecOps) to address false positives more efficiently and with greater flexibility in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. With this new capability, SecOps can now move quarantined messages to Inbox across hunting experiences - Threat Explorer, Advanced Hunting, Email summary panel, Email Entity Page, and custom detection. SecOps team members can act on both single and quarantine messages in bulk. To act on a single message, use the Email Entity page, to act on multiple messages us…

The Planner team is excited to share some fresh new updates in the Planner app for Microsoft Teams. We thank you for your valuable feedback that helps shape feature updates, and hope these capabilities significantly enhance your experience managing tasks and coordinating team initiatives. [HEADING=1]Copy Link to Plan [/HEADING] This capability allows you to quickly share your plans with teammates, ensuring that everyone can access the plan with a single click. To access this feature, select a plan's overflow menu from the My Plans page and select "Copy link to plan": [ATTACH=full]61578[/ATTACH] [HEADING=1]Open Plan from Task [/HEADING] …

Bulk emails, ranging from promotions and transactional updates to targeted marketing campaigns, play a crucial role in modern enterprise communications. Yet, determining the right balance of these messages—what should be allowed and what should be blocked—poses a significant challenge. Many organizations default to standard settings, often leading to issues like false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN) in email workflows. [ATTACH=full]61572[/ATTACH] Understanding Your Organization's Bulk Email Preferences In enterprise, email management falls under the purview of admins who set policies based on bulk complaint levels (BCL). However, deciding on the optim…

Are you ready to learn more about Microsoft Loop? We have five upcoming Loop events for you – numerous opportunities to see Microsoft Loop in action, to learn about upcoming roadmap items and Copilot/AI innovations, ask questions, get time-saving tips and tricks, and provide direct feedback to the Loop product team. [ATTACH=full]61566[/ATTACH]Microsoft Loop – Five-part learning series: Microsoft Loop | Live, Five-Part Learning Series. We’re all eyes and ears each week for five weeks – starting August 14th, 2024. Review each weekly, online learning opportunity below. Register to learn and share all things Loop – there it is! If you can’t make it to one, each part…

Check out the latest community briefings, Teams Insider Podcast and Operator Connect Updates. [HEADING=1]Community Briefings[/HEADING] Microsoft Mesh: The Future of Virtual Collaboration [ATTACH=full]61560[/ATTACH] Empowering.Cloud In our latest community briefing, MVPs Miguel Tabera and Ángel Carrillo discuss the vision for the future of collaboration within Microsoft Teams and how Microsoft Mesh is enabling collaboration like never before. Key features of Microsoft Mesh: Avatars, Immersive Spaces and Customer Immersive Spaces Microsoft Mesh experiences in Microsoft Teams including hybrid meetings and use cases Customization of immersive …

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 258 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: [TABLE width=95%] [TR] [th width=100%] [HEADING=2]Get it now in our marketplace[/HEADING][/th] [/TR] [TR] [td width=15%][ATTACH=full]61500[/ATTACH][/td] [td width=85%]1000minds Agribusiness: 1000minds decision-making and conjoint analysis software helps businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations identify desirable traits for breeding plants and animals in the agriculture industry. Experts from various fields can collaborate to improve the usefulness of cultivated sp…

In this blog post, I will discuss the efficient monitoring of Microsoft Sentinel workbooks through Dashboard Hub and the creation of customized reports using Power BI. Microsoft Sentinel provides a variety of pre-built workbooks that are crucial for visualizing data and enhancing operational efficiency. Given the numerous workbooks available in our content hub solution, organizing them into dashboards ensures that stakeholders can easily access data relevant to their specific interests. At this point, I presume you have determined the workbooks you intend to save and identified which stakeholders require access to specific workbooks for their daily tasks. Let’s d…

Hi, and welcome to the recap of our latest video on AI and .NET. from the .NET Community Standups | .NET Live TV (microsoft.com) In our latest video, we explored a real-world application of .NET and AI working together. [HEADING=1] Building a LLM from zero[/HEADING] Bruno and Shaltiel hosted this session where the main focus was to showcase how ASP.NET, ONNX Runtime, and TorchSharp are leveraged to build a robust product that handles over 100,000 requests a day in each server instance. The hosts also talked about the integration of different deep learning architectures like BERT models and RNNs, which are focused to minimize latency and maximize performance. …

Looking for a sweet new Linux distro to try? Vanilla OS 2 ‘Orchid’ has been released. Compared to the first first release of Vanilla OS in 2023 a lot has changed. Vanilla OS 2 is now built atop Debian (Sid). The distro announced its switch from Ubuntu last year to enable it to provide a more ‘vanilla’ GNOME experience, skip snap-related package swap snafus, and not be bound to Ubuntu’s release schedule. This foundational shift paired with a “complete rewrite” of the OS result in scores of new features, integrations, and security improvements. Vanilla OS 2 remains an immutable Linux distribution, underpinned by its home-grown ABRoot utility. This provides ‘full…

[ATTACH=full]61481[/ATTACH] Leverage Azure Cosmos DB for generative AI workloads for automatic scalability, low latency, and global distribution to handle massive data volumes and real-time processing. With support for versatile data models and built-in vector indexing, it efficiently retrieves natural language queries, making it ideal for grounding large language models. Seamlessly integrate with Azure OpenAI Studio for API-level access to GPT models and access a comprehensive gallery of open-source tools and frameworks in Azure AI Studio to enhance your AI applications. [HEADING=3]Automatic and horizontal scaling.[/HEADING] [ATTACH=full]6148…

[ATTACH=full]61469[/ATTACH] No último encontro da Comunidade Azure Static Web Apps através do Canal do Youtube - Microsoft Azure Developers, foi demonstrado como se pode criar uma aplicação de Geração Aumentada por Recuperação (RAG) utilizando o Azure Static Web Apps e o App Spaces. O evento foi conduzido pelo Dheeraj Bandaru, que é Product Manager do Azure Static Web Apps na Microsoft. Dheeraj contou com a participação do Skyler Hardle, que é Senior Manager do Apps Spaces na Microsoft. Skyler, apresentou um guia prático sobre a integração entre esses serviços e a implementação de uma aplicação RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). A seguir, compartil…

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. This month, we're excited to bring capabilities to help sellers save time when collaborating with seamless sharing of key email info from Outlook to Teams, enable sellers to stay ahead of activities with meeting prep notes and recent emails, and enable sellers to receive suggested CRM updates in even more languages! As always, we invite you to get started, learn more, and stay con…

In today's digital landscape, ensuring the safety and integrity of AI-generated content is paramount. Azure Content Safety, combined with Azure API Management, provides a robust solution for managing and securing Azure OpenAI endpoints. This blog will guide you through the integration process, focusing on text analysis and prompt shields. [ATTACH=full]61465[/ATTACH] What is Azure Content Safety? Azure AI Content Safety provides analysis for user and AI generated content. Currently available APIs include Prompt Shields: scans user text and document text for input attacks on LLMs Groundedness Detection: Verify if the response generated by the L…

Searching for content on a website uses keyword-based search, a method with its limitations. For example, searching for a ‘rain jacket for women’ on an e-commerce website returns all jackets for both men and women, as the search focuses on just the keyword ‘jacket’. The search simply isn’t contextual enough to provide the desired results. Semantic search is a technique that allows users to search for information using natural language queries rather than specific keywords. With semantic search, the meaning and intent of users’ queries are inferred, and personalized relevant results are returned. Generative AI, on the other hand, is a type of artificial intelligence…

In FY25, we have made several changes to Microsoft Funded Engagements, formerly known as Partner Activities, to support deal acceleration and growth. These pre-defined engagements will help you align your go-to-market efforts with Microsoft and build expertise in enabling core use case scenarios. Read on to learn how to access these program investments NOW! Read more about the updates on the blog: Microsoft Power Platform Partner Hub Learn more about FY25 Funded Engagements in our webinar series: M365BAPASeries Bookmark the Business Applications Funded Engagements page to stay updated with the latest resources, updates, and incentive announcements: Microsoft Powe…

We’re pleased to announce significant updates to the Sign-ins workbook in the Microsoft Entra admin center, a crucial tool for organizations transitioning from Azure Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL) to Microsoft Authentication Libraries (MSAL). These updates aim to streamline the ADAL migration process by providing comprehensive insights into your ADAL-application-related data. [HEADING=2]Why is this Important?[/HEADING] We announced ADAL end of life in June 2020 and stopped supporting any security updates as of June 2023—which means applications using ADAL can’t utilize the latest security features, leaving them vulnerable to future security…

Spoiler (Highlight to read) Windows Server 2025 is the most secure and performant release yet! Download the evaluation now! Looking to migrate from VMware to Windows Server 2025? Contact your Microsoft account team! Windows Server 2025 is the most secure and performant release yet! Download the evaluation now! Looking to migrate from VMware to Windows Server 2025? Contact your Microsoft account team! The 2024 Windows Server Summit was held in March and brought three days of demos, technical sessions, and Q&A, led by Microsoft engineers, guest experts from Intel®, and our MVP community. For more videos from this year’s Windows Server Summit, please fi…

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 182 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: [TABLE width=95%] [TR] [th width=100%] [HEADING=2]Get it now in our marketplace[/HEADING][/th] [/TR] [TR] [td width=15%][ATTACH=full]61342[/ATTACH][/td] [td width=85%]AI Assistant: AI Assistant from empower GmbH integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, providing prebuilt prompts to simplify workflows, improve documents, and define common tasks. You also can create custom prompts for your company's workflows. The user-friendly interface enables even those without prior AI…

[HEADING=1]1. Background[/HEADING] In the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI, SLM/LLM fine-tuning and implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) techniques have become essential for achieving high-performance and domain-specific applications. Creating synthetic datasets for these purposes is crucial as it allows for the generation of tailored training data that addresses specific gaps and nuances in the target domain, which might not be adequately covered by existing datasets. This approach enhances the model's ability to understand and generate relevant and accurate information, ultimately leading to more robust, reliable, and context-aware AI systems th…

[HEADING=1][ATTACH=full]61282[/ATTACH][/HEADING] [HEADING=1] Problem[/HEADING] LinkedIn offers a valuable feature that allows users to create and download resumes directly from their profiles, effectively eliminating the challenges associated with resume formatting. However, students, being inexperienced, often struggle to craft high-quality resumes. As one of the career mentors, I find myself reviewing over 200 student resumes in an iterative process. Unfortunately, due to the sheer volume, my colleagues often overlook the quality of these resumes, allowing students to indiscriminately send out subpar or error-ridden resumes to potential employers. This practice…

As mentioned in our previous blog post, Learn about Responsible AI with MVP Veronika Kolesnikova, it's crucial to understand the principles of Responsible AI to ensure ethical use of AI in the future. In this blog post, we focus on promoting an understanding of responsible AI across a broad range of audiences, from business users to high school students. We interviewed Komes Chandavimol from Thailand, who was awarded the Microsoft MVP for AI Platform in March of this year, to share his expert insights. [ATTACH=full]61279[/ATTACH] ---------- Please tell us details about your recent community activities focusing on responsible AI. In Thailand, the mov…

Welcome to the second installment of our quarterly blog series featuring the latest updates and highlights from Azure Integration Services. Over the past few months, we've witnessed several exciting developments, from new product releases to insightful customer stories, all showcasing the continued innovation and impact of Azure Integration Services in driving digital transformation. In this edition, we'll revisit the key milestones and achievements that have shaped the integration landscape, empowering organizations to seamlessly connect their systems, data, and processes. Product Announcements Now in general availability, Azure API Center is a central…

In our recent Azure Federal Developer Connect series, we covered connecting to Azure Service Bus using Azure Functions in Azure US Government. The process for connecting to Azure Service Bus doesn't change much for the US Government cloud, but there are a couple of nuances I will call out here. This post will walk you through the code step by step, but if you're in a hurry and just want to download the completed sample, the code is available here. Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics. Service Bus is used to decouple applications and services from each other, providing the following benefits…