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The broad, open nature and scale of the Windows computing ecosystem is part of what makes it a powerful and unmatched choice across the globe. The recent CrowdStrike incident underscores the need for mission-critical resiliency within every organization, and our unique ability to support the change required. When a major incident arises, we focus on remediation, learning, and change, all while communicating transparently to our ecosystem. On Saturday, David Weston described our "first responder" approach. Since the start, we engaged over 5,000 support engineers working 24x7 to help bring critical services back online. We are providing ongoing updates via the Windows re…

End to End Pattern to migrate simple to complex application workloads. Version 1.0 Public Endpoint [HEADING=1]Scenario 01: Migrate VMware Guest VM’s to Azure Native VMs using Azure Migrate Appliance[/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Part 1: What we have hosted in on-premises environment <source>[/HEADING] Before you can migrate your applications to Azure, you need to understand your current on-premises environment, including the connectivity, dependencies, performance, and configuration of your servers and applications. Details about on-premises environment: Guests hosted on VMware Hypervisor Domain Controller Servers (assume we have minimum CMDB informatio…

Learn how you can create an AI enabled application using vector storage in Azure Cache for Redis and the Azure SQL Database. Resources: SQL AI Samples       Intelligent applications with Azure SQL Database       Azure SQL Devs’ Corner       Azure Cache for Redis®2       Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions overview Redis View/share our latest episodes on Microsoft Learn and ! Continue reading...

The days in my part of the world have been long and hot. Often my emails are met with out-of-office replies as my colleagues and friends are taking time to recharge outside of work. It reminds me of just how valuable time is—in regard to both productivity at work and intentionality about disconnecting and prioritizing other parts of life. Fortunately for us all, improvements to Microsoft Intune don’t take summer holidays—and I’m highlighting three new capabilities this week that will help IT admins and users alike to allocate less time to endpoint management and more time to their other priorities, like adding value in the enterprise or enjoying family and friends. [HE…

Are you familiar with the Windows accessibility tools that can help your information workers achieve more? Whatever content they create for your organization, you want it to be accessible to the largest audience possible. Let’s look at how Windows accessibility can serve the dual purpose of supporting your organization and the clients it serves. And if you have Copilot+ PCs, they’re built with accessibility in mind. [ATTACH=full]61262[/ATTACH] Time to learn: 86 – 120 minutes When you’re ready to take your accessibility skills to the next level, check out these snacks and additional resource…

As we continue to innovate and enhance Microsoft Viva, we're excited to share a glimpse into the future of Viva Amplify. Our commitment to providing a centralized platform for orchestrating and managing campaigns and communications remains strong, and we're thrilled to announce new features and capabilities that will roll out in the coming months. Some of these features are geared towards corporate communicators as well as empowering anyone who needs to communicate to their teams, projects and stakeholders. We have more coming for Frontline Managers also that we’ll share at a later date. [HEADING=1] Accelerate Copilot adoption with pre-built campaigns[/HEADING] Las…

When executing on a plan, tracking various aspects like task status or risks is crucial for managing progress. With the new Planner, you can create custom fields helping teams stay on top of what matters most for their initiatives, making it easier and faster to identify and assess where things are on track and what needs follow up. [HEADING=1]Creating a custom field[/HEADING] 1. Once you create your premium Plan, go to the Grid view, select Add column > New field. [ATTACH=full]61248[/ATTACH] 2. Choose an appropriate field Type: [ATTACH=full]61249[/ATTACH] 3. Enter a Field name, then select Create. Note: You …

As AI transforms the way we work, business leaders around the world are exploring ways to implement AI solutions. And technology professionals are looking to quickly build their AI skills to benefit their careers, projects, and teams. At the same time, organizations are confronting a skills gap. In fact, according to the 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn, 55% of leaders report that they’re concerned about having enough talent to fill roles in the year ahead and 76% of professionals say that they need AI skills to remain competitive. The good news is that Microsoft Learn offers skill-building resources, opportunities, and solutions to…

Get a unified solution for secure access management, identity verification, and Zero Trust security for cloud and on-premises resources. The new Microsoft Entra suite integrates five capabilities: Private Access, Internet Access, ID Protection, ID Governance, and Face Check in Verified ID Premium, included with Microsoft Entra Suite. With these, you can streamline user onboarding, enhance security with automated workflows, and protect against threats using Conditional Access policies. See how to reduce security gaps, block lateral attacks, and replace legacy VPNs, ensuring efficient and secure access to necessary resources. [ATTACH=full]61241[/ATTACH] Jarred…

[ATTACH=full]61239[/ATTACH] At Microsoft Build, we announced the availability of Command R models on Azure AI. Today, we are very excited to announce the addition of two new models from Cohere: Cohere Rerank 3 – English Cohere Rerank 3 – Multilingual Cohere Rerank 3 is considered a leading AI model for semantic reranking in search systems.  These models are available as serverless APIs with pay-as-you-go token-based billing. Accessing Cohere’s enterprise-ready language models on Azure AI’s robust infrastructure enables businesses to seamlessly, reliably, and safely incorporate cutting-edge semantic search technology into their applications. Thi…

As we launched memory-optimized Mv3 Medium Memory in Nov ’23, the demand for further storage optimization has been high. Today, we are excited to announce that the new Mbv3 series (Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3), featuring both storage-optimized and memory-optimized, are now available in public preview. Key features on the new Mbv3 VMs The memory-optimized and storage-optimized Mbv3 VM (Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3) series are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, scale for workloads up to 4TB, and deliver higher remote disk storage performance These new VM sizes offer up to 650,000 IOPS, providing a 5x improvement in network throughput over the previous M-ser…

[ATTACH=full]61238[/ATTACH] In this monthly blog series focused on M365, we will be sharing product updates, notable reads, and other new resources that can be leveraged by developers who are building apps for the commercial marketplace. Spotlight Discover how extensibility for Copilot for Microsoft 365 works. Read More. Copilot extensions: Learn how to extend, customize, and amplify Copilot capabilities. . Build your own highly specialized copilot using Microsoft Copilot Studio or Visual Studio Code . See how you can build your custom copilot for Teams with the Teams AI library . Build Copilot extensions with our samples collection. Go now. Lear…

[ATTACH=full]61237[/ATTACH] Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of a new feature, Deploy to a Teams app, in Azure OpenAI Studio allowing developers to seamlessly create custom engine copilots connected to their enterprise data and available to over 320+ million users on Teams. Start by using Add your data in the Azure OpenAI Studio Playground to create personalized copilots tailored to your data, improving user understanding, expediting task completion, and facilitating decision-making. Enterprise data from Azure AI Search, Azure Blob Storage (preview), URL/web address (preview), local files (preview), Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, and Ela…

We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 159 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]61201[/ATTACH][/td] [td width=85%]AI Assistant: The empower AI Assistant integrates with PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, providing pre-built prompts for effective communication. Define common communication tasks and create custom prompts for a personalized experience. The user-friendly interface makes it easy to use, even for those without prior AI experi…

When it comes to FinOps, the data is of the utmost importance. Data is the key to understanding your cloud cost and usage patterns, and pivotal to making smart decisions about your cloud strategy and operations. This is why Microsoft is proud to be a founding member of the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) project and why we’re dedicated to defining and evolving the specification alongside our customers, partners, and industry peers. We first implemented FOCUS 0.5 in the FinOps toolkit in June 2023, then we implemented FOCUS 1.0 preview in Cost Management exports in November 2023, and most recently, we were excited to announce FOCUS 1.0 support in Cost Mana…

[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] In the world of modern software development, efficiency, security, and scalability are paramount. Leveraging template workflows and reusable workflows in CI/CD pipelines can significantly enhance these aspects. This blog explores the security and scalability benefits of using template and reusable workflows in both GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. [HEADING=1]Understanding Template and Reusable Workflows[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]GitHub Actions[/HEADING] GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflows for various tasks, including CI/CD. One powerful feature is the ability to reuse workflows across multiple repositor…

Hey everyone, I'm Shivam Goyal, a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, fascinated by the incredible world of large language models (LLMs) and tools like LlamaIndex. It's mind-blowing how these technologies can unlock the power of information, helping us find answers and solve complex problems more efficiently than ever before. I'm excited to see how LLMs will continue to shape the future, changing how we learn, work, and interact with the world around us. Unleashing the Power of Data with LlamaIndex Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have captivated the world with their remarkable ability to comprehend and generate human-quality text. However, effectively …

By: Rishita Sarin – Product Manager | Microsoft Intune In 2022 we began supporting just-in-time (JIT) registration and JIT compliance remediation for Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) and account driven Apple User Enrollment. With the recent Microsoft Authenticator release (version 6.8.13), this capability is now available for all iOS/iPadOS enrollments! While you may associate JIT Compliance Remediation with new enrollments, this capability also improves the experience for existing enrolled devices. What is JIT registration and JIT compliance remediation? JIT registration within the enrollment flow improves the user experience since it no longer requires…

Copilot in Azure is revolutionizing the AI landscape by empowering users with intuitive, intelligent tools that enhance productivity, creativity, and decision-making across various industries. By weaving AI-powered functionality within Microsoft Cost Management, Copilot in Azure adds significant value to your organization to analyze, optimize, simulate, and provide insight into your cloud spending and maximize your ROI. Leveraging Copilot in Azure becomes more effective and yields better results based on the quality of your inquiries, or prompts. In this blog we’re going to explore the value of incorporating Copilot in Azure in your Microsoft Cost Management tasks, and…

[ATTACH=full]61192[/ATTACH] At the beginning of this year, Mistral AI and Microsoft embarked on a journey to push the boundaries of AI capabilities. Together, we are committed to enhancing customer experience by bringing the latest frontier models to Azure and today, we are excited to announce the addition of two cutting-edge models from Mistral AI to Azure AI as serverless deployments with pay-as-you-go options: Mistral Large 2 & Mistral Nemo: These models offer state-of-the-art reasoning, multilingual support, and coding capabilities, enhancing our AI offerings. And coming soon to the catalog: Mistral’s Codestral models which are designed speci…

Optimize your cloud investments by choosing the pricing offers that best meet your needs, paying only for what you use, and managing your cloud spend as your business evolves, whether you’re migrating your first workload or fine-tuning complex deployments. [HEADING=1] Manage and optimize your Azure investments [/HEADING] Continue reading...

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s [Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/researcher-recognition-program) leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2024 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Lewis Lee & Ver & Zhiniang Peng, and Wei! Continue reading...

Microsoft Graph offers a powerful and flexible way to retrieve data from several Microsoft products. Using well documented REST APIs you can pull data from diverse sources like security incidents, SharePoint documents, emails, Teams chat among several others. All Graph API calls support the OData specification and return data in JSON format. OData URL specification allow REST calls to include select, filter and other clauses all of which give control to the amount of data we want the API response to include. Microsoft Copilot for Security (Copilot) is a large language model (LLM) based generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for cybersecurity use cases. Cop…

Building on our joint announcement with SAP earlier this year, we have now released guidance to help customers modernize their SAP environment and move their identity management scenarios from SAP Identity Management (SAP IDM) to Entra ID. With this documentation, SAP IDM customers can migrate seamlessly to the cloud-based IAM and identify the right partners that can assist. In February, SAP announced that the on-premises tool for managing identity would reach end-of-maintenance by 2030. We are honored that SAP has recommended Microsoft Entra ID, our cloud-based identity and access management solution, to facilitate a seamless migration and ongoing enterprise-w…

We are excited to share that we are releasing the new content pane in SharePoint pages and news. This feature serves as a convenient hub for various panes that support authors in crafting their publications. This centralized space now features a user-friendly toolbox that enables authors to easily explore and insert content for creating dynamic and captivating pages. Additionally, the content pane incorporates other useful panes like configuration tools and design ideas. Within Viva Amplify, the content pane hosts more tools such as the distribution channel selection, writing guidance, and audience selection. [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Crafting your page…