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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 find t…

We are excited to announce that Custom Categories is released to Azure AI Content Safety after we announced this feature coming soon at //Build this year. This new feature enables you to create your own customized classifier based on your specific needs for content filtering and AI safety whether you want to detect sensitive content, moderate user-generated content, or comply with local regulations. Use Custom Categories to train and deploy your own custom content filter with ease and flexibility. [HEADING=1]Feature Overview[/HEADING] The Azure AI Content Safety custom categories feature is powered by Azure AI Language, a service that provides advanced natural langu…

What’s coming in by end of July 2024: Azure Update Manager will add support for 35 CIS hardened images. This is the first time that Update Management product in Azure is supporting CIS hardened images. Apart from CIS hardened images, Azure Update Manager will also add support for 59 other images to unblock Automation Update Management migrations to Azure Update Manager. What’s coming in September: After this release, another batch of 30 images will be added support for. Please refer to the article below to check the details of which images will be supported. Below 35 CIS images will be supported by Azure Update Manager by end of July 2024. Please note Pub…

Hi, I'm Jambo a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. This article aims to run the quantized Phi-3-vision model in ONNX format on the Jetson platform and successfully perform inference for image+text dialogue tasks. [HEADING=1]What is Jetson?[/HEADING] The Jetson platform, introduced by NVIDIA, consists of small arm64 devices equipped with powerful GPU computing capabilities. Designed specifically for edge computing and AI applications, Jetson devices run on Linux, enabling complex computing tasks with low power consumption. This makes them ideal for developing embedded AI and machine learning projects. For other versions of the Phi-3 model, we can use llam…

In collaboration with Xuhong Liu, Hila Menashe Hadady, and Wagner Silveira [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Overview[/HEADING] Logic App Standard is a cloud-based service that allows you to create and run automated workflows to integrate apps, data, services, and systems. Load testing is the process of putting demand on a system and measuring its response to ensure it can handle high usage and traffic. Performing load tests on your Logic App Standard workflows is essential to identify performance bottlenecks, ensure scalability, and maintain reliable operation under peak loads. [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Revisiting Logic App Internals[/H…

No último dia 29 de maio de 2024, dei continuidade ao workshop sobre a criação de uma aplicação Line of Business com OpenAI, Azure Communication Service e Microsoft Graph Toolkit. Foi uma sessão repleta de insights e também demos o starter para 'forkar' e dar um starter nesse projeto para fazer o teste dele! Aqui vamos ao resumo do que foi feito na sessão! [HEADING=1]Continuação do Workshop LOB com OpenAI, Azure Communication Service e Microsoft Graph Toolkit[/HEADING] Antes de mais nada, se você não assistiu a primeira parte do workshop, recomendo que você assista para entender melhor o que foi feito. Você pode acessar a primeira parte do workshop …

The new MCI Partner Activity Referral Creation feature makes it easier for Microsoft and its partners to work together and sell more effectively. It automatically creates referrals to Microsoft Sellers and updates them on opportunities created through MCI Partner Activity Claims. It will be enabled on select MCI Partner Activity engagements, automatically creating referrals for customers with a Microsoft account team and that meet specific deal size and customer segment criteria. This feature simplifies the referral process, allowing Microsoft and partners to concentrate on customer relationships and shared goals to successfully close deals. Let's work together to achieve…

Starting with Intune management agent for macOS v2407.005, we’re improving reliability and consistency for macOS notifications appearing in Notification Center when using shell scripts. When a script policy with a notification command is received by the Intune agent on the Mac, the agent now requests access to “System Events” on macOS. This prompts macOS to request the device user to allow or disallow the “System Events” permission using the alert shown below. [ATTACH=full]60958[/ATTACH]Screenshot of a macOS alert asking to ‘Allow’ or ‘Don’t allow’ a “System Events” action requested by the Microsoft Intune Agent app. If the user selects “Allow”, macOS system…

We are living during a time of rapid growth in AI technologies and seeing cloud complexity increase as a result of those advanced workloads, which makes it critical to update your infrastructure to stay competitive, improve security, and gain new capabilities through innovation. Microsoft has developed Azure Essentials to help you elevate the reliability, security, and ongoing performance of your cloud and AI investments. What is Azure Essentials? Azure Essentials brings together Microsoft's best practices, product experiences, reference architectures, skilling, and our array of resources into a single destination to help you maximize the value of your investments…

We are listening to partner feedback and considering the diversity of the partner community as we continue to enhance the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program to help you and your customers realize the greatest results from our latest technology. In this blog, you’ll find links to expert insights, the latest learning materials, and upgraded benefits from the past four months to boost your growth this year. [HEADING=3]Announcements[/HEADING] MCAPS Start for Partners: We recently celebrated the kickoff of our new fiscal year at Microsoft with MCAPS Start for Partners. Our inaugural digital event is designed to include partners in the Microsoft go-to-market strategy e…

With the latest enhancements in SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc, you can modernize your SQL Servers outside Azure and also assess options for end of support SQL Servers 2012 and 2014. On this episode of Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman and Dhananjay Mahajan, we will cover the: • Migration Assessment preview to identify the SQL Servers that are ready to migrate to Azure • Physical core model for unlimited virtualization to save on costs • Extended security updates for flexible monthly billing model to extend azure operations and management of your SQL Server • Azure copilot now in pre-preview for Arc enabled Resources: Azure Arc Blog SQL Te…

We've heard your feedback loud and clear: folks want to fine tune their models, but the pricing can make experimentation too expensive. Following our update last month to switch to token based billing for training, we're reducing the hosting charges for many of your favorite models! Starting from July 1, we have reduced the hosting charges for many Azure OpenAI Service fine-tuned models, including our most popular models - the GPT-35-Turbo family. For folks less familiar with our service, models need to be deployed before they can be used for inferencing – and when deployed, we charge an hourly rate for hosting models. Don't need to use your model right away? We s…

A new way to view pictures and videos With this new experience, a user can create a new post on their storyline, attach an image or video, and add text. After clicking Post, the user can choose the layout that best suits their intent and preview the layout. [Above] A storyline post with a single video attached and some text. Click “Post” to choose the layout. [Above] Select and preview the layout. The default (pre-selected) layout is based on the length of the post: When the text is 200 characters or less, the video or image will be above the post by default. When the text is more than 200 characters, the text will appear above the …

Have you heard about the GitHub Actions certification? It's a credential that validates your knowledge and skills in using the tool that allows you to automate workflows on GitHub. In this article, we will learn about the main topics covered in the exam, the resources you can use to study, and the tips that will help you perform well. Are you ready to start your journey towards GitHub Actions certification?! GitHub Actions is a feature of GitHub that allows you to automate tasks and workflows for your software development projects. You can use GitHub Actions to create, test, deploy, and monitor your code from GitHub. GitHub Actions uses YAML files c…

The use of generative AI has nearly doubled in the past six months, with 75% of global knowledge workers now integrating it into their daily tasks [1]. Employees are eager to use AI at work and are not waiting for their employers to catch up – in fact, 78% of employees surveyed admitted to bringing their own AI tools to the workplace [2]. However, this trend poses significant risks to company data, with cybersecurity and data privacy emerging as the top concern for leaders in the coming year [3]. To mitigate these risks, organizations need to adopt enterprise-ready solutions like Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise. We’ve previously …

At Microsoft, we are always looking for ways to help our users stay safe and secure online. That's why we are excited to announce the launch of our new file attachment scanner for the Microsoft Tech Community. This feature will scan any file that you want to upload to the community for viruses and malware, it will then alert you if there is a virus detected and remove the file. We hope that this feature will help you feel more confident and secure when sharing files with other community members, and when accessing files from other sources. However, we also want to remind you that the file attachment scanner is not a substitute for your own vigilance and…

Following our announcement earlier this year about mind maps in Visio for the web, we’re excited to announce a new feature that will let users stretch their creative boundaries by providing room to capture, organize, and visualize ideas without constraints. Infinite Canvas in Visio for the web provides a truly limitless drawing canvas to free users from the restrictions of pages. Whether creating a flowchart, org chart, network diagram, or other drawing, Infinite Canvas provides the flexibility to express ideas creatively. [HEADING=2] User scenario: Creating a project proposal [/HEADING] To help illustrate how Infinite Canvas can enhance the diagramming experienc…

Copilot in Forms has been your go-to helper for quickly and easily creating forms and surveys. Now, we’re taking it a step further by adding the ability to generate quizzes. Copilot can help you create quizzes with correct answers based on your intents and inputs, making it perfect for teachers, trainers, or anyone looking to assess knowledge in an engaging and interactive way. Let's see how Copilot can make your quiz creation a breeze. Generate quiz draft based on input You can specify your intentions, such as the quiz subject, audience, types of questions, and more—or simply choose from suggested prompts by clicking the 'View prompts' button to generate a quiz…

As a reminder, to have access to these features you need a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license! [HEADING=1]How to prompt like a pro[/HEADING] Writing great prompts is the key to having better interactions with Microsoft Copilot in Teams. Just like talking to a co-worker, clear communication and certain techniques can help you get better results from some prompts than others. In this edition, we highlight how to prompt like a pro for Copilot in Teams – first by summarizing how and where Copilot can assist you in Teams, then by guiding you through 8 tips to elevate your prompting skills and how you interact with Copilot. Utilize the following tips and tricks …

Did you know that OpenAI has an SDK for Node.js? Well maybe you did, but I certainly didn’t. Whenever someone talks about any type of AI-based application, they're almost always talking about Python. So, it was a welcome surprise for me to discover it since I'm way more familiar with Node than Python. I decided to give the Node SDK a go just to see how well it works and stumbled upon a great cookbook tutorial by OpenAI. I took most of the code from that sample as-is, wrote a static front-end chat client for it, and then wired it up as a sample space called “Activity Planner Agent” that you can easily deploy in App Spaces. The only prerequisite is that you’ll ne…

In this guest blog post, Rubaina Rauf, Content Marketing Specialist at Data Dynamics, describes the history of telemedicine and explains how organizations rely on Azure for telemedicine solutions today. The rise of telemedicine and how cloud technology is revolutionizing healthcare In today's fast-paced world, patients demand easier access to convenient and efficient healthcare services. Over the past decade, the telemedicine industry has boomed, fundamentally changing how healthcare is delivered and accessed. At the heart of this transformation lies cloud technology, which empowers healthcare providers to break down geographical barriers and make high-quali…

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of network security, Azure Firewall has emerged as a key player. As a managed, cloud-based network security service, it provides essential protection for your Azure Virtual Network resources. Cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated and frequent, the importance of robust security measures like Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection cannot be overstated. DDoS attacks can cripple services, making them unavailable to users, which can have significant business implications. One of the motivations for integrating DDoS protection into the Azure Firewall creation flow is to simplify the process for users. Many users who…

As mentioned in our event introduction post, the Global DevOps Bootcamp, a premier learning opportunity for those interested in DevOps, returned to the community this June as the Global DevOps Experience. This year's Global DevOps Experience saw community leaders host 40 events across 25 countries. The 'Event-in-a-box,' which included session materials, videos, and more, provided to all organizers fostered a sense of unity and ensured a consistent level of learning across the global community. Additionally, local organizers and speakers, well-versed in their regional DevOps trends, enriched the events with unique insights, enhancing the learning experience for all …

As AI and machine learning applications grow more complex, ensuring their observability becomes crucial. Tracing helps identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and errors, providing insights into the internal workings of your applications. LangChain has become a popular framework for building applications with large language models. When deploying LangChain apps to production, tracing and monitoring are crucial for understanding performance and troubleshooting issues. In this blog, we will explore how to trace LangChain code on Azure using OpenTelemetry and Application Insights. We'll leverage tools and libraries such as OpenInference, Azure's OpenTelemetry exporter, …

It's hard to deny how big a deal AI has been in recent years. It's everywhere, from medicine to the entertainment industry. With all the new tech, AI is now accessible to everyone, not just experts. It's important for everyone to know something about generative AI. This is a very promising area with some big wins already. If you want to work in different areas, it's really important to understand Generative AI. With that in mind, the Microsoft Advocacy Team has put together a Generative AI for Beginners Course to teach you the basics and then show you how to use it to create practical applications. In this article, we'll dive a bit deeper into the cou…