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Skilling snack: Mobile device management in Microsoft Intune
by Guest Joe_Lurie- 0 replies
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You’ve asked how to manage mobile and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scenarios. With mobile device management (MDM), of course! Device management is an important part of a larger security strategy, so we’ve collected resources to help you get started or improve with MDM. Learn about deployment and management of Windows and various mobile platforms, endpoint and app management, update management, and how to handle management and deployment as securely as possible. [ATTACH type=full" alt="timer-icon.png]63636[/ATTACH] Time to learn: 136 minutes Go deeper on the following MDM-relate…
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Announcing Public Preview of Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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Today, we’re excited to announce that the ability to specify multiple different VM sizes in your Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) with Flexible Orchestration Mode with Instance Mix. This new capability allows you to specify up to five different VM sizes to use in your VMSS deployments. Not only does this simplify the management of your scale sets, but it also allows you to optimize your deployments for either price or capacity through allocation strategies. Benefits Single API call: In one API call, you can specify and deploy up to five VM sizes in your scale sets. Optimized deployments: You can optimize for the available capacity in Azure regions/zones with …
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How to find OneDrive users not running Sync
by Guest Jose_Barreto- 0 replies
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1. Introduction We recently introduced a OneDrive Sync Health dataset in Microsoft Graph Data Connect. This provides a list of all devices running Sync, including details about whether they have enabled Folder Backup and are running into any errors. This ensures that any files being created or updated are properly synchronized with the OneDrive cloud. This makes sure that even if your computer is lost or broken, your files are safely stored. However, there is another potential issue you should track as a OneDrive administrator. There could be users that are not running OneDrive Sync at all. These users could be saving files locally to their desktops or lapto…
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A better Phi Family is coming - multi-language support, better vision, intelligence MOEs
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="Phi3getstarted.png]63625[/ATTACH] After the release of Phi-3 at Microsoft Build 2024, it has received different attention, especially the application of Phi-3-mini and Phi-3-vision on edge devices. In the June update, we improved Benchmark and System role support by adjusting high-quality data training. In the August update, based on community and customer feedback, we brought Phi-3.5-mini-128k-instruct multi-language support, Phi-3.5-vision-128k with multi-frame image input, and provided Phi-3.5 MOE newly added for AI Agent. Next, let's take a look [HEADING=2]Multi-language support[/HEADING] In previous versions, Phi-3-mini had …
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Document Field Extraction with Generative AI
by Guest VarshaParthasarathy- 0 replies
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Adoption of Generative AI technologies is accelerating, driven by the transformative potential they offer across various industry sectors. Azure AI enables organizations to create interactive and responsive AI solutions customized to their requirements, playing a significant part helping businesses harness Generative AI effectively. With the new custom field extraction preview, you can leverage generative AI to efficiently extract fields from documents, ensuring standardized output and a repeatable process to support document automation workflows. [HEADING=3]Field Extraction using Large Language Models [/HEADING] To extract fields from documents using Large Lan…
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Announcing the General Availability of the VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence are transforming the world as we know it. With the power of data, you will have countless opportunities to create something new, unique, and exciting. Whether you are a seasoned data scientist or a curious beginner, you need a platform that can help you build, train, deploy, and manage your machine learning models with ease and efficiency. Azure Machine Learning has always been the backbone for machine learning tasks, and we want to further help you in your machine learning journey by improving the way you write code. The VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning has been in preview for a while and we are excited to a…
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Integrated vectorization with Azure OpenAI for Azure AI Search now generally available
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[JUSTIFY]We're excited to announce the general availability of integrated vectorization with Azure OpenAI embeddings in Azure AI Search. This marks an important milestone in our ongoing mission to streamline and expedite data preparation and index creation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and traditional applications. [ATTACH type=full" alt="Integrated vectorization simplifies RAG pipelines]63613[/ATTACH]Integrated vectorization simplifies RAG pipelines[/JUSTIFY] [HEADING=1][JUSTIFY]Why is vectorization important? [/JUSTIFY][/HEADING] [JUSTIFY]Vectorization is the process of transforming data into embeddings (vector representations) in order…
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Text to Speech Avatar in Azure AI is now generally available
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Today, we are excited to announce that Text to Speech (TTS) Avatar, a capability of Azure AI Speech service, is now generally available for developers, enterprises and content creators. This service brings natural-sounding voices and photorealistic avatars to life, enhancing customer engagement and overall experience. With TTS Avatar, developers can create personalized and engaging experiences for their customers and employees, while also improving efficiency and providing innovative solutions. The TTS Avatar service provides developers with a variety of pre-built avatars, featuring a diverse portfolio of natural-sounding voices and an option to create custom sy…
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Discover the New Multi-Lingual, High-Quality Phi-3.5 SLMs
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The Phi-3 model collection is the latest in Microsoft's family of Small Language Models (SLMs). They are designed to be highly capable and cost-effective, outperforming models of similar and larger sizes across various benchmarks in language, reasoning, coding, and math. The availability of Phi-3 models expands the selection of high-quality models for Azure customers, offering more practical choices as they compose and build generative AI applications. Since the launch in April 2024, we have received lots of valuable feedback from our customers and community members on areas for improvement in the Phi-3 models. Today, we are proud to announce Phi-3.5-mini, Phi-3.5-vision,…
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Empowering.Cloud Community Update – September 2024
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Check out the latest expert briefings, Teams Insider Podcast, Microsoft Teams Operator Connect updates and upcoming community events. [HEADING=1]Expert Briefings[/HEADING] Searching for Teams Messages [ATTACH type=full" alt="Searching for Teams Messages.png]63591[/ATTACH] Empowering.Cloud In our latest community briefing, MVP Nikki Chapple explains the three methods to search Microsoft Teams messages. The three methods to search for Teams Messages are: User search, content search and eDiscovery Standard [*]User Search: For end-users, quick and shows threaded conversation, security trimmed [*]Content Search and eDiscovery Standard: For admin…
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New GPU-enabled Windows 365 experiences
by Guest Zachary Cavanell- 0 replies
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New Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs can help maximize productivity for anyone in graphics-intensive fields such as graphic design, video editing, 3D modeling, and data visualization. With Windows 365, you can stream your Windows experience from the Microsoft cloud to any device and benefit security, increase connection speeds, and reduced latency. [ATTACH type=full" alt="Main.png]63587[/ATTACH] [HEADING=3]Run demanding workloads with GPU-enabled Cloud PCs.[/HEADING] [ATTACH type=full" alt="1.png]63588[/ATTACH] Benefit from on-device generative AI experiences and machine learning models — like the Small Language Model, PHI 3 Mini running offline a…
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Navigating Copilot: Viva Glint’s early learnings and best practices
by Guest Avneeta_Solanki- 0 replies
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On August 20, the Viva People Science team held the fifth webinar in its AI Empowerment series. This session was focused on driving Copilot and AI adoption at a team level, complementing what we have learned in earlier sessions about driving this change at an organizational level. I was joined by colleagues from across the Viva Glint team, including Bryan Dobkin (Principal People Scientist), Suni Kasibhatla (Customer Experience Program Manager) and Julie Morris (Program Manager). As a team of internal Copilot Champions, Bryan, Suni and Julie provided an outline of the Copilot adoption initiatives they have been driving within Viva Glint. They discussed the strategy…
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Binary quantization in Azure AI Search: optimized storage and faster search
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As organizations continue to harness the power of Generative AI for building [URL='https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/search/retrieval-augmented-generation-overview']Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)[/URL] applications and agents, the need for efficient, high-performance, and scalable solutions has never been greater. Today, we're excited to introduce [URL='https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/search/vector-search-how-to-configure-compression-storage#option-1-configure-quantization']Binary Quantization[/URL], a new feature that reduces vector sizes by up to 96% while reducing search latency by up to 40%. [HEADING=1]What is Binary Quantization?[…
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Advanced Time Series Anomaly Detector in Fabric
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[HEADING=1]Introduction[/HEADING] Anomaly Detector, one of Azure AI services, enables you to monitor and detect anomalies in your time series data. This service is based on advanced algorithms, SR-CNN for univariate analysis and MTAD-GAT for multivariate analysis. This service is being retired by October 2026, and as part of the migration process The algorithms were open sourced and published by the new time-series-anomaly-detector · PyPI package. We offer a time series anomaly detection workflow in Microsoft Fabric data platform. [HEADING=1]Time Series Anomaly Detection in Fabric RTI[/HEADING] There are few options for time series anomaly detection in Fabri…
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Secure architecture design – How Defender for Office 365 protects against EchoSpoofing
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A new spoofing technique labeled “EchoSpoofing” was recently reported that impacted select Proofpoint customers. This blog provides a brief overview of how this particular attack exploited their specific architecture and describes the architecture best practices implemented by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that protect against EchoSpoofing and spoofing attacks broadly. What is “Spoofing”? Spoofing is a tactic used by threat actors to disguise their identity by manipulating data, such as the email sender address, to appear as a trusted source through impersonation. The goal of this technique is typically to deceive individuals or systems into taking actions—…
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New on Microsoft AppSource: August 12-17, 2024
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We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 128 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]63560[/ATTACH][/td] [td width=85%]acoris Template Selector: The acoris Template Selector simplifies document creation by providing quick access to business templates directly in SharePoint. It allows customization for different departments, saving time and increasing productivity. The user-friendly interface and easy deployment make it an efficient tool …
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Introducing SharePoint design ideas
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We are excited to introduce new SharePoint design ideas feature with AI powered suggestions for improving the structure of your SharePoint content. With this feature, authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft SharePoint to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart. [ATTACH type=full" alt="pic1.png]63555[/ATTACH] Design ideas identify the text and webpart content of the section you are currently authoring, and suggesting new layouts, backgrounds, text formatting, and image webparts to enhance your section. The author then clicks on the suggestions to try and apply different ideas. [ATTACH type=full" alt="pic2.png…
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Bulk delete all the old jobs from the batch account
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Deleting a Job also deletes all Tasks that are part of that Job, and all Job statistics. This also overrides the retention period for Task data; that is, if the Job contains Tasks which are still retained on Compute Nodes, the Batch service deletes those Tasks' working directories and all their contents. When a Delete Job request is received, the Batch service sets the Job to the deleting state. All update operations on a Job that is in deleting state will fail with status code 409 (Conflict), with additional information indicating that the Job is being deleted. We can use below PowerShell command to delete one single job using job id: [iCODE]Remove-AzBa…
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Speech Services- Restrict Outbound Access
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What is Speech Service The Speech service provides speech to text and text to speech capabilities with a Speech resource It is one of the types of Cognitive Accounts i.e.- type": "Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts and “kind": "SpeechServices", What is restrictOutboundNetworkAccess property and why do we use it? restrictOutboundNetworkAccess property is used in speech services to enable data loss prevention. When this property is enabled, the Speech service will connect only to the allowed endpoints as specified in the list of FQDN allowed endpoints. For e.g.-> if you need to transcribe data which comes from a blob, the FQDN of your storag…
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What is Azure HPC?
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Our mission overall has been to democratize access to supercomputing. We’ve always believed that people could do great things with access to high performance compute. So, while hosting the AI revolution was never the plan, its very existence has validated our strategy of sitting at the intersection of two movements in IT, cloud computing and Beowulf clusters, to tackle the biggest obstacles in access to supercomputing. [HEADING=1]Cloud Computing[/HEADING] When it comes to resource allocation, the cloud is about adapting to customer demand, on demand, as efficiently as possible. It needs to satisfy startup who needs to start small but also scale up seamlessly …
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What's new: Multi-tenancy in the unified security operations platform experience in Public Preview
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Multi-tenancy for Microsoft Sentinel in the Defender portal (unified security operations platform) Multi-tenancy, with a single workspace is now in public preview for customers using Microsoft’s unified security operations (SecOps) platform. This will expand the use cases we can support with this innovative experience that brings together the critical tools a SOC requires into a single experience to improve protection and efficiency. Read on to learn more about what is available now, and how to get started. What is Microsoft’s unified SecOps platform? The unified security operations platform provides a single experience for Microsoft Sentinel and Defender…
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Project Online: SharePoint Custom Script control impact
by Guest Brian-Smith- 0 replies
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In February 2024, Message Center post MC 714186 detailed changes coming to Custom Script settings in SharePoint Online. The MC post did not specifically call out Project Web App sites in Project Online, but it is impacted by these changes in a number of ways. There are settings to re-enable these features which will be explained later, but the typical issues reported by customers are: Project Web App web parts are no longer listed as a web part Category Save site as template is no longer available Script Editor and Content Editor parts no longer available to add to a page (these are often used to add functionality to Project Web App) Custom Fields added to Projec…
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How-To Migrate ConfigMgr Apps to Intune Win32Apps
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[HEADING=1]Hi, Jonas here![/HEADING] Or as we say in the north of Germany: "Moin Moin!" I’m a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect and a while back I was asked on how to migrate ConfigMgr apps to Intune. The result is a PowerShell script which can be used to analyze ConfigMgr apps and migrate them to Intune. This article starts with a general overview about the process and contains an FAQ section instead of long text sections explaining everything in detail. If you haven’t seen my other articles yet, feel free to check them out here: Core Infrastructure and Security Blog [HEADING=1]Preparation[/HEADING] Before running any migration step, it is important…
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Azure Database for MySQL - July 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
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We're excited to share a summary of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server announcements from last month, as well as the latest roadmap of upcoming features! [HEADING=1]August 2024 Live webinar[/HEADING] These updates and the latest roadmap are also covered in our Monthly Live Webinar on YouTube (Click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel!), which streams the second Wednesday of every month, at 7:30 AM Pacific time. Below is a link to the session recording of the live webinar we delivered last week: [HEADING=1]July 2024 updates and announcements[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Major Version Upgrades for Azure Database for MySQL f…
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📢 Announcement!! Templates for Azure Logic Apps Standard are now in Public Preview 🎉
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We are very excited to announce the Public Preview of Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard! This release marks a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to simplify and accelerate the development of enterprise integration solutions. Templates in Azure Logic Apps are pre-built workflow solutions designed to address common integration scenarios. They cover a wide range of use cases, from simple data transfers to complex, multi-step automations, and event-driven processes. Templates provide a solid foundation, allowing users to quickly set up and deploy workflows without starting from scratch. With Templates Support now in Public Preview, deve…