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New Agents in Microsoft Purview
Strengthen your daily security workflow, focus on real risks, act faster, and stay ahead of emerging threats with new agents in Microsoft Purview. Use the Data Security Triage Agent to cut through alert overload, eliminate false positives, and immediately understand which Insider Risk or DLP incidents need your attention. Stay in control with automated user outreach and clear, contextual reasoning behind every alert.
Everything You Need To Build AI Apps & Agents Microsoft Mechanics podcast
It's never been easier to build, optimize, and govern AI apps and agents that understand your business context and deliver business impact. Our unified, interoperable AI platform enables developers to build faster and smarter, while organizations gain fleetwide security and governance in a unified portal. Yina Arenas, Microsoft Foundry CVP, shares how to keep your development and operations teams coordinated, ensuring productivity, governance, and visibility across all your AI projects.
Synced Passkeys in Microsoft Entra for Phishing-resistant MFA
Secure sign-in across all your devices without relying on passwords or extra apps using passkeys in Microsoft Entra. Register, sync, and use passkeys with just your device's camera and biometrics, making authentication seamless, fast, and phishing-resistant. As an admin, control who uses which passkey type, streamline recovery with Verified ID, and automatically remediate risk in real time.
New Data Security Posture Management | Microsoft Purview
Locate, assess, and prioritize high-risk data across Microsoft and non-Microsoft services using Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). Identify sensitive files, understand emerging data risks, and focus remediation efforts where they matter most without slowing down productivity. You can also remediate oversharing, enforce data loss prevention policies, and monitor AI agent activity with full visibility into their interactions with sensitive data.
Windows 365 updates | AI‑Ready Work, Apps on Demand, Resilient Access
Automate real work, modernize app delivery, and keep users productive from any device with Windows 365 for Agents. Assign AI agents their own Cloud PCs to complete tasks in your apps and workflows using natural-language instructions to eliminate fragile UI-based automation and accelerate scalable, resilient processes across your organization.
New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The newest agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot users can now act as virtual members of your team, helping you stay organized, informed, and secure while you work. Watch how these collaborative agents partner with you in real time across your everyday apps. Knowledge Agent streamlines SharePoint by auto-tagging files, retiring outdated pages, and even drafting new content so your sites stay current and searchable.
Choosing the right Virtual Machine on Azure
Build and run everything from simple web apps to AI supercomputing by matching each workload to the right Azure VM in minutes. Find and know exactly what you’re provisioning by understanding the naming format to see CPU type, memory, storage, and features before deployment to match what your app or workload needs. Use free tools like Azure Migrate to right-size and plan.
Get Copilot responses based on your own files (no copy/paste)
Use your files, emails, chats and meeting information automatically or with direct references using Copilot prompts in Microsoft 365 apps. You don't need to copy information then paste it into a browser tool or upload work files and images into other generative AI experiences.
Vector Search using 95% Less Compute | DiskANN with Azure Cosmos DB
Ensure high-accuracy, efficient vector search at massive scale with Azure Cosmos DB. Leveraging Microsoft’s DiskANN, more IO traffic moves to disk to maximize storage capacity and enable high-speed similarity searches across all data, reducing memory dependency.
Build your own copilot! New Microsoft Copilot extensions
Now you can build your own highly specialized copilot using Microsoft Copilot Studio or Visual Studio Code. See how you can tailor Copilot for Microsoft 365 experiences to focus on specific tasks and use external data integration through Copilot extensions. Enhance productivity by leveraging large language models and Microsoft Graph for personalized responses.
What runs GPT-4o and Microsoft Copilot? | Largest AI supercomputer in the cloud | Mark Russinovich
Microsoft has built the world’s largest cloud-based AI supercomputer that is already exponentially bigger than it was just 6 months ago, paving the way for a future with agentic systems. For example, its AI infrastructure is capable of training and inferencing the most sophisticated large language models at massive scale on Azure. In parallel, Microsoft is also developing some of the most compact small language models with Phi-3, capable of running offline on your mobile phone.
PostgreSQL for your AI app's backend | Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Use Postgres as a managed service on Azure. As you build generative AI apps, explore advantages of Azure Database for Postgres Flexible Server such as integration with Azure AI services, as well as extensibility and compatibility, integrated enterprise capabilities to protect data, and controls for managing business continuity.
Prioritize Security Incidents Based on Data Importance | Microsoft Defender with Microsoft Purview
Prioritize incidents based on data significance, detect insider risks, and adapt protections in real-time with Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview. Customize thresholds and risk indicators to detect anomalous behavior and prevent potential breaches with Adaptive Protection. Receive real-time DLP alerts triggered by policy matches, ensuring immediate action to safeguard sensitive data. Gain comprehensive visibility into threats and enforce policies across all devices and applications.
AI Semantic Search for Your Website with Azure Cosmos DB | E-commerce
Build low-latency recommendation engines with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure OpenAI Service. Elevate user experience with vector-based semantic search, going beyond traditional keyword limitations to deliver personalized recommendations in real-time. With pre-trained models stored in Azure Cosmos DB, tailor product predictions based on user interactions and preferences. Explore the power of augmented vector search for optimized results prioritized by relevance.
Intelligent FinOps in Azure
Leverage FinOps in Azure to optimize your cloud spend and drive accountability across your organization. With Microsoft Cost Management, gain complete visibility into your cloud costs, track spending by department or project, and forecast future expenses. Utilize management groups, subscriptions, and tags to organize costs and allocate resources efficiently, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
Enable Copilot for Microsoft 365 FAST
Roll out Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 at scale in three quick steps. See the methods for each to efficiently enable Copilot services: Optimize Search with data controls in place to limit exposure of information in search. Update Your Apps—both on desktop and mobile—so they are ready for integrated Copilot experiences. Grant Access to Copilot services quickly to large groups in your organization via Microsoft Entra controls.
Linux on Microsoft Azure?
Run Linux workloads on Azure for reliability, security, and innovation. Build your entire app in Azure, using Linux and open source services. Choose from a wide range of Linux distributions, leverage cost-saving benefits with Azure Hybrid Benefit, and get seamless integration with distros like SUSE, Ubuntu, and Red Hat.
Is Azure the right place to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads?
Ensure peak performance, security and compatibility with Azure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Leverage Azure Migrate to transition on-prem Linux VMs to Azure, for cloud-native or hybrid deployment. Deploy and orchestrate infrastructure with Azure Resource Manager templates, Terraform, and Ansible playbooks.
Extend your data security to Microsoft Fabric
A unified solution for comprehensive data protection with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview. Extend the security measures of Microsoft 365 to your schematized data, ensuring consistent protection across your entire data estate. From detecting insider risks to mitigating data loss and unauthorized sharing, leverage advanced visibility and control to safeguard sensitive information effectively.
Introducing Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business
The new Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and the latest Surface Laptop 6 are versatile AI PCs built for business. With the new Microsoft Copilot key built-in, you get quick access to Copilot AI experiences, so you can work smarter, be more productive, and boost creativity. Both are powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra processors, with integrated CPU and GPU, as well as a neural processing unit (NPU) for powering new AI experiences without affecting the CPU.
Insider Risk in Conditional Access | Microsoft Entra + Microsoft Purview Adaptive Protection
Protect your organization from insider threats with Microsoft Entra's Conditional Access and Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview. Automatically block access to critical assets when insider risk levels elevate, ensuring data security and compliance seamlessly. Set up custom policies based on risk levels and enforce strong authentication measures, safeguarding against data breaches.
Protect data used in prompts with common AI apps | Microsoft Purview
Protect data while getting the benefits of generative AI with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Purview. Safeguard against shadow IT risks with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, unveiling hidden generative AI applications. Leverage Microsoft Purview to evaluate data exposure, automating policy enforcement for enhanced security.
Security Exposure Management
Transform your security posture to stop attacks before they happen using Microsoft's Security Exposure Management in Microsoft Defender. Identify and mitigate potential threats with a comprehensive view of your organization's attack surface, critical assets, and security events. Prioritize security efforts effectively with curated initiatives, automated alerts, and actionable insights, so you can close down vulnerabilities before they're exploited.
What is the database behind ChatGPT?
Take advantage of Azure Cosmos DB for your AI-driven applications. Seamlessly integrate with large language models like ChatGPT, for real-time operational efficiency and limitless scalability. With its built-in vector search engine and multi-model support, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore optimizes for just-in-time data retrieval, so you can build cutting-edge solutions at any scale.
Build your own private ChatGPT style app with enterprise-ready architecture
For enterprise-grade architecture, data privacy, and control, build your own private ChatGPT style app using OpenAI GPT models with the Azure AI services. You can start with open-source samples for design and the user interface along with Azure containers or Azure App Service, then customize what it can do with Azure AI Studio.
Microsoft Copilot personal and work experiences explained
Increase productivity and creativity with Microsoft Copilot, offering tailored experiences for both personal and work use. With a foundational free option for personal tasks and an advanced version, Microsoft Copilot Pro integrated with office apps, Copilot optimizes generative AI responses.
Identity Threat Detection & Response - on-prem to cloud ITDR from Microsoft
Protect against identity-based attacks with Identity Threat Detection and Response capabilities. Ensure your organization is equipped to protect identities wherever they are—on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. As an integral component of the XDR experience, identity alerts are contextualized within broader security incidents, enhancing your ability to manage threats effectively.
Microsoft Intune Suite - beyond endpoint management in 2024
Simplify endpoint management and security with a single, connected experience with the Microsoft Intune Suite. It brings you a broad collection of advanced cross-platform capabilities, with new improvements across application security, secure access to on-prem and private cloud resources, and device operations and support. Enhance application security with Enterprise App Management to streamline deployment, updates, and protection against vulnerabilities.
Microsoft Entra user and admin access controls to prepare for Copilot
Prevent over-permissioning of your data and resources using a Zero Trust “Just enough access” approach with proactive role-based Conditional Access controls with Microsoft Entra. Privileged identities, like admins, are your highest value targets. Use identity governance controls to scope their access to just what they need to perform their specific job roles within specified time limits. For everyday users, ensure “just enough access” so users can only access what they need to get their jobs done.
How to get ready for Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Updates for 2024
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for organizations of all sizes with Microsoft 365 and Office 365 - without a minimum license count. In this video, Jeremy Chapman from the Microsoft 365 team demonstrates new security, compliance, and privacy updates in the experience. You'll also see what's possible to achieve the right level of file permissions for Zero Trust, just enough access search across Microsoft 365 and with Copilot information retrieval.
GPT-4 Turbo with Vision + Azure AI Vision
Build and deploy copilot style apps that leverage the power of both GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and Azure AI Vision and Search in Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio. Enable direct lookups from image inputs over your organizational data to ground generative AI responses. This marks a significant improvement in the accuracy of natural language processing and image recognition tasks to enable new generative AI scenarios.
Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio
Build, test, deploy, and monitor your generative AI apps at scale from one place with Azure AI Studio. Access models in the Azure OpenAI service from Meta, NVIDIA and Microsoft Research, as well hundreds of open-source models. Integrate your own data across multiple data sets to ground your model, which is made easier through direct integration with OneLake in Microsoft Fabric. It uses shortcuts to let you bring in virtualized data sets across your data estate without having to move them.
Microsoft Entra Private Access protections for on-premises & private cloud network resources
Enable secure access to all your private on-prem and cloud resources, beyond what you can do with traditional VPNs, with Microsoft Entra Private Access, part of Microsoft’s Security Service Edge solution.
Microsoft Viva Glint + Copilot to analyze employee feedback at scale
Ensure employees in your organization feel engaged and productive. Know which questions to ask, interpret the results and act on the feedback with Microsoft Viva Glint. As a scalable fully managed solution, it streamlines and automates the employee feedback process measured against proven drivers for employee satisfaction and engagement. Managers can quickly interpret the results with easy-to-use dashboards with advanced analytics.
Microsoft Fabric: Data mirroring and Copilot updates
Access quality data, wherever it resides, with Microsoft Fabric, our next generation managed data and analytics service. Make data accessible across your entire data estate, without having to integrate different sources or work across multiple toolsets. Check out new data mirroring capabilities and AI-powered Copilot experiences, from building data pipelines, to creating predictive models and generating Power BI reports.
How Microsoft Security Copilot works
Use GPT-powered natural language to investigate and respond to security incidents, threats and vulnerabilities with Microsoft Security Copilot, a new security AI assistant. Skilled with Microsoft’s vast cybersecurity expertise, it helps you perform common security-related tasks quickly using generative AI.
What is the Windows App? + GPU support coming to Windows 365
Provide powerful Windows experiences on any device based on individual needs. Get a unified experience from the Windows App: Windows 365- provision Cloud PCs from Intune and manage them just like physical devices, and users get a full, secure desktop accessible from any device, anywhere. Microsoft Dev Box- provision cloud-based developer workstations for specific projects, that can be customized with the tools and the code you need.
Protect your data estate with Microsoft Purview
Locate, understand and protect sensitive information, both structured and unstructured, across your entire data estate at scale with Microsoft Purview. Keep data secure, whether it resides in Microsoft 365, Azure, non-Microsoft clouds, SaaS services and even on-premises in your data center. Data classifications and protections defined with Microsoft Purview persist in-place, without having to migrate your data into the Microsoft cloud.
Real-Time Collaboration | Microsoft Loop Updates for Admins
Real-time, synchronized collaboration across your favorite app experiences and devices with Microsoft Loop, our Microsoft 365 co-creation app. Use Loop components to work fluidly with others, while staying in your favorite collaboration app for a connected and interactive experience. Content is always live and up-to-date. View and organize all your loop activity, and provide a collaborative shared workspace for everyone to work together across projects using the Loop app.
How vector search and semantic ranking improve your AI prompts
Improve the information retrieval process, so you have the most optimal set of grounding data needed to generate useful AI responses. See how Azure Cognitive Search combines different search strategies out of the box and at scale - so you don’t have to.
Microsoft Entra ID Beginner's Tutorial (Azure Active Directory)
Simplify and improve security for sign-in experiences with Microsoft Entra ID, the new name for Azure Active Directory. Microsoft Entra ID is a unified identity provider to sign into your non-Microsoft services, like Google, AWS, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. See how it's used to manage service licensing for Microsoft 365, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Microsoft Purview.
Predict future security incidents! Cloud Security Posture Management with Microsoft Defender
Prevent security breaches before they occur with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Advanced cloud security protection goes beyond general security recommendations and provides predictive and future-facing defense, so users can prioritize security based on connected risks, visualize potential attack paths, and identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that attackers might exploit.
Automate data-driven actions | Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric
React fast to changes in data with an automated system of detection and action using Data Activator. Monitor and track changes at a granular level as they happen, instead of at an aggregate level, where important insights may be left in the detail and have already become a problem.
How Microsoft 365 Copilot can work with your external data
Bring external data into your Microsoft 365 Copilot experience to ground generative AI results using connectors and plugins. Use Microsoft Graph connectors to integrate the data sources you want with Semantic Index for Copilot. This option pre-indexes defined read-only information used for retrieval with your prompts to drive the most relevant AI-generated responses. Use managed and trusted plugins, such as OpenAI plugins, Microsoft Teams message extensions, and Power Platform connectors.
Build GPT-automated customer support with Azure Communication Services
Combine Azure Communication Services, the same platform that runs Microsoft Teams, with the Azure OpenAI service for generative AI using GPT. Automate and transform your customer service interactions with faster and informed human-like responses, whether text-based through BOTs or through integrated voice channels. Provide a seamless escalation path for agents, with the context and precise information they need to rapidly and effectively respond to escalations.
How Bing Chat Enterprise works with your data using GPT-4
How can your organization use generative AI with the right protections in place for your data today? Bing Chat Enterprise delivers built-in commercial data protection that you can use now. If your organization uses Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, or Business Premium, you already have access to Bing Chat Enterprise, included as part of those services.
Data Security Exploit Real Crime Case + How Microsoft Purview is Designed to Detect & Respond
Detect and prevent data security incidents with Microsoft Purview. Combine data classification with proactive and adaptive data loss prevention policies aligned to the assessed insider risk level for a multi-layered approach. Trusted insiders working for your organization contribute to 25% of data breaches. Many of these breaches remain undetected or are discovered long after the damage is done.
AI-powered Data Classification | Microsoft Purview
Identify, classify, and protect information at scale using Microsoft Purview's AI-powered classifiers. Gain visibility into the data inside of your organization and apply the right protections, especially important if you intend to use generative AI to create content based on the information accessible on your network.
Frontline updates in Microsoft Teams, Windows 365, Copilot & Dynamics 365 Field Service
New capabilities for your frontline workers, including Windows 365 Frontline experience, Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service for more streamlined service delivery, and Microsoft Teams as the single collaboration hub to get work done, wherever you are. Check out updated admin experiences, from setting up Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs and configuring Windows 365 Boot, to deploying Microsoft Teams to frontline workers at scale.
Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management
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