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Build a fully working model-driven app from your existing Dataverse, SharePoint, or SQL data in under a minute — screens, navigation, and forms included. Generate new pages from a natural language prompt with Generative Pages, auto-populate records from any document in seconds with Automatic Form Fill, and embed Copilot to query your app data directly.
Layer in an Agent Feed to proactively surface decisions, missing data, and action items, then connect to Outlook and Microsoft 365 through Work IQ to act on your app data without leaving your inbox.
Jed Brown, Power Platform Group Product Manager, shares how to turn existing business data into a modern, AI-powered app.
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00:00 - Create apps using Power Apps
01:07 - Create an app from existing data
02:26 - Copilot + Form Fill Assist
03:46 - AI-generated pages from a prompt
04:53 - Agent feed for proactive intelligence
06:16 - M365 integration via Work IQ
06:46 - Wrap up
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Unify identity and network access controls. Enforce least privilege access across every app and resource. Wire lifecycle workflows directly to your HR system to strip stale permissions on role changes, gate sensitive data behind biometric step-up verification, and replace your VPN with per-app, identity-scoped access that revokes tokens the moment risk spikes. Secure AI usage at every layer. Block confidential data from reaching public AI tools and stop adversarial prompt injections before your agents process them.
John Damon, Microsoft Entra Suite Senior Product Manager, shares how to lock down identity, network access, and AI usage from a single control plane.
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00:00 - Identity and network controls
00:45 - Lifecycle Workflows
01:28 - Verified ID with Face Check
02:15 - Request access for direct reports
03:17 - Global Secure Access + Token Revocation
04:32 - Secure AI usage
06:20 - Network DLP / ChatGPT Block
07:12 - Prompt Injection Protection
08:31 - Wrap up
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Qualify a lead, close a case, or walk into a renewal meeting fully briefed, all from the sales and service agents built into Dynamics 365. Ask a question and pull a grounded answer straight from your CRM and your calendar. Hand a prompt to Copilot Cowork and walk away with updated records, a finished presentation, and a drafted email, ready before your next meeting. Auto-fill a case description as you work, and walk into every quality review already scored against your team's framework.
Eric Boocock, Dynamics 365 Principal Program Manager, shares how these agents move with you from first prospect touch to case resolution, right inside the apps you work in every day. Along the way, he explains the mechanics of how everything works and your options to customize the experience with your own skills and instructions.
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00:00 - Agentic platform in Dynamics 365
01:03 - Sales Qualification & Opportunity Agents
01:44 - Case Management & Quality Evaluation Agents
02:25 - Sales Agent in action
04:30 - Copilot Cowork
05:44 - Automate repeated tasks
07:33 - Power behind agentic platform
08:50 - Custom skills via Power Apps + Dataverse
09:57 - Wrap up
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Control what you're billed on. Tokens are the currency of AI, and how you design your app determines how many you spend. Compress conversation history instead of resending it raw, cap output tokens with matching prompt instructions, and cache static context so each reuse costs a fraction of the first request. Route each prompt to the right model by complexity, or set Model Router in Microsoft Foundry to handle that automatically — balanced, quality, or cost mode.
Then optimize the whole stack. Run Agent Optimizer to test your prompt, model, and tool configurations together and surface better setups. Use Toolbox to dynamically select only the tools each request needs and cut input token overhead by 90%.
April Gittens, Microsoft Principal Cloud Advocate, joins Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, to share how to seize control of AI token spend through smarter app design.
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00:00 - Tokenomics foundation
01:06 - Token cost basics
02:11 - Context Window creep
03:46 - Reduce unnecessary tokens
04:29 - Trim context costs
05:21 - Cap output tokens
06:27 - Cache for savings
07:54 - Model cost tradeoffs
09:15 - Model Router
09:42 - Toolbox in Microsoft Foundry Toolbox
11:18 - Agent Optimizer
12:44 - Other cost drivers
13:57 - Wrap up
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For more about managing AI costs go to https://aka.ms/FoundryTokenomics
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The speed that AI can now discover and exploit vulnerabilities means that our defenses also need to adjust. For the devices that you manage where you can afford to tighten deployment timelines, we'll explain updated recommendations and show you how to speed up patching.
It starts with assessing your risk exposure for unpatched devices using the new Autopatch report in Microsoft Intune, then tightening deferral policies on the devices where it makes sense, using Hotpatch to activate protection on install — without requiring reboots. Windows Autopatch automates your update deployments using rings to progressively apply updates to the device groups that you help define, including updates for Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps and the Edge browser. And to keep internal resources protected, you can enforce access controls using Conditional Access to block non-compliant devices.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares what's changed along with the approaches you can take to help counter the growing number of AI-discovered vulnerabilities and stay protected.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - AI and Windows patch management
01:13 - Updated patching deferral thresholds
01:46 - Hotpatch on by default
02:05 - Windows Autopatch report
02:30 - Ring-based deployment + M365 Apps servicing profile
02:50 - Conditional Access for non-compliant devices
03:16 - Wrap up
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For what you can do beyond patching, go to https://aka.ms/securenow
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Apply Zero Trust controls to every AI agent in your environment across identity, tool usage, and data access. Extend Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra to evaluate every agent authorization request in real time against the same risk signals as human users. Assign each agent its own managed identity with Entra Agent ID and scope permissions with Access Packages. Govern your MCP catalog as a software supply chain — unapproved tools don't run, and approved servers lock behind Azure API Management.
Log every agent tool call, API access, and data lookup into Microsoft Sentinel for continuous anomaly detection. Purview Insider Risk Management auto-assigns risk levels so you can investigate fast or revoke access entirely. DLP and sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview restrict what agents can reach and auto-inherit to everything they generate, and Data Access Governance maps exactly what each agent can access before a prompt fires.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to put these controls into practice across every managed, self-hosted, and shadow agent in your estate.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - How AI changes Zero Trust
01:20 - Zero Trust principles
02:27 - How to apply Zero Trust principles
03:40 - Conditional Access for Agent Identities
04:59 - Entra Agent ID + Access Packages
06:07 - Runtime Observability
06:58 - DLP, Sensitivity Labels + Data Access Governance
07:47 - MCP catalog
08:36 - AI apps & experiences
09:24 - Wrap up
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For additional resources, check out https://aka.ms/GoZeroTrust
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Secure containerized apps end-to-end using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Correlate cross-cloud attacks into a single incident, catch runtime threats that image scanning misses, and block vulnerable images before they reach production.
Investigate container hijacking, isolate compromised pods with Security Copilot-guided remediation, and close the loop from SOC to dev by pushing CVE fixes to GitHub and syncing resolution back to Defender.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, shares how to detect, investigate, and remediate container threats in one connected workflow.
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00:00 - Secure containers in Microsoft Defender
01:02 - Cross-cloud incident
03:07- Runtime detection
04:10 - Investigate and build context
04:49 - Security Copilot incident report & containment
06:03 - Prevention
07:34 - Recommendations and take action
09:04 - Wrap up
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Cut through alert noise and move from detection to root cause using the Azure Copilot Observability Agent. It autonomously investigates incidents, correlates signals across logs, metrics, alerts, application health, and ML anomalies, then surfaces root cause with charts and recommended next steps.
Extend coverage to your AI agents in Microsoft Foundry, track Gen AI errors and token consumption with trace-level detail, and write plain-language instructions to tune autonomous behavior to match your team's workflow.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, shares how to take full control of incident response at scale.
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00:00 - Azure Copilot Observability Agent
00:43 - How to use it as you work
01:33 - Unified Full-Stack Telemetry
02:39 - Root Cause Investigation
04:12 - Investigate further
04:55 - Re-run the investigation
05:36 - Autonomous Alert Correlation & Triage
07:13 - Natural Language Agent Customization
07:34 - Wrap up
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Build enterprise-ready AI agents that scale without sacrificing security or control using Microsoft Azure. Establish a shared Governance Hub to centralize model access, MCP catalogs, and policy enforcement, then give every agent a traceable identity, runtime protection, and data governance through Agent 365. Layer in Microsoft Fabric's Ontologies so your agents reason over real business context, not just raw data. Choose your runtime — no-code, hosted container, or custom — and deploy a production-grade environment in minutes using the AI Landing Zone accelerator.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure Expert, joins Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, to share how to architect, govern, and scale a full agent mesh across the Microsoft stack.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Build secure AI agents
01:07 - Accelerate development, reduce risks
02:51 - Model Gateway + MCP Gateway
03:24 - Agent 365 Unified Control Plane
03:56 - Azure Policy + Azure Monitor
04:27 - Intelligent data platform
05:37 - OneLake in Microsoft Fabric
06:39 - Microsoft Purview data governance
07:13 - Fabric IQ with Ontologies
07:51 - Landing Zones
09:23 - Three Hosting Runtimes
11:06 - AI Landing Zone Accelerator
13:16 - Scalability
14:16 - Wrap up
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Check out https://aka.ms/AIArchitecture
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Enforce your existing Microsoft security policies directly in the browser, where your users actually work, using Microsoft Edge for Business. Extend Conditional Access, Purview DLP, and Defender controls into every session, across managed and unmanaged devices.
Block sensitive data from reaching unsanctioned AI services, lock contractors into your data boundary on devices you don't manage, and control clipboard and screenshot actions by location. Manage extensions by permission type from the Microsoft 365 admin center and shut down scareware before users respond.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to deploy these controls using the security stack you already have.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Security built into the browser
01:30 - Shadow AI Data Blocking
03:03 - Contractor Work Profiles
04:22 - Configuration
05:16 - Advanced DLP & Clipboard Controls
06:29 - How to set it up
07:07 - Extension Management
09:20 - Protect from threats
10:13 - Wrap up
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To get started, check out https://aka.ms/EdgeforBusiness
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Build production-ready enterprise apps in hours, not months. Describe the app you want using Rayfin's open-source SDK with GitHub Copilot, and generate your full backend in code — schemas, relationships, and access policies included. Deploy to Microsoft Fabric with a single CLI command and immediately inherit enterprise data security, identity controls, and audit compliance already in place across your data estate.
Connect your app's live operational data to years of historical records in Fabric from the moment you deploy, no pipelines, no data movement. Query across both datasets using a Fabric data agent you spin up directly on your app's data.
Will Thompson, Microsoft Fabric Principal Product Manager, shares how to take an app from idea to governed production deployment in a single session.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Simplify backend complexity 01:20 - Home delivery service app 01:48 - Data analysis app 02:26 - See the build experience 03:08 - Copilot Generates Full Backend 03:47 - Authorization defined alongside schema 05:06 - One CLI Command Deploys to Fabric 05:21 - Create analytics app & add pages 06:31 - App Data Connects to Fabric Data Estate 06:55 - Conversational Data Agent on App Data 08:13 - Wrap up
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Take control of every AI agent, managed or not, running in your environment using Agent 365 and Microsoft Entra. Surface agents across AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Databricks, and Salesforce in one registry, assign Entra Agent IDs via CLI or SDK, and enforce least-privilege access through Conditional Access policies and Agent Blueprints, all without rebuilding your existing identity infrastructure.
Lock down agent activity with sign-in logs that capture every authentication attempt, policy hit, and failure. Govern agents as first-class identities alongside your users, apps, and devices, and draw a hard line between managed and unmanaged AI in your organization.
Vince Smith, Microsoft Entra Principal Product Manager, shares how to establish full visibility, access control, and lifecycle governance for AI agents using Microsoft Entra and Agent 365.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Visibility and control with Agent 365 01:39 - Multi-platform registry sync 02:29 - Assign Agent ID 04:14 - Agent Blueprints 05:24 - Conditional Access for agents 06:24 - Sign-in logs audit trail 07:03 - Unblock the agent 07:54 - Wrap up
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Run enterprise Postgres workloads on Azure HorizonDB with around 3x the throughput of self-managed deployments — zone-resilient by default, no architectural trade-offs. Call AI models directly from SQL, build durable vector pipelines inside the database, and deliver high-accuracy similarity search at massive scale with DiskANN and AI re-ranking, all without leaving PostgreSQL.
Debug and optimize queries faster with the Azure HorizonDB VS Code extension. Visualize execution plans, let Copilot generate fixes, and clone production data to test environments in seconds.
Charles Feddersen, PostgreSQL Partner Director PM, shares how to put all of it to work on Azure.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Azure HorizonDB features
00:57 - Open-source PostgreSQL
02:24 - How it works
03:37 - Performance
04:51 - Enterprise-ready security
05:34 - Memory & storage work together
06:29 - AI Model Management + AI Functions
08:24 - AI Pipelines
09:50 - DiskANN + AI Re-ranking
10:50 - VS Code Extension + Data Cloning
12:31 - Wrap up
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Check out our blog at https://aka.ms/azurepostgresblog
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Surface every AI agent in your tenant and expose the ones throwing security signals — across both the IT and SOC view. Triage high-severity alerts as IT in the Microsoft 365 admin center, then pivot into the full incident graph as a SOC analyst in Microsoft Defender. Block malicious tool invocations the instant they fire and catch jailbreak attempts on Copilot Studio agents before they take hold.
Trace a compromised user back to suspicious agent activity, then trigger Microsoft Entra conditional access to revoke the session and force a password reset straight from the incident. Hunt overpermissioned agents with pre-built advanced hunting templates — including one that exposes every agent running MCP tools on the maker's standing credentials — and pull risky builds from the Agent Store using the Agent Registry.
Spencer Berg, AI & Security Product Manager, shares how to turn agent risk signals into coordinated remediation across Defender, Entra, and the Microsoft 365 admin center.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Stay in control with Agent 365
00:40 - Gain visibility with unified control plane
01:48 - Unified IT & SOC agent view
02:54 - Real-time blocking and jailbreak detection
04:08 - Auto-revoke via Entra conditional access
04:32 - Prevent future incidents
05:28 - Advanced hunting for AI agents
06:43 - Block risky agents
07:15 - Wrap up
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Ensure your tenant configuration doesn't drift from defined security and compliance requirements with Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance. Capture configuration as code across 200+ resource types in Entra, Intune, Exchange, Teams, Defender, and Purview. Turn that snapshot into a Monitor. It scans for drift every six hours and flags every policy change.
Extend control to the tenants you don't fully see today. Entra Tenant Governance surfaces them automatically through B2B, multi-tenant app, and billing signals. Request governance with role-based templates. Complete the secure approval handshake in the Entra admin center, then administer the governed tenant from a single browser using the roles forged in that handshake. Jeff Staiman, Microsoft Entra Principal Product Manager, shares how to bring every tenant under one governance model.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Prevent tenant configuration drift
00:57 - Create a configuration baseline
02:23 - Detect configuration drifts
03:08 - Identify related tenants to govern
04:05 - Governed tenants
05:01 - Incoming request
06:17 - Set up monitoring
07:40 - Wrap up
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Get started at https://aka.ms/EntraTenantGovernance
Restrict tenant's connections at https://aka.ms/TenantQuarantine
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Build AI agents that meet your standards for quality, safety, and performance using Microsoft Foundry. Trace every run end-to-end, generate synthetic datasets to stress-test on demand, fire automated Red Team attacks at your own agents, and pin down why evaluations fail — all from the Microsoft Foundry control plane. Lock in guardrails that inspect every tool call at runtime, define the risks once, and enforce them across every agent run.
Mohammad Abuomar, Responsible AI Principal Architect, shares how to turn a coding agent into production-ready software inside Foundry.
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00:00 - Microsoft Foundry control plane
00:33 - See a finished agent
02:30 - See where the agent started
03:19 - Traces
04:04 - Built-in monitoring
04:34 - Evaluation types
05:51 - Red team evaluations
07:08 - Evaluation results
08:14 - Built-in Guardrails
08:14 - Wrap up
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This is the Microsoft Excel guide and tutorial for beginners. If you're new to and getting started with Excel or coming from another app, in this video we teach the basics of Excel, the user interface, core concepts, and how to work with basic data.
We'll show you how to build a full Excel workbook from scratch using natural language prompts with Copilot. Format cells, write formulas, and analyze a year of data. Generate sample data, calculate totals, apply conditional formatting, and pin down outliers across columns and rows, all from your browser at excel.new. Share the workbook by name, group, or email and co-author with teammates across web, desktop, and phone. Every edit syncs to OneDrive in real time.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to go from blank workbook to analyzed, shared spreadsheet in one sitting.
If you have a work or school accounts, Copilot Chat is available at no additional cost if you have Microsoft 365 A1/A3/A5, Business Basic/Standard/Premium, E3/E5, F1/F3, G3/G5, and Office 365 A1/A1 Plus/A3/A5, E1/E1 Plus/E3/E5, F3, G1/G3/G5.
If you have a personal Microsoft account, Copilot is available with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium in Microsoft 365. For Family and multi-user accounts, only the subscription owner can use Copilot in the desktop apps.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Excel Essentials
00:57 - Start from a blank workbook
02:11 - Core terms and concepts
04:25 - Generate Sample Data with Copilot
06:16 - How to work with the numbers
09:35 - Copilot Writes Your SUM Formulas
09:57 - Conditional Formatting from a Prompt
10:40 - Outlier Analysis with Reasoning
11:36 - Real-Time Co-Authoring in OneDrive
12:22 - Wrap up
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Ground every Microsoft 365 Copilot response in your real work data. Pull context from SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, email, and meetings — all through Work IQ. Draft Word documents that carry your existing sensitivity labels, and resolve calendar conflicts in Outlook. Run multi-step Copilot Cowork workflows that generate files, schedule meetings, and send status updates from a single prompt.
Extend the same knowledge layer to ServiceNow, CRMs, and other non-Microsoft systems with API and MCP Server connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center, or build your own agents in code against the Work IQ API.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how data, context, and skills & tools combine into a single grounding layer for Copilot and your custom agents.
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00:00 - Work IQ Knowledge Layer 01:32 - Copilot Chat experiences 02:16 - Work IQ in your apps 03:03 - Auto-Applied Sensitivity Labels 04:20 - Copilot Cowork Agentic Workflow 06:11 - Admin Center Connectors 07:21 - Work IQ API for Developers 08:50 - Wrap up
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Managing Servers, and Kubernetes across on-prem, and multiple clouds, can quickly become complex, especially when you're juggling multiple tools. In this video, we explore how Azure Arc simplifies hybrid and multi-cloud operations by providing a single, consistent control plane for managing your entire infrastructure across Linux and Windows, on-prem, in Azure, or in any cloud.
Once connected, you can patch Windows and Linux together with Azure Update Manager, enforce CIS benchmarks and Azure Security Baselines through Azure Policy, and pull consistent inventory, tags, and RBAC across your whole estate.
Auto-recover unbootable Windows Server 2025 machines with Quick Machine Recovery, audit and configure WinRE using built-in Azure Policy. Run your virtual machines as Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts on Nutanix, VMware, Hyper-V, or using physical Windows hardware.
Satya Vel, Azure Arc Principal Group PDM Manager (https://x.com/satya_vel) shares how to make Azure your operational standard for every workload, anywhere it runs.
Learn more about Azure Arc at https://aka.ms/AzureArcServer, or join the community at https://aka.ms/ArcServerForumSignup
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00:00 - Azure Arc in hybrid environments
00:46 - Transitioning to Azure Arc
02:35 - Unified management
03:43 - How to bring in servers and containers
04:48 - Inventory management
05:30 - Patching
06:48 - Auto-manage future updates
08:25 - One-time update
09:32 - Configuration in a hybrid environment
11:05 - Auditing Windows machines
11:34 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud
13:06 - Desktop virtualization
13:51 - Wrap up
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Keep AI agents operating under control and within your data security and compliance policies using Agent 365. Block agent access to labeled files at runtime, stop sensitive data from leaving in agent-drafted emails, and catch agents that cross conduct lines using the same Microsoft Purview controls you already run for users. Map every risky agent action in Insider Risk Management, drill into Activity Explorer for interaction-level detail, and pull regulator-ready forensics from Purview Audit.
Shilpa Ranganathan, Microsoft Purview Partner Group Squad Leader, shares how IT and data security teams can govern agent behavior on a single Agent 365 control plane built into the Microsoft tools already used.
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00:00 - Agent security, compliance, & IT
01:13 - IT & data security teams using Agent 365
02:22 - Visibility with Microsoft Purview
03:14 - End user perspective
04:05 - DLP on Agent-Initiated Messages
04:23 - Communication Compliance for Agent Behavior
04:50 - Data Security admin in the Purview portal
06:04 - Policy violations
06:39 - Purview Audit
07:06 - Microsoft 365 admin center
07:44 - Wrap upn in the Purview portal
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Build a shared semantic foundation for your enterprise data in Microsoft Fabric IQ. Generate a full business ontology from an existing Power BI semantic model, map entities and relationships, and embed real-time operational signals alongside business rules that live inside the ontology with the data and its meaning.
From there, trace cascading operational impacts across your business through the relationship graph, stand up Operations Agents in natural language with Teams-based actions, and connect the same ontology as a knowledge source in Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry.
Chafia Aouissi, Fabric IQ Principal PM Manager, shares how to model your business operations, embed intelligence in your data, and deploy agents that act on it.
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00:00 - Unify models & data with Fabric IQ 01:12 - Generate an ontology 02:27 - Bring in Power BI reports 03:08 - View across multiple data sources 04:23 - Define rules 05:18 - Built-in ontology graph 06:03 - Fabric IQ agents 08:24 - Fabric IQ as Knowledge Source 08:54 - Wrap up
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Take command of your full app layer in Microsoft Intune. Audit every managed and unmanaged app per device with full metadata — publisher, architecture, disk size, install location, uninstall command — to expose shadow IT before it spreads. Pull curated Win32 apps straight from the Enterprise App Catalog or upload PowerShell .ps1 scripts to control exactly how each app installs.
Stage rollouts in rings with Deployment Plans, pause or cancel any deployment in flight, and auto-trust every app you push using App Control for Business with Managed Installer — extending the same trust to new device builds with Autopilot, now up to 25 apps. Keep your fleet current automatically as vendors publish new versions through the Enterprise App Catalog, or trigger updates on demand from the Guided Upgrade Supersedence report.
Nicole Zhao, Microsoft Intune Product Manager, shares how to put these built-in enhancements to work across every managed device.
*Intune Deployments is currently in private preview. Capabilities shown are subject to change and not yet generally available.
Check out aka.ms/RSAC26-Intune-Blog from the RSA Conference for additional security context and guidance when managing apps with Microsoft Intune.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Built-in app management 00:51 - App Inventory Visibility 01:42 - Enterprise Application Management (EAM) 02:28 - PowerShell Script Installer GA 03:09 - Ring-Based Deployment Plans 04:44 - Managed Installer Auto-Trust 05:39 - Enterprise App Catalog Auto-Update 06:12 - Guided upgrade supersedence 06:50 - Wrap up
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Move your AI agents from prototype to production using Microsoft Foundry Agent Service. Deploy directly from your local environment, run with secure identity and scoped permissions, and monitor every interaction so you can debug, improve, and scale without losing control. Publish agents into the tools your team already uses and ensure every action is traceable, governed, and isolated.
Ground your agents in real work and business data to generate outputs that are actually useful. Pull from emails, meetings, and operational systems to create personalized insights, documents, and presentations. Build faster with familiar tools and frameworks, then manage performance, cost, and quality across all your agents as they scale.
Jeff Hollan, Partner Director, AI Agent Services, shares how to operationalize AI agents across your organization—from deployment to real-world impact.
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00:00 - Build single and multi-agentic workloads
00:44 - Build agents at scale with Foundry
01:33 - Demo: Sales meeting preparation agent
03:32 - How it works
04:48 - Access controls
05:44 - Publish the agent
06:23 - Direct integration with Microsoft 365
07:26 - Work IQ, Foundry IQ, & Fabric IQ
10:24 - Agent creation
11:21 - See what's happening in the code
12:54 - Manage performance
13:56 - Wrap up
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Go to the Microsoft Foundry to build your first project at https://ai.azure.com
Check out https://github.com/microsoft-foundry
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Access Anthropic and OpenAI models directly from Microsoft 365 Copilot. Generate briefing documents, presentations, and Excel files from a single prompt with Copilot Cowork, pulling from your emails, calendar, and SharePoint through Work IQ — and fold in new tasks mid-run without stopping. Using Copilot Cowork, you can use the same platform that powers Claude Cowork. It's designed for long-running, multi-step task automation.
Use Critique in Researcher to pair a generation model with a dedicated review model, applying source reliability and evidence grounding before the report lands. Run model Council to submit one prompt to GPT and Claude simultaneously and compare their full reasoning side-by-side.
These experiences with Copilot Cowork and Researcher are available now if your organization has the Frontier Program enabled. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to choose, direct, and compare the right AI model for every task, all from within Microsoft 365.
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00:00 - Copilot capabilities
01:06 - Copilot Cowork
02:32 - Mid-Run Task Injection
03:05 - Output
04:17 - Researcher Critique: Dual-Model Pipeline
05:58 - Work IQ Auto-Retrieval
06:58 - Model Council
08:50 - Wrap up
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Take control of your data by discovering sensitive information across every file type and location with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Classify your data, apply clear labels, and enforce protections that automatically adapt to human and AI interactions so you can reduce risk without slowing down workflows. Proactively monitor, assess, and respond to risk in real time. Use labeling and layered policies to stop accidental sharing, manage AI access, and maintain consistent protection across your organization.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Mechanics expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to turn scattered data into actionable security that moves as fast as your team and AI.
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00:00 - Microsoft Purview data protection
01:04 - Data Loss Prevention
03:36 - Layered approach in addition to DLP
04:13 - Unified classification
04:27 - How sensitive data is determined
06:23 - Create trainable classifiers
07:06 - Distinction between classification and labeling
08:06 - Configure policy protections
09:12 - DLP in action
10:10 - IRM in action
10:51 - See how protections show up
13:37 - Move from reactive to proactive protection
15:00 - Wrap up
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For deeper guidance, go to https://aka.ms/PurviewInformationProtection
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Identify what data was exposed in a breach, not just where it moved, but what it contains, how sensitive it is, and the risk it creates using Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. Search across massive volumes of files using natural language, pinpoint the highest risk content, and connect it to user activity to see the full scope of an incident.
Investigate and act in one workflow. Analyze content deeply across files, emails, and AI interactions, uncover hidden or unclassified sensitive data, and contain exposure fast. Proactively identify risks, respond to incidents with clarity, and mitigate impact before it spreads.
Christophe Fiessinger, Microsoft Purview Principal Squad Leader, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through real-world investigation workflows—from scoping and analysis to mitigation and automation—so you can move faster and make more informed security decisions.
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00:00 - Keep data safe with DSI
01:26 - Connect dots between data risk & impact
02:47 - Built-in AI
03:47 - Work across the full lifecycle of an incident
04:56 - Create an investigation
06:36 - Deep search and analysis
09:03 - How DSI helps data leaks
10:40 - Contain risk with built-in mitigation
11:32 - Automate using agents
13:23 - Estimator tool
14:57 - Wrap up
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Cut through alert noise and focus on the risks that matter with Agents in Microsoft Purview. Use Data Security Triage Agent to prioritize incidents, investigate user activity with full context, and uncover hidden patterns that signal real threats. Identify and act on high-risk behavior, like data exfiltration or persistent access, before it leads to data loss.
Detect sensitive data across your environment using natural language with Data Security Posture Agent. Analyze content to find what's exposed, apply protections or restrict access, and surface hidden credentials, so you can take action and continuously reduce risk.
Michelle Slotwinski, Microsoft Purview Senior Product Manager, shares how to stay ahead of data risk by turning investigation into proactive protection.
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00:00 - Reduce data risks 00:59 - Data Security Triage Agent 01:46 - Investigate risks 03:29 - Detect patterns 05:17 - Uncover nested insights 07:44 - Credential scanning 09:03 - Wrap up
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Stay ahead of real-world threats without overwhelming your team using Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR. Offload high-severity incidents, gain full visibility into every investigation, and follow clear, guided remediation steps so you can contain attacks quickly and confidently, day or night.
Extend your security operations with always-on managed detection and response and proactive threat hunting, so you can uncover hidden risks early, stop threats threats they spread, and strengthen your defenses to prevent future attacks.
Maynald Savatdy, Microsoft Defender Expert, shows how to detect, contain, and hunt threats across your environment with support from human experts.
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00:00 - Microsoft Defender Experts
00:54 - 24/7 Security Coverage
01:35 - Visibility & guidance actions
03:34 - Incidents and alerts
04:25 - Social engineering attack
05:36 - Defender Experts for hunting
06:34 - Wrap up
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Automate device and security policy management by turning written compliance requirements into Intune policies. Use natural language to draft, refine, and deploy configuration profiles, review AI-generated recommendations with confidence scores, and stay in full control before publishing to your environment.
Reduce risk and manual effort by automatically evaluating admin change requests and blocking harmful scripts before deployment. Prioritize vulnerabilities from Defender, translate them into actionable Intune remediation steps, and schedule ongoing fixes.
Jason Githens, Microsoft Intune Principal GPM, shares how to move from reactive security work to continuous, proactive protection. Note: At the time of publishing this video, the Change Review Agent and Policy Configuration Agent are in public preview and the Vulnerability Remediation Agent is in limited public preview.
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00:00 - Automate work with Intune Agents 01:08 - Policy Configuration Agent 01:36 - Policy drafts 02:27 - Create a new knowledge source 03:25 - Create a new policy 04:49 - Change Review Agent 06:19 - Vulnerability Remediation Agent 07:46 - Wrap up
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Stay productive without changing how you work with new Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI experiences on any Windows 11 PC. Access Copilot and agents right from the taskbar; find answers across your files, email, and meetings, and turn ideas into polished content using voice or text. AI is right there where you already work, so you can move faster, stay in your flow, and make better decisions without switching context, opening other apps or moving to the browser.
And if you do have a Copilot+ PC, you can use fluid voice dictation across apps, find files with natural language search, take action on anything on your screen, and refine writing anywhere, even offline.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shows how whether you're planning projects, collaborating with teammates, or building solutions, you can move faster, stay focused, and turn context into real outcomes.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Ask Copilot
00:55 - Use voice with Copilot
02:30 - Agents on Windows 11 taskbar
04:19 - Copilot in File Explorer
05:19 - Copilot+ PC capabilities
07:04 - Click to Do
07:52 - Writing Assistance with Copilot
09:15 - Wrap up
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Adopt a Zero Trust approach that lets you verify every access request—human, machine, or AI—before it reaches your most critical resources. As AI agents, semantic search, and automation accelerate how work gets done, you can reduce risk by explicitly validating identity, enforcing least-privilege access, and assuming breach across every step of your environment. Apply layered, continuous protection across identities, endpoints, networks, data, AI resources, applications, and infrastructure so attackers can't exploit any weak links.
Michael Madrigal, Security Product Manager, shares how you can protect productivity and keep pace with an evolving threat landscape, by continuously assessing risk, securing resources at runtime, and adapting policies as conditions change.
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00:00 - Zero Trust for AI
01:41 - Overview of Zero Trust
02:43 - Identities
04:38 - Endpoints
04:50 - How Zero Trust applies to your network
06:51 - How Zero Trust applies to your data
07:31 - How Zero Trust applies to AI resources
08:24 - App Layer
08:31 - Infrastructure
09:49 - Security
10:23 - Wrap up
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Control AI agents as they are created across your environment by treating them like real identities with Microsoft Entra Agent ID. See every agent in one place, understand what it can access, detect agent sprawl early, and apply least-privilege permissions using the same Microsoft Entra tools you already use for users—without introducing new governance models.
Approve and scope agent access with accountability, enforce agent-specific Conditional Access in real time, automatically block risky behavior, and ensure every agent always has an owner, even as people change roles or leave.
Leandro Iwase, Microsoft Entra Senior Product Manager shows how to keep agents operating securely, transparently, and predictably across their entire lifecycle.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Treat AI Agents Like Real Identities
00:42 - Stop Agent Sprawl
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03:39 - Scope Agent Access
05:10 - Create agent specific Conditional Access policies
06:12 - Protect against a sponsor account
07:01 - Agents flagged as risky
07:50 - Ownerless agents
09:00 - Wrap up
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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.
Use the Data Security Posture Agent to uncover risks that hide behind context with natural-language queries. When issues are found, apply labels and trigger security policies right from the insight, helping you proactively prevent data loss. Powered by Security Copilot, these agents give you a faster, smarter, more efficient way to manage data security.
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Bring AI agents directly into your daily workflows with Microsoft Agent 365. Agents have their own identity, email, OneDrive and Teams presence, and collaborate just like coworkers. Onboard agents, give them the policies and knowledge they need, and let them work in parallel with you to handle procurement, approvals, research, and updates using the same Microsoft 365 tools you already rely on.
As your use of agents grows, keep full visibility and control. Track every action, understand their impact across your organization, govern permissions with least-privilege access, and manage all agents from a single unified control plane.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how you can adopt autonomous agents at scale with confidence, security, and clarity across your business.
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01:04 - Agent capabilities
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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.
Learn more in this Microsoft Mechanics demo, and start building with Microsoft Foundry at ai.azure.com
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03:32 - The Build tab and Workflows
05:03 - How to build an agentic app
07:02 - Evaluate agent performance
08:37 - Safety and security
09:18 - Publish your agentic app
09:41 - Post deployment
11:36 - Wrap up
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Formerly Azure AI Foundry and Azure Cognitive Services
Ground your AI agents on your organization's knowledge, pulling from multiple sources at once, connecting the dots automatically, and getting more accurate, context-rich answers without doing manual orchestration with Foundry IQ in Microsoft Foundry. Navigate complex, distributed data across Azure stores, SharePoint, OneLake, MCP servers, and even the web, all through a single knowledge base that handles query planning and iteration for you.
Reuse the Azure AI Search assets you already have, build new knowledge bases with minimal setup, and control how much reasoning effort your agents apply. As you develop, you can rely on iterative retrieval only when it improves results, saving time, tokens, and development complexity.
Pablo Castro, Azure AI Search CVP and Distinguished Engineer, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to build smarter, more capable AI agents, with higher-quality grounded answers and less engineering overhead.
► Link References
To learn more check out https://aka.ms/FoundryIQ
For more details on the evaluation metric discussed on this show, read our blog at https://aka.ms/kb-evals
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03:02 - Knowledge bases in Foundry IQ
04:37 - Azure AI Search and retrieval stack
05:51 - How it works
06:52 - Visualization tool demo
08:07 - Build a knowledge base
10:10 - Evaluating results
13:11 - Wrap up
Build powerful AI apps that run locally on any device—Windows, macOS, or mobile—without relying on the cloud using Foundry Local. Leverage full hardware performance, keep data private, reduce latency, and predict costs, even in offline or low-connectivity scenarios.
Simplify development and deploy AI apps across diverse hardware and OS platforms with the Foundry Local SDK. Manage models locally, switch AI engines easily, and deliver consistent, multi-modal experiences, voice or text, without complex cross-platform setup.
Raji Rajagopalan, Microsoft CoreAI Vice President, shares how to start quickly, test locally, and scale confidently.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Run AI locally
01:48 - Local AI use cases
02:23 - App portability
03:18 - Run apps on any device
05:14 - Run on older devices
05:58 - Run apps on MacOS
06:18 - Local AI is Multi-modal
07:25 - How it works
08:20 - How to get it running on your device
09:26 - Start with AI Toolkit in VS Code with new SDK
10:11 - Wrap up
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Unify your security data and use AI to reason over your entire digital estate with Microsoft Sentinel. See how threats evolve in real time, map attack paths, and understand which assets are most at risk. Visualize relationships across users, devices, and resources to pinpoint vulnerabilities and focus your response where it matters most. Using natural language, you can investigate faster. Ask questions, get context, and act on insights without writing complex queries. Build and extend your own identity graphs to include multicloud systems like Salesforce, enriching your view of risk.
Vandana Mahtani, Microsoft Sentinel Principal PM, shares how to detect, investigate, and disrupt threats in one connected experience with Microsoft Sentinel.
You can find more info on custom graphs: https://aka.ms/sentinel/graph/ignite and sign-up for preview at: https://aka.ms/sentinel/graph/customsignup
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01:37 - Blast radius integration
02:34 - Investigate using AI with the Sentinel MCP server
03:40 - Advanced hunting
04:53 - Custom graphs
07:07 - Build your own custom graph
08:51 - Wrap up
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Connect users to on-premises resources while enforcing Conditional Access policies, including MFA, and eliminate the need for VPNs using Secure Access Service Edge with Microsoft Entra. Route authentication through Microsoft Entra before granting resource access, even within legacy on-premises systems. Boost performance with intelligent local access that keeps internal traffic local while routing only authentication to the cloud. Protect sensitive data from being uploaded to AI apps, and stop prompt injection attacks—without modifying your applications or AI models.
Ashish Jain, Microsoft Entra Principal GPM, shares how to strengthen your zero trust architecture while simplifying the access experience for users.
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00:00 - Secure Access Service Edge
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07:32 - Prompt injection attacks
09:46 - Wrap up
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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.
Jarred Boone, Identity Security Senior Product Manager, shows how users can access work apps safely, confidently, and efficiently while reducing help desk overhead.
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00:00 - Passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID
01:19 - Register your passkey
02:12 - Authenticate into apps & services
03:34 - Sync passkeys on updated devices
04:16 - Configure passkeys as an admin
05:51 - Account recovery
07:18 - Conditional Access policies
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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.
Talhah Mir, Microsoft Purview Partner GM, shares how to take control of your data security posture, act on top priorities, and build a sustainable discipline for protecting your organization's information at scale.
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03:36 - Prevent oversharing
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08:25 - How to get DSPM working in your org
09:28 - Wrap up
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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.
Publish individual Cloud Apps instead of full desktops to simplify management, modernize legacy applications, and deliver consistent experiences to any device. And if a device breaks, is lost, or needs repair, Windows 365 Reserve lets you instantly provide users with a secure, temporary Cloud PC, restoring productivity in minutes while reducing IT overhead.
Scott Manchester, Windows 365 Vice President, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how you can streamline automation, app delivery, and business continuity with the latest Windows 365 updates.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Updates for Cloud PCs with Windows 365 00:47 - Computer-using agents 02:27 - Build a computer-using agent 04:46 - Managing Windows 365 for Agents 05:26 - Windows 365 Cloud Apps 08:16 - Access published Cloud Apps in Windows 365 09:53 - Windows 365 Reserve 11:13 - Provisioning 12:24 - Deprovision and Self-Provision 13:12 - Wrap up
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Turn raw Excel data into actionable insights, visual dashboards, and KPIs in minutes. With Agent Mode, automate complex analysis, create pivot tables, and build interactive dashboards without manual setup. Streamline text analysis, formula generation, and complex calculations right inside Excel. Use the Copilot function to categorize feedback, score sentiment, or automate repetitive tasks, and leverage Formula AI to generate accurate formulas from plain language prompts.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to work smarter and make faster, data-driven decisions in Microsoft Excel.
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00:00 - Excel and Microsoft 365 Copilot updates
01:24 - Agent Mode
03:55 - Copilot function
06:02 - Formula completion
07:13 - Formula AI
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Strengthen your security posture by moving groups and users from Active Directory to Microsoft Entra. This gives you seamless access for your teams, stronger authentication with MFA and passwordless options, and centralized visibility into risks across your environment. Simplify hybrid identity management by reducing dual overhead, prioritizing key groups, migrating users without disruption, and automating policies with Graph or PowerShell.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shows how to start minimizing your local directory and make Microsoft Entra your source of authority to protect access everywhere.
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00:00 - Minimize Active Directory with Microsoft Entra
00:34 - Build a Strong Identity Foundation
01:28 - Reduce Dual Management Overhead
02:06 - Begin with Groups
03:04 - Automate with Graph & Policy Controls
03:50 - Access packages
06:00 - Move user objects to be cloud-managed
07:03 - Automate using scripts or code
09:17 - Wrap up
► Link References
Get started at https://aka.ms/CloudManagedIdentity
Use SOA scenarios at https://aka.ms/usersoadocs
Group SOA scenarios at https://aka.ms/groupsoadocs
Guidance for IT Architects on benefits of SOA at https://aka.ms/SOAITArchitectsGuidance
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Take control of security operations and act fast on high priority threats with Microsoft Security Copilot agents. Automate phishing triage, prioritize alerts, streamline access reviews, and close policy gaps while keeping full control through natural language feedback and recommendations. Reduce repetitive work, cut through alert noise, and focus on the most critical risks facing your organization.
Stay ahead of vulnerabilities and evolving threats by proactively identifying at-risk devices, deploying patches, and optimizing access policies as your environment changes. Build custom agents tailored to your workflows, connecting tools and data to automate your most time-consuming security tasks.
Dilip Radhakrishnan, Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Director, shares how to keep your organization protected with Security Copilot agents.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Security Copilot agents
01:02 - Phishing Triage Agent
02:17 - Alert Triage Agents
03:24 - Access governance
04:41 - Conditional Access Optimization Agent
05:57 - Vulnerability Remediation Agent
06:57 - Build your own specialized agents
07:54 - Wrap up
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Work efficiently using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, now available directly in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for everyone with an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription. Summarize long email threads, generate bullet-point executive summaries, create charts, and update presentations—all without leaving your familiar apps. Copilot understands your context, remembers your preferences, and helps you reuse content seamlessly across Microsoft 365. IT admins stay in control while you boost productivity. Enterprise-grade protections, Microsoft Purview, and the Copilot Control System ensure your data stays secure.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how with premium features like intelligent data retrieval, meeting facilitation, and specialized agents, you can automate routine tasks, generate insights, and stay in the flow without leaving your apps.
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00:00 - Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat within Microsoft 365 apps
00:45 - Copilot Chat in Outlook
01:29 - Copilot Chat in Word
02:15 - Copilot Chat in Excel
02:59 - Copilot Chat in Power Point
04:58 - Security and Admin Experience
05:38 - Premium experience
06:44 - Wrap up
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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.
- Facilitator Agent in Microsoft Teams keeps meetings on track—managing agendas, taking notes, assigning follow-ups, and capturing decisions automatically.
- Agents in Teams channels summarize conversations, generate status reports, and handle routine updates so projects move forward without missed details.
- Agents in Viva Engage communities draft accurate, data-driven responses to questions, connecting colleagues to the right information and reducing response times.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
01:08 - Knowledge Agent in SharePoint
02:29 - Keep SharePoint site up-to-date
03:41 - Create pages and new posts in SharePoint
04:47 - Agents in Microsoft Teams channels
06:34 - Facilitator in Microsoft Teams meetings
07:58 - Agents in Viva Engage communities
09:12 - Wrap up
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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.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, shows how to choose, size, and deploy workloads such as burstable web apps, massive in-memory databases, GPU-driven AI training, and high-performance scientific modeling, all with automatic scaling and confidential computing when needed.
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00:00 - Azure Virtual Machines 01:12 - Decode Azure VM Names 01:28 - Right-Size with Azure Migrate 02:15 - B series 02:45 - D series 03:23 - E series 04:14 - F series 04:29 - L series 05:01 - M series 05:23 - Constrained vCPU VMs 05:49 - H series 06:20 - N series 06:55 - Azure Boost 07:24 - Confidential VMs & Deploying your VMs 08:28 - Wrap up
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Build AI agents to automate complex workflows—like project planning and go-to-market strategies—without writing code, all with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Use triggers to launch processes from signals like approval emails, connect to the right data with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for faster, more accurate responses, and coordinate multiple agents to handle everything from task assignments to inventory planning. Choose AI models that fit each job, prompt agents to generate detailed documents, and test their reasoning in real time.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, shows how to transform repetitive work into scalable, intelligent systems.
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00:00 - Build an agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio
00:41 - Automate project planning
01:22 - How agents work 02:47 - Define tools and triggers
03:58 - Model Context Protocol (MCP)
05:44 - Use prompt tools to auto-create key docs
06:22 - Choose the right model
07:13 - Test your agent
08:08 - Wrap up
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Centralize, retain, and query high-volume, long-term security data across Microsoft and third-party sources for up to 12 years using Microsoft Sentinel’s new unified data lake. Correlate signals, run advanced analytics, and perform forensic investigations from a single copy of data—without costly migrations or data silos. Detect persistent, low-and-slow attacks with greater visibility, automate responses using scheduled jobs, and generate predictive insights by combining Copilot, KQL, and machine learning.
Vandana Mahtani, Microsoft Sentinel Principal Product Manager shows how to uncover long-running threats, streamline investigations, and automate defenses—all within a unified, AI-powered SIEM experience.
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The Intel® Core™ Ultra (Series 2) processor powered Surface Laptop 5G for Business is a Copilot+ PC. Integrated Intel® AI Boost supports up to 48 TOPS with Foundry Local for on-device AI inferencing.
Stay securely connected with rearchitected 5G design—including six smart-switching antennas, eSIM and Wi-Fi 7—without relying on hotspots. As the first Surface Laptop to feature 5G, it enables enterprise-ready AI features for deeper insights, productivity boosts, and powerful local inferencing wherever work happens.
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08:50 - Wrap up
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Troubleshoot identity issues, investigate risky users and apps, and optimize Conditional Access policies using natural language—with built-in AI from Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra. Instead of switching between logs, PowerShell, and spreadsheets, Security Copilot centralizes insights for faster, more focused action.
Resolve compromised accounts, uncover ownerless or high-risk apps, and tighten policy coverage with clear insights, actionable recommendations, and auto-generated policies. Strengthen security posture and reclaim time with a smarter, more efficient approach powered by Security Copilot.
Diana Vicezar, Microsoft Entra Product Manager, shares how to streamline investigations and policy management using AI-driven insights and automation.
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00:00 - Microsoft Entra with Security Copilot
01:26 - Conditional Access Optimization Agent
03:35 - Investigate risky users
05:49 - Investigate risky apps
07:34 - Personalized security posture recommendations
08:20 - Wrap up
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Build AI-powered apps that connect directly to Microsoft 365 content without moving files or compromising security, using SharePoint Embedded. SharePoint Embedded is a fully managed, cloud-based, API-only document management system that lets you securely integrate your custom web or mobile apps, whether built on Azure or other clouds, with Microsoft 365 file storage. It’s especially ideal for ISVs building multi-tenant apps because content stays within each customer’s Microsoft 365 tenant.
Design apps that include Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent capabilities, connected Office experiences like Word, and Microsoft Purview compliance and data protection, all within your own user experience. Use built-in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) or bring your own models to create intelligent, secure solutions that reason over your business content, support real-time co-authoring, and scale with granular permissions and storage control.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how to build intelligent, secure solutions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft 365 content and services.
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00:00 - Keep content secure & compliant without moving it
01:21 - Build fully custom experiences
02:11 - Use built-in vector indexing and RAG
02:55 - Use your models with Copilot's vector search
04:34 - How it works
05:23 - How the app is built
06:19 - Microsoft Copilot retrieval API
06:58 - Security and compliance
08:02 - Wrap up
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Build secure, compliant AI apps with code-based controls that dynamically respond to user context using Microsoft Purview for AI app developers. With built-in protections, prevent data leaks, block unsafe prompts, and avoid oversharing without rewriting your app.
As a developer, focus on innovation while meeting evolving security and compliance requirements. And as a security admin, gain full visibility into AI data interactions, user activity, and policy enforcement across environments.
Shilpa Ranganathan, Microsoft Purview Principal GPM, shares how new SDKs and Azure AI Foundry integrations bring enterprise-grade security to custom AI apps.
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00:00 - Microsoft Purview controls for developers
00:16 - AI app protected by Purview
02:23 - User context aware
03:08 - Prevent data oversharing
04:15 - Behind the app
05:17 - API interactions
06:50 - Data security admin AI app protection
07:26 - Monitor and Govern AI Interactions
08:30 - Wrap up
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Check out https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPurviewSDK Microsoft Purview API Explorer at https://github.com/microsoft/purview-api-samples/
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Get ahead of issues before they impact your users by using real-time data and AI-powered insights with Microsoft Intune. Proactively manage and secure all your devices—whether they run Windows, macOS, iOS, or Android. With cross-platform analytics, multi-device queries, and in-depth troubleshooting tools, you can pinpoint problems fast and take targeted action at scale.
Even without deep technical expertise, you can generate complex queries, identify vulnerabilities, and deploy remediations—all in a few clicks. With built-in Copilot support, daily tasks like policy validation, device comparison, and risk analysis become faster, smarter, and easier to act on.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, shares how to stay ahead of potential issues and keep endpoints running smoothly.
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00:00 - Optimize Intune
01:22 - Advanced Analytics
02:24 - On-demand analytics
03:55 - Multi-Device Query
04:43 - Single Device Query
05:45 - Vulnerability Remediation Agent
07:57 - Copilot in Intune
09:18 - Wrap up
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Boost data security and automate prioritization for data alerts with Security Copilot-powered Alert Triage Agents for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Insider Risk Management. Surface the highest-risk alerts across your environment, no matter their default severity, and take action. Customize how your agents reason, teach them what matters to your organization, and continuously refine to reduce time-to-resolution.
Talhah Mir, Microsoft Purview Principal GPM, shows how to triage, investigate, and contain potential data risks before they escalate.
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00:00 - Agents in Microsoft Purview
00:58 - Alert Triage Agent for DLP
01:54 - Customize Agents
03:32 - View prioritized alerts
05:17 - Calibrate Agent Behavior with Feedback
06:38 - Track Agent Performance and Usage
07:34 - Wrap up
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Strengthen your security posture in Microsoft Entra by following prioritized Secure Score recommendations. Enforce MFA, block legacy authentication, and apply risk-based Conditional Access policies to reduce exposure from stale accounts and weak authentication methods. Use built-in tools for user, group, and device administration to detect and clean up identity sprawl—like unused credentials, inactive accounts, and expired apps—before they become vulnerabilities.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares steps to clean up your directory, strengthen authentication, and improve overall identity security.
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00:00 - Microsoft Entra optimization
00:54 - New Recommendations tab
02:11 - Enforce multifactor authentication
03:21 - Block legacy authentication protocols
03:58 - Apply risk-based Conditional Access
04:44 - Identity sprawl
05:46 - Fix account sprawl
08:06 - Microsoft 365 group sprawl
09:36 - Devices
10:33 - Wrap up
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Streamline your entire data workflow, from real-time change capture to querying across cloud and on-prem databases, without complex migrations or code changes using SQL Server 2025. This adds deep AI integration with built-in vector search and DiskANN optimizations, plus native support for large object JSON and new Change Event Streaming for live data updates.
Join and analyze data faster with the Lakehouse shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric that unify multiple databases—across different SQL Server versions, clouds, and on-prem—into a single, logical schema without moving data. Build intelligent apps, automate workflows, and unlock rich insights with Copilot and the unified Microsoft data platform, including seamless Microsoft Fabric integration, all while leveraging your existing SQL skills and infrastructure.
Bob Ward, lead SQL engineer, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how the latest SQL Server 2025 innovations simplify building complex, high-performance workloads with less effort.
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00:00 - Updates to SQL Server 2025
00:58 - Search and AI
03:55 - Native JSON Support
06:41 - Real-Time Change Event Streaming
08:40 - Optimized Locking for Better Concurrency
10:33 - Join SQL Server data with Fabric
13:53 - Wrap up
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Build and run your AI apps and agents at scale with Azure. Orchestrate multi-agent apps and high-scale inference solutions using open-source and proprietary models, no infrastructure management needed. With Azure, connect frameworks like Semantic Kernel to models from DeepSeek, Llama, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Sora, without provisioning GPUs or writing complex scheduling logic. Just submit your prompt and assets, and the models do the rest.
Using Azure’s Model as a Service, access cutting-edge models, including brand-new releases like DeepSeek R1 and Sora, as managed APIs with autoscaling and built-in security. Whether you’re handling bursts of demand, fine-tuning models, or provisioning compute, Azure provides the capacity, efficiency, and flexibility you need. With industry-leading AI silicon, including H100s, GB200s, and advanced cooling, your solutions can run with the same power and scale behind ChatGPT.
Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Deputy CISO, and Microsoft Technical Fellow, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Azure's latest AI advancements and orchestration capabilities unlock new possibilities for developers.
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00:00 - Build and run AI apps and agents in Azure
00:26 - Narrated video generation example with multi-agentic, multi-model app
03:17 - Model as a Service in Azure
04:02 - Scale and performance
04:55 - Enterprise grade security
05:17 - Latest AI silicon available on Azure
06:29 - Inference at scale
07:27 - Everyday AI and agentic solutions
08:36 - Provisioned Throughput
10:55 - Fractional GPU Allocation
12:13 - What's next for Azure?
12:44 - Wrap up
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Create fine-tuned, task-specific models that write like you by teaching models using expert knowledge, tone, and structure - with reference information directly attached to the models themselves using Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning.
Fine-tuning adds new skills to foundational models, simulating experience in the tasks you teach the model to do. This complements Retrieval Augmented Generation, which in real-time uses search to find related information, then add that to your prompts for context.
Fine-tuning helps ensure that responses meet your quality expectations for specific repeatable tasks, without needing to be prompting expert. It's great for drafting complex legal agreements, writing technical documentation, authoring medical papers, and more - using detailed, often lengthy precedent files along with what you teach the model.
Using Copilot Studio, anyone can create and deploy these fine-tuned models to use with agents without data science or coding expertise. There, you can teach models using data labeling, ground them in your organization’s content - while keeping the information in-place and maintaining data security and access policies. The information contained in the task-specific models that you create stay private to your team and organization. Task-specific models and related information are only accessible to the people and departments you specify - and information is not merged into shared large language models or used for model training.
Jeremy Chapman, Director on the Microsoft 365 product team, shows how this simple, zero-code approach helps the agents you build write and reason like your experts—delivering high-quality, detailed responses.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Fine-tune Copilot
01:21 - Tailor Copilot for specialized tasks
05:12 - How it works
05:57 - Create a task-specific model
07:43 - Data labeling
08:59 - Build agents that use your fine-tuned model
11:42 - Wrap up
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Manage the rise of generative AI across your organization using the Copilot Control System in Microsoft 365. Control who can find, use, and create agents, define permissions, approve or block agent deployments, and configure billing models including pay-as-you-go or prepaid options.
Get detailed visibility into how agents are used, which users and groups are driving consumption, and how much they’re costing you. With Microsoft Purview integration, monitor for sensitive data exposure, track compliance risks, and audit agent activity to stay secure and aligned with your organization’s data policies.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, shares how to configure, deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents at scale.
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01:34 - Copilot Chat
02:21 - Manage agent use
03:23 - Agent deployment
04:09 - Visibility into how agents are used
05:10 - Copilot Dashboard
06:06 - DSPM for AI
06:47 - Microsoft Purview agent protections
07:32 - Wrap up
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Stay in control as GenAI adoption accelerates across your organization using Data Security Posture Management for AI in Microsoft Purview. With built-in visibility into how AI apps and agents interact with sensitive data—whether inside Microsoft 365 or across unmanaged consumer tools—you can detect risks early, take decisive action, and enforce the right protections without slowing innovation.
Monitor usage trends, investigate prompts and responses, and respond to potential data oversharing or policy violations in real time. From compliance-ready audit logs to adaptive data protection, you’ll have the insights and tools to keep data secure as AI becomes a part of everyday work.
Shilpa Ranganathan, Microsoft Purview Principal Group PM, shares how to balance GenAI innovation with enterprise-grade data governance and security.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - GenAI app security, governance, & compliance 01:30 - Take Action with DSPM for AI 02:08 - Activity logging 02:32 - Control beyond Microsoft services 03:09 - Use DSPM for AI to monitor data risk 05:06 - ChatGPT Enterprise 05:36 - Set AI Agent guardrails using DSPM for AI 06:44 - Data oversharing 08:30 - Audit logs 09:19 - Wrap up
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Unify and secure your data—no matter where it lives—without sacrificing control using OneLake security, part of Microsoft Fabric. With granular permissions down to the row, column, and table level, you can confidently manage access across engines like Power BI, Spark, and T-SQL, all from one place. Discover, label, and govern your data with clarity using the integrated OneLake catalog that surfaces the right items fast.
Aaron Merrill, Microsoft Fabric Principal Program Manager, shows how you can stay in control, from security to discoverability—owning, sharing, and protecting data on your terms.
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Streamline your day with new, user-focused updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Jump into work faster with a redesigned layout that puts Chat, Search, and your agents front and center. New Copilot Search lets you yse natural language to find files, emails, and conversations—even if you don’t remember exact keywords—and get instant summaries and previews without switching apps.
Create high-impact visuals, documents, and videos in seconds with the new Copilot Create experience, complete with support for brand templates. Tap into powerful agents like Researcher and Analyst to handle deep tasks or build your own with ease. And if you manage Copilot across your organization, you now have better tools to deploy, monitor, and secure AI use—all from a single view.
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00:00 - Microsoft 365 Copilot new capabilities
00:36 - Microsoft 365 Copilot app
01:49 - Copilot Search
03:09 - Specialized agents
04:06 - Create experience
06:07 - Copilot Notebooks
07:40 - Updates for IT admins
08:16 - Data security with AI apps & agents in Purview
08:51 - Reports
09:20 - Wrap up
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Stay in control with Microsoft Defender. You can identify which AI apps and cloud services are in use across your environment, evaluate their risk levels, and allow or block them as needed—all from one place. Whether it's a sanctioned tool or a shadow AI app, you're equipped to set the right policies and respond fast to emerging threats.
Defender XDR gives you the visibility to track complex attack paths—linking signals across endpoints, identities, and cloud apps. Investigate real-time alerts, protect sensitive data from misuse in AI tools like Copilot, and enforce controls even for in-house developed apps using system prompts and Azure AI Foundry.
Rob Lefferts, Microsoft Security CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can safeguard your AI-powered environment with a unified security approach.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Stay in control with Microsoft Defender
00:39 - Identify and protect AI apps
02:04 - View cloud apps and website in use
04:14 - Allow or block cloud apps
07:14 - Address security risks of internally developed apps
08:44 - Example in-house developed app
09:40 - System prompt
10:39 - Controls in Azure AI Foundry
12:28 - Defender XDR
14:19 - Wrap up
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Protect your Microsoft 365 data and stay in control with Microsoft 365 Backup —whether managing email, documents, or sites across Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Define exactly what you want to back up and restore precisely what you need to with speeds reaching 2TB per hour at scale. With flexible policies, dynamic rules, and recovery points up to 365 days back, you can stay resilient and ready.
Jeremy Chapman, Director on the Microsoft 365 product team, shares how to minimize disruption and keep your organization moving forward with Microsoft 365 Backup.
QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Automate recovery process
00:37 - How to use Microsoft 365 Backup
01:49 - Compare with migration-based solutions
02:30 - How to set it up
03:33 - Exchange policy for email backup
05:00 - View and manage backups
05:24 - Recover from a restore point
07:45 - Restore from OneDrive & SharePoint
08:33 - Bulk restore
09:41 - Wrap up
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Use Microsoft Purview and Microsoft 365 Copilot together to build a secure, enterprise-ready foundation for generative AI. Apply existing data protection and compliance controls, gain visibility into AI usage, and reduce risk from oversharing or insider threats.
Classify, restrict, and monitor sensitive data used in Copilot interactions. Investigate risky behavior, enforce dynamic policies, and block inappropriate use—all from within your Microsoft 365 environment.
Erica Toelle, Microsoft Purview Senior Product Manager, shares how to implement these controls and proactively manage data risks in Copilot deployments.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Microsoft Purview controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot
00:32 - Copilot security and privacy basics
01:47 - Built-in activity logging
02:24 - Discover and Prevent Data Loss with DSPM for AI
04:18 - Protect sensitive data in AI interactions
05:08 - Insider Risk Management
05:12 - Monitor and act on inappropriate AI use
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Take control of your workday—summarize long emails instantly, turn meeting transcripts into actionable plans, and build strategic documents in seconds using your own data with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Instead of chasing down context, ask natural prompts and get clear, detailed results complete with tone-matched writing, visual recaps, and real-time collaboration.
Get up to speed on complex email threads, transform insights from missed meetings into next steps, and pull relevant content from across your calendar, inbox, and docs—all without switching tools or losing momentum. Mary Pasch, Microsoft 365 Principal PM, shows how whether you're refining a plan in Word, responding in Outlook, or catching up in Teams, Copilot works behind the scenes to help you move faster and focus on what matters.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - How to put Copilot to work for you
01:09 - Use Copilot in Outlook to summarize email threads
01:57 - Use chain-of-thought reasoning with Researcher
03:55 - Reference your content & meeting recap
05:29 - Use Copilot in Word to build on existing content
06:56 - Use Copilot in Microsoft Teams when late to a meeting
07:52 - Wrap up
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Protect your organization’s data with Microsoft Purview. Gain complete visibility into potential data leaks, from AI applications to unmanaged cloud services, and take immediate action to prevent unwanted data sharing. Microsoft Purview unifies data security controls across Microsoft 365 apps, the Edge browser, Windows and macOS endpoints, and even network communications over HTTPS —all in one place.
Take control of your data security with automated risk insights, real-time policy enforcement, and seamless management across apps and devices. Strengthen compliance, block unauthorized transfers, and streamline policy creation to stay ahead of evolving threats. Roberto Yglesias, Microsoft Purview Principal GPM, goes beyond Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and shows how to ensure your data stays protected no matter where it goes.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft Purview
01:33 - Assess DLP Policies with DSPM
03:10 - DLP across apps and endpoints
04:13 - Unmanaged cloud apps in Edge browser
04:39 - Block file transfers across endpoints
05:27 - Network capabilities
06:41 - Updates for policy creation
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Set up and access your Cloud PCs from anywhere with a full Windows experience on any device using Windows 365. Whether you're working from a browser, the Windows app, or Windows 365 Link, your desktop, apps, and settings are always available—just like a traditional PC. As an admin, you can quickly provision and manage Cloud PCs for multiple users with Microsoft Intune.
Scott Manchester, Windows Cloud Vice President, shows how easy it is to set up secure, scalable environments, ensure business continuity with built-in restore, and optimize performance with AI-powered insights.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Windows 365 Cloud PC
00:51 - Benefits to Cloud PCs
02:32 - How to set it up
04:58 - Provisioning process
06:16 - Options to connect to Cloud PC
07:40 - Restore Cloud PC
08:52 - Backups for PC forensics
09:44 - Failover options
11:36 - Change Cloud PC specs
12:51 - Connect from personal devices
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Analyze data and research with expertise on demand, and automate workflows with intelligent agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Analyst thinks like a data scientist and Researcher like an expert, so you can uncover insights, validate logic, and generate expert-level reports in minutes.
And using Microsoft Copilot Studio, build your own autonomous AI agents to streamline multi-step processes with deep reasoning, like responding to RFPs or synthesizing internal knowledge, incorporating Copilot Flows as automated actions. No need for perfect prompts—just describe what you need, and Copilot will reason through the task, surface key insights, and deliver actionable results faster than ever.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, walks you through how to use these AI-driven agents step-by-step, from data analysis to research and automation.
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00:59 - Analyst 02:58 - Researcher
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Stay productive and connected with AI-powered experiences for frontline workers using Android and iOS devices to quickly sign in, manage tasks, find information, and collaborate with team members. Easily access essential resources, check inventory, and get instant answers from Copilot Chat and AI agents that you can build in SharePoint and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Microsoft 365’s latest device experiences take frontline productivity and customer interactions to the next level—from improving customer interactions to managing worksites.
Avery Salumbides, Microsoft 365 Frontline Product Manager, demonstrates key updates across Microsoft Teams, Copilot, and AI agents on mobile, plus essential admin setup considerations to equip your frontline.
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00:00 - Microsoft 365 AI-powered and Android and iPhone experiences
00:30 - Demo- Frontline worker experience
01:07 - Streamlined Task Management in Teams and using your own apps
02:34 - Use AI with Copilot Chat and agents to access information
05:13 - Connect with peers and translate conversations in Microsoft Teams
06:17 - Shift management & scheduling - even with nearby locations
06:48 - How to get it running in Microsoft 365 admin center
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Investigate data security, risk and leak cases faster by leveraging AI-driven insights with Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. This goes beyond the superficial metadata and activity-only signals found in incident management and SIEM tools, by analyzing the content itself within compromised files, emails, messages, and Microsoft Copilot interactions. Data Security Investigations allows you to pinpoint sensitive data and assess risks at a deeper level—quickly understanding the value of what’s been exposed.
Then by mapping connections between compromised data and activities, you can easily find the source of the security risk or exposure. And using real-time risk insights, you can also apply the right protections to minimize future vulnerabilities. Data Security Investigations is also integrated with Microsoft Defender incident management as part your broader SOC toolset.
Nick Robinson, Microsoft Purview Principal Product Manager, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to enhance your ability to safeguard critical information.
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00:00 - Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations
01:00 - Risks of data theft & data leaks
03:20 - Start an investigation
04:45 - Results of an investigation
06:15 - Vector-based search & semantic indexing
08:00 - Use AI for the investigation
09:21 - Map activities
10:44 - Connect SOC & Data Security teams
11:21 - Known leaked information
12:26 - Steps to get DSI up and running
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Streamline daily admin tasks with AI-powered insights, natural language queries, and automation using Microsoft 365 Admin Copilot. Quickly recap key updates, monitor service health, and track important changes—all in one place. No more digging through multiple pages—just ask Copilot for the answers you need, grounded in real-time data from your tenant. From finding users and managing licenses to generating visual insights and automating tasks with PowerShell, use Copilot to simplify complex admin workflows and save valuable time. For Copilot in the admin center to light up, all you need is one active Microsoft 365 Copilot license for any user in your tenant and from the Microsoft 365 admin center, you can get started right away.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, demonstrates how to leverage Copilot for proactive guidance, whether in the Microsoft 365 admin center or directly within Copilot Chat.
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00:00 - Copilot in Microsoft 365
00:42 - Use Copilot for change management
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03:31 - User and licensing queries
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04:50 - Author PowerShell scripts for bulk operations
06:07 - Copilot Chat using Microsoft 365 Admin agent
07:37 - Copilot admin coming soon
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Create agentic solutions quickly and efficiently with Azure AI Foundry. Choose the right models, ground your agents with knowledge, and seamlessly integrate AI into your development workflow—from early experimentation to production. Test, optimize, and deploy with built-in evaluation and management tools. See how to leverage the Azure AI Foundry SDK to code and orchestrate intelligent agents, monitor performance with tracing and assessments, and streamline DevOps with production-ready management.
Yina Arenas, from the Azure AI Foundry team, shares its extensive capabilities as a unified platform that supports you throughout the entire AI development lifecycle.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Create agentic solutions with Azure AI Foundry
00:20 - Model catalog in Azure AI Foundry
02:15 - Experiment in the Azure AI Foundry playground
03:10 - Create and customize agents
04:13 - Assess and improve agents
05:58 - Monitor and manage apps
06:50 - Create a multi-agentic app in code
09:26 - Create a Sender agent
10:39 - How to connect orchestration logic
11:25 - Watch agents work
12:26 - Wrap up
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Easily access and unify your data for analytics and AI—no matter where it lives. With OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, you can connect to data across multiple clouds, databases, and formats without duplication. Use the OneLake catalog to quickly find and interact with your data, and let Copilot in Fabric help you transform and analyze it effortlessly.
Eliminate barriers to working with your data using Shortcuts to virtualize external sources and Mirroring to keep databases and warehouses in sync—all without ETL. For deeper integration, leverage Data Factory’s 180+ connectors to bring in structured, unstructured, and real-time streaming data at scale.
Maraki Ketema from the Microsoft Fabric team shows how to combine these methods, ensuring fast, reliable access to quality data for analytics and AI workloads.
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00:00 - Access data wherever it lives
00:42 - Microsoft Fabric background
01:17 - Manage data with Microsoft Fabric
03:04 - Low latency
03:34 - How Shortcuts work
06:41 - Mirroring
08:10 - Open mirroring
08:40 - Low friction ways to bring data in
09:32 - Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric
10:52 - Build out your data flow
11:49 - Use built-in AI to ask questions of data
12:56 - OneLake catalog
13:36 - Data security & compliance
15:10 - Additional options to bring data in
15:42 - Wrap up
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With the Copilot Control System, you can control Copilot experiences spanning IT administrator tools used every day across the Microsoft 365, Microsoft Purview, and Power Platform admin centers. As an IT administrator, you’re in control of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent experiences, ensuring security and compliance while optimizing productivity. Copilot Control System focuses on three core areas, where Microsoft Copilot services and the agents you create and use have unmatched manageability and visibility, compared to other AI options.
—Protect your data by enabling intelligent grounding on enterprise data that respects your organization's controls.
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—Report and measure impact with detailed insights into adoption patterns, usage, and ROI, to help you track and maximize business value.
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03:12 - Measurement and Reporting
03:59 - Wrap up
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Protect your organization from account takeover and hiring fraud as deepfake impersonation threats grow. With Microsoft Entra Verified ID, you can use Face Check to verify identities in real time against government-issued IDs like driver’s licenses and passports. Use Face Check with integrated solutions for • new employee, guest or admin onboarding • step-up authentication to access sensitive information • securing common helpdesk-driven tasks, like user account recovery Setup is simple and has been designed so that both the enterprise and the person verifying their identity maintain control—without storing or passing biometric information like other face matching solutions.
Join Ankur Patel, from the Microsoft Entra team, as he demonstrates how Face Check with Verified ID works and how to set it up.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID 00:54 - AI-powered identity verification 01:44 - First time user experience 03:21 - How it works 04:55 - Use cases 05:34 - Set it up 06:16 - Update an app for Face Check 06:43 - Access packages 08:18 - Wrap up
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Locate, access, and trust the data you need using Microsoft Purview's Unified Catalog. By leveraging AI-powered search and automated quality checks, you can use data across your organization while staying compliant and meeting privacy standards. With streamlined approval workflows, request and gain access to data quickly, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure data quality across projects.
Daniel Hidalgo, Microsoft Purview Senior Product Manager, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to manage data governance, drive better decisions, and support meaningful AI outcomes with Microsoft Purview.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Microsoft Purview Data Governance 00:29 - Data visibility and access 01:46 - Universal data catalog 03:23 - Crowdsourcing approach 04:24 - Business user demo 06:58 - How it works 08:05 - Create new governance domain 08:53 - Define data products 09:39 - Automate data quality checks 10:33 - Day-to-day management 11:57 - Wrap up
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Get AI-powered assistance using Copilot Chat and agents in Microsoft 365 without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Research faster, analyze files with data protections, and automate repetitive tasks with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Create and use agents to streamline workflows, with pay-as-you-go billing so you only pay for what you use. See how to easily configure access, pin Copilot Chat for quick use, and manage agent authoring in Copilot Studio. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365 shows how to optimize productivity while controlling costs.
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00:45 - How to use Copilot Chat
01:52 - Use agents in Copilot Chat
02:43 - Compare with Microsoft 365 Copilot
04:00 - Make it discoverable
04:48 - Configure access for author agents
06:22 - Pay-as-you-go
07:24 - Wrap up
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Design, customize and manage your own custom applications with Azure AI Foundry right from your code. With Azure AI Foundry, leverage over 1,800 models, seamlessly integrating them into your coding environment to create agents and tailored app experiences. Utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation and vector search to enrich responses with contextual information, as well with built-in services to incorporate cognitive skills such as language, vision, and safety detection.
Dan Taylor, Principal Product Architect for Azure AI Foundry SDK, also shares how to streamline your development process with tools for orchestration and monitoring. Use templates to simplify resource deployment and run evaluations against large datasets to optimize performance. With Application Insights, gain visibility into your app's metrics, enabling data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Manage AI apps in Azure AI Foundry 00:27 - What's in the Azure AI Foundry 01:37 - Ground apps using your own data 03:03 - Retrieval Augmented Generation 03:48 - Using vector search 04:17 - Set up your coding environment 06:11 - How to build AI apps in code 07:16 - Using traces 07:45 - Evaluating performance against large data sets 08:19 - Options for monitoring your AI apps 08:58 - Wrap up
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See the latest innovations in silicon design from AMD with new system-on-a-chip high bandwidth memory breakthroughs with up to 7 terabytes of memory bandwidth in a single virtual machine - and how it's possible to get more than 8x speed-ups without sacrificing compatibility from the previous generation to HBv5. These use AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology.
And find out how Microsoft's own silicon including custom ARM-based Cobalt CPUs and Maia AI accelerators for performance and power efficiency.
Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Deputy CISO, Technical Fellow, and Microsoft Mechanics lead contributor, shows how with workloads spanning Databricks, Siemens, Snowflake, or Microsoft Teams, Azure provides the tools to improve efficiency and performance in your datacenter at hyperscale.
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Streamline your workflow and enhance team collaboration with one-click AI agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Automate responses, generate detailed documents, and maintain up-to-date content without moving files outside Microsoft 365. Agents utilize your existing content to provide accurate and efficient outputs, saving you time and ensuring consistency. Integrate them into Microsoft Teams to facilitate real-time information sharing and collaboration.
CJ Tan, Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive GPM, shares the steps to get started building custom AI agents.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Create specialist agents in one click 00:42 - How to create an agent 02:12 - Data security & version control 02:39 - Customize your agent 04:14 - Access and permissions 05:39 - Test it out 06:23 - Use agents in Teams 07:50 - Agent files 08:25 - Wrap up
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Spin up SQL databases in seconds with Microsoft Fabric, seamlessly integrating your operational and analytical data across multiple clouds. Use AI to scale, tune, and secure databases, so you can focus on building powerful, data-rich applications without the manual management overhead.
Create and host API endpoints directly from your SQL database in one click, enabling seamless interaction with your data using popular frameworks like React. Integrate your database management into your CI/CD pipelines with ease, ensuring high availability and streamlined development processes.
Anna Hoffman, Principal GPM, SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, joins Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, to show you how to get started.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - SQL database in Microsoft Fabric 00:38 - A new class of autonomous database 01:44 - Spin up a database in seconds 03:09 - Use APIs to read and write data 05:00 - Integrate into CI/CD pipeline & source control 05:41 - Bring in data from across your data estate 06:50 - Vector-based semantic search with keyword search 09:03 - See a finished app 11:12 - Query performance 12:31 - Security and control 13:04 - Wrap up
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Increase scalability, optimize performance, and integrate advanced AI features with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Scale up with SSD v2 for up to 4x more transactions per second and significantly lower latency. Scale out effortlessly with elastic clusters using Citus, distributing workloads across multiple servers at no extra cost. Optimize performance with Automatic Index Tuning, reducing server utilization and enhancing efficiency. Leverage advanced AI features like DiskANN, semantic reranking, and Graph RAG to build better AI apps.
Charles Feddersen, Partner Director of Program Management for Postgres at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you how to build scalable, high-performance AI apps on Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server today.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Azure Database for Postgres Flexible Server 00:39 - Updates to PostGreSQL 01:50 - Faster storage with SSD v2 03:06 - Scale out workloads using elastic cluster 03:59 - Provision an elastic cluster 05:34 - Scale "in-place" 07:12 - Eliminate redundant indexes 07:44 - Optimize server parameters 09:52 - Improve AI apps with Postgres Flexible Server 11:40 - Code behind queries using PG Admin 12:31 - Scale workloads 13:36 - Wrap up ► Link References Get started at https://aka.ms/azurepostgresblog Access code at https://aka.ms/AzurePostgresAI ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft.
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Stay ahead of evolving risks and mitigate vulnerabilities with Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). Gain prioritized visibility into data security risks, track unprotected sensitive information, and receive actionable insights. With built-in classifiers, automated risk assessments, and AI-powered capabilities like Security Copilot, you can identify and mitigate threats, ensuring a compliant data security environment.
Talhah Mir, Microsoft Purview’s Principal Group Product Manager, shows how to transform your data security strategy with automated, intelligent risk management and maintain continuous protection across your organization.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Build and maintain a strong data security posture 01:25 - Start in Microsoft Purview Portal 02:14 - Microsoft Purview solutions 03:39 - Analytic reports 04:39 - Take action 05:30 - AI app-focused view 06:13 - View trends 06:59 - Add Security Copilot capabilities 09:37 - Wrap up
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Windows 365 Link is the first Cloud PC device purpose-built for Windows 365. It can connect to your Cloud PC in seconds with a simple sign-in, accessing a familiar Windows Desktop with high-fidelity performance. Windows 365 Link offers seamless setup and streamlined management through Microsoft Intune, ensuring your IT environment is efficiently maintained alongside other PCs. As a stateless and adminless device, it does not store user profile data or install additional software.
Optimize your work experience with passwordless authentication, high-performance video conferencing, and support for essential peripherals. Designed with a robust security posture, Windows 365 Link provides data protection with features like Secure Boot, BitLocker encryption, Hypervisor-based Code Integrity, and more.
Jalleen Ringer, Partner GPM for Windows Cloud Endpoints, shows how Windows 365 Link is the ideal choice for secure, scalable, and efficient cloud computing.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Windows 365 Link—First Cloud PC device purpose-built for Windows 365 00:55 - What it's like to use Windows 365 Link 02:32 - Ports and connectivity 03:18 - Set it up 03:48 - Device management 05:26 - Wrap up
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Provide tailored Cloud PC experiences for diverse workforce needs with Windows 365 Frontline. With shared mode, offer cost-effective, on-demand Cloud PCs that reset after each session—ideal for frontline and part-time staff needing intermittent access. Dedicated mode delivers a personalized, consistent desktop experience for employees requiring prolonged use, all managed through Microsoft Intune. As an IT admin, set precise access policies, automate session timeouts, and adjust resources based on role requirements.
Sam Tulimat, Cloud Endpoints Principal PM Lead, shows how Windows 365 Frontline is designed to optimize resources, streamline workflows, and meet the unique needs of any team, ensuring every employee has the tools they need, when and where they need them.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - One Cloud PC for multiple users 01:01 - Optimize costs with shared Cloud PCs 01:44 - Role-specific Cloud PCs 02:15 - Dedicated mode configuration 04:40 - Shared mode configuration steps 06:25 - Provisioning Policies 07:15 - Options to reprovision Cloud PCs 07:49 - Wrap up
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Minimize risks that come with oversharing and potential data loss. Use Microsoft Purview and its new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI insights, along with new Data Loss Prevention policies for Microsoft 365 Copilot, and SharePoint Advanced Management, which is now included with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Automate site access reviews at scale and add controls to restrict access to sites if they contain highly sensitive information.
Erica Toelle, Microsoft Purview Senior PM, shows how to control data visibility, automate site access reviews, and fine-tune permissions with Pilot, Deploy, Optimize phases.
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00:00 — Minimize risk of oversharing 01:24 — Oversharing scenarios 04:03 — How oversharing can occur 05:38 — Restrict discovery & limit access 06:36 — Scope sites 07:15 — Pilot phase 08:16 — Deploy phase 09:17 — Site access reviews 10:00 — Optimize phase 10:54 — Wrap up
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Millions of people use Azure AI Search every day without knowing it. You can enable your apps with the same search that enables retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities when you build Custom GPTs or attach files in your ChatGPT prompts.
Pablo Castro, Microsoft CVP and Distinguished Engineer Azure AI Search, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how with Azure AI Search, you can create custom applications that retrieve the most relevant information quickly and accurately, even from billions of records.
Manage massive-scale datasets while maintaining high-quality search results with ultra-compact, binary quantized vector search indexes that use Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) and oversampling to equal the search accuracy of vector indexes up to 96 times larger. These approaches drive significant cost savings by optimizing your vector indexes without compromising quality.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - RAG powered by Azure AI Search 00:50 - Azure AI Search role in ChatGPT 02:01 - Azure AI Search use case - AT&T 03:27 - Start in Azure Portal 04:35 - Massive scale and vector index 06:08 - Scalar & Binary Quantization 07:21 - Martyoshka technique 09:07 - Oversampling 11:31 - How to build an app using Azure AI Search 13:00 - See it in action 14:28 - Enable binary quantization with oversampling 14:54 - Wrap up
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Take a look at how wave two of Microsoft 365 Copilot can specifically help your small business by leveraging the secure application of generative AI with your work data. Use it to author presentations and content, reduce digital debt to focus on what’s important as you engage with customers, and automate everyday tasks and processes. For IT, see how to light up Microsoft 365 Copilot in your tenant, and get tips and resources for onboarding your organization.
Mary David Pasch, Principal Product Manager for Microsoft 365 Copilot, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to use Copilot to save time, drive productivity, and foster stronger connections with your customers.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Microsoft 365 Copilot Small Business Guide 00:53 - Save time 02:14 - Privacy & safety 05:03 - How Microsoft 365 Copilot can assist you 06:24 - Work smarter, improve skill sets 08:13 - Create custom experiences 08:48 - Enable Copilot and onboard users 10:28 - How to apply Copilot to specific areas in your company 12:18 - Guidance & resources 14:07 - Wrap up
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What are prompt injection attacks and how do you stop them? How do you avoid deceptive responses? Can AI traffic be end-to-end encrypted? We'll answer these questions and more with technical demonstrations to make it real.
Mark Russinovich will show you how to develop and deploy AI applications that prioritize safety, privacy, and integrity. Leverage real-time safety guardrails to filter harmful content and proactively prevent misuse, ensuring AI outputs are trustworthy. The integration of confidential inferencing enables users to maintain data privacy by encrypting information during processing, safeguarding sensitive data from exposure. Enhance AI solutions with advanced features like Groundedness detection, which provides real-time corrections to inaccurate outputs, and the Confidential Computing initiative that extends verifiable privacy across all services.
Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to build secure AI applications, monitor and manage potential risks, and ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Keep data safe and private 01:19 - Azure AI Content Safety capability set 02:17 - Direct jailbreak attack 03:47 - Put controls in place 04:54 - Indirect prompt injection attack 05:57 - Options to monitor attacks over time 06:22 - Groundedness detection 07:45 - Privacy—Confidential Computing 09:40 - Confidential inferencing Model-as-a-service 11:31 - Ensure services and APIs are trustworthy 11:50 - Security 12:51 - Web Query Transparency 13:51 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps 15:16 - Wrap up
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With more than 1700 models to choose from on Azure, selecting the right one is key to enabling the right capabilities, at the right price point, and with the right protections in place. That's where the Azure AI model catalog and model benchmarks can help.
With Azure AI, you can seamlessly integrate powerful GenAI models into your app development process, making your applications smarter, more efficient, and highly scalable. Access a vast selection of AI models, from sophisticated large language models to efficient small models that can run offline.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, shows how to compare and select the right AI model for your specific needs. Azure AI's model benchmarks evaluate models on accuracy, coherence, groundedness, fluency, relevance, and similarity. Experiment with different models in Azure AI Studio or your preferred coding environment, and optimize costs with serverless pricing options.
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Streamline threat detection and response across diverse environments with Microsoft Sentinel, your cloud-native SIEM solution. With features like Auxiliary logs for low-cost storage and proactive data optimization recommendations, you can efficiently manage high volumes of security data without compromising on threat intelligence. Leverage built-in AI and automation to uncover hidden threats and reduce investigation time from days to minutes.
Rob Lefferts, CVP for Security Solutions at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how to migrate from existing SIEM solutions with built-in migration tools, ensuring seamless access to your security logs while maintaining investigative integrity.
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Build your own custom applications with Azure AI right from your code. With Azure AI, leverage over 1,700 models, seamlessly integrating them into your coding environment to create tailored app experiences. Utilize features like Retrieval Augmented Generation and vector search to enrich responses with contextual information, as well as prebuilt Azure AI services to incorporate cognitive skills such as language, vision, and safety detection.
Dan Taylor, Principal Product Architect for Microsoft Azure AI, also shares how to streamline your development process with tools for orchestration and monitoring. Use templates to simplify resource deployment and run evaluations against large datasets to optimize performance. With Application Insights, gain visibility into your app's metrics, enabling data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
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Enhance security, performance, and user experience with Windows 11, version 24H2. Keep your data and identity protected with features like personal data encryption, Windows Hello with passkeys, and Windows Studio Effects. Built-in AI capabilities, including live captions with real-time translation and advanced video call enhancements, leverage powerful NPUs for seamless, efficient performance. Whether you’re a business professional or a creative, Windows 11, version 24H2 offers significant improvements in productivity, energy efficiency, and multitasking capabilities.
Deployment and migration is straightforward, ensuring compatibility with most existing hardware and peripherals. Tools like Windows Autopatch and Windows Autopilot, integrated with Microsoft Intune, streamline the update and provisioning processes, making device setup and compliance effortless. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365 shares how Windows 11, version 24H2 ensures your organization stays secure, productive, and ready for the future.
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Prevent attackers from stealing your identity and data by protecting your tokens. In single sign-on systems like SAML and OAUTH, tokens are how services know who you are and what you can do. When you sign in to your machine with your Microsoft Entra ID account, you are getting a session token you can use to access things like your email, teams and other apps. Check out new capabilities like Credential Guard in Windows enforced by device policies in Intune, Token Protection enforcement in Microsoft Entra, and Token theft detections in Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR.
Alex Weinert, from the Microsoft Entra team, explains what tokens are, how token theft works, and how to defend yourself from these attacks.
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Check out Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave Two updates, featuring Business Chat and the new Copilot Pages for enhanced collaboration, advancements in Excel data analysis, AI-driven file comparisons in OneDrive, and easy-to-create Copilot agents for automating business processes. If you are in IT, we’ll show you improved integrations with our security and compliance stack.
Mary Pasch, Principal Product Manager, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through the updates, including what it means for Microsoft 365 admins.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave Two 00:45 - How Copilot is evolving 01:32 - BizChat and Copilot Pages 02:58 - Copilot in Excel 04:41 - Copilot using Python in Excel 06:05 - Compare and contrast documents 07:18 - Create Copilot agents from BizChat 08:44 - Create Copilot agents from SharePoint 10:12 - .copilot files 10:44 - Enterprise-grade data protection 13:54 - Wrap up
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Use Copilot agents to enhance Microsoft 365 Copilot for your own unique needs to help turn information into insights. Tailored experiences work with external data, while adding unique skills to automate everyday repeatable tasks. Using the Copilot extensibility stack, you can create your own agent experiences connected to knowledge beyond Microsoft 365 and perform actions on your behalf.
Enhance the experience with Copilot extensibility stack options:
-Connect to relevant information sources, including those outside Microsoft 365, and use APIs to read and write data in near real-time.
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-Create custom Copilot agents for specific scenarios, enabling automation of tasks through defined triggers and workflows.
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Manage your data access effectively while using Microsoft 365 Copilot. Navigate the SharePoint admin center to adjust site privacy settings, ensuring only authorized members can access sensitive content. Set up test accounts to identify potential oversharing and take corrective actions. By refining permissions, protect valuable information and enhance the relevance of AI-generated responses.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, shares how to find and control oversharing, so you can confidently utilize Microsoft 365 Copilot for your small business needs.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Prepare data for search 01:22 - Search hygiene 02:04 - Test to see who has access 02:33 - How to set up a test account 03:32 - Search for items 05:08 - Information retrieval process 05:45 - Shared items by invitation link 06:19 - Oversharing 07:33 - How to reduce oversharing 08:35 - Check permissions 11:07 - Confirm permissions are in place 11:52 - Wrap up
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Get personalized, context aware experiences as you work by harnessing the power of advanced large language models, the Microsoft Graph, and the internet with Microsoft 365 Copilot. By automating the retrieval of relevant information, Copilot eliminates the need for manual searches, allowing you to focus on what matters.
With a robust orchestration engine, Copilot integrates seamlessly with your Microsoft 365 apps, ensuring you only access data for which you have explicit permissions. It respects your privacy, wiping chat histories clean with each new conversation and never uses your data to train the model. Microsoft 365 Copilot is designed to enhance your productivity, delivering precise and informed responses right when you need them.
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Redefine personal and business computing by combining powerful AI capabilities with cutting-edge hardware using Copilot+ PCs. Whether you're developing apps that harness the full potential of the NPU or taking advantage of AI experiences like Windows Studio Effects, Copilot+ PCs offer a platform that is both robust and efficient.
Vivek Pradeep, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Copilot+ PCs provide the tools you need to innovate with confidence. Trust in the highest level of device security, thanks to features like Windows Hello biometric authentication and the Microsoft Pluton security processor. With new hardware options like the OLED touchscreen and Flex Keyboard, you can customize your workspace to match your workflow, all while enjoying enhanced battery life and performance.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Build next-gen AI apps for Copilot+ PC 00:44 - Personalized experience with Copilot+ PCs 02:28 - Windows Studio Effects 04:47 - AI in Paint using Cocreator 06:37 - Local AI translates speech 07:30 - Lower power consumption 08:14 - Update and deploy models 09:43 - Build apps with local AI on Copilot+ PC 11:31 - Updates to Surface Copilot+ PC devices 12:56 - Secured-core PC 13:42 - What to expect next 14:33 - Wrap up
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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.
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Microsoft Fabric seamlessly integrates with generative AI to enhance data-driven decision-making across your organization. It unifies data management and analysis, allowing for real-time insights and actions.
With Real Time Intelligence, keeping grounding data for large language models (LLMs) up-to-date is simplified. This ensures that generative AI responses are based on the most current information, enhancing the relevance and accuracy of outputs. Microsoft Fabric also infuses generative AI experiences throughout its platform, with tools like Copilot in Fabric and Azure AI Studio enabling easy connection of unified data to sophisticated AI models.
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See how you can use your SQL data as a robust backend for AI applications with semantic search and retrieval augmented generation. Azure SQL Database along with any SQL servers you connect to Azure integrate seamlessly with Azure AI Search and the Azure OpenAI Service, enabling natural language search capabilities within your SQL data.
Use this approach to enhance e-commerce platforms, financial data analysis, or CRM systems while using SQL's granular access management controls to ensure that data searches and generated responses are limited to specific user permissions.
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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 as part of Verified ID Premium, included with Microsoft Entra Suite. With these capabilities, 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.
Jarred Boone, Identity Security Senior Product Manager, shares how to experience advanced security and management with Microsoft Entra Suite.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Unified solution with Microsoft Entra Suite 00:38 - Microsoft Entra Private Access 01:39 - Microsoft Entra Internet Access 02:42 - Microsoft Entra ID Protection 03:31 - Microsoft Entra ID Governance 04:18 - Face Check in Verified ID Premium, included with Microsoft Entra Suite 04:52 - How core capabilities work with onboarding process 06:08 - Protect access to resources 07:22 - Control access to internet endpoints 08:05 - Establish policies to dynamically adjust 08:45 - Wrap up
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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.
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Check out new AI integrations for your Azure SQL databases. With Retrieval Augmented Generation, you can bridge structured data with generative AI, enhancing natural language queries across applications. With advanced vector-based semantic search, discover precise insights tailored to your data, while Copilot in Azure streamlines troubleshooting and T-SQL query authoring. Optimize workflows, personalize responses, and unlock new levels of efficiency in SQL-driven AI applications.
Accelerate performance troubleshooting and complex query authoring tasks with Copilot in Azure. Quickly diagnose database issues and receive expert recommendations for optimization, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. Seamlessly traverse hierarchies within tables and generate intricate queries with ease, saving time and resources.
Bob Ward, Azure Principal Architect, shows how to unleash the full potential of your SQL data, driving innovation and intelligence across your applications.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - AI and Azure SQL 01:40 - Using T-SQL for search 02:30 - Using Azure AI Search 03:17 - Vector embeddings and skillsets 04:08 - Connect your SQL data to an AI app 05:44 - Test it in Azure OpenAI Studio playground 07:22 - Combine native JSON data type in SQL 08:30 - Hybrid search 09:56 - Copilot in Azure: Performance troubleshooting 11:11 - Copilot in Azure: Query authoring 12:24 - Permissions 12:40 - Wrap up
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Bring your MySQL workloads to run on Azure. Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server offers a powerful, fully managed solution for MySQL workloads, providing unique platform-level optimizations that significantly enhance connection scaling and cost performance. Ensure high efficiency and reduced latency for mission-critical applications for up to twice the performance of other offerings. The integration with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Search further extends its capabilities, enabling intelligent vector-based search and generative AI responses for more accurate and relevant user queries.
Join Parikshit Savjani, Azure Database for MySQL Principal Group PM, shares how Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server transforms traditional MySQL applications into high-performance, intelligent systems by combining the scalability and security of Azure with advanced AI-driven insights.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Run MySQL on Azure 00:56 - Run your LAMP stack on Azure 01:24 - Accelerated Logs capability 03:02 - Vector-based search and generative AI 04:02 - Leverage Azure AI Search & Azure OpenAI services 04:29 - Establish database connection 05:52 - Build vector index 07:04 - Create an Indexer 07:32 - Semantic Search 07:54 - Test it in the Azure AI playground 08:49 - Wrap up
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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. Instead, directly from Teams, Word, PowerPoint and other Microsoft 365 apps, you can leverage not only your opened file, email, chat or meeting, but also other work data that you have permissions to in SharePoint and OneDrive. Copilot retrieves and synthesizes information across emails, chats, and files, so you can generate presentations, respond to emails, and catch up on meetings. The Copilot process also follows your organization's policies for data protection and compliance, eliminating the need and added risk of bringing your work data to those tools.
Mary David Pasch, Principal Product Manager from the Copilot Platform team, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Copilot enhances collaboration and efficiency, making complex tasks like document creation and information retrieval effortless and secure.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Leverage your work data with Copilot 00:51 - How Copilot augments your prompts 02:22 - Automatically works across your files 03:03 - Meeting recaps with Copilot in Teams 03:59 - Meeting summaries with Copilot in Teams 04:57 - Incorporate specific info from work data 06:53 - Convert written docs to PowerPoint presentations 09:07 - Recommended prompts 10:29 - Standalone Copilot chat experience 12:11 - Stay within your Microsoft 365 data security boundary 12:39 - Wrap up
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Improve search capabilities for your PostgreSQL-backed applications using vector search and embeddings generated in under 10 milliseconds without sending data outside your PostgreSQL instance. Integrate real-time translation, sentiment analysis, and advanced AI functionalities securely within your database environment with Azure Local AI and Azure AI Service. Combine the Azure Local AI extension with the Azure AI extension to maximize the potential of AI-driven features in your applications, such as semantic search and real-time data translation, all while maintaining data security and efficiency.
Joshua Johnson, Principal Technical PM for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, demonstrates how you can reduce latency and ensure predictable performance by running locally deployed models, making it ideal for highly transactional applications.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Improve search for PostgreSQL 01:21 - Increased speed 02:47 - Plain text descriptive query 03:20 - Improve search results 04:57 - Semantic search with vector embeddings 06:10 - Test it out 06:41 - Azure local AI extension with Azure AI Service 07:39 - Wrap up
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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. This technology, powering global services like Microsoft 365, is now integrated into Azure Cosmos DB, enabling developers to build scalable, high-performance applications with built-in vector search, real-time fraud detection, and robust multi-tenancy support.
Join Kirill Gavrylyuk, VP for Azure Cosmos DB, as he shares how Azure Cosmos DB with DiskANN offers unparalleled speed, efficiency, and accuracy, making it the ideal solution for modern AI-driven applications.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Latest Cosmos DB optimizations with DiskANN 02:09 - Where DiskANN approach is beneficial 04:07 - Efficient querying 06:02 - DiskANN compared to HNSW 07:41 - Integrate DiskANN into a new or existing app 08:39 - Real-time transactional AI scenario 09:29 - Building a fraud detection sample app 10:59 - Vectorize transactions for anomaly detection 12:49 - Scaling to address high levels of traffic 14:05 - Manage multi-tenancy 15:35 - Wrap up
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Quickly spot real-time indicators of issues as they unfold, without the need to poll or manually monitor changes in your data and without writing a single line of code. That’s what the new Real-Time Intelligence service in Microsoft Fabric is all about. It extends Microsoft Fabric to the world of streaming data across your IoT and operational systems. Whether you are a data analyst or business user, you can easily explore high-granularity, high-volume data and spot issues before they impact your business. And as a Data engineer, you can more easily track system level changes across your data estate to manage and improve your pipelines.
Courtney Berg, from the Microsoft Fabric product team, joins Jeremy Chapman to explore all of the updates, explain how Real-Time Intelligence adds to what was possible with Data Activator and Microsoft Synapse Real-Time Analytics and demonstrates how this would work to derive insights and take actions automatically in a scenario with multiple live data streams across different data types.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Real-Time Intelligence 00:54 - How it’s different 02:07 - Eventstream and Real-Time Hub 03:27 - Synapse Real-Time Analytics 04:03 - See it in action 05:25 - Use Copilot to stay updated 06:28 - Filter data and set up alerts 08:25 - Sophisticated Logic and Data Integration 09:48 - Data integration to Real-Time Hub 11:23 - Workflow automation 12:18 - System events 13:30 - Additional areas of use for Real-Time Intelligence 14:02 - Wrap up
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Optimize the sales process by integrating internal and external data with Copilot for Sales. Create enriched email summaries, customized meeting prep documents, and actionable meeting recaps to improve customer interactions. Copilot uses AI to generate insights and suggest actions based on comprehensive data, ensuring sales teams have all the necessary information at their fingertips. Create custom AI experiences using Copilot Studio with zero code. By adding Copilot extensions, users can connect to external data sources and build tailored AI skills.
Eric Boocock, Copilot for Sales Principal Program Manager, shares how Copilot for Sales works and how to build Copilot extensions to connect with other systems for personalized experiences.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Copilot for Sales 00:36 - Baseline experiences 02:13 - Bring in external data 03:26 - Use Copilot to respond to emails 03:54 - Meeting prep and meeting recap 04:52 - Security and Responsible AI 06:27 - Copilot extensions 09:09 - Publish Copilot extensions 09:40 - Wrap up
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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. With plugins and connectors, extend Copilot's capabilities to streamline tasks and automate actions, all while maintaining context and boosting efficiency.
Abram Jackson, Principal Product Manager for Microsoft 365 shows how you can get started building Copilot extensions.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Copilot extensions 01:08 - Types of Copilot extensions 01:59 - Microsoft Graph connectors 03:20 - Plugins 04:14 - Specialized copilot 04:54 - Multiple customized copilots working together 05:42 - How to build Copilot extensions 06:45 - Plug into data-external or inside of Microsoft 365 07:31 - IDE/Visual Studio Code 08:57 - Wrap up
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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.
Watch Azure CTO and Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich demonstrate this hands-on and go into the mechanics of how Microsoft is able to optimize and deliver performance with its AI infrastructure to run AI workloads of any size efficiently on a global scale.
This includes a look at: how it designs its AI systems to take a modular and scalable approach to running a diverse set of hardware including the latest GPUs from industry leaders as well as Microsoft’s own silicon innovations; the work to develop a common interoperability layer for GPUs and AI accelerators, and its work to develop its own state-of-the-art AI-optimized hardware and software architecture to run its own commercial services like Microsoft Copilot and more.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - AI Supercomputer 01:51 - Azure optimized for inference 02:41 - Small Language Models (SLMs) 03:31 - Phi-3 family of SLMs 05:03 - How to choose between SLM & LLM 06:04 - Large Language Models (LLMs) 07:47 - Our work with Maia 08:52 - Liquid cooled system for AI workloads 09:48 - Sustainability commitments 10:15 - Move between GPUs without rewriting code or building custom kernels. 11:22 - Run the same underlying models and code on Maia silicon 12:30 - Swap LLMs or specialized models with others13:38 - Fine-tune an LLM 14:15 - Wrap up
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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.
Charles Feddersen, product team lead for Postgres on Azure, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share how Flexible Server is a complete Postgres platform for enterprise and developers.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server 00:51 - Microsoft and Postgres 01:40 - Open-source Postgres 03:18 - Vector embeddings for data 04:32 - How it works with an app 06:59 - Azure AI Vision 08:14 - Azure AI extension using PostgreSQL 09:37 - Text generation using Azure AI extension 10:30 - High availability and disaster recovery 12:45 - Wrap up
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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.
Sravan Kumar Mera, Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Purview shares how to stay ahead of evolving threats and maintain data integrity.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Prioritize security incidents based on data importance 00:42 - High severity multistage incident 01:29 - DLP alerts 02:24 - Insider risk activity summary 03:30 - Set up data security foundation 04:47 - Adaptive Protection 05:50 - DLP policy & Conditional Access 06:33 - Wrap up
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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.
Kirill Gavrylyuk, Azure Cosmos DB General Manager, shows how to build recommendation systems with limitless scalability, leveraging pre-computed vectors and collaborative filtering for next-level, real-time insights.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Build a low latency recommendation engine 00:59 - Keyword search 01:46 - Vector-based semantic search 02:39 - Vector search built-in to Cosmos DB 03:56 - Model training 05:18 - Code for product predictions 06:02 - Test code for product prediction 06:39 - Augmented vector search 08:23 - Test code for augmented vector search 09:16 - Wrap up
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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.
Make informed decisions with proactive cost reduction recommendations from Azure Advisor and architectural best practices like Azure Landing Zones. Operationalize FinOps practices with centralized management focus and continuous evaluation through the FinOps Review assessment.
Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, shows how to improve your organization's capability and operational agility with FinOps on Azure.
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00:00 - Improve control on Azure through FinOps 01:01 - Gain visibility and accountability over Cloud spend 02:11 - Track and report spending 03:28- How to track costs 04:14 - Tagging resources 05:57 - Optimized efficiency07:02 - Maintain FinOps practices 08:05 - Wrap up
► Link References
How to implement FinOps on Azure at https://aka.ms/FinOps
Leverage Cloud Adoption Framework guidance at https://aka.ms/C-A-F-Tagging
Click-through demos at https://aka.ms/finops/guides
FinOps Review assessment at https://aka.ms/finops/review
Start using Microsoft Cost Management at https://aka.ms/CostManagement
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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.
We're also introducing a new capability with Restricted SharePoint Search, which enables SharePoint administrators to define the sites where every user in the organization is allowed to files and data using search, without impacting access to sites and files for people working in sites, which are not allowed for everyone to search.
With Copilot for Microsoft 365 services in place, track adoption and impact, and see how different groups in your organization are benefitting from Copilot services with the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard powered by Viva Insights. Now, even if you don't currently own Viva Insights, there is an offer for Microsoft Copilot customers to get these services included with your Copilot subscription: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/04/11/enabling-your-ai-transformation-journey-with-microsoft-viva/
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Steps to deploy Copilot for Microsoft 365 01:01 - How to quickly optimize search 02:24 - How to set up Restricted SharePoint Search 03:23 - Update Microsoft 365 apps on managed devices 05:34 - Grant access to Copilot services 06:20 - Copilot Dashboard included with any Microsoft 365 subscription 07:00 - Copilot Dashboard powered by Viva Insights subscription 08:38 - Wrap Up
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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.
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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. Uncover cost-saving opportunities and performance optimization tools, and benefit from license portability, commitment-based discounts, and diverse compute options, including Azure Confidential Computing VMs, for enhanced scalability and efficiency. Experience flexibility with Azure, enabling RHEL workloads to run across global regions and edge locations, with Azure Arc providing centralized management and security for hybrid environments.
Join Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, as he shares why Azure is the right place to run your Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads.
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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.
Daniel Hidalgo, Microsoft Purview Product Manager, shares how to simplify your security strategy and gain deeper insights into data risks.
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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.
Both devices feature Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security, perfect for multi-factor authentication; and Surface Pro 10 now has a built-in NFC card reader in Wi-Fi models, plus select Surface Laptop 6 15" models have a built-in smart card reader for more authentication options. The Surface Laptop 6 has options for powerful Intel Core Ultra H-Series processors with integrated Intel Arc graphics.
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00:00 - What's new for Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 00:10 - Microsoft Copilot key built-in 00:33 - Security updates in Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 01:09 - Versatility updates with Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 01:52 - Performance updates with Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 02:15 - Cloud PC experiences built in to Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 02:46 - Management controls updated for Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 04:04 - Repairability updates with Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 04:26 - Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 are built for business and AI 04:40 - Wrap Up
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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. Gain control and visibility over insider activities without manual intervention, empowering proactive security measures.
Erin Miyake, Microsoft Purview’s Principal Product Manager shares how to enhance your data protection strategy.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Insider Risk in Conditional Access 00:41 - Extend Conditional Access 01:20 - Privacy-first approach 01:56 - Configure policy indicators 03:21 - Adapt protections based on changing risk 04:13 - Set custom policies 05:27 - Set a Conditional Access policy for moderate risk users 06:12 - Insider risk level changing over time 07:04 - Wrap Up
► Link References: For more about the policies you can set up go to https://aka.ms/IRM Mechanics
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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. Ensure compliance with built-in data protections in Copilot for Microsoft 365, aligned with organizational policies set in Microsoft Purview, while maintaining trust and mitigating risks seamlessly across existing and future cloud applications.
Erin Miyake, Microsoft Purview's Principal Product Manager, shares how to take a unified approach to protecting your data.
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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.
Brjann Brekkan, Microsoft’s Exposure Management Director, shows how to gain control over your security landscape and stay ahead of emerging threats.
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00:00 - Prevent incidents before they happen 00:39 - Unify data and signals with Security Exposure Management 02:07 - See the experience in the Microsoft Defender portal 02:56 - Identify business critical data and sensitive information 03:33 - Key initiatives 04:17 - Assign an initiative owner 05:07 - Visual mapping of potential attack paths 07:05 - Wrap Up
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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.
Kirill Gavrylyuk, General Manager for the Azure Cosmos DB team, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can increase performance and cost-effectiveness, whether managing millions of users globally or building smaller-scale apps.
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00:00 - Get your database ready for AI with Azure Cosmos DB 02:33 - Solve for real-time data access requirements 03:39 - Automatic scaling 05:35 - How Azure CosmosDB works for copilot-style apps 06:38 - App using vectorized data 07:24 - Jupyter notebook demo 09:19 - Vector indexing and search in Cosmos DB 10:14 - Building a small copilot-style app 12:10 - Run smaller apps serverless 12:35 - Set maximum throughput thresholds 13:39 - Auto scale using Cosmos DB 14:38 - Wrap Up
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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. Importantly, to ensure its enterprise-ready with the right security and scale considerations in place, Azure Landing Zones provide the architectural best practices for apps like this. Landing Zone Accelerators simplify deployment for dedicated app-level subscriptions and scoped security and broader policies. Layering these recommendations and approaches helps ensure that your ChatGPT style private app meets enterprise requirements.
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Go to the Azure OpenAI Landing Zone at https://aka.ms/OpenAILZ
Get ChatBot UI open-source code in GitHub at https://aka.ms/GitHubChatBotUI
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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. For work use, unlock commercial data protection and comprehensive in-app experiences with Copilot for Microsoft 365, streamlining tasks across Microsoft 365 apps like Teams for enhanced collaboration and efficiency.
Join Mary David Pasch, Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Principal Product Manager, as she shares tips to optimize your Microsoft Copilot results.
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00:00 - Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 00:33 - Overview for personal and work use 01:56 - Retrieval Augmented Generation 03:06 - What an ungrounded experience looks like 03:41 - Ground the LLM with data 05:26 - Copilot Pro experience 06:34 - Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection 07:51 - Copilot for Microsoft 365 09:58 - Wrap Up
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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. The integrated Copilot experience and advanced hunting capabilities allow for in-depth investigation of alerts and activity logs. Security analysts and identity admins can collaborate seamlessly with bidirectional integration between Defender XDR and Microsoft Entra.
Daniel Lynch, Microsoft Defender for Identity’s Senior Product Manager, shares how Identity Threat Detection and Response can be utilized in daily operations and coordinated actions throughout every phase of an identity-related security incident, strengthening your organization's defense posture.
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00:00 - Stop identity-based attacks 01:13 - How to use Identity Threat Detection and Response 02:37 - See an active multi-stage incident 03:57 - Use Copilot for Security 05:08 - Advanced Hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR 05:38 - Block a compromised user account in Active Directory 06:44 - Improve security posture in Microsoft Defender XDR with Secure Score 08:04 - Wrap Up
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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. Run approved privileged apps with tailored elevation rules using Endpoint Privilege Management. Ensure secure access to on-prem and private cloud resources using Cloud PKI for streamlined certificate management and Microsoft Tunnel for MAM's Micro-VPN service for unenrolled devices. Gain insights and real-time device querying through advanced analytics. View and control your PCs and Macs, as well as specialized mobile devices, right from the Intune admin center with Remote Help.
Dilip Radhakrishnan, Partner, GPM for Microsoft Intune, give an overview of the Microsoft Intune Suite and its recent updates.
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00:00 - Simplify endpoint management and security 01:38 - Enterprise App Management 02:21 - Updating apps 02:43 - Endpoint Privilege Management 03:45 - Securing access to on-prem resources with Cloud PKI 04:29 - Securing mobile access to on-prem and private cloud resources 05:05 - Advanced Analytics- Device query 06:48 - Remote Help 07:49 - Wrap Up
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Deliver desktop and app virtualization experiences to almost any device, with VMs running where you need them with Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI. This hybrid solution integrates local data centers with Azure cloud workloads through Azure Arc, enabling flexible, secure, and regionally compliant virtualization experiences.
Take advantage of exclusive features like Windows 11 multi-session, previously limited to Windows Server. Maintain precise control over VM hosts' locations, ensuring compliance and optimizing for ultra-low latency. Benefit from unified security with Microsoft Entra ID and streamlined administration through Azure Arc, for increased flexibility and control. Azure expert, Matt McSpirit shows the steps to get it up and running.
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00:00 - Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI 01:21 - Security and management benefits 01:56 - Get it up and running 03:27 - Connect to session hosts using the new Windows App 04:15 - Configure an Azure Stack HCL 23H2 cluster to run Azure Virtual Desktop 06:28 - Deploy session hosts 08:29 - Configure additional options 09:57 - Wrap Up
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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. This is done using Entitlement Management to select the right resources and apps to prevent over-permissioning. With Conditional Access adaptive controls, you can ensure users and devices meet predefined conditions prior to granting access to any resource.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares the controls you can put in place to help ensure access to your resources is protected.
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00:00 - Microsoft Entra Conditional Access and ID Governance 01:35 - Privileged Identities 02:51 - How to activate Just-in-Time access 04:32 - Just Enough Access and entitlement management 06:08 - Create access packages07:47 - Conditional Access09:16 - Pre-built templates10:20 - Wrap up
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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. Beyond data security, we explain prerequisites, administrative controls in the Microsoft 365 admin center, the wizard-based Copilot for Microsoft 365 setup guide, tools to drive adoption, and the new Copilot for Microsoft 365 Dashboard Power BI app to see how people are using Microsoft Copilot in your organization.
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00:00 What is Copilot for Microsoft 365 and how does it work? 01:09 What are the data security controls for Microsoft Copilot?03:06 How to set up data protections for Microsoft Copilot 05:47 Are Microsoft Copilot activities logged and auditable? 06:27 Microsoft Copilot data residency and where it's processed 07:11 Admin configurations for Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center 08:10 Microsoft Copilot prerequisites, setup, and licensing 09:16 How to drive Microsoft Copilot readiness and adoption with end users
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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. Video inputs are also uniquely supported when you combine GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and Azure AI Vision.
Seth Juarez, Principal Program Manager for Azure AI, shares how it’s easy to build and orchestrate powerful copilot style apps.
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00:00 - GPT-4 Turbo with Vision + Azure AI Vision 00:42 - Baseline capabilities of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision 02:43 - Direct lookups of image and video data 04:53 - See the two combined: Demo 05:52 - How to build it 07:17 - See the code behind your app 08:07 - Wrap up
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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.
Use Azure AI Studio for full lifecycle development from a unified playground for prompt engineering, to pre-built Azure AI skills to build multi-modal applications, using language, vision, and speech, as well as Search, which includes hybrid with semantic ranking for more precise information retrieval. Test your AI applications for quality and safety with built-in evaluation, and use a prompt flow tool for custom orchestration, as well as overarching controls with Responsible AI content filters for safety. Seth Juarez, Principal Program Manager for Azure AI, gives you an overview of Azure AI Studio.
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00:00 - Build your own copilots in Azure AI Studio 01:52 - Copilot app running as a chatbot| 03:53 - Retrieval augmented generation grounded on your data 04:54 - Experiment with prompts: Multi-modality 06:47 - Advanced capabilities: Prompt flow 08:58 - Ensure quality and safety of responses 10:09 - Wrap up
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Keep your users, devices and data protected with Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge Internet Access. Combine identity and access management along with network access controls to help protect iInternet-based resources. Protections are context aware, made possible by deep integration with Conditional Access policies, with risk assessed in real time across identity, device, location, and applications, to protect ANY app or resource. See how Microsoft Entra Internet Access helps prevent sophisticated token theft attacks and insider data exfiltration to untrusted sites, including logging into unallowed sites that might increase your risk.
Camila Martins, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Entra, shows policies you can set as an admin and the user experience with protections in place - right from the Global Secure Access controls in the Microsoft Entra admin center.
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00:00 - Keep users, devices, and data protected 01:20 - Token theft demo 02:09 - How it works as a user 03:00 - How the policy prevents data exfiltration 03:48 - Protect against malicious insider attacks 05:00 - See a policy in action 06:01 - Block sites that inhibit productivity 06:53 - Add Conditional Access policies 08:24 - Wrap up
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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. Private Access takes an identity-centric Zero Trust Network Access approach, and leverages the Conditional Access policy engine to assess risk in real time using identity, device, and application signals, and apply additional network conditions to protect any apps or resources, such as file shares or virtual machines.
Ashish Jain, Principal Group PM for Microsoft Entra, shares how Microsoft Entra adds Security Service Edge controls for private connections that you'll find under Global Secure Access in the Microsoft Entra admin center.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Secure access to all private apps and resources 01:31 - Global Secure Access 02:27 - Set up private app access without using a VPN 03:34 - MFA with Conditional Access policies 05:24 - Connect to infrastructure resources on prem 07:03 - Connect from a mobile device 09:09 - Wrap up
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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. Using Copilot in Viva Glint, rapidly query thousands of comments to gain new perspective. Take advantage of workplace signals from elsewhere on the Viva platform, such as Viva Insights, to connect the dots between favorability and how employees work, and to close the feedback loop, you can leverage people science backed recommendations to take meaningful actions and drive positive change.
Quentin Mackey, Principal Group PM for Microsoft Viva Glint, shares how it works, the manager experience, and how to customize it as a service admin.
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00:00 - Streamline and automate employee feedback 01:11 - Employee survey experience 02:26 - Manager experience 04:15 - Managing multiple teams 05:54 - Microsoft Copilot in Viva Glint 06:43 - Set up a Viva Glint program 09:13 - Wrap up
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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.
Microsoft Fabric is a single, fully managed service, that helps you derive quality data from raw fragmented data by using built-in capabilities for data integration, data engineering and data warehousing, as well as for building data science models, real-time analytics, business intelligence, and real-time monitoring and alerts to trigger actions when your data changes.
Nellie Gustafsson, Microsoft Fabric’s Principal Product Manager, joins Jeremy Chapman to share all the updates.
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00:00 - Access quality data across your entire data estate 01:00 - Single, fully managed service 03:18 - Data mirroring 05:29 - Cross-join and query data06:48 - Copilot in Microsoft Fabric 08:06 - Build a machine learning model for predictive insights 09:47 - Use Copilot to generate Power BI reports 11:09 - Wrap up
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Manage SIEM, XDR, and threat intelligence from one place with new updates in the Microsoft Defender portal. Interact with all of your security data using generative AI with Security Copilot. View incidents across your digital estate—whether they're related to endpoints, SaaS services, your network in the cloud or on prem. This unified approach eliminates the inefficiency of SOC teams having to switch between multiple systems and manually piece together incident details, while maintaining all the current functionalities of each connected service.
Rob Lefferts joins Jeremy Chapman to discuss how the Defender experience has evolved into a unified security operations platform that combines threat detection, prevention, investigation, and response.
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00:00 - How Microsoft Defender has evolved 01:47 - Increase your SOC’s efficiency and speed 02:30 - GPT-based Security Copilot 03:54 - See an active incident 05:45 - Attack disruption 06:48 - High-level recap with Security Copilot 07:39 - Unified advanced hunting 08:51 - Set it up 09:32 - Wrap up
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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. This includes embedded experiences within Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Intune for endpoint management, Microsoft Entra for identity and access management, and Microsoft Purview for data security. Security Copilot as an enterprise-grade natural language interface to your organization's security data.
Ryan Munsch, from the Security Copilot team, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share how Security Copilot is like an enterprise-grade natural language interface to your organization's security data.
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00:00 - Investigate and respond to security incidents 01:24 - Works with the signal in your environment 02:26 - Prompt experience 03:06 - Off-the-shelf LLM vs. Security Copilot05:43 - LoRA fine-tuning07:06 - Security analyst use case10:07 - Generate a hunting query using Microsoft Sentinel 11:34 - Threat intelligence14:20 - Embedded Copilot experiences15:42 - Wrap up
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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.
- Azure Virtual Desktop-provision and manage full virtual desktops and remote apps. Choose any VM configuration and deploy multi-session shared VMs.
New to Windows 365, take a closer look at options for more powerful GPU-enabled Cloud PCs, as well as AI-powered Cloud PC re-sizing recommendations. Scott Manchester, who leads the team for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop at Microsoft, highlights all the latest updates to Windows 365.
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00:00 - Unified access with the Windows App 00:53 - Behind the experience 01:55 - See it on a Mac 03:12 - Security controls 04:02 - Browser experience 04:58 - Connect to Cloud PC with a mobile device 05:47 - Updates to Windows 365- use GPU-enabled Cloud PCs 07:56 - Cloud PC sizing recommendations 09:36 - Wrap up
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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. Over time, Microsoft Purview derives insights into your protection posture and trends to help prioritize locations where data in your organization might be exposed to risk. You can access data security, governance, and compliance from one place, and under information protection, find proactive recommendations and valuable insights to keep data secure.
Shilpa Ranganathan, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Purview shares how policies put in place with Microsoft Purview will protect data wherever it is, even as you work with it using native tools in different clouds.
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00:00 - Microsoft Purview, a unified solution to keep data secure 01:27 - Access experience: Data Engineer vs. External Vendor 04:32 - Define and apply classification labels 06:21 - How to implement user-specific access 08:18 - Wrap up
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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. Generative AI with Microsoft 365 Copilot is integrated throughout the experience to help generate content without starting from scratch.
Derek Liddell, Principal PM Manager for Microsoft Loop shares the latest user updates, and configuration, data security, and compliance controls for Microsoft 365 admins.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - New co-creation app, Microsoft Loop 01:10 - Loop app experience 02:43 - Sharing experience in Loop 04:13 - Loop-powered collaborative notes in Teams 04:53 - Project management experience 05:52 - Admin experience07:06 - Controls and policies, and Conditional Access 08:56 - Wrap up
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Microsoft Intune now has built-in native controls so you can manage your Macs similar to how you manage Windows PCs across the device lifecycle, without third party integrations or extensions. This decreases complexity and overhead and increases security, to help achieve your Zero Trust goals. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, walks through the highlights:
• Automated device enrollment • Microsoft Entra ID based single sign-on experience • Extended configuration management controls • Support for common DMG and PKG app package types • Declarative Device Management (DDM) for updates • Upcoming capabilities like Remote Help for macOS within the Intune Suite
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00:00 - Manage your Macs similar to Windows PCs 01:12 - Admin configurations: Device Enrollment 03:16 - User experience for setup 05:50 - Device configuration for admins 07:13 - Declarative Device Management (DDM) 07:50 - Security settings 08:35 - Distribute and install DMG and PKG app packages 10:23 - Remote Help for macOS coming soon 10:54 - Wrap up
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Close sales deals quickly and efficiently with the new generative AI powered Sales Copilot. It provides an intelligent natural language interface to all of your sales data, in CRM systems like Salesforce or Dynamics 365, and connected external data sources. See how Sales Copilot generates insights and content in the flow of work with skills that help you with everyday tasks in Microsoft 365 or embedded within your Dynamics 365 Sales experience.
Eric Boocock, Principal Program Manager for Dynamics 365 Sales, shares how Sales Copilot works safely with your data and the key admin steps to set it up.
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00:00 - Generative AI-powered Sales Copilot
00:50 - Sales Copilot with Salesforce and Microsoft 365
01:42 - Sales Copilot in Teams and Outlook
03:01 - Additional capabilities within Dynamics 365 Sales
03:39 - Data security
04:41 - Retrieval Augmented Generation
06:11 - How to set it up
07:42 - Bring external data from non-CRM apps
08:13 - Wrap up
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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.
Keyword search—match the exact words to search your grounding data
Vector search—focuses on conceptual similarity, where the app is using part of the dialogue to retrieve grounding information
Hybrid approach—combines both keyword and vector searches
Semantic ranking—to boost precision, a re-ranking step can re-score the top results using a larger deep learning ranking model
Pablo Castro, Azure AI Distinguished Engineer, shows how to improve the quality of generative AI responses using Azure Cognitive Search.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - How to generate high-quality AI responses 01:06 - Improve quality of generative AI outputs 02:56 - Why use vectors? 04:57 - Vector Database 06:56 - Apply to real data and text 08:00 - Vectors using images09:40 - Keyword search11:22 - Hybrid retrieval 12:18 - Re-ranking 14:18 - Wrap up
► Link References Sample code available at https://aka.ms/MechanicsVectors Complete Copilot sample app at https://aka.ms/EntGPTSearch Evaluation details for relevance quality at https://aka.ms/ragrelevance
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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. It features unique capabilities like conditional access, passwordless authentication, Single Sign-on, and Dynamic Groups. Perform the most common day-to-day tasks, like adding and editing user accounts, options for groups and what each do, as well as managed identities, role assignment, admin units, and additional core capabilities.
Jeremy Chapman, director of Microsoft 365 and a long-time endpoint management and directory services admin, explains the setup and configuration.
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00:00 - Simplify identity management 01:05 - Consolidate identity services 02:52 - Admin experience 05:09 - Conditional Access 05:39 - Manage user accounts 07:09 - Edit users 08:16 - Dynamic Groups 10:22 - Admin Roles & Admin Units 11:45 - Single Sign-On 12:34 - Wrap up
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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. Recommendations are ranked based on severity and potential impact, so users can focus on the most critical issues first.
Adwait Joshi, Cloud Security Senior Director, shows how users can set up and improve their cloud security posture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
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02:09 - Demo: How to set it up
02:52 - Improve cloud security posture
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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.
As a domain expert, this provides a no code way to take data, whether real-time streaming from your IoT devices, or batch data collected from your business systems, and dynamically monitor patterns by establishing conditions. When these conditions are met, Data Activator automatically triggers specific actions, such as notifying dedicated teams or initiating system-level remediations.
Join Will Thompson, Group Product Manager for Data Activator, as he shares how to monitor granular high volume of operational data and translate it into specific actions.
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00:53 - Demo: Logistics company use case
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04:04 - Test actions
04:36 - Batch data
06:21 - Trigger an automated workflow
07:12 - How it works
08:12 - Wrap up
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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. Instead of pre-indexing information, plugins optimize for real-time API based data retrieval, and they can optionally write-back data.
Mary David Pasch, Microsoft 365 Copilot Principal Product Manager, shares how both options follow Microsoft’s comprehensive security, compliance, and privacy approach, while respecting defined boundaries within your organization’s data services and can work together when responding to a single prompt.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Bring in external data with Copilot
01:08 - Use a connector and plugin simultaneously
02:45 - See how it works 03:56 - Semantic Index demo
04:55 - Data retrieval with Copilot using connectors
06:19 - Data retrieval with Copilot using plugins
07:23 - Plugins code and how they work
08:45 - Wrap up
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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.
Bob Serr, Azure Communication Services VP, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to build GPT-automated customer support with Azure Communication Services.
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00:00 - Combine Azure AI and Azure Communication Services
01:02 - What is Azure Communication Services?
02:20 - Developer advantages
03:22 - Demo- customer experience
06:32 - Demo- technician experience
08:16 - See how it works behind the scenes
10:00 - How to get it up and running
12:18 - Wrap up
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Get core services up and running at https://aka.ms/ACSAIsampleapp
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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. Jared Andersen from the Bing Chat Enterprise team at Microsoft explains how it also uses the latest GPT-4 foundation model, included as part of the service.
Jared also demonstrates what Bing Chat Enterprise is, along with some of the fundamental differences compared to public services like ChatGPT that you might be familiar with, and how Bing Chat Enterprise protects your data. Then for admins, he also explains your available controls to enable the service for users and options in settings and policies to customize the service. And finally, how Bing Chat Enterprise compares with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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00:00 - Can you use GPT-based generative AI with your business data?
00:35 - What is Bing Chat Enterprise?
01:03 - Bing Chat demonstration using up-to-date information
02:05 - Bing Image Creator demonstration using DALL-E
02:37 - How to access Bing Chat Enterprise and bringing protected data into prompts
04:26 - How protections work with Bing Chat Enterprise
05:21 - Admin controls for Bing Chat Enterprise
06:09 - How Bing Chat Enterprise compares with Microsoft 365 Copilot
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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. We deconstruct what occurred at a prominent company with an account inspired by a true story of corporate espionage and how Microsoft Purview is designed to detect and prevent this type of data security incident.
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00:29 - Watch a real crime case
02:06 - Data security strategies
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04:40 - Wrap up
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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.
Microsoft Purview's AI-powered classifiers are extensively pre-trained and tested on vast categories of business data and Microsoft domain-specific knowledge, as well as synthetic data and sample files generated from large language models to detect sensitive content. Because these classifiers run on Microsoft's AI supercomputer, with its specialized hardware and software stack, your sensitive information can be classified and protected at unparalleled speed and scale.
Tony Themelis, Microsoft Purview’s Principal Product Manager, shares how to keep data inside your organization protected and continuously compliant as you work.
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00:00 - How to keep data in your organization protected
01:12 - Policy tips & sensitivity labels
03:50 - How to build an automated policy
06:14 - 360 degree view of discovered sensitive information
07:15 - Create a custom classifier
08:58 - Fingerprint-based sensitive information type
09:36 - Wrap up
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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.
Microsoft 365 Frontline Product Manager, Rajiv Thandla, shares updates, along with the admin controls to set everything up.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:07 - Windows 365 Boot experience
01:39 - Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service
02:47 - Technician’s mobile device experience
05:04 - Windows 365 setup
06:04 - Frontline Cloud PCs setup & Windows 365 Boot configuration
07:41 - Microsoft Teams
09:57 - Wrap up
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Reduce unpredictability of operational costs with visibility into workload-related spend using AI chat in Microsoft Cost Management. See spending patterns and anomalies that drive up costs, set budgets, share workload costs across teams and business units, and identify opportunities for optimization.
Whether running individual workloads in Azure or managing overall cloud spend for your organization, get insight fast without being an expert navigating Cost Management UI. Microsoft Cost Management is available with your subscription from the Azure Portal.
Join Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, for a first look at the GPT-powered AI chat capability for Microsoft Cost Management.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:03 - Invoice analysis, insights, optimizations
02:21 - How it works
03:59- Future AI simulations and what-if modeling
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Stay informed at https://aka.ms/MCM-AIPreview
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Stop workflow interruptions by continually switching between your organization and guest tenants in Microsoft Teams. Use shared channels in Microsoft Teams to seamlessly work with external organizations while staying in your home tenant.
Shared channels can include a core team, internal members outside of your team, and invited external participants outside of your organization. Once created, it provides a shared workspace as a secure and more efficient means for transparent and open collaboration. It’s a seamless way to bring everyone together as part of an extended team. Importantly, Microsoft Entra cross-tenant access controls are used to establish trust. Users are securely authenticated and authorized on the backend, with channel access based on their individually scoped permissions.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, walks through how it works for Teams users, the admin steps for your tenant and your partner's tenant to set everything up, and how to create and manage shared channels in Microsoft Teams.
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00:00 - Introduction: What are shared channels?
01:45 - End user experience
03:12 - Set up shared channels in Microsoft Teams
04:18 - Set up in Microsoft Entra portal
06:36 - Create a shared channel as a Teams user
08:24 - Wrap up
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Move on-premises VMware or Hyper-V workloads to the cloud with Azure Migrate. Discover and assess your VMs, generate a business case for moving Windows and Linux VMs into Azure, and use integrated tools to replicate and migrate your VMs into production running on Azure.
Get Extended Security Updates until October 2026 along with upgrade rights to a supported Windows Server release if you’re migrating Windows Server 2012 VMs to Azure.
Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, gives a quick overview of how to migrate your VMware virtual machines to Azure.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - Prerequisites
01:12 - VM discovery
03:15 - Discovered servers
04:12 - New business case assessment
05:55 - Create an assessment to migrate VMs into Azure
06:54 - Replicate VMs into Azure
08:35 - Run test migrations
09:14 - Migrate VMs into production
09:47 - Wrap up
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Set up permissions in Azure at https://aka.ms/VMwarePrereqs
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Configure Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure to run efficiently. Drive up utilization with scaling plans. Scale session host VMs in a host pool up or down automatically, without paying for idle resources. Ensure your VM images are up-to-date with required software, configurations, and Windows updates. Gain an end-to-end view of your services' performance by utilizing Azure Virtual Desktop Insights at Scale, which provides comprehensive visibility into how your services are running, and access a consolidated view of all your host pools and subscriptions for easy monitoring.
Azure Expert, Matt McSpirit, walks through part four in our series on Azure Virtual Desktop.
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Migrate from Active Directory Federation Services to Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory. Many key blockers have been removed with Microsoft Entra ID, including capabilities like certificate-based auth, group filtering, group transformation, and token augmentation. Additional capabilities include conditional access and phish-resistant passwordless authentication.
Jeremy Chapman, Director at Microsoft 365, shares the steps to migrate from AD FS to Microsoft Entra, as well as an inside look at the management and IT experience.
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02:32 - Compare the management experience
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06:35 - Salesforce process
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Automate manual steps to onboard and offboard users as they enter or leave your organization using Microsoft Entra. For onboarding, manage user identities, grant permissions to access necessary information, and provide users with what they need to be productive, such as computer hardware. As people leave the organization, deprovisioning is critical to maintain security and compliance. Lifecycle Workflows in Microsoft Entra ID Governance can help with pre-built templates for common tasks.
Microsoft Entra is a complete identity management platform with everything you knew about Azure Active Directory, along with new capabilities. Identity lifecycle management automation removes many of the manual steps of everyday identity management tasks. With Lifecycle Workflows, users experience more consistency for better job satisfaction and reduced risk. It works with HR systems, like Workday and SuccessFactors, as part of the onboarding and offboarding workflow.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, walks through Identity Lifecycle Management automation in Microsoft Entra.
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01:28 - Automate employee onboarding
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05:41 - Workflow history
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08:30 - Wrap up
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Architect workloads in Azure for long-term efficiency and growth. Consolidate VM count and transition applications to containers using the discovery and assessment tool in Azure Migrate. Use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and DevOps practices for more efficient workload management. Increase capacity at any scale and work across different data types using SQL Serverless architecture.
Azure Expert, Matt McSpirit, joins Jeremy Chapman to share cloud-native approaches to run workloads in Azure for reduced costs.
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01:06 - Consolidate VM count
02:35 - Assessment and migration options
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07:39 - Paths for cloud analytics and AI
08:16 - Query efficiency and compat levels
09:47 - Wrap up
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Get information ready for search, put key prerequisites in place, and assign licenses to prepare for the next transformation in how we work with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Copilot leverages large language models that interact with your organization's data using the Microsoft Graph to generate personalized experiences with related context, reducing the steps to find the information you need and generate content. By design, Copilot respects user-specific permissions to any content or information it retrieves, and only generates responses based on information that users explicitly have permission to access.
Join Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, as he shares admin steps to get started, by:
- Getting your organization's information ready for search - with Just Enough Access permissions in place. This is a best practice, whether you plan to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot or not.
- Putting Microsoft 365 Copilot prerequisites in place. This includes the having the right Microsoft cloud apps and services running for each user with access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, and
- Assigning Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing to users and groups to provide them access.
And finally, with everything prepared and ready, it's important to have a plan in place to drive user adoption and optimize results by creating a center of excellence - as you would with other app and service - rollout to let people share easily share what's working best for them and find help from internal champions.
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01:48 - Step One: Get information ready to search
03:00 - Just Enough Access
03:34 - Tools to find info at risk for oversharing
04:54 - Step Two: Get prerequisites in place
06:00 - Step Three: Assign M365 Copilot licenses
07:20 - Establish a Center of Excellence
07:55 - Wrap up
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Prerequisites for Microsoft 365 Copilot and supported apps at https://aka.ms/M365CopilotPreReqs
Hands-on support with Microsoft FastTrack services at https://fasttrack.microsoft.com
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Automate multicloud regulatory assessments with Microsoft Purview to keep data sitting in multiple clouds from becoming a liability. Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview provides a single view of your compliance status across your multicloud data estate, whether IaaS including virtual machines, PaaS with cloud storage accounts, or various SaaS apps in use by your organization. The solution deep links directly to where settings are configured, so you can pinpoint what needs to be fixed.
Daniel Hidalgo, Product Manager for Microsoft Purview, shares how to automate daily monitoring of your multicloud environment and remediate risks.
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08:14 - Wrap up
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Combine vision and language in an AI model with the latest vision AI model in Azure Cognitive Services. Use natural language to fetch visual content in images and videos without needing metadata or location, generate automatic and detailed descriptions of images using the model’s knowledge of the world, and use a verbal description to search video content.
Cognitive Service for Vision AI combines both natural language models (LLM) with computer vision and is part of the Azure Cognitive Services suite of pre-trained AI capabilities. It can carry out a variety of vision-language tasks including automatic image classification, object detection, and image segmentation. Similar to GPT, the foundational language model, Project Florence, used in this case infuses deeper language skill with vision analytics to make training, inferencing and interacting with your image and video content simpler using natural language.
Azure Expert, Matt McSpirit shares how to customize the model and use these capabilities in your own apps.
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01:52 - Open-world recognition
03:19 - Dense captioning
04:23 - Run frame analysis
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07:41 - Wrap up
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Use AI Large Language Models with Microsoft’s Power Platform to create automated workflows, apps, web pages and bots—without knowing how to write code. AI and Copilot help build fully functional experiences. Generate workflows using only natural language prompts in Power Automate, create apps in seconds in Power Apps, build professional websites with Power Pages, and use the new Boost Conversations capability with GPT to create FAQ bots with Power Virtual Agents.
Stephen Siciliano, Vice President of Microsoft Power Automate, joins Jeremy Chapman to tour the latest Power Platform updates.
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01:03 - New AI and Copilot experiences
02:42 - Use Copilot to build and automate workflows
06:07 - Copilot and AI Builder for document analysis
07:19 - Use Copilot to move data from Excel while building apps
08:55 - Customize an existing app
09:53 - Use Copilot with Power Pages
11:06 - Add GPT powered bots to your site
13:37 - Wrap up
► Link References: Get started at https://powerplatform.microsoft.com
Watch our 3-part series on how to add Copilot and GPT to your apps https://aka.ms/PowerAppsAuthoring
To build an app using our workbook, start in the Power Apps Studio at https://make.powerapps.com
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Work with your data in place, wherever it resides, with Microsoft Fabric, our next generation data analytics service powered by one of the first true multi-cloud data lakes, called OneLake. Go from raw data to meaningful insights over data spread across your organization and in other clouds in seconds—without moving it.
Microsoft Fabric provides a single integrated service that includes data integration capabilities, data engineering for shaping your data, data warehousing, the ability to build data science models, real time analytics, and business intelligence. Data from these different experiences is brought together by one unified data lake for your organization, OneLake, and is accessible regardless of the engine used.
Justyna Lucznik, Principal Group PM for Microsoft Fabric, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to make your organizational data more accessible.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:47 - Unified data in OneLake 03:05 - Personalized experiences for data professionals 04:43 - How to get started with Microsoft Fabric 06:06 - Shortcuts capability in OneLake 07:35 - Native Windows Explorer integration 09:15 - Collaboration and shared work space 10:04 - LLMs and Copilot for model creation 11:33 - SQL Analyst experience 12:53 - Business user experience 14:06 - Wrap up
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Get an inside look at the AI supercomputer infrastructure built to run ChatGPT and other large language models, and see how to leverage it for your workloads in Azure, at any scale.
Go behind the scenes: -For how we collaborated with NVIDIA to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure with NVIDIA GPUs -How Project Forge checkpointing works to restore job states if a long training job fails or needs to be migrated -How we used LoRA fine-tuning to update a fraction of the base model for more training throughput and smaller checkpoints -How UK-based company, Wayve, is using Azure's AI supercomputer infrastructure for self-driving cars -And how Confidential Computing works with Azure AI to combine datasets without sharing personally identifiable information for secure multiparty collaborations.
Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, joins Jeremy Chapman to break it down.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:15 - AI innovation building specialized hardware and software 04:22 - Optimizing hardware 05:40 - Improved throughput 06:17 - Project Forge 08:01 - Project Forge checkpointing demo 10:02 - LoRA fine tuning 11:29 - Use AI supercomputer infrastructure for your workloads 12:34 - How Wayve is leveraging AI supercomputer infrastructure 13:47 - How Confidential Computing works with Azure AI 15:21 - Wrap up
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Leverage Azure AI capabilities for yourself at https://aka.ms/AzureAIInfrastructure
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Get an inside look at how large language models (LLMs) work when you connect them to the data in your organization. See what makes this possible and how the process respects your privacy to keep data safe with Microsoft 365 Copilot. The LLM for Microsoft 365 Copilot is hosted in the Microsoft Cloud and is not trained on your organizational data. Copilot automatically inherits your organization’s security, compliance, and privacy policies for Microsoft 365.
Join Mary David Pasch to go inside the mechanics of AI-powered Copilot capabilities, what they do and how they work.
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01:11 - Large Language Models (LLMs)
02:19 - Write prompts to include additional info
04:04 - Core components of Copilot
05:12 - Default prompt
06:02 - Microsoft 365 Copilot orchestrator
07:36 - Generate content
08:53 - Wrap up
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For more on how Microsoft operates its AI services, check out https://aka.ms/MicrosoftResponsibleAI
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In Part 3 of our series, add Copilot to a simple app in Power Apps. Copilot user controls are rolling out now in preview. See how to add navigation between screens and conditional formatting using generative AI. Publish and share your app with your team, and integrate it with Microsoft Teams or Sharepoint to make it more discoverable.
In Part 1 and 2 of the series, we showed the basics of how to build an inventory tracking app from scratch incorporating AI-driven Copilot capabilities. We added a mechanical parts table for data entry and sample data stored in Dataverse on the backend. Then, we added customizations such as new part records, a search function, and incorporated logic to trigger an email notification.
Emma Cooper, Principal PM Manager for Power Apps, delivers the final installment of our 3-part overview on the fundamentals for building your Power App from scratch.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - How to find your apps
02:28 - Add Copilot to your app
04:24 - Navigate between screens
05:31 - Change screen names
06:45 - Conditional formatting
08:30 - How to publish your app
09:33 - How to share your app
11:24 - Integrate with Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint
11:49 - Wrap up
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Our entire series is at https://aka.ms/PowerAppsAuthoring
Find apps you’ve been working on in https://make.powerapps.com
Power Fx formula options at https://aka.ms/PowerFxRef
Information on security roles and privileges at https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformRoles
Continue your learning at https://aka.ms/PAresources
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Add customizations to your inventory tracking apps in Part 2 of our series on how to build your first app in Power Apps. See how to add new part records and a search function to quickly find inventory as your catalog grows, incorporate logic to trigger an email notification when parts are running low, change the color theme, and upload photos of parts to the catalog to accompany records.
In Part 1 of the series, we showed the basics of how to build an inventory tracking app from scratch incorporating AI-driven Copilot capabilities. We added a mechanical parts table for data entry and sample data stored in Dataverse on the backend.
Emma Cooper, Principal PM Manager for Power Apps, gives step-by-step instructions to customize your app in Power Apps.
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05:55 - Add logic
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12:11 - Wrap up
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Configure Azure Virtual Desktop with the enterprise-grade configurations you’ll want in place for secure authentication, improved connectivity, flexible user data, and service resiliency. If you're new to Azure Virtual Desktop, check out our overview and quick setup videos in the our playlist at https://aka.ms/AVDMechanicsSeries
In this show, we cover: - Your options using Azure Active Directory to achieve single sign on and passwordless authentication - The newest experiences for using Web Authentication (WebAuthn) to redirect additional authentication factors to local devices - RDP Shortpath to optimize connectivity to remote hosts - Your options using FSLogix to manage profile containers - Architecting your Azure Virtual Desktop configuration for resiliency, and - Using Confidential Computing virtual machines to meet even the highest security requirements
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Azure Virtual Desktop enterprise configurations 00:34 - Secure Authentication options in Azure Virtual Desktop 02:15 - Optimizing Connectivity to Azure Virtual Desktop hosts 03:12 - FSLogix user profile container options 05:12 - Architecting for high availability and service resiliency 06:58 - Confidential computing in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Detect data loss, exfiltration, and data theft with intelligent automation solutions in Microsoft Purview. Data lives across apps, databases, and in file sharing locations inside and outside your infrastructure. It can be stored on devices and removable media, and it travels with each interaction. Secure data with a scalable and automated approach— discover and understand the growing volume of sensitive data, apply protections that follow data wherever it lives or travels, take preventative action when there’s a risk of data loss, and elevate or lower data protections based on individual users to balance productivity with data security.
Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and Insider Risk Management provide a unified platform in Microsoft Purview for intelligent, automated data protection.
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01:29 - Information Protection
01:53 - Data Loss Prevention
02:22 - Insider Risk Management
03:00 - Example of information protection
03:55 - Wrap up
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Watch our series on Microsoft Purview at https://aka.ms/DataSecurityMechanics
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Create low code Power Apps to automate everyday tasks. AI-driven Copilot capabilities make it easy to interact with your app and its data using natural language. Or simply build an app from scratch. We’ll demo how to build an inventory app for mechanical parts, that anyone can use on the job, to track and enter new parts.
If you’re new to Power Apps, it’s a part of Microsoft’s Power Platform for building low code apps and processes. Apps can originate from a task or process you’d like to make easier – like a streamlined approval process, or a way to capture and track information on the go. Run them in the browser or on your favorite mobile platform.
Emma Cooper, Principal PM Manager for Power Apps, shares key steps to build your first app in under ten minutes.
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01:01 - Use AI with Copilot
03:44 - Build an app from scratch
05:11 - Add data
06:42 - Build out the app experience
09:00 - Galleries, forms and navigation using Power FX
10:41 - Wrap up
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Watch episodes in our Power Apps series at https://aka.ms/PowerAppsAuthoring
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Extract text automatically from forms, structured or unstructured documents, and text-based images at scale with AI and OCR using Azure’s Form Recognizer service and the Form Recognizer Studio. Build intelligent document processing apps using Azure AI services. Leverage pre-trained models or build your own custom models to help speed up app development with the SDK and APIs.
Use a pre-built model for W2 forms Build and train custom models to extract data from 1099, 1040, and W9 forms Extract data from receipts with handwritten tips, in different languages, currencies, and date formats.
Bema Bonsu, from Azure's AI engineering team in Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to share updates to custom app experiences for document processing.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Form Recognizer updates
03:27 - Extract data from tax forms
04:56 - Extract data from handwritten text and other languages
06:00 - Build and train custom models
08:27 - Extract data from unstructured docs
10:15 - Code behind custom apps
12:07 - Wrap up
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Get started with Azure Form Recognizer Studio at https://aka.ms/formrecognizerstudio
Find out more about Contracts 365 and their services at: https://www.contracts365.com/
H&R Block and how they use Form Recognizer: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-applied-ai-blog/automating-tax-documents-processing-with-azure-form-recognizer/ba-p/3650168
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Bring OpenAI’s ChatGPT model in Azure to your own enterprise-grade app experiences with precise control over the knowledge base, for in-context and relevant responses. Interact with your organization’s private internal data, while respecting the information protection controls put in place.
Azure OpenAI service is combined with Azure Cognitive Search to index and retrieve data that is private and external to the ChatGPT large language model. The retrieval step in Azure Cognitive Search finds the most relevant pieces of information and presents the top ranked results to the language model. And because the knowledge lives outside of the ChatGPT model, you're in control—it’s not used to train the model.
Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, Pablo Castro, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how it works.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - Apply ChatGPT to enterprise apps using Azure
03:40 - Demo: Typical app experience
05:45 - How ChatGPT generates a response
07:55 - Experiment with prompts
09:38 - How information protection works
11:03 - Process for adding new information
12:01 - Code behind the sample app
15:00 - Wrap up
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Investigate and contain sophisticated attacks in real-time using updates to Microsoft’s integrated XDR solutions. Get an inside look at a multi-stage and multi-cloud incident inspired by real tactics, techniques, and procedures in Microsoft Sentinel, and visibility into the attack sequence and timeline of alerts with Microsoft 365 Defender. Use Threat Intelligence to investigate and stop threat actors in their tracks with real-time threat disruption, and automate mitigations to contain the damage.
Microsoft cybersecurity expert and CVP, Rob Lefferts, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to navigate fast-moving cyber attacks that can span across clouds and infrastructure.
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00:59 - Streamline workflow across security teams
02:25 - Demo: See a sophisticated attack in action
04:24 - How to prioritize where to start
07:14 - Investigate an attack
10:35 - Microsoft Defender
13:36 - Wrap up
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With sophisticated cyber-attacks on the rise, get detailed and current intel on trending attacks with Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence. Enrich investigations and contain threats before they impact your organization with exclusive access to the same raw attack signals our Microsoft Researchers have. Easily gauge the severity of a threat and seek specialist assistance with Threat Profiles that link threats and their methods to known threat actors.
Lou Manousos, Threat Intelligence expert and Microsoft Security CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to use raw data on active attacks as they unfold.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:33 - Track and understand attacks
03:39 - Native integration of RiskIQ data with Microsoft Defender
06:14 - Raw data in the Threat Intelligence portal
07:32 - How to see evolving threats
09:16 - Connect a threat actor to an active incident
11:28 - How to use raw data in an active incident
13:32 - Host pairs
15:29 - Wrap up
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Access the most current 2 weeks of data for free at https://ti.defender.microsoft.com
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Discover, classify, and protect sensitive information automatically, wherever it lives or travels with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Built-in protections follow documents on mobile, in the browser, or as you coauthor them, with no add-ins required. Policy tips keep end users compliant without compromising productivity.
Tony Themelis, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Information Protection, shows how to automate and enforce classifications through administrative controls, create labels, and put policies in place with Microsoft Purview Information Protection.
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02:23 - Universal classification engine
03:23 - Admin controls
05:07 - Trainable classifiers
06:38 - How to configure labels
07:56 - Label policies
08:45 - Auto-labeling
09:55 - Wrap up
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In this show, Derek Liddell, an engineering leader from the Loop team at Microsoft presents the end-to-end experiences with the new Microsoft Loop app, available both on the web and in mobile.
The Loop app is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. It gives you a central place to bring people together to create real-time content in a simple, collaborative and structured way, from using intelligent search to build your first shared workspaces, where you can enjoy super-fast synchronized collaboration to leveraging AI with Copilot in Loop, to generate ideas with others on your team to get in your flow. Copilot capabilities in Loop will begin rolling out in the next few months.
If you're using Loop components today, you might familiar with how you can embed live, auto-updating content seamlessly across apps like Microsoft Teams, Outlook email, Word and even the Whiteboard - all from the same source, freeing you up to work in your preferred collaboration modality. The Loop app builds on this and gives you a new hub to create and find all of your shared Loop components, workspaces, and pages.
►QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - What is Microsoft Loop?
00:30 - Loop components in Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Word
01:28 - The new Microsoft Loop app
01:39 - Getting started with Loop
04:47 - Working with others in their preferred apps
06:45 - Using AI with Copilot to generate and refine content
09:28 - Notifications, getting back to your Loop components, and ideas
10:09 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Start using Loop at https://loop.microsoft.com
Get the mobile app at https://aka.ms/getLoopmobile
Admin steps to enable at https://aka.ms/enableLoop
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Set up a high performance hybrid quantum compute environment in your own Azure Quantum workspace, and run your code on real quantum machines. See the latest advances, core concepts, and Microsoft's distinct topological approach to get us closer to realizing the world's first scalable quantum machine with Azure Quantum Computing.
Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Azure Quantum VP, Krysta Svore, joins host Apoorva Nori, to share what it is and how to set it up.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:40 - What is Quantum Computing?
04:40 - Applications suited for quantum computers
05:50 - Topological qubits
07:43 - Majorana zero modes
09:43 - How to set up Azure Quantum
12:51 - Quantum Intermediate Representations (QIR)
14:18 - Wrap up
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Secure the best price performance at scale for block storage options with Azure Disk Storage and Azure Elastic SAN, and benefit from Azure’s industry leading SLAs for high availability, resiliency and disaster recovery. Storage is a major component that determines the cost of running workloads.
Azure Disk Storage provides a comprehensive spectrum of block storage options for any workload, regardless of performance needs. This includes the new fully-managed Elastic SAN service in Azure to share storage across workloads in your network and give you a first-time alternative to running your SAN on-premises.
Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, shares how to choose and attach the right OS or data disk storage as you provision VMs in Azure.
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00:51 - Workload requirements
02:34 - Premium SSD
04:12 - Premium SSD v2 & Ultra Disk
05:37 - Azure Elastic SAN
08:14 - Low-cost storage options
09:23 - Additional options
10:02 - Wrap up
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Reduce cost and complexity of multiple solutions. Use advanced cross-platform capabilities that go beyond UEM for one unified endpoint management solution with the Microsoft Intune Suite. Leverage Microsoft’s intelligent services, which include integrated best-in-class solutions to protect against cyberattacks. Capabilities span endpoint privilege management, advanced analytics, secure app-level VPN for personal devices, and Remote Help for Android and Windows users.
Matt McSpirit, Azure expert, breaks down new Microsoft Intune Suite essentials to manage endpoint devices, provide secure access to resources, and support end users.
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Simplified management of Windows Server with Automanage and Hotpatch capabilities. Automanage in Azure is a unified solution to automate operations, apply consistent best practices, and enforce policies on the servers you manage via Azure and Azure Arc. Use Hotpatch capabilities for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs to speed up deployment of updates and minimize reboots, so you can apply security updates faster.
Lead engineer for the Azure control plane, Dean Wells, joins Jeremy Chapman to share updates to Windows Server.
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01:34 - Automanage capabilities
03:26 - Behind Machine Configuration setting
05:00 - Steps to get new or existing servers to Automanaged state
06:22 - Correct a non-conformant state
08:17 - Hotpatch capabilities
11:56 - Wrap up
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Improve hybrid workloads with updates to SQL Server 2022, now generally available. Link local SQL Servers to Azure SQL Managed Instances for bidirectional disaster recovery, achieve massive speedups with differential snapshot-based backup and restore, as well as anywhere management of your SQL Servers with Azure Arc-enabled SQL provisioning, and new pay-as-you-go licensing. For raw performance, we'll demonstrate intelligent Degree of Parallelism feedback where SQL optimizes the thread count of queries automatically.
Bob Ward, Principal Architect for Microsoft SQL Server, joins Jeremy Chapman to share improvements to query performance, Azure integration, and costs for both licensing and compute, local or in the cloud.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:01 - Backup and disaster recovery
02:31 - Failover between SQL Server and Managed Instance
05:24 - Snapshot backups
07:57 - Restore a snapshot backup
08:59 - SQL Server management: Pay-as-you-go
10:40 - SQL Server performance: Query optimizations
13:21 - Wrap up
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Adjust the strength of your data protection automatically based on the calculated data security risk levels of users. Stringent controls are applied to high risk users, while low risk users continue to work productively with the right controls in place—all done automatically. Alleviate your security team’s burden from manually fine tuning policies. Elevate your existing Data Loss Prevention controls for content.
Talhah Mir, Principal PM for Insider Risk Solutions, shares how to use Adaptive Protection to address the most critical risks, while saving time. Balance data security and productivity with the Adaptive Protection capability in Microsoft Purview.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - How Adaptive Protection works
01:57 - Cumulative Exfiltration Anomaly Detection Model
02:58 - Data Security Risk Level
04:17 - Admin views
05:09 - Enable Adaptive Protection
05:55 - Customization
06:59 - DLP Policies
07:56 - Wrap up
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Protect sensitive data everywhere you create, view, and access information with one Data Loss Prevention policy in Microsoft Purview. From email, SharePoint and OneDrive accounts, to Microsoft 365 apps including Microsoft Teams, files managed on device endpoints for both Windows and macOS, as well as non-Microsoft cloud apps and services, and file share servers running on-premises or in the cloud. One policy protects data across all these locations and services. Cloud-native protection is built into apps, services, and devices, eliminating the need to add solutions, deploy agents, or configure policies in multiple locations.
Shilpa Bothra, Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Purview DLP, shares how to keep data safe and users productive with differentiated data restrictions in place.
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02:29 - Prereqs to configure Endpoint DLP
05:25 - Policy demo
08:12 - Customization and business justification
10:18 - Monitor your policy
11:27 - Migrate Symantec DLP to Purview DLP
11:50 - Wrap up
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Top tips to optimize cost savings using free tools and plans as you run workloads in Azure. Identify unnecessary spend in Azure Advisor through cost cutting, take advantage of new commitment-based savings plans based on expected utilization, employ cost avoidance tactics, such as setting budgets and monitoring with Microsoft Cost Management, and contain spend through new automation options.
Matt McSpirit, Azure expert, shares quick ways to save money for existing Azure customers.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - Savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit 02:18 - Constrained vCPU options 03:30 - Commitment-based savings plans 05:03 - Savings plans and reserved instances 06:12 - Microsoft Cost Management 06:44 - Budget limits and automation runbooks 08:57 - Azure VM Scale Sets 11:24 - Storage cost management 13:00 - Tags 13:50 - Wrap up
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Guidance for Azure cost savings at https://aka.ms/Azure-DMWL
More on Azure Hybrid Benefit at https://aka.ms/HybridBenefit
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Best practices for tagging at https://aka.ms/costmgmt/videos
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Find what you need to get started with the fastest way to deploy Azure Virtual Desktop with a step-by-step guide. This is a streamlined provisioning experience, with automation built-in based on your parameters, and time saved with directory services setup and integration.
How to set up a fully-operational Azure Virtual Desktop environment: -Prerequisites -Deployment steps -Configure host pools and Remote Apps -Test it out
Matt McSpirit, Azure Expert, walks through the setup, and shares what’s notable and unique to the service.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Prerequisites
01:12 - Deployment steps
02:35 - Windows Multi-session option
04:27 - Deployed resources and services
05:00 - Configuring Remote Apps
06:46 - Testing everything out
08:19 - Teams AudioVideo-redirect
08:57 - Wrap up
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Prioritize, analyze, and automate business processes faster and more effectively with updates to Power Automate. Get end-to-end visibility over automation projects that will yield the best financial return for your organization with the Automation Kit. Locate bottlenecks and inefficiencies in existing processes, and take corrective action with the Minit desktop app and process advisor. See how to automate more business processes with deeper SAP integration.
Ashvini Sharma, Partner GPM from the Power Automate engineering team, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through the latest updates.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:44 - How to apply process automation: Automation Kit
04:12 - Process advisor
07:07 - Minit desktop app
10:10 - SAP integration
12:50 - Automation Kit to track progress & savings
13:45 - Wrap up
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Automation Kit at https://aka.ms/automation-kit
Get the SAP procure to pay solution template at https://aka.ms/SAPP2P
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Protect against ransomware and other threats as you build new cloud-based services and migrate or modernize existing apps and services. Get guidance for where to start, with a free new assessment with security recommendations and a prioritized list tailored for your organization, apps, and services.
Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how to architect your apps and services for Zero Trust security.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:32 - Where to start with security architecture
04:36 - Apply prioritized list to a new app
05:38 - Policies and configurations
07:03 - Improving security strategy
09:59 - Implementing strong authentication
12:21 - Wrap up
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Take the free assessment at https://aka.ms/microsoftassessments
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How to automate and deploy landing zones at https://aka.ms/LandingZoneMechanics
Manage identity infrastructure in the Microsoft Entra admin center at https://entra.microsoft.com
More on Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework security at https://aka.ms/CAFsecure
How to implement Azure landing zones at https://aka.ms/ALZ
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A single solution to centrally manage your entire identity infrastructure with Microsoft Entra. Whether hybrid across your on-premises systems and the Microsoft Cloud, or across services spanning multiple clouds, like AWS, Google Cloud Platform and your favorite SaaS apps.
Joey Cruz, from the identity team at Microsoft, highlights the comprehensive capabilities of Microsoft Entra, including unified identity management, that spans beyond your Microsoft estate and beyond Azure Active Directory. He demonstrates new and unique capabilities for the day-to-day management of your users and workloads. ►
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - Microsoft Entra admin center
01:07 - Secure access to Google services with passwordless authentication using Microsoft Entra
02:20 - Access all of your cloud and on-prem apps from myapps.microsoft.com
03:13 - Supported authentication methods
04:24 - Verified IDs to automate new user verification and access provisioning
05:40 - Workload Identity management for secure app to app communication
06:56 - Privileged Identity Management to protect admin accounts and more
07:41 - Permissions Management to monitor and protect Azure, AWS and GCP in one place
08:20 - Wrap up
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As a meeting organizer or participant, take Microsoft Teams to the next level with advanced capabilities for personalization, deeper AI integration, and better meeting protection with Microsoft Teams Premium. For Teams admins, see the easy steps to enable Teams Premium, as well as your configuration options.
Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, gives a hands-on tour for customized, intelligent, and secure meetings.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - Custom branding & Meeting Templates
01:38 - Translated captions and intelligent recap
03:08 - Enhanced security- watermarking
04:12 - Virtual appointments
05:05 - Webinars
06:12 - Admin experience
08:51 - Wrap up
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Build and customize Together modes with the Developer Portal at https://dev.teams.microsoft.com
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For your next application, leverage large-scale, generative AI models with a deep understanding of language and code, using Azure’s OpenAI service. Interact with models using natural language, prompts, and few-shot learning. Use the Azure OpenAI Studio to experiment and test your models before bringing them into your code to deliver differentiated app experiences, all with Azure’s enterprise-grade security built-in.
Build new experiences with models: GPT-3 generates content based on natural language input Codex translates natural language instructions directly into code DALL-E 2 generates realistic images and art from natural language descriptions
Pablo Castro, Distinguished Engineer and part of the Azure AI team, joins Jeremy Chapman for an in-depth look at Azure’s OpenAI service.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - Azure’s OpenAI service
02:44 - Practical examples of OpenAI
05:23 - Integrate OpenAI models into everyday apps
09:32 - Building a custom app from scratch
11:57 - The OpenAI Studio in Azure
13:41 - The Playground
16:02 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Check out Responsible AI principles at https://aka.ms/AIprinciples
Start with Designer preview at https://designer.microsoft.com
Sign up for Azure OpenAI at https://aka.ms/oai/access
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Deploy your own dedicated servers in the cloud with Azure Dedicated Host. Run apps and services just as you would on premises, but with the added flexibility and operational savings that come with running your workloads in Azure.
An Azure Dedicated Host is dedicated to your organization and only hosts your workloads. Azure VMs run on virtualized hardware on top of a host hypervisor, and you can fill your dedicated host with different VM sizes until you run out of space.
Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, shows how to set up and manage Azure Dedicated Host.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - What is an Azure Dedicated Host?
02:35 - Set it up
04:28 - Additional protections
05:55 - Scale sets
07:10 - Manage your dedicated host
07:50 - Cost effectiveness
09:14 - Wrap up
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Build app experiences and automate everyday tasks and processes in Power Platform with the Managed Environments capability for easier, proactive governance. Restrict how broadly apps and flows can be shared with capabilities like sharing limits, set up better guardrails through the built-in Solution checker, and test apps before they move into production with the maker-friendly DevOps capability, Pipelines for Power Platform.
Group Product Manager for Microsoft Power Platform, Evan Lew, joins Jeremy Chapman for a deep dive on updates to the Power Platform.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:47 - Default environment
04:14 - Admin experience
06:54 - Pipelines for Power Platform
08:15 - Maker experience
11:21 - Wrap up
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Download and use Power Platform hub templates at https://aka.ms/MakerSiteTemplate
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This is Microsoft’s cloud VDI solution with centralized security, management, and scalability built-in. It's an efficient and flexible approach to desktop virtualization without compromising control.
Azure Virtual Desktop works across your devices and apps, with full-featured experiences for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. The web client also allows you to access your remote desktops and apps from almost any modern browser.
We'll take you on a tour of the essentials for Azure Virtual Desktop, including what it is, how it works and your options for configuring the service as an administrator to meet your organization's needs.
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00:00 - What is Azure Virtual Desktop?
01:35 - Admin options to configure the service
03:48 - Steps to provision Azure Virtual Desktop
05:09 - Data access options for files and profile containers
05:36 - Zero trust controls for security
06:31 - Utilization and scaling options
07:11 - Where you can find out more about Azure Virtual Desktop
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Azure Virtual Desktop documentation to get started https://aka.ms/AVDDocumentation
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Steps for how to import and publish apps into Intune, without hunting down the packages—including EXEs and MSIs, how to self-install apps from the Company Portal, and best practices to smooth your transition if you’re using the Windows Store for Business.
As part of our series on Windows Management, Jason Githens, from the Intune engineering team, gives a deep dive on the updates for easily adding apps into Intune, powered by winget, the new Windows Package Manager.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:13 - Windows Package Manager
03:59 - Company Portal
06:27 - Windows Store for Business
07:36 - Wrap up
► Link References: Optimize your transition from the Store for Business to Intune at https://aka.ms/StoreTransition
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Find and use Microsoft Power BI updates through native installation with Microsoft 365 apps. Collaborate on reports and datasets as you work in your favorite Microsoft 365 apps. Work together on reports inside your organization, and share datasets and reports securely outside of your organization — all while using any device.
New experiences:
-Direct report sharing, whether in OneDrive or SharePoint
-Multiple Audiences capability, for internal users to share insights with specific people in their organization, all from a single workspace
-Cross-tenant dataset sharing capability, to simplify external sharing and collaboration with people outside of your organization.
Mohammad Ali, Principal GPI for Microsoft Power BI, joins Ben Walters, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Power Platform, to walk through all the updates.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:05 - Latest updates
02:55 - Integration with OneDrive & SharePoint
04:44 - Multiple Audiences capability
06:33 - Cross-tenant data sharing
08:37 - Wrap up
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Get started at https://www.powerbi.com
Watch our Power BI show on AI-driven insights at https://aka.ms/PowerBIAIMechanics
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This is a 360-degree view into how to bring big data from Microsoft 365 and related services into Azure Synapse Analytics with Microsoft Graph Data Connect. This works internally and externally with your network of customers, suppliers and partners. Harness information that goes above and beyond what’s possible compared to other reporting options in Microsoft 365, and get available solution templates to quickly get started.
Principal Program Manager Lead from the Microsoft Graph team, Jeremy Thake, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how to keep people and your organization connected with Microsoft Graph Data Connect and Azure Synapse.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:53 - Internal and external collaboration
02:24 - Behind Microsoft Graph and Azure Synapse
03:55 - Build a customer 360 solution
06:29 - Data environment behind Power BI dashboard
07:40 - How to bring Graph data into Synapse
09:14 - How to build out a B2B example
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This is a 360-degree view into how to bring big data from Microsoft 365 and related services into Azure Synapse Analytics with Microsoft Graph Data Connect. This works internally and externally with your network of customers, suppliers and partners. Harness information that goes above and beyond what’s possible compared to other reporting options in Microsoft 365, and get available solution templates to quickly get started.
Principal Program Manager Lead from the Microsoft Graph team, Jeremy Thake, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how to keep people and your organization connected with Microsoft Graph Data Connect and Azure Synapse.
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07:40 - How to bring Graph data into Synapse
09:14 - How to build out a B2B example
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Find out what’s new and what’s coming in Windows 365, if you're using it or administering the service for your organization, including the new Windows 365 Desktop App to access Cloud PCs, more comprehensive IT management, and new integration with Citrix HDX+ for Windows 365.
Scott Manchester, lead engineer on the Windows 365 team at Microsoft, walks through the new Windows 365 app, in preview, along with all of the updates. There are new controls for Cloud PC backup and restore as well as new monitoring capabilities coming in Microsoft Intune to discover Cloud PCs with slow networking connection speeds and troubleshoot. You will also be able to detect underutilized Cloud PCs and have the ability to upsize or downsize them to match demand.
Jeremy Chapman then shows new integration coming with Citrix HDX+ for Windows 365 to easily connect the services, an early look of defining and enforcing Citrix policies from within Intune, and how you can use the Citrix Workspace app to access your Windows 365 Cloud PCs along with the familiar Citrix HDX user experience.
And watch till the end to see the updates for Windows 365 Business Edition, including how you can use a Microsoft account like outlook.com for secure login, and new integration coming to enroll Business Edition Cloud PCs easily into Intune for management.
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00:00 What's new and what's coming for Windows 365
01:35 New Windows 365 app, now in preview
04:24 New and upcoming management controls for Windows 365 in Intune
08:45 What's coming with Citrix HDX+ for Windows 365
10:41 Updates for Government Community Cloud and shift workers for Windows 365
11:16 What's new for Windows 365 Business Edition
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Windows 365 app: https://www.aka.ms/windows365app
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Find out what’s new and what’s coming in Windows 365, if you're using it or administering the service for your organization, including the new Windows 365 Desktop App to access Cloud PCs, more comprehensive IT management, and new integration with Citrix HDX+ for Windows 365.
Scott Manchester, lead engineer on the Windows 365 team at Microsoft, walks through the new Windows 365 app, in preview, along with all of the updates. There are new controls for Cloud PC backup and restore as well as new monitoring capabilities coming in Microsoft Intune to discover Cloud PCs with slow networking connection speeds and troubleshoot. You will also be able to detect underutilized Cloud PCs and have the ability to upsize or downsize them to match demand.
Jeremy Chapman then shows new integration coming with Citrix HDX+ for Windows 365 to easily connect the services, an early look of defining and enforcing Citrix policies from within Intune, and how you can use the Citrix Workspace app to access your Windows 365 Cloud PCs along with the familiar Citrix HDX user experience.
And watch till the end to see the updates for Windows 365 Business Edition, including how you can use a Microsoft account like outlook.com for secure login, and new integration coming to enroll Business Edition Cloud PCs easily into Intune for management.
► Chapters
00:00 What's new and what's coming for Windows 365
01:35 New Windows 365 app, now in preview
04:24 New and upcoming management controls for Windows 365 in Intune
08:45 What's coming with Citrix HDX+ for Windows 365
10:41 Updates for Government Community Cloud and shift workers for Windows 365
11:16 What's new for Windows 365 Business Edition
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Build, test, and deploy scalable apps quickly with Azure SQL updates for developers. Check out platform enhancements for modern, cloud-based apps:
-Create apps locally with Azure SQL Database emulator
-Initiate serverless operations with SQL trigger in Azure Functions
-Build simple and secure API connections to data with Data API Builder, coming soon
Principal Architect from the SQL engineering team at Microsoft, Bob Ward, joins Jeremy Chapman to share recent updates for the developer experience.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:41 - Highlights of solutions for developers
03:13 - Built-in query intelligence
05:56 - Azure SQL Database emulator
07:44 - SQL trigger in Azure Functions
10:44 - Data API Builder
12:32 - Wrap up
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Get published code for assigning work orders based on geolocation at https://aka.ms/sqlgeocodesample
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Build, test, and deploy scalable apps quickly with Azure SQL updates for developers. Check out platform enhancements for modern, cloud-based apps:
-Create apps locally with Azure SQL Database emulator
-Initiate serverless operations with SQL trigger in Azure Functions
-Build simple and secure API connections to data with Data API Builder, coming soon
Principal Architect from the SQL engineering team at Microsoft, Bob Ward, joins Jeremy Chapman to share recent updates for the developer experience.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:41 - Highlights of solutions for developers
03:13 - Built-in query intelligence
05:56 - Azure SQL Database emulator
07:44 - SQL trigger in Azure Functions
10:44 - Data API Builder
12:32 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Get published code for assigning work orders based on geolocation at https://aka.ms/sqlgeocodesample
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New hybrid deployment options for Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc. As a developer, see how to deploy AKS on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 IoT devices at the edge, as well as improve integration with Azure AD for secure access to AAD-enabled resources. For admins, get key updates on Azure Fleet Manager, a single management view for your Kubernetes clusters, along with monitoring updates using managed Grafana and the Prometheus add-on for aggregated insights.
Principal PM Lead for Azure Kubernetes Service, Jorge Palma, shares how AKS combined with Azure Arc gives you the ability to run AKS anywhere you need it.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Demo: Deploy an on-prem Arc-enabled AKS cluster
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05:22 - Apply changes to production environment
06:11 - AKS updates
07:58 - Wrap up
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New hybrid deployment options for Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc. As a developer, see how to deploy AKS on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 IoT devices at the edge, as well as improve integration with Azure AD for secure access to AAD-enabled resources. For admins, get key updates on Azure Fleet Manager, a single management view for your Kubernetes clusters, along with monitoring updates using managed Grafana and the Prometheus add-on for aggregated insights.
Principal PM Lead for Azure Kubernetes Service, Jorge Palma, shares how AKS combined with Azure Arc gives you the ability to run AKS anywhere you need it.
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00:00 - Introduction
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07:58 - Wrap up
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Lift and shift your confidential VM and container workloads to the cloud —without code changes— for higher levels of data protection. When combined with Azure's stringent attestation measurements, Zero Trust security and confidential computing provide the latest silicon level advances. See your options for data encryption and isolation, starting with the virtual machine layer, to containers running in the encrypted VM, and ultimately Azure Container Instances.
From the Azure confidential computing team, Michael McReynolds joins Jeremy Chapman to show how this collectively compares to other options, such as encryption, using application enclaves.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:24 - Options for implementing confidential computing
03:12 - Types of attacks to protect against
04:00 - Confidential VM protections
05:56 - How to create Confidential VMs
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09:38 - Azure Container Instances
11:23 - Wrap up
► Link References:
More information on Azure confidential computing at https://aka.ms/AzureCC
Sign up to preview confidential containers on ACI at https://aka.ms/ConfidentialACI
Get tools for generating attestation reports at https://aka.ms/CVMAttestation
Watch our migration series at https://aka.ms/mechanicsazuremigrate
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Lift and shift your confidential VM and container workloads to the cloud —without code changes— for higher levels of data protection. When combined with Azure's stringent attestation measurements, Zero Trust security and confidential computing provide the latest silicon level advances. See your options for data encryption and isolation, starting with the virtual machine layer, to containers running in the encrypted VM, and ultimately Azure Container Instances.
From the Azure confidential computing team, Michael McReynolds joins Jeremy Chapman to show how this collectively compares to other options, such as encryption, using application enclaves.
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00:00 - Introduction
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03:12 - Types of attacks to protect against
04:00 - Confidential VM protections
05:56 - How to create Confidential VMs
08:01 - Container-based architecture advantages
09:38 - Azure Container Instances
11:23 - Wrap up
► Link References:
More information on Azure confidential computing at https://aka.ms/AzureCC
Sign up to preview confidential containers on ACI at https://aka.ms/ConfidentialACI
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Watch our migration series at https://aka.ms/mechanicsazuremigrate
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Build highly scalable applications using the distributed Postgres relational database in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. See how it works with current Postgres tools, how to scale out with distributed tables and nodes to keep apps responsive, and how to eliminate latency with geo-replication capabilities for globally distributed apps.
Cosmos DB has a variety of APIs, including native NoSQL and compatible APIs, targeted at NoSQL workloads. With the introduction of Postgres, Cosmos DB offers relational capabilities— a key cornerstone for application developers.
With distributed Postgres in Cosmos DB, you can build highly scalable, cloud native apps using NoSQL and relational capabilities within a single managed service. Principal Group Program Manager, Charles Feddersen, from the Cosmos DB team joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through the process.
Join the Azure Cosmos DB team for all our announcements from Ignite 2022. Visit https://aka.ms/azurecosmosdbliftoff
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00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Relational capabilities and scalability
01:46 - See it in action
02:48 - Connect code to cluster
05:20 - Scaling your application
07:49 - SaaS application example
11:05 - Geo-replication
13:21 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Build highly scalable applications using the distributed Postgres relational database in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. See how it works with current Postgres tools, how to scale out with distributed tables and nodes to keep apps responsive, and how to eliminate latency with geo-replication capabilities for globally distributed apps.
Cosmos DB has a variety of APIs, including native NoSQL and compatible APIs, targeted at NoSQL workloads. With the introduction of Postgres, Cosmos DB offers relational capabilities— a key cornerstone for application developers.
With distributed Postgres in Cosmos DB, you can build highly scalable, cloud native apps using NoSQL and relational capabilities within a single managed service. Principal Group Program Manager, Charles Feddersen, from the Cosmos DB team joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through the process.
Join the Azure Cosmos DB team for all our announcements from Ignite 2022. Visit https://aka.ms/azurecosmosdbliftoff
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00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Relational capabilities and scalability
01:46 - See it in action
02:48 - Connect code to cluster
05:20 - Scaling your application
07:49 - SaaS application example
11:05 - Geo-replication
13:21 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Build low code apps and processes easily with the latest updates to Microsoft's Power Platform. Move quickly from ideation on paper, to automatic Power App creation with AI-assisted app development through Express design. Then tie those apps to business processes using natural language to generate automated workflows in Power Automate. For IT admins, we show how the new Managed Environments provide the foundation for better management and governance over data used in your apps and flows.
Business Applications and Platform CVP, Charles Lamanna, joins Jeremy Chapman to go through all the updates with the Power Platform.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:14 - How to convert drawings into Power Apps
03:56 - How to generate the backend of an app
05:10 - Natural language to flow
07:40 - More sophisticated app design
09:12 - Managed Environments
12:13 - Wrap up
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Try it for yourself at https://www.powerplatform.microsoft.com
Check out Charles Lamanna’s blog for recent updates at https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformIgnite22
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Build low code apps and processes easily with the latest updates to Microsoft's Power Platform. Move quickly from ideation on paper, to automatic Power App creation with AI-assisted app development through Express design. Then tie those apps to business processes using natural language to generate automated workflows in Power Automate. For IT admins, we show how the new Managed Environments provide the foundation for better management and governance over data used in your apps and flows.
Business Applications and Platform CVP, Charles Lamanna, joins Jeremy Chapman to go through all the updates with the Power Platform.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:14 - How to convert drawings into Power Apps
03:56 - How to generate the backend of an app
05:10 - Natural language to flow
07:40 - More sophisticated app design
09:12 - Managed Environments
12:13 - Wrap up
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Try it for yourself at https://www.powerplatform.microsoft.com
Check out Charles Lamanna’s blog for recent updates at https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformIgnite22
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Understand and assemble content at scale, discover and reuse your content in intelligent ways, and as an admin, analyze and protect content. Microsoft Syntex content AI services integrate with your digital estate in Microsoft 365 and offer new pay-as-you-go experiences.
Product Management CVP for Microsoft 365, Omar Shahine, joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate what’s available now and what’s coming soon.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Origins of Syntex
01:47 - IT capabilities
02:29 - Demo: Understand and assemble content
04:44 - Demo: New content creation
07:51 - Content AI
08:26 - Admin roles
11:26 - How to set up Syntex
12:07 - Wrap up
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Understand and assemble content at scale, discover and reuse your content in intelligent ways, and as an admin, analyze and protect content. Microsoft Syntex content AI services integrate with your digital estate in Microsoft 365 and offer new pay-as-you-go experiences.
Product Management CVP for Microsoft 365, Omar Shahine, joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate what’s available now and what’s coming soon.
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Find out about the all-new Surface Pro 9 on the 10th anniversary of the Surface Pro line. A secured-core PC, we’ll look at the silicon choices from the 12th Gen Intel® processors built on the Intel® Evo™ platform for work-station class power, to the ARM-based Microsoft SQ® 3 powered by Qualcomm® SnapDragon® with 5G, for superior mobility and performance on the go.
Dave Mitchell, who leads the team that engineers Surface Pro, gives a hands-on review with all the details on performance, hardware options, new capabilities brought to life by the NPU in Surface Pro 9 with 5G, and the new Firmware Attack Surface Reduction (FASR) implementation to meet Secured-core PC standards. We'll showcase the engineering journey of the Surface Pro line and how it's influenced the rest of the Surface line along with updates for enterprise device admins, including new, more granular firmware controls from Intune.
Stick around till the end to see the new Surface Laptop 5, also a Secured-core PC with 12th Gen Intel® processors built on the Intel® Evo™ platform, and the new Surface Studio 2+ with its updated internals, including Intel® Core™ i7 processor and Thunderbolt™ 4 ports.
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00:00 - Surface Pro 9 overview and what's coming up
00:51 - Surface Pro line's 10-year anniversary
02:46 - Details of both Surface Pro 9 chipset options
04:10 - Surface Pro 9 with Intel specifics
05:30 - Surface Pro 9 with 5G (ARM) specifics
06:59 - NPU for Background Blur, Automatic Framing, Eye Contact & Voice Focus
09:30 - Security updates with FASR (Intel), D-RTM and Microsoft Pluton (ARM)
10:21 - Device management updates with Intune
10:55 - Hardware serviceability and repair options
11:25 - Surface Studio 2+ updates
11:52 - Surface Laptop 5 built on the Intel Evo platform
12:39 - Find out more about Microsoft Surface for Business
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Find out about the all-new Surface Pro 9 on the 10th anniversary of the Surface Pro line. A secured-core PC, we’ll look at the silicon choices from the 12th Gen Intel® processors built on the Intel® Evo™ platform for work-station class power, to the ARM-based Microsoft SQ® 3 powered by Qualcomm® SnapDragon® with 5G, for superior mobility and performance on the go.
Dave Mitchell, who leads the team that engineers Surface Pro, gives a hands-on review with all the details on performance, hardware options, new capabilities brought to life by the NPU in Surface Pro 9 with 5G, and the new Firmware Attack Surface Reduction (FASR) implementation to meet Secured-core PC standards. We'll showcase the engineering journey of the Surface Pro line and how it's influenced the rest of the Surface line along with updates for enterprise device admins, including new, more granular firmware controls from Intune.
Stick around till the end to see the new Surface Laptop 5, also a Secured-core PC with 12th Gen Intel® processors built on the Intel® Evo™ platform, and the new Surface Studio 2+ with its updated internals, including Intel® Core™ i7 processor and Thunderbolt™ 4 ports.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Surface Pro 9 overview and what's coming up
00:51 - Surface Pro line's 10-year anniversary
02:46 - Details of both Surface Pro 9 chipset options
04:10 - Surface Pro 9 with Intel specifics
05:30 - Surface Pro 9 with 5G (ARM) specifics
06:59 - NPU for Background Blur, Automatic Framing, Eye Contact & Voice Focus
09:30 - Security updates with FASR (Intel), D-RTM and Microsoft Pluton (ARM)
10:21 - Device management updates with Intune
10:55 - Hardware serviceability and repair options
11:25 - Surface Studio 2+ updates
11:52 - Surface Laptop 5 built on the Intel Evo platform
12:39 - Find out more about Microsoft Surface for Business
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These are the best practices and tips to set yourself up for success with Windows Autopilot. Windows Autopilot is a feature within Intune that allows you to send devices directly from hardware providers to end users.
New device provisioning is foundational to cloud attach and cloud-based update management. During initial Windows setup, Autopilot enables users to enroll their device through Intune device management, so PCs get to a managed and productive state without reimaging.
Principal GPM for Microsoft Windows, Jason Githens, compares the benefits and tradeoffs of Azure AD Join versus Windows Autopilot and shows how to enable Windows Autopilot for easy device enrollment.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Options to enroll devices into Intune
02:56 - Benefits and tradeoffs of Windows Autopilot
04:05 - Admin setup
05:07 - Autopilot settings
07:37 - Tips for success
08:43 - Wrap up
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Get started at https://aka.ms/WindowsAutopilotDocs
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These are the best practices and tips to set yourself up for success with Windows Autopilot. Windows Autopilot is a feature within Intune that allows you to send devices directly from hardware providers to end users.
New device provisioning is foundational to cloud attach and cloud-based update management. During initial Windows setup, Autopilot enables users to enroll their device through Intune device management, so PCs get to a managed and productive state without reimaging.
Principal GPM for Microsoft Windows, Jason Githens, compares the benefits and tradeoffs of Azure AD Join versus Windows Autopilot and shows how to enable Windows Autopilot for easy device enrollment.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Options to enroll devices into Intune
02:56 - Benefits and tradeoffs of Windows Autopilot
04:05 - Admin setup
05:07 - Autopilot settings
07:37 - Tips for success
08:43 - Wrap up
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Bring organizations together to engage across both personal and professional interests with Microsoft Viva Engage, a new experience in Teams and Outlook. The shift to hybrid workplaces has made it harder for employees to connect, engage, and build communities within their internal network. If you’re new to Viva Engage, it’s the evolution of the Yammer Communities app integrated in Microsoft Teams and will be coming soon to Outlook.
We’ll show you how it helps build communities within your internal network, and how you can share experiences and insights with the new Storyline capability using Stories - short videos and pictures that allow you to capture and share key moments. And take a look at a new feature called Answers that helps everyone find answers to their questions and receive guidance from experts across their organization.
Michael Holste, Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft, demonstrates how Viva Engage helps your organization stay connected using familiar tools and platforms.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Core Experiences
01:50 - Using the New Storyline Capability
02:55 - First Look at Premium Features
03:40 - Leadership Corner
04:41 - Social Campaigns
05:11 - Answers Hub
06:22 - Top IT Considerations/Questions
07:28 - Wrap Up
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Go inside our new cloud service with ring-based deployment built-in for the automation of software update management for Windows, Microsoft Edge and your Office and Microsoft 365 apps, including Teams. Windows Autopatch will provide upcoming support for Windows 11 upgrades. If you're using our premium subscription services, it may be available to you at no additional cost.
Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, reverse engineers Windows Autopatch service to show how it works (within Intune and Azure Active Directory), how to get it running, and the time saving configurations it makes on your behalf.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:11 - Enable Windows Autopatch
02:58 - Register devices
05:47 - How sequenced rollouts work
08:19 - Behind broad ring policy
09:42 - Office and Microsoft 365 app updates
10:13 - Wrap up
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See how to create confidential clouds that host sensitive data in public clouds with Intel Software Guard Extension, as part of Azure confidential computing. Protect your sensitive information in the Cloud.
Mitigate privileged access attacks with hardware enforced protection of sensitive data, and protect against data exfiltration from memory. Beyond security, we’ll demonstrate machine learning analytics on multi-party data.
Data center security expert, Mike Ferron-Jones from Intel, gives you an exclusive look at Microsoft’s work with Intel.
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04:08 - Example of a cross tenant data exfiltration attack
06:09 - Protect your data in use: Confidential computing
07:01 - Mitigate privilege escalation attacks with Intel SGX
09:20 - New confidential computing scenarios
13:54 - Wrap up
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With remote work and a changing data landscape, risk of data theft has reached new heights - Insider Risk Management helps protect against those risks. Watch the step-by-step tutorial for implementing an Insider Risk Management solution for your organization as part of Microsoft Purview.
It's surprisingly simple to build a baseline for managing activity inside your organization - from getting everything running, to setting policy on the types of violations that should raise system alerts, to assigning permissions for those who should have oversight and a level of incident detail they can see. While more advanced settings like intelligent detections define un-allowed and allowed domains and risk score boosters detect unusual activities or previous policy violations.
Talhah Mir, from the Microsoft Purview team, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you how to set up Insider Risk Management with Microsoft Purview.
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00:00 Introduction
00:52 The best way to get started
01:13 Customize core experiences and insights
02:31 How to implement Purview for the first time
03:55 Set permissions
04:47 Customization
07:19 Create policies
07:55 Specify content priority
09:23 Define how a policy gets triggered
11:48 Two categories of detection
12:57 How to sign up for CS management in Microsoft Purview
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We're all trying to work faster and smarter to solve today's data-driven challenges. Microsoft's Intelligent Data Platform can help by removing silos around data and providing near real-time insights, augmented with predictive AI and built-in controls that protect your data wherever it goes.
Sharieff Mansour, a leader on the Data and AI team at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman for a closer look at how databases, analytics, machine learning, and governance come together in the Intelligent Data Platform. See how you can use these integrated services to build powerful new apps or modernize your current ones.
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00:00 Introduction of Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
01:05 Improve the way you work with data
01:37 Foundational advantages of Intelligent Data Platform
02:09 Demo of how Intelligent Data Platform solves a real-world problem
05:30 Tech behind the app
07:37 Built-in AI predictions
10:32 Remove tech and people silos to make data work for you
12:04 Personalize customer interaction with Power Virtual Agent BOT
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Run business-critical data workloads on-premises while you interact with servers across clouds. See what’s new when you build and operate hybrid workloads on Azure with Azure Arc. Check out the highlights of how hybrid development and management across Azure, on-premises, edge and multi-cloud services and infrastructure are enabled through Azure Arc.
For most of us, hybrid architecture is now a fact of life. There will always be some combination of on-premises infrastructure, along with edge locations like branch offices or devices running on the edge with IoT. You might also be using services across multiple public clouds. While it can lead to more complexity, hybrid architectures are often needed to achieve compliance, data sovereignty, and to solve for latency.
Apoorva Nori, Azure Program Manager at Microsoft, will show you how you can now build your apps and hybrid workloads to run ANYWHERE and get the benefits of Azure services with Azure Arc. Tour newly Arc-enabled services and infrastructure that help you build your own cloud-native apps and workloads to run what you need, where you need it.
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00:00 Introduction of Hybrid Azure Arc updates
01:08 The basics of Azure Arc
02:18 Updates to integrated toolset for building could-native apps on Kubernetes
03:18 Seamlessly roll out updates to apps without any downtime with Arc-enabled cluster
04:22 Run Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical on your hardware
05:57 Updates to Azure control plane
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Run business-critical data workloads on-premises while you interact with servers across clouds. See what’s new when you build and operate hybrid workloads on Azure with Azure Arc. Check out the highlights of how hybrid development and management across Azure, on-premises, edge and multi-cloud services and infrastructure are enabled through Azure Arc.
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Apoorva Nori, Azure Program Manager at Microsoft, will show you how you can now build your apps and hybrid workloads to run ANYWHERE and get the benefits of Azure services with Azure Arc. Tour newly Arc-enabled services and infrastructure that help you build your own cloud-native apps and workloads to run what you need, where you need it.
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02:18 Updates to integrated toolset for building could-native apps on Kubernetes
03:18 Seamlessly roll out updates to apps without any downtime with Arc-enabled cluster
04:22 Run Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical on your hardware
05:57 Updates to Azure control plane
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If you’re a manager or a team member, Viva Goals makes it easier to align and stay focused on the strategic priorities of your organization and work together to accelerate progress.
Vetri Vellore, Viva Goals team lead at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman for a closer look at how this brand-new goal setting and management solution helps drive clarity around your objectives and key results, and makes it seamless for teams to track progress against them as they work. If you are a team leader, we’ll show you the intuitive goal setting experience, along with Microsoft 365 integration for your team members to record their contribution to goals. For admins, we'll demonstrate how quickly you can set everything up.
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00:00 Introduction of Microsoft Viva Goals
00:46 Overview of Microsoft Viva experiences
01:06 What's behind Viva Goals
02:49 Overview of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework
05:16 How to create and track OKRs with Viva Goals
07:06 Add/track data for status updates
09:13 Dashboard to measure progress against organizational goals
10:22 How to create a Key Result
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If you're running Office 2016 or earlier, see your best options to configure Office for deployment and how you can predictably manage updates for newer versions of Office whether you're targeting a few dozen or a few thousand users. Host Jeremy Chapman answers your top questions for Office and Microsoft 365 app deployment and servicing.
Importantly, Office 2016 & 2019 won’t be supported for connecting to Microsoft 365 services, including Exchange Online, starting Oct 2023. And Security updates for Office 2013 will end in April 2023. Don't wait until the last minute - now is a great time to upgrade.
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00:00 Introduction of Office and Microsoft Apps deployment and update management
00:26 What's different and what's the same
00:50 Click to Run overview
01:40 Tooling updates
01:50 Microsoft 365 Apps admin center overview
02:30 New policy controls
03:20 Changes to how updates are managed
05:33 How to create a servicing profile
07:40 Controls exclusive to Microsoft 365 Apps admin center
09:05 Key support expiration dates to consider
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Run automation flows unattended and scale to work simultaneously on multiple Windows VMs, for even the most challenging tasks. If you’re thinking this is something you’ve been able to do before, we'll show how it’s much easier to get started with Hosted RPA Bots and Virtual Machines operating in Azure.
Ashvini Sharma, Partner GPM from the Microsoft Power Automate team, walks you through how to automate repetitive, mundane tasks across legacy and modern systems at scale using Power Automate’s new Hosted RPA Bots service (preview). Expanded capabilities make integration easier. Now anyone can set up unattended bots to run large scale automations in minutes with just a few basic parameters. You don't even need an Azure subscription.
For more information, check out 'The "Mechanics" of hosted RPA bots blog at https://aka.ms/HostedRPAbotsdocs
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00:00 Introduction of Power Automate's new Hosted RPA Bots service
00:46 Demonstration of how to set up Hosted RPA Bots
02:17 How to create new machine group parameters
03:22 How to update cloud flow running automation
4:11 Preview a sample run queue
5:19 How to manage number of bots running at one time
5:54 New capabilities based on your feedback
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Are you a device administrator responsible for updating Windows on dozens, hundreds, or thousands of PCs? Have you used WSUS, Configuration Manager or Intune? In this show, we'll explain all of the options and for managing Windows Updates from the cloud using Microsoft Endpoint Manager and how it compares to your options in Configuration Manager and WSUS.
Jason Githens from the Windows Management team at Microsoft joins Jeremy Chapman for a full tour of Microsoft Endpoint Manager's Windows Update ring, feature update, and quality update policies. These policies add a layer of control on top of Windows Update for Business Group Policy settings and are part of the foundation for Windows Autopatch. We'll take a look at your options and how to use each of them, along with best practice recommendations.
For more information, check out 'The "Mechanics" of cloud-based update management' blog at https://aka.ms/WufBMechanicsBlog
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00:00 Introduction of Windows Update management through Endpoint Manager
00:50 New options to manage Windows updates from the cloud
01:28 Configuration Manager vs. cloud-based update management
02:50 How to set up Configuration Manager using Cloud Attach
5:05 An overview of Windows Update rings
8:03 Create Windows feature and quality updates
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View an interactive guide for the Cloud Attach process at: aka.ms/CloudAttach
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Simplify your Kubernetes experience, without compromising the power of what it can do. If you're experienced or new to cloud-native apps, you'll get a closer look at the recent updates for Azure Kubernetes Service to improve and streamline the developer experience, with the new open-source Draft bootstrapping tool, to containerize and prepare your apps for deployment, along with the new managed Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscaler – or KEDA.
And for operators, we’ll share how you can now run Kubernetes in ARM-based VMs, and Windows Server 2022 node pools, as well as storage driver and traffic optimizations in Azure to speed up performance.
Join Jorge Palma, Principal PM Lead, from the Azure Kubernetes Service Team and Jeremy Chapman as they walk you through the benefits and details of building, scaling and operating Kubernetes workloads in Azure.
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00:00 Intro to recent updates for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
01:49 What are Smart Defaults and how do they help you get started?
03:39 What is the fastest way to get an app running on Kubernetes?
04:57 How does the Draft bootstrapping tool make Kubernetes easier?
09:58 What is Azure managed Grafana and how does it improve monitoring
10:38 Kubernetes can target Windows Server 2022 and ARM-based VMs
11:06 Performance updates to storage drivers
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As you build new Cloud-based services and migrate or modernize check out the new tools to assess where you are in your Cloud journey and how to automate the build out of recommended foundational services to host your workloads in Azure. We take a look at updates to the Azure Landing Zone guidance, that gives you proven best practices, architectural blueprint and tooling.
Whether you're in a data center, you need to move fast to accommodate new circumstances for your organization, or you simply started experimenting with new services—that experimental workload could be playing an essential role in your operations, while the long-term foundation for your workload might be overlooked. This overview details how recent Azure Landing Zone updates are all about setting you up properly for future growth and scale, while addressing current realities.
Anyone who's building on the Cloud knows you don't always know what you don't know. Instead of going through the pain of experience, Azure Landing Zone gives you a clear path forward to avoid specific gotchas from the get go.
Azure Landing Zone expert Matt McSpirit joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through recent updates.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 Introduction of Azure Landing Zone updates
00:49 Driving events that push you to consider the Cloud
01:42 Updates to the architecture
02:24 Modular approach that's scalable and repeatable
03:40 Root Management Group - organize subscriptions for services
04:30 On ramps for various starting points
05:43 Land Zone Review
7:50 Build with Landing Zone Accelerator
11:08 How to get started
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Assess where your organization lands in the Cloud adoption framework: aka.ms/landingzonereview
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Get more done and stay productive wherever you work with Surface Duo 2. Completely re-engineered from the original Surface Duo with a comprehensive design that includes leading mobile productivity with Office 365, best-in-class immersive displays, ultra-fast 5G connectivity, as well as uncompromised camera experiences complemented by powerful intuitive software. Take a tour inside one of the thinnest foldable devices ever created.
Surface Duo 2 opens up new possibilities for multitasking in a hybrid work environment. Built with deep integration into the Windows experience and phone link apps that keep you in sync with everything happening inside the office environment wherever you choose to work. Two high-resolution 5.8-inch PixelSense™ Fusion touch displays with a brighter, more immersive 8.3-inch view allow you to see colleagues on video and view shared presentations simultaneously. Full-range internal stereo speakers guarantee an excellent audio experience with left and right channels that automatically adjust. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G processor with eight gigabytes of RAM, all-day battery life, and 28 hours of talk time, Surface Duo 2's innovative design is built to perform.
Jeremy Chapman gives you a look inside Surface Duo 2, Microsoft's two screen mobile device that brings limitless possibilities for the way you want to work.
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00:00 Introduction of Surface Duo 2
00:24 Surface Duo 2's updated design
00:52 New features, possibilities for multitasking
02:07 One touch power on button with fingerprint reader
02:35 Reduce brain strain with these multitasking options
03:29 Tools to enhance your mobile work environment
04:37 Flexible device management options
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Are you using spreadsheets to manage your regulatory compliance now? You can modernize the process and reduce the time it takes to decipher and comply with regulations that impact your organization. Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview breaks down compliance criteria to actionable control and manual processes for over 350 regulations and standards globally.
If you're concerned about security and data protection, compliance should also be your concern. Think about cases where data is maintained for 12 months and you've accumulated it for over 10 or 20 years; this makes an attack surface 10 or 20 times larger than it needs to be. And from a regulatory standpoint, in many respects, the risk of not hitting compliance requirements can be far more damaging than a data breach.
When you put in place or meet the majority of compliance requirements, this can lead to a greater protection response of security and privacy threats in the future. Compliance Manager gives you precise guidance on the capabilities you can turn on in Microsoft and other cloud services to meet specific requirements without relying on interpretation.
You can digitize the workflow for collaborating with others in your organization while assigning and documenting actions, including any manual processes. All of which makes it easier to prepare for auditors.
Join Daniel Hidalgo from the Microsoft Purview team and Jeremy Chapman as they walk you through the benefits and details of Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 Introduction to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
00:58 Why you want to use Compliance Manager
03:18 How to assess you compliance
05:22 Run assessment based on specific regulation or a standard
06:16 Check compliance regardless of service (Google Cloud, Okta, Salesforce)
09:38 Collaboration experience of Compliance Manager
11:01 Allocating permissions
11:33 Setting up alerts
12:24 Export materials to auditors
13:04 How to stay up to date with regulation changes
13:48 How to sign up for Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview
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Compliance Score detail: https://aka.ms/ComplianceScoreCalc
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A first look at the new Microsoft service that leverages Windows 365 infrastructure to stream secure, ready-to-code developer workstations on demand.
Setting up a dev box is extremely arduous for both geographically distributed and co-located development teams. As a developer, you're configuring different environments, weekly, and monthly, for new projects or team members. And it's not unusual for you to have costly over spec'd physical machines under your desk or hosted virtual machines set up for specific projects.
As a developer, you may need to access and work with sensitive source code or elevated privileges on your local dev environments to install custom tools in SDKs. It can be a difficult task for IT to give developers the flexibility they need while keeping devices secure.
Head of product for Microsoft's developer division, Amanda Silver, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the benefits of the new Microsoft Dev Box service; a self-service experience for quickly creating dev environments when you need them. And if you manage developer teams, you'll see how to efficiently configure and assign dev boxes that include the right tools for the job.
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 The benefit of Dev Box
03:12 How does Microsoft Dev Box work?
04:28 Developer experience of Dev Box
05:13 How to connect to your Dev Box
07:33 How to get it up and running
08:23 What is a dev box pool?
11:08 Security & Management of Dev Box
12:45 How to get started
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New updates have come to Power Virtual Agents, our low-code bot creation service that’s part of the Microsoft Power Platform. We’ll show you how this single environment enables fusion teams of citizen and pro developers to author bots that are more engaging with dynamic custom greetings, in addition to quick replies, and more sophisticated and visual through adaptive cards.
Gary Pretty, from the Power Platform Team, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through all of this along with the deep Power FX integration to dynamically adapt bot responses using variables, as well as new native telephony integration that gives your bot a voice.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:23 - New changes
03:22 - Demo- topic navigation, question nodes
04:33 - Next level low-code capabilities
07:24 - Citizen developer and pro dev collaboration
10:06 - Telephony integration
12:17 - Wrap up
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Datamart is a new self-service capability included with Power BI Premium that reduces the time it takes to do custom departmental reporting, from weeks to minutes. In just a few clicks, both business users and analysts can easily create and access their own mix of data from dozens of the most common data types and services, all backed by Azure SQL that brings elastic scale and ad-hoc analysis to Power BI. Charles Webb, from the data team at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you a Datamart in action.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - What changes with Datamart?
02:21 - See Datamart in action
05:34 - Analyst experience
06:32 - Complex requests
09:24 - Pull Data with T-SQL
12:01 - Where to get started
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Microsoft Security Experts is a new service category that combines expert-trained technology and product innovation with human-led services. In this show, Kelly Bissel, CVP of Microsoft Security Services, demonstrates how the Microsoft Security Services organization can now manage your security operations for you and with you, and the difference this can make in the timely mitigation of a real ransomware attack.
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00:00 - How Microsoft Security Services can help?
01:01 - What types of services are available?
05:07 - How is a real ransomware attack is managed?
10:55 - Wrap-up
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Run big unattended automation jobs across multiple VMs dynamically at scale, with the new Azure Virtual Desktop integration starter kit. Ashvini Sharma, from the Power Automate engineering team, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share recent updates to Power Automate such as the addition of dynamically, scalable unattended Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Power Automate flows can run in a virtual machine using an automation account, and that VM doesn't need to be constantly running. It can wake up, run your automation, and then stop on a schedule.
Use the Azure Virtual Desktop integration starter kit to run large-scale automations and scale out the number of virtual machines to distribute your flows across multiple computers. Once the automation is complete, it can shut down your VMs, so you don't have to pay for idle compute.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:08 - How to build and scale out automation
05:00 - Directly parse information to a PDF doc
06:11 - Unattended RPA
08:18 - Scaling strategy with Azure Virtual Desktop
11:00 - Wrap up
► Link References:
To learn more, check out https://www.PowerAutomate.com
Watch our previous show on RPA with Power Automate at https://aka.ms/MechanicsRPA
Find the Azure Virtual Desktop integration starter kit at https://aka.ms/AVDPA
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How do you manage insider risk with your staff? What are some of the employee actions that can be automatically discovered? Now, with more and more organizations now supporting hybrid work scenarios and managing employee turnover, insider risk of employee data theft is higher than ever.
In this show, Talhah Mir, lead engineer on the insider risk solutions team at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through the latest privacy-enabled insider risk management solutions, now part of Microsoft Purview. They’ll show you how these use machine learning to automatically identify high risk incidents such as data theft, and how it provides the context and workflow you need for the right stakeholders to take appropriate actions.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - What Insider Risk Management in Microsoft Purview?
00:35 - Is the "Great Resignation" impacting insider risk?
02:48 - How to manage insider risk of employee data theft?
11:20 - How to maintain internal communication compliance?
13:33 - How to get started with Microsoft Purview
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To learn more insider risk management tools at https://aka.ms/insiderriskdocs
Try out Microsoft Purview if you're using Microsoft 365 E3 at https://aka.ms/PurviewTrial
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What's in store for Windows 365? Get a early look at what’s coming for Cloud PC experiences with Windows 365, including deeper Windows 11 integration with capabilities for booting directly to your Cloud PC, the new Windows 365 app experience, as well as switching from your local device to your Cloud PC. For admins, we’ll show you how setup and management is easy with native, fully cloud managed Azure Active Directory authentication for your Windows 365 Cloud PCs and the new Windows 365 Business simplified admin experience. Scott Manchester, Partner Director PM for Windows 365, joins Jeremy Chapman to share all the Windows 365 updates.
- Windows 365 Boot will allow specialized devices to go from powering on, to logging in directly to your Cloud PC.
- Windows 365 Switch will enable fast desktop switching via the Task View in Windows 11 to move to your Cloud PC and from there back to your local desktop.
- Windows 365 app will be included in a future Windows 11 release and available for Windows 10, which allows you to access your Cloud PCs, manage and troubleshoot them.
- Windows 365 Offline in the future will allow your Cloud PC to sync locally on your device and you'll be able to work without an internet connection; then once you reconnect any changes made will synchronize to your Cloud PC.
- Azure Active Directory Join support for Windows 365 Enterprise is currently in preview and will be generally available in May.
- Updates to the Windows 365 Business portal and simplified management experiences for small businesses, and
- New Microsoft 365 Lighthouse portal integration for partners who manage multiple customer tenants.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:44 - Boot directly to your Cloud PC with Windows 365 Boot
02:44 - How it works behind the scenes
03:35 - Windows 365 app to access and manage your Cloud PC
05:23 - Windows 365 Switch to move between your local device and Cloud PC
06:11 - Admin setup and management updates
08:14 - Windows 365 Business portal
10:35 - Windows 365 Offline for using your Cloud PC when disconnected
11:22 - Wrap-up
► Link References:
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Today we take a closer look at the latest updates to Windows management for hybrid work and what you get when you attach your device management to the Cloud to keep your users and devices up-to-date, productive, and secure.
Jason Githens, from the Microsoft Endpoint Manager team, joins Jeremy Chapman to show upcoming support for driver updates, Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade management using Cloud-based update policies, the new enterprise grade remote help capability, and more.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - Evolution of Windows management
03:29 - Do cloud-based controls compare to on-prem?
04:35 - Update management demo with Endpoint Manager
06:24 - New driver update policies coming to Endpoint Manager
08:12 - Upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 11 at scale
09:49 - How do policy controls compare?
11:48 - New remote help experience in Endpoint Manager
12:33 - Wrap up
► Link References:
To learn more about cloud attached Windows management and how to configure it at https://aka.ms/CloudAttached
Try out the new remote help experience, see how at https://aka.ms/RemoteHelpGuide
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We’ll look at the combined learning experiences and how to deploy and manage all your Windows 11 SE devices at scale using Microsoft Intune for Education. Steve Dispensa, VP of Windows Management, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how Windows 11 SE and the Surface Laptop SE represent purpose-built software and hardware for education.
Windows 11 SE is a new edition of Windows built off of Windows 11. It’s a cloud-first operating system specifically designed for students and teachers, that brings the best of Windows and Microsoft 365 with Office. Windows 11 SE experiences come to life on a new class of affordable OEM partner devices, which start at $249 in the US.
We’ve also launched the Microsoft Surface Laptop SE, purpose-built for education and Windows 11 SE. This brings streamlined performance and more efficient hardware, which leads to greater all-day battery life. Take apart your Surface Laptop SE to replace parts using common tools, without worrying about adhesives.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:08 - Management experience
03:11 - Student experience for Windows 11 SE
04:35 - Install Win32 apps
06:06 - Closer look at Surface Laptop SE
08:11 - Serviceability
09:36 - Device management experience
11:49 - Reset a Windows 11 SE device
12:47 - Wrap up
► Link References:
For more about Windows 11 SE and our OEM partner devices go to https://aka.ms/Windows11SE
Get a supported list of third party apps at https://aka.ms/Windows11SEapps
Find more information about the Surface Laptop SE at to https://www.surface.com/education
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Integrate Power BI Premium Gen2 inherently with Microsoft's collaboration analytics stack — including the new Power BI app for Microsoft Teams that makes it easier to access, share, and act on insights as you work, the latest AI-driven visualization capabilities with Smart Narratives, and achieving near real-time analytics over your enterprise data using Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium Gen2. Vanessa Fournier, Microsoft Power BI Director, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Power BI makes it accessible for everyone to use, from novice to data scientist.
Power BI is the single canvas for business insights, powerful visualizations and AI-driven analytics with hundreds of interactive visualizations at your disposal to build reports and dashboards. And together with Azure Synapse Analytics, it works across all of your data sources, wherever they sit and no matter the size. Within the new Microsoft Teams Power BI app, you can quickly discover and cascade actionable insights, collaborate with others, and make faster, more personal informed decisions. Updates include:
- Microsoft Teams app integration
- Goals functionality
- Smart Narratives
- Hybrid Tables
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:41 - Microsoft Teams integration
04:10 - New Goals functionality
05:41 - Smart Narratives
07:15 - Other smart visualizations with AI
08:48 - Set up Synapse Link for Dataverse
09:24 - Hybrid Tables
11:12 - Wrap up
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See additional capabilities on our blog at powerbi.microsoft.com/blog
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The new Teams Phone Operator Connect Mobile service is an industry first that lets you use a single SIM-enabled mobile phone number across your company provided mobile, desk phone, and Microsoft Teams. This is enterprise-grade security and consistent call quality as you move between mobile voice and data networks. Mahendra Sekaran, VP of Program Management for Microsoft Teams, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the quick admin steps to set up the first fixed mobile convergence productivity solution for business.
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Instead of two business numbers, use and pay for just one SIM-enabled mobile number
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Uplift from a voice-only call to a Teams call. Add video, people, and share content
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As an admin, assign a SIM-enabled phone number to your employees, set policies for enterprise-grade security
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00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Operator Connect Mobile
01:42 - Teams integration
03:35 - See how it works
05:49 - Additional integrations
06:18 - Admin setup and policy setting
08:15 - Wrap up
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Specially built for businesses with up to 300 employees, go beyond traditional AV to proactively protect your devices, to help prevent attacks, and respond to sophisticated threats with the newly announced Microsoft Defender for Business. If you're a partner, see how you can get a unified dashboard for managing multiple customers in one view with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Security CVP, Rob Lefferts, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you quick steps anyone can take to set it up.
- Designed especially for businesses up to 300 employees
- Auto detect and remediate majority of threats
- Monitor threats in real-time
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00:00 - Introduction
01:59 - How is Defender different?
03:34 - Walk through the experience
06:55 - What happens during an attack
10:43 - Logged actions
11:18 - Defender for Microsoft IT partners
14:21 - Wrap up
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Test the resilience of your apps by introducing faults to simulate real-world outages with Azure Chaos Studio. John Engel-Kemnetz, Senior Program Manager for Azure Chaos Studio, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how you can quickly identify failures in your applications —like additional load, high latency, permission issues, and full on outages— to avoid unnecessary downtime.
With Azure Chaos Studio, we've delivered a fully-managed experimentation platform to quickly discover hard-to-find issues. Whether in late-stage development or in production, you can apply controlled chaos to your apps and gather the information needed to resolve issues.
-Introduce faults to simulate the effects of a real-world outage
-Prevent outages to VM hosts, automatically redirect traffic to healthy VMs and zones
-Run resiliency experiments as part of your automated release process
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00:00 - Introduction
01:27 - See how Azure Chaos Studio works
04:32 - Permission model
06:18 - How to prevent real-life outages
08:08 - Choose the right fault
09:18 - Automated release process
10:47 - Wrap up
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Extend Microsoft Teams collaboration experiences by embedding intelligent Power Virtual Agents into Teams chat. Build interactive adaptive cards for bots to share information, assign chatbots to specific security groups so only users with the appropriate permissions can access them, and see how you can make your bot communicate proactively. We'll also show you how Teams can be directly embedded into your Power Apps. Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Lili Cheng, from the Power Platform team, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through the updates:
Extend PVA using the Bot Framework Composer to add adaptive cards
Proactive communication built into bots
Role-based access controls
Embed Teams into your Power Apps
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00:00 - Introduction
02:32 - Adaptive card experience
05:11 - Proactive logic in bots
06:15 - Role-based access controls
07:29 - User initiated requests
08:43 - Proactive requests using the Power Automate logic
09:40 - Bring Teams experience into Power Apps
11:08 - Wrap Up
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The latest updates to configure and manage your Linux workloads in Azure. We recently introduced a new, simpler open source declarative language called Bicep that helps you easily deploy Azure resources. For Red Hat users, we’ll show you the new managed app version of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure, to set up a maintenance-free ansible environment in Azure. Lachie Evenson, Linux and Azure expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how we have focused on removing the learning curve to make it easier to configure and manage your workloads in Azure.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Linux in Azure
02:08 - Azure Bicep
04:20 - Break down big files using modules
06:52 - Red Hat Ansible
08:52 - Deploy new apps or workloads with Ansible
11:25 - Wrap up
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Bicep is available now, learn more at https://aka.ms/bicep
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Free tools and guidance with Azure Advisor and the Well-Architected Review to improve your Azure app performance, reliability, security, operations, and cost. Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can get actionable recommendations to optimize your architecture across these areas.
Even if you've planned and architected your workloads properly, there may still be room for optimization of your existing services. To help with this, the Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenants derived from the experience gathered from real-world implementations. This is defined across five main categories:
Reliability- the ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function.
Security- guidance building a comprehensive strategy to protect applications and data from threats.
Cost optimization- manage costs to maximize the value of what you spend.
Operational excellence- guidance on operations and processes that keep a system running in production.
Performance efficiency- main considerations to ensure your system can monitor and respond to service issues to meet your SLAs.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Five categories of the Well-Architected Framework
01:57 - Actionable recommendations for subscriptions
04:32 - Recommendations for a specific workload
07:22 - Periodic health checks of workloads already deployed and running
08:40 - Wrap up
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If you've got existing workloads in the Azure portal, get started with https://aka.ms/AzureAdvisor
Find guidance and links to all the tools in the Azure Architecture Center at https://aka.ms/Architecture
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Build and deploy container-based apps and microservices at scale, with the new fully managed Azure Container Apps service. Jeff Hollan, serverless technology expert for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to show the benefits and how it works under the covers.
Microservices help teams build and deliver apps faster and more scalable than traditional architectures. Containers are a core piece of tech when building microservices, because they provide a consistent way to package and run microservice code anywhere. You can still run containers and microservices in Azure, but rather than having to do it directly with Kubernetes, get it up and running quickly using Azure Container Apps.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Why use containers and microservices?
03:08 - How Azure Container Apps service differs
05:35 - How it works
07:40 - Modernize existing apps
10:03 - Benefits of modernizing to container apps
11:46 - Wrap up
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Updates to the managed, limitless scale, NoSQL Azure Cosmos DB database. For your smaller apps, get the best cost performance with the new serverless option for on-demand querying and the Azure Cosmos DB free tier for provisioned throughput. For larger workloads, embed and partition your data, and leverage autoscale for cost optimizations. Estefani Arroyo, Azure Cosmos DB Program Manager, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share updates and benefits of Azure Cosmos DB.
Run smaller apps for less than $1/month, pay only by operation
Increase scalability and multi-region support with provisioned throughput
Choose the best partition key- evenly spread operations and data across partitions
Run applications efficiently with autoscale throughput
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00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - How is Azure Cosmos DB different?
02:32 - Scale out architecture
04:33 - Example of new serverless option
06:43 - Free tier and provisioned throughput
07:27 - Run NoSQL workloads at scale
09:58 - Partitioning with partition keys
12:04 - How to identify the cause of throttling
13:42 - Autoscale
15:20 - Wrap up
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Use Microsoft's Power Automate with robotic process automation, or RPA, to extensively automate everyday manual business processes. Xerox and their internal community of citizen developers are using this homegrown expertise to launch a rich catalog of unattended bots as a service to their customers.
Shivani Agarwal, Director of Process Automation at Xerox, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Xerox is using RPA with Microsoft’s Power Automate. See how everyday business users are driving process automation, the sheer breadth of what they're using automation for, and how it's enabled a new revenue stream for the company.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:05 - Automation example by citizen developer
02:57 - See how it runs
04:34 - Transition from Softomotive & using Power Platform
08:11 - Xerox’s automation center of excellence
09:43 - Walk through example of RPA bot services
12:23 - Wrap up
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You'll see recent and upcoming updates to Teams for frontline workers and admins. Timely communication and access to information on the ground makes for faster decision making and leads to increased job satisfaction. We're building distinct frontline experiences crafted for Teams to bring the whole workforce together to communicate and collaborate on one unified platform. Microsoft Team's Vice President, Kristina Behr, joins Jeremy Chapman to share updates for using Teams on the frontline.
New mobile app experiences with Microsoft Viva Connections
Updates to the Teams Walkie Talkie experience for frontline workers to connect and collaborate on the go
Simplified provisioning and device management experiences for admin supporting frontline staff
New APIs and connectors to integrate
Teams with your existing workforce management solutions
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00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Core frontline worker capabilities in Teams
03:17 - Improvements on Teams mobile app (Viva Connections)
04:45 - Walkie Talkie updates
05:50 - Admin experience: Mobile device management updates
07:09 - New onboarding wizard
10:15 - How prepopulated policy package works
11:52 - Integrate Teams with custom apps
13:02 - What’s next for Teams for frontline workers?
13:51 - Wrap up
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Reduce research time for cloud adoption strategy in Azure with new assessment tools. There’s often a lot of room for optimization when you start to move your services to the cloud. Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you how to build solutions the right way, with the least amount of trial and error.
Assessment tools can make it easier to find what you need to build or host your workloads in Azure with the right SLAs and help you to assess and close gaps on skill sets, stakeholder support, business KPIs and budget targets. We’ve packaged up the learning we’ve seen working with organizations. There are common patterns where your adoption strategy for the business can start to break down, and conversely, where they succeed. We’ve used these insights to inform our assessments which are part of our Cloud Adoption Framework — and they are completely free to use.
The Cloud Adoption Strategy Evaluator – look at your current strategy and get broad recommendations as you make the case for building cloud-based solutions
Azure Well-Architected Review – assess things like the reliability, cost management, operational excellence, security and performance efficiency of your workloads
The Cloud Journey Tracker – find the best cloud adoption path based on your needs
Developer Velocity – guidance to boost business performance with your developers
The Governance Benchmark – identify gaps in your organizations current state of governance
Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool – prepare for large scale cloud migrations
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - Assessments in Cloud Adoption Framework
02:51 - Walk through an assessment - tailored recommendations
05:13 - How to share your results
05:53 - How to save your assessments and track progress
06:40 - Assessment questions
07:57 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Find more resources to accelerate your cloud adoption journey at https://aka.ms/adopt
Explore more cloud enablement resources at https://www.azure.com/enablement
Find assessments at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftAssessments
Use the Cloud Adoption Strategy Evaluator assessment at https://aka.ms/StrategyEvaluator
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Options for migrating and modernizing almost any workload as you move it to the cloud in Azure. The act of migration, whichever path you choose, whether infrastructure as a service or platform as a service, opens the door to the modernization of your workloads. The Azure Migrate experience is designed to be a central place to track your progress as you move to the cloud. Join Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure Senior Product Manager, as he shares essential things to know as you go down your migration and modernization path, along with real-world examples.
Numerous programs and tooling experiences for migration and modernization come together in the free Azure Migrate tool, as the hub for large-scale migration of your servers, databases, web apps, and even virtual desktop infrastructure. This includes streamlined discovery of the resources you want to migrate, assessment of their readiness for migration, along with the act of migration itself. Additionally, built-in extensibility with popular existing toolsets help to ease your learning curve.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:05 - Virtual Machines
04:16 - Database migration
06:33 - Web app migration
08:07 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Check out our migration and modernization playlist at https://aka.ms/MechanicsAzureMigrate
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See The American Cancer Society’s full migration story at https://aka.ms/ACSmigration
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Connect to space satellites around the world and bring earth observational data into Azure for analytics via Microsoft and partner ground stations.
Apoorva Nori, from the Azure Space team, joins host Jeremy Chapman to take a first look at the Azure Orbital preview. We’ll show you how it works and how it fits into Microsoft’s strategy with Azure Space to bring cloud connectivity everywhere on earth and to make space satellite data accessible for everyday use cases.
Azure Space marks the convergence between global satellite constellations and the cloud. As the two join together, our purpose is to bring cloud connectivity to even the most remote corners of the earth and connect to satellites and harness the vast amount of data collected from space. This can help solve both long-term trending issues affecting the earth like climate change, or short-term real-time issues such as connected agriculture, monitoring and controlling wildfires, or identifying supply chain bottlenecks.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:58 - Microsoft’s focus with Azure Space
02:16 - Azure Orbital
04:36 - See it in action
07:04 - Examples of space data readings
08:40 - How it works
10:28 - Use cases for world challenges
11:39 - Everyday use cases
15:36 - Wrap up
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Continue using your Internet Explorer dependent sites and web apps, as an individual user or at scale, using IE mode with cloud-managed Microsoft Edge site list for Microsoft 365.
Support for Internet Explorer will end in most versions of Windows 10 as of June 15th, 2022. Microsoft Edge includes IE mode for your IE dependent sites, so you can open them just as you would in Internet Explorer without leaving the Edge browser, and continue using these apps until at least 2029.
Join host Jeremy Chapman as he walks you through the transition to the modern Edge browser.
If you're new to Microsoft Edge as a modern browser, it brings productivity as well as privacy and multiple security options built on the Chromium engine. It's designed for performance and compatibility with current web standards. And importantly, Microsoft Edge is built with a dual engine advantage for compatibility with existing IE dependent sites that you use every day.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - User experience options
03:06 - Admin experience
03:44 - Policy setup and create new site lists
04:52 - Import and publish site lists
05:46 - IE mode configuration
07:14 - Wrap up
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To learn more, check out https://aka.ms/CloudSiteList
Use the Microsoft Edge setup guide to identify sites that require IE mode at https://aka.ms/EdgeAdvisor
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Set up Microsoft Teams Essentials, our new most affordable option. Get the best of Teams with easy instant meetings for anyone — whether they have Teams or not. The Microsoft Teams Essentials experience starts at just $4 per user per month with no meeting time limits. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, walks you through step-by-step setup options.
• Sync your existing calendar with Teams. Configure email to be delivered to both Google and Microsoft services with dual delivery.
• Use Teams without migrating your mailboxes to the cloud. Allow read and write access across calendars in your on-prem mailboxes when using Microsoft Exchange.
• Experience rich online meetings with video and voice, chat-based collaboration with everyone on your team, your customers, or your partners
• Easily share your screen or other content with anyone in the meeting, and work simultaneously on documents in the Microsoft Office experience.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:31 - Setup options
02:19 - Paths to deploy Teams Essentials
04:07 - Walk through configuration
05:42 - Sync calendars with Teams
09:18 - Route mail from Microsoft 365 to Gmail
10:17 - Set up mail flow rules
11:34 - Wrap up
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Check out setup options and sign up for the service at https://aka.ms/TeamsPlans
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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets lets you create and manage a group of virtual machines to run your app or workload and provides sophisticated load-balancing, management, and automation. This is a critical service for creating and dynamically managing thousands of VMs in your environment. If you are new to the service this show will get you up to speed or if you haven’t looked at VM Scale Sets in a while we’ll show you how the service has significantly evolved to help you efficiently architect your apps for centralized configuration, high availability, auto-scaling and performance, cost optimization, security, and more.
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00:00 - Virtual machine scale sets intro
00:32 - What is a virtual machine scale set?
00:47 - Centralized configuration options
02:30 - How do scale sets increase availability?
03:54 - How does autoscaling work?
04:58 - Keeping costs down with VM scale sets
05:47 - Building security into your scale set configurations
06:28 - Where you can learn more about VM scale sets
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Reduce the operational costs of stateless workloads by using Azure Spot Virtual Machines. When compute capacity in Azure frees up, and depending on where you need it, Azure will provision your VM workload on unused compute capacity. Spot VMs are then evicted when Azure needs capacity back or when the current price of using the spot VM is higher than the price threshold you may have specified. This results in considerable discounts. And although the price of your Spot VM will vary based on the amount of unused capacity in Azure, across different VM sizes, and in different Azure regions, you may achieve up to 90% savings compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:54 - Compute options
02:45 - Find the Spot VM right for you
03:30 - Deployment and provisioning options
05:18 - Architect your Spot VM for resilience
06:39 - Wrap up
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A first look at SQL Server 2022—the latest Azure-enabled database and data integration innovations. See what it means for your hybrid workloads, including first-time bi-directional high availability and disaster recovery between Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server, Azure Synapse Link integration with SQL for ETL free near real-time reporting and analytics over your operational data, and new next-generation built-in query intelligence with parameter sensitive plan optimization. Bob Ward, SQL engineering leader, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the focus on this round of updates.
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09:04 - Built-in query intelligence
10:19 - See it in action
12:52 - Wrap up
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Tour updates to improve your hybrid work and collaboration experiences across Microsoft 365. We've focused on capabilities that give you more flexibility in the way you work, whether that's in the office, at home, or anywhere in between.
The latest round of updates fall into two main categories: New ways to securely share your work while collaborating with people inside and outside your organization, and the continuous infusion of intelligence across Microsoft 365 experiences to save you time. Omar Shahine, Microsoft 365 CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through all the updates.
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00:56 - File sharing and what’s new in OneDrive
03:20 - New in OneDrive web experience
04:27 - SharePoint Syntex and user experience
06:35 - Teams and SharePoint connected experiences
07:46 - Capabilities for recorded Teams meetings
09:04 - Updates to Microsoft Lists
10:58 - Updates to Outlook in email
13:36 - Wrap up
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Take advantage of the new pay-as-you-go billing model and seamlessly leverage the low-code Power Platform to spin up Power Apps directly from Azure. We’ll also show you how to package Power Apps as self-contained mobile apps. Charles Lamanna, Microsoft Business Applications & Power Platform CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through updates across the Power Platform.
Pay-as-you-go billing model:
Set it up and link your app to your Azure subscription
Only pay when people use the app
Track usage with new Azure Meters:
Power Apps per app meter- accrue costs per unique user of the app each month
Dataverse meter- get two gigabytes of storage + new overage billing when you go over limits
Use Azure Cost Management to track your spending and create budgets and alerts
Package Power Apps as standalone mobile apps:
Tailor and customize each app experience.
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00:59 - Pay-as-you-go
01:45 - Track usage with Azure meters
04:07 - Standalone Mobile apps
05:41 - Updates used by Xiaomi's demo app
06:56 - Additional updates
08:59 - Wrap up
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Take a look at the just announced capability to run Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI on premises, as well as a roundup of what's new in hybrid management across platforms with Azure Arc. Azure Virtual Desktop, formerly known as Windows Virtual Desktop, used to be an all or nothing decision in order to run your VMs from the Azure cloud. Now you can use Azure, Azure Stack HCI, and use Windows 10 multi-session in a hybrid environment where you get the full Windows experience along with cost efficiency. Matt McSpirit, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the latest Azure hybrid updates:
A unified management plane in the Azure cloud for your virtual desktops, whether they're running in the cloud or locally on Azure Stack HCI
Manage Azure Stack HCI physical hosts and clusters at scale with Azure Arc
Deploy a VM from the Azure portal to your on-prem VMware environment
Up-to-date inventory of your VMware resource pools, clusters, hosts, and virtual networks all in your VMware environment in the Azure portal
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00:00 - Introduction
02:05 - See it in action: Admin experience
03:51 - Other benefits to Azure Virtual Desktop
05:14 - Workloads running on Azure Stack HCI
07:11 - Improved management of other resources in data center
08:04 - Deploy a VM from the Azure portal to on-prem VMware environment
09:12 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Prevent your cloud and hybrid apps from becoming entry points to cyber attacks and exploits with Microsoft app governance, now generally available. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, walks through a cloud app-based attack and shows how app governance helps you get visibility into the compliance posture of all your connected cloud apps, identify anomalous behaviors and risk, and take action to respond to threats.
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00:28 - Cross app integrations
02:13 - Attack demo
03:49 - How app governance detects and mitigates risks
05:37 - Behind the policy and how to block apps
06:43 - Templates
07:36 - Wrap up
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Now free to anyone with commercial versions of Office 365 and Microsoft 365. Check out the recent updates to Microsoft Visio. If you're new to Visio, we'll show you how easy it is to get started, as well as how to coauthor and collaborate across Visio for the web and Microsoft Teams. As a Visio expert, get updates to the desktop app, including new integrations that export diagrams to PowerPoint and Microsoft Word or as a process in Power Automate. Mukul Kumar, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Visio, joins host Jeremy Chapman to walk you through new capabilities and show you how to get started.
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00:41 - What is Visio?
01:36 - Built-in collaboration capabilities
02:50 - Advanced updates for paid expert users
03:29 - Visio desktop app
04:38 - Export to Word and PowerPoint
06:18 - How everyday users & expert users can collaborate
09:38 - Wrap up
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Tour the new Surface management portal in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Get a single environment for end-to-end visibility and management of your corporate or user-owned Surface devices. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shows how you can go beyond configuration of your Surface devices. Know the status of each device, active support requests, and expiring warranties — all within the portal.
The Surface management portal works with all supported Surface devices, including the Surface Laptop, the Surface 2-in-1 line, the new Surface Laptop Studio, and the Surface Hub.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - User experience
02:39 - View report
03:20 - Warranty and coverage tab
03:53 - Support requests
04:27 - Device management
05:09 - Wrap up
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Get started with Microsoft's new AI-based privacy management solution for Microsoft 365, which applies intelligence to quickly assess your organization's privacy risks and help anyone working with personal data make the right decisions. Alym Rayani, General Manager for Microsoft 365 Compliance and Privacy, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how you can automate subject rights requests for Microsoft 365 data and ensure integration with your existing solutions using our API.
Privacy requirements universally impact organizations as more privacy regulations are introduced around the globe. And just like security is a top priority, privacy needs to be too. Now you can build a privacy resilient organization where everybody working with personal data is empowered to be part of the solution.
For admins-
We've tailored the experience to what privacy teams care about to proactively identify and protect against common privacy risks.
For privacy managers-
We've built automation for processing subject rights requests at scale, and at quality, whether you're using our built-in experience or tools from a partner.
For users-
Understand privacy risks in the moment, or even in the context of your work with data.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:19 - See how it works: Everyday user experience
05:41 - Admin experience
08:00 - Policies
10:20 - Subject rights requests
12:38 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Get started with a trial experience at https://aka.ms./TryPrivacyManagement
Find guidance geared towards admins, data officers, and data workers at https://aka.ms/PrivacyManagementDocs
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Get tips for visibility and management of your cloud spend in Azure using your endpoint of choice, from the Azure Cost Management portal, Power BI for custom views and reporting, to API-based integration that feeds cost data into your existing financial system.
Matt McSpirit, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can configure your Azure environment to meet specific cost reporting needs.
Whether you're from the IT team or the finance team, choose from a number of options:
Azure Cost Management in the Azure portal- Gives you the most comprehensive access to cost management views and reports.
Azure Cost Management Power BI app- Great visibility with pre-built views out-of-the-box to track your Azure spend at the account, subscription, and resource group level.
Power BI desktop connector- For more custom reporting, take our base Power BI template files and customize by building your own views.
API-based integration- For ultimate control and customization, use APIs directly to integrate the data within your internal apps and financial systems.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - See your options
03:32 - Assess spend by department or business unit
05:22 - Configure cost tracking at granular workload level
07:14 - Establish management groups or tags retrospectively
08:38 - Options for Power BI
10:57 - Leverage APIs
11:51 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Watch our episode on cloud economics essentials to understand the fundamentals of cloud costs at https://aka.ms/MechanicsAzureCloudEconomics
Get tips on naming your tags at https://aka.ms./CAFTagging
Download our cost management app at https://aka.ms/ACMApp
For guidance on the Azure Cost Management connector in Power BI desktop, go to https://aka.ms/ACMPowerBI
Learn more about configuring resources in Azure with the Azure setup guide at https://aka.ms/AzureSetupGuide
Find more tools, templates, and guidance at https://azure.com/cloudeconomics
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Stay ahead of external and internal threats — and balance performance, reliability, and security with Windows 11. Dave Weston, Windows security expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the rationale behind hardware requirements and how they provide significantly more protection against today's most sophisticated malware and attacks.
Cyber attacks are at an all time high. Many of the optional or high-end security controls from Windows 10 are now on by default and required on new machines with Windows 11. The Zero Trust security model is baked into Windows 11, from the silicon on the board itself, to the actual boot process, your login as a user, and the apps you use in your Windows session every day.
See the sites that hackers use, and find out if your organization is exposed.
Protect Windows from remote and in-person attacks with Virtualization-based Security.
UEFI, Secure Boot and Trusted Boot stop rootkits or bootkits. Secure encryption keys, user credentials, and sensitive data behind a hardware barrier.
Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 on new installs by default.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Demo attack: Remote
06:05 - Demo attack: In person
08:01 - Virtualization-based Security
11:06 - Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
12:08 - UEFI, Secure Boot, and Trusted Boot
14:27 - Proof it works
15:37 - Wrap up
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Stay ahead of external and internal threats — and balance performance, reliability, and security with Windows 11. Dave Weston, Windows security expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the rationale behind hardware requirements and how they provide significantly more protection against today's most sophisticated malware and attacks.
Cyber attacks are at an all time high. Many of the optional or high-end security controls from Windows 10 are now on by default and required on new machines with Windows 11. The Zero Trust security model is baked into Windows 11, from the silicon on the board itself, to the actual boot process, your login as a user, and the apps you use in your Windows session every day.
See the sites that hackers use, and find out if your organization is exposed.
Protect Windows from remote and in-person attacks with Virtualization-based Security.
UEFI, Secure Boot and Trusted Boot stop rootkits or bootkits. Secure encryption keys, user credentials, and sensitive data behind a hardware barrier.
Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 on new installs by default.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Demo attack: Remote
06:05 - Demo attack: In person
08:01 - Virtualization-based Security
11:06 - Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
12:08 - UEFI, Secure Boot, and Trusted Boot
14:27 - Proof it works
15:37 - Wrap up
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As you migrate to the cloud, here's a walk-through of Azure options for app modernization, from the updates for the containerization of your apps to run in Azure Kubernetes Service, to running in the Azure App Service. We'll also show you updates to the Azure Migrate tool to help you discover and assess your .net apps at scale before migrating them fully to the managed Azure App Service. Matt McSpirit, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to go deeper on how you can modernize your apps as you migrate them to Azure.
Target AKS or Azure App Service with the App Containerization tool in Azure Migrate
Know when to choose virtual machine lift-and-shift migration versus modernization with containers or Azure App
Service Server discovery in Azure Migrate can now use multiple local or domain credentials to inventory your servers
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00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Options to choose
02:40 - Latest updates- app containerization
06:21 - Azure App Service: custom containers and migration
08:24 - Configure
09:25 - Discovery
10:05 - Assessment
12:33 - Wrap up
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Enroll in the Azure migration and modernization program at https://azure.com/AMMP
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We're going to teach you how to use PSTN telephony options with Microsoft Teams Phone. Teams ties together all of the different communications modalities, so you can easily move from one modality to the next. Shift from a text-based chat to a one-on-one voice call. And just like with a video conference, you can easily add people to it to make it a group call.
Beyond pure voice calling, there are rich PSTN telephony capabilities that are available inside of Teams, and we've made it a lot easier to bring any endpoint, including your physical desktop phone to Microsoft Teams, or use the built-in calling functionality that's inside of Teams itself. Scott Van Vliet, Microsoft CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you the latest capabilities and how to set it up.
Operator Connect helps you bring over your existing phone numbers directly from your telephone service operator of choice into Microsoft Teams.
Receive calls from and make calls to normal telephone numbers anywhere, on any device.
Seamlessly transfer calls from your laptop to your mobile device, without having to hang up and redial.
Turn on live captions with real-time speech-to-text AI conversion if you're in a noisy environment.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:47 - User experience and capabilities
05:42 - How to set it up
06:41 - Match people and services to real telephone numbers
08:41 - Day-to-day management experience
09:35 - Direct routing
10:06 - Wrap up
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Surface Laptop Studio is our most versatile laptop with unparalleled performance, all while delivering the best possible experience with Windows 11. Chris Greiser, from the team that engineered and designed Surface Laptop Studio, gives an in-depth, hands-on tour of the newest member in the Surface family.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introducing Surface Laptop Studio
00:38 - Designing the hinge
01:09 - CPU and GPU performance
01:58 - AI-powered app demo - NVIDIA Canvas
02:58 - SSD options and serviceability
03:16 - Ports and battery
03:42 - Exterior design and display
04:16 - Inking experience with tactile feedback and haptics
04:55 - Camera and audio optimizations
Core to the innovation in the Surface Laptop Studio, is the flexible, and ultra-durable hinge. It uses a special form of woven fabric together with advanced cable management on the display pivot point and the base of the device, so it can bend up to 180 degrees.
This is also the most powerful device in the Surface portfolio, performance tuned with the latest generation of discrete NVIDIA GPUs and 11th generation Intel® Core™ processors. GPU performance is the highest of the Surface family with discrete NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 Ti or NVIDIA® RTX™ A2000 for business. Also, with two USB-C Thunderbolt™ 4 ports, Surface Laptop Studio is capable of high-speed data transfers of up to 40 Gbps and it works with the breadth of peripherals.
Its PixelSense™ Flow touch display is 14.4” with a 3:2 aspect ratio at 2400 x 1600 resolution and it has a 120Hz refresh rate. The optional Surface Slim Pen stores at the front of the base with integrated wireless charging, so it’s always ready when you need it. The screen when paired with the optional Surface Slim Pen 2’s built-in haptics and tactile signals in Windows 11, enable a natural inking feel.
The 1080p front-facing camera has been optimized to perform well in low light conditions and even as you move or cover your face. Combined with Dual Studio Mics and accurate omnisonic sound reproduction, it's the perfect device for Microsoft Teams.
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Surface Pro 8 is designed to be the most modern expression of the purpose-built, class-defining Surface 2-in-1, now designed for Windows 11. Dave Mitchell, from the team that engineers and designs Surface 2-in-1s, gives an in-depth, hands-on tour of the Surface Pro 8, along with updates to the rest of the Surface 2-in-1 family.
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00:00 - Introducing Surface Pro 8
00:27 - Review of Surface Pro 8 user experience
00:58 - Performance updates and specs
02:04 - Exterior design and tour
03:29 - Inking experience with tactile feedback and haptics
04:12 - Camera and audio optimizations
05:51 - Internals, connectivity, battery and thermals
07:43 - Updates to Surface Go, Surface Pro X and Surface Pro 7+
Surface Pro 8 was completely redesigned inside and out for the next level of performance and productivity. Its 13" display combines tactile feedback enabled through Windows 11 and the Surface Slim Pen 2 with a 120Hz refresh rate to give the best Surface inking experience to date. It now has two Thunderbolt 4 ports and the latest 11th Gen Intel Core processors. Commercial models now have the option of built-in LTE Advanced with Intel Core i7, i5 or i3 processors.
Beyond the updates to Surface Pro 8, we introduce updates to the rest of the Surface 2-in-1 lineup. Surface Go 3 has been updated to support Windows 11 with more powerful 10th Gen Intel Core i3 and Pentium processors. Surface Pro X is now available with a new WiFi-only option with Windows 11 on ARM, which now supports 64-bit emulation.
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The Windows 11 team gives an exclusive look at the Windows 11 performance optimizations, improvements to the Windows servicing model and orchestration engine, as well as policy management and the rationale behind Windows 11 system requirements. Steve Dispensa, VP of Enterprise Management at Microsoft, joins host Jeremy Chapman to take you under the hood of Windows 11.
This is the first Windows conceived for Zero Trust and a hybrid work world. For users, we've removed distractions as you work to make it easier for you to focus with the new modern interface and refined aesthetics. For IT, we've made incremental improvements that are designed to fit like a glove in your existing management tools and processes.
Save time- Choose which screens you want to focus on most with the new Snap Assist feature.
Save resources- Configure new sleeping tabs to go dark after inactivity.
Resume your PC from sleep instantly. RAM stays energized and other process threads run faster.
MEM policies for Windows 10 also apply to Windows 11.
Feature updates are delivered once per year; Enterprise and Education is supported for 36-months.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:09 - Prioritizing apps and processes
04:22 - Resume from sleep
05:42 - Reduced disk footprint
06:25 - Windows 11 hardware requirements
07:28 - Application compatibility & servicing model
08:38 - Update process for admins
10:16 - MEM policies
11:38 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Try Windows 11 for yourself at https://insider.windows.com/
Learn more about the new Windows DCH drivers at https://aka.ms/DCHdrivers
IT resources are available at https://aka.ms/Windows11Docs
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Watch how Microsoft's cloud-based SIM, Azure Sentinel, along with our XDR technologies, including Microsoft 365 Defender, provide an automated approach to threat detection and response. Rob Lefferts, Microsoft Security CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you the latest integrative defenses and tools to respond quickly in the context of a real attack.
The threat landscape has reached a new level of urgency, whether it's human operated ransomware, or sophisticated command and control attacks, and the techniques being used are getting harder to detect — like supply chain attacks that embed malware in the apps and IoT devices that you trust. Stop these types of attacks with the right measures and preparation.
Put the right defense layers in place with the Zero Trust security model.
Increase your organization's ability to detect and respond before an attack does any damage.
If the damage has already started, contain the blast radius and quickly reverse any damage that has already been done.
Our integrated SIM with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Defender for XDR apply Microsoft's unique volume and diversity of threat intelligence for early warning and response to give you visibility and depth of insight across your organization.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:07 - Preparation to stop attacks
03:02 - Demo of hybrid attack
04:56 - Where to start: Azure Sentinel
08:53 - Stop the spread: Microsoft 365 Defender
10:27 - Alerts
13:10 - Compromised user accounts
15:21 - Users on unmanaged devices
16:59 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Protect data across your files and content, as well as structured and unstructured data wherever it resides, with the Zero Trust security model. As always, the approach applies the principles of verify explicitly, least privileged access, and assume breach. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, highlights how you can apply Zero Trust security to keep your data protected.
With Zero Trust, protections are designed to follow your data wherever it resides, whether that's in your infrastructure or in the services that you manage. Protections continue as data flows and people work together with sensitive information. Information can also be protected from leaks by people inside of your organization or from people who should not have access. With the right protections in place, you can protect data if your devices are infected with malware, and you can also block and prevent data access in the case of a data breach. The good news is you can extend protections at a granular level, from your databases and individual data fields, to sensitive words within your databases, and trigger words while using apps.
Steps to protect your data:
Identify top sensitive information
Apply labels and classifiers
Apply principle of least privilege and assume breach
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00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Identify your sensitive data
03:55 - Data classification
06:51 - Take action: Least privilege and assume breach
07:22 - See an example
07:54 - Insider risk management capabilities
09:20 - Wrap up
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Get an in-depth look at how you can find and keep your customers with Customer Insights in Dynamics 365. Explore the predictive AI and automation that can identify the customers you are most at risk of losing, as well as develop and track the marketing that will earn them back. Thiale Diop, Product Manager for Dynamics 365, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through the configuration and setup.
With Dynamics 365 Marketing, you can leverage artificial intelligence to personalize and optimize customer experiences across every channel. Build automated marketing workflows that deliver targeted content based on the individual's unique needs at any point in their buyer journey with built-in tools for event management and insights about all your company’s marketing activities.
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02:08 - Requirements to Get Started
05:16 - Review the Results
07:16 - Handover to Marketing Team in Dynamics 365 Marketing
12:37 - Assessment of Campaign Data
14:45 - Wrap up
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Get your Cloud PCs up and running with Windows 365. Explore the prerequisites, what the imaging and provisioning process looks like, as well as ongoing management. Christiaan Brinkhoff, Principal Program Manager for Windows 365, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through the administrator setup in Azure and Microsoft Endpoint Manager, as well as the user experience in the browser and the additional functionality you get when you access your Cloud PC with Remote Desktop apps.
If you're new to Windows 365, it's a Cloud PC that lets you securely stream your Windows experience, including your desktop, apps, settings, and content to any device. Everything is kept simple and familiar from a deployment configuration perspective. If you're a device admin, it will be easy to get everything started and running with Windows 365.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - Setup experience
01:29 - Build and assign Cloud PCs
02:35 - Configure Cloud PC environment in MEM
04:36 - Create provisioning policy in MEM
06:15 - Assign policies to a group
08:22 - User experience in the browser
10:15 - Benefit of Remote Desktop apps
11:58 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Access a trial for Windows 365 at https://aka.ms/CPCTrial
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For guidance on choosing the right Cloud PC for your specific user types, check out https://aka.ms/CPCsizing
Get a detailed step-by-step guide for setting up Windows 365 at https://aka.ms/deploycpc
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Simplify your app authoring experience with the latest updates in Power Apps. The new modern app designer makes model-driven apps far more accessible and easier to build. Customize pages, then generate Power Fx formulas that write themselves when you specify what you want using natural language. Emma Cooper, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Power Apps, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how these updates make it easier to build apps and bring in advanced functionality with very low code.
Build your own model-driven apps:
Fully working app, no formulas or code building
Generate data already stored in Dataverse
Preview, then publish
Customize your apps:
Add custom pages
Build custom logic with Power Fx
Make apps available in Microsoft Teams
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00:00 - Introduction
01:34 - Office Depot’s model-driven app
02:41 - How to build a model-driven app
04:58 - How to customize your app
06:44 - What is Power Fx?
09:56 - Make apps available in Teams
10:25 - Wrap up
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Take a look at options for migrating your apps to a hybrid cloud and on-premises state with Azure Migrate and Azure Arc. Matt McSpirit, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Azure, joins host Jeremy Chapman to show how your resources in the Cloud can work seamlessly with resources on premises under a single management plane.
Hybrid migration is a reality for most organizations, especially when some workloads must be kept on premises. The good news is with Azure Migrate, we help you migrate and assess your on-prem environment and can place those resources under management. Your entire environment, whether on-prem or in the Cloud, can come under unified management with Azure Arc that extends the Azure control plane to your hybrid environment.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:53 - Dependency map
02:43 - Migrate backend to Azure
04:32 - Migrate frontend to Azure
06:53 - Azure Arc
09:02 - Management and compliance
10:32 - Other options
11:25 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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If you're ready to test out migration with Azure Migrate go to https://aka.ms/azuremigrate
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Windows 365 is your PC in the cloud. Securely stream your personalized Windows experience, including your desktop, apps, settings, and content, at any time to all of your devices. For IT, see how easy it is, as a fully-managed service, to assign and configure Cloud PCs using familiar tools like Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Given the need to work remotely and securely, there has been a huge demand for cloud based solutions in the past year. Windows 365 modernizes the way Windows experiences are delivered for anyone on any device. It’s a premium experience for both end users and IT. It’s easy to use, and just as easy for IT to manage using familiar tools and processes. Scott Manchester, Partner Director of PM for Windows 365, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how it works and how to set it up.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:08 - User experience
05:39 - Admin experience: Deployment
09:01 - Monitor health and performance
11:16 - Security and compliance
13:11 - Wrap up
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Get started at https://www.microsoft.com/Windows365
Find the latest info on the Trust Center at https://www.microsoft.com/trust
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Apply zero trust principles and policies to your network and infrastructure with this essentials episode. It's a high-level overview of the principles of the Zero Trust security model, spanning identity, endpoints, applications, networks, infrastructure, and data.
Your network and its underlying configuration provides secure access to your resources. Infrastructure, whether on premises servers, local or cloud hosted VMs, containers, storage, or PaaS databases, all represent a critical threat vector. Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, walks you through how to apply the core Zero Trust tenets of verify explicitly, apply least privileged access, and assume breach for each of these layers, along with your options.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:42 - Network: Verify explicitly
02:21 - Network: Least privileged access and assume breach
04:20 - Infrastructure: Verify explicitly
05:56 - Infrastructure: Least privileged access and assume breach
08:48 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Check out our other shows on Zero Trust Essentials at https://aka.ms/zerotrustmechanics
Use Azure resource manager templates to deploy hands-on experiences in your Azure subscription at https://aka.ms/AZNetSec
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Need to present a video to a group of people online, but when you play it on your computer and share your desktop, it’s laggy and dropping frames for others in a Microsoft Teams meeting, or maybe it’s missing the audio track?
In this remote and hybrid working tip, Jeremy Chapman from the Microsoft 365 team at Microsoft will show you a simple trick that will avoid those issues using web streaming along with PowerPoint Live as part of a Microsoft Teams presentation, so everyone can watch your video without lag or missing audio.
He'll also explain what’s causing the lag or dropped frames when you share a video using desktop or window sharing and give you a step-by-step tutorial so can share videos the right way in your future presentations.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Video playback challenges when sharing your desktop
01:24 - The solution using web streaming
01:58 - Using PowerPoint Live to share and synchronize video playback
02:22 - Demo: adding online videos using PowerPoint on the web
03:34 - Demo: Microsoft Teams meeting experience for the presenter and other participants
04:29 - Demo: Using PowerPoint desktop to add a video from your device
04:50 - Demo: Uploading a local PowerPoint file to enable web-based video streaming in a Teams meeting
05:39 - Closing thoughts and link to similar videos
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To find more videos in this series, go to https://aka.ms/WFHMechanics
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Look at Azure as a platform for running your Linux virtual machine and open source database workloads. Check out options for how you can lift and shift existing VMs and databases to Azure and modernize them using cloud native approaches. Matt McSpirit, from the Azure engineering team, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how Azure supports open source platforms across operating systems, with different Linux distros as well as their publishers and open source databases.
Azure has been working with Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, Flat Car, Elastic and HashiCorp, and open source databases like MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, MariaDB for years. More than 60% of our marketplace solutions run on Linux, and we support open source native PaaS services, as well. Beyond the workload level, we contribute back to the upstream Linux and Kubernetes communities that many of the modern and cloud native architectures rely on.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - Run Linux VMs in Azure
03:01 - Move an open source app from on-prem into Azure
06:04 - How to migrate VMs
07:36 - How to move database into Azure
10:52 - Repackage your VM to run as a container
12:40 - Configure an app
13:31 - Other options
14:48 - Wrap up
► Link References:
To find information related to Linux running on Azure, check out https://azure.com/Linux
Go to Azure migrate and test out a migration at https://aka.ms/azuremigrate
Find the tools to migrate your data stores at https://aka.ms/datamigration
Deploy Red Hat solutions on Azure at https://Azure.com/RedHat
Run SUSE Linux on Azure at https://Azure.com/SUSE
For more on Azure, go to https://Azure.com/AzureMigrate
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See how Microsoft Viva Insights delivers data-driven privacy, protected insights, and recommended actions to help individuals and teams improve productivity and wellbeing. Engineering leader, Kamal Janardhan, joins Jeremy Chapman for a deep dive and a view of your options for configuration.
If you're new to Microsoft Viva, it comprises four modules that deliver new employee experiences across knowledge, communications, learning, and insights, all in the context of your work. These leverage the foundational technologies of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph and AI to deliver a modern employee experience platform.
With hybrid work at home and in the office as the new normal, Viva Insights gives individuals, managers, and leaders the insight to develop healthier work habits and a better work environment. It is an intelligent experience designed to leverage MyAnalytics, Workplace Analytics, and Exchange Online to deliver insights that recommend actions to help prioritize well-being and productivity.
As an individual: Get personalized reminders to book focus time or to take regular mental breaks. Integration with Headspace brings in guided meditations to help relax your mind.
As a manager and a leader: Get granular visibility into work patterns to detect trends like burnout. Stay more connected with your team and minimize attrition.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:54 - What is Viva Insights?
02:52 - Individual user experience
07:43 - Configuration
08:40 - Manager & leader experience
09:42 - Org leader experience
10:43 - Customization
11:40 - Privacy
12:26 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Learn more about Viva Insights at https://aka.ms/VivaInsights
For more on configuration, go to https://aka.ms/SetVivaInsights
Watch our Essentials episode at https://aka.ms/VivaEssentials
Check out the rest of our series for Microsoft Viva at https://aka.ms/VivaMechanics
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Take a look at the latest Microsoft hardware innovations in support of remote and hybrid work at home and in the office. Engineering leader, Branden Powell, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how the new Microsoft and Surface accessories deliver the best experience on Microsoft Teams.
All our accessories are made with premium materials, so they look great and are built to last. They're compact and lightweight to optimize your space, no matter where you're working from. We've prioritized all-day comfort and mobility, and everything is certified for use with Microsoft Teams to give you a great online meeting experience. The convergence of hardware plus software helps minimize meeting fatigue, so you can stay fresh and in the flow of your work.
The latest round of accessories is available today: Surface Headphones 2+ for Business, Modern USB, Modern Wireless Headsets, Modern USB-C Speaker, and the new Modern Webcam.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:27 - Mobility
02:26 - Comfort
03:26 - Microsoft Teams button
04:08 - Mute button
06:20 - Dongle vs. Bluetooth
07:23 - Audio and video experiences
09:24 - Accessories work across platforms
10:09 - Wrap up
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Get detailed specs at https://aka.ms/modernaccessories
For more on Surface, go to https://www.surface.com
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See how you can apply Zero Trust principles and policies to your endpoints and apps; the conduits for users to access your data, network, and resources. Jeremy Chapman walks through your options, controls, and recent updates to implement the Zero Trust security model.
Our Essentials episode gave a high-level overview of the principles of the Zero Trust security model, spanning identity, endpoints, applications, networks, infrastructure, and data. For Zero Trust, endpoints refer to the devices people use every day — both corporate or personally owned computers and mobile devices. The prevalence of remote work means devices can be connected from anywhere and the controls you apply should be correlated to the level of risk at those endpoints. For corporate managed endpoints that run within your firewall or your VPN, you will still want to use principles of Zero Trust: Verify explicitly, apply least privileged access, and assume breach.
We've thought about the endpoint attack vectors holistically and have solutions to help you protect your endpoints and the resources that they're accessing.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:16 - Register your endpoints
01:49 - Configure and enforce compliance
02:31 - Search policies with new settings catalog
03:15 - Group Policy analytics
04:00 - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
04:36 - Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS)
06:36 - Reverse proxy
07:06 - Authentication context
08:44 - Anomaly detection policies
09:21 - Wrap up
► Link References:
For more on our series, keep checking back to https://aka.ms/ZeroTrustMechanics
Watch our Zero Trust Identity episode at https://aka.ms/IdentityMechanics
Learn more about the Zero Trust approach at https://aka.ms/zerotrust
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Go deeper on Microsoft Viva Learning, a central place for individuals and teams to discover personal learning content and build skills within the flow of everyday work. Swati Jhawar, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Viva, joins Jeremy Chapman to share options for setup, learning content curation, and integration with your existing learning management system.
Microsoft Viva has four modules (Connections, Insights, Topics & Learning) that deliver new employee experiences in the context of their work. Viva leverages the foundational technologies of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph and AI to deliver a modern employee experience platform.
With Viva Learning, you have a center for personalized skill development that offers a unique social experience where learning content is available in the flow of work. It recommends and manages the progress of key trainings all from one place and is built on top of SharePoint, Microsoft Search, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph, and Substrate.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - What is Viva Learning?
02:35 - See the personal learning experience
04:46 - How to share content
06:40 - Content within Teams app and others
08:04 - Setup for admins
09:03 - How to configure required training
10:14 - What’s next for Viva Learning?
10:46 - Wrap up
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Take a closer look at how the Power Platform can be used for professional developers’ most demanding business apps. Per Mikkelsen, GPM for Microsoft Power Platform, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share how you can build APIs as serverless functions, integrate Power Apps as part of your CI/CD pipelines, and publish Power Apps to Microsoft Teams for increased discoverability.
The Power Platform is designed for any app and any developer. We've set out to remove a lot of the pain in the software development process and speed things up that can take a lot of time. This makes it simple to build new apps or extend existing apps, fast.
Most of what you need to build your UI and to integrate your business logic and workflow processes can be done by the Power Platform. It sits on top of Dataverse to give you a powerful and managed data backend for any data, so that you have common data and logic stack that all your apps and services can use. On top of that, we give you all 400 data connectors, which seamlessly connect with the barrier systems and services that you may have in your organization. And if you need more custom logic on the backend, you also have all the coding environments available in Azure.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:55 - Build complex apps
03:00 - T-Mobile example app
04:41 - How to build custom APIs
08:52 - How Power Apps works with existing DevOps or CI/CD processes
11:35 - How to make apps more discoverable
12:11 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Take a look at new project management options from Microsoft, and how they meet your project needs. From integrated experiences with Microsoft Teams using Project for the web, all the way to Project Operations in Dynamics 365 to support the delivery of project-based services with seamless integration into your ERP system, and manage all phases of your projects.
We've set out to take our mature project management engine with Microsoft Project, and make project management more accessible to everyone in your organization. George Bullock, joins host Jeremy Chapman, to share project management options for sophisticated projects.
Project for the web
Now use it within the context of Microsoft Teams.
Easy to create and manage projects — see completed tasks, track progress, and modify details
Contacts are in Teams, natively, right in your directory service.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations
Project for the web capabilities are embedded within, so core project planning and resource management is the same.
Expanded set of capabilities across sales management and project accounting.
Easily manage your entire project life cycle, from planning to billing and finance.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:32 - Project for the web in Teams
04:30 - How to manage a more sophisticated project
06:06 - Project Operations in Dynamics 365
08:46 - Billing capabilities
09:33 - Finance capabilities
09:59 - Set up: Project for the web
10:47 - Set up: Project Operations
11:27 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Take a look at the new Microsoft Viva Connections, part of your Microsoft 365 subscription, that provides a curated, company branded experience in the context of the apps used every day, like Microsoft Teams. Adam Harmetz, lead engineer, joins host Jeremy Chapman to walk through the user experience, how to set it up, and options for personalizing information sharing by role.
If you're new to Microsoft Viva, it comprises four modules that deliver new employee experiences across knowledge, communications, resources, learning and insights. These leverage the foundational technologies of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, and AI to deliver a modern employee experience platform.
Viva Connections is specifically about boosting employee engagement. This spans everyone in your organization, from everyday users, specific groups in departments, to frontline workers. It expands on your SharePoint home site and newsfeed and is designed to offer a destination that delivers personalized news, conversations, and commonly used resources.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - Desktop UX
02:24 - Web UX
03:32 - How to set it up through PowerShell
05:54 - Mobile UX
07:26 - How to build adaptive cards
09:40 - Audience targeting
10:34 - How to get started
11:15 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Tour your identity options when moving to the Zero Trust security model. Our last Essentials episode gave a high-level overview of the Zero Trust security model principles: identity, endpoints, applications, networks, infrastructure, and data.
Join our host, Jeremy Chapman, as he unpacks the foundational layer of the model with identity. As the primary control plane for Zero Trust, it acts as the front door for people, service accounts, and devices as each requests access to resources. Identity is at the core of the Zero Trust concepts of never trust, always verify and grant the appropriate level of access through the principle of least privilege.
Verify Explicitly
Azure AD - easily implement additional protections to verify explicitly
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) - requires an additional authentication factor. Replace passwords with Microsoft Authenticator, Windows Hello, or FIDO2 keys.
Activity reports in the Authentication methods - see who’s capable of MFA and passwordless authentication, how many recent registrations and by type.
Usage - see the distribution of MFA sign-ins and by method, as well as the number of password changes and resets.
Least Privilege access
Conditional Access in Azure AD - uses real-time intelligence at the time of sign-in to assess the risk level, then blocks or grants access.
Built-in Insights and Reporting - expose the impact of enabled policies pre- and post enforcement.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - Demo in Azure AD
01:47 - Azure AD Application Proxy
02:50 - How to set up multi-factor authentication
04:44 - Activity Reports for admins
05:21 - Least privileged access and conditional access
07:22 - Conditional Access Insights and Reporting
08:16 - Wrap up
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Take a deep dive on Microsoft Viva Topics, which uses AI to organize information into accessible knowledge within the apps and services you use every day. Walk through the admin experience for setup, as well as the controls available to publish and curate topic pages and ensure content accuracy. CJ Tan, Lead Program Manager, joins host Jeremy Chapman to cover the overall experience for users, knowledge managers, and admins.
If you're new to Microsoft Viva, it comprises four modules that deliver new employee experiences across knowledge, communications, resources, learning and insights. These leverage the foundational technologies of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, and AI to deliver a modern employee experience platform.
Viva Topics builds a system that transforms information into knowledge and actively delivers it to you in the context of your work. As many of us are working remotely or in more hybrid office environments, it can be harder to stay informed. With Topics, we connect you to the knowledge and the people closest to it.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - See how Topics works
03:46 - AI behind the scenes
04:57 - Knowledge manager experience
07:47 - User experience
09:25 - Admin experience- how to set it up
10:58 - Protect sensitive information
12:01 - Scope who can contribute
13:37 - Manually create topics immediately
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Adopt a Zero Trust approach for security and benefit from the core ways in which Microsoft can help. In the past, your defenses may have been focused on protecting network access with on-premises firewalls and VPNs, assuming everything inside the network was safe. But as corporate data footprints have expanded to sit outside your corporate network, to live in the Cloud or a hybrid across both, the Zero Trust security model has evolved to address a more holistic set of attack vectors.
Based on the principles of “verify explicitly”, “apply least privileged access” and “always assume breach”, Zero Trust establishes a comprehensive control plane across multiple layers of defense:
Identity: Azure Active Directory assigns identity and conditional access controls for your people, the service accounts used for apps and processes, and your devices.
Endpoints: Microsoft Endpoint Manager assures devices and their installed apps meet your security and compliance policy requirements
Applications: Microsoft Endpoint Manager can be used to configure and enforce policy management. Microsoft Cloud App Security can discover and manage Shadow IT services in use.
Network: Get a number of controls, including Network Segmentation, Threat protection, and Encryption.
Infrastructure: Azure landing zones, Blueprints and Policies can ensure newly deployed infrastructure meets compliance requirements for cloud resources. Azure Security Center and Log Analytics help with configuration and software update management for on-premises, cross-cloud and cross-platform infrastructure. Data Limit data access to only the people and processes that need it.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - Six layers of defense
02:31 - Identity
03:48 - Endpoints
04:48 - Applications
05:46 - Network
06:36 - Infrastructure
07:18 - Data
08:11 - Wrap Up
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Tour Microsoft Viva, the new employee experience platform that connects learning, insights, resources, and communication. Viva is a unique set of curated and AI enriched experiences built on top of and integrated with the foundational services of Microsoft 365. Join Jeremy Chapman as he shares Viva’s capabilities, the underlying tech, and your core options for enabling and configuring Microsoft Viva as a team leader or admin.
Microsoft Viva’s 4 core modules:
Viva Topics - builds a knowledge system for your organization
Viva Connections - boosts employee engagement
Viva Learning - creates a central hub to discover learning content and build new skills
Viva Insights - recommends actions to help improve productivity and wellbeing
As an employee:
Get more time to focus and recharge – no matter where you’re working from.
Connect with others, stay informed and engaged.
Accelerate learning new skills, and balance your time at work.
At an organizational level:
Boost morale and retention and the overall success of your organization.
Foster a new culture of support for employees, so even when not physically together with colleagues, they feel connected to collective goals.
Employees can easily leverage the knowledge and connections of their work community to get things done and feel invested in their career growth.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - Viva Topics
01:54 - Viva Connections
02:21 - Viva Learning
02:56 - Viva Insights
03:38 - Implementing Viva
04:18 - Upcoming highlights
05:49 - Privacy and security
06:50 - Platform extensibility
08:21 - Wrap Up
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How to build a fast, scalable data system on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Hyperscale’s flexible architecture scales with the pace of your business to process large amounts of data with a small amount of compute in just minutes, and allows you to back up data almost instantaneously.
Zach Fransen, VP of data and AI at Xplor, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how credit card processing firm, Clearent by Xplor, built a fast, scalable merchant transaction reporting system on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Take a deep dive on their Hyperscale implementation, from their approach with micro-batching to continuously bring in billions of rows of transactional data, from their on-premises payment fulfillment system at scale, as well as their optimizations for near real-time query performance using clustered column store indexing for data aggregation.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - Intro to Clearent
01:33 - Starting point and challenges
03:12 - Clearant’s shift to Hyperscale
04:53 - Near real-time reporting/micro-batching
06:25 - See it in action
08:28 - Processing large amounts of data
09:42 - Named replicas
10:34 - Query speed ups - clustered column store indexing
11:45 - What’s next for Clearent by Xplor?
12:26 - Wrap up
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Modernize your existing data at scale, and solve for operational efficiency with Azure SQL Managed Instance. Azure SQL MI is an intelligent, scalable, cloud database service and fully managed SQL server.
Nipun Sharma, lead data architect, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how the Australian subsidiary of large equipment manufacturer, Komatsu, built a scalable and proactive sales and inventory management and customer servicing model on top of Azure SQL Managed Instance to consolidate their legacy data estate on-premises. See what they did to expand their operational visibility and time to insights, including self-service reporting through integration with Power BI.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Komatsu’s background
03:28 - Komatsu’s modernization path
04:12 - Consolidating data to one source
05:50 - Data migration and consolidation of 3 core systems
08:20 - Example reports
09:49 - Self-service reporting
11:17 - Built-in auto tuning
12:45 - What’s next for Komatsu?
13:45 - Wrap up
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Take a closer look at Microsoft Dataverse, a managed service that securely shapes, stores, and manages any data across your business apps, from ERP systems to user generated Power Apps. Dataverse empowers citizen developers to quickly develop apps at scale, and pro developers to easily create apps that interoperate across multiple systems. Marc Mercuri, engineering lead, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how Dataverse is a great data backend for any app and any developer – without the need to architect, implement or manage it.
Dataverse for Microsoft Teams:
Provides the data layer behind the Power Apps integration with Teams. As you build data rich apps, it places text and file based data in the right data store. Great for everyday, no-code apps built in Teams. Scales to a million rows, or 2GB.
Dataverse in Power Apps Studio:
Works as the backend service that powers Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power BI. More capacity, control and capabilities Built on additional enterprise-grade Azure services for larger scale, data integration, relevance search, off-line support and more granular security. Scales to 4TB or more.
Dataverse Pro-Dev: Easily bring in existing data for an app Use virtual tables to directly call your remote data without importing or moving it. Greater control and security options. Build search into your apps and even into your processes or bots.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - What is Dataverse?
02:17 - How to get Dataverse for Teams
03:57 - How it’s built: Behind the scenes
05:05 - Dataverse in Power Apps Studio
06:17 - Additional options: Business rules
07:15 - Bring in existing data
08:45 - How to integrate Search
10:42 - Dataverse Pro-Dev
12:18 - Wrap up: How to get started
► Link References:
For guidance and tutorials, go to https://aka.ms/DataverseMechanics
See controls for governance and compliance in action at https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformGovernance
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Need to share a video with AUDIO during a Microsoft Teams meeting? What used to only be possible in Windows is now also possible in MacOS!
In this work from home tip, Jeremy Chapman from the Microsoft 365 team will show you how to "Include Computer Sound" while sharing your desktop or app windows using a Mac or PC. At the time of release, this is a Public Preview feature in Microsoft Teams for MacOS, so we'll also show how to get that enabled if you don't see the options demonstrated.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Demo in Teams to Include Computer Sound
01:40 - Demo of Including Computer Sound after sharing desktop
02:20 - What to do if you don't see the Include Computer Sound options
02:56 - Enabling Preview Features in the Teams Admin Center
03:21 - Closing remarks
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Azure Percept is a new zero-to-low-code platform that includes sensory hardware accelerators, AI models, and templates to help you build and deploy secured, intelligent AI workloads and solutions to edge IoT devices. Host Jeremy Chapman joins George Moore, Azure Edge Lead Engineer, for an introduction on how to build intelligent solutions on the Edge quickly and easily.
Azure Percept Vision:
Optically perceive an event in the real world. Sensory data from cameras perform a broad array of everyday tasks.
Azure Percept Audio:
Enable custom wake words and commands, and get a response using real time analytics.
Templates and pre-built AI models:
Get started with no code. Go from prototype to implementation with ease.
Custom AI models:
Write your own AI models and business logic for specific scenarios. Once turned on, they’re instantly connected and ready to go.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - Azure Percept solutions
02:23 - AI enabled hardware accelerators
03:29 - Azure Percept Vision
05:22 - Azure Percept Audio
06:21 - Demo: Deploy models to the Edge with Percept
08:16 - How to build custom AI models
09:57 - How to deploy models at scale
10:57 - Ongoing management
11:40 - Wrap Up
► Link References:
Access an example model as an open-source notebook at https://aka.ms/VolumetricAI
Get the Azure Percept DevKit to start prototyping with samples and guides at https://aka.ms/getazurepercept
Whether you’re a citizen developer or advanced developer, you can try out our tutorials at https://aka.ms/azureperceptsamples
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Get an insider's look at the latest Surface Laptop 4. While Surface Laptop’s familiar signature sleek form factor has been retained, under the covers you'll find major optimizations to bring the overall performance, battery life and device experience to the next level.
NOTE: Models with AMD Ryzen™ 5 Microsoft Surface Edition processors have 7 GPU cores and 6 CPU cores. See https://docs.microsoft.com/surface/surface-laptop-processors for more information.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:56 - Color options
01:16 - Processor options from AMD and Intel
03:00 - Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity
04:06 - Speakers and microphone
04:57 - Camera performance
05:40 - USB connectivity and ports
06:14 - Replaceable SSD and serviceable components
06:30 - IT management capabilities
06:59 - Wrap Up
Taking a tour of the internals, both Intel™ and AMD processors are now available on 13.5" and 15" models. Models with AMD chipsets are now equipped with 7 nanometer multi-threaded Ryzen™ 5 & Ryzen™ 7 Microsoft Surface Edition processors. Models with Intel® chipsets now use 11th Gen Core™ i5 & Core™ i7 quad core and multi-threaded processors with integrated Intel™ Iris® Xe graphics.
New to Surface Laptop 4 is the addition of Dolby® Atmos™. There's also an HD camera array with integrated IR sensor for Windows Hello-based authentication. Surface Laptop 4 is equipped with a full-sized USB-A port, USB-C® 3.2 Gen 2 supporting display output and charging, a 3.5mm audio jack, and Surface Connect port.
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Explore your options to select the right VMs for your workloads. On this episode of Azure Essentials, Matt McSpirit shares core compute and disk storage options for any workload you want to run in Azure.
If you're new to Azure, shifting your apps or workloads onto a virtual machine or multiple VMs in Azure can be achieved without rearchitecting them or writing new code. You can even deploy your workloads to Azure Dedicated Hosts that provide single tenant physical servers dedicated to your organization. Azure literally becomes the equivalent of running your physical data center in the cloud.
The primary benefit of running your apps and workloads in Azure is choice. Azure provides a comprehensive range of hundreds of VMs to deliver the scale and performance needed across your preferred Linux distros and Windows Server based applications.
Select the right VMs for your workloads: From entry-level to optimized, depending on the workload
Deployment: Download images from the Azure Marketplace, or deploy your own
Scale: Create thousands of virtual machines using Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets.
Pay for what you consume: Bring existing and future Windows and SQL server licenses, Red Hat enterprise Linux, and SUSE licenses into Azure using the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - Azure offers choice
01:38 - A series: Entry-level
02:24 - D series: General purpose compute
03:33 - E series: Memory optimized VMs
04:09 - M series: Optimized
04:27 - Constrained vCPU VMs
04:47 - F series: Compute optimized
05:10 - L series: Storage optimized
05:42 - Deployment
06:05 - Scale
06:32 - Pay for what you consume
07:19 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Do you wish you could take better notes during meetings or classes held on Microsoft Teams? Jeremy Chapman from the Microsoft 365 team demonstrates a new way to automate the process.
Now in Microsoft Teams, keeping detailed notes for your meetings just got easier, with in-context and automated meeting transcripts using the brand-new and AI-driven speech-to-text transcription capability built into Teams.
Once started, you can watch meeting transcription happen in real time. When the meeting is over, the transcript with speaker attribution is available to all meeting participants directly in the meeting's chat. So everyone in the meeting can easily get to it and know what each person said.
► QUICK LINKS:
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00:23 - Meeting notes capability in Microsoft Teams
01:00 - Automated meeting transcription demo
02:13 - Finding the meeting transcript after the meeting
02:55 - Comparison with automatic captions in Microsoft Stream
03:21 - Enabling meeting transcription for Teams admins
03:37 - Closing remarks
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If you’ve ever wondered how news anchors or public speakers can stay on point and present their topics in a crisp and concise way, within a limited timeframe, chances are they are using a teleprompter.
In today’s work from home tip, Jeremy Chapman from the Microsoft 365 team will show you how you can use Microsoft Word to easily convert any document into something that works perfectly as a teleprompter, then we’ll show you how to use Microsoft Teams as a way to project this teleprompter screen to a remote presenter or a second device like a phone screen.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Converting a Word document for teleprompter use
03:00 - Positioning the prompter screen for eye contact to the camera
03:54 - Using a Microsoft Teams meeting on a phone to send the prompter screen
04:52 - Using the Microsoft Teams web app to join a second meeting to view the prompter for in-person or remote co-presenters
05:41 - Closing remarks
► Jeremy's camera and prompter setup:
Sony A7 II camera with F1.8 55mm lens
Elgato Cam Link 4k USB 3.0 HDMI capture device
Padcaster Parrot Teleprompter Kit
Microsoft Surface Dial to scroll prompter text
Feelworld FW568 5.5 inch 1080p HDMI Camera Field Monitor
Shure MV7 microphone
Blue Compass microphone boom arm
► Link References:
Use Microsoft Teams on the web to join a second meeting for sharing the teleprompter feed at https://teams.microsoft.com
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Set up a proactive and always-on service organization with Dynamics 365, from self–service automated actions using intelligent and conversational chatbots and IoT, to high touch customer agent and frontline technician support. Expert Deanna Sparks joins host Jeremy Chapman to share how to combine automation, intelligence and live personnel engagement to take customer support to the next level.
Build a better customer support experience:
• Provide intelligent, proactive and automated self-service
• Issue resolution through conversational IVA
• IVA supports intelligent routing using AI models to escalate customer service requests to field technicians
• Connect to experienced front-line workers through Remote Assist
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:56 - Self-service
03:40 - How to ensure quality of customer experience
06:03 - Field technician’s experience: Field service mobile app
07:16 - Remote assist
07:50 - Self service IVA setup
08:52 - Voice control setup
09:50 - Phone number setup
10:52 - Smart assist setup
11:55 - Field technician setup
12:48 - Wrap up
► Link References:
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Set up the Dynamics 365 modules and configure Dynamics 365 with Azure IoT at https://aka.ms/DynamicsAlwaysConnected
Check out our shows on PVA creation at https://aka.ms/PVAmechanics
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Review the latest governance capabilities in Microsoft’s Power Platform, including more granular data loss prevention controls and enhanced visibility through new tenant-wide built-in analytics.
Power Platform makes it easy for anyone to build rich experiences around their data, apps, and processes, and integrate them with the apps they use every day. While this adds value to the business and developers, governance and productivity must be balanced. Microsoft CVP, Charles Lamanna, joins Jeremy Chapman to give you all the controls to support the shift to low-code development safely.
Visibility: Out-of-the-box analytics allow you to easily discover and monitor flows and apps and how they're being used.
Connector Action Control: A new feature to create more granular controls over the actions you can allow or deny.
Endpoint Filtering, Tenant Isolation, Block Email Exfiltration: For more control over what's permitted or blocked.
Out-of-box Analytics: Track adoption usage and health monitoring across Dataverse, Power Automate, and Power Apps. See which apps are being used across your environments, and quickly spot best performing apps.
Troubleshooting & Diagnostics: Run your own diagnostics and troubleshooting using data about your app included out-of-the-box.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
03:21 - Visibility
04:35 - Granular controls: Connector Action Control
06:24 - Endpoint filtering
08:04 - Out-of-box analytics
08:56 - Troubleshooting and diagnostics
11:01 - Wrap Up
► Link References:
For more about security and governance with the Power Platform, go to https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformGovern
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See how the latest updates to Azure Migrate provide one unified environment to discover and assess your servers, databases, and apps, and easily migrate them to Azure. Jeremy Chapman is joined by Abhishek Hemrajani, Group PM Manager for Azure Migration, to explore how we’ve merged three different tool sets for discovery and assessment into one unified, at scale, agentless discovery and assessment experience.
Discovery: Track multiple SQL server instances on the same server, and discover the different user databases within those instances.
Assessment: Understand the compatibility of various applications running on the server for successful migration. Assess for Azure SQL, Azure VMware Solution or AVS.
Issues & warnings: Understand the readiness and any potential migration concerns.
Cost details: Review compute and storage costs for every instance that has been assessed. Estimate monthly compute and storage costs when you run your SQL server databases on Azure SQL.
Experiment & modify assessments: Modify your assessment properties at any time, and recalculate the assessment. Compare assessments across different dimensions that were used to create them.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:01 - Discovery
04:32 - Assessment
06:28 - Issues & warnings
09:27 - Cost details
09:59 - Experiment & modify
10:47 - How to start
11:54 - Wrap up
► Link References:
For more on migration, go to https://aka.ms/LearnAzureMigration
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Eliminate passwords by users and their organizations with the latest authentication updates in Azure AD, now generally available. Joy Chik, Microsoft CVP from the identity engineering team, joins host Jeremy Chapman to review friction-free ways of going passwordless with the introduction of the new temporary access pass.
USERS:
Azure AD now supports FIDO2 security keys as an authentication method for signing into operating systems, applications, and services
FIDO2 keys – make life easier for frontline workers using shared devices
Microsoft Authenticator app – never need to remember, or even type a password
Secure and convenient, on-prem or in any cloud
IT:
Easier to drive passwordless adoption
Roll out passwordless authentication methods in Azure AD
Automate the management of passwordless using PowerShell or our new Microsoft Graph APIs
New reporting to help track how well your organization is doing
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:33 - Users: FIDO2 Security Key
03:41 - IT: Passwordless adoption
05:01 - See it in action
07:23 - How to enable experiences in Azure AD Portal
09:30 - Set up Temporary Access Pass
11:11 - How to issue a Temporary Access Pass to a user
12:57 - Wrap Up
► Link References:
Register your key at https://aka.ms/mysecurityinfo
If you are a Microsoft 365 admin, use an interactive guide at https://aka.ms/passwordlesswizard
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Host webinars directly from the Microsoft Teams environment, and offer unique attendee experiences that help tailor the event to participants' needs. Teams is now one single and familiar tool for all your meeting types. Online meetings can be extended to webinars and scale out to a significantly larger audience. As a Teams user, there is no additional expertise required to set up a Team's webinar. It's a rich, interactive, and engaging experience for both presenters and attendees, combining voice, chat, video, and of course, live reactions.
Troy Batterberry, Microsoft Teams Vice-President, joins host Jeremy Chapman to show you the set up experience before the event, the presenter and attendee experience during the event, and the organizer experience after the event.
Set Up Experience: Easy and customizable. Just hit dropdown menus and select. Host up to a thousand people with full interactivity. If a meeting exceeds one thousand, tens of thousands more participants can join seamlessly using a View Only experience.
Presenter & Attendee Experience:
PowerPoint Presenter View — Establish better eye contact and connection with the audience.
Presenter Mode — Overlay yourself on content, so your attendees feel as if you're speaking directly to them.
Promote attendees to speaker — Allow your audience to interact. Give your attendees an engaging experience, and still stay in control of your event.
Post Event Experience:
See who attended, and how long they joined. Export data from your webinar to build your own custom reports.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - Audience size
01:47 - Set up experience
03:12 - Attendee experience
04:25 - Presenter View
05:13 - Presenter Mode
06:11 - Promote attendees to speaker
07:02 - Post event experience
07:23 - Wrap up
► Link References:
Try it out for yourself at https://aka.ms/teams_virtual_events
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Bring state-of-the-art search capabilities to your custom applications in content management systems with Azure Cognitive Search. Tour the latest enhancements with Semantic Search to surface relevant answers to your search queries.
Azure Cognitive Search is a PaaS solution that allows you to integrate sophisticated search capabilities into your applications. It helps you quickly ingest, enrich, and explore structured and unstructured data, and is available to everyone.
Azure and Bing teams have worked together to bring learned ranking models to Azure for you to leverage in your custom search solutions. Now search can extract and index information from any format, applying machine learning techniques to understand latent structure in all data. Distinguished engineer, Pablo Castro, joins host Jeremy Chapman, to walk you through the improvements and show you how the intelligence works behind these powerful capabilities. Semantic Search: Relevance, Captions, and Answers: Create similar experiences to web search engines, but for your own application and on your own data. Search matches words, but also understands the context of the words relative to the words surrounding them. Offers a significant improvement in relevant results; all you have to do is enable it.
Spell correction, Inverted index, Prep model, and Re-ranker Keyword searches return exact matches and ranking is often only based on the rate of relevant frequencies of the words. Capture nuances in the language for a more sophisticated machine learning model that's course document relevant in the context of the query.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - Data ingestion
02:38 - Semantic Search
04:48 - How to get it running
06:59 - How the intelligence works
08:43 - Advancements in natural language processing
10:52 - How it avoids slow search results
11:35 - Wrap Up
► Link References:
Get started with Azure Cognitive Search at https://aka.ms/SemanticGetStarted
Sign up for the public review of semantic search at https://aka.ms/SemanticPreview
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Experience and build collaborative and shared, cross-platform mixed reality experiences with Microsoft Mesh. Take a hands-on tour with the co-creator of Mesh, Simon Skaria, lead engineer on Microsoft's mixed reality team to see how Mesh works, experiences with the preview Microsoft Mesh for HoloLens 2 app and how you can build these experiences as an application developer.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:47 - Microsoft Mesh for HoloLens 2 preview
02:20 - Demonstration of the multi-user experience
07:50 - Microsoft Mesh platform
09:35 - App developer platform introduction
10:50 - Spatial maps
11:29 - Immersive presence
12:57 - Holographic rendering
14:07 - Multi-user sync
15:12 - Developer tooling and SDK
15:49 - Wrap Up
Microsoft Mesh is a new mixed reality platform from Microsoft that connects the physical and the digital worlds allowing you and the people you connect with to transcend the traditional boundaries of space and time.
In Microsoft Mesh you can collaborate with others in shared spaces, so you can feel true presence and create together from your device of choice, whether that’s Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), or through the screens of your PC, tablet or phone.
For application developers, Microsoft Mesh enables you to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality applications leveraging AI-powered tools for spatial maps, immersive presence, holographic rendering, and multi-user sync
You can use Microsoft Mesh to conduct virtual design sessions, learn together virtually, enhance virtual meetings, host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups and much more - all with a geographically diverse set of participants.
► Link References:
Learn more and request access to the Microsoft Mesh preview at https://microsoft.com/mesh
Find written developer guidance at https://aka.ms/MeshDocs
See more details on the developer experience at https://aka.ms/MeshIgnite
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Take a deep dive on the recent and upcoming updates in Microsoft 365, including new files experiences across OneDrive and Microsoft 365, new admin controls, and the brand new employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva. With more of us working remotely, we're reliant on being able to securely work on files and content. Microsoft 365 VP, Omar Shahine, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how the newest Microsoft 365 updates help people and organizations to stay connected and secure.
Shared Channels in Teams:
Be part of multiple organizations without having to switch between accounts.
Keep existing team structures, and create new chair channels within those teams.
Lists:
Define custom lists and manage which templates are available to people based on their job role.
Hit milestones on time and automate alerts using rules in Teams. Make editing more efficient with rich text editing capabilities.
OneDrive & SharePoint: Store all your files in a location everyone can access. New team members automatically gain or lose access when they join or leave.
Stream video player: All your meeting recordings in one place. Catch up quickly on calls you missed by searching the transcript.
Microsoft Viva: Search results come to you: Hover over a word or click on it to get more info on a topic page.
Viva Topics: Questions are answered automatically. The more it learns, the richer the content gets on the topic page.
Viva Connections: Unique experiences with personalized news and announcements tailored to your role and location.
For Admins: Unified SharePoint and OneDrive means more consistency with shared controls and reports.
Better reporting for file sync.
Connect common issues and efficiently reach out to your users.
► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - Shared Channels in Teams
04:52 - Lists
07:07 - OneDrive & SharePoint
09:51 - Microsoft Viva
12:40 - New for admins
13:49 - Wrap up
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Tour the newest updates to Azure Communication Services (ACS). Microsoft CVP, Scott Van Vliet, joins host Jeremy Chapman to give you the details, from core capabilities generally available this month, to new capabilities available in preview, including interoperability with Microsoft Teams and using the Azure Bot Framework to enable Intelligent Voice Response.
If you're new to Azure Communication Services, it's a new platform for building rich custom communication experiences that leverage the same enterprise-grade services that back Microsoft Teams all through Azure.
Generally available:
Foundational capabilities with voice, video chat, SMS and PSTN calling
Bring your own existing phone numbers via direct routing with your own SIP trunks.
Public preview:
ACS’s interoperability with Microsoft Teams
Integration with Azure bot framework for IVR scenarios.
UI controls: starting with react controls for video calls and expanding controls available on GitHub
To automate, use a no-code approach in ACS with Logic App Designer
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - Updates to foundational capabilities: voice, video chat, SMS and PSTN calling
02:49 - Public preview: interoperability with Teams, bot framework, UI controls
03:26 - Demo: see Communication Services in action
07:02 - How to get it working
08:05 - No-code approach using Logic App Designer
10:28 - What’s next for ACS?
10:45 - Wrap Up
► Link References: Find out more and get started at https://aka.ms/GetStartedWithACS
For the public preview of new features for Azure Communications Services, go to https://aka.ms/ACSPreview
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Watch how to implement a serverless architecture in Azure from Azure SQL Database serverless to Azure container instances. Join solution provider Icertis and watch how they use serverless technology from Azure SQL Database serverless to give their customers a customizable, turnkey and scalable contract intelligence platform.
The Icertis Contract Intelligence (or ICI platform) is used by the world's most iconic brands and turns contracts from static documents into strategic advantage by structuring and connecting the critical contract information that defines how an organization runs. The ICI platform is hosted entirely in Azure, but now Icertis has gone to the next step of optimization by incorporating serverless technologies. Monish Darda, Chief Technology Officer for Icertis, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share the architecture of the Icertis platform using Azure SQL Database serverless.
Ideal for databases with intermittent usage patterns or extended periods of inactivity.
Just-in-time compute only runs as queries come in.
Set min-max ranges and define when you want the service to pause.
Billing is per second vs per hour using provision compute, reducing costs.
Azure Resource Manager template options:
Fully automated and you can integrate it with your current systems of record.
Start with single server architecture, then move to enterprise architecture as needed.
Add optional services, AI integration, or other SaaS apps.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:38 - Architecture of the platform
03:38 - Why serverless?
04:06 - Transition from PaaS into serverless
06:02 - Query performance demonstrations
08:13 - Billing with serverless
08:34 - Azure Resource Manager template options
10:10 - What’s next for Icertis?
11:22 - Wrap up
► Link References:
To learn more about Icertis Contract Intelligence platform, check out https://www.Icertis.com
Try the platform for yourself from the Azure marketplace at https://aka.ms/icertisAM
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Take a deep dive on Azure Cost Management and Billing, a free tool that helps you set budget accountability and find optimizations to keep Cloud cost down. Whether you are managing your Cloud expenditure, want to ensure a specific workload or project stays within budget, or want to identify optimizations, Azure Cost Management can help. And Cost Management comes free with your Azure subscription, so there’s no excuse not to use it.
Antonio Ortoll, Product Manager for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to help you understand the costs of everything running in your environment and show you how Azure Cost Management and Billing solves for:
Visibility into the workloads and related resources that are driving spend. See spending patterns or even detect specific anomalies in spend.
The ability to track spend against budget so you can drive accountability and charge costs back to individual teams or departments.
Identify optimizations that can help you to save money through dynamic recommendations available through Azure Advisor, which is integrated with Azure Cost Management.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:01 - Solve for visibility, accountability, and identify optimizations
02:05 - Walk through demo
03:26 - Custom aggregate view
04:41 - Budgets by cost center
07:06 - How to keep track of your budget
10:22 - Optimizations to save money
12:46 - Track spend across different Cloud implementations
14:17 - Closing notes
► Link References:
For more guidance check out https://aka.ms/acmdocs
Download the Azure Cost Management and Billing App for Power BI at https://aka.ms/ACMApp
Watch the episode for optimizing your Cloud investments at https://aka.ms/AzureEconomics
Learn more about enforcing budget caps through automation, and see our sample scripts at https://aka.ms/acmrunbook
Leverage our Azure Consumption APIs at https://aka.ms/acmdocs
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As you migrate or build new solutions in the Cloud with Azure Landing Zones, set yourself up for success with a set of reference environments that provide an operational foundation to host your workloads in Azure.
Azure Landing Zones gives you the building blocks and scaffolding at the workload or organizational level to ensure any resource you build or migrate to Azure aligns with the rules and policies you set. We provision a set of Azure baseline services that you deploy as code to give you a landing zone to host your workloads. This ensures consistency across foundational services, like how you configure networking, identity, resource organization, governance policy, and operations.
Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Product Manager, joins host Jeremy Chapman to give you a hands-on introduction to landing zone options from ‘Start Small and Expand’, which helps you incrementally govern your environment, to ‘Enterprise Scale’, that enables you to operationalize and construct many landing zones at scale.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:07 - Landing Zone options: migration, foundation blueprint, Terraform
02:44 - See Landing Zones in action
03:17 - How to get started
04:49 - How to edit blueprints
05:50 - How to add more policies or artifacts
06:34 - Publish and assign blueprints
08:26 - How it links to Azure Migrate
09:12 - Enterprise-scale Landing Zones
12:05 - Wrap Up
► Link References:
To get started, check out the Azure Landing Zones documentation as part of the Cloud Adoption Framework at https://aka.ms/Adopt/LandingZone
Additional tutorials are available on Microsoft Learn at https://aka.ms/LearnLandingZones
Check out our best practice guidance at https://aka.ms/IDAMBestPractices
For more guidance on using Azure Migrate to move your VM and other resources into Azure, go to https://aka.ms/MechanicsAzureMigrate
For Enterprise Scale Landing Zones on GitHub, visit https://aka.ms/GitHubEnterpriseScale
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Create intelligent chatbots directly in Microsoft Teams using Power Virtual Agents (PVA). We'll also show how the integration with the Bot Framework Composer lights up new capabilities for building even richer custom experiences. Jeremy Chapman is joined by Emma Archer, Principal Group Program Manager for Power Virtual Agents, who shows you how easy it is to create a new PVA bot in Teams and how to extend it with custom capabilities, leveraging the Bot Framework Composer.
With so many of us working remotely, it can be harder to get your questions answered. We’ve integrated PVA to give you an instant bot authoring canvas to build intelligent and responsive chatbots without even leaving Teams. You can build custom virtual chat experiences to engage with your team, address frequently asked questions, and save time by triaging common IT questions. And the good news is that Power Virtual Agents is included in your Teams license.
Just released to public preview is our deep integration of PVA with the Azure Bot Framework Composer.This offers richer experiences, such as adaptive dialogues that give you a way to code complex event-driven dialogues. Bots can easily switch contexts mid-conversation and then switch back, so they appear less robotic. Or use adaptive cards that give you a rich, interactive display and enable you to incorporate images and videos.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:03 - See an example of a chatbot
02:55 - How to build your own chatbot
04:54 - How to create a complex interaction
07:21 - Azure Bot Framework Composer
08:39 - See Bot Framework Composer in action
10:39 - How to make chatbots available within Teams
12:33 - Closing notes
► Link References:
Watch an introduction to Power Virtual Agents at https://aka.ms/PVAMechanics
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Get the basics for configuring and managing Microsoft Teams. Watch this video and you'll see the prerequisites for the best Microsoft Teams experience including; planning for network capacity and deployment; org-wide tenant-level controls; as well as ways to customize Microsoft Teams for any organization. Configure Microsoft Teams as part of your install: https://config.office.com Learn more details on configuration of Office 365: https://aka.ms/OfficeITSeries Complete list of Microsoft setting and policies: https://aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams Save this link to watch the whole series on Microsoft Teams Essentials for IT: https://aka.ms/MicrosoftTeamsforIT
Navigate Cloud Economics in Azure, and see radical cost savings for your organization based on your specific workloads. Cloud billing is tied to compute and storage, which includes the underlying software licensing fees. Costs accrue via a pay for what you consume model, versus the up-front server infrastructure and software licensing costs that you would typically pay on-premises in your data center. Join Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Product Manager, to see how the cloud consumption model in Azure applies.
The Cloud is infinitely flexible; it’s not “one size fits all.” A major advantage of the Cloud is the power it gives you to elastically scale compute resources in response to different peaks in your business. As you pay for what you consume, consider how you will consume resources for your specific workloads in order to get the best pricing.
Unpredictable workloads:
Add and subtract resources as you need them, resulting in variable costs.
Purposefully architecting for elasticity can help to save costs
Predictable workloads:
Make an upfront commitment to consume at a certain level for a longer period of time, and you can benefit from fixed costs at reduced pricing.
Azure Dedicated Host provides the physical servers you need dedicated to your Azure subscription
Azure Reservations allows you to commit resources for one-year or three-year plans for multiple services
Across both of these consumption approaches, one of the most important levers to keep your costs in check, is software licensing which can make up to 30-40% of your Cloud bill. Once you are in Azure, the Azure Cost Management tool allows you to set target budgets and track against spending. And if you are trying to reduce your carbon footprint, studies show that Microsoft cloud services are up to 93 percent more energy-efficient and up to 98 percent more carbon-efficient than datacenters run on-premises.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - How cloud pricing works
02:39 - Software licensing
03:35 - Paying for what you consume
04:08 - Variable costs
05:15 - Fixed costs
06:29 - See economic tips put to the test/Azure pricing calculator
09:57 - Managing costs over time
► Link References:
To learn more, check out https://aka.ms/AzureCloudEconomic
For more information on licenses, visit https://aka.ms/Licensing
Leverage the free Azure Pricing Calculator, available at https://aka.ms/azurepricingcalculator
Check calculations at https://aka.ms/WSOpenLicensing and https://aka.ms/SAMechanics
Find pricing details for SQL Server at https://aka.ms/SQLOpenLicensing
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Build a consistent experience for frontline workers with Microsoft Teams updates. Take a look at the latest updates for frontline workers in Microsoft Teams. The past year has revealed a gap that exists for essential workers in terms of equal access to technology. By proactively extending the Team's platform to them, you can avoid workers finding their own potentially risky solutions.
Microsoft Teams can run on either personal devices or shared devices, it's integrated with your back office, and it's secured by design. You can also configure it to meet the specific needs of your frontline workers, their managers, or IT. Everybody benefits, and it's a consistent experience. Daniel Hidalgo, Product Manager for Microsoft Teams, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share Teams updates for:
• Frontline workers- easy sign-in, and new capability called Walkie Talkie
• Managers- new ways to manage your Teams with My Staff portal.
• IT- new policy packages, Team templates to speed up configuration, as well as new options for managing shared devices in Endpoint Manager
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00:00 - Introduction
02:01 - Demo: sign in, navigate the app
04:08 - Communication elements: tasks, private chats, team conversations
05:37 - Walkie Talkie
07:15 - Create unique apps using Power Apps
09:05 - My Staff manager experience
10:51 - Team templates, policy packages
12:02 - New Endpoint Manager preview features to enable shared devices
13:35 - Wrap up
► Link References: To get started, check out https://aka.ms/TeamsForFrontline
Walk through an entire power app build start to finish at https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMechanics
Build a simplified Azure AD experience called My Staff at https://MyStaff.microsoft.com
Find out more about Azure AD shared device mode at https://aka.ms/MSALdocs
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Get an inside look at the new Surface Hub 2S 85”, the largest device in the Surface family. Combining state-of-the-art hardware with Microsoft 365 productivity and meeting experiences, it’s designed to enable stronger person-to-person and Team connection, bringing in-person and virtual meeting participants together in one seamless experience. Also notable is its modular design with removable camera and compute module.
Experience: Ideal for teamwork spaces and conference rooms Walk up and use it as a shared device without the need to authenticate Join meetings instantly from Surface Hub or your own personal device with proximity join Combine Surface Hubs together to present participants on one hub and content on the other.
Design: More screen real estate than the original Offers a fluid, multi pen inking experience Detachable camera captures 4k video at a 90 degree horizontal field of view Removable compute module with a comprehensive array of ports.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Experience
02:10 - Design
03:38 - Modularity
04:41 - Mounting and Mobility
05:20 - Manageability
06:16 - Security
06:47 - Closing notes
► Link References:
For availability and more information, check out https://www.surface.com
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The Surface Pro 7+ is the latest generation of the purpose-built, class defining Surface 2-in-1, available exclusively for commercial customers and educational institutions. It's capable of transforming from a laptop to a tablet, or into studio mode, while also serving as a desktop when docked and connected to external displays.
And while the signature form factor remains consistent, it brings the next level of performance and versatility to its category, it comes with options for:
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Quad core compute running 11th generation Intel Core processors, which at its most popular spec, is more than twice as fast as its ’predecessor’
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A new removable SSD enables allows you to retain and protect your sensitive information
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Configurations available now with up to 32 GB of RAM
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Optional built-in LTE Advanced, with eSIM and physical SIM support
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And a 50.4 watt-hour battery, which is the highest capacity battery ever in the Surface Pro line
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00:00 - Introduction and highlights
01:08 - Color options and accessories
01:38 - Tour of Surface Pro 7+ hardware
03:41 - Surface Pro 7+ internals
05:17 - LTE Advanced option
06:04 - Manageability for IT
06:27 - Bulk packaging improvements
07:17 - Wrap-up
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Global investments company, BNY Mellon shows how they leverage Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to design an intelligent system for data ingest and transformation.
Keith Pijanowski, Senior Principal Consultant at BNY Mellon, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share the team’s implementation story and how they unified their data in Azure, established an integrated data and analytics platform, and built new SaaS applications that could leverage the unique IP in their data quickly and at scale.
If you’re new to BNY Mellon, it's the world's largest custodian bank and asset servicing company. It helps many of the world's largest and most sophisticated asset managers and asset owners manage and service their financial investments and reach data-driven decisions.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:39 - Take a look at the app
02:48 - How they built it
03:39 - Intelligent system for data ingest and transformation
05:50 - How Azure database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale helps
06:19 - How to process queries quickly
09:23 - Serving the data from PostgreSQL into the app
11:02 - What’s next for BNY Mellon?
► Link References:
Learn more about BNY Mellon’s solutions check out https://aka.ms/BNYMellon
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Make automation more accessible so you can focus on what’s important. From code-free automation to your everyday processes in Microsoft teams, the new Power Automate Desktops Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities expands UI automation across a broader spectrum of legacy apps and your favorite web browsers.
Automation is no longer only referring to IT automation. As more of what we do every day is digital, automation can apply to almost any process or task. Whether it's an approval process across the stakeholders, or data entry between different apps, there's nothing stopping you from automating many of the things that you do every single day. With Power Automate, part of the Microsoft Power platform, you can do digital process automation for any task or business process.
Host Jeremy Chapman is joined by Stephen Siciliano, PM Director for Power Automate, who shows the many options for automating repetitive tasks:
Everyday processes in your Microsoft 365 apps
Win32 apps
Web apps across browsers
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
03:00 - Demo RPA for Legacy App
05:08 - New Power Automate Desktop
08:39 - How to test the automation
10:02 - Automation in a web app in browsers
12:23 - How to track what’s been automated
12:58 - Closing notes
► Link References:
Learn more and get started at https://www.powerautomate.com
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Azure Purview is a significant breakthrough service, especially from a data management perspective. Because data can take many different forms, it's difficult to get a handle on the volumes of data that sit across your organization in multiple clouds and on premises. Purview solves for data discovery and provides the foundation for effective data governance. Ultimately, the better you understand the data you have, the more effectively you can use it across your organization.
Purview provides:
A unified platform that automatically discovers and classifies your data without the need to move it.
Rich user experiences, enable data, producers, consumers, and stewards to easily collaborate.
A way to easily track and visualize the lineage of your data across the data estate, so you can easily see where data is moved and how it's been transformed.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:10 - What is Azure Purview?
03:02 - Purview in action: Search process
04:38 - Purview in action: Tables information & lineage view
06:23 - How it works
07:43 - Setup
09:33 - Options to scan data
10:57 - Insights: Bird’s eye view of data landscape
12:11 - Closing notes
► Link References:
Get started and sign up for Azure Purview at https://aka.ms/TryAzurePurview
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Azure Synapse is now generally available. Check out the updates with the release and a first look at additional capabilities coming soon. If you're new to Azure Synapse, it's Microsoft's limitless analytics platform that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data processing into a single managed environment with no systems integration required. John Macintyre, engineering lead for Azure Synapse, joins host Jeremy Chapman to provide details on the newest updates, and walk through how a grocery retailer might use new capabilities in Synapse to plan inventory levels.
Preview capabilities in the Synapse workspace now ready for production workloads:
• Azure Synapse Link, the first cloud-native HTAP solution.
• SQL Serverless, now generally available.
• For analytics with Spark, we've built performance optimizations for our implementation of Apache spark.
New capabilities, formerly in preview, are now available and fully supported:
• New knowledge center gives you pipeline templates to bring data in sample scripts for analytics, automation, and notebooks.
• Bring data into Synapse for advanced analytics and to enrich that data in code-free ways and apply your Azure machine-learning models.
Added for data admins:
• Connect to your data and storage securely through managed private endpoints.
• You no longer have to manage subnets, worry about IP ranges, or configure private endpoints. You don't need deep networking knowledge.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Preview capabilities now ready for production workloads
02:07 - New capabilities that are available and fully supported
02:55 - Updates added for data admins
04:15 - Demo: How a Grocery retailer might use new capabilities in Synapse
08:59 - Demo: How to bring in historical data
10:28 - Demo: How to perform predictive analytics for yourself
12:48 - Demo: How to push it all into production
13:24 - Closing notes
► Link References:
Sign up for a trial, or create your first Synapse workspace at https://aka.ms/GetSynapse
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Extend information protection controls beyond apps and services to device endpoints with Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (or DLP). As more and more users work outside the traditional corporate walls, natively for managing Windows 10 devices and the new Edge browser, they can discover and protect sensitive data as it's being shared or transferred.
If a user inadvertently mislabels a file, DLP will detect sensitive information and apply corresponding restrictions to prevent data loss. Think of DLP as an extra layer of security and a defense in-depth approach before content ends up in the wrong hands, whether that data has been proactively labeled or not. Join host Jeremy Chapman, as he gives an overview of Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention, shows you the user experience, and shares how easy it is to set it all up.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:06 - User experience: apply endpoint DLP policies at the file system level
02:18 - How it works: doesn't slow your PC, fully cloud managed, and always up to date
03:05 - Admin experience: how to restrict printing, set up alerts, and set context
06:11 - See how to prevent specific apps from accessing protected files
06:48 - Closing notes
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Find a script-based configuration package that you can deploy with your existing tools at https://aka.ms/EndpointDLPGuide
Learn more about EndpointDLP, and try it out for yourself at https://aka.ms/EndpointDLP
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Get insights into the productivity of your organization and receive tips to accelerate your digital transformation. Check out the new service Microsoft Productivity Score, now generally available. In this video, Jared Spataro, Microsoft CVP for Modern Work, joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate Microsoft Productivity Score and how it's used.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Intro to Microsoft Productivity Score
01:45 - Demo of what the score is and Productivity Score home
03:38 - Communication category
04:47 - Meetings category
05:25 - Content collaboration category
06:38 - Teamwork category
07:25 - Mobility category
08:32 - Network connectivity category
09:28 - Microsoft 365 Apps health category
10:00 - Endpoint analytics category
11:14 - Where to get started with Microsoft Productivity Score
Microsoft 365 and the cloud constantly evolve and deliver new capabilities at scale to meet productivity needs. Microsoft Productivity Score is a tool that gives you one place for end-to-end visibility-- including insights, peer benchmarks, and actions that you can take to help your people be more productive using the technologies and services in Microsoft 365. It's designed for anyone focused on technology adoption for their organization.
You'll find Productivity Score in the Reports section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. Anyone with report reader role or higher privileges can access Productivity Score. Here you can see your score on a percentage scale and as in the Score Breakdown, it comprises both the People Experiences and Technology Experiences.
People Experiences include the measures for how the organization is working and Technology Experiences helps you understand how technology can better assist you in optimizing productivity.
In Productivity Score, we show where you are today, the trend over the last six months, and how you compare to peers in your industry. Looking at each category you'll find:
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Communication – so you see what modes people are using to communicate;
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Meetings – to see whether your online meetings follow best practices;
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Content Collaboration – to see how well people are working together using online files;
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Teamwork – to measure whether your people are working together using shared workspaces such as Teams;
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Mobility - to show you how your people are using their devices to work flexibly wherever they are,
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Endpoint Analytics - to look at how device hardware and software contribute to productivity;
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Microsoft 365 Apps health - to see if your Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are up-to-date and on supported servicing channels; and finally
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Network Connectivity - with tailored insights and actions to help improve connections to Microsoft cloud services
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To get your productivity score and get started, go to https://aka.ms/productivityscore
For related resources, check out https://aka.ms/prodscoreresources
For more details on the time savings presented and cited in Microsoft Productivity Score, see https://aka.ms/M365TEIstudy
To see what's coming soon to Endpoint Analytics with Brad Anderson, see https://aka.ms/EndpointAnalyticsUpdates
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See how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce supports you in the execution of your digital sales strategy with unified, intelligent, and personalized customer shopping experiences. This includes streamlining your existing supply chain and adding more resiliency. We'll show you how Dynamics 365 Commerce provides a unified experience between your organization and your customers, how it enables centralized operations, and what it takes to set it up. As a modern solution, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce:
• Shows intelligent product recommendations when customers visit your eCommerce site.
• Gives customers a personalized experience by accessing their purchase history, shipping information, feedback, ratings and reviews.
• Integrates with Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection, allowing you to run risk diagnostic reports and implement rules that leverage Microsoft's adaptive AI to react to fraud.
• Comes with powerful analytics that allow your business users to review purchasing patterns across online and in-store purchases and see how specific locations are performing.
Vanessa Fournier, Dynamics 365 Group Product Manager, shows you how Dynamics 365 Commerce enables intelligent and personalized interactions across your sales channels, all while protecting against fraud and ensuring increased resiliency.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:53 - Components that make it possible: ERP system & Common Data Service (CDS)
02:50 - Core components: Commerce HQ & API Integration
03:23 - Key channels: Online, Point of sale, & Call center
04:26 - Leverage Customer Insights
05:00 - Your eCommerce website
06:11 - Point of Sale (POS) experiences
08:12 - Drive down costs with Fraud Protection
► Link References:
For a deeper dive on the Power Platform, and to learn more about adopting specific Dynamics 365 applications and services, check out our Dynamics 365 Essentials for IT series at https://aka.ms/Dynamics365ForIT.
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Establish an always-on and connected customer and field service approach with Dynamics 365. Vanessa Fournier, Group Product Manager for Dynamics 365, explains how you can use the Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Field Service apps and supporting capabilities to connect with customers wherever they are, as well as how you can add automated support using virtual agents and IoT devices to augment your customer service support infrastructure.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service provides you with digital tools such as self-service sites, communities, and chatbots, as well as IoT integration for remote detection and service. All of this makes service faster and more convenient for your customers. Dynamics 365 Customer Service also empowers your customer service personnel with the information they need and enables them to interact with customers all via one interface. Then, Dynamics 365 Field Service matches field service technicians with the appropriate job tasks while supporting them with the ability to talk with remote experts to resolve problems while they're onsite.
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00:00 - Intro
01:39 - Find out the components that make all of this possible.
02:46 - Learn how Chatbots are an efficient way to enable customer self-service.
03:32 - See how to surface information about IoT devices.
04:00 - How to evaluate cases for continuous improvement.
04:57 - See what it looks like to implement always-on service.
► Link References:
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Options for very low latency networking with Azure Edge Zones. It brings Azure's global network fabric into local metro area data centers, provided by Microsoft or with mobile carriers, and onto 5G and 4G LTE networks, so your processing power is local to your users. Edge Zones is a turnkey solution for running your own private mobile network with dedicated bandwidth managed by Azure. Join Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Product Manager, for an overview of Azure Edge Zones and the three main options available to you for very low latency networking:
• Azure Edge Zones
Allows you to deploy apps and services and your IoT device infrastructure to a Metro Azure Data Center, close to where your users are. In the same way you're used to pulling your apps and services to a region in Azure, you can now deploy them to available Azure Edge Zones.
• Azure Edge Zones with Carrier
You can deploy your apps and services to a Carrier Hosted Edge Zone. The goal of this approach is to ensure that as your code runs in Azure Edge Zones with Carriers, it's only a single hop from the mobile 5G or 4G network of your users. Because your apps and services can be deployed locally across the carriers edge network, they can remain close to the users and their devices at all times, greatly reducing app response times to deliver superior user experiences. •
Azure Private Edge Zones
Great if you want to connect to manage your IoT devices, or establish dedicated networking and compute scenarios like smart warehousing and more. With Azure Private Edge Zones, you can build and deploy your own Private Mobile Network.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:39 - Azure Edge Zones
02:08 - Azure Edge Zones with Carrier
03:43 - Azure Private Edge Zones
04:30 - Building block approach
06:14 - Attabotics: Real world example of Azure Private Edge Zones
07:00 - What role does 5G play?
► Link References:
• To try out Azure Zones for yourself, sign up at https://aka.ms/EdgeZones.
• Learn more about Edge Zones and see the current list of partners by visiting https://aka.ms/AboutAEZ.
• Find latency solutions at https://aka.ms/LowLatencyComputing.
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Reduced COVID-19 risk in the workplace with AI and IoT on the Edge, RXR Realty, New York based real estate company shows the full implementation. Cory Clarke, Product Management VP at RXR, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how they’re tackling an issue that many of us (whether as an employee or an organization) are trying to figure out— how to operate during the pandemic while keeping people safe. See how they are leveraging Azure AI and IoT for automated health checks, air quality control, social distancing, mask compliance and much more.
For those of you who are new to RXR Realty, they're one of the largest real estate companies in New York with over 27 million square feet of real estate. Normally, around 75,000 office workers occupy their building spaces. While New York was the epicenter of COVID-19 early on, it's positive recovery provides an interesting model for how to safely go back to normal life in the middle of a pandemic. RXR is offering its own unique perspective by implementing its RX Well platform, an IoT and AI based solution that supports safe return of people back to the office. The core advantage of Azure IoT Hub is it's end-to-end device management, massive scale, and seamless integration with other Azure services.
Walkthrough some of the user experiences:
• Office workers who need to feel safe in their return back to the office
• Property managers’ comprehensive view of building data in real-time, so they can dynamically adjust policies and procedures
• Facility managers that are actually tenants in the spaces who can see if more needs to be done to improve compliance to public health measures
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:43 - Walk through the user experiences
06:48 - Behind the scenes tech
09:50 - Security
11:22 - How to report on both employee and property manager apps
14:19 - Device management
► Link References:
Find out more about Azure Spatial Analysis at https://aka.ms/SpatialAnalysis.
Get our RxWell solution in the Azure Marketplace at https://aka.ms/RXWellSolution.
Learn more about RXR's example at https://aka.ms/RXWell.
For more on Azure IoT and AI, check out https://www.azure.com.
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Full tutorial of the end-to-end experience that makes it easier for you to communicate and work more effectively with your teams. Aya Tange, Microsoft Teams Product Manager, joins host Jeremy Chapman to walk through some of the core capabilities and highlight all the updates along the way.
Teams brings together three main experiences:
• Chat, so you can collaborate with your team
• Meetings and calling, so you can always stay connected
• Apps and automation of your everyday business workflows
We've been working around the clock to make sure you have the best experience possible, which includes optimizing the service and bringing new experiences that allow you to have a natural human connection when using Teams – whether that's joined from the office, from home, or remotely. Dive into our Quick Links to see each new update in detail:
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:40 - Chat- call, video chat, share content, and multiple chats
03:12 - Teams- invite-only channels, thread messages, rich-text editing, and tabs
07:34 - Pre-join screen- new audio and video controls and background effects
08:54 - Dynamic view- adjusts to prioritize what's most important
09:45 - Large gallery view- supports up to 49 people
10:04 - Together mode- brings your Team into one virtual shared space
10:57 - AI capabilities- will remove distracting background noise
11:29 - Live captions- see who is speaking
12:09 - Live transcription- see the full transcript accessible in the meeting chat
13:30 - Manage tasks- new unified view to track everything you need to do
► Link References:
Watch our seven-part Teams series at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftTeamsforIT.
See how to have multiple copies of Microsoft Teams open https://aka.ms/wfhmechanics.
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Find out how you can run your VMware workloads natively in Azure with the new Azure VMware Solution. Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure Senior Product Manager, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you how to create a VMware private cloud in Azure, and move your on-premises VMware easily to Azure, while continuing to use your existing investments and skill sets in VMware in the cloud.
For anyone new to this concept, Azure VMware Solution, or AVS, is a fully-managed Azure PaaS service that lets you run your VMWare environment natively in Azure. It is essentially VMware in the cloud with your existing VMware tools and processes.
Dive into this special edition of Microsoft Mechanics for answers to questions such as:
• How do I know how to size the environment in Azure?
• How easy is it to create a new AVS private cloud?
• How long does it take to build? (only about an hour!)
• What does the process look like to migrate VM workloads?
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - What is AVS?
00:43 - What’s new about it?
01:59 - Azure environment size
03:30 - What it takes to create AVS private cloud
05:34 - Process of Migrating VM Workloads
► Link References:
Learn more about Azure VMware Solution at https://aka.ms/getAVS.
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