Partner Practice Building
What’s new
- Workloads Playbooks
- PArtner Skilling PLaybook
Deep links
- Workloads Playbooks: Explore solution plays and curated resources to help develop competitive solutions, serve customers, and grow your business.
- Partner Skilling Playbook: The Partner Skilling Playbook is a guide for understanding the enablement offerings available to help skill up partner organizations, wherever you are in your learning journey.
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Azure Infrastructure Workloads
What’s new
- Extended Microsoft and Oracle partnership
- Added references and best practices for running Oracle workloads on Azure, including migration and modernization options for Oracle databases and applications.
- Added the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service, recognizing Microsoft as a Leader in the field.
Deep links
- Migration and modernization for Oracle workloads: With this new offering, Azure is now able to host Oracle services, including Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure datacenters.
- Oracle workload best practices: The section about Oracle workloads on Azure provides guidance that applies the Azure Well-Architected best practices as the technical foundation for building and operating a highly reliable solution on Azure at-scale. (Microsoft Learn)
- Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service: Microsoft is honored to be recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). (Gartner)
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Data & AI > Azure OpenAI
What’s new
- Added the article “An Introduction to LLMOps” for operationalizing and managing
- Added the article and the demo “Conversational Azure OpenAI (ChatGPT) Accelerator” for generating conversation and summarization
- Added the article “Information Assistant accelerator” for setting up a discussion about the Information Assistant accelerator powered by Azure OpenAI
- Added the link to the list of Azure OpenAI accelerators and demo assets
Deep links
- An Introduction to LLMOps: Operationalizing and Managing Large Language Models using Azure ML - Tech Community
- Conversational Azure OpenAI (ChatGPT) Accelerator: Rapid Custom Demo tailored to customer use case, focused on generating conversation and summarization - GitHub
- Information Assistant accelerator: Form to set up a discussion about the Information Assistant accelerator, powered by Azure OpenAI
- Azure OpenAI Accelerators and Demo Assets: List of Repeatable IP and learning resources for building an Azure OpenAI solution - GitHub
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DataAI Workloads - Microsoft Fabric
What’s new
- includes new resources, decision guides, and best practices to help Microsoft Partners build their technical practice.
Deep links
- Fabric Readiness: The Fabric Readiness repo provides a collection of presentation decks that can be used in user groups, online presentations, conferences, and customer conversations. (GitHub)
- Microsoft Fabric decision guide: choose a data store: Use this reference guide and example scenarios to choose a suitable data store for Microsoft Fabric workloads. (Microsoft Learn)
- Microsoft Fabric decision guide: copy activity, dataflow, or Spark: This reference guide and example scenarios will aid in deciding between copy activity, dataflow, or Spark for Microsoft Fabric workloads. (Microsoft Learn)
- Create Metadata Driven Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric: Explore how metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines, and Microsoft Fabric can simplify data ingestion and transformation. (Blog)
- Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse & Medallion Architecture: Learn about the Lakehouse and Medallion Architecture, which are common design patterns for modern data platforms like Microsoft Fabric. (YouTube)
- Data Factory end-to-end scenario: introduction and architecture: Accelerate the evaluation process for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric by following this step-by-step tutorial for a complete data integration scenario. (Microsoft Learn)
- Using Azure Databricks with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake: Understand how Azure Databricks works with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, and discover how the two systems can collaborate effectively. (Blog)
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Power Platform Solution Are
What’s new
- Updated PowerBI guidance and adoption roadmap
- Demos for Power BI Copilot.
Deep links
- Power BI guidance: Provides best practice information for Power BI from the team that builds it and works with enterprise customers. (Microsoft Learn)
- Power BI adoption roadmap: Presents a series of strategic and tactical considerations and action items to successfully adopt Power BI and build a data culture in your organization. (Microsoft Learn)
- Copilot in Power BI Demo: Shows how Copilot in Power BI infuses the power of large language models to help users create visuals, generate calculations, create narrative summaries, and ask questions about their data in conversational language. (YouTube)
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Security Workloads
What’s new
- Microsoft has been recognized as an overall leader in Access Management.
- Migrate existing DLP policies from Symantec to Microsoft Purview DLP with minimal effort
Deep links
- Microsoft Entra ID named leader in KuppingerCole’s Access Management Leadership Compass: Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in Access Management, emphasizing the significance of identity in the digital ecosystem.
- Migrate your Symantec DLP policies to Microsoft Purview: Learn how to migrate your Symantec DLP policies to Microsoft Purview DLP using the migration assistant, supported for various Microsoft workloads and non-Microsoft applications.
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