Azure Infrastructure Solution Area
What’s new
- Added Azure Depth Workshops: View content to deepen your skills through instructor-led training with technical experts. Uncover new insights, learn about architecture and implementation considerations, and find innovative ways to support your customer business challenges. On-demand.
Deep links
- Azure Depth Workshops: Looking to strengthen your skills with intermediate to advanced technical training? View content to deepen your skills through instructor-led training with technical experts. Uncover new insights, learn about architecture and implementation considerations, and find innovative ways to support your customer business challenges. On-demand.
- Azure Well-Architected Review: Examine your workload through the lenses of reliability, cost management, operational excellence, security and performance efficiency. Microsoft Learn.
- Azure Advisor documentation: Azure Advisor scans your Azure configuration and recommends changes to optimize deployments, increase security, and save you money. Microsoft Learn.
- Browse Azure Architectures: Architecture diagrams and technology descriptions for reference architectures, real world examples of cloud architectures, and solution ideas for common workloads on Azure. Microsoft Learn.
- Business Value of Azure Enablement - Whitepaper: Interviewed Azure customers reported that they have gained improved understanding and capabilities for their Azure environments, which has enabled them to optimize costs and IT team capabilities while improving Azure functionality and performance. IDC.
- Partner Resource Catalog - Well-Architected Framework: Azure.
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Business Applications Solution Area
What’s new
The Microsoft Sales Copilot tool has been introduced to the Business Applications Solution Area. It brings new capabilities to Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Dynamics 365 Sales, allowing sellers to increase productivity and personalize customer interactions. It is compatible with both Dynamics 365 Sales and Salesforce.
Deep links
- Microsoft Sales Copilot: Sales Copilot is a tool that enhances sales productivity and enables personalized customer interactions. It is compatible with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Dynamics 365 Sales, as well as Salesforce.
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Microsoft Marketplace - Multiparty Private Offers (MPO)
What’s new
Microsoft has added a new feature called Multiparty Private Offers (MPO) to the Partner Crucible program in order to assist Microsoft partners in building their technical practice. This feature allows partners to collaborate and sell custom solutions on the commercial marketplace.
Deep links
- Microsoft Marketplace - Multiparty Private Offers (MPO): This video provides an overview of how Microsoft is supporting partners in developing custom solutions through multiparty private offers (MPO) on the commercial marketplace.
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Data AI Solution Area
What’s new
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Added “Inside Microsoft’s AI supercomputer Featuring Mark Russinovich” video to provide an inside look at the AI supercomputer infrastructure built to run ChatGPT and other large language models in Azure. - Added information about the responsible AI approach to assessing, developing, and deploying AI systems in a safe, trustworthy, and ethical manner.
- Added AI learning and community hub
- Added AI Platform Insiders Research Panel- Added Microsoft AI Transformation for Partners
- Added Era of AI campaign assets
- Added AI Transformation Partner Playbook##
Deep links
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What runs ChatGPT?: Inside Microsoft’s AI supercomputer Featuring Mark Russinovich - 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. (Source: Microsoft Mechanics) - Responsible AI Toolbox: Responsible AI Toolbox is a suite of tools providing a collection of model and data exploration and assessment user interfaces and libraries that enable a better understanding of AI systems. (Source: ResponsibleAIToolbox.ai)
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- AI learning and community hub: Microsoft Learn is your trusted source to help you get skilled up and ready to power AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud. Build AI skills, connect with the community, earn credentials, learn from experts, and discover upcoming events.
- AI Platform Insiders Research Panel: Shape the future of machine learning platforms with Microsoft. Your insights and experiences will help us shape the future of AI Platform. Thank you for considering being a part of our research journey.
- Microsoft AI Transformation for Partners: Includes platforms, products, resources, tools, and offerings designed to help you deliver high-performing, customer-centric AI solutions, explains how responsible AI can benefit society with our legal and regulatory blueprint for the future, and in-depth understanding of Azure OpenAI Service and further guidance for partners.
- Era of AI: With the Era of AI campaign, you can introduce your customers to the ways Microsoft integrates AI to help organizations become more productive, develop creative solutions, and drive exceptional value. As a partner, you’ll find the right information and guidance to become AI-savvy.
- AI Transformation Partner Playbook: No matter where you are in your AI transformation journey, the AI Transformation Partner Playbook will empower you to accelerate innovation and grow your AI practice.
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Digital Apps and Innovation Solution Area
What’s new
- Cosmos DB topic has been moved from Data and AI to Digital Apps and Innovation Solution Area.
Deep links
- Azure Cosmos DB Partner Tech Connect: Reserve your spot for Azure Cosmos DB Partner Tech Connect - a community dedicated to partners. (Form)
- Azure Cosmos DB Developer: Links to architecture, tools, community, blog, conference, and Live TV.## Industry## Tools and Practices## Developers## Hackathons## GitHub## DevOps## API First## Containers## Java## IoT
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Solution Area: FinOps
What’s new
Microsoft has released a new e-book called “FinOps with Azure” that aims to bring FinOps principles to life and help organizations align their practices for maximum cloud business value.
Deep links
- FinOps with Azure: This e-book provides guidance on FinOps principles and highlights Microsoft solutions that can support the cloud journey and help organizations maximize their cloud business value.
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Modern Work Solution Area
What’s new
- Partner Practice Building: Provides guidance on building technical practice for Microsoft Partners.
Deep links
- Co-Sell with Microsoft Series learning path: FY24 Go-to-market guidance across all Co-Sell with Microsoft priority sales plays. [Transform]
- Sell through CSP Kickoff Series learning path: FY24 - Go-to-market guidance across all our Sell through CSP priority sales plays. [Transform]
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Partner Portals
What’s new
- Added Digital Marketing Content - On Demand#
Deep links
- Digital Marketing Content - On Demand: Digital Marketing Content OnDemand provides go-to-market content in fresh weekly campaigns at no cost to Microsoft partners. It enables partners to build and optimize their digital marketing strategy, capture and close leads through consistent online engagement. Connect your social, email, and blog accounts on the next series of screens to save time and improve user experience.—## Security and Compliance### What’s new- No changes found.—## Modern Workplace### What’s new- No changes found.—## Business Applications### What’s new- No changes found.—## Azure### What’s new- No changes found.—## Infrastructure### What’s new- No changes found.
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Power Platform Solution Area
What’s new
- Microsoft Power Platform Conference
- Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development
- Microsoft Power Automate Community
- Overview of process mining-
Deep links
- Microsoft Power Platform Conference: Be inspired and connect with professionals. Link
- Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development: Learn about the announcement of Copilot in Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. Link- Microsoft Power Automate Community: Connect with peers, share ideas, and learn from experts. Link- Overview of process mining: Understand process mining and its benefits for businesses. Link- Power Platform Online Workshops: Hands-on workshops for Power Platform. Link
- PL-100 Labs: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power Platform App Maker. Link
- PL-200 Labs: Hands-on labs for Power Platform Functional Consultant. Link
- PL-400 Labs: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power Platform Developer. Link
- PL-500 Labs: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer. Link
- PL-600 Labs: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect. Link
- PL-300 Labs: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst. Link
- PL-300 Labs Français: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (French). Link
- PL-900 Labs: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals. Link
- PL-900 Labs Français: Hands-on labs for Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (French)s. Link
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Security Solution Area
What’s new
- Added Become a Microsoft Priva Ninja: We have compiled several videos, document guides, and other resources to aid users in mastering the Microsoft Priva Ninja training realm. Our goal is to get you the most current links to the community blogs, training videos, Interactive Guides, learning paths, and any other relevant documentation. (Tech Community)
- Added Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps open app connector platform
- Added Investing in MXDR partner success
- Added Microsoft Security Copilot - Partner Interest Form
Deep links
- Become a Microsoft Priva Ninja: We have compiled several videos, document guides, and other resources to aid users in mastering the Microsoft Priva Ninja training realm. Our goal is to get you the most current links to the community blogs, training videos, Interactive Guides, learning paths, and any other relevant documentation. (Tech Community)
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps open app connector platform: This article describes how SaaS app vendors can use the Defender for Cloud Apps open app connector platform to build connectors for their own apps. The codeless open app connector platform helps simplify connector development by avoiding extra coding and reducing integration time. (Microsoft Learn)
- Investing in MXDR partner success: Demand for managed extended detection and response (MXDR) services is on a fast growth trajectory. Today, more than 860,000 organizations use Microsoft security products, and according to Gartner, more than 60 percent of organizations will be using managed detection and response (MDR) services for threat monitoring, detection, and response functions that offer threat containment and mitigation capabilities by 2025. Partners play a critical role in addressing this incredible customer demand, and Microsoft is investing in your ability to meet this coming need. (Transform)
- Microsoft Security Copilot - Partner Interest Form: Learn more about how to engage customers and take advantage of Security Copilot. By signing up, you will receive updates and communications as they become available. (Form)
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