Azure Infrastructure Workloads
What’s new
Apply Zero Trust principles to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment.
Deep links
- Apply Zero Trust principles to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment: This article provides steps to apply the principles of Zero Trust to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment.
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Commercial Marketplace
What’s new
This update consolidates references for Multi-party private offers in the commercial marketplace.
Deep links
- Microsoft Marketplace - Multiparty Private Offers (MPO): Find out how Microsoft is making investments to help partners come together and sell custom solutions on the commercial marketplace with multiparty private offers (MPO). (YouTube)
- Marketplace Office Hours: Explore Live and On-Demand Marketplace Office Hours webinars sessions on business and technical topics; providing publishers with the information and resources to successfully publish their solutions to the Commercial Marketplace. (Marketplace)## Multi-Party Private Offers (MPO)### What’s newThis update provides resources and information on multiparty private offers in the Microsoft commercial marketplace.### Deep links
- On-demand webinar on multiparty private offers: Get an overview of the new multiparty private offer (MPO) functionality coming to marketplace, including operational steps to onboard selling partners to the program. Explore this highly anticipated functionality and its potential to transform your marketplace channel strategy and unlock incremental business growth. (Webinar)
- Multiparty private offer repository: This collection contains resource materials related to multiparty private offers within the Microsoft commercial marketplace. (Partner)
- Multiparty private offers (for selling partners): Multiparty private offers empower partners to come together, create personalized offers with custom payouts, and sell directly to Microsoft customers with simplified selling through the marketplace. (Microsoft Learn)
- Mastering marketplace video series: Private offers in Partner Center. (Mastering the Marketplace)
- Microsoft Marketplace - Multiparty Private Offers (MPO): Find out how Microsoft is making investments to help partners come together and sell custom solutions on the commercial marketplace with multiparty private offers (MPO). (YouTube)
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Azure OpenAI Workloads
What’s new
- Added Microsoft Azure ChatGPT Repo to unleash the power of Azure OpenAI.
- Added Azure OpenAI Examples repository by @jakeatmsft, which shares example code and prompts for common tasks with the Azure OpenAI API.
Deep links
- Unleash the Power of Azure Open AI: Microsoft Azure ChatGPT Repo on GitHub.
- Azure OpenAI Examples: Repository by @jakeatmsft, providing example code and prompts for Azure OpenAI API tasks on GitHub.
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Data AI Workloads
What’s new
- Added Connecting to OneLake: This blog explains how to connect and interact with OneLake, including its compatibility with any tool used over ADLS Gen2.
- Added Unleashing the Power of SynapseML and Microsoft Fabric: A Guide to Q&A on PDF Documents: This blog post explores the functionalities and features of Microsoft Fabric and SynapseML, showcasing how to leverage LLMs for question and answer (Q&A) tasks on any PDF document.
Deep links
- Connecting to OneLake: In this blog, we’ll dive into how to connect and interact with OneLake, including how OneLake achieves its compatibility with any tool used over ADLS Gen2. (Blog)
- Unleashing the Power of SynapseML and Microsoft Fabric: A Guide to Q&A on PDF Documents: In this blog post, we delve into the exciting functionalities and features of Microsoft Fabric and SynapseML to demonstrate how to leverage LLMs to perform question and answer (Q&A) tasks on any PDF document. (Blog)
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Data AI Workloads
What’s new
A Microsoft AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science learning curriculum has been added to the Data AI Workloads.
Deep Links
- Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum: Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about Artificial Intelligence.
- Machine Learning for Beginners - A Curriculum: Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 26-lesson curriculum all about Machine Learning.
- Data Science for Beginners - : Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 10-week, 20-lesson curriculum all about Data Science.
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Digital Apps and Innovation Workloads
What’s new
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial IoT Platforms, showing their commitment to innovation and investment in the industrial Internet of Things (IoT). They are also engaged with a large ecosystem of solution partners.
Deep links
- Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial IoT Platforms: This link provides more information about Microsoft’s recognition as a leader in the industrial IoT platforms market.
- IoT for Beginners - A Curriculum: Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft have created a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum for beginners interested in learning about IoT basics. This link takes you to the curriculum on GitHub.
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FinOps
What’s new
- Added Azure Cost Optimization workbook, designed to provide an overview and help you optimize costs of your Azure environment. It offers cost-relevant insights and recommendations aligned with the WAF Cost Optimization pillar.
Deep links
- Cost Optimization workbook: The Azure Cost Optimization workbook provides cost-relevant insights and recommendations to help optimize costs of your Azure environment. It is aligned with the WAF Cost Optimization pillar.
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Modern Work Workloads
What’s new
Partners can now access a new event called “Getting ready for Microsoft AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot.” This event is designed to help partners enhance their solutions, services, and customer experiences by leveraging the power of AI. The event covers topics such as getting started with AI, becoming AI-ready, identifying potential use cases for AI, and helping customers navigate the benefits and challenges of AI.
Deep links
- Getting ready for Microsoft AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot: As a partner, this event allows you to learn how to embrace AI as a strategic asset, identify AI use cases, and help customers navigate AI’s benefits and challenges.
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Power Platform Workloads
What’s new
Added process mining practice building guides.
Deep links
- Power Platform Process Mining: Enriching partner opportunities: Power Automate Process Mining presents a significant opportunity for partners to broaden their Power Platform practices, leveraging current skillsets with intelligent automation and low code and building new services and solutions for data-driven process insights. (Blog)
- Power Automate Process Mining: Partner Started Guide: This comprehensive Partner Starter Guide is designed to equip you with the resources and tools you need to successfully adopt, sell, and deliver Power Automate Process Mining. (Transform)
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Security Workloads
What’s new
Added Automate tasks management to protect your organization against threats. This update allows tasks to be automatically created based on certain conditions, using playbooks and automation rules.
Deep links
- Automate tasks management to protect your organization against threats: This link provides more information on how to automate task management in order to protect your organization against threats.
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Security Workloads
What’s new
- Demystifying Microsoft’s Entra Overhaul: Your Infographic Guide to End-to-End Updates, Capabilities & Additions: Summary and infographic on the Entra Overhaul updates.
- Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM):: Summary and infographic on unlocking a 360° cybersecurity view with Microsoft Defender EASM.
- Unlocking SIEM Capabilities: Microsoft 365 Defender Portal vs. Microsoft Sentinel - - An In-Depth Comparison: Summary and infographic comparing Microsoft 365 Defender Portal and Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM capabilities.
- Clean up Inactive users with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse - : Microsoft 365 Lighthouse enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to manage users across customer tenants, including managing inactive users.
- Optimizing endpoint security with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s flexible licensing options - : Preview capability that allows customers to use different Defender for Endpoint licenses on different devices based on their security needs without setting up multiple subscriptions.
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 gets highest rating in SE Labs Enterprise Email Security Services test for Q1 2023: - Microsoft Defender for Office 365 received the AAA Protection Award in the SE Labs report.
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