Hello Team,

I thought you might be interested to learn about the key announcements shared at Microsoft Ignite, our annual flagship event where technologists from around the world come together to experience AI transformation in action, discover the best of what’s next in technology, problem-solve with experts, and make global connections.

We believe today’s AI innovation will power a paradigm shift as big as mobile, cloud, web, or PC. That’s why today we’re excited to announce more than 100 new updates across every facet of the Microsoft technology portfolio.

Keep reading to learn more about today’s announcements and to discover more ways to connect, learn, and share.

Microsoft Azure delivers purpose-built cloud infrastructure

In this new era of AI, we are redefining cloud infrastructure, from silicon to systems, to prepare for AI in every business, and in every app. We’re committed to helping our customers bring their AI ambitions to production while meeting them where they are in their AI Transformation journey. Whether you choose to build hybrid, cloud-native, or open-source solutions, we’re rapidly expanding our infrastructure and adding intuitive tools to help customers take their ideas to production.

To learn more about the following announcements, read the blog post by Omar Khan, GM of Azure Infrastructure Marketing.

AI Infrastructure optimized at every layer

Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure is purpose-built and optimized to fuel groundbreaking AI workloads, and delivers performance and efficiency powered by hardware from industry leaders as well as our own innovations. In close collaboration with our partners, Azure is enabling customers to succeed.

• Introducing our first custom AI accelerator series, Azure Maia, designed to run cloud-based training and inferencing for AI workloads such as OpenAI models, Bing, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. Maia 100 is the first generation in this series, with end-to-end systems optimization across silicon, software, network, racks, and cooling innovations for Microsoft’s AI infrastructure.
• Introducing Azure Cobalt CPU series, the first in-house processor built on ARM architecture, designed by Microsoft for the Microsoft Cloud. Cobalt 100 as the first generation in this series is optimized for performance/watt efficiency for general compute workloads.
• Adding the latest NVIDIA innovation to Azure AI infrastructure portfolio. The latest NVIDIA H200 Tensor GPUs are coming to Azure and will be added to the ND Virtual Machines Series. These new VMs will be the next generation of the ND H100 v5 VMs, ranked number one for ML performance benchmarking in the cloud (MLperf). The NC H100 v5 VMs also now in public preview and are optimized for mid-range training and inferencing.
• Confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs are now in preview exclusively in Azure. The new VMs are designed to run the next generation of confidential AI applications, starting with small to medium third-party AI workloads. These confidential VMs protect data in use in memory using encryption keys managed by the underlying hardware.
• Announcing ND MI300X v5 AI Infrastructure with the latest AMD accelerators. New Azure Virtual Machine Series powered by the new AMD Instinct MI300X GPU and optimized for training large AI models and generative inferencing.
• Azure Boost, now generally available, is a system that offloads virtualization processes to purpose-built software and hardware. This innovation enables customers to achieve faster networking and storage solutions in the cloud.

From Hybrid cloud to Adaptive cloud

We realize that cloud migration is not a one size fits all approach, and that’s why we’re committed to meeting customers where they are on their cloud journey. Evolving from a hybrid cloud to an adaptive cloud approach enables customers to thrive in dynamic environments by unifying siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into a single operations, security, application, and data model in Azure. Our vision for adaptive cloud builds on the work we’ve already started through Azure Arc.

• Microsoft Copilot for Azure is now in public preview. Microsoft Copilot for Azure is an AI companion that enables IT professionals to design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot applications on Microsoft Azure. It helps users generate deep insights instantly across their Azure environment, discover new cloud functionality, and do complex tasks faster.
• Microsoft and Oracle announce general availability of Oracle Database@Azure, a service that offers direct access to Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployed in Microsoft Azure datacenters, starting with the Oracle Exadata Database Service, and aims to simplify cloud migration and multicloud deployment. Oracle Database@Azure will become available in the US East Azure region starting in December 2023, with expansions planned in additional regions in calendar Q1 2024 and beyond.
• VMware vSphere self-service capabilities are now generally available in Azure with Azure Arc, bringing together Azure and the VMware vSphere infrastructure and enabling VM administrators to empower their developers to use Azure technologies with their existing server-based workloads and new Kubernetes workloads all from Azure.
• Azure IoT Operations, now in public preview, is enabled by Azure Arc and serves as an edge data plane, capturing and processing device and equipment data at the edge. With Azure IoT Operations, operational technology (OT) professionals can access near-real-time insights into their physical environments, and IT professionals get global control, repeatability, and scalability.

Microsoft Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn AI ambitions into reality

The past year has been one of true transformation. Companies are seeing real benefits today and are eager to explore what’s next, including how they can do more with their data investments, build intelligent applications, and uncover what AI can do for their business. From modern data solutions uniquely suited for this era, beloved developer tools, and a suite of application services that can run any language, any platform, and at Enterprise-grade quality, we’re building Azure as the AI supercomputer for customers. The pace of innovation isn’t slowing down with new capabilities and updates to make it easier than ever for customers to innovate on Azure as a trusted platform.

To learn more, read the blog post by Jessica Hawk, CVP Data, AI, Digital & Application Innovation.

Unlock generative AI

• Azure AI Studio, now in public preview, brings together pre-built AI services and models, prompt orchestration and evaluation, content safety and responsible AI tools for privacy, security and compliance. Bringing all of this into a unified platform, Azure AI Studio is designed to help organizations explore, build, test, and deploy AI solutions at scale – moving faster from idea to impact.
• Azure AI Content Safety is now available in Azure AI Studio so developers can easily evaluate model responses all in one unified development platform. We also announced the preview of new features to identify and prevent attempted jailbreaks and identify when large language models generate material that leverages third-party Intellectual Property and content.
• Copilot Copyright Commitment (CCC) is being expanded to include customers using the Azure OpenAI Service and is renamed Customer Copyright Commitment. As part of this expansion, Microsoft has published new documentation to help Azure OpenAI Service customers implement technical measures to mitigate the risk of infringing content. Customers will need to comply with the documentation to take advantage of the benefit.
• Dall-E 3 is now available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. GPT-4 Turbo (preview) and GPT-3.5 Turbo 16K (GA) will be available in Azure OpenAI Service at the end of November 2023. GPT-4 Turbo model offers lower pricing, extended prompt length, and structured JSON formatting with improved efficiency and control. The token pricing for the new models in Azure OpenAI Service will be at parity with OpenAI’s prices when we launch new models. Assistants API in preview (purpose-built AI with capabilities such as Code Interpreter and Retrieval) is coming soon in Azure OpenAI Service and will simplify building agent like experiences in their apps.
• GPT-4 Turbo with Vision will soon be available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Studio. Developers can unlock multi-modal capabilities with GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and when combined with Azure AI Vision, developers can enable applications to see, understand, and make inferences (video analysis, video Q&A) from visual inputs and associated text-based prompt instructions.
• Azure Cognitive Search is now Azure AI Search. Vector search and semantic ranker (formerly semantic search) in Azure AI Search are generally available. Azure AI Search doesn’t just support vectors, it actually combines techniques that we’ve built up over decades of operating high-scale search services like Bing to ensure that searches are smart. This means applications can take advantage of reranking techniques used in Bing, find information that is semantically similar to search queries, and understand misspellings and synonyms, even if the search terms aren’t exact matches. Azure AI Search offers the best of keyword and vector search, and the results are better quality search results with higher relevance.
• Prompt flow is now generally available in Azure Machine Learning and in preview in Azure AI Studio and provides Machine Learning Pros with a streamlined experience for prompting, evaluating and tuning large language models for intelligent apps.  
• Model-as-a-Service. We continue to expand choice and flexibility to offer developers the most comprehensive selection of frontier and open-source generative AI models. With Model-as-a-Service, a new feature in the model catalog we announced at Build, pro developers will be able to easily integrate the latest AI models such as Llama 2 from Meta, upcoming premium models from Mistral, Jais from G42, and Command from Cohere as API endpoints to their applications. They can also customize these models with their own data without needing to worry about setting up and managing the GPU infrastructure, helping eliminate the complexity of provisioning resources and managing hosting.
• Azure AI Advantage is a new offer to enable organizations to fast track AI powered app development. For a limited time, customers can get a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB when using Azure AI Services including Azure OpenAI Service.

Application innovation to build and modernize AI apps

• Azure Kubernetes Service Capabilities. Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator, now available in preview, makes it easy and more cost effective for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers to self-host and run specialized AI workloads like large language models. Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, now generally available, simplifies governance and compliance of AKS workloads by providing centralized control, standardized policies, and automated resource management across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
• Azure Container Apps now offers dedicated GPU workload profiles in preview. This enables developers to build event driven intelligent applications to train models or derive data driven insights. In addition, three of the most popular open-source vector databases—Qdrant, Milvus and Weaviate—are now available as add-ons for developers.
• Azure Migrate now offers application and code assessment capability for .NET and Java applications. This feature is now generally available and enables developers to assess any code changes required before migrating applications to Azure application services such as Azure App Service.

Developer productivity

• .NET 8, the next milestone in enterprise development, is now generally available. This groundbreaking release advances performance and productivity for ASP.NET and existing .NET developers, while paving the way for future intelligent cloud-native innovations. Discover the seamless integration with Azure, new enhancements to container tooling, integrations with Azure OpenAI, and get an early glimpse into ‘.NET Aspire’—our upcoming technology stack designed to simplify cloud-native development.
• GitHub Copilot Chat will be generally available in December 2023, bringing natural language as the new universal language for software development.  GPT-4 powers Copilot Chat providing code-aware suggestions and code generation.
• GitHub Copilot Enterprise will be generally available February 2024, bringing the entirety of the GitHub Copilot offerings customized with the context of an organization’s codebase directly on the GitHub platform.  Copilot Chat connected to your repositories will allow teams of developers to quickly get up to speed on your organization’s codebase, search and build documentation, and quickly review pull requests.
• GitHub Advanced Security with AI is now available in preview, providing an LLM-based vulnerability prevention system that blocks insecure coding patterns in real-time. Code scanning auto-fix suggests AI-generated fixes using CodeQL for JavaScript and TypeScript directly in pull requests. Lastly, new AI secret scanning will make it easier to find leaked secrets.

Data is the fuel that powers AI

Every intelligent app starts with data – and your AI is only as good as your data – so a modern data and analytics platform is increasingly important. The integration of data & AI services and solutions can be a unique competitive advantage because every organization’s data is unique. Azure is the best place for customers to run their data in the era of AI with new innovations across our databases portfolio that will help accelerate AI innovation in both existing applications and new cloud native applications.

To learn more, read the blog post by Jessica Hawk, CVP Data, AI, Digital & Application Innovation.

Microsoft Fabric is now generally available, delivering an integrated and simplified experience for all analytics workloads and users on an enterprise grade data foundation. To learn more, read the blog post by Arun Ulagaratchagan, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data.

Here’s a look at the latest features and integrations:

• OneLake integration means you only need to load the data into the lake once and use the single copy across every Fabric workload and engine, minimizing data duplication and sprawl. OneLake shortcuts to AWS S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2, now generally available allow you to virtualize data into OneLake from multi cloud sources.
• Seamless integration between Azure AI Studio and Microsoft Fabric, powering a new era in AI-driven innovation. Accelerate data potential by building powerful custom ML models, generative AI apps, and custom copilots on open, lake-centric foundations.
• Copilot in Fabric enables developers and IT Professionals to use natural language to build great data analytics solutions even faster.
• Mirroring allows customers to work with existing databases as if they are already native to Fabric. Now customers can point at an external database, and a mirrored, near real-time, instance of that database is created in Fabric’s Onelake, with the data stored in an open-source Apache, Parquet, and Delta-lake format.
• Integration with Microsoft Purview Expansion of Microsoft Fabric governance and security capabilities through tighter integration with Microsoft Purview, now in public preview. In Fabric, you can now apply Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels to classify sensitive Fabric data, define data loss prevention policies and automatically capture user and system operations in audit logs.

Build intelligent applications with cloud-scale data

• Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB is now generally available. One of the most critical enablers of intelligent apps and generative AI workloads is vector search, which makes highly relevant and precision search possible, and allows applications to find valuable information within data and use language to understand the nuances and connections of data. This announcement is an addition to the support for vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL that we announced at Build.
• Microsoft Copilot for Azure capabilities in Azure Cosmos DB are now in public preview. Copilot’s integration into Azure Cosmos DB will allow customers to create NoSQL queries based on natural language questions, a breakthrough in databases. These powerful capabilities simplify database management and enable customers to unlock insights from their data that were previously hidden, leading to more accurate and powerful AI applications. This is why so many intelligent applications today like ChatGPT, KPMG’s Kymchat, Bing, and Azure Open AI Service use Azure Cosmos DB.
• Azure AI Extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now in preview. The Azure AI extension allows developers to leverage large language models (LLMs) in Azure OpenAI to generate vector embeddings and build rich, PostgreSQL generative AI applications. It also supports calling Azure AI Language for scenarios like sentiment analysis, language detection and more.
• Azure SQL Hyperscale is launching new pricing that will match commercial open sources databases for new cloud native applications built on Azure. Build new cloud native AI powered apps with the performance and security of Azure SQL at the price of commercial open-source databases.

Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio and New Features in Copilot for Microsoft 365

Today we’re announcing exciting updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365, as well as introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio – a low-code tool to customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build standalone copilots.

To learn more, read the blog post by Colette Stallbaumer, General Manager, Microsoft 365 and Future of Work, and for more details on Microsoft Copilot Studio, read the blog post by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President, Modern Work & Business Applications.

Work Trend Index Special Report

• Eight months ago, we introduced Copilot for Microsoft 365 to reduce digital debt and increase productivity so people can focus on the work that is uniquely human. New data shows that productivity gains are real. Already, Copilot makes people more productive and creative, and saves time. Early users don’t want to go back to working without it: 77% said they don’t want to give it up. Read the report.

Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio

• Copilot Studio brings together a set of powerful conversational capabilities—from Custom GPTs, generative AI plugins, and manual topics. You can customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 with your own enterprise scenarios; build, test, and publish standalone copilots and custom GPTs; and manage and secure your customizations and standalone copilots with the right access, data, user controls, and analytics. Copilot Studio exposes a full end-to-end lifecycle for customizations and standalone copilots within a single pane of glass—build, deploy, analyze, and manage all from within the same web experience. Copilot Studio is available today, and the integration with Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available in Preview.

Updates to our Copilot product line-up

• Today we are taking the next step to simplify the user experience and make Copilot more accessible to everyone. Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise will now simply become Copilot. With these changes, when signed in with an Entra ID, customers using Copilot in Bing, Edge and Windows will receive the benefit of commercial data protection for free.

New capabilities in Copilot for Microsoft 365

• New personalization capabilities in Copilot allow you to give Copilot details about your role and instructions on what’s important to you, so you can get tailored responses based on your unique role and personal preferences.
• New Teams Meeting Experiences include Copilot in collaborative notes, which takes notes throughout your meeting that are then shared with participants, and the ability to enable Copilot in meetings without transcription.
• You can now use Copilot in Teams channels to do things like synthesize longs posts, get action items, or review key decisions in the channels you work in every day.
• Intelligent recap will be integrated into Copilot starting in December, so that everyone in the organization stays on the same page whether they are getting started with AI using Teams Premium or jumping all in with Copilot.
• New updates for Copilot in Outlook allow you to create meeting prep summaries, navigate bulky email threads effortlessly with email thread analysis, and simplify meeting scheduling with Copilot.
• The Microsoft Loop app is now generally available and built for the new way of working, with a flexible canvas for collaboration between people and generative AI to create a center of gravity for your projects and a space for your team and Copilot to think, plan, and create together.
• Today we announced the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, powered by Viva, to help Copilot customers across every stage of the transformation journey: readiness, adoption, and measurement. It is available to all Microsoft 365 customers and users in preview today.
• Viva integration into Microsoft Copilot. Copilot combs across Viva data and applications to guide employees, managers, and HR leaders with self-service insights and experiences. This new integration will be available in private preview in early 2024.
• Copilot in Viva Insights enables leaders and their delegates to use natural language prompts to easily query data from Viva Insights and generate personalized, dynamic reports that answer questions about their teams and organization. This will be in private preview in January 2024.

Windows

• Windows AI Studio will be available in preview in the coming weeks and simplifies generative AI app development bringing together cutting-edge AI tools and a model catalog, enabling developers to finetune, customize and deploy SLMs for local use in their Windows apps – all in one place.
• Windows App is now in public preview and is the place to connect to any devices or apps across Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft Dev Box, and more. Learn how to enable this functionality.
• Windows 365 GPU is now in public preview. GPU support makes it ideal for workloads such as graphic design, image and video rendering, 3D modeling, data processing, and visualization applications. Learn more here.
• Windows 365 AI capabilities are coming soon to public preview. These new AI capabilities help reduce costs, increase efficiency, and simplify security and management. AI will assess Cloud PC deployment and utilization to provide recommendations for better forecasting and right-sizing. Learn more about all the new features for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop in our Windows at Ignite blog.
• Windows Autopatch is now generally available and is also being extended to frontline worker PCs via the Microsoft 365 F3 subscription and unifying all Windows update management solutions for enterprise customers under the Windows Autopatch brand. Learn more about these updates.
• Universal Print is now in public preview and is now compatible with macOS devices meaning Print Administrators can now cover staff on both Windows and Mac devices. A new pull print functionality (Universal Print anywhere) is also in preview. Learn more about these updates.

The future of security with AI

The increasing scale and sophistication of recent cyberattacks demand a new approach to security. We are bringing together unparalleled threat intelligence and new product capabilities that leverage the power of AI to tip the scales in favor of security professionals. Today we are announcing innovations that deliver generative AI to cybersecurity with an end-to-end and unified approach; and help organizations secure their use of generative AI.

To learn more, read the blog post by Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security.

AI for Security

• We are combining the power of leading solutions, Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) and Microsoft Defender XDR (previously Microsoft 365 Defender), into the industry’s first unified security operations platform, combined with Microsoft Security Copilot. Security Analysts will be able to see every incident in their organization in a single, prioritized list—streamlining triage and eliminating gaps, while taking advantage of Security Copilot for generative AI-assisted investigations, summarizing incidents, and generating Kusto Query Language.
• Microsoft Security Copilot expands beyond security capabilities to support IT professionals with device management tasks in Microsoft Intune, identity management tasks in Microsoft Entra, and data security investigative tasks in Microsoft Purview. Other advancements in Microsoft Security Copilot include a native embedded experience in the new unified security operations platform, Defender for Endpoint’s new deception capabilities, the integration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud signals into Security Copilot and Microsoft Defender XDR, new natural language to KQL capabilities, and Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence integration (MDTI).

Security for AI

• New capabilities in Microsoft Purview help customers secure their AI data for Microsoft Copilot as well as for non-Microsoft AI. Microsoft Purview provides visibility into risk associated with sensitive data use in AI and protects that data.
• Defender for Cloud Apps lets customers see all the generative AI apps in use in their environment, understand the associated risk, and approve or block the use of the app. Defender for Cloud Apps has extended its rich discovery capabilities to over 400 generative AI apps.

Expanding comprehensive security

• Public preview of Defender for Cloud’s integration with Microsoft Entra Permissions Management enables least privilege access controls for cloud resources and connects the dots between access permissions and potential vulnerabilities across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
• Purview expands its comprehensive data security and compliance across the entire data estate including multicloud, multiplatform, structured, and unstructured data.
• Entra Internet Access expands its public preview to include all internet, SaaS, and Microsoft 365 applications. Private Access adds new capabilities to be fully ready for legacy VPN replacement. Entra ID introduces auto-enrollment into conditional access policies, and users can now sign in with passkeys that are managed by the authenticator app.
• Intune Suite adds three new solutions: Microsoft Cloud PKI, Enterprise App Management, and Advanced Analytics, and discloses plans for a solution for policy orchestration with Power Automate integration and extends offering to GCC.

Introducing new Copilot experiences to boost productivity and elevate customer experiences across the organization

As more organizations roll out Microsoft Copilot across the workplace, we continue to introduce new and updated capabilities to help people harness generative AI across every role and function in the organization. Today we announced Microsoft Copilot for Service, providing AI-powered assistance tailored for the unique needs of employees on the frontline of customer experience. In addition, we announced Microsoft Copilot for Sales, the evolution of Sales Copilot, as well as new Copilot capabilities in Dynamics 365 that drive efficiency across the whole organization.

To learn more, read the blog post by Emily He, Corporate Vice President, Business Applications Marketing.

Modernize the contact center and unlock sales productivity

• Microsoft Copilot for Service brings the power of Microsoft Copilot into an organization’s existing customer relationship management (CRM) or contact center solutions, transforming agent-assisted processes to improve customer experience and resolve cases faster. Copilot for Service also includes Copilot for Microsoft 365, extending AI-assisted productivity across the digital tools agents already use every day, including Outlook and Teams.
• Microsoft Copilot for Sales is the next evolution of Sales Copilot. It leverages generative AI across Microsoft 365 apps, CRM systems, and third-party data sources via Power Platform connectors. Copilot for Sales includes Copilot for Microsoft 365, allowing seamless integration across sales and productivity workflows such as in Word and Teams. The new offering will be available in the first quarter of next calendar year.

Reimagine ways to drive efficiency across the organization with Copilot for Dynamics 365

• Dynamics 365 Field Service is adding new AI-powered experiences that enable frontline workers to quickly access information on a job site by asking questions in conversational language, directly within Microsoft Teams. We also announced the general availability of AI-assisted work order creation and technician scheduling; and the public preview of financial and inventory data flow between Dynamics 365 Field Service and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management. Additionally, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist are now included in Dynamics 365 Field Service at no additional cost.
• Dynamics 365 Customer Insights enhancements include AI-generated customer profile summaries and scoring models that automate the qualified lead hand off between marketing and sales. Additionally, through a new partnership with Optimizely, marketers can get bi-directional insights that help deliver personalized, omni-channel experiences.
• In Dynamics 365 Sales, sellers can use natural language to get contextual insights and recommendations for leads and opportunities (now in preview) or leverage pre-built prompts previously announced. Furthermore, Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales has a new full-screen view where sellers can use natural language or pre-built prompts to gain a quick understanding of customers, deals, meetings, forecasts, and more.

Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides, bringing generative AI in Mixed Reality to frontline workers

Today, we are announcing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides, which combines the power of generative AI with Mixed Reality to help frontline workers complete complex tasks and resolve issues faster with less disruption to the flow of work.

To learn more, read the blog post by Lili Cheng, Corporate Vice President, Business Applications and Platform.

• Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides assists workers in industrial settings who deal with complex equipment and processes by enabling them to ask for relevant information using natural language and human gestures such as looking and pointing. Copilot uses generative AI to search for information from customer curated data sources. Copilot then summarizes the information to provide interactive guidance through content and holograms overlaid on the equipment in operation or maintenance.

New AI innovations across Power Platform

Power Platform announces new features that bring generative AI to more users, advance governance at scale and help build low-code solutions faster.

To learn more please see the latest product blogs from Power Platform, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI.

Power Automate

• Copilot in Power Automate to assist with desktop flows, now in public preview, provides assistance to RPA users by typing questions and getting relevant information on using the product and creating desktop flows with predefined or custom prompts.
• Copilot in Power Automate to generate scripts, now in public preview, allows users to generate scripts using natural language in Power Automate for desktop’s ‘Run PowerShell’, ‘Run VBScript’, ‘Run JavaScript’, ‘Run DOS command’, and ‘Run Python’ actions.
• Copilot in Power Automate to analyze automation activity, now in public preview, helps users explore the potential of AI-assisted monitoring by asking questions about past flow runs within each environment. Ask questions about recent runs, their durations, volumes, failures, frequency, parent flows and much more.

Power Apps

• Copilot in Power Apps for app users as sidecar, in public preview by December, will be available for all users in web player canvas apps that are backed by Dataverse, ensuring that Copilot automatically works with the data in the app and provides users with insights without needing to set up anything extra.
• Copilot to help with text input and Copilot answers control, in public preview by December, will help users save time when updating records and getting answers to pre-defined queries.
• Mobile apps with truly native UI/UX, now in public preview, will allow mobile apps to have smoother animations, faster performance, and modern mobile interaction patterns.
• Modern control, now generally available, and theming in canvas apps, now in public preview, will enable makers to create elegant, accessible, fast, and reliable apps.

Power Platform governance

• Environment groups and rules, now in private preview, give IT admins control of environments, such as categorizing environments into groups and providing each with a set of rules, at enterprise-scale.
• Advisor in Managed Environments for Power Platform, now in public preview, provides proactive recommendations and inline actions for ITDMs to govern and secure their platform more easily.
• AI-generated app descriptions, now in public preview, provides users with apps in managed environments an automatic description of their application, helping end users and IT admins understand the app at hand.

Actions

• Make the most of your partnership. Whether you’re building your first app, developing complex integrations, or exploring new services offerings, we offer opportunities to innovate, scale, and differentiate your business:  https://partner.microsoft.com/partnership/maximize-your-partnership.
• Watch Microsoft Ignite sessions live and on demand and browse the session catalog to explore all the available learning opportunities: https://ignite.microsoft.com/
• Learn more about Azure Innovate & Azure Migrate and Modernize to access resources and funding that allows you to support your customers adoption of Azure, from migration to AI: https://partner.microsoft.com/partnership/partner-incentives/azure-migration-and-modernization-program
• Build your technical skills. Access role-specific learning paths and build your skills on Microsoft products and solutions. Discover your path: https://partner.microsoft.com/training/training-center.
• Achieve more with the commercial marketplace. Increase leads and grow revenue by publishing and selling your solutions in the commercial marketplace online catalog. Find out how: https://partner.microsoft.com/solutions/the-commercial-marketplace. 
• Sell with Microsoft. Create a winning sales strategy, scale your reach to global customers, and prepare for co-selling with Microsoft sellers: https://partner.microsoft.com/partnership/sell-with-microsoft.
• Join the partner community. Connect with partners, find out about upcoming events, and crowdsource solutions: https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/
• Join ISV Success. https://www.microsoft.com/isv.
• Check out the new set of assets, guidance, pitch decks, demos, and the Copilot for Microsoft 365 workshop BoM in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 partner page: https://cloudpartners.transform.microsoft.com/practices/modern-work/copilot
• Attend the deep dive session on how to drive deeper customer adoption, and learn about the latest on data security and admin controls: https://aka.ms/CopilotM365forPartners
• Join the  Copilot for Microsoft 365 partner community .

If you prefer I not forward you these types of communications, just let me know. To learn how to manage your contact preferences for other parts of Microsoft, please read our Privacy Statement.

 

Regards,

 

Raul Campos Rosas

Modern Workplace & Security

Channel Sales

Email: raulcampos@microsoft.com

Phone: +51 (1) 6110412