by Scott Muniz | Sep 17, 2020 | Azure, Technology, Uncategorized
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Artificial intelligence (AI) opens doors into possibilities that might have seemed like science fiction only yesterday. Discover ways to improve your apps and take your development skills to the next level. Using AI, you can build solutions and advance technology in many fields, including healthcare, financial management, and environmental protection, to name just a few. Microsoft Azure provides easy-to-use services to help you get started.
Prove that you have the AI skills it takes to build a better world. Earning your certification in Azure AI Fundamentals can supply the foundation you need to build your career and demonstrate your knowledge of common AI and machine learning workloads—and how to implement them on Azure. Mastering the basics can help you jump-start your career and get ready to dive deeper into the other technical opportunities Azure offers.
The Azure AI Fundamentals certification validates your foundational knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts, along with related Azure services. You earn it by passing Exam AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals.
You can use Azure AI Fundamentals to prepare for other Azure role-based certifications, like Azure Data Scientist Associate or Azure AI Engineer Associate, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.
What are the prerequisites?
If you’re new to the cloud or just starting out with Azure, first choose Azure Fundamentals training and certification—find out how to Master the basics with Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.
The Azure AI Fundamentals certification is intended for candidates with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Data science or software engineering experience are not required; however, some general programming knowledge or experience would be beneficial.
How can you get ready?
To help you plan your journey, check out our The journey to Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals infographic. You can also find it in the resources section on the certification and exam pages, which contains other valuable help for Azure professionals.
Azure AI Fundamentals certification journey
To map out your journey, follow the sequence in the infographic. First, decide whether this is the right certification for you.
Next, to understand what you’ll be measured on when taking Exam AI-900, review the skills outline guide on the exam page.
Sign up for training that fits your learning style and experience:
After you pass the exam and earn your certification, continue mastering the basics with Azure Data Fundamentals, level up with the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification or the Azure Data Scientist Associate certification, or find the right Microsoft Azure certification for you, based on your profession (or the one you aspire to).
It’s time to master the basics!
Use your Azure AI Fundamentals certification as a starting point to explore deeper training for Azure technologies and to chart your path forward. Whether you’re looking to advance your career or to jump-start a new one, the message is the same: establish your foundations. Earn your certification and open up new possibilities for your career and for turning your AI and machine learning ideas into solutions on Azure.
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by Scott Muniz | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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There is something about creating which ignites curiosity in kids.
Regardless of gender, children have an innate appetite for learning what they do not know and perfecting what excites them.
Developer Technologies MVP Sara Chipps found her passion in computing at age 12. Sara recalls that she simply could not believe that her inputs made the computer call another computer – so beginning a lifelong interest in building and coding.
Today, Sara is part of the two-thirds of professional coders who report being under 18 when they start coding. At the same time, however, Sara is part of the less than one in four coders who are women. It is this juxtaposition which drives Sara to inspire young girls just like her towards following their interest in STEM.
Sara’s answer to the gender gap in tech is Jewelbots. Founded in 2014 with Brooke Moreland and Maria Paula Saba, Jewelbots’ original product was a smart friendship bracelet. This soon evolved into science craft kits for budding inventors in geology, chemistry, and electronics.
Now, tens of thousands of girls in more than thirty countries have become coders, chemists, and creators through Jewelbots.
“Our goal is, and always will be, to ignite the curiosity and drive that comes with being a builder,” Sara says. “Consuming technology is ubiquitous in today’s generation. However, true influence lies in being builders and creators of technology. Together, we can eliminate the fear and stigma that can come with being young and science forward.”
Young builders and creators of technology are clearly enjoying the limitless possibilities of Jewelbots. One young girl, for example, took the electronic science kit and sewed its LEDs into a shirt to depict a starry night sky. It is stories like this which continue to drive Sara despite working another full-time job.
“It is always rewarding because the excitement in their eyes truly makes it worth it,” Sara says.
“Every time we get a video or a picture of a girl making something awesome that she is proud of is what gets us going. We couldn’t do what we do without that every day.”
Importantly, direct interaction between the Jewelbots creators and the Jewelbots users informs product development.
“It’s also been a long time since I have been a 10-year-old girl, and imagining the things that drive them is tough,” Sara says. “So, I’ve seen it is best to talk to them and hear about the things that get them excited.”
Jewelbots is but one of Sara’s initiatives to encourage young girls towards STEM. In 2010, Sara co-founded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers.
Currently, Girl Develop It chapters are building strong, empowered communities in five cities across the US.
Likewise, Jewelbots grows from strength to strength. The creators look forward to expanding their science craft kits into biology and programming, and witnessing the output from the next generation of women scientists.
“We are excited to release more products and see more eyes light up as [girls] learn and make more things that ignite their imagination,” Sara says.
For more on Sara, check out Jewelbots or her Twitter @SaraJChipps
by Scott Muniz | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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Over the course of recent months, we have all embraced virtual events as an essential way to communicate and connect. Executive townhalls, employee training, digital conferences and customer engagements are just a few examples of popular scenarios. To simplify and accelerate your usage of Microsoft 365 for these scenarios we are delivering to you the Virtual Event Playbook. This comprehensive guidance provides you with information and tools to deliver seamless events easily and quickly for your audiences.
With Microsoft 365 you can focus on the content you are sharing and the attendee experience you want to create. Using Live Events, Microsoft Teams and other components of Microsoft 365 you can easily create experiences that will be meaningful to your audience and your business. We have organized the content by role and event phase to make it easy to find the information you need. To further support you we are also launching the Virtual Event forum within the Microsoft Technical Community so you can ask your questions, meet other event organizers, producers and IT professionals and participate in events with experts in the area.
This initial playbook covers the most common scenarios that we have seen and the guidance within it has been gathered from product engineering, field consultants, MVP’s, Microsoft Partners and others across our company. It is the comprehensive and official guidance from Microsoft for these services. We are currently working on additional modules for large scale custom events, device integration and industry specialties. We will be rapidly updating this content as new features become available.
More than anything we hope that you can use this guidance to continue connecting with the people that are important to your business, no matter where in the world they may be located. Events are no longer destinations. They are about the information shared and the connections nurtured through the available technology. Please use our resources, join the community, as always give us your feedback!
by Scott Muniz | Sep 17, 2020 | Azure, Technology, Uncategorized
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Initial Update: Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:21 UTC
We are aware of issues within Log Analytics and are actively investigating. Some customers in Australia South East region may experience intermittent data access issues when accessing application data. Customers who have setup Log Search alerts in this region may also experience failures accessing alerts and action rules for the resources.
- Work Around: None
- Next Update: Before 09/17 15:30 UTC
We are working hard to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Madhav
by Scott Muniz | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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Today, more than ever, government organizations are facing increasing challenges associated with remote delivery of public services. The shift to support remote work has increased the need for government agencies to re-evaluate their security and compliance practices. Coupled with government employees accessing and sharing data remotely as well as collaborating in new ways using platforms like Microsoft Teams, government agencies need rich capabilities that help them efficiently discover relevant data. Public sector organizations are also under greater pressure to ensure they consistently meet industry compliance and security regulations. For example, many are required to respond quickly to Freedom of Information Act requests with relevant data.
Today we are excited to announce Advanced eDiscovery and Advanced Audit capabilities in Microsoft 365 are coming to Government Community Cloud (GCC), Government Community Cloud-High (GCC-H), and Department of Defense (DoD) environments. These new capabilities help organizations to efficiently respond to regulatory, legal, and forensic obligations with relevant data within the Microsoft 365 security and compliance boundary.
Discovering data where it lives with a more end–to–end eDiscovery solution
We often hear from customers that they are looking to reduce the complexity and cost of managing multiple solutions for their eDiscovery needs. In fact, according to Gartner, “by 2023, more than 70% of enterprise IT leaders will upgrade to an end-to-end e-discovery software.”
In April 2019, we delivered a new Advanced eDiscovery solution that supports the Electronic Discovery Reference Model by providing a more end-to-end workflow to identify, preserve, collect, process, review (early case assessment), and analyze data to help efficiently respond to legal and regulatory obligations or internal investigations.
To streamline the workflow, Advanced eDiscovery helps reduce the friction of identifying and collecting potential sources of relevant information by automatically mapping unique and shared data sources to the person of interest (custodian).
Additionally, native capabilities for Microsoft Teams, Yammer, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange Online further enhance data discovery by reconstructing Teams conversations instead of returning individual messages, or including the attachment and link in emails and Teams chats consistently without additional configuration.
Advanced eDiscovery also supports hundreds of non-Office 365 file types out of the box, and data connectors support additional third-party data sources such as Bloomberg, Facebook, and many more.
Intelligent, machine learning capabilities also help reduce the burden of review that traditionally happens one document at a time. Advanced eDiscovery provides a broad set of intelligent capabilities to help customers reduce and reduce large volumes of data to a relevant set. For example, an automatically generated query helps filter only for unique content by identifying near duplicates, which can help dramatically reduce data. You can learn more about this and other Advanced eDiscovery capabilities here.
Powering your forensic investigations with Audit
To help government customers understand the scope of a data breach and effectively respond to their regulatory, legal and internal obligations, we are also releasing Advanced Audit. Advanced Audit helps customers with their forensic investigations by providing access to additional audit events that are important to forensic investigations, extending audit log retention for up to 1 year, and offering faster access to management activity API.
With the new event in Advanced Audit, that means customers can understand when mail data was accessed using the “MailItemsAccessed” event. This new auditing action helps investigators determine the scope of compromise by identifying the specific mail items that may been accessed by a malicious attacker. It also helps organizations to defensibly assert that a specific piece of mail data was not compromised.
We also often hear from customers that they want to easily access historical audit log activities to support their forensic investigations. In fact, according to Ponemon Research, they estimate that the average time to identify and contain a data breach takes around 6 months. To help organizations conduct forensic investigations on audit log data beyond the default 90–days audit retention period, with Advanced Audit organizations can apply retention policy to their audit log data for up to one year. You can learn more about this and other Advanced Audit capabilities here.
Our commitment to our government and public sector customers
Moving forward, we are committed to delivering more capabilities in the Government Community Cloud, Government Community Cloud-High, and Department of Defense to ensure government entities can benefit from the compliance and risk management features within Microsoft 365.
The new features in Advanced eDiscovery and Advanced Audit will start rolling out to customer’s government cloud tenants in the coming weeks. To learn how government organizations are using technology to secure apps, devices, and data, read the “Digital Transformation in Government” e-book available at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftGovPlaybook. You can also find more information on how to use Microsoft 365 Compliance features in this video
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