References and Information Resources   Responding to COVID-19 together Our commitment to customers during COVID-19 Optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff How to quickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff & reduce the load on your network infrastructure   Microsoft 365 live events assistance Now available as a public preview. Administrators can [...]

We have a guest post today from @thibaudcolas and @SanchuSankar from our Services Team. Quite a few people helped review the article below so many thanks to the numerous AIP/MIP and DLP PM's that offered input!   1. Introduction Is information protection critical or crucial to an organization?   For most of us, the answer seems to be an [...]

This blog has been authored by Neta Haiby (Principal PM, Azure AI) and Prachi Jain (PMM, Azure AI)   Documents are prevalent and often contain vital information that are essential to drive business outcomes; however, extracting data quickly and accurately for processing is often a challenge for so many organizations. Manual extraction can take up [...]

I’m pretty sure no one missed the rapid increase in remote working during the first half of 2020. Something that also became very clear in the Microsoft Teams UserVoice were entries that were pretty unknown before rapidly rose in number of votes. One of those entries that I’d like to talk about today is breakout [...]

Hadas Bitran, Group Manager, Microsoft Healthcare   The healthcare industry is overwhelmed with data. Much of this healthcare data is in the form of unstructured text, such as doctor’s notes, medical publications, electronic health records, clinical trials protocols, medical encounter transcripts and more. Healthcare organizations, providers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and others face an incredible challenge [...]

Voice-enabled assistants—that enable users to search, ask questions, complete tasks, and much more—have been gaining increasing momentum and becoming integrated into consumer’s daily lives. Voice enables more seamless, natural interfaces, providing a more intuitive way of interacting with technology. In our current environment, voice and contactless experiences will play an increasingly important role, with the [...]

Innovative New York-based fintech FINANCIAL FABRIC provides specialized data analytics solutions to the buy-side. With Azure Data Explorer, the company has been enabled to rapidly ingest even the most massive datasets, easily run complex queries and provide near-real time analytics services to a range of financial services end users, achieving exceptional data compression and reducing [...]

In this post, we’ll explain how to configure Azure Monitor with Azure Log Analytics in Microsoft Azure, so you can proactively monitor your Azure Resource Manager (ARM)-based Windows Virtual Desktop environment. As shown in the diagram below, Azure Monitor can collect diagnostic data and operational insights from a variety of sources. You can monitor data [...]

In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Dan Wahlin – MVP and now Microsoft employee as a Microsoft 365 Cloud Developer Advocate on the new Microsoft 365 Cloud Developer Advocate team.   What is a Cloud Developer Advocate?  The bridge between customers & partners and Microsoft 365 & Azure teams.   The role advocates [...]

Neural Text to Speech extends support to 15 more languages with state-of-the-art AI quality   This post was co-authored by Sheng Zhao, Anny Dow, Garfield He and Lei He.     Neural Text to Speech, part of Speech in Azure Cognitive Services, enables you to convert text to lifelike speech for more natural interfaces. Neural Text [...]

Running virtual machines in Azure is great. However, there are a lot of things you need to think about to improve performance, security, and reliability. Your cloud environment is also constantly changing, so you will need to check your Azure VMs from time to time. Luckily, there is a service called Azure Advisor which is a [...]