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Announcing Public Preview of Terraform Export from the Azure Portal Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of Terraform Export within the Azure Portal. With this new feature, you can now easily export your existing Azure resources to be managed declaratively directly from the Azure Portal. This will streamline your infrastructure-as-code (IaC) workflows, making it simpler to manage

This applies to Outlook.com - our consumer service, which is supporting hotmail.com live.com and outlook.com consumer domain addresses. Introduction In an era where email remains one of the most widely used tools for personal and business communications, Outlook is stepping up its commitment to protect inboxes and preserve trust in the digital ecosystem. Today, we’re announcing new requirements an

Model Context Protocol (MCP): Integrating Azure OpenAI for Enhanced Tool Integration and Prompting Model Context Protocol serves as a critical communication bridge between AI models and external systems, enabling AI assistants to interact directly with various services through a standardized interface. This protocol was designed to address the inherent limitations of standalone AI models by provid

Evolving the Windows User Model – Introducing Administrator Protection Previously, in part one, we outlined the history of the multi-user model in Windows, how Microsoft introduced features to secure it, and in what ways we got it right (and wrong). In the final part of this series, we will describe how Microsoft intends to raise the security bar via its new Administrator protection (AP) feature.

Logging on to your computer is certainly faster than it used to be, yet there are a bunch of technical steps that happen in the background. At our ITOps Talk: All things hybrid event, senior developer Steve Syfuhs took us through the details, including access to cloud resources. This article explains the process to just log on to Windows with an on-premises Active Directory Domain, including the f

Learn about Phi-4, the latest small language model in Phi family, that offers high quality results at a small size (14B parameters). Today we are introducing Phi-4, our 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) that excels at complex reasoning in areas such as math, in addition to conventional language processing. Phi-4 is the latest member of our Phi family of small language model

Adversary-in-the-Middle phishing attacks are on the rise. Here’s how to reduce your risk. Welcome to the second in our series of articles on dealing with advanced identity-related attacks. As we’ve crossed the threshold of more than 40% of users employing multifactor authentication (MFA), we see two trends emerging. The first is that adversaries are successfully compromising a higher percentage of

Active Directory Hardening Series - Part 6 – Enforcing SMB Signing Hi everyone!  Jerry Devore here to continue the Active Directory Hardening series by addressing SMB signing.  Many of my Microsoft colleagues have already written some great content on SMB signing so I was not going to cover it.  However, it is just too critical a security control to skip and a series on Active Directory hardening

Intro From the beginning of the cloud computing era, virtualization technology has enabled compute workloads to run as virtual machines (VMs) in a server environment. As hardware has evolved, and new functionality has become available, the software stack has kept VMs running seamlessly, thanks to sophisticated advances in the hypervisor and virtualization software. Confidential computing is now a

VoiceRAG: An App Pattern for RAG + Voice Using Azure AI Search and the GPT-4o Realtime API for Audio The new Azure OpenAI gpt-4o-realtime-preview model opens the door for even more natural application user interfaces with its speech-to-speech capability. This new voice-based interface also brings an interesting new challenge with it: how do you implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), the p

Editor's note 9.25.2024: This post has been updated to define deprecation and provide clarity on how this impacts WSUS. As part of our vision for simplified Windows management from the cloud, Microsoft has announced deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Specifically, this means that we are no longer investing in new capabilities, nor are we accepting new feature requests for WSUS.

We’re excited to announce the Microsoft Incident Response Ninja Hub. This page includes a compilation of guides and resources that the Microsoft Incident Response team has developed on threat hunting, case studies, incident response guides, and more. Many of these pieces were also developed in collaboration with Microsoft’s partners across Microsoft Security, providing a unique view into how the M

We are delighted to announce that the Windows App for Windows, Web, iOS, and macOS, currently in preview, will be generally available this fall. Also announced for this fall is the Windows App for Android public preview. The Windows App is your gateway to securely connect to Windows on any device or app across Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote PC, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft Dev Bo

Key Features and Benefits Enhanced Vision Input: Leverage the power of GPT-4o mini to process images and videos, enabling applications such as visual recognition, scene understanding, and multimedia content analysis. Comprehensive Text Output: Generate detailed and contextually accurate text outputs from visual inputs, making it easier to create reports, summaries, and detailed analyses. Cost-Effe

Have you ever heard of "CrystalDiskMark" or "CrystalDiskInfo"? Many of you reading this blog might have used these tools or at least know what they are. These widely used open-source benchmarking tools, now recognized globally, began with the idea of a Japanese developer. Instead of focusing on developing commercial products as paid work, he chose to support users for years by offering these tools

Exploring the Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Service In the ever-evolving landscape of AI, LLM + RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is a typical use scenario. Retrieving accurate related chunked data from complicated docs and then improving LLM response quality becomes challenge. There is no a silver bullet RAG can address all requirements so far. Developers need to verify differe

Prompt Like a Pro: 8 Tips and tricks for working with Copilot in Teams UPDATE: As of September 16th, 2024, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now Microsoft 365 Copilot. Any mentions of Microsoft Copilot in this blog refer to Microsoft 365 Copilot. As a reminder, to have access to these features you need a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license! How to prompt like a pro Writing great prompts is the

Scripting options for web development and task automation are modernizing. To provide you with the most modern and efficient options, we are replacing VBScript with more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. Find out what VBScript deprecation means for you and how you can get ready. What is VBScript? Visual Basic Scripting Edition, commonly referred to as VBScript, is a lightwei

We are excited to introduce the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, a powerful VS Code extension available today in the Visual Studio Marketplace. AI Toolkit enables developers to explore, try, fine-tune, and integrate state-of-the-art models from Azure AI Studio and HuggingFace into applications. The AI Toolkit is an evolution of the Windows AI Studio extension that was released in November 2023.

Examining the Deception infrastructure in place behind code.microsoft.com The domain name code.microsoft.com has an interesting story behind it. Today it’s not linked to anything but that wasn’t always true. This is the story of one of my most successful honeypot instances and how it enabled Microsoft to collect varied threat intelligence against a broad range of actor groups targeting Microsoft.

2.14.2025: This post has been updated to provide clarity and updated information related to the options available for activating ESUs: traditional ESU activation and ESU activation via Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. 10.31.2024: On November 1, we will begin offering the traditional 5-by-5 Extended Security Update offer through the Volume Licensing price list. The first ESU will be available

Office Scripts is now available for Office 365 Enterprise E1 and Office 365 F3 licenses We are happy to announce that Office Scripts in Excel is now available for customers with Office 365 Enterprise E1 and Office 365 F3! Starting today you can find the Office Scripts feature set in the Automate tab on the Excel ribbon. What is Office Scripts? Office Scripts is an automation platform in Excel that