Q: The offers we have on the marketplace are a two-part offer – a VM Image and then an Application Template that controls the deployment. The VM Image is hidden, and the application is the part the user interacts with.

In the old account, it is easy enough to stop distribution of the Application template – Which we did so users will not launch the older offers.

My question is for the VM, and doing the deletes of the two offers, if we stop the distribution, we are worried about the messaging to the users who have already launched the images. As because the new offer is not in the same account, I can’t use the in place tooling to say – “This one replaces the other”.

Just trying to see what is the right way to decommission the offers and how to control the messaging to customers so they don’t think the offers went away, etc.?

A: Please refer to the VM deprecation documentation provided here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/marketplace-offers/deprecate-vm.   

​Q: The offers we have on the marketplace are a two-part offer – a VM Image and then an Application Template that controls the deployment. The VM Image is hidden, and the application is the part the user interacts with.In the old account, it is easy enough to stop distribution of the Application template – Which we did so users will not launch the older offers.
 
My question is for the VM, and doing the deletes of the two offers, if we stop the distribution, we are worried about the messaging to the users who have already launched the images. As because the new offer is not in the same account, I can’t use the in place tooling to say – “This one replaces the other”.Just trying to see what is the right way to decommission the offers and how to control the messaging to customers so they don’t think the offers went away, etc.?
 
A: Please refer to the VM deprecation documentation provided here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/marketplace-offers/deprecate-vm.   
 
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At Microsoft, we’re ushering in a new era of computing on the path to unlocking scientific advantage and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This is why we’re building Azure Quantum — to create the first platform for reliable quantum computing and achieve the vision of quantum at scale.

In April, we announced we’re entering the next phase for solving meaningful problems with reliable quantum computers by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits. The main issue with today’s noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) machines is that their physical qubits are too noisy and error-prone, making the machines impractical for real-world applications. That’s why we must transition to using reliable logical qubits that combine multiple physical qubits together to protect against noise and to maintain coherence for long-running computations.

But quantum computing doesn’t exist in isolation. It requires deep integration with the power of the cloud. We must leverage the best of computing to unlock a new generation of hybrid quantum applications that could solve some of our most pressing challenges — from pioneering more sustainable energy solutions to transforming how we treat disease with the next generation of life-saving therapeutics.

We designed the Azure Quantum compute platform to provide quantum computing across a variety of hardware architectures, enabling the most advanced hybrid quantum applications in the industry — all in a secure, unified and scalable cloud environment — to tackle classically intractable problems. This is our vision for Azure Quantum. Today, we continue to make advances that bring us closer to achieving it with our industry-leading partners, Quantinuum and Atom Computing. With both companies, we want to bring best-in-class solutions to the Azure Quantum platform, and collectively advance and scale resilient quantum capabilities.

In collaboration with Quantinuum, we applied our improved qubit-virtualization system to create and entangle 12 highly reliable logical qubits. This represents the largest number of entangled logical qubits, with the highest fidelity, on record. These results scale logical qubit computation — on ion-trap hardware — within our Azure Quantum compute platform. In addition, advancing toward scalable quantum computing necessitates not only reaching significant hardware milestones, but also proving these improvements can address practical and real-world challenges.

This is why we demonstrated the first end-to-end chemistry simulation that combines reliable logical quantum computation with cloud high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. Today’s announcements would not have been possible without Quantinuum’s leading quantum machines. This paves the way toward practical solutions at the intersection of these technologies, especially in the domains of chemistry, physics and life sciences.

Lastly, as we expand our Azure Quantum compute platform, we are excited to announce that Microsoft and Atom Computing are coming together to ultimately build the world’s most powerful quantum machine. Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware into our Azure Quantum compute platform. With it, we are bringing the best-in-class from Microsoft and our partner ecosystem to provide the commercial offering of a reliable quantum machine.

Combining the capabilities of this reliable quantum hardware with our platform for Science, Azure Elements, we are providing a comprehensive discovery suite to achieve scientific quantum advantage.

Creating a new generation of hybrid quantum applications

At Microsoft, we’re pioneering a new computing paradigm by bringing the power of the cloud and AI together with quantum. Our Azure Quantum compute platform enables the seamless execution of quantum applications that leverage hardware across a variety of qubit architectures and chips, while offering integration with cloud HPC and AI. Over this past year, we’ve continued to announce new breakthroughs and collaborations in pursuit of this platform mission, including offering Generative Chemistry and Accelerated DFT and advancing the industry to reliable quantum computing by demonstrating highly reliable logical qubits.

We are bringing these technologies together in a purpose-built cloud platform that leverages the complementary strengths of both AI for large-scale data processing and quantum for complex calculations and unprecedented accuracy. This strong compute foundation offers a secure, unified and scalable hybrid computing environment that enables innovators to develop best-in-class solutions for tackling problems that are difficult or even intractable on classical computers. We are integrating quantum hardware architectures from our ecosystem partners with our quantum control, processing and error correction software — in addition to capabilities for copilot-assisted workflows, developer tools, classical supercomputing and multi-modal AI models. This differentiated computing stack will pave the way for this new generation of hybrid applications. AI co-reasoning will help articulate problems and translate them into workflows, using both classical and scaled quantum tools at the right stages to drive impactful insights in an iterative loop to compress R&D and time-to-solution into days, not years.

Continuing to implement reliable quantum computing with Quantinuum 

Today, in collaboration with Quantinuum, we’re proud to announce the demonstration of the best performing logical qubits on record, achieving the largest number of entangled logical qubits. We created 12 logical qubits by improving and optimizing our qubit-virtualization system for Quantinuum’s 56-physical-qubits H2 machine.

This progress speaks to the world-class error correction expertise at Microsoft. In less than six months, our improved qubit-virtualization system tripled reliable logical qubit counts. Furthermore, when we entangled all 12 logical qubits in a complex state required for ‘deeper’ quantum computation, they exhibited a 22X circuit error rate improvement over the corresponding physical qubits. 

The ability of our systems to triple the number of logical qubits while less than doubling our physical qubits from 30 to 56 physical qubits is a testament to the high fidelities and all-to-all connectivity of our H-Series trapped-ion hardware. Our current H2-1 hardware combined with Microsoft’s qubit-virtualization system is bringing us and our customers fully into Level 2 resilient quantum computing. This powerful collaboration will unlock even greater advancements when combined with the cutting-edge AI and HPC tools delivered through Azure Quantum.

— Rajeeb Hazra, CEO of Quantinuum

With our improved error correction code and qubit-virtualization system, we’ve demonstrated a 22X improvement between physical and logical circuit error rates when entangled.

As we continue to strive toward scientific and industrial breakthroughs with quantum computers, noise remains our biggest barrier. In a previous post, I highlighted how increasing the number of physical qubits alone is not enough to make robust quantum error correction possible. As part of the quantum ecosystem, we must remain focused on improving both logical qubit counts and fidelity to have a solid foundation for producing meaningful results. This will be possible through hardware and software advancements that together enable running longer and more reliable quantum applications. Today’s announcement demonstrates that it is possible to realize these fundamental capabilities on the path to large-scale quantum computing.

A true computing paradigm shift also requires a focus on practical and commercially relevant applications. Earlier, we successfully completed a chemistry simulation in the first end-to-end workflow that combined HPC, AI and logical qubit computation to predict the ground state energy for a specific catalyst problem. This demonstration marked a critical step toward ushering in a new generation of hybrid applications that will become increasingly impactful as quantum technologies scale. Quantum and AI will have the earliest significant impact on scientific discovery, and researchers at Microsoft have demonstrated the breakthrough potential of this integration. This work was only possible thanks to our long-standing and close collaboration with Quantinuum, a company that remains at the forefront of quantum computing.

You can learn more about today’s improved logical qubits and the technical details about this chemistry simulation in our blog Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits and demonstrate a hybrid, end-to-end chemistry simulation.

Announcing a new commercial offering with Atom Computing

Lastly, in collaboration with Atom Computing, we are excited to bring a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers. Bringing together Microsoft’s enhanced qubit-virtualization system with Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware, we’ve jointly generated logical qubits and are optimizing the system to enable reliable quantum computation. Together, we believe this new commercial offering will be the world’s most powerful quantum machine on record and will scale to scientific advantage and beyond.

Atom Computing’s hardware uniquely combines capabilities essential for expanding quantum error correction, including large numbers of high-fidelity qubits, all-to-all qubit connectivity, long coherence times and mid-circuit measurements with qubit reset and reuse. The company is building 2nd generation systems with over 1,200 physical qubits and plans to increase the physical qubit count tenfold with each new hardware generation. By applying Microsoft’s state-of-the-art fault-tolerance protocols on a different qubit architecture, our Azure Quantum compute platform can offer a spectrum of best-in-class logical qubits across multiple hardware platforms, providing flexibility and future proofing our customers’ investments.

Microsoft and Atom Computing team up to enhance the Azure Quantum compute platform with neutral-atom hardware and tailored qubit virtualization, enabling a commercial discovery suite with continuous upgrade capabilities for additional logical qubits.

Our collaboration with Atom Computing aims to integrate these capabilities with Azure Elements, our purpose-built cloud platform offering differentiated computing scale, state-of-the-art AI models for chemistry and materials science simulations and Copilot. Our goal is to empower governments and organizations to tackle scientifically and commercially relevant problems with today’s most advanced computational solutions, including designing and predicting properties of chemicals and materials, exploring molecular interactions and simulating complex chemical reactions. Additionally, we want to help galvanize a quantum-ready ecosystem, providing the critical tools necessary for commercial adoption of these technologies that can help build quantum expertise and create new demand for jobs.

We are excited to accelerate Atom Computing’s quantum capabilities with Microsoft as our partner. We believe that this collaboration uniquely positions us to scale and be first to reach scientific quantum advantage. Our neutral-atom technology is an ideal foundation for Microsoft’s leading qubit-virtualization capabilities, and we look forward to enabling fault tolerant, cutting-edge quantum applications for global innovators to use the best platform in the world.

— Ben Bloom, PhD, Founder and CEO of Atom Computing 

Empowering customers with the best of quantum and AI

At Microsoft, we want to enable practitioners to unlock a new generation of applications that harness the complementary strengths of quantum, classical supercomputing and AI, all connected in the Azure cloud.

We remain committed to achieving quantum at scale so we can solve commercially significant problems that are far too complex for classical computers. As a platform company, it’s critical that we continue investing in the quantum ecosystem and collaborating with industry leaders such as Quantinuum, Atom Computing, Photonic and others to advance and scale quantum capabilities. Alongside our industry collaborations, we’re also focused on our own innovation with a topological qubit-based approach.

This approach continues to offer a unique path to scaling up, with fast clock speeds, digital control and more. Furthermore, a topological quantum computer could control over one million physical qubits on a single chip, with the ability to process information faster than other types of qubits. Our Azure Quantum team previously demonstrated the feasibility of this approach, and we look forward to scaling this to the level of quantum supercomputing. 

Azure is the place where all this innovation comes together. For more information about today’s announcements:

Read the technical blog Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits and demonstrate a hybrid end-to-end chemistry simulation.
Register for the upcoming Microsoft Quantum Innovator Series on how quantum and AI can unlock a new generation of hybrid applications for science.
Get the latest news and announcements from Azure Quantum.

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At Microsoft, we’re ushering in a new era of computing on the path to unlocking scientific advantage and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This is why we’re building Azure Quantum — to create the first platform for reliable quantum computing and achieve the vision of quantum at scale. In April, we announced…
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It seems that the (free) web version of Copilot provides me with a function that I’d like to see in the (paid) Copilot for Office 365 as well. Perhaps someone would know how to enable this?

Let’s say I am entering the following in https://copilot.microsoft.com:

‘create a table with a side-by-side comparison of the technical specifications for the “HP LaserJet Pro 500 Color MFP M570dw”, “HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw”, and “HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M577dn”‘

What I get is a nice short table that offers me at the top right corner to edit that table in excel:

If I enter the same in the Office 365 App, which is connected to my Office 365 account which has a Copilot for Office 365 subscription, I get this here (web content is enabled):

There is no possibility to edit the table directly in excel. Using “Kopieren” (copy) in the lower left corner, I can get the content into an excel sheet, but the copied text also includes the paragraps before and after the table.

I’d prefer the “Excel” button.

Is there a way to enable this functionality in Copilot for Offcie 365?

Thanks

Dan

​It seems that the (free) web version of Copilot provides me with a function that I’d like to see in the (paid) Copilot for Office 365 as well. Perhaps someone would know how to enable this? Let’s say I am entering the following in https://copilot.microsoft.com: ‘create a table with a side-by-side comparison of the technical specifications for the “HP LaserJet Pro 500 Color MFP M570dw”, “HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw”, and “HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M577dn”‘ What I get is a nice short table that offers me at the top right corner to edit that table in excel:  If I enter the same in the Office 365 App, which is connected to my Office 365 account which has a Copilot for Office 365 subscription, I get this here (web content is enabled): There is no possibility to edit the table directly in excel. Using “Kopieren” (copy) in the lower left corner, I can get the content into an excel sheet, but the copied text also includes the paragraps before and after the table. I’d prefer the “Excel” button.Is there a way to enable this functionality in Copilot for Offcie 365?   Thanks Dan     Read More

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Hi all,

I am trying to create a publicly available redirect using my custom domain to sharepoint online “intranet.mydomain.com” to “mydomain.sharepoint.com”

I have create a CNAME in my external DNS to point to sharepoint but I get the following error.:

<h2>Our services aren’t available right now</h2><p>We’re working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon.</p>09+reZgAAAADI2oKRlEDuSpVHIaMJyiW8WlJIRURHRTE1MTQARWRnZQ==

Is there a simple way to create this redirect.

​Hi all, I am trying to create a publicly available redirect using my custom domain to sharepoint online “intranet.mydomain.com” to “mydomain.sharepoint.com” I have create a CNAME in my external DNS to point to sharepoint but I get the following error.: <h2>Our services aren’t available right now</h2><p>We’re working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon.</p>09+reZgAAAADI2oKRlEDuSpVHIaMJyiW8WlJIRURHRTE1MTQARWRnZQ== Is there a simple way to create this redirect.  Read More

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Users (at least in some rings) are able to see the To-Do app in Teams client, but it tells them that they have to request admin approval for the app. They submit the request for admin approval, but those requests do not show up anywhere in the Teams Admin Center. (Other app requests do show, but not those for To-Do.)

Also, the To-Do app does not show up in Teams Admin Center list of apps to manage.

​Users (at least in some rings) are able to see the To-Do app in Teams client, but it tells them that they have to request admin approval for the app. They submit the request for admin approval, but those requests do not show up anywhere in the Teams Admin Center. (Other app requests do show, but not those for To-Do.)Also, the To-Do app does not show up in Teams Admin Center list of apps to manage.  Read More

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Hi there,

Here my configuration :

PC with window 11

Outlook new version (works well)

Office365 account (professional one)

Thunderbird : version 128.2.0esr (64-bit)

Plus the add-on OWL

Everything works well except the possibility to send email thru thunderbird.

If I try to send an e-mail, here what I get :

” Login to server outlook.office365.com with username email address removed for privacy reasons failed.”

Weird !!!!!

SMTP configuration :

Server name : outlook.office365.com

Port : 587

User Name : email address removed for privacy reasons

Authentication method : OAuth2

Connection Security : STARTTLS

Thank you for your assistance on that matter.

Alex

​Hi there, Here my configuration :PC with window 11Outlook new version (works well)Office365 account (professional one)Thunderbird : version 128.2.0esr (64-bit)Plus the add-on OWL Everything works well except the possibility to send email thru thunderbird. If I try to send an e-mail, here what I get :” Login to server outlook.office365.com with username email address removed for privacy reasons failed.” Weird !!!!! SMTP configuration :Server name : outlook.office365.comPort : 587User Name : email address removed for privacy reasonsAuthentication method : OAuth2Connection Security : STARTTLS Thank you for your assistance on that matter.Alex  Read More

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Hello,

In my company, we use the Developer Tool to create custom forms for Contacts and Tasks, which generate new pages in the contact items within Outlook. We use these custom fields to keep our contacts updated, filter them, and perform various other tasks. These items are saved in Outlook as IPM.Contact.[custom_name] in the “Custom Forms Library” folder.

The issue we’re encountering is that, although our contacts are stored in our contact list, when they call us through Teams, the contacts do not synchronize, so we are unable to identify the caller. Additionally, when we use Outlook Web, we cannot see any contacts that were not created using the default Contact or Task items in Outlook. Any items created with the Developer Tool do not synchronize.

We suspect that the problem might be related to one of the Exchange connectors, which could be configured to only synchronize contacts that use the default M365 form. However, we are unsure how to modify this setting.

Thank you!

​Hello,In my company, we use the Developer Tool to create custom forms for Contacts and Tasks, which generate new pages in the contact items within Outlook. We use these custom fields to keep our contacts updated, filter them, and perform various other tasks. These items are saved in Outlook as IPM.Contact.[custom_name] in the “Custom Forms Library” folder.The issue we’re encountering is that, although our contacts are stored in our contact list, when they call us through Teams, the contacts do not synchronize, so we are unable to identify the caller. Additionally, when we use Outlook Web, we cannot see any contacts that were not created using the default Contact or Task items in Outlook. Any items created with the Developer Tool do not synchronize.We suspect that the problem might be related to one of the Exchange connectors, which could be configured to only synchronize contacts that use the default M365 form. However, we are unsure how to modify this setting. Thank you!  Read More

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Hello, we are hosting a VM on a local computer using Hyper-V. we normally access the VM and work on it using windows remote desktop. This morning, we are tried connecting to the VM and it is not recognizing any of our passwords. I have logged on to the VM through the Host computer, restarted the VM, checked to see that the remote desktop services is running and they are. but yet I can’t seem to resolve the issue. What could be the reason or what can I check to resolve this issue.

​Hello, we are hosting a VM on a local computer using Hyper-V. we normally access the VM and work on it using windows remote desktop. This morning, we are tried connecting to the VM and it is not recognizing any of our passwords. I have logged on to the VM through the Host computer, restarted the VM, checked to see that the remote desktop services is running and they are. but yet I can’t seem to resolve the issue. What could be the reason or what can I check to resolve this issue.  Read More

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Hi all,

I’m trying to create a project workload workbook which has a list of ongoing projects in one worksheet and a separate worksheet for completed projects. I’d like to automatically move a project from the ‘ongoing’ sheet to the ‘completed’ sheet by simply selecting ‘completed’ in the status column. I’d like for this project to move onto the next available row in the ‘completed’ worksheet. I’d also like to be able to move the project back into ‘ongoing’ sheet should the status “completed” have been selected in error. 

Please can anyone help me write the correct VBA code to do this? Please find below code which I’ve recently attempted but found it isn’t triggered when selecting the project status (I have to run the macro manually) and when I do, it either moves the project data onto a random row (albeit on the correct sheet), or throws up the VBA window highlighting a section of the code with no explanation as to why it’s an issue! 

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Abi.

‘Module Code attempted (but does not work!):’

Sub MoveBasedOnValue()
Dim xRg As Range
Dim xCell As Range
Dim A As Long
Dim B As Long
Dim C As Long
A = Worksheets(“Ongoing Mechanical Projects”).UsedRange.Rows.Count
B = Worksheets(“Completed Schemes 2024-2025”).UsedRange.Rows.Count
If B = 1 Then
If Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(Worksheets(“Completed Schemes 2024-2025”).UsedRange) = 0 Then B = 0
End If
Set xRg = Worksheets(“Ongoing Mechanical Projects”).Range(“L:L” & A)
On Error Resume Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For C = 1 To xRg.Count
If CStr(xRg(C).Value) = “Completed” Then
xRg(C).EntireRow.Copy Destination:=Worksheets(“Completed Schemes 2024-2025”).Range(“A” & B + 1)
xRg(C).EntireRow.Delete
If CStr(xRg(C).Value) = “Completed” Then
C = C – 1
End If
B = B + 1
End If
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

‘Sheet Code attempted (but does not work!):’
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim Z As Long
Dim xVal As String
On Error Resume Next
If Intersect(Target, Range(“L:L”)) Is Nothing Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
For Z = 1 To Target.Count
If Target(Z).Value > 0 Then
Call MoveBasedOnValue
End If
Next
Application.EnableEvents = True
End If
End Sub

​Hi all, I’m trying to create a project workload workbook which has a list of ongoing projects in one worksheet and a separate worksheet for completed projects. I’d like to automatically move a project from the ‘ongoing’ sheet to the ‘completed’ sheet by simply selecting ‘completed’ in the status column. I’d like for this project to move onto the next available row in the ‘completed’ worksheet. I’d also like to be able to move the project back into ‘ongoing’ sheet should the status “completed” have been selected in error.  Please can anyone help me write the correct VBA code to do this? Please find below code which I’ve recently attempted but found it isn’t triggered when selecting the project status (I have to run the macro manually) and when I do, it either moves the project data onto a random row (albeit on the correct sheet), or throws up the VBA window highlighting a section of the code with no explanation as to why it’s an issue!  Any help will be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Abi.’Module Code attempted (but does not work!):’

Sub MoveBasedOnValue()
Dim xRg As Range
Dim xCell As Range
Dim A As Long
Dim B As Long
Dim C As Long
A = Worksheets(“Ongoing Mechanical Projects”).UsedRange.Rows.Count
B = Worksheets(“Completed Schemes 2024-2025”).UsedRange.Rows.Count
If B = 1 Then
If Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(Worksheets(“Completed Schemes 2024-2025”).UsedRange) = 0 Then B = 0
End If
Set xRg = Worksheets(“Ongoing Mechanical Projects”).Range(“L:L” & A)
On Error Resume Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For C = 1 To xRg.Count
If CStr(xRg(C).Value) = “Completed” Then
xRg(C).EntireRow.Copy Destination:=Worksheets(“Completed Schemes 2024-2025”).Range(“A” & B + 1)
xRg(C).EntireRow.Delete
If CStr(xRg(C).Value) = “Completed” Then
C = C – 1
End If
B = B + 1
End If
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

‘Sheet Code attempted (but does not work!):’
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim Z As Long
Dim xVal As String
On Error Resume Next
If Intersect(Target, Range(“L:L”)) Is Nothing Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
For Z = 1 To Target.Count
If Target(Z).Value > 0 Then
Call MoveBasedOnValue
End If
Next
Application.EnableEvents = True
End If
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