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Python Data Science Day 2024: Unleashing the Power of Python in Data Analysis
Hello, fellow data enthusiasts!
We’re excited to share that the Python Data Science Day is set to take place on March 14th, 2024, aligning with the mathematical constant Pi Day (3.14). This event is a fantastic opportunity for Python developers, entrepreneurs, data scientists, students, and researchers to come together and explore modern solutions for data pipelines and complex queries.
What to Expect?
The Python Data Science Day will feature a variety of sessions and lightning talks from experts in the field. Whether you’re interested in high-level programming topics or diving deep into specific features, there’s something for everyone.
Sessions: These 25-minute presentations, either pre-recorded or live, will be delivered by up to two people and cover a range of programming stories, approaches, and solutions.
Lightning Talks: If you’re new to public speaking or have a concise idea to share, these 5 to 7-minute talks are perfect for you. They focus on a single idea and are designed to inspire further learning.
Call for Speaker Proposals
The call for speaker proposals is open until January 25th, 2024. If you have a cool tool, product, or skill to discuss, we encourage you to submit your proposal and join the list of amazing speakers. https://aka.ms/Python/DataScienceDay/CFP
More Ways to Engage
Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack Together: Join us from February 15th to March 4th, 2024, for live streams and real-world problem-solving with an AI-powered analytics platform.
14 Days of Python Data Science Series: Leading up to the event, we’ll release articles and recipes for using Data Science on Microsoft tools.
Data Science Cloud Skills Challenge: Participate in self-paced learning until April 15th, 2024.
Special Guest Speakers
You could be among the special guest speakers, joining the ranks of Sarah Kaiser, PhD, and Soojin Choi. Don’t miss this chance to contribute to the Python Data Science community.
Join the Conversation
Connect with us on Discord to continue the discussion and share your experiences with like-minded individuals.
We can’t wait to see you there and witness the innovative ideas and projects you’ll bring to the table. Mark your calendars for March 14th, 2024, and prepare for a day filled with Python and data science wonders! https://aka.ms/python-discord
More Data Science at Microsoft…
Data Scientist Certifications
Data Scientist Training Path
Data Science for Beginners – GitHub Repo
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Python Data Science Day 2024: Unleashing the Power of Python in Data Analysis
Hello, fellow data enthusiasts!
We’re excited to share that the Python Data Science Day is set to take place on March 14th, 2024, aligning with the mathematical constant Pi Day (3.14). This event is a fantastic opportunity for Python developers, entrepreneurs, data scientists, students, and researchers to come together and explore modern solutions for data pipelines and complex queries.
What to Expect?
The Python Data Science Day will feature a variety of sessions and lightning talks from experts in the field. Whether you’re interested in high-level programming topics or diving deep into specific features, there’s something for everyone.
Sessions: These 25-minute presentations, either pre-recorded or live, will be delivered by up to two people and cover a range of programming stories, approaches, and solutions.
Lightning Talks: If you’re new to public speaking or have a concise idea to share, these 5 to 7-minute talks are perfect for you. They focus on a single idea and are designed to inspire further learning.
Call for Speaker Proposals
The call for speaker proposals is open until January 25th, 2024. If you have a cool tool, product, or skill to discuss, we encourage you to submit your proposal and join the list of amazing speakers. https://aka.ms/Python/DataScienceDay/CFP
More Ways to Engage
Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack Together: Join us from February 15th to March 4th, 2024, for live streams and real-world problem-solving with an AI-powered analytics platform.
14 Days of Python Data Science Series: Leading up to the event, we’ll release articles and recipes for using Data Science on Microsoft tools.
Data Science Cloud Skills Challenge: Participate in self-paced learning until April 15th, 2024.
Special Guest Speakers
You could be among the special guest speakers, joining the ranks of Sarah Kaiser, PhD, and Soojin Choi. Don’t miss this chance to contribute to the Python Data Science community.
Join the Conversation
Connect with us on Discord to continue the discussion and share your experiences with like-minded individuals.
We can’t wait to see you there and witness the innovative ideas and projects you’ll bring to the table. Mark your calendars for March 14th, 2024, and prepare for a day filled with Python and data science wonders! https://aka.ms/python-discord
More Data Science at Microsoft…
Data Scientist Certifications
Data Scientist Training Path
Data Science for Beginners – GitHub Repo
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
Microsoft Tech Community – Latest Blogs –Read More
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
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Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Today, we announced that we are expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to a much broader set of organizations, available across more channels, and without a minimum seat required. We are also extending our data residency commitments for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and bringing Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded chat to Copilot in Windows. Join the upcoming AMA and Tech Accelerator event and engage with experts from Microsoft to learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Expanding availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365
Starting today, we have removed the 300-seat minimum purchase for Copilot for Microsoft 365 commercial plans. We have also extended support so that Office 365 E3 and E5 customers are eligible to purchase Copilot, and we’re extending Semantic Index for Copilot to Office 365 users with a paid Copilot license. Finally, we have announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for businesses of all sizes, supported on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium. This follows a successful early access program focused specifically on small and medium businesses, as well as the previously announced availability for staff and faculty of education institutions with Microsoft 365 A3 or A5 licenses. Commercial customers—including small and medium-sized businesses—can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our network Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSPs) and you can learn more about them here.
We still recommend that customers start by giving Copilot to a critical mass of their information workers. We learned during the early access program that this creates a flywheel of interest and adoption, accelerating time to value and an organization’s ability to measure impact in a meaningful way. Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will be capped by the total number of eligible base licenses that a customer has. That is, customers must have a product license of one of the prerequisite base SKUs for each seat of Copilot for Microsoft 365 they purchase. You can review requirements for Copilot here.
Updating data residency commitments
We’ve heard feedback from our Enterprise customers that they need assurances that Copilot data is managed appropriately across geographically diverse teams. To support, Copilot for Microsoft 365 upholds residency commitments as outlined in the Microsoft Product Terms and Data Protection Addendum.
We’re pleased to share that later this year Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added as a covered workload under the data residency commitments in Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Advanced Data Residency (ADR) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. For additional information on Copilot for Microsoft 365 privacy and data storage please visit Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. To learn more about our commitments to data residency, see Microsoft 365 Data Residency Overview and Definitions.
Microsoft Copilot capabilities coming to Windows desktop
Organizations will soon be able to experience Copilot for Microsoft 365 integrated in Windows desktop, bringing Graph-grounded chat capabilities to Copilot in Windows for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. This update will be available to organizations with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot in Windows enabled, beginning the week of February 4th. This adds a new, simple way for users to access Copilot, in addition to the current surfaces in Teams, Edge, and copilot.microsoft.com. For information on managing Copilot in Windows, review this article.
Start preparing your organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365
There are steps you can take today to get your tenant prepared for Copilot:
Prepare your data and assess all relevant data security, privacy, and compliance controls are in place. Copilot inherits your existing permissions and policies so ensuring that these are in place helps ensure seamless deployment. Conduct access reviews for SharePoint sites, documents and tenant data, employ the use of sensitivity labels to protect important data, and validate policies for data loss prevention, retention, and compliance.
Review prerequisites for Copilot by reviewing overview and requirements for Microsoft 365 Copilot to position your tenant to seamlessly deploy Copilot. This setup guide also provides a simple walkthrough of the process.
Learn more about Copilot for Microsoft 365, how it works, benefits to your organizations, how your data is handled and protected.
Familiarize yourself with the admin controls available to manage Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot page.
Develop your adoption strategy by leveraging the resources available on our adoption site, including this adoption kit and user onboarding toolkit.
Check readiness, measure adoption and impact through the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Preview) in Viva Insights or PowerBI that helps organizations maximize the value of Copilot for Microsoft 365. It provides actionable insights to help your organization get ready to deploy AI, drive adoption based on how AI is transforming workplace behavior and measure the impact of Copilot.
To learn more about Copilot, you can review our documentation hub, requirements, setup, and information about privacy, security, and compliance. You can also watch our sessions at this past Ignite on getting ready for Copilot.
For small and medium business customers, join our discussion forum to collaborate with other Copilot for Microsoft 365 users, take part in community calls with open Q&A, hear directly from Microsoft Copilot engineers, and access exclusive resources. Also, check out the resources available on the small and medium business Copilot adoption site.
For a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365, join us during our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Accelerator, February 28 and 29, right here in the Tech Community. Listen in as experts from Microsoft talk delve into preparing for Copilot with recommendations and best practices, share strategies on driving adoption, and measuring and maximizing value for your organization. There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our experts.
Finally, join our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) tomorrow at 9am PT, here in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. Feel free to post your questions onto the event page ahead of time, and our panel of experts will answer them during the event.
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The Publisher failed to allocate a new set of identity ranges for the subscription
Problem:
===========
Assume that you have tables with Identity columns declared as datatype INT and you are using Auto Identity management for those articles in a Merge Publication.
This Publication has one or more subscribers and you tried to re-initialize one subscriber using a new Snapshot.
Merge agent fails with this error:
>>
Source: Merge Replication Provider
Number: -2147199417
Message: The Publisher failed to allocate a new set of identity ranges for the subscription. This can occur when a Publisher or a republishing Subscriber has run out of identity ranges to allocate to its own Subscribers or when an identity column data type does not support an additional identity range allocation. If a republishing Subscriber has run out of identity ranges, synchronize the republishing Subscriber to obtain more identity ranges before restarting the synchronization. If a Publisher runs out of identit
Cause:
============
Identity range Merge agent is trying to allocate, exceeds maximum value an INT datatype can have.
Resolution
=================
Assume that publisher database has only one Merge publication with 2 subscribers, and your merge articles have this definition:
>>>
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N’MergeRepl_ReproDB’, @article = N’tblCity’, @source_owner = N’dbo’, @source_object = N’tblCity’, @type = N’table’, @description = N”, @creation_script = N”, @pre_creation_cmd = N’drop’, @schema_option = 0x000000004C034FD1, @identityrangemanagementoption = N’auto’, @pub_identity_range = 1000, @identity_range = 1000, @threshold = 90, @destination_owner = N’dbo’, @force_reinit_subscription = 1, @column_tracking = N’false’, @subset_filterclause = N”, @vertical_partition = N’false’, @verify_resolver_signature = 1, @allow_interactive_resolver = N’false’, @fast_multicol_updateproc = N’true’, @check_permissions = 0, @subscriber_upload_options = 0, @delete_tracking = N’true’, @compensate_for_errors = N’false’, @stream_blob_columns = N’false’, @partition_options = 0
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N’MergeRepl_ReproDB’, @article = N’tblCity1′, @source_owner = N’dbo’, @source_object = N’tblCity1′, @type = N’table’, @description = N”, @creation_script = N”, @pre_creation_cmd = N’drop’, @schema_option = 0x000000004C034FD1, @identityrangemanagementoption = N’auto’, @pub_identity_range = 1000, @identity_range = 1000, @threshold = 90, @destination_owner = N’dbo’, @force_reinit_subscription = 1, @column_tracking = N’false’, @subset_filterclause = N”, @vertical_partition = N’false’, @verify_resolver_signature = 1, @allow_interactive_resolver = N’false’, @fast_multicol_updateproc = N’true’, @check_permissions = 0, @subscriber_upload_options = 0, @delete_tracking = N’true’, @compensate_for_errors = N’false’, @stream_blob_columns = N’false’, @partition_options = 0
You can run this query against the Published database to see what articles range is full or have very few values left:
>>>
select a.name,
max_used=max_used,
diff_pub_range_end_max_used=range_end – max_used, –this tells how many values are left
pub_range_begin=range_begin,
pub_range_end=range_end
from dbo.MSmerge_identity_range b ,
sysmergearticles a
where
a.artid = b.artid
and is_pub_range=1
order by max_used desc
name max_used diff_pub_range_end_max_used pub_range_begin pub_range_end
————– ————————————— ————————————— ————————————— ————-
tblCity 2147483647 0 2147477647 2147483647
tblCity1 6001 2147477646 1 2147483647
As you see from above diff_pub_range_end_max_used column is zero for tblCity.
When Merge agent runs depending on how many servers are involved it has to allocate 2 ranges for each.
In the example above we have Publisher and 2 subscribers and @identity_range is 1000. So, we will have to allocate range for 3 servers i.e., 3 * (2*1000) = 6000
Our diff_pub_range_end_max_used should be greater than 6000, only then we will be able to allocate a new range for all the servers.
To resolve the issue.
Remove tblCity table from publication.
Change the datatype from int to bigint and add this table back to publication.
Then generate a new snapshot. It will generate snapshots for all articles, but only this 1 table will be added back to the existing Subscribers.
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Building your own copilot – yes, but how? (Part 1 of 2)
In a technology landscape deeply changed by generative AI, businesses look for more effective ways to deliver customer service solutions to their customers. On the other hand, customers have higher expectations of a faster and more precise self-service support offering.
Today, there’s a wide range of built-in services and features designed to meet these needs and enable organizations and developers to build their own copilots, able to answer questions based on their own knowledge bases and data sources.
But how to choose the most suitable one for each scenario? This blog post wants to provide an overview of some of the main choices you have in the Microsoft technology ecosystem. Part 1 will look into low code tools and out-of-the-box features, while part 2 will focus on code-heavy and extensible options.
Empowering Generative AI models with RAG
Generative AI models – commonly known as Large Language Models or LLMs – are very powerful at generating different types of content, like grammatically correct text, art creatives and code, with just a short textual input – called prompt.
However, when it comes to using them in a real-world production scenario, they have some limitations, mainly due to the fact that they can answer questions related only to the data they were trained on. This means that they do not know facts that happened after their date of training, and they do not have access to data protected by farewells.
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a pattern designed to overcome the limitations mentioned above, by providing the LLM with the relevant and freshest data to answer a user question, injecting the information through the prompt.
A system that implements the RAG pattern includes in its architecture a data store, hosting the validated data sources (usually private data as enterprise data) on which the model should base its answer on. Each time a user question comes to the system:
The question is converted into a query to search into the data store for relevant information (an index is commonly used to optimize the search process).
The matching results are combined with the user prompt and the system message – including instructions for the model on how to use the data context provided – and injected into the model prompt.
The output of the model, written in natural language, is returned to the final user.
In the upcoming sections, we’ll explore how to implement this pattern with different tools and services in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Azure AI Studio
Azure AI studio is a brand-new hub – currently in preview – enabling developers and AI engineers with a centralized place to explore all the Azure AI services. The studio allows users to test, deploy, and evaluate pre-trained LLMs available in a catalog and build innovative solutions with them, making it simpler to collaborate on one AI project among teammates.
Once you provisioned an Azure AI resource and created an Azure AI project, a great first step to build your custom copilot in Azure AI Studio is the Playground.
There, you can set up your assistant by customizing through the GUI:
The OpenAI model deployment used as the bot engine.
The system message, which is a component of the model prompt designed to define an assistant’s personality, with desired style and tone, response format, and any guardrails.
The length of the chat history to include.
Examples of interactions between the user and the agent.
It’s also possible to implement the RAG pattern, by using the ‘Add your data’ feature, which uses the data sources you select to ground the generated model’s results with your data. Allowed data sources are local files, Azure Blob storage, or a vector index – created through the Azure AI search service.
Once you are done with the configuration and you have tested it through the chat session, you can export it as a JSON file for further usage.
You can also evaluate your assistant using the ‘Manual Evaluation’ feature, by providing a set of input prompts and expected responses.
Once you are satisfied with the result you can deploy your copilot to a web application, using the ‘Deploy’ button.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio enables the creation of copilots through a guided, no-code graphical experience, embedding all the capabilities that used to be part of Power Virtual Agents (PVA).
Once you sign in with your Microsoft 365 work or school account, and you select ‘Create a copilot’, you’ll launch a wizard to set up the main configurations of your assistant, such as the name, the supported language, and the URL to a website or SharePoint your copilot should use to ground its responses (e.g. your organization website).
Once your copilot is created, you can customize it further in the ‘Generative AI’ tab, by adding other website URLs and directly uploading documents as data sources.
Also, from the ‘Topics’ page, you can create a new topic – a dialog tree that describes how your copilot responds to a user’s trigger.
In addition to manually defining the dialog trees – as the standard experience with PVA – you can also create a topic from a natural language description, leveraging generative AI.
Within a copilot’s topic, you can add a ‘Create generative answers’ node, allowing you to specify more sources that the node searches based on your inputs. Information sources defined in the ‘Generative answers’ node override sources you specified at the copilot level (like the website URL you set up at the beginning), which functions as a fallback.
These data source options include external sources (such as Bing Search) and internal ones, like Azure OpenAI on your data, documents uploaded to Dataverse, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, or custom data from any sources (such as a Power Automate Flow).
Once you are satisfied with your copilot configuration, you can publish your copilot to a website or Microsoft Teams and monitor its performance through the ‘Analytics’ feature.
Summary
In this article, we have been looking at how to build a custom copilot using Azure AI Studio and Microsoft Copilot Studio. These two tools both offer graphic developer environments to build a copilot on your data using generative AI.
Azure AI studio might be a natural choice for customers who have some familiarity with the Azure OpenAI service or the OpenAI playground and wish to have higher control over the LLM used by the copilot, including the ability to evaluate and compare different model versions as well as to design the model prompt.
On the other hand, Microsoft Copilot Studio might be a smoother transition for customers familiar with the Power Virtual Agent suite and need the flexibility to pre-define some closed dialogue journeys for frequently asked questions and then use generative answers for fallback.
In the upcoming part of this blog post, we’ll be going through 2 other options for building a copilot with the RAG pattern in the Microsoft ecosystem: using Azure ML Prompt Flow and custom solutions.
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Kudu Dashboard explained – WordPress on App Service
WordPress on App Service is a Microsoft marketplace offering that combines the capabilities of several Azure products to provide you with an optimal WordPress development experience. One of the key Azure products that the offering relies on is Azure App Service – a platform that lets you create and host web applications. To perform advanced tasks for your WordPress website, you need to understand App Service well. In this article, we will explore the Kudu dashboard.
The Kudu dashboard is a web interface that provides various features and tools for Azure App Service. Some of the features that Kudu dashboard offers are:
App Settings: You can view and edit your application settings directly through Kudu dashboard.
File explorer: You can use the Kudu file explorer to browse, download, upload, and edit files. WordPress developers often need to edit files like wp-config.php
Source control integration: You can deploy your app from various sources, such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Dropbox, or OneDrive.
Web hooks: You can trigger actions on your app, such as restarting, swapping, or syncing, by sending HTTP requests to predefined URLs.
Diagnostics: You can view and download logs, metrics, and crash dumps of your app, as well as run diagnostic tests and analysis tools.
Console access: You can access a command-line interface that lets you run commands and scripts on your app, as well as browse and edit files and folders.
Debug console: You can attach a debugger to your app and set breakpoints, watch variables, and step through code.
Process explorer: You can view and manage the processes and threads that are running on your app, as well as their CPU and memory usage.
Site extensions: You can install and manage additional features and functionalities for your app as site extensions.
To learn more about the features visit: Kudu service overview – Azure App Service | Microsoft Learn
Kudu is an open-source project: GitHub – projectkudu/kudu
You can find detailed documentation for Kudu here: Home · projectkudu/kudu Wiki · GitHub
How to access the Kudu dashboard for your WordPress site?
Step 1: Go to your App Service blade in Azure Portal. Go to Development tools under Advanced tools in the left panel. Click on Go.
Step 2: The Kudu dashboard will open in a new tab
It uses the credentials of Azure portal so you do not need to login again.
Quick tip: You can directly start the Kudu dashboard by using this link: https://<web app name>.scm.azurewebsites.net/
Step 3: You can access the new User Interface by appending the URL with ‘/newui’. Learn more: New KUDU UI for App Service on Linux
Now you can see multiple options in the Kudu dashboard left panel.
Environment: This will display all system info, App settings, connection strings, environment variables, PATH, and HTTP headers for your server.
WebSSH: You can access the web ssh terminal for your server.
Bash: You can open a bash terminal.
File Manager: You can access all WordPress files here by navigating to site>wwwroot. You can download, upload, and edit files here.
Log Stream: You can tail logs in real time by using this option.
The Kudu dashboard gives a rich interface for you to carry out advanced operations for your WordPress site. If you need a detailed guidance about any particular operation, please let us know in the comments.
Support and Feedback
In case you need any support, you can open a support request at New support request – Microsoft Azure.
If you have any ideas about how we can make WordPress on Azure App Service better, please post your ideas at Post idea · Community (azure.com)
or you could email us at wordpressonazure@microsoft.com to start a conversation.
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The Publisher failed to allocate a new set of identity ranges for the subscription
Problem:
===========
Assume that you have tables with Identity columns declared as datatype INT and you are using Auto Identity management for those articles in a Merge Publication.
This Publication has one or more subscribers and you tried to re-initialize one subscriber using a new Snapshot.
Merge agent fails with this error:
>>
Source: Merge Replication Provider
Number: -2147199417
Message: The Publisher failed to allocate a new set of identity ranges for the subscription. This can occur when a Publisher or a republishing Subscriber has run out of identity ranges to allocate to its own Subscribers or when an identity column data type does not support an additional identity range allocation. If a republishing Subscriber has run out of identity ranges, synchronize the republishing Subscriber to obtain more identity ranges before restarting the synchronization. If a Publisher runs out of identit
Cause:
============
Identity range Merge agent is trying to allocate, exceeds maximum value an INT datatype can have.
Resolution
=================
Assume that publisher database has only one Merge publication with 2 subscribers, and your merge articles have this definition:
>>>
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N’MergeRepl_ReproDB’, @article = N’tblCity’, @source_owner = N’dbo’, @source_object = N’tblCity’, @type = N’table’, @description = N”, @creation_script = N”, @pre_creation_cmd = N’drop’, @schema_option = 0x000000004C034FD1, @identityrangemanagementoption = N’auto’, @pub_identity_range = 1000, @identity_range = 1000, @threshold = 90, @destination_owner = N’dbo’, @force_reinit_subscription = 1, @column_tracking = N’false’, @subset_filterclause = N”, @vertical_partition = N’false’, @verify_resolver_signature = 1, @allow_interactive_resolver = N’false’, @fast_multicol_updateproc = N’true’, @check_permissions = 0, @subscriber_upload_options = 0, @delete_tracking = N’true’, @compensate_for_errors = N’false’, @stream_blob_columns = N’false’, @partition_options = 0
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N’MergeRepl_ReproDB’, @article = N’tblCity1′, @source_owner = N’dbo’, @source_object = N’tblCity1′, @type = N’table’, @description = N”, @creation_script = N”, @pre_creation_cmd = N’drop’, @schema_option = 0x000000004C034FD1, @identityrangemanagementoption = N’auto’, @pub_identity_range = 1000, @identity_range = 1000, @threshold = 90, @destination_owner = N’dbo’, @force_reinit_subscription = 1, @column_tracking = N’false’, @subset_filterclause = N”, @vertical_partition = N’false’, @verify_resolver_signature = 1, @allow_interactive_resolver = N’false’, @fast_multicol_updateproc = N’true’, @check_permissions = 0, @subscriber_upload_options = 0, @delete_tracking = N’true’, @compensate_for_errors = N’false’, @stream_blob_columns = N’false’, @partition_options = 0
You can run this query against the Published database to see what articles range is full or have very few values left:
>>>
select a.name,
max_used=max_used,
diff_pub_range_end_max_used=range_end – max_used, –this tells how many values are left
pub_range_begin=range_begin,
pub_range_end=range_end
from dbo.MSmerge_identity_range b ,
sysmergearticles a
where
a.artid = b.artid
and is_pub_range=1
order by max_used desc
name max_used diff_pub_range_end_max_used pub_range_begin pub_range_end
————– ————————————— ————————————— ————————————— ————-
tblCity 2147483647 0 2147477647 2147483647
tblCity1 6001 2147477646 1 2147483647
As you see from above diff_pub_range_end_max_used column is zero for tblCity.
When Merge agent runs depending on how many servers are involved it has to allocate 2 ranges for each.
In the example above we have Publisher and 2 subscribers and @identity_range is 1000. So, we will have to allocate range for 3 servers i.e., 3 * (2*1000) = 6000
Our diff_pub_range_end_max_used should be greater than 6000, only then we will be able to allocate a new range for all the servers.
To resolve the issue.
Remove tblCity table from publication.
Change the datatype from int to bigint and add this table back to publication.
Then generate a new snapshot. It will generate snapshots for all articles, but only this 1 table will be added back to the existing Subscribers.
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The Publisher failed to allocate a new set of identity ranges for the subscription
Problem:
===========
Assume that you have tables with Identity columns declared as datatype INT and you are using Auto Identity management for those articles in a Merge Publication.
This Publication has one or more subscribers and you tried to re-initialize one subscriber using a new Snapshot.
Merge agent fails with this error:
>>
Source: Merge Replication Provider
Number: -2147199417
Message: The Publisher failed to allocate a new set of identity ranges for the subscription. This can occur when a Publisher or a republishing Subscriber has run out of identity ranges to allocate to its own Subscribers or when an identity column data type does not support an additional identity range allocation. If a republishing Subscriber has run out of identity ranges, synchronize the republishing Subscriber to obtain more identity ranges before restarting the synchronization. If a Publisher runs out of identit
Cause:
============
Identity range Merge agent is trying to allocate, exceeds maximum value an INT datatype can have.
Resolution
=================
Assume that publisher database has only one Merge publication with 2 subscribers, and your merge articles have this definition:
>>>
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N’MergeRepl_ReproDB’, @article = N’tblCity’, @source_owner = N’dbo’, @source_object = N’tblCity’, @type = N’table’, @description = N”, @creation_script = N”, @pre_creation_cmd = N’drop’, @schema_option = 0x000000004C034FD1, @identityrangemanagementoption = N’auto’, @pub_identity_range = 1000, @identity_range = 1000, @threshold = 90, @destination_owner = N’dbo’, @force_reinit_subscription = 1, @column_tracking = N’false’, @subset_filterclause = N”, @vertical_partition = N’false’, @verify_resolver_signature = 1, @allow_interactive_resolver = N’false’, @fast_multicol_updateproc = N’true’, @check_permissions = 0, @subscriber_upload_options = 0, @delete_tracking = N’true’, @compensate_for_errors = N’false’, @stream_blob_columns = N’false’, @partition_options = 0
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N’MergeRepl_ReproDB’, @article = N’tblCity1′, @source_owner = N’dbo’, @source_object = N’tblCity1′, @type = N’table’, @description = N”, @creation_script = N”, @pre_creation_cmd = N’drop’, @schema_option = 0x000000004C034FD1, @identityrangemanagementoption = N’auto’, @pub_identity_range = 1000, @identity_range = 1000, @threshold = 90, @destination_owner = N’dbo’, @force_reinit_subscription = 1, @column_tracking = N’false’, @subset_filterclause = N”, @vertical_partition = N’false’, @verify_resolver_signature = 1, @allow_interactive_resolver = N’false’, @fast_multicol_updateproc = N’true’, @check_permissions = 0, @subscriber_upload_options = 0, @delete_tracking = N’true’, @compensate_for_errors = N’false’, @stream_blob_columns = N’false’, @partition_options = 0
You can run this query against the Published database to see what articles range is full or have very few values left:
>>>
select a.name,
max_used=max_used,
diff_pub_range_end_max_used=range_end – max_used, –this tells how many values are left
pub_range_begin=range_begin,
pub_range_end=range_end
from dbo.MSmerge_identity_range b ,
sysmergearticles a
where
a.artid = b.artid
and is_pub_range=1
order by max_used desc
name max_used diff_pub_range_end_max_used pub_range_begin pub_range_end
————– ————————————— ————————————— ————————————— ————-
tblCity 2147483647 0 2147477647 2147483647
tblCity1 6001 2147477646 1 2147483647
As you see from above diff_pub_range_end_max_used column is zero for tblCity.
When Merge agent runs depending on how many servers are involved it has to allocate 2 ranges for each.
In the example above we have Publisher and 2 subscribers and @identity_range is 1000. So, we will have to allocate range for 3 servers i.e., 3 * (2*1000) = 6000
Our diff_pub_range_end_max_used should be greater than 6000, only then we will be able to allocate a new range for all the servers.
To resolve the issue.
Remove tblCity table from publication.
Change the datatype from int to bigint and add this table back to publication.
Then generate a new snapshot. It will generate snapshots for all articles, but only this 1 table will be added back to the existing Subscribers.
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