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Find out how Microsoft Defender XDR differs from other security tools by taking a holistic, simplified approach to cyberthreat protection across multiple domains. Read Microsoft Defender XDR: The solution to modern cyberattacks to learn how to provide your security operations team with a complete view of the cyberattack chain along with faster and more effective detection and response capabilities.

Get the e-book to:

• Understand how Defender XDR addresses evolving cybersecurity challenges.
• Learn how using a unified security operations platform—with the combined power of extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM)—delivers visibility and protection across the entire digital estate.
• See how Defender XDR works, including incident-level investigations, automatic attack disruption, and generative AI capabilities.

Download the eBook here:

• DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Defender XDR: The solution to modern cyberattacks (.PDF)
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-defender-xdr-innovation-ebook.html?LCID=EN-US

The On-Demand Instructor-led Training (ILT) video series offers learners flexibility and control over their learning experience, with easy access to specific course modules and topics. This fast, video-based experience makes it easier for learners around the world to cover content at their own pace.

We have more than 250 videos available, and they’re filterable by roles, topics, and experience level. We regularly add to these offerings to help your learners take courses covering the latest technologies and Microsoft Credentials. Recent additions include videos for:

• Generative AI Fundamentals
• Course AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
• Course PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Analyst
• Course MS-900: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

Learners can check the On-Demand Instructor-led Training listings for the most recent videos to support their learning journeys.

To help Decision Makers understand the use cases & value of Microsoft Fabric, we’ve published 3 distinct eBooks:

• Volume 1: Microsoft Fabric: The Essential Guide for Decision Makers
• Volume 2: Gain a competitive edge with AI automation in Microsoft Fabric
• Volume 3: Manage and Govern Your Data with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview

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Volume 1: Microsoft Fabric: The Essential Guide for Decision Makers

Discover how to get more value from your data, break down data silos, and make data more accessible. Read the e-book Microsoft Fabric: The Essential Guide for Decision Makers to see how to use your data to generate holistic insights and drive digital transformation for your organization.

Learn how to:

• Improve productivity and collaboration by streamlining data integration, code writing, insight discovery, and report creation.
• Break down data silos with data lakehouses that combine the performance of a data warehouse with the cost efficiency and scalability of a data lake.
• Enhance data security by unifying data with centralized administration and robust security measures.
• Scale your data analytics to maximize efficiency and minimize costs with flexible pricing models.

Get volume 1 here:

• DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Fabric: The Essential Guide for Decision Makers (Microsoft Fabric eBook series volume 1)
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-microsoft-fabric-the-essential-guide-for-dms.html?lcid=en-us

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Volume 2: Gain a competitive edge with AI automation in Microsoft Fabric

Learn how your organization can unify its data to increase its value and create a solid foundation for AI-driven business intelligence using Microsoft Fabric.

Get the e-book Modern Analytics: A Foundation to Sustained AI Success and learn about opportunities to use AI automation in Fabric to:

• Reduce your team’s learning curve and speed the adoption of AI by using Microsoft Copilot to generate code, build machine learning models, and create data pipelines with simple, everyday language.
• Extract more value from your data with data science projects.
• Enable data teams to access insights and make more timely business decisions.

Get volume 2 here:

• DOWNLOAD: Modern Analytics: A foundation to Sustained AI Success (Microsoft Fabric eBook series volume 2)
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-modern-analytics-is-the-foundation-to-sustained-ai-success.html

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Volume 3: Manage and Govern Your Data with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview

Discover how to navigate complex governance, compliance, and operational scenarios to improve your data security. Read the e-book Manage and Govern Your Data with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview to see how to democratize data and insights by improving your organization’s data management and security practices.

Learn how to:

• Implement an agile, intuitive, and modern approach to effective data governance.
• Optimize operations and fortify data security by strengthening your organization’s data governance framework with advanced security, compliance, and governance functionalities.
• Use Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview together to govern your entire data estate.

Get volume 3 here:

• DOWNLOAD: Manage and Govern Your Data with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview (Microsoft Fabric eBook series volume 3)
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-manage-and-govern-your-data-with-ms-fabric-and-ms-purview.html

Get future-ready and protect your VMware workloads by migrating them to Azure. Read the e-book, The Ultimate Guide to VMware Migration and Modernization on Azure, to get a comprehensive view of migration options available through Azure, like:

• Lift-and-shift migration using Azure VMWare Solution, which allows you to quickly move workloads and keep using familiar VMware tools.
• Direct deployment from VMware on to Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
• A combination of direct and lift-and-shift migration, which enables you to securely move workloads between environments with built-in security features like identity and access management.

Regardless of which option you choose, you’ll immediately gain the enhanced security, improved resiliency, and scalability of Azure.

• DOWNLOAD: eBook, “The Ultimate Guide to VMware Migration & Modernization on Azure”
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-the-ultimate-guide-to-vmware-mig-and-mod-on-azure.html

Introducing Copilot L33T Sp34k—a new webinar series for experienced security professionals focused on generative AI.

The first episode launches on March 5. Cloud Security Advocate, Sarah Young, talks to Luis Vargas, Microsoft VP of AI, about Microsoft’s vision for AI, top of mind for leaders in the AI security space and the security controls that the Azure Open AI platform offers to users.

• Date/Time:
  March 05, 2024 9:00 AM – 9:30AM (PT)
• Registration:
  Copilot L33T Sp34k – “CTO AI Security Perspective” (CPT001EXT)
  https://learning.eventbuilder.com/event/81945?source=CopilotL33tSp34kSeries

Introducing Sora, Open AI’s text-to-video model.

Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. Open AI will be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI’s products, working with red teamers — domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who are adversarially testing the model. All the clips in this video were generated directly by Sora without modification.

Learn more about Sora: https://openai.com/sora

This is a big deal.

Microsoft’s Legal and Affairs team is offering an important webinar series for its customers, partners and outside counsel regarding key legal considerations around Microsoft’s AI Journey and Microsoft’s AI products.

They will be covering 4 key topics:

• AI Fundamentals
• Microsoft’s AI Journey
• Copilot for Microsoft 365
• Azure Open AI

The series will take place between February and May 2024.

• There are 3 distinct AI & Legal webinar SERIES you can join… be sure to choose the right one!
• Customer (Feb 28th, Mar 20, Apr 24, May 22, 2024)
• Partner (Feb 29th, Mar 21, Apr 25, May 23, 2024)
• Outside Counsel (Feb 29th, Mar 21, Apr 25, May 23, 2024)
• The sessions will be broadcast live and will take 75 minutes each, including time for Q&A.
• You’ll see the acronym “CELA” a lot – that’s Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs organization.

Sign up now for more information.

• Microsoft AI Webinars – Focusing on Legal Considerations (Feb, Mar, Apr, May 2024)
  https://ai-legalcounselwebinar.com/

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For those of you that are interested in "Optimization" for Azure – including Cost Management, you may appreciate the following 2 day Optimization classes: (The first instance of this class I originally posted registered full.)

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TRAINING: Azure Virtual Training Day: "Optimization" – 2-day

• Understand how to apply cloud optimization best practices, frameworks, and core resources to your organization.
• Learn how to use the FinOps Framework, the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, and the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Discover how to maximize business value and innovation by improving cloud security, workload migration, and modernization efforts.

Day 1:

• Azure optimization and FinOps as a mindset overview with demos of Microsoft Cost Management and a FinOps review
• Design for optimization: Balancing cost and growth within your cloud platform
• Demo: Prepare your cloud environments for ongoing optimization

Day 2

• Continuous improvement: Optimize the architecture of your workloads
• Continuous improvement: Optimize your existing workloads
• Demo: Review and remediate a workload deployed in production

Available Sessions
There are two opportunities to attend this training:  One in March & one in April.  Both are 2-day trainings.

• MARCH: Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: "Optimization"
  03/20/2024 | 09:00 (PDT) – 03/21/2024 | 11:45 (PDT)
  https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/426744/157-GQE-382
• APRIL: Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: "Optimization"
  04/04/2024 | 09:00 (PDT) – 04/05/2024 | 11:45 (PDT)
  https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/428182/157-GQE-382

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud "Ninja Training" just got updated!

It now includes:

1. Knowledge Check (Quiz)
2. Defender for Cloud Ninja Certificate
3. Defender for Servers Ninja Certificate

This is the most viewed post of all time in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Tech Community post with 262K views.

• BLOG: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Ninja Training
  https://aka.ms/MDCNinja

Start building a more equitable and accessible future

In this free digital event, you can explore new accessible technology and learn from leaders with a deep and sometimes personal understanding of disabilities in the workplace. This is your chance to find out how to embed accessibility into your organization and improve opportunities for people across the disability spectrum.

Agenda

• 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome Keynote
  Every one of us can be part of creating a more inclusive future. Start the day with a spark of innovation, learning how today’s technology is leading a tomorrow that’s accessible.
• 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM Breakout sessions
  Broaden your knowledge by participating in our Imagine, Build, and Include sessions.
• 10:10 AM – 10:55 AM Breakout sessions
  Make connections by joining experts in our Imagine, Build, and Include sessions who are making accessibility easier to achieve.
• 11:05 AM – 12:05 PM Keynote 2
  Be some of the first to discover tools disabled developers can use to accelerate their work, and how all makers can create more inclusive tech.
• 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Breakout sessions
  Learn how you can create the future of accessible technology while amplifying the perspective of people with disabilities in our Imagine, Build, and Include sessions.
• 1:10 PM – 2:10 PM Closing Keynote
  As you look forward to a future that prioritizes inclusivity, how can you build a more accessible world? Join us as we close out the day with actionable steps and tools we can all use.

Register today!

• Date/Time:
  March 7, 2024
  8:00AM-2:10PM PT
• Registration:
  https://aka.ms/abilitysummit