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AI governance is not only a matter of compliance and risk management, but also a strategic advantage and a source of trust to accelerate returns on AI investment.

Microsoft is excited to announce that Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape Worldwide AI Governance Platforms 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc #US50056923, November 2023).

The study represents a vendor assessment of the 2023 AI governance platform market through the IDC MarketScape model. The IDC MarketScape looked at AI governance platforms that ensure AI and machine learning lifecycle governance, collaborative risk management, and regulatory excellence for AI across five key principles: fairness, explainability, adversarial robustness, lineage, and transparency.

Learn more at the announcement post here:

• Microsoft Azure is a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI Governance Platforms 2023
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-is-a-leader-in-the-2023-idc-marketscape-for-ai-governance-platforms/
  

"For every $1 companies invest in AI, they are realizing an average of $3.5 in return and 5% of organizations worldwide are realizing an average of $8 in return."

That’s the result of a study done by IDC around the business opportunity of AI. 

Explore the approaches and strategies enterprise organizations worldwide are using to realize an average of 3.5X return on their AI investments—and find out how 5 percent of organizations are realizing an average of 8X in returns, according to IDC research.

Get The Business Opportunity of AI to:

• Discover the profile and attributes of organizations that are realizing business value with AI.
• Learn about developing an AI strategy with business measurement practices that accurately show the business opportunity and potential benefits for your organization.
• Explore principles for responsible and secure AI build, deployment, and scale.
• Find out why Microsoft is a trusted partner to help you accelerate your AI transformation and realize business value.

Downloadable Infographic summary of the IDC study: (.PDF)

• The Business Opportunity of AI:
  How leading organizations are using AI to drive impact across every industry and addressing barriers such as AI governance, upskilling, and cost.
  idcdocserv.com/US51315823-IG-ADA

Downloadable Report of IDC Study: (30pg / .PDF)

• The Business Opportunity of AI:
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-idc-delivering-real-business-value-from-ai.html

For organizations looking to get better educated on the use of eDiscovery (Standard or Premium) for Microsoft 365, there are a number of avenues you can pursue:

1. ON-DEMAND TRAINING: “MS-101 Manage content search and investigations in Microsoft 365 (FREE)
   This learning path provides instruction on managing content search and investigations in Microsoft 365, including how to search for content in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Purview Audit, and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery.
   MS-101 Manage content search and investigations in Microsoft 365 – Training | Microsoft Learn
2. LEARNING PARTNER: “SC 400T00 Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365” (4-day – Purchased directly)
   Microsoft-certified training companies or Learning Partners such as New Horizons/United Training deliver instructor-led courses using Microsoft certified curriculum.  The course they teach is a 5 day course called “SC 400T00 Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365”.  It goes beyond Compliance & Governance but covers both eDiscovery & Audit.  They are usually cost around $2-3K/student/class however if you work through an Account Executive, you can sometimes get volume discounts.

   SC 400T00 Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365
   “Learn how to protect information in your Microsoft 365 deployment. This course focuses on data lifecycle management and information protection and compliance within your organization. The course covers implementation of data loss prevention policies, sensitive information types, sensitivity labels, data retention policies, Microsoft Purview Message Encryption, audit, eDiscovery, and insider risk among other related topics. The course helps learners prepare for the Microsoft Information Protection Administrator exam (SC-400).”
   SC-400T00 Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365 | New Horizons

3. UNIFIED WORKSHOP PLUS: “Office 365 Content Search & eDiscovery Case Management” (1-day – Requires use of Unified credits)
   Customers with Unified Support contracts can use its proactive credits for a workshop on eDiscovery which includes eDiscovery Premium. (which is what you folks are licensed for)  I’ve got page 1 of the datasheet for this offering called, “Office 365 Content Search & eDiscovery Case Management” above.  Contact your Unified Customer Success Account Manager to get this scheduled.

After March 31, 2024, any classic Microsoft Teams users that haven’t updated to new Teams client will be automatically updated to new Teams.

(This automatic update does not apply to Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) users. Classic Teams for VDI will reach end of support on June 30th, 2024. Learn more: Upgrade to new Teams for VDI!)

• "Classic Teams users to be updated to new Teams after March 31, 2024"
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-automatic-upgrade-announced

#microsoft #msftadvocate #microsoftteams

Microsoft & GitHub are excited to launch 6-lesson, open-source course on “Mastering GitHub Copilot for AI-Paired Programming”.

Learn GitHub Copilot’s autocompletion, customizable features & advanced programming techniques. Learn to harness AI-driven algorithms & optimize code quality.

From GitHub repos to Visual Studio Code integration, perfect your coding prowess in Javascript, Python & more.

• TRAINING: Mastering GitHub Copilot for AI-Paired Programming
  https://github.com/microsoft/Mastering-GitHub-Copilot-for-Paired-Programming

#javascript #python #msftadvocate #GitHub #copilot #ai #Microsoft

Governments worldwide are excited about the endless possibilities innovative technology can provide – especially AI. But one thing is for certain, to fully harness the power of all the wonderful benefits technology can provide, the first step is – migrating your workloads to the cloud. This is where the magic happens and you unlock the immense benefits of services such as AI, analytics, and pure innovation to achieve your goals.

In this training video, you will hear from Greg Wilson, Microsoft’s Worldwide Chief Technology Officer for the Government Industry. He will guide you through the steps of cloud migration and give you tips on how to make the process as smooth as possible.

• Harness the Power of Cloud: Guidance to Help You Along Your Adoption Journey
  https://wwps.microsoft.com/blog/cloud-adoption-journey-training-video

#MSCloud #AI #Microsoft #msftadvocate #cloudmigration #azure #Microsoft365 #publicsector

This month’s Microsoft AI Study Guide is for all the data scientists & generative AI enthusiasts out there – and for anyone that wants to learn about machine learning.

• “The AI Study Guide” – Microsoft Community Hub
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/the-ai-study-guide/ba-p/4002810

#learning #training #ai #Microsoft #machinelearning

Microsoft’s platform, Azure AI, offers Azure OpenAI, which uses OpenAI’s LLMs but goes beyond the public ChatGPT offering by promising greater data security and custom AI apps.

This is suited for enterprises who want to secure their proprietary data when leveraging the benefits of generative AI since ChatGPT’s terms of use state that they can store & use content (both input & output) to improve their services.

Source: https://iot-analytics.com/leading-generative-ai-companies/

How good is your recovery plan for ransomware/extortion or a destructive attack?

This slide directly describes real world experiences from organizations that are probably similar to yours.  

https://aka.ms/backup has Microsoft public guidance on what to backup, what steps to take before an attack & more.

Slide is from https://lnkd.in/en2TdNN3 (PDF) & backup/patching section is included in Security Architecture Design Session (Security ADS) Module 1 of the https://aka.ms/SAF

Microsoft Entra Domain Services is a cloud-based solution that provides a classic Active Directory domain in the cloud without the hassle of maintaining your own infrastructure. Using Domain Services, you can easily integrate your cloud and on-premises resources using trust relationships.

We’re now adding two-way trust relationships to Domain Services and we’d like to invite you to get an early look.

✅ 2-way: Allows users in both managed domain & on-premises domain to access resources in either domain.
✅ 1-way outgoing: Allows users in on-premises domain to access resources in managed domain.
✅ 1-way incoming: Allows users in managed domain to access resources in on-premises domain.

Introducing trust direction options for Microsoft Entra Domain Services
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/identity/trust-domain-options/

#Azure #Microsoft #Entra #DomainServices