Happy Ignite '23, everyone!
This feed will be your home for all things Microsoft Ignite 2023! We will be continuously updating this page throughout the day and the rest of the week with the latest Ignite announcements and blogs from across the MTC.
Articles will be added to the feed below in alphabetical order by product line, so you can easily find the topics that are most relevant to your interests. There will also be a '(CP)' indicator that lets you know if an announcement contains updates related to Microsoft Copilot.
We hope you have an amazing Ignite, and we can't wait to show you what's next for Microsoft!
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Unleashing the Power of Generative AI: Azure AI Studio Leads the Way (CP)
- Driving AI Innovation Across Digital Landscapes - Azure AI and Microsoft Fabric Integration (CP)
- Driving inclusive AI innovation with Azure AI Studio (CP)
- Announcing the Azure AI Advantage Offer (CP)
- Azure OpenAI Service Announces New Models and Multimodal Advancements at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (CP)
- Ignite 2023: What’s new in Azure AI Platforms – Charting the Future with Innovative AI and ML (CP)
- Are You Alive: Enhancing Azure AI Vision Face API with Liveness Detection
- Microsoft Ignite 2023 Announcements for Azure AI Video Indexer
- Introducing Native Document Support for PII Detection (Public Preview)
- How to train and publish direct custom model using Azure AI Translator | Custom Translator
- Introducing new task-optimized summarization capabilities powered by fine-tuned large-language model
- What’s new in Azure AI Speech
- Announcing new AI Safety & Responsible AI features in Azure OpenAI Service at Ignite 2023
- Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron-3 8B LLMs on the Model Catalog
- Embedded Speech is now generally available
- Azure AI Speech launches Personal Voice in preview
- Azure AI Speech announces public preview of text to speech avatar
- Unveiling Bilingual Speech Modeling for Seamless Multilingual Conversations
- Video Retrieval: GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Integrates with Azure to Redefine Video Understanding
- Welcoming Mistral, Phi, Jais, Code Llama, NVIDIA Nemotron, and more to the Azure AI Model Catalog
- Model training with serverless compute
- Model Benchmarks in Azure AI Studio
- Avail the power of Microsoft Fabric from within Azure Machine Learning
- GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
- Announcing Llama 2 Inference APIs and Hosted Fine-Tuning through Models-as-a-Service in Azure AI
- Elevate Your LLM Applications to Production via LLMOps
- Achieving (real) MLOps for ML pipelines in Azure Machine Learning
- Announcing general availability of Azure AI Vision Image Analysis 4.0 API
- Empowering developers to use natural language and translator capabilities in containers
- Announcing general availability of vector search and semantic ranker in Azure AI Search
- Speech Service Ignite Update – New Enhancement features for Pronunciation Assessment
- Announcing the Public Preview of Integrated Vectorization in Azure AI Search
- Azure AI Content Safety announces new features for generative AI scenarios
- Document Intelligence preview adds query fields, new prebuilt models and other improvements
Azure
- Discover your next integration inspiration at this year’s Ignite! (CP)
- AKS Welcomes you to Ignite 2023 (CP)
- Bringing Generative AI to Semiconductor and Electronics Design (CP)
- What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2023 (CP)
- New capabilities help simplify and streamline the experience with Microsoft Dev Box (CP)
- Simplify IT management with Microsoft Copilot for Azure – save time and get answers fast (CP)
- Azure Migrate - Ignite 2023 updates (CP)
- Accelerate Innovation with Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate (CP)
- Azure App Service at Ignite 2023 (CP)
- Announcing general availability of partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium
- Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) reaches General Availability
- Making it easy to get started with the Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension
- Bringing Cloud Operations & Management innovations anywhere! #MSIgnite2023
- Inside Look: How Azure Linux powers Confidential Containers on AKS
- What's new in Azure Linux: Containers, Azure Portal, Security and more
- Kafka Compression on Azure Event Hubs Public Preview
- Azure Messaging and Streaming update – November 2023
- Bring Azure to your System Center environment: Announcing GA of SCVMM enabled by Azure Arc
- Announcing Preview of Azure AI Video Indexer Cloud-to-Edge Version
- Revolutionize Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Azure Business Continuity Center
- Announcing Azure Functions Flex Consumption: sign up for the early access preview
- How Credential Manager in API Management can help you manage, store, and control access to your API
- Introducing Azure NC H100 v5 VMs for mid-range AI and HPC workloads
- Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD’s flagship MI300X GPU
- Fully managed MQTT broker, flexible consumption patterns and more new features in Azure Event Grid
- Host pool provisioning now supported in Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI preview
- Accelerate edge deployments with cloud-managed infrastructure and Azure Stack HCI version 23H2
- Build Intelligent Apps and Microservices with Azure Container Apps
- Azure Deployment Environments optimizes developer experience and adds new enterprise capabilities
- Announcing General Availability: Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio
- New innovations in confidential computing from Azure at Ignite 2023
- Announcing the general availability of Azure Boost
- Public Preview: New AMD-based VMs with Increased Performance, Azure Boost, and NVMe Support
- Reduce Compute Costs by Pausing VMs (now in public preview)
- Public preview: Confidential containers on AKS
- Azure Managed Grafana Adds New SKU and Features
- Resiliency policies now available in Azure Container Apps
- Microsoft Ignite 2023: What is new in file shares for enterprise workloads?
- Azure Functions - Ignite 2023 update
- Azure Migrate application and code assessment is now available for .NET and Java
- Azure Cache for Redis at Microsoft Ignite 2023: What's New for Developers
- Announcing the support of Arm-based VM solutions on Azure Marketplace
- Announcing Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs in Preview
- Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
- Announcing: Microsoft moves $25 Billion in credit card transactions to Azure confidential computing
- O'Reilly Media report: Azure Confidential Computing and Zero Trust
- What’s new: RHEL 9.3 support for AMD confidential VMs, temp disk encryption, new regions
- Protecting Azure customers with the power of Azure confidential ledger
- Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
- Try new Azure confidential ledger features, including an Azure Blob Storage Marketplace application
- Confidential Temp Disk Encryption for Confidential VMs in Public Preview
- Ignite 2023: Creating value with intelligent application solutions for B2C communications
- Announcing Arc Jumpstart vNext
- Introducing Azure Integration Environment & Business Process Tracking (Public Preview)
- Announcing GA: Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
- Public Preview of Attach and Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Secure your subnet via private subnet and explicit outbound methods
Azure Data
- GA announcement - Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Ledger in Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available
- Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series with up to 40 vCores now generally available
- VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database now generally available
- Azure Logic Apps (Standard) workflow assistant - Public Preview
- Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for MySQL database in the cloud
- Vector Search with Azure SQL Database and Azure AI Search
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale – lower, simplified pricing!
- Announcing Public Preview of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools
- Announcing the General Availability of AMD-based Confidential VMs on Azure Databricks
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL: AI-Ready for Enterprise Applications in Flexible Server
- Multi-Region Disaster Recovery: Streamlined with New Features
- General Availability of PostgreSQL 16 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Introducing the azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Introducing Premium SSD v2 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Introducing Private Link based networking with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Near Zero Downtime Scaling in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server - Generally Available!!
- A summary of Azure SQL Managed Instance product updates in 2023
- GA of DTC for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and SQL Managed Instance - Preview
- Announcing the General Availability of November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Premium-series Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale and Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Improved price/performance and flexibility in the Business Critical service tier in Azure SQL Manage
- Announcing General Availability of Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical
- Announcing General Availability of Stop-Start capability for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Introducing Azure Database Fleet Manager
Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage at Ignite 2023
- Ignite 2023 - What’s New for Copilot and Microsoft 365 admins (CP)
Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Intune news at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (CP)
- Microsoft Intune introduces Security Copilot-embedded experience (CP)
- Introducing Microsoft Intune Enterprise App Management
- Announcing Microsoft Intune Advanced Analytics
- Microsoft Cloud PKI launches as a new addition to the Microsoft Intune Suite
- New Microsoft Intune features help secure your Windows devices
Planner
- The new Microsoft Planner: A unified experience bringing together to-dos, tasks, plans and projects (CP)
SharePoint
SQL Server
Stream
Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2023 (CP)
- Extending Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: A guide for enterprises and ISVs (CP)
- Work smarter with Microsoft Teams Premium (CP)
Viva
- New ways Microsoft Copilot and Viva are transforming the employee experience (CP)
- Announcing 5 New Cross-Suite Capabilities Coming to Microsoft Viva in 2024 (CP)
Viva Engage
Viva Goals
- 3 Essential Tools for 2024 Planning: Copilot in Viva Goals, Goals in Viva Engage and Planner Updates (CP)
Viva Insights
- Foster engagement and productivity and measure the impact of Copilot investments with Viva Insights (CP)
Viva Learning
Windows
- What’s new with Windows at Microsoft Ignite 2023! (CP)
- Announcing Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PC public preview
- What’s New in Windows Autopatch
- What’s new: Test Base for Microsoft 365 at Microsoft Ignite 2023
- Universal Print makes cloud printing truly “universal”
- New series: Adventures in Windows deployment
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