Deployment on a CSP managed tenant
There is a public transactable offer that is listed. Based on customer requirements and pricing negotiations, we are deploying via private plans. However, when the customer account is managed by a CSP (rather than pay as you go), the transactions reflect in the name of the CSP and not the end customer leading to processes like Top Tier not recognizing it as an individual customer. Is there a best practice for the same?Dive into these new Copilot agent development tools
Are you already building Copilot agents/extensions for your marketplace apps, or planning to soon? Check out these resources to help support you along your journey: Developer’s guide to building your own agents: Watch our Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility session on demand to deep dive into the pro-code development tools for building agents for Copilot and beyond. Learn how you can build agents on Microsoft 365 Copilot or your custom AI engine with our new Microsoft 365 Agents SDK. Watch now. Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK Learning path: Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with declarative agents using Visual Studio Code Learning path: Build custom agents for Microsoft TeamsMondays at Microsoft | Episode 26
Round out May 2024 with the goodness of community news and events. Your co-hosts, Karuana Gatimu and Heather Cook, present the next informative "Mondays at Microsoft" (episode 26). Join us LIVE at 8am PST on Monday, May 27th, 2024! Show notes & links to all that was shared: Microsoft Build. All announcements are located the Microsoft Book of News that is published for all of our events:https://news.microsoft.com/build-2024-book-of-news/ Power Platform news at #MSBuild:https://aka.ms/Build2024/PowerPlatform Introducing Team Copilot, the expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 from a behind-the-scenes, personal AI assistant to a new, valuable member of your team:https://aka.ms/AAqfbcx Microsoft Copilot Studio is introducing new agent capabilities, empowering developers to build copilots that can proactively respond to data and events, tailored to specific tasks and functions:https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/90aff741-26a6-490b-9793-f4747895d5c0 Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. With powerful new silicon capable of an incredible 40+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), all–day battery life and access to the most advanced AI models, Copilot+ PCs will enable you to do things you can’t on any other PC:https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/ We are excited to add new models to the Phi-3 family of small, open models developed by Microsoft. We are introducing Phi-3-vision, a multimodal model that brings together language and vision capabilities. You can try Phi-3-vision today:https://aka.ms/try-phi3vision Excited to announce the launch theCommunity News Deskon the Microsoft Tech Community. This represents a unification of amazing work done across Microsoft to a greater audience, and more discoverable location on the MTC. This area on the MTC will host our blog, live events like Mondays at Microsoft and Meet the Makers engineering engagements and more:https://aka.ms/CommunityNewsDesk We are happy to launch this with the first drop of ourM365 Community Conferencecontent on the newly renamed Community Learning channel on YouTube.https://aka.ms/M365ConSessions Microsoft and Khan Academy are announcing a multi-faceted partnership to turn the transformative potential of AI into reality:https://aka.ms/AAq4w15To start, Microsoft is enabling Khan Academy to offer all K-12 U.S. educators' free access to Khanmigo for Teachers, an AI-powered teaching assistant that frees up teachers’ time so they can focus on what matters most – engaging with and supporting their students. A neurodiverse team has launched Mentra, a hiring platform that uses Microsoft AI to connect more than 44,000 registered users with fulfilling careers. The platform evaluates more than 75 data points entered by the jobseekers, including their skills, goals and accommodations:https://aka.ms/MentraAnnouncement Microsoft Places—available in public preview—is an AI-powered app that coordinates when you’re planning to come in and where you’ll work, enables improved connections with coworkers, and optimizes the effectiveness and engagement of the workplace:https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPlacesBlog AI flows, automation shifts from rules-based to AI-based automation that is adaptive and outcome-based. And with the new AI recorder, desktop flows are getting smarter and more intuitive too. Just show and tell—with your voice—and AI recorder will automate for you:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/2024/05/21/new-ways-of-development-with-copilots-and-microsoft-power-platform/ To learn more about the Microsoft Global Community Initiative - a meeting place for all who are part of the Microsoft Community ecosystem, all are welcome:https://aka.ms/MGCIWe launched a new page listing our newly minted regional directors.https://aka.ms/MGCIAdvisors -- As part of our Microsoft Global Community Initiative, we invite you to join us for our monthly General Meeting on the third Tuesday of the month - June 18. Sign Up to join us for our monthly meeting athttps://aka.ms/MGCISignUp So many great events coming up and all available to check out onhttps://www.communitydays.orgWe also just launched a community calls page here so you can find community related called host by Microsoft and the community. FYI, learn more about what to expect at TechCon365 - Seattle |https://aka.ms/TechCon365/2024/Seattle/Guide Until next episode, have great times with your community,Karuana_Gatimu_MSFTandHeather NewmanPartner Opportunity to Contribute to the Copilot Roadmap
Microsoft Partners - We're sharing an opportunity with you to contribute to the Copilot roadmap. Voice your company's thoughts on what features and capabilities Microsoft should build to help ISVs build, deploy, and monitor Copilots. Complete this survey (5-10 mins) by EOD 11/22 to influence the Copilot roadmap: https://forms.office.com/r/nv6EPTfYFhNew updates from Azure AI | November 2024
Last week, Microsoft announced new capabilities across the Azure AI portfolio that provide greater choice and flexibility to build and scale AI solutions. Key updates include: Availability ofAzure OpenAI Data Zones for the United States and EU that offer greater flexibility in deployment options. 99% SLA on token generation, general availability ofAzure OpenAI ServiceBatch API, availability of Prompt Caching, 50% reduction in price for models through Provisioned Global, and lower deployment minimums on Provisioned Global GPT-4o models to scale efficiently and to optimize costs. New models includingHealthcare industry models,Ministral 3B small model from MistralandCohere Embed 3, andfine-tuning general availabilityforPhi 3.5 familyproviding greater choice and customization. Upgrade from GitHub Modelsto Azure AI model inference API and availability of AI App templates to accelerate AI development. New enterprise ready features to build with AI safely. Which of these new capabilities are you most excited about leveraging for app building on the marketplace? Let us know in the comments! And check out the full blog here to learn more about these new capabilities: Announcingtheavailability of Azure OpenAI Data Zones and latest updates from Azure AI | Microsoft Azure BlogFAQs from Mastering the Marketplace: Developing your SaaS offer
Developing your SaaS offer is a webinar offered regularly through the Mastering the Marketplace series. In this webinar, you will learn how to implement the components of a fully functional SaaS solution including how to implement the following: SaaS landing page Webhook to subscribe to change events Integrating your SaaS product into the marketplace Attendees can also participate in a short Q&A following the session. Below is a list of recent and frequently asked questions on this topic. Please add your additional questions related to developing SaaS offers in the comments section! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Q1:What happens to the customer data when a customer is offboarded? is there any data egress charges if the customer wants their data? A1: That’s all should already be accounted in the price Q2: Is there is any egress charges from MS Azure? A2: It depends on the service but sure there will be egress depending on the service. That’s more Azure related than marketplace Q3: Can we create a single Plan which initialLy charges the customer for the purchased service, and also has an metered billing which charges moNthly, based on consumption? A3: yes absolutely, which is how the flat rate paired with custom meters on a plan works Q4: I have tried this and when i select Yearly billing for the service, I cannot add a separate monthly billing for the consumption, is there a workaround? A4: You cannot update an existing plan to add meters. When creating a new plan, you can add custom meters on the yearly plan and just emit the usage monthly. Q5: If i emit monthly, will they be charged when i emit, or at the end of the Year? A5: they will be charged monthly ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional Resource:Plan a SaaS offer for the Microsoft commercial marketplace - Marketplace publisher | Microsoft Learn
Transforming AI Development: Microsoft Azure AI ‘s new capabilities and tools announced
Microsoft is thrilled to introduce new tools designed to simplify AI app development at GitHub Universe this week. These innovations aim to empower developers with enhanced capabilities, making it easier to build and deploy AI applications and further integrate Microsoft Azure AI services into your favorite dev tools. See how tools like GitHub Copilot for Azure builds upon the Copilot Chat capabilities in VS Code and integrates with tools you already use like GitHub and Visual Studio Code. See the full list of tool and capability announcements made at GitHub Universe that will transform your AI development process.Azure at GitHub Universe: New tools to help simplify AI app development.Marketplace roadmap sneak peek - now available to partners!
We've got some exciting news to share about our marketplace roadmap: Partner-Exclusive Roadmap Preview: We've just released a detailed presentation outlining our vision for the future and recent updates. This is available exclusively to Microsoft partners (it requires partner sign in to access). New Blog Post:I've published a blog post here in the community highlighting key points from our roadmap. It's a great way to get a quick overview of what's coming. Your Action Items: Check out the above updates, and share your thoughts! We'd love to hear your feedback on these updates, especially on how some of the recent releases have impacted your business.
