OneDrive Announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2018
Today at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we announced new innovations for OneDrive to better connect you to your personal and shared files in Office 365, from any device. We’re making it easier to share and work together in real-time while using the power of artificial intelligence to help you be more productive. And we're introducing new security and compliance capabilities to better protect your workDesign your Microsoft Search learning experience at Microsoft Ignite
Get the latest roadmap and vision for Microsoft Search, new development opportunities, and new ways to connect Microsoft Search to your world of information outside of Microsoft 365. Recommended Sessions Subscribe to the Microsoft Search Learning Path at Microsoft Ignite and get access to all of the latest Microsoft Search news, announcements, and learning opportunities. Learning Paths provide a unique opportunity to follow a series of modules designed to provide an end-to-end learning experience for your topics of choice. You can learn more about the Microsoft Search Learning Path at https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/learning-paths/83231. Learning Path modules for Microsoft Search include: SRCH10 What's new and next for Microsoft search Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search. Come on the journey to learn how insights, actions, and answers are being built into your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365, Bing, and Edge. See the latest roadmap across all of your experiences, from SharePoint to Office and beyond. In addition, get insights on how to connect external third-party content connectors, customization, and extensibility. SRCH20 Microsoft Search for the administrator: What you need to know Learn about the impact of Microsoft Search on you, the administrator. We’ll take you through the inner workings of Microsoft Search and pull back the curtains on the architecture. Then we’ll translate that into practical tasks for search administration that will help you and your organization get the most out of Microsoft Search. SRCH30 Connect your world of information to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Search: A sneak peek at Micr... Modern information workers need to find knowledge quickly and easily regardless of where the data resides. Come take a first look at Microsoft Graph Connectors, which will enable users in your enterprise to search over content sources beyond Microsoft 365. You will see how Microsoft and our partners are jointly making Microsoft Search more powerful to benefit your users. We will also show you a simple set of APIs that you can start using for your custom connector development. SRCH40 Get answers in context with semantic search and natural language in Microsoft search For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details. But for AI, full reading comprehension is still an elusive goal—but a necessary one if we’re going to measure and achieve general intelligence AI. In search applications, machine comprehension will give a precise answer rather than a URL that contains the answer somewhere within a lengthy web page. Moreover, machine comprehension models can understand specific knowledge embedded in articles that usually cover narrow and specific domains, where the search data that algorithms depend upon is sparse. In this session, see and learn about the latest innovation with natural language and machine reading comprehension in Microsoft Search. SRCH50 What's new and next for Microsoft Search customization and development Microsoft Search is an intelligent, enterprise search experience from Microsoft that applies the artificial intelligence technology (AI) from Bing and deep personalized insights surfaced by the Microsoft Graph, to make search more effective for you. In this session, we demonstrate new Graph APIs and how Microsoft Search will let you create and customize rich search experiences around all of your enterprise content, regardless of where it resides. See our roadmap and examples of how to modernize your existing SharePoint-based enterprise search experiences to take full advantage of Microsoft Search. In addition to the Learning Path sessions above, we also have several great sessions to immersive yourself deeper into new Microsoft Search experiences, see the latest innovation in demo-centric theater sessions and more… Related Sessions BRK2022 Get started with Microsoft Search in Bing and Edge Microsoft Search in Bing is a new search offering that helps you save time by bringing you the best of the web and work in a single experience. In this session learn how to make the most of world and work information, get tips and tricks on best practices, see demos of what’s new and what’s coming, and learn about the roadmap for Microsoft Search in Bing and Edge. BRK2034 What’s new and what’s next: AI-powered experiences in Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 uses AI to help employees overcome some of the realities of modern work, including increasing time demands, overwhelming amounts of data, and growing security threats. Learn what's new and what's coming with AI in Microsoft 365 and how to strategically apply AI in your organization, shape your AI strategy, foster an AI culture, and implement AI responsibility. THR3010 Getting started with out-of-box Microsoft Graph Connectors for Microsoft Search Microsoft Graph Connectors let you connect to external data sources to make them searchable from Microsoft Search. Come take a look at how a search admin can easily set up some out-of-box connectors to popular data sources and enable information workers to search over them from various Microsoft Search endpoints. THR3019 Get answers in context with conversational AI and natural language in Microsoft Search For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details. But for AI, full reading comprehension is still an elusive goal–but a necessary one if we’re going to measure and achieve general intelligence AI. In search applications, machine comprehension will give a precise answer rather than a URL that contains the answer somewhere within a lengthy web page. Moreover, machine comprehension models can understand specific knowledge embedded in articles that usually cover narrow and specific domains, where the search data that algorithms depend upon is sparse. In this session, see and learn about the latest innovation with natural language and machine reading comprehension in Microsoft Search. THR4000 Hands on with the new Microsoft Search API in the Microsoft Graph Learn how to connect your world of information with Microsoft Search with the new Microsoft Search public API in the Microsoft Graph. In this session, learn how to integrate results from Microsoft Search into your own applications, programmatic access to search, and how to build a tailored search experience through guidance, demos, and more. THR2023 Introducing intelligent new people experiences powered by Microsoft and LinkedIn graphs Join us to learn more about how we are reimagining people/profile experiences across Office 365 by harnessing the rich data and signals available across Microsoft and LinkedIn graphs. We announce new capabilities that can suggest projects, topics that you can choose to highlight in your profile, and help you get discovered for your expertise through Microsoft Search. We also walk through new timely and contextual nudges/highlights from LinkedIn and MyAnalytics to help you complete tasks and stay informed on important updates from your colleagues and share improvements being made available to help with profile field extensibility scenarios. Still have questions? You can meet with the Microsoft Search team at Microsoft Ignite! Meet with the Microsoft Search Team We're very excited about our presence at Ignite this year as we have A LOT to announce! As such, we anticipate you might want to meet with us to go deeper than what we might cover in our sessions. With that said, we're pleased to offer side meeting opportunities to our customers and partners. If you would like to have a side meeting with our team, please fill out the request form at https://aka.ms/meetsearch so your nomination can be considered. Do this soon as schedules will fill fast! Finally, we’re always here to answer your questions whether you’re attending Ignite or not. Follow us on Twitter @MicrosoftSearch or visit the Microsoft Search Resource Center at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftSearch or if you're in Orlando, visit one of our Microsoft Search booths in the Microsoft Showcase and pick up some search swag while you're there. We’ll “find” you in Orlando ‘-)
Introducing Dell PowerScale for Azure: Now in Public Preview
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure – a fully managed, enterprise-grade file storage solution natively integrated into Azure. This offering brings Dell’s proven scale-out Network-attached storage (NAS) technology directly into Azure, delivering the performance and scalability enterprises expect with the simplicity of Azure-native management. Supporting up to 8.4PB in a single namespace, Dell PowerScale offers the scalability needed for demanding modern workloads. With multi-protocol support (NFS, SMB, S3), it ensures seamless access across diverse applications while maintaining the trusted Dell PowerScale user experience. This Dell-managed solution handles monitoring, maintenance, and updates, enabling organizations to streamline operations, optimize storage, and focus on business priorities with confidence in their data’s security and accessibility. This natively integrated solution uses purpose-built virtual machine infrastructure provisioned by Microsoft in the standard Azure hyper scaler environment. This special VM leverages cache to flash persistent memory technology using NVDIMM-N specifications suitable for the fast linked journaling transactions. These purpose-built VMs enable higher performance throughput and max capacity scale. Capabilities of Dell PowerScale for Azure Multi-protocol access – Global permission structure shared across users and protocols. Seamless scalability – Easily adjust to changing workloads with scale-out capacity. Operational consistency – Same experience as PowerScale on-premises. Smooth data mobility – Transfer data across environments without disruption. Advanced data protection – Safeguard critical information with comprehensive backup and recovery solutions. Snapshots – Fast data backup and recovery. Native replication – Asynchronous replication for data migration or disaster recovery. Why Dell PowerScale for Azure? Dell PowerScale is purpose-built for modern data-intensive workloads that require high performance and scalability — such as AI/ML pipelines, media & entertainment, EDA (electronic design automation), backup & recovery, and enterprise content management. Key Benefits of the Integration: Dell-Managed Service: Enjoy a streamlined storage experience, with Dell handling deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades — freeing your IT teams to focus on higher-value initiatives. Scalable & Elastic: As business requirements grow, PowerScale dynamically scales capacity and performance by adding nodes on demand, without any downtime. Enterprise-Grade Durability: Data is distributed across multiple nodes within the cluster, ensuring high durability and fault tolerance. Advanced Protection: Uses erasure coding for space-efficient protection and features like SyncIQ for asynchronous replication across sites — keeping your data available even during outages. Secure Private Access: PowerScale integrates into your Azure Virtual Network (VNet) through Vnet Injection, ensuring secure, high-performance data access. Azure-Native Experience: Provision, manage, and monitor PowerScale from within the Azure portal. It supports full integration with Azure Resource Manager (ARM), upcoming support for CLI/Powershell/Terraform, and supports native billing. How to Use the Integration: Mount shared volumes to Azure VMs or Kubernetes running in the same VNet. Run analytics or AI workloads that need parallel access to high-throughput file storage. Support backup, disaster recovery, and archival workflows across sites. Store and manage media assets or research data in regulated industries. Getting Started with Dell PowerScale for Azure Getting started with Dell PowerScale is simple: Navigate to Azure Portal Go to https://portal.azure.com and search for Dell PowerScale in the Marketplace. The offer is named Dell PowerScale for Azure - Dell managed (Public Preview). Contact Dell for a private offer and request a Dell Reference Number. Deploy the Storage Resource Follow guided steps here to configure your resource or cluster Connect Your Workloads Use standard NFS or SMB to mount volumes from Azure VMs or AKS. More Resources You can subscribe to the service through the Azure Marketplace online store or through the Azure portal. Search for it by name: Dell PowerScale for Azure - Dell managed (Public Preview) To learn more about the service, check out Microsoft docs as well as Dell docsMicrosoft's Student Opportunities: A Gateway to Professional Growth
Are you a student looking to give your career in tech a boost? Look no further than Microsoft's student opportunities. From scholarships to internships, Microsoft provides a range of programs designed to help students develop their skills, gain practical experience, and build connections in the industry. In this article, we'll explore Microsoft's opportunities and events, and how they can be the gateway to professional growth for students seeking a career in technology.
