Tuesday, May 20, 2025

37 new posts across 12 Microsoft websites since Friday, May 16, 2025

Microsoft Copilot Blog

Release Notes: May 15, 2025

Welcome to Microsoft’s Copilot Release Notes. Here we’ll provide regular updates on what’s happening with Copilot, from new features to firmware updates and more. Upgraded 4o image generation We’ve u…

Friday, May 16, 2025

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Copilot for Microsoft 365

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning

AI tools powered by out-of-the box LLMs and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) may not always understand your business in terms of specific processes, terminology, and style. They can provide result…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Build 2025: Agents in Microsoft 365 announcements

Agents are transforming workflows and team structures, equipping employees with new skills that help scale their impact. As part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release last month, we intro…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Microsoft Build 2025: How to create a “frontier” workplace powered by agents

As we kick off Microsoft Build 2025, we have a new vision of how humans and AI-powered agents will collaborate—and the blueprint for how it’s already taking shape. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index …

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Learn more about the Employee Self-Service Agent from customers and partners at Build 2025

HR and IT services have modernized in the last decade with advancements in case management, service desks, knowledge management, employee portals, and chatbots. Now it’s time to take the next step. …

Monday, May 19, 2025

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The Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Built for the new way of working

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the UI for AI The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is built for the new rhythm of work—where AI is woven into your daily flow. This Wave 2 spring release is a major step forward in…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Teams Blog

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2025 - Build Edition

If you’ve never participated in Microsoft Build (and even if you have), now is a great time to check it out! Digital access is free, and there are lots of different ways to make the most of it. You ca…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

Collaborate in real time with workspaces in Teams

Hi there, Insiders! I’m Constance Gervais, a Product Manager on the Loop team. I’m excited to share how you can take your collaboration to the next level by bringing together Loop and Teams. Collab…

Friday, May 16, 2025

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Easily caption videos in PowerPoint for Mac

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu, a Principal Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day yesterday, I’m excited to share an update in Microsoft Po…

Friday, May 16, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your time and project management advisor

Hi, Insiders! When you have what feels like a million tasks on your plate and directions coming in from multiple people, it can be hard to figure out how to best spend your time. Did you know Microsof…

Friday, May 16, 2025

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New Reading Order Pane in PowerPoint for Mac to make slides accessible

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu, a Principal Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team. I’m excited to announce an improvement to Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac that allows you to adjust the ord…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Tell engaging stories with video in PowerPoint

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Peter Wu from the PowerPoint team. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I’m excited to share with you several updates that will ensure that your content is a…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs

Learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs allow you to build solutions grounded in your organization’s content, context, and permissions, without needing to relocate or duplicate data. The post Introducing…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Azure Communication Services

Bringing AI to Meetings with the Sample Builder

We’re excited to share a significant update to the Azure Communication Services Sample Builder. This release integrates Azure’s latest AI and video calling capabilities, implementing meeting transcrip…

Friday, May 16, 2025

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ITOps Talk Blog

Using Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3 on Windows Server 2025

Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3 has some substantive changes compared to previous versions of the technology. Unlike PowerShell Desired State Configuration (PSDSC) v1.1 and v2, DSC v3 operate…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Microsoft Security Blog

Microsoft extends Zero Trust to secure the agentic workforce

At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re taking important steps to secure the agentic workforce. We are excited to introduce Microsoft Entra Agent ID which extends industry-leading identity management and acces…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender for Office 365’s Language AI for Phish: Enhancing Email Security

Email security presents a complex challenge for individuals and organizations alike. Over the years, attackers have evolved from simple spam campaigns to sophisticated threats including ransomware, id…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Power BI Blog

Translytical task flows (Preview)

We are thrilled to announce that Power BI report buttons can now run Fabric User data functions for custom, automated action, including data write-back. This marks a major evolution in Power BI report…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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The next era of Copilot in Power BI: Chat with your Data (Preview)

We’re excited to announce the public preview of a new chat with your data experience in Power BI. This new standalone, full-screen Copilot experience, easily accessible from the left navigation of Fab…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary

The May 2025 Power BI update introduces a range of exciting advancements to Power BI, including a standalone Copilot feature allowing users to “Ask Anything!” in preview, enhanced language understandi…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Viva Insights Blog

Unifying the Viva Insights app for Copilot Dashboard and advanced reporting

To create a more unified Copilot Analytics experience for business leaders and Viva Insights Analysts, we’re excited to announce some upcoming changes to the Viva Insights web app. Beginning in June f…

Friday, May 16, 2025

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Azure AI Services Blog

Introduction We’re thrilled to introduce a new suite of multimodal capabilities in Azure AI Search. This set of features includes both new additions and incremental improvements that enable Azure…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Today we’re announcing agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search, a multiturn query engine that plans and runs its own retrieval strategy for improved answer relevance. Compared to traditional, single-shot…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Up to 40% better relevance for complex queries with new agentic retrieval engine

By Alec Berntson, Alina Stoica Beck, Amaia Salvador Aguilera, Arnau Quindós Sánchez, Thibault Gisselbrecht and Xianshun Chen Agentic retrieval in Azure AI Search is a new API built to effectively an…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Announcing Azure AI Language new features to accelerate your agent development

In today’s fast-moving AI landscape, businesses are racing to embed conversational intelligence and automation into every customer touchpoint. However, building a reliable and scalable agent from scra…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Unlock new dimensions of creativity: Gpt-image-1 and Sora

We’re excited to announce Sora, coming soon to AI Foundry. Learn more about Sora in Azure OpenAI, and its API and video playground, here. Hear how T&Pm, a WPP company, uses Sora in Azure OpenAI to b…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Introducing Built-in AgentOps Tools in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

A New Era of Agent Intelligence We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Tracing, Evaluation, and Monitoring in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, features designed to revolutionize how developer…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Azure OpenAI Fine Tuning is Everywhere

If you’re building an AI agent and need to customize its behavior to specific domains, its interaction tone, or improve its tool selection, you should be fine tuning! Our customers agree, but the chal…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Expand Azure AI Foundry Agent Service with More Knowledge and Action Tools

Customers often face challenges deploying AI agents that can handle complex, real-world scenarios due to limited tool access. To empower AI agents with more capabilities, Azure AI Foundry Agent Servic…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Building a Digital Workforce with Multi-Agents in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

As organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate complex tasks and scale digital operations, the ability to coordinate multiple agents in a single, cohesive system is becoming critical. Moving bey…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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Announcing General Availability of Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Agents are revolutionizing business automation by evolving from simple chatbots into sophisticated, collaborative systems. Fueled by advancements in model reasoning and efficiency, these agents can no…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Tripadvisor

As a Product Marketing Director at Azure, I’ve spent the last few years in the thick of generative AI, from early chatbot experiments to sophisticated agentic systems that now reason across modalities…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: O’Reilly Media

Over the past three years working in generative AI at Microsoft, I’ve had a front-row seat to some of the most exciting shifts in tech. From chat assistants to multi-modal agents, every layer we’ve bu…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Inception

As a Director of AI Product Marketing at Azure, I have spent the last three years deep in the GenAI ecosystem. From internal chatbots that evolved into multi-model agent orchestrations, I feel like I …

Monday, May 19, 2025

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NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Eventbrite

We just announced NLWeb at Microsoft Build—starting with a GitHub repo to help developers explore it, and a short list of enterprise pioneers testing it out in the real world. Eventbrite is one of tho…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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NLWeb Pioneer Q&A: Qdrant

We just announced NLWeb at Microsoft Build—starting with a GitHub repo to help developers explore it, and a short list of enterprise pioneers testing it out in the real world. Qdrant is one of those e…

Monday, May 19, 2025

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From Extraction to Insight: Evolving Azure AI Content Understanding with Reasoning and Enrichment

First introduced in public preview last year, Azure AI Content Understanding enables you to convert unstructured content—documents, audio, video, text, and images—into structured data. The service is …

Monday, May 19, 2025

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