(Preview) How Office is improving the reliability of DLP policy tips on Windows

If you are an administrator who uses SharePoint and OneDrive DLP rules to protect your organization’s sensitive files, you may have noticed that the policy tips informing users about the policies applied to their files are not always reliable in Word, … Continue reading (Preview) How Office is improving the reliability of DLP policy tips on Windows

Cardinality Estimation Feedback Explained by Kate Smith (@akatesmith)

The Problem of Cardinality Estimation
There is a single main query processing “engine” that powers SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.  Within that engine is the part of a program that optimizes and executes queries.  We call the process of op… Continue reading Cardinality Estimation Feedback Explained by Kate Smith (@akatesmith)

Ready, Set, AI: What our People Science research tells us about AI Readiness

On July 18, the Viva People Science team held the fourth webinar in its AI Empowerment series. During this webinar, I was joined by Carolyn Kalafut (Principal People Scientist at Microsoft Viva), Megan Benzing (Viva People Science Researcher) and Craig… Continue reading Ready, Set, AI: What our People Science research tells us about AI Readiness

Exploring the Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Service

In the ever-evolving landscape of AI, LLM + RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is a typical use scenario. Retrieving accurate related chunked data from complicated docs and then improving LLM response quality becomes challenge. There is no a silver b… Continue reading Exploring the Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Service

Why? and How to Ground a Large Language Models using your Data? (RAG)

Introduction
Large language models (LLMs) can perform many different tasks with text, audio, images, and even videos, allowing them to be multimodal. With these many capabilities, there is a fear that LLMs might not always follow the goal that you crea… Continue reading Why? and How to Ground a Large Language Models using your Data? (RAG)

Connect Azure SQL Server via User Assigned Managed Identity under Django

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Why we use it
Architecture
How to use it
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Why we use it
This tutorial will introduce how to integrate Microsoft Entra with Azure SQL Server to avoid using fixed usernames and passwords. By utilizing user-assigned managed identities… Continue reading Connect Azure SQL Server via User Assigned Managed Identity under Django