Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities
On-demand session Microsoft Copilot Studio and building custom agents. Agents are AI-powered productivity tools designed to enhance everyday tasks by leveraging large language models (LLMs). Are you a developer interested in exploring advanced aspects of using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and building custom agents using professional coding techniques? Join our on-demand workshop to learn how to leverage pro-code capabilities and build intelligent agents that assist users across various domains. On-Demand Workshop Agenda Day 1: Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with declarative agents Build custom engine agents with Teams AI library and Microsoft 365 Agents SDK Day 2: Develop your own agents in Azure AI Foundry Day 3: Build your own agents with Semantic Kernel for a fully controlled end-to-end AI experience Secure and govern copilots Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and build powerful agents with pro-code capabilities. Register now and take the next step in your development journey! For more training opportunities, visit us at the Partner Skilling Hub.Leveraging Microsoft Security to secure DeepSeek and other AI systems
As an ISV building apps for the Microsoft commercial marketplace, securing your AI applications is crucial. Microsoft Security offers comprehensive solutions to protect your AI workloads, including the DeepSeek R1 model. With tools like Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure AI Foundry, you can manage your security posture, ensure data security, and comply with governance standards. These solutions help you identify and mitigate cyberattack surfaces and vulnerabilities, ensuring your AI applications are secure and trustworthy. By leveraging Microsoft's security capabilities, you can confidently develop and deploy AI solutions that meet the highest security standards. Learn more about how to leverage Microsoft Security while app building: Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security | Microsoft Security BlogFAQs from Mastering the Marketplace: Developing your virtual machine offer
Developing your virtual machine offer is a webinar offered regularly through the Mastering the Marketplace series. This session reviews the required technical configurations to make Virtual Machine apps and how to publish virtual machines offers to the Azure marketplace. Looking for additional guidance with Virtual Machines? An Azure technical expert will take you through: A brief overview of what a virtual Machine offer type is. How to publish a Virtual machine offer and integrate the solution from the Azure Portal tool to Partner center. How to setup Tenants. How to create different plans to best suit your customers’ needs How to use Cloud-init within the Azure Portal. Attendees can also participate in a short Q&A following the session. Below is a list of recently asked questions from this session. Q1. Once I published the image to the gallery, does it make sense to keep the generalized VM around (if yes, then for what purpose?) or may I delete it? A: You can delete the image after the offer is published live on the marketplace. At full publish, MS maintains a registry of your images, so you no longer have to hold on to it. Q2. Does the standard Microsoft Marketplace agreement work both for transactable and non-transactable? A: Yes it does. It simply is an option for your T&C if you don't have your own. Q3. Last time we used the Direct Shared Gallery it was in Preview and sharing was severely limited (only a few tenants and subscriptions). What is the situation now? A: As of August 2024 it still has these limitations. You can share it across subscriptions on the same tenant but not across tenants. If that doesn't work, you can use a vhd link to publish the VM offer. Q4. What would you recommend in terms of maintenance of the image and how many resources (team size) they would need and how much time they would need to for turnaround. It depends on the image being built out. But once its created and published, marketplace has the image stored, so they no longer need to keep the image after publishing. __________________________________________________________ Additional Resources: Register for the next webinar on Developing your virtual machine offer, August 20 at 9 am PT. Register for additional Mastering the Marketplace webinars here.Embedding security in ISV applications
Discover how embedding security into product design is not just a necessity but a game-changer in today's digital landscape. Learn how Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are leading the charge in creating secure and scalable solutions that businesses around the world rely on. Read more to understand the critical role of security in product development and stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of cyber threats. Design secure and resilient ISV applications Join ISV Security sessions to stay updated on the latest best practicesHow we increased trials 200% with Marketplace Rewards
Hi All, Kitameraki Limited's TeamsWork brand provides intuitive and collaborative apps for Microsoft Teams that cater to the needs of small and medium-sized businesses and has successfully launched Ticketing As A Service and Checklist As A Service apps, and just recently CRM As A Service App on the Microsoft Marketplaces. As a Microsoft partner for nearly four years, TeamsWork recognized the importance of maximizing visibility and reach within the Microsoft ecosystem. Our team has been able to leverage many of the benefits available through Marketplace Rewards to help drive significant growth and quantifiable results, thanks to expert guidance and the broad range of resources available to better market apps on Microsoft marketplaces. Just a few of these benefits included: The listing optimization allowed us to receive expert recommendations from Microsoft about how to optimize our marketplace offer pages. Azure sponsorship credits cut down on our costs of marketplace solutions. Press release support featuring a quote from a Microsoft executive helped amplify the announcement of our marketplace availability Our customer success story demonstrated how one of our customers increased administrative efficiency by 20 percent using our marketplace solution. featured category placement on the Azure Marketplace, which spotlighted TeamsWork and drove more users to view offer pages. Marketplace Rewards has helped drive a 200% increase in new trials for our marketplace offerings! Read the full story here: Kitameraki case study What success has your organization seen with Marketplace Rewards?O3-Mini Reasoning Model, now available in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
Today, Microsoft announced that OpenAI’s new O3-mini model is now generally available in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. Building on the foundation of the O1 model, O3-mini delivers a new level of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reasoning capabilities. Key Features of O3-Mini: Reasoning Effort Parameter: Allows users to adjust the model’s cognitive load with low, medium, and high reasoning levels, providing greater control over response and latency. Structured Outputs: Supports JSON Schema constraints, making it easier to generate well-defined, structured outputs for automated workflows. Functions and Tools Support: Seamlessly integrates with functions and external tools, ideal for AI-powered automation. Developer Messages: The “role”: “developer” attribute replaces the system message in previous models, offering more flexible and structured instruction handling. Continued Strength in Coding, Math, and Scientific Reasoning: Enhances capabilities in these critical areas, ensuring high performance. With these improvements in speed, control, and cost-efficiency, O3-mini is optimized for enterprise AI solutions, enabling businesses to scale their AI applications efficiently while maintaining precision and reliability. Learn more: Announcing the availability of the o3-mini reasoning model in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Azure Blog
App Source Canvas App - how to prevent customers seeing code and functionality
We are a small ISV and have published a PowerPlatform solution with a canvas app. While we published as a managed solution, etc. we are seeing that our customers can edit the app and see all the code and functionality we've built. Our 2025 plan includes ramping up several new App Source offerings with Canvas Apps included, but we won't be doing that if we can't protect our efforts and someone can easily replicate. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! After a customer purchased this solution, this is what they can see when selecting "App" - clearly you can see they can edit it and did confirm they can go in an navigate through the app in the editor and see al the code, etc. This is the solution view - it is working as expected by preventing the editing. This is the offer. Business Apps – Microsoft AppSourcePower Your Agents with Azure Logic Apps
Want to build powerful AI-driven applications without writing complex code? With Azure AI Agent Service and Logic Apps, you can automate workflows, integrate services, and enhance agent capabilities using a simple, visual approach. Discover how these tools can streamline your development process—read the full article to learn more!Empowering AI Innovation with Azure AI Foundry
The Azure AI Partner Council is excited to share the next session on Azure AI Foundry in our education series. Partners, Innovators and Azure AI Champs, join us for an engaging session on Azure AI Foundry, where we will explore the latest advancements, key features, and future roadmap of this powerful AI platform. This session is designed for technical partners (ISV, Digital Natives, Service Integrators) and Innovators who are looking to leverage Azure AI Foundry to drive innovation and enhance their AI capabilities. We will provide an overview of the platform, showcase key demos, and discuss the latest announcements and updates with a tech deep dive. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how Azure AI Foundry can help them build and operate production AI systems and applications at scale, and how they can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. January 30th, 8:00-9:00am PST Learn more and register here for this online sessionBuild your own agents: ISV partner training January 28-31
I'm thrilled to share our upcoming ISV-focused partner training next week, titled "Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities". Join us for this virtual three-day event to learn more about Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and building custom agents. Explore how to use natural language processing and pro-code capabilities to build custom agents that help users achieve greater business productivity. January 28-30, 2025, APAC (IST) January 29-31, 2025, EMEA (GMT), Americas (PST) Register today
