Microsoft Ignite 2024: Everything Revealed in 15 Minutes

hello and uh welcome to ignite you know we continue to invest in security you can see the updates we're making tons and tons of announcements that you'll hear about across the security stack um the one thing though I want to point out is perview it's probably the product um for this conference because in the age of AI data governance takes on an even more critical Central important role uh and in perview uh we're introducing updates to PR vent everything from oversharing Risky use of AI uh such as malicious intent detection prompt injections misuse of protected

material so there's a lot uh in perview and today I'm really excited to announce our zero day quest uh this is the first big announcement that I'm excited about because it's a new hacking event uh there will be $4 million in rewards for focused on securing cloud and AI it's the highest rewards of any public hacking event in the industry and the quest starts today and will culminate in an in-person hacking event next year so we're very very excited about it you know co-pilot is the UI for AI it's rapidly becoming an organizing layer for

work and how work gets done every employee will have a co-pilot that knows them their work helping them unlock productivity enhancing creativity and saving time and co-pilot studio will allow you to create agents that automate business processes and every it department will have a control system to manage secure and measure impact that's it those are the three basic concepts of the copal ecosystem today I'm really excited to announce co-pilot actions with with these actions you can use co-pilot to reduce the amount of time you spend on repetitive everyday tasks uh that you do in fact

the best way to conceptualize actions is for those of you who used Outlook rules this is Outlook rules for the age of AI uh and it works across the entire M365 system not just an Outlook right so it automates everything from asset asking for a let's say a status update from your team compiling weekly reports to scheduling emails requesting feedback on our document um actions are a very simple but yet powerful way for you to scale what you do right so whatever was the thing that you had to do multistep you just create one of

these actions and it just does it for you and we're not stopping there and today we're introducing new agents you can use within the context of your team again the best way to think about these are as just your teammates uh they scoped to specific roles with very specific permissions just like you know we have permissions and roles uh for example a facilitator agent is someone you can add to your team's meeting and the facilitator will help keep the meeting Focus moderate the meeting chats as well as the followup and action items uh our project

manager agent in planner will help automate in fact all the key steps in a project management workflow it'll create a new plan it'll from scratch it'll help oversee what's happening across the project task assignments content creation and next is even self-service agents right so for these agents provide really useful information answer questions on policies uh but not just that when it comes to HR and IT these agents will help you complete the task thinking of think of this as just augmenting your HR and IT departments and we're also announcing SharePoint agents every SharePoint site will

now have a built-in agent these agents provide instant access to real-time information and insights from your knowledge base in the flow of your work uh we're also giving you the ability to easily create your own co-pilot a or your own agents using copilot Studio you know sometimes we sort of mystify these agents as things that you know somehow require a lot of effort to build but it's really pretty straightforward in fact the our vision is that it should be as simple as creating a word doc or a PowerPoint slide or an Excel spreadsheet that's it

like when you say agent think creating a dock today we are very excited to announce co-pilot analytics yeah you know if you take let's say a sales territory manager uh so they can now correlate the specific co-pilot usage to a business metric like their win rate over time right and it's not just co-pilot it's co-pilot and all the agents that you built uh you can look at their usage and start tuning even the usage uh to the business kpis right our goal is to show how co-pilot usage is ultimately directly translating into business outcomes across

sales marketing finance and more today we're announcing in fact Windows app is coming to Android we're excited about that we're announcing mobile application management I know this is something that it has wanted for a long time and it's both to IOS and Android um this means any employee can work on Windows 365 even on their personal devices like this iPad because your corporate apps and files stay secure all managed on the cloud PC I'm really thrilled to announce Windows 365 link you can see it right here it's a simple secure purpose-built device for Windows 365

it's admin L passwordless and security configurations are enabled by default and cannot be turned off uh Windows 365 link expands the PC category or the cloud PC category by connecting you directly to your productivity in the cloud with no data or information left on any device and I'm also pleased to say that it's going to be available in uh April of next year so really looking forward to it uh in addition we are excited to announce this new windows resiliency initiative super important it's we're doubling down on our commitment uh to make Windows secure and

reliable for customers for all their mission critical uh workloads as part of this work we are making changes to low-level operating system access um we're introducing new features in partnership with the entire ecosystem establishing new guidelines for safe deployment practices uh one example of this which is I think you know something that is really exciting is Windows Hot Patch uh which works across your entire Windows estate to apply critical security updates without requiring a restart and today we're going further and announcing Azure local this is again something that many of you have asked us to

do which is bring you know Azure Arc all the way to all of the edge uh with Azure local extends Azure Services across hybrid multicloud and Edge locations with one central control plane it brings Azure Services uh to customers distributed locations whether they're in retail or Hospitality obviously manufacturing so so that they can run their mission critical workloads some of these new AI workloads uh across cloud and Edge and I'm excited to announce our first inhouse security chip Azure integrated HSM this is it this it is a dedicated Hardware security module that hardens Key Management

managing encryption and key signing that can remain within the bounds of the device without compromis performance or security and starting next year it'll be part of every new server deployed on Azure enhancing security for both confidential Computing as well as general purpose virtual machines and containers so we are very very excited about uh this new silicon Innovation today we are very excited about expanding Azure boost with our first inhouse dpu um and this is a dpus are processors specifically architect to accelerate data Centric workloads absorbing multiple components of a traditional server into a single piece

of silicon it runs in fact cloud storage workloads at three times less power and four times the performance I mean what this will do for storage is what smart NS did for uh host and the network uh these are going to do for storage and today we're announcing the preview of Nvidia blackwall AI infrastructure on azure now you know Blackwell is pretty amazing it's got the 72 gpus on a single Envy link domain and then you combine it with infinite band on the back end these racks are optimized for the most Cutting Edge uh training

workloads and you know and inference workloads so we are very excited about having Blackwell and today we're introducing in fact Azure HB V5 which we co-engineered with AMD uh it's up to eight times faster than any other Cloud virtual machine setting a new standard for high performance Computing and it'll be generally available next year uh and we are very excited to announce that we are bringing our Flagship operational database SQL Server natively to fabric with Microsoft fabric databases just like Fabrics simplified every aspect of an organization's analytical needs we want to do the same for

operational uh databases so now with Microsoft fabric customers have an Enterprise data platform that serves all of their use cases right whether it's batch data real time or even massive transactional performance all in one unified uh product and all of that data is in open-source formats in Fabrics one L and that's why we're building out a first class app server for the AI AG announcing aure AI Foundry with Foundry we are unifying all of our models tooling safety and Monitoring Solutions into a single experience integrated with the most popular developer tools available as a standalone

SDK and a portal uh it all starts in fact with our approach to models we know models and model Choice obviously sit at the core of every use case you want to be able to optimize for cogs latency and performance and we want to help you choose that right model for the right job in fact we now have 1,800 models in our catalog in addition to our own offerings we're also announcing new collaboration to help developers accelerate this model customization from data prep and generation to training eval experimentation with fine-tune models these are all the

considerations of an app server uh our work with Gretel labs and scale AI helps developers remove uh data bottlenecks make data AI ready for training we're working with stat to help customers configure run like these fast AB tests using different models also introducing a new service to help you simplify the creation of all of these AI powered agents right our new agent service helps developers build deploy and scale AI apps that automate business processes um you know I showed you before how you can use copilot Studio to build agents just with few clicks but develop

as developers you want a code first approach to building an agent and that's what the agent service really enables you can build agents that are grounded in data wherever it lives public data from the web Enterprise data in Microsoft 365 SharePoint or you can leverage even Fabrics one Lake to unify your data across all of your clouds and these agents then can take actions right so you want to be able to give action space to these agents and you can take that you know 1,200 plus connectors we have in logic apps that we have been

using as you know in our app services and you can connect it to the agent run time and and that's why we are very excited to share that we are bringing really new management capabilities to Foundry for example we're introducing AI reports that will help developers document and share their applications use case and most importantly eval results because I think one of the ways we're going to be able to think about and talk about and reason about what your application does is through the evals of the models on which it's built uh safety is the

most important feature of any AI app uh and we'll continue to ensure sure we have the best tools to build these secure AI apps including things like prom shield and so that you can detect and block manipulation of outputs uh for your business content and today also we are announcing uh you know risk and safety evaluations for image content that's become a very important consideration right in Foundry and today I'm really thrilled to announce yet another Milestone this time with adom Computing we just doubled the previous record creating a machine of 24 logical cubits I

mean to just kind of put this in perspective like the these logical cubits are all entangled making it the foundation for the world's most powerful Quantum machines and and to give you a sense for why this matters uh if you add 100 of these reliable cubits you will have scientific Quantum Advantage uh will you know could be achieved and so this is then that'll unlock as you can imagine the computing Power to Go solve some of the most pressing challenges we have