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Joe Steiner All right. Well, hello everyone. Welcome to our session on the best of Microsoft Ignite 2025. I am Joe Steiner and Brian Hayden is with us as well, both solution architects here at Concurrency. 0:0:26.464 –> 0:0:29.64 Joe Steiner Concurrency. Brian, do you want to? 0:0:30.624 –> 0:0:30.744 Joe Steiner OK. 0:0:30.704 –> 0:0:48.424 Brian Haydin Give myself a little bit of an intro intro. Sure, absolutely. So Brian Haydin, I’m a solution architect at Concurrency. My background’s been mostly in like the software, you know, engineering kind of background and really super passionate about building things, building things. 0:0:32.64 –> 0:0:32.424 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:0:48.784 –> 0:1:5.784 Brian Haydin In the Microsoft tech stack and I’m coming in hot off of big Agent Con from yesterday and absorbing you know all the the Microsoft Ignite content. So happy to be here and it’s going to be fun. It’s going to be fast. 0:0:58.464 –> 0:0:58.984 Joe Steiner Go to bed. 0:1:6.384 –> 0:1:25.984 Joe Steiner Yes, yes. And to that point, we’ve got a lot of content to cover, a lot of exciting announcements with Microsoft Ignite this year. So it’s gonna be pretty rapid fire here. We definitely invite questions. I think QA is open, so please post your questions. We’ll address the questions at the end, just so we’re gonna kind of rocket through all the. 0:1:26.64 –> 0:1:43.864 Joe Steiner Content here and gladly have conversations following at the end off of the questions as well as happy to have conversations following this too. Please reach out to us and glad to glad to dive into this further. So why don’t we go ahead and move ourselves along here a little bit. 0:1:46.664 –> 0:2:5.824 Joe Steiner So I think you know Ignite in a nutshell, a lot of lot of of A I work going on there. So A I, A I, A I, A I, which is great, super exciting. You know a lot of agents everywhere. Co-pilot’s been expanded. 0:2:6.144 –> 0:2:22.584 Joe Steiner Throughout the Microsoft platforms, you know, Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure enhancements to security and so on. I think that’s been really exciting to see. I think there’s some great enhancements coming there. 0:2:23.264 –> 0:2:28.904 Joe Steiner Um, uh, Brian, you wanna talk kind of the IQ layers a little bit and you know, kind of some of the excitements there? 0:2:29.504 –> 0:2:44.744 Brian Haydin Yes. So I think one of the coolest things about the Ignite was this bridging between, you know, M365 and the developer kind of community and bringing it all together. So this, this IQ layer is a kind of a branding effort. 0:2:40.624 –> 0:2:40.824 Joe Steiner Yep. 0:2:45.344 –> 0:3:5.24 Brian Haydin I think there’s some technologies that support it that kind of help, but it it really is just a reinforcement of the things that have been evolving over the the course of the last two years. But you know, there’s a lot of stuff going on in the developer community, a lot of stuff that’s bringing that low code, pro code community closer together and then. 0:2:46.584 –> 0:2:46.984 Joe Steiner No. 0:3:5.264 –> 0:3:15.504 Brian Haydin Enablement in the M365 stack to take whatever maker artifacts that you’re doing and bring it into the ecosystem to help frontline workers. 0:3:16.904 –> 0:3:36.664 Joe Steiner Yeah, yeah, definitely. So I think you know between the IQ layers, I think Agent 365 and so the agent governance security aspects with the entre Agent ID, some of the defender pieces that are coming in there, it’s really exciting. It makes the ability to leverage A I throughout the enterprise in a more secure. 0:3:36.704 –> 0:3:55.984 Joe Steiner Managed fashion, which is great, all while still enabling you to create in new and exciting ways. Obviously in the data state there’s a lot of good things happening there too with SQL Server and Fabric database and some of the new database constructs coming there. 0:3:56.384 –> 0:4:8.184 Joe Steiner Brian did a great job here of of creating kind of like, OK, where do we think different individuals here might might want to dive deeper? I don’t know, Brian, if you want to kind of drive through this real quick. 0:4:7.984 –> 0:4:25.344 Brian Haydin Yeah, sure. So like, if you just think about like different personas, people who are going to be interested in, you know, I probably would look through the list of people here on this call and say you’re going to fall into one of these these three like personas, either information workers. And so these are the people that we’re really looking at like. 0:4:25.344 –> 0:4:45.24 Brian Haydin How do I use Microsoft Copilot, whether that’s the copilot for the web or your office copilot? How do I use agents that are enablement in my teams? So ton of announcements on that side. We’ve got the builders and the maker kind of persona, so the local. 0:4:45.24 –> 0:5:3.984 Brian Haydin Code developers, the pro code developers, some really, really cool announcements coming out of Foundry. You know, people have been talking about MCP and you know, some of the things that they talked about around MCP like are, you know, pretty, pretty wicked cool we’ll get into and then the fabric IQ aspect of it. 0:5:1.104 –> 0:5:1.424 Joe Steiner No. 0:5:4.344 –> 0:5:23.624 Brian Haydin And then the last but not least is, you know, the the, the really the management people, the, you know, keeping your business running the lights on the IT folks. There’s a lot of tooling in place to to help them as well. So we’re going to kind of go through it, not necessarily in this particular order, but it’s loosely sort. 0:5:23.984 –> 0:5:33.824 Brian Haydin Sort of developed like this, so but definitely these are kind of the the core areas where I think the a lot of the announcements have have really resonated with people. 0:5:26.344 –> 0:5:26.544 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:5:33.24 –> 0:5:47.864 Joe Steiner Absolutely, absolutely. It’s kind of a things to look out for based on, you know, kind of who you are, what what your role is, what your interests are as we as we go through the rest of these. Brian, you want to give your top five things to listen out for as we go through here? 0:5:47.984 –> 0:6:5.24 Brian Haydin Yeah, obviously like this is just my overview and my perceptions of the most impactful things. We’ve got slides and we’ll talk into each one of these a little bit deeper, but the way that Microsoft has repositioned the agent framework is is pretty. 0:6:5.624 –> 0:6:20.624 Brian Haydin Pretty awesome. So they’ve taken a lot of the community feedback. I met with, you know, some of the the product teams when I was at Microsoft Build this year and I can actually see some of the feedback. You know, it was all me, my feedback, they they took that the most important. 0:6:6.944 –> 0:6:7.144 Joe Steiner No. 0:6:20.624 –> 0:6:38.264 Brian Haydin And incorporate it into into the new agent framework and it’s going to really simplify things and and so I’m really excited to talk about that. The Fabric IQ I think was probably the the second most impactful thing for you know the like the developer space, the builder space that that I care about. 0:6:38.664 –> 0:6:57.824 Brian Haydin And how how we’re bringing the fabric of all of your different ontologies together to build a more intelligent, you know, analytics platform. When we get into that, that’s going to be really cool. The you’re going to talk about something else that’s really related to this, but the Foundry can control. 0:6:49.784 –> 0:6:50.24 Joe Steiner No. 0:6:58.304 –> 0:7:17.704 Brian Haydin To be able to take some of these like more advanced agents that we’re building in a pro code environment that haven’t really been like, it’s not like code code behind it, right? We’re not building it in Terraform and like Python environments, but like some of these agents that were built in the Foundry platform and giving that a. 0:7:18.104 –> 0:7:37.824 Brian Haydin Sophisticated control plane for management, I think that is was desperately, desperately needed and some of the customers that I’m talking about how they’re really they have a lot of anxiety about the number of agents that are being deployed and the lack of control and the lack of visibility. So that’s one that. 0:7:24.584 –> 0:7:24.824 Joe Steiner No. 0:7:37.904 –> 0:7:54.144 Brian Haydin You know that I was really impressed with the Azure Documentdb. I don’t want to steal too much about when we get into it, but I was like, boom, you guys nailed it. Here’s a database construct that we can start to use that is got a cost benefit, you know, kind of like. 0:7:54.944 –> 0:8:9.944 Brian Haydin Use case that is going to usurp, I believe Cosmos DB in the long run and and still give you the performance and functionality that you need. And then you like you said, you’re going to talk more about the Agent 365. 0:7:56.304 –> 0:7:56.664 Joe Steiner No. 0:8:2.584 –> 0:8:2.664 Joe Steiner E. 0:8:10.544 –> 0:8:29.864 Brian Haydin You know, I think then I will. But what I really like about it is like the ability to take the entry agent ID and like apply that to the agents and really give the fine granularity, the control, you know, to the developer and to SEC OPS around what you’re going to. 0:8:30.744 –> 0:8:33.864 Brian Haydin Give that agent access to. So those are my top five. What are yours? 0:8:33.64 –> 0:8:52.584 Joe Steiner Yeah, those are exciting. Yeah. So from from my side, a couple things that really resonated with me were the Azure and security copilot agents. So pre-built agents that they’re continuing to expand upon security expanding quite a bit here that had existed already and they’re expanding that out, but also then bringing that over to Azure, so. 0:8:45.144 –> 0:8:45.264 Brian Haydin OK. 0:8:53.304 –> 0:9:12.424 Joe Steiner So you have ready actionable agents that I think will be very beneficial for customers. It can handle a broad variety of actions and tasks in a very simple fashion for administrators in those realms. I think that’s really exciting where you really see. 0:9:12.784 –> 0:9:30.24 Joe Steiner Actionable, focused AI agents here that can be very, very beneficial. Also the ability to have agents and teams channels. Now we’ve had a little bit of this so far, but that’s been expanded as now they’re tying in the ability to use. 0:9:30.224 –> 0:9:49.544 Joe Steiner Model context protocol inside of here. So you can have third party agents readily available inside of Teams channels. For me, the thing I like about that is that one of the things is you’re bringing in new technologies is you don’t want another place to go all the time. And so here if you’re in Teams, great, I can interact with agents right from within. 0:9:50.64 –> 0:10:8.704 Joe Steiner In teams and have it as little more natural workflow as I’m bringing that extra power into to what I’m doing every day. You know tied with that then is the broad model contact protocol support. You’re going to hear this as we go through all these you know throughout the platform. 0:10:8.744 –> 0:10:24.504 Joe Steiner In many, many different ways. It’s really exciting because here you now have ability to have interoperability between different agents, between non agents and a lot of flexibility in what can happen ultimately. 0:10:25.64 –> 0:10:40.664 Joe Steiner In creating these this this broader A I structure within within companies, I I personally liked the extension of Purview to tie in with Agent 365 again providing the additional controls. 0:10:40.664 –> 0:10:58.104 Joe Steiner Which makes a I more palatable for some organizations that are a little concerned about what’s what’s going to be surfaced there. This provides that that additional layer control that was needed there and and really some exciting things there and then finally non a I related. 0:10:58.544 –> 0:11:14.104 Joe Steiner I thought that there’s some kind of hidden in all this. There’s some great Windows 365 and AVD improvements, Azure Virtual Desktop improvements there, which really extends the use cases for that tooling in in new ways, allowing it to be used in. 0:11:14.184 –> 0:11:32.104 Joe Steiner In different scenarios that maybe wouldn’t have made sense economically as much before, but could be beneficial. Now I think there’s some constructs there that’ll make that even easier to to be adopted. So with that, let’s start diving in again. This is going to be fast. We’re going to go probably about a minute a slide. 0:11:32.544 –> 0:11:49.264 Joe Steiner And plow through this. So first area is the everyday AI assistance with Copilot agents. They’ve expanded Copilot out and we’re going to talk Windows, Office, Edge, Teams. We’re going to talk about the agent dashboard, which is really cool and then work IQ a little bit. 0:11:49.704 –> 0:12:4.944 Joe Steiner And then the sales development agent. So here we go. So first let’s start with agents on the taskbar. Best way to, you know, be able to use Copilot is directly from within Windows where you’re at being able to ask, you know, Copilot. 0:12:5.224 –> 0:12:21.64 Joe Steiner And have have the ask copilot right on the dashboard on the taskbar be able to have other agents there too. So if I have other agents I want to expose right there, the ability to do that. I think the Hey Copilot voice controls very cute cool, so now I can interact with. 0:12:21.384 –> 0:12:38.704 Joe Steiner copilot in a more natural way. They’ve made some enhancements to the voice controls on there. They’re also bringing copilot into File Explorer, again using model context protocol in the back end of that, which will also add some immediate benefits there I can ask for. 0:12:39.624 –> 0:12:58.544 Joe Steiner Files and that, and it’s gonna be readily available for me right where I’m at when I’m looking for it. Agents and agent mode in Office. Some of this has been out already, so Word and Excel have had some that agent mode already. The agent mode’s being brought to PowerPoint now, so now I can go in an inner fashion. 0:12:58.824 –> 0:13:17.944 Joe Steiner Say OK, hey, make this change to this slide, add this, create this graphic in here, put this in here and be able to talk with Copilot and have it take instructions and create PowerPoint presentations for me and do those things and just tell it what I want to have happen and then work with it from there. 0:13:18.664 –> 0:13:38.104 Joe Steiner And just using words, which is so powerful and I think people see the immediate benefits from in Edge, they’re starting to incorporate agents onto, you know, kind of. I open a new tab, we’ll have some personalized prompts that’ll be tied in there. I can actually have one in the search, I can do a web search or. 0:13:38.184 –> 0:13:53.784 Joe Steiner Start a conversation with copilot right there. So very again, just surfacing copilot wherever I’m working and I think you’re very, very impactful, easy to use. Well, the cool part there is the now agent mode and edge where you see here. 0:13:54.464 –> 0:14:13.864 Joe Steiner I’ve got a quick video on. I can go into, let’s say I’ve pulled up my timesheet. I can go in and say, hey, fill out my timesheet for I worked every day, go ahead and fill this in. And so it’ll go ahead and populate that for me. So now as I’m interacting with websites, I can have copilot again, take instruction, do data entry for me. 0:14:13.944 –> 0:14:33.424 Joe Steiner A host of other things would be possible with that. So again, very, very cool that way. Again, agents and teams channels, one of my top five ones being able to support third party agents and teams again using MCP servers. So now I can have agents that exist outside of there. 0:14:33.824 –> 0:14:50.104 Joe Steiner And be able to interact with them along with the rest of my channel or chat conversations and be able to to ask questions of the agent just as another individual. Again, kind of plays into the idea of treating agents as another worker throughout the. 0:14:50.464 –> 0:15:5.824 Joe Steiner The enterprise. So I think very, very, you know, cool, makes it again easy to use and starts surfacing those in in better ways. Now with having all these agents everywhere, one of the things that that came out was the agent dashboard, this little. 0:15:6.184 –> 0:15:21.904 Joe Steiner You see here as part of Viva Insights here provides a centralized report on agent usage and adoption. So IT leadership teams can use this and say, OK, who’s using AI more than others? What are they using? 0:15:22.424 –> 0:15:39.704 Joe Steiner And be able to provide some you know kind of a view for the enterprise on where is where is AI and agents being leveraged across the the organization as a whole. Voice control here too just that kind of more natural interaction where I can say OK. 0:15:40.264 –> 0:15:56.664 Joe Steiner I can talk to copilot, have it respond, show me the response. OK, I asked the next question. Actually included an interrupt in here too. So I can say, oh wait a minute, do this. Instead it’ll it’ll adjust to that all powered by work IQ in the background. So. 0:15:56.984 –> 0:16:15.784 Joe Steiner Again, as as Brian said, a little more of a branding thing at some levels, but it’s it’s leveraging all of the copilot interactions that are happening across it across my M365 workspace and and that and then you know really cool thing is the copilot in Outlook here. So now I’ve got copilot built in Outlook so I can. 0:16:16.304 –> 0:16:35.144 Joe Steiner Do some quick summaries and and things there and within throughout the day. Again work IQ in the background of all this, the kind of intelligent layer powering all of M365 copilot and agents there. Then with that they actually introduced 3 new. 0:16:35.224 –> 0:16:50.744 Joe Steiner Work IQ agents, one being the Workforce Insight agents, which allows leaders to say, OK, who all is my organization? How long has this person been here that and just very quickly be able to ask questions, get answers on on the enterprise as a whole. 0:16:51.344 –> 0:17:6.864 Joe Steiner People Agent similarly allows anybody to say, OK, I need to find somebody with this skill set, particularly in larger organizations, very beneficial. I would say, hey, I need somebody that understands this and then get some assistance with OK, how might I be able to connect with that person? 0:17:6.984 –> 0:17:23.224 Joe Steiner And then finally, a learning agent where it’s taking that kind of Viva learning thing into a whole another level where you’re playing a I to it and being able to create micro-learning experiences. Hey, you know, you might want to learn how to do this based on things that it’s learning about as you’re interacting with it. 0:17:23.304 –> 0:17:42.864 Joe Steiner But also can be curated. So you can actually say that the organization say, hey, I really want to drive people to be able to develop AI skills or be able to this kind of skill and be able to have that controlled within there so that as it’s creating these, it’s learning how you learn and how to. 0:17:42.984 –> 0:17:53.384 Joe Steiner To to things you might want to be taught that it’s you actually can have that driven a little bit from the organization too. It’s not so open-ended. So finally another. 0:17:51.704 –> 0:18:11.224 Brian Haydin Hey, we had a couple of really good questions, so I’m going to pause here for a second. Tom asked in the chat here. You know, if agents are watching everything, does this mean that everything is going into the cloud? And you know, I made the point here in the chat. I kind of responded, but I’d like to get your perspective too, Joe. My response was not in the Microsoft ecosystem. 0:18:11.664 –> 0:18:29.264 Brian Haydin So as long as you have purview, you know protecting your data, you know your workstations and even third party agents and other you know aspects other you know third party like AI systems as long as you have purview and M365 like in your tenant. 0:18:15.584 –> 0:18:15.984 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:18:29.944 –> 0:18:33.224 Brian Haydin You’re OK. So do you want to add anything else to that? 0:18:31.544 –> 0:18:51.24 Joe Steiner Right. Yeah. No, it it doesn’t. So it doesn’t necessarily mean that everything’s going to the cloud. It does. So again, Purview will provide protections on the data. So just because anything that does go to the cloud doesn’t mean it gets surfaced to everybody else either, right. And that’s one of the things Agent 365 Purview. 0:18:49.344 –> 0:18:49.504 Brian Haydin Right. 0:18:51.224 –> 0:19:6.664 Joe Steiner Root helps provide a lot of controls out. Microsoft had that in there already, but yeah, no, it’s picking up aspects of things that you’re doing, but it stays scoped to you as opposed to being then used to train and. 0:19:6.664 –> 0:19:16.224 Joe Steiner And that data being used elsewhere. Microsoft’s very, very cautious about that. Your data is your data down to the individual layer. So yeah. 0:19:14.984 –> 0:19:31.984 Brian Haydin And Roberto asked a similar question. He said, was there any conversation regarding Windows copilot in the enterprise data protections? So and I think we’ve got some slides on that. So I want to like maybe table that conversation for a little bit, but I think keep both, keep posting the questions. Love it. 0:19:26.184 –> 0:19:26.544 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:19:31.864 –> 0:19:47.384 Joe Steiner Yeah, yeah, please. By all means give us a question. Like we said, as we’re going, we got a lot of content to cover. So some of these will we’ll come back to at the end. But yeah, no, thank you. Appreciate that everybody. So, yeah, so next, next one, the sales development agent. 0:19:32.304 –> 0:19:33.704 Brian Haydin Love to see the interactions. 0:19:47.464 –> 0:20:7.24 Joe Steiner Very quickly, there is a prebuilt agent that can actually act as an autonomous sales person of sorts that will research, qualify and engage leads for you. It’ll tie in with Dynamics 365 or Salesforce is connected to Agent 365. 0:19:50.664 –> 0:19:50.784 Brian Haydin OK. 0:20:7.224 –> 0:20:24.704 Joe Steiner So this is a managed tool, but you could set this out to say, OK, I want to start a marketing campaign and start engaging with these types of contacts and it’ll kind of leverage the data you already have in Dynamics 365 or Salesforce and be able to start. 0:20:24.744 –> 0:20:42.104 Joe Steiner Driving automated, you know, campaigns that way and things like that. So could be a really interesting development going forward. So with that, I’m going to handle this over to my partner in crime, Brian, and let him talk about kind of the. 0:20:42.104 –> 0:20:45.24 Joe Steiner The maker side of things a little more if you want, Brian. 0:20:45.344 –> 0:21:4.704 Brian Haydin Yeah, we’re going to sprinkle in a little bit. You’ve been talking a lot and you need to get a drink of water. So one of the one of the things that came up was this aging creation and hearing a lot about vibe coding, you know, in in the developer community and they’re they’re bringing that kind of vibe coding experience. 0:21:4.824 –> 0:21:23.544 Brian Haydin Into the Power Platform. So this isn’t necessarily huge new and something that one of my coworkers and I were talking about a little earlier today. Not everything that’s new being talked about at Ignite is brand new. This plan experience was actually. 0:21:24.224 –> 0:21:40.624 Brian Haydin Released at Microsoft Build earlier this year. And so you see some of the stuff where it kinda gets trickled out in Microsoft Build and it gets like formalized in Ignite. So what they did is they rolled out this plan and it’s super cool. Let’s build this together. 0:21:40.984 –> 0:21:56.344 Brian Haydin You type in what you want, and in this case it said I wanted to have an app that’s going to track, you know, the fish that I catch on Lake Michigan. So and it goes through and it builds this stuff out. It actually takes the prompt that you write what the problem is that you’re trying to solve. 0:21:56.424 –> 0:22:13.544 Brian Haydin And builds out a plan of how it’s gonna build that and builds requirements. And you’ve got all these different agents that help it orchestrate how it’s gonna build it out, how it’s gonna serialize the data in Dataverse, how it’s gonna build out the logical workflows and all that kind of stuff. So super cool. 0:22:13.664 –> 0:22:31.544 Brian Haydin If you want to try this out, it was working in the Power Platform under like plans and now you can go to vibe.powerapps.com and you can play around this too at that spot. So definitely a cool one. And then what do we have next? We had. 0:22:31.544 –> 0:22:46.864 Brian Haydin So Power Apps and MCP. So you know, MCP is getting a lot of attention. The model context protocol is a way for you to be able to access tools, you know, through natural language, you know, kind of interface. 0:22:47.584 –> 0:23:6.304 Brian Haydin And so you’ve been able to meet to build like copilot agents or you know, just agents in general in copilot Studio and throw MCP over the top of it. Now what they’re doing is they’re taking your power apps and saying let’s throw a layer of MCP over the top of that. And the cool part about that is that you can say things like, hey. 0:23:6.904 –> 0:23:26.24 Brian Haydin I’ve got this agent, hey, can agent, can you just like log this fish that I just caught? And since it knows about this app that I built, it’s going to go in and it’s going to auto fill and be able to perform the actions, you know, in the power up as well. So I think that’s a really cool, like, you know, next level being able to bring in that MCP. 0:23:27.24 –> 0:23:34.784 Brian Haydin You know, workflow into things and uh, we’ll see where that goes. Um. And then you want to talk a little bit more about Agent 365? 0:23:36.704 –> 0:23:55.104 Joe Steiner Yeah, sure. So yeah, Agent 365, you know, really this, this gets into as I’m building out, you know, agents and I’ve got the, you know, expansive, you know, use of of Copilot within the organization. Agent 365 provides A centralized view. 0:23:55.824 –> 0:24:13.104 Joe Steiner Management platform of the agent activity across the organization again tied in with Microsoft 365. So as I’m managing my users and what they’re doing within that platform already, I can be managing the agents that are being surfaced to everybody see. 0:24:13.504 –> 0:24:30.344 Joe Steiner You know the inventory of agents that are out there, have a number of active users that are in in there, the different platforms that are there, but also provide some deeper management capabilities in the back end and then ultimately ties over into purview. 0:24:30.664 –> 0:24:49.984 Joe Steiner So that I’m able to handle some of the data control, some of the things you’re asking about earlier that we’re able to provide control of where the data is flowing inside of there and be able to put a management construct around all of the AI and agent activity that’s happening within my organization. 0:24:50.264 –> 0:24:56.384 Joe Steiner Very, very needed and enhancement here and very, very exciting. So Brian. 0:24:50.344 –> 0:24:50.704 Brian Haydin Yeah. 0:24:55.624 –> 0:25:15.64 Brian Haydin Yeah. And so how that’s working under the covers and you know, you bring up the control plane next, but this kind of like ties together, right. So we’ve got the Agent 365, we’re signing an intra ID. It essentially becomes, you know, a virtual user within your ecosystem and then that gives you the opportunity to really. 0:25:10.64 –> 0:25:10.224 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:25:15.144 –> 0:25:34.824 Brian Haydin Manage it as if it was a user. So I can set permissions and give it access to Teams channels and say I’m not gonna give you access to these other things and treat it like almost like a first class citizen. So if we go on to talk about the Foundry control plane, it’s a lot of those same kind of ideas, but. 0:25:19.584 –> 0:25:19.744 Joe Steiner Right. 0:25:34.944 –> 0:25:54.344 Brian Haydin For what’s being built in the Microsoft Foundry, it’s going to be kind of hard to like get all the new names that they’re calling everything. But so AI Foundry basically has its own management studio as well now and that’s the Foundry control plane. So that gives you, you know, visibility. 0:25:54.424 –> 0:26:13.824 Brian Haydin Into all the different agents that are deployed, you know in your Azure ecosystem through Microsoft Foundry. It connects the development operations, you know experience together so that you can gain insights and have visibility, you know into what’s going on with all these different agents that are controlling things within your ecosystem. 0:26:14.264 –> 0:26:33.864 Brian Haydin Manage the identity and access just like you do in in in the 365 Agent 365 and then have cost management because that’s something that’s sort of desperately, desperately needed right now is understanding like not just the usage of it, but like in Foundry like that’s consumption. 0:26:33.944 –> 0:26:51.184 Brian Haydin Exumption base, you know it’s a lot different than an agent through you know in 365 where it’s just like you know really micro token you know kind of experience. You can really blow some like big numbers up in Foundry. So that cost and usage management is is super important. 0:26:51.744 –> 0:27:7.424 Brian Haydin And then so the other thing that’s really cool moving on a little bit is like the Foundry MCP tools that are available. So just like you know, just like all these different MCP tools that are being exposed in in your copilot studio. 0:27:7.944 –> 0:27:27.704 Brian Haydin Environments. Foundry is starting to bake a lot of these like MCP tools like directly into the platform, giving your agents access to a bunch of other like, you know, Cosmos DB, you see a whole list. I mean, there’s hundreds and hundreds of them, you know, in there. So again, just a maturity level. People are starting to build these kind of MCP tooling. 0:27:27.904 –> 0:27:47.384 Brian Haydin And tools and expose those and like third party open source ecosystems and that’s bringing everything together. So next announcement that they were talking about was a big announcement was like this, the Foundry model router and this actually is. 0:27:47.384 –> 0:28:7.144 Brian Haydin Another one of those things that came out in Microsoft Build, but it matured quite a bit. So on the left side of the screen, what you’re seeing is basically the different versions of the model router that are available today. And that table kind of gives you like if you were to zoom into it and really look into it deeper. 0:28:7.144 –> 0:28:27.24 Brian Haydin There’s the growing number of models that it can route to as it expands. So right now, if you’re using the latest version of Foundry Model Router, it’s going to go and figure out what the best. When you type in a prompt into a model router, it’s going to figure out what’s the best model to answer. 0:28:27.144 –> 0:28:45.424 Brian Haydin This question and then it’s going to make that call. So if you need a deep thinking, a reasoning model, if you need something that’s really heavy in the code base, if you need something that’s going to all the different types of use cases, it knows how to switch between them. So Open AI, Grok, Claw, these are all part of the model router and broadly speaking. 0:28:46.984 –> 0:29:6.544 Brian Haydin Something that I’ve been super impressed with in the Microsoft ecosystem is just their openness to work with these other AI foundation models. So very excited to see this grow over the course of the year. You’re going to see Foundry model router get a little bit more expanded. 0:29:6.664 –> 0:29:23.184 Brian Haydin To quite a bunch of different use cases. And then we’ve got the Foundry agent service. So this is part of the ecosystem that they’re developing and as it kind of matures a little bit, it goes back to that control plane. 0:29:23.544 –> 0:29:43.64 Brian Haydin That we were talking about before, but managing the orchestration of the agents, managing the different threads, you know, so it’s like more in the developer like visibility, how the agents are actually working from a technical level and then the multi multi agent kind of orchestration giving you a. 0:29:43.144 –> 0:29:54.264 Brian Haydin Control plane or a management area to be able to to work through those types of things as well. I think I saw a question hop up in the chat here. Was there? 0:29:56.24 –> 0:29:58.584 Joe Steiner I think there’s a. 0:29:56.624 –> 0:30:10.864 Brian Haydin How is licensing? How does the licensing work with agents? Well, Robert, that’s a great question. I will take a well, I guess I’d want to know a little bit more about what you meant, but go for it, you start. 0:30:7.224 –> 0:30:22.784 Joe Steiner There’s a yeah, maybe if I could just hop in on that one real quick and get let you get a drink. So it depends on there’s the kind of the copilot side of that right. And so you have you know copilot licensing where where where that applies. 0:30:23.544 –> 0:30:39.264 Joe Steiner With the the rest of the agents, you’re really talking more of frequently those get into, you know, consumption models. But the nice thing when they were talking about the, you know, model context protocol and that I may have other agents that you’re buying that you’re gonna have packaged productized agents here. 0:30:39.304 –> 0:30:58.704 Joe Steiner That can get tied in with that as well. And so there’s gonna be kind of three different versions of that. There’s kind of those licensed, the copilot thing and everything that that provides you. You’ll have kind of those packaged AI agents that are out there from a host of different providers and then you’ll have kind of those that you’re building yourself. 0:30:59.264 –> 0:31:7.344 Joe Steiner A lot of that’s driven based on the consumption of underlying resources. That’s kind of more the Azure model there. 0:31:6.664 –> 0:31:22.704 Brian Haydin Yeah, Robert, you clarified. You know, I don’t actually know the answer to this, so I’m gonna speculate. So he asked if if they’re treated as users as a user license and it’s more like an app registration, right? Yeah, so. 0:31:18.344 –> 0:31:19.384 Joe Steiner So the agent. 0:31:20.584 –> 0:31:20.864 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:31:23.144 –> 0:31:25.904 Brian Haydin So it’s not it’s not eating out the user license. 0:31:25.464 –> 0:31:35.704 Joe Steiner No, no. And the the Asian ID doesn’t require a a license for that either. So and that’s really the kind of the the foundation of of treating that that way. Yeah. Thanks, Robert. 0:31:34.584 –> 0:31:54.264 Brian Haydin Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that’s a great question. I I was pretty sure it was more like an app registration equivalence, you know, from a licensing perspective. But all right, well, let’s talk a little bit about Foundry IQ. So Foundry IQ is has kind of a specific meaning in. 0:31:54.344 –> 0:32:13.704 Brian Haydin Rather than like this generalistic like IQ conversation in the Microsoft ecosystem. So when we talk about Foundry IQ, what we’re really talking about is intelligent rag systems, retrieval augmented type of systems that people are building that grounded in some of my technical. 0:32:14.24 –> 0:32:33.704 Brian Haydin Manuals or my HR documents. This is a service more type of offering rather than going and having to custom build it. So on the IQ front what it does is it takes all this information, these knowledge sources and it brings it together and it not just builds out a vector. 0:32:33.784 –> 0:32:53.544 Brian Haydin Store for this information, but it actually tries to understand what it means. And that’s really the next level of what the work IQ. We’re gonna talk about Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ. It’s not just building a semantic model, it’s also putting reasoning into that semantic model and understanding. 0:32:53.544 –> 0:33:11.944 Brian Haydin About it and pulling all the different types of things together. So with Foundry IQ, it’s not just the the data that you’re throwing in there, the my manuals or whatever else, but it’s looking at all the other context of the individual and the agent and bringing it together to to prepare something that’s going to be meaningful. It’s it’s super cool. 0:33:5.184 –> 0:33:5.304 Joe Steiner But. 0:33:13.304 –> 0:33:32.824 Brian Haydin And then let’s see. So Copilot Studio in evals. Oh yeah, this is like I was waiting for this to come out at some point. And I’ve been talking to my teams, you know, my engineering teams about this quite a bit. And you know, evals have really crept into the conversation around agents and AI, you know. 0:33:32.904 –> 0:33:47.384 Brian Haydin The course of the last year, not that it’s a new concept, but like it’s importance has really started to come into play. When we first started building these chat bots and these agents, like everybody was like, this is cool, let’s go ahead and throw a bunch of stuff at it. Let’s figure it out later. 0:33:48.464 –> 0:34:8.24 Brian Haydin And you know, people are like, this doesn’t make any sense. These answers are wrong and nobody’s keeping track of it. And it’s like, well, you just have to have an army of people that ask a bunch of questions and that’s not sustainable, you know, as we start to build momentum in the enterprise world. And so evals are kind of a solution to this and like the AI. 0:33:52.624 –> 0:33:52.944 Joe Steiner Right. 0:34:8.104 –> 0:34:8.384 Brian Haydin World. 0:34:8.944 –> 0:34:28.584 Brian Haydin Where you create these test cases or you create these evaluations like is this a good answer or not? And it’s not like code where it’s like the answer has to be red or red is the only correct answer. It’s this is natural language, there’s nuances to it. And so this is basically a way for you in Copods. 0:34:28.664 –> 0:34:48.104 Brian Haydin You create evals and evaluate the agents that you’re building in kind of a local way. So this is absolutely critical for enterprise adoption and something that a lot of organizations have been asking for for the last year. So I’m excited about this a lot and then. 0:34:48.424 –> 0:35:6.624 Brian Haydin This next thing that I wanna talk about, this is actually really cool. So MCP bridging the gap between like your Microsoft Windows device, MCP and the agents that the makers are building. So super cool so. 0:35:7.144 –> 0:35:27.64 Brian Haydin When I talked about the Power Apps being layered with MCP, that’s really cool cuz I’m being able to build things and expose it to like agents and whatnot. Now one thing that hasn’t we haven’t been able to do is say something like take this file and move it over here or I want you to delete this. 0:35:27.144 –> 0:35:46.664 Brian Haydin You know, find these files and delete these things. You know, just talk to your computer to help you like do some some work. And so there’s MCP layers that are being thrown over the top of certain tooling within the your device. I’m trying to think exactly which two are out there right now, but I think it’s the. 0:35:46.664 –> 0:36:5.864 Brian Haydin File Explorer is getting an MCP layer over the top of it and there’s one other one too that’s getting that they’re rolling out right now. But with that kind of like power comes like a ton of responsibility, right? So I as a maker can now build and deploy things that have an MCP protocol and deploy it to your. 0:35:48.24 –> 0:35:48.144 Joe Steiner Yep. 0:36:6.184 –> 0:36:20.984 Brian Haydin Computer through the Windows Marketplace, but I have to enable those things you see down in the bottom corner. So I’ve got to like go into my computer and say, yeah, I’m going to allow this kind of access and then just like on your phone, like when you know. 0:36:21.224 –> 0:36:40.984 Brian Haydin At least Android does a really good job about this. I want to have access to like your photos and well, like I installed this app and it wants to access my photos. Prompts me and says, hey, this application wants to do this thing. Are you OK with that? So they put that layer of security into it and this is going to be super powerful and you’re going to see a ton of momentum. 0:36:34.544 –> 0:36:34.784 Joe Steiner No. 0:36:40.984 –> 0:36:56.144 Brian Haydin In the marketplace around this as people want to just be able to speak to their computer and have it do things for them. That’s how we’re doing on time. I think we’re doing OK. Yeah. All right. Windows 365 for agents. 0:36:51.904 –> 0:36:53.744 Joe Steiner We’re all right. We’re all right. 0:36:58.24 –> 0:36:59.64 Brian Haydin You go. 0:37:0.424 –> 0:37:16.624 Joe Steiner OK, yeah. So along with what Brian was just talking about with being able to have the model contacts protocol on the Windows devices, now I actually have this one of the Windows 365 enhancements that’s come out where I can have. 0:37:16.744 –> 0:37:31.984 Joe Steiner Windows 365 built just for agents, so I can construct a virtual environment that’s agent driven and there’s a couple different ways this will manifest. One, I can have a AI enabled. 0:37:32.384 –> 0:37:49.64 Joe Steiner Windows 365 machine for a desktop for different use cases, but I also can then use this for app delivery, and that’s kind of one of the other things that’s coming with Windows 365, being able to deliver cloud apps through Windows 365. So now I can have a. 0:37:49.144 –> 0:38:8.904 Joe Steiner Windows based app that’s then delivered as an agent and it can take all of the capabilities that would be built into a Windows environment and be able to surface that for different purposes. So really cool kind of platform construct for. 0:38:8.904 –> 0:38:12.504 Joe Steiner There are ways to deliver agents out into the the enterprise. 0:38:14.144 –> 0:38:32.824 Joe Steiner So then I’ll talk about this too. So we have then GitHub and Defender for Cloud and the integration between those two environments. So Defender for Cloud is going to be and is is on, it’s been on its way this way. 0:38:32.904 –> 0:38:48.624 Joe Steiner Is going to be kind of one of the central constructs for controlling AI within the environment. Here I’m able to tie that directly in with GitHub so that I’m able to see different data security risks. 0:38:48.984 –> 0:39:8.504 Joe Steiner Be able to see other cyber threats and into what I’m constructing and building within GitHub directly. So very, very powerful integration just expands again what all you can do within the broader Microsoft security portfolio. 0:39:8.624 –> 0:39:25.704 Joe Steiner So pretty exciting stuff. All right. So as we continue to talk about AI, we’re actually taking a little bit here. Let’s talk about kind of more Azure and kind of the admin experience here too. One cool thing, which again, this is one of the. 0:39:26.144 –> 0:39:45.584 Joe Steiner The few non AI things that we’re talking about today is they’ve now brought in Managed instance on to the Azure App Service. So what this does is provides an easier way to migrate legacy, particularly net apps right now, but the expectation is this is going to expand beyond just. 0:39:45.984 –> 0:40:4.184 Joe Steiner Net apps so I can more readily migrate my legacy net apps into Azure and bring them straight into the Azure App Service and all the scaling and networking security capabilities they’re in. I could do this because now I can have the kind of registry adaptations allowed for. 0:40:5.864 –> 0:40:21.424 Joe Steiner Certain configuration scripts I can mount drives in there. So if I have an app that’s referring to AG drive, I can create AG drive inside of the app service and be able to leverage things that way. So it allows me to migrate these apps without having to. 0:40:21.744 –> 0:40:40.384 Joe Steiner To do as much of the code rewrite and possibly even eliminating in in a lot of cases. So really really you know, starts making the app migration easier. The other idea here is that now since I’m in the app service, I can modernize those apps more readily and so it makes it makes that kind of update. 0:40:40.424 –> 0:40:57.784 Joe Steiner Update and as I go to modernize these, it allows for easier transition that way too. So really cool enhancement there to help continue migrating things. This is one thing I’m super excited about. This again one of my personal top five ones. It’s in preview right now. 0:40:58.584 –> 0:41:13.504 Joe Steiner But the Azure copilot agents, so similar to the security security copilot, I now have these agents available within Azure and they can do a host of different things. 0:41:14.184 –> 0:41:29.464 Joe Steiner You know like being able to say OK some of the examples of the prompts here is I can say OK you know can you assess these on Prem apps and recommend the best Azure monetization approach. It will then come back to you with the hey this one should you could you know should just be. 0:41:29.544 –> 0:41:44.544 Joe Steiner Refactored this one, you’re going to have to recode this and and modernize this and be able to provide you insights into OK, what’s going to be the best way to to move forward here and go and do something more specific like hey, can you deploy a Python Flask app with? 0:41:44.904 –> 0:42:3.504 Joe Steiner Postgres SQL back end and and you know tying key vaults and and enable monitoring with Application Insights and it will do that for you, right? So it’ll take care of performing the task required to do that. You can say, hey, I want to, I’ve got an alert. Can you help me investigate this alert? 0:41:54.24 –> 0:41:54.304 Yeah. 0:42:3.784 –> 0:42:22.784 Joe Steiner And it’ll go through and drive through and provide the information it has off Azure Monitor and some of the other services in the back end and be able to service that to be able to show me the top cost saving opportunities. So when you get an optimization of this a little bit, you can analyze your Azure environment and say, hey, are there applications for reserve? 0:42:23.464 –> 0:42:40.144 Joe Steiner Instance here, there’s things you should be monitoring. Hey, there’s not activity on this. Maybe you should turn this down at certain times and be able to do things like that. So host of different things that are gonna be possible across a broad variety of areas within the full lifecycle within Azure. 0:42:39.864 –> 0:42:58.864 Brian Haydin And I think what’s cool about this, Joe, is that like this is kind of like a bunch of different agents that have been out in the Azure platform, you know, in little releases, dribbles here and there. And it’s kind of being, it’s, you know, bringing it all together. I mean, I remember I think it was two years ago Azure copilot. 0:42:40.664 –> 0:42:42.864 Joe Steiner I think that this is, yeah. 0:42:52.304 –> 0:42:52.704 Joe Steiner Yes. 0:42:59.584 –> 0:43:16.184 Brian Haydin Or Azure, I think they called it Azure Copilot was out there, but it was very limited in what you could do. And then you had the SRE agent that came out and he had all these other agents and now it’s kind of like bringing, you know, everything kind of into like a more coherent kind of like a delivery method. 0:43:4.224 –> 0:43:4.464 Joe Steiner Right. 0:43:8.944 –> 0:43:9.104 Joe Steiner Right. 0:43:16.504 –> 0:43:35.584 Joe Steiner Absolutely, absolutely. And kind of standardizing how this is deployed across the the environment too. So it’s not this agent over here and you got to just use it, operate within this and then this one over here. It’s more of a broader framework for using that throughout your Azure management experience. So very, very cool stuff. 0:43:35.704 –> 0:43:50.624 Joe Steiner I also have copilot admin agents outside of Azure for SharePoint and Teams that are available in preview right now. So I can perform a broad variety of tasks, be able to search across sites, capture information. 0:43:50.984 –> 0:44:9.864 Joe Steiner Through there and perform administrative tasks again using copilot to be able to drive that and the admin experience for SharePoint and Teams as well. So very good exciting things coming in that again copilot all over whether that’s admin for SharePoint and Teams. 0:44:10.704 –> 0:44:17.904 Joe Steiner Azure and then we’ll talk about security a little later, but before that, let’s talk a little bit about Fabric and data services. Brian, if you want to take that. 0:44:18.104 –> 0:44:36.224 Brian Haydin So a lot of cool things are happening in the Fabric ecosystem, you know, and you know you’ve got the the Fabric databases that have been coming, trickling out in different release cycles and stages. You’ve got, you know, I mentioned before one of my my favorite announcements was the Azure Document DB. 0:44:36.584 –> 0:44:56.344 Brian Haydin Horizon DB, so Postgres, I think there’s a company or two that’s going to be disappointed to see that kind of coming out because their business model is going to go away and then the SQL Server going into GA. So I think there’s a lot of really cool stuff coming out, but generally. 0:44:56.344 –> 0:45:11.744 Brian Haydin What we’re seeing in the fabric ecosystem is it was designed as an analytics platform first and being able to put your operational data and run workloads in there like run transactional applications and have that kind of like. 0:45:11.944 –> 0:45:27.264 Brian Haydin That system built into the Fabric ecosystem wasn’t a play that they wanted to make in the beginning, and over the course of the last year and a half, you started to see them roll out these different data services that could live natively inside of the ecosystem. 0:45:27.824 –> 0:45:47.24 Brian Haydin And then be part of that natural analytics platform as well. And I think where the synergy here is that you’re gonna see that all this data becomes accessible through Fabric IQ and synthesized together in a way that makes sense. So on the Fabric IQ. 0:45:47.744 –> 0:46:7.304 Brian Haydin What we’re really talking about is, you know, understanding your ontology of what it is that’s in all these different data systems and and how to bring it all together. So it gives you the tooling to be able to like map what these entity relationships mean, not just like, oh, a person. 0:46:7.544 –> 0:46:24.184 Brian Haydin As a part of a group or a membership as part of a group or something like that, but really understand what that actually means from a semantic aspect and then building in the governance and the trust between these different data sources and who’s being able to access and push data into it. 0:46:24.384 –> 0:46:43.944 Brian Haydin Is gonna be important and if you’ve heard of some people on this call might not be like super technical, but when you think of what it’s really doing is it’s kind of building a graph like the Microsoft Graph that connects all the different documents and data and things that you have, it’s building a. 0:46:43.944 –> 0:47:3.704 Brian Haydin Graph inside of all these different data elements in the Fabric IQ. So I’m excited to be able to play with this. This is a preview. I think it’s being limited rollouts. It’s gonna be some time before I probably have a chance to play with it, but I’m excited. 0:47:3.704 –> 0:47:20.784 Brian Haydin And I’m excited to see where this is going to go. It’s going to be impactful. So let’s talk a little bit about the Fabric databases. So really we’re talking about when we say Fabric databases are SQL databases and Cosmos DB databases. 0:47:21.424 –> 0:47:40.624 Brian Haydin And so being able to natively deploy these things without having to go and create a resource group in Azure and say I want to deploy a SQL database, I want to deploy Cosmos DB, you can just go right into Fabric and you can deploy these. This isn’t super new. These things came out at Build like I mentioned before. 0:47:40.904 –> 0:48:0.424 Brian Haydin But now they’re generally available and so they’ve gotten, they’ve been elevated to a first class citizen. I’ve used them a little bit and the use cases are a little bit like nuanced and like when you would use it in one environment or another, you lose a little bit of the fine grain control for a nerd like me that you know wants to. 0:48:0.504 –> 0:48:17.824 Brian Haydin Build stuff and have a lot of control and then the pricing is more you know it’s kind of built into your fabric you know capacity rather than having you know fine grain control of my consumption type of you know of inside of. 0:48:18.264 –> 0:48:33.304 Brian Haydin Inside of like the Azure control. So look there are some trade-offs here and but you know when you think about bringing it into that fabric IQ system now it starts to make sense like why would I actually go through this rather than deploying Cosmos DB on my own? 0:48:34.304 –> 0:48:53.264 Brian Haydin And so let’s go on and talk a little bit deeper about the Azure Documentdb. So Documentdb, this is open source. It’s not anything new. It’s Cosmos has been out there. It’s ability to have all this non relation. 0:48:53.544 –> 0:49:10.624 Brian Haydin No SQL information, but there wasn’t a really great solution for this in Azure. And now that we have this generally available, I think it’s going to be a game changer because if you want to do vector data, you kind of have a limited number of choices. 0:49:11.144 –> 0:49:26.824 Brian Haydin You’re not going to do SQL database, but you could. I mean, technically they they added that, but it doesn’t perform like super awesome. You would use Cosmos DB like that’s what you would do because it was really super performant and you know it does a really, really good job. 0:49:27.224 –> 0:49:46.784 Brian Haydin And but it’s really, really expensive. You know that’s not. It’s made for real low latency, very geographical distributed, you know, sources. Document D allows you to get that same level of performance as you would like in a Mongo DB or Cosmos DB, but not have to pay for that. 0:49:47.144 –> 0:50:6.984 Brian Haydin Oversized, overstuffed infrastructure. And so I feel like this is probably gonna replace Cosmos DB in the next year or two as like the standard out-of-the-box. I wanna build an AI system for developers. I see you shaking your head, nodding your head, I should say. Joe, I think you. 0:50:6.984 –> 0:50:9.104 Brian Haydin We saw those tea leaves too, right? 0:50:9.104 –> 0:50:15.184 Joe Steiner No, very, yeah, very exciting. I I think it’s it’s great that they’re they’re adapting. 0:50:15.344 –> 0:50:35.64 Brian Haydin Yeah. And so Horizon DB is similar. I noticed a lot of developers have a lot of developers been migrating into the Postgres, you know, environment. They like that open source, you know, aspect of it. They like, you know, the cost, you know, kind of trade off of it and there were. 0:50:35.144 –> 0:50:54.704 Brian Haydin There was this really cool company that I was talking to at Build that actually had a service like deploying Postgres and being able to scale it and auto scale and deploy it. And that’s the company I was referring to cuz this is basically putting them out of business I would say to a certain degree cuz that’s what Azure’s bringing to the. 0:50:54.984 –> 0:51:14.904 Brian Haydin The equation now you can deploy Postgres in more of a managed sort of instance capability, be able to do all that auto scaling for you and not have to worry about that infrastructure. Because I don’t know as a net developer growing up in the ecosystem wasn’t like my big. 0:51:12.184 –> 0:51:12.344 Joe Steiner Mm. 0:51:15.104 –> 0:51:32.144 Brian Haydin Postcross was never like, you know, my big thing, but I know a lot of, you know, startups like to use it and it’s really gotten a lot of traction in, you know, in the developer circles and ecosystem. So looking forward to that. And then we’ve got some stuff to talk about about security and governance. 0:51:32.504 –> 0:51:32.784 Joe Steiner Yeah. 0:51:32.664 –> 0:51:39.64 Brian Haydin And and we are running out of time, so we gotta, we gotta pick up the pace a little bit. 0:51:37.864 –> 0:51:55.104 Joe Steiner Yeah, we’re gonna, we’re gonna, we’re gonna fly through, we’re gonna fly through some things here. So again, another, you know, top five item is the security copilot, right? So along with kind of the Azure copilot, you had bits of this before security copilots really expanded. 0:51:55.424 –> 0:52:10.944 Joe Steiner I’ve gone out to a broader portion of the portfolio. It’s gotten into Entre. It’s gotten into Intune. Originally this was kind of driven off of what you had in Defender and Sentinel, and now I can use this to actually make changes to. 0:52:11.424 –> 0:52:26.64 Joe Steiner Conditional access policies do access reviews. Look at your device lifecycle. Ask device lifecycle questions of it. So really, really powerful. It’s included with all M365V5 subscriptions. 0:52:26.344 –> 0:52:41.624 Joe Steiner For anyone that was using Sentinel already, it’s it’s gonna be enabled and then for any that wasn’t, it’ll be you’ll get notified about that’s coming and is tied with the broader enterprise knowledge platform there. So we can make, you know, more intelligent decisions. 0:52:41.704 –> 0:52:56.904 Joe Steiner Another big security thing is the baseline security mode within Microsoft 365. So quick dashboard. They had versions of this before, but this one takes it kind of a very core level and says, hey, here’s some major concerning concerns. A lot of them have to do with. 0:52:57.104 –> 0:53:13.864 Joe Steiner You know, open admin accounts within entre, active X controls within certain aspects, things like that that you just you want to make sure you’re you’re dealing with and so it’ll go through analyze your environment to be able to provide a. 0:53:13.864 –> 0:53:33.224 Joe Steiner A quick view of that and allow you to make to protect against those things where you where you need to Defender unified posture management. So a lot of the AI things we talk about, we talk about Asian 365, but also within you know Defender we’ve expanded posture management to include more and more of the AI. 0:53:33.864 –> 0:53:49.744 Joe Steiner Tool set and be able to provide for controls over what’s happening with different agents that I have running in the environment, control for certain threats and be able to manage how I want to allow users what I’m going to allow them to do and not do inside of there. 0:53:50.904 –> 0:54:6.784 Joe Steiner In addition, I have the broader security dashboard also tied in with Defender that allows me to see, OK, here’s all the AI agents I have out there, be able to see some things on use, be able to see, you know, some of the prompts that are coming across there and be able to have that all in one place. 0:54:7.224 –> 0:54:23.104 Joe Steiner I can even filter down by whether those are AI Foundry apps, Studio apps, as well as anything else that I have running in there and be able to see that in in a in a single pane of glass, which is nice. Sentinel, it continues to expand. There’s been integrations into other platforms. 0:54:23.784 –> 0:54:43.384 Joe Steiner There’s enhancements with bringing threat intelligence into there as they continue to integrate those platforms, be able to bring proactive responses to those inside of their new enhancements to the threat hunting agent there. So I can leverage copilot in here and that’s a part of security. 0:54:43.464 –> 0:55:0.384 Joe Steiner Copilot be able to tie in with with what I’m finding those threats and be able to hunt those those down as I’m showing some of the advanced hunting things here, but also some prebuilt HIPAA and GDPR compliance solutions into this. So it’ll analyze the environment, see some of those things that might put you at risk. 0:55:0.664 –> 0:55:20.104 Joe Steiner For different compliance and starting with HIPA and GPR and expect that to to expand beyond that. Another one of my big top five ones is Purview with Agent 365. So aside from Defender and its view of AI activity, Purview here I can take a look and see OK. 0:55:20.104 –> 0:55:38.704 Joe Steiner Between observability, being able to see again the agents used, but really driving down even to OK, what prompts are there, what data is flowing through these agents and being able to put controls on there with having DLP and information protection extended into agents even further now so that those. 0:55:39.784 –> 0:55:55.904 Joe Steiner Sensitivity labels and information protection policies and DLP policies will work against agents along with all the other vectors that I’m I’m concerning myself with there offering for expanded governance and does as Brian alluded to earlier. 0:55:56.264 –> 0:56:13.224 Joe Steiner Ties in with with Foundry as well. Another interesting piece, and this kind of ties in with some of the enhancements with Windows 365 and Intune is again not AI related, is there’s a new enhancement here for Intune Mam where I can now control browser experiences. 0:56:14.264 –> 0:56:33.984 Joe Steiner On devices that I’m not managing and maybe managed by other parties. So great for contractor use cases and some of those kind of things. Maybe you can see this used in some M&A activities too where I now can manage the browser instances of that as I’m sharing. 0:56:34.264 –> 0:56:52.544 Joe Steiner Maybe applications that way or sharing information, being able to control the flow of information there, even if I’m not managing the device myself explicitly. Again, Windows, Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. There’s been a few enhancements there. Intune continues to expand its. 0:56:52.824 –> 0:57:8.224 Joe Steiner Management capabilities so that that really can be the the central management plane for all of your devices. Windows 11 you have you know cloud rebuild capabilities which are in so I can actually rebuild a Windows 11 desktop instance. 0:57:8.664 –> 0:57:27.984 Joe Steiner Remotely so through the cloud rebuild and then the Windows 365 enhancements where one being able to have the AI enabled cloud PCs though Windows 365 for agents. But also then I thought you know Windows 365 cloud apps was interesting and now I have the ability to just surface apps. 0:57:28.24 –> 0:57:44.264 Joe Steiner I don’t have to surface a whole desktop through the Windows 365 construct, which I would expect the economics of that to be a little more palatable for certain use cases where I don’t need a full desktop, but I do need to provide them this app and I’m able to do that using the fully. 0:57:44.264 –> 0:58:1.904 Joe Steiner Baked Windows 365 environment so I don’t have to spin up and manage that might outside of that and then also being able to have external identities for Windows 365 and ABD. So now I can leverage provide those Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop environments to again. 0:58:2.424 –> 0:58:21.104 Joe Steiner Contractors or people outside of the organization, again as we’re talking about, you know some of those organizations were going through M and A activity and or we’ve got separate or is that all companies that have everyone baked together. Now I can start centralizing and providing access to applications or different information services. 0:58:21.784 –> 0:58:37.344 Joe Steiner Even if they’re not tied in with my central identity there as well and be able to let them operate as they are, it just makes more and a little more natural workflow that way. So covered a lot of ground here today. We are at time. 0:58:37.944 –> 0:58:57.504 Joe Steiner And we are at the end of our tour of what we got through Ignite. Yes, yes, totally fast-paced. Again, there’s a lot more here. Brian and I would love to talk to you in more depth if any of you would would care to. So Brian has his LinkedIn here. We have our emails at the front end. 0:58:41.624 –> 0:58:44.224 Brian Haydin You literally got it in. 0:58:57.624 –> 0:59:7.104 Joe Steiner Please reach out to us. We’d love to schedule time to talk to you about any of these announcements and thank you for the time. Yeah. 0:59:4.184 –> 0:59:17.904 Brian Haydin Yeah, drop to the next slide really quick because just to make sure, I know that Paige dropped in a link here. Please fill out the survey. Your feedback is an absolute gift. You know, tell us what you like, what you didn’t like about what you heard today. 0:59:19.384 –> 0:59:33.944 Brian Haydin And then, you know, if you are looking to connect with us on LinkedIn, you know, love to chitchat, you know, about anything that might be happening in the tech community. Thanks a lot for your time and looking forward to hearing from you. 0:59:34.424 –> 0:59:39.64 Joe Steiner Yeah. Thank you, everyone. Hope you all have a great day and look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.