Last Microsoft Ignite, I shared how important partners have been in helping our customers enable a new way of work by providing secure and seamless access for their remote workforce. Our partners have continued to help customers adapt to this new way of working by integrating their applications and solutions– from supporting single sign-on and…
DetailsIn order to meet the China market’s growing needs for global public cloud services, Microsoft is planning to bring a new Azure Region to North China in 2022 through its local operating partner, 21Vianet. This expansion is expected to effectively double the capacity of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud portfolio in China in the coming years, which…
DetailsIn this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Alex Weinert continues the series with this post in which he describes how much customers are going to benefit from Temporary Access Pass. We announced Temporary Access Pass at Ignite this week and it’s now in public…
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Tens of thousands of customers, such as Pepsi, Amway, Airbus, BBC, and Progressive Insurance are using Azure AI to deliver immersive customer experiences, identify new business opportunities, and drive impact. As more organizations use AI in their production workloads, they have an increased need for secure, scalable, and responsible AI development. Today we’re announcing new…
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Today we announced the general availability of our passwordless solution and the public preview of Temporary Access Pass in Azure Active Directory. Temporary Access Pass is a game-changer that completes the end-to-end passwordless onboarding experience for your users. It is a time-limited passcode they can use to set up security keys and the Microsoft Authenticator…
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Across industries, companies are investing in hybrid and multicloud technologies to ensure they have the flexibility to innovate anywhere and meet evolving business needs. Customers tell us a key challenge with hybrid and multicloud adoption is managing and securing their IT environments while building and running cloud-native applications. To enable the flexibility and agility customers…
DetailsIn this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Today, Maria Puertas Calvo, data scientist for Microsoft Identity, continues the series. Hi! I am honored to be among such a fine group of people bringing you the goodness of passwordless authentication. Today, I’m going to…
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In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Today, Alex Weinert continues this series. In previous blogs in this series, we shared how passwords lead to breaches, lost productivity and support calls. I also shared how biometrics local to each device provide…
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In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Today, Tarek Dawoud, principal program manager, continues this series. Since we announced our Public Preview of passwordless credential management, we have met with hundreds of customers to discuss the passwordless promise and how to…
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Hello! In today’s “Voice of the Partner” blog, Prakash Narayanamoorthy, Principal Microsoft Security Architect for Wipro, explains how his company transformed their identity and access management (IAM) offer while delivering an elevated level of governance and secure access across external identities. Prakash and his team streamlined external access and strengthened security for their customers—all with…
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