Glossário
Definições curtas e claras dos termos mais importantes de Microsoft 365, Copilot, Azure e segurança. (Definição em inglês)
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- .NET
- Microsoft's open-source, cross-platform developer platform for building web, cloud, desktop, mobile, CLI and AI applications with C#, F# and Visual Basic.
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 is a subscription bundle of productivity apps and cloud services, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft 365:
- Microsoft 365 admin center
- The web portal for administering users, licences and services in a Microsoft 365 tenant.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft 365 admin center:
- Microsoft 365 Apps
- The installable Office applications of Microsoft 365, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, delivered and updated through subscription.
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102)
- Expert certification for administering Microsoft 365 tenants, identity, security and compliance. The exam is scheduled to retire on 30 November 2026.
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
- Associate certification for deploying, managing and securing endpoints with Intune and Windows Autopilot.
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700)
- Associate certification for planning, configuring and managing Microsoft Teams, meetings and calling.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- An AI assistant built into Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. It uses large language models together with the user's own work data from Microsoft Graph to draft, summarise and analyse content, always within the user's existing permissions.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft 365 Copilot:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
- Secure, web-grounded AI chat for Entra ID users that is included at no extra cost and can run agents; the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot adds work-data grounding.
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- Microsoft Access
- Desktop database application for building small relational databases with tables, queries, forms and reports.
- Active Directory
- The on-premises directory service for Windows domains that manages users, computers and permissions.
- Episódios sobre Active Directory:
- Microsoft Agent 365
- Control plane for observing, governing and securing AI agents across an organisation, with agent registry, identity, access control and monitoring built on Entra, Purview and Defender.
- Agent harness
- Software layer around a language model that provides tools, permissions, memory, evaluation and limits so an agent can act safely and reproducibly.
- Agent loop
- Control cycle in which an AI agent plans, calls tools, observes the result and repeats until the goal is reached or it must hand over to a human.
- Agent observability
- Collecting traces, metrics, evaluations and audit data of AI agents to see what they did, why, and at what cost.
- Agent skill
- Reusable package of instructions, scripts and resources that an AI agent loads on demand to perform a specific task consistently.
- Agentic SDLC
- Software development lifecycle in which AI agents take part in requirements, coding, testing, review and operations under human oversight.
- AI agent
- A software system that uses an AI model to pursue a goal on its own: it plans steps, calls tools or APIs, reads data and acts, often with a human approving critical steps. Agents go beyond chatbots because they take actions, not just answer questions.
- Episódios sobre AI agent:
- AI Builder
- Power Platform capability that adds prebuilt and custom AI models, such as document processing, text classification and prompts, to apps and flows.
- AI governance
- Policies, roles and controls that keep the use of AI in an organisation safe, compliant and accountable.
- Episódios sobre AI governance:
- Audit logs
- Records of who did what and when in a system, used for security investigations and compliance.
- Episódios sobre Audit logs:
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform with services for computing, storage, networking, databases, analytics and AI.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Azure:
- Azure AI Foundry
- Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating and deploying AI applications and agents. It offers a catalogue of models, tools for grounding and safety, and deployment options on Azure.
- Episódios sobre Azure AI Foundry:
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-901)
- Refreshed entry-level exam (2026) for the Azure AI Fundamentals certification; replaces the AI-900 exam.
- Azure AI Search
- A search service that indexes content and supports vector and hybrid search, often used for RAG.
- Episódios sobre Azure AI Search:
- Azure API Management
- A service for publishing, securing, throttling and monitoring APIs.
- Episódios sobre Azure API Management:
- Azure Cosmos DB
- A globally distributed NoSQL database service on Azure.
- Azure Functions
- Serverless compute service of Azure that runs event-driven code; can be exposed as an MCP server, for example through API Management.
- Azure Key Vault
- A service for securely storing secrets, keys and certificates.
- Episódios sobre Azure Key Vault:
- Azure landing zone
- Pre-configured Azure environment with management groups, networking, policy and identity that gives workloads a secure, scalable foundation.
- Azure Logic Apps
- Cloud integration service of Azure for building workflows and agentic automation with hundreds of connectors, triggers and actions; the Azure counterpart to Power Automate.
- Azure OpenAI Service
- A service that provides OpenAI models such as GPT through Azure with enterprise security and compliance.
- Episódios sobre Azure OpenAI Service:
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Cloud-hosted desktop and app virtualisation service on Azure, extendable to hybrid and other hypervisors.
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- Bicep
- Domain-specific language from Microsoft for declaring Azure resources, compiled to ARM templates.
- Microsoft Bookings
- Appointment scheduling tool with a public booking page that checks Outlook calendars and sends confirmations.
- Business events (Dynamics 365)
- Mechanism in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations that sends a notification to external endpoints such as Logic Apps, Power Automate, Service Bus or Event Grid when a business process event occurs.
- Business Performance Analytics
- Analytics offering for Dynamics 365 ERP data that builds prebuilt reports on Fabric and Power BI and exposes ERP analytics to agents through an MCP server.
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- Canvas app
- Power Apps app type where the maker designs the screen layout freely, like a slide, and connects it to data with Power Fx formulas.
- Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect Expert (AB-100)
- New expert certification (2026) for designing agentic AI business solutions across Copilot, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
- Microsoft Certified: AI Agent Builder Associate (AB-620)
- New associate certification (2026, beta) for building AI agents with Copilot Studio.
- Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional (AB-730)
- New certification (2026) on applying generative AI and Copilot in everyday business work.
- Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader (AB-731)
- New certification (2026) for leaders driving AI adoption and transformation in their organization.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Associate certification for managing Azure identities, storage, compute, networking and monitoring.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI App and Agent Developer Associate (AI-103)
- New associate certification (2026) for building AI apps and agents on Azure; replaces AI-102.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate (AI-200)
- New associate certification (2026) for developing cloud applications with AI on Azure; replaces AZ-204.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
- Entry-level certification covering core data concepts and Azure data services.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Entry-level certification covering basic cloud concepts and core Azure services.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)
- Associate certification for designing, implementing and maintaining Azure networking solutions.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Expert certification for designing identity, data, business-continuity and infrastructure solutions on Azure.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
- Specialty certification for planning, delivering and managing Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
- Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (SC-500)
- New associate certification (2026) for securing cloud and AI workloads; replaces AZ-500.
- Microsoft Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals (AB-900)
- New fundamentals certification (2026) on administering Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents.
- Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
- Expert certification for designing Zero Trust strategies and security architectures across Microsoft cloud services.
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
- Expert certification for DevOps practices with Azure DevOps and GitHub: pipelines, source control and delivery.
- Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Sales AI Consultant Associate (AB-210)
- New associate certification (2026) for AI-assisted sales solutions on Dynamics 365; replaces the MB-280 path.
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
- Associate certification for designing and deploying analytics solutions with Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700)
- Associate certification for ingesting, transforming and securing data with Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
- Associate certification for identity, authentication, access management and governance with Microsoft Entra.
- Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate (SC-401)
- Associate certification for information protection, data loss prevention and insider risk with Microsoft Purview.
- Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate (AB-410)
- New associate certification (2026) for building intelligent apps on Power Platform; replaces the PL-200 path.
- Microsoft Certified: Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer Associate (AI-300)
- New associate certification (2026) for operating machine learning solutions on Azure; replaces DP-100.
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
- Associate certification for preparing, modeling and visualizing data and delivering reports with Power BI.
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400)
- Associate certification for building extensions and integrations on Power Platform. The exam is moving to AB-400; PL-400 testing ends 30 October 2026.
- Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
- Associate certification for threat detection and response with Defender, Sentinel and KQL.
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Administrator Associate (AZ-802)
- New consolidated exam (2026) for Windows Server hybrid administration; replaces AZ-800 and AZ-801.
- Change notifications and webhooks
- A Microsoft Graph pattern that pushes notifications when data changes, instead of polling, often combined with delta query.
- Episódios sobre Change notifications and webhooks:
- ChatGPT
- An AI chat assistant from OpenAI.
- Episódios sobre ChatGPT:
- Microsoft Clipchamp
- Browser-based video editor with templates, text-to-speech and stock media, included in Microsoft 365.
- Conditional Access
- A policy engine in Microsoft Entra that decides at sign-in whether to allow, block or require extra steps, based on signals such as user, device compliance, location and risk. It is the core of a Zero Trust approach in Microsoft 365.
- Copilot adoption
- Rolling out Copilot to users and getting them to use it effectively, including training, change management and measuring ROI.
- Episódios sobre Copilot adoption:
- Copilot Cowork
- Capability of Microsoft 365 Copilot where the assistant carries out multi-step work on the user's behalf across Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel, instead of only answering single prompts.
- Episódios sobre Copilot Cowork:
- Copilot Credits
- Consumption unit used to bill agent and Copilot Studio usage, which makes budgeting and monitoring of agent costs necessary.
- Copilot governance
- Controls for permissions, data access and oversight when using Copilot in a Microsoft 365 tenant.
- Episódios sobre Copilot governance:
- Copilot Studio
- Microsoft's low-code platform for building, customising and publishing AI agents and copilots. Makers define topics, knowledge sources, actions and flows and can publish the result to Teams, websites or Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Episódios sobre Copilot Studio:
- Copilot UX components
- Reusable user-interface building blocks for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences in custom apps and agents.
- Custom domain in Microsoft 365
- Own DNS domain verified in Microsoft 365 and used for email addresses, sign-in names and branding, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC records for trust.
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- Data entities (Dynamics 365)
- Abstractions in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations that expose business data through OData, data management and Excel for reading, importing and integrating records.
- Data governance
- Rules, roles and tools that keep data classified, protected and used correctly, essential before and while deploying Copilot and agents.
- Episódios sobre Data governance:
- Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Policies that detect sensitive information such as credit card numbers or personal data and prevent it from being shared, copied or uploaded in ways that violate company rules.
- Episódios sobre Data loss prevention (DLP):
- Dataverse
- The managed data platform behind Power Platform and Dynamics 365. It stores tables with relationships, security roles and business logic, so apps and agents work on one governed data source.
- Episódios sobre Dataverse:
- Dataverse MCP server
- MCP server that lets agents query and update Dataverse and Dynamics 365 data through the Model Context Protocol, an alternative to connectors.
- DAX
- Formula and query language for calculations in Power BI, Excel Power Pivot and Analysis Services semantic models.
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft's security product family for endpoints, email, identities, cloud apps and cloud workloads. Defender XDR correlates their alerts into single incidents so security teams can investigate and respond faster.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Defender:
- Microsoft Defender for Identity
- A security service that detects threats against on-premises identities, such as lateral movement and Kerberoasting.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Defender for Identity:
- Dual-write
- Near real-time, bi-directional data integration between Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps and Dataverse.
- Dynamics 365
- Microsoft's family of business applications for sales, customer service, finance, supply chain and more, including Business Central for small and mid-sized companies. It builds on Dataverse and Power Platform.
- Episódios sobre Dynamics 365:
- Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Cloud ERP for small and mid-sized businesses covering finance, sales, purchasing, inventory and operations; successor of Dynamics NAV, extended with AL and agents.
- Episódios sobre Dynamics 365 Business Central:
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
- A customer data platform and journey tool in Dynamics 365 for unified customer profiles and segmentation.
- Episódios sobre Dynamics 365 Customer Insights:
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- A Dynamics 365 application for managing support cases and customer service operations.
- Episódios sobre Dynamics 365 Customer Service:
- Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
- Cloud ERP application of Dynamics 365 for finance, supply chain, manufacturing and operations; successor of Dynamics AX, usually abbreviated D365FO.
- Episódios sobre Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations:
- Dynamics 365 Sales
- A Dynamics 365 application for managing leads, opportunities and the sales pipeline.
- Episódios sobre Dynamics 365 Sales:
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- eDiscovery
- Finding, holding and exporting electronic content for legal or investigative cases.
- Episódios sobre eDiscovery:
- Microsoft Entra
- Microsoft Entra is the family of identity and network access products from Microsoft, including Microsoft Entra ID.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Entra:
- Microsoft Entra Agent ID
- Identity type in Microsoft Entra for AI agents, so agents get their own identity, permissions and lifecycle instead of borrowing a user's or app's credentials.
- Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync
- Lightweight agent-based synchronisation of on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID, successor to Entra Connect Sync for many scenarios.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync:
- Microsoft Entra Connect
- Software that synchronises on-premises Active Directory identities with Microsoft Entra ID.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Entra Connect:
- Microsoft Entra Domain Services
- Managed domain services such as domain join, LDAP and Kerberos in Azure without running domain controllers.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Entra Domain Services:
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Microsoft's cloud identity and access management service, formerly Azure Active Directory. It handles sign-in, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, Conditional Access and app registrations for Microsoft 365, Azure and thousands of other apps.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Entra ID:
- ERP Analytics MCP
- MCP server that exposes Dynamics 365 ERP analytics from Business Performance Analytics to AI agents.
- EU AI Act
- The European Union regulation that sets risk-based rules for developing and using AI systems.
- Episódios sobre EU AI Act:
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet application of Microsoft 365 for calculations, tables, charts and data analysis, with Power Query, PivotTables, dynamic arrays and Copilot.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Excel:
- Excel for the web
- Browser version of Excel for viewing, editing and co-authoring workbooks; it supports common formulas, tables and charts but fewer advanced features than the desktop app.
- Exchange Online
- The cloud email, calendar and contacts service in Microsoft 365. Outlook connects to it, and mail flow rules, anti-phishing and retention policies are managed around it.
- Episódios sobre Exchange Online:
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- Microsoft Fabric
- An all-in-one analytics platform that combines data engineering, data warehousing, real-time analytics and Power BI on a shared storage layer called OneLake, billed through shared capacity.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Fabric:
- Microsoft Fabric Apps
- Custom, AI-assisted applications and dashboards built on top of Microsoft Fabric data, as an alternative or complement to classic Power BI reports.
- Fabric notebooks
- Notebook experience in Microsoft Fabric for data engineering and data science with PySpark, Python and SQL on lakehouse data.
- Fabric task flow
- Visual design in a Fabric workspace that maps the tasks of a data solution to items, making architecture and ownership visible.
- Fabric workspace
- Container in Microsoft Fabric that groups items such as lakehouses, notebooks and reports and defines access, capacity and deployment boundaries.
- Figma
- Collaborative interface design tool; a plugin turns Figma designs into Power Apps screens for designer-maker hand-off.
- FinOps
- Practice of managing and optimising cloud and AI spending through cost visibility, allocation, budgets and accountability.
- Microsoft Forms
- Tool for creating surveys, quizzes and polls whose responses flow into Excel, Power Automate and Teams.
- Microsoft Foundry
- Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating and operating AI applications and agents with model catalog, agent service, tools, evaluation and observability; formerly Azure AI Foundry.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Foundry:
- Foundry Agent Service
- Managed service in Microsoft Foundry for hosting AI agents with threads, tool calling, knowledge, MCP servers and enterprise security.
- Foundry Local
- Runtime and CLI for running AI models locally on a PC or device with an OpenAI-compatible API, without sending data to the cloud.
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- GDPR
- The EU General Data Protection Regulation governing how personal data may be processed.
- Episódios sobre GDPR:
- Generative pages
- Power Apps feature that generates app pages from a natural-language description on top of Dataverse data, using AI.
- GitHub Actions
- A CI/CD and automation service built into GitHub.
- Episódios sobre GitHub Actions:
- GitHub Copilot
- An AI coding assistant that suggests code, explains it, writes tests and, in agent mode, carries out multi-step changes in a repository under the developer's review.
- Episódios sobre GitHub Copilot:
- Governance
- The rules, roles and controls that define who may use which data and tools, and how that is monitored. For Copilot and agents, governance covers permissions, labelling, lifecycle of agents and auditability.
- Episódios sobre Governance:
- GPT-5
- A generation of large language models from OpenAI used in products such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
- Episódios sobre GPT-5:
- Microsoft Graph
- The unified API for Microsoft 365 data and services such as users, mail, calendar, files, Teams and security. Developers use one endpoint and one permission model; Copilot also uses Graph to ground answers in work data.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Graph:
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- Way to publish custom HTML content as pages in SharePoint, for example generated with AI, within the tenant's security boundary.
- Human in the loop
- A design principle where a person reviews or approves what an AI system or automation does.
- Episódios sobre Human in the loop:
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- Identity lifecycle management
- Automating how identities are created, changed and removed as people join, move within and leave an organisation, via provisioning and lifecycle workflows.
- Infrastructure as code
- Managing cloud infrastructure through versioned code and automated deployment instead of manual portal clicks.
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft's cloud service for managing devices and apps. It enforces configuration and compliance policies on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android and feeds device status into Conditional Access.
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- Knowledge source
- Content an agent in Copilot Studio can ground its answers on, such as SharePoint sites, files, websites, Dataverse tables or connectors.
- Episódios sobre Knowledge source:
- Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- The query language used in Microsoft Sentinel, Defender and Azure Monitor to analyse log data.
- Episódios sobre Kusto Query Language (KQL):
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- Microsoft Lists
- Tool for tracking information and work in customisable lists with views, rules and formatting, stored in SharePoint.
- Local-first AI
- Running AI models and agents on the user's device so data stays local, which can simplify compliance and reduce cloud costs.
- Microsoft Loop
- Collaborative workspace with portable Loop components, pages and workspaces that stay in sync across Teams, Outlook and Word.
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- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- An open protocol that lets AI applications connect to tools and data sources in a standard way. An MCP server exposes capabilities, and any compatible agent can discover and call them.
- Model-driven app
- Power Apps app type generated from the Dataverse data model, with forms, views and business process flows laid out automatically.
- Multifactor authentication (MFA)
- A sign-in method that requires at least two proofs of identity, for example a password plus a code or approval in an authenticator app. It blocks the vast majority of account-takeover attempts caused by stolen passwords.
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- Office on the web
- Browser versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook that run without installation and support real-time co-authoring.
- OneDrive
- Microsoft's cloud storage for personal work files. It syncs folders across devices and integrates with SharePoint, sharing controls and Microsoft 365 apps.
- Microsoft OneNote
- Digital notebook for typed notes, ink, images and web clippings, organised in notebooks, sections and pages and synced through OneDrive.
- Microsoft Outlook
- Email, calendar, contacts and tasks client of Microsoft 365 that connects to Exchange Online and other mail accounts.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Outlook:
- Outlook on the web
- Browser version of Outlook for mail, calendar and contacts, hosted by Exchange Online.
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- Microsoft Planner
- Task and project planning tool with boards, buckets, schedules and goals, integrated in Teams as the Planner app.
- PnP PowerShell
- Open-source PowerShell module maintained by the community for managing SharePoint, Teams and Microsoft 365 through Microsoft Graph and CSOM.
- Power Apps
- A low-code tool for building custom business apps for web and mobile. Canvas apps give full control over the layout, while model-driven apps are generated from the data model in Dataverse.
- Episódios sobre Power Apps:
- Power Apps code apps
- Power Apps app type where developers write the front end in code such as React and still use Power Platform connectors, Dataverse and managed security.
- Episódios sobre Power Apps code apps:
- Power Automate
- A service for automating workflows between apps and services. Cloud flows react to triggers such as a new email or file, desktop flows automate Windows applications, and both can include AI steps.
- Episódios sobre Power Automate:
- Power Automate Desktop
- Robotic process automation (RPA) tool for Windows that records and runs desktop flows to automate repetitive tasks in desktop and web applications.
- Power BI
- Microsoft's business intelligence tool for turning data into interactive reports and dashboards. Semantic models define the data and measures, and reports can be shared in the Power BI service or embedded in other apps.
- Episódios sobre Power BI:
- Power BI Desktop
- Free Windows application for connecting to data, modelling it and authoring Power BI reports before publishing them to the Power BI service.
- Power BI Service
- Cloud service of Power BI for publishing, sharing and refreshing reports, dashboards and semantic models, with workspaces, apps and row-level security.
- Power Fx
- Microsoft's open-source low-code formula language, modelled on Excel formulas, used in Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and Copilot Studio.
- Power Pages
- Power Pages is a low-code service for building secure, data-driven business websites.
- Episódios sobre Power Pages:
- Power Platform
- Microsoft's low-code family consisting of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages and Copilot Studio. Together with Dataverse it lets business users build apps, automations, reports and agents.
- Episódios sobre Power Platform:
- Power Platform admin center
- Central portal for administering Power Platform environments, data policies, capacity, tenant settings and analytics.
- Power Platform CLI
- A command-line tool for developing, packaging and deploying Power Platform components.
- Episódios sobre Power Platform CLI:
- Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)
- Entry-level certification covering the business value and core components of Power Platform.
- Power Query
- Data connection and transformation engine with a visual editor and the M language, built into Excel, Power BI, Power Apps dataflows and Fabric.
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Presentation software of Microsoft 365 for slides, templates, animations and live presenting, with co-authoring and Copilot-generated decks.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft PowerPoint:
- PowerPoint for the web
- Browser version of PowerPoint for creating, presenting and co-authoring slide decks.
- Process Mining
- Analysing event logs from business systems to reconstruct how processes really run, where they stall and where automation pays off. Microsoft offers it in Power Automate as process mining.
- Microsoft Project
- Project management software for schedules, resources and Gantt charts; cloud scheduling continues in Planner premium.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Project:
- Prompt
- The instruction or question given to an AI model. Clear prompts state the goal, the context, the desired format and any constraints; good prompting is the fastest way to better Copilot results.
- Episódios sobre Prompt:
- Prompt injection
- An attack in which hidden or malicious instructions in a document, web page or email trick an AI system into ignoring its rules or leaking data. Defences include limiting permissions, filtering inputs and requiring human approval for sensitive actions.
- Episódios sobre Prompt injection:
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft's family of data governance, protection and compliance tools. It covers sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, retention, eDiscovery, audit and insider-risk management across Microsoft 365 and other data sources.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Purview:
- Python in Excel
- Excel feature that runs Python code directly in cells for analysis and visualisation, executed in the Microsoft cloud.
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- Rayfin
- Tool presented at M365Con 2027 for developing Microsoft Fabric Apps with AI-driven development; see the session for details.
- Requirements management
- Discipline of capturing, structuring, validating and tracing the requirements of a system, increasingly supported by AI.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- A pattern in which an AI model first retrieves relevant documents from a knowledge source and then writes its answer based on them. It reduces made-up answers and lets models use current, private data without retraining.
- Episódios sobre Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG):
- Robotic Process Automation
- Software robots that mimic clicks and keystrokes to automate repetitive tasks in applications that offer no API. In Microsoft's world this is Power Automate for desktop.
- Episódios sobre Robotic Process Automation:
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- Microsoft Secure Score
- Measurement in the Microsoft Defender portal that scores a tenant's security posture and suggests improvement actions.
- Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
- Entry-level certification covering security, compliance and identity concepts with Microsoft solutions.
- Semantic Link Labs
- Open-source Python library from Microsoft that automates Power BI and Fabric semantic model management, best-practice checks and migrations from notebooks.
- Semantic model
- Business-friendly data model of tables, relationships and measures that Power BI reports and Copilot query; formerly called a dataset.
- Sensitivity labels
- Labels from Microsoft Purview that classify and protect documents, emails and meetings. A label can add encryption, visual markings and access restrictions that travel with the file wherever it goes.
- Microsoft 365's platform for intranets, document libraries and team sites. Most files shared in Teams are stored in SharePoint, so its permissions directly decide what Copilot can find.
- Episódios sobre SharePoint:
- AI agent that helps SharePoint administrators find and fix tenant problems such as inactive sites, oversharing and permission sprawl in natural language.
- Set of governance and lifecycle tools for SharePoint, such as site access reviews, inactive site policies, restricted access control and oversharing reports, included with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Episódios sobre SharePoint Advanced Management:
- API-first content platform that lets developers store and manage documents for their own apps in Microsoft 365 with its security and compliance.
- Add-on capabilities for SharePoint such as document processing, content AI, eSignature and advanced management, formerly marketed as Microsoft Syntex.
- Episódios sobre SharePoint Premium:
- Sovereign landing zone
- Azure landing zone variant with sovereignty controls for data residency, encryption and policy, built for regulated and public-sector customers.
- Star schema
- Data model design with a central fact table surrounded by dimension tables; the recommended structure for fast, simple Power BI models.
- Microsoft Stream
- Video service of Microsoft 365 where recordings and clips are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint and played back in Teams.
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- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft's collaboration hub for chat, meetings, calls and apps. It is also a main surface for Copilot and for agents built in Copilot Studio.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Teams:
- Teams Phone
- Cloud telephony in Microsoft Teams with calling plans, direct routing and operator connect for business phone numbers.
- Add-on licence for Teams with advanced meeting protection, branded meetings, AI-generated recaps and webinar features.
- Microsoft Teams Rooms
- Meeting-room systems with cameras, microphones and displays that join Teams meetings with a single touch.
- Teams Toolkit
- Developer tooling for building apps and agents for Microsoft Teams.
- Episódios sobre Teams Toolkit:
- Tenant-to-tenant migration
- Moving users, mailboxes, files, Teams and settings from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another, for example after a merger or divestiture.
- Terraform
- Multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code tool from HashiCorp with a provider for Azure.
- Microsoft To Do
- Personal task list app with My Day, lists and reminders, synced with Outlook tasks and Planner.
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- Vibe coding
- Building software by describing what you want in natural language and letting an AI generate and refine the code or app.
- Microsoft Visio
- Diagramming application for flowcharts, org charts, network and process diagrams, available as desktop app and Visio for the web.
- Visual Studio Code
- A free, extensible code editor from Microsoft.
- Episódios sobre Visual Studio Code:
- Microsoft Viva
- A set of employee-experience apps inside Teams and Microsoft 365, including Viva Engage for communities, Viva Insights for work patterns and Viva Learning for training.
- Episódios sobre Microsoft Viva:
- Viva Engage
- The enterprise social network in Microsoft Viva, the successor to Yammer.
- Episódios sobre Viva Engage:
- Viva Insights
- Microsoft Viva service that shows work patterns and wellbeing insights for individuals and teams.
- Episódios sobre Viva Insights:
- Viva Learning
- Microsoft Viva service that brings learning content such as LinkedIn Learning into Teams.
- Episódios sobre Viva Learning:
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- Microsoft Whiteboard
- Digital canvas for sketching, sticky notes and brainstorming, used in Teams meetings and on devices.
- Windows 365
- Cloud PC service that streams a personal Windows desktop from the Microsoft cloud on a fixed monthly price.
- Microsoft Word
- Word processor of Microsoft 365 for writing, formatting and reviewing documents, with co-authoring, comments, tracked changes and Copilot support.
- Word for the web
- Browser version of Word for writing and co-authoring documents without installing the desktop app.
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- Zero Trust
- A security model built on three principles: verify explicitly, use least-privilege access and assume breach. Instead of trusting anything inside the network, every request is checked against identity, device and context.
- Zero Trust Assessment
- Assessment tool that checks a Microsoft 365 and Entra tenant against Zero Trust practices and reports gaps with recommended fixes, going beyond Secure Score.