The Azure OpenAI Service is a specialized offering within the broader set of Azure Cognitive Services, providing access to OpenAI's language models. The service can be accessed through REST APIs, Python SDK, and a web-based interface, Azure OpenAI Studio. In this article, you will learn how to deploy and access the GPT-4o model in Azure with PowerShell.

Microsoft Graph activity logs, a component of Microsoft Graph, is now generally available. Microsoft Graph is a unified API that provides access to a wide range of Microsoft 365 services and data, enabling developers to integrate and interact with services like Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint through a single endpoint. Microsoft Graph activity logs provides a detailed record of user and admin activities across Microsoft 365 services, enabling monitoring, auditing, and analyzing actions within the organization's environment. In this post, I explain Microsoft Graph activity logs use cases and outline how to install and integrate them with Azure Monitor logs.

Azure App Service Automatic Scaling is a new feature that intelligently manages the number of instances of a web application. It analyzes real-time HTTP traffic and scales out (adds instances) or scales in (removes instances) to match demand. The most significant advantage of Automatic Scaling is that it simplifies web application management, offering a less complex approach than services like Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which often require detailed rule definitions.

Azure Storage Actions is a new serverless framework that facilitates functional automated operations on storage accounts. The preview release allows you to set up storage tasks that automatically execute operations on blobs within Azure Storage accounts, controlled by user-defined conditions. With storage tasks, objects in storage accounts can automatically be managed without relying on additional automation services such as Azure Functions or Azure Logic Apps.