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  Product Reference Microsoft 365 Backup Microsoft 365 Backup provides backup for Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive for work accounts, and SharePoint...more   Product Reference SharePoint Embedded SharePoint Embedded is document management infrastructure for custom apps.   Product Reference Viva Learning Viva Learning provides custom training content to individuals in support of an organization’s continual learning...more   Product Reference Viva Insights Viva Insights is a Teams-based application that provides employees with information to help improve work...more   Product Reference Azure OpenAI Service Azure OpenAI service enables developers to use large language models (LLMs) developed by OpenAI (a...more   Product Reference Dynamics 365 Project Operations Dynamics 365 Project Operations provides integrated project management and resource management for service projects, project...more   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Archive Microsoft 365 Archive is a consumption service for storing inactive SharePoint and OneDrive sites   Product Reference Microsoft Search Microsoft Search is the enterprise search engine for Microsoft 365   Product Reference Dynamics 365 CRM Dynamics 365 CRM is a Microsoft cloud service and on-premises software that offers sales, marketing,...more   Product Reference OneLake OneLake is the core data management component in Microsoft Fabric. It can host and query...more   Product Reference Data Lake Storage Flexible architectural choices enable performance, cost optimization, scalability, and resilience across diverse data lake workloads.   Product Reference Places Microsoft Places is a set of advanced work-scheduling features for Teams and Exchange Online, intended...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a service that offers endpoint protection features including antimalware on...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 offers two tiers of service that help prevent and assess...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Identity Microsoft Defender for Identity is a Microsoft-hosted service that captures, parses, and analyzes Active Directory...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Microsoft-hosted service designed to help organizations discover the...more
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