Swiss DCs Regular Partner Update Calls

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from Friday's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Azure

• Good list of additionally deployed services in Switzerland per the pdf/recording
• Clarification on local data residency for Sentinel
• Info on Azure.com pricing calculator and missing pricing

Dynamics 365

• Update on the upcoming deployments
• Please reach out with urgent needs on Power Apps Portals and Customer Insights (Audience Insights) as it could already be enabled 

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

New Public References for Swiss DCs

• Canton and city of SH for M365 and Teams, schools city SH for Surface
• Raiffeisen group for M365 and Teams
• SBB Cargo for Azure (changing from multi-cloud to single-cloud), M365 and Power Platform
• Migros - generic
• Swissmilk for Azure, M365 and Dynamics - Business Central

New Compliance Resources

• Whitepaper regarding legal situation for public cloud in Swiss public sector
• Azure cloud design training recording
• Heads-up on M365 cloud design papers

Azure

• Availability Zones in Switzerland North
• Purview in Switzerland North
• Health Data Services HDS in Switzerland North
• DSv5 series in Switzerland North
• Ebsv5-series in Switzerland North
• Azure Stack Edge: Azure Data Box Gateway in Switzerland North

Microsoft 365 and Windows 365

• Update on M365 move progress to Swiss DCs, delay for some SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business tenants
• Corp relaxed approvals for late M365 opt-in requests, approach this through support
• Update on Windows 365 deployment in Swiss DC

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Public References

• Canton of Zurich adopts Microsoft Cloud with M365, see their detailed risk analysis as well as the risks of not doing it - - great read and very strong signal to public sector Switzerland 
• Bank Avera: Microsoft testimonials campaign and Teams / Safety Standards partner reference
• Kellerhals Carrard: top Swiss firm relying on full Microsoft cloud stack in Swiss DCs with a partner
• Schweizerisches Kompetenzzentrum für Justizvollzug: partner reference cases on both Power Platform as well as M365 and Azure

Azure

• Azure Confidential Computing DCsv3 VMs available in Switzerland North
• Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare deployed in Switzerland
• Azure Arc-enabled servers launched in Switzerland North
• Archive Storage now GA in North (was preview before) and also available in West now
• Azure Event Hubs Premium SKU in Switzerland West

Microsoft 365

• Update on M365 move progress to Swiss DCs
• After move: Teams Live Events external encoder support currently missing

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Public References

• Regionaler Sozialdienst Baden (social service city of Baden) 

Azure

• Azure Event Hubs Premium SKU in Switzerland North
• Machine Learning in Switzerland North
• Azure Stack Edge Pro 2 in Switzerland North and West
• Update on Availability Zones launch approach

Dynamics 365

• Project Operations now locally available

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Public References

• Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank
• dacadoo
• Liiva, joint venture start-up between Raiffeisen and Mobiliar

Azure

• Azure Communication Services GA in Switzerland North, see the call-out on US numbers
• NDA Update on Azure Confidential Computing Intel SGX in Switzerland North, see call-outs

Dynamics 365

• Update on D365 F&SCM/O Microservices: Electronic Invoicing now locally available

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from Friday's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Public References

• Mobiliar
• Leonteq / Glarner Kantonalbank
• armasuisse / Swiss Federal Government

Azure

• Mv2 VM Series (up to 11.4 TB memory) for SAP available in Switzerland North and West
• Databricks in Switzerland West (was there in North already before)
• Azure Key Vault Managed HSM in Switzerland West (was there in North already before)
• Firewall Premium in Switzerland West (was there in North already before)
• Azure Web PubSub in Switzerland North
• Clarification and reminders about region Switzerland West
• Availability Zones update and services launch approach

Compliance

• Azure Public Sector Cloud Design - papers now also available in French (in addition to German)
• Risk assessment guidance - new whitepaper available in both German and French
• Reminder on compliance assets for financial services customers
• New ISAE 3000 audit report on Azure and M365

Dynamics 365

• Update on D365 F&SCM/O Microservices: Export to Data Lake as well as Tax Calculation now locally available
• List of Known Issues in local D365 F&O / SCM environment 

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Public Reference

• Zürcher Kantonalbank

Azure

• Clarifications on Schwiizerdütsch in Azure Speech Services
• Archive Storage available in Switzerland North
• Fsv2-Series in Switzerland West (was there in North already before)
• AAD Domain Services in Switzerland West (was there in North already before)
• Availability Zones Update and Services Launch Approach
• Public Sector Cloud Design - Resources to Support Partners and Customers with Azure deployments in PS Switzerland

Dynamics 365

• Update on D365 F&SCM/O Microservices - reach out if you have local demand 

[Primo]

Please find attached the slides from today's partner Swiss DCs update call. Main info:

Azure

• Azure Price Reduction in Switzerland & Swiss DCs as Default Main Message to Market
• Azure NetApp Files in Switzerland North & West
• Data Box in Switzerland North and West
• Azure Active Directory Domain Services in Switzerland North 
• Azure Route Server in Switzerland North
• Speech Services STT & TTS mit Schwiizerdütsch

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from Friday's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info about concrete deployments:

Azure

• Azure Stream Analytics launched in Switzerland North

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Azure

• Few additionally deployed services in Switzerland per the pdf/recording
• NDA heads-up on Azure NetApp Files ANF and M-series v2 VMs

Dynamics 365

• Business Central launch, including note that all existing Swiss environments are automatically migrated from European DCs to Swiss DCs
• Power Platform AI Builder launch 
• D365 F&O / F&SCM reminder & heads-up on local deployments, region moves and microservices 

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Public Stories

• Press Release on new services in Swiss DCs two weeks ago 
• Groupe Mutuel story on D365, power platform and Azure one week ago

Azure

• New GPUs with NVv3 in Switzerland North
• Logic Apps GA in Switzerland North (was in preview before)
• NDA update on an extract of upcoming workloads

M365

• Good news on Whiteboard storage moving to OneDrive for Business and later SharePoint Online, therefore enabling local data residency possibilities and more control

Dynamics 365

• D365 Marketing now generally available
• NDA update on AI Builder
• Special Call-outs on D365 Finance & Supply Chain Management / Operations: 
  • Default Region EU DCs and how to request Swiss DCs
  • Region Moves from EU DCs to Swiss DCs are not seamless and how to approach it

Please treat the content confidential under NDA expect publicly available information

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

General

• New public Swiss DCs client stories with Halter (D365 & Power Platform), Gebäudeversicherung Bern (Azure & M365 incl Teams) and Kantonsspital Baden (Azure & Teams)

Azure

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Hyperscale (Citus) launched in Switzerland North
• Overview of available local services and roadmap update under NDA

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

• Power Apps Portals and Power Virtual Agents now GA
• Update on the upcoming deployments

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

Azure

• New deployments DB Migration Service, Premium Block Blobs, Fsv2 VMs and first GPUs with NCv3
• Clarification on Switzerland West

M365

• Live Events: captions now enabled 

Dynamics 365

• D365 Finance, Supply Chain Management, Commerce and Sales Insight (in Switzerland North) and Customer Insights / Audience Insights now GA
• D365 Marketing and PowerApps Portals available for first deployments through Corp enablement, GA planned later in May
• Business Central: first positive timing indication as mentioned in the call recording

Please treat the content confidential under NDA expect publicly available information 

[Primo]

Please find attached the recording from today's partner Swiss DCs update call as well as the pdf slides for a quick overview. Main info:

General

• New public cases with sensitive data in the Microsoft Cloud in Switzerland, click on screenshot in pdf to find the story
• Microsoft Industry / vertical clouds (for Healthcare, etc) and Swiss data residency

M365

• Dataverse for Teams launched in Switzerland
• Live Events available out of Swiss DCs and related info 

Dynamics 365

• Update on the upcoming deployments