Merge branch 'main' into release-openai-audio-models

Author: v-alje

articles/ai-services/language-service/whats-new.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ author: jboback
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: azure-ai-language
 ms.topic: whats-new
-ms.date: 03/24/2025
+ms.date: 04/10/2025
 ms.author: jboback
 ---
 
@@ -16,7 +16,19 @@ Azure AI Language is updated on an ongoing basis. To stay up-to-date with recent
 
 ## March 2025
 
-* Our [Conversational PII redaction](personally-identifiable-information/how-to/redact-conversation-pii.md?tabs=client-libraries) service is now powered by an upgraded GA model. This updated 2024-02-01 version includes improved quality and accuracy in Credit card number entities and numeric identification entities, such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, policy numbers, Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers, and Financial account numbers.
+* Azure AI Language resource now can be deployed to 3 new regions, Jio India Central, UK West and Canada East, for the following capabilities: 
+ * Language detection 
+ * Sentiment analysis 
+ * Key phrase extraction 
+ * Named entity recognition (NER) 
+ * Personally identifiable information (PII) entity recognition 
+ * Entity linking 
+ * Text analytics for health 
+ * Extractive text summarization 
+
+* Back-end infrastructure for the Named entity recognition (NER) and Text Personally identifiable information (PII) entity recognition models is now updated with extended context window limits. 
+
+* Our [Conversational PII redaction](personally-identifiable-information/how-to/redact-conversation-pii.md?tabs=client-libraries) service is now powered by an upgraded GA model. This updated version includes improved quality and accuracy in Credit card number entities and Numeric identification entities, such as Social Security numbers, Driver’s license numbers, Policy numbers, Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers, and Financial account numbers.
 
 ## February 2025
 

articles/search/cognitive-search-debug-session.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ms.service: azure-ai-search
 ms.custom:
   - ignite-2023
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 12/03/2024
+ms.date: 04/10/2025
 ---
 
 # Debug Sessions in Azure AI Search
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Debug Sessions work with all generally available [indexer data sources](search-d
 
 + For custom skills, a user-assigned managed identity isn't supported for a debug session connection to Azure Storage. As stated in the prerequisites, you can use a system managed identity, or specify a full access connection string that includes a key. For more information, see [Connect a search service to other Azure resources using a managed identity](search-howto-managed-identities-data-sources.md).
 
++ Data sources with encryption enabled via [customer managed keys (CMK)](search-security-manage-encryption-keys.md).
+  
 + Currently, the ability to select which document to debug is unavailable. This limitation isn't permanent and will be lifted soon. At this time, Debug Sessions selects the first document in the source data container or folder.
 
 ## How a debug session works

articles/search/search-capacity-planning.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ms.custom:
   - ignite-2023
   - ignite-2024
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 03/31/2025
+ms.date: 04/10/2025
 ---
 
 # Estimate and manage capacity of a search service
@@ -88,23 +88,23 @@ To increase or decrease the capacity of your service, you have two options:
 
    The following screenshot shows a Standard service provisioned with one replica and partition. The formula at the bottom indicates how many search units are being used (1). If the unit price was $100 (not a real price), the monthly cost of running this service would be $100 on average.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/initial-values.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Scale page showing the current replica and partition values." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/initial-values.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Scale page showing the current replica and partition values." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/initial-values.png":::
 
 1. Use the slider to increase or decrease the number of partitions. Select **Save**.
 
    This example adds a second replica and partition. Notice the search unit count; it's now four because the billing formula is replicas multiplied by partitions (2 x 2). Doubling capacity more than doubles the cost of running the service. If the search unit cost was $100, the new monthly bill would now be $400.
 
    For the current per unit costs of each tier, visit the [pricing page](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/search/).
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/add-two-each.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Scale page with added replicas and partitions." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/add-two-each.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Scale page with added replicas and partitions." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/add-two-each.png":::
 
 1. Check your notifications to confirm that the operation started.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/portal-notifications.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the notification of the scaling operation in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/portal-notifications.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the notification of the scaling operation in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/portal-notifications.png":::
 
    This operation can take several hours to complete. You can’t cancel the process after it starts, and there’s no real-time monitoring of replica and partition adjustments. However, the following message displays while changes are underway.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/updating-message.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Updating message in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/updating-message.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Updating message in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/updating-message.png":::
 
 ### Change your pricing tier
 
@@ -134,17 +134,17 @@ To change your pricing tier:
 
 1. Under your current tier, select **Change Pricing Tier**.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/change-pricing-tier.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Change Pricing Tier button in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/change-pricing-tier.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Change Pricing Tier button in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/change-pricing-tier.png":::
 
 1. On the **Select Pricing Tier** page, choose a higher tier from the list. Currently, you can only move up between Basic, S1, S2, and S3. Other pricing tiers are unavailable and appear dimmed.
 
 1. To switch to the higher tier, select **Select**.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/pricing-tier-list.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Select Pricing Tier page and the list of higher tiers in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/pricing-tier-list.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Select Pricing Tier page and the list of higher tiers in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/pricing-tier-list.png":::
 
    This operation can take several hours to complete. You can’t cancel the process after it starts, and there’s no real-time monitoring of tier changes. However, on the **Overview** page, a **Provisioning** status indicates the operation is underway for your service.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/provisioning-status.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the service Overview page with a Provisioning status." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-capacity-planning/provisioning-status.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the service Overview page with a Provisioning status." border="true" lightbox="media/search-capacity-planning/provisioning-status.png":::
 
 ## How scale requests are handled
 

articles/search/search-how-to-upgrade.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ms.author: haileytapia
 ms.service: azure-ai-search
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.custom: references_regions
-ms.date: 04/04/2025
+ms.date: 04/10/2025
 ---
 
 # Upgrade your Azure AI Search service in the Azure portal
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ For [eligible services](#upgrade-eligibility), the following table compares the
 
 On the **Overview** page, you can view various metadata about your search service, including the **Create date (UTC)** and **Upgrade date (UTC)**.
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/service-creation-upgrade-metadata.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the service creation and service upgrade dates in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+:::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/service-creation-upgrade-metadata.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the service creation and service upgrade dates in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-how-to-upgrade/service-creation-upgrade-metadata.png":::
 
 The date you created your service partially determines its [upgrade eligibility](#upgrade-eligibility). If your service has never been upgraded, the **Upgrade date (UTC)** doesn't appear.
 
@@ -87,19 +87,19 @@ To upgrade your service:
 
 1. On the **Overview** page, select **Upgrade** from the command bar.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-button.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Upgrade button on the command bar in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-button.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Upgrade button on the command bar in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-button.png":::
 
    If this button appears dimmed, an upgrade isn’t available for your service. Your service either has the [latest upgrade](#check-your-service-creation-or-upgrade-date) or is in an [unsupported region](#upgrade-eligibility).
 
 1. Review the upgrade details for your service, and then select **Upgrade**.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-panel.png" alt-text="Screenshot of your service upgrade details in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-panel.png" alt-text="Screenshot of your service upgrade details in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-panel.png":::
 
    A confirmation appears reminding you that the upgrade can't be undone.
 
 1. To permanently upgrade your service, select **Upgrade**.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-confirmation.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the upgrade confirmation in the Azure portal." border="true":::
+   :::image type="content" source="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-confirmation.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the upgrade confirmation in the Azure portal." border="true" lightbox="media/search-how-to-upgrade/upgrade-confirmation.png":::
 
 1. Check your notifications to confirm that the operation started.