Something that a person, organisation or system is able to do.
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Terms in this definition
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
Related terms
- Accelerated Networking
SR-IOV capability that cuts latency, jitter and CPU overhead for VM networking in Azure. HPC VM sizes with RDMA achieve even lower latency.
- Access reviews
Microsoft Entra ID Governance capability that periodically asks reviewers or users themselves to confirm membership for guests, app users or groups, removing anyone who does not respond. PIM, by contrast, handles privileged roles.
- Accountability principle
Under this responsible AI principle, identifiable people must answer for how an AI system behaves; human oversight, override capability and governance committees support it.
- ACR geo-replication
Capability of Premium Azure Container Registry that keeps images in multiple regions while clients still use a single registry name.
- ACR Tasks
Capability present in all Azure Container Registry SKUs for building, pushing and patching images in the cloud, through quick tasks (
az acr build), triggered tasks or multi-step tasks. - Adaptive Protection
A Microsoft Purview capability in which Insider Risk Management rates each person as Minor, Moderate or Elevated risk. DLP, Conditional Access and data lifecycle policies then adjust automatically, so the tightest restrictions fall on the highest-risk people only.
- Adult content detection
Image Analysis 3.2 capability, needing no training, that flags images through isAdultContent, isRacyContent and isGoryContent with scores between 0 and 1. Newer moderation is offered by Azure AI Content Safety.
- Agentless discovery for Kubernetes
Capability in Defender CSPM and Defender for Containers that inventories Kubernetes clusters and assesses their posture through APIs, using the Kubernetes Agentless Operator role. Pod admission and blocking are outside its scope.