Short for Microsoft Active Protection Service. It gives Microsoft Defender Antivirus cloud verdicts on suspect files in seconds, and features like file indicators stop working if it is turned off or blocked.
Also called Microsoft Active Protection Service.
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Each book explains MAPS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Antimalware built into Windows. It integrates with Defender for Endpoint and can operate in either passive or active mode.
- Document Intelligence add-on capabilities
Extra Document Intelligence options switched on with the features query parameter: barcodes, formulas, keyValuePairs, languages, ocrHighResolution, queryFields and styleFont.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- Stop sequence
One of up to four strings that make the model halt generation; the sequence itself is not included in the output.
Related terms
- AAAA
Maps a hostname to an IPv6 address in DNS; IPv4 addresses use A records.
- ASIM
The Advanced Security Information Model in Microsoft Sentinel, which maps data from many vendors onto shared schemas so one query or detection rule works whatever the source.
- Azure Maps visual
The map visual based on Azure Maps, offering layers such as bubbles, heat maps, 3D columns, filled areas, markers, paths and reference shapes. It has to be switched on by an admin in tenant settings and takes over from the Bing map and filled map, both due for deprecation.
- Customer-managed keys (Azure AI Search)
Adds a further encryption layer to Azure AI Search, protecting indexes and synonym maps with an RSA key you hold in Key Vault or Managed HSM, which the service reaches using its managed identity. Expect queries up to 30-60% slower and no added capacity.
- DNAT rule
Azure Firewall rule, evaluated before any other, that maps a public IP and port on the firewall to an internal IP and port, with the translated traffic allowed automatically.
- Filled map
Also known as a choropleth, this Bing-driven Power BI map shades each area according to a value. Microsoft plans to deprecate it, and existing filled maps can be upgraded to Azure Maps.
- Guided Network Troubleshooting
One-page investigation in VCF Operations for networks: pick a VM or application, and it maps dependencies, ties alerts and metrics together and highlights anomalies, logging the session as an incident.
- IOMMU
Input-output memory management unit, a processor capability that maps how devices access memory. Discrete Device Assignment and GPU partitioning both require it.