Setup Guide Azure OpenAI
Detailed guide for setting up Azure OpenAI
General Information
The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service enables secure and scalable access to advanced language models through REST API endpoints within your organization's own Azure tenant. Access to these endpoints is managed via an API key. Data sent to the service is not used for model training and remains inaccessible to third parties.
Privacy & Data Handling
Your prompts (inputs) and completions (outputs), your embeddings, and your training data:
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are NOT available to other customers.
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are NOT available to OpenAI or other Azure Direct Model providers.
- are NOT used by Azure Direct Model providers to improve their models or services.
- are NOT used to train any generative AI foundation models without your permission or instruction.
- Customer Data, Prompts, and Completions are NOT used to improve Microsoft or third-party products or services without your explicit permission or instruction.
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Please see Data, privacy, and security for Azure OpenAI Service - Azure AI services for more details.
Setting Up Azure OpenAI
Choose an EU-based Microsoft Azure region for GDPR compliance and set up the service in accordance with company policies and compliance guidelines. Follow zapliance’s detailed setup instructions for implementation.
Optional: Web Search for zapHome OnPrem AI Search
Azure OpenAI web search enables your LLM to retrieve and ground responses with real-time information from the selected web sources. When enabled, the model can return up-to-date answers with inline citations. Web search is available via the web_search tool in the Responses API.
This tool needs to be enabled in your Azure OpenAI model if you deploy zapHome OnPrem AI Search.
Please refer to the official Microsoft documentation for detailed setup instructions.