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Azure Feeds Weekly: 15 Sep 2026 to 22 Sep 2026
Another week, more Azure bits to sift through
Sphere OS: GA retail release, devices auto-update; kernel moves to 6.1, final major kernel change
Functions PowerShell 7.6: GA, update apps and local toolchains before deploying to Functions plans
GitHub OIDC: subject claims moving to immutable subjects, update federated credentials
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[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Sphere OS 26.09 is available in the Retail feed; internet-connected devices will receive the OS update automatically and there is no SDK change to apply. |
2026-09-22 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing a Guided Copilot Experience for Building Azure Apps in VS Code
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: a guided GitHub Copilot experience in VS Code provides a structured workflow from idea to deployed Azure app instead of free-form chat, try the preview in VS Code to evaluate the new authoring and deployment flow. |
2026-09-22 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.6
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally available: Azure Functions now supports PowerShell 7.6, so update your Function apps and local development toolchains to 7.6 before deploying to Functions plans. |
2026-09-22 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Foundry Routines in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Foundry Agent Service adds Foundry Routines, a native trigger primitive to run published agents on schedules or business events, evaluate and test routines to automate agent runs in your workflows. |
2026-09-19 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Mdsv4 and Msv4 Series Virtual Machines for SAP
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Mdsv4 and Msv4 memory-optimised VM series (6th Gen Intel, enhanced security, Azure Boost) are available for SAP and other memory-intensive workloads, test them in preview for your SAP sizing and performance validation. |
2026-09-19 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Enable and disable controls for Microsoft Foundry agents in Agent 365
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally available: Agent 365 in Microsoft Admin Center now exposes enable and disable actions for Microsoft Foundry agents, so administrators can toggle agent availability across their tenant via the governance surface. |
2026-09-19 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Network egress controls for hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents can be governed with ordered outbound egress rules matched on destination host (FQDN with wildcards) and actions to allow or deny, so author rules to restrict hosted agent outbound connectivity. |
2026-09-19 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally available: You can now publish Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams natively, so update your publishing workflows to make agents available to users via Copilot and Teams. |
2026-09-19 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Logical replication slot sync status metric for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server exposes the logical_replication_slot_sync_status Azure Monitor metric so you can monitor per-logical-replication-slot sync state and add alerts or dashboards. |
2026-09-19 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: New and improved troubleshooting guides for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: updated troubleshooting documentation for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server provides expanded diagnostics for high CPU, memory, IOPS, temporary file usage, and autovacuum to help you triage incidents. |
2026-09-19 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: PG18 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters now support PostgreSQL 18, so you can deploy new clusters or plan upgrades to PG18,validate application compatibility before migrating. |
2026-09-19 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Payments HSM v2
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure Payments HSM v2 is available as a highly available, single-tenant Payment HSM that gives you exclusive administrative control for payment processing, credential issuance, PIN processing, key management, and authentication data protection, evaluate it for pay |
2026-09-18 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: High-scale mesh in Azure Virtual Network Manager
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager high-scale mesh (connected group) now supports up to 3,000 virtual networks in a single mesh by default in available regions, so update your network designs and automation to exploit the higher VN-to-mesh scale. |
2026-09-18 |
鈩癸笍 Update
Retirement Update: SAP container images removed October 14, 2026
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: the containerized SAP data connector was retired on 14 Sep 2026 and is unsupported, and its container images will be removed on 14 Oct 2026,migrate any pipelines that depend on those images. |
2026-09-17 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-September 2026
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public Preview: Azure SQL now supports configurable soft delete for logical servers so deleted servers enter a soft-deleted, self-restorable state for the configured retention period,test and set retention to meet recovery needs. |
2026-09-17 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public Preview: Azure Red Hat OpenShift adds a hosted control plane deployment option where the OpenShift control plane is a fully managed service separate from customer worker nodes running applications. |
2026-09-17 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: PostgreSQL skills and MCP plugin for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public Preview: the PostgreSQL skills and MCP plugin for Azure Database for PostgreSQL enables supported AI coding assistants to be context-aware and act on connected databases, so review access controls and governance before enabling it. |
2026-09-17 |
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Azure Architecture Center
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IPv6 hub-and-spoke network topology
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Follow the Azure Architecture Center guide to convert a hub-and-spoke network to dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, and plan addressing, routing, and security group changes as part of your migration. |
2026-09-19 |
Implement advanced monitoring for Foundry Models through a gateway
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Follow the Architecture Centre guide to implement advanced monitoring for Foundry Models through a gateway to enable chargeback, auditing, and other model telemetry scenarios. |
2026-09-18 |
Compare AWS and Azure database services
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Use the Azure vs AWS database services comparison to select relational and non-relational options (document, key-value, wide-column, graph, in-memory) that align with your workload characteristics and migration constraints. |
2026-09-17 |
Compare AWS and Azure analytics services
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Use the Azure vs AWS analytics services comparison to map data integration, data lakes, data engineering, data warehousing, real-time analytics, governance, and BI requirements to the appropriate platform services for your architecture and migration plan. |
2026-09-17 |
Compare AWS and Azure AI and machine learning services
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Use the Azure vs AWS AI and machine learning comparison to match requirements for model training, generative AI, vision, speech, language, document intelligence, and AI search to the cloud services that fit your deployment and operational needs. |
2026-09-17 |
Compare AWS and Azure messaging services
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Architecture reference maps AWS messaging services to their Azure equivalents (for SES, SQS, and related components) to use when planning migrations or integration work. |
2026-09-17 |
Network secure ingress pattern implementation with Azure Front Door Premium tier
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Implement the network secure ingress pattern with Azure Front Door Premium to get global routing, health-based origin failover, and edge-based attack mitigation: follow the architecture guide for configuration and origin placement. |
2026-09-16 |
Automate API Management configuration deployments by using APIOps CLI
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Adopt the APIOps CLI to extract, review, and deploy Azure API Management configuration as version-controlled artefacts so you can manage APIM config in your CI/CD pipelines. |
2026-09-16 |
Connect an on-premises SAP system to the OPC UA reference solution
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Follow the reference guide to connect an on-premises SAP ERP system to the OPC UA reference solution using Azure Logic Apps and Azure Data Explorer to stream industrial telemetry into your Azure pipeline. |
2026-09-16 |
Connect Dynamics 365 Field Service to the OPC UA reference solution
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Use the integration guide to create customer assets and IoT alerts in Dynamics 365 Field Service from OPC UA telemetry by wiring Azure Logic Apps to Azure Data Explorer and D365 Field Service. |
2026-09-16 |
Administer SQL Server with Azure Arc
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Use Azure Arc to manage, maintain, and monitor SQL Server instances across on-premises and multicloud environments; follow the guide to attach servers and centralise management and monitoring. |
2026-09-16 |
Baseline architecture for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Follow the Azure reference baseline architecture when deploying AKS clusters to align with recommended infrastructure patterns and reduce custom configuration surprises during cluster rollout. |
2026-09-15 |
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Microsoft Blogs
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Spec-Driven Development comes to Azure Cosmos DB: The First Database Extension for GitHub Spec Kit
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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Azure Cosmos DB now provides the first GitHub Spec Kit database extension to codify design decisions (partition keys, access patterns, client configuration) alongside your code,add it to your repo to record those choices. |
2026-09-21 |
From guidance to action: Security fundamentals that materially reduce risk
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft Security Blog: follow the exposure management guidance and recommended controls for AI-changed threat scenarios and prioritise implementing the advised controls to materially reduce your organisation's risk. |
2026-09-18 |
Improving email security outcomes with real-world Microsoft Defender insights
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft Defender email benchmarking shows where pre-delivery and post-delivery protections are effective and where threats are evolving, review the report and adjust your email protection rules and detection tuning accordingly. |
2026-09-18 |
Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.3.0
PowerShell Team Blog (website)
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General Availability: Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.3.0 is GA with new Windows resources, a registry adapter, server mode improvements, expression function updates, expanded what-if support, and experimental export filtering, plan upgrades and test compatibility with y |
2026-09-18 |
Build Your Own AI Agent Harness in C#, the MafClaw Live Series
.NET Blog (website)
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Follow the four-part live series that builds a production-ready C# AI agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework, covering an IChatClient, observability, and governance. |
2026-09-17 |
Investing in a more reliable Microsoft Graph PowerShell experience
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Microsoft Graph PowerShell engineering is shifting focus to PowerShell 7.x and later; run and validate Graph PowerShell on PowerShell 7.x to receive fixes and new capabilities rather than relying on Windows PowerShell 5.x. |
2026-09-17 |
Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Run the Foundry Dev Pack one-command installer to prepare your machine for Microsoft Foundry development, installing terminal tools, VS Code integrations, and coding agent tooling in a single step. |
2026-09-16 |
Coding agents are picking Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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A benchmark of coding agents found they selected Azure SQL Database when asked to pick and build with a database; if you use AI coding agents that scaffold projects, evaluate Azure SQL for compatibility, connection strings, and migration paths. |
2026-09-16 |
Performance Improvements in .NET 11
.NET Blog (website)
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.NET 11 contains hundreds of performance improvements; benchmark your applications on .NET 11 and plan upgrades where the improvements reduce latency, CPU, or memory for your workloads. |
2026-09-16 |
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Microsoft Tech Community
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Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Sphere OS 26.09 is available in the Retail feed: internet-connected devices will auto-update to a kernel migration from Linux 5.10 to 6.1 (this is the final major kernel update before Azure Sphere retirement in 2031), no SDK or functional changes required. |
2026-09-22 |
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0 is now generally available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Generally available: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0 fixes a range of issues around connection failures, retries, transactions, pooling, streaming, encryption, and newer SQL Server data types, upgrade your applications to 7.1.0 to get more predictable connection and transaction b |
2026-09-22 |
Virtual nodes on Azure Container Instances: a new compute layer for AKS
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Virtual nodes on Azure Container Instances attach ACI as serverless Kubernetes nodes to your AKS cluster so pods can run on ACI for burst capacity without node management or capacity planning; evaluate virtual nodes for AKS burst scenarios. |
2026-09-22 |
Prepare your tenant estate for AI: Join our upcoming webinars
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Generally available: Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance is GA; if you manage multiple tenants, plan to deploy it to gain cross-tenant visibility, apply consistent policies, and reduce shadow-tenant risk, and join the webinars to learn deployment steps. |
2026-09-22 |
What the Azure API Management integration means for Azure Service Bus
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Generally available: Azure API Management now includes a send-service-bus-message policy so you can expose an HTTP API that sends messages directly to Service Bus queues or topics without an intermediary translator service, configure the policy to add an async boundary to your AP |
2026-09-22 |
Bringing Defender Experts protection and proactive hunting into focus
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft updated Defender Experts MDR (including Defender Experts Hunting) to provide more proactive investigations and earlier awareness of suspicious activity; security teams using the service should review the updated capabilities and adjust monitoring and response playbooks. |
2026-09-22 |
Demystifying Dynamic AI Routing: Exploring the model router in Foundry Models with RouteLab
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Foundry Models' model router (with RouteLab testing) lets you route requests in real time across models to balance cost, latency, and response quality, so adopt the router and use RouteLab to test routing rules before production. |
2026-09-22 |
Elasticsearch Vector Database on Azure: semantic search and RAG without managing a cluster
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Elastic has released a serverless Elasticsearch Vector Database on Azure with native portal integrations, enabling you to deploy semantic search and RAG without managing a search cluster. |
2026-09-22 |
Building a Fully Local Maintenance Assistant with Microsoft Foundry Local
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Demonstrates a fully local RAG assistant built with Microsoft Foundry Local, running retrieval and model inference on the same machine and embedding structured records locally (all-MiniL in the example). |
2026-09-21 |
Beyond Cherry-Picking: Evaluating Text-to-Image Models
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When evaluating text-to-image models, stop cherry-picking prompts and use standardized benchmarks, automated judge pipelines, and comprehensive metrics to get reliable comparisons. |
2026-09-21 |
You Get One Exchange Left: Rethinking Azure Commitments Before February 2027
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Reservation exchange rules for Azure commitments are changing ahead of February 2027, so review whether to commit via reservations or savings plans now because your ability to exchange reservations will be reduced. |
2026-09-21 |
Microphone and Camera Streaming for Mixed Reality Link
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The latest Mixed Reality Link release lets Windows use your headset's built-in microphone and cameras directly, so update Mixed Reality Link and adjust Windows or Teams audio/video settings if you want headset mic and camera input. |
2026-09-19 |
Title Plan Update - September 18, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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From 18 Sep 2026 the Instructor-Led Training Title Plan is published weekly at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan, check that URL regularly to ensure your ILT materials and course lists are using the latest title plan. |
2026-09-19 |
A2A Endpoints and A2A Tool in Microsoft Foundry agents
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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A2A protocol version 1.0 is generally available: the A2A Tool and incoming A2A endpoints now support v1.0 for new integrations, while the earlier a2a_preview tool and protocol 0.3 remain available in preview for existing integrations. |
2026-09-19 |
Two modes combined: Windows Admin Center version 2610 is now in public preview!
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Windows Admin Center 2610 combines Administration Mode and Virtualization Mode into a single installer where you must select one mode per installation (you cannot install both on the same machine); test the installer and new vMode features like Azure Arc onboardin |
2026-09-19 |
FinOps-Ready Azure Landing Zone - Part 2
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Part 2 of the FinOps-Ready Azure Landing Zone series provides implementation guidance using Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Cost Management, Azure Advisor, Microsoft Entra ID, and Log Analytics, consult it when designing governance and cost controls. |
2026-09-19 |
mssql-django 2.0: Now with mssql-python
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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mssql-django 2.0 is released on PyPI: it adds Microsoft's mssql-python driver as an alternative to pyodbc (choose driver per database alias), advances supported Python, Django, and SQL Server versions, and includes connection and query fixes, run pip install --upgrade mssql-djan |
2026-09-19 |
Land Your Offer - Anatomy of Revenue Generating Partner Offer - Part 1 - Copilot in 30
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Package a Microsoft Marketplace offer around the $0, 25-user, 30-day Microsoft 365 Copilot Business trial ('Copilot in 30') to create a repeatable SMB onboarding journey and a scalable managed-services entry point. |
2026-09-19 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published August 12-13, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace added 224 new offers on Aug 12-13, 2026, including AI Diagnostic Partner and AirMettle Select; review the new listings for AI assessment services and SQL-on-Blob Storage tools you might adopt. |
2026-09-19 |
Foundry IQ with D365F&O and Fabric IQ
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Demonstrates building a Copilot Studio agent using Fabric IQ, Ontology, and ERP MCP to analyse D365 Finance and Operations plus third-party retail data for store-level promotional and customer insights; reuse the pattern for similar scenarios. |
2026-09-19 |
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Azure Community
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Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance: peering performance, hub-and-spoke control
Olivier Miossec (website)
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Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance offers a hub-and-spoke routing alternative to VNet peering for transitive routing and centralised control, review whether to replace multiple peerings with this appliance for easier route management. |
2026-09-22 |
Intune App Inventory From Four Hours to About Five Minutes
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Intune Device App Inventory Agent now reacts to application changes instead of waiting the four-hour harvest cycle, reducing app inventory latency to about five minutes, so update reporting and remediation schedules to reflect near-real-time data. |
2026-09-22 |
Succeeding with AI
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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John Savill's video collects practical lessons on AI adoption, model choice, trust, human+AI workflows, and organisational change; there is no direct Azure product change to apply, treat it as guidance for planning AI initiatives. |
2026-09-21 |
GitHub Actions OIDC: Moving to Immutable Subject Claims
Simon Lee (website)
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GitHub Actions OIDC is moving to immutable subject claims, so update your Microsoft Entra federated identity credentials to match the new subject claim format to avoid authentication failures. |
2026-09-21 |
How to turn your Bicep modules into documentation with bicep docs generate
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Bicep now includes an experimental docs generate command with Scriban templates to turn modules into Markdown documentation,use bicep docs generate to produce and customise module docs. |
2026-09-21 |
Summary and next steps
Gijs Reijn (website)
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This course page is work in progress and not yet released, so there is nothing to act on today; the 'Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC' course is finished and available. |
2026-09-20 |
Knowledge check
Gijs Reijn (website)
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This knowledge-check page is work in progress and not yet released; no action is required today. |
2026-09-20 |
Pitfals from the field
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Pitfals from the field" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Prove equivalence end to end
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Prove equivalence end to end" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Migrate credentials
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Migrate credentials" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Reboots and cross-node coordination
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Reboots and cross-node coordination" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Own the enforcement schedule
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Own the enforcement schedule" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Map LCM features to Microsoft DSC
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Map LCM features to Microsoft DSC" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Introduction to replacing the LCM
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Introduction to replacing the LCM" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Summary
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Summary" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Knowledge check
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Knowledge check" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Path D: Going native
Gijs Reijn (website)
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The "Path D: Going native" course page is work in progress and contains no exercises yet, subscribe to be notified on release, and meanwhile consult the finished "Migrate from PowerShell DSC to Microsoft DSC" course. |
2026-09-20 |
Rewrite AppEnvironment as a class
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Preview (work in progress): the 'Rewrite AppEnvironment as a class' course page is not released yet, so no migration action to take now, subscribe on the source page to be notified when the lesson is published. |
2026-09-20 |
Path C: From script-based to class-based
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Preview (work in progress): the 'Path C: From script-based to class-based' lesson is not yet released; subscribe on the source page to get notified when the guidance for moving script-based DSC to class-based arrives. |
2026-09-20 |
Convert a MOF file
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Preview (work in progress): the 'Convert a MOF file' lesson is not published yet, so hold off on any MOF conversion work from this course until it is released; subscribe for a notification when it goes live. |
2026-09-20 |
Path B: Import your compiled MOFs
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Preview (work in progress): the 'Path B: Import your compiled MOFs' page is not available yet, no action required until the lesson is published, subscribe on the source to be alerted. |
2026-09-20 |
Adapt the legacy configuration
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Preview (work in progress): the 'Adapt the legacy configuration' lesson is not released yet; subscribe on the source page to be notified when guidance for adapting legacy DSC configurations is published. |
2026-09-20 |
Path A: Adapt in place
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Preview (work in progress): the 'Path A: Adapt in place' lesson is not published, so do not change your in-place adaptation plans based on this page until it is released, subscribe to receive the release notice. |
2026-09-20 |
Microsoft Azure (Cloud) Solutions Architect - Folge 73 - Microsoft Purview: Der Security-Geheimtipp馃敀
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Video published: Episode 73 covers Microsoft Purview, explaining why data protection should be part of your security architecture and enterprise risk management, watch the episode for practical Purview and DLP guidance. |
2026-09-20 |
Introduction to migration configurations and resources
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Article published: 'Introduction to migration configurations and resources' is available, read it to understand how migration configurations and resources are organised and what to plan for during migration. |
2026-09-20 |
Summary
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Article published: the 'Summary' page collects the key takeaways from the course material, review it to confirm the main migration decisions and steps the course presents. |
2026-09-19 |
Knowledge check
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Knowledge check available: an interactive quiz lets you test your understanding of DSC resource adapter behaviour (for example differences between Microsoft.Adapter/WindowsPowerShell and Microsoft.Adapter/PowerShell), use it to validate migration readiness. |
2026-09-19 |
Choose a migration path
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Read the article to choose the right migration path for your estate and use it to decide which migration approach to plan and schedule next. |
2026-09-19 |
Presenting at JNUC 2026: Identity-Aware Cloud Infrastructure and Jamf
Steve Buchanan (website)
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Speaker session at JNUC 2026 covers securing Azure and AKS with Jamf Connect ZTNA and Jamf Trust, so if you manage Azure/AKS with Jamf, plan to attend or watch the recording for implementation patterns and configuration details. |
2026-09-19 |
New Course Coming Soon: Integrating AI Agents in Enterprise Systems
Jamie Maguire (website)
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A Pluralsight course on integrating AI agents in enterprise systems is coming as part of a new Agentic AI Integration path, so schedule time to take the course when it publishes to learn practical integration patterns. |
2026-09-19 |
Build and inventory the Bindery estate
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Follow the guidance in this article to build and inventory your Bindery estate so you have an actionable asset list before any migration or refactor work. |
2026-09-19 |
Inventory what you have
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Use the article's recommendations to inventory your existing environment now, creating a baseline of configurations and artefacts you can reference during migration or remediation. |
2026-09-19 |
Why migrate, and when not to
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Before migrating PowerShell DSC, evaluate whether you actually need to move: DSC 5.1 and the LCM still work, so document motivations and risks and only migrate when the benefits outweigh maintaining the existing setup. |
2026-09-19 |
Introduction to migrating from PowerShell DSC
Gijs Reijn (website)
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If you have an existing PowerShell DSC estate, read this practical introduction to migrating from DSC to understand how to handle real-world artefacts, folders, and legacy configurations before you start. |
2026-09-19 |
Speaking at Afrofest Tech Day: AI The Bigger Picture
Steve Buchanan (website)
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Speaker at Afrofest Tech Day on 18 September will present 'AI The Bigger Picture', so if you are nearby and want a broad perspective on AI in industry, consider attending the session. |
2026-09-19 |
Azure Weekly Update - 18th September 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Retirement noted: the weekly update lists 'AKS Azure Linux with OS Guard' as retiring; watch the episode for timelines and plan migrations from that image or feature now. |
2026-09-19 |
The Story of VS Code - Watch Party!
Luke Murray (youtube)
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Join the Visual Studio Code documentary watch party to hear the project's history and ecosystem lessons that may inform your VS Code extension, tooling, or contributor decisions. |
2026-09-18 |
Agentic Azure Insights - October 20th
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Upcoming: 'Agentic Azure Insights' on 20 October; check the channel for the episode to catch updates and operational guidance on agent-based Azure tooling. |
2026-09-18 |
You do not have to code after 5
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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If you prefer not to look at code after 17:00, Kat's note is practical permission to set boundaries and adjust team handoffs, on-call rotations, or tooling so coding work stays within your preferred hours. |
2026-09-18 |
Online Exchange Database Repair: Comparing Stellar鈥檚 Online Service and Desktop Software
Charbel Nemnom (website)
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When an Exchange database will not mount, compare Stellar's online service and desktop repair software as alternative recovery paths and choose the option that meets your restore window and operational constraints. |
2026-09-17 |
Beyond Virtualization: Why Microsoft and Azure Local Stands Out as a leader in Two Gartner Magic Quadrants
Thomas Maurer (website)
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Microsoft and Azure Local are positioned as leaders in two Gartner Magic Quadrants, so include Azure Local when short-listing platforms for hybrid, edge, AI, or digital sovereignty use cases. |
2026-09-17 |
Why Kat picked college over a bootcamp
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Personal account: Kat explains choosing a computer science degree over a bootcamp, citing student-only internships, broader education, and a network that reaches Big Tech. |
2026-09-17 |
Continuous Access Evaluation: Is it really tho?
Graham Gold (website)
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Audit Outlook Mobile sessions and Conditional Access logs: an investigation shows Outlook Mobile can continue accessing Exchange Online after Conditional Access and Continuous Access Evaluation indicate the session should be deauthorised, so verify your session termination and ap |
2026-09-16 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 27 - Prompt Engineering vs. Context Engineering!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Watch the Cybersecurity Mittendrin episode comparing Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering, and follow the linked GitHub workshop resources to adjust how you design prompts and manage contextual data for models. |
2026-09-16 |
Use career envy as a signal
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Treat career envy as a practical signal: if someone's career path makes you jealous, record that as data to clarify what skills, roles, or projects you should aim for next. |
2026-09-16 |
How to update a pull request comment from GitHub Actions instead of creating duplicates
Thomas Thornton (website)
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Update a single pull request comment from GitHub Actions by adding a stable marker, verifying ownership, and using an upsert pattern so you avoid duplicate comments on every push. |
2026-09-16 |
Sovereign Application Portability with Adaptive Apps and Radius
Thomas Maurer (website)
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Use the Adaptive Apps and Radius approaches to engineer, test, and prove sovereign application portability as part of your exit strategy, and validate those patterns against your compliance and deployment constraints. |
2026-09-15 |
Juniors are the best code reviewers
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Include junior engineers in your code-review rotation, they often spot issues senior reviewers stop seeing; adjust reviewer assignments to get fresh eyes on reviews regularly. |
2026-09-15 |
Prompting Anthropic v5 for Cloud Engineers: Practical Rules for Sonnet 5, Open 5, and Fable 5.1
Olivier Miossec (website)
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For cloud engineering prompts to Anthropic v5 models (Sonnet 5, Open 5, Fable 5.1), include the reason as well as the rule and follow the distilled practical prompting rules to improve model output for operational workflows. |
2026-09-15 |
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