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Azure Feeds Weekly: 19 Sep 2026 to 26 Sep 2026
Another round in the cloud this week, my inbox survived.
- VM restore: Instant Access GA, mount restore-point disks for Premium v2 and Ultra
- HorizonDB: PostgreSQL 18 public preview, provision instances to test compatibility
- Sphere OS: 26.09 GA, internet-connected devices receive update automatically, no SDK change
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🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure HorizonDB now supports PostgreSQL 18, so provision HorizonDB instances running PostgreSQL 18 to test application compatibility and the new PostgreSQL 18 features on the managed service. |
2026-09-26 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Azure Communication Services (ACS) standalone services will be retired on September 30, 2028
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Azure Communication Services standalone offerings will be retired on 30 September 2028; these services will no longer be available after that date, so plan to migrate or replace any production dependencies well before then. |
2026-09-25 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Instant Access for VM restore points
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Instant Access for application-consistent VM restore points is now generally available, you can begin restoring a disk from a restore point immediately for VMs that use Premium v2 or Ultra disks as data disks; update backup runbooks and IAM permissions accordingly. |
2026-09-25 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.4 ends on November 10, 2026
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.4 ends on 10 November 2026, so transition your workloads (including Azure Function apps) to PowerShell 7.6 before that date, as 7.4 will no longer receive security patches or customer support. |
2026-09-24 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on 10 November 2026, so upgrade your apps (including Azure Function apps) to .NET 10 by that date, since .NET 8 and .NET 9 will no longer receive security updates or support. |
2026-09-24 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Support for Node.js 22 ends on April 30, 2027
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Node.js 22 reaches end of support on 30 April 2027, migrate any Azure Function and App Service apps to Node.js 24 before that date because Node.js 22 will no longer receive security patches or Microsoft customer support (apps will continue to run). |
2026-09-23 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Flex Nodes for AKS
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Preview: Flex Nodes for AKS provides a deployment option to connect hybrid and edge worker nodes to an AKS control plane in Azure, offering a single Kubernetes control plane, so evaluate the preview for your node connectivity, provisioning, and management workflows. |
2026-09-23 |
🚀 Generally Available
[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 |
🔍 Preview
[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 |
🚀 Generally Available
[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 |
🔍 Preview
[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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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 |
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Microsoft Blogs
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AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK
.NET Blog (website)
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AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK, so .NET services can install the SDK and use Microsoft.Extensions.AI to expose and consume interoperable agent endpoints; update your services to the SDK types and extension points to interoperate with other AG-UI agents. |
2026-09-26 |
Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Investigate your tenant for compromised service principals and prioritise indicators of reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access linked to Storm-3168, then apply Microsoft's guidance to contain and remediate affected principals. |
2026-09-26 |
Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Define and attach an outbound (egress) policy to a Microsoft Foundry hosted agent, inspect agent calls in Audit logs, and use Enforced mode to block and verify allowed and denied destinations. |
2026-09-25 |
What’s new in Microsoft Security: September 2026
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Review the September 2026 Microsoft Security updates and enable the new controls to discover and control local AI agents, extend Zero Trust to agent traffic, and update SOC processes per the guidance. |
2026-09-25 |
Beyond the ransomware: Tracking Storm-2570’s consistent tradecraft across deployments
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Hunt for Storm-2570's consistent post-compromise tools and techniques across Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis, and BERT deployments, and apply the blog's detection and disruption guidance to detect compromises before ransomware is deployed. |
2026-09-25 |
From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Microsoft Foundry Routines are now generally available: you can build automated assistants that monitor work, respond to business events, and run ongoing tasks (e.g., triage GitHub issues or react to Teams messages); review and enable Routines in your Foundry projects to automate |
2026-09-25 |
Documentation Is the New Source Code
ISE Developer Blog (website)
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Add a layered, AI-readable documentation structure to your repo: create instruction files, skills, architectural decision records (ADRs), and tests so Copilot and agent workflows can reliably operate against your codebase. |
2026-09-24 |
Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September 23, 2026
.NET Blog (website)
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Microsoft will update (rotate) its NuGet author-signing certificate on 23 September 2026; add the new certificate to any trusted signer policies or certificate-fingerprint verification as soon as possible to avoid package signature verification failures. |
2026-09-24 |
Join the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition on September 30
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Register for the Copilot Dev Camp Summit on 30 September 2026 at 08:00 Pacific Time: a new, free quarterly online event for the Copilot Extensibility community covering Microsoft 365 Copilot and related developer topics. |
2026-09-24 |
How to leave a test tenant
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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If a test Azure AD tenant fails to delete due to a "license-based subscriptions" error, remove or transfer all license-backed subscriptions from that tenant and sign out or leave the organisation in Teams so it no longer appears in your personal account. |
2026-09-24 |
Reimagining the SOC for the agentic era in Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft is announcing ISOC in Microsoft Defender, a foundation that brings SIEM and threat-protection capabilities together for agentic security, so security teams should assess how ISOC maps to existing SIEM, detection, and response workflows and plan integration work. |
2026-09-24 |
Change Analysis in Azure Resource Graph: Your first stop for “What changed?”
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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Use Change Analysis in Azure Resource Graph as your first troubleshooting step: it shows what changed, when it happened, who made the change, and which client or tool performed it so you can quickly pinpoint recent configuration changes affecting VPNs, routing, firewalls, VMs, or |
2026-09-23 |
Creating a memory dump in C#
.NET Blog (website)
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Create memory dumps from your C# application to capture runtime state for debugging: follow the .NET Blog walkthrough to add dump generation to your diagnostic workflow and collect dumps for analysis. |
2026-09-23 |
Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work
Microsoft Azure Blog (website)
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Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, so you can run long-running coding and knowledge-work sessions inside Foundry using this model. |
2026-09-23 |
Single group for TEAM AND Lighthouse (Security Group + 'Unified' group)
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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Microsoft Lighthouse accepts only Security Groups, and Microsoft 365 (unified) groups cannot nest Security groups (nor vice versa), so you cannot use a single unified/365 group for both purposes, create or synchronise a separate Security Group for Lighthouse membership. |
2026-09-23 |
Using Azure Blob Storage as a durable filesystem for LangChain Deep Agents
Azure SDK Blog (website)
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Persist LangChain Deep Agents' durable filesystem state to Azure Blob Storage by configuring the agent runtime to use Blob Storage as the backend, so agents keep state across runs and support complex, multi-step workflows. |
2026-09-23 |
Unmasking EvilTokens: Getting to the root of device code phishing
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, with partners, disrupted EvilTokens' infrastructure that powered AI-assisted device code phishing and token theft; review device code consent/auth logs for suspicious activity, revoke or rotate exposed tokens or compromised app registrations, and |
2026-09-23 |
Entra External ID email OTP send event requestType always set to "signIn" regardless of user action
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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Entra External ID's email OTP send event currently sets requestType to "signIn" for all flows, so do not rely on requestType to distinguish user actions in custom authentication extensions and use other event properties or update your event handling. |
2026-09-22 |
PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Date & Time
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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When migrating from PostgreSQL to SQL Server, review and map timestamp and timestamptz to the appropriate SQL Server types (datetime2, datetimeoffset) because differences in precision, time zone handling, offsets, and storage can change behaviour and require schema or code update |
2026-09-22 |
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 |
Proposal: Applying DCWL to Microsoft Teams for Meeting, Chat, and Copilot Efficiency
Azure Architecture Blog (website)
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Proposal: a DCWL design is being explored for Microsoft Teams to reduce repeated natural-language processing in meetings, chat, and Copilot scenarios, so track the proposal if you operate Teams-integrated text-processing workloads. |
2026-09-19 |
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Microsoft Tech Community
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IBC Reflections and Where Media is Headed
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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No immediate Azure action required: this IBC reflection describes industry trends (AI-generated content, short-form video, live immersive tech) that may affect media workflows, so monitor vendor APIs, content licensing, and rights management updates. |
2026-09-25 |
Introducing voice agents in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft is introducing voice agents in Foundry; if you build agents, plan for voice UX, real-time audio I/O, latency and privacy requirements, and update your agent design and test plans to include spoken interactions. |
2026-09-25 |
Lessons Learned #555: The First 60 Seconds of a Production Incident: Stop, Scope, Correlate
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Change your incident triage sequence: in the first 60 seconds stop noisy actions, scope the outage precisely (what "down" means), then correlate signals before launching deeper investigations or rollbacks. |
2026-09-25 |
Insights in Foundry Turns Agent Traces into Action
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Insights in Foundry analyses agent traces to surface recurring or unknown behaviour and explain likely causes,enable the preview if you run production agents to find issues beyond predefined evaluations. |
2026-09-25 |
Oracle AI Database@Azure Expands with Azure Native Oracle GoldenGate User Experience, Observability
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Oracle AI Database@Azure now provides a native Azure experience for Oracle GoldenGate so you can provision and manage GoldenGate via the Azure portal and APIs, configure cross-database/cloud connections, and ingest GoldenGate metrics into Microsoft Fabric. |
2026-09-25 |
Introducing bicep docs: generate documentation from your Bicep modules
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Experimental feature: Bicep CLI v0.47.16+ adds bicep docs generate, which writes a README.md from a Bicep module (resources, parameters, types, outputs, examples); upgrade and run the command to auto-document modules or customise templates for repo-wide docs. |
2026-09-25 |
Partner Blog | Build the skills to turn AI opportunity into customer execution
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partners should expand readiness across sales, technical, and delivery teams: plan role-specific training, build design and deployment experience, and create repeatable processes for securing, governing, and scaling customer AI projects. |
2026-09-25 |
Create cascading combo boxes and list boxes in Access - without VBA
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Access form properties Link Master Fields and Link Child Fields to create cascading combo boxes and list boxes without VBA,set the master control and matching child field so Access auto-refreshes and filters the dependent control. |
2026-09-25 |
Tokenomics: the four levers that decide your Azure OpenAI bill
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When designing for Azure OpenAI, treat token flow as the core cost, latency, and throughput control: map token movement in your architecture, optimise prompts and chunking, and verify against current pricing to avoid billing surprises. |
2026-09-25 |
Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Insiders Beta: Excel now supports lists and nested arrays in a single cell, so test storing multiple related values (owners, tags, locations) in-cell and update formulas, filters, and downstream ETL to handle arrays. |
2026-09-25 |
Put multiple values in one cell with lists and arrays in Excel
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Excel (Windows and Mac Beta channels) now supports lists, arrays, and nested arrays in a single cell; test and update data imports, formulas, filters, and automation to handle cell-level lists and maintain compatibility with older Excel builds. |
2026-09-25 |
Engineering touch into modern computing: The evolution of haptics on Surface
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Windows now exposes a common haptics framework with predefined waveforms used across Surface pen, touchpad, and mouse; integrate the framework APIs to add consistent tactile feedback that complements visual and audio signals. |
2026-09-25 |
Migrate Data Ingestion from Data Collector to Log Ingestion - Part 2
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Action required when migrating from the deprecated Data Collector API to Log Ingestion: chunk payloads to under 1MB (Log Ingestion limit) because Data Collector allowed up to 30MB, otherwise HTTP actions and the preview Log Ingestion connector will fail. |
2026-09-25 |
Event Recap - M365 Twin Cities 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Event recap: M365 Twin Cities 2026 summarises hands-on sessions on Microsoft 365, AI, Copilot, and Power Platform,review the posted session materials to apply the practical guidance shared at the event. |
2026-09-25 |
MCP Servers Explained — Part 2: Deploy to Azure, Connect Copilot Studio, and Secure It
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Follow Part 2 to deploy your MCP server to Azure, register and connect it with Copilot Studio, and configure authentication and security so the team can use MCP tools instead of running them only locally. |
2026-09-25 |
MCP Servers Explained — Part 1: Understand and Build Your First One
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Follow Part 1 to build and run a basic MCP server locally (server.py and vmcp.py) to expose a get_vm_inventory tool and validate behaviour before you deploy it to Azure. |
2026-09-24 |
Engineering Agentic Recall Controls with MCP and Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When building agentic systems that act on real systems, combine MCP, Microsoft Foundry hosted agents, and Microsoft Entra authentication so deterministic application code retains final approval and inventory-mutation authority while agents gather evidence. |
2026-09-24 |
Architecture First: Drawing the Boundary for On-Premises Health
RAG
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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For on-premises health RAG projects, design the boundary so health records, prompts, embeddings, retrieved evidence, model outputs, and telemetry remain entirely on premises and avoid cloud inference or data egress. |
2026-09-24 |
How to Validate That Your BizTalk SB-Messaging Adapter Is Really Using AMQP
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Breaking change: Azure Service Bus will stop accepting the Service Bus Messaging Protocol (SBMP) on 30 Sep 2026,apply the BizTalk Server 2020 hotfix (requires Cumulative Update 6 baseline) to switch the SB-Messaging adapter to the Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus AMQP implementation an |
2026-09-24 |
How do you know what to optimize next in your AI agent? Ask The Experts!
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Join the live AMA on 25 Sep 2026 (1:30-2:00pm ET) or post questions in the Discord to get expert advice on which AI agent behaviours to prioritise and how to optimise instructions, tools, skills, and model choices. |
2026-09-24 |
Microsoft Ignite: Build the skills customers are searching for
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for Microsoft Ignite and build your agenda now, sessions fill quickly and deliver practical technical and business guidance from the people building Microsoft technologies. |
2026-09-24 |
Giving you more control over camera, microphone, and location
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel can now set camera, microphone, and location permissions per desktop app, so review and configure app-by-app privacy controls in Settings. |
2026-09-24 |
Catalyst: Frontier stories of AI Infrastructure innovation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft published the Catalyst video series showcasing Azure and NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure customer stories (for example Tomorrow.io); watch the series to see real-world architecture and operational patterns. |
2026-09-24 |
Discover the Experts Bringing Microsoft 365, AI, and Copilot to Life at ESPC 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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ESPC 2026 will run in Amsterdam from 30 November to 3 December 2026; if you rely on Microsoft 365, AI, or Copilot content, block the dates and monitor registration and session announcements. |
2026-09-24 |
Upcoming change: Max CPC removal for new non-portfolio campaigns
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Breaking change: starting 12 January 2027, Max CPC will be removed for new non-portfolio campaigns using Target CPA, Target ROAS, Max Conversions, Max Conversion Value, or Max Clicks,attempts to create or update such campaigns with Max CPC will fail and the API will return an exp |
2026-09-24 |
Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft announced on 23 September 2026 an Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender; security teams should review the offering to plan how to consolidate protection, operations, data, and workflows. |
2026-09-24 |
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes, Now Generally Available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Azure Container Apps Sandboxes is now generally available, providing hardware-isolated microVMs with per-sandbox resource and access controls, sub-second startup, and multi-tenant isolation for running untrusted code. |
2026-09-24 |
Reimagining Case Management in Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Defender updated case management to support adaptable work models with configurable ownership, context aggregation, automation, and tracking, so security teams should map their processes and configure the new workflows. |
2026-09-24 |
Azure Container Apps Express is now Generally Available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Azure Container Apps Express is now generally available; use it to deploy container images to production with instant provisioning, sub-second startup, and scale-from-zero. |
2026-09-24 |
Create agents fast with Agent Builder in Copilot
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Copilot Agent Builder generates agents from a single prompt, lets you teach Skills, test agents in Preview, set exact permissions, monitor real usage, and publish to your organisation's Agent Store,use it to create and manage repeatable agent workflows. |
2026-09-24 |
Decoding Environmental Viromes: Amplifying Human Expertise with Microsoft Discovery
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft published research showing Microsoft Discovery applied to environmental virome analysis and wastewater-based community health monitoring; public health and research teams should review the methodology and findings for surveillance workflows. |
2026-09-24 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published August 14-17, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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159 new offers went live in Microsoft Marketplace (14-17 Aug 2026); evaluate BC2Fab AI Insights if you need AI-prepared Power BI reports inside Dynamics 365 Business Central, note it runs on your Azure OpenAI resources and is available in English and German. |
2026-09-24 |
Transforming Solo Agents to Collaborative Teams: Choosing Multi-Agent Patterns in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When building agent systems with Microsoft Foundry, adopt multi-agent orchestration patterns to decide which agent should act, what context to share, when work is complete, and where human approval is required, and review Foundry's conductor/section patterns before design. |
2026-09-23 |
Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents and MCP in Practice: Building Fibey Field Ops
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Azure Container Apps to bridge prototype-to-production gaps,follow the Fibey Field Ops walkthrough for concrete deployment, authorization, debugging, and recovery decisions. |
2026-09-23 |
Azure Local Storage: Choose the Architecture That Fits Your Business
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Local provides multiple storage architectures: choose Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Storage Spaces Direct), SAN-preserving options, or independently scalable storage based on your workload I/O, scale, and legacy SAN requirements. |
2026-09-23 |
More Models, One Copilot
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Copilot is rolling out Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, Cowork, and Copilot Studio, so update your Copilot testing, model-selection policies, and compliance controls for those apps. |
2026-09-23 |
Run and scale AI applications on AKS – the latest product innovations
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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AKS announced new capabilities to isolate AI workloads, assemble the componentry agentic applications need, and improve capacity management for GPU-backed inference and shifting data paths; review the features and plan updates to cluster topology, node pools, and scheduling. |
2026-09-23 |
Delete Your Polling Loop: Change-driven programming in Node.js with @drasi/lib
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use @drasi/lib to embed a change-driven, in-process continuous-query engine in Node.js services and replace polling loops with immediate reactions to complex data variations across multiple sources. |
2026-09-23 |
Connect Azure Functions to more services with managed connectors
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use managed connectors in Azure Functions to access about 1,700 connectors (Microsoft 365, Teams, Dataverse, SharePoint, OneDrive, and third-party) via connector triggers and typed connector clients, removing the need to write webhook registration code or manage OAuth tokens, so |
2026-09-23 |
Get Started with Microsoft AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Resource guide updated 22 Sep 2026: follow the beginner exercise to trial Microsoft AI for organising notes, preparing presentations, or finding information, and use the governance section when planning a rollout to align with your organisation's guardrails. |
2026-09-23 |
Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, so use Opus 5.5 for longer-running coding, multi-step agents, and extended knowledge work that require sustained context and state across tasks. |
2026-09-23 |
HLS in Practice: September 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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HLS in Practice (Sep 2026) curates Healthcare and Life Sciences AI updates from 24 Aug-22 Sep and labels readiness items; consult it to prioritise clinical workflow, business app, and governance changes for your team. |
2026-09-23 |
When AI Stops Waiting for Instructions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Re-evaluate your agent operating model now: define how much authority agents receive, who owns them, how they are monitored, and lifecycle rules before assigning multi-step work to production agents. |
2026-09-23 |
Governance is becoming agentic, too: How enterprises can operate AI at scale
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Treat agent governance as a distinct practise: maintain an inventory of agents, assign owners, control what systems and data they can access, track operating costs and health, and monitor for changes in an agent's risk profile as your estate grows. |
2026-09-23 |
Expanding access to specialized GPU infrastructure through Dapple and Azure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Dapple and Azure are expanding access to specialised GPU infrastructure, so design training and inference workloads with topology in mind and plan for coordinated communication across nodes rather than focusing only on raw GPU count. |
2026-09-23 |
When the Coding Agent Leaves the Codebase: Building a Multi-Runtime AI Agent Infra with Azure KARS
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Consider Azure KARS for building multi-runtime AI agent infrastructure so agents can operate across different runtimes and non-developers can run agent-driven workflows, and plan for runtime isolation, auditing, and deployment processes. |
2026-09-22 |
Schema Validity Is Not Enough
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Do not rely solely on schema validity for AI components: add application-level validation, separate decision authority from model outputs, and handle probabilistic behaviour when integrating models into IoT or larger systems. |
2026-09-22 |
日本で加速するチャネル成長: Multiparty private offer で広がる Microsoft Marketplace の可能性
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Multiparty private offer (MPO) is now available in Japan on Microsoft Marketplace, so ISVs and channel partners should evaluate MPO for multiparty deals and to expand channel-led sales. |
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 |
What's new for MSPs: September 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft published a new Microsoft Tech Community blog series for managed service providers (authored by Bryan Irwin) that will deliver practical, MSP-focused operational guidance on configuration, security, and licensing,follow the series for updates. |
2026-09-22 |
MGDC for SharePoint: Richer data for read-locked and archived sites
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint now fully populates read-locked and archived sites in the Sites dataset (previously they appeared as partial rows), so update your queries, ETL mappings, and downstream joins to expect the full set of standard fields and values. |
2026-09-22 |
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 |
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 |
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Azure Weekly Update - 25th September 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Watch John Savill's 25 Sep 2026 Azure Weekly Update video if you run MdsV4/Msv4 VMs or use PowerShell with Azure Functions, and incorporate any announced configuration or compatibility changes into your VM and Functions deployments. |
2026-09-26 |
Why we don't have ray guns
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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This is non-Azure content (Scott Hanselman YouTube short about ray guns), so there is no Azure product change or action for practitioners to take. |
2026-09-25 |
He built an atom smasher at home
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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No Azure action required: this is a community video where Michio Kaku recounts building a particle accelerator at home, so treat it as community interest content and do not plan any operational changes or migrations based on it. |
2026-09-24 |
Is Being Lazy Actually Being Efficient?
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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When learning new technologies, use a 'learn just enough' approach: decide the minimal knowledge required for the task and set a clear stopping criterion so you can start delivering rather than endlessly researching. |
2026-09-24 |
Scott & Mark Learn To...Fool's Gold
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Deploying or evaluating open-weight AI models: be aware guardrails can be removed and Mark Russinovich's Fool's Gold defence proposes training models to return convincing but intentionally flawed outputs when protections are bypassed, so include this attack scenario in your threa |
2026-09-24 |
AKS Flex Nodes Are in Preview: Attaching Your Own Compute to a Managed Cluster
Richard Hooper (website)
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Preview: AKS Flex Nodes enable attaching your own compute to a managed AKS cluster,read the AKS documentation and test the preview if you need node-level control for specific workloads. |
2026-09-24 |
Signal Diff CLI for coding agents
Simon Foster (website)
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Install the signaldiff CLI and add it to your CI to crawl your sitemap, check on-page SEO and crawl health (titles, meta descriptions, redirects, and slow responses), compare a run with a baseline (often the previous deploy), and pass the report to coding agents like Copilot, Cur |
2026-09-24 |
Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud and Azure Local: Much More Than a Virtualization Platform
Thomas Maurer (website)
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When conducting a virtualization review, assess Azure Local and Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud as a platform and operating model rather than just a hypervisor: include platform-level capabilities, integration, governance, lifecycle, and feature-parity impacts in your decision |
2026-09-23 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 28 - Support-Tickets automatisch sortieren mit lokalen KIs!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Run Tom Wechsler's Python test system from the linked GitHub repos to benchmark local AI models and pick the best trade-off between accuracy, inference speed, and resource use for automatic support-ticket sorting. |
2026-09-23 |
Speaking at Cloud & AI Summit 2026: Azure Container Registry, Docker Scout, and Multi-Cloud
Steve Buchanan (website)
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Two sessions at Cloud & AI Summit 2026 (30 Sep to 2 Oct, St. Charles, Missouri) will cover multi-cloud architecture and operations, and container security with Docker Scout and Azure Container Registry; attend if you manage multi-cloud or container security. |
2026-09-23 |
Your Dynamics files, your data center
Peter Ruiter (website)
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Host Dynamics 365 document storage in your own data centre using storage you control (example: Nextcloud) and enforce each user's access at the storage layer rather than in the app, so update your document-management configuration and storage access controls accordingly. |
2026-09-23 |
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 |
I'm speaking at Workplace Ninjas India 2026
Jeroen Burgerhout (website)
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Jeroen Burgerhout announced he will speak at Workplace Ninja India 2026, so plan to join the session if you follow his Azure/Intune content. |
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🔒
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 |
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