Fixes in Microsoft Access - Version 2610 (Build 16.0.20527.20088)
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Microsoft Access Version 2610 (Build 16.0.20527.20088) fixes Ctrl+mouse wheel zoom for datasheet subforms and corrects context menu positioning on zoomed forms, while the intermittent "There isn't enough memory or disk space" error remains and is scheduled for the next Version... |
2026-10-24 |
Turn skilling into wins with the new Partner Digital Journey Agentic Skilling Experience
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partner Digital Journey Agentic Skilling Experience is now live (GA): partners can create AI-personalised skilling paths based on role, time commitment, and stated goals to produce tailored learning recommendations. |
2026-10-24 |
Public Preview: Alerts for Azure SQL Database in Database Hub, powered by Fabric Activator
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Alerts for Azure SQL Database in Database Hub are now in public preview: you can create alert rules from built-in templates or turn Performance charts into alerts so Database Hub notifies you when a database needs attention. |
2026-10-24 |
What’s new in AI Skills Navigator: October 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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AI Skills Navigator's October 2026 update makes learning more interactive, adds features to help prepare for credentials, and surfaces next-step recommendations in the flow of work, so learning teams should review the changes and adjust their skilling paths accordingly. |
2026-10-24 |
Foundry Fine-Tuning: open-source model expansion, MAI-Code, and shared multi-LoRA deployments
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Foundry Managed Fine-Tuning added four open-source models (Muse-Glimmer-30B, qwen3.8-27b, qwen3.6-35b-a3b, gpt-oss-120b) with supervised fine-tuning support, added MAI-Code-1.1-Flash to Foundry resources, and introduced Multi-LoRA Managed Compute in public preview so compatible... |
2026-10-23 |
Adapting Biological Monitoring for Food Security with Agents
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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An entomology use case shows the Microsoft Discovery app can speed multidisciplinary research by combining literature, experimental protocols, domain tools, and observational data, so teams building biological monitoring agents should evaluate Discovery for integrating those... |
2026-10-23 |
Simplify private connectivity for Azure Databricks Serverless with Private Network Gateway
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Private Network Gateway (PNG) for Azure Databricks serverless is in public preview: use a single managed connection into your Azure Virtual Network to simplify private connectivity and control which network resources serverless workloads can access. |
2026-10-23 |
Help customers discover your Marketplace solution with Intelligent Discovery and App Advisor
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace now offers intelligent discovery and App Advisor so customers can describe a business problem in natural language to get contextual recommendations, meaning publishers should verify how their solutions appear in the new discovery flow. |
2026-10-23 |
What production taught us about reviewing AI translations
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Co-op Translator's production experience shows you need processes and automated review signals to identify which translated documents require human review after source updates, rather than re-checking every translation. |
2026-10-23 |
Turn threat intelligence into informed action with Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Defender now includes a Threat Intelligence experience that consolidates Microsoft threat intelligence, third-party feeds, and your team's insights to help you prioritise which threats to investigate; review and enable it in your Defender tenant. |
2026-10-23 |
Publish rich and interactive content with HTML pages in SharePoint
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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SharePoint now supports HTML pages in the Site Pages library: you can create pages with Copilot or upload existing HTML files and use the same edit, publish, and sharing flows as modern pages, so update your content workflows and governance accordingly. |
2026-10-23 |
Implementing Next Best Action (NBA) in Foundry with Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Foundry includes a Next Best Action workbench demo built with Microsoft-Decision-1 and GPT-4o that compares rules and recommendations for sales workflows; use the demo as a reference pattern when building NBA systems. |
2026-10-23 |
Explore user feedback with Microsoft 365 Insights Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft 365 Insights Agent now captures thumbs-up/thumbs-down and verbatim comments from users of your agents so you can review feedback to guide improvements, tests, and prioritised changes to agent behaviour. |
2026-10-23 |
Scheduled backups for Azure Local with disconnected operations: Advancing control plane resilience
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Local with disconnected operations (Azure Local 2609) adds scheduled control-plane backups, so configure scheduled backups to improve recoverability for sovereign and disconnected environments. |
2026-10-23 |
Designing smarter access policies for hybrid enterprises
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Follow Microsoft's guidance to design access policies for hybrid enterprises using resource-specific rules and adaptive, risk-based conditions to control who and what can access resources as risk changes. |
2026-10-23 |
Azure Storage Discovery now offers advanced capacity insights
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Azure Storage Discovery adds advanced capacity insights,data access, age, tier, composition, and object-size analysis, plus drilldowns to the accounts, containers, and prefixes behind trends; evaluate the preview to access deeper capacity analytics across your storage... |
2026-10-23 |
Building a Self-Updating RAG System: Handling Document Uploads, Updates and Deletions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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For production RAG systems, implement processes to detect document uploads, updates, and deletions and re-ingest or update vector indexes and caches so assistant answers do not remain stale after content changes. |
2026-10-23 |
Know before your customers do: a secure Azure Service Health to Slack pipeline
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the open-source Azure Service Health to Slack reference implementation to forward Service Health alerts for your services and regions into Slack; review the repo's design, threat model, and cost guidance before deployment. |
2026-10-23 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published September 11-15, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 230 new offers (Sept 11-15, 2026), including cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents; review the Marketplace for trials or purchase options relevant to your environment. |
2026-10-23 |
Modern Query Editor for Azure SQL Database is now generally available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Modern Query Editor for Azure SQL Database is now generally available in the Azure portal, adding Object Explorer, a multi-tab query workspace, and interactive query results so you can run and inspect queries from the portal without desktop tools. |
2026-10-23 |
Beyond Hub-and-Spoke: Routable and Non-Advertised Azure Networks
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Re-evaluate hub-and-spoke: the article recommends moving towards routable and non-advertised network designs as your Azure estate expands across regions, landing zones, prod/non-prod, DR, and existing datacentres, and to plan routing and CIDR delegation changes accordingly. |
2026-10-23 |
Microsoft at PASS Data Community Summit 2026:
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft will be a sponsor at PASS Data Community Summit 2026 with sessions and product deep-dives across the Azure Data portfolio (SQL, PostgreSQL, Fabric); plan to attend sessions or meet product engineers if you need guidance on migrations or operations. |
2026-10-22 |
Azure WAF custom rules for PHP2Shell mitigation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you cannot immediately upgrade PHP for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, deploy the provided Azure WAF custom rules to reduce exposure to known PHP2Shell exploit request patterns while you plan upgrades. |
2026-10-22 |
Addressing PHP2Shell CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: upgrade guidance and Azure WAF mitigations
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Critical PHP RCE (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619): upgrade to a patched PHP release immediately to fully remediate, and apply Azure Web Application Firewall mitigations as a temporary protection. |
2026-10-22 |
SBOM requirements for applicable driver submissions beginning with the Windows release in 2027
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Beginning with the Windows client/server release in 2027, applicable WHCP driver signing submissions must include a valid Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), so partners need to update signing pipelines to produce and attach SBOMs. |
2026-10-22 |
Optimize selective analytics reads in Azure Data Lake Storage with ABFS Vectored Read
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Enable ABFS Vectored Read for Azure Data Lake Storage when your analytics engine and Parquet reader support it to combine noncontiguous byte-range reads, reduce request overhead, and improve selective-column query performance. |
2026-10-22 |
Making Microsoft Teams more responsive, reliable, and ready for work
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft published a Teams performance and reliability update (improvements in chat switching, reduced hangs, and faster people search); review the release notes and plan client updates, telemetry checks, and support guidance for users. |
2026-10-22 |
Enhanced Feature Flags: A New Foundation for Feature Management in Azure App Configuration
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Enhanced Feature Flags in Azure App Configuration are available in public preview; test the new feature-flag representation and rollout controls, and plan any required schema or client integration changes. |
2026-10-22 |
Copilot Code: Make the power of coding accessible to everyone
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft announced Copilot Code, an AI coding experience that pairs code generation with environment setup, hosting, and app lifecycle capabilities; review the announcement and plan to evaluate it for rapid prototyping and small application delivery. |
2026-10-22 |
Built by experience: The journey to Azure Linux 4.0
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Linux 4.0 is introduced as the next evolution of CBL-Mariner for cloud-scale workloads and container hosts; assess image compatibility, security updates, and any migration work for container clusters that depend on CBL-Mariner. |
2026-10-22 |
Wolters Kluwer scales tax and accounting software with PostgreSQL on Azure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Wolters Kluwer scaled tax and accounting software using PostgreSQL on Azure; read the case study for practical patterns on scaling, operational practices, and architecture choices to inform your PostgreSQL deployments. |
2026-10-22 |
SWOOP Analytics Festival 2026 | Viva Engage Edition
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for the free SWOOP Analytics Festival 2026 | Viva Engage Edition on 11 November 2026 to hear practical lessons from organisations using Viva Engage and apply relevant experiments and lessons in your internal communications programme. |
2026-10-22 |
Using PostgreSQL to reflect on its own history
and code: introducing pghacker-mcp.dev
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use pghacker-mcp.dev to give AI agents and tooling direct access to the pgsql-hackers mailing-list archive so they can reason about PostgreSQL's historical design discussions and code decisions. |
2026-10-22 |
Build AI-powered apps without creating a vector database
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When you need to ground AI experiences in SharePoint without building a vector database, use the Microsoft 365 Copilot Retrieval API for SharePoint Embedded and the SharePoint Embedded Model Context Protocol server to control grounding, prompts, and model selection. |
2026-10-22 |
What happens when attackers get AI too?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Attend or submit questions for the live webinar 'How AI-powered attacks happen' on Tuesday, 27 October to learn real attack scenarios and the security controls that stop them. |
2026-10-22 |
Azure Content Understanding
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Content Understanding GA API is now the recommended production baseline for structured understanding of documents, images, audio, and video; use preview APIs only for controlled evaluation and enable confidence and grounding to route uncertain results for review. |
2026-10-22 |
Open-Weight Models in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When using open-weight models in Microsoft Foundry, evaluate licensing, data-processing location, quotas, support posture, and regional availability, prefer Serverless API when a supported Foundry Model fits, and run Marketplace and Product Terms checks before using partner or... |
2026-10-22 |
Microsoft Foundry, Azure Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When choosing Microsoft Foundry, Azure Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric, map which platform should own each part of your solution (data engineering, ML, agents, operational ownership) instead of relying on a long feature checklist. |
2026-10-22 |
Microsoft Foundry, Azure Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Stop comparing feature checklists: decide which platform will own each part of your data and AI solution (data engineering, ML, AI agents, orchestration), document those ownership boundaries, and choose Microsoft Foundry, Azure Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric based on those... |
2026-10-22 |
Scale Data Collection Endpoint private connectivity with IP Endpoint Compression - Preview
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Azure Monitor introduces private IP endpoint compression for data collection endpoints on Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS); test this preview to reduce private IP address consumption for large-scale private monitoring and plan your address allocation and... |
2026-10-22 |
Choosing the Right Azure Virtual Machine for Ansys CFX
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When migrating Ansys CFX to Azure, benchmark multiple AMD EPYC-based HPC VMs for time-to-complete and total cost per simulation, because the largest VM or lowest hourly price does not necessarily give the lowest cost-per-simulation. |
2026-10-22 |
GPU Memory Profiling on AKS: Find the Code Behind Memory Pressure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New Tech Community guide: use GPU memory profiling on AKS to trace which functions in your AI workloads cause GPU memory pressure so you can fix OOMs or avoid overprovisioning. |
2026-10-21 |
🆕Orchestrate Foundry Prompt and Hosted Agents with Logic Apps Automation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Retirement: Microsoft Foundry workflows (visual designer and running workflows in the Foundry portal) will be retired on 1 December 2026; migrate Foundry agents and workflows to Azure Logic Apps before that date. |
2026-10-21 |
Introducing Education for Cowork
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New: Education for Cowork, a Microsoft plugin for Microsoft Copilot Cowork that adds 10 education-focused skills for administrative and academic workflows, is rolling out worldwide, enable it in Copilot Cowork to add those capabilities. |
2026-10-21 |
Your Windows release information toolbox
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New guide: the Windows release information toolbox maps where to check release status, monthly update contents, and servicing dates so you know which resource to consult for updates, health, or diagnostics. |
2026-10-21 |
New GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New certification: GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional validates skills in using GitHub and GitHub Copilot to design agentic workflows and apply human oversight to multistep automation. |
2026-10-21 |
Transforming Enterprise Documents into AI Knowledge with Agentic RAG
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Research: a technical paper presents agentic RAG approaches for turning enterprise documents into AI knowledge; it is published as educational, research-only guidance, not production-ready development instructions. |
2026-10-21 |
Introducing Azure Copilot for Azure Local: AI-powered operations for distributed infrastructure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New: Azure Copilot for Azure Local brings AI-driven, natural-language troubleshooting and operational assistance to Azure Local clusters to help operators investigate connectivity, health, and diagnostics. |
2026-10-21 |
Data Transfer and Transactions metrics now generally available for Azure Container Registry
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GA: Azure Container Registry now emits Data Transfer and Transactions metrics to Azure Monitor (with dimensions for operation, response, and region), use them to inspect outbound data transfer, API traffic, and investigate throttled or failed requests. |
2026-10-21 |
Manage all your Microsoft Sentinel data in one place with Unified Data Management (Public Preview)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Unified Data Management for Microsoft Sentinel is in public preview in the new Data & connectors experience in the Defender portal, letting you monitor connectors, tables, and ingestion health from a single place,start evaluating it for ingestion and cost... |
2026-10-21 |
Cloud Security Billing, Simplified: Introducing the Defender Workload Unit
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Pricing change: Microsoft Defender for Cloud is introducing the Defender Workload Unit (DWU), a single billing unit and unit price for workload-specific usage, update cost estimates and tracking to use DWU. |
2026-10-21 |
OneDrive Just Got a Major Upgrade: New Copilot Capabilities, Simpler Sharing, and Smarter Photos
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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OneDrive now includes Copilot capabilities, simplified sharing, and AI photo features; review and update admin controls, sharing policies, and Copilot access settings to control who and what data can be accessed. |
2026-10-21 |
Expanded cross-tenant delegated access in Microsoft Defender is generally available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Defender's expanded cross-tenant delegated administration is generally available: configure Entra Tenant Governance relationships to delegate security tasks across tenants instead of granting broad access or managing permissions per analyst. |
2026-10-21 |
Partner Blog | FabCon + SQLCon Barcelona: Turning the latest data and AI innovation into partner growth
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partners should package unified, governed foundations across Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, and the broader Microsoft data and AI platform to move customers from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployments. |
2026-10-21 |
Cross-Platform Meeting Connect: Great in-room meeting experiences across Teams and Zoom
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft announced Direct Guest Join, which will allow Teams Rooms to join Zoom Meetings and Zoom Rooms to join Teams meetings, so plan for cross-platform room use and confirm your room deployment strategy. |
2026-10-21 |
General Availability: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor are GA, beginning with Azure Storage, providing finer-grained telemetry,update metric collection, dashboards, and alerts to consume the new signals. |
2026-10-21 |
What’s new in Azure SRE Agent: October Update
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure SRE Agent October update adds new guidance, examples, and integrations (including Splunk) with practical security and architecture guidance,review the updated docs and examples to adjust SRE Agent configurations and tool integrations. |
2026-10-21 |
Fight AI with AI | Multi-Agent Security Defense
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Defender now includes Multi-Agent Security Defense with pre-built playbooks, MAI Cyber Flash to reduce token costs, and session management from the Defender portal or the MCP plug-in,test the playbooks and enforce approval gates before running agents. |
2026-10-21 |
What is new in Sovereign Public Cloud
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft announced new and expanded capabilities for Microsoft Sovereign Public Cloud at the October Frontier Tour; platform and security engineers should review the updated controls and architecture guidance and adjust landing zones and operator-access configurations. |
2026-10-21 |
Agentic Marketplace publishing expands with broader product coverage and generally available APIs
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: Product Ingestion APIs for SaaS and virtual machine Marketplace offers are now GA and Marketplace Ingestion MCP reached 100% product coverage, so integrate these APIs into your publishing pipelines to automate offer ingestion. |
2026-10-21 |
The Invisible Storage Leak: How Replication Slots Can Fill Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server Storage
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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On Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, monitor and remove or repair unused or stalled replication slots because they can retain WAL files and cause unexpected storage growth (check replica lag, broken replicas, deleted logical subscribers, and read-only primaries). |
2026-10-21 |
Building an On-Device Voice Companion with Foundry Local
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Foundry Local for Android to build an on-device voice companion that transcribes queries, performs local record lookups, and returns spoken answers without sending conversations to cloud models. |
2026-10-21 |
What's New in Microsoft EDU – October 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft EDU October 2026 update adds Teach in Microsoft Copilot features, Learning Zone and Teams for Education updates, Study & Learn agent, Copilot Notebooks and OneNote changes, and a no-cost Copilot Chat with data protection,review these for education deployments. |
2026-10-21 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published September 8-10, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 228 new offers (8-10 Sept 2026), including AI Appliance Repair CRM and AI Claims Assistant for Insurers; review the Marketplace to trial or acquire these new solutions. |
2026-10-21 |
Expanded cross-tenant delegated administration in Microsoft Defender is generally available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Cross-tenant delegated administration in Microsoft Defender is now generally available; configure Entra Tenant Governance relationships to delegate security tasks across tenants without granting broad access. |
2026-10-21 |
Advancing sovereign AI with Foundry Local and Azure Local
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Foundry Local and Azure Local provide options to run AI closer to data or in limited-connectivity environments for sovereign and regulated workloads; evaluate these where you need greater operational control and data residency. |
2026-10-21 |
Sovereign Private Cloud: Bringing more choice and control to AI and cloud infrastructure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud, built on Azure Local, extends cloud capabilities into customer-controlled infrastructure; take the Microsoft Sovereign Cloud assessment to identify which sovereign cloud solution fits your organisation. |
2026-10-20 |
GitHub Enterprise Local: Bringing modern development to environments you control
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA at Microsoft Ignite: GitHub Enterprise Local will deliver the GitHub Enterprise Server experience in your own environments, with guided Azure deployment to keep source code and development workflows local for regulated, sovereign, or disconnected scenarios. |
2026-10-20 |
Plan Your Java Upgrade Ahead of Microsoft’s 2027 Support Milestones
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Plan Java upgrades on Azure ahead of Microsoft's 2027 support milestones: migrate from Java 8 (supported via Eclipse Temurin builds) to supported Microsoft Build of OpenJDK versions 11, 17, 21, or 25 where applicable. |
2026-10-20 |
What's new for MSPs: October 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Users can now provision their own Windows 365 Reserve Cloud PCs, business continuity settings are consolidated, and Admin insights appear on the Cloud PC Overview page,review tenant policies and update your provisioning and continuity processes. |
2026-10-20 |
Large OS Disk Encryption is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migrations
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General Availability: Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now GA for Azure Confidential VM migrations, enabling confidential encryption of operating system disks larger than 127 GB so you can migrate larger, sensitive workloads while retaining Confidential VM protections. |
2026-10-20 |
Secure Sensitive AI on Azure Confidential Computing with NVIDIA and Protopia
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Azure Confidential Computing solutions with NVIDIA and Protopia to protect sensitive AI workloads (for example claims review or clinical-note analysis), keeping data protected during model execution and transit. |
2026-10-20 |
Require Google Workspace authentication on Android Enterprise devices with Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Microsoft Intune now allows you to require users on Android Enterprise managed devices to authenticate with a managed Google Account (Google Workspace identity); ensure your Managed Google Play enterprise is upgraded to a managed Google domain enterprise, then enable the... |
2026-10-20 |
Where Does My Microsoft Entra ID Data Reside? Understanding Azure Regions and Data Residency
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Region expansion: Microsoft announced the Saudi Arabia East Azure region, expected to become available in November 2026; review Microsoft Entra ID data residency, tenant configuration, and compliance mapping for customers who will require local Saudi data storage. |
2026-10-20 |
Troubleshooting playbook for Auto labelling in SharePoint and OneDrive
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the new troubleshooting playbook and checklist for Auto-labelling in SharePoint and OneDrive to diagnose and fix missing prerequisites, simulation behaviour, and label-precedence issues when service-side auto-labelling does not apply, noting the tenant ceiling is now up to... |
2026-10-20 |
General Availability: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor workspace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General Availability: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor workspace is now GA, providing end-to-end visibility into metrics usage so you can analyse what drives metric volume over time and identify optimisation opportunities. |
2026-10-20 |
Five Web IQ use cases: bring the outside world into your AI agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Web IQ to bring external web evidence into your AI agents for five practical workflows that need fresh outside information, including changing regulations, emerging market trends, supplier disruptions, and competitive developments. |
2026-10-20 |
Making ACR Data Transfer Visible: The Storage Activity Platform Behind GetBlob Metrics
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Container Registry now emits a customer-facing Data Transfer metric in Azure Monitor that breaks egress down by API name (GetManifest, GetBlob), GeoReplication, and ImportSource, so enable or query these metrics to see which operations cause outbound data and to inform... |
2026-10-20 |
Now in Foundry: Meta Muse Spark Open, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, and Reflection Beam
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Now available in Microsoft Foundry: Meta Muse Spark Open, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, and Reflection Beam, evaluate these new open-weight models for enterprise coding and agentic workloads; Muse Spark Open uses a Mixture of Experts and supports very long context in the... |
2026-10-20 |
Connect Azure Service Bus to other messaging systems with a JMS bridge
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use a JMS bridge to connect on-prem JMS brokers (for example IBM MQ) to Azure Service Bus Premium so existing Java applications can keep using their current broker while messages are forwarded into Service Bus, using each provider's client library and connection factory. |
2026-10-20 |
Article 4 - Governance Is the Permission Slip
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Treat governance for AI agents as a permission model rather than a brake: define policies and processes that allow approved agent use under controlled conditions so the business can adopt agents without stalling. |
2026-10-20 |
Transform your storytelling with interactive slides in PowerPoint
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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PowerPoint's Copilot now includes a 'create interactive slide' skill that generates interactive slides from a prompt or existing content, letting you convert dashboards, processes, or data into slides your audience can explore. |
2026-10-20 |
The Change Optics Report is now Generally Available in Exchange Online
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: The Change Optics Report is now generally available in Exchange Online, use it to preview and identify messages that will be impacted by upcoming service changes so you can adjust mail flow before those changes arrive. |
2026-10-20 |
Hardening On-Premises RAG: Identity, Admission, Readiness, and PHI-Safe Observability
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Treat on-premises RAG as a placement decision: map trust boundaries and classify controls into code-implemented, present-but-limited, and non-optional blockers, and remediate credentials on disk, LAN traffic, overprivileged users, overloaded accelerators, verbose errors, and... |
2026-10-19 |
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Decision Routing for GitHub Copilot in CLI & VS Code
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Adopt decision-ghc-router to route GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code requests to different models by task (for example, small models for README edits and larger models for complex debugging) to cut latency and cost and avoid over/under-powering turns. |
2026-10-19 |
Deploying Logic Apps Hybrid through an Azure DevOps pipeline
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Generate the ARM infrastructure template, parameter file, and both Azure DevOps pipeline YAMLs with the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) Visual Studio Code extension to deploy Logic Apps Hybrid to an Arc-enabled Kubernetes connected environment instead of hand-writing templates and... |
2026-10-19 |
Why AI Agents Need External Grounding
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Integrate Microsoft Web IQ web-grounding APIs into LLMs and AI agents to provide current, verifiable web information for answers that may trigger workflows or actions, improving grounding quality, speed, and efficiency. |
2026-10-19 |
Lessons Learned #561: It is Fast on the Other Server —What Should We Compare First?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When a stored procedure is slower on one server, first determine whether it is doing more work or just taking longer to do comparable work by collecting execution evidence such as execution plans and runtime statistics before changing data or indexes. |
2026-10-18 |
Web IQ: Web Search and Grounding APIs for AI Agents
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If your AI application needs facts beyond model training data, integrate Web IQ's Web Search and Grounding APIs to fetch web evidence to ground model outputs when planning, summarising, or writing code. |
2026-10-18 |
Troubleshoot Hyper-V guarded fabrics and shielded VMs
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the Tech Community troubleshooting FAQ when a guarded fabric fails to deploy, a host fails attestation, or a shielded VM cannot be provisioned, started, migrated, serviced, or recovered; do not use TPM clearing, a new or local key protector, disabled Secure Boot or Code... |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU9
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security update SQL Server 2025 RTM CU9 is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply the CU9 package from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security update SQL Server 2025 RTM GDR is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply the GDR package from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU27
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security update SQL Server 2022 RTM CU27 is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply CU27 from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security update SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply the GDR package from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security update SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32 is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply CU32 from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM
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Security update SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply the GDR package from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31
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Security update SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31 is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply CU31 from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM
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Security update SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR is now available (cumulative) and addresses CVE-2026-32176 (Denial of Service); download and apply the GDR package from the Microsoft Download Center or Update Catalog. |
2026-10-17 |
Exchange servers may become unstable after installation of October 2026 Windows updates
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If your servers received the October 13, 2026 Windows updates, check Exchange servers for instability: OWA MapiExceptionMdbOffline with event ID 1006, growing mail queues, and DAG members failing to reach quorum, and investigate any affected servers immediately. |
2026-10-17 |
Master Microsoft Entra with live webinars, AMAs, and on-demand videos
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Microsoft is running live webinars, AMA sessions, and an on-demand video repository for Microsoft Entra; sign up or use the on-demand content to refresh your identity configurations, Zero Trust controls, and hybrid security practices. |
2026-10-17 |
Microsoft 365 Copilot Brand Kits: Making On-Brand Content Easier to Create
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Microsoft 365 Copilot now supports Brand Kits that surface approved logos, fonts, and brand guidance inside the content creation experience; brand managers and IT should prepare approved assets and configure controls in Copilot. |
2026-10-17 |
Build a Tenant-Wide Microsoft Foundry Model Operations Dashboard
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Microsoft published guidance to build a tenant-wide Microsoft Foundry model operations dashboard that consolidates deployments, usage, cost, and quota or capacity risk across subscriptions and regions; platform, engineering, governance, and finance teams should implement this... |
2026-10-17 |
Title Plan Update - October 16, 2026
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The Instructor-Led Training Title Plan moved to a weekly publishing cadence; access the latest title plan at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan and update your courseware accordingly. |
2026-10-17 |
MGCI - Your October Launchpad: Learn, Grow, and Get Ready for November 🌎
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The October Microsoft Global Community Initiative update highlights CommunityDays.org's new calendar view and other community resources; if you run meetups, user groups, or Community Days, review and sync your event listings. |
2026-10-17 |
