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Azure Feeds Weekly: 24 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
This week: Azure keeps shipping features faster than my deployment windows.
LOSDE GA: migrate larger Confidential VMs with encrypted OS disks, review migration prerequisites.
WAF ruleset GA: enable Front Door Premium for HTTP-layer DDoS protection, tune thresholds.
Database identity preview: allow user-assigned identities per database for external-storage auth.
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[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure SQL Database now supports database-level user-assigned managed identities (including FIC) in CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL, enabling per-database authentication to Azure Blob Storage and ADLS Gen2 for external tables and OPENROWSET, so review and... |
2026-10-31 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Large OS Disk Encryption for Azure Confidential VM migrations
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migrations, so you can migrate larger production workloads with the OS disk encrypted; update migration plans to enable LOSDE and review Microsoft docs for prerequisites and steps. |
2026-10-30 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: HTTP DDoS ruleset for Azure Front Door Premium WAF
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Front Door Premium WAF now includes an HTTP DDoS ruleset,enable this ruleset in your WAF policy to protect HTTP-layer traffic instead of relying only on IP filters or fixed rate limits, and review policy thresholds accordingly. |
2026-10-30 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server 3.0
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure MCP Server 3.0 is now generally available, adding expanded Model Context Protocol capabilities for AI agents and developer tools and introducing Infrastructure-as-Code support via Azure Terraform,deploy or upgrade MCP Server 3.0 and update integrations to use the new... |
2026-10-30 |
ℹ️ Update
Announcing: Migrate Azure Container Apps logging destination from Log Analytics to Azure Monitor
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: The Log Analytics logging destination for Azure Container Apps is now a legacy option, plan and migrate your Container Apps logging to Azure Monitor; existing environments will continue to function but should be scheduled for migration. |
2026-10-29 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Cross Tenant Restore with Azure Backup
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Preview: Public preview of Cross-Tenant Restore for Azure Backup lets you restore Azure VM backups into a separate Azure tenant using existing backup copies; test this in non-production and assess tenant-level recovery workflows and governance. |
2026-10-29 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Marketplace private offer enhancements
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Marketplace private offer enhancements are now generally available, simplifying eligible private-offer configuration and procurement for custom pricing, flexible billing, and contract lengths, so procurement and ISV teams should review the updated private-offer flows and... |
2026-10-29 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Higher limit of Azure Blob Storage accounts per region per subscription
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Storage account quota now supports up to 1,000 storage accounts with standard endpoints per region, per subscription, up from the previous default of 250, so you can consolidate more storage resources within a single subscription. |
2026-10-28 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Cost management and tagging for Claude models in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Claude model charges deployed via Microsoft Foundry are now included in Azure Cost Management as Foundry resource spend and support resource tagging, so update your cost reports, tag policies, and billing alerts to capture Foundry Claude usage. |
2026-10-28 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Front Door Premium now supports WAF policies at the profile and route level, so you can apply baseline protection across multiple domains and create per-route controls,update your Front Door Premium configurations to use these policies where needed. |
2026-10-28 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering is now GA; configure filters (IP addresses, ports, protocols, encryption state, flow state, and traffic direction) in flow log settings or ARM templates to reduce log volume and capture only relevant traffic. |
2026-10-27 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Item Level Recovery for Azure VMs with Premium SSDv2 and Ultra Disks in Azure Backup
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Backup now supports Item-Level Recovery for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks (512 byte and 4KB logical sector sizes), so you can recover individual files and folders from those VMs; enable ILR in your backup/restore workflow. |
2026-10-24 |
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Microsoft Blogs
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Is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale “distributed SQL”?
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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If you are deciding whether to treat Azure SQL Database Hyperscale as a distributed SQL system, read this post to understand its architecture and the practical implications for scaling, high availability, and workload suitability before you choose. |
2026-10-31 |
From help desk impersonation to AD CS abuse: Investigating ESC1 and ESC8 intrusion paths
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Review and harden Teams support workflows to prevent impersonation, audit AD CS certificate templates and issuance paths, and enable detection of authentication-relay and Kerberos abuse that can lead to remote access and malicious runtime execution. |
2026-10-31 |
Tracking AI adoption in North Korean threat actor tradecraft
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports North Korean threat actors are expanding their use of AI across attack chains, so update detection, telemetry, hunting, and incident response playbooks for AI-assisted tactics and faster operational tempo, and ingest Microsoft Threat... |
2026-10-30 |
IDC MarketScape names Microsoft a Leader in the 2026 Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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IDC named Microsoft a Leader in the 2026 Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises assessment, so include Microsoft Endpoint Security in your vendor shortlist and map its capabilities against your detection, management, and compliance requirements during your... |
2026-10-30 |
Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion
.NET Blog (website)
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Syncfusion is contributing a free, open-source Blazor component toolkit, plus framework and developer tooling contributions, so review the new toolkit and consider integrating or testing it in your Blazor projects and CI pipelines. |
2026-10-30 |
PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Operational Statistics
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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When upgrading from PostgreSQL to SQL, expect operational statistics and monitoring behaviour to differ, so plan to review and adapt your monitoring, baselines, and alerting per source database before cutover. |
2026-10-29 |
Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft Azure Blog (website)
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Microsoft introduced the Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service, adding a supported execution harness and shared agent execution foundation with controls; if you run Foundry agents, review the new harness option and its controls for deployment and governance. |
2026-10-29 |
The CISO’s evolving role: Protecting and defending in the agentic era
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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CISOs should implement identity and data guardrails for AI and agent workloads, and modernise detection, threat hunting, and incident response to address AI-powered attacks and agent-specific risks. |
2026-10-29 |
Azure SDK Release (October 2026)
Azure SDK Blog (website)
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October 2026 Azure SDK release updates Azure Core authentication APIs, adds managed identity client improvements for Python and Java, and promotes the Cosmos DB Rust libraries to stable (GA); upgrade the relevant SDK packages to pick up the new auth and identity behaviour. |
2026-10-29 |
Streamline creation and management of AI-ready, custom apps with SharePoint Embedded
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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SharePoint Embedded is a cloud-based, API-only document management platform that lets you bring Microsoft 365 content capabilities into custom apps, so update your architecture and integrate its APIs to embed documents, metadata, and AI-ready content workflows. |
2026-10-29 |
Agentic CI/CD with Azure Cosmos DB: Isolated Environments for a Swarm of AI Agents
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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Give each AI/code task its own disposable Azure Cosmos DB database in CI (use the Cosmos DB Emulator), seed known data, run agent tests in isolation, and merge only the reviewed code changes, not the test database state. |
2026-10-29 |
Copilot UX components are generally available: bring interactive experiences into Copilot
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Copilot UX components are generally available (GA) with SPFx 1.24: upgrade or target SPFx 1.24 to embed interactive dashboards, forms, and business actions directly into Microsoft Copilot using your existing web code. |
2026-10-28 |
Unexpected Private Access rule after rebuilding Global Secure Access v2
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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After rebuilding Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access v2 and reinstalling the Private Network Connector, check for leftover or unexpected Private Access rules and confirm Quick Access only lists the intended TCP destinations (ports 80, 445, 9000) and the correct connector group... |
2026-10-28 |
Azure DevOps Server RC (26H2) Is Now Available
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Preview (release candidate): Azure DevOps Server RC (26H2) is available to download; it brings features from the hosted service plus security and quality improvements, and supports direct upgrades from any Team Foundation Server version. |
2026-10-28 |
Entra ID - Federation or EAM for Passkey deployment
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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Decide and act: either replace ADFS federation with your third-party provider to keep third-party first-factor plus passkey and push support, or use Entra staged rollout with EAM (which does not support third-party first-factor) and enable the system browser setting. |
2026-10-28 |
Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Infragistics
.NET Blog (website)
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Infragistics has contributed free, open-source Blazor UI components, new .NET 11 analyzers, and developer tooling you can now add to your projects and CI/IDE setups, so review and integrate the components and analyzers into your build and editor toolchain. |
2026-10-28 |
Inspecting Local Data with Azure Cosmos DB Shell
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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Use Azure Cosmos DB Shell to connect to the local Cosmos DB emulator from the terminal to inspect FleetCharge documents, run queries, and perform point-reads on depot partitions. |
2026-10-28 |
Microsoft & Snowflake’s Commitment to Apache Ossie
Power BI Blog (website)
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Microsoft and Snowflake have committed to Apache Ossie (incubating), a vendor-neutral standard for exchanging semantic metadata across analytics, AI, and BI; teams should track Ossie for upcoming semantic interoperability between Fabric, Microsoft Databases, and Snowflake. |
2026-10-27 |
Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026: Broader locale support
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026 expands locale coverage and improves multilingual speech quality and latency; test locale-specific prompts, benchmark latency and accuracy in your deployment regions, and update speech testing and deployment configs where behaviour changes occur. |
2026-10-27 |
Scale reservoir uncertainty analysis with agile reservoir modeling
Microsoft Azure Blog (website)
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Read the Microsoft Azure Blog post "Scale reservoir uncertainty analysis with agile reservoir modelling" for practical guidance on scaling subsurface uncertainty analysis and integrating agile reservoir modelling into your workflows. |
2026-10-27 |
PHP2Shell and Azure DevOps: what to check
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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PHP disclosed two critical RCEs: patch PHP in any pipeline runtimes, container images, App Service or other deployed apps, and self-hosted agents (rebuild and redeploy images, update pipeline images); Azure DevOps Services and Server do not use PHP for customer requests. |
2026-10-27 |
Azure Functions: .NET Brotli Security Updates
Azure App Service Blog (website)
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.NET Brotli security update rollout is in progress: Linux Azure Functions are being updated, Azure Static Web Apps managed functions are also being updated (dependent on the Functions Linux rollout), and Windows function apps on Consumption, App Service plans, and Elastic... |
2026-10-26 |
.NET Brotli Security Updates on Azure App Service for Windows
Azure App Service Blog (website)
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Security update: Azure App Service for Windows is rolling out updated built-in .NET runtimes to address Brotli-related vulnerabilities via Safe Deployment Practices (SDP); rollout is in progress, so verify your App Service runtime versions and monitor your apps for any... |
2026-10-26 |
.NET Brotli Security Updates on Azure App Service for Linux
Azure App Service Blog (website)
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Security update: updated built-in .NET images with Brotli fixes have finished rolling out to the Latest Platform Release channel for Azure App Service on Linux; rollout to the Standard channel is in progress via Safe Deployment Practices. |
2026-10-26 |
.NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates
.NET Blog (website)
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Out-of-band security updates for .NET address a Brotli decoder vulnerability and a tarball ownership vulnerability; update affected .NET runtimes and SDKs to the patched releases and follow the .NET Blog advisory for versions and deployment guidance. |
2026-10-26 |
The paper that split the database in four: inside Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, aka Socrates
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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Read the Azure SQL Dev Corner article summarising the Socrates research paper that splits Hyperscale into four architectural components, so you can apply those design details when planning or migrating high-scale Azure SQL Database workloads. |
2026-10-26 |
Trying to get support in reseting Authenticator MFA
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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If your tenant admin is locked out after the Microsoft Authenticator was reset, do not rely on the Microsoft phone AI for recovery, because it may fail to vocally identify the admin and terminate the call, and there is no public data protection contact listed, so arrange an... |
2026-10-24 |
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Microsoft Tech Community
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Get ready for Microsoft Ignite 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you plan to attend Microsoft Ignite 2026 in person, register now to access partner-only programming (including the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program booth and dedicated partner sessions); online attendees should use the session scheduler and on-demand keynotes. |
2026-10-30 |
Specialization updates for October: Azure Local, Teams retirement, and Azure ACR workloads
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Change: the Azure Stack HCI specialization is being renamed to Azure Local for Hybrid & Sovereign Private Cloud,check Partner Center for the updated specialization requirements to keep your credential current. |
2026-10-30 |
OneDrive Username Enumeration: What Security Teams Should Know
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security teams: OneDrive and SharePoint URL probes can enumerate user principal names (UPNs), and those probes do not appear in Microsoft Entra sign-in logs or Microsoft Purview, so update detection and incident response to account for this limited visibility. |
2026-10-30 |
Securing AI in the Defense Industrial Base – Part 1 – The AI Risk Landscape
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Guidance: read Part 1 of the three-part series for a practical framework to secure AI in Microsoft 365 Government (GCC High) while meeting NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC requirements. |
2026-10-30 |
Programmed Training: You write the loop, Foundry runs the GPUs
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Programmed Training is now in public preview in Microsoft Foundry,use the Python API and Fine-Tuning Sessions SDK to author custom training recipes with serverless GPUs; preview supports LoRA for Qwen3.8-27B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, gpt-oss-120b, and Muse-Glimmer-30B. |
2026-10-30 |
What’s new in Microsoft Intune – October
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Action: Intune now includes a security baseline for Windows 365 for Agents Cloud PCs,review and deploy the baseline to ensure required device settings are present before agent tasks run. |
2026-10-30 |
Mistral Large 4 in Microsoft Foundry: Build sovereign AI within a consistent platform experience
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: Mistral Large 4 is now GA from Mistral, and Microsoft will make the model available through Microsoft Foundry in the coming days,plan for Foundry deployment if you need this open-weight model for sovereign or low-latency scenarios. |
2026-10-30 |
Bring Your Own Telephony to Voice Agents via SIP
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Change: Voice agents in Microsoft Foundry and the Voice Live API now support SIP trunks, so you can route phone calls directly to AI voice agents through your existing telephony infrastructure for lower-latency voice interactions. |
2026-10-30 |
Now generally available: Discover local AI agents with Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: Microsoft Defender can now discover local AI agents (coding assistants, command-line agents, desktop apps, and agentic development environments), giving security teams visibility into which agents run, where they run, and which users run them. |
2026-10-30 |
Less noise, more confidence: the latest Viva Engage notification updates
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft updated Viva Engage notifications to be faster, more transparent, and more relevant; communicators and admins should review notification targeting and delivery settings to ensure announcements reach intended audiences without excess noise. |
2026-10-30 |
Defending Linux in the age of AI-operated attacks
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Defence guidance: Microsoft Defender for Linux is prioritising runtime detection of modern attacker behaviour, continuous testing against realistic attacks, and adaptive learning to keep protection effective as AI-operated attacks evolve. |
2026-10-30 |
New Conditional Access policy plans in Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Entra introduces Conditional Access plans and rules to centralise shared scope and conditions, and provides a migration tool that pulls shared conditions up to the plan while keeping current policies enforced until you cut over,plan and test policy-to-plan migrations. |
2026-10-30 |
AKS Pod Scheduling Demystified
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Apply the AKS Pod Scheduling Demystified guidance: follow the filtering, scoring, binding, and runtime diagnostics and the suggested investigation and mitigation steps to diagnose uneven pod placement and prevent pods piling onto a single node. |
2026-10-30 |
AI-Assisted Authoring: How Copilot, Canvas Apps Authoring MCP, and Playwright MCP Worked Together
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When combining GitHub Copilot, Canvas Apps Authoring MCP, and Playwright MCP, assign Copilot to interpret requirements and orchestrate the workflow while letting the MCP tools perform implementation tasks, and adapt your authoring process so each tool has a distinct role. |
2026-10-30 |
AI agents are coming—are your identity controls prepared?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Treat AI agent identities like user identities: extend your existing identity controls and reduce standing privileges because AI increases risks from automated phishing, credential theft, and privilege escalation. |
2026-10-30 |
Securing SAP ABAP-to-HANA Authentication with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (Hardware Security Module)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Store SAP ABAP-to-HANA authentication secrets (X.509 client certificates or passwords) in Azure Key Vault Managed HSM to remove portable credentials from systems and reduce the risk of credential theft. |
2026-10-30 |
Architecting Governed Memory State for Production AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Microsoft Foundry Agent Service managed memory stores with item-level controls, default TTL, and remember-or-forget operations to hold user-profile, chat-summary, and procedural memory while explicitly excluding credentials and other sensitive data. |
2026-10-30 |
SharePoint Showcase: Refreshed SharePoint mobile app
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Update to the redesigned SharePoint mobile app to get a unified start experience that surfaces your sites, files, news, and people, aligning the mobile Discover experience with the web. |
2026-10-30 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published September 19-23, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 331 new offers (Sept 19-23, 2026), covering cloud solutions, SaaS, AI apps, and agents,review the new listings to find tools you can trial or procure for your environment. |
2026-10-30 |
Upgrade Azure CycleCloud Slurm Node OS Images Without Recreating the VM Scale Set
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When upgrading OS images for Azure CycleCloud Slurm nodes, update the VM Scale Set model first and follow the article's Manual upgrade mode steps, because reimaging instances without changing the VMSS model will rebuild them from the old image. |
2026-10-29 |
Let’s talk speed and scale: Azure Managed Redis at Microsoft Ignite 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Attend the Azure Managed Redis breakout and hands-on sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2026 to get practical guidance and resources for building and scaling Redis-backed applications. |
2026-10-29 |
Partner Blog | From Copilot adoption to agent-powered growth
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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CSP partners: run the guided 25-user trial for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business to convert SMB pilots into broader deployments while enforcing security, governance, and cost controls. |
2026-10-29 |
Scale your Marketplace sales with expanded Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace benefits
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft expanded Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace benefits: Marketplace publishers should check App Advisor's Unlock benefits step to claim new Azure sponsorship milestones and increased cost and adoption supports. |
2026-10-29 |
When Bigger PQC Keys and Signatures Break Software Assumptions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Test your tooling and applications against hybrid post-quantum TLS configurations (for example secp384r1-ML-KEM-1024), because larger PQC keys and signatures can break software assumptions and cause failures. |
2026-10-29 |
Azure API Management v2: Restoring Predictable Outbound IP Addresses with NAT Gateway
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Outbound IP behaviour changed in Azure API Management Standard v2 and Premium v2: for predictable source IPs you must explicitly design outbound connectivity (for example attach a NAT Gateway) rather than relying on classic-tier dedicated outbound IPs. |
2026-10-29 |
Canada 2026 time zone changes: Guidance for Microsoft products
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Prepare for Canada 2026 time zone changes: follow Microsoft's guidance to update admin and user settings for Microsoft 365 calendars, apply the Edge/WebView2 update for Teams Rooms on Windows, and watch the product guidance pages for other workloads. |
2026-10-29 |
Establish a macOS security baseline with mSCP and Microsoft Intune custom compliance
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Microsoft Intune custom compliance with the NIST macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) artefacts (discovery script and JSON) to create macOS device compliance policies and establish a security baseline. |
2026-10-29 |
Why Microsoft contributes to Postgres: What I tell people
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft now contributes to Postgres in nine different ways (beyond Azure Database for PostgreSQL), including conferences, blog posts, talks, and open-source work; consult Microsoft's Postgres resources when planning Postgres on Azure. |
2026-10-29 |
Introducing the Logic Apps local CLI: develop Standard workflows from your terminal
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: install the Logic Apps Standard az CLI extension (az logicapp) to create, configure, run, and diagnose Logic Apps Standard projects locally from your terminal. |
2026-10-29 |
Growing our connector ecosystem with 500+ Microsoft Sentinel connectors
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Sentinel now supports 500+ connectors: review the expanded connector catalogue and integrate additional data sources into Sentinel for detection, investigation, and response. |
2026-10-29 |
Introducing Glint Labs and The Next Generation of Employee Listening Research Report
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft launched Glint Labs, a new People Science hub, and published the 'Next Generation of Employee Listening' research report plus the Analyze tool, so HR and people teams can access these AI-powered research resources. |
2026-10-29 |
Introducing a credential based on real work—no test required
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: Microsoft Pro Badge is now GA, a credential that verifies proficiency demonstrated through real, everyday product use without a separate test, providing a current, verified signal of skills. |
2026-10-29 |
Identity under attack: How AI strengthens defense
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Entra now delivers advanced AI-driven identity detection and response capabilities that detect anomalies earlier, accelerate investigations, and apply dynamic enforcement against threats like MFA fatigue, token hijacking, and credential replay. |
2026-10-29 |
Simplify Azure Arc agent updates with Automatic Agent Upgrade, now generally available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: Automatic Agent Upgrade for Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) is now GA; enable it to have Microsoft roll out Connected Machine agent updates in regional batches during off-peak hours instead of manually deploying each new agent version. |
2026-10-29 |
Commvault and Luware deliver transactable partner offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Commvault and Luware have published transactable offers in Microsoft Marketplace, allowing customers to purchase their services directly through the marketplace (for example, Commvault Cloud - Microsoft Azure Native ISV Service). |
2026-10-29 |
Partner Blog | Make each Microsoft 365 Business Premium opportunity a security conversation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft is advising partners to position Microsoft 365 Business Premium opportunities as security conversations that prioritise AI-ready adoption, advanced attack protection, and data protection to build recurring managed services. |
2026-10-28 |
MANA out-of-tree (OOT) driver for Linux LTS kernels
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Out-of-tree MANA driver announced: you can install the MANA OOT driver to run Azure Accelerated Networking on supported Linux LTS kernels without upgrading the kernel, so plan driver deployment on VMs that must stay on your distro kernel. |
2026-10-28 |
What’s new for Oracle AI Database@Azure at Oracle AI World 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Planned expansion: Oracle intends to bring Oracle AI Database@Azure to Azure Government Cloud (seeking FedRAMP Class D) and announced sovereign controls (EU Data Boundary, Azure Policy) plus Proximity Placement Group support, so factor these upcoming options into your... |
2026-10-28 |
Sovereign controls for Oracle AI Database@Azure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Oracle Azure Resource Provider now supports the EU Data Boundary and Azure Policy for Oracle AI Database@Azure, so use these sovereign controls to enforce EU/EFTA data residency and deployment policy compliance. |
2026-10-28 |
Bringing Azure Applications Closer to Oracle AI Database@Azure with Proximity Placement Groups
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Proximity Placement Group integration is now generally available for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure in Oracle AI Database@Azure, enable PPGs when deploying supported Azure VMs to place them close to Oracle-managed Exadata for lower latency. |
2026-10-28 |
Personalize PowerPoint Live with Theme, Navigation, and Notes pane controls
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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PowerPoint Live adds light, dark, and high contrast themes, up/down arrow slide navigation, and a resizable Notes pane; update presenter guidance and accessibility settings to reflect the new UI options. |
2026-10-28 |
Windows CLAT is Now Generally Available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Windows CLAT is now generally available, configure or enable CLAT on Windows clients so IPv4-only applications continue to work over IPv6-only networks using the 464XLAT client-side translation model. |
2026-10-28 |
Partner Blog | From AI adoption to recurring revenue: The SMB partner opportunity at Microsoft Ignite 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partner action: build managed services, repeatable offerings, and IP that help SMBs embed and manage AI securely, so you can convert AI adoption into measurable outcomes and recurring revenue. |
2026-10-28 |
Part 4: See, investigate, and measure email and collaboration attacks with Defender reporting
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Defender provides Detections and Insights reporting templates as Microsoft Sentinel workbooks or Power BI reports to see, investigate, and measure email and collaboration attacks across channels; deploy those templates to centralise investigations and track defence effectiveness. |
2026-10-28 |
Global enterprise multi-agent systems in production: Release and operations (Part 2)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you deploy multi-agent systems with hosted agents and the Azure Developer CLI, add release verifications that prove every region runs the exact tested agent version, correct settings, and validated business outcomes after rollout. |
2026-10-28 |
Database watcher for Azure SQL is retiring: simplify your monitoring with Database Hub
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Retirement: Database watcher for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and elastic pools is retiring and will not go to GA; migrate your monitoring to Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric to retain telemetry without managing a separate monitoring data store. |
2026-10-28 |
Introducing the ABAP Cloud SDK for Azure: a native, secure path from SAP ABAP Cloud to Azure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The ABAP Cloud SDK for Azure is now open source: ABAP developers can call Azure REST APIs using the SDK's layered HTTP pipeline, pluggable Microsoft Entra ID credentials, typed exceptions, and strongly typed clients instead of hand-rolling if_web_http_client calls. |
2026-10-28 |
Why identity needs network insight to make Zero Trust work
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Zero Trust requires network-level visibility in addition to identity: integrate session and network telemetry (session traffic, device posture, and non-federated SaaS access) with identity controls so you can detect session hijack, degraded posture, and risky traffic during... |
2026-10-28 |
MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, so teams can adopt these GA image models for faster, more precise image generation workflows in production. |
2026-10-28 |
Mekorma Enterprises and cortave Inc. deliver transactable partner offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Mekorma Payment Hub and cortave Platform are now transact-capable offers in Microsoft Marketplace, allowing direct purchase of these partner solutions (for example, Mekorma integrates with Dynamics 365 Business Central for automated AP workflows). |
2026-10-28 |
What's New in Excel (October 2026)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Excel (October 2026) adds table naming at creation on Windows, five new Copilot capabilities for data import, cleaning, and repeatable workflows, and exposes new Copilot model options including GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 for users to choose. |
2026-10-28 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published September 16-18, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 232 new offers on September 16-18, 2026: review the marketplace catalogue for newly available apps and services you can trial or procure to meet project requirements. |
2026-10-28 |
Azure SQL Scaling Stuck? Investigating CDC and Transaction Log Pressure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If an Azure SQL scale operation remains IN_PROGRESS or CANCEL_IN_PROGRESS, do not assume CDC is the cause: diagnose transaction-log growth, CDC capture latency, replication/log-truncation state, and long-running transactions before changing configuration. |
2026-10-28 |
When Change Tracking Cleanup Falls Behind: A Safe Playbook for Azure SQL
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When Change Tracking metadata grows, follow the safe playbook: determine whether cleanup is slow, blocked, or operating as configured by checking the background cleanup mechanism, transaction activity, and retention settings before applying fixes. |
2026-10-27 |
Seconds of Downtime, Hours of Confusion: Handling Transient Azure SQL Disconnects
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Treat brief Azure SQL service reconfiguration interruptions as expected failure modes: implement retry logic and resilient connection handling so applications recover from transient disconnects in seconds rather than remaining unavailable for hours. |
2026-10-27 |
The Pipeline Is Slow, or Is SQL Waiting? Diagnosing Synapse-to-Azure SQL Regressions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If a Synapse pipeline activity to Azure SQL jumps from minutes to hours, investigate SQL-side waits (memory pressure, blocking, increased IO, or execution plan changes) and pipeline data changes rather than assuming a simple CPU slowdown. |
2026-10-27 |
Turn GitHub notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GitHub can post repository notifications into Teams channels, group chats, or private chats and, when you reply and @mention GitHub, Copilot will act on the linked issue or pull request to reproduce bugs, run tests, implement fixes, and prepare pull requests; adjust your team... |
2026-10-27 |
Enterprise Deployment Architecture for Agentic AI: ChatGPT-Style UI on IIS over Agents & MCP Servers
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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This is a technical research paper on deploying ChatGPT-style UIs on IIS over agents and MCP servers; treat it as educational material only, do not use it as production guidance, and consult your organisation's development standards, enterprise architecture, security, and... |
2026-10-27 |
More Than a Conference: Connect with the Microsoft Community at ESPC 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for ESPC Microsoft 365 and AI Conference (30 Nov-3 Dec 2026, RAI Amsterdam) if you want in-person opportunities to meet product experts, Microsoft MVPs, and community meetups that can help you solve Microsoft 365 and AI adoption challenges. |
2026-10-27 |
SharePoint Publish: The next steps for Viva Amplify and centralized corporate communications
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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SharePoint Publish is introduced as the new, central hub for corporate communicators to create, distribute, and measure organisational communications, so update your content workflows and training to use Publish instead of disparate tools. |
2026-10-27 |
Remember, Retrieve, Revalidate-or Forget? Architecting Memory for Production AI Agents
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Design agent memory as four coordinated capabilities: Remember, Retrieve, Revalidate, and Forget, split responsibilities across the agent, an application policy layer, a platform/memory service, and the owning data systems, and add identity checks, policy gates, failure... |
2026-10-27 |
Qwen3.8-27B on a Lenovo laptop: run it on RTX Spark, watch it in Azure Monitor
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Qwen3.8-27B can run locally on a Lenovo Yoga 9n with NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X and 64 GB unified memory, holding a 262,144-token context and delivering ~44.7 tokens/s single-request and ~27 tokens/s under sustained agent load, so size hardware, power, and Azure Monitor integration... |
2026-10-27 |
GPT-6.1 Terra now generally available in Microsoft Foundry: build agents that see and act
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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General availability: GPT-6.1 Terra is now GA in Microsoft Foundry, so you can deploy it for visual-reasoning and computer-use agent workloads while using Foundry's identity, networking, governance, data handling, evaluation, and compliance controls. |
2026-10-27 |
Frontier expands to more Microsoft 365 public previews
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview expansion: Starting in November, the Frontier program will include eligible public preview features for the new Outlook for Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, so admins can enable a single Frontier setting to give testers one place to try upcoming Microsoft 365... |
2026-10-27 |
Proofpoint’s Core Email Protection API solution joins the Microsoft Defender ICES vendor ecosystem
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Proofpoint's Core Email Protection API solution has joined the Microsoft Defender ICES vendor ecosystem, so plan integration testing if you operate Defender with Proofpoint to maintain layered email security and compliance. |
2026-10-27 |
October update: What’s new for partners in Azure
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partners: read the October Cloud & AI Platforms partner newsletter for actionable updates, including new PostgreSQL on Azure capabilities, SMB Azure AI go-to-market guidance, and updated incentives and skilling opportunities to grow your practice. |
2026-10-27 |
Global enterprise multi-agent systems in production: Design and security (Part 1)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you are building global enterprise multi-agent systems, consider Microsoft Foundry hosted agents; this series documents design and security patterns for identity, scaling, versioning, and observability used by customers who ran multi-agent systems in production across... |
2026-10-27 |
Bringing AI-Powered SRE to Your On-Premise Server Estate For Unifying Ops
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you operate an on-premises server estate, evaluate applying AI-assisted SRE practices and tools that triage alerts and correlate signals to reduce on-call noise, because many AI-ops solutions still assume cloud-only workloads. |
2026-10-27 |
News to Know – Volume 3, Edition 11, October 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Viva Glint update: program setup now shows visual required-field indicators, plus broader organisational-data integration and new private-preview options for reporting and Copilot experiences, review admin and export settings and sign up for previews you need. |
2026-10-27 |
From fine-tuning to shared serving: Multi-LoRA deployment on Foundry Managed Compute
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Foundry Managed Compute adds Multi-LoRA adapter deployment, letting you deploy multiple compatible LoRA adapters on a shared base-model (initially Muse-Glimmer-30B, Qwen3.8-27B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, GPT-OSS-120B) to serve specialised experiences without separate compute... |
2026-10-27 |
MC1387573 Explained What Microsoft Teams Administrators Need to Know About Built-In Agent Governance
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Breaking change: built-in Teams agents are now governed separately at Teams admin centre > Teams apps > Built-in Teams agents, the org-wide Microsoft apps setting no longer controls them, so review and update each agent's availability (Everyone, Specific users or groups, No... |
2026-10-27 |
How Infobip in Microsoft Marketplace can replace your messaging provider without rebuilding your app
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If your environment is affected by the retirement of Azure Communication Services messaging, consider Infobip in Microsoft Marketplace as a migration path that can map sender identities, delivery events, and inbound flows so you can replace your messaging provider without... |
2026-10-27 |
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 156
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security review: Microsoft Edge v156 introduces eight new Computer and User settings but requires no additional enforced settings; continue to apply the Edge v151 security baseline (now aligned to the Extended Stable Channel) and download the baseline and spreadsheet to review... |
2026-10-27 |
Introducing the Power Platform Admin Plugin in Cowork: Agentic Governance with Natural Language
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The Power Platform Admin plugin for Copilot Cowork is being introduced to surface tenant-specific Power Platform data and governance context so admins can ask natural-language governance questions grounded in their tenant; check plugin availability and required permissions. |
2026-10-26 |
Lessons Learned #562: Measuring the Work Behind Statistics Updates in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you see intermittent millisecond latency and CPU increases in Azure SQL Database, check Query Store for SELECT StatMan(...) entries to measure background statistics update work and correlate those occurrences with your stress-test timestamps. |
2026-10-25 |
Making Azure Container Registry Activity Visible at Scale
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Container Registry now emits two new metrics, Transactions and Data Transfer, with per-registry and per-geo-replica breakdowns by operation and serving region; update your Grafana dashboards and alerts to consume these metrics for activity and egress visibility. |
2026-10-24 |
Managing security with Database Hub in Fabric: From signals to action
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric centralises security signals across subscriptions, regions, clouds, and database platforms so security and database teams can assess estate-level posture and prioritise remediation; connect your database estate to Database Hub and integrate its... |
2026-10-24 |
Protect against Brotli CVE-2026-111497 with Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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CVE-2026-111497 affects Brotli decoder versions 1.0.3-1.2.0 and can be exploited via crafted Brotli-compressed requests; mitigate by enabling Azure Web Application Firewall protections for affected endpoints, blocking or inspecting requests with Content-Encoding: br, and... |
2026-10-24 |
Azure OpenAI Decisions API: Now generally available in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Azure OpenAI Decisions API is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry; start using Decisions for routing, model selection, and workflow-branch decisions inside Foundry workflows instead of full generative calls, and update agent and workflow designs to call the... |
2026-10-24 |
From Pilots to Programs: A Structured Approach to Scaling AI and Agents for Real Business Value
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Adopt a repeatable, product-engineering operating model (inventory, governance, operations, monitoring) to move Copilot, agents, and AI apps from pilots into company-wide programmes; apply the runbook patterns in the article to reduce fragmented pilots and improve governance. |
2026-10-24 |
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Azure Weekly Update - 30th October 2026 - Halloween Special
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Review the 30 Oct 2026 weekly update video for an ACA logging destination change, Confidential VM LOSDE details, new VNet Flow Log filtering options, and AFD updates that may require you to adjust logging, flow filters, or VM configuration. |
2026-10-31 |
Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot Cowork
Imran Rashid (website)
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If you use Microsoft 365 Copilot, try Copilot Cowork by handing it a complete artefact so it can carry out multi-step work (rather than single prompts); follow the Getting Started guide to configure your Cowork workflow and test summarising and drafting tasks. |
2026-10-31 |
How do we build a plugin in Tool Studio? | Build EmployeeWorks plugins with ToolSmith (Part 3)
Chris Reddington (website)
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Build the EmployeeWorks ToolSmith plugin by creating Connectors to store the travel system base address and authentication, adding HTTP actions for booking and cancellation APIs, defining a conversational process to identify the booking and request confirmation, and using Slots... |
2026-10-30 |
What Does It Cost to Run? Try the Cheap Watts Calculator
Jon Russell (website)
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Use the free Cheap Watts electricity cost calculator to estimate running costs for tumble dryers, ovens, heaters, and EV chargers, and feed those estimates into your energy-cost forecasts. |
2026-10-30 |
GitHub Copilot in VS Code at Universe 2026: What Actually Matters
Gregor Suttie (website)
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If you use GitHub Copilot in VS Code, read Gregor Suttie's Universe 2026 summary to identify any VS Code Copilot extension, settings, or workflow changes you must update or test in your environment. |
2026-10-29 |
GitHub Agentic Workflows: The Agentics Sample Pack and Issue Triage
Gregor Suttie (website)
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GitHub Agentic Workflows publishes an Agentics Sample Pack and Issue Triage examples; fetch the sample pack to inspect and adapt the issue-triage workflow templates for your repositories. |
2026-10-29 |
AI Preceptorships with CMU's Dr. Michael Hilton and Julia Gao
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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PRAISE (PReceptorship) from CMU and Microsoft introduces a mentored, hands-on programme to train developers to work with AI-written code; incorporate structured mentorship, judgement training, and practical AI code projects into your onboarding or upskilling plans. |
2026-10-29 |
Accelerating Defense with Microsoft Security Solutions
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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No official product change announced: this community video provides a practical walkthrough of Microsoft security solutions and their AI intersections, with chapters on MDASH, Perception, Defender ISOC, Foundation, Secure your AI, and DART, watch for an operational orientation. |
2026-10-28 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 33 - PHP2Shell: Technische Analyse und Schutzmassnahmen!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Review your servers' logs from 17 October for signs of PHP2Shell activity and apply the episode's concrete mitigations for Out-of-Memory and use-after-free exploitation, using the linked GitHub workshop for step-by-step hardening and detection checks. |
2026-10-28 |
How AI Sees and Hears for AI-901: Hear, Speak, See, and Create
Travis Roberts (website)
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If you build accessible AI features, test Microsoft's Seeing AI app as a reference to study real-world OCR, scene description, and speech output behaviour and use its outputs to inform your app's accessibility integration. |
2026-10-28 |
AI Changed the Cost of Writing Code. It’s Time to Reestimate Legacy Modernization.
Build5Nines (website)
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Reestimate legacy modernisation costs and timelines now: account for reduced developer coding time from AI-assisted tools, update TCO, staffing plans, and re-evaluate whether rewrite, refactor, or augmentation is the right migration path. |
2026-10-28 |
🛡️Ehrlich vorgestellt: Das Active Cyber Program (ACP) im Deep Dive🛡️
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Run the free Active Cyber Program (ACP) self-assessment app to evaluate your organisation's cyber maturity with 71 practical controls across 11 domains and identify critical security gaps to prioritise remediation. |
2026-10-28 |
Plugins, MCP servers or Enterprise Search? | Build EmployeeWorks plugins with ToolSmith (Part 2)
Chris Reddington (website)
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When building EmployeeWorks plugins with ToolSmith: expose tool endpoints via MCP servers (an open standard), add Enterprise Search for company knowledge like travel policies, and implement an agentic loop so the model can call tools for live lookups or cancellations. |
2026-10-27 |
Intune STIG Audit: What Happens After You Click Create
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Creating an Intune STIG Audit baseline runs a read-only assessment of current device settings rather than enforcing configurations, so create the baseline, review the audit reports for non-compliant settings, and implement remediations via separate configuration profiles or... |
2026-10-27 |
Why do AI Agents Fail
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Audit your AI agents for the failure modes covered (fuzzy goals, bad context, tool misfires, poor reasoning, lost state, over-privileged tools, 'flying blind', and missing improvement loops) and implement fixes: clearer objectives, context handling, privilege controls, state... |
2026-10-26 |
RateMyAzureBackups: Grading Every Azure Backup Vault From A to F
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Review Gregor Suttie's RateMyAzureBackups grading for your Azure Backup vaults and prioritise remediating any failed, missing, or non-compliant backups the report highlights. |
2026-10-26 |
Last week in Agent Security Update 4: Cairn’t Touch This
Will Velida (website)
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Two critical PHP RCEs (PHP2Shell), reported to affect PHP releases back to 5.4, need immediate action: identify exposed PHP web servers, apply vendor security updates or temporary WAF/config mitigations, and scan logs for signs of compromise. |
2026-10-26 |
What The VLAN?! My ASUS Router Has Been Keeping Secrets
Graham Gold (website)
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Inspect your ASUS ZenWiFi XT9 for tagged guest VLANs, AiMesh spanning-tree behaviour, and an unexpected trunk on ordinary LAN ports, and adjust port VLAN tags or AiMesh/STP settings to restore intended IoT isolation. |
2026-10-26 |
Lobster wrangling: Enterprise AI Governance with Joel Oleson
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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If you plan to deploy agentic AI over enterprise data, review and formalise governance for agents operating on decentralised sources (for example SharePoint), including data inventory, access controls, and audit trails as discussed in the video. |
2026-10-26 |
Agentic Azure Insights Day 6
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Watch Nicholas Chang's YouTube video 'Agentic Azure Insights Day 6' for a community-sourced update on agentic AI topics related to Azure. |
2026-10-25 |
Microsoft Azure (Cloud) Solutions Architect - Folge 75 - Purview Labels: Sicherheit durchsetzen!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Treat Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels as access decisions you must enforce: configure labels to apply encryption, assign rights, and enforce access controls so protection travels with the data. |
2026-10-25 |
Trust and Guardrails Governing Autonomous AI Agents on Azure
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Give each autonomous agent its own identity and narrowly scoped permissions rather than inheriting the human's privileges, and change authorization checks to evaluate agent identity, business context, risk, reversibility, and action-specific conditions. |
2026-10-25 |
Securing Agentic Azure: Detection, Automation, and Cloud-Native Resilience
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Combine control-plane, data-plane, and management-plane telemetry into detection pipelines, and adopt detection-as-code, rule lifecycle management, contextual enrichment, and prioritisation (using STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud, and OWASP threat modelling) to improve visibility... |
2026-10-25 |
Azure Weekly Update - 24th October 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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New video shows how to configure Traffic Manager with Azure DNS, set Application Gateway keyless TLS using Azure Key Vault managed HSM, and apply Azure Front Door updates, watch and apply the walkthroughs if you manage DNS routing, TLS certificate lifecycle, or edge routing. |
2026-10-25 |
How to lint your desired state: a first look at Microsoft's DSC linter
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Run Microsoft's DSC linter on your PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) files to catch and fix configuration errors before applying them to nodes. |
2026-10-24 |
The Agent Can Propose; the Platform Must Decide: Governing Azure Infrastructure Operations
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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No Azure service change is announced in this community video listing, so no action is required, and you can watch Nicholas Chang's 'The Agent Can Propose, the Platform Must Decide' for governance approaches to platform-driven infrastructure operations. |
2026-10-24 |
Creating Your Very First Custom Agent With GitHub Copilot CLI
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Follow this hands-on guide to create and run your first custom GitHub Copilot CLI agent so you can test and iterate on customised agent behaviours in your environment. |
2026-10-24 |
AI Is Cannibalising SaaS. I Watched It Happen Three Times in One Afternoon.
Jamie Maguire (website)
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Reassess plans to productise an internal RAG ingestion tool: the author reports AI features are cannibalising standalone SaaS in practice, so validate market demand and integration paths before building a paid product. |
2026-10-24 |
Trust-Aware Capability Discovery: Building Reliable Multi-Agent Systems on Azure
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Add verifiable capability descriptions, challenge-based validation, reputation tracking, and behaviour-change detection to your Azure agent orchestrator: the session presents a trust-aware framework for Azure AI Agents and Copilot Studio that is compatible with existing MCP and... |
2026-10-24 |
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