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Azure Feeds Weekly: 01 Aug 2026 to 08 Aug 2026
This week, Azure shipped GA and previews, cloud duct tape, basically.
SharePoint connector: GA, use Lakeflow Connect to ingest files into Databricks.
Unity AI Gateway: GA on Databricks, centralise model governance, monitoring, and guardrails.
Strangler fig pattern: retire legacy dispatchers domain-by-domain, add route-parity tests.
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⭐ Top picks this week
Editor's picks, AI-assisted, advisory ordering of this week's items.
[Launched] Generally Available: SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks
GA: The SharePoint connector for Azure Databricks is generally available, use Lakeflow Connect to ingest files from SharePoint into Azure Databricks and update ingestion pipelines to bring enterprise content into data and AI workflows.
Strangler fig: retiring a legacy dispatch layer
Retire a legacy dispatch layer by applying the strangler fig pattern: migrate domain-by-domain, implement route-parity tests, port existing tests to new services, and schedule safe cutovers to remove the old dispatcher.
[Launched] Generally Available: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks
GA: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks is generally available, start using it to centralise governance for AI models, agents, tools, and MCP services so you can monitor usage, manage costs, apply guardrails, and enforce access controls.
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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: ExpressRoute resiliency guard adds a resiliencyModel property to ExpressRoute virtual network gateways so you can mark gateways as single-homed or multi-homed; update gateway deployments or templates to set this property as needed. |
2026-08-08 |
ℹ️ Update
Announcing: Azure Databricks Genie One and Genie Agents Free Usage Extended Through January 31, 2027
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Pricing change: free usage of Azure Databricks Genie One and Genie Agents has been extended to 31 January 2027 (previously 31 July 2026), and Azure budget controls will not apply to these products during the promotional period, so update cost forecasts and monitoring accordingly. |
2026-08-07 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Migrate from AWS FSx for Windows File Server to Azure Files with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Preview: Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless, cloud-to-cloud migration from AWS FSx for Windows File Server (SMB) to Azure Files (SMB), so you can move Windows file shares into Azure Files without deploying or managing migration agents. |
2026-08-07 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: The SharePoint connector for Azure Databricks is generally available, use Lakeflow Connect to ingest files from SharePoint into Azure Databricks and update ingestion pipelines to bring enterprise content into data and AI workflows. |
2026-08-06 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks is generally available, start using it to centralise governance for AI models, agents, tools, and MCP services so you can monitor usage, manage costs, apply guardrails, and enforce access controls. |
2026-08-06 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Explicit proxy in Azure Firewall
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Firewall now supports explicit proxy, so update application and browser proxy settings or device configurations to send HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly to the firewall instead of using route-based forwarding. |
2026-08-06 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Nested confidential (cc_v5) VMs will be retired on September 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: On 1 September 2026 Microsoft will retire the nested confidential cc_v5 VM series (impacted size listed: DCas_c); these VMs will no longer be available for purchase, and any affected VM not resized before that date will be deallocated. |
2026-08-05 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Perimeter link feature in network security perimeter
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Perimeter link introduces cross-perimeter connectivity so trusted resources in two different network security perimeters can securely communicate using Managed Identity (MSI); test the feature and update your segmentation and access policies. |
2026-08-05 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Private Link support over IPv6
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure Private Link now supports IPv6 private endpoints, allowing IPv6 clients in an Azure virtual network to privately connect to PaaS services such as Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database; plan to create IPv6 endpoints and update DNS and routing. |
2026-08-05 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure DNS enables DNS-based load balancing through Traffic Manager integration
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Preview: Azure DNS now supports direct association of record sets with Azure Traffic Manager profiles, so you can use DNS-based load balancing without creating CNAMEs to the trafficmanager.net domain; evaluate this in non-production before switching live records. |
2026-08-05 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network routing appliance
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally available: Azure Virtual Network routing appliance is GA, offering a hardware-backed option for private connectivity across virtual networks with lower latency and higher throughput than VM-based appliances; plan new deployments or migrations accordingly. |
2026-08-05 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Trusted Launch as Default
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Trusted Launch as Default (TLaD) now applies to new Azure Gen2 virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets and automatically enables Secure Boot and vTPM for supported deployments (verify your images and deployment automation for Secure Boot/vTPM compatib |
2026-08-04 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Immutability to the most recent seven days of backups on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance now apply immutability to the most recent seven days of backups by default for all databases, so update your restore, retention, and compliance plans accordingly. |
2026-08-04 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Single-click purchase for public SaaS offers
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Marketplace public SaaS offers now support a single-click, single-page purchase flow in the Azure portal to review plan, billing, resource group, contact details, and terms before completing the purchase; update procurement and onboarding workflows as n |
2026-08-01 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Route-Maps for Azure Route Server
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Route maps for Azure Route Server are now in public preview: you can apply fine-grained inbound and outbound route policies to control which routes are advertised to and from Route Server BGP peerings, so test route-map policies in non-production before rolling them into producti |
2026-08-01 |
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Microsoft Blogs
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Test reporting in Microsoft.Testing.Platform: from red build to root cause
.NET Blog (website)
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Microsoft.Testing.Platform now surfaces test failures in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, uses pipeline history to separate regressions from flakes, and preserves reports when test hosts crash, so update CI pipelines to consume its reports to cut down noisy red builds. |
2026-08-07 |
Announcing the preview of the Work IQ Developer Tools
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Preview: Microsoft released Work IQ Developer Tools, join the preview to get developer tooling for building and testing agents that use the Work IQ intelligence layer with Microsoft 365 Copilot and start integrating agent behaviour into your apps and services. |
2026-08-07 |
Pull request annotations on work item cards
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Azure Boards now displays pull request annotations directly on Kanban work item cards, so you can see PR status and code-review progress at a glance without opening each work item. |
2026-08-07 |
You can now use the Azure DevOps Service Connection instead of a PAT or Build Session token
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Use the Azure DevOps Service Connection to authenticate pipelines with a Microsoft Entra workload identity (service principal or managed identity) instead of Personal Access Tokens or build session tokens; create the service connection in your project and update pipelines to use |
2026-08-06 |
Understanding the Standard HDD I/O unit size update and what it means for your workloads
Azure Storage Blog (website)
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Billing change: Select Standard HDD managed disks (S4, S6) will measure billable transactions in 16 KiB I/O units (I/O ≤ 16 KiB counts as one transaction), so recalculate transaction costs for workloads with many small I/O operations. |
2026-08-06 |
Announcing Public Preview - Azure Private Link over IPv6
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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Public preview: Azure Private Link over IPv6 allows you to configure IPv6-based on-prem and ExpressRoute connectivity to Azure PaaS resources via Private Link; this is in public preview and not recommended for production, follow the blog guide to test. |
2026-08-06 |
Microsoft named a Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft was named a Leader in KuppingerCole's Leadership Compass for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP); if you are evaluating CNAPP vendors, add Microsoft's offering to your shortlist and review the report for comparative criteria. |
2026-08-06 |
From open lures to cloaked gates: How a macOS ClickFix campaign learned to hide
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Threat actors in the macOS ClickFix campaign shifted from openly serving infostealer lures to hiding them behind a browser-fingerprinting gate, so update macOS detection and hunting to look for browser-fingerprinting probes, gated download chains, and pre-execution web telemetry. |
2026-08-06 |
Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Generally available: Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is now GA, deploy the remote MCP Server to give AI assistants secure, contextual access to your Azure DevOps projects so they can assist with planning, building, and shipping software. |
2026-08-06 |
ChainDrop supply chain compromise: Anatomy of a self-propagating worm
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Audit npm dependencies and recent package republishing: Microsoft reports the ChainDrop supply-chain compromise hid a credential-stealing worm in over 400 npm packages that self-propagated by republishing malicious updates, so run the published detection and hunting guidance, rem |
2026-08-05 |
Beyond Chat: live Speech-to-Text with Foundry Local and C#
.NET Blog (website)
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Use Foundry Local with the compact Nemotron model and its local model lifecycle management to implement live speech-to-text in C# and run and manage the model on your machine following the blog's sample app. |
2026-08-05 |
Azure Virtual Network routing appliance is now generally available
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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Azure Virtual Network routing appliance is now generally available: you can deploy a Microsoft-managed, platform-native routing service for high-performance connectivity across virtual networks, so evaluate replacing custom routing appliances or SDN appliances with this GA servic |
2026-08-05 |
Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft expanded Zero Trust for AI with new tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps; adopt the published controls and workflows in your AI agent deployments and DevSecOps pipelines. |
2026-08-05 |
128 Seconds to disruption: Microsoft Defender stops ransomware at QNET
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Enable and test Microsoft Defender automatic endpoint isolation and corresponding SOC runbooks and alerts, because Defender isolated a compromised endpoint in 128 seconds and prevented payload persistence and lateral spread. |
2026-08-05 |
Simplify secure, zone-resilient outbound connectivity with Azure Firewall and StandardV2 NAT Gateway
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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Azure Firewall's create experience in the Azure portal now offers a built-in option to deploy a StandardV2 NAT Gateway with the firewall, so select it during deployment to get predictable egress IPs and zone-resilient, secure outbound connectivity. |
2026-08-04 |
Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime
.NET Blog (website)
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NuGet API key lifetimes will be reduced to 30 days starting 17 August; update any scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation that use NuGet API keys to rotate or reissue keys before that date. |
2026-08-04 |
CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware delivery and credential theft
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft observed Storm-2945 (Midnight Blizzard) compromising hospitality guest sign-in portals to deliver malware and steal credentials; if you operate such portals, audit and harden captive-portal sign-in flows, rotate exposed credentials, enforce stronger authentication, and |
2026-08-01 |
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From Leadership Engagement, Town Halls to Communities: Put Viva Engage to Work at Comms Camp
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Bring a real communications challenge and attend Comms Camp, a free hands-on workshop on 12-13 Oct 2026 in Redmond, to get practical help applying Viva Engage to leadership campaigns, community building, AMAs, and town halls. |
2026-08-07 |
Bring your communications challenge to Comms Camp 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Comms Camp is a free, hands-on workshop for corporate communications teams on 12-13 Oct 2026 in Redmond: bring stakeholder briefs and workflows to get practical improvements to cross-channel planning, leader support, and AI experiments. |
2026-08-07 |
Get started faster in the PostgreSQL extension for VS Code
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now includes a Get Started landing page with quick-action cards, learning resources, and featured updates tied to your connected server to speed initial productivity. |
2026-08-07 |
Generally Available: Windows Server 2016 Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Extended Security Updates for Windows Server 2016 are now available via Azure Arc-enabled servers, and you can enrol machines in ESUs through the Azure portal to receive Critical and Important security updates while planning upgrades. |
2026-08-07 |
Microsoft is named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service; if you are evaluating UCaaS vendors, review the report and Microsoft's positions on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. |
2026-08-07 |
July 2026: Build stronger and more connected workplaces
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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July 2026 updates: Copilot Cowork Adoption Hub refreshed with task packs and updated AMA content, Agent resources expanded with a new Learning Agent demo and on-demand training, and the Customer Hub learning library has new material,check those hubs for updated adoption assets. |
2026-08-07 |
Take back-to-school tasks off your plate with Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Microsoft Copilot Chat and Copilot Tasks to manage back-to-school recurring and one-time jobs from existing calendars, and follow the article scenarios to automate reminders and task handoffs. |
2026-08-07 |
AI-powered playbook generator, now available to more customers
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The AI-powered playbook generator is now available to all Microsoft Sentinel customers in the Defender portal, and a separate Security Copilot licence is no longer required to create AI-generated playbooks in automation workflows. |
2026-08-07 |
Bring your organization’s data into Excel with new Copilot synced connectors
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: New Copilot synced connectors are generally available in Excel, letting you bring connected data from external systems into workbooks for analysis, modelling, and action within Copilot in Excel. |
2026-08-07 |
HLK August Refresh Release for Windows 11, Version 26H1
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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A refreshed HLK and VHLK for Windows 11, version 26H1 is available from 6 Aug 2026 with test and infrastructure fixes; partners may submit WHCP using either the previous or refreshed HLK provided they have passing results. |
2026-08-07 |
Partner Blog | MCAPS Start for Partners: Turn FY27 benefits updates into customer value
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partners should become Customer Zero and apply FY27 MCAPS benefits within their own organisations to pilot Microsoft technologies, validate business outcomes, and build demonstrable capabilities for customers. |
2026-08-07 |
Smarter signals, broader coverage: UEBA anomalies on top of Behaviors layer and new data sources
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Sentinel now integrates UEBA anomaly intelligence into the Behaviors layer so each behavior includes anomaly insights and explainability; update detection tuning and analyst playbooks to consume the new anomaly fields. |
2026-08-07 |
Microsoft Foundry's New Model Wave
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Foundry shifts to an enterprise model portfolio,frontier, cost-optimised, specialised, and first-party models,so choose models based on workload requirements like reasoning, latency, context size, modality, risk, and budget rather than a single model. |
2026-08-07 |
From Distillation to Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: Hill-Climbing in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Treat model customisation in Microsoft Foundry as a measurable hill climb: use Reinforcement Fine-Tuning to retain near-teacher reasoning quality while iterating to reduce latency and token cost, instead of relying on one-shot training. |
2026-08-07 |
What's New in Copilot in SharePoint: August 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Copilot in SharePoint can now generate live, interactive dashboards from lists and Excel that stay connected to the underlying data and refresh on open; convert static report exports to Copilot-generated dashboards where appropriate. |
2026-08-07 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published July 6-7, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 216 new offers on 6-7 July 2026, including the Business Analyst Toolkit's User Story Generator built on Power Platform and Dataverse; review the new listings before buying or recommending solutions. |
2026-08-07 |
Microsoft Global Hackathon 2026: Where MVP and RD Community Expertise Meets Innovation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Global Hackathon 2026 runs in September, bringing MVPs, RDs, and Microsoft employees together for a week of collaboration; if you are an MVP or RD, prepare projects and registrations to participate. |
2026-08-07 |
Zonal Resiliency in Azure: Application-Centric Goals, Recovery Plans, and Drills
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Resiliency (formerly Azure Business Continuity Center) introduces application-centric zonal resiliency: define application-level recovery goals, author recovery plans, and run drills instead of relying on per-resource resiliency checks. |
2026-08-06 |
Beyond Model Evaluation: Choosing Between Microsoft Foundry and PyRIT for AI Red Teaming
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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For AI red teaming, use both Microsoft Foundry and PyRIT depending on scope: use Foundry for model-level evaluation and PyRIT for testing above-model risks such as prompts, RAG retrieval, and application logic. |
2026-08-06 |
AI-assisted Oracle-to-PostgreSQL schema conversion in Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Visual Studio Code now offers AI-assisted Oracle-to-PostgreSQL schema conversion to speed and reduce cost in migrations to Azure Database for PostgreSQL; include the VS Code conversion workflow in your migration validation and test runs. |
2026-08-06 |
Monthly News-August 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Check the Defender portal for Defender for Cloud updates now included in the Microsoft Defender monthly news feed and review the July 2026 product changes summarised in the post. |
2026-08-06 |
Update WCF Relay applications to use TLS 1.2 or later
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Action required: update WCF Relay listeners to negotiate TLS 1.2 or later,inspect .NET Framework listeners and older WindowsAzure.ServiceBus or Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll clients that may still use TLS 1.0; Azure Relay Hybrid Connections are unaffected. |
2026-08-06 |
Exploring Multi-Agent Workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read the Microsoft Agent Framework post describing five multi-agent workflow patterns so you can design specialised agents that collaborate, delegate, challenge, and refine each other's work. |
2026-08-06 |
Lessons Learned #551: Azure SQL Connection Timeouts: Three Things to Check
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When you see intermittent Azure SQL connection timeouts, run the three diagnostic checks in the post before resizing, changing drivers, or scaling the database to avoid misdirected remediation. |
2026-08-06 |
Plan for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 end of support
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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End of support: Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 reaches end of support on 12 January 2027,plan upgrades to Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 or arrange an extended support option if you need more time to migrate. |
2026-08-06 |
MCP safety & evaluation with the Agent 365 CLI & Agent Governance Toolkit
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Adopt Agent 365 CLI to evaluate MCP servers before agents call them, and deploy the Agent Governance Toolkit to govern sensitive tool calls and control MCP behaviour. |
2026-08-06 |
When Does RL Actually Help Fine-Tuning? A Difficulty-Controlled Study on Structured Generation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the study's difficulty-controlled decision rule to decide whether to add reinforcement learning (PPO, DPO, GRPO) after supervised fine-tuning, so you only run RL when it is likely to help. |
2026-08-06 |
Partner Blog | From AI curiosity to Copilot adoption in 30 days
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partner action: run the new partner-led 30-day Copilot trial (25 users) to accelerate Copilot adoption in SMB customers; follow the partner blog for onboarding steps and trial guidance. |
2026-08-06 |
ICYMI: Partner Blog | From AI curiosity to Copilot adoption in 30 days
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partners: a focused, partner-led 30-day Copilot trial for up to 25 users is available to pilot Copilot with SMB customers,see the partner blog for the trial path and recommended use cases. |
2026-08-06 |
Public Preview: Nested API Support Comes to Microsoft Sentinel CCF
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Microsoft Sentinel's Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) now supports nested APIs,test the nested API support to build higher-fidelity or hierarchical data connectors into Sentinel. |
2026-08-06 |
Building a CCF Nested API Pull Connector: A Technical Lab Walkthrough
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the Microsoft Sentinel Codeless Connector Framework RestApiPoller nested pattern to implement two-step list-then-detail API polling (one call for IDs, per-ID detail calls) instead of writing custom orchestration; follow the lab walkthrough to build the connector. |
2026-08-06 |
Containment Strategies for AI now available in Secure Now
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Containment Strategies for AI are now available in Secure Now; review and apply the recommended containment controls to limit autonomous AI privileges, movement across trust boundaries, and risky internet-facing behaviour highlighted by recent disclosures. |
2026-08-06 |
End VPN gaps with identity-first access
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Move from perimeter VPNs to an identity-first Zero Trust approach: put identity and policy at the centre of access decisions and use Conditional Access with continuous signals (device posture, location, user risk) to enforce least-privilege sessions. |
2026-08-06 |
Azure Key Vault Premium and AES-KW Post Quantum Resistant Key Wrapping in Public Preview
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Key Vault Premium now supports post-quantum-resistant AES key wrapping (AES-KW) in Public Preview, so plan tests to replace RSA-based key wrapping where you need quantum-resistant key management. |
2026-08-06 |
Secure traffic on Azure with Fortinet FortiGate in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall VM is available in the Microsoft Marketplace for Azure, so deploy the FortiGate VM to add NGFW controls and high-performance networking to your Azure virtual networks. |
2026-08-06 |
HostNameInCertificate changes in Azure SQL Managed Instance affecting client connectivity
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure SQL Managed Instance is changing how TLS certificates and SANs are issued (new instances already use reduced SAN lists and existing instances will be rotated), so update clients and migration plans that depend on retained server hostnames or DNS redirects to avoid TLS failu |
2026-08-05 |
From Build to Run to Distribute: Autonomous Agents with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Part 1/5
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, the Microsoft Agent Framework, and the GitHub Copilot SDK are now generally available, enabling you to build agents in GitHub, run them in Foundry, and distribute them to Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot in production. |
2026-08-05 |
Agentic Migrations and Modernization: How the Azure Migrate Agent Keeps Your Intent Alive End to End
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The new Azure Migrate agent adds an AI layer that carries migration intent and artefacts across discovery, assessment, and landing-zone deployment, so evaluate it for large VM, database, and app migrations to reduce hand-off drift and preserve decisions. |
2026-08-05 |
Fixes in Microsoft Access – Version 2607 (Build 16.0.20228.20110)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Update to Microsoft Access Version 2607 (Build 16.0.20228.20110) to receive fixes for incorrect mouse event coordinates on zoomed forms, ControlTipText scaling, and other UI issues that broke drag-and-drop and form behaviours. |
2026-08-05 |
Build connectors with Managed Identity in the Logic Apps Standard extension
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Logic Apps Standard VS Code extension now supports Managed Identity as a connector authentication parameter during local build and debug; update the extension and switch connector auth to Managed Identity to test without swapping credentials before deployment. |
2026-08-05 |
City of Raleigh from insights to action: A traffic digital twin, live in six weeks
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Customer case study: the City of Raleigh built a real-time traffic digital twin with Esri, NVIDIA, and Microsoft in six weeks; this is a reference architecture and requires no immediate Azure platform change unless you plan to replicate their solution. |
2026-08-05 |
Announcing Automatic Backup Immutability for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Automatic backup immutability for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance is generally available: up to the most recent seven days of PITR backups are immutable by default at no extra cost, with no admin configuration required, so review your retention and recovery plan |
2026-08-05 |
Ep 42 | How Partners Are Building Alliances to Win Bigger Microsoft Deals
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New podcast episode on partner alliances to win larger Microsoft deals is published; listen for business strategy and ecosystem collaboration insights, there are no Azure platform changes to implement from this episode. |
2026-08-05 |
Faster, Safer Version Upgrades for Databases with Large Objects
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL major upgrades targeting PostgreSQL 15 and later now handle large-object metadata more efficiently, reducing memory and temp-space pressure so high-LOB databases have a better chance of completing upgrades; replan or retry risky upgrades accordingly. |
2026-08-05 |
Burnout, AI, and the Gap Between Expectation and Reality
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Article on AI and burnout examines how rising expectations can widen the gap between output and reality; consider adjusting team workload, guidance, and expectation setting rather than assuming AI will immediately increase productivity. |
2026-08-05 |
What's new in Agent 365 – July 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Agent 365 July 2026 updates add partner risk signals, organisation-wide adoption insights, and improved oversight of usage-based AI spend; review Agent 365 in your tenant and update governance and spend controls where needed. |
2026-08-05 |
Update: Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Update: Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot has been rolled back, so do not rely on that grounding control today; Microsoft is evaluating next steps and will provide updates when available. |
2026-08-05 |
Evoluindo a Resposta a Incidentes em AKS com Azure SRE Agent - Parte 1
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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AKS incident-response Part 1 shows using Azure Monitor, Container Insights, Log Analytics, and Azure SRE Agent to correlate OOMKilled events and speed root-cause analysis; if you run AKS, evaluate Azure SRE Agent to automate correlation and reduce on-call toil. |
2026-08-05 |
Multithreading, GIL e paralelismo no Python
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Explains that concurrency (interleaving) suits I/O-bound Python tasks while parallelism runs on multiple CPU cores for CPU-bound work, so prefer threading/async for I/O-bound workloads and multiprocessing for CPU-bound workloads. |
2026-08-05 |
CellTrust and Elastic deliver transactable partner offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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CellTrust and Elastic now deliver transact-capable offers in Microsoft Marketplace so you can purchase their solutions directly from Microsoft; CellTrust SL2 can be provisioned inside Teams for regulated message capture and Outlook contact sync. |
2026-08-05 |
From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Describes building a self-healing Azure platform using an SRE Agent to automate runbook actions, aggregate logs and metrics across clouds, and reduce manual triage and misrouted alerts during multi-cloud incidents. |
2026-08-04 |
Cloud-Native Multi-Agent: Running Agents Safely on Kubernetes with Kars
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Covers running cloud-native, multi-agent workloads on Kubernetes with Kars, highlighting that production agents are long-running, hold real credentials and network access, and therefore need containerised, secure operational patterns. |
2026-08-04 |
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - August 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Logic Apps Aviators August 2026 newsletter compiles product group news, community contributions, and an Ace Aviator profile,read it to catch recent product notes and community solutions relevant to your integration projects. |
2026-08-04 |
What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot for U.S. Government Customers
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft 365 Copilot for U.S. Government clouds received new user features and expanded admin, security, and compliance controls since April, so IT and security teams should review the updated data protection and governance settings before rollout. |
2026-08-04 |
Built-In Observability for Serverless AI Agents on Azure Functions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Functions Agents runtime now includes built-in OpenTelemetry tracing that emits structured traces (model, session, tool calls, sub-agent hand-offs) to Application Insights without adding telemetry code, so upgrade the runtime and configure App Insights to capture traces. |
2026-08-04 |
Top 10 Performance Optimization Techniques for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Presents ten practical optimisation techniques for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server to address high CPU, storage bottlenecks, autovacuum issues, excessive temporary file generation, and connection saturation; apply the tuning steps and built-in features described. |
2026-08-04 |
Windows news you can use: July 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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July Windows updates add AI-powered vulnerability management, passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID, Windows settings backup, RDP Multipath, Arc-enabled hotpatch updates, and new Windows 11 experiences; IT admins should review these changes and plan deployments for security, device mana |
2026-08-04 |
Announcing public preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Azure App Service now offers Markdown for Agents to convert web pages to Markdown (smaller, text-focused responses) to reduce token usage and speed up agent processing, try the preview to assess token and latency savings. |
2026-08-04 |
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (August 2026)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Enhanced host pool management for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available, including session host configuration and updates, dynamic autoscale, and ephemeral OS disks, plan migrations or update processes to use these features. |
2026-08-04 |
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Retirement and GA: Microsoft Defender for Cloud is ending the monthly MDC newsletter, and multiple container security features are now generally available (container-level misconfiguration recommendations for Kubernetes, AKS version upgrade recommendations, runtime image VA for E |
2026-08-04 |
Bring your unique partnership story to the Microsoft AI Tour this year
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft opened sponsorship sales for the Microsoft AI Tour (Oct 2026-Jun 2027, 35 cities); contact sponsor@microsoft.com or visit the Event Sponsorship page to secure a slot. |
2026-08-04 |
More powerful agents and workflows for autonomous business processes: Introducing a new harness for Copilot Studio
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: The GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio is now generally available for production, bringing enhanced coding and reasoning capabilities to Copilot Studio agents, evaluate it for agents that require deeper coding or automation skills. |
2026-08-04 |
Announcing Azure Linux on WSL - Beta
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Beta: Azure Linux is now available on WSL in beta, giving developers a closer match to Azure production environments on the workstation, test builds and dependencies in WSL to reduce environment drift before deployment. |
2026-08-04 |
Secure by default: Trusted Launch as Default is now Generally Available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Trusted Launch as Default is now generally available for new Azure Gen2 VMs and VMSS (Secure Boot and vTPM enabled by default at no extra cost); note that scripted tooling (ARM, Bicep, Terraform, SDKs) requires a one-time registration to make TLaD the default for automated de |
2026-08-04 |
Why AI Agents May Require a New Security Operations Model
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Organisations adopting AI agents must treat them as a new security surface: update security operations to cover agent identities, endpoint risk, tool invocations, and observability for agents as part of your threat model and incident procedures. |
2026-08-04 |
From AI Experiments to Digital Workforce: Do Enterprises Need a Chief Agent Officer?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Ownership change required: as agent fleets grow, assign clear ownership and cross-functional responsibilities across IT, security, and compliance (consider a dedicated team or role) to manage risk, governance, and operational lifecycle. |
2026-08-04 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published July 1-5, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Marketplace update: 216 new offers went live in Microsoft Marketplace on 1-5 July 2026, review the catalogue for new tools, AI apps, and specialised solutions that may fill gaps in your stack. |
2026-08-04 |
Writeback for Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes: Now Generally Available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Writeback for Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes is now Generally Available in WW, GCCH, DoD, and 21Vianet and supports up to 600,000 cloud-managed mailboxes per tenant; enable it when you need to transfer the Source of Authority for directory-synchronised mailboxes' Exchange att |
2026-08-04 |
Amplify Healthcare Intelligence In-Person Workshop Series
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Healthcare teams should plan to attend the in-person Amplify Healthcare Intelligence workshop series to learn practical approaches for building an AI-ready data foundation, implementing trusted AI governance, and deploying analytics and agent-powered solutions. |
2026-08-03 |
Learn how to use the four IQs: Web IQ, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft exposes four IQs as MCP endpoints, Work IQ for M365 user retrieval, Fabric IQ for OneLake ontologies and graphs, Web IQ for real-time web results, and Foundry IQ for multi-source agentic retrieval, so call the appropriate IQ endpoint when building agents or retrieval |
2026-08-03 |
Designing Azure Networks That Scale: From Small Deployments to Enterprise-Grade
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Plan address space, VNet peering topology, and UDR/firewall routing early for growing Azure estates to avoid overlapping CIDR ranges, broken VNet peering, and misdirected UDRs, based on the MAIS 2026 network scaling guidance. |
2026-08-03 |
Azure AI Foundry: from zero to production
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When moving AI apps from prototype to production on Azure AI Foundry, start on PAYGO, switch to PTU once utilisation exceeds 60-70%, and configure PTU as primary with PAYGO overflow; use ptucalc.com to model costs before committing. |
2026-08-02 |
From reactive firefighting to proactive operations: custom skills for Azure SRE Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you run Azure SRE Agent and need proactive operations, deploy the open-source pack of eight custom skills and enable Scheduled Investigations to add governance audits, FinOps reporting, capacity planning, postmortems, and other proactive checks. |
2026-08-02 |
Understanding Azure SQL Long-Term Retention Immutability Configuration with Terraform and AzAPI
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When using Terraform AzAPI resources to modify Azure SQL Database Long-Term Retention (LTR) immutability, do not include TimeBasedImmutabilityMode in the same request when disabling immutability, the SQL resource provider rejects that combination; use an ARM template or separate |
2026-08-02 |
Reproducing an AI Action Plan Analysis with the Microsoft Discovery App
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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To reproduce the earlier AI Action Plan analysis of about 10,000 OSTP/NITRD responses, use the Microsoft Discovery App to load the corpus and interactively query it to surface patterns and insights as shown in the blog series. |
2026-08-02 |
Microsoft Teams Meeting Controls: July 2026 M365 Champions Community call
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New: Microsoft launched a Champion Stories programme for M365 Champions,organisations that have introduced or scaled Microsoft 365 Copilot can submit adoption stories at aka.ms/ChampionStory to be considered for professional filming and publication. |
2026-08-01 |
New audit requirement for Security specializations starts July 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Starting July 2026, an independent audit will replace Customer References for the Cloud Security, Data Security, Identity & Access Management, and Threat Protection Security specializations, so prepare audit documentation when enrolling or renewing. |
2026-08-01 |
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AI should make Iron Man suits, not Ultron
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Design AI systems as assistive, human-in-the-loop tools rather than fully autonomous agents: implement operator controls, clear fail-safes, and monitoring to prevent runaway behaviour. |
2026-08-08 |
Azure Update 7th August 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Retirement: cc_v5 VMs are being retired, identify any cc_v5 instances in your subscriptions and plan migration to supported VM SKUs. |
2026-08-08 |
Pairing with AI in VS Code and Cursor
Simon Foster (website)
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When pairing AI with VS Code or Cursor for .NET (C#, Blazor, Azure Functions), treat Copilot as a method-completion assistant and Cursor as a multi-file-edit proposer, and explicitly review and accept or modify every AI suggestion before committing. |
2026-08-08 |
What’s New for Android Enterprise in Microsoft Intune 2607: July 2026 Highlights
Nicky De Westelinck (website)
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Microsoft Intune service release 2607 (July 2026) is now available and includes multiple Android Enterprise enhancements; review the 2607 release notes and test any updated Android Enterprise policies, app management, and provisioning flows before rolling out broadly. |
2026-08-07 |
What are Agent Plugins?
Will Velida (website)
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Integrate Agent Skills and MCP servers into your IDE to create GitHub PRs via a create-pr Agent Skill with GitHub Copilot, and link those PRs to Jira using an Atlassian MCP Server so you can create and associate PRs without leaving your editor. |
2026-08-07 |
MFA vs. Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID
Travis Roberts (website)
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If you manage Microsoft 365, Azure, or Entra ID, read this explainer to clarify how MFA differs from Conditional Access and then align your access control configuration so authentication challenges are enforced in the mechanism you intend to use. |
2026-08-07 |
Power BI, Fabric and user group with Bernat Agulló
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Nicholas Chang's YouTube session with Bernat Agulló covers Power BI and Fabric as community content, not a product announcement, so there is no Azure service change and no action required from practitioners. |
2026-08-07 |
Episode Forty - Zach Barth
OnAirInTheCloud By Keith Atherton, Gregor Suttie and Matt Boyd (podcast)
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Episode Forty of OnAirInTheCloud with Zach Barth (Coincidence Games) is a podcast interview about game design and gameplay programming, not an Azure product update, so no action is required from Azure practitioners. |
2026-08-07 |
Your life's work becomes a corpus the AI trains on
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Assume published creative work can end up as AI training data: audit licences and platform terms now, and add provenance or licence controls when you publish if you want to limit model training use. |
2026-08-07 |
Distributed tracing for multi-agent AI systems with OpenTelemetry
Will Velida (youtube)
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Instrument multi-agent AI workflows with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and propagate context across agents so traces show which agent and which model made each call, using Microsoft Foundry's tracing integrations to connect agent frameworks to your tracing pipeline. |
2026-08-07 |
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 - Folge 1 - Der erste Überblick und worum es geht!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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If you need a practical introduction to NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, watch this German-language overview and use the linked GitHub workshop repos to start mapping controls and planning updates to your security programme. |
2026-08-07 |
AI and the Software Supply Chain with Endor Lab's Varun Badhwar
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Treat AI-generated code and dependency outputs as untrusted: enforce software supply chain controls, such as SCA and SBOM generation, package provenance checks, version pinning, and mandatory human code review for any AI-sourced code or new dependencies (including npm) to mitigat |
2026-08-06 |
AI and the Software Supply Chain with Endor Lab's Varun Badhwar
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Treat AI-generated code and model outputs like third-party dependencies: validate and scan generated code, verify any referenced npm packages to avoid hallucinated or squatted packages, and add developer-focused controls because developers are now part of the attack surface. |
2026-08-06 |
You don't want to be on the receiving end of a slop cannon
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Stack Overflow has banned AI-generated answers and will label unverified answers while building a platform for agents; if you post or consume content there, expect AI-content removal or labelling and verify answers before acting on them. |
2026-08-06 |
Just a quarter of citizens rate government service well. That number is very fixable now!
Peter Ruiter (website)
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If you manage or advise government citizen services, trial Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center as a pilot deployment, since the author recommends it as suitable for regulator-facing customer service and improving citizen satisfaction. |
2026-08-06 |
Why Your AI Bill Doesn’t Match Your Expectations
Alberto Andrew (website)
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Retries, function calls, and accumulated conversation history can quietly multiply token counts and inflate your AI bill, so audit where tokens are consumed, trim or summarise conversation history, limit retries and function-call payloads, and add token-level monitoring to reconc |
2026-08-05 |
The Dead Zone: Your IT Team Isn’t Too Slow. Attackers Just Have Terrible Manners.
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Shorten your vulnerability-to-patch window and tighten detection, logging, and compensating controls now, because exploit development, accelerated by AI, is compressing the time from a flaw appearing to active attacks. |
2026-08-05 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 21 - NIST CSF Profile: Ist vs. Soll-Zustand einfach erklärt.
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Follow the video to learn how to create NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0) functional profiles that map your current vs target security posture, identify critical control gaps, and apply the linked GitHub worksheets to assess and prioritise fixes. |
2026-08-05 |
Distributed tracing for multi-agent systems with OpenTelemetry
Will Velida (website)
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Apply OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and Microsoft Foundry tracing integrations to unify distributed tracing across agents and model routers, ensuring each agent's calls and chosen model appear in a single trace by propagating context through the workflow. |
2026-08-05 |
18 years of answers. What do I get when agents consume them?
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Stack Identity is being developed to record how agents consume Stack Overflow answers so human authors keep credit; watch for announcements about attribution controls and how to verify or claim your contributions. |
2026-08-05 |
AI-Assisted Engineering: Measure Outcomes, Not Activity
Thomas Thornton (website)
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Stop measuring AI-assisted engineering by activity alone and switch to outcome metrics: track workflow success rate, review effort/time, guardrail failures, context reuse, cost per useful outcome, and developer confidence to guide platform changes. |
2026-08-05 |
Microsoft AI Update July 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Watch the July 2026 Microsoft AI update video for briefings on OpenAI GPT-5.6, GPT-transcribe, GPT-live-transcribe, MAI-Image-2.5 Pro, and MAI-V, and search the channel for topic deep dives; post questions on Reddit or Microsoft Community Hub because the creator no longer reads o |
2026-08-05 |
AKS Automatic Pod Disruption Budget Management Is Now in Preview
Richard Hooper (website)
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Preview: AKS gains Automatic Pod Disruption Budget management to automatically handle PDBs during node upgrades and reduce upgrade stalls when Kubernetes refuses to evict pods, so test the preview in non-production and review or adjust your PDB policies before enabling. |
2026-08-04 |
Strengthening Endpoint Security with Device Lock Policies in Microsoft Intune
Nicky De Westelinck (website)
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Review and configure Device Lock policies in Microsoft Intune to strengthen endpoint security and mitigate risks from persistent local accounts. |
2026-08-04 |
Strangler fig: retiring a legacy dispatch layer
Luke Murray (website)
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Retire a legacy dispatch layer by applying the strangler fig pattern: migrate domain-by-domain, implement route-parity tests, port existing tests to new services, and schedule safe cutovers to remove the old dispatcher. |
2026-08-04 |
Building Execution Ledger - Durable Workflow Orchestration in Rust on Azure Container Apps
Luke Murray (website)
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If you run durable workflow orchestration in Rust on Azure Container Apps, adopt Execution Ledger's patterns: implement step-level replay, idempotency and compensation, use KEDA autoscaling, and secure workloads with managed identity as shown in the blog. |
2026-08-04 |
How Microsoft's DSC engine is shaping the new adapter model
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Microsoft's new DSC engine introduces an adapter model that lets you ship DSC resources without writing code, so update how you package and test existing PowerShell DSC resources to ensure they work with the adapter approach. |
2026-08-04 |
I want a Stack Overflow that makes juniors better, not one that just answers
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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If you answer or moderate on Stack Overflow, change behaviour: provide explanations, reasoning, and reproduction steps instead of only pasting code so juniors who use Copilot can learn to repeat and understand fixes, and adopt a kinder moderation tone to welcome questions. |
2026-08-04 |
What is Fabric Apps?
Panu Oksala (website)
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Read Panu Oksala's new blog post, "What is Fabric Apps?", for a community-written primer on Fabric Apps and practical context from the author's LinkedIn discussion. |
2026-08-04 |
Patch Management after Ivanti DSM End of Life: What DSM Customers Need to Know Before 2027
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Retirement: Ivanti DSM reaches end of life by 2027, so DSM customers should plan, test, and execute migration to an alternative patch-management solution, preserve configurations, and update deployment processes before 2027. |
2026-08-04 |
Standard Service Endpoint Overview
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Azure now offers a Standard service endpoint variant that adds a Network Identifier (NID) you must enable and associate to each subnet for PaaS access, and you can assign NIDs via RBAC to control which VNets/subnets reach PaaS resources, so plan subnet and RBAC changes. |
2026-08-04 |
NEW Standard Service Endpoints Quick Overview #azure #networking
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Standard service endpoints introduce a per-subnet Network Identifier (NID) that you enable on service endpoints and assign via RBAC to restrict PaaS resource access, so prepare to update subnet associations and access roles. |
2026-08-04 |
Deduplicate Azure Bicep Parameter Files with Extendable Parameters
John Lokerse (website)
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Start using Bicep parameter file inheritance: add an 'extends' reference to a base parameter file so environment-specific files inherit shared values and only override the settings that differ, reducing duplication in your parameter files. |
2026-08-03 |
Ethical Hacking und Penetration Testing Tipps: Aufbau eines KI-Cybersicherheitslabors - Teil 8: LLM
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Run the local LLM environment from the linked GitHub repos to inspect your website for security risks, following the video walkthrough to reproduce the author's penetration-testing checks. |
2026-08-03 |
Azure Container Apps vs AKS: the choice of control
Batsirai Tambo (website)
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Author recommends choosing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) instead of Azure Container Apps (ACA); if you are evaluating container platforms, plan to opt for AKS and update architecture and deployment decisions accordingly. |
2026-08-02 |
Using Microsoft 365 Copilot and Work IQ for Timesheets, Project Catch-Ups, and the Admin You've Been Putting Off
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Start using Microsoft 365 Copilot together with Work IQ to draft or populate timesheet entries, prepare concise briefings for project catch-ups, and clear outstanding admin tasks, then evaluate how they fit into your team's workflow. |
2026-08-02 |
Stop giving your AI agents the same model! How Model Routing works for Foundry Agents
Will Velida (youtube)
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Point Foundry agents at Model Router deployments (deployable with Bicep) to route each agent's requests to different underlying models using Cost, Balanced, or Quality modes, and record the selected model per request to control cost, quota, and conversation history behaviour. |
2026-08-02 |
How Model Routing works for Microsoft Foundry Agents
Will Velida (website)
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If you run Microsoft Foundry Agents, review the post to learn how model routing works and adjust your agent routing configuration to ensure requests are sent to the intended models. |
2026-08-02 |
Intune On Demand Device Sync Now Uses IC3 for IME Workloads
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Intune On Demand Device Sync now uses IC3 for IME workloads instead of the prior two WNS notifications; confirm IME-triggered policy refreshes still occur and update your device-sync diagnostics and monitoring to track IC3 notifications. |
2026-08-02 |
GH-300: The GitHub Copilot Exam Is Worth Your Time (Especially If You Use Copilot Every Day)
Gregor Suttie (website)
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If you use GitHub Copilot daily, take the GitHub Copilot Exam to validate your practical Copilot skills, recommends Gregor Suttie. |
2026-08-01 |
RAG in .NET: The Complete Series
Jamie Maguire (website)
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When building .NET RAG pipelines, apply this series' production-tested guidance: implement its chunking and retrieval recommendations and follow its operational advice to keep documentation-site RAG systems healthy in production. |
2026-08-01 |
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