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Azure Feeds Weekly: 08 Aug 2026 to 15 Aug 2026
This week: Azure shipped neat stuff, and my inbox remains optimistic.
Metrics: AKS control-plane metrics now available via Managed Prometheus, enable the integration.
Disk resize: shared Pv2 and Ultra data disks expand online without disruption.
SLI alerting as code: SLI only toggles alerting; author separate alerting config.
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ℹ️ Update
Announcing: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on November 1, 2026
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on 1 November 2026 (it reached end of support on 18 March 2025); migrate workloads to a supported Databricks runtime before that date, because 10.4 LTS will no longer be available after EOL. |
2026-08-15 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Control plane metrics collection for AKS with Managed Prometheus
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Control plane metrics collection for AKS via Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available; enable the Managed Prometheus integration to collect native control-plane metrics and update your monitoring configuration to ingest them. |
2026-08-14 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Live Resize for Shared Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Data Disks
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Live Resize for shared Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra data disks is now generally available, allowing you to expand disk capacity online without application disruption, so update provisioning automation and cost plans to take advantage of dynamic resizing. |
2026-08-14 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Pre-upgrade validation checks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Pre-upgrade validation checks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are now generally available; run these checks to validate major version upgrade readiness and resolve reported issues before initiating the upgrade. |
2026-08-14 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: The containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications will be permanently disabled on 14 September 2026, so stop using that agent by that date and route SAP logs to an alternative ingestion method for Sentinel before retiremen |
2026-08-13 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Batch rule updates for Azure Front Door
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now support batch rule updates, letting you add, update, delete, or reorder multiple rules in a rule set as a single coordinated operation so all changes apply together. |
2026-08-13 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door mutual TLS
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure Front Door now supports mutual TLS (client certificate authentication), so Front Door can authenticate clients using X.509 certificates before requests reach your application or API; test and configure mTLS in the preview. |
2026-08-13 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure App Service introduces Markdown for Agents, allowing App Service apps to return Markdown to AI agents and other tools, so enable the preview and test your agent workflows to validate content consumption and integration. |
2026-08-13 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: 2.2X IDPS performance optimization in Azure Firewall
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Firewall Premium now delivers up to 22 Gbps throughput with TLS inspection and IDPS in Deny mode (120% increase from 10 Gbps) and up to 600 Mbps per TCP connection with IDPS enabled in Alert or Deny mode (double), so update capacity planning and SKU selection. |
2026-08-12 |
ℹ️ Update
Announcing: Microsoft Fabric Item Recovery will be enabled by default for tenants without an explicit setting
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Starting 23 August 2026, Microsoft Fabric will enable Item Recovery by default for tenants without an explicit setting, applying a 3-day recovery window to supported item types; admins should review or change the setting in the Fabric admin settings. |
2026-08-11 |
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Azure Architecture Center
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SAP HANA for Linux VMs in scale-up systems
Azure Architecture Center (website)
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Follow the Azure Architecture Center's proven practices for running SAP HANA on Linux VMs in scale-up systems to achieve high availability and a supported disaster-recovery design on Azure. |
2026-08-08 |
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Microsoft Blogs
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Routing and Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI
.NET Blog (website)
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Microsoft.Extensions.AI introduces experimental routing and failover clients, RoutingChatClient, SemanticRoutingChatClient, and FailoverChatClient, so update your code to use these primitives for content-based routing, custom routing policies, and provider/model failover (experim |
2026-08-14 |
Your best friend: BlockOnPossibleDataLoss=True
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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Enable BlockOnPossibleDataLoss=True for database deployments to prevent potential data loss; if it slows your local development loop, apply the article's recommended patterns to keep iterations fast while preserving the safeguard. |
2026-08-14 |
Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Build Teams agents to treat group chats differently from one-to-one: explicitly manage shared context, message contention, participant visibility, and restart/follow-up behaviour to reduce collaboration noise. |
2026-08-13 |
From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Azure Content Understanding adds Sync APIs, support for the GPT-5 model series, and agentic workflow features; update your integrations to call the Sync APIs, evaluate GPT-5 model variants for your tasks, and test grounding and confidence behaviour in your extraction pipelines. |
2026-08-13 |
Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Azure Content Understanding's GPT-5 series guide documents expanded model choices plus grounding and confidence improvements; use the guide to pick GPT-5 variants, adjust grounding sources and confidence thresholds, and re-evaluate accuracy on representative documents, images, au |
2026-08-13 |
Instructions Hygiene – What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say
.NET Blog (website)
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Review and improve the instructions you send to frontier models: make prompts explicitly state the task, the desired output format, and any constraints so the model produces the results you expect. |
2026-08-13 |
Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: build dev workflows for apps using Azure
Azure SDK Blog (website)
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Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: you can now build, publish, and consume azd extensions to automate organisation-approved app scaffolding, connect deployments to internal service catalogues, and run pre-provision security checks, so update CI/CD and docs accordingly |
2026-08-12 |
August Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Update your self-hosted Azure DevOps Server instances with the August patches: download the latest Azure DevOps Server release from the download page and install the patched versions. |
2026-08-12 |
.NET 11 Preview 7 is now available!
.NET Blog (website)
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.NET 11 Preview 7 is now available (preview): install the updated SDK or update your builds to test the new runtime and library changes across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, F#, and Windows Forms, and report any regressions you find. |
2026-08-12 |
.NET and .NET Framework August 2026 servicing releases updates
.NET Blog (website)
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August 2026 servicing releases for .NET and .NET Framework are available: review the servicing notes and apply the recommended patches to affected runtimes and servers to receive fixes and updates. |
2026-08-12 |
Accelerate Inference on AKS with Azure Blob Storage and NVIDIA Dynamo
Azure Storage Blog (website)
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Azure Blob Storage now provides native integration with NVIDIA Dynamo for AKS, so you can combine Blob's scalable, durable storage with Dynamo's disaggregated inference and KV cache-aware routing to accelerate inference on Kubernetes: plan changes to your AKS inference deployment |
2026-08-12 |
Build Locally, Ship to Cloud for $0: Azure SQL for Modern App Developers
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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Pricing change: Azure SQL now offers a free developer workflow,build locally and ship to the cloud for $0 while prototyping; review the announcement for any quota or feature limits, update your local and CI/CD provisioning to target the free option, and plan to move prototypes to |
2026-08-11 |
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for MDR/MXDR for the Enterprise
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft Defender Experts MDR was named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for MDR/MXDR, so if you are shortlisting MDR/MXDR providers for enterprise use, include Defender Experts MDR and evaluate its AI, threat intelligence, and human-expert mix against your SOC requirements |
2026-08-11 |
DeadLock ransomware: Breaking down a Rust-based encryptor with decentralized recovery infrastructure
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Update detection, incident-response, and backup plans for DeadLock, a Rust-based encryptor that uses decentralized victim-communication and data-leak infrastructure and employs double extortion: add detections for unusual encryption and exfiltration behaviour, confirm immutable o |
2026-08-11 |
I Enabled RBAC and Everything Broke. What Did I Do Wrong?
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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Breaking change: enabling RBAC on Azure Cosmos DB and disabling account keys can cause client requests to fail with 403, so verify which identity your client uses, confirm appropriate role assignments and propagation, and consider temporarily re-enabling keys while you fix permis |
2026-08-10 |
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Microsoft Tech Community
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Monitoring Azure Service Fabric with Azure Managed Grafana
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) plus a Data Collection Rule (DCR) to feed metrics and logs from Windows, VMSS-backed Service Fabric clusters into Azure Managed Grafana; for Service Fabric managed clusters install AMA on the managed node type, and note Linux node types use syslog an |
2026-08-14 |
Link to a location in Word for Windows and Mac
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Word for Windows and Mac now supports creating shareable cloud links to a specific location inside a document so recipients open the file exactly where you want them to read. |
2026-08-14 |
Ep 43 | How Microsoft Partners Are Redefining Collaboration Through Multi-Partner Solutions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New Microsoft Tech Community podcast episode examines multi-partner solutions across AI, cloud modernisation, data, ERP, CRM, and cybersecurity; partners building integrated offers or GTM collaborations should listen for practical patterns and partner roles. |
2026-08-14 |
Copilot Notebooks now works with Markdown, plain-text, and rich-text files
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Copilot Notebooks now accepts Markdown (.md), rich text (.rtf), and plain text (.txt) files as references,add READMEs, wikis, logs, or transcripts to a notebook, then chat with Copilot to generate grounded insights and artefacts from that project context. |
2026-08-14 |
Co-create slides with Copilot in PowerPoint for iPad
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Copilot co-creation is available in PowerPoint for iPad so you can have Copilot edit slides directly on the device, run it in the background while switching apps, and convert rough ideas into polished slides on the go. |
2026-08-14 |
Introducing dependency telemetry in Application Insights for Azure API Management policies
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Application Insights now captures dependency telemetry from Azure API Management policies so you can trace policy-driven external calls alongside your app telemetry, with feature availability varying by gateway type. |
2026-08-14 |
My MVP Story: Jess Stratton on Sharing, Storytelling, and Lifelong Learning
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Jess Stratton's MVP profile describes her path from community contributions to global speaking, training, and publishing, offering concrete examples of formats and channels you can copy when building your own community presence. |
2026-08-14 |
When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Foundry guidance outlines how to engineer reliable recovery for AI agents when tool calls time out or downstream responses are ambiguous, so plan for detection, recovery workflows, and clear observability for agent tool interactions. |
2026-08-14 |
Oracle to PostgreSQL in VS Code: Assessment, Conversion, and Validation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The Migrations (Preview) workflow in VS Code can assist assessment, conversion, and validation for Oracle to PostgreSQL projects, but it is a preview,test thoroughly, expect gaps, and treat results as feedback rather than a supported production path. |
2026-08-14 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published July 10-14, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 366 new offers on July 10-14, 2026 (including CLAVI Mining); review the new listings in the Marketplace if you are sourcing knowledge-mining, AI, or other cloud solutions. |
2026-08-14 |
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 150
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Edge version 150 introduced 8 new Computer and User settings; continue to apply the Microsoft Edge v139 security baseline (download from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit) and review the provided spreadsheet of new settings to decide if any require enforcement. |
2026-08-14 |
Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Watch the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit session on building a production-grade resilience platform with Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR-by-design to learn the engineering choices you can apply to harden your own distributed systems. |
2026-08-13 |
From Silicon to Systems: Bending the Cost and Complexity Curves of AI
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read the Open Compute Project Asia Pacific Summit post on co-designing models, software, and silicon for AI infrastructure to inform procurement, capacity planning, and stack trade-offs for agentic AI workloads. |
2026-08-13 |
Building MCP servers for your database: Flexibility, safety, and tradeoffs
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When building an MCP server to expose database access to agents, implement the article's recommended controls: expose query-only tools, explicitly deny destructive operations, validate inputs, and add auditing to prevent unwanted data changes. |
2026-08-13 |
Add AI to the workflows you already have using Serverless Agents in Azure Functions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Integrate Serverless Agents in Azure Functions to add AI at the single non-deterministic step of existing event-driven workflows (queue processing, message handling, scheduled jobs), keeping the deterministic parts unchanged. |
2026-08-13 |
Microsoft Marketplace Partner Digest
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Update your Azure Marketplace listings to use the expanded free-trial capabilities and enable the new request-private-offer option so customers can evaluate solutions and request custom pricing and terms from your listing. |
2026-08-13 |
Governing a Risk Operations Agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and AGT
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Apply the Agent Governance Toolkit with the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness to govern file-access agents: allow listing and read operations, deny create, delete, and overwrite, and instrument telemetry and auditing as demonstrated. |
2026-08-13 |
NotMyFault, RDCMan, ZoomIt, CoreInfo, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and PsPing
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Pull the latest Sysinternals updates and test in your environment: NotMyFault v4.6 is rewritten in Rust, RDCMan v3.20 adds Azure Virtual Desktop workspace feed and Microsoft Dev Box support, ZoomIt v12.2 adds DemoMirror, and Coreinfo v4.02 includes processor and NUMA updates. |
2026-08-13 |
August update: What’s new in Security for partners
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Review the August Security partner update and act on new Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft Purview partner offers, partner incentives, skilling opportunities, and product lifecycle changes to identify customer conversations and accelerate migrations. |
2026-08-13 |
Learn about Standss's email compliance partner solution in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Standss SendGuard for Outlook is available as a transact-capable Microsoft Marketplace offer, so you can purchase and deploy the SendGuard add-in to enforce pre-send checks, attachment review, and email encryption for Microsoft 365. |
2026-08-13 |
Built for business: How Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps you in the flow of legal work
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you manage legal workflows, evaluate Microsoft 365 Copilot to reduce context switching across Microsoft 365 apps and centralise searches, drafting, and document review to keep legal work in flow. |
2026-08-13 |
Join the Azure Arc Customer & Engineering Forum for Windows Server
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Join the Azure Arc Customer & Engineering Forum to engage with Microsoft engineering teams on Windows Server management, Azure Arc investments, and peer operational challenges. |
2026-08-13 |
How to enforce Zero Trust across every resource
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Apply the How to enforce Zero Trust guidance: start with report-only policies, emergency access exclusions, and phased rollouts, and follow the Microsoft Learn docs for Conditional Access and Global Secure Access for implementation steps. |
2026-08-13 |
Azure Content Understanding announces Synchronous Operations
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Azure Content Understanding now offers synchronous Read, Layout, and Digital Parse operations for real-time content extraction without temporary service-side storage; test the preview APIs/SDKs and note limits and pricing may change. |
2026-08-13 |
Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs expands with Azure tables support, plan switching, and sovereign clouds
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs now supports a subset of Azure tables, lets you switch tables in-place between Analytics and Auxiliary plans, and is generally available in Azure Government (Fairfax) and Azure operated by 21Vianet (Mooncake). |
2026-08-12 |
Container Network Insights Agent (CNIA): Your AI Teammate for AKS Networking Incidents
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you run AKS in production, watch the Azure Infra Summit session on the Container Network Insights Agent to learn how it surfaces networking diagnostics during incidents across Cilium and other cluster environments. |
2026-08-12 |
Building Autonomous Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and GitHub Copilot SDK Part 2/5
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Microsoft Agent Framework is now generally available, providing a unified .run() programming model for building autonomous agents with multiple backends; consult the FibreOps examples and GitHub Copilot SDK docs to get started. |
2026-08-12 |
Reliability Starter Kit: SLIs, Health models, and SRE Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Try the Reliability Starter Kit: clone the demo repo and run the four steps to instrument SLIs/SLOs with Azure Monitor, roll results into a health model, and observe the Azure SRE Agent open an incident from alerts. |
2026-08-12 |
GitHub Admin UI + Billing API: Better together for smarter spend decisions
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use GitHub Admin UI Metered usage to inspect AI metered spend by period and group by organisation or cost centre, and automate recurring reports via the Billing API to answer finance and engineering spend questions. |
2026-08-12 |
An overview of accelerating AI development with Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When publishing AI solutions to Microsoft Marketplace, update your listing to explicitly state what the solution does, who it serves, and the customer outcomes, and choose a packaging and consumption model that supports discoverability. |
2026-08-12 |
Announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.9.0
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Update to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.9.0 to receive enhancements to GitHub Copilot integration, the connection experience, Database DevOps, SQL formatting, and the included fixes. |
2026-08-12 |
Released: August 2026 Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Apply the August 2026 Exchange Server security updates released for Exchange Server Subscription Edition RTM, Exchange Server 2019 CU14 and CU15 (access requires Period 2 ESU enrolment), and Exchange Server 2016 CU23 (access requires Period 2 ESU enrolment). |
2026-08-12 |
No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for August 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Notice: There are no Skype for Business Server security updates for August 2026 for any version or ESU customers; continue with your planned upgrades or mitigations. |
2026-08-12 |
Partner Case Study | Aiforia
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read the Aiforia partner case study to see a real-world example of deploying AI in digital pathology diagnostics and research, and borrow architecture and operational lessons for your projects. |
2026-08-12 |
What the New API Management AI Gateway Tier Changes for App Service-Hosted Agents
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Azure API Management now offers a dedicated AI Gateway tier in public preview,if you use APIM in front of App Service-hosted AI agents, evaluate this tier for model access, token limits, semantic caching, and capacity allocation. |
2026-08-12 |
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes (Preview): Giving AI Agents a Safe Place to Work
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Azure Container Apps Sandboxes are available to run multi-tenant AI agents in isolated sandboxes so you can confine permissions, control access, and reduce the blast radius when agents perform actions. |
2026-08-12 |
Building Microsoft Sentinel Connectors in Minutes with the Sentinel Connector Builder Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Install the Microsoft Sentinel connector builder agent VS Code extension to generate Codeless Connector Framework pull connector artefacts using guided, AI-assisted prompts and speed connector development. |
2026-08-12 |
Turn meetings into momentum with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Microsoft 365 Copilot meeting features to generate meeting summaries, next steps, and action items so meetings produce clearer outcomes and reduce prep and follow-up overhead. |
2026-08-12 |
Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Backup is evolving into a unified, application-centric service that protects IaaS, PaaS, AKS, PostgreSQL, and unstructured storage from a single pane of glass; review and realign your backup assignments and policies to application-centric protection. |
2026-08-11 |
Vector search finds candidates. Reranking decides what your RAG app reads
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Add a reranking step after vector retrieval so the passages most relevant to the user question are sent to your LLM, the article demonstrates this RAG pattern across four Azure services to improve answer recall and relevance. |
2026-08-11 |
Amplify Healthcare Intelligence: Data, AI, and Agent-Powered Transformation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for the Amplify Healthcare Intelligence webinar and in-person workshops to learn how to build a trusted, unified data foundation and ground AI agents in real business context for healthcare and life sciences. |
2026-08-11 |
Announcing new security enhancements across Azure IoT services
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure IoT services are receiving stronger defaults: IoT Hub is adopting a TLS 1.3 transport-security baseline and identity-based provisioning with managed identities to remove long-lived secrets, so review your provisioning and transport configurations and update device workflows |
2026-08-11 |
Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance is now generally available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance is now generally available: use it to centrally govern and secure multi-tenant environments at scale, and plan to onboard tenants and apply tenant-level policies and controls. |
2026-08-11 |
What's New in Microsoft Entra: August 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read the August 2026 'What's New in Microsoft Entra' for product updates and leadership context on identity and network access as Entra tightens identity controls for AI scenarios, and review the listed product changes for any action items. |
2026-08-11 |
Build the right skills faster with the AI Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub AI Agent is available in the Partner Skilling Hub to recommend tailored training, answer skilling questions, and generate personalised technical learning plans from Partner Skilling Hub, LevelUp, and Microsoft Learn. |
2026-08-11 |
OneDrive Office Hours | August 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Join the OneDrive Office Hours (August 2026) to see recent OneDrive updates, ask questions, and learn about new mobile and iPad investments targeted at frontline and hybrid work scenarios. |
2026-08-11 |
Cross-tenant Free/Busy, MailTips, and Calendar Sharing are moving to Cross-Tenant Access Policy
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Free/Busy, MailTips, and calendar sharing are moving from EWS to the Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant Access Policy model (see Message Center MC1446796); audit affected sharing and create or update Cross-Tenant Access Policies to maintain cross-org calendar functionality. |
2026-08-11 |
Customer review: Teamflect optimizes performance management with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Teamflect is published to Microsoft Marketplace as a Microsoft 365 performance management app for Teams and Outlook; evaluate it from the Marketplace if you need in-Teams performance reviews, goals, one-on-ones, recognition, and engagement surveys. |
2026-08-11 |
A simpler way to deploy ZIP packages to Azure App Service from the Azure portal
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Portal Deployment Center now supports uploading ZIP packages for Linux App Service via Manual Deployment (Push) > Publish files (new), letting you inspect package contents, choose a server-side build, and follow deployment stages with drag-and-drop. |
2026-08-10 |
Introducing Microsoft IQ Live: A New Biweekly Series for Developers
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft is launching Microsoft IQ Live, a new biweekly Microsoft Reactor series starting 6 Aug and running through Microsoft Ignite (eight sessions) that covers multi-IQ architectures, serverless Foundry IQ knowledge bases, Work IQ, Web IQ, and Fabric IQ ontologies; attend from |
2026-08-10 |
Calling all IT Admins - webinar on configuring Copilot Chat and updates for Students 13+
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you enable Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for students aged 13+, configure the new 13+ student options (CSV, SDS, or PowerShell uploads) to grant Study & Learn agent, Copilot Notebooks, Learning Activities, and to apply the updated licensing and security controls. |
2026-08-09 |
Zero Ops: Agents Operate, Humans Govern
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The 'Zero Ops: Agents Operate, Humans Govern' guide documents patterns for agentic operations (including Azure SRE Agent); read it and adopt the recommended human-in-the-loop governance, alerting, and control patterns before deploying agentic automation. |
2026-08-09 |
Title Plan Update - August 7, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Title Plan is now published weekly at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan, check that link for the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) materials and update your courseware or training schedules to the new weekly cadence. |
2026-08-08 |
Announcing Grafana 13 Support in Azure Managed Grafana
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Managed Grafana now supports Grafana 13 features such as Dynamic Dashboards, Saved Queries, templates, and improved filtering; test and migrate dashboards for Grafana 13 compatibility in your managed workspaces. |
2026-08-08 |
Build Durable, Long-Running MCP Tasks on Azure App Service
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The 2026-07-28 MCP release adds the MCP Tasks extension so App Service MCP servers can return task handles immediately for long-running operations, update clients and servers to use task handles instead of holding HTTP requests open. |
2026-08-08 |
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Humanoid robots are the wrong form factor
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Design household robots with a torso and arms but use wheeled or tracked bases instead of full humanoid legs, because wheels/tracks handle stairs and domestic mobility better than bipedal locomotion. |
2026-08-15 |
Azure Update 14th August 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Channel maintainer announced they will no longer read or answer questions due to channel growth, so post support questions to other forums, and they published new videos covering App Service markdown support and an AKS control plane metric. |
2026-08-15 |
Foundry Toolbox with Arafat
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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New community video: 'Foundry Toolbox with Arafat' by Nicholas Chang is available on YouTube, watch it to see Foundry Toolbox demos and immediate configuration steps you can apply. |
2026-08-14 |
Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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No Azure service updates or action required: this is an interview with Maynard Holliday on careers, nuclear robotics, and trusted AI, so practitioners can consume the insights for professional development but do not need to change Azure configurations, policies, or deployments. |
2026-08-14 |
Inside Intune’s New Sync Status Window
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Intune now shows a Sync Status Window on Windows devices during remote syncs instead of only sending a silent IC3/WNS push; update support documentation, notify users, and adjust remote-management scripts that assume silent check-ins. |
2026-08-14 |
Foundry Toolbox with Arafat Tehsin
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Microsoft Foundry introduces Toolboxes: centralise, configure, and reuse tools across AI agents so you can define tool configurations once and attach them to multiple agents (see the demo repo for examples). |
2026-08-14 |
Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Listen to Maynard Holliday's interview for practical perspectives on 'trusted AI' and securing robotics and nuclear systems you can apply to governance and safety design for critical systems. |
2026-08-14 |
Tech in Five - Tokens & Tokenomics
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Apply the video's overview of tokens and tokenomics to adjust prompt design and token budgets so you can better manage model cost and user experience. |
2026-08-14 |
Moving Azure Consumption Function Apps to single AppService
Batsirai Tambo (website)
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Consolidate Consumption-plan Azure Function Apps onto a single Y1 App Service Plan using the az CLI or the Azure portal; the post documents the exact CLI commands, portal steps, and migration gotchas to watch for. |
2026-08-13 |
Opening Up Sponsorship on My Blog
Jamie Maguire (website)
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The blog owner has opened a few sponsorship slots, the site reports about 23,000 pageviews/month and is read mainly by senior .NET, Azure, and AI professionals, so consider those slots for targeted audience exposure. |
2026-08-13 |
Deploy Azure Monitor SLI Alerting as Code
Luke Murray (website)
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When deploying Azure Monitor SLIs as code, note the SLI resource only exposes a single boolean to enable alerting; you also must author the separate alerting configuration resource (via ARM/Bicep) where the actual alert rules live. |
2026-08-13 |
Azure Monitor SLIs on Managed Prometheus: the bits the docs don't tell you
Luke Murray (website)
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Creating Azure Monitor SLIs from Managed Prometheus metrics with Bicep or the ARM API can fail due to resource and metric mapping issues; read the post's root-cause analysis and apply the documented workarounds to get successful deployments. |
2026-08-13 |
Designing User-Centred Reliability with Azure Monitor SLIs and the Azure SRE Agent
Luke Murray (website)
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Configure Azure Monitor SLIs on Service Groups for your AKS workload, add error-budget burn alerts, and enable the Azure SRE Agent to perform automated remediation for incidents described in the walkthrough. |
2026-08-13 |
Foundry Toolbox with Arafat Tehsin
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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If you run Microsoft Foundry AI agents, adopt the new Toolboxes to centralise, configure, and reuse tools across agents so you no longer need to reconfigure tools per agent; see the demo repo and blog for example implementations. |
2026-08-13 |
Microsoft’s Futuristic Optical Networking Demo
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Watch Scott Hanselman's video of Microsoft Research's optical networking demo to see the research hardware and techniques you can evaluate for your own datacentre networking research or prototyping. |
2026-08-13 |
Scott & Mark Learn To...Rethink Authorship
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Review and update your team's attribution, licensing, and code-review policies for AI-generated outputs, since the episode highlights AI being used as research assistants, to generate academic text, and to produce production-ready code. |
2026-08-13 |
Building an Azure AI Landing Zone Without Slowing Teams Down
Thomas Thornton (website)
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Configure an Azure AI landing zone so the governed route is the default: centralise access via Azure API Management, enforce Azure Policy and quota controls, standardise identity and network boundaries, and add telemetry plus clear ownership to avoid approval bottlenecks. |
2026-08-13 |
How to run parallel GitHub Copilot agents with tmux and git worktrees
Will Velida (youtube)
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To run multiple GitHub Copilot CLI sessions in parallel, create a git worktree per agent, open a tmux pane for each, run a Copilot instance in each pane (WSL2 on Windows), and merge each worktree branch back to avoid conflicts. |
2026-08-13 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 22 - Der Datendiebstahl in Liechtenstein!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Watch this German-language video on the Liechtenstein data theft, and review the linked GitHub repositories (Online_Workshops and Cyber_and_Information_Security_Knowledge_Base) for practical SME cybersecurity workshop and knowledge-base materials to adopt or adapt. |
2026-08-12 |
Azure Policy Definition to Enforce IaC and Restrict Click Ops
Tao Yang (website)
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Apply the Azure Policy definition that enforces infrastructure-as-code for resource changes and restricts portal 'click ops', so teams must make changes through IaC workflows rather than ad-hoc portal edits. |
2026-08-12 |
Samsung Knox E-FOTA Integration with Microsoft Intune: Complete Configuration Guide
Nicky De Westelinck (website)
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Intune Service Release 2607 adds Samsung Knox E-FOTA integration: update your Intune configuration to enable E-FOTA for Samsung devices and create firmware management policies and assignments per the guide to control device firmware updates. |
2026-08-11 |
There's a lot of knowledge that isn't in books
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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No product change: Scott Hanselman highlights that tacit, non-book knowledge and hands-on survival skills will stay valuable as AI advances, so review your hiring and training to preserve practical, on-the-job skills and mentorship. |
2026-08-11 |
Tech in Five - AI & Friends
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Play the five-minute John Savill video for crisp practitioner definitions of AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI you can use to onboard colleagues or prepare for design discussions; search his channel for related topics and post questions on Reddit or Microsoft |
2026-08-11 |
Your global Personal Access Token dies on December 1 in Azure DevOps Services: Here's the migration
Gijs Reijn (website)
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Retirement: Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps Services will stop working on 1 December; migrate any usage of global PATs to supported authentication before that date. |
2026-08-10 |
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. |
2026-08-09 |
Various updates for AzPolicyFactory
Tao Yang (website)
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AzPolicyFactory received various updates; if you use it, review Tao Yang's post or the project's changelog, pull the latest changes, and validate any policy artefacts or deployment workflows in a test environment before rolling to production. |
2026-08-09 |
Running parallel GitHub Copilot agent sessions with tmux and git worktrees
Will Velida (website)
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Run parallel GitHub Copilot agent CLI sessions by combining tmux with git worktrees, so each terminal can operate on a separate worktree or branch without session conflicts. |
2026-08-09 |
We Automated Dave: Security Debt at Machine Speed
Graham Gold (website)
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Audit and remove overprivilege and accidental reachability for workloads agents can access, tighten sandbox isolation and trust boundaries, and prioritise remediating security debt, because agents make exploration of brittle trust and overprivilege cheap, persistent, parallel, an |
2026-08-09 |
Microsoft Agent Framework: The Complete Series
Jamie Maguire (website)
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If you build AI agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework, use Jamie Maguire's series to add function tools, memory, human-in-the-loop approval, MCP support, and RAG incrementally: each post is self-contained so you can adopt individual features and reuse the code samples. |
2026-08-08 |
Running GitHub Copilot CLI in Azure DevOps Pipelines
Peter De Tender (website)
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Run GitHub Copilot CLI inside an Azure DevOps pipeline by installing the CLI in your job, authenticating it non-interactively, and invoking its programmatic mode to run prompts (example: a read-only commit review). |
2026-08-08 |
Azure Route-Map: Route and traffic engineering in Azure
Olivier Miossec (website)
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If you need traffic engineering in Azure, modify BGP advertisements (rather than only relying on UDRs) to influence path selection and avoid asymmetric routing; see Olivier Miossec's post for how Azure exposes BGP advertisement controls. |
2026-08-08 |
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