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Azure Feeds Weekly: 18 Jul 2026 to 25 Jul 2026
Another Azure week: GA IPv6, DDoS preview, SRE agent video.
IPv6: GA support for VPN Gateway inner traffic in dual-stack configs
DDoS: Public preview for per-resource custom mitigation on Standard Load Balancer frontends
Video: Azure SRE Agent,watch Luke Murray's demo for SRE pilot evaluation
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⭐ Top picks this week
Editor's picks, AI-assisted, advisory ordering of this week's items.
[Launched] Generally Available: IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway
Generally Available: Azure VPN Gateway supports IPv6 inner traffic in dual-stack configurations on all production SKUs that use standard public IPs; review and update your VPN configurations, routing and address plans, and deployment scripts to enable IPv6 where needed.
Azure SRE Agent: Automating Reliability at Scale
If you manage site reliability, watch Luke Murray's Azure SRE Agent video to evaluate the agent for automating reliability at scale and decide whether to run a pilot in your environment.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure DDoS Protection custom policy
Public preview: Azure DDoS Protection now lets you apply per-resource custom policies to control mitigation thresholds for protected Standard Load Balancer frontend IP configurations, so test and apply custom DDoS thresholds and update your monitoring and automation accordingly.
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🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure DDoS Protection custom policy
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure DDoS Protection now lets you apply per-resource custom policies to control mitigation thresholds for protected Standard Load Balancer frontend IP configurations, so test and apply custom DDoS thresholds and update your monitoring and automation accordingly. |
2026-07-24 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Standard service endpoint
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Standard service endpoint lets you connect IaaS workloads to Azure PaaS services under the Private Link family with improved scale and management, so evaluate it as a replacement for service endpoints that hit scale or management limits. |
2026-07-23 |
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[In preview] Public Preview: Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Application Insights now stores generative AI telemetry in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics); update your queries, retention settings, and access policies to read and restrict sensitive AI telemetry from that table. |
2026-07-21 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure VPN Gateway supports IPv6 inner traffic in dual-stack configurations on all production SKUs that use standard public IPs; review and update your VPN configurations, routing and address plans, and deployment scripts to enable IPv6 where needed. |
2026-07-21 |
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Microsoft Blogs
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Native Agent Memory for Microsoft Agent Framework, Powered by Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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Integrate the Agent Memory Toolkit and the Agentic Retrieval Toolkit to persist raw conversation turns and derived memories in Azure Cosmos DB for Microsoft Agent Framework, enabling vector, full-text, and hybrid search over agent memory. |
2026-07-24 |
Build locally, ship to Azure: meet Azure SQL Developer
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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Private preview: Azure SQL Developer packages the Azure SQL Database engine as a container you can run locally and in CI, free for local development and CI with no subscription or credit card required, and you can target production by swapping the connection string. |
2026-07-24 |
Email threat landscape: Q2 2026 trends and insights
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Update detection and user training to include Teams-based social engineering and hunt for automated, multi-stage attack chains, after Microsoft reports threat actors shifted into Teams attacks while Tycoon2FA phishing declined in Q2 2026. |
2026-07-24 |
Real world incident response: Microsoft and AXA XL strengthen cyber resilience
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft and AXA XL have partnered to give AXA XL cyber insurance policyholders direct access to Microsoft Incident Response services; if you have AXA XL coverage, update your incident response runbooks and insurer contacts to include Microsoft IR activation steps. |
2026-07-23 |
Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Use Foundry Toolboxes to delegate agent actions with the appropriate Entra identity when calling Entra-protected MCP servers and Microsoft-managed Work IQ MCP for Microsoft 365 reasoning, and update your agent auth flow to supply user context and tokens to toolbox tools. |
2026-07-23 |
July Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Apply the July patches for Azure DevOps Server to your self-hosted instances: download the latest patched builds from the Azure DevOps Server download page and follow the blog post for the list of patched versions and installation guidance. |
2026-07-22 |
T-SQL Hygiene: Introducing the Covering Index
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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If a query runs repeatedly against a large table, add a covering index that includes the columns used in the SELECT and in predicates so the engine can satisfy the query from the index and avoid lookups, improving query performance. |
2026-07-21 |
Introducing Azure Front Door edge actions - Bringing secure, programmable logic to the edge
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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Azure Front Door introduces edge actions to run programmable security and routing logic at the edge (validate requests, choose origin, personalise responses, block suspicious traffic); update your Front Door configuration to run per-request logic closer to users. |
2026-07-21 |
AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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When using the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator, plan for the local development loop,start the emulator, connect, create resources, load test data, run queries, and inspect results,because these sequential steps add setup time before you can test your application. |
2026-07-21 |
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Microsoft Tech Community
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Governance Is the New Bottleneck: What Agent 365 Means for Admins ?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Audit and enforce governance for the growing number of agents across your tenant (Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Teams integrations), because people are spinning up agents you may not be able to trace to an owner. |
2026-07-23 |
New Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert Certification
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert certification, so plan for team members to pursue it if you need validated skills for designing, building, and operating production-scale multi-agent AI systems. |
2026-07-23 |
Reminder: Path to Production for Agents Webinar Series Starts Next Week
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for the free Path to Production for Agents webinar series on 27-28 July to get six technical sessions on governance foundations, production-ready AI platforms, multi-agent architectures, and operationalising agents at enterprise scale. |
2026-07-23 |
Upcoming July 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion community call
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register to join the Microsoft 365 Champion community call on 28 July 2026 (sessions start 08:05 and 17:05 PT) to learn about Teams Meeting controls; the Teams webinar join link is sent with registration confirmation. |
2026-07-23 |
Azure Local expands SAN capabilities with iSCSI support
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Local now supports iSCSI SAN integration in addition to Fibre Channel, so you can connect IP-based SANs to Azure Local and reuse or scale storage independently of compute. |
2026-07-23 |
Take your place at the AI frontier—Microsoft Ignite registration is open
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Registration is open for Microsoft Ignite, happening 17-20 November, so register now if you plan to attend the event and sessions on the latest AI innovations. |
2026-07-23 |
Event Wrap - M365 Twin Cities 2025
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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M365 Twin Cities covered M365, Copilot, Power Platform, Azure, governance, and security for users, makers, developers, and admins, and organisers are preparing the 2026 event,consider submitting sessions or attending next year. |
2026-07-23 |
Partner Blog | MCAPS Start for Partners FY27: Powering Frontier Transformation together
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft has kicked off MCAPS Start for Partners FY27, signalling partner-focused initiatives for AI adoption this fiscal year, so partners should review FY27 programmes and opportunities from Microsoft. |
2026-07-23 |
Proactive Resiliency with Azure App Service Auto Heal
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Enable and configure Azure App Service Auto Heal to detect unhealthy app conditions (memory pressure, dependency timeouts, spikes in failed requests) and automate recovery actions to reduce MTTR. |
2026-07-23 |
Some tools and techniques for hardening Windows Server
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Apply the role-specific Windows Server 2025 baseline using OSConfig Security baselines, test controls against representative workloads, document exceptions, and retain tested console or recovery access before production rollout. |
2026-07-23 |
Build your first Power App from data in seconds
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Power Apps can generate pages from natural-language prompts, auto-populate records from documents with Automatic Form Fill, embed Copilot for direct data queries, add an Agent Feed to surface decisions and action items, and connect to Outlook/Microsoft 365 via Work IQ, enable th |
2026-07-23 |
Grounding Copilot Studio Agents with Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Design your knowledge agents by choosing a grounding approach: use Azure AI Search for fast document retrieval and links, and use Foundry IQ when you require directly grounded, contextual answers, following the post's patterns for hybrid designs. |
2026-07-23 |
Empowering the Mission at the Edge with Azure Local
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Azure Local to run mission workloads in customer-controlled locations for hybrid or fully disconnected operations in DDIL environments, and follow the provided reference architecture to retain consistent security, policy, and lifecycle control. |
2026-07-23 |
MCP in Azure: Using API Management for Authentication, Access, Logging & Governance
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When you adopt the Model Context Protocol across multiple tools and environments, put Azure API Management in front as the control plane to handle identity, access, traffic management, logging, and lifecycle visibility. |
2026-07-23 |
Strengthening Key Management Service - (KMS) with Hardware-Based Trust
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft is enhancing Key Management Service activation with hardware-backed validation to increase assurance in device identity and reduce activation misuse, so review your activation architecture and compliance impacts. |
2026-07-23 |
Design the Network Before You Deploy: Best Practices for Microsoft Foundry Standard Agents BYOVNet
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Deploy Microsoft Foundry Standard Agents into a Bring-Your-Own VNet behind private endpoints, a central firewall, and controlled DNS, design the VNet and network controls before deployment to avoid stalls. |
2026-07-23 |
Two additional controls with Automatic Plan Correction enabled
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The sp_configure_automatic_tuning stored procedure is documented and supported, so if you have Query Store Automatic Plan Correction enabled you can use it to inspect and control automatic tuning behaviour. |
2026-07-23 |
Build your own Engage Governance agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Build a Governance for Viva Engage Agent grounded in Microsoft guidance plus your organisation's approved materials to provide admins, communicators, and community managers with practical governance answers without replacing human experts. |
2026-07-23 |
Set Up Plaud Note Pro with Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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To set up Plaud Note Pro with Microsoft Foundry, deploy the required Foundry models (for example whisper and o3-mini), run Riffado, and add a Custom provider in Riffado Settings with your Foundry Azure details so recordings can be transcribed and summarised. |
2026-07-23 |
Alocação de memória - .NET
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read the practical .NET memory allocation guidance to optimise RAM usage and allocation behaviour for high-throughput, cloud-distributed applications and services. |
2026-07-23 |
Meet Saksham Kumar
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Profile of a graduating Microsoft Student Ambassador; this is a community spotlight with no Azure product, region, pricing, or breaking changes, and no action required from practitioners. |
2026-07-21 |
Meet Herish Chaniyara
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Profile of a graduating Microsoft Student Ambassador; this is a community spotlight with no Azure product, region, pricing, or breaking changes, and no action required from practitioners. |
2026-07-21 |
Meet Aryan Jaiswal
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Profile of a graduating Microsoft Student Ambassador; this is a community spotlight with no Azure product, region, pricing, or breaking changes, and no action required from practitioners. |
2026-07-21 |
Secure AI, web, and private apps with Zero Trust
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access extend Zero Trust to all traffic, including AI agents, web, and private apps; review and update identity, device, and risk-based access policies and your network/access configurations to enforce verification on ev |
2026-07-21 |
Skype for Business Server Hybrid: Prepare for EWS Retirement in Exchange Online
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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EWS in Exchange Online is being retired (full retirement 1 April 2027); if you run hybrid Skype for Business Server, follow the Microsoft Learn 'Prepare for EWS retirement' guide and run the provided PowerShell steps before the two listed deadlines to keep Exchange connectivity i |
2026-07-21 |
Hands-on webinar: Set up your classroom in Teams for Education plus the new Study and Learn Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for the hands-on Microsoft Teams for Education webinar on 5 August at 08:00 Pacific Time to follow along setting up Assignments, Classwork, Learning Activities, Student AI Guidelines, and the Study and Learn Agent with your Microsoft 365 Education account. |
2026-07-21 |
Announcing the 2026 MGCI Regional Leader Cohort
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Announcement: Microsoft named 118 people to the 2026 MGCI Regional Leader cohort; this is an informational community announcement and requires no technical action. |
2026-07-21 |
Reminder: Exchange 2016 and 2019 ESU Program Ends in October 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Reminder: the Exchange Server 2016/2019 Extended Security Updates (ESU) programme ends in October 2026 with no further extensions, so plan migrations or replacements now because no security updates will be provided after that date. |
2026-07-21 |
Plan your Azure AD B2C migration with the Migration Policy Analyzer
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the new Migration Policy Analyzer to inventory Azure AD B2C tenants (custom user journeys, federation, claims, API connections) and produce an actionable scope report to plan your migration to Microsoft Entra External ID. |
2026-07-21 |
Sizing Copilot Credits for Cowork? Let Your Users Use Cowork Investment Advisor Agent.
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When sizing M365 Copilot Cowork credits, use Microsoft's Customer Cowork Estimator and the Cowork Investment Advisor Agent to convert personas, prompt complexity, and expected usage into an estimated credit number rather than doing the calculation manually. |
2026-07-21 |
Automating Oracle to SQL Migration Using SSMA Console Skill in GitHub Copilot
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Install and use the SSMA Console Skill for GitHub Copilot to translate natural-language prompts into orchestrated SQL Server Migration Assistant steps and standardise Oracle-to-SQL migration workflows. |
2026-07-21 |
Monitoring and using pg_repack in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Enable and configure the pg_repack extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server and follow the provided monitoring steps to run, track, and validate repack operations on large production tables. |
2026-07-21 |
Recently released: Updates to SQL projects in SSMS, VS Code, and SqlPackage
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Update to the latest SSMS, SQL Database Projects extension for VS Code, SqlPackage, and Microsoft.Build.Sql to obtain recent SQL project development, source-control, and deployment features and integrate those updates into your CI/CD pipelines. |
2026-07-21 |
Azure Lighthouse: Bring Your Partner In, Without Letting Their Identities In (part 2 of 3)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read part 2 of the Azure Lighthouse technical series for patterns to grant partners operational access without creating provider identities in your tenant, and use the guidance to decide between Azure Lighthouse and alternative cross-tenant approaches. |
2026-07-21 |
Premium SSD v2 and Instant Access Snapshots: A Better, Faster, Cheaper Disk for Your Azure VMs
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Evaluate migrating Azure VMs and disks from Premium SSD v1 to Premium SSD v2 and adopt Instant Access Snapshots: PV2 is presented as faster and cheaper than v1, and Instant Access Snapshots simplify and speed snapshot operations for VM workloads. |
2026-07-20 |
Join us for our MCP Live! — A free livestream covering all things MCP
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Attend the free MCP Live livestream to learn how to run MCP servers to connect agents to data sources across VS Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Copilot App, Goose, and how to build agents that connect to internal enterprise tools with Microsoft agent-framework or Langchain. |
2026-07-20 |
Round Table: Building Browser-Capable Agents with the Browser Automation Tool
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Attend the Microsoft Foundry Discord round table on 22 July 2026 at 2:30 PM BST (7:00 PM IST) to discuss the Browser Automation tool for building browser-capable agents, surface friction or risk, and request samples, docs, or product improvements. |
2026-07-19 |
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Azure Community
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Techno-solutionist theater
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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When approving AI or IoT pilots, require a documented year-two operational plan and measurable success criteria to distinguish real interventions from 'theatre' and prevent projects that stop after initial launch. |
2026-07-25 |
Azure Update 24th July 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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John Savill published an Azure Update video covering AKS-to-Azure-Files NFS encryption and Azure Functions runtime updates (PowerShell 7.6, Python); review those segments and assess whether you need to change your AKS storage or function runtime configurations. |
2026-07-25 |
Azure SRE Agent: Automating Reliability at Scale
Luke Murray (youtube)
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If you manage site reliability, watch Luke Murray's Azure SRE Agent video to evaluate the agent for automating reliability at scale and decide whether to run a pilot in your environment. |
2026-07-24 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager - Folge 22 - Einrichten von Windows LAPS in Intune
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Set up Windows LAPS in Intune now by following this step-by-step video, which includes linked GitHub workshop materials and lab resources you can reuse for deployment. |
2026-07-24 |
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: lessons learned building a production multi-agent service
Luke Murray (website)
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When moving multi-agent services to production on Microsoft Foundry hosted agents, apply the article's guidance: adjust compute sizing, pick the suggested protocols, and adopt the deployment and operational patterns it describes. |
2026-07-24 |
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: lessons learned building a production multi-agent service
Luke Murray (website)
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Apply the paper's lessons for Microsoft Foundry hosted agents when running production multi-agent services: size compute correctly, pick inter-agent protocols deliberately, and adopt the described deployment and operational patterns. |
2026-07-24 |
It was crypto that was going to save Africa. Now it's AI
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Before deploying AI in low-resource settings, assess and fix basic constraints: secure reliable power and network connectivity, identify sustainable funding flows, and build local operational capacity instead of assuming models can be dropped into clinics with no electricity. |
2026-07-24 |
Dynamics 365 Contact Center Conversation & Routing Diagnostics
Peter Ruiter (website)
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Routing diagnostics for Dynamics 365 has moved to Azure Application Insights; install or enable the new Conversation Diagnostics FastTrack dashboard (runs inside Dynamics 365) to get plain-language explanations of every routing decision. |
2026-07-24 |
Quick Introduction to Windows Sandbox
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Install and use Windows Sandbox to run apps or processes in an isolated environment; follow Microsoft's documentation for installation, environment customisation, and command-line automation for quick test workflows. |
2026-07-24 |
My two cents about Context Window Confusion
Alberto Andrew (website)
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Do not treat a larger context window as a free accuracy upgrade: avoid pasting massive inputs (for example, 200k tokens) into one prompt, instead chunk or summarise documents and use retrieval or targeted prompts to prevent the model getting 'lost in the middle'. |
2026-07-23 |
Beyond Passwords: Certificate-Based Authentication for Android Enterprise
Nicky De Westelinck (website)
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If you manage Android Enterprise devices, follow the linked walkthrough to implement certificate-based authentication and move managed Android logins away from passwords to certificate-based sign-in. |
2026-07-23 |
If it's your lifeline, you should be able to fix it
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Canute, a Braille display highlighted by Scott Hanselman, is designed to be user-repairable so owners can open and fix the device locally instead of shipping it across borders and waiting weeks. |
2026-07-23 |
Identify SQL Server EOL & ESU Costs with azqr
Carlos Mendible (website)
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Run the Azure Quick Review sql-esu plugin to scan Arc-enabled SQL Servers and Azure SQL VMs, estimate Extended Security Update (ESU) costs for instances past end-of-life, and get recommended migration paths to Azure SQL Managed Instance. |
2026-07-23 |
Not All MFA Is Equal – Phishing Resistant MFA and Authentication Strengths in Entra ID
Travis Roberts (website)
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Configure Entra ID Authentication Strengths to require phishing-resistant MFA (for example FIDO2 passkeys) for admin and high-risk accounts, and stop relying on SMS or simple push as equivalent protection. |
2026-07-23 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 19 - Ohne "Defense in Depth" mit einem kompromitierten Admin-Konto!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Immediately review and remediate defence-in-depth gaps shown in this demo: a compromised admin account can lead to broad access, so harden privileged identities with MFA, least privilege, privileged access workstations or just-in-time access, conditional access, and improved logg |
2026-07-22 |
Azure capacity constraints in Europe: why North Europe is feeling it most
Alan Kinana (website)
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Expect more AllocationFailed errors and VM size unavailability in North Europe due to capacity constraints; plan deployments to alternate regions or VM sizes, check region capacity before scaling, and schedule non-urgent provisioning outside peak demand. |
2026-07-22 |
How to Evaluate Third-Party Patching Solutions Beyond Price
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Do not select a third-party patching product on licence price alone: add a formal assessment of operational cost, integration with your update pipeline, patch coverage, reporting, testing, and vendor support to your procurement criteria. |
2026-07-22 |
Learn Rust: Build a Multithreaded Key-Value Store (Redis Clone)
Will Velida (youtube)
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Clone and run the example repo to build a multithreaded, in-memory Redis-like server that accepts TCP connections, keeps data behind Arc and Mutex, parses SET/GET/DELETE, serves clients with a thread pool, and shuts down cleanly. |
2026-07-22 |
Learn Rust: Build a WebAssembly Particle Simulator
Will Velida (youtube)
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Compile the repo's Rust physics code to WebAssembly with wasm-pack and wasm-bindgen, export a simulation type to JavaScript, and load it from an HTML page so Rust runs the particle physics while the page draws them. |
2026-07-22 |
Learn Rust: Async and Await Fundamentals
Will Velida (youtube)
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Work through the lesson code to practice async, await, and futures, and run those futures on a runtime to handle concurrent work on a single thread. |
2026-07-22 |
Learn Rust: Build an Async Web Crawler
Will Velida (youtube)
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Use the web crawler repo to build an async crawler that performs concurrent HTTP requests with reqwest, uses an Arc/Mutex visited set to avoid revisits, and bounds concurrency with a semaphore to limit simultaneous requests. |
2026-07-22 |
Why agent skills need good descriptions
Thomas Thornton (website)
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Write clear agent skill descriptions as selection metadata: state the skill's intended purpose, triggers for use, and constraints so the agent loads the right guidance, avoids noisy context, and produces more consistent outputs. |
2026-07-22 |
Azure API Center: Link APIM for automatic API inventory sync
Dan Rios (website)
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Link your Azure API Management (APIM) instance to Azure API Center to automatically synchronise your API inventory, so APIM changes are reflected in API Center without manual imports. |
2026-07-21 |
Orchestrating a multi-agent solution with the Microsoft Agent Framework
Will Velida (website)
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Excerpt contains no technical details; open the full "Orchestrating a multi-agent solution with the Microsoft Agent Framework" article by Will Velida to determine what implementation steps, sample code, and deployment guidance it provides before planning a multi-agent deployment. |
2026-07-21 |
Reverse engineering an Android app part 3 — Extracting runtime secrets with Frida
Timur Kh (website)
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If static reversing of an Android native library's XOR-encoded secrets fails, attach Frida at runtime and read the decoded values from memory as a practical fallback to extract those secrets. |
2026-07-21 |
Developers Want Elasticity, CFOs Want Predictability
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Watch the Hanselminutes short (Aran Khanna) to inform a conversation with your finance team about the practical trade-offs between developer-requested elasticity and CFO-requested billing predictability, and adjust your operational policies accordingly. |
2026-07-21 |
Company Portal: Error Loading Apps
Rudy Ooms (website)
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If Company Portal shows "Error Loading Apps" and the web portal's IWService returns HTTP 500 or 503, treat it as a server-side IWService failure and focus troubleshooting on IWService availability and server-side errors rather than client settings. |
2026-07-21 |
Microsoft IQ Overview
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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If you are building AI agents on Microsoft platforms, watch this Microsoft IQ overview to learn the concrete components to plan for (Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, Web IQ), responsibilities and requirements, data sources, multi-model options, and identity considerations for inte |
2026-07-21 |
Microsoft IQ Quick Overview #AI #microsoftiq
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Quick overview of Microsoft IQ: watch to get a concise summary of its components (Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, Web IQ), the types of intelligence and model choices involved, and the practical considerations when integrating IQ into AI agents. |
2026-07-21 |
How to Migrate Your .NET 8 and 9 Apps to .NET 10 with Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot
Panu Oksala (website)
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End of support: .NET 8 and 9 stop receiving security fixes on 10 November 2026, plan to upgrade apps to .NET 10 (usually a simple version bump) and use Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot modernization tooling to update NuGet package versions. |
2026-07-19 |
cARL
Graham Gold (website)
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Start version-controlling AI coding agent governance inside your repository with cARL (Cognitive Agent Runtime Layer) so governance artefacts for agents are stored and reviewed alongside your code. |
2026-07-19 |
CopeLimit
Graham Gold (website)
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Deploy CopeLimit (Netlify PWA with serverless functions) to monitor GitHub Copilot quotas and add an iOS Scriptable widget for quick, on-device quota visibility. |
2026-07-19 |
Intune Custom Compliance Could Move Beyond the 8 Hour Wait
Rudy Ooms (website)
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Monitor Microsoft Intune announcements: custom compliance evaluation may move beyond the current up-to-8-hour result delay,audit any scripts, alerts or automation that assume that interval and prepare to update policies or polling logic. |
2026-07-18 |
Why I'm Working Through Level Up's Frontier Learning Journey (And You Should Too)
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Work through Level Up's Frontier Learning Journey as Gregor recommends, and schedule time to complete its modules to gain hands-on experience with frontier capabilities. |
2026-07-18 |
Renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2026-2027
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Note that Gregor Suttie was renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2026-2027; if you follow his Azure guidance, keep tracking his posts for continued community-driven content and examples. |
2026-07-18 |
Ethical Hacking und Penetration Testing Tipps: Aufbau KI-Cybersicherheitslabors - Teil 7: Kali Linux
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Follow the walkthrough to create a VM in Virtual Machine Manager and install Kali Linux for a local ethical-hacking lab; the video includes links to workshop and knowledge-base repos you can clone and use. |
2026-07-18 |
From Runbooks to Agents: Migrating Azure Automation Workflows to Agentic DevOps
Peter De Tender (website)
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Review and migrate legacy Azure Automation runbooks to agent-based Agentic DevOps workflows: convert scheduled VM start/stop, backup validation, certificate expiry checks, and orphaned-resource cleanup runbooks into agent-run workflows and update scheduling, credentials, and moni |
2026-07-18 |
For text, Braille is identical to print
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Short clip: Braille for text and numbers delivers comparable reading speed and retention to print, so treat tactile text interfaces as equivalently dense information channels when designing accessible documentation and UIs. |
2026-07-18 |
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