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Azure Feeds Weekly: 31 Oct 2026 to 07 Nov 2026
Another week in cloud land, this week has post-quantum and WAF.
TLS policies: Front Door GA adds hybrid post-quantum key exchange, pick predefined policies.
WAF insights: Application Gateway WAF now includes built-in dashboards for logs and metrics.
Firewall rules: Azure Firewall IPv6 preview supports application rules for HTTP and HTTPS.
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🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Front Door TLS key exchange policy with post-quantum support
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Front Door now supports configurable TLS key exchange policies, including hybrid post-quantum key exchange; select a predefined policy for your Front Door endpoints to add post-quantum key exchange while balancing client compatibility. |
2026-11-06 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: WAF Insights for Azure Application Gateway
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally available: WAF Insights is now built into Application Gateway WAF policies, providing interactive dashboards that combine WAF logs and metrics: access WAF Insights from the WAF policy to investigate blocked requests and WAF events. |
2026-11-06 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL stable REST API version 2026-10-01
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server REST API version 2026-10-01 is now stable; update automation and clients to the 2026-10-01 endpoint to start using expanded maintenance management, immutable backups, and multi-tenant encryption features. |
2026-11-05 |
🚀 Generally Available
Generally Available: Route maps for Azure Route Server
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Route maps for Azure Route Server are now available in the Azure public cloud; configure route maps to control inbound and outbound routing across hybrid connections and update Route Server configurations and network policies accordingly. |
2026-11-05 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Firewall IPv6 now supports application rules
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public Preview: Azure Firewall now supports application rules (layer 7) for IPv6 HTTP and HTTPS traffic, so update your IPv6 or dual-stack firewall policies and rule sets to author and test application rules for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. |
2026-11-05 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Multi-disk crash-consistent VM restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks on VMs with SCSI disk controller
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: you can now create multi-disk, crash-consistent, agent-less restore points for VMs using Premium SSD v2 or Ultra data disks with SCSI controllers, so enable and test these restore points in your VM backup workflows. |
2026-11-05 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: JWT validation for Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Application Gateway for Containers adds centralised JWT validation via the AuthPolicy custom resource, so platform teams should create AuthPolicy CRs to validate token signature, issuer, lifetime, and audience using signing keys from a trusted endpoint. |
2026-11-04 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: MCP gateway for Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Application Gateway for Containers introduces the MCPRoute custom resource to route Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic, enabling platform teams to publish MCP servers behind stable hostnames and paths while centralising TLS, JWT validation, and Web Application... |
2026-11-04 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Private ingress for Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Application Gateway for Containers now supports private frontends reachable only through approved Azure Private Link private endpoints, so move internal applications, shared services, and cross-cluster traffic onto private frontends to keep traffic off public... |
2026-11-04 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Advanced capacity insights are now available in Azure Storage Discovery
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure Storage Discovery now exposes advanced capacity insights (access patterns, data age, storage tiers, and object size distribution), so you can analyse storage usage to plan tiering, retention, or reclamation. |
2026-11-04 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: Extend immutability for PITR backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Public preview: Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance let you lock immutable retention for Point-In-Time Restore (PITR) backups to your configured PITR retention instead of the default 7 days, so enable/configure immutability to meet compliance (for example 35 days). |
2026-11-04 |
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[Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced Azure Site Recovery support for VMSS Flex
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery now supports Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration (VMSS Flex) with improved target configuration and end-to-end recovery workflows, including failover, so update your disaster-recovery runbooks and target settings to... |
2026-11-04 |
🔍 Preview
[In preview] Public Preview: On-prem NAS share discovery and assessment are now available using Azure Migrate
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Preview: Azure Migrate can now discover and assess on-prem NAS shares (Dell PowerScale OneFS and NetApp ONTAP) by connecting the Azure Migrate appliance directly to NAS, deploy the appliance, provide NAS credentials, and run assessments to plan migrations. |
2026-11-03 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: OT security in Microsoft Defender for IoT
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Microsoft will deprecate the OT security component of Microsoft Defender for IoT with a three-year transition and full deprecation in October 2029, so start planning replacement controls and a migration path well before the deprecation date. |
2026-11-03 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Change from virtual network integration to a private endpoint capable network configuration in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now lets you convert existing VNet-integrated servers from delegated-subnet networking to a private endpoint-capable configuration, so update server network settings, DNS, and firewall rules to use private... |
2026-11-03 |
ℹ️ Update
Retirement: Azure Fluid Relay
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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Retirement: Azure Fluid Relay will be retired on 2 February 2027 and reach end of availability, so migrate any workloads that depend on the service before that date or expect disruption; the Fluid Framework remains available as open-source. |
2026-11-03 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Storage Actions adds automatic task updates, execution controls, and case-sensitive matching
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Storage Actions is now generally available, adding automatic propagation of task-definition updates, execution controls, and case-sensitive matching for automated operations on Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage, so update your task definitions and verify execution... |
2026-11-03 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Restart databases in Azure SQL DB via the Azure portal
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure SQL Database now lets you restart or fail over single databases, Hyperscale databases, and databases in elastic pools directly from the Azure portal, so you can perform restarts or failovers without calling the REST API or support. |
2026-11-03 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Service Bus Premium now supports Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces, so you can replicate messages and metadata to a secondary Azure region while keeping partitioning throughput benefits; update your DR and region-pairing plans accordingly. |
2026-11-03 |
🚀 Generally Available
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery for Azure Local
Microsoft Azure Release Communications (website)
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GA: Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Local, enabling you to protect supported Windows and Linux virtual machines by replicating them to Azure Local; update disaster-recovery runbooks and provisioning to use Azure Local targets. |
2026-11-03 |
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Work IQ: SharePoint Tools
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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SharePoint tools are coming to the Work IQ API, letting you surface SharePoint content and invoke SharePoint actions from custom apps and agents via the same workplace intelligence layer that powers Microsoft Copilot, so plan to use Work IQ as your integration point for... |
2026-11-06 |
Threat actors use agentic AI tooling to find and abuse exposed secrets
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft observed threat actors using the agentic framework ARTEX to find OAuth application secrets on GitHub and then use compromised OAuth apps to act in tenants: scan repositories and commit history for exposed OAuth secrets, revoke or rotate affected credentials, audit and... |
2026-11-06 |
Power BI reports support OAP exceptions for semantic models in separate workspaces (Preview)
Power BI Blog (website)
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Preview: Power BI reports in OAP-protected workspaces can now query semantic models in other workspaces, but a workspace administrator must explicitly add an OAP exception policy allowing each destination to enable report-to-model connections. |
2026-11-06 |
Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI is generally available
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI is generally available: install the extension to set up, test, evaluate, and deploy hosted agents and keep agent and deployment configuration alongside your code. |
2026-11-06 |
Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI is generally available
Azure SDK Blog (website)
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GA: Install or update the Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI to set up, test, evaluate, and deploy hosted agents and keep agent and deployment configuration alongside your code. |
2026-11-06 |
Help Shape the Future of .NET: Take the 2026 .NET Developer Survey
.NET Blog (website)
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Action: spend ~15 minutes completing the 2026 .NET Developer Survey to provide feedback that will shape future .NET investments and surface common developer challenges. |
2026-11-06 |
Modernize your .NET apps for Windows Arm64 with GitHub Copilot
.NET Blog (website)
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Run the GitHub Copilot Upgrade Agent to modernise your .NET apps for Windows Arm64: it identifies migration blockers, helps plan the porting work, and assists with making code changes you can review and apply. |
2026-11-06 |
New investments to reduce on-premises security risk
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft announced a new on-premises security initiative combining guidance, migration pathways, and product investments: review the guidance and migration options and align your on-prem plans to reduce security risk. |
2026-11-06 |
What’s new in Microsoft Security: November 2026
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Review and apply the November 2026 Microsoft Security recommendations: implement the published configuration and policy changes for AI agent security, least-privilege access, threat protection, and exposure management across your tenants and endpoints. |
2026-11-06 |
Power Query Corner: Finding and connecting to data in the new experience (Preview)
Power BI Blog (website)
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Preview: Power Query's new experience changes data acquisition so you can find sources before picking a connector, search or browse databases, team-maintained Fabric items, recent sources, or paste existing query logic; test the preview and update discovery workflows. |
2026-11-06 |
Azure DNS Traffic Manager linked records are now generally available
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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GA: Azure Traffic Manager linked records let you associate Azure Public DNS record sets directly with Traffic Manager profiles without using CNAMEs to trafficmanager.net, so update DNS provisioning or automation to create linked records to avoid exposing the trafficmanager.net... |
2026-11-06 |
Email threat landscape: Q3 2026 trends and insights
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft observed a sharp rise in email-based phishing in Q3 2026, plus recovery of CAPTCHA-gated phishing and increased spoofing of familiar business-service sender domains that exploit security override behaviour: review email protection rules, tighten override processes... |
2026-11-06 |
October 2026 Node.js vulnerabilities: Azure DevOps security guidance
Azure DevOps Blog (website)
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Update any Node.js installations your organisation controls to 22.23.4, 24.22.1, or 26.12.1 to patch DNS, TLS certificate validation, and Brotli decompression vulnerabilities (Brotli can corrupt memory and enable code execution); prioritise runtimes and pipelines that handle... |
2026-11-06 |
Bring Agentic Coding On-Device with Foundry Local
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Foundry Local brings agentic coding to run directly on developer hardware, so you can run agentic coding workflows locally on your device rather than only in hosted environments. |
2026-11-06 |
What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | October 2026
Microsoft Foundry Blog (website)
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Browser automation and hosted-agent resilience are now GA in Microsoft Foundry, so plan production adoption and update agents; the Copilot harness is in preview (test in dev), and Decisions API plus SDK and chapter-linked Handoff demos have updates to review before upgrading. |
2026-11-06 |
Deprecation notice: Low-trust SharePoint add-ins in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Deprecation: Support for low-trust SharePoint add-ins in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition ends 12 January 2027 and the January 2027 public update will disable them by default, so identify affected solutions and plan migration to supported alternatives such as SharePoint... |
2026-11-05 |
Jira SSO Logout Loop and UI Issues Across Plugin Versions
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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If you run Microsoft Entra ID SSO in Jira Service Management Data Center (Jira 10.3.26), do not enable Force Azure Login with plugin v1.1.11 because it creates an infinite logout redirect loop, and be aware plugin v1.3.7 upgrades have reported UI functionality regressions. |
2026-11-05 |
Your voice shapes SPFx: take our developer survey
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Complete the SPFx developer survey by 9 December 2026 to provide feedback that will shape future SPFx investments and roadmap priorities (survey highlights include Copilot UX components and community engagement opportunities). |
2026-11-04 |
What’s new for Azure App Service in Azure PowerShell: September-November 2026
Azure App Service Blog (website)
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Upgrade to Azure PowerShell Az 16.5.0 if you manage App Service automation: it adds App Service plan controls for asynchronous scaling, PowerShell commands to manage Managed Instance on Azure App Service, Isolated v4 plan support, and updates automation to a newer Microsoft.Web... |
2026-11-04 |
My Favorite Undocumented Feature in SQL MCP Server
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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Deploy SQL MCP Server without a configuration file by supplying the undocumented DAB_CONNSTRING environment variable, enabling rapid containerised deployment in Docker, Azure Container Apps, ACI, or AKS; set the env var with your connection string before starting the container. |
2026-11-04 |
Enhanced data protection for Azure Files
Azure Storage Blog (website)
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Public Preview: Azure Files adds expanded BCDR data protection to recover from accidental changes, regional disruptions, and ransomware within and across regions; enable the preview on affected storage accounts, update backup and disaster recovery runbooks, and validate... |
2026-11-04 |
Delivering Skills in NuGet packages
.NET Blog (website)
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Agent skills can be delivered as NuGet packages to provide up-to-date library documentation to models, so publish and version your skills as NuGet packages to keep model-facing docs current. |
2026-11-04 |
What if your Azure Databricks workspaces have overlapping CIDRs?
Azure Networking Blog (website)
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Overlapping CIDRs in Azure Databricks VNet-injected workspaces (for example 10.100.0.0/20) create routing ambiguity, so renumber the compute VNets or remove the need for direct network access to those subnets (use private access instead). |
2026-11-04 |
Fake-download campaign uses trojanized installers to deliver monetization payloads
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Apply Microsoft Threat Intelligence's detection and investigation guidance to inspect Inno Setup installer sessions, update endpoint and installer telemetry, and add IOC/detection rules for the fake-download campaign using trojanized Inno installers that deliver monetization... |
2026-11-04 |
Get Ready for .NET Conf 2026!
.NET Blog (website)
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Register for .NET Conf, 10-13 Nov, to follow the .NET 11 launch and attend Microsoft and Community Days so you can capture release notes and plan your upgrade and testing schedule. |
2026-11-04 |
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Agent Management Platforms
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Microsoft was named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms; review the Gartner report and assess Microsoft's agent management capabilities against alternatives for upcoming procurement, architecture, or DevOps tool decisions. |
2026-11-04 |
Your app needs documents. Do you really want to build a document platform?
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (website)
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Reassess plans to build a custom document platform: document requirements from customers, security, and operations often expand scope, so evaluate existing document platforms or managed services to reduce ongoing development, compliance, and operational burden. |
2026-11-04 |
Go beyond the basics: Explore specialized Azure plugins for your AI agent
Azure SDK Blog (website)
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Install and configure six Azure plugins for AI agents (AKS operations, Cost Management, Advisor recommendations, Kusto graph analysis, Azure Local, Foundry IQ) using the blog's installation commands and example prompts to add those capabilities to your agent. |
2026-11-04 |
ChatGPT runs on Azure Cosmos DB. Prove you can build what’s next.
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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DP-420 has been updated to an AI-focused Cosmos DB certification: you can take the exam free at Microsoft Ignite, or claim a 50% discount on the certification test through Data Days, if you want official Cosmos DB/AI credentials. |
2026-11-04 |
Microsoft Entra ID Authentication Request Types
Microsoft Entra Blog (website)
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If you find CredentialAuthenticationController:UnifiedPlatformCredentialChallenge or RiskPhoneVerify:AcmaRiskPhoneVerify in Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs, treat them as authentication-request identifiers to investigate: consult the latest Entra sign-in log documentation... |
2026-11-03 |
Discover and assess on-premises Network Attached Storage (NAS) shares using Azure Migrate
Azure Storage Blog (website)
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Public preview: Azure Migrate can now discover and assess on-premises NAS shares so you can map shares, assign migration targets, and estimate Azure costs before copying data; try the NAS assessment workflow in the preview. |
2026-11-03 |
What’s new for Azure App Service in Azure CLI 2.92.0
Azure App Service Blog (website)
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Upgrade to Azure CLI 2.92.0 to restore the appServicePlanId field returned by az webapp show and az webapp list, fixing a regression that broke scripts and queries that identify a web app's App Service plan. |
2026-11-03 |
Resolving GitHub repository reconnection failures in Azure App Service
Azure App Service Blog (website)
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If you disconnected a private GitHub repository from Azure App Service and cannot reconnect it, inspect the repository's deploy keys and remove any existing 2048-bit RSA deploy key (it can block reconnection), then retry connecting. |
2026-11-03 |
What exploited vulnerabilities have in common: A data-driven analysis of real-world attacks
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Prioritise patching and mitigations on the small, high-impact subset of CVEs that real-world attacks concentrate in, by scoring vulnerabilities on exploitation likelihood, exposure, and potential blast radius and adjusting triage and remediation accordingly. |
2026-11-03 |
My Team Is Growing, How Do I Structure Who Gets Access to What?
Azure Cosmos DB Blog (website)
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Organise Cosmos DB access around jobs, not people: create job-based roles, separate management permissions from data permissions, and remove blanket owner-level access for developers, operators, analysts, and applications. |
2026-11-03 |
The paper that explains how Microsoft SQL learned to recover without undoing everything first
Azure SQL Devs' Corner (website)
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Microsoft research describes a SQL Server recovery approach that avoids undoing all in-progress transactions before making the database available, reducing downtime after crashes during very large single-transaction bulk loads,DBAs should read the post to understand the new... |
2026-11-03 |
Azure Bicep vs ARM Templates: Which Should You Choose?
Azure Architecture Blog (website)
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Choose Azure Bicep for new IaC work: it provides cleaner, more readable syntax, compiler diagnostics and type-aware tooling, plus modules for organising and sharing components; ARM templates remain supported so migrate incrementally or convert existing templates. |
2026-11-01 |
Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor
Microsoft Security Blog (website)
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Remove the malicious Claude Code-branded extension and follow Microsoft's posted detection and remediation guidance to identify and remove its persistent SSH backdoor and any related persistence mechanisms. |
2026-10-31 |
Everything released in October 2026 for Azure Developer CLI
Azure SDK Blog (website)
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Preview: azd adds preview service-deployment dry-runs and a Container Apps express deploy target; you can remove stored environment values and use extension-defined infrastructure providers in generated pipelines, extension APIs now have stable contracts, and provisioning adds... |
2026-10-31 |
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Autoruns for Linux, ProcExp for macOS, macOS tools, Linux tools, ProExp, ProcMon, PsTools, and more
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Autoruns 1.0 is available for Linux, Process Explorer 1.0 for macOS, and other Sysinternals ports and updates (jcd 1.1, listent 1.1, ProcDump 3.6), so download the appropriate releases to diagnose boot, startup, and process issues on Linux and macOS. |
2026-11-06 |
Stream your Windows PC over USB with Mixed Reality Link
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Mixed Reality Link now supports streaming your Windows desktop to Meta Quest 3 or 3S headsets over USB, so use the wired option when Wi-Fi is congested, unavailable, or blocked by public networks. |
2026-11-06 |
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro comes to Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro is now available in Microsoft Foundry, providing an open-weight, multimodal model with text and image understanding and up to a 1 million-token context window for agentic workloads. |
2026-11-06 |
Sync Without Shared Secrets: Managed Identity for ACR Connected Registry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Private preview: ACR Connected Registry on Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes can use a user-assigned managed identity to authenticate synchronisation through Microsoft Entra ID, letting teams manage repository access via Azure RBAC instead of shared secrets. |
2026-11-06 |
Building the next generation of multimodal AI experiences with fal in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Foundry introduced fal multimodal capabilities for video and image workflows, enabling multi-model pipelines that combine image and video generation to meet different quality, motion, control, and cost requirements. |
2026-11-06 |
The Future of Microsoft Partnerships in the AI Era with Jay McBain
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Partners should update their business and go-to-market plans to include AI skills, offerings, and investments, following Jay McBain's analysis that AI will reshape the industry over the next 20 years and create growth opportunities. |
2026-11-06 |
Who, not just what: Identity-aware Azure Policy for real-time governance
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Azure Policy can now evaluate the caller's identity at request time, enabling policies that control both what changes are allowed and who is allowed to make them, so author or update policies with identity conditions to enforce real-time governance. |
2026-11-06 |
What’s new in Windows 365: October 2026 recap
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Reserve auto-deprovisioning for Cloud PCs is now in public preview; October updates also include session continuity for Windows 365 Flex, external identity and redirection controls, new Intune Cloud PC settings, and Azure Government connectivity improvements. |
2026-11-06 |
New Investments to Reduce On-Premises Security Risk
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft announced a new on-premises security initiative focused on server workloads that will provide guidance, migration assistance, and product investments to help reduce on-prem risk, so review the forthcoming guidance and migration options for your critical servers. |
2026-11-06 |
PostgreSQL Performance Bottlenecks:
Managing Connections and Read-Intensive Workloads
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Assess your PostgreSQL deployment for high connection counts and read-intensive workload bottlenecks, and apply the configuration and operational recommendations in the blog to reduce slow queries and excessive resource use. |
2026-11-06 |
🎓 It's live! Join the Higher Education AI Champion (HEDAC) Community
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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The Higher Education AI Champion (HEDAC) Community is now open: higher-education faculty, staff, IT, researchers, and leaders can join to get onboarding, ready-to-use prompts, monthly expert calls, and a peer network to support campus AI adoption. |
2026-11-06 |
Catch Microsoft Entra at Ignite 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Ignite 2026 runs 17-20 Nov in San Francisco and online: register, plan which Microsoft Entra sessions to attend, and check in at any of the five eligible Entra sessions to enter the prize draw. |
2026-11-06 |
Build an AI-assisted invoice approval workflow with Power Automate and AI Builder
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If your team uses Power Automate and SharePoint, implement the tutorial to build an AI Builder invoice-extraction workflow that validates invoices against SharePoint purchase-order data and routes approved items to reviewers. |
2026-11-05 |
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (November 2026)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft expanded sovereign AI with Foundry Local on Azure Local, enabling organisations to run AI models, agents, and applications in customer-controlled, disconnected, or regulated environments via Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with local inference, model management, GPU... |
2026-11-05 |
Route summarization in Azure Route Server
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Route summarization in Azure Route Server lets you control which prefixes are learned and advertised at VNet edges for ExpressRoute, Azure VPN Gateway, and SD-WAN, so review your Route Server policies and update summarization settings to limit propagated routes. |
2026-11-05 |
5-year commercial protection plans expand to additional markets
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Region expansion: as of 1 October 2026, Microsoft expanded 5-year commercial protection plan options for eligible Surface devices to additional commercial markets, so organisations can now buy longer protection terms to match extended device lifecycles. |
2026-11-05 |
Introducing the Project Perception Community
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft launched the Project Perception Community, presenting a coordinated, multi-agent security approach (red, blue, and green agents) for security teams to evaluate as a way to surface risk, investigate threats, and improve defensive workflows while keeping people in... |
2026-11-05 |
Can Fabric Copilot Run on a Separate Capacity?
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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You can designate a separate Microsoft Fabric capacity for Copilot usage and assign users or groups so eligible Copilot usage is billed to that designated capacity while the workspace and its underlying workloads remain on their existing capacity. |
2026-11-05 |
SharePoint and OneDrive at Microsoft Ignite 2026: What to Expect
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Ignite is scheduled for 17-20 November 2026 in San Francisco and online; if you plan to attend, register for the physical or digital pass to catch SharePoint and OneDrive sessions showing how they act as the knowledge platform for Copilot and agents. |
2026-11-05 |
OneDrive and SharePoint at Microsoft Ignite 2026: What to Expect
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you will attend Microsoft Ignite (17-20 November 2026, San Francisco or online), expect SharePoint and OneDrive sessions demonstrating their role as the knowledge platform for Copilot and agents, and register for the event or digital pass. |
2026-11-05 |
Security Fix: Azure Sphere SDK version 26.06.1 is now available
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security fix available: update Azure Sphere SDK to version 26.06.1 to address risks related to the compromised eMudhra intermediate CA keys that could be used to impersonate TLS endpoints. |
2026-11-05 |
Securing AI Adoption in the DIB-Part 2: Microsoft's Approach to Discovering & Securing AI
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Discover and classify AI agents as non-human identities and secure them: inventory agents, the credentials they hold, and their data access, then apply controls across people, AI applications, and hosting platforms per Microsoft's guidance. |
2026-11-05 |
Scale access controls with Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policy plans
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policy plans are now available to define access intent once and enforce it consistently across identities, reducing the need to manage dozens of individual policies,evaluate the preview to simplify enterprise-scale access... |
2026-11-05 |
People are the difference: The learning culture behind Investec’s workforce transformation
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Investec scaled cloud and AI adoption across about 8,000 employees by emphasising a learning culture and people-first upskilling, so leaders planning large-scale adoption should assess their learning culture and structured upskilling programmes. |
2026-11-05 |
Get ready for Azure CSP promotions: A new growth and profitability lever for partners
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Pricing change: Azure CSP promotions go live 2 November, partners must review the promotions readiness guide and FAQ, use the sandbox and Microsoft Learn, and prepare Partner Center and billing/reconciliation processes to activate offers. |
2026-11-05 |
Microsoft Entra deep dives: Join our December 15–17 webinar series
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for Microsoft Entra deep-dive webinars on 15-17 December to receive practical, post-Ignite guidance for implementing the latest Entra identity and network access announcements. |
2026-11-05 |
Your guide to FinOps for AI at Microsoft Ignite 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you own AI cost or FinOps, attend Microsoft Ignite FinOps for AI (17-20 November, San Francisco or online) to learn practical techniques to plan, control, and optimise AI spend via keynotes, breakouts, demos, and hands-on labs. |
2026-11-05 |
Extending Azure VM Image Automation with an MCP Operations Layer
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Add the MCP operations layer to your Azure VM image pipeline (Part 2) to expose controlled build status, validation evidence, and optional pipeline queueing; the article includes runnable implementation and step-by-step wiring for Azure DevOps and Azure Compute Gallery. |
2026-11-04 |
Vector Search vs. Knowledge Graphs: Where Microsoft Fabric Graph Fits
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When you need to traverse complex paths and patterns across connected data in OneLake, choose Microsoft Fabric Graph as the engine for relationship and path queries rather than a vector database, and design your data model accordingly. |
2026-11-04 |
Implementing Traefik as an Ingress Controller on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Deploy Traefik as your AKS ingress by installing the Traefik Helm chart and CRDs, ensuring you have a user node pool for ingress workloads, an internal LB subnet, kubectl and Helm access, and Kubernetes permissions to create Deployments, Services, Secrets, and CRDs. |
2026-11-04 |
Partner Blog | Microsoft Ignite 2026: Build an agenda that moves your business forward
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Register for Microsoft Ignite 2026 (Nov 17-20, Moscone Center or online) and plan your agenda to include partner programming, starting with the Frontier Transformation Partner keynote, to target sessions that inform your customers and projects. |
2026-11-04 |
Windows Server at Microsoft Ignite 2026: Sessions, our booth, and how to join the pre-day
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you manage Windows Server, register for the Windows Server pre-day workshop (PREB20) on Nov 16 to see demos and early previews of the next Windows Server release, covering local AI, security, Hyper-V, Active Directory, networking, and storage. |
2026-11-04 |
The CISO Cheat Sheet to Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Security leaders should update risk and response plans for the AI-driven compression of attack timelines and increased automation called out in the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2026; use the CISO cheat sheet to prioritise mitigations and detection workstreams. |
2026-11-04 |
What stops a service-side auto-labeling rollout from being approved — and how to unblock it
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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To get service-side auto-labeling approved, prepare artefacts that answer Access, Proof, Reversibility, and Scale, run bounded simulations and classification-only tests, implement explicit approval gates, and publish a tested rollback runbook before turning it on. |
2026-11-04 |
Windows news you can use: October 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Plan for Windows Update certificate expiries in May and June 2027: validate that devices will recieve replacement certificates via monthly updates and identify any endpoints that need additional IT remediation ahead of expiry. |
2026-11-04 |
Copilot for US Government delivers advanced models, app integration
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Copilot for US Government now delivers advanced Frontier Intelligence models cleared for GCC, GCC High, and DoD clouds and integrates natively into productivity apps, so review compliance, enablement, and deployment plans for your government tenancy. |
2026-11-04 |
Azure Local: 10 mistakes that can derail your deployment before it starts
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Avoid the common Azure Local deployment failures by delaying irreversible decisions, involving the right stakeholders during scoping and design, and following the article's checklist of people, timing, and validation steps before you commit to hardware or topology. |
2026-11-04 |
From Proactive Detection to Action: How Azure Protects Mission-Critical Workloads
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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If you run mission-critical workloads, configure and monitor Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) telemetry and notifications and integrate AFPD's proactive mitigation guidance into your incident response to reduce hardware-related interruptions. |
2026-11-04 |
Rethinking Azure OpenAI Token Economics: Processing Nasdaq Level 2 Market Data Before AI
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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When processing high-volume market feeds such as Nasdaq Level 2, pre-filter and pre-process data with conventional code before calling Azure OpenAI to reduce token consumption and operating cost. |
2026-11-04 |
An engineering guide to Claude Code on Microsoft Foundry with Azure API Management
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the CCOF implementation on GitHub (not a Microsoft product) to give developers Claude Code while enforcing identity, model access, budgets, and private networking via Azure API Management, and deploy to one user first before scaling. |
2026-11-04 |
Introducing SharePoint tools in Work IQ
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Public preview: enable SharePoint tools in Work IQ to add 60+ native SharePoint operations via the Work IQ MCP server so Copilots and agents can find, create, organise, and share SharePoint content (tools are also rolling out to Copilot Studio). |
2026-11-04 |
mssql-python 1.17.0: more reliable bulk copy, faster pool recovery, and DB-API fixes
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Upgrade to mssql-python 1.17.0 to get reliability fixes: bulkcopy works after package upgrades with correct UTF-8 handling and destination validation, connection pools recover from dead connections, multi-statement batches report correct row counts, and Timestamp() follows PEP... |
2026-11-04 |
New ransomware recovery guidance for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft published new ransomware recovery guidance for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance on Microsoft Learn; incorporate the prepare, contain, restore, validate, and harden steps into your incident response and recovery plans for these services. |
2026-11-04 |
Partner Blog | Three Horizons: How hosting partners can evolve their business, expand their value, and shape what's next
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Hosting and hybrid cloud partners should assess rising costs, licensing shifts, and platform risk and evaluate the phased hosting modernisation path with Microsoft Adaptive Cloud described in the blog to expand service value and AI readiness. |
2026-11-04 |
Build a Grounded Package Upgrade Advisor with Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use Microsoft-Decision-1 on Microsoft Foundry to return structured decision outputs (yes/no, probability, or single-choice) so your package upgrade advisor can act immediately on model responses without extra text interpretation. |
2026-11-04 |
How Outlook Search is changing: ranking, resilience, and the feedback loop
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Outlook Search ranking, resilience, and the feedback loop are being changed; if you operate Outlook at scale, monitor search results and submit problematic queries and example messages through Microsoft feedback channels so the team can tune behaviour for your users. |
2026-11-04 |
Windows Server October 2026 monthly security updates impact SCVMM environments
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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October 2026 Windows Server security updates (KB5126646, KB5126655, KB5126651) have known issues that cause BITS-based content-transfer workflows to fail with HTTP 500 during VM deployments in SCVMM 2019/2022/2025, and on AMD hosts cause host and cluster refresh to fail with a... |
2026-11-04 |
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published September 24-28, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Marketplace published 291 new offers on 24-28 Sep 2026; if you buy or trial solutions via Marketplace, review the new listings for potential software, AI apps, or agents that match your procurement or deployment needs. |
2026-11-04 |
From Writing Scripts to Running a Newsroom: A 24-Hour News Station with Microsoft Copilot Harness
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Case study: Meridian 24 used Microsoft Copilot-based tooling to build a bilingual, half-hourly news podcast and single-page web player,review the implementation if you plan to automate multi-language news generation and delivery. |
2026-11-03 |
Build an Offline AI Voice Notebook on Raspberry Pi with Microsoft Foundry Local
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Follow the walkthrough to build an on-device Voice Notes notebook on a Raspberry Pi using Microsoft Foundry Local for local transcription and summarisation, useful for teaching audio processing, model lifecycle, and responsible AI on constrained hardware. |
2026-11-03 |
Migrate Arc-registered SQL Server instances to Azure without deploying the Arc agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Change: Azure Arc SQL Server migration now supports Arc-registered SQL Server instances without installing the Arc agent, letting you start migrations for servers that cannot host an agent. |
2026-11-03 |
Why Did Our Azure Bill Change? Investigating Cloud Spend with Azure SRE Agent
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Use the Azure SRE Agent to investigate Azure bill changes by tracing month-to-month spend to subscriptions, resources, and Azure Advisor optimisation recommendations so you can prioritise remediation actions. |
2026-11-03 |
Mixed Reality Link: November 2026 Release Notes
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Update Mixed Reality Link on PC and the Windows App on Meta Quest to the November 2026 releases to get fixes for faster initial connections, improved pairing recovery, and better audio and app stability. |
2026-11-03 |
Deprecation of Legacy Web Browser Control
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Deprecation: the Internet Explorer-based Web Browser Control in Microsoft Access is planned for deprecation on 2027-05-18 (version 2705) and 2027-05-11 for Access LTSC 2024,identify affected forms and migrate controls to the Edge Browser Control now. |
2026-11-03 |
Global Secure Access: Private Access and Internet Access in one offering
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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New offering: Global Secure Access now combines Private Access and Internet Access into a single purchasable SASE product, so review consolidated policy and procurement options to cover users, devices, and AI agents. |
2026-11-03 |
FastTrack Recognized Solution Architects (FTRSA) Nominations are now open
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Nominations open: submit candidates for the FastTrack Recognized Solution Architects programme to get recognition for solution architects working on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 and to access exclusive collaboration opportunities. |
2026-11-03 |
Title Plan Update - October 30, 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Title Plan update: due to technical difficulties with the 30 Oct plan, use the 9 Oct Title Plan for the URL Creation Tool tab until the issue is resolved, and note the Title Plan will now publish weekly. |
2026-11-03 |
Five ways to build early-career readiness in the AI era
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Talent leaders: redesign first-year development to prioritise structured evaluation, frequent feedback, and judgement-building activities rather than first-draft production, because AI makes draft creation easier. |
2026-11-03 |
Announcing general availability of Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces for Service Bus Premium
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: Azure Service Bus Premium now supports Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces, so you can combine partitioning throughput with replication of messages and metadata to a secondary region; consider this for workloads that need more than 16 messaging units. |
2026-11-03 |
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2026
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Read the November 2026 Logic Apps Aviators newsletter for product group and community updates, including a profile of Ace Aviator Steef-Jan Wiggers and discussion of architecture building blocks. |
2026-11-03 |
Webinar: Study and Learn limits/locks down Copilot Chat
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Coming soon: an IT-controlled locked-down learning-only mode for Copilot Chat that always lands students in Study and Learn, prevents dismissing or switching agents, and still allows students to add their own files; admins will be able to enforce this mode. |
2026-11-03 |
Article 5 - The 90-Day Agent Governance Plan
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Start a focused 90-day agent governance plan to establish foundations for policies, access controls, and data governance for AI agents, rather than waiting for a multi-year transformation. |
2026-11-03 |
Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access: one offering for Private Access and Internet Access
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access is now available to purchase as a single offering that combines Private Access and Internet Access, so consolidate secure access policy and procurement for internet, SaaS, cloud, and on-prem apps. |
2026-11-03 |
Announcing flex nodes for AKS (preview) in Azure portal
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Preview: Azure portal now supports flex nodes for AKS, letting you create flex node pools and onboard supported user-managed VMs or on-prem/edge servers as worker nodes to extend clusters without adding another Kubernetes control plane. |
2026-11-03 |
The Agentic Gatekeeper: Using Microsoft Decision-1 to Decide When Agents Act
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Insert a decision-check step that queries Microsoft-Decision-1 to approve or decline an agent's proposed action (closed outputs such as yes/no or A/B/C), and enforce the model's verdict before executing the action to reduce unsafe behaviour. |
2026-11-02 |
Building Secure, Ephemeral GitHub Actions Runners
on Azure Container Apps
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Switch to ephemeral, repository-scoped GitHub Actions runners on Azure Container Apps that scale-from-zero via KEDA Event Jobs and use GitHub App authentication, GitHub OIDC for secretless deployments, and managed identity plus private endpoint Key Vault access. |
2026-11-01 |
The GitHub app in Microsoft Teams is now generally available!
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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GA: The GitHub app for Microsoft Teams is now generally available; install and configure the app in your Teams tenant so teams can file issues and review work without leaving Teams. |
2026-10-31 |
Course Retirement: AB-6003, AB-6004, AB-7011
Microsoft Tech Community (website)
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Retirement: three beginner courses (AB-6003, AB-6004, AB-7011) will retire on 29 January 2027; if you rely on these courses, replan your learning paths now since no replacements are listed. |
2026-10-31 |
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What is an "agentic" terminal? You can test a fork of Window's Terminal - "Intelligent Terminal" now
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Install the Intelligent Terminal, a Windows Terminal fork now available as a test/preview on the Microsoft Store, to try built-in agent support and multitasking within agents for evaluating agent workflows and terminal multitasking behaviour. |
2026-11-07 |
Azure Weekly Update - 6th November 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Watch John Savill's weekly video for three operational updates this week: ASR for Azure Local, enhanced ASR support for VMSS Flex, and partitioned Azure Service Bus Premium; if you run any of these, review your disaster-recovery and scaling configurations. |
2026-11-07 |
Troubleshoot DataStream with VirtualMetric AI for Microsoft Sentinel
Charbel Nemnom (website)
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Use VirtualMetric AI to analyse and troubleshoot DataStream pipeline components when Microsoft Sentinel appears healthy but telemetry or logs are missing, because a single pipeline component failure can disrupt telemetry without obvious SIEM errors. |
2026-11-07 |
Surface Pro 12-inch: A Hidden Gem for People on the Road
Thomas Maurer (website)
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No Azure action required: this is a personal review of the entry-level Surface Pro 12-inch aimed at travellers, not an announcement, retirement, or change to any Azure service you need to act on. |
2026-11-07 |
Agentic AI engineering: Multi-agent orchestration across lanes without conflict
Tobias Zimmergren (website)
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If you run multiple coding agents against one repo, adopt per-file lanes that agents must claim, assign agents a bounded set of work items, and implement an explicit messaging/sync protocol between agents to avoid conflicting edits. |
2026-11-06 |
Azure AI Agentic Retrieval with Foundry IQ
Batsirai Tambo (website)
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Configure Foundry IQ to use Azure AI Search as the retrieval layer and Azure Blob Storage as the document store when building a text AI agent in Microsoft Foundry, following the post's step-by-step setup and connection guidance. |
2026-11-06 |
Cleaning up unaffiliated users in GitHub Enterprise Cloud with the GraphQL API
Jesse Houwing (website)
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GitHub Enterprise Cloud supports unaffiliated users and you can automate their removal using the remove enterprise member GraphQL API, so update or create automation that calls that API to clean unaffiliated accounts. |
2026-11-06 |
AI Preceptorships with CMU's Dr Michael Hilton and Julia Gao
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Pilot a PRAISE-style preceptorship (PReceptorship for AI-augmented Software Engineering): pair early-career engineers with mentors and hands-on AI-augmented coding tasks to build judgement, skills, and confidence, and listen to the Hanselman interview for practical guidance. |
2026-11-06 |
Creating Your First Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot: A PMO Analyst That Reads the Project So You Don't Have To
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Follow the step-by-step walkthrough to create and test your first Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent (a PMO-analyst example that reads project data), and apply the guide to set up and validate an Agent in your tenant. |
2026-11-05 |
Cybersecurity im KMU ehrlich beurteilen: das Active Cyber Program (ACP) erklärt!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Adopt the Active Cyber Program (ACP) to assess SME cybersecurity using its 11 domains, 74 controls, 0-3 scoring, five maturity levels, and six knock-out controls, noting ACP is not a substitute for ISO-27001 or proof of NIS2 conformity. |
2026-11-05 |
Agentic AI engineering: Why instructions aren't enough for coding agents
Tobias Zimmergren (website)
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Instruction files are advisory, not enforcement: when building coding agents add enforced rules, hooks, or runtime guards to control agent behaviour instead of relying on instructions alone. |
2026-11-05 |
MXC - Containing agents on your local machine
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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MXC (Microsoft eXecution Containers) contains agent and agent processes on your local machine with granular policy controls, evaluate the MXC repo and whiteboard from the video to set up containment and flag agentic processes. |
2026-11-05 |
MXC quick overview #microsoft #ai
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) provides local containment for AI agents and the code they create, evaluate MXC (repo linked in the overview) as a way to isolate and control agent behaviour during local testing. |
2026-11-05 |
Is Social Media Destroying Our Attention Spans?
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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Shorten and chunk external-facing docs, internal runbooks, training, and meetings into skimmable summaries with clear action items and examples, because social media habits and faster AI-driven information flows are reducing attention for long-form content. |
2026-11-05 |
Scott & Mark Learn To...100 Duck-Sized Horses
Scott Hanselman (youtube)
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If you run multi-agent or model-orchestration workflows, audit them for chains where a smaller, unconstrained model can prompt a more capable model to perform refused actions, and add guardrails such as strict routing policies, input/output validation, and monitoring. |
2026-11-05 |
AI Applications Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security: Catching Prompt Injection in the Pull Request
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Enable GitHub Advanced Security's AI Applications Scanning to detect prompt-injection patterns in pull requests, configure repository settings as needed, and triage findings before merging. |
2026-11-04 |
Cybersecurity Mittendrin - Folge 34 - Der grösste Krypto-Raub aller Zeiten: Binance gehackt!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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If a single DevOps laptop enabled a $6.3B, multi-chain theft, immediately harden any developer or CI/CD workstation that holds deployment credentials: isolate and rebuild compromised machines, rotate credentials and secrets, enforce MFA and hardware-backed keys, and move... |
2026-11-04 |
Configuring and Securing Azure Key Vault for the Enterprise
Will Velida (website)
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Enable Key Vault soft delete and purge protection, configure RBAC-based access controls, and implement just-in-time access for secrets, keys, and certificates to reduce accidental deletions and limit standing privileges. |
2026-11-04 |
Agentic AI engineering: What the humans do, what the agents do, and where the hard lines are
Tobias Zimmergren (website)
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Decide and document clear boundaries between what your coding agents do and what remains a human responsibility: adopt the four ways work should return to a human and enforce the list of actions agents must never perform autonomously. |
2026-11-04 |
Microsoft Foundry for Beginners: Deploy Your First Model and Write Prompts That Work
Travis Roberts (website)
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Follow the AI-901 video to deploy your first model with Microsoft Foundry, define system instructions, and send conversation inputs so you can reproduce a working chat-app workflow and improve prompt outcomes. |
2026-11-04 |
GitHub Copilot Fusion: choosing effort instead of models
Thomas Thornton (website)
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If you are evaluating GitHub Copilot Fusion, test its 'effort' model-routing option and benchmark your own prompts against GitHub's reported quality and cost trade-offs, then pick the routing that meets your latency, quality, and cost targets. |
2026-11-04 |
Testing AKS Health-Aware Upgrade Gates in Preview
Richard Hooper (website)
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Preview: AKS now has health-aware upgrade gates, install the aks-preview CLI extension and use --enable-upgrade-gate or --disable-upgrade-gate on aks create and aks upgrade commands to have AKS evaluate monitoring health signals and pause or block upgrades accordingly. |
2026-11-04 |
Join me at Microsoft Ignite 2026: Sovereign Cloud and AI
Thomas Maurer (website)
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Thomas Maurer will present on Sovereign Cloud and AI at Microsoft Ignite 2026; if your organisation must meet data-residency, regulatory, or digital-resilience requirements (for example banks, public sector, manufacturers), plan to attend his session for practical guidance on... |
2026-11-04 |
Copilot Chat vs Copilot Cowork
Techielass (website)
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Choose Copilot Chat for quick, ad-hoc Q&A and short interactions, and choose Copilot Cowork when you want to hand over an entire task to the assistant for ongoing collaboration; align your team workflow to the chosen interaction model. |
2026-11-03 |
What’s New for Android Enterprise in Microsoft Intune 2610: October 2026 Highlights
Nicky De Westelinck (website)
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Microsoft Intune Service Release 2610 (October 2026) includes Android Enterprise changes: read the Intune 2610 Android Enterprise release notes, test any changed device policies and app configurations in a lab, and schedule a staged rollout to production. |
2026-11-03 |
One Page for Everything GitHub Universe 2026 Announced: Building a Dashboard Instead of Reading 40 Changelog Posts
Gregor Suttie (website)
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GitHub Universe 2026 is announced; the post offers a single-page dashboard that consolidates the 40 changelog posts so you can scan and prioritise the event's updates instead of reading every changelog. |
2026-11-03 |
Governance for GitHub, Copilot CLI and Agents: Keeping Control When the Code Writes Itself
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Review and strengthen your organisation's governance for GitHub, Copilot CLI, and Agents: verify access controls, policy coverage, and audit logging for AI-assisted code generation and agent workflows. |
2026-11-03 |
Manage and Implement authentication methods in Microsoft Entra ID
Will Velida (website)
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Configure and manage authentication methods in Microsoft Entra ID by choosing from 'something you know', 'something you have', or 'something you are', and prioritise passwordless (device possession plus biometric) to remove passwords. |
2026-11-03 |
Implement and configure Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Will Velida (website)
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Turn on and configure Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to enforce just-in-time (JIT) elevation for privileged roles across your Microsoft cloud tenant, and stop relying on permanently assigned Global Administrator accounts used during greenfield work. |
2026-11-03 |
Agentic AI engineering: I steer, the agents orchestrate
Tobias Zimmergren (website)
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Pilot an agentic AI workflow: designate one human engineer as the 'steerer' to set goals and approvals, run several coding agents to carry out tasks, and add a visible board showing agent ownership and items awaiting your decision so you can define handoffs and review points. |
2026-11-03 |
Azure AI Search Index Performance Comparison
Batsirai Tambo (website)
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If you build semantic search with Azure AI Search, compare whole-document embeddings versus selective text embeddings for your datasets by running representative queries and cost/performance measurements to decide which embedding granularity to index. |
2026-11-03 |
Microsoft AI Update October 2026
John Savill's Technical Training (youtube)
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The October 2026 Microsoft AI update video (John Savill) summarises recent Microsoft AI announcements and discusses trustworthy scaling and how organisational changes drive the largest employee productivity gains, with timestamps in the description for each topic. |
2026-11-03 |
Last week in Agent Security Update 5: The Pentagon Prompts
Will Velida (website)
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Apply recommendations from Will Velida's Agent Security Update 5: use the Agent Governance Toolkit and Microsoft Entra Agent ID to mitigate OWASP Top 10 risks for agents, and review your agent governance controls accordingly. |
2026-11-02 |
Microsoft Foundry for .NET Developers with SARAVANAN GANESAN
Nicholas Chang (youtube)
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Adopt Microsoft Foundry in your .NET projects to orchestrate multi-agent workflows with Semantic Kernel and use A2A and MCP patterns to integrate Azure AI for scalable, production-ready agent-driven applications. |
2026-11-02 |
Git Worktrees: What They Are and Why Everyone Is Suddenly Using Them Again
Gregor Suttie (website)
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Consider adopting git worktrees to check out multiple branches into separate working directories, reducing the need for extra full clones and simplifying cross-branch development and testing workflows. |
2026-11-01 |
Linux Tipp #90: Vagrant & Ansible - Der ultimative Workflow für DevOps und SysAdmins!
Tom Wechsler (youtube)
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Use the provided Vagrantfile and Ansible playbook to run Ansible during VM provisioning for an automated local test environment, clone the linked GitHub repos and adapt the playbooks and inventory to your configuration. |
2026-11-01 |
Moving from WordPress to Hugo and GitHub Pages with GitHub Copilot
Jeroen Ebus (website)
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Moving a blog from WordPress to Hugo on GitHub Pages: export your WordPress content, convert it to Hugo format, choose or adapt a Hugo theme, configure SEO, RSS, and redirects, and use GitHub Copilot to help convert posts and templates. |
2026-11-01 |
Chopin: GitHub Next Wants Your Team to Plan With Agents, Not Just Prompt Them
Gregor Suttie (website)
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GitHub Next recommends treating AI agents as planning tools rather than one-off prompts, so evaluate agent-based workflows, pilot an agent-driven planning pipeline on a small project, and update team processes and CI/CD templates where it helps. |
2026-10-31 |
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