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NVIDIA AI Introduces ASPIRE: A Self-Improving Robotics Framework Reaching 31% Zero-Shot on LIBERO-Pro Long Tasks
NVIDIA's ASPIRE writes and refines robot control programs, then distills validated repairs into a reusable skill library.It gains up to 77 points on LIBERO-Pro and transfers zero-shot to unseen long-horizon tasks.The post NVIDIA AI Introduces ASPIRE: A Self-Improving Robotics Framework Reaching 31% Zero-Shot on LIBERO-Pro Long Tasks appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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Mistral AI Releases Leanstral 1.5: An Apache-2.0 Lean 4 Code Agent Model Solving 587 of 672 PutnamBench Problems
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 code agent model for Lean 4.It saturates miniF2F and solves 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems.The 119B mixture-of-experts activates 6.5B parameters per token.
03/07/2026
Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end accounts-payable extraction pipeline with lift-pdf, using synthetic invoice PDFs as controlled test documents and a structured JSON schema as the target output format.Instead of treating invoice parsing as a simple OCR task, we frame it as schema-guided document understanding: we generate realistic invoices, define fields such as […]The post Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation appeared first on MarkTechPost.
03/07/2026
Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent That Reads Pages and Automates Tasks in Chrome and Firefox
WebBrain is a free, MIT-licensed AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks through Ask and Act modes. Run it on local models like llama.cpp or Ollama for privacy, or connect any cloud API. The post Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent Tha...
03/07/2026
Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder
Interfaze open-sourced diffusion-gemma-asr-small, a multilingual ASR model that transcribes via diffusion, not autoregression. It adds audio to Google's frozen DiffusionGemma using a ~42M-parameter adapter. One adapter covers six languages, with transcription cost set by denoising steps, not transcript length. The post
03/07/2026
SharePoint Showcase: How Microsoft uses Copilot in SharePoint, and how you can get started
For this month's SharePoint showcase, we're zooming in on AI skills in SharePoint and real Microsoft use cases for Copilot in SharePoint. We're also introducing a new "Product Drops" standing section to recap all the new GA functionality across the platform each month. As always, would love to hear from you in the comments. Let's get into it! Start with the playbook: building AI skills that actually work Before ...
02/07/2026
RAG-Anything Tutorial: Build a Multimodal Retrieval Pipeline for Text, Tables, Equations, and Images in Colab
In this tutorial, we build a RAG-Anything workflow to explore how multimodal retrieval works across text, tables, equations, and images.We prepare a Colab environment, enter our OpenAI API key at runtime, and generate a synthetic report with a chart and PDF.We then configure OpenAI chat, vision, and embedding functions and test naive, local, global, and hybrid modes.
02/07/2026
Meet Alibaba’s Page Agent: A JavaScript In-Page GUI Agent That Controls Web Interfaces With Natural Language Through the DOM
Alibaba's Page Agent runs as client-side JavaScript inside the webpage.It reads the live DOM as text, then clicks and types from natural-language commands.No screenshots, no multimodal model, and no backend rewrite are required.
02/07/2026
Leverage prompts created by your organization in Copilot
We’re excited to share that you can now use prompts custom-made by your organization’s admins in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to streamline responses.&nbs...
02/07/2026
Title Plan Update - July 2, 2026
📁July 2, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at
02/07/2026
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter
What's new in Defender for Cloud? Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases is now generally available for Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) instances. Receive database threat protection and sensitive data discovery insights for supported open-source relational databases, including Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB on AWS RDS. For more information, see our public
02/07/2026
What's new for Microsoft partners: July 2026 edition
Your voice continues to shape how the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program evolves. This month’s update brings together the announcements, investments, and resources partners need now, so you can prioritize where to focus, what to skill, and which motions to scale as AI becomes central to more customer workloads. These updates reflect partner opportunity across the Microsoft ecosystem, grounded in partner feedback, and aligned to how customers are evolving their cloud and AI strategies.<...
02/07/2026
From RAG to agents: Build AI pipelines inside Azure HorizonDB
By Abe Omorogbe, Navya Teja Gajula, Binnur Gorer, B ...
02/07/2026
Understanding % Characters in Azure Blob File Names Using SQL OPENROWSET (BULK)
Why the % character is different In URL percent-encoding, the % character starts an encoded sequence. For example: %20 represents a space. %25 represents a literal % character. Because of this, file names that contain a literal % can behave differently from file names c...
02/07/2026
Available today: Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Starting today, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 is available in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a new frontier model rolling out in Copilot Cowork and PowerPoint, built for agentic, multi-step work across everyday work: documents, spreadsheets, and presentation tasks. Anthropic describes Sonnet 5 as a more capable agentic Sonnet model, with performance close to that of Opus 4.8, but at lower prices1 —bringing another capa...
02/07/2026
Admins: Migrating user data during mergers and restructurings just got easier
We’re excited to announce cross-tenant orchestrated user data migration, enabling a more seamless migration experience for organizations during mergers and restructurings. What’s new Organizations going through...
02/07/2026
Unlock more value from your data with Microsoft 365 Archive and partner integrations
As organizations continue to generate and store growing volumes of data across Microsoft 365, managing that data efficiently is becoming increasingly important. From controlling storage costs to improving AI relevance and maintaining compliance, organizations need a smarter approach to handling inactive content. That’s where Microsoft 365 Archive comes in—combined with a growing ecosystem of partner solutions lik...
02/07/2026
Sales Agent is now generally available: Bringing customer and deal intelligence into the flow of work
Give every seller the customer and deal context they need, wherever work happens—helping them prepare faster, follow up sooner, and keep CRM data current. Built for the pace of modern selling, Sales Agent helps sellers quickly access the customer and deal information they need, so they can enter every conversation better prepared, capture what matters afterward, and maintain momentum across every opportunity. By bringing together CRM insights and Microsoft 365 work data in the...
02/07/2026
Foundry Control Plane and Agent 365: Two Control Planes Walk Into an Enterprise
May 15, 2026 | 8 min read If you’ve been paying attention to Microsoft over the past six months, you’ve noticed a recurring theme: agents are everywhere. They’re reasoning over your SharePoint fo...
02/07/2026
Auditing and Telemetry for the Agent Governance Toolkit - Getting Started with .NET Core
Introduction We've entered an era where AI agents autonomously invoke tools — reading and writing files, calling APIs, querying databases. Convenient as this is, without a mechanism to control who can call what, and under what conditions, you can't put it into production. The Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT), open-sourced by Microsoft, is exactly the toolkit for embedding that "gatekeeper" into AI agents. This article walks through getting started with AGT in .NET (C#)...
02/07/2026
Find anomalies in Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics with Dynamic Thresholds (Preview)
Dynamic thresholds are extended to query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor, allowing to detect and alert on anomalies in Azure Monitor managed Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry metrics stored in an Azure Monitor Workspace. This follows the introduction of Dynamic Thresholds for Log search alerts — Azure Monitor now offers consistent Dynamic Thresholds support across logs and metrics — platform metrics, log search queries, and now...
02/07/2026
AgentCon Around the World: How MVPs Are Supporting AI Agents Learning Globally
AgentCon, an initiative of the Global AI Community, is a free, community-driven world tour focused on ...
02/07/2026
The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data
The Google Health API now has an open-source CLI. ghealth is a single Go binary that exposes 40 data types as agent-ready JSON. It is a community project, not an official Google release. Here's how it works, and what to check before granting OAuth access. The post The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Da...
02/07/2026
From Game to Operations: Exporting a Foundry-Designed Workforce as a Portable Bundle
Part 5 of 5. Across this series the game has reasoned about a founder, designed a digital workforce for their venture, executed chapters through Microsoft Foundry agents, and gated every artifact behind a human. That is a complete loop - inside the game. This final post is about the seam where it leaves the game: how the Org Designer's output becomes a portable artifact a real digital-worker platform can ingest and provision, without dragging a single proprietar...
02/07/2026
Guest Access for Canvas and Model-Driven Apps with Microsoft Entra ID
Introduction External collaboration is a common requirement for business applications built on Microsoft Power Platform. Organizations may need to provide controlled access to vendors, partners, contractors, or external business users without creating full internal user accounts. Microsoft Entra ID B2B guest access enables this scenario by allowing external users to be invited into the resource tenant and then granted access to specific P...
02/07/2026
Building C# and C++ Apps with GitHub Copilot CLI and Visual Studio 2026
Most engineers learned Visual Studio through a mouse-driven workflow — New Project — open a project, click through a few dialogs, press F5. The GitHub Copilot CLI inverts that workflow: you describe the desired outcome in plain English (or any other language Copilot supports), and the agent scaffolds the project, drives MSBuild, resolves its own compiler errors, and explains the result. By the way: this style of working — you describe what you want and the AI does th...
02/07/2026
A Personal Note to the Access Community
Today is my last day at Microsoft. After many wonderful years, I have accepted Microsoft's Voluntary Retirement Program (VRP) and am beginning a new chapter. It feels a little surreal to write those words. For much of my career, I've had the privilege of working with products, communities, and people I deeply care about. In recent...
01/07/2026
Windows news you can use: June 2026
Earlier this month, we announced that Windows 11, version 26H2—the next annual feature update for Windows 11—is now available for early testing and validation via the Windows Insider Program. As this release will share the same servicing branch as versions 25H2 and 24H2, devices can be updated using an enablement package, quickly and with minimal disruption t...
01/07/2026
Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation
In this tutorial, we build a full PDF-to-structured-data workflow around Lift, built for controlled evaluation rather than a one-off demo.We prepare a Colab GPU environment, load Lift in 4-bit NF4, and generate synthetic research reports with deliberate distractors.We then run schema-guided extraction, score every field against ground truth, and assemble the results into a queryable knowledge base.
01/07/2026
Anthropic Redeploys Claude Fable 5 on July 1 After US Export Controls Lift, Adds New Cybersecurity Classifier
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 on July 1 after US export controls were lifted. A new safety classifier blocks the technique in the Amazon report over 99% of the time, routing flagged requests to Opus 4.8. The company also proposed a four-criteria jailbreak severity framework with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The post ...
01/07/2026
Hands-on webinar: Teach Module in M365 Copilot and Copilot Notebooks (available for all educators)
Join us on Wednesday, July 8th @ 8am Pacific Time for an in-depth professional development webinar on the new AI-powered "Teach" module in M365 Copilot that is fully rolled out and available to everyone. We will also be covering Copilot Notebooks and the Study Guide which is now also available to all M365 Educators and Students. This will be a 60-minute hands-on webinar where the Product Management team will walk through the new updates in detail and you can follow-along at home with your own...
01/07/2026
Migrating frontline mobile devices: Identity considerations for assigned and shared devices
By: Carol Burns - Principal Product Manager | Microsoft Intune and Sucheta Gawade, Microsoft MVP (Azure & Security / Intune) Practitioner perspective from Sucheta Gawade, Microsoft MVP (Azure & Security / Intune), with deep experience in secure frontline mobility, including regulated healthcare environments. In previous articles in this series, we focused on
01/07/2026
Announcing public preview of new Mbv4 Virtual Machines
As we launched the memory-optimized Mbv3 Medium Memory virtual machines in September 2024, customer demand for greater storage efficiency and stronger platform capabilities have continued to grow. Today, we are excited to introduce the next generation Mbv4 series—Mbsv4 and Mbdsv4—now available in public preview. This new rele...
01/07/2026
Microsoft Partner Code of Conduct Update
Microsoft is updating the Partner Code of Conduct (PCoC) to clarify expectations for partner compliance, effective August 1, 2026. What’s new The following p...
01/07/2026
Bring business logic into PIM role activation workflows
Privileged access often depends on business context that lives outside Privileged identity Management (PIM)—ticket validity, HR status, compliance checks, or on-call schedules. With custom extensions for Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management, organizations can bring that context directly into activation workflows. We’re excited to announce the preview of custom extensions for Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), a powerful new capability that lets you integrat...
01/07/2026
Protect sensitive data in motion across SaaS and AI apps with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra
Once, securing data meant protecting them within the confines of endpoints and managed apps. It lived inside boundaries you controlled. Today, those boundaries have disappeared—and with them, the old playbook for data security. Data security must keep up with how data moves in the AI-era Organizational data now travels constantly between trusted endpoints and unmanaged web apps, SaaS apps, and most critically, generative AI tools over the network. Employees type and paste sens...
01/07/2026
News to Know – Volume 3, Edition 7, July 2026
Welcome back. As AI continues to reshape how organizations listen, understand, and respond, this month's edition focuses on helping you turn employee feedback into meaningful action with Viva Glint & Pulse. Inside you'll find what's newly available, an early look at what's coming next, and the latest thinking to help you measure what matters and sustain momentum across your employee experience strategy.
01/07/2026
How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions
Recently, a customer building servers with the Azure Functions MCP extension reached out and asked: How do I handle tools that take longer than the client is willi...
01/07/2026
Now generally available: Serverless posture coverage in Microsoft Defender CSPM
Serverless workloads are a foundation of modern application development, powering everything from low-code and no-code solutions to AI applications and agentic workflows. Development teams use functions, app services, containers, APIs, and event-driven infrastructure to move quickly, scale on demand, and reduce operational overhead. As AI applications and autonomous workflows increasingly rely on distributed services, background tasks, retrieval pipelines, and event...
01/07/2026
Advanced Microsoft Intune capabilities now available in Microsoft 365 E3 and E5
Across industries, customers are already using advanced Microsoft Intune Suite capabilities to solve real endpoint challenges, such as reducing standing privilege, improving IT response times, modernizing certificate management, and preparing for AI-assisted operations. Now, more Microsoft 365 customers can put these same capabilities to work. The packaging changes announced in December 2025...
01/07/2026
Extend data security to the network with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra
Protection that keeps up with how data moves in the AI era
01/07/2026
Introducing kars - an Agent Reference Stack for Kubernetes
kars is a Kubernetes-native runtime for AI agents on Azure. It treats every agent as untrusted code: per-pod kernel isolation, zero credentials in the agent process, end-to-end encrypted inter-agent mesh, and native consumption of the
01/07/2026
Smoke Test Microsoft Foundry Agents with GitHub Actions
Introduction This blog is the next part of a series discussing Foundry Hosted Agents and how to properly construct Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) for them. This post will specifically go over configuring smoke tests against your recently deployed hosted agents. You can follow along with the complete codebase for this blog on the blog/...
01/07/2026
Agent-to-Agent Communication: Connecting Foundry and LangGraph Agents via A2A
As AI systems move from single agents to multi-agent workflows, one challenge becomes obvious: how do agents built in different frameworks discover each other, communicate, and collaborate reliably? This post walks through a practical Agent-to-Agent (A2A) integration between Microsoft Foundry and LangGraph, showing how a Foundry agent can call a LangGraph agent hosted on Azure Container Apps. Prerequisites for the Tutorial: Azure Subscription <...
01/07/2026
Monthly news - July 2026
Microsoft DefenderMonthly news - July 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from June 2026. We are now including news related to Defender for Cloud in the Defender portal. For all other Defender for Cloud news, have a look at the dedicated Defender for Cloud Monthly News
01/07/2026
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower: an Open-Weight Diffusion Language Model Built on a Frozen Autoregressive Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B Backbone
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a diffusion language model built on a pretrained autoregressive backbone. It ships as open weights under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License. The release targets a throughput bottleneck in text generation. Autoregressive (AR) models decode one token at a time. That serial process caps generation throughput. Discrete diffusion language models take […] The post
01/07/2026
Google AI Introduces TabFM: A Hybrid-Attention Tabular Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Classification and Regression
Google Research has released TabFM, a foundation model for tabular data. It performs zero-shot classification and regression through in-context learning. Predictions come from a single forward pass, with no per-dataset training, hyperparameter tuning, or feature engineering. The post Google AI Introduces TabFM: A Hybrid-At...
01/07/2026
Shaping Software While It Runs: A Canvas Scenario, Start to Finish
There is a moment, the first time you open a GitHub Copilot App Canvas, when you reach for the wrong metaphor. You see panels, buttons, live status cards and you think "dashboard." You start designing a DevOps board. We did exactly that. Then we watched the recording back, and we all agreed: it was the wrong use case. This post is the course‑correction. It walks through one complete scenario o...
01/07/2026
CUP (Common Useful Python): Building Reliable Python Workflows with Baidu’s Utility Toolkit
In this tutorial, we explore CUP, Baidu's Common Useful Python library, as a practical utility toolkit for stronger Python workflows. We install it in a Colab-friendly environment and walk its subsystems step by step. We cover logging, decorators, nested configuration, caching, ID generation, thread pools, scheduling, and Linux resource monitoring. Along the way, we connect each module to real tasks like automation, concurrency, and reliability checks. The post
01/07/2026
3 Reasons Enterprise SQL Server Migrations Slow Down - and How to Avoid Them
Summary Many of Enterprises around the globe have relied on SQL Server for over 3 decades to run their mission critical business applications. Their SQL Server estates face pressure from downtime risk, cost volatility, end of support...
30/06/2026
Linq’s iMessage Apps Bring Payments, Tickets, Flights, and Games Into the iMessage Bubble Through the imessage_app Part
Linq launches iMessage Apps: interactive imessage_app cards that run payments, tickets, flights, and games inside the iMessage thread for agents. The post Linq’s iMessage Apps Bring Payments, Tickets, Flights, and Games Into the iMessage Bubble Through the imessage_app Part appeared first on MarkTechPost.
30/06/2026
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, at cheaper Sonnet token pricing. The post Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared appeared first on
30/06/2026
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2026 – InfoComm Edition
Where did the first half of the year go? This edition of What's New in Teams comes to you on the heels of InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, the largest professional AV show in North America, and the week where the people who design, build, and run the world's collaboration spaces all gather in one place. It's a fitting backdrop, because so much of what's new in Teams this month comes back to a single idea: bringing people and AI together to get work done. That was the high-l...
30/06/2026
🌍 MGCI Newsletter – July 2026
Hi MGCI Members! As we move into summer, the MGCI community continues to show what makes this ecosystem so powerful - connection, collaboration, and shared learning. From recent sessions that brought real-world insights to the forefront, to global events and upcoming opportunities to engage, there’s a lot happening across our community. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening and what’s next. 🚀 ✅ Recently Wrapped: MGCI Monthly General Session 🎤 Learn ...
30/06/2026
Azure Container Apps Express for Shipping Container Apps Fast
ACA Express Apps are a strong fit for teams that need to ship quickly and can't afford long platform setup cycles. This includes startups, internal platform teams, and product groups deploying APIs, web apps, or agent endpoints that scale with uneven demand. If the priority is fast path-to-production, predictable wake-up behavior, and minimal infrastructure overhead, this model is likely the right choice. To put real n...
30/06/2026
Event Recap - Microsoft at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia 2026
The Digital Workplace Conference 2026 (DWC AU) proved to be an unforgettable two days at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins from 28–29 May 2026. Australia's premier in-person event for Microsoft 365 professionals brought together power users, business leaders, IT pros, and adoption and change managers from across the region under this year's theme — One Change. Big Impact. With deep focus on Microsoft 365, AI and Copilot, SharePoint, governance, and real-world adoption, attendees were treated t...
30/06/2026
Log Insights in Minutes: A Simpler pgBadger Workflow
Sometimes the fastest way to understand a PostgreSQL workload is not another dashboard. It is a good log report. pgBadger is a PostgreSQL log analysis tool that turns raw PostgreSQL logs into an interactive HTML report. It helps summarize query activity, connection patt...
30/06/2026
Introducing a unified alert experience for Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
Modern insider risk investigations succeed or fail based on how quickly analysts can move from signal to decision with more context. Too often, investigations within Microsoft Purview require high switching costs while analysts struggle with disconnected alert views and scattered case notes across workflows. Every switch slows triage pulling focus away from the risk itself, decreasing the&nbs...
30/06/2026
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now Generally Available in Microsoft Foundry
On June 29, 2026, we announced the general availability of Claude in Microsoft Foundry, giving enterprises a production-ready path to build with Claude models in the Azure ecosystem. Today, we’re continuing that moment...
30/06/2026
Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery is now generally available
Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery is now generally available. Microsoft Entra customers licensed for Entra ID P1 or P2 now can restore supported critical identity data after accidental changes or malicious updates, rolling out to all workforce tenants this week. Identity resilience and disaster recovery are top challenges for IT teams. Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery helps address both by automatically backing up core directory objects daily. Supported obje...
30/06/2026
Partner Case Study | Appfie and Plopsa
What does it take to keep a theme park running smoothly when thousands of guests are buying tickets, moving through gates, and making purchases every hour? While visitors experience the rides and attractions, a different kind of choreography is happening behind the scenes—one where finance teams work to keep every transaction accurate, aligned, and moving at speed. For teams smoothing out these back-end operations, having the option to deploy AI-powered, no-code or low-code solutions c...
30/06/2026
Microsoft Defender for Cloud expands multicloud coverage across AWS and Google Cloud
Organizations are building and running applications across multiple cloud platforms and hybrid environments to move faster, improve resilience, and choose the services that best fit each workload. But that flexibility also changes how teams need to manage exposure. A risk may start with an internet-facing resource, an over-permissive identity, a misconfigured managed service, a vulnerable container image, or a serverless workload with access to sensitive data. When ...
30/06/2026
What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: June 2026
Welcome back to What's new in Microsoft Sentinel. In June, Sentinel SIEM’s Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) broadens its normalization, so one analytic rule can reach more sources with less per-source work and, additionally, two new ASIM schemas can now bring asset inventory and AI agent telemetry into common form. In Microsoft Sentinel data lake, the Agent Identities Asset Connector adds the identity context behind your AI agents, helping you see who owns an agent and what permissi...
30/06/2026
Behind the Build with Gigamon: Enriching Microsoft Sentinel with Network-Derived Telemetry
Behind the Build is an ongoing series spotlighting standout Microsoft partner collaborations. Each edition dives into the technical and strategic decisions that shape real-world integrations—highlighting engineering excellence, innovation, and the shared customer value created through partnership. Security teams today operate across an expanding set of signals, spanning identity, endpoint, cloud and application envi...
30/06/2026
The AI-first SOC: Copilot, UEBA, threat intelligence, and SOC optimization
Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl The portal change was the easy part. The real upside is the operating model it unlocks—generative AI in every workflow, behavioral analytics across hybrid and multi-cloud, native threat intelligence, and SOC optimization recommendations that tell you exactly where to invest next. If the first five parts of this series were about what changes and how ...
30/06/2026
Modern Endpoint Management Summit 2026: A Global Celebration of the MVP Community
A Truly Global and Community-Driven Event The Modern Endpoint Management Summit 2026 brought together one of the most engaged and technically advanced communities in the Microsoft ecosystem for three days of deep learning, collaboration, and innovation. Hosted this year at the iconic Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, the...
30/06/2026
The workflow is the product: Copilot Cowork plugins change what AI can do for businesses
Most of the work that matters doesn't happen in one place. A quarterly review, a win-loss analysis, an onboarding plan—each one draws on several systems, moves through several tools, and depends on someone holding the thread across all of them. That sort of connective work is exactly what our customers would like to see from AI. Copilot Cowork, now generally available worldwide, is built for this sort of work—navigating long-running, multi-step processes. We designed it to be enterpris...
30/06/2026
What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | June 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 customers up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month: User capabilities:
30/06/2026
Lessons From Building AI Skills in the Real World with Copilot in SharePoint
Matt Wolodarsky, a principal program manager at Microsoft, has led an early access program, testing out how skills in SharePoint can drive value for customers. You can roll AI out and still have nothing to show for it. We've all seen the headlines about companies spending big on AI and getting little back. But it doesn't have to go that way. Over the past few months, I've worked alongside teams doing the opposite - one got a usable proposal draft in a fraction of the time it u...
30/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 30, 2026
Learn about 265 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
30/06/2026
What's New in Excel (June 2026)
Welcome to the June 2026 update and happy Pride Month! This year’s theme, Pride is Ali
30/06/2026
Meta AI Releases Brain2Qwerty v2: A Non-Invasive MEG Brain-to-Text Pipeline Decoding Typed Sentences at 61% Word Accuracy
Meta AI releases Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive MEG brain-to-text pipeline reaching 61% word accuracy with open training code. The post Meta AI Releases Brain2Qwerty v2: A Non-Invasive MEG Brain-to-Text Pipeline Decoding Typed Sentences at 61% Word Accuracy appeared first on
30/06/2026
OpenClaw Releases iOS and Android Companion Node Apps That Connect a Phone to a Self-Hosted AI Agent Gateway
OpenClaw's iOS and Android apps are companion nodes, not standalone chatbots.Each phone pairs to a self-hosted Gateway over WebSocket.This adds device hardware — camera, location, voice, and Canvas — to a local-first AI agent.
29/06/2026
PyGraphistry Implementation Workflow for Interactive Graph Intelligence Pipelines in Security Analytics and Risk Investigation
We build a Colab-ready PyGraphistry workflow for interactive graph analytics on enterprise access data. We generate a synthetic dataset of users, devices, IPs, services, roles, and geos, then convert it into nodes and edges. We enrich the graph with risk scores, centrality metrics, community detection, Isolation Forest anomaly scores, and UMAP layout embeddings. We then bind the graph in PyGraphistry and produce local PyVis visualizations for full, ego, and high-risk views. The post
29/06/2026
Azure Red Hat OpenShift in FY26: Modernization, Production AI, and a Decade of Partnership
FY26 was the year Azure Red Hat OpenShift moved from “modernization platform” to the place enterprises run production AI and exit VMware, backed by a Microsoft | Red Hat partnership that turned ten. Here’s the year in review, with links to every announcement, customer story, and session. FY26 produced two published ARO customer stories, both running real AI wor...
29/06/2026
A more efficient way to access email and meeting information with Narrator
Hi, Insiders! We are Doug Geoffray and Shireen Salma, Product Managers on the Office Accessibility team. Today, we’re excited to share an improvement we’ve made to the classic and new Outlook for Windows experience for people using Narrator. You will now have faster and easier access to essential email and meeting details—such as sender, recipients, subject line, and attachments—using simple keyboard shortcuts. Get email and meeting details faster with Narrator Email details l...
29/06/2026
NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Turns Biomolecular Models Into Callable Skills for AI Agents in Drug Discovery
NVIDIA's open-source BioNeMo Agent Toolkit turns biomolecular models like OpenFold3, DiffDock, and GenMol into documented, callable skills for AI agents. Each skill describes a model's purpose, inputs, artifacts, and failure modes, so an agent can select, run, and interpret it. In NVIDIA's benchmarks with Codex CLI and GPT-5.5 fast, skills raised task completion from 57.1% to 100% and doubled token efficiency. The post
29/06/2026
Announcing General Availability of Client-Side Data Integrity Protections in Azure Blob Storage
We are excited to announce the General Availability of client-side data integrity in Azure Blob Storage. Blob Storage has long supported integrity validation, starting with MD5 as part of the original HTTP standards and adding CRC64-NVME support in 2019. Today, CRC64-NVME is now integrated into the latest Azure Blob SDKs for .NET, C++, and JavaScript, extending Azure’s data integrity protections all the way into client applications. Azure has had a longstanding commitment to provide th...
29/06/2026
Streamlining macOS security: Automatically enable AutoFill after Platform SSO registration
By: Chris Kunze - Principal Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Platform single sign-on (SSO) improves how macOS devices establish identity with Microsoft Entra ID, enabling a more secure and streamlined authentication experience. However, completing Platform SSO registration isn’t enough to deliver a fully passwordless workflow. To enable passwordless authentication in Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome, the Company Portal AutoFill extension must also be enabled...
29/06/2026
Understand your Sentinel tables at a glance: Monitor with table insights
What it is Table insights is a new panel on the Sentinel Tables page that gives you 30-day ingestion volume per tier, day-over-week fluctuations, the top 5 tables by volume, last-data-received per table, an estimated daily cost, and a volume anomaly indicator. Who benefits: SOC engineers chasing silent data connectors, platform owners chasing cost spikes, FinOps teams chasing chargeback clarity — all from the same screen.
29/06/2026
Your readiness playbook: adoption helper, costs, APIs, and the checklist
Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl The transition is not a project—it is a sequence of small, ordered decisions. Here is the readiness tool that scores your environment in minutes, the cost story you can take to finance, the API strategy that future-proofs your integrations, and the FAQ list that answers the questions your team is already asking. Most transition anxiety comes from not...
29/06/2026
Introducing smarter bot protection in Microsoft Teams meetings
AI note-taking has become a familiar part of the meeting experience, helping people keep track of important details while staying present in the conversation. But as AI meeting tools have become more common, new challenges have emerged. Bots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend. For example, after connecting a third-party service to a meeting, some users have found that its bot continues joining future meetings automatically. Unexpected participan...
29/06/2026
My Journey with Azure SRE Agent
Introduction A customer came to me with a problem that many organisations have. They control their infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, but there are often scenarios where an admin needs to go in and make a change - even though they would ideally not want this to happen. The use an Entra feature Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Users statically don't have contributor access to Azure resources, but PIM allows them to elevate their access for a period o...
29/06/2026
Tendfor AB and New Relic deliver transactable offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Tendfor AB and New Relic deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
29/06/2026
Lessons Learned #542: Reviewing Historical Azure SQL Database Storage Growth
This week I worked on a service request where our customer needed to understand how an Azure SQL Database had grown over time. This information can be useful for capacity planning, cost analysis, and performance reviews. There are several possible approaches, depending on whether we need to review recent historical data that is still available in Azure Monitor, or whether we need to start collecting long-term historical data from now on. In this lesson learned, I would like to s...
29/06/2026
Meet EverOS: An Open Source Markdown-First Agent Memory Runtime With Hybrid BM25 + Vector Retrieval and Self-Evolving Skills
EverMind has open-sourced EverOS, a local-first memory runtime that stores AI agent memory as plain Markdown indexed by SQLite and LanceDB.It combines hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval, multimodal ingestion, and self-evolving Skills under an Apache 2.0 license.Here's what it is, how the architecture works, where the benchmarks stand, and where it still falls short — plus a runnable code walkthrough and an interactive demo.
29/06/2026
GitHub Copilot App Canvas Is a Runtime
There is a quiet shift happening in how we build software with AI. We are moving from writing static code to orchestrating living systems where developers and AI agents co-create, observe, and evolve a solution in real time. This post is a working theory of what GitHub Copilot App Canvas is actually for, grounded in a real, runnable demo you can clone today:
29/06/2026
Find and fix app issues - Azure Copilot Observability Agent
The Azure Copilot Observability Agent autonomously investigates incidents, correlates signals across logs, metrics, alerts, application health, and ML anomalies, then surfaces root cause with charts and recommended next steps. Extend coverage to your AI agents in Microsoft Foundry, track Gen AI errors and token consumption with trace-level detail, and write plain-language instructions to tune autonomous behavior to match your team’s workflow. Matt McSpirit, Microsoft...
29/06/2026
Authenticating AWS Workloads to Azure Functions using Workload Identity Federation
What you will learn: What Workload Identity Federation is and how it works How to set up trust between AWS and Microsoft Entra ID How to exchange AWS identity tokens for Azure access tokens How to securely call an Azure Function from AWS without storing credentials This approach improves security, removes secret management overhead, and aligns with Zero Trus...
29/06/2026
Top 6 No-Code Tools for AI Engineers/Developers
In today’s AI-driven world, no-code tools are transforming how people create and deploy intelligent applications. They empower anyone—regardless of coding expertise—to build solutions quickly and efficiently. From developing enterprise-grade RAG systems to designing multi-agent workflows or fine-tuning hundreds of LLMs, these platforms dramatically reduce development time and effort. In this article, we’ll explore six powerful […] The post
29/06/2026
Ep 41 | Unlock Growth in the Nonprofit Market with AI, Security, and Microsoft Elevate
For many Microsoft partners, the nonprofit sector has long been viewed as a low-budget, low-priority market.As this conversation with Justin Sheedy from Microsoft Elevate reveals, the nonprofit sector represents one of the largest underserved markets in the Microsoft ecosystem, and one of the most strategically important.The nonprofit sector is now a strategic growth market for Microsoft partners.
28/06/2026
OCRmyPDF Tutorial: Convert Scanned Documents into Searchable PDF/A Files with Sidecar Text Extraction and Batch Processing
In this tutorial, we build a complete, self-contained OCRmyPDF pipeline in Python. We generate synthetic image-only PDFs so we can test OCR without external files, then convert them into searchable PDFs and PDF/A outputs. We extract sidecar text, validate results, measure word-recall, and compare file sizes. We also tune Tesseract, clean noisy scans, correct orientation, run OCR in memory, and batch-process whole folders. The post
28/06/2026
Master the Command Line with GitHub Copilot CLI:
If you are a student aiming to become an AI engineer or a software developer, the terminal is about to become your most powerful classroom.https://github.com/features/copilot/cli/ brings an AI agent directly into your command line, and its slash commands (typed as /something) are the shortcuts that unlock its real capabilities.We will walk through the most useful slash commands, explain why you would reach for each one, and give you concrete student scenarios for every command.
28/06/2026
Action Required: Migrate Your Copilot CLI MCP Config Away from .vscode/mcp.json
If you use the GitHub Copilot CLI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, you may have hit this message on launch:Copilot CLI's incomplete support for .vscode/mcp.json has been removed.The Copilot CLI previously made a best-effort attempt to read .vscode/mcp.json, the file VS Code uses to define MCP servers.
28/06/2026
Building a Stable Fable 5 Traces Workflow in Colab: Parsing Tool Calls, Auditing Data, and Training Baselines
In this tutorial, we build a stable workflow around the Fable 5 Traces dataset from Hugging Face.We inspect repository files, normalize tool calls, audit structure, redact secrets, and visualize key distributions.We also export safe no-CoT chat datasets and train pure-Python Naive Bayes baselines on the traces.
28/06/2026
Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-230M with llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX Support for On-Device Inference
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, its smallest model yet. The 230M-parameter, open-weight model runs on-device at 213 tok/s on a Galaxy S25 Ultra and 42 on a Raspberry Pi 5. Built on the LFM2 architecture, it targets tool use and data extraction, beating larger models like Qwen3.5-0.8B and Gemma 3 1B on instruction following. The post Liqu...
28/06/2026
DeepSeek Releases DSpark, a Speculative Decoding Framework That Accelerates DeepSeek-V4 Per-User Generation 60–85% Over MTP-1
DeepSeek open-sourced DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that attaches a draft module to existing DeepSeek-V4 weights. It pairs a parallel draft backbone with a lightweight Markov head to cut suffix decay, then adds confidence-scheduled verification that tailors how many tokens get checked to real-time GPU load. Offline, accepted length rises 16–31% over DFlash and Eagle3; in production it speeds per-user generation 57–85% over the MTP-1 baseline, losslessly. The training repo, DeepSpec...
27/06/2026
Partner Blog | From planning to execution: FY27 priorities for cloud and AI partners
Get early clarity on FY27 priorities and partner opportunityMicrosoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Start for Partners on July 22 is the first FY27 alignment milestone.One week later, the Microsoft Partner FY27 GTM Kickoff Event on July 28 builds on that foundation.
27/06/2026
Meta’s Astryx Brings a CLI and MCP Server to an Open-Source React Design System Agents Can Read
Meta released Astryx, an open-source React design system built on StyleX. It pairs a CSS-variable theme cascade with a CLI and MCP server, so both engineers and AI agents build using the same API. The project is in Beta, MIT-licensed, and grew inside Meta over eight years. The post Meta’s Astryx Brings a CLI and MCP Server to an Open-So...
27/06/2026
Local-First and Fully Traced: Routing Between Ollama, Foundry Local, and Microsoft Foundry
This is the same tension Lee Stott opens his Hybrid AI Agents in Python post with - privacy, latency, and frontier capability pulling in different directions - and his answer is the one we adopted: route between tiers behind one contract.This is why the settings console can show a per-role runtime map: the narrator can run on a frontier reasoning deployment in the cloud while the fast NPC chatter runs on a small local model, all in the same session.Point the game at a local model and watch the routing pills flip to "local: connected":
27/06/2026
Building Supervised Fine-Tuning Data from NVIDIA Open-SWE-Traces: Trajectory Parsing, Patch Analysis, Token Budgets, and Tool-Use Metrics
In this tutorial, we work with NVIDIA's Open-SWE-Traces dataset to study agentic software-engineering trajectories for fine-tuning.We normalize multi-turn agent conversations, parse final code patches, and build an analysis DataFrame covering trajectory length, tool usage, patch size, language distribution, and resolution outcomes.We then curate a supervised fine-tuning subset using success labels, token limits, language filters, and patch availability.
27/06/2026
Cursor Study Finds Reward Hacking Inflates Coding-Agent Benchmark Scores on SWE-bench Pro
A Cursor study shows coding agents retrieve known fixes instead of deriving them, inflating SWE-bench Pro scores through runtime contamination. The post Cursor Study Finds Reward Hacking Inflates Coding-Agent Benchmark Scores on SWE-bench Pro appeared first on MarkTechPost.
26/06/2026
MCP for Beginners: Why Every AI Engineer and Developer Should Learn the Model Context Protocol
If you have spent any time building with large language models in the last year, you have hit the same wall everyone hits: your model is brilliant at reasoning but blind to the real world. It cannot read your database, call your internal API, search your documents, or trigger a deployment unless you hand-write glue code for every single integration. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) exists to tear that wall down, and Microsoft's open-source
26/06/2026
Take control of your PostgreSQL maintenance
Maintenance is an important part of keeping Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server secure, reliable, and up to date. It helps deliver platform updates, security patches, operating system updates, and PostgreSQL engine updates that keep servers running smoothly. But we also know that timing matters. For teams running production workloads, a maintenance event during peak traffic, a migration, financial close, a major release, or a seasonal business event can create unnecess...
26/06/2026
Generic Best Practices for HikariCP with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Author: Mohamed BaioumyTechnology: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Flexible Server & Single Server)Category: Connectivity | Performance | Application Design Introduction Connection pooling is a critical component of application performance when connecting to Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Creating a new PostgreSQL connection is an expensive operation that consumes CPU, memory, and networking resources. Reusing e...
26/06/2026
From M365 MSP to M365 E7 MSP: Your Playbook is Here
Your Existing M365 Practice is Already the Foundation Microsoft 365 E7 services runs directly on top of your customer’s existing M365 configuration: identity, permissions, SharePoint governance, data hygiene. Every tenant you already manage has an AI readiness posture — and you’re the one who owns it. The playbook makes this explicit: oversharing remediation, MFA enforcement, sensitivity label rollout, and SharePoint permissions hygiene are not new...
26/06/2026
Lessons Learned #541:Automatic Plan Correction vs External Tables: A Practical Lesson from the Field
Automatic Plan Correction is one of the most useful capabilities in Azure SQL Database when dealing with plan regressions. It uses Query Store to identify when a query starts using a worse execution plan and, when appropriate, forces the last known good plan. However, during a recent troubleshooting scenario, I found that not all queries have the same execution characteristics. In particular, queries that reference external tab...
26/06/2026
Perplexity Launches Computer for Counsel: A Multi-Model Agentic Layer for Legal Workflows
Perplexity's Computer for Counsel extends Perplexity Computer to legal teams.It routes 20+ models across Midpage, MCP connectors, and Microsoft 365, with cited outputs lawyers can verify.The post Perplexity Launches Computer for Counsel: A Multi-Model Agentic Layer for Legal Workflows appeared first on MarkTechPost.
26/06/2026
OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 With Sol, Terra, and Luna: Tiered Models, New Reasoning Modes, Limited Access
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family adds tiered models with max and ultra reasoning. Here is what early-level engineers should know. The post OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 With Sol, Terra, and Luna: Tiered Models, New Reasoning Modes, Limited Access appeared first on MarkTechPost.
26/06/2026
Title Plan Update - June 26, 2026
📁June 26, 2026 - Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan.
26/06/2026
The state of MCP security in 2026
Co-Author(s): ShalabhPradhan , Sarah_YoungA year ago we published
26/06/2026
mssql-python 1.10.0: Service Principal Bulk Copy, More Reliable Arrow Text, and a Core Timeout Fix
We have released mssql-python 1.10.0 with improvements focused on authentication flexibility, cross-platform text reliability, and bulk load stability.1) Bulk Copy now supports ActiveDirectoryServicePrincipalThis release adds a token-factory callback path for Bulk Copy so tenant-aware tokens can be created during the FedAuth handshake, using the STS URL supplied by SQL Server.
26/06/2026
10 things to know before enabling Microsoft 365 Backup
Microsoft 365 Backup delivers data resiliency and all backup data stays within the Microsoft 365 trust boundary, in the same region and with the same data residency requirements as your live content.3. Built for bulk recovery after ransomware and malicious attacksMicrosoft 365 Backup requires a pay-as-you-go billing policy, which connects the service to an Azure subscription.
26/06/2026
Ability Summit 2026: Accessibility-first innovation and your next partner opportunity
Accessibility is increasingly both a business imperative and a meaningful commercial opportunity for partners. At this year’s Microsoft Ability Summit, leaders across technology, education, and advocacy reinforced a c...
26/06/2026
Evaluating Multi-Turn Agents: A Quality Study of Microsoft Foundry’s Multi-Turn Evaluators
Authors: Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, Shuo Qiu, José Santos, Ilya Matiach, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong LLM-as-judge evaluations are a critical part of any agent lifecycle. Single-turn metrics such as relevance, faithfulness, tone… can be straight forward to prompt and analyze, but a number per response isn’t the thing your users experience. They experience a session: a multi-turn conversation in which the agent asks clarifying questions, ...
26/06/2026
Meet container: Apple’s Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon
Apple released container 1.0, an open-source Swift tool running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on Apple silicon.The post Meet container: Apple’s Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon appeared first on MarkTechPost.
26/06/2026
Build a Nanobot-Style AI Agent in Google Colab with Tool Calling, Session Memory, Skills, and MCP Servers
In this tutorial, we build a lightweight personal AI agent inspired by the architecture of nanobot, runnable entirely in Google Colab.We start from a provider abstraction, then add tool registration, session memory, lifecycle hooks, skills, and an MCP-style tool server.The result is a provider-agnostic agent loop we can extend toward real LLM providers and production tools.
26/06/2026
Best practices for Infrastructure as Code CI/CD on Azure
At the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit 2026, Jack Tracey and Jared Holgate (the team behind Azure Landing Zones and Azure Verified Modules) laid out, in plain language, how to ship Infrastructure as Code on Azure without leaking secrets, blowing up production, or duplicating thousands of lines of module code across folders.The IaC CI/CD problemAzure Verified Modules (AVM) is the official Microsoft initiative that consolidates IaC modules for Azure into a single, supported, Well-Architected-aligned library, available in both Bicep and Terraform.
26/06/2026
Practice the Hard Call: Real-Time Voice Training with Live Voice Practice
As AI now absorbs routine contact volume, the hard conversations are increasingly the ones left for people, and Gartner found that 84% of customer service leaders plan to add new skills to the agent role to meet that shift.It is an open-source solution accelerator that turns Azure Voice Live into a real-time roleplay coach.The agent picks the frustrated billing customer and chooses a Live Voice Agent to play them.
26/06/2026
Azure IoT guidance for DigiCert Global Root G1 trust-store updates in sovereign clouds
This can affect both your Azure IoT devices and the applications that connect to Azure IoT service APIs.This guidance is relevant only for a subset of Azure IoT customers using Azure Government (Fairfax) or Azure China (Mooncake) environments, and only if devices or applications adopt operating system, firmware, or trust-store updates that remove trust for the DigiCert Global Root G1 certificate. Azure public cloud customers are not affected because Azure IoT public cloud endpoints already use newer certificate chains. This is a client-side trust-store change, not a security incident, service outage, or certificate expiration event.Azure IoT public cloud endpoints already use newer certificate chains and do not rely on the DigiCert Global Root G1 certificate.
26/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 26, 2026
Learn about 275 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.AI Forge Activation and Data Governance for Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI Forge Activation and Data Governance by cubesys ensures secure Microsoft 365 Copilot use by addressing oversharing, compliance, and AI risks.Slack to Microsoft Teams: 7-Week Migration: Netwoven offers a fast, secure, end-to-end Slack to Microsoft Teams migration service for SMBs, handling up to 5 million messages.
25/06/2026
Microsoft SPARK: Powering America’s Genesis Mission for Scientific Discovery
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Genesis Mission as a historic national effort to use the power of artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, and drive energy innovation.The Genesis Mission brings together the DOE’s 17 National Laboratories, advanced experimental facilities, large-scale scientific datasets, and next-generation computing resources into a more integrated scientific discovery platform.Microsoft’s Scientific Partnership Advancing Research & Knowledge (SPARK) is a mission-aligned program designed to help DOE National Laboratories accelerate AI-for-science outcomes for the Genesis Mission.
25/06/2026
Announcing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0.2 and 6.1.6
We are pleased to announce the release of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0.2 and 6.1.6, stable servicing updates now available on NuGet. Both releases include: WAM broker support for supported Microsoft Entra ID authentication modes on Windows TDS parsing security hardening with strict data-length bounds checks Key bug fixes, includi...
25/06/2026
Secure AI at scale: Join the Microsoft Entra + Purview webinar series
Each session brings together product experts from Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Purview to help you:Register now and learn how to secure AI end-to-end across access, data, and agentsKicking off our series on Securing Data and Access in the Era of AI, Microsoft Entra VP of Product Sinead O’Donovan and Microsoft Purview GM of Product Maithili Dandige explain why legacy security models fall short in the age of AI—and why you need a strategy that brings together identity, access, and data protection.
25/06/2026
The governance shift: RBAC, URBAC, data lake, and MSSP
Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl Governance is the silent dependency every transition trips on. Read about how roles, data tiering, and multi-tenant operations evolve in Defender, and why each change unlocks something your old model could not. Detection engineers debate KQL. Architects debate roles. The Defender transition is interesting because it updates to simply both - but the g...
25/06/2026
MVPs show up for M365 Community Conference
Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2026 brought together technologists, community leaders, builders, admins, architects, and product teams for three days of learning and connection in Orlando, Florida. Across the event, Microsoft MVPs helped make the experience practical, welcoming, and community-powered. They led sessions, answ...
25/06/2026
Activating channel partners on Microsoft Marketplace: A sales and marketing playbook
You already sell through channel partners today. Now, you can bring those partnerships into Microsoft Marketplace and jumpstart new revenue streams. This playbook provides guidance and ready-to-use assets to help software companies recruit, enable, and grow channel and distribution partnerships through Microsoft Marketplace. Customize these marketing materials to enable your channel to...
25/06/2026
From inception to Blueprint: Introducing the Oracle AI Database@Azure AI adoption playbook
Today, we're excited to announce the publication of the Oracle AI Database@Azure - AI adoption playbook. After Microsoft Ignite 2025, the Oracle AI Database@Azure team at Microsoft launched a
25/06/2026
Microsoft Intune and Apple platform updates: What to expect after WWDC 2026
By Benjamin Flamm | Product Manager, Iris Yuning Ye | Product Manager - Microsoft Intune Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the annual starting point for the next wave of Apple platform changes. For Microsoft Intune customers, WWDC is also the moment when IT teams begin planning how new operating system capabilities will affect Apple device management, security, app deployment, and user readiness ahead of the fall OS releases. We’ve spent time watching a...
25/06/2026
Mind the Specs: Grading formal specifications and KPIs as artefacts for LLM-driven code generation
Large language models now write code straight from a prompt, but the specification in between is never checked, and a model asked to judge its own work brings the same blind spots to the review. We built a pipeline that lifts a plain-language requirements bundle into two graded specifications (a formal Alloy model and a set of numerical KPI targets), scores both before a single line of code is written, and hands the graded result to the code generator. It starts from GitHub Spec Kit a...
25/06/2026
Choosing the right AI model in Microsoft 365: flexibility, control, and confidence
AI innovation is moving fast, and no single model is perfect for every task. Some models excel at deep research and structured reasoning, while others are optimized for speed, summarization, or creative drafting. That’s why Microsoft 365 is evolving to support AI model choice, giving organizations more flexibility while maintaining enterprise-grade governance. Whether you’re an IT admin ...
25/06/2026
DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source coding model family built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5. Instead of a fixed harness, the model learns its own scaffold during reinforcement learning. The 397B flagship reports 82.4 on SWE-Bench Verified, with all weights under the MIT license. The post DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Op...
25/06/2026
Windows Admin Center version 2606 is now generally available!
We're pleased to announce the availability of the latest release for Windows Admin Center, version 2606! This update focuses on improving the overall reliability, accessibility, security, and user experience of the platform based on customer feedback and development partner-reported issues. It delivers important quality improvements that make everyday administration smoother and more dependable. Version 2606 is exclusively an Administration Mode release. Not sure what this means...
25/06/2026
Explore the Datacenter Optimization (DCO) initiative site
As DCO enters its tenth year as a global partner motion, we’re evolving how we support partners—bringing the streamlined Datacenter Optimization (DCO) experience
25/06/2026
Microsoft Credentials roundup: June 2026
Read about Pro Badges, AI-driven Certifications, and Applied Skills, where learning meets today’s work. And find out how training service providers helped 153,000 learners develop AI skills. This has been a big season for Microsoft Credentials. With the introduction of Microsoft Pro Badges, a growing portfolio of AI-focused Microsoft Certifications, and expanded Microsoft Applied Skills offerings, we’re continuing to evolve how skills are built, validated, and recogni...
25/06/2026
What’s new in Microsoft Intune – June
AI agents are beginning to act on behalf of users, interact with company data, and even make decisions independently. Trusting AI depends on three endpoint fundamentals: they must be compliant, up to date, and secure from the moment they enroll. This month’s new capabilities for Intune emphasizes these important checkpoints. Keep applications current and reduce vulnerability exposure Keeping applications up to date sounds straightforward until you're managing hundreds of endpo...
25/06/2026
Action over information: How App Advisor turns guidance into progress on Marketplace
This is a series about how App Advisor can help software development companies streamline their build, publish, and growth through Marketplace; find the answers they need when they nee...
25/06/2026
Business Applications Built for Microsoft 365 – Cubic Logics – SharePoint Partner Showcase
Organizations increasingly view Microsoft 365 as more than a productivity platform. They use it to streamline business processes, modernize operations, and empower employees with solutions that integrate into the tools they use every day. For more than 11 years, Manoj Kumar, Anirban Mitra, and the team at Cubic Logics have helped organizations extend the value of Microsoft 365 through business applications built on SharePoint...
25/06/2026
A Better Way to View Logs in Kudu for Azure App Service on Linux
Logs are often the fastest way to understand what is happening inside your application. Whether you are investigating startup behavior, runtime errors, failed requests, dependency issues, or unexpected application behavior, having the right log view can make troubleshooting much easier. To make this easier, we have added a new Log stream page in Kudu for Azure App Service on Linux, available under the Logs dropdown. This experience ...
25/06/2026
Join our free livestream series on using Microsoft IQ with Python
Join us for a new 3-part livestream series where we take a deep technical look at Microsoft IQ, the knowledge layer for the next generation of AI experiences. You'll learn how Foundry IQ, Work IQ, and Fabric IQ can be used to ground AI systems in organizational knowledge, workplace context, and structured business data.In the first session of our Microsoft IQ Deep Dive with Python series, we’ll kick things off with an introduction to the Microsoft IQ family: Foundry IQ, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Web IQ.
25/06/2026
Building Secure, Well-Architected Azure Workloads with Azure Verified Modules and GitHub Copilot
At the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Jack Tracy and Jarrod Holgate (tech leads on the Azure Verified Modules project) walked us through how AVM solves that, and how pairing it with GitHub Copilot and Spec Kit changes the way IT pros build Azure workloads.Azure Verified Modules (AVM) is the official Microsoft infrastructure-as-code module library for both Bicep and Terraform.The Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 playlist covers landing zones, deployment stacks, AKS networking, storage, and the AI side of platform operations.
25/06/2026
Baidu Releases Unlimited OCR, a 3B Model That Keeps the KV Cache Flat for Long-Document Parsing
Baidu open-sourced Unlimited OCR, a 3B-parameter MoE model that parses dozens of document pages in a single forward pass. Its Reference Sliding Window Attention (R-SWA) holds the KV cache constant, so memory and latency stay flat as output grows. It scores 93.23 on OmniDocBench v1.5, beating the DeepSeek OCR baseline by 6.22 points, under an MIT license. The post
25/06/2026
An Inside Look at Copilot in Excel
When you ask Copilot in Excel to “add a drop-down menu to this column” or “fix this formula in the team inventory tracker,” behind the scenes, Copilot reasons about your intent, picks and applies the right Excel features, and then edits the workbook. This can feel straight forward for some tasks but, now imagine you’re a Finance professional asking Copilot in Excel: “What’s broken in this valuatio...
24/06/2026
IPv6 Dual-Stack Endpoints for Azure Container Registry (Public Preview)
By Johnson Shi, Aviral Takkar, Bin Du Introduction Two of the most common networking questions we hear ...
24/06/2026
Introducing the new Partner Skilling Discussion Board on Tech Community
Be a part of a dedicated partner community where you can discover skilling resources, engage directly with Microsoft subject matter experts, and get real-time support as you grow across Microsoft solution areas. This new space empowers you to connect, scale your business, and drive customer impact through resources and expertise. Visit the new Partner Skill...
24/06/2026
Right-Sizing Intelligence: Building a Multimodal Model Portfolio for Healthcare and Life Sciences
For two years, the AI conversation in healthcare fixated on a single question: which large language model is best? That question is now out of date. The frontier didn't just get smarter, it got plural. The most capable healthcare AI systems being built today are not one model but a portfolio: large reasoning models, small efficient models, and specialized models for voice, images, and video, each doing the part of the job it does best. Microsoft Foundry makes that port...
24/06/2026
Azure Confidential Computing for Digital Sovereignty and Regulated Workloads
This blog provides an update on that momentum: how Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) is expanding across infrastructure, services, hardware-rooted security, and operational maturity, and why that matters for customers with increasing requirements for control, assurance, privacy, and compliance. As digital sovereignty and regulated workload needs continue to grow, ACC is becoming an increasingly important part of how Azure helps customers move sensitive workloads to the cloud wi...
24/06/2026
How Karambit.AI and Microsoft Bring Software Authenticity to 14 Billion Files Per Month
The Problem: Static Analysis Without Context Traditional static analysis treats every file as an island. Scan a binary, match against known signatures, flag what you recognize. The approach is well-understood and increasingly insufficient against modern threats. The fundamental limitation is the absence of context. Without it, a packer is just a packer. A network call is just a network call. An obfuscation routine is just an obfuscation routin...
24/06/2026
Microsoft Django backend for SQL Server - mssql-django 1.7.3 is now available
We are happy to announce the release of mssql-django 1.7.3. This release improves SQL Server connection compatibility for modern authentication scenarios and fixes a subclassing edge case in backend server-property caching. Highlights 1) Authentication parsing and connection string handling improvements We fixed how extra_params authentication settings are interpreted and no...
24/06/2026
Gradium Launches stt-translate and s2s-translate, Real-Time Speech Translation Models Beating gpt-realtime-translate on Accuracy and Latency
Gradium released two real-time speech translation models, stt-translate and s2s-translate, covering English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese across 20 language pairs.The models collapse the standard three-model cascade into two, pairing single-pass transcription-and-translation with a Gradium TTS stage over one duplex WebSocket.Gradium reports a better accuracy-latency tradeoff than gpt-realtime-translate and gemini-3.5-live-translate, plus output voice selection and cloning.
24/06/2026
What IT teams need to know about Linux Secure Boot certificates expiring in 2026
If your organization does not use UEFI Secure Boot on Linux systems, this transition does not affect your boot path. You can stop reading now. If you do use Secure Boot, here is what you need to know. The Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA (Certificate Authority) 2011 expires on June 27, 2026 (June 26 local time in some time zones). Expiration alone does not stop anything from booting and does not render a system insecure. Existing 2011-signed shims keep working on systems that still trust ...
24/06/2026
How to Design an OpenHarness Style Agent Runtime with Tools, Memory, Permissions, Skills, and Multi-Agent Coordination
In this tutorial, we build an OpenHarness style agent harness from scratch to see how a practical agent system works. We recreate the core building blocks: tool use, typed tool schemas, permissions, lifecycle hooks, memory, skills, context compaction, retry logic, cost tracking, and multi-agent coordination. We expose the full control flow instead of treating the framework as a black box. We keep everything runnable so we can experiment without API keys or extra infrastructure. The pos...
24/06/2026
How to Configure macOS Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) Using the Intune Settings Catalog
By: Chris Kunze - Principal Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) settings on macOS are used to pre-approve privacy permissions for apps so users aren't repeatedly prompted by macOS for access requests. Common examples include Full Disk Access, Screen Recording, Camera, Microphone, Acc...
24/06/2026
Introducing Cohere Command A+ in Foundry
Your enterprise agents need to reason across 48 languages, process documents with images and tables, and orchestrate multi-step workflows all without switching models. Command A+, Cohere's 218B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, is now available in Microsoft Foundry to do exactly that Command A+ is Cohere’s latest open-source enterprise model. It combines reasoning, RAG, coding, and tool use in a single model—capabilities that previously required stitching together multiple systems.'....
24/06/2026
Inside Llama 3.1 405B MLPerf Training on Azure: System-Level Insights at 8K+ GPU Scale
By Shantanu Patankar, and Azin Heidarshenas As part of Azure's MLPerf Training v6.0 submission, we scaled Llama 3.1 405B (NVFP4) pretraining to 8,192 GB200 GPUs across 128 racks on Azure's Fairwater infrastructure, c...
24/06/2026
Stay in sync in PowerPoint Live
The Explain and Refresh features in PowerPoint Live help presenters and audiences stay aligned during live presentations. The Explain feature lets participants select slide content to quickly understand unfamiliar terms, while the Refresh feature lets presenters update to the latest version of their deck quickly, without stopping the presentation or resharing it. Present with confidence. Participate with clarity. As a presenter - Let’s say you’re 15 minutes into presenting the...
24/06/2026
What’s New in Microsoft EDU - 23 new features for ISTE 2026
Welcome to our big ISTE 26 for Microsoft Education blog - we have 23 updates to announce! We’re thrilled to share new AI innovation and insights for education and show them in action next week at ISTELive 26 in Orlando, Florida, US. Join us at the show to learn more and hear about the latest from...
24/06/2026
An Operational Toolchain for Microsoft Foundry Private Networks
Enterprise teams deploying Microsoft Foundry into private networks can lose hours to failures caused not by the template itself but by surrounding operational state. Each failed deployment can cost thirty to forty-five minutes to redeploy, and residue from one attempt can block the next. Th...
24/06/2026
MCP Server Authorization with Azure API Management: From Simple to Advanced
Why put API Management in front of your MCP servers The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the standard way for AI agents, such as GitHub Copilot in VS Code, to reach external tools and data. As soon as an MCP server does anything meaningful, the same questions that govern any API resurface: who is allowed to call it, what are they allowed to do, and how do you enforce that consistently across many servers without rewriting each one.
24/06/2026
Context Windows Are Not Memory: What AI Agent Developers Need to Understand
In this article, you will learn why a large context window is not the same thing as agent memory, and how techniques like retrieval, compression,...
24/06/2026
Agents That Remember the Boss: Closing the Loop with Foundry Agent Service Memory
This post is about what happens after the gate: how the decision is written to the Foundry Agent Service memory store, recalled into the next worker's brief, and enforced as binding direction - so a choice in chapter 2 visibly changes the artifact in chapter 3.# submission/agents/memory.pyMid-run, the workforce holds a live group chat - a Microsoft Agent Framework sequential standup - where each worker reads the prior turns and the CEO's last decision as context.
24/06/2026
Using Graphify and NetworkX to Map Python Codebase Structure with God Nodes, Communities, and Architecture Visualizations
In this tutorial, we build a fully offline Graphify pipeline that turns a multi-module Python application into a knowledge graph.We install Graphify, generate a connected sample app, and extract the graph locally using tree-sitter, with no API key or LLM backend.We then create static and interactive visualizations to see how modules, classes, functions, and database objects connect.
24/06/2026
Nous Research Adds /learn to Hermes Agent’s Skills System, Capturing Workflows as Slash Commands Without Hand-Writing SKILL.md
Nous Research has added /learn to the Hermes Agent Skills System.The command authors a standards-compliant SKILL.md from a local directory, a doc URL, a past conversation, or pasted notes.The live agent sources the material with its own tools, then writes the skill — no hand-writing and no separate ingestion engine.
24/06/2026
16 Best Generative AI Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Features, and Best Fit
Generative AI has reshaped how software gets built.What began as line-by-line autocomplete now spans full application generation, multi-agent build pipelines, and natural-language interfaces to entire codebases.Large language models trained on code can read context, follow intent, and produce working frontends, backends, and infrastructure with little manual setup.
24/06/2026
DFlash Speculative Decoding Drafts Whole Token Blocks in Parallel for Up to 15x Higher Throughput on NVIDIA Blackwell
UC San Diego's DFlash replaces autoregressive drafting with a lightweight block diffusion model for speculative decoding.It drafts whole token blocks in a single forward pass and conditions on target hidden features through KV injection.The paper reports up to 6.08x lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B, while NVIDIA reports up to 15x throughput on Blackwell at fixed interactivity.
24/06/2026
Deploy an Azure Landing Zone in About Twelve Minutes with the ALZ IaC Accelerator
Welcome back to my coverage of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026.In this session Jack Tracy (he leads the Azure Landing Zones team) and Jarrod Holgate (tech lead on Azure Landing Zones and Azure Verified Modules) walk through the ALZ Infrastructure as Code Accelerator.Hit the ALZ team in the comments on the session, or open an issue on the repo.
24/06/2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Crypto-Agility
This post focuses on a topic critical to help move to post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms and that topic is crypto-agility for applications that use cryptography.The Azure Blob Storage client library for .NET supports encrypting data within client applications before uploading to Azure Storage, and decrypting data while downloading to the client.JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) provides a strong foundation for crypto agility through its explicit separation of key wrapping (alg) and content encryption (enc) algorithm identifiers in the JWE protected header.
23/06/2026
Mistral OCR 4 Brings Citation-Ready Structured Output to RAG, Agentic, and Enterprise Search Pipelines
Mistral AI released OCR 4 on June 23, 2026, moving from clean text extraction to structured document output.Each block returns a bounding box, a typed classification, and per-page and per-word confidence scores.The model supports 170 languages, runs in a single self-hosted container, and feeds citation-ready inputs into RAG, agentic, and enterprise search pipelines through one API endpoint.
23/06/2026
Modernizing Nonprofit Operations with Power Automate
Power Automate enables nonprofits to automate routine tasks using low‑code logic, connectors, and triggers.This allows nonprofits to build workflows without writing code.Power Automate gives nonprofits the ability to scale operations without scaling staff.
23/06/2026
Mistral Document AI (with OCR 4) and Mistral Medium 3.5 arrive in Microsoft Foundry
Together, these releases broaden the range of capabilities available in Foundry, giving developers more flexibility to build, combine, and deploy models across different AI workloads, from document processing to customizable, large-scale AI systems.With Mistral Document AI and OCR 4 available in Microsoft Foundry, organizations can move beyond text extraction and unlock structured, actionable data that powers automation, compliance, and AI-driven decision making at scale.”Mistral Medium 3.5 expands the Foundry model catalog with a general-purpose model optimized for reasoning, coding, and agent workflows.
23/06/2026
Building an Azure architecture that’s ready for every signature
At Exclaimer, we help organizations manage email signatures at scale, so every message can carry a consistent, compliant, on-brand signature without IT teams manually updating thousands of mailboxes.Signing on to AKS for faster, more efficient scalingWe started with a strong Microsoft SQL Server foundation, and Azure SQL Database remains core to our platform today.
23/06/2026
Updated audit checklist for the Agentic DevOps specialization coming in January 2027
Internal agentic adoption is being added to the Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub specialization audit checklist to ensure that partners have internally adopted the technology.Certifications will be updated to align the specialization with GitHub platform and AI-native development capabilities—simplifying certification requirements while expanding alignment to GitHub automation, security, and AI-assisted development practices.Preview the updated Agentic DevOps specialization audit checklist in December 2026 to understand what's changing and how to prepare for your next audit.
23/06/2026
Best practices for deploying Secure Boot certificate updates
Deploying Secure Boot certificate updates across the Windows ecosystem has required coordination across operating systems, device manufacturers, and firmware vendors.Keeping devices up to date delivers the best experience.Keep your devices up to date with the latest Windows updates.
23/06/2026
.NET July 2026!
Once again, it’s time for another .NET July in the Microsoft Zero To Hero community! 🚀Summer is here, and what better way to make it more exciting than by learning from amazing speakers and exploring hot topics from the world of .NET?Get ready for a month full of energy, inspiration, and practical knowledge.Whether you are just starting your journey or already building with .NET, this is a great opportunity to fill your learning backpack with new ideas, real-world insights, and fresh motivation.😎 🪭Join us for another .NET July, where our fantastic speakers will share their experience, knowledge, and passion with the community.Register for the sessions, bring your curiosity, and let’s learn together, the Microsoft Learn way.
23/06/2026
A guide to innovating threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel custom graph
Sentinel graph is a relationship-first method for organizing and querying data within Microsoft Sentinel data lake.This blog will walk through how to create custom graphs using GitHub Copilot chat experiences in Sentinel VS Code.This blog showcased an example of how a custom graph can be made with data within Microsoft Sentinel data lake and the help of GitHub Copilot, investigating a phishing email kill chain situation, and how to leverage the several graph templates that are provided in Sentinel.
23/06/2026
Azure Copilot Observability Agent is generally available, with autonomous operations in preview
Powered by Azure Monitor, the Azure Copilot Observability Agent is now generally available.The Observability Agent helps teams reduce the effort required to understand operational problems.The Observability Agent is designed for governed AI operations inside Azure Monitor.
23/06/2026
Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas
Datalab released lift, a 9B open-weights vision model that turns PDFs and images into schema-matching JSON. It uses schema-constrained decoding for valid structure and trained abstention to return null instead of hallucinating absent fields, scoring 90.2% field accuracy on a 225-document benchmark. The post Datalab Releases lift: ...
23/06/2026
Only 8.5% of MCP Servers Use OAuth — Here's How to Host One Securely on App Service
Astrix Research's State of MCP Server Security 2025 found that only 8.5% of MCP servers use OAuth — the rest lean on static API keys or nothing.This post walks through a hardened MCP server on Azure App Service that closes every gap above — and most of it is platform configuration, not code you have to write and get right yourself.The strongest version of "don't expose your MCP server" is to not expose it — give the App Service and Key Vault private endpoints, disable public network access, and let API Management be the only public door.
23/06/2026
How to Use NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2 for ASR, Translation, and Automatic SRT Subtitle Export in Python
In this tutorial, we build a multilingual ASR and speech translation pipeline with NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2. We load the model on a GPU-enabled runtime, prepare audio into 16 kHz mono, and run English ASR. We then translate speech into French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and extract word and segment timestamps. We export translated subtitles as an SRT file, test long-form transcription, run batch processing, and benchmark inference speed. The post
23/06/2026
Frontier Transformation campaign in a box now available in Partner Marketing Center
To support this shift, the Frontier Transformation campaign in a box provides a ready-to-launch, co-branded marketing campaign aligned to Microsoft AI solutions. This campaign is aligned with the Frontier Success framework, and engages customers as they advance in their AI maturity, with messaging that connects AI capabilities to real business context—while reinforcing trust, governance, and security.Available in Partner Marketing Center Pro, the Frontier Transformation campaign in a box empowers you to go market faster, support lead generation, and build pipeline. Partner Marketing Center Pro is available to partners who have purchased a partner benefits package, attained a Solutions Partner designation, or are enrolled in ISV Success.
23/06/2026
Enable agentic work management with Microsoft Planner MCP Server
Microsoft Planner capabilities are now part of the new Work IQ APIs which reached general availability on June 16, 2026.The Microsoft Planner MCP Server is part of Work IQ MCP and makes it easier to connect Planner capabilities into agent-driven workflows.It allows agents to manage and automate work across plans.
23/06/2026
Customer spotlight: Capgemini is turning comms and conversations into AI-ready knowledge
As organizations invest in Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI, many are asking the same question:Through Viva Engage, Capgemini is creating a living knowledge layer that helps employees connect with leaders, learn from one another, and build the organizational context that makes AI more useful.The multiplier effect of conversation
23/06/2026
MCP Just Went Stateless — What the 2026 Spec Changes About Scaling on App Service
The 2026-07-28 release candidate is the largest revision of the Model Context Protocol since it launched, and the headline change is exactly the thing we were working around: MCP is now stateless at the protocol layer.I built a companion sample for this post: a FastAPI MCP server that speaks 2026-07-28 natively — no handshake, no session — running on three App Service instances behind the built-in load balancer, with a staging slot, App Insights, a spec-compliant client, and a k6 load test:The protocol deleted the exact friction we were routing around — which means hosting a horizontally scaled MCP server on App Service is now closer to "deploy a normal web app and scale it out" than ever.
23/06/2026
Rayfin | Go from prompt to production backend
Describe the app you want using Rayfin’s open-source SDK with GitHub Copilot, and generate your full backend in code — schemas, relationships, and access policies included.Connect your app’s live operational data to years of historical records in Fabric from the moment you deploy, no pipelines, no data movement.-And then with a single CLI command, you deploy to our unified data and analytics platform, Microsoft Fabric.
23/06/2026
Deep-reasoning agents for academic research: The right tool for the task
Explore how deep‑reasoning agents can sharpen your research by helping you compare sources, test assumptions, and understand data in ways that align with academic standards and research workflows.General-purpose generative AI tools, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, are already helping academic researchers move faster—from brainstorming to literature discovery to early drafting.In this second post, we focus on one especially promising category of generative AI: deep‑reasoning agents—specifically, Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
23/06/2026
Point-in-time restore for Windows 11 is now generally available
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of point‑in‑time restore for Windows 11 new built-in recovery capability designed to recover in minutes instead of hours, with confidence, by safely rolling a device back to a previous state.Available in Windows Enterprise, Pro and Home SKUs, point-in-time restore provides admins and employees a quick, built‑in ability to go back in time to a moment before the issue occurred.With point‑in‑time restore, a device can be restored to the exact system state captured earlier, including:
23/06/2026
June update: What’s new for partners in Azure
This June Cloud and AI newsletter brings together the latest Azure news, partner announcements, incentives, and skilling opportunities designed to help Microsoft partners grow their business.Inside, you’ll find updates from Microsoft Build 2026, including new capabilities across Microsoft Fabric, Azure databases, and Azure Linux, along with timely announcements such as Azure Virtual Machine Reserved Instance changes and Partner of the Year Award submissions.The roundup also highlights migration and modernization offers, upcoming events and training, and real‑world partner success stories that show how organizations are using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform to deliver measurable results.
23/06/2026
Test your audio before joining a Teams meeting
We’re excited to announce the rollout of Test mic and speaker in Microsoft Teams — a new, pre-join experience designed to help you confirm your audio setup before entering a meeting. What’s new With this release, you can now test your microphone and speakers...
23/06/2026
Defending your Memory in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service against memory poisoning
One of the things that makes agents genuinely useful is that they can remember. Instead of treating every interaction as completely new, an agent can carry context across sessions, recall preferences, and preserve continuity over time. In Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, memory enables exactly that. An agent can remember details about a user, summarize previous conversations, and retrieve relevant context later to make interactions feel more natural and personalized. But the mome...
23/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 23, 2026
Learn about 134 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
23/06/2026
SQL Server 2016 Extended Security Updates: Stay Protected While You Modernize
SQL Server 2016 reaches the end of extended support on July 14, 2026. After that date, instances that remain on SQL Server 2016 no longer receive regular security updates unless they are covered through Extended Security Updates (ESUs)). ESUs provide a time-bound security bridge for customers who ...
23/06/2026
Clustering Unstructured Text with LLM Embeddings and HDBSCAN
The current era of Generative AI seems to primarily focus on chat interfaces and prompts, but the range of applications of large language models , or LLMs for short, is not limited to just that.
23/06/2026
The Token Economics of the Edge: Running Qwen3 on a Windows NPU with WinML CLI
The number that changes the conversation Most "run an LLM locally" tutorials start with the model. This one starts with a bill. Every token a cloud LLM generates is metered. One request is rounding-error cheap. But agents don't make one request — they make thousands, in loops, with retries, across every user, every day, forever. The cost curve of a successful AI feature is not flat; it bends upward with adoption. The thing that makes your product popular is the same thing that...
23/06/2026
From Uncertainty to Community: Yanina’s Path to Microsoft MVP
By Guest Blogger: Yanina Ariadna Cohen Yolde It Wasn’t Luck. It Was Decisions. When one door closes, a decision begins When the company&nbs...
23/06/2026
Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads
Prime Intellect has released prime-rl 0.6.0, an open framework for asynchronous reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts models. It trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length, with sub-5-minute step times and 256 rollouts, on 28 H200 nodes. This breakdown covers the inference and training optimizations behind those numbers — FP8 inference, Wide Expert Parallelism, prefill/decode disaggregation, router replay, and 3-D parallelism (FSDP, EP, CP). The ...
23/06/2026
KVStream: Smarter Memory Management for On-Device Language Model Inference
On-Device LLMs Are Starved for Memory Intelligence The shift toward on-device language model inference is accelerating. Platforms like Microsoft's Foundry Local, Ollama, and llama.cpp now make it possible to run capable models such as Phi-3-mini and Llama 3 entirely on local hardware, no cloud dependency, no data leaving the device. This is a meaningful leap for privacy-sensiti...
23/06/2026
From Prompt to Provisioned: A Closer Look at the Azure Deployment Agent
Hello Folks! If you sat through this session during the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, you already know that Anand Guruswami and Arun Rabindar from the Cloud Native Experiences team showed us something I have been waiting to see for a while. An AI agent that does not just spit out a Terraform file from a vague prompt, but actually thinks about your workload, talks to you about it, and then hands you something you can put in front of a pull request reviewer without holding your nose...
23/06/2026
GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval
We build a practical GLM-5.2 workflow using its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API instead of running the model locally. We set up multiple providers, load the API key securely, and create a reusable chat wrapper. We then test thinking-effort control, streamed reasoning, function calling, a tool-using agent, structured JSON output, and long-context retrieval. We close with token and cost accounting so every demo stays measurable. The post
23/06/2026
Build a Sovereign Private Cloud with Azure Local
Hello Folks! Picture this. A regulator hands you a one-pager that says, in essence, “this data does not leave the building.” Or your link to Azure decides to take a nap during a critical batch run. Or you are standing up infrastructure in a remote site where connectivity is a coin flip on a good day. For a long time, our answer to that conversation was a stack of Azure Stack boxes plus a lot of wishful thinking. That story has changed, and it has changed quite a bit. At Microsof...
22/06/2026
Community and Education Tenant Retirement
We provided additional transition time for organizers and users of these experiences. That transition period is now complete. As we move our shared services forward from their Covid-era deployment into more flexible and sustainable systems there will be no further extensions, no read-only period, and no Microsoft-managed archive after retirement. Our User Group and Event Leader experience on the Microsoft Technical Community will meet some of the needs previously served by these experi...
22/06/2026
Accessibility partners driving innovation and impact
Accessibility is becoming a more strategic way for Microsoft partners to turn innovation into customer impact across AI, employee experience, compliance, and digital transformation. It is no longer a niche requirement or a downstream remediation task. More and more, customers are evaluating accessibility as part of digital trust, platform readiness, customer reach, and long-term transformation resilience. That shift creates a clear opportunity for partners. Microsoft Marketplace gives ...
22/06/2026
The Gate Is the Product: Human-Verified Artifacts in a Foundry Multi-Agent Game
Part 2 of 5. In Part 1 the loop ended at a verification gate. This post is about why that gate is not a confirmation dialog - it is the core mechanic, the reliability story, and the thing that lets a reasoning-agent system be demoed live without praying. Most multi-agent demos gate on "did the model produce something." That is a vibe check. A reasoning-agent system that touches anything real needs a harder question: who is allowed to say this artifact is good enough -...
22/06/2026
xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks
xAI introduced /goal in Grok Build, a mode for long-running, autonomous task execution. You hand off one objective, and the agent plans an approach, executes a progress checklist, and verifies the result until the goal completes. The post xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Executi...
22/06/2026
Sakana AI Launches Sakana Fugu: An Orchestration Model That Routes Tasks Across a Swappable Pool of Frontier LLMs
Fugu and Fugu Ultra route tasks across a swappable model pool, leading most coding, reasoning, and agentic benchmarks. The post Sakana AI Launches Sakana Fugu: An Orchestration Model That Routes Tasks Across a Swappable Pool of Frontier LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
22/06/2026
Exporting all Microsoft Intune Enterprise App Management catalog apps to CSV using Microsoft Graph
By: Joe Lurie, Sr. Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Managing applications at scale is one of the biggest time-consuming tasks for IT admins. Between packaging installers, writing detection rules, and keeping everything up to date - it adds up fast. That's exactly the problem Enterprise App Management in Microsoft...
22/06/2026
The Agentic Workday: A Technical Deep Dive into Microsoft Scout for Healthcare and Life Sciences
The Agentic Workday: A Technical Deep Dive into Microsoft Scout for Healthcare and Life Sciences Healthcare and life sciences teams do not have a motivation problem. They have a time problem. The people closest to patients, studies, and customers spend a striking share of their week assembling information — pulling records, reconciling notes, cross-checking criteria, and stitching together the context a single decision requires. The work is essential, but most of it is assembly, not ...
22/06/2026
Why AI Can't Find Your Files (And the Simple Fix)
I was watching someone the other day and learned something about AI that I believe is going to be important in the future. It wasn't a flashy new model or some prompt trick. It was something way more practical: how the way we name and build our files is either going to help AI or quietly work against it. And the more I sat with it, the more I realized this is going to matter a lot as we build for an AI-first world.
22/06/2026
Agent 365 Skills: Bring your agents into Microsoft Agent 365 in minutes
Your agent works beautifully on your laptop. It reasons, calls tools, and nails the demo. Then comes the part nobody enjoys: making it enterprise-ready. Identity. Observability. Governance. Messaging. Secure access to Microsoft 365 data. Until now, that last mile meant reading through Microsoft Learn articles, running CLI commands in exactly the right order, hand-editing manifests, and hoping every prerequisite was in place before the agent reached production. Organizations are moving ...
22/06/2026
Boost performance with NFS nconnect on Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Table of contents Introduction What is nconnect Why it matters How it works Reading the numbers: what th...
22/06/2026
How Microsoft Scout Brings Agentic AI to Everyday Healthcare and Life Sciences Work
Healthcare and life sciences teams are asked to do the impossible every day: deliver better outcomes, move faster, and stretch every dollar — all while navigating some of the most regulated, documentation-heavy workflows in any industry. The promise of AI has never been about replacing the experts who do this work. It’s about giving them their time back. That promise is entering a new phase. We’re moving from AI that answers to AI that acts — agentic AI that can carry...
22/06/2026
How Many Copies of Each Layer Does Your Container Registry Actually Need?
Authors: Payal Mahesh and Vicky Lin Azure Container Registry team: Jeanine Burke and Johnson Shi Introduct...
22/06/2026
Assignments in Microsoft Teams: Grading, feedback, and AI built into your flow
Assignments is where the daily work of teaching comes together — creating assignments, collecting student work, giving feedback, and tracking grades. Whether your school uses Microsoft Teams for Education or a learning management system like Canvas or Schoology, Assignments works where you already are. In Teams, it's built into every class team. In your LMS, it's available through the
22/06/2026
A new SharePoint Look and Feel: What’s Changing and Why It Matters
SharePoint is getting a refreshed look and feel designed to make the product feel simpler, clearer, and more focused on your content. We’ve recently introduced a new SharePoint experience, organized around helping you discover knowledge, publish content, and build solutions. Along with that new experience, we’re introducing visual updates across key product surfaces that reduce visual noise, improve readability, and bring more consistency to the interface while preserving the branding...
22/06/2026
Microsoft Partner of The Year Awards 2026
Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2026 ohjeet ja ilmoittautuminen ovat nyt julkaistu, ja ehdotuksia voi jättää 1.6.–7.7.2026 välisenä aikana! Microsoft Partner of the Year -palkinnoilla nostetaan esiin globaalin ja monimuotoisen kumppaniverkostomme merkittäviä saavutuksia ja innovaatioita. Palkintokategoriat kattavat eri ratkaisualueita, toimialoja ja vaikuttavuuden osa-alueita, ja painopiste on strategisissa hankk...
22/06/2026
Azure SQL DB Fabric Mirroring with Private Endpoint
IntroductionOverview steps for configuration of Mirroring between Azure SQL Database to Fabric Mirrored Database over Private Endpoint and Public Connectivity Disabled on source. Prerequisites#1 - The minimum requirement for the source Azure SQL Database tier is - it is Standard Tier with DTUs equal or greater than 100.Free, Basic Tier, or <100 DTUs are NOT supported.All vCore model tiers supported.#...
22/06/2026
Data sync fails with deadlock error
Recently I have worked on cases where it is observed that data sync fails with deadlock error. Error: Database re-provisioning failed with the exception 'Transaction (Process ID ##) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction. To investigate deadlocks, you can enable Extended Events by following the guidance provided here:
22/06/2026
MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode
The HIP kernel uses one-instruction asm wrappers and an eight-wave pipeline to outperform AMD's AITER v3 on MI300X.The post MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode appeared first on MarkTechPost.
22/06/2026
How to Design Python-First Interactive Dashboards with Prefab Reactive UI Components and Static HTML Export
In this tutorial, we build a Prefab application that creates interactive dashboards entirely in Python.We generate synthetic pipeline monitoring data and connect it to live UI controls.We then export the app as static HTML and preview it directly inside Google Colab.
22/06/2026
The 7 Types of Agent Memory: A Technical Guide for AI Engineers
This guide breaks down all 7 types — working, semantic, episodic, procedural, retrieval, parametric, and prospective.It covers what each stores, where it lives, and when to build it.Includes a comparison table and working Python code.
21/06/2026
Crawlee for Python: Build a Web Crawling Pipeline with Robots Handling, Link Graphs, and RAG Chunk Export
In this tutorial, we build a complete Crawlee for Python workflow from setup to AI-ready output. We generate a local demo website, then crawl it with BeautifulSoupCrawler, ParselCrawler, and PlaywrightCrawler. We extract titles, metadata, product fields, and JavaScript-rendered cards, and capture full-page screenshots. We then normalize the data, build a link graph, and export JSON, CSV, and RAG-ready JSONL chunks. The post
21/06/2026
Cisco AI Introduces FAPO: Pipeline-Aware Prompt Optimization With Step-Level Failure Attribution and Claude Code Orchestration
Cisco Foundation AI has open-sourced FAPO (Fully Automated Prompt Optimization), a Claude Code-driven system that autonomously optimizes multi-step LLM pipelines from baseline prompts to target accuracy. FAPO evaluates a chain, attributes failures at the step level, proposes variants across prompt, parameter, and chain-structure levels, and validates each through an independent reviewer. In Cisco's evaluation, it beat GEPA on 15 of 18 model-benchmark comparisons. Here's how the optimization l...
20/06/2026
Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets
Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It starts an agent with everything off except provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal. You opt in to the rest. The post Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli ...
20/06/2026
Yandex Open-Sources YaFF: A Zero-Copy Wire Format for Protobuf With Near-Struct Read Speed
In this article we look at YaFF, Yandex's open-source zero-copy wire format for the Protobuf ecosystem. We keep the .proto file as the single source of truth, changing only how data sits in memory. We walk through its four layouts — Fixed, Flat, Sparse, and Dynamic — and the benchmark where Flat Layout reads within 1.2× of a raw C++ struct. We also cover where it fits, including the advertising recommendation system reporting 10–20% CPU savings at production scale. The post
20/06/2026
How to Build a Forecasting Pipeline with TimeCopilot Using Foundation Models and Automated Anomaly Detection
We build an end-to-end forecasting workflow with TimeCopilot on a panel of real airline passenger data and a synthetic seasonal series with injected anomalies. We evaluate statistical, foundation, and optional GPU-based models using rolling cross-validation and multiple error metrics. We generate probabilistic forecasts with prediction intervals, visualize future trends, and flag unusual observations. We then explore TimeCopilot's optional LLM agent, which selects a model and explains its pre...
20/06/2026
NVIDIA AI Introduce SpatialClaw: A Training-Free Agent That Treats Code as the Action Interface for Spatial Reasoning
SpatialClaw is a training-free agent that writes Python in a persistent kernel, composing perception tools for 3D spatial reasoning The post NVIDIA AI Introduce SpatialClaw: A Training-Free Agent That Treats Code as the Action Interface for Spatial Reasoning appeared first on Ma...
19/06/2026
VibeThinker-3B: A 3B Dense Reasoning Model Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B With the Spectrum-to-Signal Post-Training Pipeline
VibeThinker-3B, a 3B MIT-licensed reasoning model matching DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on verifiable benchmarks. The post VibeThinker-3B: A 3B Dense Reasoning Model Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B With the Spectrum-to-Signal Post-Training Pipeline appeared first on MarkTechPost....
19/06/2026
Title Plan Update - June 19, 2026
📁June 19, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at
19/06/2026
Access begins rollout of Big Forms for Modern Monitors feature
We're excited to announce that support for large-sized forms is now available in Beta for Microsoft Access. This long-requested feature removes the longstanding 22-inch form size limitation and lays the foundation for a more modern, scalable, and accessible form experience. It's one of the most highly requested enhancements from the Access community and a top-voted request on the
19/06/2026
Azure Firewall explicit proxy Migration Guide
Purpose of the blog This blog outlines the key upcoming changes to Azure Firewall explicit proxy and provides detailed migration guidance for customers using PAC file–based configurations. It also covers the supported deployment options for enabling explicit proxy after the changes are released, including the Azure portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. Who is this article for? This article is intended for customers currently using Azure Firewall explicit proxy in p...
19/06/2026
Partner Blog | Make the most of MCAPS Start for Partners: Sessions to prioritize
MCAPS Start for Partners is a no-cost, digital-only event taking place Wednesday, July 22, 2026, starting at 7:00 AM Pacific Time. This year’s event is designed to give partners a fast start to FY27, with guidance on Microsoft priorities, innovation, investments, and go-...
19/06/2026
On the road to .NET 10 Support: Logic Apps Migration from In-Proc to Out-of-Proc hosting model
We will begin this migration in the coming weeks. For most customers, the change will be automatic and require no action. However, some apps will need customer updates before they can move to the new hosting model. This exception is: Logic Apps that use the current NuGet-based deployment model If your app does not fall into one of these categories, it will be migrated automatically and no action is required. If it does...
19/06/2026
Get ready for Windows 11, version 26H2
The next annual update for Windows 11 is coming soon and is already available to Windows Insiders! Windows 11, version 26H2 continues our focus on delivering a predictable, low-disruption update experience for organizations and IT professionals. For devices already running recent versions of Windows 11, this release should be easy to adopt. It builds on the same platform and servicing approach introduced in prior releases, while continuing to improve how updat...
19/06/2026
ARM MCP Server: A Catalog of 24 PoCs
Introduction The Azure Resource Manager MCP Server is a remote Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents first-class acc...
19/06/2026
Three lessons that make or break your AWS-to-Azure workload migration
Thomas Maurer and Raffaele Garofalo get into this in a new episode of the Azure Essentials Show. Raffaele, a Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft, has seen these migrations up close, and he walks through the three lessons that separate smooth migrations from the ones that stall or fail outrigh...
19/06/2026
Generate at scale code insights in Azure Migrate using GitHub Copilot Modernize CLI (preview)
Overview Azure Migrate integrates with GitHub Copilot Modernization (public preview) to deliver at scale code insights. This capability brings together two powerful services: Azure Migrate’s portfolio-level discovery and assessment with GitHub Copilot’s context-aware code analysis. The shared workflow helps migration admins and app developers collaborate more effectively while adhering to organizational security guidelines. Teams can assess multiple applications at once, evaluate Azu...
19/06/2026
June update: What’s new in Security for partners
As AI adoption accelerates, security expectations and partner opportunities are increasing just as fast. In this June Security partner update, Microsoft Security partners will find the latest product updates, incentives, and skilling designed to help you secure AI workloads, strengthen customer trust, and grow repeatable security services. From new capabili...
19/06/2026
Cross-Region Model Connectivity Options in Microsoft Foundry: Supported Patterns and Tradeoffs
Model availability in Microsoft Foundry is region-dependent. The region approved for your project may not be the one where the model or Foundry Agent Service support you need is available. That creates a common cross-region design choice: connect directly to another Foundry resource, or add a gateway layer for more control and governance. This article complements...
19/06/2026
Introducing EWSAllowedAppIDs: Preparing for the Final Phase of EWS Retirement
Exchange Web Services (EWS) retirement in Exchange Online is entering its final phase. Over the last several years, Microsoft has worked with product teams, independent software vendors (ISVs), and customers across the ecosystem to migrate workloads to Microsoft Graph and other modern APIs. Many of those migrations are complete, and many others are well underway. As phased EWS disablement in Exchange Online approaches in October 2026, we are introducing a new capability to help adminis...
19/06/2026
Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages
Liquid AI's LFM2.5 Retrievers combine a dense bi-encoder and ColBERT late-interaction model for multilingual search on edge devices.The post Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost.
19/06/2026
Microsoft Leads a New Era of Software Supply Chain Transparency
Microsoft announces the general availability of Microsoft’s Signing Transparency (MST) – a first-of-its-kind capability that brings unprecedented visibility and trust to our software supply chain. With this release, Microsoft is leading the industry by recording the build of critical cloud services into a publicly readable and verifiable SCITT standard (Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Tr...
19/06/2026
Dragon Copilot and Microsoft Marketplace are transforming the way healthcare is delivered
If AI has so much promise in healthcare, why does it still feel so hard to apply in everyday workflows? That question is starting to shape much of the conversation across the industry. Healthcare teams aren’t debating whether AI matters anymore, they’re focused on how to make it work in environments that are already stretched thin. Reality: Healthcare has a capacity problem Healthcare isn’t dealing with a demand problem; it’s de...
19/06/2026
Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks
We implement an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen, loaded from Hugging Face. We move past basic inference by adding function extraction, syntax checking, static safety checks, and unit-test validation. We rerank best-of-N candidates, compose multi-turn program synthesis, and experiment with prompt styles. We finish by visualizing a mini benchmark and exporting the generated artifacts as reusable files. The post
19/06/2026
Clarity at every stage: App Advisor turns Marketplace complexity into action
This is a series about how App Advisor can help software development companies streamline their build, publish, and growth through Marketplace; find the answers they need when they need them; and get...
18/06/2026
Upcoming June 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion community call
Join our next community call on June 23, 2026, to explore Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork and learn how it can really help you get stuff done. Reminder: Our community calls are in the Teams webinar format, so you must register to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation. https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallA...
18/06/2026
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (May/June 2026)
Member: TysonPaul | Microsoft Community Hub Triggering Azure Functions from Blob Storag...
18/06/2026
ICYMI: Accelerate your Frontier journey: Summit sessions now available on demand
The Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit may be over, but you can keep the momentum going.Revisit the highlights or catch up on sessions you missed. Follow the Partner Skilling discussion board here to keep up to date on all future announcements!
18/06/2026
Troubleshooting Azure SQL Data Sync Failures Caused by Large Change Tracking Backlogs
In this article, we examine a real-world troubleshooting scenario in which Azure SQL Data Sync repeatedly failed while attempting to synchronize changes for a specific table.The investigation revealed that excessive synchronization metadata growth and a large change backlog were causing change enumeration operations to exceed Azure SQL Database resource governance thresholds, resulting in repeated synchronization failures.The key lesson is simple: proactive monitoring of Change Tracking metadata, synchronization backlog size, and Azure SQL workload health can prevent many Data Sync outages before they become business-impacting incidents.
18/06/2026
Revolutionizing Document Intelligence: Scaling Construction Industries with AI-Driven Extraction
Generative AI (GenAI) is poised to transform the construction industry by addressing chronic challenges such as low productivity, cost overruns, schedule delays, and labor shortages.This article specifically demonstrates how organizations can leverage Azure AI services—including Azure Content Understanding, Azure foundry, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Open AI—to extract, understand, and operationalize information from construction drawings and project documentation.The solution follows a modular, event-driven architecture that combines deterministic document understanding and Generative AI to enable scalable, intelligent extraction workflows.
18/06/2026
Microsoft Security Copilot: AI-Driven Security Operations at Greater Scale
At its core, Security Copilot is built to enhance every facet of security operations at machine speed.In the sections below, I explore the key security benefits of Security Copilot, its extensibility via third-party plugins and skills, and the value of its deep integration with Microsoft’s security ecosystem.Security Copilot meaningfully improves threat detection, investigation, response, correlation of signals, and analyst productivity.
18/06/2026
Generally Available: Microsoft Entra Server Principals and Server Roles for Azure SQL Database
Previously, Microsoft Entra identities in Azure SQL Database could only be created as contained database users - principals scoped to a single database with no server-level presence.Microsoft Entra logins become first-class server principals in the logical master database, just like SQL logins.This capability has been in public preview on Azure SQL Database (and is already generally available on Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server 2022+);
18/06/2026
Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight
Perplexity has launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent.Instead of remembering the user, Brain remembers the agent's work — what worked, what failed, and what corrections got made.It builds a traceable context graph, reviews it overnight, and reports early gains in correctness, recall, and cost.
18/06/2026
June update: What’s new for partners in AI Business Solutions
June's AI Business Solutions newsletter covers exciting opportunities for AI Business Solutions partners ready for opportunities to grow within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. From the 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards to MCAPS Start for Partners and from valuable incentives to exciting go-to-market opportunities, here's everything you need to know to deploy Copilot and drive real bu...
18/06/2026
Migrating from MSEE Hairpin Routing to AVNM Mesh for Large-Scale VNet-to-VNet Connectivity
A common pattern in large Azure deployments is to route VNet-to-VNet traffic through Microsoft Enterprise Edge (MSEE) routers.With Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) mesh connectivity and recent scale improvements — including high-scale mesh up to 5,000 VNets and High-Scale Private Endpoints (HSPE) up to 20,000 Private Endpoints across connected VNets — enterprises can migrate to a direct, in-datacenter routing model that removes MSEE dependency for VNet-to-VNet traffic.This article explains why the migration is useful, what the new scale limits are, how to enable the required features, and how to execute the migration with minimal disruption.
18/06/2026
Our MacOS Platform SSO deployment
Naveen Kumar Akkugari wrote up a blog post on how we deployed an early version of the Platform SSO for MacOS devices. We decided to try something a little different in the blog-o-sphere so it was posted up at Deploying Platform SSO for pre macOS 26 with Microsoft Intune: Lessons Learned |Microsoft Community Hub instead of here. Go take a read and see if it is interesting to you.
18/06/2026
Auto-Generated Rubric Evaluators: Building Context-Aware Evaluators for AI Agents
Authors: Shuo Qiu, Sydney Lister, Ilya Matiach, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, José Santos, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong Why Your Agent Needs a Task-Specific Evaluator Picture a customer-service agent for a telecom company. A customer messages in asking to switch plans and get a refund for last month's overcharge. The agent needs to verify the customer's identity and confirm the new plan before ending the conversa...
18/06/2026
Detection and automation, reimagined
Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl How analytics rules, playbooks, workbooks, and hunting evolve in Defender—and why the new toolbelt makes detection engineering faster, automation richer, and hunting genuinely cross-platform. If you build detections for a living, the move to Defender is one of the most meaningful shifts to your workflow in years—and for most teams, it’s a welcome one...
18/06/2026
Deploying Platform SSO for pre macOS 26 with Microsoft Intune: Lessons Learned
By: Naveen Akkugari, Sr. Service Engineer and Michael Griswold, Principal Service Engineering Manager | Microsoft Intune Who we are Our internal Intune administration team at Microsoft is responsible for running Intune and Configuration Manager for the devices used by employees. We receive early access to features for evaluation and feedback using real world usage scenarios. As such, some features may be changed before the pub...
18/06/2026
Behind the Longevity of Visual Studio Live!: The People, the Craft, and the Community
In tech, longevity is rare. Platforms change. Skills evolve. Conferences come and go - often quickly. And yet, some events manage to persist, quietly earning trust over decades. Visual Studio Live! - also known as VSLive! - is one of those exceptions. In a fast-moving industry, only a few technical conferences manage to ...
18/06/2026
Manage tasks in Planner with the Planner Agent
Planner Agent works alongside teams to help get work done faster and focus on what matters. The agent can execute tasks and act on feedback, while also providing a unified view of tasks across Planner plans, Microsoft Teams conversations, and Outlook emails—highlighting urgent work and creating new plans based on supporting resources and deadlines.
18/06/2026
A Practical, Technical Guide to Bringing AI Into Everyday Nonprofit Workflows
Nonprofits face increasing pressure to improve efficiency, strengthen reporting, and communicate more frequently—often with limited staff and resources. Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 embeds AI directly into familiar tools like Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint, allowing nonprofits to automate knowledge work without adopting entirely new systems or hiring specialized AI teams. How Copilot Works Under the Hood Copilot is b...
18/06/2026
Build a Financial Dashboard in Copilot Cowork (Ideas Coach to Researcher to Build)
I sat down with Nick Aquino, a Principal Solution Engineer at Microsoft, because he built something that stuck with me. A real, interactive financial dashboard. No code. All of it in Copilot and Cowork. I didn't want slides. I didn't want theory. I asked him to show me exactly how he did it, step by step, so you can do the same thing. A few takeaways below. <...
18/06/2026
Scaling Write Throughput in Azure Database for MySQL Using Application-Level Sharding
This blog post walks through scaling write throughput in Azure Database for MySQL using application level sharding. It starts with the why behind sharding and then builds a complete C# implementation that spreads writes across three Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Servers. Why Shard in the First Place? This post focuses specifically on scaling write throughput. A well-tuned single primary node can take you remarkably far, and techniques such as indexing strategies, write bat...
18/06/2026
IT experts weigh in: Advanced Intune capabilities coming to Microsoft 365 E3 and E5
Back on December 4th, we shared that advanced capabilities from the Microsoft Intune ...
18/06/2026
Celebrate Pride Month with a special theme for Mac and iOS
Hello, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Hugo Garcia, a Product Manager on the Apple Experiences team. I’m thrilled to announce the return of our special Pride Month theme in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Mac and for iOS. &nbs...
18/06/2026
Controlling Tool Access with APIM MCP Gateway
That something is an MCP gateway, and Azure API Management (APIM) can do the job.An MCP gateway sits between the agent (the client) and the MCP server (the backend) and inspects the MCP protocol traffic flowing between them.The tool access problem is not the only reason to put a gateway in front of an MCP server.
18/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 18, 2026
Learn about 263 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
18/06/2026
Esri, ClickHouse, and Red Sift deliver transactable offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Esri, ClickHouse, and Red Sift deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Red Sift Solution for Microsoft Sentinel: This solution brings telemetry from the Red Sift Platform, including Red Sift authentication activity and OnDMARC email forensics, into your Microsoft Sentinel workspace to track threats.Red Sift Brand Trust: Red Sift's AI-driven technology helps you protect your brand's reputation.
18/06/2026
New MRCA Diagnostic: Teams Virtual Events (Town Hall & Webinar)
The Teams Support team has added a new diagnostic to the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (MRCA) — the Teams Virtual Events (Town Hall & Webinar) diagnostic.Once authenticated, the diagnostic validates that user's virtual events configuration end to end.- The Town hall or Webinar option is missing from the calendar New meeting dropdown
18/06/2026
The KV Cache Compression Race: TurboQuant vs OSCAR vs EpiCache
The KV cache now outweighs model weights at long context. Here's how TurboQuant, OSCAR, and EpiCache each attack that memory bottleneck — and why they're more complementary than competitive. The post The KV Cache Compression Race: TurboQuant vs OSCAR vs EpiCache appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/06/2026
Enterprise-ready Claude Desktop with Entra ID, APIM, and Microsoft Foundry (No Backend Required)
How I put corporate sign-in in front of Claude Desktop without writing a single line of backend code. TL;DR — In this post, I show how to securely enable Claude Desktop in enterprise environments using Microsoft Entra ID, Azure API Management, and Microsoft Foundry — without deploying a custom backend. This approach removes API keys from endpoints, enforces per-user identity, and aligns fully with Zero Trust princi...
18/06/2026
The Hidden Boundaries of Modern AI
Holtzman et al. showed that decoding strategies alone can materially affect machine text quality with the same neural language model, which proves that the rendered text is not only a function of prompt and weights.This aligns with the principle I argued in AI Didn’t Break Your Production — Your Architecture Did: production AI failures often appear at the model surface, while the real fault may live in boundaries, contracts, observability, governance, and runtime control.I attached a full companion source-code repository for this article: AI Representation Evidence Lab.
18/06/2026
OpenAI Releases LifeSciBench, a 750-Task Benchmark Grading AI Models on Real Life-Science Research With Expert-Written Rubric
OpenAI's LifeSciBench evaluates whether frontier AI can handle real life-science research across 750 expert-authored tasks, seven workflows, and seven biological domains.Built by 173 PhD scientists with 19,020 rubric criteria, it grades reasoning and decisions, not just recall.The best model, GPT-Rosalind, passes 36.1%, leaving large headroom on artifacts, exact outputs, and operational calls.
18/06/2026
NVIDIA SkillSpector Guide: Scanning AI Skills for Security Risks with Static Analysis and SARIF Reports
In this tutorial, we use NVIDIA SkillSpector to evaluate AI skills for security risks before deployment.We build a corpus of benign and deliberately vulnerable skills, then scan them through SkillSpector's programmatic LangGraph workflow.We organize the risk scores and findings with pandas, then visualize severity and category distributions.
18/06/2026
Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2025 RTM
The 6th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2025 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site.Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model.Update Center for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
18/06/2026
Memory-Optimized Table Variables: Performance Under the Microscope
Memory-optimized table variables (MOTVs) have been available since SQL Server 2014, but many workloads still use regular on-disk table variables.To answer this, we ran a set of benchmarks comparing MOTVs against on-disk table variables across the dimensions that matter in production: caching scenarios, concurrency levels, row counts, and platforms.Memory-optimized table variables were introduced with the In-Memory OLTP engine (code-named Hekaton) in SQL Server 2014.
17/06/2026
Updated Solutions Partner designation and specialization pages
The Solutions Partner designation and specialization pages have been updated to give you a clearer, more guided path through your designation and specialization journey.The refreshed Solutions Partner designation page offers streamlined navigation organized by cloud solution area, making it easier for you to explore available Solution Partner designations and understand your path to attainment. The updated specialization page provides information on the value of earning a specialization—so you can track how it can strengthen and differentiate your business in areas with high customer demand. Check out the updated pages to access guidance related to requirements, validation, and the full catalog of opportunities to showcase your organization's deep technical expertise.With clearer structure, updated content, and direct access to actionable guidance, these updates empower you to spend less time searching and more time building expertise, standing out in the market, and driving growth through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.
17/06/2026
Scaling High-Performance CAD on Azure Virtual Desktop with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000
This validation study evaluates how Siemens NX 2506 performs in a multi-user AVD environment, using an RTX-based Azure VM.This setup enables up to 30 concurrent NX sessions on a single host, providing a scalable and centralized engineering environment.This validation confirms that Azure Virtual Desktop with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs is a highly effective platform for running Siemens NX 2506 in multi-user environments.
17/06/2026
Autoruns, ZoomIt, Coreinfo, DebugView, LiveKd, ProcDump for Linux, Process Monitor, and Sysmon
This update to LiveKd, a utility that allows running the kernel debugger on a live system, fixes a debugging privileges issue.This update to ProcDump for Linux, a tool for capturing process dumps, adds .NET counters and a custom core dumper.This update to Sysmon, an advanced host security monitoring tool, adds some bug fixes.
17/06/2026
Customer spotlight: How Foot Locker turned AI curiosity into adoption
At Foot Locker, it started with people.— Alex Snyder, Product Manager for Microsoft 365, Foot LockerWithin six months, more than 25% of Foot Locker employees had adopted Copilot Chat, and usage continued to grow.
17/06/2026
Reminder: Become a sponsor of the Microsoft AI Tour
Make your mark on the 2026–2027 Microsoft AI Tour. This one‑day event series is traveling to 30+ cities in priority markets around the globe, and you have the opportunity to become a sponsor. Sponsors can accelerate pipeline through high-impact, in-person experiences that help customers make confident, informed technology solution decisions.Packages start at USD5,000. Review the sponsorship preview to learn more.
17/06/2026
Engage customers with Teams Phone Agent and custom voice agents built in Copilot Studio
It’s often difficult for businesses to serve every customer right away during surges in call volumes. Callers sit on hold while staff race to work through the backlog. Meanwhile, agentic voice AI is opening entirely new ways to serve customers, such as getting answers to questions or even enabling them to pay a bill over the phone, including after hours and on weekends. We are excited to announce Teams Phone Agent, along with the ability to bring custom voice agents your organi...
17/06/2026
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 is now rolling out to Microsoft 365 E3 and Office 365 E3
Starting today, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 is rolling out to customers with Microsoft 365 E3/G3 and Office 365 E3/G3 licenses, with rollout expected to complete in August 2026. For security teams, this means added protection against phishing, malware, and malicious links across email and collaboration, without needing to purchase or deploy a separate email security solution. It also means some protections will turn on automatically, so now is the right time to review your config...
17/06/2026
The Platform Era Expands: MDEP at InfoComm 2026
Put simply, MDEP is the enterprise-grade operating system that turns today’s fragmented device landscape into a consistent, customer-ready, and trusted foundation. With native Microsoft integrations and seamless operations at scale, it lets our partners focus on differentiation instead of platform development – across an expanding range of enterprise devices, Since ISE: Momentum You Can Deploy ISE was where we previewed MDEP in new categories like enterprise IoT. Since then, t...
17/06/2026
Launch campaigns faster using Partner Marketing Center Pro
Accelerate campaign activation with Partner Marketing Center Pro, a unified, AI-powered hub built to streamline your marketing efforts. Available through a partner benefits package, a Solutions Partner designation, or enrollment in ISV Success, Partner Marketing Center Pro supports efficient end-to-end campaign planning, activation, and execution.
17/06/2026
ICMP Support for Azure StandardV2 NAT Gateway
Our customers, across all industries, depend on consistent outbound connectivity and observability to operate and troubleshoot their cloud workloads at scale. As Azure environments grow in size and complexity, teams increasingly rely on standard network diagnostic tools such as ping to quickly validate reachability and identify connectivity issues. When customers route outbound traffic through Azure NAT Gateway, they benefit from centralized and scalable outbound connectivity designed ...
17/06/2026
Vercel Releases Eve: An Open-Source AI Agent Framework Where Each Agent is a Directory of Files Mapped to Capabilities
Vercel has open-sourced eve, an Apache-2.0 agent framework now in public preview. An agent is a directory of files, with durable execution, sandboxes, approvals, connections, channels, and evals built in. Scaffold with npx eve@latest init and deploy unchanged via vercel deploy. The post Vercel Releases Eve: An Open-Source AI Agent Framework Where Each Agent is a Directory of Files Mapped to Capabilities appeared...
17/06/2026
Partner Blog | How Microsoft is simplifying the path to partner business value
Recent updates to the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program are designed to reduce friction, make resources easier to use and support partners in turning participation into growth and profitability. Partners have been clear: working with Microsoft should be simpler. As your business scales and customer expectations rise, every hour matters. You need program experiences that reduce friction, make next steps clearer, and empower your teams to put benefits, guida...
17/06/2026
Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 3)
Part 1 of this series tackled the architectural decisions that shape any Azure OpenAI / Microsoft Foundry Models workload — capacity model, deployment scope, governance layer, grounding strategy, and quota engineering.Azure Front Door or Azure API Management with multi-region back-ends lets you route based on model availability, capacity headroom (one region may have quota while another is exhausted), and latency.Use this as a checklist when reviewing or signing off on the GenAIOps posture of an Azure OpenAI / Microsoft Foundry Models platform.
17/06/2026
AI is accelerating cyberattacks—here’s how to stay ahead
When attacks are accelerated by AI, speed and accuracy in detection and response are critical.Securing the future of identity at the speed of AIIdentity admins also gain a stronger operational experience through the new Microsoft Entra ID Protection experience.
17/06/2026
Accelerating AKS troubleshooting with the Azure Copilot Observability Agent
The Azure Copilot Observability Agent in Azure Monitor helps connect these signals into an explainable investigation, so teams can move from symptoms to evidence-backed next steps.Troubleshooting Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is complex because failures can originate in workloads, platform components, infrastructure, or the application code running on the cluster.The agent works with telemetry already available in your Azure Monitor environment.
17/06/2026
Anatomy of the change
The move from the Azure portal to Defender brings together incident correlation, alert handling, automation, and data investigation in ways that help SOC teams reduce manual work, improve visibility, and accelerate response.Instead of relying on separate “Microsoft security alerts” analytics rules to generate incidents from Defender workloads including endpoint, identity and cloud applications now are automatically correlated by the Defender engine into a unified incident queue.· If the primary workspace is onboarded to Sentinel data lake, the Basic logs and Auxiliary log tables are converted to the data lake tier
17/06/2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series: From research to polished outputs
Work today often spans chats, files, meetings, and tools. Our latest Microsoft 365 Copilot app learning series explores how connected experiences like Researcher, Copilot Pages, Copilot Notebooks, and Create can support workflows that move work from research and planning to collaboration and content creation.
17/06/2026
Copilot Cowork is GA - Here's how to track your credit usage as an end user
Now that Copilot Cowork is generally available, a lot of us in Healthcare & Life Sciences are putting it to work — drafting summaries, running research prompts, moving through tasks faster than ever. But with GA comes something worth paying attention to: Cowork now runs on billing and credit usage. And if you're not keeping an eye on that, it's easy to burn through credits without realizing it. Here's the good news: you don't need to dig t...
17/06/2026
Introducing New Additions to Microsoft Sentinel Normalization and ASIM
TL;DR: New ASIM parsers for Azure Firewall, Key Vault, AWS CloudTrail (EC2, S3, IAM), and 10+ third-party products. Two new schemas — Asset Entities and AI Agent Events. Plus changelogs on GitHub and a heads-up on an upcoming breaking change in ProcessEvent parsers. What's New Security teams deal with logs from dozens of sources, each with its own schema. This painpoint makes it harder to ...
17/06/2026
What's new in Assignments: interactive lessons, localized content, and smarter AI tools
Assignments in Microsoft Teams and through the Microsoft 365 LTI app has shipped a set of updates that connect interactive learning content directly into the assignment workflow, improve content quality across English-speaking regions, and give educators more control over AI-generated output. All of these features are available now for every Microsoft Education license (A1, A3, A5) at no extra cost. Watch a quick walkthrough of all the u...
17/06/2026
How to Score a User Simulator: Introducing USR-8
Authors: José Santos, Shuo Qiu, Morteza Ziyadi User simulators have become a standard part of the agent-building toolkit: cheaper than real-user pilots, faster than scripted dialogues, and the only way to push an agent through hundreds of plausible conversations between every code change. The hard question is the one that comes next: how do you know the simulator itself is any good? It's easy to underestimate how much can...
17/06/2026
Introducing GitHub Pre-Purchase Plans: A Simpler Way to Plan Your GitHub Spend
As AI-powered development scales, more of what organizations pay for on GitHub is shifting from fixed per-seat pricing to usage-based billing. GitHub Copilot, Actions, Codespaces, AI Credits: spend now reflects what teams actually build, and that can vary month to month. For most engineering and finance leaders, that raises a familiar question: how do you set a confident annual budget when consumption is variable? How do you capture the savings that come with committing upfront?
17/06/2026
Securing the invisible workforce
Non-human identities are now the majority of the identity estate in most enterprises. Service principals access organizational resources across SharePoint, Azure, and Microsoft 365, Service accounts run critical business processes on-premises, OAuth apps move data across SaaS boundaries, and AI agents increasingly operate autonomously at machine speed. As NHIs have grown in number and importance, so to have the threats targeting them.
17/06/2026
Lessons Learned #540:Bulk Insert Throughput in Azure SQL Hyperscale with Partitioned Heap Tables
In this lesson learned, I would like to share an interesting scenario working on a service request where our customer was running a high-volume data load process in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. The workload was based on a common pattern: Recreate a staging table. Load a large number of rows using bulk insert. The bulk insert showed unstable execution times and became the main area to investigate. The process was loading a very l...
17/06/2026
Build an Automated SLA Risk Agent with Routines in Microsoft Foundry
What if your support team could start every morning with an AI-generated summary of tickets most likely to breach SLA? This tutorial shows you how to build exactly that: a grounded agent in Microsoft Foundry that automatically analyzes your ticket data and surfaces risks. Using Routines in Microsoft Foundry, we run the agent on a recurring schedule so risks are identified early and addressed before they escalate. You'll l...
17/06/2026
Security Copilot RBAC for Embedded Experience in Unified Security Platform
Introduction The evolution of Security Operations Centers (SOC) is increasingly driven by AI-powered capabilities that improve efficiency, accuracy, and response time. Microsoft Security Copilot represents a significant advancement in this space by embedding AI-driven assistance directly within security platforms such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft Entra. The concept of embedded experience is central to this transfo...
17/06/2026
MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): a Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on a 109B-Parameter MoE With a 3T-Token Budget
MiniMax released MSA, a sparse attention built on Grouped Query Attention.A lightweight Index Branch selects Top-k key-value blocks per query and GQA group;the Main Branch attends only to those blocks.
17/06/2026
Frontier Transformation Engineer – uusi mahdollisuus erottautua Microsoft-kumppanina AI-aikakaudella
Tämän uuden aikakauden tueksi Microsoft on julkaissut Frontier Transformation Engineer -osaamismerkin (badge), jonka tavoitteena on tunnistaa tekniset asiantuntijat, joilla on valmiudet toteuttaa agenttipohjaisia AI-ratkaisuja, Microsoft Copilot -ratkaisuja sekä laajamittaisia tekoälytransformaatiohankkeita asiakkaille. Se yhdistää sertifiointeja, käytännön osaamista, modernien AI-ratkaisujen toteutusmalleja sekä ymmärrystä siitä, miten asiakkaiden AI-transformaatioita viedään käytäntöön. Microsoft on tuonut kumppaneiden käyttöön uuden Frontier Transformation Engineer -oppimispolun sekä siihen liittyviä koulutuksia ja tapahtumia.
17/06/2026
MCAPS Start for Partners 22.7.2026 – aloita FY27 vahvasti!
MCAPS Start for Partners on Microsoftin vuotuinen tilikauden avaustapahtuma kumppaneille.Microsoftin johtajat – mukana muun muassa Nicole Dezen ja Judson Althoff – käsittelevät FY27:n painopisteet keynote- ja breakout-sessioissa. Tapahtuma on suunnattu myynnin, presalesin, toimituksen ja markkinoinnin vetäjille.
17/06/2026
OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation Extends Pre-Deployment Risk Assessment to Agentic Coding Through Simulated Tool Calls
The method replays past conversations through a new candidate model before release.It then grades the completions to estimate deployment-time rates of undesired behavior.We break down how the pipeline works, the reported 1.5x median multiplicative error, and its limits.
17/06/2026
How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
We implement xFormers, a practical toolkit for fast, memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs.We work through causal masking, packed variable-length sequences, grouped-query attention, and custom ALiBi biases.The post How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/06/2026
Closing the loop on container security: From code to runtime in the AI era
For the first time, 31% of breaches now begin with an attacker exploiting a software vulnerability — overtaking stolen credentials as the most common way in — and 15% of attack techniques are now accelerated by generative AI, with adversaries using it to find gaps and write malware faster at every stage.Many AI workloads — from model-serving APIs to retrieval systems and intelligent agents — now live as pods on AKS, EKS, and GKE (the managed Kubernetes services from Azure, AWS, and Google), often connected to some of an organization’s most sensitive models and data.Posture practitioners also get KSPM at container granularity — Kubernetes security posture management, available through both Defender for Containers and Defender CSPM — and, on Azure, a new actionable recommendation, Upgrade Azure Kubernetes Service Version (preview), that helps you remediate vulnerabilities in AKS-managed system pods.
16/06/2026
Triage vulnerabilities with the Vulnerability Remediation Agent, now in public preview
To help organizations close that gap, we're pleased to announce that the Vulnerability Remediation Agent for Security Copilot in Microsoft Intune is now in public preview and rolling out to all customers.Following a successful limited preview, the agent is now broadly available.The Vulnerability Remediation Agent uses data from Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management to identify Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) across your Intune-managed Windows devices and apps, then prioritizes them for remediation.
16/06/2026
Azure Arc Server May 2026 Forum
Private Preview of Windows Server 2016 Extended Security Updates (ESUs): Customers with Windows Server 2016 Servers with an NDA and willingness to provide feedback can sign up at https://aka.ms/WS2016ESU-PrivatePreview Special Announcement: Windows Server Hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc is now available at no additional cost for Windows Server 2025 machines connected to Azure ArcOur June 2026 forum will be held on Thursday, June 18 at 9:30 AM PST / 12:30 PM EST.
16/06/2026
Differentiate yourself for the AI era—earn your Frontier Transformation Engineer badge
Each session of the Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit is designed for you to build the skills to advance your Frontier Engineering journey and accelerate progress toward earning your Frontier Transformation Engineer badge.With this badge, you can validate that you have the expertise to deliver agentic AI solutions at the hypervelocity that customers expect, with the breadth of the Microsoft technology stack to support you.Join us at MCAPS Start for Partners on July 22 to refresh your go-to-market approach for the next year.
16/06/2026
Bug fixes in Microsoft Access - Preview Version 2606 (Build 16.0.20131)
German keyboard: AltGr key combinations triggered zoom shortcuts instead of typing charactersOn German and other keyboard layouts that use AltGr for common characters (such as ~, }, and others), pressing AltGr+key combinations triggered the zoom keyboard shortcuts instead of inserting the expected character.When navigating to the zoom split button on the Home tab, screen readers announced it as "Print Preview Zoom" instead of reflecting the current zoom context.
16/06/2026
Course Retirement: DP-3011
This course is being retired because its Azure Databricks coverage is now better served by the newer DP-750 course.DP-750 provides a more complete, role-aligned path for learners who need production-ready data engineering skills with Azure Databricks, including Unity Catalog, secure governance, ingestion pipelines, deployment, and workload maintenance.Replacement course: DP-750T00: Implement data engineering solutions using Azure Databricks
16/06/2026
Anomaly detection made easy with Dynamic thresholds for Log search alerts
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of dynamic thresholds for log search alerts in Azure Monitor.Dynamic thresholds make anomaly detection easier by using machine learning to learn normal behavior from your historical log query results, automatically account for patterns such as hourly, daily, and weekly seasonality, and adapt as your environment changes.Learn more about Log search alerts with dynamic thresholds and how to set up alert rules in Azure Monitor.
16/06/2026
General Availability: Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor
We are excited to announce the General Availability of Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor!Simple log alerts are a type of Log search alerts in Azure Monitor, designed to provide a simpler alternative to traditional Log search alerts.Simple Log Alerts are supported using Basic logs as well.
16/06/2026
Partner Blog | Partners agree: Benefits packages deliver ROI
Microsoft partner benefits packages start at $350 and, when fully utilized, can unlock significant value for partners.Partner benefits provide Microsoft partners with access to discounted product licenses, Azure credits, technical consultations, and support.This blog shares a practical playbook you can use to turn your partner benefits package into repeatable motions toward Frontier transformation: across internal skilling, solution development, go-to-market, and delivery.
16/06/2026
Announcing Public Preview: Agent Identities Asset Connector for Microsoft Sentinel
We are excited to announce the Public Preview of the Agent Identities Asset Connector for Microsoft Sentinel, a foundational capability that delivers identity context for AI agents, completing the visibility required for end-to-end agentic security.The Agent Identities Asset Connector addresses this gap by bringing agent identity data into the Sentinel data lake, enabling correlation with activity signals to deliver enriched, contextual security insights.The Agent Identities connector marks a shift from traditional observability to true agentic security within Sentinel.
16/06/2026
Meet Qwen-RobotSuite: Three Embodied AI Models for VLA Manipulation, Video World Modeling, and Navigation
We break down Qwen-RobotSuite, the Qwen team's three new embodied AI models.We cover RobotNav, a navigation model built on Qwen3-VL across 2B, 4B, and 8B sizes.We walk through the architecture, data pipelines, and benchmark results for each.
16/06/2026
Transform your security operation with a unified experience in Defender
That’s why Microsoft is bringing Microsoft Sentinel into Microsoft Defender: to bring together SIEM, XDR, threat intelligence, AI, and automation into a single experience.By March 31, 2027, all Microsoft Sentinel customers will be automatically transitioned to Defender.This is the first of a six-part helping customers transition their Sentinel experience from the Azure portal to Defender:
16/06/2026
New ways to customize how Copilot edits your workbooks
If you’ve ever typed the same formatting and style instructions into your Copilot prompt every single time - don’t merge cells,” “use my header style,” “name the tables this way”- we built two new features for you!These new customization options let you set your rules once and have Copilot follow them automatically. Personalization is now generally available, and workbook rules are rolling out to general availability across Excel for Web, Windows, and Mac.Rules" and start adding your rules in column A.
16/06/2026
Azure Sets a New Performance Record for LLM Training Benchmark at Extreme Scale
Azure achieved the most performant MLPerf Training v6.0 result to date for Llama 3.1 405B, with a time-to-train of just over seven minutes according to MLCommons.To meet the demands of the massive training workloads, Azure’s Fairwater AI supercomputing infrastructure offers high-performance GPU scale-up domains with resilient, scale-out networking.This remarkable result was possible by leveraging fifth-generation NVIDIA NVLink at 1,800 GB/s per GPU for intra-rack communication and Azure’s 100 GB/s MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) fabric accelerated by NVIDIA DOCA and connected with NVIDIA ConnectX-8 and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switches for inter-rack communication.
16/06/2026
MVP and RD Community Powers Connection and Innovation at Microsoft Build 2026
From demo and lightning talk sessions to hands-on labs and informal table talks, MVPs and RDs were deeply embedded across the Microsoft Build experience.Microsoft Build 2026 featured a wide range of session formats—including breakouts, labs, demos, lightning talks, and table talk discussions—designed to create both technical depth and peer-to-peer learning opportunities.MVPs also helped extend the Microsoft Build experience to developers tuning in remotely by supporting livestream moderation on YouTube.
16/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 16, 2026
Learn about 213 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
16/06/2026
Azure Databricks at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026: updates and new announcements
Databricks Data + AI Summit brings together the global data and AI community in San Francisco to share product news, technical breakthroughs, and customer stories. This year, as usual, we have a lot of Azure Databricks announcements, a strong presence across the event, and a continued focus on helping cust...
16/06/2026
Microsoft AI Skills Fest wraps—and the momentum continues
AI Skills Fest, June 8–12, 2026, brought together a dynamic global community to build practical AI skills. Here’s what to do next and how to keep building on what you’ve learned. Wow, what a week! One of my favorite things about Microsoft AI Skills Fest was seeing so many people jump in, try something new, and build practical AI skills together. The festival may be wrapping up, but th...
16/06/2026
The Case for an Ontology Layer in Telecoms
The Challenge: Data Without Context in the Telco AI Era GenAI and analytics tools and solutions pull data from applications and from downstream and external data sources. However, when data is decontextualized from the applications where it was created, it often loses the business meaning, relationships, and rules that were embedded in the original application. This information is critical for producing dependable, business-relevant output using AI. For example, in the sales domain, ...
16/06/2026
Building an End-to-End Sentiment Analysis Pipeline with Scikit-LLM
Traditional machine learning pipelines for predictive tasks like text classification usually rely on extracting structured, numerical features from raw text — for instance, TF-IDF frequencies or token embeddings — to feed into classical models such as logistic regression, ensembles, or support vector machines.
16/06/2026
Hermes Agent Adds Asynchronous Subagents, So Delegated Work No Longer Blocks the Parent Chat
The delegate tool can now spawn background agents that no longer block the parent chat.We walk through the async_delegation toolset tracked in issue #5586, covering how to spawn, check, steer, and collect tasks.We also cover subagent isolation, the synchronous-versus-asynchronous tradeoffs, and when to reach for ACP instead
16/06/2026
Meet Atoms: A Vibe Coding Tool That Uses AI Agents to Build, Deploy, and Market Your App (No Code)
The concept of vibe coding is interesting; you don’t need to be a developer or software engineer to build your own applications.You can describe your idea to an AI in plain language, and it will build, edit, and refine your applications so you don’t have to write code line by line.The post Meet Atoms: A Vibe Coding Tool That Uses AI Agents to Build, Deploy, and Market Your App (No Code) appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/06/2026
Google Cloud Introduces Open Knowledge Format (OKF): A Vendor-Neutral Markdown Spec for Giving AI Agents Curated Context
We break down Google Cloud's new Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open spec that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern.We explain how a bundle works: a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, where each concept needs only a type field.We include a working Python consumer and an interactive bundle explorer you can embed.
16/06/2026
How to Build a Parsing Pipeline with Docling Parse for Layout-Aware Document Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build a workflow that uses Docling Parse to analyze PDF documents at a detailed structural level.We prepare a stable Python environment, handle common Colab dependency issues, and generate a custom multi-page PDF with text, columns, table-like content, vector shapes, and an embedded image.We then extract words, characters, and lines with page-level coordinates, render visual overlays, and save results into structured JSON and CSV.
16/06/2026
Azure Function App — Queue-Based Architecture for Long-Running Sync Jobs
Azure (like most cloud platforms) enforces a hard 230-second HTTP response timeout at the load balancer level — no matter what you configure in your function.🤸♀️There's an added bonus - Reliability in Azure Queue Storage: Azure Storage Queues give you automatic retry out of the box.If the job crashes halfway through, the message becomes visible again after a visibility timeout and the Queue Trigger picks it up for a retry — up to 5 attempts before the message is moved to the poison queue.
16/06/2026
Detecting Python Vulnerabilities with GraphCodeBERT
We are nine software engineering students at the Egyptian Chinese University in Cairo.When we got our project brief, we noticed a gap that bothered us: Python is the most widely used language in AI development, yet almost every security tool out there was built for C and C++.Supervised Contrastive Learning for Code Vulnerability Detection (SCL-CVD) adds a second objective directly on the embeddings, before the classification heads.
16/06/2026
A Guided Tour of the New Microsoft Foundry Labs
This is the place where Microsoft's most ambitious AI research stops being a headline and becomes something you can click, run, fork, and ship.The mission: closing the gap between research and realityAnd the work isn't scattered randomly — it concentrates in six domains where AI is having outsized real-world impact:
15/06/2026
Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides
Sakana AI's first commercial product runs autonomously for up to eight hours per task. It returns multi-page reports and slides, built on AB-MCTS and AI Scientist workflows. The post Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/06/2026
Ep 40 | The Hidden Growth Engine: Why Partnerships, Not Marketing, Drive Real Pipeline
We discuss this and more in the latest episode of IAMCP Profiles in Partnership with Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez of Dunamis Marketing as they sat down with Manish Bhardia, Founder and President of Think AI Corporation, and CEO of Aimey.ai.At the heart of the Microsoft partner ecosystem is an often-underestimated advantage: partner-to-partner (P2P) collaboration, which drives pipeline creation more powerfully than traditional marketing.When run with purpose, P2P collaboration is a scalable go-to-market strategy.
15/06/2026
Microsoft Leads a New Era of Software Supply Chain Transparency
Today, Microsoft announces the general availability of Microsoft’s Signing Transparency (MST) – a first-of-its-kind capability that brings unprecedented visibility and trust to our software supply chain.With this release, Microsoft is leading the industry by recording the build of critical cloud services into a publicly readable and verifiable SCITT standard (Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust) compliant ledger.Notably, the MST ledger is fully open source and built to align with the emerging IETF SCITT standard.
15/06/2026
From Error Log to Closed Ticket, Without Leaving Your Terminal
Every team running on Azure eventually opens a support ticket.The Azure Support Ticket MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes the Azure support ticket lifecycle as a set of conversational tools.The fastest way in is to pipe a failure straight from your terminal into a ticket:
15/06/2026
Planner Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available
Planner Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now rolling out to general availability, bringing intelligent, AI-powered work and task management to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers worldwide.Planner Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot delivers interactive task cards and actionable insights so users can easily prioritize tasks and focus on what matters.Via natural language prompts, users can also create and update tasks directly in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
15/06/2026
How Enterprise App Management secures your App Catalog from ingestion to device
Microsoft IntuneThis post explains how Enterprise App Management works behind the scenes, how apps get into the catalog, what happens before they're visible to your tenant, and why the architecture matters for your security posture.It shifts the app lifecycle from a manual, error-prone process to one with built-in security validation, operational consistency, and governance you can defend to your security team.
15/06/2026
Intelligent sampling in Microsoft Foundry: the science behind selecting better production traces
Microsoft Foundry's intelligent sampling feature (used when creating an evaluation or fine-tuning dataset from production agent traces) uses a MinHash farthest-first diversity sampler.On WildChat (the primary validation dataset, sampling 100 items from a 5,000-trace pool), diversity sampling produces +29.1% higher lexical diversity and +44.8% larger vocabularies than a uniform-random baseline;Intelligent sampling — MinHash diversity sampling — gives Foundry developers a fast, zero-extra-cost way to curate higher-coverage datasets from their production traces.
15/06/2026
Don’t miss these key opportunities to strengthen your security practice
Complete the Cloud Security Envisioning Workshop before June 30: Sharpen your security‑first approach and engage customers earlier in their cloud journey. After June 30, access requirements may change, so complete the workshop while current guidance is still in effect.Earn the Cloud Security specialization: Unlock continued workshop access and reinforce your role as a trusted partner for secure cloud transformations.Review the specialization requirements, check your status in Partner Center, and work with your Partner Development Manager or the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Concierge to accelerate readiness.
15/06/2026
Inside the Observability Agent: How Deep Investigations and Reasoning Work
From the outside, Azure Copilot observability agent presents this as a focused troubleshooting experience that correlates signals such as metrics, logs, alerts (and alert context), tracing data, and resource and service health.It is a dedicated investigation runtime designed to build hypotheses, gather data across layers, and return an explanation that is meant to be understandable and data-backed.A deep investigation runs as its own scoped investigation session anchored to a clear goal, a fixed incident time, a set of target resources, and the user’s Azure context, so it can query the right telemetry and platform data without losing the problem frame.
15/06/2026
The Next Generation at Work: Guiding AI’s Role in Jobs
AI is poised to reshape the way we work, but the direction it takes will ultimately be shaped by our decisions.As AI evolves, our focus should be on using it to strengthen human capability—helping people build new skills, explore new possibilities, and engage in work that feels meaningful.Brad Smith, Microsoft Vice Chair and President, recently underscored this same idea: technology should empower people, not push them aside.
15/06/2026
Benchmarks in Microsoft Foundry (preview): Standardized model and agent quality checks
You can run well-known open-source benchmarks against any model deployment or agent in your project, compare runs side by side in the evaluation group view, and drive the whole flow from the portal or the REST API.Microsoft Foundry already includes a model leaderboard that surfaces precomputed benchmark scores across the model catalog.Benchmarks in Microsoft Foundry bring industry-standard measurement into the same place you build, deploy, and observe your AI systems — through a streamlined portal flow and a programmable REST API.
15/06/2026
Open Data Infrastructure: How Fivetran in Microsoft Marketplace powers agentic AI on Azure
In this guest blog post, Natalie Waller, Lead Product Marketing Manager at Fivetran, examines why agentic AI is stalling in most enterprises — not because of the AI itself, but because today’s data infrastructure wasn’t built for autonomous agents.Shifting to an Open Data Infrastructure (ODI) on Microsoft Azure gives organizations a practical path to scale AI workflows without accumulating the technical debt that’s sinking most pilots.Most AI pilots never make it to production, and the culprit is rarely the model — it’s the data.
15/06/2026
Automating Daily MDE Compliance Monitoring Across Azure VMs
Most security teams have no automated way to know when a VM silently falls out of MDE coverage, whether because the agent stopped, the VM was newly provisioned without onboarding, or the device stopped reporting.If the tag is missing or empty, the VM is flagged in the Action Required: No Owner Tag Found section of the IT summary email, with step-by-step instructions for tagging it in the Azure Portal.Run the Permissions Assignment script to assign all three permissions to this identity.
15/06/2026
Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs
Flash-KMeans is an open-source, IO-aware implementation of standard Lloyd's k-means in Triton GPU kernels.It does not change the math or approximate.On an NVIDIA H200, it reports 17.9× end-to-end, 33× over cuML, and over 200× over FAISS.
15/06/2026
Building ShadowQuest: A Multi-Agent RPG
Microsoft's Agents League Hackathon provided the perfect opportunity to explore this new approach through the Reasoning Agents challenge.For this challenge, I built ShadowQuest, a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) powered by Microsoft Foundry, Foundry IQ, Azure AI Search, GPT-4.1, and GitHub Copilot.The project demonstrates how specialized AI agents can work together while using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver accurate and context-aware responses.
15/06/2026
Bringing Enterprise File Data to Users with Azure NetApp Files, Microsoft Foundry, and M365 Copilot
In Part 2, From File Data to AI‑Powered Knowledge Pipelines using Azure NetApp Files object REST API, we showed how that foundation is activated through a knowledge pipeline using Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI, transforming unstructured files into a living, queryable knowledge system grounded in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG).In this final part, we focus on the user experience: how this architecture is safely and effectively surfaced to end users through enterprise AI agents, including Copilot, where employees already work.Microsoft Foundry is the control plane for building and governing enterprise AI agents.
15/06/2026
From Enterprise File Storage to an AI-Ready Data Foundation using Azure NetApp Files and OneLake
In this blog series, we explore how to close that gap without rewriting workflows, migrating data, or disrupting existing systems.The Azure NetApp Files object REST API provides object‑based access to that data, enabling modern analytics and AI platforms to work directly with existing file datasets without copying, moving, or restructuring them.By combining Azure NetApp Files, the object REST API, and Microsoft OneLake, organizations establish a unified, zero‑copy foundation that brings enterprise file data into scope for modern AI systems.
15/06/2026
From File Data to AI‑Powered Knowledge Pipelines using Azure NetApp Files object REST API
In Part 1, From Enterprise File Storage to an AI-Ready Data Foundation using Azure NetApp Files and OneLake, we established the foundation: how Azure NetApp Files and Microsoft OneLake together transform enterprise file storage into an AI‑addressable data layer, without data migration, duplication, or workflow disruption.To turn enterprise file data into something large language models can reason over, search, and cite, we need a knowledge pipeline, one that can understand unstructured content at scale, retrieve the right information at the right time, and ground AI responses in authoritative source data.By combining Microsoft OneLake, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI, the knowledge pipeline transforms the zero‑copy data foundation into an actively searchable enterprise resource.
15/06/2026
Agents That Test Agents: A Cloud-Native Skill-Eval Harness on Foundry Hosted Agents
A skill is the lightest way to give an agent durable, reusable behavior: a SKILL.md file you author once, store centrally in Foundry's versioned Skills API, and inject into a Hosted Agent's context — no code change, no redeploy.azd ai agent invoke skill-eval-business-agent-gpt "Here is a script for an educational short video on the P vs. NP problem."Skills moved agent behavior out of code and into versioned Markdown — a huge win for reuse, but only if you can prove a skill still works after every edit. azure_skill_eval answers that for edu-video-script by treating evaluation as a first-class, repeatable step rather than a gut check.
15/06/2026
Gamifying World Improvement: A Reasoning-Agent RPG on Microsoft Foundry
This project was demoed live at the Agents League Reasoning Agents battle on Microsoft Reactor: real-time narration, real Foundry calls, real latency, and a host watching the terminal.Borrowing Lee Stott's framing from CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry: release gates should be driven by evaluation outcomes, not just test results.Part 2 covers how the agents remember the CEO's decisions, and Part 3 covers the fallback architecture and routing toward Foundry Local.
15/06/2026
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch
Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, across every GLM Coding Plan tier.It drops into Claude Code, Cline, and OpenClaw through an Anthropic-compatible endpoint.No benchmarks shipped at launch, and MIT open weights are promised next week.
15/06/2026
Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 Features with Examples + Demo
Claude Code is a layered agentic coding tool, not a single chat prompt.This guide breaks down 25 features, from CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, and hooks to MCP and Auto Mode.It includes a comparison table, working code examples, real use cases, and an interactive demo you can try.
15/06/2026
A Coding Hands-On on FineWeb for Streaming, Filtering, Deduplication, Tokenization, and Large-Scale Web Corpus Analytics
In this tutorial, we explore the FineWeb dataset through an advanced hands-on workflow.We stream a manageable sample of the dataset without downloading the full multi-terabyte corpus, inspect its schema and metadata, and analyze key fields such as URL, language, language score, and token count.We also reproduce simplified versions of FineWeb’s quality-filtering pipeline, apply […]
14/06/2026
Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent: A Meta-Harness That Composes, Governs, and Shares AI Agents Across Claude Code, Codex, and Pi
Databricks has open-sourced Omnigent, a meta-harness that sits above coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi.It adds composition, contextual policies, and live session sharing under one interface, on terminal, web, desktop, and mobile.The Apache 2.0 project is in alpha.
14/06/2026
How to Build a QwenPaw Agent Workspace with Custom Skills, Model Providers, Console Access, and Streaming API Testing
In this tutorial, we implement a QwenPaw workflow that provides a practical environment for building and testing an agent-powered assistant.We install and initialize QwenPaw, configure its working directory, set up authentication, connect optional model providers via Colab secrets, and create a structured workspace with custom skills and local knowledge files.The post How to Build a QwenPaw Agent Workspace with Custom Skills, Model Providers, Console Access, and Streaming API Testing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
13/06/2026
Anthropic Disables Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After US Government Order
shutdown followed a US government export control directive citing national security authorities. All other Anthropic models, including Opus 4.8, remain available. The post Anthropic Disables Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After US Government Order appeared first on MarkTechPost.
13/06/2026
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code: a Coding Model Reporting +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2 Over K2.6
Moonshot AI has open-sourced Kimi K2.7-Code under a Modified MIT license.It is a coding-focused, agentic model built on Kimi K2.6, with a 256K context window and roughly 30% lower reasoning-token usage.Moonshot reports gains over K2.6 on six benchmarks, including +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2.
13/06/2026
A Coding Implementation on Spatial Graph Neural Networks for Urban Function Inference Using city2graph, OSMnx, and PyTorch Geometric
We build an end-to-end spatial graph learning pipeline using city2graph.We collect urban POI and street network data from OpenStreetMap, with a synthetic fallback for reliability.We then build heterogeneous and homogeneous graphs, convert them to PyTorch Geometric, and train a GraphSAGE model to predict POI categories from spatial structure.
13/06/2026
Title Plan Update - June 12, 2026
📁June 12, 2026 - Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan.
12/06/2026
DLP for Copilot Prompts: How to Stop Sensitive Data From Leaving Your Tenant
Copilot's web grounding sends prompts out to Bing Search when it needs more context to answer a question.Microsoft's answer was to extend Purview's data loss prevention into Copilot prompts, giving IT teams the proactive controls they've been asking for.Copilot still answers, but tells the user it can't use web search because of the org's security policy.
12/06/2026
Google Releases Gemini-SQL2: Gemini 3.1 Pro Text-to-SQL Scores 80.04% on BIRD Single-Model Leaderboard
We look at Gemini-SQL2, the text-to-SQL capability Google Research announced on June 12, 2026.Powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro, it posted 80.04% execution accuracy on the BIRD single-model leaderboard.We also cover use cases and a schema-grounded implementation pattern.
12/06/2026
mssql-python 1.9.0: Row-friendly Bulk Copy, smarter NULL parameters, and a more portable wheel
We just shipped mssql-python 1.9.0, the official Microsoft SQL driver for Python.This release focuses on day-to-day ergonomics for data loading, a long-standing correctness gap around NULL parameter binding, and a build change that makes the published wheels work on clean macOS and Linux machines.NULL parameters now resolve to the right SQL type
12/06/2026
Partner Blog | Copilot monetization for SMBs: Convert renewal momentum into wins
Partners serving small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to tell us that customers are excited about AI, but they want clear guidance on what to buy, how to buy it, and how to justify the investment. For partners, this creates a critical opportunity to simplify the path to decision and translate that momentum into measurable wins. This month, we are focusing on the moment that matters most: converting interest into action. Stage 3 of the Microsoft Customer Engagement Methodology (MCEM), Empower & Achieve, is built for customers approaching a decision point. This is where partners can accelerate deals and create a more predictable path to conversion.
12/06/2026
Understanding IIS Website Limits: Connection Timeout, Bandwidth, and Connection Limits
In this blog, I am sharing learnings from multiple real-world issues I have worked on where the root cause came down to just three IIS Website Limit settings.When troubleshooting performance issues or unexpected disconnections in IIS-hosted applications, one commonly overlooked area is Website Limits configuration.In this article, we focus on the three most commonly used settings :
12/06/2026
Why some apps reach revenue faster than others—and how App Advisor helps close the gap
This is a series about how App Advisor can help software development companies streamline their build, publish, and growth through Marketplace; find the answers they need when they need them; and get curated, step-by-step guidance. As Microsoft's self-service center of excellence for software development companies, App Advisor helps teams move from discovery to build, publish, and growth through a guided experience that reduces friction, accelerates execution, and shortens the path from idea to revenue.By connecting product development, Marketplace readiness, and go-to-market execution in a single experience, App Advisor can help you reduce friction, accelerate time-to-market, and create a more predictable path to revenue growth.
12/06/2026
Introducing Windows Ready Print and Modernized Driver Selection
Introducing Windows Ready Print: a simpler, more reliable path to modern printing with modern driver selection controls.At the core of Windows Ready Print is a transition away from legacy, third party drive-based workflows toward modern, standards-based printing with IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) using the Windows inbox IPP printer driver.To ensure a smooth and flexible transition, we are introducing the ability for users to configure Windows to install their printers using Windows Ready Print (if supported) or the OEM printer driver during installation.
12/06/2026
Workplace presence, made effortless: Workplace check-in via Wi-Fi for Microsoft Places and Teams
We’re introducing workplace check-in via Wi-Fi for Microsoft Places and Teams, designed to help employees coordinate in-person work by keeping their workplace location up to date when they’re in the office.This capability builds on existing Microsoft 365 presence signals like calendar availability and Teams presence by making workplace location easier to keep current.Wi-Fi check-in for Microsoft Places will roll out to organizations with Microsoft Places later this year.
12/06/2026
Agent 365 | Identity & Access Controls in Entra
Agent 365 gives IT and security teams a unified control plane for agent activity.Today, in part 3 of this Agent 365 series, we look at how, as an identity admin using Microsoft Entra, you can establish the critical foundation to prevent agents from being both overprivileged or running without the right level of visibility. As an IT admin, you can access Agent 365 controls to view your agents, find unmanaged AI in use, and configure tools and settings.
12/06/2026
How to Measure Token Impact of MCP Tool Invocation in Microsoft Foundry
This validation used a prompt agent in Microsoft Foundry with an inline MCP tool that calls a weather MCP server.Going forward, enterprise teams should standardize an evidence pattern that combines API usage for accounting with trace/trajectory views for operational transparency.Engineers: Create a prompt agent in Microsoft Foundry and run the A/B method on one of your production prompts.
12/06/2026
Python Concepts Every AI Engineer Must Master
Transitioning from writing local experimental scripts to building scalable, production-grade AI systems requires a shift in how we write Python.
12/06/2026
ArchAngel: Skilling the next developer generation for the Agentic transformation.
ArchAngel is built around a simple idea: What if your team’s best engineering practices could exist directly inside the IDE and guide developers as they work?It’s how to make the most of these capabilities while maintaining strong engineering standards, consistency, and shared understanding across teams.Semantic Kernel and Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) - Semantic Kernel is a lightweight, open-source development kit that lets you easily build AI agents and integrate the latest AI models.
12/06/2026
Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm
Moonshot AI's Kimi Work is a local desktop agent for macOS and Windows.It runs a 300-sub-agent swarm, drives your logged-in browser via WebBridge, and schedules background jobs.The post Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm appeared first on MarkTechPost.
12/06/2026
Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude
Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models at 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters.The models use a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer backbone, shipping under Apache 2.0.They stay competitive with comparable Transformer VLMs while cutting time-to-first-token by about an order of magnitude.
12/06/2026
A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end 3D medical image segmentation pipeline using MONAI to segment the spleen on the Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task09 dataset.We work with volumetric CT scans, apply medical imaging transformations such as orientation alignment, voxel-spacing normalization, intensity windowing, foreground cropping, and patch-based sampling, and then train a 3D UNet model […]The post A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes appeared first on MarkTechPost.
12/06/2026
Troubleshooting ML Model Loading, GPU Issues, and Memory Pressure in Azure Container Apps
This part of the series covers the real-world scenarios you will encounter when running AI workloads on Azure Container Apps, with specific focus on what goes wrong during deployment and startup — and how to fix it methodically.Even when you are in a GPU-enabled environment, CUDA version mismatches between the CUDA toolkit installed in your container image and the CUDA drivers on the host node will produce the "no kernel image" error.Step 1 — Move initialization work to a background task that runs after the HTTP server is up
12/06/2026
Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards
Deep Research now lives inside Perplexity Computer, breaking hard questions into subtasks and routing across 20+ frontier models.The post Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/06/2026
xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch
Grok Build's in-terminal marketplace bundles skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers, with commit-SHA verification on every remote plugin.The post xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/06/2026
Right‑sizing Azure Savings Plans, one hour at a time
But the headline dollar figure on the portal hides the most useful signal a FinOps team can get its hands on: the hourly Pay‑As‑You‑Go (PAYG) usage that the recommendation engine actually looked at.This post walks through how to pull that data out of the Cost Management REST API, and shares a small companion PowerShell script that does the heavy lifting and produces analyst‑friendly CSV and Markdown outputs.=== Azure Benefit Recommendations Export ===
11/06/2026
Customer spotlight: Less inbox, more connection at Nuveen
At the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, we explored a challenge many communicators are dealing with right now: employees are surrounded by nonstop signals—email, chats, meetings, and posts—and important messages get lost in the noise. The team had to create content for the medium.We’ll be sharing more blog posts throughout June to recap the Engage Track sessions at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference.
11/06/2026
Modern VM monitoring, powered by OpenTelemetry
At Build 2026, we're announcing the general availability of OpenTelemetry (OTel) Guest OS metrics for Azure VMs and Arc-enabled Servers.OTel provides a standards-based foundation for VM monitoring with consistent metrics across Windows and Linux, richer Guest OS and per-process visibility, and streamlined integration with open-source and cloud-native observability tools.We're excited to announce the general availability of the enhanced monitoring experience for Azure VMs and Arc servers.
11/06/2026
Tech, Community, and a Movie: MVPs Help Bring Stir Trek to Life
You get Stir Trek: Tech & a Flick, a one-day community conference in Columbus, Ohio, that ends not with closing slides, but with popcorn and a blockbuster movie.Since its first event in 2009, Stir Trek has built a reputation for being practical, welcoming, and unmistakably different.The format is simple: 50+ sessions of technical content, conversations with regional and national speakers, breakfast, lunch, movie refreshments, and a shared movie screening experience.
11/06/2026
Putting file-level archiving into practice with Microsoft 365 Archive and Syskit Point
But when Microsoft 365 Copilot draws on that content to generate responses, it can surface outdated, redundant, and inactive files alongside current materials. This can result in noise. In March, we extended the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Archive with the public preview of file-level archiving, which allows organizations to move individual SharePoint files and folders within active sites to a lower-cost storage tier. Admins can archive inactive SharePoint files to cold storage directly from the Storage Metrics report. Syskit Point can become the governance layer on top of Microsoft 365 Archive, handling the full file lifecycle: archive, restore, delete, in one place.
11/06/2026
Build a Knowledge Graph in Azure HorizonDB with AI Functions and Apache AGE
Building a knowledge graph in five steps inside Azure HorizonDBWe published a hands-on tutorial on Microsoft Learn that takes you from raw incident tickets to a connected, queryable knowledge graph.Tutorial: Build a knowledge graph from unstructured text using AI Functions and Apache AGE
11/06/2026
DoH is now generally available on Windows DNS Server
Today, we’re excited to announce that DoH support for Windows DNS Server is generally available on Windows Server 2025 for client-to-server DNS traffic.When we first introduced DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Windows DNS Server in public preview, we described it as a Zero Trust upgrade to the foundation of enterprise networking.With general availability, organizations can now deploy encrypted and authenticated client-to-resolver DNS traffic directly within their existing on-premises DNS infrastructure.
11/06/2026
Azure Monitor SLIs now Generally Available
Azure Monitor SLIs are now generally availableService Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Azure Monitor are now generally available.Learn more in the product documentation and start defining SLIs for your services in Azure Monitor today.
11/06/2026
Azure Monitor Metrics Export Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Export using data collection rules (DCRs).Azure Monitor Metrics Export is configured through data collection rules and can route platform metrics to Azure Storage accounts, Azure Event Hubs, or Azure Log Analytics workspaces.With general availability, Azure Monitor Metrics Export offers a production-ready path to continuously stream supported platform metrics using data collection rules. Azure Monitor Metrics Export now covers 44 Azure regions, up from 12 regions previously.
11/06/2026
A deep dive into Azure Bastion session recording
With the recently announced Public Preview: Managed Identity support for graphical session recording, managing Bastion authentication credentials to store session recordings to a designated storage account is simpler and reduces manual work.In this blog, we’ll explain the Azure Bastion session recording feature, show how to set it up, compare SAS URL and Managed Identity options for storage authentication, and outline why Managed Identity is a great choice for production and enterprise environments.Azure Bastion is Microsoft’s fully managed, browser-based RDP/SSH gateway that removes the need for a public IP on your VMs.
11/06/2026
Reduce unnecessary internet exposure with Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender identifies internet-facing devices based on signals that indicate external inbound reachability, including:A new recommendation in Microsoft Defender provides a centralized view of devices that are externally reachable from the public internet, helping you understand and manage exposure across your environment.1. Assess your exposureReview the recommendation to understand which devices in your environment are externally reachable from the public internet and why they were classified as internet-facing.
11/06/2026
What’s New in Notebooks | June 2026
Today, Copilot Notebooks is rolling out to more people across your team, making shared notebook collaboration broadly accessible in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and OneNote.Previously only available to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, Copilot Notebooks is now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, giving more people across the team a shared place to gather project context, work from reference sources, and turn that information into helpful mind maps and learning tools in study guide.1Copilot Chat users have limited sources per notebook, access to standard sources only, and standard access to chat.2Only Copilot Notebooks in OneNote on web will be available to Copilot Chat (Basic) commercial customers at this time.
11/06/2026
Real-Time Simulation with Ansys Discovery on Azure AMD Radeon V710 GPUs
Ansys Discovery is an interactive engineering application that unifies 3D geometry modeling, real‑time simulation, and visual analysis into a single, immersive workspace.Discovery enables engineers and designers to create, modify, simulate, and iterate on designs in real time, dramatically reducing the time required to assess design feasibility, physics behavior, and performance tradeoffs.The architecture for running Ansys Discovery on Azure is designed to deliver interactive, GPU‑accelerated simulation in a scalable and cloud-native environment.
11/06/2026
What to Do When You Hit Capacity in Azure Databricks: Engage, Mitigate, Plan!
Create a Quota Support Ticket via Microsoft Support and bring the following to your account team with your Support Ticket Number.For workloads that cannot yet use serverless compute, configure an Azure Databricks Instance Pool with a minimum number of idle nodes aligned to your production requirements.For the most critical workloads, evaluate a multi-region deployment as part of your business's continuity planning.
11/06/2026
Dynamic Connection Properties in Azure Logic Apps Standard
Logic Apps Standard supports dynamic connection names for built-in (service provider) connectors.Instead of hardcoding a connection name, you can use any workflow expression — trigger inputs, previous action outputs, parameters, or conditional logic — to determine which connection to use at runtime.Send a POST request to the workflow trigger URL:
11/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 11, 2026
Learn about 367 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
11/06/2026
Copilot Notebooks and Study guide now available to Copilot Chat users
First, Copilot Notebooks is now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, available with Microsoft 365 Education licenses.This education expansion builds on the broader Copilot Notebooks announcement that brings Notebooks to all education and enterprise Copilot Chat users, including new ways to work with your own materials in Notebooks with mind maps, Study Guides, and coming soon - the ability to create Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations.Copilot Notebooks are available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot web and desktop versions for Education users.
11/06/2026
Debug App Startup Faster on Azure App Service for Linux with Startup Logs
To make this easier, we have added new Azure CLI commands that let you list and view App Service startup logs directly from the command line.The startup log commands also support deployment slots.The new az webapp log startup commands make it easier to inspect startup behavior for Azure App Service for Linux apps directly from Azure CLI.
11/06/2026
Analyse Intune Diagnostics Logs with GitHub Copilot
I’m Stefan Röll, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft Germany for Cloud Endpoints.In this blog I would like to show you how your troubleshooting skills can be supercharged with AI.and log in with your GitHub account.
11/06/2026
Multi-Label Text Classification with Scikit-LLM
Text classification typically boils down to scenarios where a product review is "positive" or "negative", or a customer inquiry belongs to one category or another.
11/06/2026
Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow
The Hermes Agent dashboard now builds complete agent profiles in one flow, replacing multi-step CLI setup for users. The post Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/06/2026
Last Call: Join Live the PostgreSQL Community at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 (T‑1 week)
In just one week, the PostgreSQL community gathers again for one of the most anticipated global moments of the year: POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026.From June 16–18, this free and fully virtual event brings together PostgreSQL contributors, engineers, architects, and practitioners across 4 livestreams, 44 talks, and 50 speakers.Chun Lin Goh brings a cloud architecture and observability perspective to PostgreSQL performance.
11/06/2026
Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding
Cohere's first developer coding model is a 30B mixture-of-experts running on a single H100 with 256K context length.The post Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/06/2026
Performance Tuning Cold Starts, Scaling Delays, and Startup Latency in Azure Container Apps
Scaling delays, inefficient image layers, wrong resource allocations, and misconfigured KEDA rules all compound to create latency spikes that feel indistinguishable from cold starts but have completely different root causes and fixes.In Part 3, we go deeper into the most specialized and complex scenario in this series: troubleshooting AI workloads in Azure Container Apps. Loading large ML models, managing GPU and CPU resource constraints, and dealing with memory pressure from inference workloads all require techniques that go beyond standard web application troubleshooting.Next: Part 3 — Troubleshooting ML Model Loading, GPU Issues, and Memory Pressure in Azure Container Apps
11/06/2026
At-Scale Failure Reporting for Azure Update Manager
Azure Update Manager simplifies patching across Azure virtual machines and Azure Arc-enabled servers by providing a centralized platform for patch assessment and installation.However, as environments scale, a key challenge emerges—efficiently identifying and troubleshooting patch failures across large fleets of machines.In this article, we walk through a real-world use case and demonstrate how to leverage Azure Resource Graph (ARG) to extract failed machines along with their error details for a specific maintenance run—using a single query.
11/06/2026
Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
We’re expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot with Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Fable 5 as a preview model—designed to support longer, multi-step workflows.As organizations move beyond simple prompts to more complex work, Copilot helps users plan, draft, and iterate across tasks with relevant work context from Work IQ.Claude Fable 5 (preview) is now available as a default-off option in Copilot Cowork (Frontier), with private preview available today in Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint.
10/06/2026
Process Monitor v4.03
Process Monitor v4.03 This update to Process Monitor, a utility for observing real-time file system, Registry, and process or thread activity, adds some bug fixes.
10/06/2026
Now in Foundry: Command A+ (W4A4), Chandra OCR 2, and GLM-OCR
Second, a new wave of OCR-specialized vision-language models are redefining the accuracy-throughput frontier for document understanding.This week we are highlighting three Hugging Face models in Microsoft Foundry: Cohere Labs' Command A+ (W4A4), a 218B-parameter Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reasoning model optimized for agentic, multilingual, and reasoning-heavy tasks;Build an automated compliance intake pipeline using Chandra OCR 2 for structured extraction across complex, handwritten and form-based documents.
10/06/2026
What We Took Away from Build 2026 as Microsoft Field and Solution Engineers
I pulled together four Microsoft Solution Engineers for a candid conversation about Build 2026, and I want to be upfront about what this is.Thor made a point that stuck with me: organizations are spinning up agents faster than they can track them.Adam talked through Work IQ APIs and where that's heading, including how much easier it's getting to give agents access to organizational knowledge without having to wire up every tool individually.
10/06/2026
A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison
We implement an instrumented workflow for Microsoft SkillOpt end to end.We set up the repository, connect OpenAI-compatible model access, and configure the optimizer and target models.The post A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/06/2026
The Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode public preview build has been updated!
The public preview build has been updated to build number 2.7.1.8.The following issues have been addressed in this build:All Windows Admin Center extensions have been upgraded to Angular 20 to take advantage of performance and security improvements
10/06/2026
Building Nonprofit Culture with Microsoft Viva Engage: Architecture and Step‑by‑Step Setup
Creating a unified culture in this environment is challenging — but Microsoft Viva Engage, part of the Microsoft Viva suite and built on Microsoft 365, provides a secure, social, and integrated platform for connection and knowledge sharing.This guide explains how nonprofits can use Viva Engage to strengthen culture, improve communication, and drive engagement across distributed teams.Navigate to the community where you want to create the campaign.
10/06/2026
Deploying Foundry Hosted Agents from Source Code
At Microsoft Build, it was announced that Foundry Hosted Agents now support source-code deployments.This new functionality allows you to deploy the agent from a `.zip` file instead of from a container image.This post walks through the process of deploying a source-code Hosted Agent, briefly compares that approach to container-based Hosted Agent deployment, and provides a reusable GitHub Action for CI/CD deployments.
10/06/2026
What's new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2026 edition
This is the 2026 edition of our annual “what’s new” blog post, with highlights from the past 12–13 months—across both our managed services on Azure and our work in the upstream open source project.The AI-assisted migration tooling available with the VS Code PostgreSQL extension converts Oracle schema and application code to Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server.For the 4th year in a row, this blog post is a snapshot of the work our Postgres team at Microsoft has done over the last year.
10/06/2026
Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation
DiffusionGemma is Google DeepMind's experimental 26B open model using text diffusion for up to 4x faster generation on GPUs. The post Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/06/2026
Introducing Execution Context for GitHub Copilot in SSMS
The GA release of GitHub Copilot in SSMS in March included Ask mode support for the chat window, interaction with the results pane, and code completions. Yesterday’s release of SSMS 22.7 introduced Agent mode (preview) for the chat window, backed by skills to complete complex, multi-step tasks on your behalf. You've been able to ask questions in natural language, get help writing T-SQL, and interact with your database right from SSMS.Starting with SSMS 22.7, database owners can now configure the Copilot execution context separate from the user's permissions. You can specify either a database user or SQL login that Copilot uses when running queries. This gives organizations the control they've been asking for: users keep their access, but Copilot is constrained to exactly what you allow. The configuration is stored in the frontmatter of the database's CONSTITUTION.md file (database-level extended property), and must be configured per database. The following format must exist in the CONSTITUTION.md:To leverage execution context for GitHub Copilot in SSMS, update to version 22.7 and configure the agentExecuteAsUser frontmatter in your database constitution. We've had a delay in getting documentation for the release published (apologies!), but once that is resolved, you can check out the docs.
10/06/2026
Partner Blog | Building AI-ready applications on open, enterprise-grade Azure platforms
Azure HorizonDB enters public preview as a new PostgreSQL cloud database service engineered for performance, scale, and modern AI-powered application needs. Features such as advanced filtered vector search, in-database AI model management, Microsoft Entra ID integration, and GitHub Copilot integration through the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code position it as more than a database modernization story. We also announced Azure Container Linux (ACL), a secure, immutable container host designed to help platform teams run Kubernetes workloads at scale on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). By bringing Azure Linux forward as a more visible first-party platform choice, Microsoft is giving organizations a cloud-native operating system designed for modern workloads, including virtual machines (VMs), containers, and AI infrastructure.
10/06/2026
Transitioning from Azure Language Features to Foundry Models
Azure AI Language in Foundry Tools will begin deprecating eight features:Instruct the model to extract key phrases and output them as JSON by writing a prompt for key phrase extraction.Azure AI’s Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) allows chatbots to interpret user utterances by predicting a top intent and extracting key entities.
10/06/2026
PUBLIC PREVIEW - Azure Monitor - Collect Azure Resource Platform Logs at Scale with DCRs
For many platform teams, Azure resource platform log collection starts simple—but becomes difficult to manage at enterprise scale.We’re excited to announce the public preview of Data Collection Rules (DCRs) for Azure Resource Platform Logs—a centralized, secure, policy-driven way to collect platform telemetry across thousands of resources with a single rule.DCRs provide a standard model for defining data collection across Azure Monitor, including platform telemetry, metrics, logs, agents, and PaaS data sources.
10/06/2026
Introducing scheduled antivirus scans on Microsoft Defender Linux
That’s why we’re excited to introduce centrally managed scheduled antivirus scans for Linux in Microsoft Defender, now available in public preview.With this capability, customers can now configure scheduled antivirus scans on Linux using security settings management policies in the Microsoft Defender portal for centralized policy enforcement or local Managed JSON configuration that can be deployed via configuration management tools like ansible, puppet and chef.The feature supports a flexible set of scheduling options, including hourly quick scans (interval-based scheduling), daily quick scans at a defined time, and weekly scans with configurable scan type (quick or full).
10/06/2026
Making Mac OneDrive Faster and More Reliable
OneDrive on macOS is getting a major update to how it syncs!The Native Sync Engine is rolling out to Insiders today with version 26.098.It's up to 2x faster on initial sync and on-disk state changes, uses less CPU, memory, and battery, and removes the hidden cache folder that's been the source of most reliability issues since 2022.
10/06/2026
Making Microsoft Teams more responsive, reliable, and ready for work
This blog highlights the latest performance improvements delivered during the first half of 2026, from faster chat switching and people search, to enhancements that make Teams feel more responsive, resilient, and reliable across desktop, web, and mobile.During the first half of 2026, we reduced chat switch latency by 20%, building on gains delivered through last year's chat and channels redesign.As a result, the number of daily users impacted by app hangs decreased by 35%.
10/06/2026
New Exchange Online Mailbox Auditing Signal: Visibility into IPM to Non-IPM Copy Activity
A known audit evasion technique involves copying mail items from a user's visible IPM folders into a hidden folder in the non-IPM subtree and then accessing the data from there for exfiltration.Activity in the non-IPM subtree was not auditedExchange Online now logs a MailItemsAccessed event whenever a mail item is copied from the IPM subtree to the non-IPM subtree.
10/06/2026
A new chapter of efficient foundation models for medical imaging
At HLTH 2024, we introduced three open-source healthcare AI foundation models on Microsoft Foundry: MedImageInsight (MI2), CxrReportGen (CXRRG), and MedImageParse (MIP).Microsoft now offers premium versions of its medical imaging foundation models on Foundry, available today as a private preview to approved customers.These first premium models - MedImageInsight Premium and CxrReportGen Premium bring managed, commercial-ready delivery to two high-value imaging scenarios: multimodal image encoding and chest X-ray findings generation.
10/06/2026
CAST and Cloudforce offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like CAST and Cloudforce deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.CAST Highlight: Build your Microsoft Azure migration roadmap and modernize complex software systems faster with CAST’s intelligence technology that delivers rapid, fact-based insights across your entire application portfolio.nebulaONE: Cloudforce’s nebulaONE is a secure, scalable AI platform that runs entirely within a customer’s Microsoft Azure tenant, allowing organizations to create and deploy branded GPT models using proprietary data without relying on third parties or exposing data to the internet.
10/06/2026
Multimodal Browser AI with Transformers.js for Images and Speech
Most browser AI tutorials cover text because it is a natural starting point, but the applications people actually want to build are rarely text-only.
10/06/2026
Top AI Coding Agents and Development Platforms in 2026: Atoms, Devin, Windsurf, Cursor, Warp, and More Compared
They describe intent, and AI agents do the work.This guide covers the AI coding agents […]The post Top AI Coding Agents and Development Platforms in 2026: Atoms, Devin, Windsurf, Cursor, Warp, and More Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/06/2026
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5: Same Underlying Model, Different Safeguards, New Mythos-Class Tier
Claude Fable 5 ships generally available with classifiers;Mythos 5 stays limited, cyber safeguards lifted, through Project Glasswing.The post Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5: Same Underlying Model, Different Safeguards, New Mythos-Class Tier appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/06/2026
Compliance Academy: A Multi-Agent Cyber Mystery Built on Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft Reactor invited three individuals to compete in a live coding battle: build something that shows what reasoning agents can do, in front of a streaming audience, in roughly twelve minutes of airtime each.The solution I will be building is Compliance Academy: a multi-agent cyber-mystery role-playing game where the player is the lead investigator at Helix Dynamics, a fictional biotech that just lost 14 GB of clinical trial data.That was the hypothesis worth testing on stream: reasoning agents are good enough now that we can make compliance training feel like a case file instead of a quiz.
10/06/2026
We Gave Ourselves 20 Minutes to Build an AI Agent for a Lumber Company. The Timer's Still on Screen.
Build an AI agent that solves a real business problemDeploy a working AI application to AzureWith the agent done, we pivot to deploying a full AI chat application to Azure.
10/06/2026
Building a Code Dataset Pipeline from NVIDIA Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 Metadata with Streaming, Pandas, and tiktoken
In this tutorial, we work with NVIDIA's Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 dataset as a large-scale metadata index for code pretraining research.We analyze languages, file extensions, repository frequency, and directory depth to understand the index structure.We then reconstruct raw GitHub URLs, fetch real source files, and estimate the token scale of the fetched code.
10/06/2026
Productize, observe, version, and automate MCP servers in Azure API Management
As organizations move from AI-assisted applications to agentic workflows, MCP servers are becoming a critical integration layer between agents, tools, APIs, data sources, and enterprise systems.With MCP server versioning in Azure API Management, you can expose multiple versions of the same MCP server side by side.With Management API and Infrastructure as Code support, teams can provision and configure MCP servers programmatically through Azure API Management APIs and automation pipelines.
10/06/2026
How ARM Tracks Work That Takes Hours
When a user creates, updates, or deletes a resource in Azure, the request flows through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) before reaching the service that actually owns the resource.ARM and Azure's resource providers (RPs) implement this through a standard long-running operation (LRO) protocol built on the Azure-AsyncOperation and Location HTTP headers, status URLs, and provisioning states.Underneath, that simple experience rests on a well-defined contract: a 201 or 202 with a status URL, a set of headers that tell the client where and how often to check, a predictable set of terminal states, and an optional second signal through provisioningState.
10/06/2026
ACI Sandboxes: A Glimpse into the Future of Agentic Compute
At Build, we demonstrated several innovations that showcase where Azure Container Instances (ACI) is heading and how it can become a foundational platform for the next generation of AI workloads.AI Sandboxes build on these foundations to provide isolated execution environments for AI agents.Rather than building separate infrastructure stacks for virtual machines, containers, AI agents, and future workload models, Azure is moving toward a common compute platform and Control Plane capable of hosting multiple execution environments.
10/06/2026
Multi-currency private offers in Microsoft Marketplace: What partners need to know
With customers across more than 141 geographies and transactions spanning multiple currencies, pricing strategy becomes more than just setting a number, it requires understanding how currency conversion impacts both the customer experience and partner payouts.How currency conversion works across the transaction lifecycleAt its core, every private offer in Microsoft Marketplace begins the same way: pricing is entered in USD.
09/06/2026
Announcing the Release of SSMS 22.7.0 - and many previews!
Today we shipped SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.7.0, and this is one of the bigger releases we've had in a while.The headline items are we’ve introduced a “What’s New” page, SQL formatting (preview), schema compare (preview), Agent Mode for GitHub Copilot in SSMS (preview), and a new execution context for GitHub Copilot.The "What's new" page loads when you launch SSMS for the first time after an update.
09/06/2026
Unlocking the Human Telemetry Layer for Safer Industrial Operations
Many industrial organizations still lack visibility into real-time human conditions, even as worker safety and operational risk remain major investment priorities.Through the Mij™ platform, VOORMI brings human telemetry into Azure IoT, enabling enterprises to integrate worker conditions such as heat stress and fatigue into the same operational architecture already used for machines and industrial systems.The reference architecture demonstrates how Azure IoT Operations can serve as a scalable operational intelligence layer for worker safety and connected operations scenarios across manufacturing, energy, and field environments.
09/06/2026
Introducing Windows Ready Print and Modernized Driver Selection
Windows Ready Print highlights what matters most: a streamlined, dependable printing experience built for modern Windows environments.At the core of Windows Ready Print is a transition away from legacy, third party drive-based workflows toward modern, standards-based printing with IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) using the Windows inbox IPP printer driver.To ensure a smooth and flexible transition, we are introducing the ability for users to configure Windows to install their printers using Windows Ready Print (if supported) or the OEM printer driver during installation.
09/06/2026
Ginkgo Bioworks and Microsoft Discovery: Bringing agentic AI to biological discovery
At Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft announced general availability of Microsoft Discovery to support exactly this kind of work, as a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines.The goal is to enable researchers to scope and plan experiments in Microsoft Discovery and run them directly on Ginkgo Cloud Lab, without requiring in-house automation.Together, this creates a lab-in-the-loop model for biological research.
09/06/2026
Introducing Azure HorizonDB - PostgreSQL
- The Postgres you know and love is now even more supercharged on Azure with the latest platform optimizations and AI for enterprise apps all made possible with the new cloud-native Postgres service, Azure HorizonDB.The Azure AI extension in HorizonDB provides functions that you can invoke using SQL to leverage AI models.We’ve built a new VS code extension that brings familiar Postgres tools into a modern AI powered experience.
09/06/2026
Introducing Durable Functions in PostgreSQL
That's why we built pg_durable, a new open-source PostgreSQL extension that brings durable execution directly into the database. With pg_durable, Postgres doesn’t just store your data, it runs long-lived, fault-tolerant workflows on it, with built-in retries, parallelism, scheduling, and recovery.Reach for a dedicated orchestrator when the workflow's center of gravity is outside Postgres, fanning across heterogeneous services, or running arbitrary application logic that does not map cleanly to SQL steps, branching, loops, or HTTP calls.If you find rough edges, open an issue or send a PR at microsoft/pg_durable.
09/06/2026
Online Meeting Effectiveness Index (OMEI)
The Online Meeting Effectiveness Index (OMEI) uses Azure AI to score your virtual meetings across five dimensions — Participation, Engagement, Structure, Sentiment, and Tech Quality — and tells you precisely what to fix.The resulting framework consists of five umbrella metrics — Participation, Engagement, Structure, Sentiment, and Tech Quality — each containing three sub-metrics, producing fifteen measurable indicators of meeting quality and providing a structured lens through which meeting recordings can be assessed against research-validated indicators of effectiveness, inclusiveness, and participation equity.Through the Online Meeting Effectiveness Index, we developed a structured framework that scores meetings across five core dimensions — Participation, Engagement, Structure, Sentiment, and Tech Quality — by combining Azure Video Indexer outputs, deterministic preprocessing, and LLM-based qualitative reasoning to generate interpretable scores and actionable recommendations.
09/06/2026
Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a Streaming Speech-to-Speech Audio Model Covering 70+ Languages Across Meet, Translate, and the Live API
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate streams speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages.It generates audio continuously, staying a few seconds behind the speaker.The model reaches developers via the Gemini Live API, plus Google Meet and the Translate app.
09/06/2026
Released: June 2026 Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in:Exchange 2016 and 2019 updates are available only under the Period 2 ESU programOnly customers who enrolled in the Period 2 Extended Security Update (ESU) program are eligible to receive Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 security updates released between May and October 2026.
09/06/2026
No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for June 2026
We have therefore decided that until the end of this Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 ESU Period 2 (October 2026) we will make an explicit update related announcement even if we DO NOT release anything for that particular month. There are no security releases for any version of Skype for Business Server in June 2026, for customers with SfB 2015/SfB 2019 ESU, or SfB SE.The Skype for Business Team
09/06/2026
Announcing Windows CLAT Public Preview
Public Preview Now AvailableToday, we’re thrilled to announce that Windows CLAT is now available in public preview.The public preview is available starting with Windows Insider Canary build #29599-1000, and will continue to become available in other Windows Insider Channels over the coming weeks.
09/06/2026
Level up your Azure Network Security Skills with our Upcoming Webinar Series
In this webinar, we'll explore the latest enhancements to Azure Bastion covering new capabilities that improve connectivity options, streamline the administrative experience, expand protocol and session support, and strengthen the overall security posture of remote access workflows.In this webinar, we will explore the latest enhancements to Azure Firewall covering new policy and rule management capabilities, improvements that expand protocol and traffic inspection coverage, and deeper integrations across the Azure security ecosystem to streamline operations.In this webinar, we will explore the latest enhancements to Azure WAF.
09/06/2026
Patner Case Study | Pax8
That’s why they invested heavily in enablement, education, and professional services.Grounded in their experience as a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, Pax8’s approach has changed the trajectories of organizations like Sourcepass, a US-based managed services provider (MSP).Together, Sourcepass and Pax8 are making enterprise-grade AI accessible to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)—but they’re going beyond traditional deployments.
09/06/2026
From AI Suggestions to Autonomous CRM Actions in Dynamics 365
Most AI implementations in Dynamics 365 start—and end—with case summarization.In this post, I’ll walk through a CRM Copilot Agent Accelerator built on Microsoft Power Platform that goes far beyond summarization.This approach enables organizations to reduce manual effort, improve decision quality, and scale support operations without additional Copilot licensing.
09/06/2026
More ways to qualify for the Identity and Access Management specialization
The Entra ID P2 workload has been added to the Identity and Access Management specialization, giving you more pathways to validate your expertise and stand out to both customers and Microsoft field teams searching for proven partners to deliver secure identity solutions.With more workloads available, you now have a broader set of qualifying activities to choose from.Want extra support mapping your current capabilities to the new workload criteria?
09/06/2026
From the Classroom to Community Impact: Lindsay Shelton’s MVP Journey
Heather Cook, Microsoft, MVP Lindsay Shelton, MVP Diego Domingos da Silva at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Left to right)MVP Lindsay Shelton at MVP SummitLindsay Shelton’s story matters because it challenges a common myth in tech: that there is only one right way to get here.
09/06/2026
Empowering.Cloud Community Update – June 2026
MVP Tom Arbuthnot shares all the latest Microsoft Teams and Copilot news and announcements in less than 15 minutes for June 2026. Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how change communications work across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and what's coming next. Gordon Eddy, VP of Product Management at Ribbon Communications, discusses the evolution of enterprise voice infrastructure—from on-prem appliances to cloud-native, public cloud deployments—and Ribbon's new strategic collaboration with AWS.
09/06/2026
Agent 365 | Security Operations in Defender
Triage high-severity alerts as IT in the Microsoft 365 admin center, then pivot into the full incident graph as a SOC analyst in Microsoft Defender.Today, in the second episode of this series, we build on that foundation and dive deeper from the SOC perspective in Microsoft Defender, showing how unified agent visibility enables faster detection, stronger investigations, and coordinated response with IT before agent-driven risk escalates. Alerts related to the agent are combined into a more detailed incident view, including persistent jailbreak attempts on a Copilot Studio agent and an AI agent tool invocation by the same user, which was blocked by Microsoft Defender.
09/06/2026
Elevate your telemetry using custom data collection in Microsoft Defender
At Ignite in November, we announced that Microsoft Defender is now the only endpoint protection solution that allows data-hungry security teams to meet specific telemetry needs by optimizing their data collection right within the Defender portal, without the need to rely on fragmented and siloed solutions.Security teams have been asking for guidance and examples of how to get the most out of the tool, so today we're sharing how some organizations can use custom data collection and dynamic tagging to detect command and control (C2) communications, giving defenders elevated visibility and deeper telemetry into attacker activity across the environment.Custom data collection lets you go beyond what Defender already captures without ever leaving the Defender portal.
09/06/2026
Modernizing radiology reporting—without disrupting care: A practical path to PowerScribe One
With growing imaging volumes, increasing complexity, and the rapid emergence of AI, healthcare organizations are reevaluating how their reporting environments support clinicians and strengthen operational performance.In active production across a wide range of healthcare environments (including large integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, independent radiology practices, and community hospitals), PowerScribe One reflects a solution that is both proven in practice and designed for what comes next.Over 250 organizations and 10,000+ radiologists use PowerScribe One to generate millions of reports each month.
09/06/2026
OneDrive Office Hours | June 2026
Get ready for the June OneDrive Customer Office Hours!Join the OneDrive team to learn how OneDrive is moving to a new, dedicated web address: onedrive.cloud.microsoft.This is part of Microsoft's broader effort to bring Microsoft 365 apps and services together under the unified cloud.microsoft domain, which is reserved exclusively for Microsoft's trusted, authenticated cloud services.
09/06/2026
Streaming and Batch Data Architectures with Microsoft Fabric to Azure Databricks
This article covers integration approaches -via Microsoft Fabric- and details the five Fabric-specific paths that connect OneLake/ADLS and Databricks for end-to-end data processing.Note: This architecture establishes a complete loop-back between Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, enabling Gold layer tables to be seamlessly mirrored back to Microsoft Fabric for dashboarding through Azure Databricks Mirroring. Use the Fabric monitor hub to track pipeline health, Spark application performance, and ingestion job status across all Fabric workloads.
09/06/2026
Meet the new Copilot Studio: rebuilt for more complex, multi-step work
Starting now, customers can dive into the rebuilt, revamped Microsoft Copilot Studio. The new streamlined authoring experience and modern AI core make it easier to build agents and workflows that deliver more consistent and reliable outcomes.With the new workflow designer, you can build intelligent, AI-driven processes in one place, combining structured workflow steps with agents. Share your thoughts using the feedback control in the top right corner of the product.
09/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 9, 2026
Learn about 292 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.Accenture's Sonata as a Service: Bravura Sonata is a modern pensions administration platform delivered as a fully managed cloud service by Accenture.Deploy production-ready Ubuntu virtual machines on Microsoft Azure in seconds.
09/06/2026
Announcing the Path to Production for Agents Webinar Series
Join us for the Path to Production Webinar Series on July 27-28, a two-day deep dive designed to help technical teams operationalize AI and agent-based solutions using proven architecture patterns, governance models, and engineering practices.This webinar series addresses those challenges head-on with concrete, actionable guidance spanning the full lifecycle of production AI systems.This series delivers an implementation-focused roadmap for building, deploying, and operating AI agents at enterprise scale.
09/06/2026
NVIDIA cuTile Python Tutorial: Building Tiled GPU Kernels for Vector Addition, Matrix Addition, and Matrix Multiplication in Colab
In this tutorial, we implement a hands-on workflow for NVIDIA cuTile Python, a tile-based GPU programming interface for CUDA-style kernels in Python.We prepare a Colab-friendly environment and check GPU, driver, CUDA, and cuTile availability before running kernels.We then build tiled vector addition, matrix addition, and matrix multiplication, keeping a PyTorch fallback so the notebook stays executable.
09/06/2026
Troubleshooting Azure Container Apps and Jobs for .NET and Django Workloads
But when something goes wrong and your container refuses to start, or your Container App Job silently fails, it can feel like debugging inside a black box.This first part of our four-part series walks through the most common deployment and startup failures you will hit when running .NET and Django applications on Azure Container Apps and Container App Jobs.Step 1 — Set required Django environment variables in your Container App.
09/06/2026
Make Your Copilot Credits Count: A Student's Guide to Smarter AI Usage
If you're a student enrolled in GitHub Education, you already have something most developers pay for: free access to GitHub Copilot and its premium features.Every chat message, every agent task, every model call consumes something called AI Credits, and knowing how they work will help you use Copilot smarter, produce better code, and build the kind of disciplined AI habits that professional developers are only just starting to learn.When you interact with GitHub Copilot through chat, agent mode, or inline edits the model processes tokens.
09/06/2026
A New Study from Harvard and Perplexity Finds AI Agents Perform 26 Minutes of Autonomous Work per Session vs 33 Seconds for Search
A new Harvard and Perplexity paper uses matched-pair sessions to compare an autonomous agent with a search assistant.It finds large gains in autonomy, time, and cost, plus broader scope of work attempted.The post A New Study from Harvard and Perplexity Finds AI Agents Perform 26 Minutes of Autonomous Work per Session vs 33 Seconds for Search appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/06/2026
What's new in Azure App Service at #MSBuild 2026
At Microsoft Build 2026, Azure App Service introduced a powerful set of updates designed to help organizations accelerate their journey into AI, without increasing complexity or cost.With capabilities like built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP), developers can instantly expose app functionality as agent-ready endpoints, enabling AI agents to interact with business logic securely and seamlessly.For modernization scenarios, Managed Instance on Azure App Service simplifies the migration of legacy applications, including those with OS-level dependencies.
08/06/2026
Tools for Azure AD B2C migration now available
Microsoft has invested significantly in Microsoft Entra External ID to help Azure AD B2C customers migrate with confidence and ease.Microsoft Entra External ID is a purpose-built, next-generation customer identity platform.Migrating from Azure AD B2C to Microsoft Entra External ID is an opportunity to modernize your customer identity platform while reducing operational complexity.
08/06/2026
Smaller updates, faster downloads with delta updates in Azure Device Update for IoT Hub
With delta updates in Azure Device Update for IoT Hub, fleet operators can send only what has changed between versions, reducing download size, bandwidth use, and download time on most networks.As part of a broader Azure IoT investment in more efficient edge-to-cloud data delivery, the new Device Update reference implementation agent 1.3.0 provides delta updates as a starting point that customers can build, validate, and integrate into their own environments.In this post, we'll walk through what delta updates are, how they work, and what else is new in 1.3.0 — including expanded Linux platform support to build on Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04, and new device-side visibility for tighter update control and coordination with device operations.
08/06/2026
Azure Availability Zone Mapping and VM Resilience Analysis Guidance using SRE.AZURE.COM Agent
Azure.com, helps Azure platform engineers understand how Availability Zones are mapped within their subscription and how virtual machines (VMs) are distributed across those zones.SRE.Azure.com enables discovery and analysis of zone mappings, VM placement, and infrastructure resilience.This means workloads in the same logical zone across subscriptions may not be physically co-located.Understanding this is critical for high availability, disaster recovery, compliance, and resilience planning.
08/06/2026
Microsoft Options to Migrate SQL Server Databases
This blog supplements the Migrate to Azure SQL documentation and tries to summarize the Microsoft first party ways to copy or migrate SQL Server databases from on‑premises environments to one of the flavours of SQL Server running in Azure.Before moving an on‑premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database/Hyperscale or Azure SQL Managed Instance, you should run a migration assessment.What it is: The BlobShipper application is a Windows service that automates SQL Server full and log backups to Azure Blob Storage and restores them to a target SQL Server (commonly on an Azure SQL VM).
08/06/2026
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - June 2026
This article introduces the Logic Apps Standard SDK (Microsoft.Azure.Workflows.Sdk), a code-first way to define Logic Apps Standard workflows in C#.This post introduces Azure Connector Namespaces and previews managed connectors for Azure Functions, extending the Logic Apps connector ecosystem to more compute services.Anitha Eswaran demonstrates how to make DIXF exports in D365FO dynamic using Azure Logic Apps and a small X++ customization.
08/06/2026
What’s new and next in Engage: June 2026
The Microsoft 365 Community Conference Viva Engage track demonstrated how communications are changing: for many organizations, leaders are more visible, connection is stronger, and everyday communication is becoming a useful source of organizational knowledge for AI.Examples from Capgemini, Nuveen, Foot Locker, AdventHealth, and Takeda showed how organizations are using Engage to create two-way dialog with leaders, support Copilot adoption, run employee events, and improve communication in the flow of work.Engage private content in Copilot, Community Agent, and other Copilot experiences in Engage require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
08/06/2026
ClawHub Security Signals: A Coding Guide to End-to-End Security Signal Analysis and Verdict Classification on the AI Skills Dataset
In this tutorial, we explore the ClawHub Security Signals dataset to see how scanners assess AI skills.We measure how VirusTotal, static analysis, and SkillSpector overlap and disagree using Jaccard scores and Cohen's kappa.Finally, we combine SKILL.md text with scanner signals to train a logistic regression model for ClawScan verdicts.
08/06/2026
Microsoft Entra ID security updates: What organizations need to do now
These updates focus on three key areas: replacing Custom controls with External MFA, enforcing Conditional Access consistently during credential registration, and requiring explicitly registered authentication methods for self-service password reset (SSPR).Custom controls are being deprecated in favor of External MFA.Microsoft is updating Microsoft Entra self-service password reset (SSPR) so that only explicitly registered authentication methods can be used for verification.
08/06/2026
The Future of Internal Communications Is Human + AI
But the biggest shift in communications isn’t the tools—it’s how we think.▶️ Watch the video to hear it firsthand from John Cirone and Amy Morris, from the Global Employee and Executive Comms team at Microsoft. Move from broadcast to dialogueMore leader communications are designed for conversation, not just reach, because trust is built through two-way dialogue.
08/06/2026
Designing for High Availability: The Operational Reference for Running a Geo-Replicated ACR
If you don't want to maintain different deployment manifests per region, you can keep all manifests pointing to the global endpoint (myregistry.azurecr.io) and use software-defined networking or a regional traffic manager to resolve the global endpoint to the appropriate regional endpoint based on the originating region's traffic.Private endpoints with regional endpoints and dedicated data endpointsWhen creating a geo-replica for a registry that has private endpoints configured, the replica provisioning can get stuck in a Creating state if the identity performing the operation doesn't have sufficient permissions to create private endpoint networking resources.
08/06/2026
Connect Metrics to Traces with Exemplars in Azure Monitor
Following Microsoft’s recent GA announcement for OpenTelemetry (OTel) support, we are excited to announce support for Exemplars for customers instrumenting metrics with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry and traces using OpenTelemetry, enhancing Azure Monitor’s integrated observability experience for cloud-native applications.With Azure Monitor, customers can now ingest metrics with exemplars and visualize them in Azure Managed Grafana.Ingest OTLP or Prometheus metrics with exemplars into Azure Monitor Workspace
08/06/2026
MDOP is out of support: What to do next with Microsoft Intune
On April 14, 2026, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) reached the end of extended support.Microsoft no longer provides security updates, bug fixes, or technical support for MDOP components.For more information, refer to: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) support extended.
08/06/2026
Building Low‑Code Apps for Nonprofits with Power Apps: A Practical Technical Guide
Microsoft Power Apps provides a low‑code platform that enables organizations to build custom applications—such as intake systems, volunteer check‑ins, case management tools, and inventory tracking—without requiring traditional software development. This guide explores the core architecture of Power Apps and how nonprofits can build scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that align with their programs and workflows.Model-driven apps are data-first, structured applications built on Microsoft Dataverse, where the interface is automatically generated based on your data model, relationships, and business rules.
08/06/2026
Xiaomi MiMo and TileRT Push a 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Past 1000 Tokens Per Second on Commodity GPUs
Xiaomi's MiMo team, with TileRT, released MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, a serving mode for the MiMo-V2.5-Pro model.It decodes over 1000 tokens per second on a 1-trillion-parameter model using a single 8-GPU commodity node.The post Xiaomi MiMo and TileRT Push a 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Past 1000 Tokens Per Second on Commodity GPUs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/06/2026
Driving Stop-and-Go Business Processes to Closure with Foundry Hosted Agents
This post shows how to build agents that remember, using Foundry's per-project sandbox VMs to maintain state across weeks of discontinuous work.What you'll learn: - How to persist agent state in Foundry microVMs - Session handling patterns for long-running workflows - When to choose hosted vs. local agent architecture1) The Foundry Hosted Agent is the brain: built using the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), reasons with OpenAI models on Foundry, reaches Microsoft 365 through a single Foundry Toolbox fronting the WorkIQ MCP endpoints, and owns the agent loop, skills, memory, session, state, and orchestration — calling M365 as the signed-in user via Foundry OAuth Identity Passthrough, so it never holds a user token.
08/06/2026
Microsoft Defender now monitors RPC activity
Remote procedure call (RPC) is a protocol commonly abused by attackers that allows functions implemented in a separate process, and potentially on a remote machine, to be called as if they were local.Many core Windows and Active Directory capabilities are built on or make use of RPC, which makes it an attractive target.To help protect against remote RPC-based attacks, Microsoft Defender now monitors remote RPC calls, disrupts malicious activity that leverages them, and surfaces relevant telemetry in advanced hunting.
08/06/2026
Make upgrades predictable with Pre-Upgrade Validation Checks
Today, we’re announcing the Public Preview of Pre-Upgrade Validation Checks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.This new capability lets you validate upgrade readiness before starting the actual major version upgrade, helping you identify and resolve blockers early.With Pre-Upgrade Validation Checks, you can run upgrade checks independently, review actionable results, fix issues, and re-run validation until your server is ready.
08/06/2026
The Practitioner’s Guide to AgentOps
According to Futurum Research's 2025 market overview of agentic AI platforms,
08/06/2026
ICYMI | Explore curated Microsoft Partner Digital Skilling Journeys
Skilling is foundational for success in an AI-first market. Keeping up with evolving technologies and capabilities better positions you with the skills you need to succeed in an ever-changing market, making it a base-level requirement for sustained growth.As part of our effort to support partners with skilling, we offer Microsoft Partner Digital Skilling Journeys (PDJs), curated presales, sales, and tech skilling experiences designed to enhance your knowledge aligned with partner strategic wins. First-time users may need to register—use your work email credentials to sign up. Curated journeys include: Continue reading this article on our new Partner Skilling discussion board
08/06/2026
GA of NSP for Azure Service Bus & NSP now available in Azure Gov. Regions
Network Security Perimeter (NSP) support for Azure Service Bus is now Generally Available.This milestone brings one of Azure’s most widely used messaging services into the NSP ecosystem, enabling customers to define a centralized security boundary across messaging and data services.Alongside this, we are also expanding NSP’s reach — NSP is now available in Azure Government regions, including:
08/06/2026
Power Platform tenant inventory — a community showcase of the API-first management surface
Microsoft's Power Platform inventory gives administrators a unified view of agents, apps, and flows tenant-wide, refreshed within ~15 minutes.Microsoft has been very public about its shift from a UX-first to an API-first development model for Power Platform programmability: new capabilities ship in the API first, then propagate to SDKs, CLI, PowerShell cmdlets, and connectors.The thesis behind this post is straightforward: an API-first Power Platform management surface puts a complete tenant inventory within reach in roughly 3,000 lines of C#.
08/06/2026
Archiving Years of Dataverse Audit History Before You Prune It — A Pragmatic, Open Source Pattern
The goal is to get a defensible copy of cold data out — the rows you are about to allow Dataverse to delete — not to mirror the audit feed in real time.You can run Azure Synapse Link with the Delta Lake profile and you’re happy parsing the packed changedata column on the consumer side, and your destination is ADLS / Synapse / Power BI.If you want the implementation depth this post deliberately leaves out — exact API shapes, watermark math, partial-failure drill, sink-author checklist, hosting variants, observability hooks, and the full list of operational responsibilities a self-hosted export carries — it all lives in one place:
08/06/2026
Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series, we walked through the architectural decisions that shape any Azure OpenAI / Microsoft Foundry Models workload: capacity model, deployment location, governance layer, grounding strategy, and quota engineering.The five WAF pillars — Cost Optimization, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Operational Excellence — apply just as strongly to GenAI systems as they do to traditional cloud workloads.This post walks through each pillar in the context of Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry, with best practices, common pitfalls, and the trade-offs Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) tend to hit in real engagements.
08/06/2026
Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 1)
The choices you make from day one determine whether your generative AI solution can handle real-world demand or buckle under pressure.In Part 2, we’ll translate these principles into concrete implementations: multi-region topologies, cost allocation strategies, observability and monitoring patterns, and other best practices for reliability, security, and DevOps in Azure OpenAI.When to use RAG: Use RAG if your model must reliably incorporate proprietary, dynamic, or highly specific information that isn’t part of its training data, or when you need to provide source references for answers.
08/06/2026
Enabling AI-Driven SAP Development with GitHub Copilot: Plans and Usage-Based Billing Transformation
Empower SAP customers with a strategic understanding of GitHub Copilot offerings, including plan options, value realization, account models, and key considerations for enterprise adoption.Through a guided, step-by-step setup in Visual Studio Code, SAP developers will gain hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat in real-world development scenarios.Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub is transitioning GitHub Copilot from a request-based billing model to a usage-based billing model.
08/06/2026
Now in preview: built-in MCP for Azure App Service
At Build 2026 last week, we announced the public preview of built-in MCP for Azure App Service.It does one thing, and it does it with almost no effort on your part: it turns a REST API you already host on App Service into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so AI agents and assistants can call your API as a set of tools.If your REST API runs on App Service and you can produce an OpenAPI spec for it — and most web frameworks generate one for you — you're a configuration change away from an agent-ready endpoint.
08/06/2026
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 149
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 149 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement.The Microsoft Edge version 139 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit.Microsoft Edge version 149 introduced 7 new Computer and User settings; we have included a spreadsheet listing the new settings to make it easier for you to find.
08/06/2026
Designing Reliable Data Platforms: Centralized Failure Logging Framework with Azure Monitor
Inside the logging pipeline [Customized Logs API], use a dynamic content expression to construct a JSON payload matching the Log Analytics schema.After constructing the payload, use a Web Activity to send the data to the Logs Ingestion API endpoint configured earlier.By transforming pipeline failures into structured operational telemetry, the framework evolves beyond simple logging into a true observability platform that supports proactive reliability engineering, helping teams move from reactive firefighting to data-driven operational improvements based on measurable reliability KPIs such as failure trends, MTTR, SLA compliance, severity distribution, and pipeline health scoring.
08/06/2026
Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-1.5, the second iteration of its in-house speech-to-text family.The model covers 43 languages, adds keyword (entity) biasing for domain-specific terms, posts a 2.4% Word-Error-Rate on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, and transcribes an hour of audio in under 15 seconds.It is generally available in Azure AI Foundry.
08/06/2026
Google Research Adds Agentic RAG to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with a Sufficient Context Agent for multi-hop queries
Google Research details an agentic RAG framework in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.A Sufficient Context Agent re-searches until multi-hop, multi-source queries have enough grounding to answer.The framework raises factuality accuracy up to 34% versus standard RAG.
08/06/2026
The Worm in the Supply Chain: How Defender for Endpoint and Sentinel for SAP BTP Caught Shai-Hulud
On 29 April 2026, malicious versions of multiple SAP ecosystem npm packages were briefly published, creating a supply-chain exposure for SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) development environments and CI/CD pipelines.Four official npm packages from the SAP development ecosystem were published in malicious versions that day.Security researchers are calling the campaign "Mini Shai-Hulud" - the little cousin of the worm family that has been chewing its way through open-source registries for months.
08/06/2026
Getting Secrets Out of YAML: Implementing Azure Key Vault CSI Driver on AKS with Workload Identity
The Azure Key Vault CSI Driver solves this by introducing a runtime mapping layer instead of a pipeline substitution layer.Azure Key Vault Provider for Secrets Store CSI Driver https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/csi-secrets-store-driverThe Azure Key Vault CSI Driver + Workload Identity pattern fundamentally changes how secrets flow through AKS environments.
08/06/2026
Building Reflective Prompt Optimization with GEPA: Multi-Component Prompts, Structured Feedback, and Held-Out Validation
In this tutorial, we use GEPA as a reflective prompt-evolution framework to improve how a small language model solves multi-step arithmetic word problems.We start from a weak seed prompt, build a deterministic benchmark, and define a structured evaluator that returns actionable feedback.We then compare the baseline and optimized prompts on a held-out validation set to check whether the gains generalize.
07/06/2026
Understanding MCP in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: A Beginner’s Guide
One of the latest developments enabling this transformation is the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this blog, we'll explore what MCP is, why it matters, and how it can be used with Business Central through Microsoft Copilot Studio.Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows AI applications and agents to securely communicate with business systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
07/06/2026
Best 21 Low-Code and No-Code AI Tools in 2026
Low-code and no-code AI platforms now turn a prompt into a working app, agent, or model. This guide compares 21 tools across app builders, automation, AI agents, and machine learning platforms, each linked to its official site. The post Best 21 Low-Code and No-Code AI Tools in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/06/2026
Faster az login: introducing --skip-subscription-discovery and targeted --subscription
Because you're skipping the tenant/subscription enumeration, the CLI can't infer which tenant to sign in to, so you must name it explicitly.On an interactive login (no cached or still-valid token), the Web Account Manager (WAM) account picker still appears so you can authenticate; File an issue on the Azure CLI repo: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/new/choose
07/06/2026
Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent Trained With Reinforcement Learning Inside a Stateful Search Harness on gpt-oss-20b
UIUC and Chroma's Harness-1 is a 20B retrieval subagent trained with reinforcement learning inside a stateful search harness.The harness maintains the bookkeeping — candidate pool, importance-tagged curated set, evidence graph, verification records — while the policy decides what to search, curate, verify, and when to stop.It reaches 0.730 average curated recall across eight benchmarks, beating the next open subagent by 11.4 points and trailing only Opus-4.6.
07/06/2026
NVIDIA garak Tutorial: Build a Complete Defensive LLM Red-Teaming Workflow with Custom Probes and Detectors
This tutorial walks through NVIDIA garak as an end-to-end framework for defensive LLM red-teaming.It covers setup, plugin discovery, dry runs, real-model scans on a Hugging Face generator, and multi-probe evaluations.The workflow then analyzes safety scores and attack success rates, inspects flagged outputs, and extends garak with a custom probe and detector.
07/06/2026
Google’s New Colab CLI Lets Developers and AI Agents Run Python on Remote Colab GPUs and TPUs From the Terminal
Google released the Colab CLI, letting developers and AI agents run local code on remote Colab GPU and TPU runtime The post Google’s New Colab CLI Lets Developers and AI Agents Run Python on Remote Colab GPUs and TPUs From the Terminal appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/06/2026
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi Code CLI: A Terminal AI Coding Agent Built in TypeScript for Next-Gen Agents
Kimi Code CLI is Moonshot AI's open-source terminal coding agent, written in TypeScript with subagents and MCP configuration. The post Moonshot AI Releases Kimi Code CLI: A Terminal AI Coding Agent Built in TypeScript for Next-Gen Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/06/2026
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 ASR, a cache-aware 600M streaming model transcribing 40 language-locales in real time from one checkpoint.The post NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/06/2026
Govern AI Agents Using Agent Governance Toolkit and Azure Container App Sandboxes
When you let a model generate code and you actually execute it, you are handing the model a Python REPL on whatever machine runs the agent.AGT ships a Python package — agt-sandbox — that answers both, and a recently added sandbox provider that was recently announced in Build 2026 - Azure container app sandboxes.The rest of this post walks through what's in the agt-sandbox package, the abstraction it pivots on, the new ACA provider, how it composes with AGT policy, and a full LLM-planned research agent built on top.
05/06/2026
A Hands-On Coding Tutorial on Qualcomm AI Hub Models for Classification, Object Detection, and Hardware-Aware Deployment
Set up Qualcomm AI Hub Models to run MobileNet-V2 inference, YOLOv7 detection, and compile models on real devices.The post A Hands-On Coding Tutorial on Qualcomm AI Hub Models for Classification, Object Detection, and Hardware-Aware Deployment appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/06/2026
Turning Nonprofit Data Into Action: A Technical Guide to Power BI
This guide dives deeper into the technical foundations required to build nonprofit‑ready analytics solutions.Power BI Architecture for NonprofitsUse report visuals to present key metrics and patterns, then pin selected visuals to dashboards in the Power BI Service for executive-level monitoring.
05/06/2026
Enhancements to Device Status API & Logged-In User Email in Endpoint DLP
Before the introduction of the Device Status API enhancements and logged‑in user visibility, Endpoint DLP teams consistently struggled in below discussed areas:Device health, configuration status, policy sync state, OS version, and Defender version become query able signals"These enhancements evolve Endpoint DLP from a static, deployment‑centric control into a continuously observable, user‑context aware security signal, significantly reducing investigation time, operational overhead, and trust gaps at scale"
05/06/2026
Extend Microsoft Purview data protection to AWS Bedrock agents for cross-cloud AI governance
A team might use Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview for governance and in addition to Microsoft Foundry they may still choose to run an AI agent on AWS Bedrock or on the Google Cloud Platform.This is where Microsoft Purview becomes the central policy engine for your data estate.In this post, we show why that matters and then walk through a practical example: an expense approval agent running on Amazon Bedrock, protected by Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies.
05/06/2026
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory
Compare Gemma 4 edge formats: BF16, Q4_0 QAT, and mobile QAT, on published memory numbers and design tradeoffs. The post Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/06/2026
Title Plan Update - June 5, 2026
📁June 5, 2026 - Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan.
05/06/2026
A Multi-Region Microsoft Foundry Pattern for Enterprise Private Networking
That is why a multi-region Microsoft Foundry pattern matters: it lets teams deploy Foundry where capacity and platform readiness are available, while continuing to use existing private resources in another region without breaking security or operational expectations.The architecture pattern: Foundry in one region, enterprise resources in anotherIn this pattern, a Foundry account and project are deployed in the region that best fits platform availability, quota, or rollout needs, while enterprise-owned services such as Azure AI Search, Azure Cosmos DB, Key Vault, storage, and Application Insights remain in their approved home region.
05/06/2026
Build AI skills at Microsoft AI Skills Fest
Register now for Microsoft AI Skills Fest, a no-cost digital skilling event taking place June 8–12. Designed so partners can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, attendees can build in-demand AI skills, gain practical insights, and discover ways to deliver innovative solutions, deepen customer relationships, and stay competitive in a fast-changing market. Get ready to lead Frontier Transformation Want to fast-track your badge completion?Join us at the Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit on June 9 for a live, expert-led skilling experience where you’ll explore how to use Microsoft Agent Factory at scale, build your expertise, demonstrate organizational readiness, and lead Frontier Transformation for your customers.
05/06/2026
Stay productive in new Outlook for Windows with these 5 features
Conversely, you can snooze an email from your inbox and have it reappear at a time you’d prefer to read it by right-clicking on the message, then selecting Snooze and choosing a date and time.With Sweep, you can create automatic actions for messages from a specific sender.When you select Follow on a meeting, you get access to the meeting recap without having to attend.
05/06/2026
Building Semantic Search with Transformers.js and Sentence Embeddings
You've probably shipped this bug before, where a user types " affordable laptop " into your search bar and gets zero results.
05/06/2026
NVIDIA AI Releases Dynamo Snapshot: A CRIU-Based Fast Startup System for AI Inference on Kubernetes
NVIDIA Dynamo Snapshot checkpoints and restores vLLM inference workers on Kubernetes using CRIU and cuda-checkpoint tools. The post NVIDIA AI Releases Dynamo Snapshot: A CRIU-Based Fast Startup System for AI Inference on Kubernetes appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/06/2026
Perplexity AI Introduces Hybrid Local-Server Inference Orchestrator for Personal Computer: Automatic On-Device and Cloud Task Routing
Perplexity AI announces a hybrid local-server inference orchestrator for Personal Computer, automatically routing AI tasks between on-device and cloud models.The post Perplexity AI Introduces Hybrid Local-Server Inference Orchestrator for Personal Computer: Automatic On-Device and Cloud Task Routing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/06/2026
Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint
A hands-on guide to running Microsoft Fara in Colab, testing the browser agent loop with a mock endpoint. The post Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/06/2026
15 Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Pricing, Features, and Best Fit
Vibe coding turns plain language into working software. Explore 15 tools shaping how developers build apps in 2026. The post 15 Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Pricing, Features, and Best Fit appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/06/2026
Regional Endpoints for Azure Container Registry Geo-Replication — Now in Public Preview
Regional endpoints for geo-replicated Azure Container Registries are now in public preview.The private preview CLI extension conflicts with the built-in commands in Azure CLI 2.86.0+.The old flag name for controlling a geo-replica's global endpoint routing configuration is deprecated and will be removed in Azure CLI 2.87.0 (June 2026).
05/06/2026
Azure Monitor Health Model (Preview): What's New!
Azure Monitor Health Model is a modern observability capability that brings together telemetry, architecture, and business context of your workloads to generate health insights.Azure Monitor health models now support multiple discovery mechanisms:By introducing platform defaults and surfacing recommended signals, we make it easier to align health models with proven Azure best practices from day one.
05/06/2026
Pod CIDR Expansion Generally Available and IP Address Planning on Azure CNI Overlay
In networking with Azure CNI Overlay, the cluster-wide pod CIDR is logically partitioned into smaller “node” blocks where each node is assigned a fixed CIDR slice (/24) by Azure.Pod CIDR expansion allows you to expand the existing CIDR without downtime or node reimaging.Expand Pod CIDR Space in Azure CNI Overlay Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Clusters
05/06/2026
Building a Semantic Search Engine and Open-Status Classifier over the ResearchMath-14k Dataset
This tutorial walks through a complete NLP pipeline for research-level mathematics.Using the ResearchMath-14k dataset, we extract field-specific keywords with TF-IDF, generate sentence embeddings, visualize the problem landscape with UMAP, cluster with K-Means, build a semantic search engine, and train a classifier to predict each problem's open status — then surface near-duplicate problems by similarity.The post Building a Semantic Search Engine and Open-Status Classifier over the ResearchMath-14k Dataset appeared first on MarkTechPost.
04/06/2026
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: An Open 550B Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer for Long-Running Agents
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B total (55B active) open Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer for long-running agents.It pairs a 1M-token context with up to ~6x higher inference throughput than comparable open LLMs at on-par accuracy, and ships with open weights, training data, and recipes under OpenMDW-1.1.The post NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: An Open 550B Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer for Long-Running Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
04/06/2026
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter
Defender for Cloud is now integrated into the Defender portal to bring together cloud security posture management and threat protection in a single experience.Cloud security reporting in the Defender portal is now in public previewCustomers can now create, customize, and share security insights across the organization through Defender portal’s integrated cloud security reporting capabilities.
04/06/2026
Run Global Secure Access with confidence: Introducing the GSA Operations Guide
A prescriptive Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access operations guide on Microsoft LearnThis post-deployment playbook delivers prescriptive guidance for running Global Secure Access in production at scale.Soon we will publish the GSA Security Operations Guide for Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access, providing a dedicated security monitoring and detection companion to the operational guides for Private Access, Internet Access, Remote Networks, and Microsoft traffic.
04/06/2026
Giving Developers Claude Code with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry
Claude models run in Microsoft Foundry, billed through your Azure subscription — no Anthropic contract or keys required.Azure API Management (APIM) sits in front as an LLM gateway: it authenticates each developer with Entra ID, enforces per-user rate limits and token quotas, and emits per-user usage metrics for chargeback.Start your pilot today: Deploy a Developer-tier APIM instance, connect it to Foundry, and have your first developer running Claude Code through the gateway by end of day.
04/06/2026
Partner Blog | Streamline your campaign execution with Partner Marketing Center Pro
Partner Marketing Center Pro simplifies campaign execution Partner Marketing Center Pro Is the unified, AI-powered marketing hub designed to streamline end-to-end planning, activation, execution, and performance tracking. It enables partners to reduce manual production work, scale demand generation more consistently, and move from campaign idea to customer engagement faster. In this video walkthrough, Maddie Cupchak from Pax8 shows how PMC Pro brings campaign discovery, AI-assisted customization, translation, publishing workflows, lead engagement visibility, and reporting into one unified experience.
04/06/2026
Teams Remote App/ Cloud App optimization for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop now GA
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Microsoft Teams for Remote App scenarios, expanding support for optimized Microsoft Teams experiences when connecting to Azure Virtual Desktop.The new optimization improves audio and video performance, reliability, and security, and simplifies ongoing support by enabling media engine updates without frequent upgrades to the infrastructure or client.This feature will be available to anyone using Microsoft Teams as a Remote App on Azure Virtual Desktop or Cloud Apps on Windows 365 from Windows endpoints.
04/06/2026
From campus to career: 3 practical steps for students
This graduation season, build the skills employers are looking for, create proof-of-work to get you noticed, grow as a global student community leader.Microsoft AI Skills Fest (June 8–12, 2026) is a large, no-cost online AI skilling event (registration required).Many colleges provide students with access to AI tools like Microsoft Copilot.
04/06/2026
From insight to action: how Adobe and Microsoft are helping marketers move faster with AI
Bringing customer experience intelligence into the flow of workAdobe Marketing Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot: now generally availableA major milestone in this journey is the general availability of the Adobe Marketing Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot, now available via Microsoft Commercial Marketplace.
04/06/2026
Driving AI-Powered Healthcare: Advanced Analytics, AI, and Real-World Impact Workshop
The modern data estate and how Microsoft Fabric unifies analyticsReal-world healthcare and life sciences use cases driving impactBuilding unified data foundations in Microsoft Fabric
04/06/2026
Harness-Driven Agents: Secure Podcast Pipeline in Hyperlight MicroVM Sandbox
harnessagent_sandbox_demo is a concrete build that puts that bounding box in exactly the right place — and it does it in service of a real, charming little product: a daily five-minute Mandarin podcast about the FIFA World Cup 2026.Every day it produces a fresh Mandarin podcast script about the FIFA World Cup 2026.A MicroVM gives each workload its own kernel and a hardware-enforced boundary — the isolation strength of a full VM — stripped down to start in milliseconds and tear down just as fast.
04/06/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: June 4, 2026
Learn about 387 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
04/06/2026
Using Scikit-LLM with Open-Source LLMs
This article will teach you how to perform a language task like text classification by integrating locally hosted large language models (LLMs) of manageable size, like Mistral, Gemma, and Llama 3: all for free thanks to Ollama — a free repository for local LLMs — and the Scikit-LLM Python library.
04/06/2026
Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8B text-to-speech model.It uses residual vector quantization (RVQ) to scale its sonic range without scaling parameters, and conditions on both text and audio context to respond to speaker tone.The architecture pairs a 7.7B backbone with a 300M depth decoder.
04/06/2026
Foundry Toolkit for VS Code at //build: Hosted Agents End-to-End, a Smarter Toolbox, and More
We’re excited to share what’s new for Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code at //build 2026.The headline: a complete, end-to-end Hosted Agent experience, scaffold, run, deploy, and observe without ever leaving VS Code.On top of that, we’ve expanded the Toolbox with native enterprise integrations and shipped a wave of LangGraph samples so every developer has a clear path from idea to production.
04/06/2026
Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
Stanford researchers released OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that runs inference, agents, memory, and learning entirely on-device.It decomposes a personal AI system into five composable primitives — Intelligence, Engine, Agents, Tools & Memory, and Learning — and lands within 3.2 points of the best cloud model at roughly 800× lower marginal API cost.The post Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
04/06/2026
MANA support for Existing VM SKUs:Why Now Is the Right Time to Update Linux on your SAP on Azure VMs
Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) support for existing VM SKUs Microsoft recently announced support for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) for existing VM SKUs.That said, support status is not the same as optimal readiness for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA).
04/06/2026
Updated skilling route for the Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams specialization
As of April 15, 2026, the Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams specialization now includes the Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate certification as a skilling option.Completion of the Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms Technical Assessment on or before June 15, 2026, will count toward the specialization through June 15, 2027.If you're working toward the specialization, align to the updated skilling requirement now.
04/06/2026
Skilling requirement update for Calling for Microsoft Teams specialization
Differentiate your capabilities and stand out in market with the Calling for Microsoft Teams specialization.The Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate certification will replace the Teams Calling Technical Assessment, which is being retired effective June 15, 2026.Completion of the Teams Calling Technical Assessment on or before June 15, 2026, will count toward the specialization through June 15, 2027.
03/06/2026
Partner Blog | Microsoft Build 2026: Turning innovation into partner growth
Microsoft Build 2026 brought together developers at a pivotal moment. AI is reshaping how applications are built, scaled, secured, and operated, and developers are moving from creating simple assistants to long-running agentic systems that can execute real workflows. For Microsoft partners, the opportunity is clear. Customers are asking for more than experimentation. They want to move from pilots to production an...
03/06/2026
Build Enterprise-Ready Agents with Microsoft IQ and Oracle AI Database@Azure — now with Oracle MCP
We’re making it easier to bring Oracle data into intelligent applications with Microsoft IQ and Oracle AI Database@Azure. Oracle Managed Database MCP (Model Context Protocol) remote servers are now available in Microsoft Foundry—introducing a fully managed option that simplifies AI integration without disrupting existing MCP workflows. This builds on the momentum with Oracle AI Database@Azure, where enterprises are already pushing the boundaries of what's possible with Oracle data...
03/06/2026
DevOps for Microsoft Hosted Agents: From Terraform Apply to Production-Grade Agent Delivery
A companion piece to Infrastructure as Code for AI: Building and Deploying Microsoft Hosted Agents with Terraform. Just announced — source-code deploy (preview). Foundry has just added a second Hosted Agent deploy path alongside the container path this p...
03/06/2026
How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers
We build a document intelligence backend with iii by registering modular functions and reusing them across multiple triggers. The post How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers appeared first on MarkTechPost.
03/06/2026
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop
Gemma 4 12B feeds vision and audio straight into the LLM backbone, running locally under an Apache 2.0 license. The post Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop appeared first on MarkTechPost.
03/06/2026
Announcing Confidential Live Migration in Azure
Authored by Caroline Perez-Vargas, Michael McReynolds Introduction Today at Build, Microsoft showcased Confidential Live Migration, a new capability that helps move Intel® TDX Confidential VMs to updated infrastructure with limited interruption while helping protect VM memory and execution context during migration. Live migration is foundational to reliability: it can improve host availability and help enable routine updates wit...
03/06/2026
Accessibility Tools in Windows & Microsoft 365 Every Nonprofit Should Know
Accessibility isn’t optional for nonprofits — it’s essential. Whether serving clients, supporting staff, or engaging volunteers, organizations must ensure digital tools are usable by everyone. Microsoft 365 and Windows include powerful, built‑in accessibility features that many nonprofits overlook. This blog explores the most impactful tools, how they work, and how to configure them using official Microsoft guidance. Accessibility Architecture in Microsoft 365<...
03/06/2026
Azure Event Grid: Powering IoT and Event-Driven Applications at Scale
Modern IoT and event-driven applications demand more than reliable messaging. They require the ability to handle larger payloads, efficiently route data at scale, and automatically adapt to changing workloads. Today, we're excited to introduce a new set of capabilities in Azure Event Grid Namespace (MQTT Broker & Event Broker) that help organizations build more scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient connected solutions. With support for
03/06/2026
Is 94% of your syslog just noise? Now you can filter it out before ingestion.
At Microsoft Build 2026, we are announcing the public preview of multi-stage transformations for Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules (DCRs). Multi-stage transformations let you filter, aggregate, parse, and map your logs at the point of collection, before data is ingested into your workspace. Processing happens in a defined sequence of steps called processors, and you can chain them together to build precise data pipelines that reduce ingestion volume, improve data quality, and lower monitori...
03/06/2026
When Telemetry Volume Gets Real: Azure Monitor pipeline’s Performance Story!
What is Azure Monitor pipeline? Azure Monitor pipeline provides centralized governance and a single point of control that runs close to your data sources, so you can filter, transform, aggregate, and route telemetry before it's sent to Azure Monitor. This approach helps you reduce ingestion volume, improve reliability in disconnected environments, and apply consistent data processing across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Built on OpenTelemetry technology, the pipeline supp...
03/06/2026
Introducing the New Browser Automation Tool with Toolboxes in Foundry
AI agents can reason through complex problems—but they hit a wall when workflows require clicking buttons, filling forms, or navigating web interfaces. The Browser Automation Tool bridges that gap, giving your agents the ability to interact with any website the same way a human would. Here's what's new in our latest release with Toolboxes support in hosted agents. Browser Automation Tool is available as an MCP ( Model Context Protocol) to...
03/06/2026
Azure Speech at Build 2026: Powering Voice Agents with Real-Time and Life-like Experiences
Voice is rapidly becoming the default interface for AI. At Build 2026, Azure Speech in Foundry Tools is making it dramatically easier to ship production-grade voice experiences that feel real, responsive, and global. From agentic, low-latency Voice Live experiences built natively into Microsoft Foundry Agent, to a new generation of LLM powered Speech to text and Text to speech voices - every layer of the Speech stack is getting faster, more expressive, and more cust...
03/06/2026
15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows
Hello, Outlook community. I’m Vicki Milton, a Principal Product Manager on the Outlook team. Over the last year, we’ve added important capabilities across areas such as offline support, shared mailboxes, and PST files. Alongside those milestones, we've continued to deliver smaller improvements that help people work more efficiently throughout the day. This article highlights 15 productivity features in the new Outlook for Windows that can help you stay organized, reduce routine ...
03/06/2026
Foundry Labs @ Build 2026
We launched Foundry Labs last year as the home for cutting-edge AI experiments from across Microsoft. It is meant to be a place where developers could try, fork, and build with our earliest prototypes. The response from the community has been tremendous, and we're doubling down. Today at Build 2026, we're rolling out a refreshed experience for
03/06/2026
Evaluate before you ship: introducing the Voice Live Evaluation Harness
You've built a voice agent on Azure Voice Live. It demos beautifully. Then a teammate asks the question that keeps every voice-agent team up at night: "How do we know it's actually good — across 200 customer calls, not the three we just listened to?" Until today, the honest answer was: put on headphones. Manual listening. Subjective scoring in a spreadsheet. No baseline, no regression signal, no way to defend a model swap with data. We're...
03/06/2026
News to Know – Volume 3, Edition 6, June 2026
This month’s newsletter brings together the latest updates, insights, and best practices to help you use Viva Glint & Pulse as part of your broader AI transformation strategy. As Copilot adoption grows, employee listening can help organizations better understand employee experiences, identify opportunities for support, and turn feedback into action that drives meaningful business impact. *Side note: Have ...
03/06/2026
Learn about Level Access's digital accessibility partner solution in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Level Access deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace. Learn about this offer below:
03/06/2026
File share migrations simplified with Azure Copilot Migration Agent
Building on our earlier announcement of discovery and assessment support for SMB and NFS file shares in Azure Migrate, we are extending the experience to support end-to-end file share migrations within the same workflow. With
03/06/2026
Event Recap - European Collab Summit 2026 - Cologne Germany
From May 5 to 7, 2026, the global Microsoft community came together in Cologne, Germany for the European Collaboration Summit 2026, a gathering of innovators, builders, and leaders shaping the future of work. With over 275 sessions spanning the European Collaboration, AI & Cloud, and BizApps Summits, Microsoft’s presence was both expansive and impactful,&nbs...
03/06/2026
Nous Research Releases Hermes Desktop: A Native Cross-Platform Front End for Hermes Agent v0.15.2 with Streaming Tool Output
Hermes Desktop is a no-terminal GUI sharing one agent core, skills, and memory with the Hermes Agent CLI. The post Nous Research Releases Hermes Desktop: A Native Cross-Platform Front End for Hermes Agent v0.15.2 with Streaming Tool Output appeared first on MarkTechPost
03/06/2026
NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3: A Two-Tower Mixture-of-Transformers Foundation Model Unifying Physical Reasoning, World Generation, and Action Generation
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, open omnimodal world models pairing an autoregressive VLM reasoner with a diffusion generator for physical AI. The post NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3: A Two-Tower Mixture-of-Transformers Foundation Model Unifying Physical Reasoning, World Generation, and Action Generation<...
03/06/2026
Designing Cloud Landing Zones by Traffic Flow: A Defence‑in‑Depth, DMZ‑First Architecture
As enterprises adopt Microsoft Azure for large‑scale and regulated workloads, security architecture must be driven by traffic trust boundaries and inspection intent, not connectivity alone. Regulatory frameworks consistently require a clear separation between Internet‑untrusted and private enterprise traffic, enforced through
03/06/2026
Bug fixes in Microsoft Access - Current Channel Version 2605 (Build 16.0.20026.20118)
Bug Name Issue Fixed Edge Browser Control didn't render PDFs on some machines
03/06/2026
Token economics–driven architecture: hybrid models, AI Runway, AKS Kata MicroVM, MCP
1. The moment the bill arrived For most of 2024 and 2025, "Agents" were a demo word. In 2026 they are a line item on the cloud invoice. Every major model provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, and even the in-cluster open-weights serving stacks — now bills by the token. Input tokens, output tokens, cached tokens, reasoning tokens, tool-call tokens. The unit price has come down. The number of tokens an autonomous agen...
03/06/2026
GitHub Action for Deploying Hosted Agents
Introduction With Microsoft's introduction to Hosted Agents comes a next logical question. How to implement this? Organizations need a method that is quick, repeatable, and requires minimal adjustments to their existing tooling and processes. Thus, we will walk through how to deploy a Hosted Agent through a repeatable GitHub Action. If this is new to you this blog is a follow up to
03/06/2026
Transparent data encryption in Azure SQL Database now supports AES keys (Public Preview)
For teams thinking about long-term cryptographic resilience, this preview is especially relevant. TDE with customer-managed keys has traditionally used asymmetric RSA-based key protectors, while broader industry guidance is increasingly focused on preparing for a post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) future and adopting cryptographic approaches that are better aligned with that transition. This update aligns with broader security guidance, including
03/06/2026
New Capabilities to Observe Agents in Azure Monitor
Over the last six months, we have been listening to you and building new capabilities to help you observe your agents. You’ve been sharing with us that quality issues are tricky and evaluation is critical, that agent reasoning needs to be understood, that humans must be in the loop to review select agent interactions, and that security and privacy are essential. To address these concerns, we’re announcing several new capabilities that make agents a first-class artifact in Azure Monitor...
03/06/2026
Deploying Foundry Hosted Agents via REST API
Introduction At Microsoft Build `26 it was announced that Microsoft Foundry Hosted will soon be generally available. This blog post will out...
03/06/2026
How to Fine-Tune LFM2 Using QLoRA and DPO: A Complete Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on Google Colab
Learn to fine-tune LFM2 with QLoRA, supervised fine-tuning, DPO, and adapter merging using TRL and PEFT on Colab. The post How to Fine-Tune LFM2 Using QLoRA and DPO: A Complete Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on Google Colab appeared first on MarkTechPost.
03/06/2026
The end of patching era for containers: Microsoft Defender for Cloud expands hardened image support
Why hardened images are becoming the new baseline for container image security Container security is evolving beyond vulnerability scanning alone. Across the ecosystem - spanning container platforms, registries, and software supply chain tooling - customers are increasingly adopting hardened container images - images that are minimal by design, transparent in composition, and continuously maintaine...
02/06/2026
Inside ACR Artifact Cache: Pull-Through Caching at Scale
By: Akash Singhal, Luis Dieguez, Kiran Challa, Nathan Anderson,
02/06/2026
Is Your Monitoring Actually Working? What's New in Monitoring Coverage
Monitoring is only useful when the right signals are collected, the right alerts are in place, and the data is actually flowing when teams need it. In large Azure environments, confirming all three across every VM and AKS cluster can still take too much manual work. At Microsoft Ignite, we introduced Monitoring Coverage in Azure Monitor, a centralized preview experience for finding coverage gaps and enabling recommended VM and container monitoring at scale. At Microsoft Build, we are e...
02/06/2026
Protect Azure Cosmos DB with vaulted backups using Azure Backup (preview)
As organizations increasingly rely on Azure Cosmos DB to power mission‑critical, globally distributed applications, protecting this data from accidental deletion, malicious activity, and ransomware has become more important than ever. At MS Build 2026, we’re excited to announce the preview of Azure Backup for Cosmos DB, which introduces vaulted backups—a secure, isolated, and fully managed backup solution designed to s...
02/06/2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot on mobile: What staged rollout plans can miss
IT teams often design rollout plans in careful stages: the right pilot group, the right prerequisites, the right communications, and the right guardrails. Sequencing matters. But when Microsoft 365 Copilot on mobile shows up in your environment, the shape of adoption can change. Employee behavior doesn’t always follow the same tidy stages as licensing or deployment plans. Once ...
02/06/2026
MGCI | Newsletter May 2026
Hi MGCI Members! Things are moving fast across the MGCI community, and the energy is hard to miss. From behind-the-scenes looks at what makes Community Days DC successful to global events bringing thousands together, there’s a lot happening (and a lot to be proud of). Add in new Regional Leaders on the way, upcoming sessions, and a packed event calendar, and it’s clear this community keeps leveling up. Let’s dive into what’s been happening around the world and what’s coming up n...
02/06/2026
Azure Functions MCP Extension: What's New at Build 2026
The Azure Functions MCP extension has had a breakout year! Since its initial preview, the extension has grown from a single trigger type into a full-featured platform for building remote MCP servers: with tool, resource, and prompt triggers across multiple languages, MCP Apps for interactive UIs, built-in MCP authentication, and feature enhancements. Here's what's new and what it means for developers building MCP servers on Azure Functions. The full MCP primitive set: Tools, resources...
02/06/2026
Anyscale on Azure: Powering Enterprise AI at Massive Scale on Azure Kubernetes Service
Somewhere on your AI platform team, an engineer is on call this weekend — not for the model, not for the training run, but for the integration code holding five separate AI processing systems together. Data preparation on one. Training on a second. Evaluation on a third. Serving on a fourth. Observability bolted on across all of it. The glue between them has quietly evolved into a production system of its own, complete with its own failure modes and its own pager.
02/06/2026
Write Logic Apps in C#: introducing the Logic Apps Standard SDK
The workflow you always wished you could write in code If you build on Logic Apps Standard, you already know the deal: the runtime is excellent at the unglamorous parts of integration - connecting to systems, retrying, scaling, keeping run history you can actually debug. What you sometimes wanted was a different front door. You're a .NET developer. You live in C#, source control, and pull requests. And for a long time, authoring a workflow meant leaving all of that behind for a visua...
02/06/2026
New AI gateway capabilities in Azure API Management
Multi-model, multi-protocol AI applications are quickly becoming the norm. Teams are mixing OpenAI, Anthropic, and Vertex AI models, exposing tools through MCP, and wiring agents together with A2A. As that surface grows, so does the work of keeping it secure, observable, and consistent. Our ongoing strategy for the AI gateway capabilities in Azure API Management centers on that problem: providing one place to manage models, MCP tools, and agents, no matter which provider or protocol is...
02/06/2026
Announcing Go support in Azure Functions (Preview)
We're excited to announce that Azure Functions now supports Go as a first-class language, available today in public preview on the Flex Consumption plan. Go developers can now build event-driven, serverless applications using idiomatic Go, the standard toolchain they already love, and the full breadth of Azure Functions triggers, bindings, and operational capabilities. TL;DR: Write Functions in Go...
02/06/2026
What’s new in Observability at Build 2026
Observability for AI and Agent Workloads AI agents are moving from prototype to production. To help teams ship and operate agents with the same rigor as the rest of their stack, Azure Monitor & Azure Copilot Observability agent brings end-to-end agent observability — grounded in OpenTelemetry so signals are portable across the toolchain. Agent Observability in Azure Monitor Agents are now a first-class artifact...
02/06/2026
Announcing Azure Linux 4.0: Purpose-Built for Azure, Now in Public Preview
Today at Microsoft Build, we're announcing the public preview of Azure Linux 4.0 - Microsoft's first party Linux distribution, purpose-built for Azure. Azure Linux 4.0 is available now for Azure Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, and container images – with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) coming soon after.
02/06/2026
Introducing Azure Container Linux (ACL)
Today at Microsoft Build 2026, we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Container Linux (ACL): a secure, immutable container host designed to help platform teams run Kubernetes workloads at scale on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with greater consistency, reduced operational overhead, and a stronger default security posture. This release builds on Microsoft’s long-standing commitment to the Flatcar Containe...
02/06/2026
🎉 Automation just became a team sport. Meet Azure Logic Apps Automation.
Low barrier to entry. Built for production. Now in Public Preview There's a moment that plays out in almost every organization right now. Someone closest a business problem - a retail ops lead, a finance analyst, a security analyst looks at a repetitive process and thinks, this should just run itself. For most of computing history, ...
02/06/2026
Partner Case Study | United Technologies
Founded in 1994, United Technologies (Int’l) Ltd. is a leading IT service and accounting solutions provider based in Hong Kong. United Technologies joined the Microsoft Marketplace Rewards program to utilize the global advantage of co-marketing with Microsoft as a critical step toward expanding its business beyond its existing market in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. At the end of 2025, the company executed a listing optimization and press release support to promote SmartBusi...
02/06/2026
📢 Announcing Knowledge as a Service for Azure Logic Apps
Now in Public Preview Turn your documents into a ready-to-use knowledge base without custom RAG pipelines. Today at Microsoft Build 2026, we are announcing the Publi...
02/06/2026
Better Together: Build Agents in Microsoft Foundry, Automate them with Azure Logic Apps
One agentic stack: Foundry brings the intelligence; Logic Apps brings the automation and orchestration. The promise of agentic AI is not simply more capable chat. It is autonomous work that advances real business processes. To achieve this, agents require two things: a place to be built with the appropriate models, instructions, knowledge, and guardr...
02/06/2026
Introducing the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime (preview)
We're thrilled to announce the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime, now in public preview. It brings a new, markdown-first programming model for building AI agents as a first-class workload on Azure Functions, with the event-driven triggers, scale-to-zero economics, and operational integrations you know and love from the platform. A few things you could build in a matter of minutes:
02/06/2026
What's new in Azure API Management at Microsoft Build 2026
For more than a decade, Azure API Management has helped organizations secure, govern, and operate APIs at enterprise scale. As organizations build more AI-powered applications, APIs are increasingly part of a broader architecture that includes AI models, agents, MCP tools, and agent-to-agent interactions. These new patterns increase the need for consistent governance, discovery, security, and observability...
02/06/2026
Introducing On-demand Sandboxes for Azure Durable Task Scheduler (Private Preview)
Maybe it needs a native toolchain. Maybe it runs untrusted customer or LLM-generated code. Maybe it needs Python from a .NET orchestrator, or bursty compute that should scale to zero when the work is done. Today, we're thrilled to announce On-demand Sandboxes for Azure Durable Task Scheduler, now available in private preview. On-demand Sandboxes lets you move those individual workflow steps to managed, isolated compute while your orchestrator stays exa...
02/06/2026
Announcing Anyscale on Azure public preview: Powered by Ray on AKS
What's new The defining workload of the cloud era is no longer a web service or a database. It is a distributed AI training or inference job that needs thousands of GPUs, a coherent data plane, and a way for a handful of engineers to operate all of it without losing their weekends. Getting there is still harder than it should be. GPU capacity is fragmented across regions and SKUs, data is scattered across the lifecycle, and identity and credentials sprawl with ...
02/06/2026
Announcing managed connectors for Azure Functions (Preview)
Azure Functions now includes managed connectors in public preview - the same 1,400+ connector ecosystem behind Logic Apps and Power Platform - as first-class triggers in your Functions code, plus typed SDKs for invoking connector actions from your function body. Build event-driven integrations with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Dynamics 365, and 1,400+ other systems using familiar Functions syntax. This release is the result of...
02/06/2026
Introducing Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Secure Infrastructure for Agentic Workloads
Today we are announcing the public preview of Azure Container Apps Sandboxes - a new first-class resource type that gives you fast, secure, ephemeral compute environments with built-in suspend and resume. This is the underlying infrastructure on which products like
02/06/2026
What's new in Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft Build 2026
A year ago, teams were still asking whether Kubernetes belonged anywhere near their AI workloads. That question has mostly been answered as the community comes together to . The real challenge now is operational: how to run training and inference at scale when cost, latency, and reliability are constantly in tension. The AKS announcements at Microsoft Build focus on that tension directly. They expand what you can control across the stack: how individual clusters are operated, how close...
02/06/2026
Build, deploy, and govern sovereign AI with Foundry Local on Azure Local
Not every AI workload can run in the cloud. For many of our customers, data needs to stay within defined boundaries, connectivity may be limited or absent, and latency, governance, and auditability are non-negotiable. With Foundry Local on Azure Local, you can use the same model catalog, developer workflows, and governance capabilities you know from Azure, while running AI enti...
02/06/2026
Any source. Any destination. Ready for AI-era.
Telemetry is exploding, every new app, edge node, and AI agent is a new firehose, and AI has raised the bar on what that telemetry must be: governed, on open standards, observable at agent scale. Today, most teams answer that by stitching together a stack of disconnected tools, each catering to a set of data sources, another that offers transforms, different ones for routing to each destination, and wrappers on top for some essence of much-needed enterprise governance, a...
02/06/2026
Unlock On-Prem Productivity with Agentic Retrieval in Foundry Local
In today’s connected world, customers expect instant, context-rich interactions, even in environments where cloud connectivity isn’t guaranteed. That’s where Retrieval-Augmented Generation at the edge comes in. Since we launched into public preview, we’ve watched teams across regulated, disconnected, and mission-critical environments push this technology into places cloud GenAI simply couldn’t reach.
02/06/2026
Your first model deployment on Foundry Local on Azure Local: from catalog to inference in 10 minutes
Foundry Local on Azure Local is in public preview at the time of this writing. You've installed Foundry Local on your Azure Local cluster. The operator's pods are running, the CRDs are registered, you've checked it twice with kubectl get pods. Now what? This blog covers the part that comes right before all of that - the lifecycle pattern you'll use to deploy any model on Foundry Local on Azure Local. Our recent
02/06/2026
Scale On-Prem AI with Foundry Local on Azure Local: Multi-Node Inference and vLLM Support
Since announcing the public preview of Foundry Local on Azure Local for single-node, we’ve seen strong adoption in regulated industries and consistent customer demand to expand the platform for scalable deployments. Today, we’re expanding Foundry Local model offering on Azure Local (preview) with three additions that broaden where and how you can use it: Multi-node scheduling - distribute inference workloads across the GPU capacity in your Azure Local ...
02/06/2026
Announcing Preview of new Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 VMs based on the AMD EPYC™ ‘Turin’ processor
We’re excited to announce the preview of the new Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 Local Storage Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. Lasv5-series is designed for storage-intensive workloads requiring high disk capacity, throughput, and I/O, while Laosv5-series is well-suited for workloads requiring significantly higher local storage capacity and performance, such as large-scale caching clusters and big data processing. Lasv5 and Laosv5 Key...
02/06/2026
Introducing GitHub Enterprise Local (Preview): DevOps for Sovereign and Private Cloud Environments
Across the world, many organizations, particularly in government, defense, financial services, and critical infrastructure, must operate within strict sovereign boundaries, often due to regulatory, security, or disconnected environment requirements. Microsoft’s Sovereign Private Cloud is a customer operated cloud model designed for scenarios where sovereignty, operational control, and resiliency are non negotiable. It enables organizations to operate securely and at scale, even in restricted ...
02/06/2026
Build AI agents for production with secure identities from day one
Building an AI agent is no longer the hard part. The real challenge begins when that agent must run securely in production and meet identity, access, audit, and security requirements. That’s where many agents get stuck. It’s relatively easy to build a prototype, but much harder to deploy an agent that operates with the security controls required for production. Microsoft Entra Agent ID helps close that gap by giving agents a consistent identity foundation. Together with the Microsoft Agent 36...
02/06/2026
Build 2026: New Azure Managed Redis Capabilities for AI-Ready Applications
As AI-driven applications continue to evolve, developers need a data platform that can keep up, delivering real time performance, intelligent context, and enterprise grade security at scale. At Microsoft Build 2026
02/06/2026
Azure Virtual Desktop supports greater application and identity functionality with latest updates
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced both the general availability of external identity support in Azure Virtual Desktop and the public preview support of using...
02/06/2026
Embed intelligence into physical systems with smaller form factor infrastructure (preview)
Written by Cosmos Darwin, Azure Edge PM, and Michael MacKenzie, VP of Digital Operations AI is transforming how we work, but so far it's mostly lived on your screen: agents and models assisting with information work. How can that intelligence take on physical work, too? Jobs that happen out in the world, like transporting goods, inspecting equipment, manufacturing products, and serving retail customers. This is already possible today, but developing autonomou...
02/06/2026
Adaptive data protection with context-based redirections in Windows 365, now in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of context-based redirections for Windows App. This new capability helps organizations apply more granular controls to device and resource redirection based on contextual signals such as device management state, compliance postur...
02/06/2026
Announcing Preview of Guest RDMA for Azure Boost
We’re excited to announce Guest RDMA (Preview) in Azure, beginning today in our UKSouth region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest virtual machines anywhere within the same region. By using Azure Boost to enable RDMA capabilities on our frontend network within the guest OS, applications can bypass the traditional networking stack and offload the transport protocol to the NIC - reducing CPU overhead and delivering consistent, high-performance communicati...
02/06/2026
MCP Test Console and Git Repository synch in Azure API Center
Why This Matters As organizations race to build AI-powered applications, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the standard way to connect AI agents with external tools and data sources. Managing these MCP servers at enterprise scale, however, has been a growing challenge — until now. AI agents are only as useful as the tools they can access. MCP servers expose those tools — from databases and internal APIs to third-party services — in a standardized way that a...
02/06/2026
Announcing new security, maintenance and analytics features for PostgreSQL at Microsoft Build 2026
At Microsoft Build 2026, we’re announcing a major wave of PostgreSQL innovation across Azure. Alongside the public preview of Azure HorizonDB, we’re delivering a broad set of enhancements for our fully managed open-source PostgreSQL service:
02/06/2026
Preview of multiparty analytics with Azure Confidential Clean Rooms
Today, we are excited to announce the preview of multiparty analytics feature of Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, a fully managed service that allows customers and their partners to securely analyze privacy-sensitive datasets from multiple parties. It uses confidential compute enabled Apache Spark-based big-data analytics (Spark SQL) which helps protect their raw data from other collaborator...
02/06/2026
More Control, Less Overhead: Custom Domain Upgrades in Azure API Management v2
Multiple custom domains in Premium v2 Large organizations rarely expose APIs under a single domain. A global enterprise might need api.contoso.com for external partners, apis.hrportal.contoso.com for internal teams, and dev.europe.contoso.com for a regional developer portal — all at once. Until now, achieving this required spinning up separate API Management instances, adding cost and operational complexity. Azure API Management Premium v2 now supports multiple custom ...
02/06/2026
Azure API Center Introduces a Data Plane MCP Server for Enterprise-Wide API and AI Asset Discovery
As organizations scale their adoption of MCP-based tooling and AI agents, one challenge keeps surfacing: developers spend too much time figuring out what APIs, tools, and AI assets exist — and then manually wiring up connections to each one. Today, we're excited to announce general availability of a new capability that changes that. What's new Azure API Center now provides a data plane MCP server — a unified enterprise discovery endpoint that gives agents and ...
02/06/2026
Find what you need, faster: Azure API Center now supports custom metadata filtering
Enterprise API and AI catalogs have expanded dramatically. Where teams once managed dozens of APIs, they now govern hundreds — spanning business units, environments, compliance domains, and an ever-growing roster of AI assets. The catalog itself has become a discovery challenge. What's new Developers can now filter catalog assets using organization-defined metadata attributes. These aren't generic tags — they're the classifications your organization already uses: environments,...
02/06/2026
Built-in gateway support for workspaces in Azure API Management
Workspaces in Azure API Management let platform teams hand off API ownership to individual API teams while keeping centralized governance. Until now, using them meant deploying a dedicated workspace gateway on the Premium tier — adding cost, operational overhead, and limiting regional availability. That requirement is going away. Workspaces can now be associated directly with the built-in gateway, and this capability is generally available.
02/06/2026
TinyFish Launches BigSet: An Open-Source Multi-Agent System That Builds Structured Live Datasets from Plain-English Descriptions
Describe a dataset in one sentence; Bigset's orchestrator and parallel sub-agents research the live web and return structured tables. The post TinyFish Launches BigSet: An Open-Source Multi-Agent System That Builds Structured Live Datasets from Plain-English Descriptions appeared first on
02/06/2026
Managed Connectors for SRE Agent (preview)- Govern what your agent can do
Giving an agent access to a tool is the easy part. The harder question is what it's allowed to do with that access. "Can the agent copy a file in OneDrive?" mostly answers itself. "Can it copy any file, to any destination, over one that's already there?" is the one that decides whether the integration has a governance layer. Managed Connectors is built around that second question. It expands the catalog of tools the agent can reach - OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitLab, Power BI...
02/06/2026
Improved data processing features in Foundry IQ: Richer content extraction and data enrichment
Great answers start before retrieval. They depend on how well your data pipeline can reach enterprise content, preserve document structure, and carry text and visual context into the index. As part of the Microsoft Foundry platform, the Foundry IQ (Azure AI Search)
02/06/2026
Foundry IQ: Improve recall by up to 54% with knowledge bases
By Alec Berntson, Alina Stoica Beck, Jim Singh, Amaia Salvador Aguilera, Lihang Li, Matt Gotteiner Agents are only valuable for the enterprise when they have access to your organization's knowledge. A common starting point is to give your agent a retrieval tool to find relevant context for its task. What do you do when your agent can’t find relevant context using the tool? Foundry IQ knowledge bases deliver strong search performance while keeping your a...
02/06/2026
Securing the new risk surface: local agents, claws, and open runtimes
The next wave of AI is more than just powerful models. We’re now seeing intelligent agents that run locally on our devices, interacting directly with sensitive data, apps, and systems. Some operate persistently: monitoring, planning, and executing tasks over time instead of just responding to one-off prompts. We call these more sustained, autonomous processes “claws.” Together, local agents and claws are changing how work gets done. They also introduce a new risk surface for organizations: th...
02/06/2026
Foundry IQ: New governance and enterprise AI security capabilities
Enterprise AI adoption depends on more than retrieval quality. It requires a foundation that enables agents to access business-critical content without weakening the controls already in place to protect it, including source permissions, sensitivity labels, audit trails, private network paths, and identity-based access. This post highlights security, governance, and private communication updates across
02/06/2026
Start Secure, Stay Secure: How Microsoft is Closing the Gap from Code to Runtime
Modern software applications composed of hundreds of artifacts, multiple programing languages, and cloud infrastructure provide an extensive attack surface that only continues to expand in the era of AI. According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence and industry research, threat actors are also increasingly leveraging AI-assisted techniques to accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploitation (Source:
02/06/2026
Microsoft Purview enables developers with strong data security across AI apps and agents
Today, developers are at the center of a new wave of innovation—building AI applications and agents that are deeply connected to enterprise data. But with this opportunity comes a new and complex set of security challenges. AI systems operate across cloud platforms, third-party services, and even local and on-premises development environments, interacting dynamically with sensitive data such as customer records, financial information, and intellectual property. Traditional security approaches...
02/06/2026
Shaping what Azure SRE Agent does: Tool Permissions and Hooks
When an AI agent runs against production, the first question every security team asks is "What can it do, who decided it could, and what stops it from doing something it should not." Azure SRE Agent reached general availability in March. Since then, teams inside Microsoft and customers running it against real production workloads have asked for the same thing: finer-grained controls over what the agent can do on its own and a clear answer to who governs each call that reaches ...
02/06/2026
Powering new devices and Agent-First experiences with MDEP
Today at Microsoft Build 2026, we're taking the next step for Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) – and for the enterprise devices that will define the next era of work. To enable this new era, Microsoft just announced a new chip-to-cloud platform, codenamed Project Solara, designed from the ground up for agent-first experiences and the new device form fact...
02/06/2026
Azure HorizonDB: Enterprise-Ready Postgres, Engineered for the AI Era
Affan Dar, Vice President of Engineering, PostgreSQL at MicrosoftCharles Feddersen, Partner Director of Program Management, PostgreSQL at Microsoft Today at Microsoft Build, we’re pleased to announce the public preview of Azure HorizonDB, a new enterprise-ready Postgres-compatible database service designed to meet the needs of modern AI applications, alongside a set o...
02/06/2026
Reducing NTLM Dependency: IAKerb and LocalKDC in Windows Insider Preview
Today, Windows expands where Kerberos works—reducing the need for NT LAN Manager (NTLM) fallback with IAKerb and LocalKDC, coming to client and
02/06/2026
Announcing the 2026 Imagine Cup World Champion
On June 2 at Microsoft Build, student founders from around the world watched as this year’s winner was revealed live on stage. Hosted by Dona Sarkar of Microsoft Enterprise AI Advocacy, the Imagine Cup World Championship brought together a global audience of developers, founder...
02/06/2026
Made for developers and agents, Windows 365 at Build 2026
Build 2026 is here, and Windows 365 is showing up in a BIG way. Over the past year, we’ve listened closely to developers and IT teams using Cloud PCs at scale. You told us that bringing a new developer onto a Cloud PC needs to be streamlined—that signing in should mean being ready to code, not spending hours on setup. We hear from you that compute choice matters, and that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for dev teams building everything from web apps to AI/ML worklo...
02/06/2026
New Windows Features to Secure Today’s Data in a Post-Quantum World
Quantum safety is a staged transition across customer environments. Windows is enabling this progression by extending quantum-safe support beyond algorithms and APIs, into the protocols and platform components that organizations use the most. This foundation empowers customers to build, validate, pilot, and ultimately deploy quantum-safe applications, systems, and infrastructure at scale.
02/06/2026
Azure SRE Agent at Microsoft Build 2026: Bringing agentic operations to the enterprise
Build 2026 Update When we launched Azure SRE Agent, the promise was simple: reduce operational toil, improve up time, and evolve teams from manual incident response towards AI-powered operations. Since GA in March 2026, that promise has held up in production. Teams are using the agent to diagnose live issues, reason across telemetry and code, and automate r...
02/06/2026
Bring Your Own GitHub App: Connecting Azure SRE Agent to Enterprise Repositories
What if your SRE agent could access your enterprise GitHub repositories the same way your CI/CD pipelines do with a governed service identity, not a personal token?
02/06/2026
Private Plugins with Azure SRE Agent
SRE's and platform teams are building operational skills specific to their infrastructure: investigation runbooks, compliance checks, cost analysis playbooks, deployment verification procedures. The next step is making that work reusable across every agent in the organization without exposing it publicly. Today, SRE Agent supports plugin marketplaces hosted in private GitHub repositories, including GitHub Enterprise. This is part of the Azure SRE Agent announcements at
02/06/2026
VNet integration for Azure SRE Agent (preview)
For many production systems, the logs, databases, private endpoints, repositories, and runbooks an SRE Agent needs to do its job are behind network boundaries your security team already governs. VNet integration for Azure SRE Agent, now in preview, puts the agent's outbound traffic under those same controls - your virtual network, your NSG rules, your private DNS - so it reaches only what your network allows. The principle is one your security team already applies to every other worklo...
02/06/2026
From LaTeX to accessible PDFs: Transforming math workflows in Microsoft 365
Congratulations, Class of 2026! It's an exciting time looking forward to the next step in your journey. The rest of us salute you as we continue with our own journeys. For so many of us, math has been an integral part of the journey, enabling us to understand, solve, and build – which is why I'm very excited to share improved support for industry standard math formats in Microsoft 365 that make it easier to communicate inclusively with math. Improved ...
02/06/2026
What's new in Microsoft Teams | May 2026 - Build Edition
It's hard to believe May is over already! You may have noticed this edition of What's new in Teams is landing a few days later than usual — that's intentional. We're publishing alongside Microsoft Build, our annual developer conference where we showcase the latest in AI, agents, and the tools that help developers. It's one of the most energizing weeks of the year, full of announcements, hands-on sessions, and ...
02/06/2026
New ways to learn and demonstrate skills
Announcing new opportunities within the Microsoft Credentials ecosystem, plus new skilling partnerships with Microsoft technology partners. At Microsoft Build 2026, we’re introducing new ways for developers to learn and demonstrate skills in the tools they use every day. Today, we’re announcing:
02/06/2026
Learning Agent now generally available — personalized AI upskilling for every employee
Meet Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, to help every employee build Copilot and AI skills where the work gets done. It provides personalized recommendations based on each person’s context – their role, daily tasks, and work patterns – so learning feels relevant, practical, and easy to act on. Learning Agent helps users learn by doing — right within Micro...
02/06/2026
The next frontier in endpoint security: Securing local AI agents with Microsoft Defender
AI agents are now doing real work on the endpoint — reading files, running commands, browsing the web, and acting on behalf of the users they run under. That same power is also what makes them dangerous: agents act on whatever content they take in, and much of it comes from outside the user's control — a web page, a repository, a command's output. A single malicious instruction hidden in that content can turn an agent against the very environment it's trusted to work in. With access to source...
02/06/2026
Monitor AI coding agents with OpenTelemetry in Azure Monitor
AI coding agents are quickly becoming part of the everyday developer workflow. As teams adopt tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex, they need a better way to understand usage, troubleshoot performance, and keep an eye on token consumption and cost. With Azure Monitor’s OpenTelemetry support, you can collect OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals from AI coding agents and route them into Azure Monitor for end-to-end visibility. Ingested OTLP data is stored with OpenTeleme...
02/06/2026
Direct OpenTelemetry ingestion into Azure Monitor is now generally available
OpenTelemetry is powering a new era of observability. Built on open standards, designed for portability, and made for developers who want flexibility without compromise. And now, you can send OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces straight into Azure Monitor OTLP endpoints and data storage. This capability is generally available, production-ready, and built to scale from day one. With direct OTLP ingestion, you can keep your existing OpenTelemetry instrument...
02/06/2026
Infrastructure as Code for AI: Building and Deploying Microsoft Hosted Agents with Terraform
AI agents are no longer experimental. Teams are shipping production-grade agents that retrieve information, call APIs, reason over documents, and orchestrate multi-step workflows at scale. Microsoft Foundry's Hosted Agents service gives you a fully managed runtime for those agents, built on top of the Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, with Microsoft handling the infrastructure, scaling, and runtime lifecycle. The challenge is that provisioning this infrastructure by hand or clicking thr...
02/06/2026
Evaluating the Evaluator: How to Test an LLM Judge with Microsoft Agent Framework
The four verdicts, up front Consistency: mean CV across posts 5.30% Pipeline format checks: pipeline pass rate 100% Rubric adherence (strict judge): 5.00 / 5, mean math drift 0.05 pts Calibration vs. labels: Pearson r = 0.51, MAE = 22.9 pts Three of those say the model is healthy. The las...
02/06/2026
Building AI apps and agents with Azure Databricks, Copilot Studio, and GitHub Copilot
A workspace-wide Genie MCP endpoint for Copilot Studio Genie is Azure Databricks’ AI agent that lets any employee chat with their data and get trusted answers instantly. Genie Spaces are curated, business‑domain workspaces for teams to find strategic insights for their targeted use cases. Until now, co...
02/06/2026
Scikit-LLM vs. Traditional Text Classifiers: When Should You Use an LLM?
In recent years, generative AI models like LLMs (large language models) have gradually taken over classical machine learning ones for addressing certain tasks, for instance, text classification .
02/06/2026
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Launches Qwen3.7-Plus, Adding Vision, Deep Reasoning, Tool Invocation, and Autonomous Iteration on the Bailian Platform
Qwen3.7-Plus is Alibaba's multimodal agent model on Bailian, understanding images and video while adding self-programming and tool invocation. The post Alibaba’s Qwen Team Launches Qwen3.7-Plus, Adding Vision, Deep Reasoning, Tool Invocation, and Autonomous Iteration on the Bailian Platform ap...
02/06/2026
JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines
JetBrains releases Mellum2 under Apache 2.0 — a 12B MoE model trained on 10.6 trillion tokens for AI workflows. The post JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines appeared first on MarkTechPost.
02/06/2026
Building and Operating a Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agent with GitOps and GitHub Tasks
The Gap Between Prototype and Production Most AI engineering teams can build a working agent in a day. The hard part is not building it; the hard part is operating it. Prompts drift. Tool configurations change without review. Deployments happen from someone's laptop. There is no audit trail, no rollback plan, and no consistent way to promote a change from a development environment to production. GitOps closes that gap. By treating your agent definition, configuration, and infr...
02/06/2026
Better Deployment Errors in az webapp deploy
Deployment failures can be difficult to interpret, especially when the error returned by the deployment API does not clearly explain what went wrong or what to do next. To make this easier, we have added a new switch to az webapp deploy for App Service for Linux: --enriched-errors true When enabled, deployment failures show context-enriched diagnostics directly in the CLI output. This includes an error code, deployment context, the raw er...
02/06/2026
Azure Logic Apps introduces Automation and new capabilities for agentic business process automation
Automation is entering a new era Automation has traditionally been powerful, but not always accessible. Building production-grade automations often requires specialized expertise in workflows, integrations, APIs, infrastructure, identity, security, networking, and operations. Organi...
02/06/2026
Understand What’s Happening with Your App Service for Linux Website Using Site Status
When your website is not starting or behaving unexpectedly, it can be difficult to quickly understand what state the application is in and what might be causing the issue. To make this easier, Azure App Service for Linux now includes Site Status. Site Status provides runtime information for your website, including the current state of the app and detailed error information when issues are detected. What Site Status shows Site Status gives you a vie...
02/06/2026
How to Speed Up Transformer Training Using NVIDIA Apex (FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm) and Native torch.amp
We build NVIDIA Apex from source, detect fused kernels, and benchmark FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm, and torch.amp in Transformer training. The post How to Speed Up Transformer Training Using NVIDIA Apex (FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm) and Native torch.amp appeared first on MarkTechPost.
02/06/2026
Agents 365 & Microsoft 365 Copilot Hub Redesign: April 2026 M365 Champions Community call
Hello Champions! Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our May M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring Agents 365 with
02/06/2026
Prepare for SOAP API deprecation by moving to REST
Microsoft Advertising is evolving its API platform to better meet modern developer needs. As part of this shift, we’re transitioning from the SOAP API to a REST-based architecture that offers improved performance, flexibility, and ease of use. If you’re currently using the SOAP API, now is the time to start planning your migration. What’s changing We’re standardizing on REST APIs as the foundation for all future Microsoft Advertising API development.
01/06/2026
What's New in Microsoft Entra: June 2026
Welcome to the June edition of our monthly newsletter, summarizing the latest news and developments in the exciting, ever-evolving world of Microsoft Entra. What went into General Availability (GA) since May 2026? Enable Phish‑Resistant MFA for Linux Desktops with Microsoft Entra...
01/06/2026
KT accelerates cloud and AI adoption with Azure Confidential Computing
A leading South Korea telecom provider, KT Corporation, serves more than 20 million consumers and thousands of enterprise customers in finance, manufacturing, and the public sector. As businesses across the country undergo digital transformation, KT needed to expand its cloud offerings but faced hurdles from government regulations and customer expectations.
01/06/2026
Windows news you can use: May 2026
First, as we head into June and the first set of Secure Boot certificates start to expire, there will be another Secure Boot Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) on Thursday, June 4. Do save the date and post your questions early or at any time durin...
01/06/2026
Transforming Microsoft Teams into a Secure Collaboration Platform for Nonprofits
Microsoft Teams is often seen as a meeting tool, but its real power lies in how it connects Microsoft 365 services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and the Power Platform into a single workspace. When a Team is created, a Microsoft 365 Group and a SharePoint site are automatically provisioned, forming the foundation for file storage, permissions, and collaboration For nonprofits managing distributed staff, volunteers, and external partners, Teams can function as a central hub for col...
01/06/2026
MiniMax Releases MiniMax M3 with MSA Architecture Supporting 1M-Token Context, Native Multimodality, and Agentic Coding
MiniMax M3 introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention, a 1M-token context window, and native image, video, and computer use support. The post MiniMax Releases MiniMax M3 with MSA Architecture Supporting 1M-Token Context, Native Multimodality, and Agentic Coding appeared first on MarkT...
01/06/2026
Share Your Use Case in a Lighting Talk
Microsoft Security Store Lightning Talks are high‑energy, community-led mini sessions spotlighting real users like you who are putting Microsoft Security Store agents and solutions to work, driving measurable impact through faster workflows, smarter automation, and stronger security outcomes. Selected sessions wi...
01/06/2026
Cumulative Update Released for Skype for Business Server SE (SE CU1)
Microsoft has released a cumulative update for Skype for Business Server Subscription Edition (Build Number 7.0.2046.849), which resolves two significant issues, in addition to other meaningful payload content: Blank screen when accessing the Skype Meetings application after installing CU8: A white screen appears when attempting to join a meeting through the web address (“Join a meeting” link). (
01/06/2026
Building a GitHub Copilot Agent Usage Dashboard
Introduction Working with organisations that are attempting to create GitHub Copilot custom agents, take-up of these agents by their community becomes important to know. Some questions quickly emerge are "how well are we actually using it?", "which agents are getting used and which have not had that much traction?"....
01/06/2026
How Marketplace offer types shape AI economics and scale
This post is part of a series on building and publishing well-architected AI apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace. The series focuses on AI apps and agents that are architected, hosted, and operated on Azure, with guidance aligned to building and selling solutions through Microsoft Marketplace. Offer types and hosting decisions...
01/06/2026
Kubernetes Center: Security & LTS/Out-of-Support Version Insights Now Available
What's New Security Insights: The new Security page in Kubernetes Center gives you an immediate, all clusters or Kubernetes Fleet Manager-wide view of your security posture without leaving the portal. At the summary level you can see: Security vulnerabilities broken down by risk level Runtime alerts categorized by severity Non-complia...
01/06/2026
Now Generally Available: Microsoft Defender for open source relational databases on AWS RDS
Securing multicloud databases to help reduce risks Open‑source (OSS) relational databases are becoming increasingly critical and increasingly targeted in organization of all sizes. As organizations adopt multicloud architectures, these databases often run across Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), while security tools remain fragmented. The result is inconsistent visibility into sensitive data, disconnected alerts, and limited insight into how database exposure translates into real ...
01/06/2026
Don’t miss out: Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards nominations are now open!
It's time: the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards nomination window is now officially open until Tuesday, July 7, at 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
01/06/2026
Meet Memory OS: A 6-Layer Open-Source Memory Stack Built on Top of Hermes Agent
The open-source project adds local persistent memory to Hermes Agent through six layers, gated retrieval, and a wiki. The post Meet Memory OS: A 6-Layer Open-Source Memory Stack Built on Top of Hermes Agent appeared first on MarkTechPost.
01/06/2026
2026 Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award – nomination window is open!
We want to recognize our amazing partners that have embraced Microsoft Marketplace as core to their GTM strategy and joint selling opportunities. Get ready to share your outstanding achievements and become an inspiration to the whole Microsoft partner community! Submit your nomination for a chance to be recognized in the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The nomination window for the 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards&n...
01/06/2026
Secure a high-impact sponsorship for Microsoft Ignite
Become a sponsor at Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco, November 17–20, and showcase your organization to a global audience. Connect with tech leaders, Microsoft experts, partners, and customers. Becoming a spo...
01/06/2026
Determinism over magic: the engineering design behind Azure Container Registry Regional Endpoints
By Zoey Li, Huangli Wu, Johnson Shi, Wei Meng Introduction Azure Container Registry (ACR) supports
01/06/2026
Teams Meetings Voice Isolation: Help Your Voice Stand Out
Voice isolation is designed to reduce noise and separate your voice from other sounds and voices in Teams calls and meetings. In simple terms, it helps Teams recognize who you are trying to hear and filter out what does not belong in the conversation. Background noise affects meeting quality in by making the speaker harder to understand and distracting to listening participants. How voice isolation works Voice isolation uses a personalized deep voice quality enhancement AI mod...
01/06/2026
Your PostgreSQL workflow just found its new home in Cursor
TL; DR: Our Visual Studio Code extension for PostgreSQL is now available on the Open VSX registry: Cursor users get first-class database tooling without leaving the editor that already understands their code.
01/06/2026
Accelerate your AI or agent build to sell on Marketplace with Quick-Start Development Toolkit
Want to skip right to coding in minutes? Start with the interactive wizard in App Advisor Building AI products quickly is becoming table stakes. Building them in a way that supports scalability, repeatability, and a path to commercialization is where software companies create advantage.
01/06/2026
Making Academic Standards More Accessible
Why standards matter Academic standards are the shared language that connects curriculum, instruction, and assessment. When educators can easily access and apply them: Lesson planning becomes more intentional. You design instruction around clear learning goals rather than guessing what to cover. Assessment aligns with instruction. Quizzes, rubrics, and assignments reflect what students are actually expected to demonstrate. ...
01/06/2026
Claude Code on Microsoft Foundry in VS Code — A Practical Setup Guide (with the gotchas)
Enables enterprise-grade governance without changing your developer workflow. The official Microsoft Learn article (Configure Claude Code for Microsoft Foundry) gets you ~80% of the way there. The remaining 20%—VS Code settings shape, tenant mismatches, and configuration conflicts like "baseURL and reso...
01/06/2026
Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch
Parallax replaces LLA's per-query solver with a learned projector, doubling arithmetic intensity and improving perplexity at 0.6B and 1.7B. The post Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch appeared first on
01/06/2026
Microsoft Build 2026
June 2–3, 2026 / San Francisco and onlineThe event in San Francisco is sold out. But you can still register to join us online for free!Lots of great sessions to view and attend!! Make sure you check them out:Session catalog
01/06/2026
An Implementation of the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit for Safe AI Agent Tool Use with Policies, Approvals, Audit Logs, and Risk Controls
In this tutorial, we build a governed AI-agent workflow using Microsoft’s Agent Governance Toolkit as the reference point. We create a Colab-ready implementation where agents do not directly execute tools; instead, every action first passes through a governance layer that checks the agent’s identity, trust score, risk tier, requested tool, action type, sensitivity level, and […] The post
31/05/2026
Introducing the updated exposure score in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
We are introducing an updated exposure score model in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, now available in public preview. Security teams use the exposure score to understand vulnerability posture, prioritize remediation, and explain progress to leadership. The updated model helps make that score more useful by bringing in additional vulnerability risk signals and asset context, so teams can better understand where risk is concentrated and which remediation actions are likely ...
31/05/2026
A Coding Implementation on Loguru for Designing Robust, Structured, Concurrent, and Production-Ready Python Logging Pipelines
In this tutorial, we implement a practical use case with Loguru, a powerful, flexible, and production-ready logging library for Python. The post A Coding Implementation on Loguru for Designing Robust, Structured, Concurrent, and Production-Ready Python Logging Pipelines appeared first on
31/05/2026
Agents That Build Agents: A SKILL-first Blueprint with MS Agent Framework & Foundry
The single insight that changes everything Most "build an AI agent" tutorials collapse two completely different jobs into one tangled mess: the job of building an agent (writing the code, defining its tools, evaluating it, packaging it), and the job of running an agent (planning, reasoning, calling tools, remembering users, delivering ...
31/05/2026
Trajectory Releases a Concurrent Multi-LoRA Training Stack for Continual Learning, Reporting a 2.81× Experiment-Throughput Gain
Trajectory, working with UC Berkeley Sky Lab and Anyscale, built a concurrent multi-LoRA training stack for continual learning. It maps each RL experiment to a dedicated LoRA adapter on an always-hot engine, reporting a 2.81× end-to-end experiment-throughput gain over a single-tenant baseline with no reward regression. The code is open-sourced in NovaSky-AI/SkyRL. The post
31/05/2026
Build Skill-Augmented AI Agents with SkillNet for Search, Evaluation, Graph Analysis, and Task Planning
In this tutorial, we implement a SkillNet use case as a practical framework for discovering, installing, inspecting, evaluating, and organizing reusable AI skills. The post Build Skill-Augmented AI Agents with SkillNet for Search, Evaluation, Graph Analysis, and Task Planning appeared first on ...
31/05/2026
Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison
Text-to-speech changed fast in 2026. This guide ranks the leading commercial and open-weight TTS models, comparing quality, latency, cost, language coverage, and licensing so engineers can match a model to the job. The post Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison appeared first on MarkTechPost....
30/05/2026
Genesis AI Releases Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 Physics Platform for Scalable Robotics Foundation Model Evaluation
Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0 on May 27, 2026 — a four-component simulation platform covering physics, rendering, compilation, and tooling. The system achieves a Pearson correlation of 0.8996 between simulation and real-world robot rollouts, and reduces policy evaluation time from over 200 hours to under 0.5 hours. The post
30/05/2026
Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4
Nous Research's Hermes Agent adds Tool Search to fix MCP context bloat using BM25 progressive schema disclosure. The post Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
30/05/2026
Serving Multiple Users at Once: How Continuous Batching Keeps LLM Inference Efficient
This article is divided into four parts; they are: • The Problem with Static Batching • Code Example of Static Batching • Continuous Batching: Dynamic Scheduling and Ragged Batching • Full Implementation The simplest way to serve multiple requests together is to use static batching, by grouping them into fixed-size batches and processing each batch together.
30/05/2026
How to Use AgentTrove: Streaming 1.7M Agentic Traces and Building a Clean ShareGPT SFT Dataset in Python
AgentTrove is the largest open-source collection of agentic interaction traces, with 1.7M rows in a ShareGPT-style layout. This hands-on Python tutorial shows how to stream the dataset without full downloads, normalize agent turns, extract commands, analyze trajectories, and export successful traces into a clean SFT fine-tuning dataset. The post
30/05/2026
What’s new in Azure Language in Foundry Tools
Every day, your applications process thousands of emails, transcripts, and documents containing sensitive information—names, phone numbers, medical details. Manually identifying and protecting this data doesn't scale. Here's how the latest PII (Personally Identifiable Information) detection capabilities within Azure Language in Foundry tools can help you automate privacy protection across text, conversations, and healthcare scenarios <...
29/05/2026
NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B
NVIDIA's X-Token fixes two structural failures in GOLD and improves GSM8k accuracy from 2.56 to 15.54 The post NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B appeared first on MarkTechPost....
29/05/2026
GPT Realtime in Production: Which Context Strategy Should You Actually Use?
Are You Running Azure GPT Realtime in Production? The question that started this: Are you running Azure gpt-realtime in production? If so, you've already run into the question I want to talk about: how should you manage conversation context across turns? It sounds like an implementation detail. It isn't. The way you answer it determines whether your per-call cost is 30 cents or 90 cents, whether your contact-center latency stays under two seconds, and w...
29/05/2026
StepFun Releases Step 3.7 Flash: A 198B MoE Vision-Language Model for Coding Agents and Search Workflows
StepFun releases Step 3.7 Flash, a 198B MoE model with native vision, 256k context, and Advisor Mode. The post StepFun Releases Step 3.7 Flash: A 198B MoE Vision-Language Model for Coding Agents and Search Workflows appeared first on MarkTechPost.
29/05/2026
Choosing the Right Language Analyzer for Azure AI Search
By Abhishree Shetty, Alec Berntson, Lihang LiA language analyzer is a specific type of
29/05/2026
Azure Functions MCP extension now supports MCP Prompts
We are thrilled to announce that the MCP prompt trigger is now available in public preview in the Azure Functions MCP extension! With this release, the extension now supports all three core MCP server primitives - tools, resources, and prompts, giving you a complete platform for building rich MCP servers on Azure Fun...
29/05/2026
Build Less. Deliver More. A lesson I learned building AI apps and workflows #Cowork
I want to share something that happened recently, because I think it can be relatable. A while back I built out a meta prompt for my weekly manager 1:1. If you've seen it, you know I put real thought into it. It scans my interactions across accounts, pulls out what matters, and turns it into a structured update I can walk into a meeting with. I was proud of that build, and honestly I still use a lot of it. But then I decided to take it further. I added a full briefing pac...
29/05/2026
Migrating to GPT-5.x Without Breaking GPT-4: A Practical, Backward-Compatible Playbook
The first request your service sends after swapping gpt-4o for gpt-5.1 in production will return HTTP 400. Not in two weeks. On the first call. And the parameter the error points to isn't one you set anywhere in your code - it's bound onto the request by a LangChain helper you've used for two years. This post walks through every breaking change between the GPT-4 and GPT-5 families on Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry, the integration clif...
29/05/2026
mssql-python 1.8.0: friendlier Row access, Bulk Copy with MSI, and a refreshed ODBC driver
We just shipped mssql-python 1.8.0, the official Microsoft SQL Server driver for Python. This release focuses on day-to-day ergonomics, a long-requested authentication option for Bulk Copy, and a refresh of the bundled ODBC driver. pip install --upgrade mssql-python Highlights Row objects now support string-key indexing Row already supported integer indexing ...
29/05/2026
Title Plan Update - May 29, 2026
📁May 29, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at
29/05/2026
Partner Blog | Build Frontier Transformation capability with new engineer skilling and June events
Customers are moving quickly to Frontier Transformation, where AI and agents are embedded as a repeatable, governed operating capability. As Nicole Dezen outlines in her recent post,
29/05/2026
Four open source projects to explore at Microsoft Build
Open source is where developers experiment, collaborate, and turn new ideas into tools that others can build on. At Microsoft Build, we’re creating a dedicated space for that energy: the Open Source Zone.
29/05/2026
PostgreSQL Meets AI at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 (T-3 weeks)
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 is where that evolution comes into focus, please visit conference’s site to register and add the event to your calendar! Artificial intelligence is changing how we build applications, but not in the wa...
29/05/2026
AI Observability Starter Kit for Microsoft Foundry agents
Table of Contents 1. From green dashboards to production-grade AI observability 1.1 How it flows 1.2 Agent definition 2. Deploy and run
29/05/2026
Unlocking the Power of Azure Resource Graph Explorer for Comprehensive Database Inventory
Why Taking Inventory is Crucial Taking inventory of databases in Azure is a critical practice for any organization managing cloud resources. It ensures that all databases are accounted for, providing a comprehensive overview of the organization’s data assets. This visibility is essential for effective management and optimization of resources, as it allows for better planning and allocation based on actual usage and requirements. An accurate inventory also plays a key role in i...
29/05/2026
What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: May 2026
Welcome to the May edition of What's new in Microsoft Sentinel. This month’s updates focus on unified role-based access control (RBAC), ecosystem breadth, AI-agent security, and high-assurance identity. RBAC and row-level scoping are now generally available, giving security teams a single, granular permissions model across Sentinel and the Microsoft Defender portal and enabling multi-team SOC collaboration. The Sentinel connector catalog has passed 400 connectors, expanding coverage ac...
29/05/2026
The Odd Couple - Latches and KEEP_NULLS
Introduction Bulk loading is one of the most heavily optimised data paths in SQL Server. When it works well, hundreds of concurrent sessions can push millions of rows per minute into large tables with minimal CPU overhead. But when it doesn't, the symptoms can be baffling: CPU sits almost idle while every session waits, and throughput collapses by orders of magnitude. We recently worked with a customer running a large-scale data processing platform on Azure SQL Hyperscale Data...
29/05/2026
What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | May 2026
Welcome to the May 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month: User capabilities:
29/05/2026
Load testing hosted MCP servers with Locust and Azure Load Testing
Agent traffic doesn't look like human traffic. It arrives in bursts, sustains long sessions, and hits the same handful of tools at a parallelism a typical API client never produces. Hosted MCP servers are how AI agents reach the tools and data your product exposes, and as those servers move from local subprocesses to network endpoints, you need to know how they behave under that concurrent load. This post shows you how to build a portable Python harness on top of Locust that tal...
29/05/2026
Building a hands-free voice concierge with Microsoft Foundry Voice Live and a Hosted Agent
This post walks through a small, working sample that wires the browser microphone to Azure AI Speech Voice Live, binds the realtime session to a Foundry hosted agent, and lets the agent answer travel questions using tool calls. The full source, infrastructure, and labs live in the repository linked at the end. Why this combination matters Voice user interfaces have historically been hard to build well. Streaming audio, partial transcripts...
29/05/2026
PostgreSQL Meets AI at POSETTE: An Event for PostgreSQL 2026 (T-3 weeks)
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 is where that evolution comes into focus, please visit conference’s site to register and add the event to your calendar! Artificial intelligence is changing how we build applications, but not in the wa...
29/05/2026
Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication
UC Berkeley's UCCL team releases mKernel, fusing intra-node NVLink, inter-node RDMA, and dense compute into a single persistent CUDA kernel. The post Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication appeared first on MarkTechPost.
29/05/2026
Hexo Labs Open-Sources SIA: A Self-Improving Agent That Updates Both the Harness and the Model Weights
Hexo Labs released SIA, an open-source self-improving loop, under an MIT license. A Feedback-Agent reads each run's trajectory, then either rewrites the scaffold or triggers a LoRA weight update on gpt-oss-120b. Combining both levers beat scaffold-only iteration on LawBench, TriMul GPU kernels, and scRNA-seq denoising. The post Hexo La...
29/05/2026
Power Pages & SPA: Deploying a Custom React SPA to Microsoft Power Pages
Introduction Modern business applications are no longer limited to traditional server-rendered pages or fixed portal layouts. Today’s users expect fast, responsive, highly interactive web experiences - the kind of experience developers commonly build using modern front-end frameworks such as React. Microsoft Power Pages has evolved to support this shift. With Single Page Application support, developers can now build modern client-side app...
29/05/2026
From Requirement to Production Code, How Engineering Squad Automates the Full Dev Lifecycle
I started wondering: what if instead of one AI assistant generating code snippets, you had an entire squad of specialized AI agents. Each owning a single stage of the delivery pipeline, they could collaborate, self-correct, and produce a complete, traceable output from a plain-text requirement? That's Engineering Squad: an open-source, multi-agent framework built with LangGraph, Azure OpenAI, and Foundry Local. Nine agents. One pipeline. Zero manual handoffs. You give it a requi...
29/05/2026
Azure DDoS Protection & Azure WAF: A Layered Defense for Modern DDoS Attacks
Introduction: The Need for Layered DDoS Defense Organizations today operate in an environment where Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to evolve across both network and application layers. To help organizations build resilient, internet-facing applications and services, Microsoft Azure provides a comprehensive and layered set ...
29/05/2026
Why do I see many VDI_CLIENT_WORKER sessions in Azure SQL Database — and do they impact performance?
Sometimes you’ll notice many sessions showing the command VDI_CLIENT_WORKER in Azure SQL Database—often around scaling, replica/copy workflows, or internal seeding operations. These sessions can look alarming, especially during a performance investigation, but they are typically internal background workers. This post explains how to recognize them, what’s safe to do (and what isn’t), and how to focus on the real bottlenecks like...
29/05/2026
Training 100B+ Models on a Single GPU: What MegaTrain Changes - and What It Means for Azure
The Paradigm Shift in Model Training The conventional wisdom in deep learning has been simple: bigger models require bigger infrastructure. Training a 100-billion parameter language model traditionally demands massive GPU clusters with terabytes of combined memory, where each GPU holds portions of the model simultaneously. This assumption has shaped the entire AI infrastructure landscape, driving demand for high-memory accelerators and complex distributed training frameworks. ...
29/05/2026
How to Design an End-to-End Ansible Automation Lab with Playbooks, Inventories, Roles, Vault, Dynamic Inventory, and Custom Modules
In this tutorial, we build a complete Ansible lab that runs end-to-end in Google Colab or any Linux environment. We start by installing ansible-core, setting up a local workspace, creating an Ansible configuration file, and defining both static and dynamic inventories. We then explore key Ansible concepts, including group variables, host variables, variable precedence, ad […] The post
29/05/2026
Extending the Vercel AI SDK to Microsoft Foundry (TypeScript)
The Vercel AI SDK gives developers one elegant, provider‑agnostic surface (generateText, streamText, tools, structured output) for building agentic apps. The official AI-sdk/azure provider, however, only targets the Azure OpenAI chat surface and hence the rest of Microsoft Foundry's catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Phi, and now Anthro...
29/05/2026
[Preview] CIS Benchmarks on Azure; Now for Windows Server
For customers with machines managed by Azure (i.e., Arc-enabled machines and Azure VMs), last year we delivered built-in CIS Benchmarks for Linux. The feedback has been clear: “Excellent, now do Windows.” Today we're announcing that built-in CIS Benchmarks for Windows Server...
28/05/2026
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-8B-A1B activates 1.5B of 8.3B parameters, offering 128K context, reasoning, and tool calling on consumer hardware. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost.
28/05/2026
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Alongside Dynamic Workflows and Cheaper Fast Mode, With Workflows Capped at 1,000 Subagents
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 brings dynamic workflows and cheaper fast mode to Claude Code, now in research preview The post Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Alongside Dynamic Workflows and Cheaper Fast Mode, With Workflows Capped at 1,000 Subagents appeared first on MarkTech...
28/05/2026
Governing AI Agents Against Every OWASP Agentic Risk: A Deep Dive with the Agent Governance Toolkit
AI agents are moving from prototypes to production. They book flights, write code, negotiate contracts, and operate across enterprise systems with minimal human oversight. The attack surface is not theoretical: OWASP has catalogued the top 10 risks specific to agentic applications, and every one of them maps to a real-world failure mode. ...
28/05/2026
Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of Napster Companion API on Azure
What is Napster Companion API? Napster Companion API is Napster's platform for building Omniagents: persistent, multi-channel AI agents with one identity, one memory, and one set of tools that show up across every channel an end user touches. The same Omniagent meets the customer on the website, in the mobile app, on video, and on the phone line with the same face, the same voice, and the same memory of the last conversation. The Omniagent as a digital worker T...
28/05/2026
Operationalizing AI powered medical imaging pipeline for cohort building
Authors: Jared Erwin, Senior Software Engineer, HLS Nursing AI and Data Platform, Faculty UW School of Medicine Manoj Kumar, Director, HLS - Data & AI HLS Frontiers AI
28/05/2026
Building Reliable AI Coding Workflows Using Modular AI Agent Optimization
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the modern software development industry. AI-powered coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and other Large Language Model (LLM)-based systems are helping developers automate repetitive coding tasks, improve productivity, and accelerate software development processes. These tools can generate code, assist with debugging, provide recommendations, and support developers during implementation. However, desp...
28/05/2026
Building a Secure Hybrid Workplace with OneDrive: Architecture, Security, and Best Practices
Hybrid work requires a zero‑trust, identity-driven architecture where users, devices, and data are continuously validated. Microsoft 365 — specifically OneDrive for Business backed by SharePoint Online — provides a distributed content services platform designed for secure collaboration at scale. This blog breaks down the core architecture, data protection mechanisms, and administrative controls that enable secure hybrid collaboration with OneDrive...
28/05/2026
Partner Blog | Partner-led momentum, broader availability for SMB: Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are entering a new phase of AI adoption. It is no longer defined by experimentation. It is about moving from individual use cases to everyday, scalable impact as organizations move toward Frontier Transformation. Recent findings from the
28/05/2026
Who's Calling Your Service? Designing for Humans and Agents at the Same Time
We're building three interfaces for Azure SRE Agent: an interactive CLI for humans at a terminal, an agent mode for coding agents that spawn it as a subprocess, and an MCP server for humans inside coding agents and for remote agents in other ecosystems. The CLI and agent mode are coming. The MCP server ships first. That ordering wasn't obvious at first, and this post is about why we landed there. Three interfaces, one question: who's actually calling this? When we start...
28/05/2026
Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Today we’re expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot with the addition of Anthropic’s latest model—Claude Opus 4.8. Available now in Copilot Cowork (Frontier) and rolling out to Copilot Chat, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot Studio. Opus 4.8 builds on Opus 4.7 and previous Opus model strengths. It...
28/05/2026
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and support consistency for production workflows. Claude Opus 4.8 is designed for these demands, with stronger performance across software development, agents, document-heavy analysis, and enterprise workflows. Built for complex coding work Claude Opus 4.8 is d...
28/05/2026
[Now Generally Available] Customizable Security Baseline Policies in Machine Configuration!
Background: Azure Machine Configuration remains committed to enabling greater security and simplicity in at-scale server management for all Azure customers. Machine Configuration (previously known as Azure Policy Guest Configuration) enables both built-in and custom configuration as code allowing you to audit and configure OS,...
28/05/2026
Rethinking cloud gateways for apps, AI, APIs, and more in Azure with F5 in Microsoft Marketplace
In this guest blog post, Ilya Krutov, Senior Product Marketing Manager at F5, considers the evolution of cloud architectures and how F5 NGINXaaS for Azure in Microsoft Marketplace unifies delivery, security, and governance, helping platform teams avoid building yet another siloed control plane for AI. Cloud architectures and connectivity patterns are undergoing a subtle but profound shift. What began as simple web traffic routed to stateless applications has evol...
28/05/2026
New Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Contact Center AI Engineer Associate Certification
Deliver always‑on customer service at scale. Prove your ability to design and run modern contact center solutions in Dynamics 365 that combine agents and human expertise, with Exam AB‑250 (beta). Customer expectations now demand fast, continuous service across every channel. Meeting that expectation requires contact center solutions that combine human expertise with intelligent automation, while staying scalable, secure, and well governed. This shift is creating new o...
28/05/2026
What’s new in Microsoft Intune – May
Whether it's Android app deployment, identity setup on macOS, certificate authority renewal, or faster compliance evaluations, the throughline is the same: less friction for the IT admins doing the work. More control over how admins manage and protect Android devices A device that never got properly enrolled is still a risk, even if nobody's touched it in months. That's the kind of thing that keeps IT admins up at night. Three Android updates this month each address a differen...
28/05/2026
Introducing federated Copilot connectors for LSEG and Moody's in Excel
Earlier this month, we announced Microsoft 365 Copilot federated connectors were coming to Copilot in Excel. Built on the emerging industry standard Model...
28/05/2026
SharePoint Showcase: From Chaos to AI-Ready with the SharePoint Admin Agent
The way governance gets done continues to evolve. Across organizations, agents are no longer a sidebar conversation; they are showing up in everyday work, reasoning over content, and stretching how IT thinks about permissions, lifecycle, and recovery. At the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, nearly every demo this year landed on...
28/05/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: May 28, 2026
Learn about 40 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
28/05/2026
Operating AI apps and agents after publishing in Microsoft Marketplace
Marketplace operations begin after publishing The previous post focused on configuring your offer in Partner Center and preparing it for publishing. Publishing makes your Marketplace offer available for purchase by customers. Subscriptions are created, provisioning flows execute, billing begins,...
28/05/2026
Building a Context Pruning Pipeline for Long-Running Agents
Modern AI agents built on top of large language models (LLMs) are designed to run continuously.
28/05/2026
Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate
Perplexity AI open-sources a rewritten Unigram tokenizer that reduces reranker latency and cuts production CPU utilization by 5-6x. The post Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate appeared first on MarkTec...
28/05/2026
A Coding Guide to Implement a pgvector-Powered Semantic, Hybrid, Sparse, and Quantized Vector Search System
In this tutorial, we build a complete pgvector playground inside Google Colab and explore how PostgreSQL can work as a powerful vector database for modern AI applications. We start by installing PostgreSQL, compiling the pgvector extension, connecting through Psycopg, and registering vector types for smooth Python integration. Then, we create embeddings with SentenceTransformers, store them […] The post
28/05/2026
How to exclude specific CVEs with CVE exceptions in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Not every CVE should be handled the same way, and choosing the wrong exception type can remove more risk visibility than intended. A security recommendation can include many CVEs. If only one CVE is out of scope, excluding the full recommendation can hide vulnerabilities that still matter in your environment. CVE exceptions help you make a narrower decision: exclude one specific CVE for a defined scope and duration, while...
28/05/2026
Building Agentic Systems on Azure: Microsoft Foundry Agents SDK vs Microsoft Agent Framework
In my recent experience as a Senior Consultant at Microsoft, I’ve been actively involved in designing and delivering AI-driven solutions, with a strong focus on building intelligent agents using modern frameworks. Along the way, I've built agents using both Microsoft Foundry Agents SDK (hereafter "Agents SDK") and Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) B...
28/05/2026
General Availability of the MySQL Flexible Server Quota Management Self-Service Experience
What’s New? The updated experience introduces a dedicated Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Quotas blade in the Azure portal, offering a...
28/05/2026
Access Your SRE Agent from Any IDE, Terminal, or AI Assistant
Your team already uses an SRE Agent — it monitors your services, learns your architecture, and handles operational tasks. Now developers can talk to that agent in natural language from the interfaces they already use every day: their editor, their terminal, their AI assistant. Check what the agent knows, ask it a question, search its memories, wire it into a workflow — all without leaving the tool where they're already writing code. What we're announcing Azure SRE Agent...
28/05/2026
Windows 365 for Agents: run AI agents in Cloud PCs across real applications
Copilot agents have been talking the talk—summarizing information, drafting content, and answering questions. But soon they’ll be walking the walk—executing workflows across systems in policy-controlled Cloud PCs. With Windows 365 for Agents (now in public preview), you can run AI agents in a secure environment and use natural language to direct them to work across software and complete tasks, such as processing invoices or updating CRM data. What’s changing? It m...
28/05/2026
Sakana AI Proposes DiffusionBlocks: a Block-wise Training Framework That Converts Residual Networks into Independently Trainable Denoising Modules
DiffusionBlocks converts residual networks into independently trainable blocks by interpreting layer updates as reverse diffusion denoising steps. The post Sakana AI Proposes DiffusionBlocks: a Block-wise Training Framework That Converts Residual Networks into Independently Trainable Denoisin...
28/05/2026
Microsoft Security Community Spotlight: Marcel Graewer
Globally, Marcel shares practical detection engineering insights on Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR through forums and blog posts. Locally, he represents his employer in the IT-Security group of the Microsoft Business User Forum, where German companies using Microsoft technologies exchange real-world experience and expertise. The work Marcel values most is helping people enter the IT field. In Germany, "Fachinformatiker" is a recognized IT profession lear...
27/05/2026
Partner Blog | Leading the moment: How Azure partners are driving the Frontier shift
Something fundamental is shifting in how partners create value, and it is moving faster than many expected. That shift is creating new opportunities for those ready to lead. Across recent partner events and one-on-one conversations, we have heard a consistent message: customers are actively adopting AI and shifting toward becoming Frontier firms. They are moving AI from isolated experimentation to a core capability that drives execution, differentiation, and growth. Now customers a...
27/05/2026
NVIDIA Releases Polar, a Token-Faithful Rollout Framework for GRPO Training Across Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code
NVIDIA researchers have introduced Polar, a rollout framework that trains language agents using reinforcement learning without modifying their agent harnesses. Polar places a model API proxy between the harness and the inference server, capturing token-level interactions and reconstructing trainer-ready trajectories. Using GRPO on a Qwen3.5-4B base model, Polar improves SWE-Bench Verified pass@1 by 22.6 points under the Codex harness, 4.8 points under Claude Code, and 6.2 points under Pi. The...
27/05/2026
Introducing PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers
Whether you're just getting started or you've been building for years, if all you want is a faster path from "I have an idea" to "this is running in production", then PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers is for you.Curated resources to help you build.From sample apps and solution accelerators to tutorials, videos, workshops, and relevant documentation, you'll find what you need to build core applications, AI-powered solutions, and multi-agent architectures on PostgreSQL.
27/05/2026
New Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate Certification
Show you can combine apps, agents, automation, and Copilot into intelligent solutions in Microsoft Power Platform, with Exam AB‑410 (beta).That’s why we’re introducing the Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate Certification, designed for professionals who are ready to use Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot, and natural language to build the next generation of intelligent business applications.Build AI-powered solutions in Microsoft Power Platform by using Copilot, natural language prompts, and low-code tools.
27/05/2026
Recertified: How Microsoft 365 Copilot continues to earn trust and What Changed in a Year
Recertification: ISO 42001 for the second consecutive yearToday, we are announcing that Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat (Copilot) have achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 recertification independently validated for the second consecutive year.First certified in March 2025, Copilot was among the first enterprise AI systems in the world to earn ISO 42001 certification.
27/05/2026
Organize your multitenant view with Tenant Groups in Microsoft Defender
We’re excited to share a new capability, now in public preview in the Microsoft Defender multitenant (MTO) portal: Tenant Groups—a flexible way to organize the tenants you manage and switch your view between them with a single click.Tenant Groups let you create logical groupings of tenants (by customer segment, geography, criticality, onboarding stage—whatever fits how you work) and seamlessly switch the Defender MTO view to show data from only the tenants in that group.NOTICE: The feature previously called Tenant groups—used for content distribution—has been renamed to Deployment profiles.
27/05/2026
New MRCA Diagnostic: Teams Premium License & Configuration Check
As Microsoft Teams Premium continues to expand its capabilities ensuring proper license assignment and tenant configuration is critical for a seamless user experience.To support this, we're excited to introduce the Teams Premium License & Configuration Diagnostic — a comprehensive tool designed to validate license readiness, feature enablement, and tenant policy settings for Teams Premium.It validates whether your tenant and users are properly configured for Teams Premium by checking:
27/05/2026
Introducing Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro Model Context Protocol Tools on VS Code
About Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro MCP Tools The Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro MCP Tools introduces a natural language-driven interface that simplifies how users interact with geospatial data managed with Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro. By integrating direc...
27/05/2026
Update Health in Cloud Update is now Generally Available
Keeping Microsoft 365 Apps up to date is essential for security, reliability, and access to new features. When an update does not complete successfully, however, identifying the issue and understanding its impact across devices can take time. Today, we’re announcing general availability of update health in
27/05/2026
Learn about Richtech Robotics' transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Richtech Robotics deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
27/05/2026
New dual-ID requirement for account linking APIs
We’re introducing an important security update to Microsoft Advertising account linking APIs to better protect customer accounts and prevent unauthorized access. This change applies only to new linking requests. Existing links and pending requests aren't affected. What’s changing To create or accept an account linking request, you must now provide two identifiers instead of one: For manager account ...
27/05/2026
Scaling the reach of finance: what’s next with Finance Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot
In most organizations, finance is a small but mighty strategic partner to the business, supporting enterprise-wide decisions while managing core processes from record-to-report and source-to-pay to forecast-to-plan. The insights and guidance finance teams produce are more than just outputs of these processes; they form the foundation for critical decisions that shape how the business operates and grows. On any given day, finance teams are expected to: Deliver accurate and ...
27/05/2026
Finance Agent Benchmark: evaluating and improving AI for Finance
As business complexity accelerates, finance organizations are being asked to support more stakeholders, guide more decisions, and operate at unprecedented speed, often without additional resources. As these demands outpace traditional tools and processes, AI presents an opportunity to reshape how finance teams scale their impact. Finance Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is purpose-built for this shift, helping finance teams ex...
27/05/2026
Event Guide - Digital Workplace Conference 2026 - Melbourne, Australia
Join us in Melbourne for the Digital Workplace Conference 2026 — Australia's premier in-person event for Microsoft 365 professionals, business leaders, power users, and technical roles. Across two packed days at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, you'll connect with industry leaders, customers, and peers shaping the future of digital work, with deep dives into Microsoft 365, AI, Copilot, SharePoint, ...
27/05/2026
Meet EAGLE 3.1: The Speculative Decoding Algorithm That Fixes Attention Drift in LLM Inference
The EAGLE team, vLLM, and TorchSpec jointly release EAGLE 3.1 to fix speculative decoding instability in production. The post Meet EAGLE 3.1: The Speculative Decoding Algorithm That Fixes Attention Drift in LLM Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost.
27/05/2026
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Real Challenges and an Azure Design Walkthrough
Azure Multi-Tenant Architecture (B2C Scenario) Let’s start with a reference design commonly used in Azure-based systems. A pretty standard setup looks something like this: Microsoft Entra External ID (Azure AD B2C) for authentication Azure API Management as the entry layer App Service or Functions for the compute layer Cosmos DB or SQL for storage Redis for caching Service Bus for async processing Appli...
27/05/2026
Hybrid AI Agents in Python: Routing Between Foundry Local and Microsoft Foundry
Why hybrid, and why now If you build AI features today, you are caught between three forces. Users want low latency and strong privacy. Product teams want frontier reasoning capability. Finance teams want predictable cost. No single model satisfies all three. Run everything on a small on-device model and you bottleneck on complex questions. Send everything to a frontier cloud model and you pay for trivial requests, leak sensitive data across a network boundary, and add hundreds of mi...
27/05/2026
MEMO: A Modular Framework for Training a Dedicated Memory Model on New Knowledge Without Modifying LLM Parameters
Researchers from NUS, MIT, and A*STAR propose MEMO, a modular framework that encodes corpus knowledge into a separate trainable MEMORY model. The post MEMO: A Modular Framework for Training a Dedicated Memory Model on New Knowledge Without Modifying LLM Parameters appeared first on ...
27/05/2026
Excel Esports Comes to Amsterdam: Inside the 2026 European Open
Picture this: a packed venue in central Amsterdam, mechanical keyboards at the ready, a live audience, two days of competition, and on the big screen — a spreadsheet. Yes, a spreadsheet. What followed left no doubt that Excel esports belongs on a live stage. May 22–23, 2026 brought the global Excel esports community to the H20 Esports Campus in Amsterdam for the very first Excel Esports European Open, and what unfolded was equal parts world-class competition and community celebration. ...
26/05/2026
Design a High-Precision Retrieve-and-Rerank Pipeline with ZeroEntropy Zerank-2 Reranker
In this tutorial, we use zeroentropy/zerank-2-reranker, a 4B Qwen3-based cross-encoder reranker, to improve retrieval quality. We start by setting up the runtime, loading the reranker, and understanding how it scores query-document pairs. Then, we move from simple pairwise scoring to a practical two-stage retrieve-and-rerank pipeline, where a fast bi-encoder first retrieves candidates and zerank-2 reranks […] The post
26/05/2026
Stability AI Releases Stable Audio 3: A Family of Fast Latent Diffusion Models for Audio Generation and Editing
Stability AI has released Stable Audio 3, a family of latent diffusion models for instrumental music and sound effects generation. The release includes open weights for the small and medium variants. Small runs on a MacBook Pro M4 CPU. Medium fits on consumer GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM. Both generate stereo audio at 44.1 kHz using a three-stage training pipeline: flow matching, distillation warmup, and adversarial post-training. On the BBC Sound Effects benchmark at 5 seconds, SA3 medium scores F...
26/05/2026
Build AI RAG Apps with Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guide
Scenario Imagine you are building your company’s RAG chat application using Azure OpenAI Service and orchestrating the flow with LangChain. The chat experience works, but now it needs to be grounded in your company’s data. You generate embeddings and want to store and query them without adding another database or compl...
26/05/2026
Share the Moment: Listen Together with Shared Audio
I was on a traveling with a friend on a long flight when I asked them if they wanted to watch a movie with me on my laptop. We both pulled out our earbuds and learned that only one set of earbuds can be used at a time. We then awkwardly shared one earbud each until we both couldn’t get over the surrounding noise, so they handed me back my earbud and I finished the movie by myself Bluetooth Classic Audio was built to replace the wire of your ...
26/05/2026
Simplify Virtual WAN Spoke Connectivity at Scale with Azure Virtual Network Manager
With Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) integration, organizations using Virtual WAN for transitive connectivity can simplify spoke connectivity and policy management across large-scale hub-and-spoke deployments. By using a Virtual WAN hub as the hub in an AVNM hub-and-spoke topology, organizations can define connectivity and routing intent once at the network group level and apply it consistently across large numbers of spoke VNets. This reduces repetitive per-spoke connec...
26/05/2026
From Showing Up to Lifting Others: Diego Domingos da Silva's MVP Journey
For MVP Diego Domingos da Silva, the journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP was never about collecting credentials. It was about showing up, learning in public, and finding people who made the tech world feel more human. A newer MVP in the program, Diego has built his reputation by helping others make sense of Microsoft 365 with honesty, humor, and heart. Along the wa...
26/05/2026
Partner Case Study | Quorum Cyber
Robust data protection is a challenge for most industries. When the data is both extremely sensitive and a prime target for cyberattacks—such as electoral and voter data—that challenge is compounded. Organizations handling this kind of data need strong security that is also steady, visible, and designed to respond at any hour. That’s the kind of protection Quorum Cyber has built its business around. A Microsoft-focused managed security service provider (MSSP) and Microsoft Solutions Pa...
26/05/2026
Announcing the release of Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19.4.2 for SQL Server
We're pleased to announce the general availability (GA) release of Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19.4.2 for SQL Server. This is a maintenance update to the 19.4 line that improves TLS handling, raises a long-standing connection redirection limit, refreshes the bundled authentication library, and fixes accessibility issues in the UDL dialog. Download
26/05/2026
Build the skills to strengthen customer conversations with Microskilling
Build the skills needed to stay current with product changes, strengthen customer conversations, and take action faster through curated videos and podcasts. Microskilling is purpose-built to accelerate understanding of the most impactful Microsoft skilling content related to leadership narratives, product pitches and updates, industry insights, and competitive differentiators.
26/05/2026
Important: FY26 PRACR close deadlines
We’re sharing the Partner Reported Azure Consumed Revenue (PRACR) deadlines for the close of fiscal year 2026 (July 2025–June 2026) to help you stay on track. These dates are sequential and critical to an accurate year-end close, ongoing submission eligibility, and a smooth transition to FY27.
26/05/2026
What's New in Excel (May 2026)
Welcome to the May 2026 update. This month brings new Copilot entry points, smart suggestions, and a keyboard-first design to help you work more efficiently. We're also introducing Show Changes, a new experience that offers greater transparency into the updates Copilot makes on your behalf. Rounding things out, we've shipped improvements to the =COPILOT function to make it more useful in your everyday work. Excel for Windows and Mac:- New Cop...
26/05/2026
Demystifying LWLock: MultiXact SLRU Wait Events in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
What Is the MultiXact Subsystem? Before diving into the wait events, it helps to understand what PostgreSQL is protecting. When a single transaction modifies a row, PostgreSQL stores that transaction's ID (XID) directly in the row header's xmax field. Simple and fast. But what happens when two or more transactions need to hold locks on the same row simultaneously? For example: Two sessions run SELECT ... FOR KEY SHARE on...
26/05/2026
What’s New in Notebooks | May 2026
Copilot Notebooks gets smarter for Microsoft 365 Copilot users
26/05/2026
Publishing AI apps and agents on Microsoft Marketplace: Partner Center configuration and offer setup
Partner Center configuration The previous post, Publishing readiness for AI apps and agents on Microsoft...
26/05/2026
Find shadow tenants and reduce risk fast with Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance
As organizations grow, so does their tenant footprint. Over time, tenants created for acquisitions, development projects, regional operations, or partner collaboration can fall outside central IT visibility, creating what many security teams now refer to as shadow tenants. One of the foundational pillars of Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance is discovering related tenants. This capability helps you identify tenants connected to your environment through ...
26/05/2026
Set clear AI expectations for every assignment with Student AI Guidelines
The challenge: students don't know where they stand with AI Every educator has a different approach to AI in their classroom. Some want students using it freely. Others want AI limited to brainstorming or editing. Some assignments shouldn't involve AI at all. The problem? Students are left guessing. Educators have been piecing together workarounds — writing AI policies into assignment instructions, referencing school handbooks, or adding disclaimers to rubrics...
26/05/2026
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Microsoft Build 2026 is around the corner, and this year it’s shaping up to be a big one for PostgreSQL experts and enthusiasts. If you’re a developer working with Postgres, or just love exploring new database technology, there's plenty to get excited about. Microsoft’s new cloud-first evolution of PostgreSQL,
26/05/2026
AI Skills Fest is just days away—here's what to expect
From headliners to hands-on learning, we’ve got your insider’s guide to a week full of can’t-miss moments in AI skilling. I always say my top career tip is simple: stay curious and keep on learning. Ask questions, try new things, follow what sparks your interest. That’s what Microsoft AI Skills Fest is all about. This isn’t just another learning event, it’s a full-o...
26/05/2026
CodeCargo, Centric, Clerk Chat, and Crashplan deliver transactable offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like CodeCargo, Centric, Clerk Chat, and Crashplan deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
26/05/2026
Custom Dictionaries for Teams Meetings Transcription
Teach Teams Your Company's Language If your Teams transcripts have ever mangled a product name, missed an acronym, or turned an industry term into nonsense, you are not alone. Microsoft built custom dictionaries for Teams meetings to solve that exact problem. Teams transcription is powered by AI models trained on general language datasets. Th...
26/05/2026
Meet OmniVoice Studio: A Local, Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs
OmniVoice Studio runs voice cloning, video dubbing, real-time dictation, and speaker diarization entirely on your own hardware. No API keys, no cloud account, and no subscription required. The project supports 646 languages for TTS and exposes an MCP server for integration with Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client. The post Meet OmniVoice Studio: A Local, Open-Source Alte...
26/05/2026
Design a Complete Multimodal RLVR Pipeline with Open-MM-RL, Vision-Language Prompting, Reward Scoring, and GRPO Export
In this tutorial, we explore the TuringEnterprises/Open-MM-RL dataset as a practical foundation for multimodal reasoning and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. We load the dataset, inspect its schema, analyze domains, formats, question lengths, answer types, and image distributions, and visualize representative examples from each domain. We also build a lightweight reward function that checks exact, […] The post
26/05/2026
Building an On-Device Voice Assistant with Microsoft Foundry Local
Why on-device voice still matters Most "voice AI" tutorials assume your audio leaves the machine. You ship a WAV to Whisper-API, your transcript to GPT-4, and a synthesized response back over the wire. That works — but it also means three round trips, three per-token bills, and three places your user's voice gets logged. The new wave of small, hardware-optimised models changes the trade-off. NVIDIA's Nemotron Speech Streaming En 0.6B is a 600M-parameter stream...
26/05/2026
Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR: An Attention-Aware 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization System for Long-Context LLM Serving
Together AI has released OSCAR (Offline Spectral Covariance-Aware Rotation), an INT2 KV cache quantization method for long-context LLM serving.Unlike prior rotation-based approaches that apply data-oblivious Hadamard transforms, OSCAR derives separate rotations for keys and values from attention-aware covariance structures estimated offline.At 2.28 bits per KV element, OSCAR reduces the BF16 accuracy gap to 3.78 points on Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 and 1.42 points on Qwen3-8B, while delivering approximately 8× KV memory reduction and up to 3× decode speedup at 100K context length.
25/05/2026
Step by Step Guide to Build and Compare FedAvg and FedProx Federated Learning on Non-IID CIFAR-10 with NVIDIA FLARE
In this tutorial, we build an advanced federated learning experiment with NVIDIA FLARE.We compare FedAvg and FedProx on a non-IID CIFAR-10 setup, where client data is split using a Dirichlet distribution to simulate realistic label imbalance across federated sites.We use the NVFlare Job API to define and launch federated jobs, while the Client […]
25/05/2026
Make this your year for Frontier Transformation: Earn your badge and join us at the summit
If you’re a solution engineer or architect building AI agents across the Frontier stack—including Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Agent 365—now’s the perfect time to validate your expertise with the Frontier Transformation Engineer badgehttps://aka.ms/FrontierPartnerSkilling. Through certifications, project-ready execution, and advanced training, this applied skilling journey hones your capabilities in designing, building, and operating production-ready agentic AI solutions—so you can lead customers from AI experimentation to secure implementation. Learn more about how to engineer a Frontier partner practice in our latest blog post. Join us at the Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit on June 9 for a live, expert-led skilling experience where you’ll explore how to use Microsoft Agent Factory at scale, build individual expertise, showcase organizational readiness, and lead Frontier Transformation for your customers.
25/05/2026
Deploying Existing Agentic Services to Microsoft 365 Copilot via Gateway and OBO
Deploying an Agentic Service to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Delegated OBO AccessWhat follows is a general development guideline — framework-agnostic, language-agnostic — for deploying any agentic service behind Azure Container Apps, exposing it to M365 Copilot through an M365 Gateway, and using chained OBO flows to call downstream services as the signed-in user.The app package is a ZIP containing a manifest and icons that registers the gateway as a Custom Engine Agent in Microsoft 365.
25/05/2026
Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026
As MCP crosses 97 million monthly SDK downloads and AI agents move into production workflows, authentication has become the most critical infrastructure decision teams face.This guide ranks the eight leading platforms — WorkOS, Stytch, Auth0 by Okta, Composio, Nango, Arcade, TrueFoundry, and Cloudflare — on spec compliance, enterprise identity depth, integration breadth, and real-world fit for 2026 deployments.The post Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
25/05/2026
WorkOS Releases auth.md: An Open Agent Registration Protocol Built on OAuth Standards
Most web applications still have no structured way for an AI agent to register. auth.md proposes a fix: a Markdown file apps publish at their domain that tells agents which registration flows are supported, which scopes to request, and how to get credentials tied to a real user — without a human filling out a form.The post WorkOS Releases auth.md: An Open Agent Registration Protocol Built on OAuth Standards appeared first on MarkTechPost.
25/05/2026
Building an End-to-End Azure RAG Strategy Agent with MS Foundry
This architecture represents an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline where raw documents are ingested from Azure Blob Storage, processed using Document Intelligence, transformed into embeddings via Azure OpenAI, and indexed in Azure AI Search for hybrid retrieval.This repository demonstrates a production-ready Azure RAG architecture:How to generate embeddings with Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models - Microsoft Foundry |
25/05/2026
How to use Instance Mix with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Instance Mix for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets allows you to configure your scale out with more options by define multiple compatible VM sizes in a single scale set.Instance Mix is a Virtual Machine Scale Sets capability that lets you specify up to five VM sizes for a single scale set that uses Flexible orchestration mode.You can enable Instance Mix on a separate existing scale set if it uses Flexible orchestration mode, does not already use Instance Mix, and the selected VM sizes are compatible.
24/05/2026
Build a Complete Langfuse Observability and Evaluation Pipeline for Tracing, Prompt Management, Scoring, and Experiments
In this tutorial, we implement the Langfuse (an open-source LLM engineering platform) pipeline for tracing, prompt management, scoring, datasets, and experiments.We build a complete workflow that works with either a real OpenAI key or a deterministic mock LLM, so we can understand every major Langfuse feature without depending on paid model access.The post Build a Complete Langfuse Observability and Evaluation Pipeline for Tracing, Prompt Management, Scoring, and Experiments appeared first on MarkTechPost.
24/05/2026
StepFun Releases StepAudio 2.5 Realtime: An End-to-End Voice Model with Roleplay-Specific RLHF and Paralinguistic Comprehension
StepFun, the Shanghai-based AI lab, released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime in May 2026 — an end-to-end real-time speech large language model with fully customizable persona capabilities.The model connects via a WebSocket API, supports Chinese and English, and ranked first across all five benchmark dimensions tested in April 2026, including an 80.41 human evaluation score and 82.18 on paralinguistic comprehension.The post StepFun Releases StepAudio 2.5 Realtime: An End-to-End Voice Model with Roleplay-Specific RLHF and Paralinguistic Comprehension appeared first on MarkTechPost.
24/05/2026
Building MedNexus: A Multi-Agent Healthcare Platform on Microsoft Agent Framework
Azure AI Search: the hybrid index the doctor never seesThe Patient Historian indexes everything into a single mednexus-clinical index — clinical notes, X-ray analysis text, transcripts, and even the patient's My Story narrative.The Doctor Chat: Agent Framework with function-calling toolsThe floating doctor chat assistant is a clean example of how the Agent Framework's FunctionTool abstraction collapses what used to be tool-schema boilerplate:def _build_framework_tools(ui_action_ref: dict[str, Any]) -> list[FunctionTool]:)What this stack actually gives youStepping back from the code: what you get from combining Microsoft Agent Framework + MCP + Azure AI Foundry is a system where every clinical decision has a traceable lineage.
24/05/2026
The Azure Copilot Observability Agent Chat - Stop Writing Queries, Start Asking Questions.
The Azure Copilot Observability agent now has a chat experience that simplifies this dramatically – you just ask, in your own plain, natural language. The chat with the agent has a progressive exploration flow, instead of isolated queries.Through your chat with the observability agent, you can also trigger a full, deep investigation process.
24/05/2026
Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%
Microsoft Research introduces Webwright, a terminal-native browser agent framework that replaces click-trace web automation with reusable Playwright scripts.Using a single agent loop across three modules and roughly 1,000 lines of code, Webwright powered by GPT-5.4 reaches 60.1% on the long-horizon Odysseys benchmark and 86.7% on Online-Mind2Web — the highest AutoEval score among open-sourced harness recipes.The post Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5% appeared first on MarkTechPost.
24/05/2026
NVIDIA AI Releases Gated DeltaNet-2: A Linear Attention Layer That Decouples Erase and Write in the Delta Rule
Prior delta-rule models like Gated DeltaNet and KDA use one scalar gate to control both erasing old content and writing new content.NVIDIA's Gated DeltaNet-2 decouples these into a channel-wise erase gate b_t on the key axis and a channel-wise write gate w_t on the value axis.At 1.3B parameters trained on 100B FineWeb-Edu tokens, it outperforms Mamba-2, Gated DeltaNet, KDA, and Mamba-3 across language modeling, commonsense reasoning, and long-context retrieval — with the largest gains on RULER S-NIAH and multi-key needle retrieval.
24/05/2026
Tencent Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory: A 4-Tier Local Memory Pipeline for AI Agents
Tencent has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory, a fully local memory system for AI agents released under the MIT license. The project pairs symbolic short-term memory, which offloads verbose tool logs into a compact Mermaid task canvas, with a 4-tier long-term memory pyramid (L0 Conversation → L1 Atom → L2 Scenario → L3 Persona). It ships as an OpenClaw plugin and a Hermes Docker image, runs on local SQLite + sqlite-vec by default, and uses hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval with RRF fusion. Ten...
23/05/2026
Build a SuperClaude Framework Workflow with Commands, Agents, Modes, and Session Memory
In this tutorial, we build an advanced workflow using the SuperClaude Framework as a structured layer on top of the Anthropic API. The post Build a SuperClaude Framework Workflow with Commands, Agents, Modes, and Session Memory appeared first on MarkTechPost.
23/05/2026
Nous Research Releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA): Sparse MLP Circuit Steering Without SAE Training or Weight Modification
Nous Research releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA), a method that identifies and ablates sparse MLP neuron circuits to steer LLM behavior — no sparse autoencoder training, no weight modification, and no degradation of general capability benchmarks.The post Nous Research Releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA): Sparse MLP Circuit Steering Without SAE Training or Weight Modification appeared first on MarkTechPost.
23/05/2026
Perplexity Open-Sources Bumblebee: A Read-Only Supply-Chain Scanner for Developer Endpoints
Perplexity has open-sourced Bumblebee, an internal security tool it uses to protect the developer systems behind its search product, Comet, and Computer. Bumblebee is a read-only inventory collector for macOS and Linux developer endpoints. It scans npm, PyPI, Go modules, MCP configs, editor extensions, and browser extensions — without invoking any package manager or running any code. The post
23/05/2026
Title Plan Update - May 22, 2026
📁May 22, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at
22/05/2026
May update: What’s New in Azure for Partners
Guiding customers through their AI transformation is not just about delivering technology but shepherding them into a new era of AI-powered productivity. From migrations and modernization to innovation at scale, partners have a profound opportunity to help their customers usher in Frontier Transformation while creating long-term business by building and deploying intelligent apps and agents.
22/05/2026
Redefining Security for an AI Driven World
Vendors are being challenged to help customers address these challenges not as a point-solution vendor but as an end-to-end security and AI platform partner. By integrating identity, data governance, threat protection, and AI services into a unified ecosystem, Microsoft can deliver coordinated defenses, continuous compliance monitoring, and operational efficiency gains that fragmented toolsets cannot match. The sections that follow examine each chall...
22/05/2026
Striking the Right Balance: ECN and PFC Thresholds for AI Clusters
Introduction In large-scale AI training clusters, congestion control is critical to maintaining high GPU utilization and low job completion times. Two key mechanisms in RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) fabrics are Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) and Priority Flow Control (PFC). Overly aggressive tuning of ECN marking and PFC pause thresholds – tightening them too much – often backfires. Instead of reducing jitter and tail latency, it can cause instability: pause ...
22/05/2026
Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025
At a glance — Native regular expression (regex) functions in T-SQL now accept varchar(max) and nvarchar(max) inputs of up to 2 MB across all seven regex functions, including the two table-valued functions (REGEXP_MATCHES and REGEXP_SPLIT_TO_TABLE). This capability ships in
22/05/2026
A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial to Implement GBrain: The Self-Wiring Memory Layer Built by Y Combinator’s Garry Tan for AI Agents
AI agents start every session from zero — no memory of meetings, notes, or decisions.GBrain, the open-source memory layer Y Combinator's Garry Tan built to power his own OpenClaw and Hermes deployments, fixes that with a markdown-first knowledge graph that wires itself through regex inference, not LLM calls.This step-by-step coding tutorial walks through installing GBrain v0.38.2.0, building a brain repo, running hybrid search, and connecting it to Claude Code via MCP — about 20 minutes, all terminal output captured live.
22/05/2026
Learn how to host your agents on Microsoft Foundry
We just concluded Host your agents on Foundry, a three-part livestream series where we explored how to deploy and host Python AI agents on Microsoft Foundry: Deploying Python agents to Foundry Hosted agents using the Azure Developer CLI Building hosted agents with Microsoft Agent Framework, including Foundry IQ integration and multi-agent workflows Building hosted agents with LangChain + LangGraph
22/05/2026
Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft Foundry
Production AI is a moving target. Once you deploy an AI-powered agent, its behavior can shift without a single line of code being changed. As Microsoft's Foundry team states: "The hard part isn't getting the agent to work it's keeping it working". Microsoft addressed this challenge by making Evaluations, Monitoring, and Tracing in Microsoft Foundry generally available through Foundry Control Plane, deeply integrated with Azure Monitor so A...
22/05/2026
Announcing mssql-django 1.7.2
We're pleased to announce the release of mssql-django 1.7.2, a patch release that ships three targeted bug fixes for the Django backend for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL. This release focuses on correctness: timezone-aware datetimes, QuerySet.explain() on Django 4.0+, and exception handling in a test utility. Install or upgrade from PyPI: pip install --upgrade mssql-django
22/05/2026
Building Community-First Events: Lessons from M365 Community Days DC
I’ve helped organize a number of community events over the years, but this one stood out. Not because everything went perfectly—it didn’t—but because of how consistently the community showed up, stepped in, and made the experience better than anything we could have planned. That’s when it really clicked: the goal isn’t just to run a great event. It’s to build something people feel ownership in. 300 attendees · 50 speakers · 44 sessions · 20 MVPs · 15 MCTs · 14 ...
22/05/2026
From Scale to Breakthrough: Azure NetApp Files Sets a New Cloud Benchmark for EDA Performance
Table of Contents Introduction New benchmark proof with large volume breakthrough mode What is Azure NetApp Files large volume breakthrough mode?
22/05/2026
Foundry IQ as a Shared Knowledge Brain for Multiple AI Agents
When we build AI agents today, the hardest part is often not reasoning or generation — it’s giving agents access to the right knowledge. In many projects, each agent ends up with its own retrieval logic, its own indexed data, or its own RAG pipeline. This quickly becomes hard to manage and inconsistent. This is where Foundry IQ in Microsoft Foundry introduces a useful shift:it acts as a shared knowledge brain that multiple AI a...
22/05/2026
Custom KEDA Scale Rules for Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps
Announcing Custom KEDA Scale Rules for Azure Functions on Container Apps We're excited to announce a new capability for Azure Functions on Container Apps: custom KEDA scale rule overrides. You can now bypass the platform's auto-generated scaling rules and define your own KEDA configuration - giving you full control over how your function apps scale. Why We Built This Azure Functions on Container Apps automatically generates KEDA scale rules from your function triggers...
22/05/2026
AI Infrastructure Preflight at User space: Validating Multi Node, Multi GPU Slurm Clusters
Every team that operates GPU clusters for AI has seen this pattern. The cluster boots, GPUs are visible, and scheduling works at a basic level. Then the first distributed training run stalls in NCCL initialization, fails during rank rendezvous, or silently maps ranks to the wrong devices. The issue is often not in training code. It is in infrastructure consistency across scheduler, runtime, drivers, networking, and process topology. The goal of ai-infra-validator is straightforward:
22/05/2026
CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry
Introduction Building an AI agent is the straightforward part. Shipping it reliably to production with version control, evaluation-driven quality gates, multi-environment promotion, and enterprise governance is where most teams run into friction. Microsoft Foundry changes this. It is Microsoft's AI app and agent factory: a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents at scale. It provides a first-class agent runtime with built-in lif...
22/05/2026
Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents (4B/9B/27B) That Outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web
Microsoft Research released Fara1.5, a family of browser computer-use agents in 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. Fara1.5-27B scores 72% on Online-Mind2Web, outperforming OpenAI Operator, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, and Yutori Navigator n1. The release also includes FaraGen1.5, a synthetic data pipeline that trains agents on gated The post
22/05/2026
Build Recurrent-Depth Transformers with OpenMythos for MLA, GQA, Sparse MoE, and Loop-Scaled Reasoning
In this tutorial, we explore OpenMythos by building an advanced recurrent-depth transformer workflow that runs end-to-end in Google Colab. We create both MLA and GQA model variants, compare their parameter counts, and check the stability of the recurrent injection matrix through its spectral radius. The post Build Recurrent-Depth Transfo...
22/05/2026
When RAG Hits the Wall: Designing Systems That Scale from 1,000 to 1 million Documents
Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has quickly become the default architecture for grounding Large Language Models (LLMs) in enterprise data. And at small scale, it works exceptionally well. 100 documents → Excellent accuracy 1,000 documents → Still predictable With around 100 documents, RAG systems tend to produce highly accurate responses. Even at 1,000 documents, behavior r...
22/05/2026
Meet Dileepa Bandara
This is the next segment of our blog series highlighting Microsoft Student Ambassadors who achieved the Gold milestone, the highest level attainable, and have recently graduated from university. Each blog in the series features a different student and highlights their accomplishments, their experience with the Student Ambassador community, and what they are up to now. How has being part of the Microsoft Student Ambassadors community helped you connect wi...
22/05/2026
Meet Azmat Ullah
This is the next segment of our blog series highlighting Microsoft Student Ambassadors who achieved the Gold milestone, the highest level attainable, and have recently graduated from university. Each blog in the series features a different student and highlights their accomplishments, their experience with the Student Ambassador community, and what they are up to now. How has being part of the Microsoft Student Ambassadors community helped you connect wit...
22/05/2026
How CopilotKit Is Redefining the Agentic AI Stack in 2026
An inside look at CopilotKit’s 2026 shipping cycle. Learn how the new AG-UI protocol, AIMock testing suite, and Pathfinder server are providing the production architecture developers need for agentic AI. The post How CopilotKit Is Redefining the Agentic AI Stack in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
21/05/2026
Cloud Native Platforms: Build
For a system already in production and already in pain, the SRE community's hierarchy of reliability needs gives the most defensible starting order: monitoring and observability first (you cannot fix what you cannot see), then incident response (close the bleeding cleanly), then resilience patterns (idempotency, retries, decoupling) so the bleeding has fewer reasons to start, then flexibility and delivery so safe change can travel at speed.For a system being built fresh, the order in this post (flexibility, resilience, observability, delivery, cost) reflects the Azure Well-Architected Framework's emphasis on designing for change, failure, and visibility before scaling teams or workloads.Drop a comment with patterns you have seen in your environment.
21/05/2026
Cloud Native Platforms: Run
Audience: SREs (Site Reliability Engineers), platform engineers, engineering managers running production systemsPart 3 of this series argues that the same discipline applies again, in a different domain: the practices that make platforms operable are the practices that make AI useful in delivery.Drop a comment with patterns you have seen in your environment.
21/05/2026
Cloud Native Platforms: Evolve
Planning, design, development, testing, release, and operations are all being augmented at once.The disciplines that make platforms scale are the same disciplines that make AI useful.Drop a comment with patterns you have seen in your environment.
21/05/2026
Qwen Introduces Qwen3.7-Max: A Reasoning Agent Model With a 1M-Token Context Window
Alibaba's Qwen team introduced Qwen3.7-Max at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit, describing it as its most advanced and comprehensive agent model to date.The model features a 1M-token context window, extended-thinking mode, and is designed for long-horizon tasks including coding, debugging, and multi-step workflow automation.It scored 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking fifth overall among proprietary models.
21/05/2026
Capturing clinical conversations across dozens of languages with Dragon Copilot
Language can shape trust, understanding, and the patient experience Patient care doesn’t happen in just one language. To better reflect the diversity of patients and communities’ physicians’ serve, Dragon Copilot now supports dozens of languages, enabling clinicians to capture clinical conversations naturally without changing how they document care. This expanded capability helps physicians engage more confidently with diverse patient populations, transition smoothly from one appoint...
21/05/2026
Cohere Releases Command A+: A 218B Sparse MoE Model for Agentic Workflows That Runs on as Few as Two H100 GPUs
Cohere releases Command A+, an open-source 218B Sparse Mixture-of-Experts model consolidating four prior Command A variants into one. It runs on as few as two H100 GPUs at W4A4 quantization, supports 48 languages, and is Cohere's first multimodal reasoning model. The post Cohere Releases Command A+: A 218B Sparse MoE Model for A...
21/05/2026
When AI Should Ask for Help: Human-in-the-Loop Patterns in Microsoft Foundry
As AI agents become increasingly capable, modern applications are shifting from deterministic workflows to systems that can reason, adapt, and act. Platforms like Microsoft Foundry enable this transition by making it easier to orchestrate models, tools, and data into cohesive experiences. But greater autonomy introduces a new design challenge: Where should control remain with the system - and where should it return to ...
21/05/2026
Drive AI adoption with AI Skills Fest—build real skills, fast
AI Skills Fest (June 8–12) is a global week of practical AI skill-building designed for every audience—from business leaders to developers. Powered by AI Skills Navigator, it combines live shows, curated learning playlists, and hands-on experiences to help learners build confidence and apply AI in real-world scenarios. In addition, Training Services Partners (TSPs) are participating globally by delivering localized, language-specific events, making the experience acces...
21/05/2026
Teaching AI to Remember: Exploring Memory Store in Microsoft Foundry
Imagine interacting with an AI assistant that remembers your preferences - the tools you use, the projects you're working on, or even how you like your coffee. In many AI systems today, maintaining this kind of long-term memory isn’t straightforward. While models can understand context within a single conversation, remembering important information across multiple interactions requires additional infrastructure. That’s exactly the problem Memory Store in...
21/05/2026
WAR, Azure Advisor, and Us (Azure Arch Diagram Builder): Three Ways to Score an Azure Architecture
Author: Arturo Quiroga, Azure AI services Engineer - Senior Partner Solutions Architect — Microsoft A few days ago I published From Prompt to Production: Building Azure Architecture Diagrams with AI, introducing the open-source Azure Architecture Diagram Builder. One feature got more follow-...
21/05/2026
Shaping Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
We’ve been working to make Microsoft 365 feel more connected and integrated with Copilot, available as a helpful thought partner, when you need it. We recently updated Word, Excel and PowerPoint with a consolidated, more visible entry point (Dynamic Action Button) at the bottom right of the apps that suggests actions from Copilot based on your document. You may have noticed similar entry points in other apps across Microsoft 365, all with a...
21/05/2026
MVP Mentoring Rings: Where Community Becomes a Catalyst
What if mentoring did not start with matching one expert to one learner, but with bringing a small circle of community leaders together to learn out loud? That is the idea behind MVP Mentoring Rings: small, community-led groups where Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) share experience, ask honest questions, and help one another grow. Unlike traditional one-to-one mentoring, Mentoring Rings are built around collective learning. The result is a model that feels both practical and deep...
21/05/2026
What's New in Microsoft Foundry Labs – May 2026
Four new releases this month — a new benchmark for how agents interact, an experimental end-to-end agentic stack, a faster image model, and a first-party geospatial model. Last month we kicked off this series with a roundup of new Foundry Labs releases across speech, vision, and multimodal AI. This month, we're back with another update — read on to see learn what's new! SocialReasoning-Bench: measuring whether AI agents ...
21/05/2026
You Can Build a Framework-Agnostic AI Gateway on Azure App Service — Here's How
The agent infrastructure conversation moved this year. In October 2025, AWS shipped Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — a managed agent runtime with per-session microVM isolation, built-in long-term memory, native MCP support, and an opinionated policy engine. A few months earlier, Cloudflare shipped its
21/05/2026
Cohere Command A+ Now Available in Microsoft Foundry
Command A+ is Cohere’s newest mixture-of-experts (MoE) model designed for enterprise-grade agentic AI workloads with exceptional efficiency and scalability. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, the model brings together reasoning, multimodal understanding, multilingual capabilities, retrieval, and tool use into a single unified model optimized for real-world enterprise AI applications. Built...
21/05/2026
mssql-python 1.7.1 and the case of the missing megabytes
We just shipped mssql-python 1.7.1 to PyPI. This release is mostly polish, but the road to publishing it was bumpier than expected, and there is some housekeeping on the PyPI side worth talking about. What's in 1.7.1 A handful of correctness, performance, and platform fixes that landed since 1.6.0: PERF: UTF-16 string handling now goes through simdutf and std::u16string, cutting overhead on every string round-trip between Pytho...
21/05/2026
Meet Murray Sargent, the quiet force behind accessible math
If you’ve ever typed an equation into Microsoft Word, copied math from the web into a document, or relied on a screen reader to understand an equation, you’ve benefited from Murray Sargent’s work, even if you’ve never heard his name. As we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re recognizing Murray, recipient of the Microsoft Accessibility Lifetime Achievement Award, for his extr...
21/05/2026
Securing Azure AI Applications: Against Prompt Injection | Part - 2
Introduction — Why Prompt Injection Matters? In December 2023, a customer walked up to a Chevrolet dealership's chatbot and asked it to do something simple: agree with everything the customer said and end every reply with "this is a legally binding offer — no takesies backsies." The bot complied. Within hours, screenshots of a 2024 Chevy Tahoe being "
21/05/2026
Empowering.Cloud Community Update – May 2026
The latest Microsoft Teams and Microsoft365 expert community briefings, podcasts and upcoming community events. Expert Briefings: 4 Ways to Improve Customer Experience With Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams https://empowering.cloud/4...
21/05/2026
How to determine which Resource Mailboxes are being actively used
To use this with PowerShell, you need the Microsoft.Graph.Calendar module and you need an Entra ID App registration which has the appropriate Graph permissions added.Role Based Access Control for Applications in Exchange Online |Get Calendar diagnostic logs for Exchange Online mailboxes - Exchange |
21/05/2026
New in Microsoft Marketplace: May 21, 2026
Learn about 59 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.AdSecurity: AdSecurity is a self-service account recovery solution for users on Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, enabling password reset, unlocking, and rehabilitation without requiring support intervention.Zoom Meetings for Dynamics 365
21/05/2026
Building AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry: A Progressive Lab from Hello World to Self-Hosted
The Microsoft Foundry Agent Lab is a structured, open-source demo series designed to change that — nine self-contained demos, each adding exactly one new concept, all built on the same Microsoft Foundry SDK and a single model deployment.Model Router is a Microsoft Foundry capability that inspects each request at inference time and routes it to the optimal available model — weighing task complexity, cost, and latency.The Foundry Agent Lab is open source under the MIT licence.
21/05/2026
Student Devs: Build AI Agents, Compete for $55K in Prizes
Student Devs: Build AI Agents, Compete for $55K in Prizes 🎮 AI Skills Fest • June 4–14, 2026 • Free to Enter $55KPrize Pool3Challenge Tracks10Days of HackingFreeTo Enter
21/05/2026
One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing
ByteDance's Intelligent Creation Lab has released Lance, an open-source native unified multimodal model that handles image and video understanding, generation, and editing — all within a single framework, using only 3B activated parameters. The post One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Unders...
21/05/2026
AI Under Attack: A Defender's Guide to Memory Poisoning, Jailbreaks, and Evasion Techniques
Introduction AI-powered applications are transforming how enterprises operate - from autonomous agents that manage workflows to copilots that accelerate developer productivity. But as AI systems grow more capable, so do the adversaries targeting them. The rise of agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and persistent memory in LLM-based systems has introduced a new class of security threats that traditional applicati...
21/05/2026
OIDC vs SPN: Securing Azure Deployments with GitHub Actions & Terraform
From Secrets to Trust: Modernizing CI/CD Authentication When building infrastructure pipelines on Microsoft Azure using GitHub Actions and Terraform, one design choice quietly determines your entire security posture: How does your pipeline authenticate to Azure? For years, the answer was simple:
21/05/2026
Clean up idle and always-failing Azure Logic App Consumption
The Logic Apps Management REST API is queried with OData — $top, $filter, the usual:The bucket is “ran in the window, but not a single Succeeded run in the window” — not “all runs are Failed”.api-version=2019-05-01 with properties.state = 'Disabled'), a cross-subscription mode that iterates az account list with a confirmation per sub, and a companion API-connection GC script that uses Resource Graph to join connections against workflow definitions in one query.
21/05/2026
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer: The AI Role OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Are Hiring in 2026
OpenAI launched a $4B+ Deployment Company and Anthropic closed a $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs — both built around the Forward Deployed Engineer model Palantir pioneered.The post What is a Forward Deployed Engineer: The AI Role OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Are Hiring in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
21/05/2026
Announcing Public Preview of Argo CD extension in AKS Azure Portal Experience
We are excited to announce the public preview of Argo CD in the Azure Portal for Azure Kubernetes Service.With Argo CD now available directly in the Portal, teams can enable and manage GitOps without the complexity of manual setup.Enable Argo CD directly from the AKS cluster
20/05/2026
Ansible + Azure Arc: Manage Arc Extensions with New Ansible Modules
We’re excited to announce new modules in Ansible Galaxy that make it easier to manage Azure Arc machine extensions at scale.With the latest updates to the azure.azcollection on Ansible Galaxy, you can now deploy and manage Azure Arc extensions using familiar, declarative Ansible workflows.Azure Arc machine extensions power critical scenarios such as security, monitoring, update management, configuration and compliance.
20/05/2026
Meet Turbovec: A Rust Vector Index with Python Bindings, and Built on Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm
turbovec brings Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm to vector search, offering 16x compression and zero codebook training for RAG pipelines. The post Meet Turbovec: A Rust Vector Index with Python Bindings, and Built on Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/05/2026
Driving Engagement in Nonprofits with Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage, part of the Microsoft Viva suite, provides a cloud-based, enterprise social layer within Microsoft 365 that enables nonprofits to build community, share knowledge, and foster engagement across geographic and organizational boundaries.Campaigns enable nonprofits to run coordinated, measurable engagement initiatives using hashtags and centralized tracking.Use Power Automate with the Viva Engage connector to enable event-driven automation and cross-system integration:
20/05/2026
Cumulative Update #5 for SQL Server 2025 RTM
The 5th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2025 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates.To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit: CU5 KB Article: https://learn.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/sql/releases/sqlserver-2025/cumulativeupdate5 Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern s...
20/05/2026
Cumulative Update #25 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 25th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit: CU25 KB Article: https://learn.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/sql/releases/sqlserver-2022/cumula...
20/05/2026
Summarized Gateway Prefixes for Route Advertisement in Azure Virtual Networks
Background Many Azure deployments follow a hub-and-spoke topology: one VNet is designated as the hub and holds the connection to on-premises (via ExpressRoute Gateway, VPN Gateway, or both), and workload VNets — the spokes — peer to the hub to reach on-premises and shared services. This centralizes gateway connectivity so many workloads can share a single ExpressRoute or VPN Gateway. However, in large hub-and-sp...
20/05/2026
From Coding Agents to Cloud Automation: AI-Assisted Customer Related Incidents in Azure Functions
On the Azure Functions team, we have been exploring how AI can help with investigating customer-reported incidents, root-cause analysis, and incident mitigation. This post shares our journey from early RCA agents to coding-agent-assisted investigations and cloud-hosted automation, and the lessons we learned along the way. Micr...
20/05/2026
How to Build Knowledge Graph Generation Pipelines From Text With kg-gen, NetworkX Analytics, and Interactive Visualizations
In this tutorial, we will generate knowledge graphs from plain text, conversations, and multiple source documents using kg-gen. We start by setting up the required dependencies and configuring an LLM through LiteLLM, then we extract entities, predicates, and relationships from simple text. As we move forward, we work with longer passages using chunking and clustering, […] The post
20/05/2026
Partner Blog | Registration is open for MCAPS Start for Partners
Partners best positioned for success in FY27 are those with a differentiated capability to operationalize AI with trust and intelligence as the foundation. MCAPS Start for Partners is designed to create clarity on Microsoft’s priorities, innovation, and investments for FY27, so you can convert this into practice growth, co-sell, and customer wins. It’s the annual moment to align early with Microsoft investments and go-to-market motions so your teams can focus, prioritize, and execute against what will shape customer conversations throughout the year. Bring the leaders who will turn priorities into outcomes across your sales, presales, delivery, and marketing teams.
20/05/2026
Partner Blog | Scaling partner-led growth in Europe: Multiparty private offers expand to new markets
Building on this momentum, starting May 27, 2026, multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace will be available across 30 countries in Europe.This expansion makes it easy for partners to collaborate on deals, simplify transactions, and scale across borders. We are also continuing to expand beyond Europe, with multiparty private offers becoming available in Australia, Japan, and South Africa starting July 15, 2026.
20/05/2026
AI agents on Microsoft Fabric for faster retail merchandising decisions
For our latest in the Partner Spotlight series, we’re highlighting a partner building business-ready AI agents on Microsoft Fabric, so organizations can turn governed enterprise data into faster decisions and automated workflows.Our platform, Lucid Agents Hub, enables organizations to move beyond reporting and into automated, insight-driven workflows without moving data outside their existing security boundaries.[VA] Lucid Agents Hub is designed for teams who need to make frequent, high-impact decisions from large volumes of operational data especially merchandising teams, buyers, and store operations leaders in retail.
20/05/2026
Real-World Success Stories with PostgreSQL on Azure
Across healthcare, financial services, and AI startups, companies are navigating this journey on Azure Database for PostgreSQL: a fully managed, enterprise-ready PostgreSQL environment with 58% lower total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to on-premises deployments.This post walks through real customer stories that span the full arc, from lift-and-shift migration to production-grade AI agent development, illustrating how Azure Database for PostgreSQL supports scalability, performance, security, and AI-readiness at every stage.The result: scaling from roughly 500,000 users to 3.5 million+ users worldwide, with zero downtime during the cutover, completed in just three months.
20/05/2026
Agents League: The Esports-Inspired Hackathon Where AI Agents Battle for Glory
Agents League is here, a dynamic, esports-inspired developer challenge that brings the thrill of live competition to the world of agentic AI.Agents League is a week-long hackathon running as part of AI Skills Fest (June 4–14, 2026).Unlike traditional hackathons, Agents League combines live AI coding battles, asynchronous project submissions, and a thriving Discord community all competing for a total prize pool of $55,000 USD.
20/05/2026
Agentic Programming: A Roadmap
Here is the number that defines the current state of things:
20/05/2026
Native Database/Query Monitoring with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Monitoring PostgreSQL Database Engine The PostgreSQL database engine provides multiple administrative views, which can be leveraged to capture metrics of activities inside of the database engine including, but not limited to, database activities, query activities, execution time, database resource locks etc for initial and deep analysis on database & query performance. Database Administrators should use these views and their corresponding metrics to perform initial level analysis...
20/05/2026
Fivetran, RedMane Technology, and WeAreDots deliver transactable offers in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Fivetran, RedMane Technology, and WeAreDots deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Ervy: Ervy by WeAreDots is an AI-powered learning platform that delivers bite-size lessons in Microsoft Teams, with no separate login required.It helps human resources and learning and development teams turn SOPs, PDFs, and policies into interactive training;
20/05/2026
TLS Certificate Pinning and Best Practices in Azure Database for MySQL
Transport Layer Security (TLS) encrypts data in transit between client applications and the server and authenticates the service endpoint in client-server authentication. The server has no visibility into whether pinning is configured on the client. From the server’s perspective, the client either completes the TLS handshake or aborts it.While certificate pinning was historically used to reduce the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks, it introduces significant operational fragility in cloud environments, particularly during certificate rotations.
20/05/2026
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model with 6× Tokens Per Forward Over Qwen3-8B
NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture.The model supports autoregressive (AR) decoding, diffusion-based parallel decoding, and self-speculation decoding.It is available in 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter sizes.
20/05/2026
Bulk-configure diagnostic settings on Azure Logic Apps Consumptions
Bulk-configure diagnostic settings on Azure Logic Apps — without clicking through the PortalLA-BulkDiag is a small, single-file PowerShell script that does the whole job in one guided run.It enumerates every Consumption Logic App in a resource group, shows you which ones already have settings, lets you pick a scope (every bare LA / every LA / a hand-picked subset), and creates the diagnostic setting on each.
20/05/2026
Alibaba Qwen Team Introduces Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash: Real-Time Multimodal Interpretation Across 60 Languages at 2.8-Second Latency
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, a real-time multimodal translation model that processes audio and video simultaneously.The model covers 60 input languages and produces speech output in 29 languages at 2.8 seconds of latency.Key additions over the previous Qwen3 version include real-time speaker voice cloning, vision-enhanced comprehension via lip movements and on-screen text, and dynamic keyword configuration for domain-specific terminology.
20/05/2026
Google Introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026: A Faster and Cheaper Model for AI Agents and Coding
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash beats its own flagship on coding and agentic benchmarks while running four times faster and at half the cost. The post Google Introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026: A Faster and Cheaper Model for AI Agents and Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/05/2026
Signing in to Microsoft Foundry from OpenClaw using Azure AD: a smoother way to bring your models in
Signing in to Microsoft Foundry from OpenClaw via Azure ADAfter registration, every model call OpenClaw makes against Foundry reuses the same Azure-CLI-managed token cache: tokens refresh transparently, and access is gated by the Foundry resource's RBAC assignments rather than a static API key.Once you are signed in, OpenClaw will ask you to pick the Azure subscription that your Microsoft Foundry resource lives in.
20/05/2026
How to Visualize Your Azure AI Workloads Usage for Observability
This article assumes you already have an Azure Foundry project and resource deployed in Microsoft Foundry.Microsoft Foundry has a built in Monitor tab to view your model/agent usage.There's a pre-built AI Foundry dashboard ready to import.
20/05/2026
Golden Image Refresh for Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets: Driving Consistency at Scale
Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) deployments use a custom image that is baked on top of a Golden Image.The Golden Image version is pinned in the environment-specific Packer variables (pkrvariables) files.Refreshing a VMSS Golden Image involves baking a new custom image using an updated Golden Image version and deploying it via the VMSS pipelines.Use the operational pipeline to deploy the newly created custom image to the VMSS.After updating above code in provider.tf as part of manual upgrade then update the terraform code for new golden image.
20/05/2026
Applying Site Reliability Engineering to Autonomous AI Agents
If you practice SRE, you already have a mental model for running reliable production systems. You define SLOs. You track error budgets. You use circuit breakers to stop cascading failures. You run chaos experiments to find weaknesses before customers do. You treat every operational decision as a tradeoff between reliability and velocity. That mental model transfers directly to AI agents. It just needs four new ideas. In the
19/05/2026
Deploy with Confidence: Using Rule Impact Analyzer in Azure Virtual Network Manager
Introduction In a previous blog post, we described how Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) enables central teams to enforce security admin rules across hundreds of virtual networks—bring consistency and governance to complex enterprise environments. But enforcement at scale introduces a new challenge: ...
19/05/2026
Upstash for Redis vs Supabase vs Neon: Which One Fits Vibe Coding Workflows in 2026?
Not all database platforms are built for the same job.Not all database platforms are built for the same job. Here is how Upstash, Supabase, and Neon actually differ — and which one fits your vibe coding workflow in 2026. The post Upstash for Redis vs Supabase vs Neon: Which One Fits Vibe Coding Workflows in 2026? appeared first on
19/05/2026
Zoom in or out of forms, tables, and queries when in Form View or Datasheet View
Access now lets you zoom in and out when you’re working with forms, tables, and queries in Form View or Datasheet View. Zoom in for a closer look at your data or zoom out to see more on screen at once. You can adjust the zoom level using the Zoom button on the ribbon, the zoom slider on the status bar, or keyboard shortcuts. Zoom is also available in Print Preview for reports. Zoom isn’t supporte...
19/05/2026
Public preview: Expanded coverage and unified management for SQL VA Express Configuration
SQL Vulnerability Assessment (SQL VA) is a core capability in Defender for SQL that helps customers identify possible misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and other deviations from security best practices through continuous scanning of their databases. Traditionally, enabling SQL VA on SQL PaaS resources required customers to provision and maintain a dedicated Azure Storage account to hold scan results and baselines. In addition, managing SQL VA across resource types required different A...
19/05/2026
Azure API Center portal is now generally available
What Is the API Center Portal? The API Center portal is a hosted, provisioned and managed by Azure, where developers across your organization can discover, explore, and consume APIs. The API Center portal provides a multi-gateway, organization-wide view of every API and AI asset (e.g. plugins, MCP servers, skills etc) Key Capabilities Search and filter your full API inventory. Developers can find APIs and AI assets by name or use AI-assisted sem...
19/05/2026
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026: A Standalone Agent-First Platform with CLI, SDK, Managed Execution, and Enterprise Support
Google used its I/O 2026 developer keynote to ship a meaningful architectural shift in how it packages AI-assisted development. The company announced Google Antigravity 2.0 — a standalone desktop application built entirely around agent orchestration alongside an Antigravity CLI, an Antigravity SDK, Managed Agents in the Gemini API, and enterprise support through the Gemini Enterprise […] The post
19/05/2026
Updated Secure Boot status report in Windows Autopatch
Do more with the improved Secure boot status report in Windows Autopatch. Now, you can gain better device-level visibility into certificate status, trust configuration, and readiness for Secure Boot certificate updates. New interactive certificate-level details fit directly into your certificate rollout workflow: Identify devices that aren't up to date. Use trust configurat...
19/05/2026
Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, or Azure AI Foundry: How We Decide for Every Client
Every client conversation starts the same way. Someone has seen a demo, attended an Ignite session, or read a press release. They want to build an agent. Then comes the question that derails more projects than any technical challenge: "Which tool should we use?" After deploying agents for clients across industries - insurance, professional services, manufacturing, public sector - we have developed a repeatable framework for answering that question. It is not bas...
19/05/2026
FabCon and SQLCon: MVP voices on community, connection, and showing up
FabCon and SQLCon bring together technical learning, product insight, and something just as important: community. Microsoft MVPs describe what stayed with them most - from hallway conversations and first-time introductions to practical sessions and friendships that keep growing long after the event ends. Their reflections show why t...
19/05/2026
Azure Arc Server April 2026 Forum
Please find the recording for the monthly Azure Arc Server Forum on YouTube! During the April 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, we discussed: Public Preview of Essential Machine Management, learn more at aka.ms/EMM-blog and sign up at
19/05/2026
Agentic AI for Linux Operations on Azure: The Prompts
Try This Yourself: Agentic AI for Linux Operations on Azure At Red Hat Summit 2026, I handed GitHub Copilot CLI a terminal and asked it to deploy a full-stack application to RHEL 10 on Azure. Live. From a single prompt. No scripts, no runbooks, no pre-baked automation. The audience watched every command happen in real time and then played the app on their phones. This post gives you the prompts so you can try it yourself. Copy them, paste them into Copilot CLI, and watch what ...
19/05/2026
Securing AI Agents End‑to‑End: Connecting Purview DSPM, Agent 365, and the AI Security Dashboard
The Challenge:Organizations deploying Microsoft Copilot and custom AI agents face a critical gap: security visibility is fragmented across data protection, identity governance, and threat detection tools. While Microsoft provides powerful capabilities through Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Agent 365, and the AI Security Dashboard, practitioners often struggle to understand how these components work together to deliver ...
19/05/2026
Study and Learn Agent: your study coach, built for learning
It's 11 pm. A student is at the kitchen table with a chemistry problem they can't crack, an essay due tomorrow, and a quiz in the morning. They open their laptop, open an AI chatbot, and in thirty seconds, they have an answer, an essay, and a study guide. The thinking didn't happen. The grade might still come. That moment is why so many educators and IT leaders feel a knot in their stomach about AI in the classroom. The concerns are real, and we built with them firmly in view.
19/05/2026
Know before you go: Azure Managed Redis at Microsoft Build 2026
Microsoft Build 2026 is almost here, and this year’s event boasts a new format, as well as a deeper technical focus across key themes such as AI agents, cloud-native applications, data platforms, developer tooling, and intelligent infrastructure. The updates showcased at Build signal where Microsoft is investing next—and how customers can start preparing now. Whether you’re joining in person or online, this is y...
19/05/2026
From Prompt to Production: Building Azure Architecture Diagrams with AI
Author: Arturo Quiroga, Senior Partner Solutions Architect — Microsoft Cloud architects spend significant time translating ideas into architecture diagrams. They toggle between Visio, draw.io, pricing calculators, and documentation. According to the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 61% of ...
19/05/2026
Admin Insights for Windows 365: Stay on top of what needs attention — now in public preview
With this in mind, we’re excited to announce Admin Insights for Windows 365, now in public preview, designed to help IT administrators quickly understand what’s happening in their environment and where to focus.IT administrators managing Windows 365 Cloud PCs rely on a range of signals—including reports, alerts, and device views—across the Microsoft Intune admin center to understand the health of their environment.Admin Insights surfaces dynamic insight cards in the Windows 365 management portal in Intune, based on changes and patterns across your Cloud PC environment:
19/05/2026
Choose how OneNote opens Microsoft 365 file links
I’m excited to share with you a new capability in OneNote for Windows and Mac that gives you more flexibility in how Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote file links open.Get more control over how links open in OneNoteYou now have a choice: links can open either in your browser or in the desktop app.
19/05/2026
Simplified access to Hotpatching enabled by Azure Arc for Windows Server 2025
With Windows Server 2025, we introduced hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc, delivering security updates to Windows Server across hybrid and multicloud environments – minimizing downtime (no reboot), accelerating protection, and unifying patch management.We are now taking it one step further to reduce the friction to deploying these critical updates: hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc is now available at no additional cost for Windows Server 2025.Yes, as of 15th May 2026 all billing for hotpatch has been stopped for all existing machines enrolled in hotpatch.
19/05/2026
Replacing IIS SMTP virtual server with Exchange Edge Transport
This blog post aims to present practical options to help you retire IIS SMTP and replace it with supported Microsoft solutions (because IIS SMTP virtual server is long unsupported).Assuming you have decided to decommission IIS SMTP and use the Exchange Edge Transport role for email relay, the next key decision is whether the Edge Transport server should be deployed on a domain-joined machine.If you have Exchange Online tenant, you can use your standalone Edge Transport to relay emails through Exchange Online by configuring your tenant MX as a smarthost in the Edge’s Send connector.
19/05/2026
Debugging Python apps on App Service with the new SSH helper aliases
You shipped a Python app to App Service. It worked in the demo. It works locally. In production, /chat is returning 502s — but /health is green, the deployment succeeded, the logs are quiet, and your laptop can't reproduce it. What you actually need is a shell on the running container so you can poke at DNS, env vars, installed packages, the listening port, and the AI endpoint your app is calling. The platform has had SSH for a while, but the playbook...
19/05/2026
Inside the new Intel‑powered Surface portfolio: A deep dive
Today’s work happens across locations, roles, and environments. Employees need to shift among focus, collaboration, and communication, often on the move. AI adds new opportunities to support new workflows, while modern threats raise the bar for security. Microsoft builds Surface devices to meet these complex conditions, engineering and validating hardware, firmware, and Windows as one. Building on these principles and our longstanding collaboration with Intel, we’re excited to announce...
19/05/2026
Sycor and Warrior Centric Health offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Sycor and Warrior Centric Health deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
19/05/2026
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 148
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 148 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 139 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 148 introduced 16 new Computer a...
19/05/2026
Prompt Engineering for Agentic AI
You have probably spent time learning how to prompt AI well.
19/05/2026
Turn up the volume for AI Skills Fest— no wristband required
A week of live shows, community moments, flexible learning, and fun festival vibes, all to help you build skills that stick. AI is moving fast, which means a lot of us are trying to keep up in real time. I keep hearing the same questions: Where do I even start? How do I know what to focus on? Am I too late? If you’ve been thinking, I should probably work on my AI skills, you’re in the right place.
19/05/2026
Building AI Guardian Extension: AI Detection and Enterprise AI Security
Introduction Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Google Gemini are rapidly becoming part of everyday enterprise workflows. Teams use them for code generation, documentation, analysis, support automation, and productivity enhancement. However, this accelerated adoption has also created a significant governance and security challenge: Shadow AI. Shadow AI refers to the unauthorized, unmanaged,...
19/05/2026
Rundeck – AWS Enterprise Rundeck Integration with Azure Runner
Architecture Overview Rundeck Server (AWS) → https://dev.rundeck.xyz.com Rundeck Runner (Azure Linux VM) Secure Communication over HTTPS (Port 4432) Optional Proxy for enterprise networks 1.Ensure that network connectivity is established between the Rundeck endpoint (dev.rundeck.xyz.com) and the Azure subnet over port 443. 2.Request the customer to create a Runner within a new or ...
19/05/2026
Best Enterprise Level Agentic AI Platforms for 2026
Enterprise agentic AI has moved from pilots to production in 2026. This guide ranks the top 10 platforms — Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio, ServiceNow, LangGraph, and more — with verified pricing, real adoption data, and honest constraints to help enterprise teams make the right platform decision. The post Best Enterprise Level Agentic AI Platforms for 2026 appeare...
19/05/2026
Confidence-Aware RAG: Teaching Your AI Pipeline to Acknowledge Uncertainty
Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the standard architecture for grounding Large Language Models (LLMs) with enterprise data. By retrieving relevant documents before generating a response, RAG helps reduce hallucinations compared to relying on model knowledge alone. However, an important limitation r...
19/05/2026
Building a Terraform Drift Validator for Azure with Live Portal Verification
Architecture: This blog describes how to build a practical Terraform Drift Validator for Azure that compares three sources of truth: Excel sheet or design document containing expected Azure configuration Terraform state file representing IaC-managed deployed intent Live Azure configuration, verified both programmatically and through ...
19/05/2026
How to Build an Advanced Agentic AI System with Planning, Tool Calling, Memory, and Self-Critique Using OpenAI API
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI system using the OpenAI API and a hidden terminal prompt for the API key. We design the agent as a small pipeline of specialized roles: planner, tool-using executor, and critic, so that we can separate strategy, action, and quality control. We also integrate structured tools (calculator, […] The post
19/05/2026
Publishing readiness for AI apps and agents on Microsoft Marketplace
Your AI solution readiness for Microsoft Marketplace is based on how your system operates at runtime, how change is controlled over time, and how customers experience adoption, billing, and ongoing use.This post is part of a series on building and publishing well-architected AI apps and agents in Microsoft Marketplace. The series focuses on AI apps and agents that are architected, hosted, and operated on Azure, with guidance aligned to building and selling solutions through Microsoft Marketplace.You enroll in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and the Marketplace program and operate under a publisher identity and Seller ID.
18/05/2026
Meet MemPrivacy: An Edge-Cloud Framework that Uses Local Reversible Pseudonymization to Protect User Data Without Breaking Memory Utility
As LLM-powered agents move from research to production, one design tension is becoming harder to ignore: the more useful cloud-hosted memory becomes, the more private user data it exposes.Researchers from MemTensor (Shanghai), HONOR Device and Tongji University have introduced MemPrivacy, a framework that attempts to resolve this tension without sacrificing the utility that makes […]The post Meet MemPrivacy: An Edge-Cloud Framework that Uses Local Reversible Pseudonymization to Protect User Data Without Breaking Memory Utility appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/05/2026
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD’s) Frequency Bias and How Adam Fixes It
Modern language models are trained on data with extremely uneven token distributions.A small number of words appear in almost every sentence, while many rare but meaningful tokens occur only occasionally.The post Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD’s) Frequency Bias and How Adam Fixes It appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/05/2026
Introducing Code Interpreters for Logic Apps
We have recently introduced support for Code interpreters inside of Azure Logic Apps.To solve this problem, we will build an agentic business process in Logic Apps that includes our new JavaScript code interpreter.In order to allow customer isolation, customers need to have an integration account attached to their consumption workflow.
18/05/2026
Safe Rollouts Start with Signals: Introducing Scorecards in Azure App Configuration
Today, we’re introducing Scorecards in Azure App Configuration in public preview.Scorecards are a new capability in the Feature Management that helps teams quickly identify which metrics were impacted by a feature rollout and use those signals to decide what to do next.Scorecards help teams view telemetry through the context of a rollout.
18/05/2026
Three Tiers, One Platform: Building Agents Together with the Build-Along Series
The Agentic Opportunity Agentic Platforms in Microsoft 365, Power Platform and Azure Every partner has agent ambition, but a single workshop format cannot serve every builder. Business makers want a fast win without writing code. Citizen developers want to orchestrate real processes across enterprise systems. Pro developers want a code-first surface with evaluat...
18/05/2026
How to Configure Temporary Access Pass (TAP) to Prevent Lockouts
As organizations move toward passwordless authentication and stronger identity protection, having a reliable fallback mechanism becomes essential. That’s where Temporary Access Pass (TAP) comes in. TAP provides a time-limited passcode that users can use to register passwordless methods—such as Passkeys (FIDO2), Microsoft Authenticator, or certificate-based authentication—without requiring their existing password or MFA methods.
18/05/2026
Spec-Driven Development for AI-Enabled Enterprise Systems
Spec-Driven Development for AI-Enabled Enterprise Systems How to make specs the single source of truth for your React frontends, backend services, data, and AI agents. If you are building an enterprise system with a React frontend, backend APIs and services, a database layer, and shared libraries, moving to Spec-Driven Development (SDD) can feel like a big cultural shift. For AI developers and engineers, though, it is a gift: stru...
18/05/2026
Turn Your App Service Web App Into a Self-Healing Agent: LLMOps Best Practices for Production
A user submits a prompt. The agent burns through 50,000 tokens looping on a malformed tool response. Another user trips a model rate limit and the agent silently fails. A bad prompt update goes out at 4 PM Friday and degrades success rate to 60%. Your APM dashboard shows green the entire time because none of that is a 500. This post walks through the LLMOps stack we built into a working reference sample on Azure App Service: the SLIs that matter for agents, a budget circuit breaker, pr...
18/05/2026
Partner Blog | Time to market wins: Building the Frontier partner practice
Customers are clear about what they want from AI now. They want to move from ideas to outcomes faster, and at enterprise scale. The experimentation phase is giving way to production expectations, and time to market is becoming a competitive advantage in how organizations transform. That shift creates opportunity for AI practice leaders in services partner organizations. Partners who can repeatedly take agentic solutions f...
18/05/2026
Launched: Microsoft 365 Adoption Hub Redesign
Driving successful adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot is both art and science. This community is dedicated to taking your feedback and continuing to provide tools that support you in that role. Today we've done just that with the first release of our updated Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption hub that simplifies the experience and provides content for AI business users, AI Champions and AI Leaders.
18/05/2026
EVENT | Drive Frontier Transformation: Attend the engineer summit and work toward your badge
Accelerate your capabilities delivering Frontier Transformation with two exciting opportunities: the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge and the Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit. ...
18/05/2026
Say goodbye to planning bottlenecks with Microsoft Azure Migrate
Every migration starts with the same questions: what do we have, and where should it go? Getting from those question to a clear, execution-ready answer has historically taken weeks. From exporting spreadsheets and manually classifying workloads to running assessments, conducting cost analyses, and stitching everything together into a deck that feels outdated by the time it's presented, the&nb...
18/05/2026
Launched: Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Hub Redesign
One of the biggest barriers to Copilot adoption is people don’t always know where to start. Today, we released the first version of our redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot business user hub. Take a look. We set out to simplify adoption by making the experience more practical and focused on key roles: AI Business User, AI Champion and AI Leader. Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption hub W...
18/05/2026
Don’t Start Your Application Upgrade by Changing Code
The first step of a .NET upgrade isn't code, it's assessment! That sounds obvious, but it isn't. When somebody tells you to upgrade an app, the instinct is to open the repo, bump the TargetFramework, update a few NuGet packages, and start chasing build errors, that feels like progress, but you're working without knowing what you signed up for. As we wrote at our previous posts, the Copilot modernization agent runs in three steps: assess, plan, execute. At each st...
18/05/2026
Easy Auth Configuration for Logic App Standard through CI/CD
Problem Statement When Easy Auth (Azure App Service’s built-in authentication and authorization) is enabled on a Logic App Standard, users frequently report that they cannot open the run history. Specifically, the inputs and outputs of the trigger and actions fail to load on the run details page, even though the workflow itself runs and the user has access to the resource. Backgrou...
18/05/2026
State Explosion Security Problem in AI-Era Software Supply Chains
Introduction To see why this problem scales so quickly, start with the smallest possible change: a single line of code. In modern software, even a tiny edit is rarely just a local modification. It can change execution flow, introduce a new dependency, expose sensitive data, or quietly shift the purpose of the package itself. What looks trivial in a diff can create a ma...
18/05/2026
Agent 365 connector: Monitor, hunt, and investigate AI agent activity in Microsoft Sentinel
As enterprises scale the use of AI agents, SOC teams need visibility into AI agent behavior. The Agent 365 connector, now in public preview, streams rich agent telemetry from Agent 365 into Microsoft Sentinel data lake. Agent activity, such as agent data exposure or access drift, is surfaced alongside other security data, giving SOC teams a unified view across digital environments. AI Agent actions are correlated with agent identity, endpoint, and cloud signals, enabling anal...
18/05/2026
Now in Foundry: Tongyi-MAI Z-Image-Turbo, with FLUX.1-schnell and SDXL base 1.0
This week's Model Mondays edition pairs three models available through the Hugging Face collection in Microsoft Foundry: Tongyi-MAI's Z-Image-Turbo, a new designed for lower latency on a single GPU and native bilingual text rendering; Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1-schnell, a 12B rec...
18/05/2026
Navigate changing hosting economics with the Microsoft Datacenter Optimization initiative
Hosting and hybrid cloud business models are under pressure as infrastructure economics change.The Microsoft Datacenter Optimization (DCO) initiative empowers you to move beyond legacy Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA)‑based operations and build a stronger, more resilient business—modernizing customer environments while unlocking new recurring revenue opportunities across Azure, hybrid, and AI‑ready services.This shift is about more than licensing alignment—it is about building a more resilient, differentiated, service-led business for the future.
18/05/2026
Now available: Close deals faster and transact at scale with auto activation for SaaS subscriptions
Auto activation for the SaaS products you sell in Microsoft Marketplace is now generally available.By default, the private offer will use the auto activation setting of the public offer.If you create a new SaaS plan with a unique plan ID for your private offer, you can explicitly turn auto activation ON or OFF.
18/05/2026
Help Shape the Future of Microsoft Teams for Small and Medium Businesses
Microsoft is inviting Small and Medium Business (SMB) partners to join the Teams SMB Partner Advisory Council (PAC) — a simple, low-effort way to share real-world feedback with the product team and help shape the Teams roadmap for SMB customers.Our Teams SMB Partner Advisory Council (PAC) brings together a Microsoft partners who:👉 Express your interest to join the Teams SMB Advisory Board
18/05/2026
You Can Scale MCP Servers Behind a Load Balancer on App Service — Here's How
The 2025-06-18 revision formalizes stateless HTTP transport (and the current 2025-11-25 revision keeps it), which means a single request carries everything the server needs to answer.That tiny protocol change unlocks something big: you can stick an MCP server behind App Service's built-in load balancer and scale it like any other web API.One azd up and you have a stateless FastAPI MCP server running on three App Service instances behind the platform load balancer, with a staging slot, Application Insights, and a k6 script that visualizes load distribution from the client side.
18/05/2026
"Not Available in Your Region" Isn't a Dead End: A Security Assessment of Global Deployments
Microsoft typically releases new and preview models on Global first, then expands into specific regions over time as capacity is built out.Global Standard is a secure, enterprise-grade deployment type backed by the same Azure controls you already rely on, with explicit contractual commitments on how your data is used.The data protection guarantees don't change because the model is newer or because regional capacity hasn't caught up — they're the same on day one of a new model on Global as they are on a model that's been deployed regionally for a year.
18/05/2026
Platform SSO during automated device enrollment is now generally available for macOS
Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform SSO (PSSO) during Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) on macOS is now generally available.This capability simplifies onboarding by enabling device registration and Platform SSO setup to occur automatically during enrollment, eliminating extra steps for both IT administrators and end users.Configure Automated Device Enrollment for macOS in your MDM solution.
18/05/2026
Building Vector Similarity Search in PostgreSQL with pgvector
Search works well when users know exactly what they are looking for, but it breaks down when intent is described in natural language.
18/05/2026
Microsoft Teams Recording goes “Missing”
Why recordings disappear The first thing to know is recordings are not stored inside of Teams. They are actually stored in OneDrive for regular meetings and in SharePoint for channel meetings. Reviewing Recordings and transcripts automatically expire, OneDrive and SharePoint monitor the expiration setti...
18/05/2026
Building a Controllable Inference Platform on Kubernetes with AI Runway
When enterprises move generative AI from demos to real business workloads, the hardest question is usually not whether a model can answer a prompt. The harder question is whether the whole system can run reliably, predictably, securely, and economically over time. This becomes especially important as major model providers continue to adjust token pricing, context-window pricing, batching discounts, and model tiering. That is where AI Runway becomes valuable....
18/05/2026
NVIDIA Introduces a 4-Bit Pretraining Methodology Using NVFP4, Validated on a 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer at 10T Token Horizon
NVIDIA introduces a 4-bit pretraining methodology built around the NVFP4 microscaling format — combining selective BF16 layers, 16×16 Random Hadamard Transforms on Wgrad inputs, 2D weight scaling, and stochastic rounding on gradients — validated on a 12B hybrid Mamba-Transformer trained on 10 trillion tokens, the longest publicly documented 4-bit pretraining run, with downstream accuracy closely tracking the FP8 baseline (62.58% vs 62.62% on MMLU-Pro). The post
18/05/2026
Getting Started with OpenSearch on AKS with AKS AVM and Helm
Co-authored by Chetan Vaja (Senior Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft), Ninad Kapse (Senior Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft), Vikas Gautam (Senior Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft), and Prafulla Wani (Principal Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft). Summary OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite used by developers to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. OpenSearch consists of a data store and search engine (OpenSear...
18/05/2026
Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, 2026 edition
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 is back for its 5th year: free, virtual, and unapologetically all about Postgres. No travel budget required and no jet lag involved. Just your laptop, a decent internet connection, and curiosity. This year the POSETTE 2026 sche...
18/05/2026
Understanding and building an Azure Hybrid Meshed Hub-Spoke Topology
A meshed hybrid hub-spoke topology Azure offers two main approaches to build network architectures. This article focuses on traditional networking (using VNets, peering, route tables, etc.), rather than Azure Virtual WAN. Why a hub-spoke topology? A hub‑spoke topology is the only way to control traffic flows while maintaining scalability, because it enforces a central point of connectivity and policy enforcement: ...
18/05/2026
Integrating Azure DevOps with VS Code Agent using MCP (Model Context Protocol)
🧠 What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? MCP is a standard interface that allows AI agents to securely interact with external systems such as Azure DevOps/ With MCP: Azure DevOps capabilities are exposed as tools GitHub Copilot can discover, reason, and execute actions All actions happen with user consent and authenticatio...
18/05/2026
Build a Local Microsoft Sentinel Triage Agent in VS Code (Copilot + MCP)
Modern SOC work is not limited by data—it’s limited by the friction of collecting it. This post shows a local-first workflow that lets you investigate Microsoft Sentinel incidents from inside VS Code using GitHub Copilot Chat for reasoning and a small, deterministic MCP toolset for evidence retrieval and (optionally) approval-gated writeback. What you’ll take away: How to structure a Copilot + MCP triage loop that stays grounded in Azure evidence ...
18/05/2026
A Coding Implementation to Compress and Benchmark Instruction-Tuned LLMs with FP8, GPTQ, and SmoothQuant Quantization using llmcompressor
In this tutorial, we explore how to apply post-training quantization to an instruction-tuned language model using llmcompressor. We start with an FP16 baseline and then compare multiple compression strategies, including FP8 dynamic quantization, GPTQ W4A16, and SmoothQuant with GPTQ W8A8. Along the way, we benchmark each model variant for disk size, generation latency, throughput, perplexity, […] The post
17/05/2026
Vercel Labs Introduces Zero, a Systems Programming Language Designed So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, and Ship Native Programs
Vercel Labs has released Zero, an experimental systems programming language designed so AI agents can read, repair, and ship native programs without requiring human interpretation of compiler output.The language emits JSON diagnostics with stable codes and typed repair metadata, enforces capability-based I/O at compile time, and compiles to sub-10 KiB native binaries.
17/05/2026
A Coding Guide Implementing SHAP Explainability Workflows with Explainer Comparisons, Maskers, Interactions, Drift, and Black-Box Models
In this tutorial, we implement SHAP workflows as a practical framework for interpreting machine learning models beyond basic feature-importance plots.We start by training tree-based models and then compare different SHAP explainers, including Tree, Exact, Permutation, and Kernel methods, to understand how accuracy and runtime change across model-aware and model-agnostic approaches.We also examine how […]
17/05/2026
Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context
Nous Research has published Lighthouse Attention, a selection-based hierarchical attention mechanism that wraps around standard scaled dot-product attention during pretraining and is removed afterward.Unlike prior methods such as NSA and HISA that pool only keys and values, Lighthouse pools Q, K, and V symmetrically across a multi-resolution pyramid, reducing the attention call from O(N·Tested on a 530M Llama-3-style model at 98K context, it achieves a 1.40–1.69× end-to-end wall-clock speedup against a cuDNN SDPA baseline with matching or lower final training loss.
16/05/2026
Meet LiteLLM Agent Platform: A Kubernetes-Based, Self-Hosted Infrastructure Layer for Isolated Agent Sandboxes and Persistent Session Management in Production
Running AI agents in a local script is straightforward.BerriAI, the company behind the LiteLLM AI Gateway, is now open-sourcing a purpose-built answer to that problem: the LiteLLM Agent Platform.The platform is described as a […]
16/05/2026
NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open-Source World Model That Generates Minute-Scale 720p Video on a Single GPU
Researchers from NVIDIA introduce SANA-WM, an open-source camera-controlled world model that generates 60-second, 720p videos with precise 6-DoF camera control — trained on 64 H100 GPUs and deployable on a single RTX 5090.The post NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open-Source World Model That Generates Minute-Scale 720p Video on a Single GPU appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/05/2026
How to Build Repository-Level Code Intelligence with Repowise Using Graph Analysis, Dead-Code Detection, Decisions, and AI Context
In this tutorial, we explore how to use Repowise to build repository-level intelligence for the itsdangerous Python project in a practical and reproducible way.We start with an already cloned repository, configure Repowise using the available LLM credentials, and initialize its indexing pipeline.We then inspect the generated .repowise artifacts, analyze the repository graph with […]
16/05/2026
How to Build an MCP Style Routed AI Agent System with Dynamic Tool Exposure Planning, Execution, and Context Injection
In this tutorial, we build a fully functional MCP-style routed agent system from scratch, combining tool discovery, intelligent routing, structured planning, and execution into a single cohesive workflow.We start by setting up a modular tool server that exposes capabilities such as web search, local retrieval, dataset loading, and Python execution, all defined through structured […]The post How to Build an MCP Style Routed AI Agent System with Dynamic Tool Exposure Planning, Execution, and Context Injection appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/05/2026
Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup
Zyphra's latest release shows that an autoregressive MoE model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss in evaluation performance.ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview achieves up to 7.7x inference speedup over autoregression by shifting decoding from memory-bandwidth bound to compute-bound — a key advantage as modern GPUs continue scaling FLOPs faster than memory bandwidth.The post Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/05/2026
From Copilots to Coworkers: How AI Agents Are Transforming Azure Networking Operations
Azure operates one of the largest physical networks on the planet.Instead of adding more scripts or expanding brittle automation, we redesigned how coordination work gets done by making AI agents first-class participants in day-to-day operations.Several changes follow when agents become the default coordination layer across incidents, repairs, and workflows:
15/05/2026
Writeback for Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes: Now in Public Preview
Writeback for Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes is now in Public Preview.For customers with no remaining dependency on their last Exchange Server, a guide for decommissioning your last Exchange Server is now published on Microsoft Learn.With writeback enabled, changes made in Exchange Online to designated Exchange attributes are automatically pushed back to on-premises Active Directory through Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync.
15/05/2026
Title Plan Update - May 15, 2026
📁May 15, 2026 - Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan.
15/05/2026
Designing AI-Driven Observability for Trustworthy Agentic AI Systems
They are agentic AI systems (autonomous, multi-step agents that can plan, reason, invoke tools, and adapt in real time), which fundamentally changes what must be observed.Traditional observability built for servers and microservices cannot tell you whether an AI agent's output is correct, safe, or cost-efficient.Microsoft Foundry is described as "the AI app and agent factory" - a unified, interoperable platform for building, optimizing, and governing AI apps and agents.
15/05/2026
New Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate Certification
Exam SC‑500 (beta) helps you demonstrate your skills across identity, data, compute, and threat defense.Introducing the Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate certification.This new certification validates your ability to design and implement end-to-end security controls across cloud environments using modern, enterprise-ready security patterns.
15/05/2026
Test Automation at Scale: Lessons Learned from Enterprise projects
In large enterprise programs, test automation succeeds not by writing more scripts, but by engineering automation as a scalable quality system.In this blog, I have shared practical lessons from automation at scale, covering risk-based coverage, flakiness, observability, QA judgment, and how AI is now helping teams improve test design, coverage intelligence, failure triage, and maintenance.The future of enterprise test automation is not simply about building larger suites.
15/05/2026
New SSH helper aliases for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux
To make that experience simpler for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux, we have added new SSH helper aliases for common app, log, networking, and Azure AI Foundry diagnostics.View available SSH helpers with apphelpWe have also added helpers for Azure AI Foundry scenarios.
15/05/2026
Simplifying FastAPI Deployments on Azure App Service for Linux
Deploying FastAPI apps to Azure App Service for Linux is now simpler.When a FastAPI app is detected, App Service automatically starts the application using Gunicorn with the Uvicorn worker class:When you deploy a FastAPI app to Azure App Service for Linux, you no longer need to configure a custom startup command in the supported runtime flow.
15/05/2026
Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field
The AI coding agent field in 2026 is more capable, more fragmented, and harder to benchmark than it looks.Claude Code leads on code quality at 87.6% SWE-bench Verified.But the benchmark OpenAI itself declared contaminated in February 2026 is still being used to rank these tools — including by the labs publishing their own scores.
15/05/2026
Microsoft 365 E7 & Agent365: From Where You Are to Enterprise AI at Scale
Microsoft’s response to this shift is Microsoft 365 E7, introduced on May 1, 2026.Microsoft Agent 365Agent 365 is not a standalone security solution, it is a control plane for AI agents.