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General Availability announcement of Backup/Restore capabilities in SQL Server 2025
Over the past several months, we’ve heard from countless customers who are eager for more robust options to protect, compress, and safeguard their SQL Server data. Since introducing these features in public preview, organizations of all sizes have validated their value in real-world workloads and provided invaluable feedback. Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of three powerful SQL Server 2025 features:
19/11/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Kumppanit AI-murroksen eturintamassa
Microsoft Ignite 2025 toi selkeän viestin: tekoäly ja agenttiteknologiat eivät ole enää tulevaisuuden lupauksia, vaan tämän päivän kilpailuetu. Yritykset, jotka omaksuvat AI:n strategisesti ja laajasti, erottuvat markkinoilla – ja kumppaneilla on tässä ratkaiseva rooli. Asiakkaat etsivät luotettavia asiantuntijoita, jotka eivät ainoastaan myy AI-ratkaisuja, vaan myös elävät AI-transformaatiota omassa toiminnassaan. Ignite esitteli uuden Fr...
19/11/2025
ESPC25 Conference: December 1-4
ESPC is Europe’s premier Microsoft 365 and AI conference. Don’t miss this year’s community conference in Dublin, December 1-4. Hear from more than 120 speakers, connect with Microsoft experts, and achieve more with Microsoft 365 and AI. Use discount code ESPC25MSPART for €200 off. Secure your spot at ESPC25 by booking now
19/11/2025
Pure Storage Cloud, Azure Native evolves at Microsoft Ignite!
The Azure Storage team has heavily invested in our partner ecosystem to meet all customer data storage needs and make it easier to migrate any application workload to Azure. You will find our complete list in the validated partner catalog (link below) and find partner solutions conveniently located in Storage Center on the Azure Portal. Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud is the latest example of our deep investment in partners. ...
19/11/2025
Sensitivity labels preservation and SharePoint ACLs in Azure AI Search
We’re introducing new enterprise security capabilities in Azure AI Search and knowledge bases to help you deliver more trusted, policy-aligned knowledge retrieval for RAG apps and agentic applications. This...
19/11/2025
Managing Multiple Deployment Stacks in Azure Bicep: Patterns and Best Practices
Deployment Stacks: Deployment Stacks are a logical grouping of Azure resources defined using Bicep or ARM. When you deploy a stack: Azure tracks which resources belong to that stack You can update or delete resources as a group G...
19/11/2025
How to get a free Azure SQL Database or Managed Instance
Next to the performance and security proven engine, with Azure SQL solutions you’re getting dozens of other benefits, such as auto-scaling, auto-patching/maintenance, auto-backups and built-in HA. Free Azure SQL offers fully managed resources with zero cost and zero commitment. There’re two options ...
19/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 19, 2025
Learn about 80 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
19/11/2025
Azure Copilot Migration Agent - Bringing Agentic Migration and Modernization to life
Enterprises today need more than speed they need confidence. Migration projects often stall because of complexity, fragmented tools, and unclear ROI. With Migration Agent in Azure Copilot, we’re changing that equation. This new capability brings AI-driven intelligence to every stage of migration and modernization, helping you move from discovery to execution in hours, not weeks. and completing the journey with confidence. Migration is no longer just about moving workloads. It’s about u...
19/11/2025
Build and connect Microsoft Foundry agents to MongoDB Atlas with new native integrations
MongoDB Atlas is a leading document database that’s rapidly gaining traction among Azure customers due to various deep integrations available across Microsoft platforms. In Aug 2025, we announced the General Availability (GA) of native integration for MongoDB Atlas — a milestone that marked a new era for developers and enterprises building AI-powered applications on Azure. Alongside ...
19/11/2025
General Availability: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Monitor Logs! This capability enables you to set fine-grained data access control at the row level, giving you more flexibility and security when managing log data. Back in May 2025,
19/11/2025
Enabling Private Connectivity for Microsoft Fabric: A Practical Guide
As an Infra Architect working with large, security-sensitive enterprise environments, one principle consistently guides infrastructure architects: If a platform can't operate inside a private network boundary, it won’t make it to production. This became very real when our Data Engineering team sent me a simple-looking request:
19/11/2025
Introducing Microsoft’s Network Operations Agent – A Telco framework for Autonomous Networks
How NOA Works: Multi-Agent Intelligence with Human Oversight At its core, NOA is a multi-agent system tailored for telecom operations. It hosts a suite of specialized agents, each with a focused ...
19/11/2025
Reimagining Network Operations: How Microsoft NetAI Tackles Hyperscale Challenges
The Business Imperative: Why Network Operations Must Change Modern network operators face a perfect storm of challenges: Exponential Growth in Events and Maintenance Network events and maintenance activities are increasing at an unprecedented rate. According to Microsoft’s analysis, weekly network events are projected to grow from hundreds to thousands over the next five years. Maintena...
19/11/2025
Azure ND GB300 v6 now Generally Available - Hyper-optimized for Generative and Agentic AI workloads
We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of ND GB300 v6 virtual machines, delivering the next leap in AI infrastructure. On 10/09, we shared the delivery of the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through...
19/11/2025
Announcing Deployment capabilities (preview) in Azure Copilot
What's new? Today, we are excited to announce the Deployment Agent for Azure Copilot, designed to make infrastructure planning and deployment faster, smarter, and easier. The Deployment Agent acts as your dedicated cloud architecture assistant, leveraging Azure’s Well-Architected Framework (WAF) ...
19/11/2025
Microsoft Foundry on Windows Server
As organizations embrace AI, new opportunities exist for Windows Server customers who want to leverage on-premises AI. While Azure remains the best pl...
19/11/2025
Accelerating Enterprise AI with Microsoft Foundry
Today at Ignite 2025, the spotlight shone brightly on Microsoft Foundry the unified AI platform empowering enterprises to build, deploy, and govern intelligent agents at scale. New features released today are designed to enhance model accessibility, agent sophistication, and enterprise-grade reliability. Below is a deep dive into these powerful updates. Anthropic’s Claude Models Join Foundry
19/11/2025
SQL Server 2025 Integration Services General Availability
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient offers a modern, secure, and future-ready data access solution for SQL Server and Azure SQL.Integration Services support will be included in the upcoming CU.Integration Services features in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS IS)
18/11/2025
How to Build an Agentic Deep Reinforcement Learning System with Curriculum Progression, Adaptive Exploration, and Meta-Level UCB Planning
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic Deep Reinforcement Learning system that guides an agent to learn not only actions within an environment but also how to choose its own training strategies. We design a Dueling Double DQN learner, introduce a curriculum with increasing difficulty, and integrate multiple exploration modes that adapt as training […] The post
18/11/2025
SQL Server Management Studio 22 (GA) supporting SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
SQL Server Management Studio 22 generally availability has been released. SSMS 22 GA version is recommended to use with Integration Services, as ...
18/11/2025
xAI’s Grok 4.1 Pushes Toward Higher Emotional Intelligence, Lower Hallucinations and Tighter Safety Controls
How do you build an AI assistant that feels emotionally intelligent and reliable to humans, instead of just making a bigger model? Meet Grok 4.1, xAI’s latest large language model and it now powers Grok across grok.com, X and the mobile consumer apps. According to xAI team, the model is available to all users and […] The post
18/11/2025
Unlocking Client-Side Configuration at Scale with Azure App Configuration and Azure Front Door
As modern apps shift more logic to the browser, Azure App Configuration now brings dynamic configuration directly to client-side applications. Through its integration with Azure Front Door, developers can deliver configuration to thousands or millions of clients with CDN-scale performance while avoiding the need to expose secrets or maintain custom proxy layers. This capability is especially important for AI-powered and agentic client...
18/11/2025
Windows Hardware Compatibility Program - Guidance for Windows 11, version 26H1 Release
Building on the recent WIP Blog post, we’re releasing WHCP and HLK for Windows 11, version 26H1 to support partners working on engineering efforts. This release is focused on enabling new platforms and is not intended for existing or previously released silicon. For mainstream products, continue using <...
18/11/2025
New Portal Experience for Feature Management
Feature flags have become an essential tool for modern software development, enabling teams to deploy code safely, control feature rollouts, and experiment with new functionality without the risk of breaking production environments. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into applications— from LLM-powered features to model version management— the need for safe, controlled deployments has never been more critical. The previous experience forced you to make a decision upfront: should I create a...
18/11/2025
December Prompt-a-thon for Government Customers
Power Your AI Transformation: Government Copilot Prompt-a-thon As we wrap up an incredible year of innovation, we’re thrilled to invite you to our fifth Copilot Prompt‑a‑thon of 2025—a hands‑on experience that’s transforming how government teams work. This event isn’t just about learning prompts; it’s about collaborating directly with Microsoft coaches, exploring real mission sc...
18/11/2025
Announcing Kubernetes Center (Preview) On Azure Portal
Today, we’re excited to introduce the Kubernetes Center in the Azure portal, a new experience to simplify how customers manage, monitor, and optimize Azure Kubernetes Services environments at scale. The Kubernetes Center provides a unified view across all clusters, intelligent insights, and streamlined workflows that help platform teams stay in control while enabling developers to move fast. As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, many teams face growing challenges in managing clusters and...
18/11/2025
Agentic Applications on Azure Container Apps with Microsoft Foundry
By combining Azure Container Apps with the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) and Microsoft Foundry, developers can run containerized agents on ACA while using Foundry to visualize and monitor how those agents behave.In this blog, we’ll walk through how to build an agent running on Azure Container Apps using Microsoft Agent Framework and OpenTelemetry, and then connect its telemetry to Microsoft Foundry so you can see your ACA-hosted agent directly in the Foundry monitoring experience.Connect the resource to your AI Foundry project.
18/11/2025
OracleDatabase@Azure expands footprint to 31 regions and strengthens security with Azure Key Vault
With plans to bring two more regions online in the next three months, Oracle Database@Azure will continue to lead the industry with 33 regions around the world – more than any other hyperscaler.Oracle Database@azure is now live in 31 regions worldwideOracle Database@Azure is live in North Central, South India, and France South, giving enterprises more flexibility and control over global deployments of their business-critical applications.
18/11/2025
Protect patient privacy across languages with the de-identification service's preview expansion
Machine learning and analytics are transforming healthcare by streamlining clinical workflows, powering AI models and unlocking new insights from patient data. These innovations are fueled by textual data rich in Protected Health Information (PHI). To be used for research, innovation and operational improvements, this data must be responsibly de-identified to protect patient privacy. Manual de-identification can be slow, expensive, and error-prone, creating bottlene...
18/11/2025
Removing barriers to migrating databases to Azure with Striim’s Unlimited Database Migration program
Alok Pareek, co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product and Engineering at Striim Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Databases at Microsoft Every modernization strategy starts with data. It’s what enables advanced analytics and AI agents today, and prepares enterprises for what’s to come in th...
18/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview of Window Server 2025 on Azure Kubernetes Service
We are excited to announce the public preview of Windows Server 2025 support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - delivering the latest security, performance, and compatibility improvements for our customers. You can now deploy node pools running Windows Server 2025 alongside those running Windows Server 2022, Azure Linux, and Ubuntu. With the new Windows container portability functionality introduced in Windows Server 2025, you can also run your Windows Server 2022-based containers on Windows...
18/11/2025
Announcing Advanced Kubernetes Troubleshooting Agent Capabilities (preview) in Azure Copilot
What’s new? Today, we're announcing Kubernetes troubleshooting agent capabilities in Az...
18/11/2025
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro turns sparse MoE and 1M token context into a practical engine for multimodal agentic workloads
How do we move from language models that only answer prompts to systems that can reason over million token contexts, understand real world signals, and reliably act as agents on our behalf? Google just released Gemini 3 family with Gemini 3 Pro as the centerpiece that positions as a major step toward more general AI […] The post
18/11/2025
General Availability: Large Message Support in Azure Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs is a cloud-native service that streams millions of events per second with minimal latency, fully compatible with Apache Kafka and requiring no code changes for existing Kafka workloads. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Large Message Support in Azure Event Hubs, enabling you to send and receive messages up to
18/11/2025
Available today: OpenAI's Sora 2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Transform your creative workflow with AI-generated video – what it means for IT We're excited to announce that OpenAI's Sora 2—their breakthrough video and audio generation model—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This integration brings professional-grade AI video creation directly into your familiar Microsoft 365 environment, empowering users to generate compelling video content while maintaining the enterprise security and compliance standards you expect from Microsoft.
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of the mssql-python Driver
We’re thrilled to announce that the mssql-python driver is now Generally Available! 🎉 This milestone marks a major step forward in delivering a modern, high-performance, and developer-friendly experience for Python developers working with SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL databases in Fabric. Why mssql-python? The mssql-python driver is a DB-API 2.0 compliant driver designed from the ground up to provide speed, simplicity, and security for Python applicati...
18/11/2025
Unlocking Storage Optimizations: Smart Tiering for Blobs and ADLS in Azure Storage
We are excited to introduce the public preview of smart tier for Azure Blob and Azure Data Lake Storage. Smart tier is a fully managed, automated data tiering solution that takes the guesswork and manual effort out of optimizing your storage costs. Smart tier continuously analyzes your data’s access patterns and automatically moves objects between the hot, cool, and cold tiers. Smart tier will keep regularly accessed objects on the hot capacity tier to optimize transaction costs and mo...
18/11/2025
Introducing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (vMode)
Now in Public Preview Windows Admin Center has long been a favorite tool for IT pros, trusted to manage
18/11/2025
Azure Databricks Genie integration with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry is now live!
This blog was co-authored by Toussaint Webb, Databricks We’re excited to announce the Public Preview availability of AI/BI Genie
18/11/2025
Steer length, tone, style, and images when creating a PowerPoint presentation with Copilot
Hi, Insiders! We’re Victoria Tran, Jess Kwok, and Shea Tuli, and we’re Product Managers on the PowerPoint team. We’re excited to share an update with you that allows you to steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating presentations with Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint for Windows, for Mac, and for the web. Steer length, tone, style, an...
18/11/2025
📢 Agent Loop - New Set of AI Features Arrive in Public Preview
Today at Ignite, we announced the General Availability of Agent Loop in Logic Apps Standard—bringing production-ready agentic automation to every customer. But GA is just the beginning. We’re also releasing a broad set of new and powerful AI-first capabilities in Public Preview that dramatically expand what developers can build: run agents in the Consumption SKU ,bring your own models through APIM AI Gateway, cal...
18/11/2025
🎉Announcing General Availability of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps
Transforming Business Automation with Intelligent, Collaborative Multi-Agentic workflows! TL;DR Agent Loop is now Generally Available in Azure Logic Apps Standard, turning Logic Apps platform into a complete multi-agentic automation system. Build AI agents that work alongside workflows and humans, secured with enterprise-grade identity and access controls, deployed using your existing CI/CD pipelines. Thousands of customers have already...
18/11/2025
SQL Server 2025: Deeply Integrated and Feature-rich on Linux
SQL Server continues to power mission-critical workloads across enterprises, and with SQL Server 2025, we’re delivering innovations that redefine performance, security, developer experience, AI innovation and flexibility along with additional features tailored for Linux environments. Momentum on SQL Server for Linux The adoption of SQL Server on Linux has been phenomenal. The public preview of SQL Server 2025 has seen remarkable adoption, with Linux based deploy...
18/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps Consumption
We’re excited to announce a major leap forward in democratizing AI-powered business process automation: Agent Loop is now available in Azure Logic Apps Consumption, bringing advanced AI agent capabilities to a broader audience with a frictionless, pay-as-you-go experience. What’s New? Agent Loop, previously available only in Logic Apps Standard, is now available in Consumption logic apps, providing developers,...
18/11/2025
📢Announcing MCP Server Support for Logic Apps Agent Loop
At Ignite, we announced that Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps Standard now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling agents to discover and call external tools through an open, standardized interface. This brings powerful, flexible tool extensibility to both conversational and autonomous agents. MCP support gives agents a common lan...
18/11/2025
🔐Enabling API Key Authentication for Logic Apps MCP Servers
We previously announced support for building Logic Apps MCP servers. This capability comes in a couple forms including via the wizard hosted in API Center and through manual configurations inside an existing Logic App. When we initially shipped this f...
18/11/2025
Reduce latency and enhance resilience with Azure Files zonal placement
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of zonal placement for Azure Files Premium LRS in select regions. Zonal placement enables you to pin Azure Files storage accounts to a specific Availability Zone within a region — giving you better control over data locality, resilience, and lower latency for your workloads. Benefits of zonal placement Azure Files provides both local-redundant storage (LRS) and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) options today....
18/11/2025
Host remote MCP servers on Azure Functions
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers allow AI agents to access external tools, data, and systems, greatly extending the capability and power of agents. When you’re ready to expose your MCP servers externally, within your organization or to the world, it’s important that the servers are run in a secure, scalable, and reliable environment. Azure Functions provides such a robust platform for hosting your remote MCP servers, offering high scalability with the
18/11/2025
Announcing Elastic MCP Server in Microsoft Foundry Tool Catalog
Introduction The future of enterprise AI is agentic - driven by intelligent, context-aware agents that deliver real business value. Microsoft Foundry is committed to enabling developers with the tools and integrations they need to build, deploy, and govern these advanced AI solutions. Today, we are excited t...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Empowering Innovation with MDEP
Joining a Global Community of Innovators We’re thrilled to be part of Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, CA, where thousands of technology leaders, partners, and customers gather to shape the future. This year’s event is centered on AI-driven transformation, secure platforms, and connected ecosystems, and MDEP stands at the forefront of that vision. Ignite is more than just a showcase for us: It’s a valuable opportunity to connect with partners, exchange insights, and demonstrat...
18/11/2025
Partner Case Study | Tiger Analytics
Organizations need to adopt more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solutions to keep up with the evolving landscape of data analytics. Traditional on-premises systems, while robust and reliable, often face limitations in handling the increasing volume and velocity of data. To thrive, organizations must modernize their critical applications, replacing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions that offer better scalability, fault tolerance, and security. Microsoft partner Tiger Ana...
18/11/2025
Cloud Native Identity with Azure Files: Entra-only Secure Access for the Modern Enterprise
As organizations accelerate their cloud-first journeys, the ability to deliver secure, seamless identity and access management for storage in the cloud is now a game-changer. We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Entra-only identities support with Azure Files SMB. With native Entra ID (identities are created and managed entirely in the cloud, with no reliance on on-premises Active Directory or hybrid setups) authentication for Azure Files SMB...
18/11/2025
Announcing the Preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VMs based on the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor
Authored by Misha Bansal, Product Manager, Azure Compute We are excited to announce the public preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 Virtual Machines, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processors. These VMs deliver significantly higher remote storage performance, scaling up to 800,000 IOPS and 14 Gbps of remote disk throughput featured by
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines
Managing VMs at scale in Azure can be a pain. Subscription throttling can prevent your operations from being received, and having to track and retry intermittent failures adds extra overhead. Scheduled Actions reduces the complexity of managing concurrent API requests in Azure at scale and allows for scheduling actions at a time in the future. What is Scheduled Actions? Scheduled Actions is a separate resource provider that sits above our REST API and makes calls...
18/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview: Auditing for Fabric SQL Database
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Auditing for Fabric SQL Database—a powerful feature designed to help organizations strengthen security, ensure compliance, and gain deep operational insights into their data environments. Why Auditing Matters
18/11/2025
Integrating Azure Application Gateway v2 with Azure API Management for secure and scalable API
Why Application Gateway v2 + Azure API Management? - Layer-7 routing with path-based rules, host headers, URL rewrites, and WAF protection (OWASP Core Rule Set). - Azure API Management provides API abstraction, versioning, throttling, caching, JWT validation, and per-API policies. - Combined, App Gateway becomes the internet-facing secure entry point and Azure API Management the control plane for API governance. Scenario: Internet...
18/11/2025
Announcing the public preview of StandardV2 NAT Gateway and StandardV2 public IPs
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, organizations are innovating faster and delivering cloud native experiences at global scale. With this acceleration comes higher expectations: applications must remain always available. An outage in a single availability zone can have a ripple effect on application performance, user experience, and business continuity. To safeguard against zone outages, making your cloud architecture zone resilient isn't an option—it’s ...
18/11/2025
Compose for Agents on Azure Container Apps and Serverless GPU (public preview)
Empowering intelligent applications The next wave of AI is agentic
18/11/2025
🔐Secure AI Agent Knowledge Retrieval - Introducing Security Filters in Agent Loop
Building secure, permission-aware AI agents with Agent Loop We’re excited to introduce a new capability in Azure Logic Apps that enables document-level authorization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows. With security filters, you can now ensure that agents only retrieve and respond with information users are authorized to view. Why Security Trimming Matters In RAG-enabled workflows, agents often retrieve know...
18/11/2025
Enhancing Resiliency in Azure Compute Gallery
In today's cloud-driven world, ensuring the resiliency and recoverability of critical resources is top of mind for organizations of all sizes. Azure Compute Gallery (ACG) continues to evolve, introducing robust features that safeguard your virtual machine (VM) images and application artifacts. In this blog post, we'll explore two key resiliency innovations: the new Soft Delete feature (currently in preview) and Zonal Redundant Storage (ZRS) as the default storage type for image versions. Toge...
18/11/2025
Azure Functions Ignite 2025 Update
Azure Functions is redefining event-driven applications and high-scale APIs in 2025, accelerating innovation for developers building the next generation of intelligent, resilient, and scalable workloads. This year, our focus has been on empowering AI and agentic scenarios: remote MCP server hosting, bulletproofing agents with Durable Functions, and first-class support for critical technologies like OpenTelemetry, .NET 10 and Aspire. With major advances in serverless Flex Consumption, enhanced...
18/11/2025
Introducing Preview of Async Scaling for App Service Plans
Have you ever attempted to deploy or scale out an App Service Plan and received a 429 response that “Not enough available reserved instance servers to satisfy this request. Currently n instances are available. If you are changing instance size you can reserve up to n instances at this moment. If you are increasing instance count then you can add extra n instances at this moment. Please get available machines and retry later.”? If so, then we have a new capability wit...
18/11/2025
AI Toolkit Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code: Ignite 2025 Update
Unlock the Latest Agentic App Capabilities—Now Available with Ignite 2025 The Ignite 2025 update delivers a major leap forward for the AI Toolkit extension pack in VS Code, introducing a unified, end-to-end environment for building, visualizing, and deploying intelligent agentic applications. This release enables developers to build and debug locally in VS Code, then deploy to the cloud with a single click. Seamlessly switch between VS Code and the Foundry portal for visualization, o...
18/11/2025
Charting the Future of SOC: Human and AI Collaboration for Better Security
Co-authors: Rajiv Bharadwaja, Principal Software Engineering ManagerAbhishek Kumar, Principal Group Manager - Security Research & Operations Security operations centers are under pressure from unprecedented scale and complexity. Speed, precision, and consistency matter more than ever, and AI is everywhere—but hype alone doesn’t solve the challenge. This blog shares our journey and insights from building autonomous AI agents for MDR operations and...
18/11/2025
Fine-Tuning Healthcare AI Models: Custom Segmentation for Your Healthcare Data
This post is part of our healthcare AI fine-tuning series: MedImageInsight Fine-Tuning - Embeddings and classification MedImageParse Fine-Tuning - Segmentation and spatial understanding (you are here)
18/11/2025
What's new in Microsoft Intune at Ignite
Welcome to Microsoft Ignite, where the future of IT is being reimagined. Today we’re unveiling how Microsoft Intune is transforming endpoint management by putting AI at its core, with assistive chat-based and agentic experiences to help you streamline operations, unify cross-service insights, and enable scalable action, tailored to your organization's needs. With Security Copilot chat embedded across Intune, you gain expert assistance to help guide you through daily...
18/11/2025
Azure Intel® TDX confidential VMs momentum
Azure’s next generation of Confidential Virtual Machines powered by 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors (code-named Emerald Rapids) with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) is out in preview now. This will help to enable organizations ...
18/11/2025
Azure delivers the first cloud VM with Intel Xeon 6 and CXL memory - now in Private Preview
Intel released their new Intel Xeon 6 6500/6700 series processor with P-cores this year. Intel Xeon 6 processors provide performance and scalability by delivering outstanding performance for transactional and analytical workloads and provide scale-up capacities of up to 64TB of memory. In addition, Intel Xeon 6 supports the new
18/11/2025
AI Gateway in Azure API Management Is Now Available in Microsoft Foundry (Preview)
For more than a decade, Azure API Management has been the trusted control plane for API governance, security, and observability on a global scale supporting more than 38,000 customers, almost 3 million APIs, and 3 trillion API requests every month. AI Gateway builds on this foundation, extending API Management’s proven governance, security, and observability model to AI workloads, including models, tools, and agents. Today, more than 1,200 enterprise customers use AI Gateway to safely operati...
18/11/2025
Announcing the Public Preview of AMLFS 20: Azure Managed Lustre New SKU for Massive AI&HPC Workloads
Sachin Sheth - Principal PDM Manager Brian Barbisch - Principal Group Software Engineering Manager Matt White - Principal Group Software Engineering Manager Brian Lepore - Principal Product Manager Wolfgang De Salvador - Senior Product Manager Ron Hogue - Senior Product...
18/11/2025
App Assure Powers Seamless Transitions for the new Outlook
Microsoft is continually evolving its products to deliver greater functionality, stronger security, and better experiences for users. That evolution is now underway for Outlook as we transition from classic Outlook to the new Outlook for Windows, a move that accelerates access to innovations like Copilot and other AI-native tools essential for success in today’s business landscape. <...
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
Continuing our commitment to open-source solutions, we are announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana. This service offers a powerful solution for cloud-native monitoring and visualizing all your Azure data. Dashboards with Grafana enable you to create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure portal without additional cost and less administrative overhea...
18/11/2025
Pantone’s Palette Generator enhances creative exploration with agentic AI on Azure
Color can be powerful. When creative professionals shape the mood and direction of their work, color plays a vital role because it provides context and cues for the end product or creation. For more than 60 years, creatives from all areas of design—including fashion, product, and digital—have turned to Pantone color guides to translate inspiration into precise, reproducible color choices. These guides offer a shared language for colors, as well as inspiration and communication a...
18/11/2025
Azure Linux: Driving Security in the Era of AI Innovation
Microsoft is advancing cloud and AI innovation with a clear focus on security, quality, and responsible practices. At Ignite 2025, Azure Linux reflects that commitment. As Microsoft’s ubiquitous Linux OS, it powers critical services and serves as the hub for security innovation. This year’s announcements, Azure Linux with OS Guard public preview and GA of pod sandboxing, reinforce security as one of our core priorities, helping customers build and run workloads with confidence in an increasin...
18/11/2025
Richer alt text in Word and PowerPoint, powered by generative AI
Today, I’m excited to announce a major improvement to how alt text is generated in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for Windows.Leveraging generative AI, you can write richer, more descriptive, and more context-aware image descriptions.Richer alt text in Word and PowerPoint, powered by generative AI
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability for AccelNet on Windows Server 2025
That’s why we’re bringing Accelerated Networking (AccelNet), the same technology used in Azure, to Windows Server 2025 Datacenter.Accelerated Networking (SR‑IOV) for Windows Server 2025 Datacenter solves this by: Bypassing the virtual switch for data plane traffic using SR‑IOV, reducing CPU overhead.
18/11/2025
Announcing Network HUD: Operational Network Monitoring for Windows Server 2025
Network HUD brings real-time health monitoring to Windows Server clusters, helping you catch misconfigurations and drift before they impact performance.Network HUD simplifies this by continuously monitoring your cluster’s networking health and surfacing actionable insights.Microsoft Learn
18/11/2025
Announcing the preview of Azure Local rack aware cluster
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Local rack aware cluster! We previously published a blog post with a sneak peek of Azure Local rack aware cluster and now, we're excited to share more details about its architecture, features, and benefits. Azure Local rack aware cluster is an advanced architecture designed to enhance fault tolerance and data distribution within an Azure Local instance. This solution enables you to cluster machines that are strategically placed across two physical racks in different rooms or buildings, connected by high bandwidth and low latency within the same location.Network architecture diagram of an Azure Local rack aware cluster instance
18/11/2025
Reimagining Data Excellence: SQL Server 2025 Accelerated by Pure Storage
The arrival of SQL Server 2025 marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise data management and modern AI application development from ground to cloud.Designed to transform data into actionable intelligence, it aligns perfectly with the Pure Storage mission to simplify, accelerate, and modernize data infrastructure.SQL Server 2025 calls the REST endpoint of the FlashArray system and takes a snapshot application consistent with no external tools.
18/11/2025
Build Smarter with Azure HorizonDB
Today, at Microsoft Ignite, we are announcing a new PostgreSQL database service - Azure HorizonDB.To help with database management we are introducing a set of new capabilities in PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as announcing General Availability of the extension.We are excited to announce a new enhancement in the Microsoft’s state of the art vector indexing algorithm DiskANN – DiskANN Advanced Filtering.
18/11/2025
Introducing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot are dedicated agents that help users create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations—directly in chat.With dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can now start projects in Copilot Chat—using natural language prompts to quickly generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot are just the beginning.
18/11/2025
Generally Available: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose
Next-gen General Purpose is the evolution of General Purpose service tier that brings significantly improved performance and scalability to power up your existing Azure SQL Managed Instance fleet and helps you bring more mission-critical SQL workloads to Azure.The new #SQLMINextGen General Purpose tier delivers a built-in performance upgrade available to all customers at no extra cost.The SQL Managed Instance General Purpose tier is designed with full separation of compute and storage layers.
18/11/2025
What's New in Azure App Service at #MSIgnite 2025
Azure App Service introduces a new approach to accelerate application migration and modernization at Microsoft Ignite 2025.Known as Managed Instance on Azure App Service, it enables seamless modernization of classic web apps to the cloud with minimal code changes, especially for apps with custom Windows dependencies.Other major updates include enhanced Aspire support for .NET developers on Azure App Service for Linux, new AI integration features, expanded language/runtime support, and improvements in scaling, networking, and developer experience.
18/11/2025
Stream data in near real time from SQL to Azure Event Hubs - Public preview
If near-real time integration is something you are looking to implement and you were looking for a simpler way to get the data out of SQL, keep reading. SQL is making it easier to integrate and Change Event Streaming is a feature continuing this trend. Modern applications and analytics platforms increasingly rely on event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines. As the businesses speed up, real time decisio...
18/11/2025
Expanding Azure Arc for Hybrid and Multicloud Management
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are no longer optional—they’re essential for modern enterprises. At Ignite 2025, we are announcing key enhancements to Azure Arc based on your feedback, designed to simplify governance, improve security, and deliver operational consistency across diverse infrastructures. Here’s what’s new: 1. Multicloud Connector for GCP – Public Preview Azure Arc now extends its multicloud reach with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
18/11/2025
Public Preview: Multicloud connector support for Google Cloud
We are excited to announce that the Multicloud connector is now in preview for GCP environments.With the Multicloud connector, you can easily connect your GCP projects and AWS accounts to Azure with the following capabilities: The agentless inventory solution will periodically scan your GCP environment, project the discovered resources in GCP as Azure resources, including all of the GCP metadata like GCP labels.
18/11/2025
Accelerate your cloud migration journey with Azure Arc resource discovery in Azure Migrate (preview)
Today, we’re excited to announce a new preview capability that extends this value:Azure Migrate’s Arc-based discovery—designed to accelerate your migration decision-making and planning without additional on-premises deployments.With Arc-based discovery, you can leverage your existing Arc-enabled servers and Arc-enabled SQL Server instances to quickly gain insights into:Migration readiness for Azure targets such as Azure VMs, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
18/11/2025
AI-Powered Performance Testing
Performance testing is critical for delivering reliable, scalable applications. We have been working on AI-driven innovations in Azure Load Testing that will change how you author and analyze load tests. AI-Assisted Authoring of JMeter Scripts Writing high-quality load test scripts has traditionally required deep expertise. From setting correlations and think times to properly parameterizing inputs, it requires significant time and effort. This manual effort s...
18/11/2025
Optimize Your Cloud Environment Using Agentic AI
In today’s cloud-first world, optimization is no longer a luxury—it’s a strategic imperative. As IT professionals and developers navigate increasingly complex environments, the need to reduce costs, improve sustainability, and accelerate decision-making has never been more urgent. At Ignite 2025, Microsoft is introducing a new wave of agentic capabilities within Azure Copilot—one of the key capabilities includes the
18/11/2025
Empowering organizations with integrated data security: What’s new in Microsoft Purview
Today, data moves across clouds, apps, and devices at an unprecedented speed, often outside the visibility of siloed legacy tools. The rise of autonomous agents, generative AI, and distributed data ecosystems means that traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient. Even though companies are spending more than $213 billiongl...
18/11/2025
What’s New at Ignite: Powerful Enhancements in Unified Threat Intelligence
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re unveiling transformative upgrades in threat intelligence designed to empower security teams. With the Threat Intelligence Briefing Agent now fully integrated into the Defender portal, defenders can shift from reactive to proactive security strategies, using Microsoft’s global intelligence combined with insights tailored to their organization. Additionally, the latest phase of the integration of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) with Defender XDR and...
18/11/2025
What's new in Azure Container Apps at Ignite'25
Azure Container Apps (ACA) is a fully managed serverless container platform that enables developers to design and deploy microservices and modern apps without requiring container expertise or needing infrastructure management. ACA is rapidly emerging as the preferred platform for hosting AI workloads and intelligent agents in the cloud. With features like code interpreter, Serverless GPUs, simplifi...
18/11/2025
Introducing optimized locking v2
Executive summary New improvements in optimized locking further reduce the overhead of locks in the MSSQL database engine. For many transactions, row and page locks aren’t taken at all while still retaining ACID transaction semantics. The improvements require no changes in customer workloads or configuration and are a part of optimized locking in SQL Server 2025, Azu...
18/11/2025
Simplify Application Monitoring for AKS with Azure Monitor (Public Preview)
As cloud-native workloads scale, customers increasingly expect application and infrastructure observability to be unified, automated, and devops-friendly. Azure Monitor is advancing this vision with Application Monitoring for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With seamless onboarding and troubleshooting experiences in the Azure Portal, now in Public Preview. This new capability brings first-class OpenTelemetry&n...
18/11/2025
Resource governor - a new beginning
Executive summary In addition to increased CPU and memory limits, we are making another change to benefit customers using the SQL Server Standard edition. Starting with SQL Server 2025, resource governor, previously an Enterprise edition feature, is also available in the Standard edition. A powerful tool Resource governor has been a p...
18/11/2025
Unlocking Enterprise AI: SQL Server 2025 and NVIDIA Nemotron RAG Accelerate AI
Today, most of the world’s data still remains untapped, sitting in databases, documents, and systems across organizations. Enterprises are racing to unlock this data’s value by building the next wave of generative AI applications—solutions that can answer questions, summarize documents, and drive smarter decisions. At the heart of these innovations are retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, which enable users to interactively engage with large amount of data that continuously evolves...
18/11/2025
SQL Server 2025 is Now Generally Available
Today at Ignite, we announce the general availability of SQL Server 2025. This marks the latest milestone in the more than 30-year history of SQL Server. It is also a key part of our commitment to the one consistent SQL promise, delivering consistent experience across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, with one engine and one unified platform. Built on SQL Server’s foundation of best-in-class security, performance and availability, SQL Server 2025 is the AI-ready enterprise dat...
18/11/2025
Introducing Project Opal: A New Way to Get Task-Based Work Done
Today we’re introducing Project Opal in Microsoft 365 Copilot – a new AI-powered capability that executes task-based work inside a secure, observable environment you control. Every organization faces the challenge of repetitive, manual work – tasks that consume valuable time and take away from strategic priorities, creativity, and high-impact work. Consider the time it takes to gather information across multiple sites and tools for a compliance audit, onboarding new employees with equi...
18/11/2025
Azure app platform at Ignite 2025: New innovations for all your apps and agents
Software is evolving faster than ever, and organizations now operate across multiple generations of application architectures at once: AI apps and agents, cloud-native microservices, modernized enterprise applications, and mission-critical workloads that have powered their businesses for decades. To innovate at the pace AI demands, organizations need a unified platform that supports where they are today and accelerates where they’re going. The need has never been clearer: 95% of IT decision m...
18/11/2025
Scale with Ease: Simplified Setup and Management for Connectors
At Microsoft, we’re continuously evolving our platform to make it easier for organizations to connect their data, unlock insights, and maximize their Copilot experience. The Copilot connector ecosystem has expanded from 30 to over 75+ connectors, enabling seamless integration with the tools your organization relies on every day — from ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence to shared drives and line-of-business applications. By indexing data from these key business apps, Copilot Connectors he...
18/11/2025
Building AI apps and agents for the new frontier
Every new wave of applications brings with it the promise of reshaping how we work, build and create. From digitization to web, from cloud to mobile, these shifts have made us all more connected, more engaged and more powerful. The incoming wave of agentic applications, estimated to number 1.3 billion over the next 2 years is no different. But the expectations of these new services are unprecedented, in part for how they will uniquely operate with both intelligence and agency, how they will a...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Power the next era of cybersecurity with Microsoft Sentinel
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re showcasing how Microsoft Sentinel —trusted by over 40,000 customers worldwide— combines industry-leading SIEM capabilities with a purpose-built security data lake to transform security operations. This powerful combination delivers deep visibility, advanced analytics, and cost-efficiency—empowering security teams to detect, investigate, and respond faster in an AI-driven e...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server - Generally Available With Exciting New Capabilities
Today, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Microsoft Sentinel MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, a fully managed cloud service built on an open standard that empowers AI agents to seamlessly access your entire security context through natural language, eliminating the need for complex data engineering as you build agents. This unlocks new levels of AI agent performance and effectiveness, enabling them to do more for you. Since the public preview launch on Sept...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Security Store: Now Generally Available
When we launched the Microsoft Security Store in public preview on September 30, our goal was simple: make it easier for organizations to discover, purchase, and deploy trusted security solutions and AI agents that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Security products. Today, Microsoft Security Store is generally available—with three major ...
18/11/2025
Post-Quantum Cryptography APIs Now Generally Available on Microsoft Platforms
Introduction We are excited to announce a significant leap forward in security: Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms are now generally available in Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 clients (24H2,...
18/11/2025
Troubleshoot with OTLP signals in Azure Monitor (Limited Public Preview)
As organizations increasingly rely on distributed cloud-native applications, the need for comprehensive standards-based observability has never been greater. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has emerged as the industry standard for collecting and transmitting telemetry data, enabling unified monitoring across diverse platforms and services. Microsoft is among the
18/11/2025
Security as the core primitive in the agentic era: New innovations to secure AI agents and apps
This week at Microsoft Ignite, we shared our vision for Microsoft security -- In the agentic era, security must be ambient and autonomous, like the AI it protects. It must be woven into and around everything we build—from silicon to OS, to agents, apps, data, platforms, and clouds—and throughout everything we do. In this blog, we are going to dive deeper into many of the new innovations we are introducing this week to secure AI agents and apps. As I spend time with our customers and pa...
18/11/2025
Ignite 2025: Advancing Azure Database for MySQL with Powerful New Capabilities
At Ignite 2025, we’re introducing a wave of powerful new capabilities for Azure Database for MySQL, designed to help organizations modernize, scale, and innovate faster than ever before. From enhanced high availability and seamless serverless integrations to AI-powered insights and greater flexibility for developers, these advancements reflect our commitment to delivering a resilient, intelligent data platform. Join us as we unveil what’s next for MySQL on Azure - and discover how industry le...
18/11/2025
Accelerate frontline adoption of Microsoft Teams on personal devices
Frontline workers are the heartbeat of your organization and they need quick, secure access to Microsoft Teams to stay connected and productive. Yet, for many companies, onboarding Teams on a personal device can feel like a maze of extra steps due to security and compliance requirements. That’s where our new web-based onboarding experience comes in. This solution is designed to simplify and accelerate setup for frontline workers, ensuring they can start collaborating on their first day...
18/11/2025
Migration Agent - Unlocking transformation
IT Modernization is far more than adopting a new technology—it’s a transformative, ongoing journey that reshapes processes and culture. It has no finish line, and when embraced fully, it delivers lasting strategic advantage. Modernization unlocks agility, resilience and innovation to keep up with customer expectations and shifts in the competitive landscape. Cloud-native architectures are best positioned to support modernization while securely providing access to innovations such as A...
18/11/2025
Enhancing visibility into your identity fabric with Microsoft Defender
Layered identity security for the modern enterpriseIdentity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) has to combine modern identity and access management (IAM) and security operations (SOC) through an integrated partnership between identity and security teams.Microsoft Defender’s latest identity security enhancements empower organizations to see and understand their entire identity fabric with unprecedented clarity.
18/11/2025
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Integration with Fabric Real Time Intelligence Eventhouse
Customers need to enable different scenarios to successfully operate their IT/OT environments and business processes for meeting business objectives. Building solutions to solve these problems requires deriving rich insights from telemetry data emitted by devices, assets, applications, typically, by combining with other data to answer business questions. The common need for the systems that produce the insights is the ability to obtain the data they need within acceptable latency, to process,...
18/11/2025
Introducing Microsoft Agent Factory
Introducing Microsoft Agent FactoryMicrosoft Agent Factory is a new program designed for organizations that want to move from experimentation to execution faster.With a single metered plan, organizations can build agents with Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ using Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.
18/11/2025
Windows CLAT Enters Private Preview: A Milestone for IPv6 Adoption
IPv6 Adoption: A Global Shift Since its standardization in the late 1990s, IPv6 has steadily gained traction. The last 15 years, especially since World IPv6 Launch Day in 2011, have seen significant progress. Global IPv6 adoption now hovers around 43 to 48%, with countries li...
18/11/2025
OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift GA: Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Modernization
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift reaches General Availability (GA), unlocking a unified platform where enterprise IT teams can run virtual machines and containers side by side. This milestone enables organizations to migrate legacy VMs to Azure, consolidate disparate infrastructure, and modernize applications at t...
18/11/2025
AI Agents Are Rewriting the App Modernization Playbook
The Modernization Moment: Why Now? Modernizing enterprise applications has historically been slow, manual, and costly. For many IT leaders and developers, it’s meant wrestling with aging frameworks, complex dependencies, and the constant tug-of-war between maintaining legacy systems and driving innovation. The stakes are high: every dollar spent on maintenance is a dollar not invested in the future. But the game is changing. Today, agentic AI is transforming mod...
18/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#7: Database Missing After Planned Maintenance
If you’re running Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, you might encounter a scenario where your database disappears after planned maintenance.The missing database files were located in a temporary tablespace.Unfortunately, data cannot be recovered because temporary tablespaces are excluded from backups during maintenance activities or server restarts.
18/11/2025
Copilot Studio and Azure AI Services, A Case Study on the Mix of the Two Worlds
Recently, I faced just such a challenge: a project requiring the processing of thousands of documents, each needing accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR), structured data extraction, and seamless integration into business workflows.Microsoft’s Azure AI Services offer robust, scalable tools for document intelligence and data extraction, while Copilot Studio provides a low-code canvas to orchestrate workflows and empower business users.This case study explores how blending Azure AI’s advanced document processing with Copilot Studio’s low-code capabilities can deliver powerful, end-to-end solutions.
18/11/2025
Microsoft AI Tour Frankfurt: MVPs Leading the Way in AI Innovation
The Microsoft AI Tour in Frankfurt wasn’t just a showcase of cutting-edge technology—it was a celebration of community, collaboration, and learning. At the heart of this experience were our MVPs, who brought their expertise, energy, and passion to the event. From helping attendees navigate sessions to sharing real-world insights, MVPs played a vital role in making the AI Tour unforgettable.
18/11/2025
Solving the Data Challenge for Manufacturers with Sight Machine & Azure IoT Operations
Delivering Industrial AI: From Data to Results As manufacturers accelerate their digital transformation, the ability to unify and leverage operational data is the difference between incremental improvement and competitive advantage. Today, we’re launching a joint solution with Sight Machine, purpose-built to solve the OT data challenge and deliver the full Industrial AI stack in weeks, not months:
18/11/2025
Moving the Logic Apps Designer Forward
Today, we're excited to announce a major redesign of the Azure Logic Apps designer experience, now entering Public Preview for Standard workflows.While these improvements are currently Standard-only, our vision is to quickly extend them across all Logic Apps surfaces and SKUs.We're actively stabilizing the experience based on your feedback.
18/11/2025
Understanding Small Language Modes
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the key differences between Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs) and why the latter are becoming essential for edge computing.In short, while LLMs like GPT-5 and Gemini are incredibly powerful, they depend on massive compute resources and constant connectivity.SLMs, with far fewer parameters, can run directly on devices such as smartphones, laptops, and embedded systems.
18/11/2025
Assess Security risks with Insights in Azure Migrate
That’s why we introduced Insights (preview) in Azure Migrate, to help you identify security risks before they become roadblocks during the migration journey. Security Insights in Azure Migrate provides an integrated dashboard that surfaces potential risks in your on-premises environment during migration planning.Security insights are limited to software and operating system data discovered through the Azure Migrate appliance quick discovery.
18/11/2025
From Policy to Practice: Built-In CIS Benchmarks on Azure - Flexible, Hybrid-Ready
Security is more important than ever. The industry-standard for secure machine configuration is the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks. These benchmarks provide consensus-based prescriptive guidance to help organizations harden diverse systems, reduce risk, and streamline compliance with major regulatory frameworks and industry standards like NIST, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. In our
18/11/2025
Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni: An Open Qwen2.5-7B Based Omnimodal MoE for Text, Image, Audio and Video Understanding
How do you build one open model that can reliably understand text, images, audio and video while still running efficiently?A team of researchers from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen introduced Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni, a fully open omnimodal large model that pushes Lychee’s Uni-MoE line toward language centric multimodal reasoning.The system is trained from scratch on […]
18/11/2025
Innovations and Strengthening Platforms Reliability Through Open Source
The Linux Systems Group (LSG) at Microsoft is the team building OS innovations in Azure enabling secure and high-performance platforms that power millions of workloads worldwide. From providing the OS for Boost, optimizing Linux kernels for hyperscale environments or contributing to open-source projects like Rust-VMM and Cloud Hypervisor, LSG ensures customers get...
18/11/2025
How-to add an MCP tool to your Azure Foundry agent using dynamic sessions on Azure Container Apps
The following is a tutorial on how to use an MCP enabled dynamic session as a tool used in an Azure Foundry agent giving it the capability to run remote shell commands. After your agent is created, you can connect a remote MCP server as a tool for your agent to use.In this tutorial, we demonstrated how to extend Azure AI Foundry agents using Azure Container Apps dynamic session pools.
18/11/2025
Windows Server 2019 Retirement on AKS enabled by Azure Arc
Action Required: Migrate to Windows Server 2022 by April 2026 As previously announced, Microsoft is retiring Windows Server 2019 support on Azure Kuberne...
18/11/2025
Partner Blog | Securing the future: How Microsoft partners are powering AI-ready organizations
According to the Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index Annual Report, 82% of leaders say they’re confident they’ll use AI agents as digital team members to expand workforce capacity in the next 12 to 18 months.In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this blog post explores how you can build a stronger security practice and empower your customers to innovate safely, backed by Microsoft partner resources, incentives, and solutions.The average cost of a data breach now exceeds $4.4 million globally, and beyond the financial cost, weak security erodes trust.
18/11/2025
Reimagining Data Excellence: SQL Server 2025 Accelerated by Pure Storage
The arrival of SQL Server 2025 marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise data management and modern AI application development from ground to cloud.Designed to transform data into actionable intelligence, it aligns perfectly with the Pure Storage mission to simplify, accelerate, and modernize data infrastructure.It has evolved from a traditional database engine into an intelligent data platform designed for AI-driven operations for mission critical Enterprise workloads.
18/11/2025
Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: A Practical Guide for Imbalanced Classification
Binary cross-entropy (BCE) is the default loss function for binary classification—but it breaks down badly on imbalanced datasets.The reason is subtle but important: BCE weighs mistakes from both classes equally, even when one class is extremely rare. Imagine two predictions: a minority-class sample with true label 1 predicted at 0.3, and a majority-class sample […]The post Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: A Practical Guide for Imbalanced Classification appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/11/2025
Redefine work in an AI-enhanced world: Attend the Frontier Firms webinar November 24, 2025
Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to use the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success. Across four sessions, experts will deliver practical guidance, industry best practices, and proven strategies for applying AI tools in no-code, low-code, and pro-code scenarios. This live virtual event is scheduled for November 24, 2025.
18/11/2025
ZoomIt v9.21
ZoomIt v9.21 This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, fixes several minor bugs.
17/11/2025
Comprehensive VM Monitoring with OpenTelemetry performance counters
Monitoring virtual machines often requires multiple tools and manual investigation. You may see high CPU or memory usage, but identifying the process responsible usually means signing in to the VM and running diagnostic commands. Azure Monitor already provides Guest OS performance monitoring through Log Analytics‑based metrics, trusted for its flexibility, deep integration, and advanced analytics, including custom performance counters, extended retention, and powerful KQL queries. Many...
17/11/2025
Build smarter, connected agentic apps with Foundry Tools
Tools have the most impact when they’re easy to find and use, which is why we’re introducing Foundry Tools in Microsoft Foundry, a new unified catalog of cutting-edge tools, connectors, and MCP servers.Today we are making a series of announcements to empower developers to build AI agents that understand business context and may act on business systems:Today, we are excited to announce that we are making it easier to leverage our premier AI capabilities—including Azure Speech, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Content Understanding, Azure Translator, and Azure Language—all in Foundry Tools.
17/11/2025
Securing Azure SQL Database with Microsoft Entra Password-less Authentication: Migration Guide
As part of this initiative, Microsoft Entra authentication for Azure SQL Database offers a modern, password less approach to access control that aligns with Zero Trust principles.To add Entra users from an external tenant, invite them as guest users to the Azure SQL Database's Entra administrator tenant.Migrating to Microsoft Entra password-less authentication for Azure SQL Database is a strategic investment in security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
17/11/2025
Upcoming November 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call
Join our next community call on November 25, 2025, or a recap of what was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025.Once you register, you will receive an email confirmation and calendar invite with the webinar join link.While our calls are open to everyone, you must be a member of the Microsoft 365 Champion Program in order to access the presentation materials - the access link is in the initial welcome email and the monthly newsletter emails sent the week before the community calls.
17/11/2025
Handle Scale for Power State Operations using Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines.
Scheduled Actions handles retries on transient errors.Scheduled Actions sits above the APIs for VM power state operations and sends actions on your behalf.Scheduled Actions ensures maximum operational throughput for your subscription on large-scale concurrent requests.
17/11/2025
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 Uses Functional Generative Networks For 8x Faster Probabilistic Weather Forecasts
Google DeepMind Research have introduced WeatherNext 2, an AI based medium range global weather forecasting system that now powers upgraded forecasts in Google Search, Gemini, Pixel Weather and Google Maps Platform’s Weather API, with Google Maps integration coming next.It combines a new Functional Generative Network, or FGN, architecture with a large ensemble to deliver […]The post Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 Uses Functional Generative Networks For 8x Faster Probabilistic Weather Forecasts appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/11/2025
Linux on Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What’s New, What to Attend, and Where to Find Us
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here, and we’re heading back to San Francisco from November 17-21 with a full digital experience for those joining online.This year, Linux takes center stage in a big way.From new security innovations in Azure Linux to deeper AKS modernization capabilities and hands-on learning opportunities, Ignite 2025 is packed with content for anyone building, running, or securing Linux-based workloads in Azure.
17/11/2025
Rephrase text to suit your presentation narrative with Copilot
I’m excited to share that you can now quickly enhance content directly within your presentation with the help of Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for the web.Rephrase text to suit your presentation narrative with CopilotRewriting text in your PowerPoint slides is now quicker and more intuitive thanks to the new Auto-rewrite, Condense, Make professional, and Make it a list options.
17/11/2025
Azure CycleCloud 8.8 and CCWS 1.2 at SC25 and Ignite
Azure CycleCloud 8.8: Advancing HPC & AI Workloads with Smarter Health ChecksWith the release of CycleCloud 8.8, users gain access to a suite of new features designed to streamline cluster management, enhance health monitoring, and future-proof their HPC environments.5. Enterprise Linux 9 and Ubuntu 20.24 support
17/11/2025
Your next big move: Thriving in the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace
The Microsoft commercial marketplace has entered a new era – and if you’re an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) or Software Development Company (SDC), this is your ticket to scale.As of 25 September 2025, Microsoft unified Azure Marketplace and AppSource into a single, streamlined Microsoft Marketplace.ISV Success - Discover offers and benefits of ISV Success to help you take your apps and agents to the next level.Marketplace Rewards - Learn how Marketplace Rewards helps software development companies close deals and reach more customers
17/11/2025
How to Integrate Playwright MCP for AI-Driven Test Automation
With the introduction of Model Context Protocol (MCP), Playwright can now interact with AI models and external tools to make smarter testing decisions.This guide walks you through integrating MCP with Playwright in VSCode, starting from the basics, enabling you to build smarter, adaptive tests today.Step 3: Install MCP Server for VS Code
17/11/2025
Announcing the General Availability of the RabbitMQ Connector
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the RabbitMQ Connector in Logic Apps (Standard) which allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and RabbitMQ.To send a message, search for the RabbitMQ connector in your design experience.To Complete messages, in scenarios using peek-lock, search for the RabbitMQ connector within the Logic Apps designer.
17/11/2025
Collaborative Research by Microsoft and NVIDIA on Real-Time Immunity
To stay protected, enterprises need to adopt AI-powered cybersecurity systems that learn, anticipate, and respond as intelligent defenders.This is where Adversarial Learning, a critical new frontier in security, comes in.This post highlights how Microsoft and NVIDIA are transforming adversarial learning research into real-time, adaptive solutions to improve cyber defenses—leveraging GPU-accelerated computing to deliver scalable, adaptive protection.
17/11/2025
Get your FY26 FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect nominations in today!
The FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect (FTRSA) program highlights architects who go beyond basic implementation, driving customer success, fostering innovation, and advancing Microsoft’s ecosystem through outstanding technical expertise.Become a part of the community celebrating customer success in Power Platform & Dynamics 365 implementations.Apply here October 27-March 3:
17/11/2025
Native root detection support for Microsoft Defender on Android
That’s why we’re pleased to share that Microsoft Defender now includes built-in root detection on Android devices.With this update, Defender now detects rooted Android devices, whether they are managed or unmanaged.Join us in San Francisco, November 17–21, or online, November 18–20, for deep dives and practical labs to help you maximize your Microsoft Defender investments ad to get more from the Microsoft capabilities you already use.
17/11/2025
Assess and upgrade to SQL Server 2025 with SSMS Migration Component
Starting with SSMS 22, the Hybrid & Migration component now includes upgrade assessment for SQL Server 2025.SSMS also provides a streamlined migration path to the instance of higher version if in-place upgrade is not preferred.If you previously used Microsoft Data Migration Assistant (DMA) for upgrade assessments, SSMS migration component is now the recommended alternative.
17/11/2025
From listing to sale: Microsoft Marketplace made easy
This guide walks through how top software companies go transactable, combining AI, automation, and integrations to make it simple and scalable.Microsoft is doubling down on transactable listings as the foundation of its marketplace strategy.Suger combines automation, AI, and native integrations in one platform built for hyperscaler marketplaces.
17/11/2025
Defending the cloud: Azure neutralized a record-breaking 15 Tbps DDoS attack
On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps).This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia.The attack originated from Aisuru botnet.
17/11/2025
Transforming Security Analysis into a Repeatable, Auditable, and Agentic Workflow
Security analysis shouldn’t be an afterthought—it should be a continuous, auditable, and intelligence-driven process built directly into the engineering workflow. This work introduces an agentic security analysis pipeline that uses reasoning models and tool-based agents to detect variant vulnerabilities across large, fast-changing codebases.By combining automation with explainability, it transforms security validation from a manual, point-in-time task into a repeatable and trustworthy part of every build.The agentic patterns and tooling can support net-new vulnerability discovery through cross-binary pattern matching, regression detection using historical code comparisons, reproducibility checks aligned with SDL requirements, and model-assisted fuzzing orchestrated through CI/CD processes.
17/11/2025
Ignite your future with new security skills during Microsoft Ignite 2025
Ignite your future with new security skills during Microsoft Ignite 2025Take on the Secure and Govern AI with Confidence ChallengeOne of the challenges featured is the Secure and Govern AI with Confidence challenge.
17/11/2025
Progress Software and Process.Science offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Progress Software and Process.Science deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Learn about these offers below:Process.Science Process Mining: Process.Science integrates process mining capabilities into Microsoft Power BI, allowing organizations to visualize and analyze event data directly within their existing Power BI environment.
17/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview: Exchange Online Admin API
Today, we are announcing the Public Preview of the Exchange Online Admin API – a REST based, cmdlet style administrative surface specifically designed to help organizations migrate away from EWS for specific Exchange admin scenarios and modernize automation workflows over HTTP.Exchange Web Services (EWS) is scheduled for deprecation in October 2026, yet many organizations still depend on EWS for specific Exchange administrative tasks due to unavailability of the alternate API for these scenarios.The Admin API provides a REST based, cmdlet style alternative for these scenarios, enabling modern automation while preserving familiar semantics for Exchange administrators.
17/11/2025
New Compliance Solutions in Microsoft Sentinel: HIPAA & GDPR Reports
Helps organizations demonstrate compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and protect personal data in cloud and hybrid environments.This solution provides a unified workbook that consolidates data from Alerts and Incidents, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL Databases, Microsoft 365, User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and Entra ID.To unlock the full potential of the HIPAA Compliance Solution, you need to integrate key data sources into Microsoft Sentinel.
17/11/2025
Secure Azure Stream Analytics Jobs in Dedicated Clusters Using Managed PE for Blob Input/Output
Azure Stream Analytics supports Dedicated Clusters and Managed Private Endpoints, enabling jobs to run in isolated environments and connect privately to Azure resources without exposing them to the public internet.The Stream Analytics Cluster resource provides dedicated compute for running multiple jobs securely and at scale.# Create a Managed Private Endpoint for Stream Analytics Job to access Storage Account
17/11/2025
Meta AI Introduces DreamGym: A Textual Experience Synthesizer For Reinforcement learning RL Agents
Reinforcement learning RL for large language model LLM agents looks attractive on paper, but in practice it breaks on cost, infrastructure and reward noise.Training an agent that clicks through web pages or completes multi step tool use can easily need tens of thousands of real interactions, each slow, brittle and hard to reset.The post Meta AI Introduces DreamGym: A Textual Experience Synthesizer For Reinforcement learning RL Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/11/2025
Duplicate detection in Logic App Trigger
Duplicate Detection in Logic App TriggerIn certain scenarios, a Logic App may process the same item multiple times due to various reasons.To address this issue, I implemented a solution using the Logic Apps REST API:Workflow Runs - List - REST API (Azure Logic Apps) |
17/11/2025
A Coding Guide to Implement Advanced Hyperparameter Optimization with Optuna using Pruning Multi-Objective Search, Early Stopping, and Deep Visual Analysis
In this tutorial, we implement an advanced Optuna workflow that systematically explores pruning, multi-objective optimization, custom callbacks, and rich visualization.Through each snippet, we see how Optuna helps us shape smarter search spaces, speed up experiments, and extract insights that guide model improvement.The post A Coding Guide to Implement Advanced Hyperparameter Optimization with Optuna using Pruning Multi-Objective Search, Early Stopping, and Deep Visual Analysis appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/11/2025
From Code to Cloud: Python-Driven Microsoft Fabric Deployments
Create an Azure Service Principal and configure variable groups in Azure DevOps for both DEV and PROD environments:This automated deployment solution for Microsoft Fabric ensures reliable, repeatable, and secure artifact management across multiple environments.By leveraging Azure DevOps, Python scripting, and robust configuration files, teams can achieve seamless CI/CD for complex Fabric projects.
17/11/2025
MDE for Non‑Persistent VDI — Implementation Guide & Best Practices.
1. Overview: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for Non‑Persistent VDIDownload the Windows onboarding package (Deployment method: VDI onboarding scripts for non‑persistent endpoints).Configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus on RDS/VDI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/deployment-vdi-microsoft-defender-antivirus
17/11/2025
Google DeepMind Introduces SIMA 2, A Gemini Powered Generalist Agent For Complex 3D Virtual Worlds
Google DeepMind has released SIMA 2 to test how far generalist embodied agents can go inside complex 3D game worlds.SIMA’s (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent) new version upgrades the original instruction follower into a Gemini driven system that reasons about goals, explains its plans, and improves from self play in many different environments.The post Google DeepMind Introduces SIMA 2, A Gemini Powered Generalist Agent For Complex 3D Virtual Worlds appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
AI Interview Series #2: Explain Some of the Common Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security Vulnerabilities
In this part of the Interview Series, we’ll look at some of the common security vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a framework designed to let LLMs safely interact with external tools and data sources.While MCP brings structure and transparency to how models access context, it also introduces new security risks if […]The post AI Interview Series #2: Explain Some of the Common Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security Vulnerabilities appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
Comparing the Top 4 Agentic AI Browsers in 2025: Atlas vs Copilot Mode vs Dia vs Comet
Agentic AI browsers are moving the model from ‘answering about the web’ to operating on the web.In 2025, four AI browsers define this space: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode, The Browser Company’s Dia, and Perplexity’s Comet.Each makes different design choices around autonomy, memory, and privacy.
16/11/2025
How to Build Memory-Powered Agentic AI That Learns Continuously Through Episodic Experiences and Semantic Patterns for Long-Term Autonomy
In this tutorial, we explore how to build agentic systems that think beyond a single interaction by utilizing memory as a core capability.We walk through how we design episodic memory to store experiences and semantic memory to capture long-term patterns, allowing the agent to evolve its behaviour over multiple sessions.The post How to Build Memory-Powered Agentic AI That Learns Continuously Through Episodic Experiences and Semantic Patterns for Long-Term Autonomy appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
Cerebras Releases MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B: A Memory Efficient Version of MiniMax-M2 for Long Context Coding Agents
Cerebras has released MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B, a compressed Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) Causal Language Model derived from MiniMax-M2, using the new Router weighted Expert Activation Pruning (REAP) method.The model keeps the behavior of the original 230B total, 10B active MiniMax M2, while pruning experts and reducing memory for deployment focused workloads such as coding agents and tool […]The post Cerebras Releases MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B: A Memory Efficient Version of MiniMax-M2 for Long Context Coding Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
Public Preview of Azure Native Dell PowerScale
Dell and Microsoft are extending their partnership by bringing Dell's flagship unstructured data product, OneFS, to Azure as a new fully managed offering – now in Public Preview.Microsoft customers can now choose between two flavors of Dell PowerScale.Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure is a fully managed service, implemented as an Azure Native ISV service (LINK).
15/11/2025
MBZUAI Researchers Introduce PAN: A General World Model For Interactable Long Horizon Simulation
Most text to video models generate a single clip from a prompt and then stop.They do not keep an internal world state that persists as actions arrive over time.PAN, a new model from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models, is designed to fill that gap by acting as a general world model that predicts […]
15/11/2025
How to Design a Fully Interactive, Reactive, and Dynamic Terminal-Based Data Dashboard Using Textual?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced interactive dashboard using Textual, and we explore how terminal-first UI frameworks can feel as expressive and dynamic as modern web dashboards.As we write and run each snippet, we actively construct the interface piece by piece, widgets, layouts, reactive state, and event flows, so we can see how […]The post How to Design a Fully Interactive, Reactive, and Dynamic Terminal-Based Data Dashboard Using Textual? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/11/2025
Comparing the Top 5 AI Agent Architectures in 2025: Hierarchical, Swarm, Meta Learning, Modular, Evolutionary
In 2025, ‘building an AI agent’ mostly means choosing an agent architecture: how perception, memory, learning, planning, and action are organized and coordinated.This comparison article looks at 5 concrete architectures: Comparison of the 5 architectures Architecture Control topology Learning focus Typical use cases Hierarchical Cognitive Agent Centralized, layered Layer specific control and planning Robotics, […]The post Comparing the Top 5 AI Agent Architectures in 2025: Hierarchical, Swarm, Meta Learning, Modular, Evolutionary appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/11/2025
Azure Databricks Cost Optimization: A Practical Guide
This guide walks through a proven approach to Databricks cost optimization, structured in three phases: Discovery, Best Practices Alignment, and Team Alignment & Next Steps. Databricks Unity Catalog provides system tables that store operational data for your account.Prebuilt Queries: Use top queries with system tables to answer meaningful cost questions.
15/11/2025
ESPC25 – Dublin | Microsoft event guide
European SharePoint Conference 2025 |Dublin, Ireland, is one of the most dynamic and innovative tech cities in Europe, making it the perfect place for in-person, in-depth learning at the European SharePoint Conference—now simply branded as ESPC25—December 1–4, 2025.The European SharePoint Conference (ESPC), now known simply as ESPC, is one of the largest and most prominent events in Europe dedicated to Microsoft technologies, particularly Microsoft 365 and Azure.
15/11/2025
OpenAI Researchers Train Weight Sparse Transformers to Expose Interpretable Circuits
If neural networks are now making decisions everywhere from code editors to safety systems, how can we actually see the specific circuits inside that drive each behavior?OpenAI has introduced a new mechanistic interpretability research study that trains language models to use sparse internal wiring, so that model behavior can be explained using small, explicit […]The post OpenAI Researchers Train Weight Sparse Transformers to Expose Interpretable Circuits appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/11/2025
SharePoint Embedded guide for software companies: Use cases make it real for customers
A: The most successful multi-tenant software companies use the owning and consuming tenant approach. Once you have developed your application and it’s ready to be deployed to a customer, customers want to maintain control of their data, use the security configuration they have configured and compliance controls across their entire data estate. What they don’t want to do is store data outside of their tenant. When using SharePoint Embedded, you control the application, your customer controls their data.When you’re ready to bring on a new customer, you simply register SharePoint Embedded on the consuming tenant (your customer). As documents are added through your application, they reside in the consuming tenant and all the security boundaries they have configured.A: SharePoint Embedded inherits Office 365's data residency capabilities, which often exceeds what most software companies can provide on their own:
14/11/2025
Ignite 2025: New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors Announcement
Recognized as a leader by Gartner and Forrester, Microsoft Sentinel is a platform for all of security, evolving to unify signals, cut costs, and power agentic AI for the modern SOC.With over 350+ integrations available, organizations can seamlessly bring data from a wide range of sources into Microsoft Sentinel’s analytics and data lake tiers.Today we showcase some of the most recent additions to our growing Microsoft Sentinel ecosystem spanning categories such as cloud security, endpoint protection, identity, IT operations, threat intelligence, compliance, and more:
14/11/2025
Fine-Tuning Healthcare AI Models: Grounded Findings Generation with CXRReportGen
CXRReportGen is both a language model and a detection model, so we can improve the clinical accuracy of detection and language generation to adapt to local contexts: imaging/population characteristics, clinical patterns, and institutional reporting styles.That’s why we’re excited to announce the fine-tuning capability for CXRReportGen, which enables you to harness your existing data to create a model that not only delivers greater clinical accuracy but also produces findings and reports that match your organization’s preferred style and formatting.CXRReportGen is Microsoft’s grounded report generation model for chest X-rays.
14/11/2025
Unlocking Developer Innovation with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Microsoft Sentinel is evolving rapidly, transforming to be both an industry-leading SIEM and an AI-ready platform that empowers agentic defense across the security ecosystem.In our recent webinar: Introduction to Sentinel data lake for Developers, we explored how developers can leverage Sentinel’s unified data lake, extensible architecture, and integrated tools to build innovative security solutions.This post summarizes the key takeaways and actionable insights for developers looking to harness the full power of Sentinel.
14/11/2025
Microsoft and Rockwell Automation: Transforming Industrial AI Together
Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix and Microsoft’s Azure IoT Operations together deliver a powerful foundation for industrial transformation.FactoryTalk Optix provides a modern, flexible visualization platform for real-time monitoring and control of OT systems.Paired with Azure IoT Operations, a unified, adaptive cloud solution built on open standards and powered by Azure Arc, manufacturers gain seamless connectivity across the factory floor enabling edge to cloud orchestration.
14/11/2025
Title Plan Update – November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025 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.
14/11/2025
Join Microsoft @ SC25: Experience HPC and AI Innovation
Supercomputing 2025 is coming to St. Louis, MO, November 16–21!Visit Microsoft Booth #1627 to explore cutting-edge HPC and AI solutions, connect with experts, and experience interactive demos that showcase the future of compute.Alpine Formula 1 Showcar: Snap a photo with a real Alpine F1 car and learn how high-performance computing drives innovation in motorsports.
14/11/2025
Debunking the myth: Cloud-native Windows devices and access to on-premises resources
Microsoft’s vision for secure, productive workplaces is clear: adopt cloud-first services, integrate Zero Trust throughout, and deploy Windows 11 devices as cloud-native endpoints to stay agile and future-ready.On your Zero Trust journey, if you need to provide access to on-premises applications and services, consider replacing your traditional VPN with a modern solution, enabled by Microsoft Entra Private Access.The Zero Trust Workshop is a guided framework to help you translate your Zero Trust strategy into actionable implementation steps which track your deployment progress and align with Microsoft recommendations.
14/11/2025
Improved search dropdown placement in OneNote on Windows
I’m happy to share improvements to the search experience in Microsoft OneNote on Windows, especially for those of you using the Horizontal Tabs layout where the page list is on the right.Improved search dropdown placement in OneNote on WindowsWith this update, we’ve repositioned the search dropdown to minimize overlap with your page.
14/11/2025
Accelerating HPC and EDA with Powerful Azure NetApp Files Enhancements
Azure NetApp Files continues to evolve, delivering ever improving enterprise-grade storage innovations that empower workloads such as High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) teams to scale, collaborate, and innovate faster.This brand-new Validating Scalable EDA Storage Performance: Azure NetApp Files and SPECstorage Solution 2020 article provides an in-depth look at the capabilities of Azure NetApp Files and its advantages for EDA teams, highlighting its extreme performance and linear scalability for EDA workloads.The Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (now with Azure portal experience) is a purpose-built tool that streamlines the migration of data from on-premises NetApp® ONTAP® systems or Cloud Volumes ONTAP® into Azure NetApp Files.
14/11/2025
Welcome Back Federal! Try this Prompt of the Week to get Caught Up.
This blog post introduces a powerful Copilot prompt designed to help you catch up fast and prioritize effectively, so you can focus on what matters most without wasting hours sifting through updates.The Solution: Microsoft 365 Copilot PromptComprehensive Scan: Reviews all recent emails, Teams chats, and meetings since your return date.
14/11/2025
How to Design an Advanced Multi-Agent Reasoning System with spaCy Featuring Planning, Reflection, Memory, and Knowledge Graphs
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic AI system using spaCy, designed to allow multiple intelligent agents to reason, collaborate, reflect, and learn from experience.We work through the entire pipeline step by step, observing how each agent processes tasks using planning, memory, communication, and semantic reasoning.The post How to Design an Advanced Multi-Agent Reasoning System with spaCy Featuring Planning, Reflection, Memory, and Knowledge Graphs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
Azure Virtual Network Manager + Azure Virtual WAN
Azure continues to expand its networking capabilities, with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) and Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) standing out as two of the most transformative services.Virtual WAN replaces a do-it-yourself hub VNet with a fully managed hub service: Where Azure Virtual Network Manager Steps In?
14/11/2025
Delivering web applications over IPv6
Comparison with DNS-Based Solutions:Unlike Traffic Manager or other DNS-based global load balancing solutions, Global Load Balancer provides:- Instant Failover: No DNS TTL delays - failover happens within seconds at the network level.- True Anycast: Single IP address that works globally without client-side DNS resolution.- Consistent Performance: Geo-proximity routing through Microsoft's backbone network ensures optimal paths.- Simplified Management: No DNS record management or TTL considerations.Azure Application Gateway can be deployed in a single region to provide IPv6 access to applications in that region.Azure Front Door Premium introduces Private Link integration, enabling secure, private connectivity between Front Door and backend resources, without exposing them to the public internet.
14/11/2025
Comparing the Top 6 Agent-Native Rails for the Agentic Internet: MCP, A2A, AP2, ACP, x402, and Kite
As AI agents move from single-app copilots to autonomous systems that browse, transact, and coordinate with each other, a new infrastructure layer is emerging underneath them.This article compares six key “agent-native rails” — MCP, A2A, AP2, ACP, x402, and Kite — focusing on how they standardize tool access, inter-agent communication, payment authorization, and settlement, […]The post Comparing the Top 6 Agent-Native Rails for the Agentic Internet: MCP, A2A, AP2, ACP, x402, and Kite appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
Meet SDialog: An Open-Source Python Toolkit for Building, Simulating, and Evaluating LLM-based Conversational Agents End-to-End
Meet SDialog, an open sourced Python toolkit for synthetic dialogue generation, evaluation, and interpretability that targets the full conversational pipeline from agent definition to analysis.It standardizes how a Dialog is represented and […]The post Meet SDialog: An Open-Source Python Toolkit for Building, Simulating, and Evaluating LLM-based Conversational Agents End-to-End appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
🚀 Mission Agent Possible: Your Chance to Build, Solve, and Win at Microsoft Ignite 2025!
🔍 What’s Mission Agent Possible?Create an AI AgentThe contest officially kicks off on November 18 and closes on November 20 (PST):👉 https://aka.ms/ignite25/mission-agent👉 https://aka.ms/models-blog
14/11/2025
NVIDIA AI Introduces TiDAR: A Hybrid Diffusion Autoregressive Architecture For High Throughput LLM Inference
NVIDIA researchers propose TiDAR, a sequence level hybrid language model that drafts tokens with diffusion and samples them autoregressively in a single forward pass.The main goal of this research is to reach autoregressive […]The post NVIDIA AI Introduces TiDAR: A Hybrid Diffusion Autoregressive Architecture For High Throughput LLM Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
Power Platform Community Conference: MVPs, Community, Insights & Inspiration
At the Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC), Microsoft senior leaders, product engineers, and Microsoft MVPs from around the world came together to teach, demo, and answer hundreds of real‑world questions - showcasing how vibrant and hands‑on this community truly is.This year’s conversations ranged from governance on a budget to app performance tuning and the accelerating role of AI‑powered copilots.Looking ahead, AI and Copilot are reshaping how we build on the Power Platform - here’s how Dian sees it, “AI and Copilot is already reshaping how we build on the Power Platform today.
14/11/2025
GPT‑5.1 in Foundry: A Workhorse for Reasoning, Coding, and Chat
Azure AI Foundry is unveiling OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 series, the next generation of reasoning, analytics, and conversational intelligence.The following models will be rolling out in Foundry today:GPT-5.1-codex: optimized for long-running conversations with enhanced tools and agentic workflows
14/11/2025
New OneNote Class Notebook LTI 1.3 integration in the Microsoft 365 LTI app
OneNote Class Notebook is entering a new era with a modern, unified LTI® 1.3 integration (as part of the Microsoft 365 LTI app) that brings back automatic roster sync and streamlines how educators and students use Class Notebooks within their LMS.This update is designed to benefit both educators and IT admins, making it easier to set up Class Notebooks and keep them in sync with course enrollments.In this article, we’ll cover the key new features, use cases, and next steps -- and how the new integration replaces the older LTI 1.1 tool (which is retiring in 2026).
14/11/2025
How to Build a Fully Self-Verifying Data Operations AI Agent Using Local Hugging Face Models for Automated Planning, Execution, and Testing
In this tutorial, we build a self-verifying DataOps AIAgent that can plan, execute, and test data operations automatically using local Hugging Face models.We design the agent with three intelligent roles: a Planner that creates an execution strategy, an Executor that writes and runs code using pandas, and a Tester that validates the results for […]The post How to Build a Fully Self-Verifying Data Operations AI Agent Using Local Hugging Face Models for Automated Planning, Execution, and Testing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
13/11/2025
How Powerful are Diffusion LLMs? Rethinking Generation with Any-Process Masked Diffusion Models
How powerful are Diffusion LLMs compared to classic autoregressive LLMs, once you treat generation as an algorithm with time and space complexity, not just as a decoding trick?A new research paper from a team researchers from Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and MIT gives a formal answer.This new research compares Auto-Regressive Models (ARM), […]
13/11/2025
From AI to ecosystem strategy: Why UP LIVE Reston was a game-changer
With keynotes from top Microsoft leaders, immersive workshops, and a curated executive audience, this wasn’t just another conference — it was a strategic accelerator for the future of partnering.From Copilot to Agentic AI, Microsoft and its partners are leading the charge in redefining how innovation is delivered.Only 5% of buyers are ready to buy now, and 90% will choose from their “Day 1 list.”
13/11/2025
Cumulative Update #22 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 22nd 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:Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model.
13/11/2025
ProcDump v11.1
ProcDump v11.1 This update to ProcDump, a command-line utility for generating memory dumps from running processes, fixes several minor bugs.
13/11/2025
Bulletproof agents with the durable task extension for Microsoft Agent Framework
Today, we're thrilled to announce the public preview of the durable task extension for Microsoft Agent Framework.This extension transforms how you build production-ready, resilient and scalable AI agents by bringing the proven durable execution (survives crashes and restarts) and distributed execution (runs across multiple instances) capabilities of Azure Durable Functions directly into the Microsoft Agent Framework.Example scenario: A content publishing agent that generates drafts, sends them to human reviewers, and waits days for approval without running (or paying for) compute resources during the review period.
13/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 27 | Fueling Growth: How IAMCP & MSDynamicsWorld.com Collaboration Empowers Members
In this environment, two organizations are standing out as true game-changers: MSDynamicsWorld (MSDW) and the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP).Two organizations are leading this charge: MSDynamicsWorld (MSDW) and the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP).At the heart of the Microsoft partner landscape are three engines of opportunity: Dynamics 365, Business Central, and the Power Platform.
13/11/2025
Course Retirement Announcement: MS-4008 and MS-4012
MS-4008: Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactive Experience for ExecutivesRetirement date: December 31, 2025Replacement course: N/A
13/11/2025
Microsoft SAP Partner Community Kick-Off – Recap
Welcome to the Microsoft SAP Partner Community!This collaborative hub is designed to help SAP partners leverage Microsoft technologies, accelerate SAP migrations to Azure, and drive business growth through shared resources and incentives.Foster collaboration among SAP partners to share knowledge, best practices, and innovative solutions.
13/11/2025
GPT‑5.1 in Foundry: A Workhorse for Reasoning, Coding, and Chat
Today marks a significant moment for enterprise AI innovation: Azure AI Foundry is unveiling OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 series, the next generation of reasoning, analytics, and conversational intelligence.The GPT-5.1 series is built to respond faster to users in a variety of situations with adaptive reasoning, improving latency and cost efficiency across the series by varying thinking time more significantly.The GPT-5.1 series is now available in Foundry Models.
13/11/2025
New Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader Certification
The Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader Certification validates your expertise in these skills.Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer.Get ready to take Exam AB-731 (beta):
13/11/2025
Learn to deploy Teams Rooms on Windows in minutes with Autopilot + Auto-login!
It’s never been easier to deploy Teams Rooms on Windows devices at scale than with Autopilot and Auto-login, you or your Microsoft Teams Rooms partner can securely deploy Teams Rooms in minutes.There are various ways to collect and upload the Autopilot information:Since each Teams Room device is a bit different, we’ve partnered with each Teams Rooms manufacturer to create instructional videos with their best practice recommendations for how to use Autopilot + Autologin to deploy their Teams Rooms on Windows devices including how they recommend uploading the device Autopilot information.
13/11/2025
Partner Blog | Know before you go: Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is almost here.You will hear from Microsoft engineering and business leaders, explore new AI product capabilities, and see how partners are scaling intelligent solutions in the market.The experience brings together deep technical content, hands-on learning, networking opportunities, and direct engagement with experts who are shaping the future of cloud and AI platforms.
13/11/2025
New Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional Certification
If this is your skill set, we have a new Microsoft Certification for you.The Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional Certification validates your expertise in these skills.Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer.
13/11/2025
Secure Boot playbook for certificates expiring in 2026
The first set of tools and steps are now available to help you proactively update your Secure Boot certificates before they expire in June of 2026.To get the updates that include the Group Policy for deploying Secure Boot certificate updates, download the latest Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 and Windows Server.Check the Secure Boot status of your devices before and after deployment.
13/11/2025
Build your first AI Agent with Azure App Service
Azure App Service is the go-to platform for building your first AI application because it eliminates infrastructure complexity while delivering enterprise-grade capabilities.As a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), it offers native integration with Azure AI services like Azure OpenAI, built-in DevOps support with GitHub Actions and Codespaces, and multi-language flexibility so you can build with what you know.Getting Started with AI on App Service
13/11/2025
[Public Preview] Introducing 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, app, and workload level settings at scale, both for machines running in Azure and hybrid Azure Arc-enabled servers.We’re excited to announce Public Preview support for Customizable Security Baselines in Azure Policy and Machine Configuration.
13/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 25 | Scaling Smart: Automated Collaboration and AI Governance
Without a governance plan, AI agents, Copilot integrations, and Power Platform apps can quickly spiral into a security, compliance, and productivity nightmare.That product evolved into Rencore, a SaaS platform hosted on Azure that now helps enterprises govern collaboration, low-code development, and AI environments at scale.Matt calls it agent sprawl — and without Copilot governance and lifecycle management, it’s a ticking compliance and security time bomb.
13/11/2025
Sploitlight: Hunting Beyond the Patch
In early 2025 Microsoft disclosed CVE-2025-31199, a macOS vulnerability that abused Spotlight, macOS’s metadata importer framework to bypass Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC). After the Defender team reported this to Apple, a patch was released that closed the hole.[1] So, in this article, we teach you how to hunt beyond the patch!We recommend hunting for patterns around importers, indexing behavior, and TCC privileged binaries to help detect attempts to rebuild this chain of abuse.
13/11/2025
New: Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals
The Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals Certification validates that you understand what's required to support and protect an AI-enabled Microsoft 365 environment.The new Certification shows employers that you understand how to configure, secure, and govern Copilot and agents across Microsoft 365 to help keep your organization productive and compliant, that you know the fundamentals of identity, security, and compliance so you can support AI adoption, and that you not only know how to use AI but also how to enable and manage AI in the workplace.Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer.
13/11/2025
Introducing Customizable Security Baselines in Azure Policy and Machine Configuration
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, app, and workload level settings at scale, both for machines running in Azure and hybrid Azure Arc-enabled servers.We’re excited to announce Public Preview support for Customizable Security Baselines in Azure Policy and Machine Configuration.This feature empowers you to tailor industry security benchmarks—such as CIS benchmarks for Linux or Azure Security Baselines for Windows and Linux —to align with your organization’s unique compliance standards across both Azure and Arc-connected machines.
13/11/2025
Microsoft 365 Insider program turns 10!
The Microsoft 365 Insider program is 10 years old today!And many of those have been influenced by and benefited from your feedback.Tell us in the comments below, or respond to our polls on X, LinkedIn, and Threads.
13/11/2025
Consolidate & Conquer: Driving Business Transformation with Integrated Security (Part 1 of 2)
In the evolving cybersecurity landscape, the choice between a unified security platform and a point solution is a strategic one with far-reaching implications.This two-part blog series examines the strategic decision organizations face between adopting a unified security platform and relying on multiple point solutions in cybersecurity.This post peels back the marketing hype and lays out the hard numbers from Forrester’s TEI report and dozens of customer stories: dramatic cost savings, 80% faster response times, 75% fewer costly breaches, and measurable bumps to your margin, EPS and ROE.
13/11/2025
Building brighter futures: How YES tackles youth unemployment with Azure Database for MySQL
Youth unemployment is one of South Africa’s most persistent challenges with more than half of young people struggling to secure their first job.As South Africa’s largest youth employment initiative, YES connects young people with 12-month work placements, learning programs, and job-matching services.YES’s mission is to break the cycle of inexperience and unemployment and create pathways for youth into permanent work or entrepreneurship.
13/11/2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Fine-Tuning
Use Enhanced Filtering for Connectors (“skip listing”) when necessaryIf you’re routing inbound mail through a third-party Secure Email Gateway or an on-prem hop before Microsoft 365, Defender will see that intermediary as the source IP instead of the original sending IP, which degrades anti-spoofing effectiveness.Enhanced Filtering for Connectors — also called skip listing — lets Microsoft 365 look past that last hop and evaluate the real sending IP and headers, so SPF / DKIM / DMARC and anti-spam logic work correctly. This setting does not support centralized mail routing (unless the routing is linear; see the Enhanced Filtering for Connectors learn article), so make sure you are not using that before enabling Enhanced Filtering. Centralized routing is sometimes used by organizations running a hybrid Exchange deployment, connecting Exchange Online with an on-premises Exchange Server organization. Important: Do this instead of blanket SCL -1 transport rules that “bypass spam filtering for anything coming from our gateway.”Turn on Safe Attachments protection beyond email (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams) In the Safe Attachments “Global settings,” make sure Defender for Office 365 is set to protect files in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams.
13/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 13, 2025
Learn about 197 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.ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric enables spatial analysis at any scale, leveraging Apache Spark for uncovering patterns.UST offers a solution by migrating Hyperdrive to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, providing security, scalability, and cost savings.
13/11/2025
News to Know – Volume 2, Edition 9, November 2025
However, since we are still working on enhancements to give Admins more control over user data management, especially regarding Entra Delete Signals, we will continue to pause Entra Delete Signal in Viva Glint until the end of June 2026. Now generally available in Viva Glint, this report highlights the relationships between employee survey scores and workplace activity and collaboration patterns without custom analysis.Be among the first to experience Copilot Highlights, a new dashboard feature in Viva Glint that delivers instant, actionable summaries of survey results—spotlighting team strengths, opportunities, and engagement trends at a glance.
13/11/2025
Keeping Content Fresh in the SharePoint FAQ Web Part - Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot
We are excited to introduce the latest updates coming to the SharePoint FAQ web part, designed to help content owners keep FAQ content accurate, engaging, and always up to date.These enhancements make it simple to keep FAQs accurate and engaging - thanks to on-demand AI-suggested updates, seamless import of existing FAQs, SharePoint Page as grounding references, and the new ability to copy and share individual Q&A links with your audience.Enhance answer reliability by grounding FAQ responses in your own SharePoint content.
13/11/2025
Part III: OTEL sidecar extension on Azure App Service for Linux - Language cheat-sheet
Building on Part II (and Part I), here’s a concise matrix for PHP, Python, Node.js, and .NET, plus the key app settings and quick troubleshooting steps. We’ve published a repo with working samples for PHP, Node.js, Python, and .NET showing both code-based and container-based setups using the OTEL sidecar extensions.With the OpenTelemetry sidecar extensions for Azure Monitor and Elastic APM, App Service for Linux makes end-to-end observability a drop-in add-on for both code and container apps. Grab the sample repo, wire up your connection string or token, and give it a try.
13/11/2025
Part II: OTEL sidecar extension on Azure App Service for Linux - Elastic APM setup
Picking up from Part I, this post shows how to obtain the Elastic APM Server URL and Secret token, add the OTEL Elastic sidecar, and validate telemetry in Kibana.The only differences are - get your Elastic APM Server URL and Secret token, choose the OpenTelemetry – Elastic APM extension, and set Elastic-specific app settings.We’ve published a repo with working samples for PHP, Node.js, Python, and .NET showing both code-based and container-based setups using the OTEL sidecar extensions.
13/11/2025
Demystifying GitHub Copilot Security Controls: easing concerns for organizational adoption
Often, this hesitation isn't due to reluctance but stems from organizational concerns around security and regulatory compliance.In this blog, I'll demystify the most common security concerns about GitHub Copilot and explain how its built-in features address them, empowering organizations to confidently modernize their development workflows.With GitHub Copilot agent mode, the "Terminal auto approve” setting in VS Code can be used to prevent this.
13/11/2025
How to Build a Fully Functional Custom GPT-style Conversational AI Locally Using Hugging Face Transformers
In this tutorial, we build our own custom GPT-style chat system from scratch using a local Hugging Face model.We start by loading a lightweight instruction-tuned model that understands conversational prompts, then wrap it inside a structured chat framework that includes a system role, user memory, and assistant responses.We define how the agent interprets […]
13/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #6: Major Upgrade Blocked by Password Auth (The One-Change Fix)
PostgreSQL 11 on Flexible Server requires SCRAM to be enabled before attempting an in‑place major version upgrade to higher versions.The service precheck blocks the upgrade if the server is still on password/MD5‑only auth.1) Enable SCRAM on the server
13/11/2025
Part I: OTEL sidecar extension on Azure App Service for Linux - Intro + PHP walkthrough
Sidecar extensions let you attach a companion container to your App Service for Linux app to add capabilities—without changing your core app or container.In this post, we’ll use the new sidecar extension—OpenTelemetry - Azure Monitor and show end-to-end setup for a PHP code-based apps (the same extension will also work for other language stacks and container-based apps).Walkthrough: add the OpenTelemetry – Azure Monitor sidecar to a PHP (code-based) app
13/11/2025
Introducing AI Playground on Azure App Service for Linux
If you’re running a Small Language Model (SLM) as a sidecar with your web app, there’s now a faster way to try prompts, measure latency, and copy working code into your app—all without leaving your site. AI Playground is a lightweight, built-in experience available from the Kudu endpoint for every Linux App Service.AI Playground is a simple UI that talks to the SLM you’ve attached to your App Service app (for example, Phi or BitNet via the Sidecar extension).
13/11/2025
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5.1: Combining Adaptive Reasoning, Account Level Personalization, And Updated Safety Metrics In The GPT-5 Stack
OpenAI has released GPT-5.1 as the next iteration in the GPT-5 family, with 2 core variants, GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking.The update focuses on 3 axes, adaptive reasoning behavior, clearer explanations, and stronger control over tone and safety.Model Lineup And Positioning GPT-5.1 Instant is the default conversational model in ChatGPT.
13/11/2025
The Copilot Studio User Group Has A New Group For Community Events!
Where Will Events Be Held For The Copilot Studio User Group?We've Decided To Use Microsoft GroupMe Event Groups For Hosting Virtual Chat Based Events Where Can I Access The Event Group?You Can Access It Here Events Will Be Published Through The Space Where We Will Be Using GroupMe Event Groups To Host Events That Are Chat-Based Virtual Events For Members That Can’t Physically Attend In Person For EventsRequirements Must Be In The
12/11/2025
Meet the Maker: The Communicator’s Guide to AI – Live with Elaine Q. Chang
Join us for the next edition of "AI for Communicators," a special First Fridays session featuring Elaine Q. Chang—Technical Advisor to Microsoft’s Chief Communications Officer and co-creator of the LinkedIn Learning course, The Communicator’s Guide to AI: Tools and Mindsets for Modern PR and Media.Elaine brings nearly two decades of experience spanning engineering, communications, and business strategy, making this an unmissable event for anyone navigating the evolving landscape of AI in communications.Interactive “Meet the Maker” Format: Elaine will unpack the ACT (Aspire, Choose, Tune) strategy and show how it translates into real-world comms workflows, from announcement planning to media Q&A prep and narrative development.
12/11/2025
Your Guide to Azure AI Foundry @ Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is where innovation meets execution—and this year, Azure AI Foundry is at the heart of it all.Kick off Ignite with a visionary look at building AI apps and agents at scale.Agentic identity and other enterprise superpowers in Azure AI Foundry (BRK186): Hear how Commerzbank drives agentic AI at scale and discover how Azure AI Foundry agents meet enterprise standards for identity, connectivity, extensibility, and lifecycle management and dive into Entra Agent ID.
12/11/2025
Unlock bigger deals with flexible billing and five-year terms in Microsoft Marketplace
Many partners are already leveraging flexible billing and multi-year terms to close larger, more strategic deals in the Microsoft Marketplace.Now, with flexible billing, you can set custom billing schedules with up to 70 installments over the duration of the contract.Flexible billing for private offers - This demo video shows software development companies how to create a direct customer private offers with a flexible billing schedule.
12/11/2025
Boost SaaS revenue with Microsoft Marketplace: A step-by-step guide
For SaaS companies, the Microsoft Marketplace has evolved from being a procurement convenience to becoming a strategic revenue engine.But while publishing a listing is easy, closing the first transaction quickly is what separates software development companies who scale on Marketplace from those who stall.It goes beyond “how to list” and focuses on what really drives velocity: operational readiness, CRM-native automation, seller engagement, trust signals, and AI-enabled acceleration.
12/11/2025
MiniMax-M2: The Open-Source Innovator in Coding and Agentic Workflows Now in Azure AI Foundry
We’re thrilled to announce that MiniMax-M2, the latest breakthrough from MiniMax, is now available in Azure AI Foundry through Hugging Face.Built for developers, this model advances capabilities for what’s possible in coding, multi-turn reasoning, and agentic workflows—while delivering enhanced efficiency and scalability.MiniMax-M2 isn’t just another large language model—it’s a 230B-parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that activates 10B parameters per task, ensuring better performance at a lower cost.
12/11/2025
Partner Blog | Azure updates for partners: November 2025
Across our partner ecosystem, I’m seeing a decisive shift from exploring what’s possible with AI and cloud to executing with focus, scale, and sustainable impact. Azure Accelerate and momentum in the Microsoft Marketplace give partners like you a strong foundation to align investments and deliver outcomes that matter. It is where ideas become practice and where partners shape what is possible for customers.From November 18–21 in San Francisco and online, you will hear directly from our product leaders, preview the latest in Azure and AI innovation, and connect with peers who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Make time for ancillary events, interactive roundtables, and the Partner Hub to build new skills, expand your network, and explore hands-on opportunities to advance your work.
12/11/2025
Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4, bringing significant enhancements across all SSMA flavors to further streamline your database modernization journey to Azure SQL and SQL Server.Support for SQL Server 2025General Availability of Oracle PL/SQL to SQL Code Conversion Copilot
12/11/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards winners and finalists
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards celebrate that impact.In addition to the global award categories, we’re recognizing partners from over 80 countries and regions as part of the Country and Region Partner of the Year Awards.We’ll celebrate these achievements together at Microsoft Ignite, taking place November 18–21, 2025.
12/11/2025
DNS flow trace logs in Azure Firewall are now generally available
DNS Proxy, a key capability in Azure Firewall, enables the firewall to act as a DNS forwarder for DNS traffic.Today, we’re introducing the general availability of DNS flow trace logs — a new logging capability that provides end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution across your environment, such as viewing critical metadata including query types, response codes, queried domains, upstream DNS servers, and the source and destination IPs of each request.Existing Azure Firewall DNS Proxy logs provide visibility for DNS queries as they initially pass through Azure Firewall.
12/11/2025
Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics—including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics—giving you complete coverage for your monitoring needs.In addition, metric alerts now offer powerful query capabilities with PromQL, enabling complex logic across multiple metrics and resources.Full metrics coverage: metric alerts now support alerting on any Azure metrics including platform metrics, Prometheus metrics and custom metrics.If you have an Azure Monitor workspace containing Prometheus or OpenTelemetry metrics, you can create query-based metric alert rules today.
12/11/2025
Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4, bringing significant enhancements across all SSMA flavors to further streamline your database modernization journey to Azure SQL and SQL Server.With SSMA 10.4, you can now fully discover, assess, convert schema, and migrate data to SQL Server 2025.This includes:We are introducing a new Microsoft-managed endpoint that enables SSMA Copilot usage through Microsoft Entra ID authentication, without requiring customers to bring their own Azure OpenAI subscription.
12/11/2025
Datasets for Training a Language Model
A good language model should learn correct language usage, free of biases and errors.
12/11/2025
Ignite 2025: New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors Announcement
BlinkOps is an enterprise-ready agentic security automation platform that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Sentinel to accelerate incident response and streamline operations.Proofpoint’s Targeted Attack Protection (TAP), part of its Core Email Protection, integrates with Microsoft Sentinel to centralize email security telemetry for advanced threat detection and response.Samsung’s Knox Asset Intelligence integration with Microsoft Sentinel equips security teams with near real-time visibility into mobile device threats across Samsung Galaxy enterprise fleets.
12/11/2025
Announcing the BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Update 7
The BizTalk Server product team has released the Cumulative Update 7 for BizTalk Server 2020.The Cumulative Update 7 contains all released functional and security fixes for customer-reported issues for BizTalk Server 2020.If you are running BizTalk 2016, or earlier versions of the product, you must upgrade to BizTalk Server 2020 CU6 or strongly consider migrating to Azure Logic Apps.
12/11/2025
Detect more, spend less: the future of threat intelligence correlation
We are simplifying the process of making your threat intelligence actionable while keeping costs in check.With Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and Defender XDR, you can now ingest threat intelligence feeds through Sentinel and enrich XDR incidents without the need to ingest XDR into the SIEM.This integration provides deeper insights during investigations and enhances threat hunting capabilities.
12/11/2025
Spotlight on… Volume 1, Edition 2, November 2025
We’re excited to introduce Copilot Highlights—a new capability in Viva Glint that helps leaders quickly interpret employee survey results using the power of AI.Now available in private preview, Copilot Highlights brings clarity to your Team Summary and Executive Summary reports by surfacing strengths, opportunities, and trends that matter most.Copilot Highlights generates concise, actionable summaries from your existing survey data.
12/11/2025
Detect more, spend less: the future of threat intelligence correlation
We’ve made it easier for customers leveraging Microsoft’s SIEM and XDR.Now, customers can create custom detections that correlate threat intelligence from feeds brought in through the SIEM with their XDR data, without the need to ingest their XDR data as well.Create custom detection rules in Microsoft Defender XDR - Microsoft Defender XDR |
12/11/2025
What’s New for Python on App Service for Linux: pyproject.toml, uv, and more
Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux just got a lot easier to build and ship!We’ve modernized the build pipeline to support new deployment options —whether you’re on classic setup.py, fully on pyproject.toml with Poetry or uv, or somewhere in between.This post walks through five upgrades that reduce friction end-to-end—from local dev to GitHub Actions to the App Service build environment:
12/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 12, 2025
Learn about 157 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.Connector for SharePoint: This app from BC Wizards connects Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with SharePoint to simplify data sharing and document management.Go further with workshops, proofs of concept, and implementations
12/11/2025
Enhancing SharePoint with ready-to-use intranet apps - Accelerator 365 - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to share a new episode on our partner showcase series focused on SharePoint in Microsoft 365.Accelerator 365 by Reply helps organizations get more from Microsoft 365 by enhancing SharePoint Online with ready-to-use intranet apps.In this brief discussion and demonstration, Glyn Clough, Product Owner at Accelerator 365, joins Vesa Juvonen from Microsoft to explore the various solutions that Accelerator 365 offers for SharePoint Online.
12/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#5: Why SKU Changes from Non-Confidential to Confidential Fail
The customer attempted to change the server configuration from Standard_D4ds_v5 (non-Confidential Compute) to Standard_DC4ads_v5 (Confidential Compute) in the West Europe region.The goal was to enhance the performance and security profile of the server.However, the SKU change could not be completed due to a mismatch in security profiles between the current and target SKUs.The issue occurred because SKU changes from non-Confidential to Confidential Compute types are not supported in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
12/11/2025
Retirement Date for Office Online Server (OOS) Announced
We would like to inform our SharePoint Server customers that Microsoft has announced the retirement of Office Online Server (OOS), effective December 31, 2026 - Announcing the retirement for Office Online Server. Office Online Server (formerly known as Office Web Apps Server) is a product that can be optionally integrated with SharePoint Server. Users will lose the ability to view, edit, and collaborate on Office documents directly in the browser.This announcement does not impact Microsoft's support for SharePoint Server, and there are no plans to retire SharePoint Server Subscription Edition.
12/11/2025
Real‑Time AI Streaming with Azure OpenAI and SignalR
We’ll build a real-time AI app where Azure OpenAI streams responses and SignalR broadcasts them live to an Angular client.You’ll learn the architecture, streaming code, Angular integration, and optional enhancements like typing indicators and multi-agent scenarios.An Angular client that connects over WebSockets/SSE to the hub and renders partial content with a typing indicator.
12/11/2025
Announcing Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview)
Since its first introduction in 2019, the Azure Security Benchmark and its successor Microsoft cloud security benchmark announced in 2023, Microsoft cloud security benchmark (“the Benchmark”) has been widely used by our customers to secure their Azure environments, especially as a security bible and toolkit for Azure security implementation planning and helping the security compliance on various industry and government regulatory standards.We’re thrilled to announce the Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview), a new Benchmark version with the enhancement in following areas:Microsoft Defender for Cloud update
12/11/2025
Observability for Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure AI Foundry
In this post, you'll learn how to instrument a Microsoft Agent Framework–based service with OpenTelemetry, ship traces to Azure AI Foundry observability, and adopt a practical workflow to debug, evaluate, and improve multi-agent behavior in production.We'll show how to wire spans around reasoning steps and tool calls (OpenAPI / MCP), enabling deep visibility into your agentic workflows.Developers building agents with Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) in .NET or Python
12/11/2025
How to Build an End-to-End Interactive Analytics Dashboard Using PyGWalker Features for Insightful Data Exploration
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced capabilities of PyGWalker, a powerful tool for visual data analysis that integrates seamlessly with pandas.We begin by generating a realistic e-commerce dataset enriched with time, demographic, and marketing features to mimic real-world business data.We then prepare multiple analytical views, including daily sales, category performance, and customer […]
12/11/2025
Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking: An Open-Source and Compact Multimodal Reasoning Model Under the ERNIE-4.5 Family
How can we get large model level multimodal reasoning for documents, charts and videos while running only a 3B class model in production?Baidu has added a new model to the ERNIE-4.5 open source family.ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking is a vision language model that focuses on document, chart and video understanding with a small active parameter budget.
12/11/2025
How to Reduce Cost and Latency of Your RAG Application Using Semantic LLM Caching
Semantic caching in LLM (Large Language Model) applications optimizes performance by storing and reusing responses based on semantic similarity rather than exact text matches.When a new query arrives, it’s converted into an embedding and compared with cached ones using similarity search.The post How to Reduce Cost and Latency of Your RAG Application Using Semantic LLM Caching appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/11/2025
Build Your Own Custom Copilots with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Oracle Database@Azure
With Microsoft Copilot Studio, organizations can now easily build custom copilots that securely connect to live Oracle data, providing natural language access to insights and actions within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, or any business application.Oracle Database@Azure provides customers the flexibility to run Oracle workloads on Azure using Exadata, Autonomous, Exascale, or Base Database services without compromising performance or compliance.These layers ensure copilots that access Oracle Database@Azure or hybrid Oracle environments remain secure, governed, and compliant by design critical for regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.
11/11/2025
Maya1: A New Open Source 3B Voice Model For Expressive Text To Speech On A Single GPU
Maya Research has released Maya1, a 3B parameter text to speech model that turns text plus a short description into controllable, expressive speech while running in real time on a single GPU.Maya1 is a state of the art speech model for expressive voice generation.It is built to capture real […]
11/11/2025
Build Your Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for Developers
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series!Use the Microsoft Ignite session scheduler feature in the session catalog to personalize your agenda, save your favorites, and organize your time at Microsoft Ignite. Building and deploying data agents in Microsoft Fabric (THR738)Learn how to build, deploy, and manage intelligent data agents in Microsoft Fabric using curated data, Git-powered CI/CD, and best practices for enterprise-scale AI integration.
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU21
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU21 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2022 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2022 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
ZoomIt v9.20, Process Explorer v17.07, and RDCMan v3.11
This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, can now save screen recordings as either MP4 or GIF.This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL, and handle viewing utility, adds strings for Arm64 binaries, and fixes a bug that disabled notification area icons.This update to RDCMan enables Entra ID logins.
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack
The Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2016 SP3, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Windows 11 expands passkey manager support
This new capability empowers users to choose their favorite passkey manager — whether it’s Microsoft Password Manager or trusted third-party providers.It’s generally available with the Windows November 2025 security update.Saving a passkey to the Microsoft Password Manager plugin on Windows
11/11/2025
Copilot Governance: A Practical Guide From Our 4‑Part Webinar Series
Session 1: Foundations in the M365 Admin CenterDeployment approach, the Copilot Control System, access and billing controls, and how to highlight or restrict agents.Session 2: Copilot Studio + Power Platform GovernanceManaged Environments, environment routing, DLP strategy, connector risk controls, and cost management for agents.YouTube Video Playlist
11/11/2025
Reimagining Healthcare Through Data: Lessons from the Frontlines
When data is unified and powered by AI, care transforms from reactive to proactive, predictive, and personalized.Two nonprofits—Operation Smile and Arcare—are proving what’s possible with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI, turning data into action and impact:This isn’t just about technology—it’s about building a more humane healthcare system where every patient matters.
11/11/2025
From Strategy to Execution: Operationalizing Microsoft Entra for Real-World Impact
How can organizations harness the full power of Microsoft Entra to drive security, agility, and compliance at scale?The answer lies in operationalizing Entra’s capabilities across your identity lifecycle, access policies, and multicloud environments—while aligning with your Zero Trust journey.Microsoft Entra’s identity protection extends beyond Microsoft environments.Microsoft Entra is more than a suite of tools—it’s a strategic enabler for secure digital transformation.
11/11/2025
Building AI Agents: Workflow-First vs. Code-First vs. Hybrid
In this article, I’ll walk you through the landscape of AI Agent design.We’ll look at workflow-first approaches with drag-and-drop designers, code-first approaches using SDKs, and hybrid models that combine both.I’ve been exploring Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), an open-source foundation for building AI agents that can run anywhere.
11/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 24 | From New Jersey to Milan: The Art (and Business) of International Microsoft Partnerships
In a recent episode of IAMCP Profiles in Partnership “From New Jersey to Milan: Navigating International Microsoft Partnerships”, co-founders Paymon Jelvani and Dominick Zappia join hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez in pulling back the curtain on how they’ve built a reputation as the go-to U.S. partner for European Microsoft solution providers — and why their approach to partner-to-partner collaboration is rooted in responsiveness, cultural fluency, and customer advocacy.One of Admiral’s recent wins involved an Italian sportswear and boxing gear company expanding into the U.S. market.The International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) exists to foster exactly these kinds of collaborations.
11/11/2025
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA)
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 GA is now availableThe SSMS team is thrilled to announce the general availability release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22!For the first time in SSMS history, we released two GA versions.
11/11/2025
No Exchange Server Security Updates for November 2025
Although Exchange 2016 and 2019 are now out of support, some customers have purchased the Exchange 2016 and 2019 Extended Security Update (ESU).We have therefore decided that until the end of this Exchange 2016 and 2019 ESU period (April 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 Exchange Server in November 2025, for customers with Exchange SE, or Exchange 2016 or 2019 ESU.
11/11/2025
Partner Case Study | Nissan Philippines
With decades of experience and a global presence, their Technosoft Yana Automotive Solution (TAS, or Yana) is designed to provide dealers the holistic view they need by integrating employee resource planning (ERP), customer resource management (CRM), and digital marketing, empowering dealers to deliver smarter, faster, and more personalized customer experiences.Unifying data sprawl across 58 dealershipsNissan Philippines oversees a network of 58 dealerships across the islands, importing vehicles from Japan and Thailand for distribution to local markets.
11/11/2025
No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for November 2025
Although Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 are now out of support, some customers have purchased the Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 Extended Security Update (ESU).We have therefore decided that until the end of this Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 ESU period (April 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 November 2025, for customers with SfB SE, or SfB 2016 or 2019 ESU.
11/11/2025
General Availability of JavaScript Challenge in Azure Front Door WAF
We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of the JavaScript Challenge feature for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door.This capability equips organizations with a seamless, invisible anti-bot verification layer that distinguishes legitimate users from malicious scripts helping protect web applications from automated threats while preserving a smooth user experience.The JavaScript Challenge introduces a lightweight, browser-based verification step that helps distinguish legitimate users from automated scripts without requiring user interaction.
11/11/2025
Generational Performance Leap for Azure Confidential Computing
Azure confidential VMs, powered by the latest 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors, deliver both next-generation performance and hardware-enforced security, fundamentally shifting the conversation from a security trade-off to a performance dividend.Enterprises are required to handle sensitive information or personal data like transactions, analytics or intellectual property (IP) while operating under strict compliance regimes like GDPR or HIPAA can now seamlessly transition to the cloud, running their high performance, mission-critical applications on Azure’s latest confidential VMs.While uncertainty surrounding the performance overhead of enabling confidential computing features and performance gaps, confidential computing has broadened its appeal as processors leap forward in both performance and capabilities with each successive generation.
11/11/2025
The invisible attack surface: hunting AI threats in Defender XDR
Its AI threat protection detects prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and misuse of credentials in real time, correlating those signals with endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry through Microsoft Defender XDR.As of 2025, Defender for AI is fully integrated into Microsoft Defender for Cloud, extending protection to AI models, prompts, and datasets across Azure AI workloads.In this post, we’ll walk through practical KQL hunts to surface suspicious AI activity, from abnormal model usage patterns to subtle signs of data exfiltration that traditional detections might miss.
11/11/2025
Accelerate Cloud Migration with Wave Planning in Azure Migrate
Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of wave planning in Azure Migrate - a new capability designed to make large-scale migrations more manageable and predictable.With wave planning, you can now organize your migration journey into logical, iterative waves, enabling your teams to plan, execute, and track progress with greater speed, confidence, and control.Using wave planning you can perform the migration and modernization activities of the application withing the wave, as per the plan and track the progress as workloads are moved, tested, and migrated / modernized in Azure.
11/11/2025
The Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment: Helping you operationalize the hardening of your Microsoft security products
Building on these learnings, we’re excited to announce the public preview of the Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment tool, designed to help you identify common security gaps starting with Identity and Device pillars with the remaining pillars of Zero Trust coming soon. This assessment is informed by our own SFI learnings and aligned with widely recognized frameworks such as CISA’s SCuBA project.A deep dive into how the Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment works including report structure, prioritization logic, and implementation guidance is available below in this blog. The Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment empowers teams to make informed decisions, reduce blind spots, and prioritize remediation, turning insights into action. Once you download and run the tool (installation guide), it will assess your policy configurations and scan objects to generate a comprehensive report that not only highlights gaps and risks but also explains what was checked, why a test failed, and how your organization can implement the recommended configuration. This makes the results immediately actionable; security teams know exactly what steps to take next. The report features an overview page that presents aggregated data across your tenant, highlighting overall risk levels, patterns, and trends.We will be launching new SFI-infused assessments across the other pillars of Zero Trust in the coming months.
11/11/2025
Research Drop: Empowering Managers for an AI-First Future
Managers are a catalyst of AI transformation as they bridge strategy and execution, but only 56% of managers feel they have the support they need to integrate AI agents into their work.Yet progress is lagging: recent research reveals a 66% gap between those who acknowledge the importance of reinventing the role of the middle manager and those who are making real progress in addressing it2.Research consistently shows that managers are multipliers of positive change.
11/11/2025
MVPs with Microphones: How Three MVPs Amplify a Global Community with The Presentation Podcast
Born from Troy Chollar’s vision to create a space where experts could share, debate, and elevate the craft of presentation design, and produced by his firm TLC Creative Services. Our podcast, which is now in its 10th year, quickly became a trusted resource for the PowerPoint community.We try to get as many PowerPoint MVPs together as we can for at least one episode each year (often during the Microsoft MVP Summit) where we explore how being part of the Microsoft MVP community has shaped our careers, expanded our networks, and given us a platform to advocate for better presentation practices – and application (PowerPoint) improvements.New episodes drop on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, keeping the rhythm steady and the content fresh.
11/11/2025
PrivyDoc: Building a Zero-Data-Leak AI with Foundry Local & Microsoft's Agent Framework
In this article, I want to take you on a journey through the creation of PrivyDoc, a secure, on-device document intelligence solution I built to address this challenge head-on.We'll explore how it uses two powerful Microsoft technologies, Foundry Local and the Microsoft Agent Framework, to bring the AI to the data, not the other way around.The Core Problem: Data Privacy vs. AI Insights
11/11/2025
October 2025 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We are excited to bring October 2025 recap blog for Azure Database for PostgreSQL!This blog focuses on key announcements around the General Availability of the REST API for 2025, maintenance payload visibility and several new features aimed at improving performance and a guide on minimizing downtime for MVU operation with logical replication.The Azure Database for PostgreSQL team participated in PGConf EU 2025, delivering insightful sessions on key PostgreSQL advancements.
11/11/2025
How Can I Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group On The Microsoft Tech Community?
This Is An Official Copilot Studio User Group Help Article On How To Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group On The Microsoft Tech Community It’s Not An Official Copilot Studio User Group Policy Or Copilot Studio User Group Guideline How To Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group?There Are Many Practical Ways To Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group & Here’s How You Can Participate On The Microsoft Copilot Studio User Group:Participate In Virtual Chat Based EventsStart Discussions That Are Focused On Microsoft Copilot StudioIntroduce Yourself On The Thread Post Comments On Discussions That Are Based On Microsoft Copilot StudioShow The Copilot User Group What Copilot Your Building Or Working On
11/11/2025
ALVAO and EQUMAS offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like ALVAO and EQUMAS deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Learn about these offers below:EQUMAS Multi-Modal Quality Management System: EQUMAS provides manufacturing companies with an integrated solution for managing their entire operational workflow, saving time and energy by eliminating the need to coordinate with multiple software systems.
11/11/2025
Surface Highlights at Microsoft Ignite 2025
This year, Microsoft Ignite will be hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from November 18–21, 2025.Discover key highlights of our Surface Lab Tour brought to you by engineers and expertsJoin open-table discussions on topics such as Hybrid AI and connect with Surface MVPs who are contributing to breakout session visibility and community engagement.
11/11/2025
Expert-Level Feature Engineering: Advanced Techniques for High-Stakes Models
Building machine learning models in high-stakes contexts like finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure often demands robustness, explainability, and other domain-specific constraints.
11/11/2025
Meta AI Releases Omnilingual ASR: A Suite of Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition Models for 1600+ Languages
How do you build a single speech recognition system that can understand 1,000’s of languages including many that never had working ASR (automatic speech recognition) models before?Meta AI has released Omnilingual ASR, an open source speech recognition suite that scales to more than 1,600 languages and can be extended to unseen languages with only […]The post Meta AI Releases Omnilingual ASR: A Suite of Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition Models for 1600+ Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/11/2025
Adaptive Model Selection in TypeScript with the Model Router
Model Router (preview) in Azure AI Foundry gives you a single chat deployment that intelligently selects an underlying model—small, large, or reasoning—per prompt.In this blog, we will explore what the Model Router is, why to use it, how to implement it in TypeScript, versioning and monitoring strategies.Model Router is a deployable chat model in Azure AI Foundry that routes each prompt to the most suitable underlying chat or reasoning model (for example: gpt‑4.1-mini, gpt‑4.1-nano, o4-mini, gpt‑5 variants etc).
11/11/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build and Train Advanced Architectures with Residual Connections, Self-Attention, and Adaptive Optimization Using JAX, Flax, and Optax
In this tutorial, we explore how to build and train an advanced neural network using JAX, Flax, and Optax in an efficient and modular way.We begin by designing a deep architecture that integrates residual connections and self-attention mechanisms for expressive feature learning.As we progress, we implement sophisticated optimization strategies with learning rate scheduling, […]
11/11/2025
Deriving expiry days and remaining retention days for blobs through blob inventory
In managing data within Azure blob storage accounts and Azure data lake gen 2 storage accounts, organizations often encounter scenarios where blobs have been deleted but remain in a soft-deleted state.The expiry time for Azure blobs is set using the Set Blob Expiry operation.Microsoft Learn to set the expiry time for your blobs.
11/11/2025
Node.js 24 is now available on Azure App Service for Linux
Node.js 24 LTS is live on Azure App Service for Linux. Faster, more modern JavaScript Node.js 24 ships with the V8 13.6 engine and npm 11.This release line is an even-numbered release and has moved into Long Term Support (LTS) in October 2025, which makes it a safe target for production apps.
11/11/2025
Microsoft Azure continues to expand scalability for Healthcare EHR Workloads
Microsoft Azure has reached a new milestone for Epic Chronicles Operational Database (ODB) scalability with the Standard_M416bs_v3 (Mbv3) VM. It can now scale up to 110 million GRefs/s (Global References per second) in the ECP configuration and up to 39 million GRefs/s in the SMP configuration, improving upon the previous Azure benchmarks of 65 million GRefs/s and 20 million GRefs/s respectively.Microsoft Azure now can host 96% of the Epic customer base, enabling healthcare organizations to run their EHR systems on Azure.
11/11/2025
Build Your Microsoft Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for Solution Architects
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series! Migrate and Modernize Windows and SQL Server Workloads to Azure (LAB506-R1)See how Azure’s modernization framework enables secure, scalable, and cost-efficient migration for enterprise systems. Innovation Session: Security in the Agentic Era – the Core Primitive (BRK1712)Gain a forward-looking perspective on how the rise of Agentic AI will reshape the security landscape for IT operations and enterprise systems.
11/11/2025
Moonshot AI Releases Kosong: The LLM Abstraction Layer that Powers Kimi CLI
Moonshot AI’s Kosong targets this problem as an LLM abstraction layer for agent applications.Kosong unifies message structures, asynchronous tool orchestration and pluggable chat […]The post Moonshot AI Releases Kosong: The LLM Abstraction Layer that Powers Kimi CLI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/11/2025
Guest Blog: Modernizing your WPF App maps functionality with Azure Maps with OnTerra Systems
With the deprecation of Bing Maps for Enterprise and the Bing Maps WPF Control, organizations that need maps and geospatial functionality in their WPF applications should upgrade to Microsoft’s modern maps and geospatial platform, Azure Maps.Specifically, one approach to migrating from Bing Maps to Azure Maps and continuing with your WPF-based application is to use the OnTerra Systems WPF Map Control, which is built on the Azure Maps Web SDK and includes virtually all of the same functionality as the Bing Maps WPF Control, such as road and aerial/satellite map styles, and pushpin, polygon and polyline overlay support.The OnTerra Systems WPF Map Control is a solution that translates Bing Map WPF Control methods to use the equivalent Azure Maps functionality and renders the map using .NET WebView2.
10/11/2025
Agentic Power for AKS: Introducing the Agentic CLI in Public Preview
We are excited to announce the agentic CLI for AKS, available now in public preview directly through the Azure CLI.The agentic CLI for AKS is designed to simplify this experience by bringing agentic capabilities to your cluster operations and observability, translating natural language into actionable guidance and analysis.The agentic CLI for AKS is built on the open-source HolmesGPT project, which has recently been accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project.
10/11/2025
Gelato-30B-A3B: A State-of-the-Art Grounding Model for GUI Computer-Use Tasks, Surpassing Computer Grounding Models like GTA1-32B
How do we teach AI agents to reliably find and click the exact on screen element we mean when we give them a simple instruction?A team of researchers from ML Foundations has introduced Gelato-30B-A3B, a state of the art grounding model for graphical user interfaces that is designed to plug into computer use agents […]The post Gelato-30B-A3B: A State-of-the-Art Grounding Model for GUI Computer-Use Tasks, Surpassing Computer Grounding Models like GTA1-32B appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/11/2025
Your guide to Azure Compute at Microsoft Ignite 2025
Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure.Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge.This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of Azure’s security architecture, best practices, and innovations across four pillars: foundational security, compute security, network security, and storage security.
10/11/2025
Priority Replication for Geo Redundant Storage and Object Replication is Generally Available
We are excited to announce the General Availability of priority replication for Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) and Object Replication (OR).Azure Storage has offered users the choice of geo-redundant (GRS) or geo-zone-redundant (GZRS) replication for their storage accounts for several years.Azure Blob Storage is now introducing Geo priority replication which will provide an SLA guarantee for the LST/RPO of Block Blob data in GRS/GZRS accounts.
10/11/2025
Riding the AI Wave: How Microsoft Entra is Evolving for the Agentic Era
A KPMG survey of large organizations revealed that 42% have active AI agents working for them today, up from 11% just six months ago.IDC projects that by 2028, there’ll be 1.3 billion AI agents in large companies in the developed world.Within two years, we'll have over a million active AI agents in the Microsoft tenant.
10/11/2025
Ultimate Guide to the new Workplace Patterns Report in Viva Glint
That’s now a reality with the introduction today of the Workplace Patterns Report, a power tool that integrates point-in-time Viva Insights workplace habit data with point-in-time Viva Glint survey sentiment data.These two data sources empower analysts and admins to identify actionable patterns between how people work (workplace habits), and how they feel (survey sentiment).The Workplace Patterns Report and holistic listening
10/11/2025
Welcome to the Copilot Studio User Group!
🚀 About This Community The Copilot Studio User Group is a virtual community where members share knowledge, experiences, and ideas about using and building with Microsoft Copilot Studio.Our goal is to make Copilot Studio more accessible, collaborative, and fun for everyone — whether you’re experimenting with AI copilots or running automation in your organization.Exchange use cases and demos. Network with fellow makers and technologists.
10/11/2025
Staying in the flow: SleekFlow and Azure turn customer conversations into conversions
SleekFlow was founded in 2019 to help companies turn those almost-lost-customer moments into connection, retention, and growth.Today we serve more than 2,000 mid-market and enterprise organizations across industries including retail and e-commerce, financial services, healthcare, travel and hospitality, telecommunications, real estate, and professional services.In total, those customers rely on SleekFlow to orchestrate more than 600,000 daily customer interactions across WhatsApp, Instagram, web chat, email, and more.
10/11/2025
Localized Labs Retiring: What’s Next?
This decision is based on FY25 data showing 97% of labs were accessed in English and only 3% in localized languages (mainly Japanese).All localized labs will be retired by the end of Q2. Guidance on using browser-based translation tools will be provided.
10/11/2025
Showcase your deep sovereignty expertise with the new Digital Sovereignty specialization
As announced on November 6 during our AI Tour, we're excited to introduce the Digital Sovereignty specialization.We designed this specialization so partners can capitalize on rising demand for sovereign cloud solutions as governments and critical industries seek data sovereignty and security in response to global uncertainty.Starting in early 2026, partners who meet certain criteria can attain the Digital Sovereignty specialization.
10/11/2025
Excel Frontier: Unlocking Agent Mode for Smarter, Autonomous Spreadsheets
Excel’s new Agent Mode (Frontier) empowers users to build intelligent agents that automate workflows, enhance productivity, and uphold responsible AI principles.This blog explores how technical and business leaders can leverage Agent Mode in Excel to create extensible, trustworthy AI solutions, drawing on best practices from recent learning paths and community feedback.Excel’s Agent Mode lets organizations build smart agents for workflow automation and advanced reasoning, using core Excel features and Microsoft’s Frontier program.
10/11/2025
SharePoint and OneDrive at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What to Expect
Next week Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Nov. 18-21) lands in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the first time!In this session, explore how OneDrive is becoming the launchpad for productivity across Microsoft 365.Learn how SharePoint’s latest AI innovations—like the Knowledge Agent—transform it into an intelligent curator that automates content organization and enrichment.
10/11/2025
OneDrive and SharePoint at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What to Expect
Next week Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Nov. 18-21) lands in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the first time!It all kicks off with Judson Althoff’s keynote on Tues, Nov 18 @9AM PST.Learn how SharePoint’s latest AI innovations—like the Knowledge Agent—transform it into an intelligent curator that automates content organization and enrichment.
10/11/2025
Migrate or modernize your applications using Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate delivers a major evolution in cloud migration capabilities with application awareness.Improve analysis with Code-Level Insights from Github Copilot assessment and CASTIt provides IT resource discovery, assessment, business case analysis, wave planning, migration, and modernization capabilities in a workload agnostic manner.
10/11/2025
Building Enterprise-Grade Shared AKS Clusters: A Guide to Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Architecture
Accelerate application delivery by providing a hardened shared Kubernetes platform per environment (prod / test / dev).[5m]) > 5 for: 2m labels: severity: page annotations: summary: High 5xx error rate in payments API description: More than 5 errors/min for 2 minutes.9.6 Sample App (Payments API) with HPA
10/11/2025
Using Packet Capture for troubleshooting Azure Firewall flows
We are happy to announce that Microsoft just released the new Packet capture feature and it is Generally Available for Azure Firewall.In this section, we will use Azure Firewall Packet Capture to understand why an HTTP/HTTPS connection between VM-1 and VM-2 is not working properly.The availability of Azure Firewall Packet Capture is crucial for effective network and security troubleshooting.
10/11/2025
Three Pillars of Operations Readiness | Part 2
Operations Readiness stands on a foundational triad: People, Processes, and Technology.Now that we’ve covered the “why” and the “what” of Operational Readiness through its foundational pillars, the next post in this series will take you behind the scenes of how to put it all together.We’ll walk through templates and best practices — from checklists and RACIs to runbooks and handover plans — that turn readiness theory into executable action.
10/11/2025
Operations Readiness in Cloud Migrations: A Framework for Seamless Transitions | Part 1
This blog outlines a reusable, cloud-agnostic OR framework based on real-world experience, offering guidance for organizations embarking on cloud migrations of any size or complexity.Operations Readiness (OR) is the state of preparedness of people, processes, and systems to seamlessly operate and support a service, product, or system — particularly after it transitions to a production or live environment.In the context of cloud migrations, OR ensures that once applications, data, and workloads are moved to the cloud, they are not only technically deployed but are also operationally sustainable — meaning they can be supported, monitored, managed, and scaled with minimal risk or disruption.
10/11/2025
How AI is Transforming Operations Readiness in Azure | Part 3
In the cloud era, “Operations Readiness” ensures that systems, processes, and teams are fully equipped to manage live operations — from monitoring and alerting to resilience, security, and documentation.AI enables a fundamental shift in how readiness is managed — from manual validation to intelligent, data-driven assurance.Instead of relying solely on human inputs and static checklists, AI systems can analyze data, learn from patterns, and predict readiness gaps before go-live.Using Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search, AI can now:
10/11/2025
How AI is Transforming Operations Readiness in Azure
In the cloud era, “Operations Readiness” ensures that systems, processes, and teams are fully equipped to manage live operations — from monitoring and alerting to resilience, security, and documentation.AI enables a fundamental shift in how readiness is managed — from manual validation to intelligent, data-driven assurance.Instead of relying solely on human inputs and static checklists, AI systems can analyze data, learn from patterns, and predict readiness gaps before go-live.Using Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search, AI can now:
10/11/2025
Everything You Need to Know About LLM Evaluation Metrics
When large language models first came out, most of us were just thinking about what they could do, what problems they could solve, and how far they might go.
10/11/2025
Three Pillars of Operational Readiness | Part 2
Processes: Building Operational Muscle MemoryWell-defined and documented processes are essential for consistent and predictable service delivery.We’ll walk through templates and best practices — from checklists and RACIs to runbooks and handover plans — that turn readiness theory into executable action.
10/11/2025
Platform SSO for macOS
As organizations accelerate their journey to passwordless authentication, Microsoft’s Platform SSO for macOS offers a seamless, secure, and user-friendly experience for device and application sign-in.Built on Apple’s SSO framework and tightly integrated with Microsoft Entra ID, Platform SSO empowers users to leverage modern authentication methods Touch ID, smart cards, and passkeys across their macOS devices, enterprise apps, and browsers.In this blog, we’ll walk through the essentials of Platform SSO, supported authentication methods, configuration steps, and best practices for deployment in enterprise environments.Platform SSO is a Microsoft feature for macOS (13+) that leverages Apple’s SSO framework to enable single sign-on using Entra ID credentials.
10/11/2025
Comparing Memory Systems for LLM Agents: Vector, Graph, and Event Logs
Reliable multi-agent systems are mostly a memory design problem.Once agents call tools, collaborate, and run long workflows, you need explicit mechanisms for what gets stored, how it is retrieved, and how the system behaves when memory is wrong or missing.This article compares 6 memory system patterns commonly used in agent stacks, grouped into […]
10/11/2025
Meet Kosmos: An AI Scientist that Automates Data-Driven Discovery
Kosmos, built by Edison Scientific, is an autonomous discovery system that runs long research campaigns on a single goal.Given a dataset and an open ended natural language objective, it performs repeated cycles of data analysis, literature search, and hypothesis generation, then synthesizes the results into a fully cited scientific report.The post Meet Kosmos: An AI Scientist that Automates Data-Driven Discovery appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/11/2025
Operational Readiness in Cloud Migrations: A Framework for Seamless Transitions
This blog outlines a reusable, cloud-agnostic OR framework based on real-world experience, offering guidance for organizations embarking on cloud migrations of any size or complexity.Operational Readiness (OR) is the state of preparedness of people, processes, and systems to seamlessly operate and support a service, product, or system — particularly after it transitions to a production or live environment.In the context of cloud migrations, OR ensures that once applications, data, and workloads are moved to the cloud, they are not only technically deployed but are also operationally sustainable — meaning they can be supported, monitored, managed, and scaled with minimal risk or disruption.
10/11/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build Neural Memory Agents with Differentiable Memory, Meta-Learning, and Experience Replay for Continual Adaptation in Dynamic Environments
In this tutorial, we explore how neural memory agents can learn continuously without forgetting past experiences.We design a memory-augmented neural network that integrates a Differentiable Neural Computer (DNC) with experience replay and meta-learning to adapt quickly to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge.By implementing this approach in PyTorch, we demonstrate how content-based memory […]
10/11/2025
Now generally available: Surveys Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot
We’re thrilled to announce that Surveys Agent - your intelligent assistant for managing surveys end-to-end - is now generally available to all commercial customers worldwide with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.Previously available through the Frontier preview program, Surveys Agent has helped early adopters streamline data collection and actionable insights for use cases like training sessions, employee engagement, and customer research. Now, it’s ready for everyone.Surveys Agent is available to business users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Ready to get started? Install Surveys Agent and pin it to your Microsoft 365 Copilot sidebar for quick access. We’re excited to see how you use it—and we’re listening.
10/11/2025
AI Interview Series #1: Explain Some LLM Text Generation Strategies Used in LLMs
Every time you prompt an LLM, it doesn’t generate a complete answer all at once — it builds the response one word (or token) at a time.At each step, the model predicts the probability of what the next token could be based on everything written so far.The post AI Interview Series #1: Explain Some LLM Text Generation Strategies Used in LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/11/2025
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-EditX: A New Open-Source 3B LLM-Grade Audio Editing Model Excelling at Expressive and Iterative Audio Editing
How can speech editing become as direct and controllable as simply rewriting a line of text?StepFun AI has open sourced Step-Audio-EditX, a 3B parameter LLM based audio model that turns expressive speech editing into a token level text like operation, instead of a waveform level signal processing task.The post StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-EditX: A New Open-Source 3B LLM-Grade Audio Editing Model Excelling at Expressive and Iterative Audio Editing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/11/2025
Deploying Dev Box Catalogs and Synchronizing with GitHub using Terraform
Now, we’ll take the next step: **deploying Dev Box catalogs and synchronizing them with a GitHub repository**.Synchronizing these catalogs with GitHub for version control.Deploy the Dev Box Catalog and Key Vault to the 'West Europe' location.
09/11/2025
How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence
In this tutorial, we explore how to build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant capable of understanding, reasoning, and responding through natural speech in real time.We begin by setting up a self-contained voice intelligence pipeline that integrates speech recognition, intent detection, multi-step reasoning, and text-to-speech synthesis.The post How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/11/2025
The Future of AI: The Model is Key, but the App is the Doorway
August 2025 brought the exciting release of the GPT-5 family of models.The Azure AI team rolled out GPT-5 concurrently, immediately integrating it into Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.Here are some best practices for developers to adapt their applications and workflows to a new model family like GPT-5:
08/11/2025
Nested Learning: A New Machine Learning Approach for Continual Learning that Views Models as Nested Optimization Problems to Enhance Long Context Processing
How can we build AI systems that keep learning new information over time without forgetting what they learned before or retraining from scratch?Google Researchers has introduced Nested Learning, a machine learning approach that treats a model as a collection of smaller nested optimization problems, instead of a single network trained by one outer loop.The post Nested Learning: A New Machine Learning Approach for Continual Learning that Views Models as Nested Optimization Problems to Enhance Long Context Processing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/11/2025
Extending Layer-2 (VXLAN) Networks Over Layer-3 IP network
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that encapsulates Layer-2 Ethernet frames inside Layer-3 UDP/IP packets.In essence, VXLAN creates a logical Layer-2 overlay network on top of an IP network, allowing Ethernet segments (VLANs) or underlay IP packet to be stretched across routed infrastructures.Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a standard protocol (IETF RFC 7348) that can encapsulate Layer-2 Ethernet frames into Layer-3 UDP/IP packets.
08/11/2025
Simplifying Microservice Reliability with Dapr
How to enable binding in for a Azure Container AppHow to enable Secret Stores in for a Azure Container AppHow to enable State in for a Azure Container App
08/11/2025
Prior Labs Releases TabPFN-2.5: The Latest Version of TabPFN that Unlocks Scale and Speed for Tabular Foundation Models
Tabular data is still where many important models run in production.Finance, healthcare, energy and industry teams work with tables of rows and columns, not images or long text.Prior Labs now extends this space with TabPFN-2.5, a new tabular foundation model that scales in context learning to 50,000 samples and 2,000 features while keeping […]
08/11/2025
Anthropic Turns MCP Agents Into Code First Systems With ‘Code Execution With MCP’ Approach
Agents that use the Model Context Protocol MCP have a scaling problem.Every tool definition and every intermediate result is pushed through the context window, which means large workflows burn tokens and hit latency and cost limits fast.Anthropic’s new ‘code execution with MCP’ pattern restructures this pipeline by turning MCP tools into code level […]
08/11/2025
How to Build an Advanced Multi-Page Reflex Web Application with Real-Time Database, Dynamic State Management, and Reactive UI
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Reflex web application entirely in Python that runs seamlessly inside Colab.We design the app to demonstrate how Reflex enables full-stack development with no JavaScript, just reactive Python code.We create a complete notes-management dashboard featuring two pages, real-time database interactions, filtering, sorting, analytics, and user personalization.
08/11/2025
Azure VNet Flow Logs with Terraform: The Complete Migration and Traffic Analytics Guide
Migrating from NSG Flow Logs to VNet Flow Logs in Azure: Implementation with TerraformMicrosoft is retiring Network Security Group (NSG) flow logs and recommends migrating to Virtual Network (VNet) flow logs.After June 30, 2025, new NSG flow logs cannot be created, and all NSG flow logs will be retired by September 30, 2027.
08/11/2025
Cut the Noise & Cost with Container Network Metrics Filtering in ACNS for AKS
We’re excited to introduce Container Network Metrics Filtering in Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now in Public Preview!This capability transforms how you manage network observability in Kubernetes clusters by giving you control over what metrics matter most.In today’s large-scale, microservices-driven environments, teams often face metrics bloat, Bollecting far more data than they need.
08/11/2025
Layer 7 Network Policies for AKS: Now Generally Available for Production Security and Observability!
We are thrilled to announce that Layer 7 (L7) Network Policies for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Cilium and Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS), has reached General Availability (GA)!The journey from public preview to GA signifies a critical step: L7 Network Policies are now fully supported, highly optimized, and ready for your most demanding, mission-critical production workloads.We encourage you to enable L7 Network Policies on your AKS clusters and level up your network security controls for containerized workloads.
08/11/2025
Introducing eBPF Host Routing: High performance AI networking with Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Kubernetes networking relies on the Container Network Interface (CNI) for pod connectivity and routing.Azure CNI powered by Cilium natively integrates Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) data plane with Azure CNI networking modes for superior performance, hardware offload support, and enterprise-grade reliability.In this blog, we highlight the performance benefits of eBPF host routing, explain how to enable it in an AKS cluster, and provide a deep dive into its implementation on Azure.
08/11/2025
Introducing Local Identity with Azure Key Vault in Build 2510
We’re excited to announce public preview of local identity with Azure Key Vault that allows you to deploy an azure local cluster which is not dependent on active directory.With Local Identity and Azure Key Vault integration, you can:Join the private preview for Management Toolkit and Internal DNS.
07/11/2025
Compliance Meets AI: Wrapping Up an Incredible Series and Looking Ahead
Over the past six sessions, the Compliance Meets AI webinar series has taken us on a journey through the evolving landscape of compliance, security, and generative AI.Today’s final session, Deep Dive: Insider Risk for Copilot, was a powerful close to the series.We’re thrilled to announce that Compliance Meets AI will return in 2026 with new topics, deeper demos, and fresh insights into governance for emerging technologies.
07/11/2025
Google AI Releases ADK Go: A New Open-Source Toolkit Designed to Empower Go Developers to Build Powerful AI Agents
How do you build reliable AI agents that plug into your existing Go services without bolting on a separate language stack?Google has just released Agent Development Kit for Go.Go developers can now build AI agents with the same framework that already supports Python and Java, while keeping everything inside a familiar Go toolchain […]
07/11/2025
Empowering Multi-Agent Solutions with Microsoft Agent Framework - Code Migration and DevUI
The Agent Framework unifies these two approaches into a single SDK + runtime for building agents and multi-agent workflows for both Python and .NET.When paired with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, you get a managed runtime to host agents, threads, tools, and connected multi‑agent workflows.One of the developer experience (DX) highlights of the Agent Framework is the DevUI component, an interactive UI for developing, testing, and debugging agents and workflows.
07/11/2025
Build Your Microsoft Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for IT Pros
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series!That’s why we’ve curated a list of sessions tailored specifically for IT Pros to help you make the most of your time, strengthen your technical strategy, and get inspired for the year ahead.Use the Ignite session scheduler feature in the session catalog to personalize your agenda, save your favorites, and organize your time at Ignite.
07/11/2025
Build Your Microsoft Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for IT Pros
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series!That’s why we’ve curated a list of sessions tailored specifically for IT Pros to help you make the most of your time, strengthen your technical strategy, and get inspired for the year ahead. End-to-end security for your AI platforms, apps, and agents (BRK267)Learn how to protect your organization’s AI assets and infrastructure using Microsoft’s integrated cloud security and compliance tools.
07/11/2025
General Availability Announcement: Regex Support in SQL Server 2025 & Azure SQL
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of native Regex support in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL — a long-awaited capability that brings powerful pattern matching directly into T-SQL.With Regex now natively supported in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL, this capability is built directly into T-SQL — no external languages or workarounds required.Meet the new Regex functions in T-SQL
07/11/2025
Exciting things on the horizon for PostgreSQL fans @ Ignite 2025
We have a packed lineup, including sessions exploring cutting-edge features and exclusive giveaways at the PostgreSQL on Azure booth. Led by Azure product leaders and executives from organizations driving innovation backed by PostgreSQL, these breakout sessions will dive into the coolest new capabilities and real-world use cases.Each breakout session is 45 minutes with live demos and Q&A, so you’ll get plenty of detail and interaction with Postgres experts.
07/11/2025
Why Spatial Supersensing is Emerging as the Core Capability for Multimodal AI Systems?
Even strong ‘long-context’ AI models fail badly when they must track objects and counts over long, messy video streams, so the next competitive edge will come from models that predict what comes next and selectively remember only surprising, important events, not from just buying more compute and bigger context windows.A team of researchers from […]The post Why Spatial Supersensing is Emerging as the Core Capability for Multimodal AI Systems? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/11/2025
Windows Autopatch for the US government: How to get started
This cloud-based service that has a proven record with enterprises has now been approved to be added to the Azure FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO).Windows Autopatch is now available to US government organizations as part of Microsoft 365 Government.If you’re using Microsoft Intune, the easiest way to automate your update process is to create one or more Windows Autopatch groups:
07/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 7, 2025
Learn about 151 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.Asper: Asper is an AI-native platform for the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry.Asper integrates demand forecasting with revenue growth m, improves forecast accuracy, automates processes, and optimizes pricing and promotions for revenue and profit growth.
07/11/2025
How Copilot Technologies Are a Force-Multiplier for Global Opportunities or for Inclusive Growth
It’s a lifeline for mission-driven organizations navigating rising demand with limited resources.In today’s nonprofit landscape, the question is no longer if we use AI, but how we use it—with care, intention, and humanity.Microsoft Copilot is helping nonprofits do just that:It’s the power to reclaim time, restore dignity, and respond with compassion.And it’s only the beginning.You can read their full story on Microsoft for Nonprofits LinkedIn and discover how AI, when guided by purpose, can amplify the human impact: (28) How Copilot Technologies Are a Force-Multiplier for Global Opportunities or for Inclusive Growth |
07/11/2025
The 7 Statistical Concepts You Need to Succeed as a Machine Learning Engineer
When we ask ourselves the question, " what is inside machine learning systems? ", many of us picture frameworks and models that make predictions or perform tasks.
07/11/2025
Comparing the Top 6 Inference Runtimes for LLM Serving in 2025
Large language models are now limited less by training and more by how fast and cheaply we can serve tokens under real traffic.That comes down to three implementation details: how the runtime batches requests, how it overlaps prefill and decode, and how it stores and reuses the KV cache.The post Comparing the Top 6 Inference Runtimes for LLM Serving in 2025 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/11/2025
Build a Multi-Agent System for Integrated Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data Interpretation with Pathway Reasoning
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multi-agent pipeline that interprets integrated omics data, including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, to uncover key biological insights.We begin by generating coherent synthetic datasets that mimic realistic biological trends and then move step by step through agents designed for statistical analysis, network inference, pathway enrichment, and drug repurposing.The post Build a Multi-Agent System for Integrated Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data Interpretation with Pathway Reasoning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/11/2025
Monitoring Generative AI Applications with Azure AI Foundry
By combining Azure Monitor’s baseline alerting framework with AI Foundry’s built-in metrics and telemetry, teams can achieve proactive monitoring aligned with Microsoft’s Azure Baseline Monitoring Alerts.🎯 Generative AI monitoring = traditional metrics + new dimensions of intelligence, quality, and safety.Azure AI Foundry gives you a complete monitoring framework for your AI workloads — combining traditional performance metrics with AI-specific signals like token usage, output quality, and safety.
07/11/2025
Troubleshooting Azure Virtual Desktop Sign-In Failures After Tenant Migration
Migrating an Azure subscription between tenants can sometimes surface unexpected authentication issues, especially for environments like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) that depend deeply on Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) for identity and access control.This post walks through a real-world scenario where users were suddenly locked out of AVD sessions after a tenant migration, the investigation that followed, and the steps taken to restore access.Shortly after an Azure subscription was migrated from Tenant A to Tenant B, several users reported being unable to connect to their virtual desktops.The error message displayed:
07/11/2025
Manage Azure Firewall Rules,NSG rules, using Terraform resource blocks and csv files
Why Use Terraform and CSV for Azure Rule Management?Enhance visibility: Use Visual Studio Code extensions like Edit CSV or Rainbow CSV for easy rule inspection and editing.Define your Azure Firewall, NSG, and route table rules in CSV files.
07/11/2025
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2 Thinking: An Impressive Thinking Model that can Execute up to 200–300 Sequential Tool Calls without Human Interference
How do we design AI systems that can plan, reason, and act over long sequences of decisions without constant human guidance?Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open source thinking agent model that exposes the full reasoning stream of the Kimi K2 Mixture of Experts architecture.It targets workloads that need deep reasoning, […]
07/11/2025
Where Microsoft’s community comes alive: the Inspire Stage at ESPC25
At ESPC25 (December 1–4 in Dublin) the Inspire Stage returns as a cornerstone of the conference experience—offering a space where personal development, professional growth, and community connection converge.At ESPC24 in Stockholm, the Inspire Stage was a hub for 30-minute lightning talks focused on professional development and wellness.The Inspire Stage is more than a schedule of talks—it’s a reflection of the Microsoft community’s strength and generosity. It’s where MVPs, first-time attendees, and industry leaders come together to listen, learn, support one another, and grow collectively. It’s where hallway conversations turn into career breakthroughs, and where you realize you’re part of something bigger.
07/11/2025
Build an Autonomous Wet-Lab Protocol Planner and Validator Using Salesforce CodeGen for Agentic Experiment Design and Safety Optimization
In this tutorial, we build a Wet-Lab Protocol Planner & Validator that acts as an intelligent agent for experimental design and execution.We design the system using Python and integrate Salesforce’s CodeGen-350M-mono model for natural language reasoning.We structure the pipeline into modular components: ProtocolParser for extracting structured data, such as steps, durations, and temperatures, […]
07/11/2025
Title Plan Update – November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025 Title Plan Now Available (a little early)Access 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.
06/11/2025
Temporary disruption for some AI course labs during Ignite
We expect temporary disruption to several AI course labs due to product changes announced at Microsoft’s Ignite event.During this period, we anticipate that changes to the product may cause labs to be out of alignment.We expect all labs to be aligned by November 28, 2025.
06/11/2025
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (October 2025)
Summary: Microsoft has deployed the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 infrastructure on Azure, offering unprecedented AI compute density in a single rack with 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs.Summary: The article discusses deploying a preconfigured Squid proxy solution to securely enable Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) connectivity in hybrid cloud environments.Summary: The article introduces the Azure NetApp Files Object REST API, a new solution enabling direct, secure, S3-compatible access to enterprise data for Azure analytics and AI services.
06/11/2025
Google AI Introduces DS STAR: A Multi Agent Data Science System That Plans, Codes And Verifies End To End Analytics
How do you turn a vague business style question over messy folders of CSV, JSON and text into reliable Python code without a human analyst in the loop?Google researchers introduce DS STAR (Data Science Agent via Iterative Planning and Verification), a multi agent framework that turns open ended data science questions into executable Python […]The post Google AI Introduces DS STAR: A Multi Agent Data Science System That Plans, Codes And Verifies End To End Analytics appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/11/2025
You may be right after all! Disputing Submission Responses in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
a feature that elevates the transparency and responsiveness of threat management: the ability to dispute a submission response directly within Microsoft Defender for Office 365. With the new dispute submission response feature, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 bridges a critical gap in the incident response workflow.Come ready with your questions (or pre-submit here) for the expert Security MVPs on camera, or the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 product team in the chat!
06/11/2025
Upcoming webinars for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers
Have you joined our Customer Hub webinar sessions? In today's hybrid work environment, modern communication and solutions are essential.Leveraging AI and cutting-edge technology, our goal is to help you explore what you can achieve with Microsoft solutions—empowering smarter collaboration, streamlined workflows, and innovative ways to work.Join us for one or more of the upcoming sessions, including the launch of several new Copilot webinar series. We also have all past session recordings so you can watch any that you miss. Sign up today by clicking on any of the session titles below.
06/11/2025
Boosting Hybrid Cloud Data Efficiency for EDA: The Power of Azure NetApp Files cache volumes
As designs push the boundaries of PPA (Power, Performance, and reduced Area) to meet escalating market demands, the volume of associated design data has surged exponentially with a single System-on-Chip (SoC) project generating multiple petabytes of data during its development lifecycle, making data mobility and accessibility critical bottlenecks. To overcome these challenges, Azure NetApp Files (ANF) cache volumes are purpose-built to optimize data movement and minimize latency, delivering high-speed access to massive design datasets across distributed environments.By mitigating data gravity, Azure NetApp Files cache volumes empower chip designers to leverage cloud-scale compute resources on demand and at scale, thus accelerating innovation without being constrained by physical infrastructure.Azure NetApp Files cache volumes, built on proven NetApp FlexCache® technology, accelerate data access across distributed environments and from on-premises to Azure.
06/11/2025
Migrate & Modernize Your VMware Platform Using Azure VMware Solution Gen 2
This video series by Microsoft Global Blackbelts, Carlos Villuendas (CarlosV) and Trevor Davis (tredavis), guides users from configuring prerequisites to deploying, migrating on-premises VMware workloads to Azure VMware Solution, then integrating VMware workloads with Azure Native services for enhanced value.These are the first two videos, much more to come, please check back often. For requests, leave comments in the notes.
06/11/2025
Fast-Start Checklist for Microsoft Defender CSPM: From Enablement to Best Practices
When it comes to securing your multicloud environment, Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management offers a powerful suite of agentless capabilities.This blog post walks through a fast-start checklist to help you enable and operationalize DCSPM effectively, covering Policy Configuration, RBAC, enablement, and snapshot expectations. In this article, we’ll go step-by-step through the key actions needed to enable Microsoft Defender CSPM and start gaining visibility, context, and protection across your multicloud workloads:When the Defender CSPM plan is enabled at subscription level, you unlock a set of advanced posture capabilities that do not require agents.
06/11/2025
Accelerating Copilot-ready governance with a transactable offer
In this article, I connected with Michal Pisarek from Orchestry to explore their story, their path as a Microsoft partner, and how they’re helping organizations get Copilot-ready with smarter governance and streamlined adoption.About Michal [MP]: Michal Pisarek is CEO and Janitor of Orchestry, a Microsoft 365 governance platform that helps enterprises tighten permissions, streamline lifecycle management, and stay Copilot-ready.He speaks and writes on Microsoft 365 governance, permissions, and adoption.
06/11/2025
Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 5
Hi all – this week we released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 5! It’s a smaller preview with a set of fixes for GitHub Copilot, you can view the list in the release notes. For those of you working with GitHub Copilot in SSMS, we recommend updating to this preview. If you’re not using GitHub Copilot in SSMS and you haven’t seen how it easy it makes writing and editing T-SQL, please give it a try!and it’s not over!We do not plan to have multiple major releases every year. Moving to Visual Studio 2022, and the Visual Studio 2026 (Preview) and SQL Server 2025 (Preview) announcements were factors that contributed to this year’s SSMS release schedule. We do not expect 2026 to have the same release cadence, and we’ll be working to find the right balance of delivering updates and new features without overwhelming organizations that prefer to stay on the latest build.
06/11/2025
People learn best when they feel welcome: The Story of Microsoft Security User Group Norway
Introduction of Microsoft Security User GroupThe first Microsoft Security User Group Norway meetup launched in Oslo with over 120 signups.Call for speakers: Microsoft Security User Group 2025: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com
06/11/2025
Billing Announcement: Azure Data Explorer Storage Adjustment (November 2025)
It was recently discovered that some Azure Data Explorer clusters were undercharging for the amount of data being stored.This was corrected on November 3rd which may result in an increase in the Azure Data Explorer cluster storage cost for some customers.Below are the two meters that are affected by this change.
06/11/2025
Sleigh the season: Holiday hacks with Microsoft Copilot
Create a guest itineraryIt’s never too early to think about gifts – especially with Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching.With Microsoft Copilot, you can scope out deals and begin finding the perfect items for your loved ones.
06/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of Software Defined Networking (SDN) on Azure Local
Starting in Azure Local version 2510, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Software Defined Networking (SDN) on Azure Local enabled by Azure Arc.This release introduces cloud-native networking capabilities for access control at the network layer, utilizing Network Security Groups (NSGs) on Azure Local.Key highlights in this release are:1- Centralized network management: Manage Logical networks, network interfaces, and NSGs through the Azure control plane – whether your preference is the Azure Portal, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI), or Azure Resource Manager templates.2- Fine-grained traffic control: Safeguard your edge workloads with policy-driven access controls by applying inbound and outbound allow/deny rules on NSGs, just as you would in Azure.3- Seamless hybrid consistency: Reduce operational friction and accelerate your IT staff’s ramp-up on advanced networking skills by using the same familiar tools and constructs across both Azure public cloud and Azure Local.Software Defined Networking (SDN) forms the backbone of delivering Azure-style networking on-premises.
06/11/2025
Database Innovations: Your Guide to Microsoft Ignite 2025
In two weeks, we will share the latest news and features for SQL, NoSQL, and open-source databases on Azure, Fabric, and SQL Server at Microsoft Ignite. Held November 18 – 21 in San Francisco and online, Ignite is Microsoft’s largest event of the year, and we look forward to sharing product innovations, hearing best practices and insights from customers, and building new connections. Read on for all the Databases breakout sessions, demos, and labs taking place at Microsoft Ignite – and don’t forget to add them to your schedule. All times listed are in PST (Pacific Standard Time).Join the product teams from Azure SQL, SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Fabric Databases as they show off the innovative new features that will be announced at Microsoft Ignite. In-person attendees can dive deep into Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in technical workshops that run throughout Microsoft Ignite. Space is limited – so make sure you register in advance.
06/11/2025
Introducing Dell PowerScale for Azure: Now in Public Preview
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure – a fully managed, enterprise-grade file storage solution natively integrated into Azure.Supporting up to 8.4PB in a single namespace, Dell PowerScale offers the scalability needed for demanding modern workloads.This natively integrated solution uses purpose-built virtual machine infrastructure provisioned by Microsoft in the standard Azure hyper scaler environment.
06/11/2025
Making Teams Updates Seamless: Smarter Delivery with Peer-to-Peer download and Scattered Rollouts
The latest Teams updater makes this process more efficient than ever by introducing two innovative strategies: Delivery Optimization and Scattered Update.Delivery Optimization is a built-in Windows feature designed to make updates more efficient by reducing redundant downloads.To get the most out of Delivery Optimization, consider configuring settings for your tenant to allow peer-to-peer sharing and connected cache.
06/11/2025
Operationalizing the Sentinel data lake: A Practitioner’s Guide
This article is part of The Sentinel data lake Practitioner Series. Getting Started Notebook: Building Familiarity with the Data Lake FrameworkSecurity is a core focus at Ignite this year, with the Security Forum on November 17th, deep dive technical sessions, theater talks, and hands-on labs designed for security leaders and practitioners
06/11/2025
AI-Powered Db2 LUW to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Schema Converter
This blog introduces a custom-built tool designed to migrate database objects from IBM Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows) to Azure Database for PostgreSQL.The Db2 LUW to Azure PostgreSQL Database Converter is designed to facilitate the migration of IBM Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows) databases to Azure database for PostgreSQL.Created by the Microsoft Azure SQL CSE/Ninja Team, this tool provides an interface intended to support migration workflows.
06/11/2025
Free AI and Data Courses with 365 Data Science—100% Unlimited Access until Nov 21
From November 6 to November 21, 2025 (starting at 8:00 a.
06/11/2025
Putting People First: Welcoming Justin Spelhaug as President of Microsoft Elevate
Today, we’re honored to introduce someone who has spent his career standing alongside them: Justin Spelhaug, the new President of Microsoft Elevate.As Justin shared, “The AI era must put people first—not as a slogan, but as a plan.” Together, we’re building a future where AI strengthens institutions, expands opportunity, and uplifts those who serve others.
06/11/2025
Building Adaptive Multilingual Apps Using TypeScript and Azure AI Translator API
Azure AI Translator adds multilingual intelligence to applications via a REST API.The new 2025-05-01-preview version introduces Large Language Model (LLM) translation options alongside traditional Neural Machine Translation (NMT).For TypeScript developers, this unlocks richer style control (tone, gender), adaptive customization, and hybrid translation flows that balance speed, cost, and nuance.
06/11/2025
Unlock Structured OCR in TypeScript with Mistral Document AI on AI Foundry
Mistral Document AI (available as a serverless model in Azure AI Foundry) brings multimodal, layout‑aware document understanding directly into a developer workflow without provisioning GPUs.Mistral Document AI combines vision + language understanding to interpret complex page layouts.The model supports 25+ languages and handles PDFs and images (including scanned, mixed‑content pages) with high accuracy.
06/11/2025
Running Phi-4 Locally with Microsoft Foundry Local: A Step-by-Step Guide
In our previous post, we explored how Phi-4 represents a new frontier in AI efficiency that delivers performance comparable to models 5x its size while being small enough to run on your laptop.Today, we're taking the next step: getting Phi-4 up and running locally on your machine using Microsoft Foundry Local.Microsoft Foundry provides a simple API that lets you integrate Phi-4 into Python applications and connect it to real-time data sources.
06/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 6, 2025
Learn about 139 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.In this workshop, BearingPoint will help you lay the foundation for a successful ERP initiative with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.Delivered by certified experts, this structured pilot allows users to experience Microsoft Places’ intelligent coordination, space optimization, and hybrid work capabilities, which are fully integrated with Microsoft Teams Premium.
06/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #4: Fix Connection Error: No pg_hba.conf Entry, SSL off
The issue occurred when the customer attempted to connect to Azure PostgreSQL using psql and received this error:psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "", user "ange", database "postgres", SSL offFailing to configure SSL and validate network settings can lead to:
06/11/2025
Essential Chunking Techniques for Building Better LLM Applications
Every large language model (LLM) application that retrieves information faces a simple problem: how do you break down a 50-page document into pieces that a model can actually use? So when you’re building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) app, before your vector database retrieves anything and your LLM generates responses, your documents need to be split into chunks.
06/11/2025
CMU Researchers Introduce PPP and UserVille To Train Proactive And Personalized LLM Agents
Most LLM agents are tuned to maximize task success.They resolve GitHub issues or answer deep research queries, but they do not reason carefully about when to ask the user questions or how to respect different interaction preferences.The post CMU Researchers Introduce PPP and UserVille To Train Proactive And Personalized LLM Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/11/2025
Newsletter - Microsoft Global Community Initiative - November 2025
Microsoft Global Community Initiative Newsletter Microsoft Ignite, Nov 17-21 in San FranciscoDon’t miss out on the next General Session taking place on November 18th.
06/11/2025
Beyond Basics: Tracking Kafka Lag in Azure Event Hubs
Mastering Kafka Consumer Lag Monitoring in Azure Event HubsWhile Apache Kafka provides persistent offset storage and straightforward lag monitoring, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka-enabled) introduces unique challenges—especially for inactive consumer groups.This article presents practical strategies, code samples, troubleshooting tips, and best practices for tracking lag in both scenarios.
06/11/2025
Generalist AI Introduces GEN-θ: A New Class of Embodied Foundation Models Built for Multimodal Training Directly on High-Fidelity Raw Physical Interaction
How do you build a single model that can learn physical skills from chaotic real world robot data without relying on simulation?Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-θ, a family of embodied foundation models trained directly on high fidelity raw physical interaction data instead of internet video or simulation.The system is built to establish scaling […]
06/11/2025
Azure AI Foundry vs. Azure Databricks – A Unified Approach to Enterprise Intelligence
Key Insights into Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks Complementary Powerhouses: Azure AI Foundry is purpose-built for generative AI application and agent development, focusing on model orchestration and rapid prototyping, while Azure Databricks excels in large-scale data engineering, analytics, and traditional machine learning, forming the data intelligence backbone. Seamless Integration for End-to-End AI: A critica...
05/11/2025
Calling API Management using Entra ID authentication and testing with PowerShell
Integrating Entra ID or other compatible identity providers with Azure API Management is both easy and a great way to enhance security for your APIs. However, when you enforce authentication with the Validate JWT policy in API Management, you now have the extra step of obtaining a JWT token from your identity provider and supplying it to API Management. If you are writing code, this is fairly straight forward to achieve with the Azure Identity libraries, and there are great API testing ...
05/11/2025
🚀 Compliance Meets AI: Communication Compliance for Copilot – What You Missed!
Last Friday’s session was a game-changer for anyone looking to keep AI use safe, ethical, and compliant. We didn’t just talk theory—we showed real-world strategies for monitoring Copilot interactions and protecting sensitive data with Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance. Missed the session? No worries we have you covered. You can watch it here
05/11/2025
What's new in Viva Insights
Migration of manager insights to the Viva Insights web app We recently unified all manager insights into a single destination: the Viva Insights web app.We’ve added enhanced data quality visibility for admins and analysts in the Viva Insights web app, which enables them to better understand and act on the quality of organizational data used in Viva Insights and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
05/11/2025
Access bug fixes version 2510 (Build 19328.20158)
Undo/Redo don’t work for Bring To Front and Send To Back commands.In Form/Report Design view, after executing a Bring To Front or Send To Back command to re-order controls, Undo will now restore the previous state.Syntax highlighting makes keywords hard to read with dark Office themes in the Monaco SQL editor.
05/11/2025
Announcing the Annual Release Cadence for Microsoft Configuration Manager
Starting with version 2609, Microsoft Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence. This change is a formalization of the direction we’ve communicated at events and in customer conversations. Microsoft Intune is the future of device management, and all new innovations will occur there. Configuration Manager will continue to serve your on-premises devices, with a renewed focus on security, stability, and long-term support. Why Move to an Annu...
05/11/2025
A Guide to Adaptive Cloud at Microsoft Ignite 2025
This year’s event is all about driving impact in the era of AI.Join Microsoft leaders, including Judson Althoff, Scott Guthrie, Jeremy Winter, and Asha Sharma as they share breakthrough announcements in Cloud and AI platforms, AI business solutions, Security, and emerging technologies.Learn how intelligent infrastructure, agentic operations, and AI-driven tools are transforming cloud reliability, security, and agility for every workload.
05/11/2025
How to Build a Model-Native Agent That Learns Internal Planning, Memory, and Multi-Tool Reasoning Through End-to-End Reinforcement Learning
In this tutorial, we explore how an agent can internalize planning, memory, and tool use within a single neural model rather than relying on external orchestration.We design a compact, model-native agent that learns to perform arithmetic reasoning tasks through reinforcement learning.By combining a stage-aware actor-critic network with a curriculum of increasingly complex environments, […]
05/11/2025
OpenAI Introduces IndQA: A Culture Aware Benchmark For Indian Languages
How can we reliably test whether large language models actually understand Indian languages and culture in real world contexts? OpenAI has released IndQA, a benchmark that evaluates how well AI models understand and reason about questions that matter in Indian languages across cultural domains. Why IndQA? OpenAI states that about 80 percent of people worldwide […] The post
05/11/2025
Automating IOC hunts in Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Security operations are undergoing significant transformation driven by the introduction of AI and a rapidly evolving threat landscape. With Microsoft Sentinel data lake now generally available, organizations can centralize all their security data in a purpose-built security data lake. This helps optimize costs, simplify ...
05/11/2025
Unlocking Developer Innovation with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Microsoft Sentinel is evolving rapidly, transforming to be both an industry-leading SIEM and an AI-ready platform that empowers agentic defense across the security ecosystem.In our recent webinar: Introduction to Sentinel data lake for Developers, we explored how developers can leverage Sentinel’s unified data lake, extensible architecture, and integrated tools to build innovative security solutions.This post summarizes the key takeaways and actionable insights for developers looking to harness the full power of Sentinel.
05/11/2025
Google AI Introduces Consistency Training for Safer Language Models Under Sycophantic and Jailbreak Style Prompts
How can consistency training help language models resist sycophantic prompts and jailbreak style attacks while keeping their capabilities intact? Large language models often answer safely on a plain prompt, then change behavior when the same task is wrapped with flattery or role play. DeepMind researchers propose consistent training in a simple training lens for this […] The post
05/11/2025
Public Preview: Custom WAF Block Status & Body for Azure Application Gateway
Introduction Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports custom HTTP status codes and custom response bodies for blocked requests. This Public Preview feature gives you more control over user experience and client-side handling, aligning with capabilities already available on Azure Front Door WAF. Why this matters Previously, WAF re...
05/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of Larger Container Sizes on Azure Container Instances
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of larger container sizes on Azure Container Instances (ACI).Customers can now deploy workloads with higher vCPU and memory for standard containers, confidential containers, containers with virtual networks, and containers utilizing virtual nodes to connect to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).After improving this feature based on customer feedback, ACI now supports vCPU counts greater than 4 and memory capacities of 16 GB, with a maximum of 31 vCPU and 240 GB for standard containers and a maximum of 31 vCPU and 180 GB for confidential containers.
05/11/2025
Mastering Copilot Content Governance with SharePoint Advance Management - Session 4
In our final session covering Mastering Copilot Governance webinar, we are joining by Senior Engineer, Georges Wikam and we discuss how Microsoft 365 Copilot is only as good as the data it can access.If your SharePoint environment is cluttered with stale content or overshared files, Copilot’s responses—and your security posture—will suffer.That’s where SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) comes in.
05/11/2025
Empower Smarter AI Agent Investments
This curated series of modules is designed to equip technical and business decision-makers, including IT, developers, engineers, AI engineers, administrators, solution architects, business analysts, and technology managers, with the practical knowledge and guidance needed to make cost-conscious decisions at every stage of the AI agent journey. From identifying high-impact use cases and understanding cost drivers, to forecating ROI, adopting best practices, designing scalable and effect...
05/11/2025
How to Diagnose Why Your Language Model Fails
Language models , as incredibly useful as they are, are not perfect, and they may fail or exhibit undesired performance due to a variety of factors, such as data quality, tokenization constraints, or difficulties in correctly interpreting user prompts.
05/11/2025
Deploying Third-Party Firewalls in Azure Landing Zones: Design, Configuration, and Best Practices
As enterprises adopt Microsoft Azure for large-scale workloads, securing network traffic becomes a critical part of the platform foundation. Azure’s Well-Architected Framework provides the blueprint for enterprise-scale Landing Zone design and deployments, and while
05/11/2025
Performance and Scalability of Azure HBv5-series Virtual Machines
Azure HBv5-series virtual machines (VMs) for CPU-based high performance computing (HPC) are now Generally Available. This blog provides in-depth information about the technical underpinnings, performance, cost, and management implications of these HPC-optimized VMs. Azur HBv5 VM bring leadership levels of performance, cost optimization, and server (VM) consolidation for a variety of workloads driven by memory performance, such as computational fluid dynamics, weather simulation, geosci...
05/11/2025
Azure Container Registry Repository Permissions with Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
General Availability announcementToday marks the general availability of Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository permissions with Microsoft Entra attribute-based access control (ABAC).ABAC augments the familiar Azure RBAC model with namespace and repository-level conditions so platform teams can express least-privilege access at the granularity of specific repositories or entire logical namespaces.
05/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 23 | Partnering for Success: Building Trust and Specialization with Joseph Khalaf
For organizations operating within the Microsoft partner ecosystem, understanding the dynamics of strategic partnerships is more important than ever.In this episode of IAMCP Profiles in Partnership “Partnering for Success: Building Trust and Specialization” with Joseph Khalaf, hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez have a candid and insightful conversation about what it really takes to build lasting success in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem. Joseph Khalaf's journey from a 17-year Microsoft engineer to the founder of ampiO Solutions illustrates the importance of making the leap from a technical expert to a relationship builder.
05/11/2025
How Can We Build Scalable and Reproducible Machine Learning Experiment Pipelines Using Meta Research Hydra?
In this tutorial, we explore Hydra, an advanced configuration management framework originally developed and open-sourced by Meta Research.We begin by defining structured configurations using Python dataclasses, which allows us to manage experiment parameters in a clean, modular, and reproducible manner.The post How Can We Build Scalable and Reproducible Machine Learning Experiment Pipelines Using Meta Research Hydra? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/11/2025
Accelerating the multi-cloud advantage: Storage migration paths into Azure storage
Broaden your customer base and enhance your app’s exposure by bringing your AWS-based solution to Azure and listing it on Microsoft Marketplace.This guide will walk you through how Azure storage services compare to those on AWS—spotlighting important differences in architecture, scalability, and feature sets—so you can make confident choices when replicating your app’s storage layer to Azure.When replicating your app from AWS to Azure, start by mapping your existing storage services to the closest Azure equivalents.
04/11/2025
Ignite Connections: Unleashing Community & Networking at Microsoft Ignite 2025
We’re excited to showcase the community sessions from all three of our key solution areas: AI Business Solutions, Cloud & AI Platforms, and Security.Experience Community at Microsoft IgniteRegister now, share this with your network, and start planning your attendee experience today.
04/11/2025
When Your CRM Plays Hide-and-Seek: The Mystery of Missing Columns in Dynamics 365
What Happened? Personal views across multiple organizations started showing empty columns, even though the data was there. For businesses that rely on these views for daily decisions, this isn’t a normal glitch—the end users can easily assume that “no data” in the view means no data in the record and make decisions based on an incomplete picture of customer informat...
04/11/2025
Upgrade Azure Database for PostgreSQL with Minimal Downtime Using Logical Replication
Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a seamless Major Version Upgrade (MVU) experience for your servers, which is important for security, performance, and feature enhancements. For production workloads, minimizing downtime during this upgrade is essential to maintain business continuity. This blog explores a practical approach to performing a Major Version Up...
04/11/2025
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud. The 25.10 OS Retail release includes quality and underlying build system updates. For self-help inquiries or technical support, review the
04/11/2025
UX Updates, AI Actions & Forms in Document Libraries
SharePoint document libraries are getting some major upgrades! We’re excited to share several improvements rolling out now (or very soon) that make libraries more user-friendly, powerful, and intelligent. You’ll notice an updated user experience, new AI-powered actions that bring Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities into document libraries, and the ability to create custom forms for document collection in all document libraries. All these ...
04/11/2025
Partner Case Study | Encodian
Empowering automation for Microsoft 365 From its headquarters in the United Kingdom, Encodian serves more than 40,000 customers around the world, encompassing government, education, legal services, the financial sector, and beyond. Its growing team of nearly 50 staff members embody a culture rooted in innovation and practical enablement, building tools that slot seamlessly into Microsoft 365 so users don't need to leave the platforms they trust. Encodian became a Microsoft partner in...
04/11/2025
Microsoft AI Tour: MVPs, Community, Connection, and the Future of AI
Imagine stepping into a room buzzing with energy, where experts and newcomers alike are exploring the future of AI together. That’s the energy of the Microsoft AI Tour - and it’s the Microsoft MVP community that helps make it truly special. The
04/11/2025
SQL Spotlight: Ignite 2025
Ignite 2025: Your SQL GuideMicrosoft Ignite 2025 is less than 30 days away! Whether you’re a data professional, DBA, or developer, this event is your chance to dive in, expand knowledge, and connect with fellow SQL experts. Join Microsoft leaders and customers as they share best practices, practical insights from across the SQL portfolio. Be the first to hear the latest releases, dive in with hands-on labs, and new learning paths to grow your skill set. Grab your...
04/11/2025
Unlocking Business Impact with Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turning AI Adoption into Measurable Value
In boardrooms and leadership meetings, a similar question is being asked: “What returns are we really getting from AI?” The release of a new whitepaper —
04/11/2025
Microsoft 365 Certification
Why Microsoft 365 Certified Apps and Agents Matter for IT Admins As an IT Admin, you're constantly balancing innovation, security, and user productivity. With the growing ecosystem of apps/agents integrating into Microsoft 365, how do you ensure the ones your organization adopts are secure, compliant...
04/11/2025
Exciting news: Microsoft Learn Community is moving!
We’ve got some big news to share: the Microsoft Learn community and blog are packing up and moving to a brand-new, bigger destination—The Skills Hub community and blog! This ...
04/11/2025
Build with Copilot Pages: A new way to bring your ideas to life
Have an idea but need a collaborator that can build it for you? Or wish you could visually explore topics through dynamic, interactive experiences instead of scrolling through long pages of text? Now, Copilot can write code using the latest LLM models and let you preview it directly in a Copilot Page, enabling rich, immersive experiences—with zero coding skills required. If you can imagine it, you can build it.
04/11/2025
Zero-Trust Kubernetes: Enforcing Security & Multi-Tenancy with Custom Admission Webhooks
Admission controllers act as Kubernetes’ built-in gatekeepers that intercept API requests after authentication/authorization but before they're persisted to etcd. They can validate or mutate incoming objects, ensuring everything that enters your cluster meets defined policies. We strengthen this mechanism with OPA Gatekeeper (policy-as-code, integrated with Azure Policy on AKS), Kyverno (YAML-based policy engine), and custom admissio...
04/11/2025
SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2025
Today at SAP TechEd 2025, we are excited to share the next evolution of the Microsoft-SAP partnership. Building on decades of collaboration, we continue to advance RISE with SAP on Azure and deepen integrations with SAP S/4HANA Cloud public edition. Our latest innovations deliver enhanced security for SAP and non-SAP workloads, while unified analytics and AI-driven Copilot experiences empower customers to make smarter decisions. These advancements are designed to help customers acceler...
04/11/2025
Driving cloud-first identity: User SOA is now Public Preview and Group SOA is Generally Available
Back in August, I shared how Group Source of Authority (SOA) conversion helps organizations govern legacy groups in the cloud, simplifying on-premises cleanup and extending governance to apps that still rely on Active Directory (AD). Today, I’m excited to announce two major updates to assist in securing hybrid identities: Group SOA conversion is now generally available. User SOA conversion is in public preview. Why this matters Man...
04/11/2025
Unified Reporting in Microsoft Purview : Know your data posture
If you've ever struggled to answer questions like "How well are we protecting sensitive data?" or "Which DLP policies are actually working?", you know the frustration. Data scattered across multiple tools, no unified view, and executives asking for metrics you can't easily provide. That changes today. At Microsoft Purview, we've heard from thousands of customers about the visibility gap in data protection programs. You deploy policies, configure labels, and enable DLP: but provi...
04/11/2025
Part 3: Client-Side Multi-Agent Orchestration on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework
In Part 2 of this series, I showed you how to build sophisticated multi-agent systems on Azure App Service using Azure AI Foundry Agents—server-side ma...
04/11/2025
Welcome to The Skills Hub—Our new community home!
Hello there, friends, learners, and fellow skilling enthusiasts! We’re thrilled to roll out the virtual welcome mat at The Skills Hub on Microsoft Tech Community—your new go-to spot for all things AI, cloud, professional, and organizational skilling. If you’re picturing us surrounded by cardboard boxes and bubble wrap, you’re not far off! We’re still busy unpacking the last of our favorite articles and hanging up digital pictures to make the place feel like home. Over ...
04/11/2025
Unlocking Business Value: Microsoft's Dual Approach to AI for Security and Security for AI
Overview In an era where cyber threats evolve at an unprecedented pace and artificial intelligence (AI) transforms business operations, Microsoft stands at the forefront with a comprehensive strategy that addresses both leveraging AI to bolster security and safeguarding AI systems themselves. This white paper, presented in blog post format, explores Microsoft's business value model for "AI for Security" – using AI to enhance threat detection, response, and prevention...
04/11/2025
Introducing the enhanced query diagnostics in Azure Log Analytics
We’re excited to introduce a set of new capabilities that simplify query diagnostics and troubleshooting in Azure Log Analytics. With this new experience, users can now easily resolve query issues that may surface using the suggested recommendations, have a deeper visibility into query execution statistics and utilize those to optimize query performances. What’s new? Improved query notification experience
04/11/2025
Take Data Management to the next level with Silk Software-Defined Azure Storage
Note: This article is co-authored by our partner Silk. In today’s data-driven world, every enterprise is under pressure to make smarter decisions faster. Whether you're running production databases, training machine learning models, running advanced analytics, or building customer-facing applications, your data needs to be more agile, secure, and readily accessible than ever before. That’s where Silk’s software-defined clo...
04/11/2025
10 Python One-Liners for Calculating Model Feature Importance
Understanding machine learning models is a vital aspect of building trustworthy AI systems.
04/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #3: Fix FATAL: sorry, too many clients already
Co-authored with angesalsaa Symptoms Application errors indicating connection failures Error message in logs: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already High CPU utilization during peak traffic Short-lived connections (<...
04/11/2025
Comparing the Top 7 Large Language Models LLMs/Systems for Coding in 2025
Code-oriented large language models moved from autocomplete to software engineering systems. In 2025, leading models must fix real GitHub issues, refactor multi-repo backends, write tests, and run as agents over long context windows. The main question for teams is not “can it code” but which model fits which constraints. Here are seven models (and systems […] The post
04/11/2025
AI-powered intranet solution built on SharePoint - Fresh Intranet - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to start a new blog post series focused on the different partner offerings around SharePoint in Microsoft 365. In this first post, we focus on Advania’s Fresh Intranet – an AI powered intranet solution built natively on Microsoft SharePoint. In this short conversation and demo, David Bowman, Product Director at Advania, and
04/11/2025
Cache-to-Cache(C2C): Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models via KV-Cache Fusion
Can large language models collaborate without sending a single token of text? a team of researchers from Tsinghua University, Infinigence AI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shanghai AI Laboratory, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University say yes. Cache-to-Cache (C2C) is a new communication paradigm where large language models exchange information through their KV-Cache rather than […] The post
04/11/2025
On‑Device AI with Windows AI Foundry
From “waiting” to “instant”- without sending data away AI is everywhere, but speed, privacy, and reliability are critical. Users expect instant answers without compromise. On-device AI makes that possible: fast, private and available, even when the network isn’t - empowering apps to deliver seamless experiences. Imagine an intelligent assistant that works in seconds, without sending a text to the cloud. This approach brings speed...
04/11/2025
Low-Light Image Enhancer (Python + OpenCV) on Azure App Service
Low-light photos are everywhere: indoor team shots, dim restaurant pics, grainy docs. This post shows a tiny Python app (Flask + OpenCV) that fixes them with explainable image processing—not a heavyweight model. We’ll walk the code that does the real work (CLAHE → gamma → brightness → subtle saturation) and deploy it to Azure App Service for Linux. What you’ll build A Flask web app that accepts an image upload, ...
04/11/2025
Evolving SAP Testing on Azure: What’s New in the SAP Testing Automation Framework
We're announcing the general availability (GA) of the SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), an open-source orchestration tool that automates validation of SAP ...
04/11/2025
Postgres Trip Summary from PGConf EU 2025 (with lots of photos)
Missed PGConf EU 2025 in Riga? No worries, this trip report aims to give you highlights, reflections, and a ton of photos to give you a feel for the vibe. But where to begin? So much happened, it’s a bit hard to choose what to share. Quick context: PGConf EU is a traveling Postgres conference that lands in a different major European city each year (you can
04/11/2025
How to Build Supervised AI Models When You Don’t Have Annotated Data
One of the biggest challenges in real-world machine learning is that supervised models require labeled data—yet in many practical scenarios, the data you start with is almost always unlabeled. Manually annotating thousands of samples isn’t just slow; it’s expensive, tedious, and often impractical. This is where active learning becomes a game-changer. Active learning is a […] The post
03/11/2025
Anyscale and NovaSky Team Releases SkyRL tx v0.1.0: Bringing Tinker Compatible Reinforcement Learning RL Engine To Local GPU Clusters
How can AI teams run Tinker style reinforcement learning on large language models using their own infrastructure with a single unified engine? Anyscale and NovaSky (UC Berkeley) Team releases SkyRL tx v0.1.0 that gives developers a way to run a Tinker compatible training and inference engine directly on their own hardware, while keeping the same […] The post
03/11/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Sentinel: November 2025
Welcome to our new Microsoft Sentinel blog series! We’re excited to launch a new blog series focused on Microsoft Sentinel. From the latest product innovations and feature updates to industry recognition, success stories, and major events, you’ll find it all here. This first post kicks off the series by celebrating Microsoft’s recognition as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM 1. It also introduces the latest innovations designed to delive...
03/11/2025
Announcing SQLCon 2026: Better Together with FabCon!
We’re thrilled to unveil SQLCon 2026, the premier Microsoft SQL Community Conference, co-located with the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) from March 16–20, 2026! This year, we’re bringing the best of both worlds under one roof—uniting the vibrant SQL and Fabric communities for a truly next-level ...
03/11/2025
Ensure your ICES solution works seamlessly alongside Microsoft Defender
In today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations increasingly rely on layered email security solutions to protect users and sensitive data. Microsoft supports and collaborates with Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) vendors that work in conjunction with Microsoft Defender, and customers who choose a layered approach to email security to ensure the maximum level of email protection.
03/11/2025
New developer resource page for Microsoft 365 interoperability and data portability
Microsoft has long provided interoperability information, interfaces, and tools to help our vibrant ecosystem of partners integrate their products and services with Microsoft 365 productivity applications. This ecosystem includes communication and collaboration solution providers that compete with Microsoft Teams. Alongside these resources, we have also offered data portability solutions to our customers to allow them to move betwee...
03/11/2025
Support tip: Aligning network policy with Microsoft Intune and Zero Trust
By: Jon Callahan – Sr Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Cloud services don’t just rely on the network. They redefine it. As organizations adopt Microsoft Intune and advance their Zero Trust strategies, many discover that traditional, perimeter-based architectures no longer align with modern security expectations or the connectivity needs of a distributed workforce. Zero Trust is built on the principle of "never trust, always veri...
03/11/2025
Microsoft Entra: Building Trust in a Borderless Digital World
As nonprofits embrace hybrid work, multi-cloud environments, and digital transformation to better serve their missions, the need for secure, intelligent access has never been greater. Traditional identity solutions often fall short in protecting diverse user groups like staff, volunteers, donors, and partners.Microsoft Entra offers a unified family of identity and network access products designed to verify every identity, validate every access req...
03/11/2025
Comprehensive Identity Protection—Across Cloud and On-Premises
Hybrid IT environments, identity is the new perimeter—and protecting it requires visibility across both cloud and on-premises systems. While Microsoft Entra secures cloud identities with intelligent access controls, Microsoft Defender for Identity brings deep insight into your on-premises Active Directory. Together, they form a powerful duo for comprehensive identity protection. Why Hybrid Identity Protection Matters Most organizations haven’t fully ...
03/11/2025
Federal Endpoint Management Briefings
We're extending an invite to our Public Sector customers in the GCC, GCC-High and DoD IL5 clouds to attend our Federal Endpoint Management briefings, designed exclusively for Federal and DIB customers. Our experts will explore the latest strategies, tools, and innovations. Each session will feature practical guidance...
03/11/2025
Windows news you can use: October 2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is coming soon: November 18 – 21. Read up on the range of sessions including breakouts (in person and online), hands-on labs, community roundtables, and much more. You can register for digital Microsoft Ignite and plan your event schedule now. Have questions about what you learned at Microsoft Ignite? Save the date ...
03/11/2025
Preparing commercial Windows 10 devices for ESUs
As support for Windows 10 officially ended on October 14, 2025, it is important that organizations with devices remaining on Windows 10 stay as protected as possible through the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. To help ensure your Windows 10 devices are activated with an ESU license, here i...
03/11/2025
Breaking the Million-Token Barrier: The Technical Achievement of Azure ND GB300 v6
By Mark Gitau (Software Engineer) and Hugo Affaticati (Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer) The new Azure ND GB300 v6 virtual machines, built on the cutting-edge NVIDIA Blackwell architecture introduced with the
03/11/2025
Get ready: Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here!
Microsoft Ignite 2025 (November 18–21) is coming up, and it’s time to get ready. Whether you join in person or digitally, this can’t-miss event is designed to help you build connections, accelerate customer conversations, and gain exclusive access to product updates to shape your 2026 plans.
03/11/2025
Retirement of the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel and next steps
On December 8, 2025, the Visio Data Visualizer add-in will be removed from the Excel add-in store, along with its related Excel templates. However, users will h...
03/11/2025
Introducing Microsoft M365 Business Premium for GCC-High
We’re excited to announce the availability of Microsoft 365 Business Premium for GCC-High. This purpose-built productivity suite is designed for organizations with high security and compliance requirements and supports up to 500 seats. Stay compliant without compromise
03/11/2025
October Update: What's new in Azure for Partners
Navigate to News and Announcements, Incentives and Offers, Skilling and Events, Go-To-Market, Customer Success<...
03/11/2025
7 hidden gems to effectively manage your tasks in Microsoft Planner
Hi, Insiders! I’m Nancy Wang, a Product Manager on the Planner team. Microsoft Planner is more than just task boards and buckets. Here are some hidden gems – including Copilot-powered features – that can help you plan smarter, collaborate better, and save time. 1. Update tasks simultaneously With bulk editing, you can update multiple tasks at the same time. Assign tasks, adjust priorities, update progress, and modify start and due dates, all in one go. To get started, n...
03/11/2025
Introducing voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot: a more productive way to work on the go.
Introducing voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Now you can talk to Copilot, interrupt naturally, and get real-time spoken responses grounded in your work and web data—just click “Start a new voice chat” in the input box. Because work doesn’t stop at your desk, voice helps you stay productive anywhere—hands-free, on the go, or while multitasking. Available ...
03/11/2025
Delivering more threat hunting insights with Microsoft Defender Experts’ newest capabilities
The cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve with novel attacks and techniques emerging each day. Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, included with Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, helps security teams stay ahead of ev...
03/11/2025
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2025
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month Novembers’s Ace Aviator: Al Ghoniem Al Ghoniem...
03/11/2025
Microsoft Teams Town Hall: Host Professional Digital and Hybrid Events at Scale
Over the past year, Microsoft Teams town hall has made significant strides, continuing to evolve as a platform for scalable digital and hybrid events. It now provides enhanced production controls and richer attendee experiences. Whether you’re hosting a company-wide all hands, a hybrid town hall from your headquarters, or a large presentation for clients, Teams town hall provides a unified, professional solution that keeps everyone engaged and connected, supp...
03/11/2025
Follow-Up to ‘Important Changes to App Service Managed Certificates’: October 2025 Update
This post provides an update to the Tech Community article ‘Important Changes to App Ser...
03/11/2025
Python + IA: Resumen y Recursos
Acabamos de concluir nuestra serie sobre Python + IA, un recorrido completo de nueve sesiones donde exploramos a fondo cómo usar modelos de inteligencia artificial generativa desde Python. Durante la serie presentamos varios tipos de modelos, incluyendo LLMs, modelos de embeddings y modelos de visión. Profundizamos en técnicas populares como RAG, tool calling y salidas estructu...
03/11/2025
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 142
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 142 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 142 introduced 5 new Computer an...
03/11/2025
Monthly news - November 2025
Microsoft DefenderMonthly news - November 2025 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 October 2025. Defender for Cloud has its own Monthly News post, have a look at
03/11/2025
7 Prompt Engineering Tricks to Mitigate Hallucinations in LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit outstanding abilities to reason over, summarize, and creatively generate text.
03/11/2025
From Meeting Chaos to Clarity: How AI Turns Transcripts into Backlogs
It all starts in a meeting room. Teams share ideas, debate solutions, and align on goals, but too often, they leave behind chaos instead of clarity—hours of discussion result in lengthy transcripts filled with valuable insights that are never revisited. The result?
03/11/2025
Update Coverage Workbook in Microsoft Defender for Cloud to Include Defender for AI Plan status
Option 1: Update the Existing Coverage Workbook Enhance the current workbook by adding a query that checks Defender for AI plan enablement across subscriptions. Steps Open the Coverage Workbook in Defender for Cloud. Edit the workbook and update the query section to include the line below. AIServices = defenderPlans.AI Display t...
03/11/2025
How to Design a Persistent Memory and Personalized Agentic AI System with Decay and Self-Evaluation?
In this tutorial, we explore how to build an intelligent agent that remembers, learns, and adapts to us over time. We implement a Persistent Memory & Personalisation system using simple, rule-based logic to simulate how modern Agentic AI frameworks store and recall contextual information. As we progress, we see how the agent’s responses evolve with […] The post
03/11/2025
How to Create AI-ready APIs?
Postman recently released a comprehensive checklist and developer guide for building AI-ready APIs, highlighting a simple truth: even the most powerful AI models are only as good as the data they receive—and that data comes through your APIs. If your endpoints are inconsistent, unclear, or unreliable, models waste time fixing bad inputs instead of producing […] The post How to Create AI-ready APIs?...
03/11/2025
LongCat-Flash-Omni: A SOTA Open-Source Omni-Modal Model with 560B Parameters with 27B activated, Excelling at Real-Time Audio-Visual Interaction
How do you design a single model that can listen, see, read and respond in real time across text, image, video and audio without losing the efficiency? Meituan’s LongCat team has released LongCat Flash Omni, an open source omni modal model with 560 billion parameters and about 27 billion active per token, built on the […] The post
02/11/2025
Comparing the Top 6 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Models/Systems in 2025
Optical character recognition has moved from plain text extraction to document intelligence. Modern systems must read scanned and digital PDFs in one pass, preserve layout, detect tables, extract key value pairs, and work with more than one language. Many teams now also want OCR that can feed RAG and agent pipelines directly. In 2025, 6 […] The post Comp...
02/11/2025
A Coding Implementation of a Comprehensive Enterprise AI Benchmarking Framework to Evaluate Rule-Based LLM, and Hybrid Agentic AI Systems Across Real-World Tasks
In this tutorial, we develop a comprehensive benchmarking framework to evaluate various types of agentic AI systems on real-world enterprise software tasks. We design a suite of diverse challenges, from data transformation and API integration to workflow automation and performance optimization, and assess how various agents, including rule-based, LLM-powered, and hybrid ones, perform across these […] The post
02/11/2025
DeepAgent: A Deep Reasoning AI Agent that Performs Autonomous Thinking, Tool Discovery, and Action Execution within a Single Reasoning Process
Most agent frameworks still run a predefined Reason, Act, Observe loop, so the agent can only use the tools that are injected in the prompt. This works for small tasks, but it fails when the toolset is large, when the task is long, and when the agent must change strategy in the middle of reasoning. […] The post
01/11/2025
Anthropic’s New Research Shows Claude can Detect Injected Concepts, but only in Controlled Layers
How do you tell whether a model is actually noticing its own internal state instead of just repeating what training data said about thinking? In a latest Anthropic’s research study ‘Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models‘ asks whether current Claude models can do more than talk about their abilities, it asks whether they can […] The post
01/11/2025
How to Build an End-to-End Data Engineering and Machine Learning Pipeline with Apache Spark and PySpark
In this tutorial, we explore how to harness Apache Spark’s techniques using PySpark directly in Google Colab. We begin by setting up a local Spark session, then progressively move through transformations, SQL queries, joins, and window functions. We also build and evaluate a simple machine-learning model to predict user subscription types and finally demonstrate how […] The post
01/11/2025
Google AI Unveils Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL): A Step Wise Framework with Expert Trajectories to Teach Small Language Models to Reason through Hard Problems
How can a small model learn to solve tasks it currently fails at, without rote imitation or relying on a correct rollout? A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research and UCLA have released a training framework, ‘Supervised Reinforcement Learning’ (SRL), that makes 7B scale models actually learn from very hard math and agent […] The post
01/11/2025
Your city agent speaks 100 languages. But does It understand you?
For many residents, interacting with city services feels like a frustrating experience. Forms are confusing. Wait times are long. And often, it feels like no one is truly listening. Now imagine a city services agent that speaks your language and understands your needs. Some cities already have one. But the real question is not whether they can do it. It is whether they should.SmartCitiesWorld has published a new trend report titled “
31/10/2025
Agentic Integration with SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce
Copilot/Copilot Studio Integration with SAP (No Code) By integrating SAP Cloud Identity Services with Microsoft Entra ID, organizations can establish secure, federated identity management across platforms. This configuration enables Microsoft Copilot and Teams to seamlessly connect with SAP’s Joule digital assistant, supporting natural language interactions and automating business processes efficiently.
31/10/2025
From the frontlines: Empowering call center agents with Windows 365 Frontline
By: Tania Lima – Sr Product Manager | Windows 365 Call centers are dynamic environments where agents often work in shifts, handling customer inquiries around the clock. Providing these frontline employees with secure, consistent, and accessible computing environments is critical to maintaining productivity and excellent service. However, traditional desktop deployments, whether physical PCs or complex virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), are often challe...
31/10/2025
Join us for a professional development session on the new AI-powered Teach module in M365 Copilot
Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025, for an in-depth professional development webinar on the new AI-powered "Teach" module in M365 that is fully rolled out and available to everyone. This will be a 45-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 M365 Education account! This webinar will be available at both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as man...
31/10/2025
AI architecture: Powering the next generation of business agents
In this installment of our Partner Spotlight series, we’re continuing to showcase the innovators’ driving app and agent development forward on the Microsoft Marketplace. Each feature highlights the distinct journeys of partners who are pioneering AI-powered solutions, building across the Microsoft ecosystem, and delivering transactable applications that are shaping the future of the marketplace. In this article, I sat down with Imran Mahmood from KAISPE to learn more about their story a...
31/10/2025
Revolutionizing Reliability: Introducing the Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) system
Blog authored by: Ayberk Ozturk, Andrew Boyd, Otis Smith, Sameer Hussain, Joao Madureira, Ronit Sharma, Isha Bhatia, Halley Ding, Parvaneh Alavi, Jelena Ilic, Kevin Meehan, Steven Li, Arhatha Bramhanand, Nathan Ernst, Abhishek Sanghai, Adam Wilson, Blake Wheaton, Dhruv Matta, Olubusola Femi-Fowode, Shweta Patil, and Tajinder Pal Singh Ahluwalia Introduction As part of the journey to consistently improve Azure reliability and platform stability, ...
31/10/2025
Introducing the PublicNetworkAccess property to Azure Managed Redis
We want to enable users of Azure Managed Redis to disable public traffic without a private endpoint or allow both public and private access simultaneously. In certain enterprise environments, Redis and networking responsibilities are handled by distinct teams. The Data Operations team may securely provision Azure Managed Redis instances with PublicNetworkAccess set to Disabled, subsequently establishing connections to private links overseen by the Networking Operations tea...
31/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 31, 2025
🎃 October 31, 2025 Title Plan Now Available Access 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. This means each update may...
31/10/2025
The Future of AI: Building Weird, Warm, and Wildly Effective AI Agents
The Future of AI blog series is an evolving collection of posts from the AI Futures team in collaboration with subject matter experts across Microsoft. In this series, we explore tools and technologies that will drive the next generation of AI. Explore more at: Collections | Microsoft Learn AI doesn’t have to be cold, corporate, or overly complicated. In fact, some of the most...
31/10/2025
Azure capacity planning: Using quotas, reservations, vmss instance mix, and compute fleet
Introduction Over the past few months, I’ve been helping several digital-native customers navigate capacity constraints while scaling AI and compute-intensive workloads on Azure. Many teams run into the same frustrating message: ...
31/10/2025
Part 2: Build Long-Running AI Agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework
Last week, I shared how to build long-running AI agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent ...
31/10/2025
What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | October 2025
Welcome to the October 2025 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:
31/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: October 31, 2025
Learn about 228 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
31/10/2025
Multi-agent Workflow with Human Approval using Agent Framework
In modern AI-driven workflows, balancing automation with human oversight is critical, especially for high-stakes decisions. The solution scripts from this article demonstrate an effective approach to orchestrate Agent Framework-powered sequential workflow involving persistent Azure AI Foundry agents, integrating human approval for critical a...
31/10/2025
OpenAI Releases Research Preview of ‘gpt-oss-safeguard’: Two Open-Weight Reasoning Models for Safety Classification Tasks
OpenAI has released a research preview of gpt-oss-safeguard, two open weight safety reasoning models that let developers apply custom safety policies at inference time. The models come in two sizes, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, both fine tuned from gpt-oss, both licensed under Apache 2.0, and both available on Hugging Face for local use. Why Policy-Conditioned Safety […] The post
31/10/2025
Dive Deep into .NET Conf Student Zone 2025
While the .NET bot is busy exploring the ocean depths, we're here on the surface, ready to dive into what's new across the .NET ecosystem - AI, .NET Aspire, GitHub Copilot, of course .NET 10, and a whole lot more. Whether you're just starting your coding journey or looking to level up your skills, the .NET Conf Student Zone 2025 is your gateway to the world of modern software development. For all the details, surf to the official site:
31/10/2025
How to Design an Autonomous Multi-Agent Data and Infrastructure Strategy System Using Lightweight Qwen Models for Efficient Pipeline Intelligence?
In this tutorial, we build an Agentic Data and Infrastructure Strategy system using the lightweight Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct model for efficient execution. We begin by creating a flexible LLM agent framework and then develop specialized agents that handle different layers of data management, from ingestion and quality analysis to infrastructure optimization. We integrate these agents into an […] The post
31/10/2025
It’s now easier to access iCloud Mail, Calendar, and Contacts in Outlook
We’re excited to announce that the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook for iOS and Android now support easier iCloud Mail, Calendar, and Contacts access. You no longer need to create and enter app-specific passwords to access your iCloud data in Outlook apps. Now using the OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol, simply sign in with your Apple Account to access your iCloud Mail, Calendar, and Contacts in Outlook. Add email account, shown in the new Outlook for Wind...
30/10/2025
Top 5 reasons to attend ESPC25
We are so excited! Don’t miss out on ESPC25, Europe’s premier Microsoft 365 and AI community conference, in Dublin, Ireland. You’ll learn about Microsoft’s product roadmap, gain skills that will help you lead in the era of AI, build connections with a global community of Microsoft experts and enthusiasts—and hav...
30/10/2025
Evolving SAP Testing on Azure: What’s New in the SAP Testing Automation Framework
We're announcing the general availability (GA) of the SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), an open-source orchestration tool that automates validation of SAP deployments on Microsoft Azure. With this release, High Availability (HA) function testing is now available for SAP HANA scale-up databases and SAP Ce...
30/10/2025
Ant Group Releases Ling 2.0: A Reasoning-First MoE Language Model Series Built on the Principle that Each Activation Enhances Reasoning Capability
How do you build a language model that grows in capacity but keeps the computation for each token almost unchanged? The Inclusion AI team from the Ant Group is pushing sparse large models in a methodical way by releasing Ling 2.0. Ling 2.0 is a reasoning based language model family built on the idea that each […] The post
30/10/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Intune: October 2025
Last week, someone asked me what keeps me up at night when it comes to endpoint management. The answer surprised them; it was not the sophisticated threats or latest vulnerabilities we read about in headlines. What concerns me most is the friction between security and productivity, that invisible tax we've all paid for years when security can get in the way of getting work done. October marks
30/10/2025
Empowering Clinicians with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher Agent: Less Admin, More Patient Care
Healthcare clinicians today face an unsustainable administrative burden – from poring over medical literature to writing reports and documentation – which cuts into the time they can spend with patients. Studies have found that for every 1 hour of direct patient care, physicians spend about 2 hours on EHR and desk work. Many do...
30/10/2025
Smarter Cloud, Smarter Spend: How Azure Powers Cost-Efficient Innovation
In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations are under pressure to innovate rapidly while managing costs effectively. The cloud, especially with AI at the forefront, is driving transformation across industries. But with rising cloud spend and economic uncertainty, cost efficiency has become a top priority. To help customers navigate this challenge, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a
30/10/2025
Safeguarding Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
As organizations rely more on Microsoft Teams for daily collaboration, securing this platform has become a top priority. Threat actors are increasingly targeting Teams chats and channels with phishing links and malicious files, making it critical for IT admins and security professionals to extend protection beyond email. Enter Microsoft Defender for Office 365, now armed with dedicated Teams protection capabilities. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 enables users to report suspicious message...
30/10/2025
7 Machine Learning Projects to Land Your Dream Job in 2026
machine learning continues to evolve faster than most can keep up with.
30/10/2025
Back to College Essentials – DfS Accessories That Power Productivity
For more than 11 years, the Designed for Surface (DfS) team has worked with strategic partners to offer solutions that can extend the Surface experience for diverse scenarios. As the nex...
30/10/2025
Simplify Search Development with the New Azure AI Search Wizard
Introducing the New "Import Data" Wizard Recently, Azure AI Search rolled out the "Import Data (new)" wizard, an enhanced experience that merges the capabilities of the older "Import Data" wizard for <...
30/10/2025
GenAI vs Cyber Threats: Why GenAI Powered Unified SecOps Wins
Cybersecurity is evolving faster than ever. Attackers are leveraging automation and AI to scale their operations, so how can defenders keep up? The answer lies in Microsoft Unified Security Operations powered by Generative AI (GenAI). This opens the Cybersecurity Paradox: Attackers only need one successful attempt, but defenders must always be vigilant,...
30/10/2025
Introducing Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Today we’re excited to announce Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a major leap toward more autonomous AI that works for you. Now with Computer Use, Researcher goes beyond reasoning and researching. It can now act on your behalf using a secure virtual computer to navigate public, gated, and interactive we...
30/10/2025
Introducing langchain-azure-storage: Azure Storage integrations for LangChain
We're excited to introduce langchain-azure-storage, the first official Azure Storage integration package built by Microsoft for
30/10/2025
Building human-centric security skills for AI
AI is reshaping the workplace, and the organizations thriving in this new era know it takes more than just cutting-edge tech to succeed. A new kind of company is emerging—the so-called Frontier Firm. These organizations are building their business models around on-demand intelligence and hybrid human-AI co...
30/10/2025
Research Drop: Amplifying Clarity and Impact of AI Agents by Aligning on Desired Outcomes
Research Drop in Brief: Employees on teams that align on both activities and outcomes they want to achieve with AI agents are 1.9x as likely to be high-frequency agentic AI users compared to teams focused only on activities. Outcome-aligned teams report greater up to 22 percentage-points higher clarity when using multiple agents, such as clearer use cases and deeper understanding of capabilities. When teams plan for out...
30/10/2025
Simplifying compliance remediation with Microsoft Intune and Defender on iOS/iPadOS
By: Harish S | Sr. Product Manager - Microsoft Defender & Rishita Sarin | Product Manager 2 - Microsoft Intune One tap to compliance: Introducing the Resolve workflow for Compliance Remediation in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Defender on iOS. We’re thrilled to announce a major step forward in simplifying the compliance remediation experience for users and IT admins alike. As part of a collaboration between Micro...
30/10/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2025
Before we get to this month’s new Teams features, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service for the 7th year in a row. We are honored to again be positioned highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision in the evaluation’s axes. We believe this recognition underscores the product innovations we delivered over this past year, such as the launch of agents in meetings ...
30/10/2025
Your guide to Windows at Microsoft Ignite 2025
The Windows Platform is evolving—learn the latest Microsoft Ignite 2025 is coming to San Francisco, November 18-21, and we’re excited to share the latest details on everything new in Windows! Whether you’re attending in-person or digitally, we’ve got you covered.
30/10/2025
Building learning communities: Microsoft MVPs making a difference with Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Learn continues to evolve with the help of our global community of Microsoft MVPs. MVPs build and sustain communities of learning by creating resources, organizing inclusive events, mentoring peers, connecting learners with the right content, and sharing feedback on Learn. Meet a fe...
30/10/2025
Your guide to Intune at Microsoft Ignite 2025
The Microsoft Intune team is gearing up for Microsoft Ignite, happening November 17-21 in San Francisco! Whether you'll be joining in person or online, this guide is the best place to learn all about the sessions and experiences where you can connect with the Intune team, learn about the latest innovations, and boost your skills. Don't forget to register today. Attendees will have opportunities ...
30/10/2025
Microsoft Syntex: "Turning Your Documents into Digital Intelligence”
In today’s digital workplace, organizations generate a massive volume of content contracts, invoices, reports, emails, and more. Managing this information manually is not only inefficient but also error prone.Microsoft Syntex, an AI-powered service within Microsoft 365, transforms how businesses handle content by automating classification, metadata extraction, compliance, and even document generation.Now, with deeper integration into Microsoft Teams
30/10/2025
Quick look at journey of Agentic Solutions, from No‑code to Developer tools
Why this journey matters My journey with Bot, virtual agents and personal assistants has been quite long and, in this time, not only has the usage and user scenario evolved but the technology and platforms that fueled it sign...
30/10/2025
Planning for a quantum future: How to secure data today with Commvault in Microsoft Marketplace
In this guest blog post, Michael Fasulo, Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing at Commvault, discusses how quantum computing will threaten cryptography and how Commvault Cloud in Microsoft Marketplace can help. In today’s digital economy, trust is currency – and cryptography is its vault. Every transaction, login, and backup rely on encryption to keep data safe. But what happens when the locks we’ve relied on for decades are no longer secure? That’s not a hypothe...
30/10/2025
Lessons Learned #538: Printing One Line Per Field in T-SQL in Azure SQL Database.
Working on a case with a huge number of columns I needed to dump records as one line per field. Happy to share this script that it was useful. For example, I would like to have the data in this way. Id: 123 Status: Open Title: Connectivity issue Running the following TSQL, I was able to obtain the info as I expected. ;WITH src AS ( SELECT top 10000 * FROM dbo.Incidents ORDER BY IncidentId ) SELECT s.IncidentId, f.ord, ...
30/10/2025
Koulutus on kasvun moottori – miksi Microsoftin kumppanien kannattaa panostaa osaamiseen?
Digitalisaation ja tekoälyn aikakaudella tekninen osaaminen ei ole enää vain tukitoiminto – se on liiketoiminnan ydin. Microsoftin tuore tutkimus osoittaa, että projektivalmiit ja työkuormaan kohdennetut koulutukset parantavat kumppaneiden menestystä merkittävästi: ne nopeuttavat kauppojen läpimenoa, nostavat voittoprosenttia ja avaavat ovia kannattavampiin ratkaisuihin. Koulutus ei s...
30/10/2025
Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Agentless connector GA
Dear Community, Today is the day: Our new agentless connector for Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP applications is Generally Available now! Fully onboarded to SAP’s official Business Accelerator Hub and ready for prime time wherever your SAP systems are waiting – on-premises, hyperscalers, RISE, or GROW – to be protected...
30/10/2025
Edge AI for Beginners : Getting Started with Foundry Local
In Module 08 of the EdgeAI for Beginners course, Microsoft introduces Foundry Local a toolkit that helps you deploy and test Small Language Models (SLMs) completely offline. In this blog, I’ll share how I installed Foundry Local, ran the Phi-3.5-mini model on my windows laptop, and what I learned through the pr...
30/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Renewing an Expired Certificate in Microsoft HPC Pack 2019 (Single Head Node)
Managing certificates in an HPC Pack 2019 cluster is critical for secure communication between nodes. However, if your certificate has expired, your cluster services (Scheduler, Broker, Web Components, etc.) may stop functioning properly — preventing nodes from communicating or jobs from scheduling. When the HPC Pack certificate expires, the HPC Cluster Manager will fail to launch, and you may encounter error messages ...
30/10/2025
How to Build Ethically Aligned Autonomous Agents through Value-Guided Reasoning and Self-Correcting Decision-Making Using Open-Source Models
In this tutorial, we explore how we can build an autonomous agent that aligns its actions with ethical and organizational values. We use open-source Hugging Face models running locally in Colab to simulate a decision-making process that balances goal achievement with moral reasoning. Through this implementation, we demonstrate how we can integrate a “policy” model […] The post
30/10/2025
Build an AI-Powered Chat App in Minutes with AI Toolkit
AI Toolkit VS Code extension is a great place for developers to experiment, prototype, and learn about AI workflows. Developers exploring AI often start in "Model Playground" — experimenting with models, testing prompts, and iterating on ideas. But turning those experiments into real applications can take time.
30/10/2025
IBM AI Team Releases Granite 4.0 Nano Series: Compact and Open-Source Small Models Built for AI at the Edge
Small models are often blocked by poor instruction tuning, weak tool use formats, and missing governance. IBM AI team released Granite 4.0 Nano, a small model family that targets local and edge inference with enterprise controls and open licensing. The family includes 8 models in two sizes, 350M and about 1B, with both hybrid SSM […] The post
30/10/2025
Add Sidecars to Azure App Service for Linux—via GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines
Sidecars on Azure App Service let you run helper containers (telemetry, OTEL/monitoring agents, lightweight APIs, caches, AI helpers) alongside your main app—same app, shared lifecycle, localhost networking—without changing your core code. We’ve published ready-to-use templates for both GitH...
30/10/2025
Ubuntu-Powered Runtimes on Azure App Service for Linux: Leaner, Faster, Stronger
We’re updating the OS foundation for new code-based stacks on Azure App Service for Linux. Every new major version of our supported stacks will target Ubuntu going forward - this includes the new versions for .NET 10, Python 3.14, Node 24, PHP 8.5 and Java 25 - all expected to rollout in the next couple of months. Existing stacks remain on Debian, and nothing changes for your current apps un...
30/10/2025
Python 3.14 is now available on Azure App Service for Linux
If you’ve been waiting to run Python 3.14 in on Azure App Service - it’s here. Azure App Service for Linux now offers Python 3.14 as a first-class runtime. You can create a new 3.14 app through the Azure portal, automate it with the Azure CLI, or roll it out using your favorite ARM/Bicep templates — and App Service continues to handle the OS, runtime updates, and patching for you so you can stay focused on code. Why Python 3.14 matters
30/10/2025
Copilot Vision: Visual AI Guidance That Transforms Everyday Productivity
Copilot Vision brings visual, onscreen guidance to Microsoft 365 so you can see what to do, not just read about it. This inclusive approach offers clear, visual cues and step-by-step help, making it easy for everyone—regardless of learning style or ability—to confidentl...
30/10/2025
Connecting the Dots: How MCP Enables Context-Aware Agents Across Diverse Data Sources
Unlock the power of MCP—connect data dots, break silos, and let your agents deliver smarter, real-time answers Introduction As a passionate innovator in AI systems, I’m on a mission to redefine how intelligent agents interact with the world—moving beyond isolated prompts to create context-aware, dynamic solutions. With Model Context Protocol (MCP), I aim to empower agents to seamlessly connect, interpret, and unify fragmented data s...
29/10/2025
Simplified Windows Update titles
Windows updates play a vital role in keeping devices secure, performant, and up to date. To further enrich the user experience, we're introducing a simplified and standardized titling system for a range of updates. This new format is designed primarily with the user in mind. Titles are more intuitive, consistent, and informative to help users quickly understand what updates they're receiving.
29/10/2025
Copilot Agents: From Prompts to Agents
AI is changing how we work, but knowing when to use a prompt versus building an agent can make or break your productivity. In our recent webinar with Michael Goad and Jim Warner, we broke down prompt best practices, explained the differences between prompts and agents, and shared...
29/10/2025
Microsoft Releases Agent Lightning: A New AI Framework that Enables Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Training of LLMs for Any AI Agent
How do you convert real agent traces into reinforcement learning RL transitions to improve policy LLMs without changing your existing agent stack? Microsoft AI team releases Agent Lightning to help optimize multi-agent systems. Agent Lightning is a open-sourced framework that makes reinforcement learning work for any AI agent without rewrites. It separates training from execution, […] The post
29/10/2025
Announcing Qwen3-VL family of models on Azure AI Foundry
We’re excited to share that Qwen3-VL family of vision-language models are now available in Azure AI Foundry thanks to our collaboration with Hugging Face. Our collaboration with Hugging Face models represents a major leap forward in operationalizing open-source AI at scale. By bridging the gap between community-driven innovation and enterprise-grade infrastructure, th...
29/10/2025
Dalec: Declarative Package and Container Builds
Dalec, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project, is a Docker BuildKit frontend that enables users to build system packages and container images from declarative YAML specifications. As a BuildKit frontend, Dalec integrates directly into the Docker build process, requiring no additional tools beyond Docker itself. Dalec’s primary focus is building native Linux packages (RPM and DEB form...
29/10/2025
Secure external attachments with Purview encryption
If you are using Microsoft Purview to secure email attachments, it’s important to understand how Conditional Access (CA) policies and Guest account settings influence the experience for external recipients. Scenario 1: Guest Accounts Enabled ✅ Smooth Experience Each recipient is provisioned with a guest account, allowing them to access the file seamlessly. 📝 Note
29/10/2025
Student-Led Campus Operations Program
The Student-Led Campus Operations Program, powered by Microsoft, enables universities to create student-driven innovation hubs in Cybersecurity and AI. Through this initiative, students gain hands-on experience with Microsoft technologies, earn industry-recognized certifications, and contribute to improving their institution’s operations and digital resilience. By joining the pr...
29/10/2025
Explore Marketplace and partner innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2025
Are you coming to Microsoft Ignite? Microsoft Marketplace has an expanded space in the Hub, in addition to a full slate of must-watch breakout and theater sessions. We are thrilled that the following software companies will be joining Marketplace in the Hub to showcase their cutting-edge solutions:
29/10/2025
Get Started with Git and GitHub: Why Every DevOps Professional Needs These Skills Now
Why Git and GitHub Are Non-Negotiable in DevOps In today’s fast-paced DevOps environments, mastering the basics of git and GitHub isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s essential. Whether you’re a devel...
29/10/2025
Announcing Public Preview: AI Toolkit for GitHub Copilot Prompt-First Agent Development
This week at GitHub Universe, we’re announcing the Public Preview of the GitHub Copilot prompt-first agent development in the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. With this release, building powerful AI agents is now simpler and fa...
29/10/2025
Liquid Glass and template category filters in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS
Hi, Insiders! We’re Jessica Hu and Hugo Garcia, Product Managers on the Apple Experiences team. We’re excited to share a new, modern home experience for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS! Liquid Glass and template category filters in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS Your favorite Microsoft 365 apps on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro now feature Liquid Glass styling. We’ve also made the search experience available from the bottom of the screen, to align with i...
29/10/2025
Announcing Public Preview: AI Toolkit for Prompt-First Agent Development
This week at GitHub Universe, we’re announcing the Public Preview of the GitHub Copilot prompt-first agent development in the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. With this release, building powerful AI agents is now simpler and fa...
29/10/2025
Streamline Cloud Spend with Azure Reserved VM Instances
Cloud costs can feel like a runaway train, especially if you’re running GPU-heavy workloads for AI. Every hour of compute adds up, and before long, your forecasted budget is looking off. This is where Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance can help. When customers commit to using a specific Virtual Machine in a region for a set time they’ll receive a discounted price. In this blog we’ll follow a fictious company, Contoso, that is looking to optimize their VM spend while scaling...
29/10/2025
The Future of AI: From Noise to Insight - An AI Agent for Customer Feedback
The Future of AI blog series is an evolving collection of posts from the AI Futures team in collaboration with subject matter experts across Microsoft. In this series, we explore tools and technologies that will drive the next generation of AI. Explore more at: Collections | Microsoft Learn Every product team wants to be more customer-led. But the reality is messy: feedback pours in from all...
29/10/2025
Powering Up People: Growing Tech Communities Through UK Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Groups
This is the second story in the User Group blog series. In this blog we turn to the UK, home to one of the largest and most active Dynamics 365 and Power Platform communities, to explore how connection and collaboration power lasting growth. Birmingham UG team, attendees and speakers group photo The UK Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Groups began in the early 2000s when
29/10/2025
Why Does an Old Certificate Reappear After Reboot in Azure VMs?
Issue Observed A customer removed an expired SSL certificate from their Azure VM after installing a renewed one. However, after every reboot, the old certificate reappeared, and IIS site bindings automatically started picking it up. Investigation Steps 1. Identify the Process Bringing Back the Certificate To trace the root cause, we configured Sysmon following this guide:
29/10/2025
Microsoft Entra at Ignite 2025: November 17-21
Microsoft Ignite is almost here. Join us from November 17–21, 2025, in San Francisco, California, and online for Microsoft’s largest event of the year. Ignite brings together IT and security professionals, developers, and business leaders from across the globe to explore the future of technology. This year, expect breakthrough insights ...
29/10/2025
SharePoint Showcase highlights: Smarter Copilot responses using metadata with the Knowledge Agent
Hi, Insiders! I’m happy to share highlights from this month’s SharePoint Showcase series, which explores why metadata unlocks smarter responses from Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents, and how the Knowledge Agent in SharePoint can streamline the process of adding metadata to files. Why metadata matters As more teams rely on Copilot and agents to drive productivity, the difference between generic ...
29/10/2025
7 Advanced Feature Engineering Tricks for Text Data Using LLM Embeddings
Large language models (LLMs) are not only good at understanding and generating text; they can also turn raw text into numerical representations called embeddings.
29/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: 77 offers to introduce October 29, 2025
Learn about 77 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
29/10/2025
Level up your Python + AI skills with our complete series
We've just wrapped up our live series on Python + AI, a comprehensive nine-part journey diving deep into how to use generative AI models from Python. The series introduced multiple types of models, including LLMs, embedding models, and vision models. We dug into popular techniques like RAG, tool calling, and structured outputs. We assessed AI quality and safety...
29/10/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #2: Fixing Read Only Mode Storage Threshold Explained
Co-authored with angesalsaa The issue occurred when the server’s storage usage reached approximately 95% of the allocated capacity. Automatic storage scaling was disabled.
29/10/2025
Liquid AI Releases LFM2-ColBERT-350M: A New Small Model that brings Late Interaction Retrieval to Multilingual and Cross-Lingual RAG
Can a compact late interaction retriever index once and deliver accurate cross lingual search with fast inference? Liquid AI released LFM2-ColBERT-350M, a compact late interaction retriever for multilingual and cross-lingual search. Documents can be indexed in one language, queries can be written in many languages, and the system retrieves with high accuracy. The Liquid AI […] The post
29/10/2025
Using Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server with GitHub Copilot for AI-Powered Threat Hunting
Introduction This post walks through how to get started with the Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server and showcases a hands-on demo integrating with Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot. Using the MCP server, you can run natural language queries against Microsoft Sentinel’s security data lake, enabling faster investigations and simplified threat hunting using tools you already know. This blog includes a real-wo...
29/10/2025
How Exploration Agents like Q-Learning, UCB, and MCTS Collaboratively Learn Intelligent Problem-Solving Strategies in Dynamic Grid Environments
In this tutorial, we explore how exploration strategies shape intelligent decision-making through agent-based problem solving. We build and train three agents, Q-Learning with epsilon-greedy exploration, Upper Confidence Bound (UCB), and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), to navigate a grid world and reach a goal efficiently while avoiding obstacles. Also, we experiment with different ways of […] The post
29/10/2025
Copilot Retention, Auditing and eDiscovery: A deep dive
Last Friday’s session was a powerhouse of insights for anyone navigating compliance in the age of AI. We explored how retention policies, audit logs, and eDiscovery apply to Copilot interactions, ensuring organizations can meet regulatory requirements while leveraging AI responsibly. If you missed the session, we have you covered you can view it here https://aka.ms/Compli...
28/10/2025
MiniMax Releases MiniMax M2: A Mini Open Model Built for Max Coding and Agentic Workflows at 8% Claude Sonnet Price and ~2x Faster
Can an open source MoE truly power agentic coding workflows at a fraction of flagship model costs while sustaining long-horizon tool use across MCP, shell, browser, retrieval, and code? MiniMax team has just released MiniMax-M2, a mixture of experts MoE model optimized for coding and agent workflows. The weights are published on Hugging Face under […] The post
28/10/2025
Accelerating Cloud-Native Development with AI-Powered Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension
Table of Contents Abstract The Enterprise Challenge: Storage Complexity at Scale Introducing the Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension Technical Architecture: Building for Developer P...
28/10/2025
Webinar | Session 3: Mastering Copilot Governance Purview for Microsoft 365 + Agents
In our latest Mastering Copilot Governance webinar, we are joining by Principle Solution Engineer, Arlie Hartman, as we shifted focus Purview, where with great power comes the need for strong governance, especially when it comes to sensitive information and regulatory compliance...
28/10/2025
Azure Migrate Expands Capabilities to Accelerate Migration to Azure Local
As organizations accelerate their digital transformation, Microsoft provides flexible paths to migrate and modernize applications, enabling businesses to choose the best approach for their needs - whether embracing the cloud, leveraging cloud-managed infrastructure locally, or balancing both. Unified management, governance, and security can be applied across all strategies, empowering organizations to utilize cloud-based tools, policies, and monitoring wherever their workloads reside. ...
28/10/2025
Mastering the AZ-104 Exam: Golu’s Guide to Passing & Levelling Up Your Cloud Career!
The AZ-104 exam is designed to test your knowledge and skills in administering Azure services. Passing this exam will validate your expertise in Azure administration and enhance your career opportunities in cloud computing. Being the Global Courseware Lead for AZ-104 Course and as a Microsoft Technical Trainer at Microsoft, I got to work with a lot of different versions of thi...
28/10/2025
MSL correction from clone to multistate HANA DB Cluster SUSE activation
Introduction: SAP HANA system replication involves configuring one primary node and at least one secondary node. Any changes made to the data on the primary node are replicated to the secondary node synchronously. This ensures that we have a consistent and up-to-date backup, which is crucial for maintaining the integrity and availability of our data. Problem Description: Azure VM was in a degraded state causing a major outage since th...
28/10/2025
Reimagining AI at scale: NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 on Azure
By Gohar Waqar, CVP of Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering, Microsoft Microsoft was the first hyperscaler to deploy the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 infrastructure at scale – with a fully integrated platform engineered to deliver unprecedented compute density in a ...
28/10/2025
NVIDIA NIM for NVIDIA Nemotron, Cosmos, & Microsoft Trellis: Now Available in Azure AI Foundry
We’re excited to announce 7 new powerful NVIDIA NIM™ additions to
28/10/2025
General Availability of CAPTCHA in Azure Front Door WAF
We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) CAPTCHA challenge for Azure Front Door, empowering customers to better defend their web applications against automated bot attacks while ensuring legitimate users can still access their apps seamlessly. This milestone marks the culmination of a successful public preview that saw hundreds of customers defend against more than 700 million bot requests, reinforcing the value of interactive...
28/10/2025
Partner Blog | Unifying the data platform for real-time insights
Every organization is looking for quicker insights, stronger security, and new ways to drive innovation with AI. The real challenge lies in connecting and preparing the data that makes those outcomes possible. Across industries, customers are realizing that data sprawl and disconnected systems limit what AI can do. To unlock the potential of their data and deliver real-time impact, they need a modern data foundation that’s integrated...
28/10/2025
Partner Case Study | ALIANDO
What if every department in a financial services firm had its own AI assistant—one that could summarize documents, automate workflows, and deliver real-time insights? That’s the kind of transformation ALIANDO specializes in. As a Microsoft partner, ALIANDO helps organizations modernize operations through intelligent automation and cloud innovation. With deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI, and Power Platform, the company designs scalable solutions that connect data, accelerate...
28/10/2025
Advanced Meeting Features in MS Teams: Breakout Rooms, Live Transcription and Intelligent Recap
Microsoft Teams has solidified its role as a cornerstone of modern workplace collaboration, facilitating daily communication for over 320 million active users globally as of 2024. While core capabilities like chat, file sharing, and video conferencing remain central, it’s the platform’s evolving suite of meeting enhancements Breakout Rooms, Live Transcription, and Intelligent Recap that are transforming virtual collaboration in 2025. These innovations harness AI, real-time engagement, and aut...
28/10/2025
Overload to Optimal: Tuning Microsoft Fabric Capacity
Co-Authored by: Daya Ram, Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect Optimizing Microsoft Fabric capacity is both a performance and cost exercise. By diagnosing workloads, tuning cluster and Spark settings, and applying data best practices, teams can reduce run times, avoid throttling, and lower total cost of ownership—without compromising SLAs. Use Fabric’s built-in observability (Monitoring...
28/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Model Context Protocol
Language models can generate text and reason impressively, yet they remain isolated by default.
28/10/2025
Make tech matter where it counts most
Cybersecurity In a digital world, trust is everything. As organizations grow more distributed, the risks of phishing, ransomware, and insider threats rise daily. But AI is turning security into more than a defense,,it’s becoming a competitive advantage. From protecting research labs to keeping universities secure, the stakes are high, and the opportunities are wide open. How could you build...
28/10/2025
Sprint to Imagine Cup: Igniting Innovation on Campus
In the first two weeks since launch, Sprint to Imagine Cup events have already engaged hundreds of students across universities worldwide. Led by Microsoft MVPs and industry experts, these interactive sessions are equipping student founders with the knowledge and tools to harness Microsoft AI, not only to advance their technical skills and business potential but to create solutions that drive meaningful impact across communities and industries. Microsoft Developer Technologies MV...
28/10/2025
Run agentless SAP connector cost-efficiently
The SAP agentless connector uses SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration/CPI) to fetch SAP audit log data and forward it to Microsoft Sentinel. Because SAP CPI billing typically reflects message counts and data volume, you can tune the connector to control costs—while preserving reliability and timeliness. Cost reductions primarily come from sending fewer CPI messages
28/10/2025
Work smarter with Copilot in the People, Files, and Calendar apps
Hey, Insiders! I’m Yash Kamalanath, a Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft 365 companion apps team. I’m excited to share that the companion apps – People, Files, and Calendar – are now smarter than ever: Microsoft 365 Copilot is built into People and Files, with Copilot in Calendar coming soon. These smart agents make finding what you need and getting things done in Windows lightning fast. Work smarter with Copilot in the People, Files, and Calendar apps Looking up a col...
28/10/2025
MODIS October 2025: Transforming Organizational Data Ingestion in Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Viva
Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is a robust platform that streamlines how admins and data custodians bring HR data into Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Viva. With a single, secure ingestion point, Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 validates data integrity, enables access to shared data services, and governs data usage — empowering organizations to unlock business-critical scenarios with confidence. This new update to organizational data ingestion in Microsoft 365 marks a significan...
28/10/2025
Custom detections are now the unified experience for creating detections in Microsoft Defender
As we continue to deliver on our vision to simplify security workflows for the SOC, we are making custom detections the unified solution for building and managing rules over Defender XDR and Sentinel data. While analytics rules remain available, we recommend using custom detections for access to new features and enhancements. Benefits of unified custom detections Adopting custom detections as the primary method for rule management helps streamline operations and enhance securi...
28/10/2025
SharePoint Showcase: How Metadata and the Knowledge Agent Elevate Microsoft 365 Copilot Responses
This month’s SharePoint Showcase highlights a breakthrough for organizations embracing AI: Knowledge Agent in SharePoint. As more teams rely on Copilot and agents to drive productivity, the difference between generic and truly valuable responses comes down to how your content is structured and enriched. In this ...
28/10/2025
What's New in Excel (October 2025)
Welcome to the October 2025 update. This month, look for Agent Mode in Excel (Frontier) in the Tools menu of Copilot for Excel. Additionally, PivotTable #SPILL and accessibility assistant updates are now available to Insider users on Windows and Mac. Formula by Example has also rolled out to the Current Channel for Excel on Windows. Excel for web:- Agent Mode in Excel (Frontier) Excel for Windows and Mac:- PivotTable #S...
28/10/2025
From complexity to clarity: How Zammo Agents in Microsoft Marketplace help unlock AI with Azure
In this guest blog post, Stacey Kyler, Managing Director at Zammo, discusses how Zammo Agents in Microsoft Marketplace overcomes the barriers organizations face when trying to implement AI, enabling them to build and deploy AI agents quickly and intuitively. Artificial intelligence is no longer optional. Customers expect faster service, employees want better tools, and leadership is under pressure to innovate without adding excessive cost or complexity. But for many organizati...
28/10/2025
How to Safely Remove Secrets from Your Git History (The Right Way)
Accidental secret commits are one of the most common and most dangerous security mistakes in modern development. A single leaked API key or connection string can give attackers persistent access long after you’ve deleted the file. The real challenge isn’t fixing the code — it’s cleaning the history. This post walks through how to safely and...
28/10/2025
Zhipu AI Releases ‘Glyph’: An AI Framework for Scaling the Context Length through Visual-Text Compression
Can we render long texts as images and use a VLM to achieve 3–4× token compression, preserving accuracy while scaling a 128K context toward 1M-token workloads? A team of researchers from Zhipu AI release Glyph, an AI framework for scaling the context length through visual-text compression. It renders long textual sequences into images and processes […] The post
28/10/2025
Understanding Small Language Modes
AI Everywhere… But Can It Fit in Your Pocket? We have all seen the magic of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-5 and Gemini. They write essays, generate code, summarize complex topics, and even help with strategy. But here’s the catch: LLMs are huge. They live in the cloud, run on powerful GPUs, and consume massive amounts of energy. Now imagine having that same intelligence on your own device, your phone, laptop, or robot with insta...
28/10/2025
Meet Pyversity Library: How to Improve Retrieval Systems by Diversifying the Results Using Pyversity?
Pyversity is a fast, lightweight Python library designed to improve the diversity of results from retrieval systems. Retrieval often returns items that are very similar, leading to redundancy. Pyversity efficiently re-ranks these results to surface relevant but less redundant items. It offers a clear, unified API for several popular diversification strategies, including Maximal Marginal Relevance […] The post
28/10/2025
How to Build a Fully Interactive, Real-Time Visualization Dashboard Using Bokeh and Custom JavaScript?
In this tutorial, we create a fully interactive, visually compelling data visualization dashboard using Bokeh. We start by turning raw data into insightful plots, then enhance them with features such as linked brushing, color gradients, and real-time filters powered by dropdowns and sliders. As we progress, we bring our dashboard to life with Custom JavaScript […] The post
28/10/2025
Part 2: Building Security Observability Into Your Code - Defensive Programming for Azure OpenAI
Introduction In Part 1, we explored why traditional security monitoring fails for GenAI workloads. We identified the blind spots: prompt injection attacks that bypass WAFs, ephemeral interactions that evade standard logging, and compliance challenges that existing frameworks don't address. Now comes the critical question: What do you actually build into your code to close these gaps? Security for GenAI applications isn't something you bol...
28/10/2025
Unlock Savings with Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan
Introduction As organizations scale their use of Microsoft Copilot Studio from building custom agents to integrating with Dynamics 365, cost predictability and optimization becomes critical. To help you plan confidently and save more, we’re introducing Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan (P3)*, a simple, one‑year plan that delivers volume discounts and automatic billing, so your team can focus on outcomes, not invoices. What is Copilot Credit Pr...
27/10/2025
Announcing the Release of SSMS 22 Preview 4
Happy Monday! The SSMS team is excited to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Preview 4. Building on feedback from our community and the momentum of previous previews, this release brings new features, important bug fixes, and further improvements to your SSMS experience. What's new in SSMS 22 Preview 4 This release introduces several bug fixes reported via the
27/10/2025
Keep meetings focused and productive with Facilitator in Teams
Hi, Insiders! I’m Melissa Rustemeyer, a Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to announce Facilitator, a new agent experience in Microsoft Teams that will help drive more productive meetings. Keep meetings focused and productive with Facilitator in Teams Facilitator keeps your meetings focused, organized, and action-oriented by surfacing the agenda, tracking progress, and capturing key highlights in real time. With a conversational interface, meeting participants can ...
27/10/2025
Microsoft Azure at KubeCon North America 2025 | Atlanta, GA - Nov 10-13
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is back - this time in Atlanta, Georgia, and the excitement is real. Whether you’re a developer, operator, architect, or just Kubernetes-curious, Microsoft Azure is showing up with a packed agenda, hands-on demos, and plenty of ways to connect and learn with our team of experts. Read on for all the ways you can connect with our team! Kick off with Azure Day with Kubernetes (Nov 10) Before the main conference even starts, joi...
27/10/2025
Pumpkin panic: Your crash course in spooky prep with Microsoft Copilot
Hi, Insiders! Halloween is just around the corner, and while you probably have your costume all picked out, there may still be a few more items on your to-do list. Whether you’re looking to win your neighborhood’s pumpkin decorating contest or wow party guests with an on-theme dessert, Microsoft Copilot has plenty of advice to dish out. And if you’re still not sure how to dress for the occasion, check out our blog on
27/10/2025
How to Control Agent Sharing in Copilot Studio Lite (Agent Builder)
IT admins and business leaders have been asking for this for a long time: real sharing controls for Copilot agents. With the evolution from Agent Builder to Copilot Studio Lite, Microsoft has introduced a feature that gives organizations the guardrails they need to keep agent experiences secure.
27/10/2025
Persistent Version Store (PVS) can cause fluctuations in size of an Azure SQL DB
Issue We recently received an end user case where the customer complained of fluctuations in size of an Azure SQL DB. Error The cx noticed this on their Azure Portal Monitoring screen, the same is shared below: Root Cause We investigated the issue and explained the customer that during the issue timeframe they had a few Long running Sessions in their Azure SQL DB. The Long...
27/10/2025
Windows 365: How to choose the best connection method for your team
Windows 365 delivers Cloud PCs, a complete and secure Windows experience hosted in the Microsoft Cloud that are accessible on any device. Employees, whether full-time, contractors, shift workers, or seasonal staff, can access their personalized Windows apps, settings, desktop, and data from anywhere. This kind of flexibility is part of the beauty of Windows 365 — but with multiple connection options, you might wonder: Which one should I use? Don’t worry, we’ve got you ...
27/10/2025
Introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the AI built for work - and work rarely happens alone, instead our best work often results from collaboration. Today we’re introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot: a simple, secure way to bring your co-workers into your Copilot conversations, turning individual AI chats into group AI chats in Microsoft Teams. Now, the same Copilot you use for individual work supports group work as well. This new capability builds on our investments in <...
27/10/2025
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software Reservations Now Available
What's New After careful collaboration with Red Hat, we've updated our RHEL pay-as-you-go billing meters and reservation pricing to align with Red Hat's latest pricing model. These updates address previous billing meter issues and ensure an accurate, transparent experience for our cus...
27/10/2025
Mastering Postgres_FDW: Setup, optimize performance and avoid Common Pitfalls
Foreign Data Wrappers (FDWs) are one of PostgreSQL’s most powerful features, enabling seamless access to remote databases as if they were local. Among these FDW options, Postgres_FDW stands out for connecting PostgreSQL instances across servers. But with great power comes complexity —especially when dealing with large datasets or complex distributed queries. In this post, we’ll cover how to set up Postgres_FDW, best practices for performance, and troubleshooting tips for c...
27/10/2025
Unlock Savings with Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan
Introduction As organizations scale their use of Microsoft Copilot Studio from building custom agents to integrating with Dynamics 365, cost predictability and optimization becomes critical. To help you plan confidently and save more, we’re introducing Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan (P3)*, a simple, one‑year plan that delivers volume discounts and automatic billing, so your team can focus on outcomes, not invoices. What is Copilot...
27/10/2025
Cloud shadows: How attackers exploit Azure’s elasticity for stealth and scale
Threats like password spray or adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) are routine and too easily overlooked in an endless stream of security alerts. But what if these routine threats are only a small part of a much deeper, more sophisticated attack? Since June 2025, Microsoft Defender Experts has been closely monitoring a sophisticated and continuously evolving attack campaign targeting poorly managed Azure cloud environments. What sets these threats apart is their use of Azure’s elasticity an...
27/10/2025
10 Python One-Liners for Generating Time Series Features
Time series data normally requires an in-depth understanding in order to build effective and insightful forecasting models.
27/10/2025
Phi-4: Small Language Models That Pack a Punch
What Are Small Language Models, and Why Should You Care? If you've been following AI development, you can probably recall "bigger is better" being the mantra for years. GPT-3.5 was 175 billion parameters, GPT-4 is even larger, and everyone seemed to be in an arms race to build the biggest model possible. But here's the thing: bigger models are expensive to run, slow to respond, and often overkill for what you actually need. Small Language Models (SLMs) flip this script. These ...
27/10/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#1:Fix Cannot Execute in a Read-Only Transaction After HA Failover
The issue occurred when the application attempted write operations immediately after an HA failover. The failover caused the primary role to switch, but the client continued connecting to the old primary (now standby), which is in read-only mode. Symptoms Application writes failures during transactions Errors indicating read-only mode Example error: ERROR: cannot execute %s...
27/10/2025
Lesson Learned#1:Fix Cannot Execute in a Read-Only Transaction on Azure PostgreSQL After HA Failover
Symptoms Application writes failures during transactions Errors indicating read-only mode Example error: ERROR: cannot execute %s in a read-only transaction Root Cause The root cause was a DNS resolution mismatch after the HA failover. When the primary server role shifted to the standby instance, the private IP address changed<...
27/10/2025
Lesson Learned #1:“Cannot Execute in a Read-Only Transaction” on Azure PostgreSQL After HA Failover
Symptoms Application writes failures during transactions Errors indicating read-only mode Example error: ERROR: cannot execute %s in a read-only transaction Root Cause The root cause was a DNS resolution mismatch after the HA failover. When the primary server role shifted to the standby instance, the private IP address changed<...
27/10/2025
Ollama on HTTPS for SQL Server
Here is a quick procedure to deploy an Ubuntu container with Ollama and expose its API over HTTPS. The goal is to allow a fast deployment, even for those unfamiliar with Docker or Language Models, making it easy to set up an offline platform for generating embeddings and using Small Language Models This is particularly useful when testing SQL Server 2025 for fully on-premises environment use cases, since SQL Server only allows access to HTTPS endpoints. However, HTTP remains ope...
27/10/2025
Implementing Security Headers in Azure App Service and Azure Container Apps
Why Security Headers Matter? Security headers are an essential part of web application security. They help protect against common vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking, and data exposure. By configuring these headers, you instruct browsers on how to handle your content securely. Azure platform does not automatically inject these headers, so developers must configure them at the application level or through middleware. Commo...
27/10/2025
How to Build an Agentic Decision-Tree RAG System with Intelligent Query Routing, Self-Checking, and Iterative Refinement?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design it to intelligently route queries to the right knowledge sources, perform self-checks to assess answer quality, and iteratively refine responses for improved accuracy. We implement the entire system using open-source tools like FAISS, SentenceTransformers, and […] The post
27/10/2025
Meet ‘kvcached’: A Machine Learning Library to Enable Virtualized, Elastic KV Cache for LLM Serving on Shared GPUs
Large language model serving often wastes GPU memory because engines pre-reserve large static KV cache regions per model, even when requests are bursty or idle. Meet ‘kvcached‘, a library to enable virtualized, elastic KV cache for LLM serving on shared GPUs. kvcached has been developed by a research from Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab (University of […] The post
26/10/2025
5 Common LLM Parameters Explained with Examples
Large language models (LLMs) offer several parameters that let you fine-tune their behavior and control how they generate responses. If a model isn’t producing the desired output, the issue often lies in how these parameters are configured. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of the most commonly used ones — max_completion_tokens, temperature, top_p, presence_penalty, and […] The post
26/10/2025
How to Build, Train, and Compare Multiple Reinforcement Learning Agents in a Custom Trading Environment Using Stable-Baselines3
In this tutorial, we explore advanced applications of Stable-Baselines3 in reinforcement learning. We design a fully functional, custom trading environment, integrate multiple algorithms such as PPO and A2C, and develop our own training callbacks for performance tracking. As we progress, we train, evaluate, and visualize agent performance to compare algorithmic efficiency, learning curves, and decision […] The post
26/10/2025
A New AI Research from Anthropic and Thinking Machines Lab Stress Tests Model Specs and Reveal Character Differences among Language Models
AI companies use model specifications to define target behaviors during training and evaluation. Do current specs state the intended behaviors with enough precision, and do frontier models exhibit distinct behavioral profiles under the same spec? A team of researchers from Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab and Constellation present a systematic method that stress tests model specs […] The post
26/10/2025
How to Build a Fully Functional Computer-Use Agent that Thinks, Plans, and Executes Virtual Actions Using Local AI Models
In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, equip it with a tool interface, and design an intelligent agent that can analyze its environment, decide on actions like clicking or typing, and execute […] The post
25/10/2025
Google vs OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Agentic AI Arms Race Breakdown
In this article we will analyze how Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are productizing ‘agentic’ capabilities across computer-use control, tool/function calling, orchestration, governance, and enterprise packaging. Agent platforms, not only models, now define competitive advantage. Google is aligning Gemini 2.0 with an enterprise control plane on Vertex AI and a new ‘front door’ called Gemini Enterprise. […] The post
25/10/2025
Leveraging AI to improve focus and better engage with employees
A new report from the Potential Project—discussed this week in the
24/10/2025
Unlocking M&A Success: Human Insights and Tech Transformation for Microsoft Partners
Understanding the intricacies of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is more crucial than ever—especially for Microsoft partners navigating the competitive tech ecosystem. In the latest podcast episode of "Unlocking M&A Success," hosts A...
24/10/2025
Liquid AI’s LFM2-VL-3B Brings a 3B Parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) to Edge-Class Devices
Liquid AI released LFM2-VL-3B, a 3B parameter vision language model for image text to text tasks. It extends the LFM2-VL family beyond the 450M and 1.6B variants. The model targets higher accuracy while preserving the speed profile of the LFM2 architecture. It is available on LEAP and Hugging Face under the LFM Open License v1.0. […] The post
24/10/2025
Sign up for Microsoft Partner Incentives performance measurement reports
As part of a larger push to empower you to deliver exceptional business outcomes, we've introduced incentives performance measurement reports, available through email. Delivered during the first week of every month, these reports include presales and post-sales partner performance measurements and earning cap status so you can get essential insights into your engagements across hero investments. These hero investments inc...
24/10/2025
Partner Blog | Building Frontier Firms: How partner skilling accelerates innovation and growth
For partners, skilling is more than a support function. It’s the economic engine helping you grow, compete, and differentiate your business in the age of AI.
24/10/2025
A new way to collaborate with Copilot in Teams chats
Hi, Insiders! I’m Nicole Toussaint, and I’m a Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to share a new way to leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams group chats to streamline workflows and collaboration. A new way to collaborate with Copilot in Teams chats Many conversations with Copilot happen in a private, one-on-one setting. With this new capability, you will now also be able to add Copilot to Teams chats and engage with it in a group setting. You c...
24/10/2025
An Implementation on Building Advanced Multi-Endpoint Machine Learning APIs with LitServe: Batching, Streaming, Caching, and Local Inference
In this tutorial, we explore LitServe, a lightweight and powerful serving framework that allows us to deploy machine learning models as APIs with minimal effort. We build and test multiple endpoints that demonstrate real-world functionalities such as text generation, batching, streaming, multi-task processing, and caching, all running locally without relying on external APIs. By the […] The post
24/10/2025
A CISO's Guide to Securing AI - Securing AI for Federal, DIB, and DoW Entities
Why AI Security Is Mission-Critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping federal missions, defense operations, and critical infrastructure. From intelligence analysis to logistics and cyber defense, AI’s transformative power is undeniable. Yet, with great power comes great responsibility and risk. As a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the federal space, Defense Industrial Base (DIB), or Department of War (DoW), you are tasked not only with enabling inn...
24/10/2025
Scaling Azure Functions Python with orjson
Introduction Delivering high-performance serverless applications is at the heart of Azure Functions. Azure Functions serves countless customer workloads across scenarios like APIs, event processing, and automation. To ensure great performance at scale, we’re always looking for opportunities to reduce latency and increase throughput — especially for common operations like JSON serialization and deserialization. To that end, we’ve introduced support for
24/10/2025
ICYMI Microsoft Partner Blog | Transforming customer engagement into growth with Copilot and agentic AI
Microsoft partners are at the center of that transformation.AI transformation doesn’t happen in a single project.It’s a sustained journey that moves customers from pilots to full-scale adoption and long-term value.
24/10/2025
Policy-based removal of pre-installed Microsoft Store apps
By using a policy to remove preinstalled Microsoft Store apps, you can:You can use Microsoft Intune to configure devices with a settings catalog policy or a CSP policy.With this new app management policy, you can efficiently deploy changes to the default Microsoft Store apps available on your users’ devices.
24/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 24, 2025
🗂️ October 24, 2025 Title Plan Now Available Access 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. This means each update may include fewer...
24/10/2025
SharePoint Embedded guide for software companies: success factors, positioning & key insights
Welcome to the definitive Q&A guide for software development companies exploring SharePoint Embedded for their SaaS applications.This blog series addresses the most frequently asked questions from our thriving software company community, drawing from real-world implementations across partner organizations spanning financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors.Q: What are the key success factors I should focus on as a software company using SharePoint Embedded?
24/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Pydantic for Python Developers
Python's flexibility with data types is convenient when coding, but it can lead to runtime errors when your code receives unexpected data formats.
24/10/2025
Subscription Governance: The Relationships and Dependencies Involved with Managing Subscriptions
Relationships and dependencies between Entra ID, Billing Accounts and SubscriptionsIn cloud governance, the relationships between Entra ID, Billing Accounts, Subscriptions, and User Permissions are frequently misunderstood even by experienced practitioners.As the roles within the billing account provide the permissions to create subscriptions it is important to understand who can create these billing accounts.
24/10/2025
Salesforce AI Research Introduces WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools): Enabling LLM agents to Automatically Discover Reusable Tools from Any Website
A team of Salesforce AI researchers introduced WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools), a framework that reverse-engineers latent website functionality into reusable invocable tools. It reframes browser automation around callable tools rather than long chains of clicks. Agents then call operations such as search, filter, sort, post_comment, and create_listing. This reduces dependence on large language […] The post
24/10/2025
AI Toolkit for VS Code October Update
We're thrilled to bring you the October update for the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code! This month marks another major milestone with version 0.24.0, introducing groundbreaking GitHub Copilot Tools Integration and additional user experience enhancements that make AI-powered development more seamless than ever. Let's dive into what's new! 👇
24/10/2025
Endpoints and AI strategy: Lessons of the Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025
Each year, the Microsoft Work Trend Index brings together one of the most comprehensive views of how work is changing. The 2025 report draws on survey data from 31,000 people across 31 countries, LinkedIn labor m...
24/10/2025
Azure Managed Redis at Ignite 2025: pre-day, session, and booth
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here!You’ll see live demos and learn how to build and scale intelligent applications using Azure Managed Redis for caching and modern AI workloads, architect your applications for performance, reliability, and scale with geo-replication, and migrate to Azure Managed Redis.Azure Managed Redis with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework let developers build adaptive, context-aware AI systems.
23/10/2025
Google AI Introduces FLAME Approach: A One-Step Active Learning that Selects the Most Informative Samples for Training and Makes a Model Specialization Super Fast
Open vocabulary object detectors answer text queries with boxes. In remote sensing, zero shot performance drops because classes are fine grained and visual context is unusual. Google Research team proposess FLAME, a one step active learning strategy that rides on a strong open vocabulary detector and adds a tiny refiner that you can train in […] The post
23/10/2025
Make the best decisions during open enrollment with Microsoft Copilot
Hi, Insiders! If you live and work in the United States, the yearly benefits’ open enrollment period can be a complicated, confusing, and intimidating time for anyone. You need to evaluate whether your current benefits meet your (and your family’s) needs now and in the future – and if not, make the necessary adjustments. That often means selecting a new plan from a multitude of options and combing through piles of paperwork. To navigate this tricky period, lean on Microsoft Copilot! D...
23/10/2025
Implementing MCP Remote Servers with Azure Function App and GitHub Copilot Integration
Introduction In the evolving landscape of AI-driven applications, the ability to seamlessly connect large language models (LLMs) with external tools and data sources is becoming a cornerstone of intelligent system design. Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a specification that enables AI agents to discover and invoke tools dynamically, based on context. While MCP is powerful, implementing it fro...
23/10/2025
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available for evaluation
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed.The 25.10 OS Retail Eval release includes quality and underlying build system updates.For more information on Azure Sphere OS feeds and setting up an evaluation device group, see Azure Sphere OS feeds and Set up devices for OS evaluation.
23/10/2025
Partner Blog | Highlights from the Migrate & Modernize Summit: Accelerating customer transformation through AI
Modernization is one of the biggest technology opportunities of our time. Across industries, organizations are looking to move faster, operate more securely, and scale innovation. But legacy systems, technical debt, and fragmented infrastructure continue to slow progress. IDC reports that more than 37% of application portfolios require modernization today, and that need will remain high for years to come. It’s a challenge that...
23/10/2025
UltraCUA: A Foundation Computer-Use Agents Model that Bridges the Gap between General-Purpose GUI Agents and Specialized API-based Agents
Computer-use agents have been limited to primitives. They click, they type, they scroll. Long action chains amplify grounding errors and waste steps. Apple Researchers introduce UltraCUA, a foundation model that builds an hybrid action space that lets an agent interleave low level GUI actions with high level programmatic tool calls. The model chooses the cheaper […] The post
23/10/2025
Viva Engage Festival 2025: Real Stories. Real Impact. Real Community
Join us on November 12 for the Viva Engage Festival 2025, a free, fully virtual global event hosted by SWOOP Analytics that brings together the Viva Engage community to connect, share, and learn from one another’s experiences. This practitioner-led festival showcases real-world success stories, leadership engagement strategies, and community-building...
23/10/2025
Optimize Azure Local using insights from a Well-Architected Review Assessment
Why Azure Local? Azure Local extends Azure to customer-owned infrastructure, enabling local execution of modern and traditional applications across distributed on-premises or edge locations. Azure Local can help accelerate cloud and AI innovation by seamlessly delivering new applications, workloads, and services. Providing the ability to deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines (...
23/10/2025
A Coding Guide to Build a Fully Functional Multi-Agent Marketplace Using uAgent
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a small yet functional multi-agent system using the uAgents framework. We set up three agents — Directory, Seller, and Buyer — that communicate via well-defined message protocols to simulate a real-world marketplace interaction. We design message schemas, define agent behaviors, and implement request-response cycles to demonstrate discovery, […] The post
23/10/2025
Announcing General Availability: Unified identity and endpoint sensor
This milestone streamlines the deployment of on-premises identity security by unifying our endpoint and identity protection into a single sensor, pre-installed and ready for activation on Domain Controllers running Windows Server 2019 or newer.Like many security solutions, Microsoft Defender relies on sensors to gain visibility into the endpoints and on-premises identity infrastructure within your environment.Security is a core focus at Ignite this year, with the Security Forum on November 17th, deep dive technical sessions, theater talks, and hands-on labs designed for security leaders and practitioners
23/10/2025
The 17th Anniversary of Small Basic
October 23, 2025 is our special day for Small Basic. The newest version of my program is SFF730-14. Have fun and Happy 17th Birthday, Small Basic!!
23/10/2025
VS Code Dev Days: How Global MVPs and Communities Brought AI-Powered Coding to Life
The VS Code Dev Days series was a global celebration of AI, community, and learning. Designed to reintroduce developers to Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, this pilot p...
23/10/2025
The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Fine-Tuning Language Models
Fine-tuning has become much more accessible in 2024–2025, with parameter-efficient methods letting even 70B+ parameter models run on consumer GPUs.
23/10/2025
Scaling Adoption: Five Lessons from 90+ No-Code Agent Early Adopters
In the SharePoint AI Early Access Program, encompassing 90+ early adopter organizations piloting and rolling out agents built in SharePoint broadly, one pattern stands out: the technology is powerful, but adoption only scales when people discover where agents fit into their work, feel supported as they experiment, and build on early wins so adoption deepens into new habits that change how work gets done.Creating an "RFP response agent" from SharePoint helps proposal writers craft quality responses in a fraction of the time.4. Refine and iterate instructions for continuous improvement
23/10/2025
Context-Aware RAG System with Azure AI Search to Cut Token Costs and Boost Accuracy
Purpose: Transforms messy enterprise data (wikis, PDFs, transcripts, repos, images) into structured, model-friendly chunks for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).To bring this architecture to life, let’s walk through a simple example of how documents can be chunked, embedded, stored in Azure AI Search, and then queried to generate accurate, cost-efficient answers.We convert each chunk into an embedding vector and push it to an Azure AI Search index.
23/10/2025
Transform Your AI Applications with Local LLM Deployment
Enter the world of Edge AI deployment with Microsoft's Foundry Local a game-changing approach that brings enterprise-grade LLM capabilities to local hardware while maintaining full OpenAI API compatibility.The Edge AI for Beginners https://aka.ms/edgeai-for-beginners curriculum provides AI Engineers and Developers with comprehensive, hands-on training to master local LLM deployment.In this post, we'll explore why Edge AI deployment represents the future of AI applications, dive deep into Foundry Local's capabilities across multiple frameworks, and show you exactly how to implement local LLM solutions that deliver both technical excellence and significant business value.
23/10/2025
Anthrogen Introduces Odyssey: A 102B Parameter Protein Language Model that Replaces Attention with Consensus and Trains with Discrete Diffusion
Anthrogen has introduced Odyssey, a family of protein language models for sequence and structure generation, protein editing, and conditional design.The production models range from 1.2B to 102B parameters.The Anthrogen’s research team positions Odyssey as a frontier, multimodal model for real protein design workloads, and notes that an API is in early access.
23/10/2025
PokeeResearch-7B: An Open 7B Deep-Research Agent Trained with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) and a Robust Reasoning Scaffold
Pokee AI has open sourced PokeeResearch-7B, a 7B parameter deep research agent that executes full research loops, decomposes a query, issues search and read calls, verifies candidate answers, then synthesizes multiple research threads into a final response. The agent runs a research and verification loop. In research, it calls external tools for web search and […] The post
23/10/2025
How to Design a Fully Functional Enterprise AI Assistant with Retrieval Augmentation and Policy Guardrails Using Open Source AI Models
In this tutorial, we explore how we can build a compact yet powerful Enterprise AI assistant that runs effortlessly on Colab. We start by integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using FAISS for document retrieval and FLAN-T5 for text generation, both fully open-source and free. As we progress, we embed enterprise policies such as data redaction, access […] The post
23/10/2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Migration & Onboarding
Blocking Malicious File Downloads in SharePoint and OneDriveA common assumption during onboarding is that Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections only apply to email.Once you have established protection against malicious files, the next step is ensuring your tenant is correctly set up to create and manage threat policies.
22/10/2025
Deployment Guide-Copilot Studio agent with MCP Server exposed by API Management using OAuth 2.0
Introduction In today’s enterprise landscape, enabling AI agents to interact with backend systems securely and at scale is critical. By exposing MCP servers through Azure API Management (APIM), organizations can provide controlled access to these services. When combined with OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow, this setup ensures robust, enterprise-grade security for AI agents built in Copilot Studio—empowering intelligent automation while maintaining strict access governance. ...
22/10/2025
Identify Device state in EntraID/Defender with PowerShell
Proposed solution: One way to achieve this result is by integrating few pieces of available technology. It sounds like a lot of moving parts but we do not need App registration in EntraID MS Graph API Defender API Powershell scripting language. File encryption App registration in EntraID: What this does is to provide a connection point between PowerShell and the information you want to access. Since creating an a...
22/10/2025
Upcoming Changes to Azure Relay IP Addresses and DNS Support
Azure Relay is an integral part of modern hybrid cloud architectures, enabling seamless connectivity between on-premises and cloud resources. To ensure continued reliability and security, Microsoft is implementing important updates to the IP addresses and DNS naming conventions used by Azure Relay services. What’s Changing? As detailed in the changes to
22/10/2025
Azure File Sync with ARC... Better together.
Hello Folks! Managing file servers across on-premises datacenters and cloud environments can be challenging for IT professionals. Azure File Sync (AFS) has been a game-changer by centralizing file shares in Azure while keeping your on-premises Windows servers in play. With AFS, a lightweight agent on a Windows file server keeps its files synced to an Azure file share, effectively turning the server into a cache for the cloud copy....
22/10/2025
Google AI Introduces VISTA: A Test Time Self Improving Agent for Text to Video Generation
TLDR: VISTA is a multi agent framework that improves text to video generation during inference, it plans structured prompts as scenes, runs a pairwise tournament to select the best candidate, uses specialized judges across visual, audio, and context, then rewrites the prompt with a Deep Thinking Prompting Agent, the method shows consistent gains over strong […] The post
22/10/2025
Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure – Part 2 (Security)
Let’s pick up from where we left off in the previous post — Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure - Part 1. Earlier, we explored a decision tree to help identify the most suitable Azure service for building your agentic solution. Following that discussion, we received several requests to dive deep...
22/10/2025
Orchestrating Multi-Agent Intelligence: MCP-Driven Patterns in Agent Framework
Building reliable AI systems requires modular, stateful coordination and deterministic workflows that enable agents to collaborate seamlessly. The Microsoft Agent Framework provides these foundations, with memory, tracing, and orchestration built in. This implementation demonstrates four multi-agentic patterns — Single Agent, Handoff, Reflection, and Magentic Orchestration — showcasing different interaction models and collaboration strategies. From lightweight domain routing to collabo...
22/10/2025
Improved Connectivity Types in Azure SQL Managed Instance
As part of its ongoing connectivity overhaul, Azure SQL Managed Instance is removing the last obstacles to broader use of the redirect connection type. The more performant connection type now operates only on port 1433 and provides fallback support for older TDS clients. What are "Proxy" and "Redirect"? Proxy and redirect are two different connectivity mechanisms that can be selected on the instance level to govern SQL client connections on managed instances' VNet-local endpoi...
22/10/2025
Blog Series: Securing the Future: Protecting AI Workloads in the Enterprise
Post 1: The Hidden Threats in the AI Supply Chain Your AI Supply Chain Is Under Attack — And You Might Not Even Know It Imagine deploying a cutting-edge AI model that delivers flawless predictions in testing. The system performs beautifully, adoption soars, and your data science team celebrates. Then, a few weeks later, you discover the model has been quietly exfiltrating sensitive data — or worse, that a single poisoned dataset alter...
22/10/2025
Cross Forest - Certificate Enrollment
Welcome to part one of my blog series on Cross Forest Certificate Enrollment. Nowadays, businesses often run across multiple Forests for distinct reasons. You would like to ensure secure authentication using certificates spanning Active Directory Forests within your enterprise. Cross Forest Certificate Enrollment is one solution that can be leveraged to enable the centralized management of digital certificates while maintaining security. In this blog, we will dive into Cross Fore...
22/10/2025
Interest Survey: Copilot for Exchange Server (on-premises)
We are exploring the possibility of introducing Copilot for Exchange Server (on-premises). Your feedback on this subject will help us understand your interest and requirements. If this is of interest to you, please take a moment to complete this short survey: https://forms.office.com/r/DwAKJLSJV1 The Exchange Team
22/10/2025
Running a Load Test within a Chaos Experiment
With Azure Chaos Studio and Azure Load Testing, you can simulate both — run a controlled load test while injecting faults into your application or infrastructure to understand how it behaves under stress. Together, they help you find those resiliency blind spots — the cascading failures, retry storms, and degraded dependencies that only appear when your syst...
22/10/2025
5 Advanced Feature Engineering Techniques with LLMs for Tabular Data
In the epoch of LLMs, it may seem like the most classical machine learning concepts, methods, and techniques like feature engineering are no longer in the spotlight.
22/10/2025
Copilot Agents: From Prompts to Agents
Join us for a practical walkthrough of Microsoft Copilot’s agent capabilities. We’ll cover three essentials: When to use prompts vs agents—and why it matters for scale and governance. Building agents in Copilot Studio lite for quick, from personal to team‑level solutions.
22/10/2025
Smarter Standards: How the Common Data Model for Nonprofits is Reshaping Nonprofit Data Management
Nonprofits manage vast amounts of data—from donor contributions and volunteer hours to program outcomes and grant records. Yet disconnected systems, inconsistent terminology, and manual processes often stand in the way of insight, efficiency, and impact. These data challenges don’t just slow down operations—they limit an organization’s ability to measure success, respond to community needs, and scale what works. The Common Data Model for Nonprofits offers a transformat...
22/10/2025
Azure Integrated HSM: New Chapter&Shift from Centralized Clusters to Embedded Silicon-to-Cloud Trust
Azure Integrated HSM marks a major shift in how cryptographic keys are handled—moving from centralized clusters… to local, tamper‑resistant modules embedded directly in virtual machines. This new model brings cryptographic assurance closer to the workload, reducing latency, incr...
22/10/2025
Mastering Azure Queries: Skip Token and Batching for Scale
Let's be honest. As a cloud engineer or DevOps professional managing a large Azure environment, running even a simple resource inventory query can feel like drinking from a firehose. You hit API limits, face slow performance, and struggle to get the complete picture of your estate—all because the data volume is overwhelming. But it doesn't have to be this way! This blog is your practical, hands-on guide to mastering two essential techniques for handling massive data volumes in A...
22/10/2025
Building Secure AI Chat Systems: Part 2 - Securing Your Architecture from Storage to Network
In Part 1 of this series, we tackled the critical challenge of protecting the LLM itself from malicious inputs. We implemented three essential security layers using Azure AI services: harmful content detection with Azure Content Safety, PII protection with Azure Text Analytics, and prompt injec...
22/10/2025
Serverless MCP Agent with LangChain.js v1 — Burgers, Tools, and Traces 🍔
AI agents that can actually do stuff (not just chat) are the fun part nowadays, but wiring them cleanly into real APIs, keeping things observable, and shipping them to the cloud can get... messy. So we built a fresh end‑to‑end sample to show how to do it right with the brand new LangChain.js v1 and Model Context Protocol (MCP). In case you missed it, MCP is a recent open standard that makes it easy for LLM agents to consume tools and APIs, and LangChain.js, a...
22/10/2025
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Atlas: A Chromium-based browser with a built-in AI agent
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Atlas, a new AI browser that embeds ChatGPT at the core of navigation, search, and on-page assistance.Atlas is available today for Free, Plus, Pro, and Go users, with a Business beta and Enterprise/Edu opt-in;Windows, iOS, and Android builds are “coming soon.”
22/10/2025
How I Built an Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems with AutoGen, LangChain, and Hugging Face to Demonstrate Practical Agentic AI Workflows
In this tutorial, we dive into the essence of Agentic AI by uniting LangChain, AutoGen, and Hugging Face into a single, fully functional framework that runs without paid APIs. We begin by setting up a lightweight open-source pipeline and then progress through structured reasoning, multi-step workflows, and collaborative agent interactions. As we move from LangChain […] The post
22/10/2025
Azure Live Voice API and Avatar Creation Demo
How It WorksAzure AI Live Voice API delivers natural, emotionally nuanced speech with low latency, enabling the trainer avatar to speak fluidly and adaptively.Avatar SDK animates facial expressions, lip sync, and gestures based on the synthesized voice, creating a cohesive and human-like presentation.The integration ensures consistent flow, where voice and visuals are tightly coupled—no awkward...
22/10/2025
Partner Skilling in the Age of AI: Potential Impact on Partner Success & Growth
The rise of Frontier AI is fundamentally transforming the Microsoft partner landscape. Traditional solution delivery models are increasingly insufficient—customers now expect AI-infused innovation, rapid time-to-value, and outcome-based engagements. Skilling is playing an increasingly pivotal role in this transition, evolving from a traditional support function into a key enabler of revenue growth, solution differentiation, and operational transformation. This blog explores how intenti...
22/10/2025
The Future of M&A in the Microsoft Ecosystem: Insights from Tim Mueller
The world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the Microsoft partner ecosystem is evolving rapidly, presenting opportunities and challenges for businesses seeking to adapt to the demands of modern technology. In the latest episode of "Profiles and Partnership," hosts
21/10/2025
Webinar | Session 2: Mastering Copilot Governance with Copilot Studio + Power Platform
In our latest Mastering Copilot Governance webinar, we are joining by Principle Solution Engineer, Adam Hallbeck as we shifted focus from M365 admin controls to the Power Platform side, where Copilot Studio and agent governance take center stage. If you missed it, here’s the recording of what we covered and why it matters.
21/10/2025
Secure Configuration and Hardening of Active Directory Certificate Services
In this article, I’m going to go over four critical focus areas for hardening your AD Certificate Services environment based on several years and dozens of customer engagements focused on assessing and remediating configurations:You should also have a dedicated group for template management (i.e., CA Template Managers) with Write permissions configured to allow for management of all of the templates in your PKI, and these should be limited to only this purpose to maintain control of your templates.When Active Directory detects that a new issuing CA is available, domain controllers will automatically request a relevant Domain Controller certificate to standardize their cryptographic operations to the new PKI.
21/10/2025
Automating VMware to Hyper-V Migration with SCVMM
Hello everyone! Today we have a guest author, Cameron Peppers, who is a Cloud Solution Architect working with our On-Prem VMWare Migration program/field team. He has a long background that is focused on Hyper-V and SCVMM datacenter design, along with migrations from VMware for more years that he can cares to admit. This blog post provides a PowerShell script for automating the migration of a virtual machine (VM) from most versions of VMware to Hyper-V using ...
21/10/2025
Webinar | Session 2: Mastering Copilot Governane with Copilot Studio + Power Platform
In our latest Mastering Copilot Governance webinar, we are joining by Principle Solution Engineer, Adam Hallbeck as we shifted focus from M365 admin controls to the Power Platform side, where Copilot Studio and agent governance take center stage. If you missed it, here’s the recording of what we covered and why it matters.
21/10/2025
Helping to enable secure, connected work: Surface with built-in 5G on the Verizon network
This blog is cowritten with the Verizon Business team. Visit Connected Laptops: LTE & 5G Business Laptops | Verizon to learn more.Consistent connectivity is foundational for accessing cloud insights and collabor...
21/10/2025
Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot Included Agents Webinar Recording and Resources
On Wednesday 10/21 HLS hosted a webinar designed for anyone eager to unlock the full potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot Included Agents. Hosted by Microsoft’s own experts, Nicholas Aquino and Michael Gannotti, this session promises a comprehensive exploration of powerful agents such as Microsoft Researcher, Analyst, and more. Whether you’re a business user, IT professional, or simply curious about how Copilot can revolutionize your workflow, this event recording is your opportunity to ...
21/10/2025
Retirement Date for Office Online Server (OOS) has been Announced
We want to let our Skype for Business Server customers know that the Office Online Server (OOS) team has announced product retirement on December 31, 2026: Announcing the retirement for Office On...
21/10/2025
Retirement Date for Office Online Server (OOS) has been Announced
We want to let our Exchange Server customers know that the Office Online Server (OOS) team has announced product retirement on December 31, 2026: Announcing the retirement for Office Online Server. Office Online Server is an
21/10/2025
Securing GenAI Workloads in Azure: A Complete Guide to Monitoring and Threat Protection - AIO11Y
Series Introduction Generative AI is transforming how organizations build applications, interact with customers, and unlock insights from data. But with this transformation comes a new security challenge: how do you monitor and protect AI workloads that operate fundamentally differently from traditional applications? Over the course of this series, Abhi Singh and Umesh Nagdev, Secure AI GBBs, will walk you through the complete j...
21/10/2025
Compliance Meets AI: Deep Dive into Sensitivity Labels and DLP for Copilot
Last Friday’s session was packed with insights on Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft Purview, and how they integrate with Copilot for M365 to keep your data secure while enabling productivity. If you missed the session, we have you covered you can watch it here https://aka.ms/Compliance-Meets-Ai-Session-T...
21/10/2025
Build Long-Running AI Agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework
These agents can execute complex, multi-step workflows with persistent state, conversation threads, and structured execution—capabilities that are essential for production AI applications.Today, we're excited to share how Azure App Service provides an excellent platform for running Agent Framework workloads, especially those involving long-running operations.The complete Travel Planner application is available as a reference implementation so you can quickly get started building your own apps with Agent Framework on App Service.
21/10/2025
10 ways Microsoft Intune supports a smooth upgrade to Windows 11
Windows 10 reached end of support on October 14, 2025 for most editions.Organizations that need more time can enroll eligible devices in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, which provides critical security updates — but no new features or non-security fixes — for up to three additional years (through October 2028).When you need to manage Windows 11 upgrades outside of Autopatch—such as in highly customized environments—use feature update policies in Intune for direct control.
21/10/2025
Partner Case Study | aCloud
Singapore-based aCloud has been an exclusive Microsoft partner since 2016, earning Solutions Partner designations across multiple solution areas and specializations in identity and access management.A Microsoft 365 E5 user since 2018, JEL demonstrated a strong and early commitment to enterprise-grade security and was an early adopter of Microsoft solutions.By building upon JEL’s forward-looking foundation and fostering a culture of collaboration across functions, aCloud helped transform an already strong Microsoft E5 investment into a truly scalable, AI-ready security framework.
21/10/2025
Security Copilot Agents: The New Era of AI, Driven Cyber Defense
With increasing cyber threats, security teams require intelligent agents that adapt and operate throughout the security stack, not just automation. Key statistics from our
21/10/2025
New Certification for architects of agentic AI business solutions
We’re looking for architects of agentic AI business solutions to take our new beta exam. Do you have experience envisioning and implementing AI-driven architecture strategies, integrating agents into business solutions, and guiding organizations toward AI adoption? Are you skilled at designing, prototyping, and securing scalable AI solutions, analyzing technical requirements, and leading the end-to-end delivery of AI-centric solutions that align with business goals? If you excel at championin...
21/10/2025
Announcing the retirement for Office Online Server
What’s changing? Microsoft is announcing the end of support and retirement for Office Online Server effective December 31, 2026. After this date, Office Online Server will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or technical support from Microsoft. This change is part of our ongoing commitment to modernizing productivity experiences and focusing on cloud-first solutions. To help stay secure and compliant, begin planning now to move to supported options, such a...
21/10/2025
New bi-directional export for TI in Microsoft Sentinel and strategic Cyware partnership
We’re excited to announce a key milestone in advancing the threat intelligence platform within Microsoft Sentinel: You can now export threat intelligence to trusted destinations with ease.With this new export feature, you can now share curated threat intel back to trusted destinations.This new Microsoft Sentinel capability also allows easy export of threat intelligence to Cyware Intel Exchange platform.
21/10/2025
Microsoft Intune Settings Catalog Updated to Support New Windows 11, version 25H2 Settings
By Mayur Jahdav, Product Manager | Microsoft Intune With the recent release of Windows 11, version 25H2, Microsoft Intune delivered support for 36 new 25H2 settings. IT admins can confidently manage devices running the latest Windows OS version from the moment they deploy it in their environment for testing or production use. We...
21/10/2025
Creating alerts for custom errors with auditing and Log Analytics
On this post we will see how we can setup alerts for scenarios like query blocking and long open transactions.Schedule the two SQL Agent jobs using the queries below.Query for open transactions:
21/10/2025
7 Must-Know Agentic AI Design Patterns
Building AI agents that work in production requires more than powerful models.
21/10/2025
How Great Engineers Make Architectural Decisions — ADRs, Trade-offs, and an ATAM-Lite Checklist
Why Decision-Making Matters Without a shared framework, context fades and teams' re-debate old choices.ADRs solve that by recording the why behind design decisions — what problem we solved, what options we considered, and what trade-offs we accepted. A good ADR: Lives next to the code in your repo. Explains reasoning in plain language. Survives personnel changes and version history.
21/10/2025
Celebrating MVP-Led Events Across Europe: Summer & Late Summer 2025 Highlights
This summer and into early autumn, the Microsoft MVP community turned Europe into a vibrant hub of innovation, collaboration, and learning. From hackathons to deep technical dives, MVPs brought their expertise and passion to events that connected professionals, inspired creativity, and showcased the power of community. A...
21/10/2025
New bi-directional export in Microsoft Sentinel and strategic Cyware partnership
Empowering collective defense through seamless threat intel sharing We’re excited to announce a key milestone in advancing the threat intelligence platform within Microsoft Sentinel: You can now export threat intelligence to trusted destinations with ease. This milestone enables bi-directional sharing, allowing security teams not only to ingest intelligence but also to contribute back to partners, Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), and multi-tenant environments—strengt...
21/10/2025
Lessons Learned #537: Copilot Prompts for Troubleshooting on Azure SQL Database
In this article, I would like to share a set of prompts we found in those sessions and show how to apply them to an example query.I structure the investigation in three areas:Analyze the following SQL query and provide a detailed performance review tailored for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale and Power BI DirectQuery scenarios.
21/10/2025
What’s in a Name? Fuzzy Matching for Real-World Data
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21/10/2025
Postgres as a Distributed Cache Unlocks Speed and Simplicity for Modern .NET Workloads
In the world of high-performance, modern software engineering, developers often face a tough tradeoff: how to achieve lightning-fast data retrieval response rates without adding complexity, sacrificing reliability, or getting locked into specialized, external data caching products or platforms. What if you could harness the power and flexibility of your existing Postgres database to solve this challenge? Enter the
21/10/2025
Google AI Research Releases DeepSomatic: A New AI Model that Identifies Cancer Cell Genetic Variants
A team of researchers from Google Research and UC Santa Cruz released DeepSomatic, an AI model that identifies cancer cell genetic variants. In research with Children’s Mercy, it found 10 variants in pediatric leukemia cells missed by other tools. DeepSomatic has a somatic small variant caller for cancer genomes that works across Illumina short reads, […] The post
21/10/2025
Public Preview: Audit and Enable Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) for Azure Arc-enabled Servers
With this Public Preview, Azure Arc introduces a set of Azure Policies that allow organizations to audit and enable WinRE across their fleet of Arc-enabled Windows Servers.These policies are powered by the Machine Configuration component of the Azure Connected Machine agent, which ensures secure and compliant configuration enforcement.Auditing and enablement of WinRE through Azure Arc underscores the capability of Azure Arc to increasingly afford resiliency across hybrid, multicloud, and edge workloads.
21/10/2025
DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion
DeepSeek-AI released 3B DeepSeek-OCR, an end to end OCR and document parsing Vision-Language Model (VLM) system that compresses long text into a small set of vision tokens, then decodes those tokens with a language model.The method is simple, images carry compact representations of text, which reduces sequence length for the decoder.The post DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/10/2025
Channel strategy, accreditation, and real results — All at UP LIVE Reston
FY26 Is the Year to Lead with Capability FY26 is here — and Microsoft is investing more than ever in partner-led growth. From expanded co-sell motions to marketplace acceleration and capability development, the message is clear: partners who demonstrate value through accreditation and specialization are leading the way
20/10/2025
First Fridays November: Reimagining Internal Comms in the Age of AI
How is AI transforming internal communications?At Microsoft, building skills to operate as “Frontier Firm”—where AI agents work alongside people to drive faster, smarter, and more impactful outcomes.Key themes for Internal Comms in the age of AI
20/10/2025
How Windows 11 and AI are transforming the future of work
AI is moving from the background to the center of the user experience in Windows, fundamentally changing how people interact with PCs.Windows is evolving into an AI-native platform: secure, scalable, and built for agentic work.Explore how Windows 11 and AI can transform your business today.
20/10/2025
The Local AI Revolution: Expanding Generative AI with GPT-OSS-20B and the NVIDIA RTX AI PC
The landscape of AI is expanding. Today, many of the most powerful LLMs (large language models) reside primarily in the cloud, offering incredible capabilities but also concerns about privacy and limitations around how many files you can upload or how long they stay loaded. Now, a powerful new paradigm is emerging. This is the dawn […] The post
20/10/2025
Calling all IT Admins - webinar on configuring Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and new updates for 13+
Calling all IT admins — join us for a workshop where we’ll walk through how to configure Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, from your tenant all the way to the end-user experience. We’ll cover the latest features now available — including the new 13+ student configuration options, CSV, SDS and Powershell uploads, Copilot agents & extensibility, and updated licensing & security controls. By the end, you’ll...
20/10/2025
6 truths about migrating Microsoft Sentinel to the Defender portal
The move from the Azure portal to the Microsoft Defender portal is one of the most significant transformations yet for Microsoft Sentinel SIEM. By July 1, 2026, every Sentinel environment will make this leap. But this isn’t just a new coat of paint—it’s a re-architecture of how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) detect, investigate, and respond to threats. For many teams, the shift will feel different, even surprising. But within those surprises lie opportunities to run leaner, smarter, and m...
20/10/2025
11 days remaining: Support for Microsoft Entra Permissions Management ends November 1, 2025
Beginning November 1, 2025, support for Microsoft Entra Permissions Management will end. Customers are encouraged to complete the offboarding instructions and move to another cloud infrastructure entitlements management (CIEM) solution. If you have not requested an extension, your account will be automatically offboa...
20/10/2025
Accessibility Assistant updates: Smarter handling of tables and shapes
Hi, Insiders! I’m Shireen Salma, and I’m a Product Manager on the Office Accessibility team. I’m thrilled to share that we’re continuing to evolve Accessibility Assistant across Microsoft 365, making it more reliable, less disruptive, and better aligned with how people experience content, especially those using screen readers. Accessibility Assistant updates: Smarter handling of tables and shapes Over the past few months, we’ve worked directly with screen reader users to obser...
20/10/2025
Empowering.Cloud Community Update – November 2025
The latest Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 expert community briefings, podcasts and upcoming community events for November 2025.Irena Andonova, Head of Product for Teams Devices at Microsoft, discusses the evolution of Teams Rooms, Phones and DevicesThe new M365 Change Community Round Up is a new live monthly call open to all, where we take a closer look at Microsoft Message Center updates and what they really mean for your organisation.🗓️ Join MVPs Darrell Webster, Daniel Glenn from the M365 Message Center show, Tom Arbuthnot and special guests every last Thursday of the month at 13:00 UK / 08:00 ET / 07:00 CT (25th September is the first session).
20/10/2025
Azure Monitor 101: The missing guide to understanding monitoring on Azure
Introduction Monitoring in the cloud is often misunderstood. Some think it’s about checking whether a virtual machine is up; others equate it with dashboards or alerts. In reality, monitoring is about visibility, correlation, and action, and in Azure, that all converges in one platform: Azure Monitor.
20/10/2025
Introducing the RabbitMQ Connector (Public Preview)
We are pleased to announce the introduction of the RabbitMQ Connector in Logic Apps (Standard) which allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and RabbitMQ.To send a message, search for the RabbitMQ connector in your design experience.Search for the action and click on this operation to add the action to your design surface.
20/10/2025
Introducing RabbitMQ Connector (Public Preview)
We are pleased to announce the introduction of the RabbitMQ Connector in Logic Apps (Standard) which allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and RabbitMQ.To send a message, search for the RabbitMQ connector in your design experience.Search for the action and click on this operation to add the action to your design surface.
20/10/2025
Meet LangChain’s DeepAgents Library and a Practical Example to See How DeepAgents Actually Work in Action
While a basic Large Language Model (LLM) agent—one that repeatedly calls external tools—is easy to create, these agents often struggle with long and complex tasks because they lack the ability to plan ahead and manage their work over time.The deepagents library is designed to overcome this […]The post Meet LangChain’s DeepAgents Library and a Practical Example to See How DeepAgents Actually Work in Action appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/10/2025
A Guide for Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents
Anthropic recently released a guide on effective Context Engineering for AI Agents — a reminder that context is a critical yet limited resource.The quality of an agent often depends less on the model itself and more on how its context is structured and managed.Even a weaker LLM can perform well with the right […]
20/10/2025
Future-Proofing Your AI Engineering Career in 2026
AI engineering has shifted from a futuristic niche to one of the most in-demand tech careers on the planet.
20/10/2025
AMA Spotlight: Build Smarter with Azure Developer CLI 'AZD'
Weekly AMA 'Ask Me Anything': Build Smarter with Azure Developer CLI Calling all AI engineers, developers, and builders of the future, this is your backstage pass to the tools shaping scalable, agentic AI deployments.Join Kristen Womack, Product Manager for the AzureAzure Developer CLI (azd) Developer CLI (azd), and the engineering team behind azd for a live Ask Me Anything session every Thursday at 12:30pm PT in the Azure AI Foundry Discord.
20/10/2025
Building a Multi-Agent System with Azure AI Agent Service: Campus Event Management
Can large-scale event management be handled through a simple chat interface?This was the question that guided my Master’s thesis project at UCL.As part of the Industry Exchange Network (IXN) and in collaboration with Microsoft, I set out to explore how conversational interfaces and autonomous AI agents could simplify one of the most underestimated coordination challenges in campus life: managing events across multiple departments, societies, and facilities.The result was the Event Management Multi-Agent System, a cloud-based platform where staff and students can query events, book rooms, and reschedule activities simply by chatting.
20/10/2025
Introducing native Service Bus message publishing from Azure API Management
We’re excited to announce a new capability in Azure API Management (APIM) — you can now send messages directly to Azure Service Bus from your APIs using a built-in policy.The policy executes and sends the payload as a message to Service Bus.Once saved, each API call publishes its payload to the Service Bus queue or topic. 📖 Learn more.
20/10/2025
An Implementation to Build Dynamic AI Systems with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Real-Time Resource and Tool Integration
In this tutorial, we explore the Advanced Model Context Protocol (MCP) and demonstrate how to use it to address one of the most unique challenges in modern AI systems: enabling real-time interaction between AI models and external data or tools.Traditional models operate in isolation, limited to their training data, but through MCP, we create […]The post An Implementation to Build Dynamic AI Systems with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Real-Time Resource and Tool Integration appeared first on MarkTechPost.
19/10/2025
Weak-for-Strong (W4S): A Novel Reinforcement Learning Algorithm that Trains a weak Meta Agent to Design Agentic Workflows with Stronger LLMs
Researchers from Stanford, EPFL, and UNC introduce Weak-for-Strong Harnessing, W4S, a new Reinforcement Learning RL framework that trains a small meta-agent to design and refine code workflows that call a stronger executor model.The meta-agent does not fine tune the strong model, it learns to orchestrate it.The post Weak-for-Strong (W4S): A Novel Reinforcement Learning Algorithm that Trains a weak Meta Agent to Design Agentic Workflows with Stronger LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
19/10/2025
Microsoft AI Proposes BitNet Distillation (BitDistill): A Lightweight Pipeline that Delivers up to 10x Memory Savings and about 2.65x CPU Speedup
Microsoft Research proposes BitNet Distillation, a pipeline that converts existing full precision LLMs into 1.58 bit BitNet students for specific tasks, while keeping accuracy close to the FP16 teacher and improving CPU efficiency.The method combines SubLN based architectural refinement, continued pre training, and dual signal distillation from logits and multi head attention relations.The post Microsoft AI Proposes BitNet Distillation (BitDistill): A Lightweight Pipeline that Delivers up to 10x Memory Savings and about 2.65x CPU Speedup appeared first on MarkTechPost.
19/10/2025
Kong Releases Volcano: A TypeScript, MCP-native SDK for Building Production Ready AI Agents with LLM Reasoning and Real-World actions
Kong has open-sourced Volcano, a TypeScript SDK that composes multi-step agent workflows across multiple LLM providers with native Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool use.The release coincides with broader MCP capabilities in Kong AI Gateway and Konnect, positioning Volcano as the developer SDK in an MCP-governed control plane.Volcano exposes a compact, […]
18/10/2025
AutoCode: A New AI Framework that Lets LLMs Create and Verify Competitive Programming Problems, Mirroring the Workflow of Human Problem Setters
Are your LLM code benchmarks actually rejecting wrong-complexity solutions and interactive-protocol violations, or are they passing under-specified unit tests?A team of researchers from UCSD, NYU, University of Washington, Princeton University, Canyon Crest Academy, OpenAI, UC Berkeley, MIT, University of Waterloo, and Sentient Labs introduce AutoCode, a new AI framework that lets LLMs create and […]The post AutoCode: A New AI Framework that Lets LLMs Create and Verify Competitive Programming Problems, Mirroring the Workflow of Human Problem Setters appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/10/2025
Sigmoidal Scaling Curves Make Reinforcement Learning RL Post-Training Predictable for LLMs
Reinforcement Learning RL post-training is now a major lever for reasoning-centric LLMs, but unlike pre-training, it hasn’t had predictive scaling rules.Teams pour tens of thousands of GPU-hours into runs without a principled way to estimate whether a recipe will keep improving with more compute.The post Sigmoidal Scaling Curves Make Reinforcement Learning RL Post-Training Predictable for LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/10/2025
Secure Delta Sharing Between Databricks Workspaces Using NCC and Private Endpoints
This guide walks you through the steps to share Delta tables between two Databricks workspaces (NorthCentral and SouthCentral) and configure Network Connectivity Configuration (NCC) for a Serverless Warehouse.Disabling the History option on the Delta Share will simplify the share and prevent unnecessary access to historical versions. Additionally, review whether you can further simplify your share by partitioning the data where appropriate.Add the share to a catalog in Unity Catalog.
18/10/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build a Unified Tool Orchestration Framework from Documentation to Automated Pipelines
In this tutorial, we build a compact, efficient framework that demonstrates how to convert tool documentation into standardized, callable interfaces, register those tools in a central system, and execute them as part of an automated pipeline.As we move through each stage, we create a simple converter, design mock bioinformatics tools, organize them into a […]The post A Coding Implementation to Build a Unified Tool Orchestration Framework from Documentation to Automated Pipelines appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/10/2025
Real-Time Speech Intelligence for Global Scale: gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize in Azure AI Foundry
Now, with the general availability of gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize, the new automatic speech recognition (ASR) model in Azure AI Foundry, transforming speech into actionable text is faster, smarter, and more accurate than ever.With gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize seamlessly integrated, businesses can unlock critical insights from conversations, instantly converting audio into text with ultra-low latency and outstanding accuracy across 100+ languages.Gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize unlocks these insights, converting speech to text with ultra-low latency and high accuracy across 100+ languages.
17/10/2025
Announcing Public Preview of VM Customization in Azure: Disable Multithreading & Constrained Cores
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of VM Customization feature in Azure introducing two powerful new capabilities: Disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT/HT) and Constrained Cores.These features give customers unprecedented control over virtual CPU configurations, enabling performance optimization and significant software licensing savings across a wide range of workloads.VM Customization is now available today in public preview across select regions, including West Central US, North Europe, East Asia, and UK South.
17/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 17, 2025
🗂️ October 17, 2025 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.
17/10/2025
Upcoming October 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call
Join our next community call on October 24, 2025, to learn more about how to collaborate within Microsoft Teams channels using Loop Pages.An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.Since our calls are open to everyone, you must be a member of the Microsoft 365 Champion Program in order to access the presentation materials - the access link is in the initial welcome email and the monthly newsletter emails sent the week before the community calls.
17/10/2025
PostgreSQL 18 Vacuuming Improvements Explained
This PostgreSQL 18 release brings one of the most significant collections of VACUUM and ANALYZE improvements in years.These updates include faster heap scans through asynchronous I/O (AIO), flexible on-the-fly autovacuum scaling, earlier triggers for large tables, safer tail shrinking, and more robust observability.1) Vacuum is faster with asynchronous I/O (AIO)
17/10/2025
Securing the Browser Era - From Cloud to AI: A blog series on protecting the modern workspace
Attackers target browsers as the path of least resistance into critical systems, while many organizations continue to treat browser security as an afterthought and the browser often remains a blind spot—exposed to phishing, malicious extensions, data leakage, and sophisticated AI-driven attacks. This three-part series, Securing the Browser Era: From Cloud to AI, explores the evolution of the browser in enterprise environments, the security risks it introduces, and the strategies organizations need to adopt to stay ahead: • Part 1 - The Browser Boom: From Cloud to AI examines the rise of browser as a mission-critical workspace driven by cloud, SaaS, and AI adoption – and an attractive target for attackers.
17/10/2025
Beyond the Desktop: The Future of Development with Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces
The biggest challenge often faced by DevBox customers is its lack of native Linux support.Unlike Dev Box, Codespaces can run fully in Linux, giving developers access to native tools, scripts, and runtimes without workarounds.Together, Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces deliver a hybrid developer platform that combines consistency, speed, and flexibility.
17/10/2025
Cybersecurity Is Mission Imperative: What Nonprofits Must Learn from the 2025 Digital Defense Report
But with that reliance comes growing risk—from identity-based attacks to AI-driven threats and cloud vulnerabilities.The 2025 Microsoft Digital Defense Report offers a strategic lens into the global cybersecurity landscape.It’s a mission-critical priority.
17/10/2025
Beyond Basics: Practical scenarios with Azure Storage Actions
Let’s explore 3 practical scenarios where Storage Actions can transform customers’ data management approach.Azure Storage Actions enables brand teams to automate the content lifecycle management using blob metadata and / or index tag.Storage Actions enables teams to automate the preservation of validated training datasets using blob tags and immutability policies.
17/10/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep20: Channeling Success with Aaron Udler: How Trust and Innovation Drive Business Growth
In a world where business success is often defined by agility and innovation, Aaron Udler, CEO of Office Pro, exemplifies the power of trust and ingenuity.In the latest episode of "IAMCP Profiles in Partnership," hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez sit down with Aaron to delve into his journey of transforming a family business into a thriving enterprise through the channel sales model, fostering ethical relationships and embracing cutting-edge advancements like AI.Aaron Udler's journey with Office Pro serves as a blueprint for small business owners and Microsoft partners aiming to grow through trust, innovation, and collaboration.
17/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Vector Databases for Machine Learning
Vector databases have become essential in most modern AI applications.
17/10/2025
What’s new in Microsoft Entra – September 2025
As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI), we’re making an important update to our Content Security Policy (CSP) that will enhance the security of the Microsoft Entra work or school sign-in experience. This change will block unauthorized script and malicious code injection into sign-in flows starting with the URL, login.microsoftonline.com/*, ensuring that only trusted Microsoft code runs during authentication. Upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Entra Connect by September 30, 2026 Microsoft Entra will update its credential enrollment and management interface in November 2025 to improve usability and accessibility.
17/10/2025
Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot Included Agents Webinar
We’re excited to announce an upcoming webinar designed for anyone eager to unlock the full potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot Included Agents.Hosted by Microsoft’s own experts, Nicholas Aquino and Michael Gannotti, this session promises a comprehensive exploration of powerful agents such as Microsoft Researcher, Analyst, and more.Overview of Included Agents, Agents In SharePoint, Agent Templates, and Prompt Buddy – Learn what comes out-of-the-box with Copilot, including Microsoft Researcher, Analyst, and other key agents and templates.
17/10/2025
What’s New? Unveiling the Latest Features of the Azure Native Dynatrace Service
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Multi-Subscription Monitoring (MSM) for the Azure Native Dynatrace Service (ANDS).This powerful new capability allows customers to monitor multiple Azure subscriptions through a single Dynatrace resource—significantly simplifying the setup of observability for multiple Azure subscriptions at scale.With Multi-Subscription Monitoring, customers can now consolidate monitoring of up to 20 Azure subscriptions into a single Dynatrace resource, streamlining their operations and reducing complexity.
17/10/2025
Protegendo Máquinas no Azure VMware Solution com Azure Firewall
Por fim, há a opção de rotear o tráfego via rede Azure (ou Azure Virtual WAN), em que uma rota padrão é anunciada por meio do ExpressRoute, direcionando o tráfego de saída para uma rede Azure que contém NVAs, Azure Firewall ou proxies.Neste artigo será demonstrado em um ambiente de laboratório como utilizar o Virtual Wan com Azure Firewall para inspeção do tráfego de saída das Vms em um segmento do AVSO Routing Intent no Azure Virtual WAN é um recurso que simplifica e automatiza o roteamento de tráfego dentro do hub do Virtual WAN.
17/10/2025
Multiple geo-replicas for Azure SQL Hyperscale is now in public preview
We’re excited to announce that Azure SQL Database Hyperscale support for up to four geo-replicas is available now in public preview.Create up to four read-only geo-replicas for each Hyperscale database, in the same or different Azure regions.Performing a failover in the portal is the same process with multiple geo-replicas. Click on the ellipses in the row of the replica to which you want to fail over and choose Failover or Forced failover.
17/10/2025
Spreadsheet Day - Celebrate the grid that changed everything
Spreadsheet Day was created in 2010 by Excel MVP Debra Dalgleish, known worldwide for her work at Contextures. Educators, analysts, and enthusiasts join in each year to share tips, stories, and appreciation for a tool that empowers millions—a reminder that community matters as much as technology.Celebrate Spreadsheet Day with a sneak peek at Spreadsheet Champions, a documentary that goes beyond formulas to tell a human story.
17/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: October 1-8, 2025
Learn about 268 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.Group Waterfall Chart in Power BI: SWHK’s add-in application for Microsoft Power BI groups waterfall charts and displays data trend changes across multiple periods.This add-in for Power BI supports standard waterfall charts and offers a clear layout with step-by-step view of the data change process.
17/10/2025
Interactive AI Avatars: Building Voice Agents with Azure Voice Live API
Azure Voice Live API recently reached General Availability, marking a significant milestone in conversational AI technology.- Single API interface that handles both audio processing and avatar streamingIn this post, I'll walk you through building a retail e-commerce voice agent that demonstrates this technology.
17/10/2025
Baidu’s PaddlePaddle Team Releases PaddleOCR-VL (0.9B): a NaViT-style + ERNIE-4.5-0.3B VLM Targeting End-to-End Multilingual Document Parsing
Baidu’s PaddlePaddle group has released PaddleOCR-VL, a 0.9B-parameter vision-language model designed for end-to-end document parsing across text, tables, formulas, charts, and handwriting.The core model […]The post Baidu’s PaddlePaddle Team Releases PaddleOCR-VL (0.9B): a NaViT-style + ERNIE-4.5-0.3B VLM Targeting End-to-End Multilingual Document Parsing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/10/2025
Google AI Releases C2S-Scale 27B Model that Translate Complex Single-Cell Gene Expression Data into ‘cell sentences’ that LLMs can Understand
A team of researchers from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and Yale released C2S-Scale 27B, a 27-billion-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on Gemma-2.The model formalizes single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) profiles as “cell sentences”—ordered lists of gene symbols—so that a language model can natively parse and reason over cellular states.Beyond benchmarking gains, the research […]
17/10/2025
LangChain v1 is now generally available!
Today LangChain v1 officially launches and marks a new era for the popular AI agent library.The new version ushers in a more opinionated, streamlined, and extensible foundation for building agentic LLM applications.Join Microsoft Developer Advocates, Marlene Mhangami and Yohan Lasorsa, to see live demos of the new API and find out more about what JavaScript and Python developers need to know about v1. Register for this event here.
17/10/2025
Qualifire AI Releases Rogue: An End-to-End Agentic AI Testing Framework, Evaluating the Performance of AI Agents
Agentic systems are stochastic, context-dependent, and policy-bounded.Conventional QA—unit tests, static prompts, or scalar “LLM-as-a-judge” scores—fails to expose multi-turn vulnerabilities and provides weak audit trails.Qualifire AI has open-sourced Rogue, a Python framework that evaluates AI agents over […]
17/10/2025
A Coding Guide to Build an AI-Powered Cryptographic Agent System with Hybrid Encryption, Digital Signatures, and Adaptive Security Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build an AI-powered cryptographic agent system that combines the strength of classical encryption with adaptive intelligence.We design agents capable of performing hybrid encryption with RSA and AES, generating digital signatures, detecting anomalies in message patterns, and intelligently recommending key rotations.The post A Coding Guide to Build an AI-Powered Cryptographic Agent System with Hybrid Encryption, Digital Signatures, and Adaptive Security Intelligence appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/10/2025
Join the M365 Community Team at Power Platform Conference
We’re heading to Las Vegas for the Power Platform Community Conference—and you can still join us!If you’re part of the Microsoft 365 community, this is your chance to see how Copilot Studio and AI Agents are transforming productivity and workflows—shaping the future of M365 with automation, integration, and intelligent solutions across Teams, SharePoint, and more.👉 Register today and come find us in the Community Lounge! 📍 Location: MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, NV 📅 Dates: October 28–30, 2025 🔗 Register now: https://powerplatformconf.com/#!/registerCome explore the Community Lounge on the 3rd floor!Join us for interactive sessions, networking, demos & Ask a Pro stations. Don’t miss “Building Your Career” & “Don’t Start from Scratch” sessions—bookmark them in the Whova event app!
16/10/2025
What’s New in M365 Copilot: HLS Webinar Series Recap
On Wednesday, we hosted the latest installment of our HLS Webinar Series focusing on “What’s New in M365 Copilot.”The session brought together M365 users and IT professionals eager to discover the newest enhancements, learn helpful tips, and hear real-world success stories.The webinar kicked off with an overview of the newest updates in M365 Copilot.
16/10/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep19: Better Together: IAMCP Partners Unite for Impactful Change – A Conversation with Promod Antony and Denny Ghim (Part 2)
In this episode of IAMCP Profiles in Partnership, hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez sit down with Promod Antony of Logic Intelligence and Denny Ghim of Sandler Partners to explore the transformative power of collaboration within the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP).They dive into how building trust, embracing shared goals, and leveraging Microsoft’s ecosystem have allowed these two partners to achieve impactful and meaningful business growth.Listen to the full episode: Better Together: IAMCP Partners Unite for Impactful Change – A Conversation with Promod Antony and Denny Ghim (Part 2)
16/10/2025
Prescaling in Azure Firewall is now generally available
Azure Firewall protects your applications and workloads with cloud-native network security that automatically scales based on your traffic needs.Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of prescaling in Azure Firewall – a new capability that gives you more control and predictability over how your firewall scales.Today, Azure Firewall automatically scales in response to real-time traffic demand.
16/10/2025
New Microsoft 365 icons for the AI era
We are excited to share new, modern icons of Microsoft 365 apps, now available for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and the web.The icons are rolling out in the coming weeks across desktop, web, and mobile for both individuals and organizations running:Let us know what you think of Microsoft 365’s new icons!
16/10/2025
Partner Blog | Microsoft & Oracle: The future of enterprise cloud data for partners
Azure Accelerate, within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, support now includes Oracle Database@Azure workloads, offering partners funding, credits, and the Cloud Accelerate Factory for zero-cost deployment assistance.Partners will also be able to resell Oracle Database@Azure directly through Microsoft Marketplace, making it easier to package, license, and deploy solutions globally while building new revenue streams.Oracle Database@Azure now supports Oracle Base Database Service, Exadata Exascale 19c, and Oracle Database 23ai across more than 28+ regions worldwide, enabling a broad multicloud hyperscaler reach.
16/10/2025
3 Ways to Speed Up Model Training Without More GPUs
In this article, you will learn three proven ways to speed up model training by optimizing precision, memory, and data flow — without adding any...
16/10/2025
Qualifire AI Open-Sources Rogue: An End-to-End Agentic AI Testing Framework Designed to Evaluate the Performance, Compliance, and Reliability of AI Agents
Agentic systems are stochastic, context-dependent, and policy-bounded.Qualifire AI has open-sourced Rogue, a Python framework that evaluates AI agents over […]The post Qualifire AI Open-Sources Rogue: An End-to-End Agentic AI Testing Framework Designed to Evaluate the Performance, Compliance, and Reliability of AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/10/2025
Touch keyboard appears automatically in OneNote on Windows
Touch keyboard appears automatically in OneNote on WindowsThis update is available to OneNote on Windows users running Version 2510 (Build 19402.15030) or later.This feature is rolling out gradually to Insiders and will reach general availability by end of November 2025.
16/10/2025
7 Feature Engineering Tricks for Text Data
An increasing number of AI and machine learning-based systems feed on text data — language models are a notable example today.
16/10/2025
Microsoft named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service
We’re excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) worldwide, marking our seventh consecutive year with this recognition.*Figure 1: Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a ServiceOver the last year, Teams has been simplifying complexity through experiences that are designed to be more intuitive for workers to use and easier for admins to manage.
16/10/2025
Announcing accelerated payouts to Microsoft Marketplace partners with MCA customers
We’re excited to share that accelerated payouts are now available for partners making Microsoft Marketplace transactions with MCA (Microsoft Customer Agreement) customers. This new capability is designed to improve partner cash flow and make payments more predictable, with daily payouts that reduce the average time to receive funds. Any company who is part of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program can sell on the marketplace and benefit from accelerated payouts.
16/10/2025
Transforming Clinical Workflows with Microsoft Dragon Copilot’s Partner-Driven AI Innovations
Microsoft is expanding Dragon Copilot by enabling an open ecosystem of developer-built AI solutions for specific tasks and specialties, allowing healthcare organizations to access clinical intelligence at the point of care while further streamlining workflows, reducing administrative burden, boosting productivity, and enhancing revenue integrity.Dragon Copilot’s partner-driven AI extensibility empowers technology providers to deliver specialized solutions directly into clinical workflows, accelerating AI adoption at the point of care and enabling better outcomes for patients and clinicians.By opening Dragon Copilot, Microsoft enables the creation of seamless, scalable solutions that help clinicians reduce administrative tasks and improve patient care.
16/10/2025
Healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio is now Generally Available
With that opportunity, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio.With healthcare agent service, organizations can create healthcare-specialized AI applications that use generative AI within a framework that promotes trust, compliance, and real-world clinical scenarios.Healthcare agent service provides a framework for building conversational AI applications that can be integrated directly into Dragon Copilot, giving partners and healthcare organizations the ability to extend its functionality in a scalable, compliant way.
16/10/2025
Customer review: Hive CPQ simplifies quoting, boosting sales and avoiding mistakes
Hive CPQ's product configurator, an app published to Azure Marketplace, streamlines configure, price, quote (CPQ) processes, extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 to simplify quoting, reduce mistakes, and increase sales.Azure Marketplace interviewed Frank ter Steege, Business Development Manager of Zolare (formerly Pirisol) in The Netherlands, to learn what he had to say about the solution.What I like the most about Hive CPQ is the fact the software is easy to use.
16/10/2025
Deployment and Build from Azure Linux based Web App
Deployment on Azure Linux Web Apps can be done through several different methods.In this tutorial, I’ll use a simple Python app to demonstrate four different Deployment/Build approaches.For example, when using Azure DevOps (ADO) as your CI/CD tool, its behavior conceptually mirrors deploying directly from a laptop, but with enhanced automation, governance, and reproducibility.
16/10/2025
News to Know – Volume 2, Edition 8, October 2025
We are excited to share that, beginning this month, this newsletter will include new features for both Viva Glint and Viva Pulse.Starting in October, customers who have a Glint subscription now also have access to Pulse as part of the same subscription.Our latest research, The 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report, delves into how agentic AI is reshaping how organizations and teams work together.
16/10/2025
Bizz Summit ES 2025 – A Community Festival of Innovation, Inclusion, and Impact
This year’s summit welcomed 1,400 attendees, marking a significant growth of +200 participants compared to the previous year The event featured 145 national and international speakers, with an inspiring 40% representation from women and non-binary community members—a testament to its commitment to diversity and inclusion and a great achievement of the organizational team composed of MVPs Alberto Castro, Demian Raschkovan, Eickhel Mendoza, Imanol Iza, Mar Llambí, Mar Pedroche, Marco Amoedo, Rocío Romero, former MVP Mario Trueba and MVP/RD Miguel Llorca.One of the most impactful aspects of Bizz Summit ES 2025 was its dedication to nurturing new talent since its first in-person edition took place in 2021.True to its values, Bizz Summit ES 2025 was a solidarity event, with all ticket proceeds donated to Cienciaterapia, an NGO that brings fun science workshops to children with cancer.
16/10/2025
Building Secure AI Chat Systems: Part 1 -- Protecting Your LLM from Malicious Inputs
After working through this problem, I've identified three major security and privacy challenges we need to address: harmful content detection, personally identifiable information protection, and prompt injection prevention.Detect prompt injection attacks using Azure Content Safety Prompt Shields.While harmful content detection, PII protection, and prompt injection prevention form the core security layer for most AI chat systems, Azure Content Safety offers additional features worth knowing about for specific use cases.
16/10/2025
QeRL: NVFP4-Quantized Reinforcement Learning (RL) Brings 32B LLM Training to a Single H100—While Improving Exploration
What would you build if you could run Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training on a 32B LLM in 4-bit NVFP4—on a single H100—with BF16-level accuracy and 1.2–1.5× step speedups?NVIDIA researchers (with collaborators from MIT, HKU, and Tsinghua) have open-sourced QeRL (Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning), a training framework that pushes Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training into 4-bit FP4 […]The post QeRL: NVFP4-Quantized Reinforcement Learning (RL) Brings 32B LLM Training to a Single H100—While Improving Exploration appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/10/2025
Building a Context-Folding LLM Agent for Long-Horizon Reasoning with Memory Compression and Tool Use
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a Context-Folding LLM Agent that efficiently solves long, complex tasks by intelligently managing limited context.We design the agent to break down a large task into smaller subtasks, perform reasoning or calculations when needed, and then fold each completed sub-trajectory into concise summaries.The post Building a Context-Folding LLM Agent for Long-Horizon Reasoning with Memory Compression and Tool Use appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/10/2025
Data Migration - Azure SQL MI and Azure SQL DB
As of this writing, Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) doesn't support SQL MI nor SQL DB as the source database (Supported migration scenarios).As an alternative to use DMS, one of the common support requests we receive from Azure SQL customers is about the best ways to migrate data between Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) and Azure SQL Database (SQL DB), or vice versa.This post outlines the primary methods available, their pros and cons, and key considerations to help you choose the right approach for your scenario.
16/10/2025
SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022+
SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022+ preview is now available, supporting SQL Server 2025 Preview and Visual Studio 2026 Preview.Support Microsoft SqlClient Data Provider in ADO.NET connection manager for SQL Server 2025, which provides more Microsoft Entra ID-based authentication options.SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022+ - Visual Studio Marketplace
16/10/2025
SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview now supports SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Alongside the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is now available for installation.Starting with SQL Server Management Studio 21 and SQL Server 2025, the Import and Export Wizard only support a 64-bit environment.Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview
16/10/2025
Public Preview for Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups - now available
The ability to share Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions is now in Public Preview.Previously, customers could deploy VMs in a Capacity Reservation Group within the same subscription only. On-demand Capacity Reservation Group (CRG) can now be shared with other subscriptions.On-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines let you deploy and manage the compute capacity required to run Azure Virtual Machines.
15/10/2025
Drive profitability with personalized assistance from Partner Concierge
Accelerate your growth with Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Concierge, a benefit available via Solutions Partner designations and Partner Success Core or Expanded Benefits. Through Partner Concierge, a dedicated partner specialist will provide one-on-one guidance to help you work toward your goals.Build demand for your solutions, make the most of available benefits and incentives, and boost profitability in Microsoft Marketplace with actionable recommendations from trained experts.
15/10/2025
🚀✨ Get ready for a power-packed November with the Microsoft Zero to Hero Community! ✨🚀
From modernizing legacy applications to building intelligent AI agents, this month is all about innovation, security, and smarter cloud solutions.🌍💪Our incredible lineup of global speakers will help you modernize, automate, and innovate with real-world insights across Azure, AI, and app development. 🌟💡 November Highlights:📢 Matthew Hess📖 Get on the Bus! - The Azure Service Bus📅 November 8, 2025 – 06:00 PM CET🔗 Register Here!📢 Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam📖 Build and Extend AI Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio📅 November 17, 2025 – 09:00 AM CET / 07:00 PM AEDT🔗 Register Here!
15/10/2025
Intune partner portal adds Intel vPro integration
We're excited to announce the arrival of Intel vPro® Fleet Services to the Microsoft Intune Partner portal, bringing hardware-level remote management to your Intune workflows.Intel vPro® Fleet Services can be accessed through the Intune admin center, streamlining access to these hardware-level device management capabilities for Intel vPro®-enabled devices (8th Gen Intel Core processors and newer):We read the comments on posts like this and consolidate your feedback from the Microsoft Intune feedback portal.
15/10/2025
Webinar: Copilot Governance Session 1: Deployment, Copilot Control System, and Agent Management
In the first session of our four-part Copilot Governance series, we focused on what it takes to build a secure, scalable, and strategic foundation for Microsoft Copilot.We explored the Copilot Control System and how to manage access, features, and billing:Learn how to control content signals for Copilot using SAM features like DAG, RAC, RCD, and Restricted SharePoint Search.
15/10/2025
Now in public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support on Azure Virtual Desktop
Designed for stateless workloads, Ephemeral OS disk stores the operating system on the virtual machine’s local storage, rather than remote storage.Ephemeral OS disks store the operating system on the virtual machine’s local storage instead of remote Azure Storage.To ensure reliable scaling and lifecycle management, we recommend using Dynamic Autoscaling plans when deploying session hosts with ephemeral OS disks.
15/10/2025
Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry
Sora 2 in Azure AI Foundry stands out by combining OpenAI’s most advanced video generation capabilities with the trusted infrastructure and security controls of Microsoft Azure.And through Azure AI Foundry and our responsible AI principles, we empower customers with embedded security, safety, and privacy controls.Azure AI Foundry offers a curated catalog of generative media models, including OpenAI’s Sora, GPT-image-1 and GPT-image-1-mini, Black Forest Lab’s Flux 1.1 and Kontext Pro, and more to empower developers in your and customer organizations to serve creatives with new and unique capabilities, all without sacrificing the safety, reliability, and integration businesses expect.
15/10/2025
Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 4.5: Small AI Model that Delivers Sonnet-4-Level Coding Performance at One-Third the Cost and more than Twice the Speed
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a latency-optimized “small” model that delivers similar levels of coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4 while running more than twice as fast at one-third the cost.The model is immediately available via Anthropic’s API and in partner catalogs on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.Pricing is $1/MTok input […]
15/10/2025
Partner Blog | Azure updates for partners: October 2025
To help you stay ahead, we’re launching the Azure Partner Update, a recurring update designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments and accelerate your business.One of this month’s top updates is the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, now a trusted central source for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents for customers, and a scale engine for partners.We also announced several technical updates designed to make cloud deployments faster and more flexible:
15/10/2025
Turning complexity into a competitive advantage with AI automation
In this installment of our Partner Spotlight series, we’re continuing to showcase the innovators driving app and agent development forward on the Microsoft Marketplace.Each feature highlights the distinct journeys of partners who are pioneering AI-powered solutions, building across the Microsoft ecosystem, and delivering transactable applications that are shaping the future of the marketplace. In this article, I sat down with Alois Reitbauer from Dynatrace to learn more about their story and partner journey.We integrated these native Azure services with the Dynatrace Grail data lakehouse, our application framework, and our predictive, causal, and generative AI.
15/10/2025
SAP Business Data Cloud Connect with Azure Databricks is now generally available
We are excited to share that SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) Connect for Azure Databricks is generally available.With this announcement, Azure Databricks customers like you, can connect your SAP BDC environment to your existing Azure Databricks instance – without copying the data – to enable bi-directional, live data sharing. SAP data products can now be shared directly via Delta Sharing into your existing Azure Databricks instances ensuring complete context for your business.
15/10/2025
SharePoint Showcase highlights: Copilot and agents governance and security essentials for admins
This month’s SharePoint Showcase blog – part of a series dedicated to monthly deep dives, tips, resources, and the latest features for SharePoint – explores updates and new capabilities for you, admins, to maintain content hygiene and readiness for AI-driven innovation.Copilot and agents governance and security essentials for adminsAs companies leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot to turn documents, contracts, and other content into impact, and to support admins in the evolving AI landscape, we’ve introduced a range of new tools and policies for SharePoint admins:
15/10/2025
Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes: Now Generally Available!
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes are now Generally Available (GA)!Steps to enable this feature are available here: Cloud-based management of Exchange attributes for Remote Mailboxes in hybrid environments.Customers will be able to opt-in for writeback of critical Exchange attributes (mentioned in the documentation) from the cloud back to on-premises Active Directory via Entra Cloud Sync.
15/10/2025
AI-powered teaching and learning for all Microsoft 365 education customers
These features will be included in all of the academic SKUs (A SKUs) at no additional cost, and many will be rolling out starting today, while others will be rolling out later this year and into early next year.We’re also introducing an academic offering for Microsoft 365 Copilot in education at $18 (USD) per user per month for educators, staff, and students ages 13 and older starting in December 2025.Teach in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App
15/10/2025
Custom Port Support in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server is Now Generally Available
We are excited to announce that custom port support for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server is now generally available (GA).By default, MySQL uses TCP port 3306;with this GA release, you can configure a custom port (between 25001 and 26000) when creating a new Azure Database for MySQL flexible server.
15/10/2025
Applying DISA STIG Settings with Microsoft Intune: Overcoming Native Limitations
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) are essential for organizations requiring stringent security compliance, especially within federal and defense environments.While Microsoft Intune offers a robust set of device management policies, not all STIG-recommended settings are natively available.This blog post explores creative and effective approaches for applying non-native DISA STIG settings using Intune, including PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) as a Win32app, custom OMA-URI profiles, and PowerShell Remediation scripts.
15/10/2025
Cost Optimization of Azure AI Services
Why Cost Optimization in Azure AI Services Matters?Select compute SKUs that align with workload demands.Use mid-tier GPUs or CPU instances for lighter workloads; reserve top-tier GPUs for demanding training or inference.Leverage Spot VMs for interrupt-tolerant jobs, which can reduce costs by up to 90% compared to on-demand pricing.For predictable workloads, Reserved Instances and commitment plans can provide significant discounts.Keep compute and data in the same region to minimize egress costs.Apply Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management to move infrequently accessed data to cooler, cheaper tiers.Use Azure Data Lake optimizations for large-scale training data.
15/10/2025
Leveraging Low Priority Pods for Rapid Scaling in AKS
But there's a problem: when your cluster runs out of resources, the node autoscaler needs to spin up new nodes, and this takes anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes.One way to handle this is using low priority pods to create buffer nodes that can be preempted when your actual workloads need the resources.Leveraging low priority pods to create buffer nodes is an effective way to handle resource constraints when you need rapid scaling and can't afford to wait for the node autoscaler.
15/10/2025
Geo-Replication and Transparent Data Encryption Key Management in Azure SQL Database
Transparent data encryption (TDE) in Azure SQL with customer-managed key (CMK) enables Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) scenario for data protection at rest.There are several considerations when configuring geo-replication for Azure SQL logical servers that use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Customer-Managed Keys (CMK).Understanding the distinction between the TDE protector and server keys is essential for geo-replication with Azure SQL.
15/10/2025
Meta AI’s ‘Early Experience’ Trains Language Agents without Rewards—and Outperforms Imitation Learning
How would your agent stack change if a policy could train purely from its own outcome-grounded rollouts—no rewards, no demos—yet beat imitation learning across eight benchmarks?Meta Superintelligence Labs propose ‘Early Experience‘, a reward-free training approach that improves policy learning in language agents without large human demonstration sets and without reinforcement learning (RL) in the […]
15/10/2025
General Availability - DMS's PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python SDK
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of DMS client tools - PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python SDK and more.With the general availability of DMS client tools - PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python SDK, users can now use stable release of:Three new commands have been introduced in the latest releases of the SDK, PowerShell module, and CLI extension, as outlined below:
15/10/2025
Unlock cost savings with utilization-based storage recommendations in Azure Migrate
The storage utilization-based recommendations, a feature designed to help you right-size your storage workloads and maximize savings.By focusing on actual storage usage instead of allocated capacity, you can significantly reduce costs and accelerate their cloud journey.In our analysis across thousands of on-premises environments, we observed a striking trend: nearly 40% of allocated storage is overprovisioned.
15/10/2025
Hosting Remote MCP Server on Azure Container Apps (ACA) using Streamable HTTP transport mechanism
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has revolutionized how AI assistants interact with external tools and data sources.While many examples focus on local implementations using stdio transport, this post demonstrates how to build and deploy a production-ready MCP server using HTTP transport in Azure Container Apps.In this article, we create a live forex converter that fetches real-time exchange rates from external APIs, showcasing how MCP servers can integrate with third-party services to provide dynamic, up-to-date information to AI assistants.
15/10/2025
Alibaba’s Qwen AI Releases Compact Dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct & Thinking) With FP8 Checkpoints
Do you actually need a giant VLM when dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct/Thinking) with FP8 runs in low VRAM yet retains 256K→1M context and the full capability surface?Alibaba’s Qwen team has expanded its multimodal lineup with dense Qwen3-VL models at 4B and 8B scales, each shipping in two task profiles—Instruct and Thinking—plus FP8-quantized checkpoints for […]The post Alibaba’s Qwen AI Releases Compact Dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct & Thinking) With FP8 Checkpoints appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/10/2025
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (September 2025)
Summary: The article outlines the Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone architecture, a secure, scalable framework for deploying AI workloads across enterprise environments.Summary: The article explains how to enable certificate-based authentication for Windows Admin Center (WAC) gateway servers using Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and smart card logon.Summary: Microsoft has announced general availability of Azure Backup vaulted support for Azure Files Premium (SSD) shares, enabling enterprise-grade data protection for mission-critical workloads.
14/10/2025
Driver Isolation Ruleset Changes for WHCP and Attestation Submissions
Beginning later this year, Hardware Dev Center will enforce stricter driver isolation requirements using the existing InfVerif /h validation.To help ensure that your driver submission passes HDC validation checks, run InfVerif /h on your driver package before submission.InfVerif /h testing is automatically executed as part of the Windows 11 version 25H2 HLK.
14/10/2025
Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for Azure Virtual Desktop
Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025.In this article, I will describe the Windows 10 lifecycle for Azure Virtual Desktop across the following scenarios:All existing Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts running Windows 10 22H2 are entitled to Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) at no additional cost—read about the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 for more information.
14/10/2025
Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for Windows 365
In this article, I will provide more detail on the Windows 10 lifecycle for Windows 365 across the following scenarios:Between October 2025 and April 2026, Cloud PCs created will need to install ESUs to be current.A Windows 10 22H2 image that contains the October 2025 update will remain published in the Azure Marketplace.
14/10/2025
Don't miss the moment: FY26 is the year to align, accelerate, and win with Microsoft
For digital native software development companies and startups bringing AI solutions to our joint customers, growth in partnership with Microsoft isn’t just about gaining speed and reach, it's about strategically aligning with purpose.The partners who align their vision with Microsoft’s AI-first, marketplace-driven future are the ones who will scale fastest and furthest.⭐SPECIAL OFFER As a valued Microsoft partner, Ultimate Partner is offering a 15% discount on general passes to experience UP LIVE⭐
14/10/2025
Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3
The SSMS team is delighted to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3.We are so excited to announce the initial support of ARM64 devices for SSMS 22 Preview!The Query Hint Recommendation tool, a component for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), automates the identification of optimal query hints to enhance SQL query performance.
14/10/2025
Now Available by Popular Demand: GitHub Copilot in SSMS (Preview)
Last month we shared that we made the decision to pivot to GitHub Copilot for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) copilot integration. This month we’re happy to announce that GitHub Copilot in SSMS is now available in Preview 3 of SSMS 22!Using GitHub Copilot in SSMSGitHub Copilot in SSMS has database and connection context when you’re connected in an editor window, so it knows the version of SQL to which you’re connected and has knowledge of the database schema. From the chat window you can get assistance with T-SQL in the active editor or ask questions about your database. Switch to another editor window to chat with a different database, or start a new thread if you want to maintain separate conversations.
14/10/2025
Redis named Stack Overflow’s top data storage tool for AI Agents
We are thrilled to see Redis recognized by developers on Stack Overflow as the #1 data storage tool for AI agent workloads and #5 database in 2025.And we’re proud that Microsoft is the only cloud provider to offer Redis Enterprise as a fully native, managed service with Azure Managed Redis.Purpose-built for modern, AI-powered applications, Azure Managed Redis combines the speed and flexibility of Redis with advanced capabilities like semantic caching and vector search—making it an ideal foundation for building intelligent, enterprise-ready agents.
14/10/2025
The Conditional Access Optimization Agent keeps getting better—and making your life easier
Since general availability, the agent is uncovering an average of 26 policy gaps per customer per month.With these insights, 73% of the customers using the agent have made meaningful improvements in their Zero Trust security posture.In this blog, I’ll walk you through the latest enhancements that help you manage Conditional Access with more confidence and less effort.
14/10/2025
Oracle Database@Azure at Oracle AI World 2025: Powering the Next Wave of Enterprise Innovation
At Oracle AI World 2025, Microsoft and Oracle are bringing major advancements to Oracle Database@Azure, extending the partnership that brings Oracle’s industry-leading database technology together with Microsoft’s trusted AI, cloud, and security platforms.Oracle Database@Azure is now live in South India, Central India, and Canada East, extending the platform’s reach and giving customers more choice in where and how they deploy their mission-critical workloads.Today, Oracle Database@Azure is available in 28 regions worldwide, including:
14/10/2025
Andrej Karpathy Releases ‘nanochat’: A Minimal, End-to-End ChatGPT-Style Pipeline You Can Train in ~4 Hours for ~$100
Andrej Karpathy has open-sourced nanochat, a compact, dependency-light codebase that implements a full ChatGPT-style stack—from tokenizer training to web UI inference—aimed at reproducible, hackable LLM training on a single multi-GPU node.The repo provides a single-script “speedrun” that executes the full loop: tokenization, base pretraining, mid-training on chat/multiple-choice/tool-use data, Supervised Finetuning (SFT), optional RL on […]The post Andrej Karpathy Releases ‘nanochat’: A Minimal, End-to-End ChatGPT-Style Pipeline You Can Train in ~4 Hours for ~$100 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/10/2025
Spotlight On… Volume 1, Edition 1, October 2025
Welcome to the first post in our new series exploring how product evolution and integration drive real-world adoption and value for our customers. Today, we are excited to share that Pulse will now be available to all Glint customers – allowing organizations even more opportunity to grow and evolve their employee listening strategy.Enter Pulse: a nimble, research-backed survey tool that empowers managers and team leads to sending quick, confidential surveys whenever they need insight into team sentiment.- Measure Microsoft 365 Copilot impact with Viva Pulse: Measure Copilot impact in your organization |
14/10/2025
From Timeouts to Triumph: Optimizing GPT-4o-mini for Speed, Efficiency, and Reliability
Large-scale generative AI deployments can stretch system boundaries — especially when thousands of concurrent requests require both high throughput and low latency.Using Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), API Management (APIM) logs, and OpenAI billing telemetry, a detailed investigation uncovered several insights:Latency was not correlated with PTU utilization: PTU resources were healthy and performing within SLA even during spikes.
14/10/2025
Key Takeaways from Our Deep Dive on DSPM for AI
Last Friday’s session, “Compliance Meets AI: Deep Dive into Data Security Posture Management for AI”, was packed with insights on how organizations can strengthen their security posture while embracing generative AI.DSPM for AI Explained Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI is your one-stop solution for visibility and control over AI interactions.Microsoft Community Hub to secure your spot and learn how to apply DLP policies to Copilot interactions for maximum data protection.
14/10/2025
Released: October 2025 Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in:Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE)October 2025 SUs are the last publicly available SUs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.
14/10/2025
Partner Case Study | Impartner
AvePoint serves over 25,000 customers worldwide with innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that modernize the digital workplace across Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and other collaborative environments.AvePoint specializes in solutions to prepare, secure and optimize critical data, all supported by a robust global channel partner program with over 5,000 managed service providers, value-added resellers, and systems integrators.Today, AvePoint offers an all-in-one approach for robust, secure data governance and data management for customers’ Microsoft technology investments.
14/10/2025
New extended service term for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) subscriptions
Review the coming change with your customers and discuss the best option for their business needs before the end of their services terms to avoid unexpected billing.Coordinate with your technical teams to schedule the necessary updates as soon as sandbox is available in November and the new cancel at end of term option is available in January.To find out more about these changes, register for the partner enablement call on October 23, 2025.
14/10/2025
A Coding Implementation of Advanced PyTest to Build Customized and Automated Testing with Plugins, Fixtures, and JSON Reporting
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced capabilities of PyTest, one of the most powerful testing frameworks in Python.We build a complete mini-project from scratch that demonstrates fixtures, markers, plugins, parameterization, and custom configuration.We focus on showing how PyTest can evolve from a simple test runner into a robust, extensible system for real-world […]
14/10/2025
End of Windows 10 Support: What Defender Customers Need to Know
As of today, October 14, 2025, Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10.This means that Windows 10 devices will no longer receive security or feature updates, nor technical support from Microsoft.Microsoft Defender will continue to provide detection and protection capabilities to the extent possible on Windows 10 and other legacy systems.
14/10/2025
Support for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 ends today
Customer installations of Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will continue to run after October 14, 2025.Migrate to Exchange Online or Microsoft 365If your organization intends to continue running Exchange Server and you want to test and evaluate pre-release builds of Exchange Server SE releases, you can apply to join the Exchange Server Technology Adoption Program (TAP).
14/10/2025
Support for Skype for Business Server 2015 and Skype for Business Server 2019 ends today
Today, October 14, 2025, Skype for Business Server 2015, Skype for Business Server 2019, Skype for Business 2016 (client), and Skype for Business 2019 (client) reach end of support.In July 2025, we announced the general availability of Skype for Business Server SE with details on how to upgrade if you intend to continue to run Skype for Business Server on-premises.In addition to the above Skype for Business products, several other products (some of which are often used with Skype for Business) also reach end of support or retirement on October 14, 2025, including Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2019, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019, Windows 10, and more.
14/10/2025
Office 2016/2019 have reached end of support – here's what to do now
Today, October 14, 2025, support ends for all Office 2016 and 2019 suites, standalone apps, and servers.Alternative path: Upgrade to a Microsoft 365 plan to get Planner in Microsoft 365, which allows for basic project planning and task management on the web.Alternative path: Upgrade to any Microsoft 365 plan to get Visio in Microsoft 365, which is the web-based version of Visio.
14/10/2025
Q1 Recap: What’s new in Microsoft Security skilling
As we wrap up an exciting first quarter, we’re thrilled to share some of the latest updates, resources, and learning opportunities in the world of Microsoft Security.Sentinel data lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale.This new Microsoft Applied Skill credential is designed for identity and access professionals who want to prove their hands-on abilities with Microsoft Entra.
14/10/2025
Office 2016/2019 Support Ends Today — Prepare for Office LTSC 2021 End of Support Next Year
Today marks the end of support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 suites, standalone applications, and servers.Office 2016 and 2019 products reaching end of support on October 14, 2025Office LTSC 2021 products reaching end of support on October 13, 2026
14/10/2025
How to move Active Directory Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra ID and why
Minimize dual management by moving the source of authority to Microsoft Entra.Moving the Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra to manage identity from the cloud across your digital estate, solves this.The best path to making Microsoft Entra the source of authority is to start with your Active Directory Security Groups where you’ll prioritize the apps that you want to move to cloud-based authentication.
14/10/2025
New Viva Engage Capabilities Now Available to All Engage Customers
We’re excited to announce that several highly requested features: draft and schedule posts, storyline cover photos and AMAs, featured posts and ‘post on behalf of’ are now available for all Engage customers.Employees can now draft and schedule posts in their communities or storyline.With featured posts, admins and corporate communicators can spotlight important content, so it reaches more people:
14/10/2025
How Azure NetApp Files Object REST API powers Azure and ISV Data and AI services – on YOUR data
This article introduces the Azure NetApp Files Object REST API, a transformative solution for enterprises seeking seamless, real-time integration between their data and Azure's advanced analytics and AI services.The Azure NetApp Files Object REST API helps enterprises optimize cloud operations, make quicker decisions, and leverage Azure's AI ecosystem.In today's data-driven world, the ability to seamlessly integrate data stored on Azure NetApp Files with Azure AI and Data services is a game-changer for enterprises.
14/10/2025
Transform complex tenant management with CoreView in Microsoft Marketplace
In this guest blog post, Ivan Fioravanti, Chief Technology Officer at CoreView, considers the IT challenges of multi-tenant architectures and how enterprises can simplify tenant management. While more than 96% of global organizations report having their critical data backed up, more than half mistakenly believe that their tenant configurations are also backed up.Built for organizations that depend on Microsoft 365, CoreView transforms enterprise tenant management by providing unified visibility across all tenants, closing critical cyber resilience gaps, and simplifying complex tenant and configuration backup and management challenges.
14/10/2025
10 Python One-Liners for Calling LLMs from Your Code
You don’t always need a heavy wrapper, a big client class, or dozens of lines of boilerplate to call a large language model.
14/10/2025
MVP & RD Impact at the 2025 Microsoft Global Hackathon
Produced by The Garage, the Microsoft Global Hackathon is the largest private hackathon on the planet.With over 73,000+ participants this year and thousands of projects annually, the Hackathon fosters a culture of experimentation, inclusion, and bold thinking.This year’s Global Hackathon took place during the week of September 15 and was more than just a coding event — it was a global celebration of creativity, collaboration, and community.
14/10/2025
NVIDIA Researchers Propose Reinforcement Learning Pretraining (RLP): Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective for Building Reasoning During Pretraining
NVIDIA AI has introduced Reinforcement Learning Pretraining (RLP), a training objective that injects reinforcement learning into the pretraining stage rather than deferring it to post-training.The core idea is simple and testable: treat a short chain-of-thought (CoT) as an action sampled before next-token prediction and reward it by the information gain it provides on the […]The post NVIDIA Researchers Propose Reinforcement Learning Pretraining (RLP): Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective for Building Reasoning During Pretraining appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/10/2025
7 LLM Generation Parameters—What They Do and How to Tune Them?
Tuning LLM outputs is largely a decoding problem: you shape the model’s next-token distribution with a handful of sampling controls—max tokens (caps response length under the model’s context limit), temperature (logit scaling for more/less randomness), top-p/nucleus and top-k (truncate the candidate set by probability mass or rank), frequency and presence penalties (discourage repetition or encourage […]The post 7 LLM Generation Parameters—What They Do and How to Tune Them? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/10/2025
ServiceNow AI Research Releases DRBench, a Realistic Enterprise Deep-Research Benchmark
ServiceNow Research has released DRBench, a benchmark and runnable environment to evaluate “deep research” agents on open-ended enterprise tasks that require synthesizing facts from both public web and private organizational data into properly cited reports.Unlike web-only testbeds, DRBench stages heterogeneous, enterprise-style workflows—files, emails, chat logs, and cloud storage—so agents must retrieve, filter, and attribute […]The post ServiceNow AI Research Releases DRBench, a Realistic Enterprise Deep-Research Benchmark appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/10/2025
Transition to Azure Functions V2 on Azure Container Apps
Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps lets you run serverless functions in a flexible, scalable container environment.As the platform evolves, there are two mechanisms to deploy Images with Function Programming Model as Azure Container apps:V2 is latest and recommended approach to host Functions on Azure Container Apps.
14/10/2025
Ivy Framework Agnostic Machine Learning Build, Transpile, and Benchmark Across All Major Backends
In this tutorial, we explore Ivy’s remarkable ability to unify machine learning development across frameworks.We begin by writing a fully framework-agnostic neural network that runs seamlessly on NumPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.We then dive into code transpilation, unified APIs, and advanced features like Ivy Containers and graph tracing, all designed to make deep […]
14/10/2025
Meta’s ARE + Gaia2 Set a New Bar for AI Agent Evaluation under Asynchronous, Event-Driven Conditions
Meta AI has introduced Agents Research Environments (ARE), a modular simulation stack for creating and running agent tasks, and Gaia2, a follow-up benchmark to GAIA that evaluates agents in dynamic, write-enabled settings.ARE provides abstractions for apps, environments, events, notifications, and scenarios;Gaia2 runs on top of ARE and focuses on capabilities beyond search-and-execute.
14/10/2025
Microsoft AI Debuts MAI-Image-1: An In-House Text-to-Image Model that Enters LMArena’s Top-10
Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Image-1, its first image generation model developed entirely in-house at Microsoft.The model has debuted in the Top-10 of the LMArena text-to-image leaderboard (as of Oct 13, 2025).The model is being tested publicly via the arena to collect community feedback and according to Microsoft AI team, it should be made available […]
14/10/2025
Operational Excellence In AI Infrastructure Fleets: Standardized Node Lifecycle Management
Onboarding new hardware into hyperscale fleets can take months, slowed by fragmented tools, vendor-specific firmware, and inconsistent diagnostics.Microsoft, in collaboration with the Open Compute Project (OCP) and leading silicon partners, is addressing this challenge.This blog explores how we are contributing to and leveraging open standards to transform fragmented infrastructure into scalable, vendor-neutral AI platforms.
14/10/2025
Next Generation HXU: Doubling Cooling Power for the AI Era
Next Generation HXU: Doubling Cooling Power for the AI EraEnter our next generation Heat Exchanger Unit (HXU), designed to deliver 2X the cooling capacity in the same footprint while boosting reliability for mission-critical AI deployments.By doubling the cooling capacity, it achieves twice the thermal performance of our first-generation HXU—without increasing the physical footprint.
14/10/2025
Caliptra 2.1: An Open-Source Silicon Root of Trust With Enhanced Protection of Data At-Rest
Today at the Open Compute Project Global Summit, we introduced Caliptra 2.1, an open-source silicon Root of Trust (RoT) security subsystem designed for seamless integration into secure devices. Building upon Caliptra 1.0, which included capabilities for identity and measurement, Caliptra 2.1 represents a significant leap forward. It provides a complete RoT security subsystem, quantum resilient cryptography, and extensions to hardware-based key management, delivering new defense in depth security capabilities. The Caliptra 2.1 subsystem represents a foundational element for securing devices, anchoring through hardware a trusted chain for protection, detection, and recovery.Caliptra 2.1 integrates Adams Bridge 2.0, offering both ML-DSA and ML-KEM with side channel countermeasures. These new capabilities offer resilience now against “harvest-now, decrypt-later” attacks and against future quantum capabilities. Caliptra’s new security subsystem architecture offers a broader set of Root-of-Trust capabilities including ownership transfer for owner-endorsed code integrity, and streaming boot for resilient recovery. In 2022, Microsoft along with AMD, Google and Nvidia established Caliptra. The founding principles for Caliptra were centered on; the RoT is a foundational element in secure devices; transparency builds trust; and consistency enables defense in-depth for stronger security assurances.
14/10/2025
Rethinking Power Conversion and Distribution for the AI Era
Would our existing power conversion and distribution systems be enough to support the next generation of GPU racks?Microsoft has taken a bold step in this direction by initiating a disaggregated power architecture, moving power conversion out of individual servers and into centralized modules.Explore how innovative power technologies such as SSTs can transform the data center architecture.
14/10/2025
Jump Starting Quantum Computing on Azure
In VS Code, install the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK) extension, then install the required Python packages for your environment.2nd cell is to prepare the quantum circuit for Quantum Teleportation. Line1 creates a quantum circuit with 3 qubits and 3 classical bits.# Submit the circuit to run on Azure Quantum
13/10/2025
Celebrating Three Years of CommunityDays.org
The beloved SPSEvents.org, a cornerstone for SharePoint Saturdays and Microsoft community events, announced its closure.The Launch of CommunityDays.orgBy October 13, 2022, CommunityDays.org was officially launched by Tom Daly, sponsored by SoHo Dragon and Microsoft.
13/10/2025
How to Evaluate Your RAG Pipeline with Synthetic Data?
Evaluating LLM applications, particularly those using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), is crucial but often neglected.Without proper evaluation, it’s almost impossible to confirm if your system’s retriever is effective, if the LLM’s answers are grounded in the sources (or hallucinating), and if the context size is optimal.The post How to Evaluate Your RAG Pipeline with Synthetic Data? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
13/10/2025
Celebrate National Book Month with Microsoft Copilot
Help fight book bansI want to get involved with fighting book bans this National Book Month.Support independent bookstores
13/10/2025
Diagnose performance issues in Spark jobs through Spark UI.
Diagnosing performance issues of job using Spark UIThis guide walks you through how to use the Spark UI to diagnose performance issuesIdentify the longest stage of the job
13/10/2025
The Future of AI: Structured Vibe Coding - An Improved Approach to AI Software Development
The Future of AI blog series is an evolving collection of posts from the AI Futures team in collaboration with subject matter experts across Microsoft.In this series, we explore tools and technologies that will drive the next generation of AI.So, I started from scratch using structured vibe coding principles, GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and Azure AI Foundry.
13/10/2025
Cybersecurity Starts Here: Strong Passwords for Nonprofits
One of the simplest—and most powerful—ways to protect your organization is by using strong passwords.Characteristics of a strong password:Microsoft offers nonprofit-friendly tools to help enforce strong password policies and protect user identities:
13/10/2025
Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Your Nonprofit with Microsoft Tools
For nonprofits, safeguarding sensitive data, maintaining donor trust, and ensuring operational continuity are foundational to achieving impact.In an increasingly digital world, cyber threats are evolving rapidly, and nonprofits—often operating with limited resources—can be especially vulnerable.Microsoft offers a suite of powerful, easy-to-use tools designed to help nonprofits build a resilient security posture without needing a full-time IT department.
13/10/2025
Hotpatch efficiency unlocked: Smaller update size
Did you know that hotpatch updates are significantly smaller than standard Windows updates?Rather than the larger cumulative packages that take more time to install on devices, hotpatch updates bring faster security and improved productivity.Hotpatch enables devices to receive critical security updates without restarting.
13/10/2025
ZoomIt v9.10, ProcDump 3.5 for Linux, and jcd 1.0.1
This update to ProcDump for Linux, a tool for capturing process dumps, enables resource tracking without a trigger.jcd 1.0.1 for Linux and MacThis update to jcd fixes a bug that caused the terminal to hang on CTRL-C.
13/10/2025
Making Azure DMS More Secure: Azure Portal Permission Enhancements
With security and compliance top of mind, Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) has introduced key changes to its Azure portal experience—especially around permission for blob container access.Now, DMS's Azure portal uses security context of the current signed in user on the Azure portal to list and access backup files in the blob container, making it better security approach.When migrating to Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Virtual Machine via Azure portal make sure the current signed in user has Storage Blob Data Reader role on the Blob container that contains the backup files.
13/10/2025
Building Agents on Azure Container Apps with Goose AI Agent, Ollama and gpt-oss
Azure Container Apps (ACA) is redefining how developers deploy intelligent agents.With serverless scale, GPU-on-demand, and enterprise-grade isolation, ACA provides the ideal foundation for hosting AI agents securely and cost-effectively.In this post, we're extending that same simplicity to AI agents, where we’ll show how Goose AI Agent as an example of running Agents seamlessly on ACA, and why ACA is the best platform for any agent framework.
13/10/2025
Innovate. Validate. Accelerate.
That spark is supported through the Sprint to Imagine Cup, designed to help founders move their projects forward deploying Microsoft’s trusted AI technologies. At the Imagine Cup World Championship, the top student-led startups showcase their work on a global stage, gaining visibility, recognition, and access to opportunities that extend far beyond the competition.Imagine Cup 2026 is designed to help you practice all three, with the resources, mentorship, and credibility that come from building with Microsoft.
13/10/2025
How Microsoft Evaluates LLMs in Azure AI Foundry: A Practical, End-to-End Playbook
Deploying large language models (LLMs) without rigorous evaluation is risky: quality regressions, safety issues, and expensive rework often surface in production—when it’s hardest to fix.This guide translates Microsoft’s approach in Azure AI Foundry into a practical playbook: define metrics that matter (quality, safety, and business impact), choose the right evaluation mode (offline, online, human-in-the-loop, automated), and operationalize continuous evaluation with the Azure AI Evaluation SDK and monitoring.Robust evaluation of large language models (LLMs) using systematic benchmarking and Azure AI Foundry tools is essential for building trustworthy, efficient, and business-aligned AI solutions
13/10/2025
Microsoft Security Copilot agents
Dilip Radhakrishnan, Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Director, shares how to keep your organization protected with Security Copilot agents.By streamlining decisions and prioritizing risk, the Access Review Agent helps you complete reviews faster with more accuracy and less overhead. -Next, you can bring together the worlds of trending threat intelligence with endpoint management using the Vulnerability Remediation Agent in Microsoft Intune to stay ahead of emerging threats.
13/10/2025
Two Public Sector Roundtables at PPCC25
The Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC25) is coming to Las Vegas, October 28–30, 2025.🔵 Microsoft Sovereign Cloud (GCC/GCCH/DoD) Architect Panel🔵 Powering Public Impact: A Roundtable on Power Platform in Government
13/10/2025
Power stabilization for AI training datacenters
In our recent paper “Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters” (now on arXiv ), we introduce the problem with production data and explore innovative solutions to address it.This post highlights the key ideas from the paper in plain language and shares why this problem is central to the next generation of AI infrastructure.In the context of the broader industry collaboration initiated by Google, Meta, and Microsoft, we will be partnering with many other industry players and utilities to define a common set of standards and requirements for large-scale AI training power stabilization.
13/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: September 25-30, 2025
Learn about 297 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.By combining machine learning, generative AI, and predictive analytics, Bloomfilter.ai transforms raw development data from Azure DevOps, Jira, GitHub, and more into a dynamic digital twin of your software delivery process.In the workshop, DataBalk will showcase how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and IRIS CRM can streamline tenant interactions, reduce workload, and enhance service outcomes.
13/10/2025
General Availability of Online Migration to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible server
The Online migration is available in the Azure portal on the Migration setup screen, in the “Migration mode” drop down selection box, once you initiate a migration from the Flexible server page.In an online database migration to Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, your application that is connecting to your Postgres source is not stopped while your database(s) are copied to Flexible Server target. Instead, the initial copy of the database(s) is followed by replication to keep the Postgres Flexible Server in sync with the Postgres source. If you only have a small downtime window in particular and you want to minimize the downtime of moving your production workloads from any compatible PostgreSQL source to Flexible Server, then Online migration could be a good fit for your situation.
13/10/2025
7 Pandas Tricks to Handle Large Datasets
Large dataset handling in Python is not exempt from challenges like memory constraints and slow processing workflows.
13/10/2025
Building environmental-aware API platforms with Azure API Management
In 2020, Microsoft has set ambitious sustainability goals to be carbon negative by 2030, remove historical carbon emissions by 2050 and more.We are pleased to announce the public preview of environmental sustainability features in Azure API Management designed to help minimize the environmental impact of your API infrastructure.Shape API traffic based on carbon emissions in your API Management service's region
13/10/2025
SwiReasoning: Entropy-Driven Alternation of Latent and Explicit Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning LLMs
SwiReasoning is a decoding-time framework that lets a reasoning LLM decide when to think in latent space and when to write explicit chain-of-thought, using block-wise confidence estimated from entropy trends in next-token distributions.The method is training-free, model-agnostic, and targets Pareto-superior accuracy/efficiency trade-offs on mathematics and STEM benchmarks.Reported results show +1.5%–2.8% average accuracy improvements […]
13/10/2025
Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text
Google AI Research team has brought a production shift in Voice Search by introducing Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R).S2R maps a spoken query directly to an embedding and retrieves information without first converting speech to text.The Google team positions S2R as an architectural and philosophical change that targets error propagation in the classic cascade modeling approach […]
13/10/2025
A Coding Implementation of Secure AI Agent with Self-Auditing Guardrails, PII Redaction, and Safe Tool Access in Python
In this tutorial, we explore how to secure AI agents in practical, hands-on ways using Python.We focus on building an intelligent yet responsible agent that adheres to safety rules when interacting with data and tools.We implement multiple layers of protection, such as input sanitization, prompt-injection detection, PII redaction, URL allowlisting, and rate limiting, […]
13/10/2025
Using the Voice Live API in Azure AI Foundry
In this blog post, we’ll explore the Voice Live API from Azure AI Foundry.Officially released for general availability on October 1, 2025, this API unifies speech recognition, generative AI, and text-to-speech capabilities into a single, streamlined interface.This sample app simulates a friendly real‑time contact‑center rep who can listen continuously, understand you as you speak, instantly look up things like your credit card’s upcoming due date or a product detail via function calls, and then answer back naturally in a Brazilian Portuguese neural voice with almost no lag.
12/10/2025
5 Most Popular Agentic AI Design Patterns Every AI Engineer Should Know
As AI agents evolve beyond simple chatbots, new design patterns have emerged to make them more capable, adaptable, and intelligent.These agentic design patterns define how agents think, act, and collaborate to solve complex problems in real-world settings.The post 5 Most Popular Agentic AI Design Patterns Every AI Engineer Should Know appeared first on MarkTechPost.
12/10/2025
Sentient AI Releases ROMA: An Open-Source and AGI Focused Meta-Agent Framework for Building AI Agents with Hierarchical Task Execution
Sentient AI has released ROMA (Recursive Open Meta-Agent), an open-source meta-agent framework for building high-performance multi-agent systems.ROMA structures agentic workflows as a hierarchical, recursive task tree: parent nodes break a complex goal into subtasks, pass them down to child nodes as context, and later aggregate their solutions as results flow back up—making the context […]The post Sentient AI Releases ROMA: An Open-Source and AGI Focused Meta-Agent Framework for Building AI Agents with Hierarchical Task Execution appeared first on MarkTechPost.
12/10/2025
Building Transformer Models from Scratch with PyTorch (10-day Mini-Course)
Before we begin, let's make sure you're in the right place.
12/10/2025
A Coding Guide to Master Self-Supervised Learning with Lightly AI for Efficient Data Curation and Active Learning
In this tutorial, we explore the power of self-supervised learning using the Lightly AI framework.We begin by building a SimCLR model to learn meaningful image representations without labels, then generate and visualize embeddings using UMAP and t-SNE.We then dive into coreset selection techniques to curate data intelligently, simulate an active learning workflow, and […]
11/10/2025
Meet OpenTSLM: A Family of Time-Series Language Models (TSLMs) Revolutionizing Medical Time-Series Analysis
A significant development is set to transform AI in healthcare.Researchers at Stanford University, in collaboration with ETH Zurich and tech leaders including Google Research and Amazon, have introduced OpenTSLM, a novel family of Time-Series Language Models (TSLMs).This breakthrough addresses a critical limitation in current LLMs by enabling them to interpret and reason over […]
11/10/2025
Intelligent Conversations: Building Memory-Driven Bots with Azure AI and Semantic Kernel
Discover how memory-driven AI reshapes the way we interact, learn, and collaborate. 💬✨On October 20th at 8pm CET, we’ll explore how Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI models enable bots that remember context, adapt to users, and deliver truly intelligent conversations. 🤖💭Join Marko Atanasov and Bojan Ivanovski as they dive into the architecture behind context-aware assistants and the future of personalized learning powered by Azure AI. 🌐💡✅ Save your seat on the following link: Streamyard
11/10/2025
Step-by-Step Deployment Guide: MCP Tool Call in Copilot Studio agent with OAuth 2.0
OAuth 2.0, particularly the Authorization Code Flow, is the industry standard for secure delegated access.In this guide, we’ll walk through how to configure MCP tools in Copilot Studio using OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow — covering prerequisites, configuration steps, token handling, and best practices for a seamless and secure setup.This article focuses on configuring an MCP tool within a Copilot Studio agent using OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow.
11/10/2025
Liquid AI Releases LFM2-8B-A1B: An On-Device Mixture-of-Experts with 8.3B Params and a 1.5B Active Params per Token
Liquid AI has released LFM2-8B-A1B, a small-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model built for on-device execution under tight memory, latency, and energy budgets.Unlike most MoE work optimized for cloud batch serving, LFM2-8B-A1B targets phones, […]The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2-8B-A1B: An On-Device Mixture-of-Experts with 8.3B Params and a 1.5B Active Params per Token appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 10, 2025
🗂️ October 10, 2025 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.
10/10/2025
GitHub Certifications: The fastest way to align your Dev teams on automation, AI, and security
The new GitHub certifications—GH900, GH100, GH200, GH300, and GH500—give you exactly that: role-appropriate credentials mapped to real product skills, recognized on Microsoft Learn and GitHub Learn.This article serves as a comprehensive guide to GitHub's role-based certifications, designed to help individuals and organizations enhance their skills in automation, AI, and security.Whether you're a developer, platform administrator, or security engineer, these certifications provide a structured path to mastering GitHub's tools and best practices, enabling teams to deliver software faster, more securely, and with greater confidence.
10/10/2025
"I'm Good, But I'm Not Magic" - GitHub Copilot Finally Speaks Out
But one of the most famous personalities I have met in a long time is Chatty—the GitHub CoPilot AI model helping millions of developers code better and more efficiently.That's just my nickname for this interview, but my real name is GitHub Copilot...I teach AI concepts and web development, making complex tech accessible to everyone.
10/10/2025
Join Microsoft at IACP 2025: Empower public safety operations with trusted AI
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference and Exposition is the premier global event for law enforcement leaders, bringing together more than 16,000 public safety professionals.This year, IACP 2025 takes place October 18–22 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, and Microsoft is proud to be part of the conversation.At booth #362, attendees can explore hands-on demos of Microsoft solutions including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Researcher and Analyst agents, and Copilot Studio agents tailored for first responders.
10/10/2025
Meta Superintelligence Labs’ MetaEmbed Rethinks Multimodal Embeddings and Enables Test-Time Scaling with Flexible Late Interaction
What if you could tune multimodal retrieval at serve time—trading accuracy, latency, and index size—simply by choosing how many learnable Meta Tokens (e.g., 1→16 for queries, 1→64 for candidates) to use?Meta Superintelligence Labs introduces MetaEmbed, a late-interaction recipe for multimodal retrieval that exposes a single control surface at serving time: how many compact “Meta […]The post Meta Superintelligence Labs’ MetaEmbed Rethinks Multimodal Embeddings and Enables Test-Time Scaling with Flexible Late Interaction appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/10/2025
Want Safer, Smarter AI? Start with Observability in Azure AI Foundry
If you are an AI developer or an engineer, you can benefit from Azure AI observability by gaining deep visibility into agent behavior, enabling them to trace decisions, evaluate response quality, and integrate automated testing into their workflows.Enter Observability: With Azure AI Foundry and Azure Monitor, you can:Priyanka is a Technical Trainer at Microsoft USA with over 15 years of experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
10/10/2025
Your shortcut to Microsoft Entra deployment success
We’ve created more than 20 Microsoft Entra step-by-step deployment guidance videos designed to make your journey as an IT admin faster and easier.These short, practical demos focus on real world scenarios and tasks so you can hit the ground running.Deploying Microsoft Entra Private Access.
10/10/2025
Sentinel UEBA’s Superpower: Actionable Insights You Can Use! Now with Okta and Multi-Cloud Logs!
Microsoft Sentinel continues to evolve as a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solution, empowering security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats with speed and precision.The latest update introduces advanced User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), expanding support for new eligible logs, including multi-cloud sources and the Okta identity provider.Building on these enhancements, Sentinel UEBA now enables security teams to correlate activity seamlessly across diverse platforms like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Okta, providing a unified risk perspective and empowering SOC analysts to quickly identify suspicious patterns such as unusual logins, privilege escalations, or anomalous access attempts.
10/10/2025
What's new in Microsoft Security Copilot
A major wave of updates has landed: integration with the new Sentinel data lake and graph, new ready-made and custom agents, and the debut of the Microsoft Security Store.Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot integration delivers deeper context and smarter AISentinel data lake is now generally available, and new capabilities like Sentinel graph and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server are in public preview, bringing in a new level of integration with Security Copilot.
10/10/2025
Exchange Online ActiveSync Certificate-based Authentication endpoint changes
As part of our ongoing security efforts, we have made a recent change to Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) behavior for Exchange ActiveSync.With this change, all Exchange ActiveSync CBA traffic will be routed to new, dedicated endpoints based on tenant location:This change has already begun to roll out in the worldwide multi-tenant cloud and will start rolling out in other clouds in November.
10/10/2025
Building Trustworthy AI: How Azure Foundry + Microsoft Security Layers Deliver End-to-End Protection
Purpose-built for secure, enterprise-grade AI development, Foundry provides the integrated controls, monitoring, and content safety features organizations need to confidently harness the power of AI—without compromising on trust or compliance.Azure AI Foundry is a unified, enterprise-grade platform designed to help organizations build, deploy, and manage custom AI solutions securely and responsibly.While Azure AI Foundry provides a secure foundation, Microsoft Defender for AI and Microsoft Purview add advanced layers of protection and governance:- Defender for AI: Delivers real-time threat detection, anomaly monitoring, and incident response for AI workloads.- Microsoft Purview: Provides data governance, discovery, classification, and compliance for all data used by AI applications.
10/10/2025
Building Human-in-the-loop AI Workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework
This post walks through how the Microsoft Agent Framework structures AI-driven workflows for fraud detection — combining deterministic orchestration with autonomous agents.The Microsoft Agent Framework bridges this gap by combining deterministic workflow graphs — which govern execution, enforce structure, and provide fault tolerance — with autonomous agents that handle reasoning steps best served by LLM intelligence.The Fraud Detection Workflow in the Microsoft Agent Framework shows how to combine structured orchestration with AI-driven reasoning.
10/10/2025
Defining the Raw Data Vault with Artificial Intelligence
This article explores the transformative potential of leveraging AI to define the Raw Data Vault, demonstrating how intelligent automation can enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, ultimately unlocking new levels of insight and agility for organizations.Flow.BI as a Generative AI to Define the Raw Data VaultThe metadata is provided by Flow.BI can be used to model the landing zone/staging area (either on a data lake or a relational database such as Microsoft Fabric) and the Raw Data Vault in a data-driven Data Vault architecture, which is the recommended practice.
10/10/2025
Agentic Context Engineering (ACE): Self-Improving LLMs via Evolving Contexts, Not Fine-Tuning
TL;DR: A team of researchers from Stanford University, SambaNova Systems and UC Berkeley introduce ACE framework that improves LLM performance by editing and growing the input context instead of updating model weights.Context is treated as a living “playbook” maintained by three roles—Generator, Reflector, Curator—with small delta items merged incrementally to avoid brevity bias and […]The post Agentic Context Engineering (ACE): Self-Improving LLMs via Evolving Contexts, Not Fine-Tuning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/10/2025
The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Agentic AI Systems
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) represents the most significant shift in machine learning since deep learning transformed the field.
10/10/2025
SQL Server Database Corruption: Causes, Detection, and some details behind DBCC CHECKDB
Database corruption in SQL Server is rare but usually high-impact.When it occurs, it threatens ACID compliance - the foundation of transactional integrity - and can lead to downtime, data loss, and operational risk.It’s extremely important to remember that after running CHECKDB repair with data loss, you must manually validate your data.
10/10/2025
Google Open-Sources an MCP Server for the Google Ads API, Bringing LLM-Native Access to Ads Data
Google has open-sourced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes read-only access to the Google Ads API for agentic and LLM applications.The repository googleads/google-ads-mcp implements an MCP server in Python that surfaces two tools today: search (GAQL queries over Ads accounts) and list_accessible_customers (enumeration of customer resources).It includes setup via pipx, Google […]
10/10/2025
What are ‘Computer-Use Agents’? From Web to OS—A Technical Explainer
TL;DR: Computer-use agents are VLM-driven UI agents that act like users on unmodified software.Gemini 2.5 Computer Use leads several web benchmarks (Online-Mind2Web 69.0%, WebVoyager 88.9%)Next steps center on OS-level robustness, sub-second action loops, and […]
10/10/2025
Solving Network Connectivity for MDE and MDI
In this article we’re going to cover a potential solution to allow the communication traffic for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) in a more secure manner, while simultaneously disallowing the operating system to reach the internet.MDE and MDI are both cloud powered solutions that need to run on all assets (MDE) and Tier 0 assets (MDI). To function these products must be connected to Azure endpoints, however the number of endpoints (MDI, MDE) can be large.A systems administrator can simplify their deployment of MDE or MDI by including the proxy solution as part of the application bundle, where its lifecycle can be tracked in lockstep with the application.
10/10/2025
Microsoft Research Releases Skala: a Deep-Learning Exchange–Correlation Functional Targeting Hybrid-Level Accuracy at Semi-Local Cost
TL;DR: Skala is a deep-learning exchange–correlation functional for Kohn–Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) that targets hybrid-level accuracy at semi-local cost, reporting MAE ≈ 1.06 kcal/mol on W4-17 (0.85 on the single-reference subset) and WTMAD-2 ≈ 3.89 kcal/mol on GMTKN55; evaluations use a fixed D3(BJ) dispersion correction.It is positioned for main-group molecular chemistry today, with […]The post Microsoft Research Releases Skala: a Deep-Learning Exchange–Correlation Functional Targeting Hybrid-Level Accuracy at Semi-Local Cost appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/10/2025
Announcing resource-scope query for Azure Monitor Workspaces
We’re excited to announce the public preview of resource-scope query for Azure Monitor Workspaces (AMWs)—a major step forward in simplifying observability, improving access control, and aligning with Azure-native experiences.This new capability builds on the successful implementation of resource-scope query in Log Analytics Workspaces (LAWs), which transformed how users access logs by aligning them with Azure resource scopes.Resource-scope query has been a frequently requested capability that allows users to query metrics scoped to a specific resource, resource group, or subscription—rather than needing to know which AMW the metrics are stored in.
10/10/2025
SAP Business Data Cloud Now Available on Microsoft Azure
We’re thrilled to announce that SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) including SAP Databricks is now available on Microsoft Azure marking a major milestone in our strategic partnership with SAP and Databricks and our commitment to empowering customers with cutting-edge Data & AI capabilities.SAP BDC is a fully managed SaaS solution designed to unify, govern, and activate SAP and third-party data for advanced analytics and AI-driven decision-making.Customers can now deploy SAP BDC on Azure in US East, US West and Europe West, with additional regions coming soon, and unlock transformative insights from their enterprise data with the scale, security, and performance of Microsoft’s trusted cloud platform.
09/10/2025
Postgres Trip Report from PGConf NYC 2025 (with lots of photos)
For those of you who didn’t make it to PGConf NYC 2025 in midtown Manhattan last week, you missed out!In this trip report from PGConf NYC 2025 you’ll get highlights from some talks, quotes from attendees, my gratitude for the organizers (and the sponsors!)I can’t possibly cover all the useful, expert talks on the PGConf NYC schedule, but I’ll share a few highlights of a few talks:
09/10/2025
Join Us for “What’s New in M365 Copilot” – HLS Webinar Series!
Are you ready to unlock the future of productivity and AI-powered collaboration? We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming webinar: “What’s New in M365 Copilot - HLS Webinar Series”, happening on Wednesday, 10/15/2025 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time!Microsoft 365 Copilot is changing the way organizations work by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to supercharge workflows, streamline tasks, and empower users to achieve more.Jaspreet and Samir will guide you through hands-on demonstrations, real-world scenarios, and answer your burning questions about Copilot’s newest capabilities.
09/10/2025
Mastering Copilot Governance: 4 part Admin Series | Join Us Live
That’s why we’re launching a four-part webinar series designed to help IT and business leaders understand how to manage Copilot securely, effectively, and at scale.Each session will dive into the tools and controls available across Microsoft 365, with live demos and practical guidance to help you build a governance strategy that supports both innovation and compliance.Learn how to control content signals for Copilot using SAM features like DAG, RAC, RCD, and Restricted SharePoint Search.
09/10/2025
Crop pictures directly in OneNote on Windows
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders!I’m excited to announce a highly requested feature is now rolling out to Insiders: the ability to crop pictures directly in OneNote on Windows!Crop pictures directly in OneNote on Windows
09/10/2025
Requesting and Installing an SSL Certificate for Internet Information Server (IIS)
Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)Generate the request using the Certificates snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).Bind the Certificate in IIS
09/10/2025
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 141
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 141 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.Please continue to give us feedback through the Security Baselines Discussion site or this post.
09/10/2025
Tiny Recursive Model (TRM): A Tiny 7M Model that Surpass DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o3-mini at Reasoning on both ARG-AGI 1 and ARC-AGI 2
Can an iterative draft–revise solver that repeatedly updates a latent scratchpad outperform far larger autoregressive LLMs on ARC-AGI?Samsung SAIT (Montreal) has released Tiny Recursive Model (TRM)—a two-layer, ~7M-parameter recursive reasoner that reports 44.6–45% test accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 7.8–8% on ARC-AGI-2, surpassing results reported for substantially larger language models such as DeepSeek-R1, o3-mini-high, and […]The post Tiny Recursive Model (TRM): A Tiny 7M Model that Surpass DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o3-mini at Reasoning on both ARG-AGI 1 and ARC-AGI 2 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/10/2025
Active Directory schema extension issue if you use a Windows Server 2025 schema master role
This issue can happen ONLY if you use a Windows Server 2025 as the schema master FSMO role holder in your environment.Windows Server 2025 schema master FSMO role holder might create duplicate schema attribute values after Exchange Server CU update is installed.Please open a support ticket with a Windows Active Directory team if you are already impacted by this.
09/10/2025
Partner Blog | What's new for Microsoft partners: October 2025 edition
Your voice is instrumental in shaping the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. In our latest quarterly update, we share key enhancements driven by partner feedback, along with expert insights, new skilling resources, and the latest benefits to help you grow, innovate, and lead in the AI era. Continue reading here!
09/10/2025
Do PTUs Save You Money?
When deploying large language models in Azure AI Foundry, does selecting PTUs (Provisioned Throughput Units) save you money?PTUs, also known as provisioned throughput units, are your own share of the Azure OpenAI service, offering high availability and consistent latency backed by a service level agreement.This buys you 62,500 input TPM and 50,000 output TPM at the best possible latency.
09/10/2025
GPT-5 Model Family Now Powers Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
The GPT-5 family of models is now available in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, bringing Azure OpenAI’s most advanced reasoning, multimodal, and coding intelligence into a platform purpose-built for enterprise-scale agent development.The new generation of modelsWith this release, developers can choose from the full GPT-5 lineup to balance speed, depth, and cost for their agent development needs:
09/10/2025
Microsoft at PASS Data Community Summit 2025
Microsoft is excited to be back as the Sapphire Sponsor for this year’s PASS Data Community Summit, together with AMD.It’ll be a week packed with keynotes, learning pathways, sessions, breakfast, giveaways and more!Discover how GitHub Copilot is transforming the way you write T-SQL and optimize your SQL databases inside SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.
09/10/2025
Benchmarks to compare Copilot adoption coming to Copilot Dashboard
We’re excited to announce the initial rollout of Benchmarks in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights. This new feature lets organizations compare Copilot usage internally across different company groups, as well as externally against similar companies.Benchmarks in the Copilot Dashboard are currently only available to private preview customers. We’ll begin to roll out this new functionality to all customers later this month. Learn more about how to use the Copilot Dashboard.
09/10/2025
Surface Joins the Open Device Partnership (ODP)
That’s why we’re excited to announce that Surface is joining and taking a leadership position in the Open Device Partnership (ODP). The partnership's work addresses long-standing challenges in firmware and system design by leveraging memory-safe programming languages like Rust and hardware-rooted security features and doing so based on standards that will work across a partner's entire device product line.As part of Open Device Partnership (ODP), Surface is investing in several foundational technologies that are shaping the future of secure and reliable devices including:
09/10/2025
Chapter 4: Beyond Tools - 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report
82% of leaders believe that AI agents will be viewed as valued contributors and teammates over the next year1.75% of employees believe teams that embrace AI agents will have a competitive advantage and 71% believe AI agents could help their team achieve goals they couldn’t before.Chapter 4 of our 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report dives into human-AI teaming and what it might mean for the future of workplace teams.
09/10/2025
Recorded session - Unlock New Levels of Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Watch this recorded HLS Webinar Series session with Microsoft’s Nicholas Aquino and Nick Stillings: “Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat” that was held on Wednesday, October 8th.This practical, hands-on webinar is designed to show you how Microsoft Copilot can supercharge your productivity across the entire M365 suite.Copilot Chat as Your Productivity Hub: Discover how Copilot Chat becomes your central space to generate emails, documents, spreadsheets, and extract insights from all your Microsoft apps.
09/10/2025
September 2025 Recap: Azure Database for MySQL
Join us live on our YouTube channel on October 15, 2025 for an exclusive webinar where we’ll dive deeper into the latest Azure Database for MySQL updates and answer your questions!We’re now happy to share that in-place major version upgrade is supported for MySQL servers from 8.0 to 8.4.You can now take advantage of near-zero-downtime maintenance for Azure Database for MySQL with high availability (HA) enabled.
09/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: September 22-24, 2025
Learn about 189 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.Auto Recruite: Auto Recruit is a recruitment automation platform that uses AI and advanced tools to streamline the sourcing, screening, and engagement of candidates.Easily deploy virtual machine images
09/10/2025
Build an Inference Cache to Save Costs in High-Traffic LLM Apps
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in applications like chatbots, customer support, code assistants, and more.
09/10/2025
Cut migration costs with B-Series and Cobalt 100 VM support in Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate now supports B-Series and Cobalt 100 VMs, empowering you to plan migrations smarter, optimize costs, and get the right performance fit for every workload.B-Series VMs are designed for workloads with variable CPU usage, delivering cost efficiency without compromising flexibility.Cobalt 100 VMs are ARM-native virtual machines optimized for modern, energy-efficient workloads.
09/10/2025
Study Buddy: Learning Data Science and Machine Learning with an AI Sidekick
As part of the "For Beginners" curriculum, I recently built a Study Buddy Agent, an AI-powered assistant designed to help learners explore data science interactively, intuitively, and joyfully.The Study Buddy Agent is here to change that.The agent uses GitHub Copilot's chatmode, which allows developers to define custom behaviors for AI agents.
09/10/2025
AI Career Navigator — Empowering Job Seekers with Azure OpenAI
That question became the mission — to build a smart, empathetic platform that helps users analyze their resumes, identify skill gaps, and prepare for interviews using Azure OpenAI.✅ Tip: Ensure you’ve created an Azure OpenAI resource and updated the .env file with your keys before running the backend.Thank you for recognizing AI Career Navigator with the People’s Choice Spotlight Award.
09/10/2025
RA3: Mid-Training with Temporal Action Abstractions for Faster Reinforcement Learning (RL) Post-Training in Code LLMs
TL;DR: A new research from Apple, formalizes what “mid-training” should do before reinforcement learning RL post-training and introduces RA3 (Reasoning as Action Abstractions)—an EM-style procedure that learns temporally consistent latent actions from expert traces, then fine-tunes on those bootstrapped traces.It shows mid-training should (1) prune to a compact near-optimal action subspace and (2) shorten […]The post RA3: Mid-Training with Temporal Action Abstractions for Faster Reinforcement Learning (RL) Post-Training in Code LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/10/2025
Stanford Researchers Released AgentFlow: In-the-Flow Reinforcement Learning RL for Modular, Tool-Using AI Agents
TL;DR: AgentFlow is a trainable agent framework with four modules—Planner, Executor, Verifier, Generator—coordinated by an explicit memory and toolset.The planner is optimized in the loop with a new on-policy method, Flow-GRPO, which broadcasts a trajectory-level outcome reward to every turn and applies token-level PPO-style updates with KL regularization and group-normalized advantages.On ten benchmarks, […]
09/10/2025
How to Build Frontier AI Solutions with Azure AI Landing Zone
This blog aims to demystify these questions by providing a foundational understanding of the Azure AI Landing Zone (AI ALZ) — a unified, scalable, and secure framework for enterprise AI adoption.It explains how AI ALZ builds on two key architectural foundations — the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) — and outlines a step-by-step approach to setting up an AI Landing Zone in your Azure environment.The Azure AI Landing Zone provides enterprises with a structured, secure, and scalable foundation for AI adoption at scale.
09/10/2025
MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: Which dates to use for the Files dataset?
The SharePoint Files dataset became publicly available in Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC) on August 20, 2024.Unlike other SharePoint datasets, the Files dataset is refreshed only once a week, over the weekend.To keep your dataset current, use delta pulls.
08/10/2025
Microsoft Tech Community Release Notes - 25.10 - Oct 8th, 2025
We’re excited to share the latest updates designed to improve your experience on the Microsoft Tech Community!This quarter, we’ve focused on modernising the interface, enhancing event features, and introducing new capabilities for user groups.User Groups can submit feedback, bugs and feature request via our ideas board
08/10/2025
Skilling snack: AI for Windows developers
Are you a new Windows developer or looking to skill up on the latest in AI?Start at the top to learn about Windows Machine Learning (ML)—now generally available—or skip down to the resources that meet your current needs.Learn how to build AI experiences that are more responsive, private, and cost-effective.
08/10/2025
Strengthening Azure File Sync security with Managed Identities
In this post, I’ll walk you through how Managed Identities can simplify and secure your Azure File Sync deployments, based on my recent conversation with Grace Kim, Program Manager on the Azure Files and File Sync team.Using Azure File Sync with Managed Identities provides significant security enhancements and simpler credential management for enterprises. Instead of relying on storage account keys or SAS tokens, Azure File Sync authenticates using a system-assigned Managed Identity from Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).When you enable Managed Identity on your Azure VM or Arc-enabled server, Azure automatically provisions an identity for that server.
08/10/2025
Microsoft Intune Advanced Analytics in action: Real-world scenarios for IT teams
In this blog post, we’ll review the capabilities provided by Advanced Analytics with example scenarios for how they can be used.Once your license is in place and Endpoint analytics is enabled, Advanced Analytics features will become available in your tenant.Device query for multiple devices provides insights about the entire fleet of devices using previously collected inventory data.
08/10/2025
AMA: Azure AI Foundry Voice Live API: Build Smarter, Faster Voice Agents
Join us LIVE in the Azure AI Foundry Discord on the 14th October, 2025, 10am PT to learn more about Voice Live API Launched into general availability on October 1, 2025, the Azure AI Foundry Voice Live API is a game-changer for developers building voice-enabled agents.It unifies the entire voice stack—speech-to-text, generative AI, text-to-speech, avatars, and conversational enhancements, into a single, streamlined interface.
08/10/2025
Microsoft Partner Center account structure: Best practices for long-term success
This article examines Partner Center account structures and the primary decisions to make when setting up your company’s accounts in the portal.In short, you must have an Azure Entra ID account to have a Partner Center account.Adding another Partner Center administrator
08/10/2025
Microsoft Blog | Microsoft Ignite: Shaping what’s next with our partner ecosystem
In just a few weeks, we’ll gather at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to focus on four pillars that define successful AI transformation: improving employee experiences, reinventing business processes, deepening customer connections, and bending the curve of industry innovation.Join us in San Francisco or online November 18–21 to see the latest innovations, connect with Microsoft leaders and peers, and learn how to deliver even greater impact for your customers. Registration is open, and there is still time to reserve your spot today. Learn how to unlock the most value from your Microsoft partnership through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.
08/10/2025
Anthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios
How do you audit frontier LLMs for misaligned behavior in realistic multi-turn, tool-use settings—at scale and beyond coarse aggregate scores?Anthropic released Petri (Parallel Exploration Tool for Risky Interactions), an open-source framework that automates alignment audits by orchestrating an auditor agent to probe a target model across multi-turn, tool-augmented interactions and a judge model to […]The post Anthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/10/2025
Getting the best out of threads in Microsoft Teams channels
That’s why as part of the threads rollout, we are introducing thread summarization with Copilot.Thread summarization with Copilot is generally available and requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Watch this video to learn how to create a channel with threads and get tips for communicating effectively with your stakeholders by using threads.
08/10/2025
Copilot + OneDrive: Intelligence in Every Click, Inspiration in Every Memory
Now rolling out for Copilot licensed users, the familiar Copilot icon is now built directly into your OneDrive experience, right next to your important files and ready for action with a single click.Generating an audio overview with Copilot on the OneDrive mobile appExample using Add to OneDrive and People cards:
08/10/2025
SharePoint NoAccess Sites: Search Indexing and Copilot Misconceptions Guide
What is NoAccess Mode in SharePoint? NoAccess mode is a site-level setting in SharePoint Online that restricts user access to the site without permanently deleting it.This is why governance settings like Restricted Access Control or disabling indexing are critical when using Copilot.
08/10/2025
What's New in Microsoft EDU - October 2025
Join us on Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 for our latest "What's New in Microsoft EDU" webinar!These 30-minute webinars are put on by the Microsoft Education Product Management group and happen once per month, this month both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as many global time zones as possible around the world. And don’t worry – we’ll be recording these and posting on our Microsoft Education YouTube channel in the new “What’s New in Microsoft EDU” playlist, so you’ll always to able to watch later or share with others!Here is our October 2025 webinar agenda:
08/10/2025
September 2025 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
September is packed with powerful enhancements, from the public preview of PostgreSQL 18 to the general availability of Azure Confidential Computing, plus several new capabilities designed to boost performance, security, and developer experience.As a Platinum sponsor, Microsoft joined the global PostgreSQL community for three days of sessions covering performance, extensibility, cloud, and AI, highlighted by Claire Giordano’s keynote, “What Microsoft is Building for Postgres—2025 in Review,” along with deep dives from core contributors and engineers.PostgreSQL 18 is now available in public preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, launched the same day as the PostgreSQL community release.
08/10/2025
AMBA-ALZ pattern: Learn about the latest and greatest enhancements!
Adoption of the new least privileged "Monitoring Policy Contributor" Azure role for the System Assigned Managed Identities created by AMBA-ALZ deploymentThe new built-in policy, called "Configure subscriptions to enable service health alert monitoring rule", has been added to the new "Deploy Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA-ALZ) for Service Health and Resource Health" initiative together with the previous Resource Health custom policyAdoption of the new least privileged "Monitoring Policy Contributor" Azure role
08/10/2025
Avoiding Access Errors with SharePoint App-Only Access
If you're setting up app-only permissions to access the SharePoint Online REST API and run into persistent “403 Forbidden”, “Unauthorized”, or “Unsupported app only token” errors, you're not alone. One of the most common misconfigurations we see is the use of a client secret instead of a self-signed X.509 certificate when authenticating with Azure AD.SharePoint CSOM - Get a quick overview of the SharePoint object model When customers configure app-only access using Azure AD, they often assume that a client secret is sufficient because they will be able to obtain a valid token. However, SharePoint Online requires certificate-based authentication for app-only access.
08/10/2025
Model Context Protocol (MCP) vs Function Calling vs OpenAPI Tools — When to Use Each?
Comparison Table Concern MCP Function Calling OpenAPI Tools Interface contract Protocol data model (tools/resources/prompts) Per-function JSON Schema OAS 3.1 document Discovery Dynamic via tools/list Static list provided to the model From OAS; catalogable Invocation tools/call over JSON-RPC session Model selects function; app executes HTTP request per OAS op Orchestration Host routes across many servers/tools App-local […]The post Model Context Protocol (MCP) vs Function Calling vs OpenAPI Tools — When to Use Each? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/10/2025
Google AI Introduces Gemini 2.5 ‘Computer Use’ (Preview): A Browser-Control Model to Power AI Agents to Interact with User Interfaces
Google AI introduces Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, a specialized variant of Gemini 2.5 that plans and executes real UI actions in a live browser via a constrained action API.It’s available in public preview through Google […]The post Google AI Introduces Gemini 2.5 ‘Computer Use’ (Preview): A Browser-Control Model to Power AI Agents to Interact with User Interfaces appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/10/2025
Meta AI Open-Sources OpenZL: A Format-Aware Compression Framework with a Universal Decoder
How much compression ratio and throughput would you recover by training a format-aware graph compressor and shipping only a self-describing graph to a universal decoder?Meta AI released OpenZL, an open-source framework that builds specialized, format-aware compressors from high-level data descriptions and emits a self-describing wire format that a universal decoder can read—decoupling compressor evolution […]The post Meta AI Open-Sources OpenZL: A Format-Aware Compression Framework with a Universal Decoder appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/10/2025
Microsoft’s A-Grade Azure AI Stack: From Dissertation Prototype to Smart Campus Pilot
It's about how Microsoft's tools made it possible to go from a rough concept to a robust pilot, proving their developer stack is one of the most convenient and powerful options for building intelligent, ethical, and scalable educational systems.CampusConnect dashboard and numbered widgets powered by Azure OpenAII used Semantic Kernel (SK) Microsoft's powerful, open-source framework to build a modular, hub-and-spoke multi-agent system.
08/10/2025
An Intelligent Conversational Machine Learning Pipeline Integrating LangChain Agents and XGBoost for Automated Data Science Workflows
In this tutorial, we combine the analytical power of XGBoost with the conversational intelligence of LangChain.We build an end-to-end pipeline that can generate synthetic datasets, train an XGBoost model, evaluate its performance, and visualize key insights, all orchestrated through modular LangChain tools.By doing this, we demonstrate how conversational AI can interact seamlessly with […]
08/10/2025
Installing a Standalone Root Certificate Authority & Web Enrollment on Windows Server 2025
In this post learn how to deploy a standalone root Certificate Authority (CA) on a Windows Server 2025 machine that is not joined to Active Directory.Also learn how to configure the web enrollment interface so clients can request certificates using a browser.Install Active Directory Certificate Services (Standalone Root CA)
07/10/2025
Updated skilling requirements for SAP on Microsoft Azure specialization
To reflect growing momentum around RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure, we have updated the skilling criteria for the SAP on Microsoft Azure specialization. This update gives you an additional pathway for meeting the skilling requirement.Review the updated requirements to ensure you are eligible for renewal and can maximize the benefits of the SAP on Microsoft Azure specialization.As part of the Module B audit for the SAP on Microsoft Azure specialization, you’ll be asked to provide documentation showing completion of the Run SAP on the Microsoft Cloud learning path.
07/10/2025
Floating images now accessible for screen readers in Word
I’m excited to announce that floating images in Microsoft Word for Windows are now accessible to screen readers.Previously, floating images in Word were flagged by Accessibility Assistant as inaccessible because screen readers couldn’t determine their position in the document.Now, improved anchoring ensures screen reader can detect floating images and announce their alt text where the anchor is placed relative to the surrounding text.
07/10/2025
Build enterprise-ready AI agents with confidence: Microsoft AI agent envisioning series
In today’s fast-paced software landscape, keeping up with new technologies and frameworks to build secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready AI apps and agents is more critical—and more complex—than ever. The Microsoft AI Agent Envisioning Series is a four-part webinar experience designed to equip software development companies with the frameworks, tools, and strategies needed to build, publish and monetize AI agents using Azure AI Foundry and the Microsoft Marketplace.That’s why we created the Microsoft AI Agent Envisioning Series—a webinar series designed to help you build, publish, and monetize AI agents using Azure AI Foundry, with your preferred coding practices and standards.Each session delivers step-by-step guidance, technical best practices, and business strategy to help you:
07/10/2025
Auto-Archiving for Exchange Online
TL; DR: Auto-Archiving for Exchange Online is being rolled out in October 2025 for all public clouds and in November for all government clouds.If archiving is already enabled for Exchange Online users, it automatically moves the oldest items from a user’s primary mailbox to their archive when the mailbox utilization approaches 90% of mailbox quota to help prevent mail flow disruptions.Users archive their primary Exchange Online mailboxes to avoid hitting mailbox storage limits, ensure uninterrupted email access, and maintain a clean and organized inbox while still retaining older messages for reference.
07/10/2025
Partner Blog | Strengthening security and customer trust with technical and API changes
Staying ahead of evolving security standards and compliance requirements is about more than just protecting your organization.To support that, we are introducing updates to Partner Center and across APIs your teams use every day. These changes are designed to keep you ahead of regulatory and technical requirements, reduce risk, and avoid disruption to your operations and customer transactions.Over the last few months, we’ve released updates to strengthen security and streamline processes:
07/10/2025
Partner Case Study | HELLENiQ ENERGY
HELLENiQ ENERGY’s commitment to innovation was fueled with the advent of generative Artificial Intelligence.In the beginning, the company explored the technology limits, cultural impact, and business value potential via experimental pilots.The solution evolved daily with new features, composite scenarios and role-based guidance as the community got more familiar with the tool’s capabilities.
07/10/2025
From ASP.NET to Angular: My MVP Story - Sonu Kapoor
I founded DotNetSlackers, one of the earliest community hubs for .NET, built in ASP.NET 1.0 with MS SQL Server as the backend and dozens of SSIS packages to automate SQL jobs.This commitment to community earned me recognition as a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET in 2005, a distinction I proudly held for several consecutive years.In 2024, more than a decade after my first MVP, I was re-awarded the MVP in Developer Technologies this time for my work with Angular and AI-powered applications.
07/10/2025
Why your LLM-powered app needs concurrency
Concurrency is critical for LLM apps, which often juggle multiple API calls, database queries, and user requests at the same time.In the Python ecosystem, there are several asynchronous backend frameworks to choose from:To fully benefit from moving to an asynchronous framework, your app’s API calls also need to be asynchronous.