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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?...
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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
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
🎥 Watch the full PyCon AU 2025 talk here
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.
07/10/2025
Session One Recap: Copilot and the Oversharing Challenge our Customer's Struggle With
Last Friday, we launched our “Compliance Meets AI” webinar series, and the energy was off the charts!With attendees dialing in from across the globe—San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, England, Belgium, and more—the session was a true gathering of minds passionate about harnessing AI responsibly.Special guest Liz Sundet wowed the audience with practical insights on tackling oversharing, managing site sprawl, and implementing robust governance policies.
07/10/2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot Web Search: Delivering Multiple Layers of Protection and Controls
This post explores web search in Microsoft 365 Copilot – how it works, how it’s protected, and how to roll it out across your organization.We’ll cover the user experience, the four layers of protection (Admin Controls, User Protections, Query Safeguards, and Contractual Commitments), and a practical guide to empower your team to search with confidence.A Copilot interaction has three parts: your prompt, a web query (if needed), and the response.
07/10/2025
Step-by-Step Guide: Integrating Microsoft Purview with Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric
This article provides practical guidance on setup, cost considerations, and integration steps for Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric to help organizations plan for building a strong data governance framework.It outlines how Microsoft Purview can unify governance efforts across cloud platforms, enabling consistent policy enforcement, metadata management, and lineage tracking. Scoped scan support for Unity Catalog is expected to enter private preview soon.
07/10/2025
Firmware Analysis now Generally Available
Back in June, we announced the public preview of firmware analysis, a new capability available through Azure Arc to help organizations gain visibility into the security of their Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and network devices.Today, we are excited to announce that firmware analysis is generally available (GA) for all Azure customers.Firmware analysis examines the low-level software (firmware) that powers IoT, OT and network devices, with no agent required on the device.
07/10/2025
Chapter 3: Trust 360 – 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report
And we found that 60% of employees said they are confident enough in AI output that they don’t need to check its accuracy.Chapter 3 of our 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report dives into building trust on a foundation of meta-cognition, where employees reflect on their usage of AI, learning when and how to best leverage the technology.In this chapter, we explore how to combat overreliance of AI through trust, leaning on key organizational factors, such as leadership role modeling, reliable systems, and peer learning/advocacy.
07/10/2025
Updates to Get-Contact and Set-Contact Cmdlets for “Contacts” Recipient Type in Exchange Online
Following a recent analysis, it has been determined that Contact Recipient Type objects are nonfunctional in Exchange Online and hence it has been decided to deprecate the management of these in Exchange Online.Starting on December 15, 2025, the Get-Contact and Set-Contact cmdlets will no longer return or allow management of recipient type Contact Recipient Type objects in Exchange Online.After December 15, 2025, the Get-Contact and Set-Contact cmdlets will no longer return or allow management of Contact recipient type objects (those without an SMTP address) in Exchange Online.
07/10/2025
How Dooap and Microsoft Marketplace help AI transform accounts payable to impact your business
In this guest blog post, Anna Tujunen, Chief Product Officer at Dooap, shows how you can transform accounts payable from a transactional function into a strategic growth enabler by leveraging AI-driven automation and real-time insights with Microsoft and Dooap via Microsoft Marketplace.Accounts payable (AP), once seen as a cost center bogged down by manual work, is being reimagined as a driver of efficiency and insight.We’re entering the era of AI agents — autonomous systems capable of managing the entire invoice lifecycle, from intake to payment, with minimal human input.
07/10/2025
Is ChatGPT-5 Able to Provide Proofs for Advanced Mathematics?
One of the claims made by OpenAI regarding its latest model, GPT-5 , is a breakthrough in reasoning for math and logic, with the ability to “think” more deeply when a prompt benefits from careful analysis.
07/10/2025
FY26 Q1 update: Make the most of your certified software designation
Enhanced FY26 go-to-market benefits: Solutions Partners with certified software designations can access updated go-to-market (GTM) benefits, including solution play cards, solution briefs, and an animated solution video—all designed to raise awareness of your solution and support your co-sell success. Learn more here or here.New Industry AI designations now available: We introduced six new designations for industry-specific AI—Energy, Government, Telecom, Education, Defense, and Nonprofit—so software development companies can further differentiate and align their solutions to sector-specific needs. Learn more here.Hear how Symphony AI, Rockwell Automation, Rescale, Accenture, and Avanade are leveraging their certified software designations to expand global reach, increase brand visibility, and deliver cutting-edge AI-powered solutions. View here.
07/10/2025
Getting Started with AI Agents: A Student Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft Agent Framework
If you're a student developer curious about building intelligent, goal-driven agents, Microsoft’s newly released Agent Framework is your launchpad.In this post, we’ll break down what the framework offers, how to get started, and why it’s a game-changer for learners and builders alike.The Microsoft Agent Framework is a modular, open-source toolkit designed to help developers build, orchestrate, and evaluate AI agents with minimal friction.
07/10/2025
Google DeepMind Introduces CodeMender: A New AI Agent that Uses Gemini Deep Think to Automatically Patch Critical Software Vulnerabilities
What if an AI agent could localize a root cause, prove a candidate fix via automated analysis and testing, and proactively rewrite related code to eliminate the entire vulnerability class—then open an upstream patch for review?Google DeepMind introduces CodeMender, an AI agent that generates, validates, and upstreams fixes for real-world vulnerabilities using Gemini “Deep […]The post Google DeepMind Introduces CodeMender: A New AI Agent that Uses Gemini Deep Think to Automatically Patch Critical Software Vulnerabilities appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/10/2025
From Cloud to Chip: Building Smarter AI at the Edge with Windows AI PCs
With the rise of Windows AI PCs and powerful local accelerators, the edge is no longer a constraint it’s now a canvas.The Edge AI for Beginners curriculum is a hands-on, open-source guide designed for engineers ready to move from theory to deployment. Clone the Edge AI for Beginners GitHub repo, run the notebooks, and deploy your first model to a Windows AI PC or IoT devices Whether you're building smart kiosks, offline assistants, or industrial monitors, this curriculum gives you the scaffolding to go from prototype to production.
07/10/2025
Secure Medallion Architecture Pattern on Azure Databricks (Part I)
This article introduces a deployment pattern for Azure Databricks that uses Lakeflow Jobs and the Medallion Architecture to enforce robust isolation across pipelines.Each pipeline stage runs as its own job per layer, executed by a dedicated Microsoft Entra ID service principal with tightly scoped, least-privilege access.In short, we apply least privilege consistently across Bronze, Silver, and Gold using Azure components such as ADLS Gen2, Managed Identities (service principals), Azure Key Vault, Lakeflow Jobs, and Unity Catalog to build a secure, auditable platform.
07/10/2025
The importance of streaming for LLM-powered chat applications
As a result, thousands of developers are now deploying chat applications on Azure for their own specialized domains.Most modern LLM APIs and wrapper libraries now support streaming responses — usually through a simple boolean flag or a dedicated streaming method.See my blog post on fetching JSON over streaming HTTP for Python and JavaScript example code.
07/10/2025
Building a Human Handoff Interface for AI-Powered Insurance Agent Using Parlant and Streamlit
In this tutorial, we’ll implement a human handoff system for an AI-powered insurance agent using Parlant.You’ll learn how to create a Streamlit-based interface that allows a human operator (Tier 2) […]The post Building a Human Handoff Interface for AI-Powered Insurance Agent Using Parlant and Streamlit appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/10/2025
OpenAI Debuts Agent Builder and AgentKit: A Visual-First Stack for Building, Deploying, and Evaluating AI Agents
OpenAI has released AgentKit, a cohesive platform that packages a visual Agent Builder, an embeddable ChatKit UI, and expanded Evals into a single workflow for shipping production agents.The launch includes Agent Builder in beta and the rest generally available.A visual canvas for composing multi-step, multi-agent workflows with drag-and-drop […]
07/10/2025
Newsletter - Microsoft Global Community Initiative - October 2025
The Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) are on Adoption.Microsoft.com has a new Resources Page with the PowerPoint decks and on-demand recordings of General Sessions, Event Trainings and downloadable templates for event producers to leverage.This month's topic: Marketing & Social Media for Community EventsJoin Adam on October 10th in New York City for Experts Live US (free event!) as he dives into the latest innovations in Microsoft 365 and Copilot.
07/10/2025
Ultimate Partner LIVE Fall 2025: AI ecosystem masterclass & partner success summit
Mark your calendars! Ultimate Partner LIVE Fall is coming to the Washington, D.C. area, October 27-29, and this event presents a unique, high-impact opportunity for partners looking to stay ahead of the tectonic shifts, align priorities, and accelerate performance in 2026.
06/10/2025
Azure Data Factory, SQL Managed Instance, and SSIS Implementation
Enabling the ADF Instance Create an Azure Data FactoryFollow the official Microsoft Learn guide to set up your ADF instance. Required RolesYou must have
06/10/2025
Help customers boost productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot—15% savings through Dec. 31
We’ve extended our promo offer of 15% off partner net on Microsoft 365 Copilot for 10–2,400 seats for eligible new customers through December 31, 2025, with annual commitment required and monthly billing available. Use the Microsoft partner offer kit to package licenses, services, and training—and accelerate AI adoption ...
06/10/2025
Build smarter, publish faster: Here’s what’s new in App Advisor
App Advisor just got a major upgrade - and it’s changing the game for software development companies building apps and agents for the Microsoft Marketplace. Since its MVP launch in January 2024, App Advisor has helped thousands of partners like you streamline their journey. <...
06/10/2025
Know Your Risk: Using Microsoft Purview to Protect Sensitive Data
In today’s digital-first world, data is everywhere—and so are the risks. From donor records to financial reports, sensitive information flows across emails, documents, and cloud platforms. In keeping with the Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, this is the perfect time to ask:Do you know where your sensitive data lives—and how well it’s protected? Enter Microsoft Purview, a unified data governance and compliance solution designed to help or...
06/10/2025
Strengthen Your Security Posture This October with Smarter Endpoint Protection
As organizations accelerate digital transformation, endpoints have become the frontline of defense—and the most frequent target. From phishing emails to fileless malware, attackers are exploiting gaps in visibility and response. It’s no longer enough to react after the fact. You need security that’s proactive, intelligent, and built for scale. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint delivers exactly that—combining real-time detection, automated remediation, and deep threat ana...
06/10/2025
¡Curso oficial y gratuito de GenAI y Python! 🚀
¿Quieres aprender a usar modelos de IA generativa en tus aplicaciones de Python?Estamos organizando una serie de nueve transmisiones en vivo, en inglés y español, totalmente dedicadas a la IA generativa. Vamos a cubrir modelos de lenguaje (LLMs), modelos de embeddings,
06/10/2025
A New Agency-Focused Supervision Approach Scales Software AI Agents With Only 78 Examples
Do curated, tool-grounded demonstrations build stronger software agents than broad piles of generic instruction data? A team of researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) proposes LIMI (“Less Is More for Agency”), a supervised fine-tuning method that turns a base model into a capable software/research agent using 78 samples. […] The post
06/10/2025
Course Retirement Announcement: AZ-1006
AZ-1006: Migrate and Modernize SAP in the Microsoft Cloud https://learn.microsoft.com/training/courses/az-1006 Credential: N/A Retirement date: November 28, 2025 Replacement Course:&nb...
06/10/2025
Level up your Python Gen AI Skills from our free nine-part YouTube series!
Want to learn how to use generative AI models in your Python applications? We're putting on a series of nine live streams, in both English and Spanish, all about generative AI. We'll cover large language models, embedding models, vision models, introduce techniques like RA...
06/10/2025
Azure Cache for Redis Retirement: What to Know and How to Prepare
Microsoft has announced the retirement of Azure Cache for Redis (Basic, Standard, Premium) and Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise/Enterprise Flash tiers. If you rely on these services today, it’s important to understand what’s changing, when, and how to prepare for a smooth transition to Azure Managed Redis. What’s Retiring and When? Azure Cache for Redis (Basic, Standard, Premium): Creation blocked for new customers: Apri...
06/10/2025
From Chaos to Clarity: How Microsoft 365 Copilot Helps SMBs Make Smarter Decisions
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face a constant challenge: do more with less and do it faster. The pressure to innovate, respond to market shifts, and keep teams aligned is real. That’s why Microsoft 365 Copilot is more than just another productivity tool—it’s a strategic partner for SMBs looking to turn operational chaos into clarity. Real-World ROI: Copilot in Action A recent
06/10/2025
Redefining Cyber Defence with Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM) and Security Copilot
Introduction Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM) provides the Cyber Defense team with a unified, continuously updated awareness of assets exposure,...
06/10/2025
Empower your migration decisions with negotiated agreements (EA/MCA) in Azure Migrate
Cost plays the most important part in cloud migration accelerating the decisions. Organizations often hesitate because retail pricing doesn’t reflect their reality. That’s where Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) comes in, offering discounts of up to 60% off retail prices, based on your negotiated contract. Now, with Azure Migrate’s support for MCA pricing, you can bring those negotiated rates directly into your assessme...
06/10/2025
How Microsoft Defender helps security teams detect prompt injection attacks in Microsoft 365 Copilot
As generative AI becomes a core part of enterprise productivity—especially through tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot—new security challenges are emerging. One of the most prevalent attack techniques is prompt injection, where malicious instructions are used to bypass security guardrails and manipulate AI behavior. At Microsoft, we’re proactively addressing the security challenges posed by prompt injection attacks through...
06/10/2025
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - October 25
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month October Ace Aviator: Robin Wilde Robin Wilde -...
06/10/2025
Addressing Air Gap Requirements through Secure Azure Arc Onboarding
Overview Regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and government face strict security requirements, including the need for air gap environments that isolate critical systems from external networks. While essential for reducing risk, this isolation complicates cloud adoption and remote management. As organisations modernise with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, unified ITSecOps becomes crucial. Azure Arc offers a centralised platform for securely managing diverse IT assets. <...
06/10/2025
Choosing the right Virtual Machine on Azure
Find and know exactly what you’re provisioning by understanding the naming format to see CPU type, memory, storage, and features before deployment to match what your app or workload needs. Use free tools like Azure Migrate to right-size and plan. Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, shows how to choose, size, and deploy workloads such as burstable w...
06/10/2025
Stella Automotive AI and ZAPTEST offer transactable partner solutions in Azure Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Stella Automotive AI and ZAPTEST deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
06/10/2025
Introducing Cross Resource Metrics and Alerts Support for Azure Storage
Aggregate and analyze storage metrics from multiple storage accounts in a single chart. We’re thrilled to announce a highly requested feature: Cross Resource Metrics and Alerts support for Azure Storage! With this new capability, you can now monitor and visualize metrics across multiple storage accounts in a single chart and configure alerts across multiple accou...
06/10/2025
A Decision Matrix for Time Series Forecasting Models
Time series data have the added complexity of temporal dependencies, seasonality, and possible non-stationarity.
06/10/2025
Detecting and Alerting on MDE Sensor Health Transitions Using KQL and Logic Apps
Introduction Maintaining the health of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) sensors is essential for ensuring continuous security visibility across your virtual machine (VM) infrastructure. When a sensor transitions from an "Active" to an "Inactive" state, it indicates a loss of telemetry from that device and potentially creating blind spots in your security posture. To proactively address this risk, it's important to detect these transitions promptly and alert your s...
06/10/2025
StreamTensor: A PyTorch-to-Accelerator Compiler that Streams LLM Intermediates Across FPGA Dataflows
Why treat LLM inference as batched kernels to DRAM when a dataflow compiler can pipe tiles through on-chip FIFOs and stream converters?StreamTensor is a compiler that lowers PyTorch LLM graphs (GPT-2, Llama, Qwen, Gemma) into stream-scheduled dataflow accelerators on AMD’s Alveo U55C FPGA. The system introduces an iterative tensor (“itensor”) type to encode tile/order of […] The post
06/10/2025
Salesforce AI Research Releases CoDA-1.7B: a Discrete-Diffusion Code Model with Bidirectional, Parallel Token Generation
Salesforce AI Research released CoDA-1.7B, a diffusion-based language model for code that generates by denoising whole sequences with bidirectional context, updating multiple tokens in parallel rather than left-to-right next-token prediction. The research team published both Base and Instruct checkpoints and an end-to-end training/evaluation/serving stack. Understanding the architecture and training CoDA adapts a 1.7B-parameter backbone to […] The post
05/10/2025
Agentic Design Methodology: How to Build Reliable and Human-Like AI Agents using Parlant
Building robust AI agents differs fundamentally from traditional software development, as it centers on probabilistic model behavior rather than deterministic code execution. This guide provides a neutral overview of methodologies for designing AI agents that are both reliable and adaptable, with an emphasis on creating clear boundaries, effective behaviors, and safe interactions. What Is Agentic […] The post
05/10/2025
How to Evaluate Voice Agents in 2025: Beyond Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Word Error Rate (WER) to Task Success, Barge-In, and Hallucination-Under-Noise
Optimizing only for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Word Error Rate (WER) is insufficient for modern, interactive voice agents. Robust evaluation must measure end-to-end task success, barge-in behavior and latency, and hallucination-under-noise—alongside ASR, safety, and instruction following. VoiceBench offers a multi-facet speech-interaction benchmark across general knowledge, instruction following, safety, and robustness to speaker/environment/content variations, but […] <...
05/10/2025
This AI Paper Proposes a Novel Dual-Branch Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Unsupervised Speech Enhancement (SE)
Can a speech enhancer trained only on real noisy recordings cleanly separate speech and noise—without ever seeing paired data? A team of researchers from Brno University of Technology and Johns Hopkins University proposes Unsupervised Speech Enhancement using Data-defined Priors (USE-DDP), a dual-stream encoder–decoder that separates any noisy input into two waveforms—estimated clean speech and residual […] The post
05/10/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build a Transformer-Based Regression Language Model to Predict Continuous Values from Text
We will build a Regression Language Model (RLM), a model that predicts continuous numerical values directly from text sequences in this coding implementation. Instead of classifying or generating text, we focus on training a transformer-based architecture that learns quantitative relationships hidden within natural language descriptions. We start by generating synthetic text-to-number data, tokenizing it efficiently, […] The post
05/10/2025
Google Proposes TUMIX: Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling With Tool-Use Mixture
What if, instead of re-sampling one agent, you could push Gemini-2.5 Pro to 34.1% on HLE by mixing 12–15 tool-using agents that share notes and stop early? Google Cloud AI Research, with collaborators from MIT, Harvard, and Google DeepMind, introduced TUMIX (Tool-Use Mixture)—a test-time framework that ensembles heterogeneous agent styles (text-only, code, search, guided variants) […] The post
04/10/2025
Can a Small Language Model Predict Kernel Latency, Memory, and Model Accuracy from Code? A New Regression Language Model (RLM) Says Yes
Researchers from Cornell and Google introduce a unified Regression Language Model (RLM) that predicts numeric outcomes directly from code strings—covering GPU kernel latency, program memory usage, and even neural network accuracy and latency—without hand-engineered features. A 300M-parameter encoder–decoder initialized from T5-Gemma achieves strong rank correlations across heterogeneous tasks and languages, using a single text-to-number decoder […] The post
04/10/2025
A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Agentic AI for Time Series Forecasting with Darts and Hugging Face
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI system that autonomously handles time series forecasting using the Darts library combined with a lightweight HuggingFace model for reasoning. We design the agent to operate in a perception–reasoning–action cycle, where it first analyzes patterns in the data, then selects an appropriate forecasting model, generates predictions, and […] The post
04/10/2025
AWS Open-Sources an MCP Server for Bedrock AgentCore to Streamline AI Agent Development
AWS released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a direct path from natural-language prompts in agentic IDEs to deployable agents on AgentCore Runtime. The package ships with automated transformations, environment provisioning, and Gateway/tooling hooks designed to compress typical multi-step integration work into conversational commands. So, what exactly is it? […] The post
03/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 3, 2025
🗂️ October 3, 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 ...
03/10/2025
Copilot Chat: Snack Pack
Hungry? Grab your treat of choice—savory, sweet, crispy, or gooey—and come munch with us! We're kicking off a five-part series of Copilot Chat "Snack Packs": bite-sized articles, videos, and images packed with tips and tricks. Make the Most of this Guide:Content is arranged from left to right in orde...
03/10/2025
Copilot Chat: Prompting
To start a new prompt, head over to Copilot Chat and hit the blue chat button in the upper right corner. 🔄 When should I star...
03/10/2025
Monitoring Azure OpenAI without switching from your existing observability platform
Recently, one of my customers asked me a simple but powerful question: “We already use Datadog for observability. We’re not going to move to Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, but can we still monitor our Azure OpenAI usage directly in the portal?” That made me realize something: this isn’t just one customer’s challenge. Many customers already have an observability stack they like, but they still want quick, free visibility into Azure Open...
03/10/2025
Unlock New Levels of Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – HLS Webinar Series
Are you ready to take your Microsoft 365 experience to the next level? Don’t miss our upcoming HLS Webinar Series session with Microsoft’s Nicholas Aquino and Nick Stillings: “Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat” on Wednesday, October 8th, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time. This pr...
03/10/2025
Drasi is Fluent in GQL: Integrating the New Graph Query Standard
Drasi , the open-source Rust data change processing platform, simplifies the creation of change-driven systems through continuous queries, reactions, and clearly defined change semantics. Continuous queries enable developers to specify precisely what data changes matter, track these changes in real-time, and react immediately as changes occur. Unlike traditional database queries, which provide static snapshots of data, continuous queries co...
03/10/2025
Microsoft Releases ‘Microsoft Agent Framework’: An Open-Source SDK and Runtime that Simplifies the Orchestration of Multi-Agent Systems
Microsoft released the Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview), an open-source SDK and runtime that unifies core ideas from AutoGen (agent runtime and multi-agent patterns) with Semantic Kernel (enterprise controls, state, plugins) to help teams build, deploy, and observe production-grade AI agents and multi-agent workflows. The framework is available for Python and .NET and integrates directly […] The post
03/10/2025
AI Security Ideogram: Practical Controls and Accelerated Response with Microsoft
Overview As organizations scale generative AI, two motions must advance in lockstep: hardening the AI stack (“Security for AI”) and using AI to supercharge SecOps (“AI for Security”). This post is a practical map—covering assets, common attacks, scope, solutions, SKUs, and ownership—to help you ship AI safely and investigate faster. Why both motions matter, at the same time...
03/10/2025
Oracle Database@Azure now supports Oracle Database 19c on Exadata Exascale and New UAE Regions
Organizations around the world are accelerating their cloud modernization journeys with Oracle Database@Azure. Today, we’re excited to share two important updates that expand both the capabilities and global availability of Oracle Database@Azure: Oracle Database 19c support for Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure General availability of UAE North and UAE Cen...
03/10/2025
Ready to accelerate your Zero Trust journey? Discover what’s next
For admins | 1-minute read Zero Trust isn’t just a security buzzword—it’s the new baseline for protecting your organization in a world where threats are always evolving. But what does it really take to move from strategy to action? Find out by reading our recent blog, Accelerate your Zero Trust journey: Using the Micr...
03/10/2025
PgBouncer Best Practices in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Part 1
Connection pooling is critical for scaling PostgreSQL workloads efficiently, especially in managed environments like Azure Database for PostgreSQL.PgBouncer, a lightweight connection pooler, helps manage thousands of client connections without overwhelming the database.Connection pooling is very important when managing multiple concurrent database requests, as PostgreSQL uses a process-per-connection model, which means too many active connections can:Choosing the right default_pool_size in Azure Database for PostgreSQL with PgBouncer is about balancing performance and resource efficiency.
03/10/2025
Unlock the power of personalization: Copilot Memory in Microsoft 365
I’m excited to introduce the Memory feature in Microsoft 365 Copilot: a new capability that makes your Copilot smarter, more helpful, and more in tune with how you work.Unlock the power of personalization: Copilot Memory in Microsoft 365It remembers key facts you choose to share, such as your working style, communication preferences, and recurring topics, so Copilot can tailor its responses and recommendations to fit you.
03/10/2025
Algorithm Showdown: Logistic Regression vs. Random Forest vs. XGBoost on Imbalanced Data
Imbalanced datasets are a common challenge in machine learning.
03/10/2025
Choosing the Right Azure Containerisation Strategy: AKS, App Service, or Container Apps?
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) What is it? AKS is Microsoft’s managed Kubernetes offering, providing full access to the Kubernetes API and control plane. It’s designed for teams that want to run complex, scalable, and highly customisable container workloads, with direct control over orchestration, networking, and security. When to choose AKS: You need advanced orchestration, custom networking, or integration with third-part...
03/10/2025
Managing Hotpatching for Azure Arc connected Machines using APIs
Hotpatching is available as an option for Aure Arc connected Windows Server 2025 Datacenter and Standard machines. To learn more about hotpatching please review this article. Azure Arc portal provides a way for you to enroll or disenroll from hotpatching. To manage hotpatch updates, you can use
03/10/2025
New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Watch how these collaborative agents partner with you in real time across your everyday apps. Knowledge Agent streamlines SharePoint by auto-tagging files, retiring outdated pages, and even drafting new content so your sites stay current and searchable. Facilitator is an agent in Microsoft Teams that keeps meetings on track — managing agendas, taking notes, assigning follow-ups, and capturing decisions automatically. Agents in Teams channels summariz...
03/10/2025
Reducing SQL Connection Latency for Apps Using Azure AAD Authentication
Challenge: connection latency and token overhead
03/10/2025
Neuphonic Open-Sources NeuTTS Air: A 748M-Parameter On-Device Speech Language Model with Instant Voice Cloning
Neuphonic has released NeuTTS Air, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) speech language model designed to run locally in real time on CPUs.The Hugging Face model card lists 748M parameters (Qwen2 architecture) and ships in GGUF quantizations (Q4/Q8), enabling inference through llama.cpp/llama-cpp-python without cloud dependencies.It is licensed under Apache-2.0 and includes a runnable demo and […]
03/10/2025
Managing Context Retention in Agentic AI
The Context Retention Challenge in Agentic AI Agentic AI systems often involve multiple agents collaborating on complex tasks, such as a research agent gathering data and a summarizer agent generating reports. Without proper context retention, agents may: Lose Track of History: Forgetting previous interactions or decisions, leading to repetitive or irrelevant actions. ...
03/10/2025
Thinking Machines Launches Tinker: A Low-Level Training API that Abstracts Distributed LLM Fine-Tuning without Hiding the Knobs
Thinking Machines has released Tinker, a Python API that lets researchers and engineers write training loops locally while the platform executes them on managed distributed GPU clusters.The pitch is narrow and technical: keep full control of data, objectives, and optimization steps;hand off scheduling, fault tolerance, and multi-node orchestration.
03/10/2025
How to Build an Advanced Voice AI Pipeline with WhisperX for Transcription, Alignment, Analysis, and Export?
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced implementation of WhisperX, where we explore transcription, alignment, and word-level timestamps in detail. We set up the environment, load and preprocess the audio, and then run the full pipeline, from transcription to alignment and analysis, while ensuring memory efficiency and supporting batch processing. Along the way, we […] The post
03/10/2025
IBM Released new Granite 4.0 Models with a Novel Hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer Architecture: Drastically Reducing Memory Use without Sacrificing Performance
IBM just released Granite 4.0, an open-source LLM family that swaps monolithic Transformers for a hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer stack to cut serving memory while keeping quality. Sizes span a 3B dense “Micro,” a 3B hybrid “H-Micro,” a 7B hybrid MoE “H-Tiny” (~1B active), and a 32B hybrid MoE “H-Small” (~9B active). The models are Apache-2.0, cryptographically […] The post
02/10/2025
Microsoft Azure Migrate & Modernization Summit recap: Product announcements on agentic AI tooling
On September 23rd, Microsoft hosted its digital Migrate and Modernize Summit, where it announced new agentic AI tooling capabilities and richer investments for customers and partners on migration and modernization opportunities.
02/10/2025
Security Copilot Skilling Series
Starting this October, Security Copilot joins forces with your favorite Microsoft Security products in a skilling series miles above the rest. The Security Copilot Skilling Series is your opportunity to strengthen your security posture through threat detection, incident response, and leveraging AI for security automation. These technical skilling sessions are delivered live by experts from our product engineering teams. Come ready to learn, engage with your peers, as...
02/10/2025
API interfaces for political ads policy enforcement
The European Union (EU) Regulation 2024/900 about the transparency and targeting of political advertising will take effect on October 10, 2025. As a reminder, Microsoft Advertising introduced a political advertising declaration requirement for all customers in September 2025. Microsoft A...
02/10/2025
AI Security Heatmap: Practical Controls and Accelerated Response with Microsoft
Overview As organizations scale generative AI, two motions must advance in lockstep: hardening the AI stack (“Security for AI”) and using AI to supercharge SecOps (“AI for Security”). This post is a practical map—covering assets, common attacks, scope, solutions, SKUs, and ownership—to help you ship AI safely and investigate faster. Why both motions matter, at the same time...
02/10/2025
MVP Stories: From Learner to Leader - Anja Schröder’s Journey in the Community
One Call That Changed Everything Sometimes, all it takes is one unexpected moment to change the course of a life. For Anja, that moment came in ...
02/10/2025
AZ-900 Will Become Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure
To reflect the evolution of our Fundamentals course structure, we’re updating the course title of AZ-900 to Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure, effective October 31. Originally titled Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, and more recently Introduction to Microsoft Azure, this course has gradually narrowed its focus. As dedicated Fundamentals courses for AI, Data, and Security emerged, AZ-900 shifted toward a streamlined, one-day int...
02/10/2025
Edit the default initialization for Python in Excel
Hi, Insiders! I’m Ndeyanta Jallow, a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to announce a powerful new Python capability in Microsoft Excel for Windows: editable initialization. Edit the default initialization for Python in Excel By default, Python in Excel initializes with a predefined code that sets up your environment. But we know one size doesn’t fit all – maybe you prefer working with NumPy arrays instead of pandas Data...
02/10/2025
Copilot now included with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & OneNote | Microsoft 365 & Office 365
Summarize long email threads, generate bullet-point executive summaries, create charts, and update presentations — all without leaving your familiar apps. Copilot understands your context, remembers your preferences, and helps you reuse content seamlessly across Microsoft 365. IT admins stay in control while you boost productivity. Enterprise-grade protections, Microsoft Purview, and the Copilot Control System ensure your data stays secure.
02/10/2025
Chapter 2: The Multiplier Effect - 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report
As we strategize for integrating agentic AI into our workflows, it’s important to remember that the goal is to not only drive elevated productivity and performance, but to do so in a way that empowers employees. Deploying AI agents to support employees reach new heights can create positive and sustainable change – enabling a new employee experience. And AI adoption thrives in people-centric environments, as our research shows that high frequency AI users are 1.9x
02/10/2025
The Open-Source Paradox: How Microsoft is giving back
The open-source community faces a paradox that threatens its very foundation. While open-source software now powers every major technology platform—from smartphones in our pockets to the cloud infrastructure running the world's largest applications—the developers and maintainers who create and sustain these critical projects are struggling under an unsustainable burden. The statistics paint a sober picture of this crisis: 🧑💻 60% of open-source maintai...
02/10/2025
Lessons Learned #536: Error the database type is not understood by the data reader.
This week we have been working on a support case where our customer had the following message 50006: Error the database type is not understood by the data reader when exporting using SQL Server Management Studio to a bacpac. We also observed that other tools showed the same message Checking SQL Server Management Studio, we faced the following error screen: Could not export schema and data from database. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac) AD...
02/10/2025
New in Azure Marketplace: September 11-21, 2025
We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 183 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace
02/10/2025
Foundry Fridays: Your Front-Row Seat to Azure AI Innovation
🔥 Foundry Fridays: Your Front-Row Seat to Azure AI Innovation Are you ready to go beyond the blog posts and docs and get your questions answered directly by the minds behind Azure AI? Then mark your calendars for Foundry Fridays a weekly Ask Me Anything (AMA) series hosted on the Azure AI Foundry Discord. Every Friday at 1:30 PM ...
02/10/2025
ServiceNow AI Releases Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker: An Open-Weights Multimodal Reasoning Model that Hits Frontier-Level Performance on a Single-GPU Budget
ServiceNow AI Research Lab has released Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker, a 15-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal reasoning model trained with a data-centric mid-training recipe—continual pretraining followed by supervised fine-tuning—without reinforcement learning or preference optimization. The model attains an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 52 with 8x cost savings compared to SOTA. The checkpoint ships under an MIT license on […] The post
02/10/2025
Expanding the Public Preview of the Azure SRE Agent
We are excited to share that the Azure SRE Agent is now available in public preview for everyone instantly – no sign up required. A big thank you to all our preview customers who provided feedback and helped shape this release! Watching teams put the SR...
02/10/2025
Announcing Parse & Chunk with Metadata in Logic Apps: Build Context-Aware RAG Agents
The new Parse document with metadata and Chunk text with metadata actions in Logic Apps bring powerful improvements to how you handle documents. Unlike the previously released parse and chunk actions, these new versions provide rich metadata alongside the text: pageNumber — the page a chunk came from totalPages — the total number of pages in the document
01/10/2025
What’s New in Azure Event Grid
Azure Event Grid continues to evolve with new capabilities in General Availability and Public Preview – intended to help you enhance performance, security, and interoperability in modern event-driven systems. These enhancements strengthen Azure Event Grid’s foundational messaging layer for distributed systems—supporting real-time telemetry, automation, and hybrid workloads. With support for advanced MQTT features and flexible authentication models, Event Grid now offers: <...
01/10/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep18: IAMCP Partners Unite for Impactful Change – A Conversation with Promod Antony and Denny Ghim (Part 1)
In today’s complex business landscape, partnerships are a vital tool for driving innovation and creating a meaningful impact. The recent IAMCP Profiles and Partnership podcast episode, titled “Better Together: IAMCP Partners Unite for Impactful Change – A Conversation with Promod Antony and Denny Ghim (Part 1)”, delves into how collaboration within the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) fosters growth and ignites transformative solutions. In t...
01/10/2025
Windows news you can use: September 2025
Building upon the big milestones in Windows we announced in August, yesterday we announced the availability of Windows 11, version 25H2! Be sure to check out our IT pro’s guide to Windows 11, version 25H2 and how Wi-Fi 7 is a game changer for enterprises. These blogs cover the Windows 11, version 25H2 release in depth—truly news you can use! My colleagues in Windows 365 also had a wealth of new features and capabilities announced throughout the month of September—you can read more abou...
01/10/2025
Who Created This Azure Resource? Here's How to Find Out
One of the most common questions Azure customers and administrators ask is: “How do I know who created this resource?” If you’ve ever been in charge of managing a large subscription with dozens (or even thousands) of resources, you know how important it is to answer this question quickly. Whether it’s for troubleshooting, governance, or compliance, tracking the origin of a resource can save time and reduce confusion. The good news: Azur...
01/10/2025
Behind the Build: An interview with David Willis from Netskope
Behind the Build is an ongoing series spotlighting standout Microsoft partner collaborations. Each edition dives into the technical and strategic decisions that shape real-world integrations—highlighting engineering excellence, innovation, and the shared customer value created through partnership. When Netskope was announced as
01/10/2025
The new Planner in Microsoft Teams is now available to customers in GCC High
We’re excited to announce that the new Planner app in Microsoft Teams (web and desktop) is now available to customers in the Government Community Cloud (GCC) High environment! Add the Planner app in Teams and start managing all your work in one placeShare your feedback
01/10/2025
Data Virtualization with PolyBase for SQL Server 2025
Building upon the innovations introduced in SQL Server 2022, SQL Server 2025 enhances Data Virtualization by prioritizing usability, strengthening security with expanded authentication options, and providing improved support for Linux environments. Key Features Native Support for Parquet, CSV, and Delta: The SQL engine now offers built-in capabilities to query data files such as CSV, Parquet, and Delta, eliminating the need for the optional...
01/10/2025
Stay in the flow with PivotTable #SPILL! in Excel
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Valerie Kistrina, a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to introduce PivotTable #SPILL!, a new feature in Microsoft Excel for Windows and for Mac. Instead of breaking your flow with confusing alerts, PivotTables can now collapse into a single cell with a #SPILL! error – so you can stay focused and resolve errors on your own terms, without unnecessary disruption. Stay in the flow with PivotTable #SPILL! in Excel PivotTable #SPILL! brin...
01/10/2025
Introducing interactive on-device segmentation in Snapseed
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization
01/10/2025
Liquid AI Released LFM2-Audio-1.5B: An End-to-End Audio Foundation Model with Sub-100 ms Response Latency
Liquid AI has released LFM2-Audio-1.5B, a compact audio–language foundation model that both understands and generates speech and text through a single end-to-end stack. It positions itself for low-latency, real-time assistants on resource-constrained devices, extending the LFM2 family into audio while retaining a small footprint. But what’s actually new? a unified backbone with disentangled audio I/O […] The post
01/10/2025
The new Planner app in Microsoft Teams is now available to customers in GCC High
We’re excited to announce that the new Planner app in Microsoft Teams (web and desktop) is now available to customers in the Government Community Cloud (GCC) High environment! Add the Planner app in Teams today and start managing all your work in one place.Share your feedback
01/10/2025
Join us at Ragan Internal Communications conference in October
In a few weeks, Oct 14-16, the Ragan Internal Communications conference is in Seattle at the Microsoft Headquarters.Join us to connect, learn and hear from great communicators across the industry.Learn from Microsoft Comms
01/10/2025
Announcing Public Preview: ASEv3 Outbound Network Segmentation
Outbound Network Segmentation allows you to define and control how outbound traffic is routed from your App Service Environment v3 apps.If your alternate subnet is in a different resource group than your app, run "az webapp vnet-integration add -h" and see the help text to learn how to specify this resource id.If you're familiar with the multi-plan subnet join feature available in the multi-tenant App Service offering, unfortunately, App Service Environments and the alternate subnet join feature are incompatible with multi-plan subnet join.
01/10/2025
Celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Everyday Protection with Microsoft 365
Every October, people around the world- from students and parents to large organizations and governments- take time to strengthen their online safety habits and learn how to protect their digital lives. Microsoft’s pledge to our customers and our community is to prioritize your cybersafety above all else. Whether you're running a Fortun...
01/10/2025
Employees can bring Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 plans to work - what it means for IT
Today, we made some exciting announcements for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and the new Premium plans.Among them is how employees can use Copilot from these plans on their work documents with Enterprise Data Protection, even if they don’t have a M365 Copilot license from your organization.Employees can use their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to access Copilot features at work: Microsoft allows employees to sign into Microsoft 365 apps with both work and personal accounts, letting them use Copilot features from their individual plan on work documents even if their work account doesn’t have a Copilot license.
01/10/2025
Host Microsoft Defender data locally in the United Arab Emirates
We are pleased to announce that local data residency support in the UAE is now generally available for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Identity.Existing customers can check their deployment geo within the portal by going to Settings -> Microsoft Defender XDR-> Account; and see where the service is storing your data at rest.If you would like to update your service location, please reach out to Customer Service and Support for a tenant reset.
01/10/2025
Customer review: Vumacam SafeCity camera network and proof platform for optimized public safety
Vumacam's SafeCity, a solution published to Microsoft AppSource, delivers a flexible camera network powered by Vumacam's Proof, a cloud-enabled, video-centric physical security information management (PSIM) solution, to enhance public safety through advanced video analytics.Vumacam SafeCity optimizes delivery of overview and license-plate recognition video feeds directly to your CCTV control room, where Proof enables rapid responses and automatic dispatches, allowing you to better secure public spaces.How is customer service and support for Vumacam SafeCity and Proof?
01/10/2025
Behind the Build with Netskope: Engineering at the edge for strategic impact.
When Netskope was announced as Microsoft Security’s 2025 ISV Partner of the Year at RSAC, it marked the result of years of steady investment, mutual trust, and deep technical collaboration.A standout example is our collaboration in Microsoft Sentinel, using the Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) to build a Netskope integration.This joint effort positions Netskope as a pioneer in integrating SASE enforcement with Microsoft Purview’s data protection capabilities, delivering unified visibility and control for customers.
01/10/2025
Better detecting cross prompt injection attacks: Introducing Spotlighting in Azure AI Foundry
One of the most common risks is cross prompt injection, which are malicious instructions embedded inside untrusted content such as documents, emails, or web pages.To address this, the researchers introduced Spotlighting, a family of prompt engineering techniques that transform inputs to provide a continuous signal of provenance.Spotlighting is now part of Prompt Shields, which are available as a content filter in Azure AI Foundry and integrated into Azure AI Content Safety.
01/10/2025
Reimagining Collaboration
At WebexOne, the future of intelligent collaboration took center stage as Kenneth Pan, CVP at Microsoft, joined Snorre Kjesbu, SVP & GM from Cisco to announce a major step forward in redefining the hybrid work experience.This collaboration is about more than technology — it’s about creating secure, intelligent, and effortless experiences that empower people and organizations everywhere.By bringing the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) to Cisco’s RoomOS devices, we’re delivering a unified foundation that simplifies IT management, accelerates innovation, and ensures consistent, high-quality experiences across the workplace.
01/10/2025
Boo-tiful costumes, powered by Microsoft Copilot
This spooky season, Microsoft Copilot can help you and your family find or create the perfect costume, whether you’re attending a party, trick-or-treating, or hoping to win your town’s or workplace’s costume contest.Put together a group costumeWe hope these prompts and ideas provide you with the inspiration you need for a great and spooky Halloween!
01/10/2025
Keeping Agents on Track: Introducing Task Adherence in Azure AI Foundry
AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They can plan, reason, and act. A single agent can fetch information from APIs, trigger workflows, or even make transactions. Multiple agents can work together in orchestration to complete more complex goals. That shift from chatbots to agents is exciting, but it also introduces a new challenge: task drift. When an agent drifts, even slightly, the results can be costly or unsafe. Think about an assistant that ignores bu...
01/10/2025
Action Required: Account Verification for Windows Hardware Program Begins October 16, 2025
Effective October 16, 2025, Microsoft will initiate mandatory account verification for all partners in the Windows Hardware Program who have not completed account verification since April 2024. Mismatch between the name on the government ID and the Partner Center Primary Contact.For more information on what is required to successfully complete verification or how to check status of your account, please review Verify Your Account Information - Partner Center |
01/10/2025
From Chalkboards to Cloud: How the Greater Austin YMCA Is Transforming Child Care Through Technology
How do you launch a first-of-its-kind childcare model in a rapidly growing city? For the Greater Austin YMCA, the answer was bold: a sweeping digital transformation powered by Microsoft tools like Teams,
01/10/2025
Empowering Nonprofits to Strengthen Digital Defenses
Did you know October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month? It’s the perfect time for nonprofits to strengthen their digital defenses and build a culture of security. This year’s theme— “Cybersecurity first, stay safe always”—is a powerful reminder to prioritize digital safety in every aspect of your mis...
01/10/2025
Introducing the Microsoft Agent Framework
Introducing the Microsoft Agent Framework: A Unified Foundation for AI Agents and Workflows The landscape of AI development is evolving rapidly, and Microsoft is at the forefront with the release of the Microsoft Agent Framework an open-source SDK designed to empower developers to build intelligent, multi-agent systems with ease and precision. Whether you're working in .NET or Python...
01/10/2025
Introducing the Micrsoft Agent Framework
Introducing the Microsoft Agent Framework: A Unified Foundation for AI Agents and WorkflowsThe landscape of AI development is evolving rapidly, and Microsoft is at the forefront with the release of the Microsoft Agent Framework an open-source SDK designed to empower developers to build intelligent, multi-agent systems with ease and precision.Whether you're working in .NET or Python, this framework offers a unified, extensible foundation that merges the best of Semantic Kernel and AutoGen, while introducing powerful new capabilities for agent orchestration and workflow design.
01/10/2025
Supercharging AI Agents with Memory on Azure Managed Redis
Co-authored by Purna Mehta, AMR Product Manager, Redis, Inc. and Han Xing Choong, Software Engineer, Redis, Inc. AI agents are quickly evolving from simple chatbots to sophisticated, context-aware systems that reason, orchestrate tools, and learn over time. Memory is at the heart of that transformation. ...
01/10/2025
Azure AI Foundry: Advancing OpenTelemetry and delivering unified multi-agent observability
Microsoft is enhancing multi-agent observability by introducing new semantic conventions to OpenTelemetry, developed collaboratively with Outshift, Cisco’s incubation engine.These advancements have been integrated into Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI packages for LangChain, LangGraph, and the OpenAI Agents SDK, enabling customers to get unified observability for agentic systems built using any of these frameworks with Azure AI Foundry. The additional semantic conventions and integration across different frameworks equip developers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their AI agents in a unified solution with increased efficiency and valuable insights.Microsoft has proposed new spans and attributes to OpenTelemetry semantic convention for GenAI agent and framework spans.
01/10/2025
Monthly news - October 2025
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.Defender for Identity data centers are now also deployed in the United Arab Emirates, North and Central regions.(Public Preview) We are excited to announce the availability of a new Graph-based API for managing unified agent server actions in Defender for Identity.
01/10/2025
New in Microsoft AppSource: September 11-21, 2025
For this volume, 215 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.365Metrics: 365Metrics, a Software as a Service solution from Chrysalis SAS, is designed to help organizations optimize their Microsoft 365 subscriptions by reducing license costs and enhancing employee productivity.The solution includes preconfigured analytics for Microsoft Power BI dashboards, and playbooks for conversational intelligence powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI.
01/10/2025
Partner Skilling Hub – Microsoft-kumppaneiden uusi oppimisalusta
Microsoftin kumppaniekosysteemi on saanut uuden työkalun osaamisen kehittämiseen: Partner Skilling Hub.Tämä alusta on kehitetty yhteistyössä Digital Arts & Sciencesin kanssa ja se on suunniteltu erityisesti Microsoftin kumppaneille.Sen tavoitteena on tukea kumppaneita osaamisen kasvattamisessa, Microsoft-teknologioiden hallinnassa ja liiketoiminnan kehittämisessä.
01/10/2025
MinMax vs Standard vs Robust Scaler: Which One Wins for Skewed Data?
You've loaded your dataset and the distribution plots look rough.
01/10/2025
MLPerf Inference v5.1 (2025): Results Explained for GPUs, CPUs, and AI Accelerators
What MLPerf Inference Actually Measures? MLPerf Inference quantifies how fast a complete system (hardware + runtime + serving stack) executes fixed, pre-trained models under strict latency and accuracy constraints. Results are reported for the Datacenter and Edge suites with standardized request patterns (“scenarios”) generated by LoadGen, ensuring architectural neutrality and reproducibility. The Closed division fixes […] The post
01/10/2025
The Role of Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Generative AI Security and Red Teaming
Overview Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open, JSON-RPC–based standard that formalizes how AI clients (assistants, IDEs, web apps) connect to servers exposing three primitives—tools, resources, and prompts—over defined transports (primarily stdio for local and Streamable HTTP for remote). MCP’s value for security work is that it renders agent/tool interactions explicit and auditable, with normative […] The post
01/10/2025
Google AI Proposes ReasoningBank: A Strategy-Level I Agent Memory Framework that Makes LLM Agents Self-Evolve at Test Time
How do you make an LLM agent actually learn from its own runs—successes and failures—without retraining? Google Research proposes ReasoningBank, an AI agent memory framework that converts an agent’s own interaction traces—both successes and failures—into reusable, high-level reasoning strategies. These strategies are retrieved to guide future decisions, and the loop repeats so the agent self-evolves. […] The post
01/10/2025
Building a Secure and Compliant Azure AI Landing Zone: Policy Framework & Best Practices
As organizations accelerate their AI adoption on Microsoft Azure, governance, compliance, and security become critical pillars for success. Deploying AI workloads without a structured compliance framework can expose enterprises to data privacy issues, misconfigurations, and regulatory risks. To address this challenge, the Azure AI Land...
01/10/2025
How to Build an Advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System with Dynamic Strategy and Smart Retrieval?
In this tutorial, we walk through the implementation of an Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. We design it so that the agent does more than just retrieve documents; it actively decides when retrieval is needed, selects the best retrieval strategy, and synthesizes responses with contextual awareness. By combining embeddings, FAISS indexing, and a mock LLM, […] The post
01/10/2025
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.6: Achieving Enhancements in Real-World Coding, Long-Context Processing, Reasoning, Searching and Agentic AI
Zhipu AI has released GLM-4.6, a major update to its GLM series focused on agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and practical coding tasks. The model raises the input window to 200K tokens with a 128K max output, targets lower token consumption in applied tasks, and ships with open weights for local deployment. So, what’s exactly is […] The post
30/09/2025
Upgrade your voice agent with Azure AI Voice Live API
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Voice Live API, which enables real-time speech-to-speech conversational experience through a unified API powered by generative AI models. With Voice Live API, developers can easily voice-enable any agent built with the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service.
30/09/2025
FabSoft and Hive offer transactable partner solutions in Azure Marketplace
Microsoft partners like FabSoft and Hive deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
30/09/2025
🔐 Public Preview: Backup Immutability for Azure SQL Database LTR Backups
The Ransomware Threat Landscape Ransomware attacks have become one of the most disruptive cybersecurity threats in recent years. These attacks typically follow a destructive pattern:
30/09/2025
Announcing General Availability of Azure Local on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud
We are excited to announce that Azure Local is now generally available for Azure Government customers. Building on the momentum from our public preview, Azure Local is ready for production deployments, enabling government organizations to run cloud-connected infrastructure at their own physical locations under their operational control and helps them align compliance with stringent regulatory and security requirements. What is Azure Local?
30/09/2025
OpenAI Launches Sora 2 and a Consent-Gated Sora iOS App
OpenAI released Sora 2, a text-to-video-and-audio model focused on physical plausibility, multi-shot controllability, and synchronized dialogue/SFX. The OpenAI team has also launched a new invite-only Sora iOS app (U.S. and Canada first) that enables social creation, remixing, and consent-controlled “cameos” for inserting a verified likeness into generated scenes. Model capabilities Sora 2 claims materially better […] The post
30/09/2025
Important Lab Update for MS-700 and MS-721
We are currently investigating an issue that is affecting lab functionality in both the MS-700 and MS-721 courses. Due to a new verification requirement in the Teams admin center when ordering telephone numbers, certain lab components may not work as expected. Please be aware that some labs will not be able...
30/09/2025
Transforming Emergency Response: How AI is reshaping public safety
Brand new released Smart City Trend Report:Discover how AI is transforming emergency response and public safety in cities worldwide.In an era of escalating climate events, urban complexity, and rising public expectations, emergency response systems are under pressure like ...
30/09/2025
Hotfix Released for Skype for Business Server SE (SE RTM Hotfix 2)
Microsoft has released a hotfix update for Skype for Business Server Subscription Edition (Version 7.0.2046.828) to resolve two issues impacting functionality:
30/09/2025
Building a Custom Continuous Export Pipeline for Azure Application Insights
1. Introduction MonitorLiftApp is a modular Python application designed to export telemetry data from Azure Application Insights to custom sinks such as Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS). This solution is ideal when Event Hub integration is not feasible, providing a flexible, maintainable, and scalable alternative for organizations needing to move telemetry...
30/09/2025
Partner Blog | Becoming Frontier: Insights, resources, and partner opportunities
Across industries and job functions, Microsoft partners aren’t just transforming the way organizations work today, they're shaping what’s next. Together, we are powering the rise of the Frontier Firm. Structured around on-demand intelligence and powered by hybrid teams of humans and agents, Frontier Firms understand the value of pairing irreplaceable human insight with the power of AI. They embed agents into their workflows, not just as assistants but as essential team...
30/09/2025
Windows 11, version 25H2 security baseline
Microsoft is pleased to announce the security baseline package for Windows 11, version 25H2! You can download the baseline package from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit, test the recommended configurations in your environment, and customize / implement them as appropriate. Summary of changes This release includes several changes made since the
30/09/2025
An IT pro’s guide to Windows 11, version 25H2
Windows 11, version 25H2 is now available through Windows Autopatch and the Microsoft 365 admin center.i It is also available for download from the Microsoft Software Download Service and Visual Studio Subscriptions. Windows 11, version 25H2 will become ...
30/09/2025
Partner Case Study | Cloudforce
Few fields have as much promise to benefit from AI-powered workloads as medical and life sciences. The potential rewards are massive: faster research, better patient outcomes, and more personalized care. At the same time, few fields face as much pressure to use AI responsibly. Sensitive data, strict compliance requirements, and high operational complexity mean that even the most innovative life sciences organizations and research institutions must move carefully. Longtime Microsoft par...
30/09/2025
Microsoft is headed to Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas!
AI and data transformation are reshaping industries – and your Oracle data is at the heart of it. Join us at Oracle AI World to see how Microsoft and Oracle are partnering to unlock the full potential of your data with Oracle Database@Azure. Register now to reserve your seat...
30/09/2025
From the frontlines: Delivering critical early responder device management
By: Catarina Rodrigues – Product Manager 2 | Microsoft Intune In high-stakes environments like emergency response, speed, accuracy, and security are essential. Whether it’s paramedics delivering life-saving care or police officers responding to critical incidents, frontline teams need real-time access to information—right where the action is. To meet these demands, emergency services are increasingly deploying mobile devices, paired with advanced device m...
30/09/2025
What’s new in Microsoft Planner – September 2025
This month, we introduced the Project Manager Agent in Microsoft Teams meetings and channels and enhanced Planner’s security. These features make collaborating with your team more effective while keeping your work secure. Project Manager Agent
30/09/2025
What's New in Excel (September 2025)
🎉 Happy 40th Birthday, Excel! 🎉 Today, Excel turns 40—and we’re so excited to celebrate this milestone with you, our amazing community. For four decades, you’ve helped shape Excel into what it is today, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Take a stroll down memory lane with our
30/09/2025
Microsoft Sentinel data lake is backed by App Assure's Sentinel promise
Microsoft Sentinel continues to lead the industry as a cloud-native SIEM, trusted by organizations worldwide to deliver scalable, intelligent security analytics. On September 30th, Sentinel’s new data lake features become generally available. This unlocks new threat hunting, compliance, and investigation scenarios for security teams looking for a cost-effective solution ...
30/09/2025
Microsoft Excel turns 40!
In 1985, the world was grooving to “Careless Whisper,” watching Back to the Future rocket Michael J. Fox into superstardom, and marveling at the discovery of the Titanic’s wreckage beneath the Atlantic. The Golden Girls had just premiered, and Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. was about to change gaming forever. Amid this whirlwind of cultural and technological transformation, another revolution was taking shape, one that wouldn’t make headlines but would eventual...
30/09/2025
Microsoft Sentinel data lake is backed by App Assure's Sentinel promise
Microsoft Sentinel continues to lead the industry as a cloud-native SIEM, trusted by organizations worldwide to deliver scalable, intelligent security analytics. On September 30th, Sentinel’s new data lake features become generally available. This unlocks new threat hunting, compliance, and investigation scenarios for security teams looking for a cost-effective solution ...
30/09/2025
What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | September 2025
Welcome to the September 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. This month we have a special announcement to share – we’ve developed a new Copi...
30/09/2025
Chapter 1: Ready for Agents - 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report
AI agents are becoming increasingly prevalent at work, going beyond generating content to taking action, following processes, and making decisions within set boundaries. Organizations began exploring agentic AI much like they did with generative AI – starting with experimentation. But now, many have moved beyond that early phase, as recent research reported that 90% of organizations have progressed beyond solely experimenting with AI agents1. And we’re starting to see this impact a...
30/09/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2025
Hey Microsoft Tech Community, we’re back with the latest updates to Microsoft Teams! This month we’re excited to spotlight many new features, like Threads in Channels which lets you reply directly to specific messages, keeping related conversations grouped together and preserving context without disrupting the main flow; updates to Teams AI Library that enables developers to build more powerful collaborative agents for Teams; an...
30/09/2025
Teams Private Channels: Group-Based Compliance Model & Purview eDiscovery Considerations
Microsoft Teams Private Channels are undergoing an architectural change that will affect how your organisations uses Microsoft Purview eDiscovery to hold and discovery these messages going forward. In essence, copies of private channel messages will now be stored in the M365 Group mailbox, aligning their storage with how standard and shared channels work today. This shift, due to roll out from early October 2025 to December 2025, brings new benefits (like greatly expanded channel limit...
30/09/2025
Azure AI Search: Microsoft OneLake integration plus more features now generally available
Introduction Azure AI Search has officially launched its latest generally available (GA) REST API version 2025-09-01 release, delivering enterprise-grade enhancements ...
30/09/2025
So You Want to Become an MVP: A Practical Guide for Aspiring Tech Leaders
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award honors individuals who go above and beyond in sharing their technical expertise, building communities, and helping others succeed with Microsoft technologies. If you’re passionate about technology and building community, consider joining this 30+ year program with more than 4,000 professionals worldwide. What Is the MVP Program? The MVP program recognizes exceptional community leaders who demonstrate: ...
30/09/2025
Imagine Cup 2026: Where students build what’s next
For more than two decades, Imagine Cup has highlighted the journeys of student founders, stories of projects that grew into startups, or b...
30/09/2025
The Model Selection Showdown: 6 Considerations for Choosing the Best Model
Selecting the right model is one of the most critical decisions in any machine learning project.
30/09/2025
SharePoint Showcase: Governance and Security Essentials for Admins in the AI Era
This month’s SharePoint Showcase comes at a pivotal time following our recent announcement of the new Knowledge Agent in SharePoint. We encourage you to opt-in for our public preview and share ...
30/09/2025
The Microsoft Entra agent for smarter access governance: Access Review Agent
Access reviews just received a major upgrade. With the introduction of the Microsoft Security Copilot Access Review Agent in Microsoft Entra, we’re bringing the power of AI directly into the heart of access governance. No more static lists or disconnected portals—reviewers are guided through decisions in a natural, conversational flow right inside Microsoft Teams. Access reviews are critical for compliance but often a checkbox exercise. Reviewers face long lists of users and entitlemen...
30/09/2025
Introducing developer solutions for Microsoft Sentinel platform
Security is being reengineered for the AI era, moving beyond static, rule-bound controls and toward after-the-fact response toward platform-led, machine-speed defense. The challenge is clear: fragmented tools, sprawling signals, and legacy architectures that can’t match the velocity and scale of modern attacks. What’s needed is an AI-ready, data-first foundation - one that turns telemetry into a security graph, standardizes access for agents, and coordinates autonomous actions while keeping h...
30/09/2025
Introducing Microsoft Security Store
Security is being reengineered for the AI era—moving beyond static, rulebound controls and after-the-fact response toward platform-led, machine-speed defense. We recognize that defending against modern threats requires the full strength of an ecosystem, combining our unique expertise and shared threat intelligence. But with so many options out there, it’s tough for security professionals to cut through the noise, and even tougher to navigate long procurement cycles and stitch together tools a...
30/09/2025
Microsoft Sentinel data lake FAQ
On September 30, 2025, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Microsoft Sentinel data lake, designed to centralize and retain massive volumes of security data in open formats like delta parquet. By decoupling storage from compute, the data lake supports flexible querying, while offering unified data management and cost-effective retention. The
30/09/2025
Announcing Microsoft Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server – Public Preview
Security is being reengineered for the AI era—moving beyond static, rulebound controls and after-the-fact response toward platform-led, machine-speed defense. The challenge is clear: fragmented tools, sprawling signals, and legacy architectures that can’t match the velocity and scale of modern attacks. What’s needed is an AI-ready, data-first foundation—one that turns telemetry into a security graph, standardizes access for agents, and coordinates autonomous actions while keeping humans in co...
30/09/2025
Microsoft Sentinel data lake is now generally available
Security is being reengineered for the AI era, shifting from static controls to fast, platform-driven defense. Traditional tools, scattered data, and outdated systems struggle against modern threats. An AI-ready, data-first foundation is needed to unify telemetry, standardize agent access, and enable autonomous responses while ensuring humans are in command of strategy and high-impact investigations. Security teams already anchor their operations around SIEMs for comprehensive visibili...
30/09/2025
Introducing Microsoft Sentinel graph (Public Preview)
Security is being reengineered for the AI era—moving beyond static, rulebound controls and after-the-fact response toward platform-led, machine-speed defense. The challenge is clear: fragmented tools, sprawling signals, and legacy architectures that can’t match the velocity and scale of modern attacks. What’s needed is an AI-ready, data-first foundation—one that turns telemetry into a security graph, standardizes access for agents, and coordinates autonomous actions ...
30/09/2025
Agentic security your way: Build your own Security Copilot agents
Microsoft Security Copilot is redefining how security and IT teams operate. Today at Microsoft Secure, we’re unveiling powerful updates that put genAI and agent-driven automation at the center of modern defense. In a world where threats move faster than ever, alerts pile up, and resources stay tight, Security Copilot delivers the competitive edge: contextual intelligence, a growing network of agents, and the flexibil...
30/09/2025
App Assure's Sentinel promise now extends to Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Microsoft Sentinel continues to lead the industry as a cloud-native SIEM, trusted by organizations worldwide to deliver scalable, intelligent security analytics. On September 30th, Sentinel’s new data lake features become generally available. This unlocks new threat hunting, compliance, and investigation scenarios for security teams looking for a cost-effective solution ...
30/09/2025
How to automate the deployment of an Elastic Job Agent with a Private Endpoint via Bicep
Environment Overview Recently, I worked on a case where our customer encountered an issue during the deployment of an Elastic Job Agent (EJA) and a Private Endpoint (PEP) using a Bicep deployment script. The process resulted in an endles...
30/09/2025
Delinea Released an MCP Server to Put Guardrails Around AI Agents Credential Access
Delinea released an Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that let AI-agent access to credentials stored in Delinea Secret Server and the Delinea Platform. The server applies identity checks and policy rules on every call, aiming to keep long-lived secrets out of agent memory while retaining full auditability What’s new for me? The GitHub project DelineaXPM/delinea-mcp […] The post
30/09/2025
How to Capture Running Queries in SQL Server
(本記事の最後に日本語でもご案内しております) Sometimes, you need to check which queries are running in your SQL Server. If you want to understand what’s happening inside your SQL Server—such as diagnosing errors or slow performance—xEvents can be very helpful. 🔍 What is Extended Events (xEvents)? Extended Events is a lightweight performance monitoring system built into SQL Server. It helps you:
30/09/2025
Exclude Prefix in Azure Storage Action: Smarter Blob Management
Azure Storage Actions is a powerful platform for automating data management tasks across Blob and Data Lake Storage. Among its many features, Exclude Prefix stands out as a subtle yet critical capability that helps fine-tune task assignments. What Is the "Exclude Prefix" Feature? The Exclude Prefix option allows users to omit specific blobs or folders from being targeted by Azure Storage...
30/09/2025
DeepSeek V3.2-Exp Cuts Long-Context Costs with DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) While Maintaining Benchmark Parity
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an “intermediate” update to V3.1 that adds DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA)—a trainable sparsification path aimed at long-context efficiency. DeepSeek also reduced API prices by 50%+, consistent with the stated efficiency gains. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp keeps the V3/V3.1 stack (MoE + MLA) and inserts a two-stage attention path: (i) a lightweight “indexer” that scores context […] The post
30/09/2025
Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Database on a Specific table
The Azure SQL Auditing feature is used to track database events and writes them to an audit log in your Azure storage account, Log Analytics workspace, or Event Hubs. For those who are interested on how to configure Auditing on Azure SQL Database either on server-level or database-level please visit this
30/09/2025
A Coding Guide to Build a Hierarchical Supervisor Agent Framework with CrewAI and Google Gemini for Coordinated Multi-Agent Workflows
In this tutorial, we walk you through the design and implementation of an advanced Supervisor Agent Framework using CrewAI with Google Gemini model. We set up specialized agents, including researchers, analysts, writers, and reviewers, and bring them under a supervisor agent who coordinates and monitors their work. By combining structured task configurations, hierarchical workflows, and […] The post
30/09/2025
How to Master GitHub Copilot: Build, Prompt, Deploy Smarter
The way we write code as engineers is changing—fast. If you think GitHub Copilot is just glorified autocomplete, think again. Copilot is more than a tool—it’s a teammate. It’s a tireless, context-aware, prompt-savvy peer that can help you architect, refactor, and deploy with speed and precision. It also takes on tedious tasks that eat into your day, freeing you up to write more fulfilling, high-value code.
30/09/2025
Secure AI by Design Series: Embedding Security and Governance Across the AI Lifecycle
Problem Statement Securing AI in the Age of Generative Intelligence Executive Summary The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming industries—unlocking new efficiencies, accelerating innovation, and reshaping how enterprises operate. However, this transformation introduces significant security risks, novel attack surfaces, and regulatory uncertainty. This white paper outlines the key challenges, suppo...
30/09/2025
Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways: Enabling learning for customers
What's new New Microsoft 365 Copilot training playlists were published to Learning Pathways on September 26, 2025. Content was published to all 10 languages that Learning Pathways supports. Playlists include: Get started with the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Copilot in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, OneNote, Teams, Loop, OneDrive, Whiteboard, Planner, Forms, SharePoint, Stream, Viva Amplify, Viva Engage, Viva Puls...
29/09/2025
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 with New Coding and Agentic State-of-the-Art Results
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 and sets a new benchmark for end-to-end software engineering and real-world computer use. The update also ships concrete product surface changes (Claude Code checkpoints, a native VS Code extension, API memory/context tools) and an Agent SDK that exposes the same scaffolding Anthropic uses internally. Pricing remains unchanged from Sonnet 4 […] The post
29/09/2025
Securing AI Workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Purview and Sentinel in Azure Landing Zones
In this blog, we’ll cover: Why AI Landing Zones matter. Security threats specific to AI workloads. Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas. A reference architecture diagram . Ready-to-use Azure Policy and Blueprint snippets. ARM & Terraform templates to bootstrap security controls. Why AI Landing Zones? Landing Zones are opinionated environments that encode iden...
29/09/2025
Important update about the future of Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways
We’re excited to share an important update about the future of Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways (M365LP): starting December 1, 2025, M365LP will transition to a fully community-supported tool. M365LP has always been a partnership between the Microsoft 365 Community and Microsoft. Microsoft has traditionally been responsible for the content updates and funding development while the community has spearheaded the technical upkeep and solution support. To better provide for the demand from ...
29/09/2025
MVP Champ Spotlight- Derk van der Woude
Derk is recognized as a Most Valued Professional (MVP) by Microsoft as an exceptional community leader for their technical expertise, leadership, speaking experience, online influence, and commitment to solving real-world problems. Learn more about MVPs and what it takes to become one here:
29/09/2025
Introducing Wi-Fi 7 for enterprise connectivity
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Wi-Fi 7 support for enterprise access points. Starting with the September 2025 Windows preview non-security update, a significant leap forward in wireless networking reaches Windows 11, version 24H2 and later. Windows 11 has already supported Wi-Fi 7 for consumer access points since 2024. Now, your organization can also benefit from better speed, high throughput, improved reliability, and enhanced security for modern enterprise envi...
29/09/2025
Explore HPC & AI Innovation: Microsoft + AMD at HPC Roundtable 2025
Explore how Microsoft and AMD are accelerating HPC and AI innovation at the HPC Roundtable 2025 in Turin. On September 30th, the city of Turin will host the HPC Roundtable 2025, a premier gathering of leaders and innovators in high-performance computing (HPC) and AI infrastructure. Organized by DoITNow, the event will bring together experts from across industries to discuss how cloud-native HPC and AI infrastructure is transforming engineering, simulation, and intelligent workloads. ...
29/09/2025
How to Enable Transcription in Microsoft Teams: A Quick Guide to Smarter Meetings
Transcription in Microsoft Teams transforms your meetings into searchable, readable text—making it easier to review conversations, follow up on decisions, and stay organized. Whether you're using it for accessibility, documentation, or productivity, enabling transcription is simple once a few key requirements are met. Requirements Before Enabling Transcription: Scheduled Meetings Only: Transcription is available only in meetings scheduled ...
29/09/2025
Partner Blog | Partner Center Technical Corner: September 2025 edition
Welcome to the September edition of Partner Center Technical Corner. This month, we’re highlighting new investments in partner enablement, essential security enhancements, and a recap of recent releases. As always, you’ll find the latest roadmap and key Partner Center resources at the end of this post. Advancing partner success: SMB growth and AI transformation
29/09/2025
Welcoming Neat to the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform
Today, we’re excited to share that Neat is joining MDEP. Organizations want secure, smart, and consistent meeting experiences, and trusted, predictable operations at scale. Neat and MDEP help deliver on that promise by combining Neat’s intuitive, versatile, design‑forward devices with MDEP’s enterprise fundamentals: standardized device management, a security-first approach, and a steady update rhythm that keeps fleets current.
29/09/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Intune: September 2025
The most resilient IT environments aren't just reactive, they're built with hardware-level contingencies, flexible deployment methods, and automation that works asynchronously. Behind every new capability is our team of Microsoft Intune engineers, who think about the real-world problems IT admins face every day. They're the ones building solutions that address questions like, 'What if a device goes offline and you can't reach it?' or 'How can we make a complex app installation less lik...
29/09/2025
Use Entra IDs to run jobs on your HPC cluster
Introduction This blog demonstrates the practical implementation of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) with the recently introduced “idp” provider that can be used on Azure Linux 3.0 HPC clusters to provide consistent Usernames, UIDs and GIDs across the cluster all rooted in Microsoft Entra ID. Having consistent Identities across the cluster is a fundamental requirement that is commonly met using SSSD and a provider such as LDAP, FreeIPA, or ADDS, or if no IdP is available...
29/09/2025
Meet oLLM: A Lightweight Python Library that brings 100K-Context LLM Inference to 8 GB Consumer GPUs via SSD Offload—No Quantization Required
oLLM is a lightweight Python library built on top of Huggingface Transformers and PyTorch and runs large-context Transformers on NVIDIA GPUs by aggressively offloading weights and KV-cache to fast local SSDs. The project targets offline, single-GPU workloads and explicitly avoids quantization, using FP16/BF16 weights with FlashAttention-2 and disk-backed KV caching to keep VRAM within 8–10 […] The post
29/09/2025
Cloud and AI Cost Efficiency: A Strategic Imperative for Long-Term Business Growth
Why cost efficiency matters more than ever In today’s digital-first economy, cost efficiency is top of mind for organizations worldwide. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud and AI technologies to drive innovation, streamline operations, and deliver customer value, the pressure to manage investments effectively has never been greater. As organizations scale their workloads, managing infrastructure expenses and usage pa...
29/09/2025
Integrating Azure AI Foundry with Copilot Studio: A Strategic and Technical Overview
As organizations accelerate their AI adoption, the need for flexible, scalable, and secure platforms becomes paramount. My previous article,
29/09/2025
Don’t Miss Out: The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft’s AI Agent Ecosystem!
“2025 is the year of the AI agents.” — Satya Nadella AI agents are no longer just chatbots—they are intelligent collaborators that can reason, use tools, and work together to solve real problems. Microsoft offers a full stack of frameworks to help you build these agents, from low-code copilots in Teams to enterp...
29/09/2025
Unlock Your Competitive Edge with Azure AI: The Strategic Roadmap You Can’t Afford to Miss
AI isn’t the future—it’s the now. Today, AI is a business imperative, and the organizations that master it will shape tomorrow’s industries. But here’s the truth: most teams don’t fail at AI for lack of ambition—they fail because they don’t have a structured plan. ...
29/09/2025
Introducing Protection Unit Offboarding in Microsoft 365 Backup
We’re excited to announce that Protection Unit Offboarding (aka backup deletion) is now available! This feature empowers organizations to manage their backup data with greater precision, compliance, and control. Why does this matter? It’s been a popular request from customers and ISV partners to delete specific SharePoint sites or OneDrive accounts, particularly in scenarios involving compliance, cost management, and operational agility. Up un...
29/09/2025
Office Agent – “Taste driven” multi-agent system for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Today we’re introducing Office Agent, a multi-agent system that builds upon an open-source stack, Anthropic's Claude model, and a new taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm to deliver polished PowerPoint presentations, ready-to-use Word documents, and soon Excel spreadsheets. The system orchestrates specialized agents that can plan, draft, and refine Office arti...
29/09/2025
Microsoft Frontier Program expands to individual Microsoft subscribers
The Frontier program that gives commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot customers early access to exciting, cutting-edge capabilities is now coming to individuals who have a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription. This expansion enables individuals to get hands-on with Microsoft’s latest AI innovations and help shape how they evolve before they launch. What Is the Frontier Program?
29/09/2025
Building Agent Mode in Excel
Excel is the world’s most trusted canvas for working with data, powering everything from household budgets to Fortune 500 companies, scientific research, operational planning, and classroom learning. It’s where millions turn to think, plan, and build. Agent Mode takes that impact even further, unlocking expert-level capabilities and making advanced analysis, modeling, and automation approachable for everyone, across every domain. Agent Mode lets you describe a task in natural language ...
29/09/2025
7 Python Decorator Tricks to Write Cleaner Code
Usually shrouded in mystery at first glance, Python decorators are, at their core, functions wrapped around other functions to provide extra functionality without altering the key logic in the function being "decorated".
29/09/2025
Welcome to the FY26 Q1 Partner Digest!
Stay up to date on the latest Microsoft Marketplace news, tools, and resources to help you grow your business. Subscribe to the Partner Digest label to never miss an update. 🚀 Noteworthy Highlights Introducing Microsoft Marketplace: Growth starts here. Turn your agents and other cloud-based innovations into sales, at scale, with Microsoft Marketplace.
29/09/2025
Announcement: Upcoming Changes to SQL Server on Linux Virtual Machine (VM) Provisioning in Azure
We’re making an important update to how customers provision SQL Server on Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure. What’s Changing? Starting soon, Linux-based SQL Server Virtual Machine (VM) images published by Microsoft will be removed from the Azure Marketplace. As a result, these SQL Server on Linux images will no longer be visible in the Azure SQL hub du...
29/09/2025
Edge AI for Student Developers: Learn to Run AI Locally
AI isn’t just for the cloud anymore. With the rise of Small Language Models (SLMs) and powerful local inference tools, developers can now run intelligent applications directly on laptops, phones, and edge devices—no internet required. If you're a student developer curious about building AI that works offline, privately, and fast, Microsoft’s Edge AI for Beginners course is your perfect starting point. What Is Edge ...
29/09/2025
Install and run Azure Foundry Local LLM server & Open WebUI on Windows Server 2025
Foundry Local is an on-device AI inference solution offering performance, privacy, customization, and cost advantages. It integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and applications through an intuitive CLI, SDK, and REST API. Foundry Local has the following benefits: On-Device Inference: Run models locally on your own hardware, reducing your costs while keeping all your data on your device. Model Customization: Select from prese...
29/09/2025
Data Migration - Collation mismatch error during an offline migration
Symptoms During an offline migration from a SQL Server Express instance to Azure SQL Database using Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), customers may encounter a collation mismatch error. In the Migration Wizard (Step 5), validation fails because the source database collation appears as 'undefined', even though both the source and target databases are configured with the same collation setting. This discrepancy c...
29/09/2025
Demystifying SessionTrackingId and Request Correlation in D365 CE Integrations
Introduction As a Cloud Solution Architect working with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (D365 CE) customers, I often see organizations building high-volume integrations using the ServiceClient SDK for .NET Core (or CrmServiceClient
29/09/2025
Optimizing Microsoft Sentinel: Resolving AMA-Induced Syslog & CEF Duplicates
2) Recommended Solutions When collecting both Syslog and CEF logs from the same Linux collector using the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) in Microsoft Sentinel, duplicate log entries can occur. These duplicates arise because the same event may be ingested through both the Syslog and CEF pipelines, leading to redundancy in the Log Analytics Workspace (LAW). The following solutions ai...
29/09/2025
How to Design an Interactive Dash and Plotly Dashboard with Callback Mechanisms for Local and Online Deployment?
In this tutorial, we set out to build an advanced interactive dashboard using Dash, Plotly, and Bootstrap. We highlight not only how these tools enable us to design layouts and visualizations, but also how Dash’s callback mechanism links controls to outputs, allowing for real-time responsiveness. By combining local execution with the ability to run in […] The post
29/09/2025
Ensuring AI Safety in Production: A Developer’s Guide to OpenAI’s Moderation and Safety Checks
When deploying AI into the real world, safety isn’t optional—it’s essential. OpenAI places strong emphasis on ensuring that applications built on its models are secure, responsible, and aligned with policy. This article explains how OpenAI evaluates safety and what you can do to meet those standards. Beyond technical performance, responsible AI deployment requires anticipating potential […] The post
29/09/2025
This AI Research Proposes an AI Agent Immune System for Adaptive Cybersecurity: 3.4× Faster Containment with <10% Overhead
Can your AI security stack profile, reason, and neutralize a live security threat in ~220 ms—without a central round-trip? A team of researchers from Google and University of Arkansas at Little Rock outline an agentic cybersecurity “immune system” built from lightweight, autonomous sidecar AI agents colocated with workloads (Kubernetes pods, API gateways, edge services). Instead […] The post
28/09/2025
Gemini Robotics 1.5: DeepMind’s ER↔VLA Stack Brings Agentic Robots to the Real World
Can a single AI stack plan like a researcher, reason over scenes, and transfer motions across different robots—without retraining from scratch? Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 1.5 says yes, by splitting embodied intelligence into two models: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 for high-level embodied reasoning (spatial understanding, planning, progress/success estimation, tool-use) and Gemini Robotics 1.5 for low-level visuomotor […] The post
28/09/2025
Top 10 Local LLMs (2025): Context Windows, VRAM Targets, and Licenses Compared
Local LLMs matured fast in 2025: open-weight families like Llama 3.1 (128K context length (ctx)), Qwen3 (Apache-2.0, dense + MoE), Gemma 2 (9B/27B, 8K ctx), Mixtral 8×7B (Apache-2.0 SMoE), and Phi-4-mini (3.8B, 128K ctx) now ship reliable specs and first-class local runners (GGUF/llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama), making on-prem and even laptop inference practical if you […] The post
28/09/2025
The Latest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview is Now the Fastest Proprietary Model (External Tests) and 50% Fewer Output Tokens
Google released an updated version of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite preview models across AI Studio and Vertex AI, plus rolling aliases—gemini-flash-latest and gemini-flash-lite-latest—that always point to the newest preview in each family. For production stability, Google advises pinning fixed strings (gemini-2.5-flash, gemini-2.5-flash-lite). Google will give a two-week email notice before retargeting a […] The post
27/09/2025
What is Asyncio? Getting Started with Asynchronous Python and Using Asyncio in an AI Application with an LLM
In many AI applications today, performance is a big deal. You may have noticed that while working with Large Language Models (LLMs), a lot of time is spent waiting—waiting for an API response, waiting for multiple calls to finish, or waiting for I/O operations. That’s where asyncio comes in. Surprisingly, many developers use LLMs without […] The post
27/09/2025
Developer Tier APIM + Self-hosted Gateway
Developer tier APIM enjoys many "premium" features such as vnet injection. FeatureConsumptionDeveloperBasicBasic v2StandardStandard v2PremiumPremium v2 (preview)Microsoft Entra integration1NoYesNoYes<...
27/09/2025
How to Build an Intelligent AI Desktop Automation Agent with Natural Language Commands and Interactive Simulation?
In this tutorial, we walk through the process of building an advanced AI desktop automation agent that runs seamlessly in Google Colab. We design it to interpret natural language commands, simulate desktop tasks such as file operations, browser actions, and workflows, and provide interactive feedback through a virtual environment. By combining NLP, task execution, and […] The post
27/09/2025
Meet Qwen3Guard: The Qwen3-based Multilingual Safety Guardrail Models Built for Global, Real-Time AI Safety
Can safety keep up with real-time LLMs? Alibaba’s Qwen team thinks so, and it just shipped Qwen3Guard—a multilingual guardrail model family built to moderate prompts and streaming responses in-real-time. Qwen3Guard comes in two variants: Qwen3Guard-Gen (a generative classifier that reads full prompt/response context) and Qwen3Guard-Stream (a token-level classifier that moderates as text is generated). Both […] The post
27/09/2025
How to Save Personal Prompts and Create Team Prompts in Copilot
How to Save and Share Prompts in Microsoft Copilot Ever had a great Copilot prompt, maybe one you wrote or got from a coworker, and then lost it? Maybe it’s buried in OneNote or somewhere else you’ll never find again. Let’s fix that. With Prompt Gallery and Team Prompts in Microsoft Copilot, you can save your favorite prompts and share them with your team. Here’s how it works.
27/09/2025
Faster formula writing with formula completion in Excel for Windows
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Lev Solodkin, a Senior Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to share a new Microsoft 365 Copilot feature in Excel for Windows that can improve how you write formulas with proactive suggestions. Faster formula writing with formula completion in Excel for Windows Writing formulas in Excel can be difficult, intimidating, and time-consuming, even for experienced users. Between selecting the right function, referencing the correct cells, an...
26/09/2025
PostgreSQL and the Power of Community
PGConf NYC 2025 is the premier event for the global PostgreSQL community, and Microsoft is proud to be a Platinum sponsor this year. The conference will also feature a keynote from
26/09/2025
Hugging Face Releases Smol2Operator: A Fully Open-Source Pipeline to Train a 2.2B VLM into an Agentic GUI Coder
Hugging Face (HF) has released Smol2Operator, a reproducible, end-to-end recipe that turns a small vision-language model (VLM) with no prior UI grounding into a GUI-operating, tool-using agent. The release covers data transformation utilities, training scripts, transformed datasets, and the resulting 2.2B-parameter model checkpoint—positioned as a complete blueprint for building GUI agents from scratch rather than […] The post
26/09/2025
Windows Hardware Compatibility Program - Windows 10 Certification Deprecation Plan
As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and ecosystem readiness, we are sharing the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) and Hardware Lab Kit (HLK) end-of-support plan for Windows 10, in alignment with its upcoming end-of-support (EOS) milestone on October 14, 2025. Key Updates WHCP Windows 10 Certification Deprecation...
26/09/2025
Microsoft Sentinel and Defender: ITSM Integrations Explained
One of the main changes and advantages of onboarding Microsoft Sentinel to the Defender portal is the fact that alerts are automatically correlated into single incidents. Alert correlation will kick in when we have enough evidence that multiple alerts are related. This has great benefits, as it can quickly unveil multi-stage attacks that otherwise could look like unrelated harmless alerts. It also helps reduce the amount of incidents by merging those that are related.
26/09/2025
PostgreSQL Discovery and Assessment in Azure Migrate – Public Preview
We’re excited to announce the public preview of PostgreSQL discovery and assessment in Azure Migrate! This feature helps organizations plan their migration journey to Azure by providing deep insights into on-premises PostgreSQL environments. Why This Matters
26/09/2025
Accelerating Infrastructure as Code: Introducing Game-Changing Terraform Features for Azure
We're thrilled to announce a suite of powerful new features from the Terraform on Azure Team that will revolutionize how you build, manage, and deploy infrastructure. These enhancements deliver an unprecedented end-to-end experience that makes Terraform on Azure more accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive than ever before. Seamless Code Generation to Deployment Experience Public Preview: October 2025 Say goodbye to starting from scratch. Our new integrate...
26/09/2025
Title Plan Update – September 26, 2025
🗂️ September 26, 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 eac...
26/09/2025
How Azure network security can help you meet NIS2 compliance
With the adoption of the NIS2 Directive EU 2022 2555, cybersecurity obligations for both public and private sector organizations have become more strict and far reaching. NIS2 aims to establish a higher common level of cybersecurity across the European Union by enforcing stronger requirements on risk management, incident reporting, supply chain protection, and governance. If your organization runs on Microsoft Azure, you already have powerful services to support your NIS2 journey. In p...
26/09/2025
Sprint to Imagine Cup: Fuel your innovation
Sprint to Imagine Cup is the first major step of the journey. For founders already building in Scale (learn more about the two path options this year), it’s the chance to strengthen their solution by deploying Microsoft AI in ways that meet the expectations of large organizations. For those earlier i...
26/09/2025
Stay Informed with the Azure AI Foundry Status Dashboard
Introducing the status dashboard in Azure AI Foundry, a centralized view into the status, uptime, and availability of key Azure AI Foundry services as you design, customize, and manage AI applications and agents at scale. The dashboard makes it easier for customers to track live service status, review historical reliability, and stay informed should unexpected incidents arise. Explore the status dashboard here:
26/09/2025
Microsoft Lists Mobile Apps Retirement in November 2025: What You Need to Know
Microsoft is officially announcing the retirement of the Microsoft Lists mobile apps for both Android and iOS. This decision is part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the best possible experience through our web-based solutions, ensuring users have access to the latest features and improvements. If you currently use the Lists mobile apps, it’s important to understand what’s changing, when it’s happening, and how you can prepare for a smooth transition. Key Dat...
26/09/2025
Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Postgres!
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
26/09/2025
Why and When to Use Sentence Embeddings Over Word Embeddings
Choosing the right text representation is a critical first step in any natural language processing (NLP) project.
26/09/2025
Sakana AI Released ShinkaEvolve: An Open-Source Framework that Evolves Programs for Scientific Discovery with Unprecedented Sample-Efficiency
Sakana AI has released ShinkaEvolve, an open-sourced framework that uses large language models (LLMs) as mutation operators in an evolutionary loop to evolve programs for scientific and engineering problems—while drastically cutting the number of evaluations needed to reach strong solutions. On the canonical circle-packing benchmark (n=26 in a unit square), ShinkaEvolve reports a new SOTA […] The post
26/09/2025
Google AI Ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Data Commons, Giving AI Agents First-Class Access to Public Stats
Google released a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Data Commons, exposing the project’s interconnected public datasets—census, health, climate, economics—through a standards-based interface that agentic systems can query in natural language. The Data Commons MCP Server is available now with quickstarts for Gemini CLI and Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). What was released Why MCP […] The post
26/09/2025
Securing Azure Databricks Serverless: Practical Guide to Private Link Integration
The Challenge: Outbound Control in a Serverless World Serverless compute resources run in the serverless compute plane, and is managed by Microsoft, for ease of use. Databricks serverless provides hassle-free compute for running notebooks, jobs, and pipelines and by default, outbound traffic can reach the internet and other networks freely. One of the most common security requirements for customers in the fin...
25/09/2025
Announcing the Grok 4 Fast Models from xAI: Now Available in Azure AI Foundry
These models, grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning, empower developers with distinct approaches to suit their application needs. Each model brings advanced capabilities such as structured outputs, long-context processing, and seamless integration with enterprise-grade security and governance. This release marks a significant step toward scalable, agentic AI...
25/09/2025
4 Ways Copilot in Microsoft Fabric Accelerates Data Engineering and Analytics
As a data aficionado I have had a front row seat admiring how Microsoft Fabric is revolutionizing the data landscape by unifying data engineering, data analytics, real-time analytics, and more into a single SaaS platform. At the heart of this transformation is Copilot in Fabric—a generative AI assistant that empowers users to interact with data and tools using natural language, dramatically reducing the complexity of building, managing, and analyzing data solutions. Whether you'r...
25/09/2025
Using Application Gateway to secure access to the Azure OpenAI Service: Customer success story
Introduction A large enterprise customer set out to build a generative AI application using Azure OpenAI. While the app would be hosted on-premises, the customer wanted to leverage the latest large language models (LLMs) available through Azure OpenAI. However, they faced a critical challenge: how to securely access Azure OpenAI from an on-prem environment without private network connectivity or a full Azur...
25/09/2025
Unlock visibility, flexibility, and cost efficiency with Application Gateway logging enhancements
Introduction In today’s cloud-native landscape, organizations are accelerating the deployment of web applications at unprecedented speed. But with rapid scale comes increased complexity—and a growing need for deep, actionable visibility into the underlying infrastructure. As businesses embrace modern architectures, the demand for scalable, secure, and observable web applications continues to rise. Azure App...
25/09/2025
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT ‘Pulse’: Proactive, Personalized Daily Briefings for Pro Users
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive experience that compiles personalized, research-backed updates each morning. In preview on mobile and limited to $200/month Pro subscribers, Pulse surfaces topical cards built from a user’s chats, explicit feedback, and opt-in connected apps (e.g., calendar/email), shifting ChatGPT from a request-driven tool to a context-aware assistant. What Pulse Actually Does […] The post
25/09/2025
OpenAI Introduces GDPval: A New Evaluation Suite that Measures AI on Real-World Economically Valuable Tasks
OpenAI introduced GDPval, a new evaluation suite designed to measure how AI models perform on real-world, economically valuable tasks across 44 occupations in nine GDP-dominant U.S. sectors. Unlike academic benchmarks, GDPval centers on authentic deliverables—presentations, spreadsheets, briefs, CAD artifacts, audio/video—graded by occupational experts through blinded pairwise comparisons. OpenAI also released a 220-task “gold” subset and […] The post
25/09/2025
Defender for Storage: Malware Automated Remediation - From Security to Protection
In our previous Defender for Cloud Storage Security blog, we likened cloud storage to a high-tech museum - housing your organization’s most valuable artifacts, from sensitive data to AI training sets. That metaphor resonated with many readers, highlighting the need for strong defenses and constant vigilance.But as every museum cur...
25/09/2025
From Handshakes to AI: Toastmasters Evolves for a Global Future
For over 100 years, Toastmasters International has helped millions conquer glossophobia—the fear of public speaking—through live practice, structured feedback, and a strong sense of community. From local club meetings to international conferences, the nonprofit has built a legacy of empowering voices. Now, it’s embracing a new chapter: AI-powered transformation. Tradi...
25/09/2025
Why OneDrive Is More Than Just Cloud Storage
When people hear “OneDrive,” they often think of a simple place to stash files. But Microsoft OneDrive is far more than a digital filing cabinet—it’s a powerful tool for collaboration, backup, and productivity across devices. Whether you're working solo or with a team, OneDrive offers features that make your workflow smarter, safer, and more seamless. 1. Real-Time Collaboration with Office Apps Open a Word, E...
25/09/2025
CycleCloud + Hammerspace
Abstract The theme of this blog is “Simplicity”. Today’s HPC user has an overabundance of choices when it comes to HPC Schedulers, clouds, infrastructure in those clouds, and data manage...
25/09/2025
The Future of AI: An Intern’s Adventure Turning Hours of Video into Minutes of Meaning
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 The moment that started it
25/09/2025
AI Azure Landing Zone: Shared Capabilities and Models to Enable AI as a Platform
This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an enterprise environment. Let's walk through it end-to-end, breaking down each section, the flow, and key Azure services involved. 🧭 Overview: The architecture is split into 4 major landing zones: Connectivity Subscription AI Apps ...
25/09/2025
Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines
Today we are excited to release the public preview support for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Trusted Launch Virtual Machines. As announced last year at Ignite, Azure Integrated HSM is hardware security module (HSM) cache and crypto offload designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations in vir...
25/09/2025
Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud brings the best of Pure and Azure to our customers
Azure Native Integrations tightly couple partner solutions to the Azure management experience allowing you to deploy and operate industry-leading solutions like Pure Storage Cloud with the same tools and methodology you use with Azure services like virtual machines, storage accounts, and Azure Kubernetes Service clusters. Azure Storage...
25/09/2025
Partner Blog | A reimagined Microsoft Marketplace: New investments to power growth
Frontier Firms, organizations at the leading edge of digital transformation, are redefining how innovation is scaled and how value is created. To empower emerging and established Frontier Firms, we are excited to launch the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. The new Marketplace brings together AppSource and Azure Marketp...
25/09/2025
Foundry Fridays: Your Gateway to Azure AI Discovery
🎓 What Is Foundry Fridays? Every Friday at 1:30 PM ET, join the Azure AI Foundry Discord Community https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord for a 30-minute live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. It’s your chance to connect with the experts behind Azure AI—Principal PMs, researchers, and engineers—who are building the tools you’...
25/09/2025
Simplify Image Signing and Verification with Notary Project and Trusted Signing (Public Preview)
Supply chain security has become one of the most pressing challenges for modern cloud-native applications. Every container image, Helm chart, SBOM, or AI model that flows through your CI/CD pipeline carries risk if its integrity or authenticity cannot be guaranteed. Attackers may attempt to tamper with artifacts, replace trusted images with malicious ones, or inject unverified base images into builds. Today, we’re excited to highlight how
25/09/2025
Sneak Peek: 2025 Agentic Teaming & Trust Research Report
With the introduction of AI agents to the workplace, we are beginning to blend machine intelligence with human judgment1, and AI agent teammates are starting to enhance collaboration2. AI at work is no longer just about using generative tools for daily tasks, it’s driving a complete rethink of workflows and talent strategies. This summer, the Microsoft People Science team set out to better understand how organizations and employees are adapting to these changes, explorin...
25/09/2025
Surface Highlights at Microsoft AI Tour: Chicago & Toronto
The Microsoft AI Tour is starting in Chicago on September 25 and then heading to Toronto on October 1. Join Microsoft Surface in the Connection Hub and our Lightning Talk to see how Surface is enabling AI transformation. For the full agenda and speakers, visit the Microsoft AI Tour site.
25/09/2025
Announcing the General Availability of the Azure Arc Gateway for Arc-enabled Servers!
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Arc gateway for Arc‑enabled servers. Arc gateway dramatically simplifies the network configuration required to use Azure Arc by consolidating outbound connectivity through a small, predictable set of endpoints. For customers operating behind enterprise proxies or firewalls, this means faster onboarding, fewer change requests, and a smoother path to value with Azure Arc. What’s new: To Arc‑enable a s...
25/09/2025
Announcing the General Availability of Arc Gateway for Azure Local
Hello everyone, Now that the Azure Arc gateway is GA is announced, we are super happy to also announce the General Availability of the Arc Ga...
25/09/2025
Now Generally Available: Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) — a fully managed block Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) offering that brings enterprise-grade storage to Azure with a native integration. Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate Independent Soft...
25/09/2025
OpenAI Agent SDK Integration with Azure Durable Functions
Picture this: Your agent authored with the OpenAI Agent SDK is halfway through analyzing 10,000 customer reviews when it hits a rate limit and dies. All that progress? Gone. Your multi-agent workflow that took 30 minutes to orchestrate? Back to square one because of a rate limit throttle. If you've deployed AI agents in production, you probably know this frustration first-hand. Today, we're announcing a solution that makes your agents reliable: OpenAI ...
25/09/2025
Meta FAIR Released Code World Model (CWM): A 32-Billion-Parameter Open-Weights LLM, to Advance Research on Code Generation with World Models
Meta FAIR released Code World Model (CWM), a 32-billion-parameter dense decoder-only LLM that injects world modeling into code generation by training on execution traces and long-horizon agent–environment interactions—not just static source text. What’s new: learning code by predicting execution? CWM mid-trains on two large families of observation–action trajectories: (1) Python interpreter traces that record local […] The post
25/09/2025
How to Build an End-to-End Data Science Workflow with Machine Learning, Interpretability, and Gemini AI Assistance?
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced end-to-end data science workflow where we combine traditional machine learning with the power of Gemini. We begin by preparing and modeling the diabetes dataset, then we dive into evaluation, feature importance, and partial dependence. Along the way, we bring in Gemini as our AI data scientist to […] The post
25/09/2025
It's time to secure your MCP servers. Here's how.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a powerful, standardized way for LLMs to interact with external tools. But as soon as you move from a local demo to a real-world application, a critical question arises: How do you secure it? Exposing an MCP server without security is like leaving the front door of your house wide open. Anyone could walk in and use your tools, access your data, or cause havoc. This guide will walk you thr...
25/09/2025
Using MCP Server with Azure Managed Redis in VS Code
Overview Have you thought about asking your VS Code to generate test data and automatically upload them to Redis, without having to write any code? Wouldn’t it be nice to code and manage resources all in one place in VS Code? This blog walks you through setting up VS Code to connect with Redis MCP Server and an Azure Managed Redis to accomplish these. By the end of this blog, we will be able to run VS Code in agent mode and tell it to generate customer test data in English, and it wi...
25/09/2025
Talk to your data: PostgreSQL gets a voice in VS Code
As product roadmaps accelerate to meet new business needs, developer teams are struggling to maintain productivity, some even reporting that they need to use six or more tools to do their job. To address this, Microsoft has released an improved PostgreSQL extension to aid developers working with PostgreSQL in Visual Studio (VS) Code streamline their workflows and increase productivity.
25/09/2025
Access fixes released in versions 2507 and 2508
Version 2507 (Build 19029.20136) Bug Name Issue Fixed Alert, “The Microsoft Access database engine cannot find the input table or query ‘MSysSQLComments’.” when importing queries from an old database which has never been used with the Monaco SQL editor Importing queries...
25/09/2025
Supercharging NVAs in Azure with Accelerated Connections
Hello folks, If you run firewalls, routers, or SD‑WAN NVAs in Azure and your pain is connection scale rather than raw Mbps, there is a feature you should look at: Accelerated Connections. It shifts connection processing to dedicated hardware in the Azure fleet and lets you size connection capacity per NIC, which translates into higher connections‑per‑sec...
25/09/2025
Vision-RAG vs Text-RAG: A Technical Comparison for Enterprise Search
Most RAG failures originate at retrieval, not generation. Text-first pipelines lose layout semantics, table structure, and figure grounding during PDF→text conversion, degrading recall and precision before an LLM ever runs. Vision-RAG—retrieving rendered pages with vision-language embeddings—directly targets this bottleneck and shows material end-to-end gains on visually rich corpora. Pipelines (and where they fail) Text-RAG. PDF […] The post
25/09/2025
How to Master Advanced TorchVision v2 Transforms, MixUp, CutMix, and Modern CNN Training for State-of-the-Art Computer Vision?
In this tutorial, we explore advanced computer vision techniques using TorchVision’s v2 transforms, modern augmentation strategies, and powerful training enhancements. We walk through the process of building an augmentation pipeline, applying MixUp and CutMix, designing a modern CNN with attention, and implementing a robust training loop. By running everything seamlessly in Google Colab, we position […] The post
24/09/2025
MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: Which regions are supported? Updated in September 2025
1. Overview When gathering SharePoint data through Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC), you need to pay attention to an important detail: regions. That includes both the region of your Microsoft 365 tenant (the data source), the region of the Azure Storage account (the data destination) and the region of your workspace where you run your pipelines. In this blog, we’ll investigate the importance of understanding regions, which regions are supported by ShareP...
24/09/2025
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana, a major step forward in simplifying observability for your apps and environments. With this new integration, you can view Grafana dashboards directly within your app or environment in the Azure portal, with no extra setup or cost required. What’s new?
24/09/2025
From Call Transcripts to CRM Gold: AI-Powered Post-Call Intelligence
Call transcripts are full of business intelligence that never makes it to your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Customer sentiment, promised follow-ups, escalation signals – all lost in walls of conversational text. We’ve all seen it happen. Agent frantically scribbles notes during calls. Promised callbacks fall through cracks. Critical details get buried in transcript files that sit untouched for months. Meanwhile, your CRM holds half-empty case records and incomplete ...
24/09/2025
Improving accessibility: Standard red gets an update in Microsoft 365
Hello, Insiders! I’m Shireen Salma, a Product Manager on the Office Accessibility team. I’m excited to announce that we are upgrading the standard red font color in the color picker in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on Windows and Mac to make it more inclusive and accessible to all users. Improving accessibility: Standard red gets an update in Microsoft 365 The standard red font color (RGB 255,0,0) is one of the most commonly used in Microsoft 365, whether to...
24/09/2025
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max: Production-Ready Thinking Mode, 1T+ Parameters, and Day-One Coding/Agentic Bench Signals
Alibaba has released Qwen3-Max, a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model positioned as its most capable foundation model to date, with an immediate public on-ramp via Qwen Chat and Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio API. The launch moves Qwen’s 2025 cadence from preview to production and centers on two variants: Qwen3-Max-Instruct for standard reasoning/coding tasks and Qwen3-Max-Thinking for […] The post
24/09/2025
Microsoft 365 Backup: Protect your business with data recovery
In today's digital age, ensuring the safety and availability of your data is paramount. Microsoft 365 offers robust solutions for data backup and recovery, designed to help restore your data and get your business back on track in the face of various challenges like ransomware events or accidental deletions. Microsoft 365 Backup services go beyond standard protection to make sure that your data remains compliant, protected, and recoverabl...
24/09/2025
Supercharging Security Copilot with Logic Apps: Best practices and pro tips
Integrating Microsoft Security Copilot with Azure Logic Apps enables security teams to automate investigations, orchestrate fast incident response, and unify workflows across the modern enterprise. By leveraging the unique strengths of both platforms, organizations can achieve scalable, efficient, and actionable security automation. Why Integrate Security Copilot with Logic Apps? Security Copilot brings AI-powered reasoning, automation, and natural langu...
24/09/2025
Design Security in Solutions from Day One! Innovate boldly, Deploy Safely, and Never Regret it!
As organizations navigate the complexities of modern cloud environments, embedding security early in the architecture lifecycle proves invaluable. For privacy and compliance requirements I will provide generic examples. A startup that designed its web application with secure authentication and encrypted data storage from the outset avoided costly retrofits after a major client demanded compliance with data protection standards, saving thousands in redevelopment expenses and winn...
24/09/2025
Architecting Secure PostgreSQL on Azure: Insights from Mercedes-Benz
Authors: Johannes Schuetzner, Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz & Nacho Alonso Portillo, Principal Program Manager at MicrosoftWhen you think of Mercedes-Benz, you think of innovation, precision, and trust. But behind every iconic vehicle and digital experience is a relentless drive for security and operational excellence. At Mercedes-Benz R&D in Sindelfingen, Germany, Johannes Schuetzner and the team faced a challenge familiar to many PostgreSQL...
24/09/2025
Azure DDoS Protection now supports QUIC protocol — Securing the future of HTTP/3 traffic
The internet’s transport layer is undergoing one of its most significant evolutions in decades. QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) — the protocol underpinning HTTP/3 — is rapidly becoming the default for high performance, secure communication on the web. From YouTube
24/09/2025
CloudFlare AI Team Just Open-Sourced ‘VibeSDK’ that Lets Anyone Build and Deploy a Full AI Vibe Coding Platform with a Single Click
CloudFlare AI team just open-sourced VibeSDK, a full-stack “vibe coding” platform that you can deploy end-to-end with a single click on Cloudflare’s network or GitHub Repo Fork. It packages code generation, safe execution, live preview, and multi-tenant deployment so teams can run their own internal or customer-facing AI app builder without stitching together infrastructure. What’s […] The post
24/09/2025
PostgreSQL 18 Preview on Azure Postgres Flexible Server
We’re excited to announce the preview release of PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL! This release unlocks a number of powerful new features and enhancements that will bring improved performance, better developer experience, and stronger security and manageability for your workloads. Starting this week, customers can begin testing PG-18 in preview, giving you early access before we move toward gene...
24/09/2025
Google AI Research Introduce a Novel Machine Learning Approach that Transforms TimesFM into a Few-Shot Learner
Google Research introduces in-context fine-tuning (ICF) for time-series forecasting named as ‘TimesFM-ICF): a continued-pretraining recipe that teaches TimesFM to exploit multiple related series provided directly in the prompt at inference time. The result is a few-shot forecaster that matches supervised fine-tuning while delivering +6.8% accuracy over the base TimesFM across an OOD benchmark—no per-dataset training […] The post
24/09/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep17: Growth with Ethical Partnerships: A Conversation with Javier Lozano
In this IAMCP Profiles in Partnership episode, hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez sit down with
23/09/2025
Coding Implementation to End-to-End Transformer Model Optimization with Hugging Face Optimum, ONNX Runtime, and Quantization
In this tutorial, we walk through how we use Hugging Face Optimum to optimize Transformer models and make them faster while maintaining accuracy. We begin by setting up DistilBERT on the SST-2 dataset, and then we compare different execution engines, including plain PyTorch and torch.compile, ONNX Runtime, and quantized ONNX. By doing this step by […] The post
23/09/2025
Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 from Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, or 2022 using Media (ISO)
About media-based upgrade to Windows Server 2025 With N-4 media based upgrades, you can upgrade your organization’s physical devices and virtual machines directly from Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, or Windows Server 2022 to Windows Server 2025 in one hop using the Windows Server 2025 media. Running Windows Server 2025 setup enables customers to either upgrade or clean install Windows Server 2025. This process takes under an hour per...
23/09/2025
Your Guide to Azure Community Activations at Microsoft Ignite 2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is right around the corner! From November 18–21 in San Francisco, we’re excited to bring the Azure community together for four days of learning, connection, and fun! Whether you’re joining us onsite at the Moscone Center or tuning in online, the Community Space will be buzzing with MVP meetups, interactive theater sessions, and plenty of opportunities to network. This is the first...
23/09/2025
Image Search Series Part 4: Advancing Wound Care with Foundation Models and Context-Aware Retrieval
Introduction Wound assessment and management are central tasks in clinical practice, requiring accurate documentation and timely decision-making. Clinicians and nurses...
23/09/2025
Gen1 to Gen2 Azure VM Upgrade in Rolling Fashion
Introduction: Azure offers Trusted Launch. This seamless solution is designed to significantly enhance the security of our Generation 2 virtual machines (VMs), providing robust protection against advanced and persistent attack techniques. Trusted Launch is composed of several coordinated infrastructure technologies, each of which can be enabled independently. These technologies work in harmony to create multiple layers of...
23/09/2025
Google AI Introduces the Public Preview of Chrome DevTools MCP: Making Your Coding Agent Control and Inspect a Live Chrome Browser
Google has released a public preview of “Chrome DevTools MCP,” a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding agents control and inspect a real Chrome instance—recording performance traces, inspecting the DOM and CSS, executing JavaScript, reading console output, and automating user flows. The launch directly targets a well-known limitation in code-generating agents: they […] The post
23/09/2025
Gen1 to Gen2 Azure Linux Upgrade in Rolling Fashion
Introduction: Azure offers Trusted Launch. This seamless solution is designed to significantly enhance the security of our Generation 2 virtual machines (VMs), providing robust protection against advanced and persistent attack techniques. Trusted Launch is composed of several coordinated infrastructure technologies, each of which can be enabled independently. These technologies work in harmony to create multiple layers of...
23/09/2025
Windows Hardware Compatibility Program - Guidance for Windows 11, version 25H2 Release
To support the Windows 11, version 25H2 release, the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program is set to accept submission for the release. However, any submission package must meet the pre-requisites to help ensure compatibility between OS and HLK. Windows Hardware Compatibility Requirements – Windows 11, version 25H2 https://aka.ms/whcp Submission Pre-requisites OS, WDK and HLK minim...
23/09/2025
M&A Due Diligence Prep Guide
Selling your business is one of the most important decisions you’ll make, and preparation is everything. The IAMCP’s official M&A partner, IT ExchangeNet, has designed a Due Diligence Prep Guide to help Microsoft partners prepare for the due diligence process before they begin. You can access the guide below and find more resources by visiting the IAMCP M&A page.Key...
23/09/2025
Announcing GPT‑5‑Codex: Redefining Developer Experience in Azure AI Foundry
Today, we’re excited to announce OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑Codex is generally available in Azure AI Foundry, and in public preview for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. This release is the next step in our continuous commitment to empower developers with the latest model innovation, now building on the proven strengths of the earlier Codex generation along with the speed and CLI fluency many teams have adopted with the latest
23/09/2025
Partner Case Study | Persistent
In asset-heavy industries like manufacturing, maintenance, and on-site equipment inspection, fragmented data is a common issue. As employees across different functions feed data into multiple systems, the challenges can multiply. Disparate systems, inconsistent data formats, and siloed business units make it difficult for leaders to see the full picture, potentially leading to inefficient decisions and missed opportunities for revenue growth. This is the kind of challenge Persistent Sy...
23/09/2025
Bagging vs Boosting vs Stacking: Which Ensemble Method Wins in 2025?
Introduction In machine learning, no single model is perfect.
23/09/2025
Calling Logic Apps MCP Server from Copilot Studio
We recently released our MCP Server capabilities in Azure Logic Apps that unlocks enterprise data assets for agentic solutions. One of the questions that I received was, how ...
23/09/2025
Microsoft Azure scales Hollow Core Fiber (HCF) production through outsourced manufacturing
Introduction As cloud and AI workloads surge, the pressure on datacenter (DC), Metro and Wide Area Network (WAN) networks has never been greater. Microsoft is tackling the physical limits of traditional networking head-on. From pioneering research in microLED&nb...
23/09/2025
eSignature now available worldwide
We’re excited to share that eSignature for Microsoft 365 is now available worldwide* on Microsoft 365 public clouds. This pertains to all PDFs and Word documents stored in SharePoint. Previously, this service was limited to the US, UK, EU, Canada and Australia-Pacific regions. Worldwide availability also includes the integration of Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign eSignature for PDFs on SharePoint. Signatures made simple We’re also excited to announce several updates to eSignatur...
23/09/2025
Learn about Modern Requirements' transactable partner solution in Azure Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Modern Requirements deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about Modern Requirements' offer below:
23/09/2025
Migrate and Modernize Summit 2025: Unifying the Database Journey in Azure
At the heart of every digital transformation is data. This year’s Migrate and Modernize Summit was more than a showcase of new features—it was a demonstration of how Microsoft Azure is reimagining the migration and modernization journey for organizations of every size, including for their databases. The Summit showcased how Azure is making it easier and faster to move...
23/09/2025
Shadow IT Isn’t Going Away: Why Continuous Discovery May Be the Only Way Forward
Shadow IT has always been a bit of a ghost story in cybersecurity. You know it’s there, lurking in the background, but it rarely shows itself until something goes wrong. For years, people thought it just meant employees sneaking Dropbox or Slack into their workflow without permission. That’s still part of it, sure, but the real problem today seems much bigger. Think about all the unmanaged devices on a corporate network. Or those forgotten cloud workloads someone spun up two years ago ...
23/09/2025
Introducing the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API
We’re thrilled to unveil the public preview of Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API, a powerful REST service designed to modernize and elevate autocomplete capabilities across Microsoft’s mapping platforms. If you’ve ever started typing an address into a search bar and immediately seen a list of relevant suggestions—whether it’s for a landmark, or your own home—you’ve already exper...
23/09/2025
Meet VoXtream: An Open-Sourced Full-Stream Zero-Shot TTS Model for Real-Time Use that Begins Speaking from the First Word
Real-time agents, live dubbing, and simultaneous translation die by a thousand milliseconds. Most “streaming” TTS (Text to Speech) stacks still wait for a chunk of text before they emit sound, so the human hears a beat of silence before the voice starts. VoXtream—released by KTH’s Speech, Music and Hearing group—attacks this head-on: it begins speaking […] The post
23/09/2025
Discover and Assess PostgreSQL databases for migration to Azure using Azure Migrate
Discover and Assess PostgreSQL Databases at Scale with Azure Migrate (Preview) Cloud migration projects can be complex, and it can be difficult to determine where to begin, especially when you host different technology workloads and wish to migrate as well as modernize your workloads on Azure VM and PaaS solutions respectively. Planning migrations without full visibility into your IT estate—including the...
23/09/2025
Use Copilot and MCP to query Microsoft Learn Docs
Are you ready to take your Azure development workflow to the next level? In this post, we’ll walk through how to use GitHub Copilot in Agent Mode—paired with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers—to get trusted, grounded answers from Microsoft Learn Docs, right inside your coding workspace. Whether you’re tired of switching tabs to search documentation or want to ensure your AI assistant’s answers are always accurate, this guide will show you how to streamline your workflow and boost yo...
23/09/2025
Streamlining Campus Life: A Multi-Agent System for Campus Event Management
Introduction Managing campus events has long been a complex, manual process fraught with challenges. Traditional event management systems offer limited automation, placing a considerable workload on staff for tasks ranging from resource allocation to participant communication. This procedural friction presents a clear opportunity to build a more intelligent solution, leveraging the emerging paradigm of AI agents. To solve these challenges, I developed and evaluated a multi-agent...
23/09/2025
General Availability of Azure Backup vaulted support for Azure Files Premium (SSD) shares
Whether you're an enterprise IT administrator or a cloud-native developer, ensuring data protection and resiliency is non-negotiable, especially when running mission-critical workload on Azure Files Premium (SSD) shares. We’re thrilled to announce the General Availability of vaulted backup support with Azure Backup for
23/09/2025
Entra Group Source of Authority CONVERSION: Enabling Cloud-First Identity Management
As organizations modernize their identity infrastructure, Microsoft Entra’s Group Source of Authority (SOA) Conversion feature enables a granular migration of group management from on-premises AD to Microsoft Entra ID without disabling sync or rearchitecting the entire directory. What Is Group Source of Authority? Group SOA defines where a group object is mastered either in on-prem AD or in Entra ID. With SOA conversion, administrators can selectively convert AD-synced groups ...
23/09/2025
How to Create Reliable Conversational AI Agents Using Parlant?
Parlant is a framework designed to help developers build production-ready AI agents that behave consistently and reliably. A common challenge when deploying large language model (LLM) agents is that they often perform well in testing but fail when interacting with real users. They may ignore carefully designed system prompts, generate inaccurate or irrelevant responses at […] The post
23/09/2025
Surface Hub: Windows 10 Team Support Ends Oct 14, 2025 - Act now!
On October 14, 2025, support for Windows 10 Team Edition will end. On the same date, the Microsoft Teams App on Windows 10 Team will also stop functioning, devices will no longer be able to log into Microsoft Teams. This means any Surface Hub 2S devices that remain on Windows 10 Team after that date will lose the ability to join Teams meetings and wi...
22/09/2025
Partner Blog | From migration to modernization: Building the foundation for AI-powered growth
Last month, we introduced the Cloud & AI Platforms blog series with a blog outlining how partners can lead customers into the AI era with a secure, agile foundation. This installment builds on that discussion, focusing on the pivotal role of migration and application modernization in helping organizations r...
22/09/2025
Microsoft Brings MCP to Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in Public Preview, Turning Connectors into Agent Tools
Microsoft has released a public preview that enables Azure Logic Apps (Standard) to run as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, exposing Logic Apps workflows as agent tools discoverable and callable by MCP-capable clients (e.g., VS Code + Copilot). What’s actually shipping Key requirements and transport details API Center path: preview limitations that matter When creating […] The post
22/09/2025
Perplexity Launches an AI Email Assistant Agent for Gmail and Outlook, Aimed at Scheduling, Drafting, and Inbox Triage
Perplexity introduced “Email Assistant,” an AI agent that plugs into Gmail and Outlook to draft replies in your voice, auto-label and prioritize messages, and coordinate meetings end-to-end (availability checks, time suggestions, and calendar invites). The feature is restricted to Perplexity’s Max plan and is live today. What it does? Email Assistant adds an agent to […] The post
22/09/2025
The Ripple Effect of Small Actions: My MVP Journey - Muhammad Samiullah
By Guest Blogger Muhammad Samiullah. What if a single 15-minute conversation could change someone’s future?That’s something I discovered during my MVP journey. At first, I believed being an MVP was all about influence, advocacy, and sharing knowledge. I thought it meant exploring new technolo...
22/09/2025
General Availability: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.5
We’re thrilled to announce that we have made Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.5 for our Azure Synapse Spark customers generally available for customers to start using it for their production workloads, while they get ready and prepare for migrating to Microsoft Fabric Spark. What Does This Mean for You? You can now create Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.5. The essential changes include features which come from upgrading Apache Spark to...
22/09/2025
Introducing Channel Agent in Teams
Hi, Insiders! I’m Sandhya Rao, a Principal Group Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to announce a new agent experience for driving productivity in Teams: Channel Agent! Introducing Channel Agent in Teams Channel Agent is a dedicated agent created within a Teams channel that leverages channel conversations, Planner boards, and meeting content to act as an expert assistant. It adopts the channel’s name and can be invited to meetings and group chats, making it a power...
22/09/2025
Azure Kubernetes Service Automatic: Fast and frictionless Kubernetes for all
AKS Automatic simplifies Kubernetes by offering a fully managed, opinionated experience that abstracts away from infrastructure complexity, while keeping the full power of Kubernetes at your fingertips. Learn how production-ready clusters and automated infrastructure operations can accelerate your time to delivery and simplify operations for you! Check out the
22/09/2025
Unlocking Private IP for Azure Application Gateway: Security, Compliance, and Practical Deployment
If you’re responsible for securing, scaling, and optimizing cloud infrastructure, this update is for you. Based on my recent conversation with Vyshnavi Namani, Product Manager on the Azure Networking team,
22/09/2025
How Microsoft Azure AI Services are Helping Astronauts Prepare for Deep Space Exploration
Microgravity, space radiation, and other harsh environmental conditions during spaceflight can change the human body and alter human performance. To safeguard the well-being of crews, Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has relied on an Earth-based team of physicians, biomedical engineers, and other health care experts who work around the clock to monitor and address crew health issues in real time. Still, the risks of adverse health events during sp...
22/09/2025
Deprecation of Power BI Integration within SharePoint Lists and Libraries
Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Power BI integration within SharePoint lists and libraries. This change impacts customers who currently use the “Visualize the List” or “Visualize the Library” feature to create or access reports directly from SharePoint. This blog post provides details about the deprecation timeline and recommended alternatives to continue working with SharePoint list data in Power BI. Deprecation Timeline
22/09/2025
New Resource: Getting Started with Custom Analysis in Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics
Last month, we introduced an exciting new resource to help organizations unlock deeper insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot: the “Getting Started with Custom Analysis in Copilot Analytics” playbook. This guide is now publicly available as part of the Copilot Success Kit under the User Enablement section. Why This Playbook Matters As more organizati...
22/09/2025
Driving transparency: New logging capabilities and attribute enhancements in Microsoft Entra
At Microsoft Security, our commitment to transparency shapes every step we take toward providing customers with better insights. Today, we're excited to announce several enhancements to the logging capabilities of Microsoft Entra, making sign-in activity more comprehensive, actionable, and accessible. Representing agents in Microsoft Entra sign-in logs Alex Simons
22/09/2025
Expanding Teams Best Practice Configurations: 3 Scenarios to Elevate Call Quality and Reliability
Written by: Snigdha Chaturvedi and Shilpa Vijayakumar We’re excited to announce the next phase of enhancements to the Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center with three new scenarios that further empower administrators to optimize their tenant’s collaboration experience: Bypass Local Proxy Detect locat...
22/09/2025
Introducing new capabilities for communicators in Viva Amplify: More Control, Flexibility, and Reach
At Microsoft, we believe that great communication is the heartbeat of a thriving organization. That’s why we’re excited to announce a powerful new set of features in Viva Amplify to give communicators more control, flexibility, and reach in their communications cascade than ever before. Whether you're launching a global campaign or publishing a single news post, these updates make it easier to connect with your audience in meaningful ways, securely, efficiently, and at scale. <...
22/09/2025
New in Azure Marketplace: September 1-10, 2025
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 266 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace
22/09/2025
10 Machine Learning Newsletters to Stay Informed
Let's face it: keeping up with new research, tools, and industry shifts in machine learning can be down-right overwhelming.
22/09/2025
TechNexus: A Best Practice in Building Passion-Driven Tech User Group
This blog is part of a new Microsoft MVP-led Tech User Group Series highlighting the best practices of user groups worldwide. Across regions, user groups are inspiring people, building careers, and shaping the future of technology. Each story we share will spotlight leaders and communities who are proving that passion, collaboration, and inclusivity can change lives....
22/09/2025
Architecting Multi-region solution in Azure - Lessons Learned
Using Azure as a cloud, not as a region As Mark Russinovich stated in his blog post we want to empower customers and partners to build and run applications and data with the highest performance, availability, and security possible. That’s why we are growing our global footpr...
22/09/2025
Alibaba Qwen Team Just Released FP8 Builds of Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B (Instruct & Thinking), Bringing 80B/3B-Active Hybrid-MoE to Commodity GPUs
Alibaba’s Qwen team has just released FP8-quantized checkpoints for its new Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B models in two post-training variants—Instruct and Thinking—aimed at high-throughput inference with ultra-long context and MoE efficiency. The FP8 repos mirror the BF16 releases but package “fine-grained FP8” weights (block size 128) and deployment notes for sglang and vLLM nightly builds. Benchmarks in the […] The post
22/09/2025
Top 15 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for Frontend Developers (2025)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the “USB-C” for agent/tool integrations, giving frontend teams a standard way to wire design specs, repos/PRs, deploy targets, observability, and work management into their editors and CI without bespoke adapters. This list focuses on production-ready, remote MCP servers (OAuth/permissioned) that map cleanly onto Frontend (FE) workflows—e.g., Figma→GitHub→Vercel/Cloudflare→Chromatic/Sentry—reflecting rapid ecosystem […] The post
22/09/2025
Monitoring web application traffic for configuring rate limit on Azure Front Door WAF
Introduction Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a cloud-native service that actively protects web applications from common vulnerabilities and exploits. It also supports custom rules that allow fine-grained control over traffic. Among these custom rules is the rate-limiting feature available in both Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door. Rate limiting helps mitigate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, prevents abuse from misconfigured clients sending excessive requests, an...
22/09/2025
MIT Researchers Enhanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) 64x Better at Planning, Achieving 94% Accuracy
Can a 8B-parameter language model produce provably valid multi-step plans instead of plausible guesses? MIT CSAIL researchers introduce PDDL-INSTRUCT, an instruction-tuning framework that couples logical chain-of-thought with external plan validation (VAL) to lift symbolic planning performance of LLMs. On PlanBench, a tuned Llama-3-8B reaches 94% valid plans on Blocksworld, with large jumps on Mystery Blocksworld […] The post
22/09/2025
Enable Certificate-Based Authentication for Windows Admin Center Gateway Servers with AD CS
Implementing certificate-based authentication for Windows Admin Center (WAC) involves leveraging smart card login (user certificates) in Active Directory. In a production Active Directory environment, you can require administrators to authenticate with a client certificate. These are typically stored on a smart card or virtual smart card, before the administrator they can access the WAC gateway. This is achieved by using Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to issue logon certificate...
22/09/2025
Signing with the new 2023 Microsoft UEFI certificates: what submitters need to know
Certificate expirations and continuity Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 (Expiration: June 2026) → replaced by:
22/09/2025
Understanding the Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
The Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) is a lightweight, secure, and scalable way for AI agents and applications to find and call tools directly, without the need for additional wrapper servers. Key Features The Problem with Current Approaches Traditional solutions for integrating tools often require: These steps add friction for developers and slow down execution. […] The post
22/09/2025
Meta AI Proposes ‘Metacognitive Reuse’: Turning LLM Chains-of-Thought into a Procedural Handbook that Cuts Tokens by 46%
Meta researchers introduced a method that compresses repeated reasoning patterns into short, named procedures—“behaviors”—and then conditions models to use them at inference or distills them via fine-tuning. The result: up to 46% fewer reasoning tokens on MATH while matching or improving accuracy, and up to 10% accuracy gains in a self-improvement setting on AIME, without […] The post
22/09/2025
Agentic AI research-methodology - part 2
This post continues our series (previous post) on agentic AI research methodology. Building on our previous discussion on AI system design, we now shift focus to an evaluation-first perspect...
21/09/2025
IBM and ETH Zürich Researchers Unveil Analog Foundation Models to Tackle Noise in In-Memory AI Hardware
IBM researchers, together with ETH Zürich, have unveiled a new class of Analog Foundation Models (AFMs) designed to bridge the gap between large language models (LLMs) and Analog In-Memory Computing (AIMC) hardware. AIMC has long promised a radical leap in efficiency—running models with a billion parameters in a footprint small enough for embedded or edge […] The post
21/09/2025
Building a Hybrid Rule-Based and Machine Learning Framework to Detect and Defend Against Jailbreak Prompts in LLM Systems
In this tutorial, we introduce a Jailbreak Defense that we built step-by-step to detect and safely handle policy-evasion prompts. We generate realistic attack and benign examples, craft rule-based signals, and combine those with TF-IDF features into a compact, interpretable classifier so we can catch evasive prompts without blocking legitimate requests. We demonstrate evaluation metrics, explain […] The post
21/09/2025
LLM-as-a-Judge: Where Do Its Signals Break, When Do They Hold, and What Should “Evaluation” Mean?
What exactly is being measured when a judge LLM assigns a 1–5 (or pairwise) score? Most “correctness/faithfulness/completeness” rubrics are project-specific. Without task-grounded definitions, a scalar score can drift from business outcomes (e.g., “useful marketing post” vs. “high completeness”). Surveys of LLM-as-a-judge (LAJ) note that rubric ambiguity and prompt template choices materially shift scores and human […] The post
21/09/2025
An Internet of AI Agents? Coral Protocol Introduces Coral v1: An MCP-Native Runtime and Registry for Cross-Framework AI Agents
Coral Protocol has released Coral v1 of its agent stack, aiming to standardize how developers discover, compose, and operate AI agents across heterogeneous frameworks. The release centers on an MCP-based runtime (Coral Server) that enables threaded, mention-addressed agent-to-agent messaging, a developer workflow (CLI + Studio) for orchestration and observability, and a public registry for agent […] The post
20/09/2025
A Coding Guide to End-to-End Robotics Learning with LeRobot: Training, Evaluating, and Visualizing Behavior Cloning Policies on PushT
In this tutorial, we walk step by step through using Hugging Face’s LeRobot library to train and evaluate a behavior-cloning policy on the PushT dataset. We begin by setting up the environment in Google Colab, installing the required dependencies, and loading the dataset through LeRobot’s unified API. We then design a compact visuomotor policy that […] The post
20/09/2025
Azure Migrate: Connected Experiences
Shiva Shastri Sr Product Marketing Manager, Azure Migrate—Product & Ecosystem. Modernization in motion: Evolving at the speed of change. Modernization is the process of transforming legacy IT systems into technologies and architectures that improve agility, scalability, performance and cost-efficiency. It enables businesses to stay competitive by...
20/09/2025
xAI launches Grok-4-Fast: Unified Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Model with 2M-Token Context and Trained End-to-End with Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning (RL)
xAI introduced Grok-4-Fast, a cost-optimized successor to Grok-4 that merges “reasoning” and “non-reasoning” behaviors into a single set of weights controllable via system prompts. The model targets high-throughput search, coding, and Q&A with a 2M-token context window and native tool-use RL that decides when to browse the web, execute code, or call tools. Architecture note […] The post
20/09/2025
Xiaomi Released MiMo-Audio, a 7B Speech Language Model Trained on 100M+ Hours with High-Fidelity Discrete Tokens
Xiaomi’s MiMo team released MiMo-Audio, a 7-billion-parameter audio-language model that runs a single next-token objective over interleaved text and discretized speech, scaling pretraining beyond 100 million hours of audio. What’s actually new? Instead of relying on task-specific heads or lossy acoustic tokens, MiMo-Audio uses a bespoke RVQ (residual vector quantization) tokenizer that targets both semantic […] The post
20/09/2025
Run MATLAB-Style Code Inside Python by Connecting Octave with the oct2py Library
In this tutorial, we explore how we can seamlessly run MATLAB-style code inside Python by connecting Octave with the oct2py library. We set up the environment on Google Colab, exchange data between NumPy and Octave, write and call .m files, visualize plots generated in Octave within Python, and even work with toolboxes, structs, and .mat […] The post
20/09/2025
The Future of AI: Evaluating and optimizing custom RAG agents using Azure AI Foundry
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 agents can be powerful productivity enablers. They can unders...
19/09/2025
Title Plan Update – September 19, 2025
We’re excited to share the latest version of the Courseware Title Plan with you! As part of our ongoing efforts to keep you informed and aligned with the fast-paced ILT release cycle, we’re introducing two important updates: 📅 Weekly Title Plan Releases Starting this week, we’ll be publishing week...
19/09/2025
Disciplined Guardrail Development in enterprise application with GitHub Copilot
What Is Disciplined Guardrail-Based Development? In AI-assisted software development, approaches like Vibe Coding—which prioritize momentum and intuition—often fail to ensure code quality and maintainability. To address this, Disciplined Guardrail-Based Development introduces structured rules ("guardrails") that guide AI systems during coding and maintenance tasks, ensuring consistent quality and reliability. To get AI (LLMs) to generate appropri...
19/09/2025
The Arm ecosystem expands for Copilot+ PCs
The introduction of Copilot+ PCs is driving a transformative shift in the world of personal and enterprise computing. These devices combine all-day battery life, ultra-fast performance, enhanced security, portability and on-device AI capabilities exceeding 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). Most importantly for our customers, an expanding ecosyste...
19/09/2025
Save the date! Tech Community Live: Intune edition – October 6
Tech Community Live: Intune edition October 6, 2025 | 8:00-11:00 AM PT https://aka.ms/TCL/Intune
19/09/2025
Transforming Strategic Marketing & Analytics with Microsoft 365 Copilot
For todays post we have two videos for you that demonstrate the power of leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Chat with GPT-5, and AI Agents, for Marketing Analytics, Marketing Operations, Productivity, & Creative Work. As part of work with a customer I was asked to deliver some in-depth work around the use of these Copilot technologies and prompts that would help across a range of use cases. Watch the two videos to see the power of the Mic...
19/09/2025
Microsoft Marketplace Rewards FY26: Partner incentives, Azure sponsorships, and growth strategies
As Microsoft continues to expand its commercial marketplace ecosystem, the Microsoft Marketplace Rewards program introduces powerful new FY26 incentives for software development companies and channel sellers. From Azure sponsorships to co-sell enablement and performance-based marketing benefits, this program is designed to accelerate partner growth and drive cloud solution adoption. In this article, we break down the key updates, eligibility criteria, and strategic actions partners can take t...
19/09/2025
Maximizing success in the Microsoft Marketplace: FY26 strategies for software development companies
Staying competitive in today’s software marketplace requires more than just innovative products, it demands strategic alignment with the platforms and programs that drive visibility, sales, and partner support. Microsoft’s Partner Office Hours, held on August 28, 2025, provided software development companies with a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Microsoft Marketplace ecosystem. The session highlighted new investment opportunities, streamlined partner benefits, and actiona...
19/09/2025
Deep dive into Windows Autopilot device preparation: How to deploy and when to use it
By: Maggie Dakeva - Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Provisioning devices at scale used to be complex and time-consuming, especially with today’s remote and hybrid work models. Windows Autopilot and Windows Autopilot device preparation simplify and secure the process, helping IT teams deliver ready-to-go devices with minimal touch. Understanding the differences between the two helps organizations choose the right approach for device lif...
19/09/2025
Google’s Sensible Agent Reframes Augmented Reality (AR) Assistance as a Coupled “what+how” Decision—So What does that Change?
Sensible Agent is an AI research framework and prototype from Google that chooses both the action an augmented reality (AR) agent should take and the interaction modality to deliver/confirm it, conditioned on real-time multimodal context (e.g., whether hands are busy, ambient noise, social setting). Rather than treating “what to suggest” and “how to ask” as […] The post
19/09/2025
Lessons Learned #535: BACPAC Import Failures in Azure SQL Database Due to Incompatible Users
We recently worked on a support case where a customer was trying to import a BACPAC file, generated on a different server and subscription, into their Azure SQL Database. The process kept failing with the following errors: "Could not import package. Error SQL72014: Framework Microsoft SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 33159 - Only connections established with Active Directory accounts can create other Active Directory user" At first glance, this looked like a ...
19/09/2025
Empowering.Cloud Community Update – October 2025
The latest Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 expert community briefings, podcasts and upcoming community events for October 2025. Expert Briefings Backing up your Teams Phone Number Configuration – Why & How https://empowering.cloud/backing-up-your-teams-phone-number-configuration-why-how/ Da...
19/09/2025
News to Know – Volume 2, Edition 7, September 2025
To help you get the most out of the Viva Glint product, this September 2025 newsletter is full of need-to-knows which coincide with this month’s platform deployments and enhancements. New on your Viva Glint platform Export Team Summary report to editable PowerPoint slides. We’re thrilled to announce the worldwide release of the new PowerPoint report Export in Viva Glint. This capability will enhance the w...
19/09/2025
New in Microsoft AppSource: September 1-10, 2025
We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 277 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace ...
19/09/2025
Beyond the Black Box: See Inside AI's Performance with AI Toolkit
Technology is evolving at an incredible pace, and now the world is in the midst of another revolution: Generative AI. This isn't just for tech experts anymore; it's a field that has truly democratized AI, putting powerful capabilities into the hands of everyone. From creating art to drafting emails, people and businesses are adopting these applications faster than ever. But as with any powerful technology, there are challenges. One might have experienced a frustrating ...
19/09/2025
Top Computer Vision CV Blogs & News Websites (2025)
Computer vision moved fast in 2025: new multimodal backbones, larger open datasets, and tighter model–systems integration. Practitioners need sources that publish rigorously, link code and benchmarks, and track deployment patterns—not marketing posts. This list prioritizes primary research hubs, lab blogs, and production-oriented engineering outlets with consistent update cadence. Use it to monitor SOTA shifts, grab […] The post
19/09/2025
Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit: An Advanced Open Source Python Command-Line Toolkit for Using the Qwen-ASR API Beyond the 3 Minutes/10 MB Limit
Qwen has released Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit, an MIT-licensed Python CLI that programmatically bypasses the Qwen3-ASR-Flash API’s 3-minute/10 MB per-request limit by performing VAD-aware chunking, parallel API calls, and automatic resampling/format normalization via FFmpeg. The result is stable, hour-scale transcription pipelines with configurable concurrency, context injection, and clean text post-processing. Python ≥3.8 prerequisite, Install with: What the toolkit […] The post
19/09/2025
Join Us for a Technical Deep Dive and Q&A on Foundry Local - LLMs on device
Join us for an Ask Me Anything with the Foundry Local team on September 29th, 2025! Discover how Foundry Local is redefining edge AI with powerful features like on-device inference, enabling you to run models directly on your hardware, cutting costs and keeping your data secure. Whether you're customizing models to fit unique use cases or integrating seamlessly via SDKs, APIs, or CLI, Foundry Local offers scalable pathways to Azure AI Foundry as y...
19/09/2025
Physical AI: Bridging Robotics, Material Science, and Artificial Intelligence for Next-Gen Embodied Systems
What Do We Mean by “Physical AI”? Artificial intelligence in robotics is not just a matter of clever algorithms. Robots operate in the physical world, and their intelligence emerges from the co-design of body and brain. Physical AI describes this integration, where materials, actuation, sensing, and computation shape how learning policies function. The term was […] The post
19/09/2025
Building AI agents is 5% AI and 100% software engineering
Production-grade agents live or die on data plumbing, controls, and observability—not on model choice. The doc-to-chat pipeline below maps the concrete layers and why they matter. What is a “doc-to-chat” pipeline? A doc-to-chat pipeline ingests enterprise documents, standardizes them, enforces governance, indexes embeddings alongside relational features, and serves retrieval + generation behind authenticated APIs with […] The post
19/09/2025
MIT’s LEGO: A Compiler for AI Chips that Auto-Generates Fast, Efficient Spatial Accelerators
MIT researchers (Han Lab) introduced LEGO, a compiler-like framework that takes tensor workloads (e.g., GEMM, Conv2D, attention, MTTKRP) and automatically generates synthesizable RTL for spatial accelerators—no handwritten templates. LEGO’s front end expresses workloads and dataflows in a relation-centric affine representation, builds FU (functional unit) interconnects and on-chip memory layouts for reuse, and supports fusing multiple […] The post
19/09/2025
Sensible Agent: A framework for unobtrusive interaction with proactive AR agents
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization
18/09/2025
Bringing AI Agents Into Any UI: The AG-UI Protocol for Real-Time, Structured Agent–Frontend Streams
AI agents are no longer just chatbots that spit out answers.They’re evolving into complex systems that can reason step by step, call APIs, update dashboards, and collaborate with humans in real time.But this raises a key question: how should agents talk to user interfaces?
18/09/2025
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards
We are excited to announce that Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal at no additional cost.However, Azure Monitor's latest integrations with Grafana provides this capability out-of-the-box by enabling you to view Prometheus metrics and Azure other observability data in Grafana dashboards fully integrated into the Azure portal.Grafana dashboards are widely adopted visualization tool used with Prometheus metrics and cloud-native observability tools.
18/09/2025
Power up project management in Teams with the Project Manager Agent
Project Manager Agent skills are now in public preview for Teams meetings and Teams channels, unlocking new ways to streamline workflows and boost productivity right inside your conversations.Select the image above or button below to launch a demo of Project Manager Agent in Planner.Project Manager Agent skills in Teams channels: Task generation, progress tracking, and more
18/09/2025
Updated CSP authorization requirements take effect October 1
Beginning October 1, 2025, the updated Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) authorization eligibility requirements will be enforced.Use the reseller performance report to identify at-risk resellers, then work with them to meet the new requirements.Learn more about the authorization requirements and available resources for CSP partners and download the partner FAQ for more information.
18/09/2025
Skilling snack: Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Digital deep dive: Copilot Control System (51 mins): Discover how the Copilot Control System in the Microsoft 365 admin center enables you to manage Copilot agents.You will learn how to stage rollout agents, manage the cost of agents within Copilot chat, use the "Agents and Connectors" page for lifecycle management, and more.Do you know of additional resources that would help a peer get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat?
18/09/2025
Introducing agents in Viva Engage communities: Your AI-powered community expert
Launching in Public Preview today, Microsoft 365 Copilot can give every Engage community its own agent, grounded in the conversations and content that matter most to your community.All members in the community can see the agent activation status, capabilities, and connected knowledge sources on the agent hovercard.Now in Public Preview, AI-powered agents are available in Engage communities for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
18/09/2025
Introducing Knowledge Agent in SharePoint
Knowledge Agent, launching in Public Preview today, delivers a new wave of AI-powered features in SharePoint designed to streamline content management and boost Copilot capabilities.SharePoint is the knowledge platform for Copilot and agents – and AI-ready content starts here.Structured and contextualized content in SharePoint enables Copilot and agents to deliver accurate, grounded responses.
18/09/2025
AI and Microsoft Teams: A New Era of Collaboration
Now, each channel can have a Channel Agent that draws on its conversations and meetings to act as a domain expert for the team.Agents in Viva Engage communities are now in Public Preview* for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licenseThe new Copilot experience in Teams will be available in Public Preview* on October 1st for users with a Copilot license.
18/09/2025
How Microsoft Defender Experts and partners like Quorum Cyber are redefining cybersecurity teamwork
Quorum Cyber is a trusted Microsoft solutions partner and MSSP of the Year.Quorum Cyber complements Microsoft Defender Experts, MDR services with additional security operations center (SOC) capabilities, extended coverage, non-Microsoft telemetry, and 3rd party domain expertise.In May 2024 alone, Microsoft Defender XDR detected over 176,000 incidents involving tampering with security settings, impacting more than 5,600 organizations.
18/09/2025
Driving business value with Microsoft 365 Copilot: Join our three-part Business Value series
To do that, organizations need actionable analytics that reveal Copilot and Agent usage, adoption, and impact.During our three-part Business Value Customer Hub series, you’ll join our product experts and learn how to prioritize high value scenarios, build targeted deployment and adoption plans, and connect usage to measurable business outcomes—all within Copilot Analytics.This session helps you align your implementation to the outcomes and scenarios that matter most to your business.
18/09/2025
SharePoint Showcase highlights: Get the most out of SharePoint agents
We’ve recently launched the SharePoint Showcase blog series dedicated to monthly deep dives, tips, resources, and the latest features for SharePoint.This year, customers have built over 3 million agents with SharePoint and Copilot Studio – a testament to your creativity and innovation.To set up a new agent in SharePoint:
18/09/2025
Introducing Image Customizer for Azure Linux
We are excited to release Image Customizer, an open-source tool, built and maintained by the Azure Linux team.Image Customizer lets you customize well-tested existing Azure Linux images for any scenario in just minutes.Join our upcoming community call to learn more about using Image Customizer and see a live demo.
18/09/2025
A Hands-On Introduction to cuML for GPU-Accelerated Machine Learning Workflows
This article offers a hands-on Python introduction to
18/09/2025
A Hands-On Introduction to cuDF for GPU-Accelerated Data Workflows
This article introduces, through a hands-on Python example, cuDF : one of the latest Python libraries designed by
18/09/2025
Automate Security Workflows in Microsoft Sentinel with BlinkOps
BlinkOps is a no-code security automation platform designed for security and platform operations teams.It allows users to build and scale workflows using natural language prompts and a library of over 30,000 pre-built actions.With BlinkOps, teams can automate incident response, compliance, and operational tasks—without writing a single line of code.Now with an enhanced integration with Microsoft Sentinel, BlinkOps enables customers to generate automated playbooks triggered by Sentinel alerts and incidents.
18/09/2025
Introducing WireGuard In-Transit Encryption for AKS (Public Preview)
We’re excited to announce the public preview of WireGuard-based in-transit encryption in AKS, a new capability in Advanced Container Networking Services that enhances inter-node traffic protection with minimal operational overhead.Integrated into the Cilium data plane and managed as part of AKS networking, WireGuard offers an efficient way to encrypt traffic transparently within your cluster.With this new feature, WireGuard is now natively supported as part of Azure CNI powered by Cilium with Advanced Container Networking services, no need for third-party encryption tools or custom key management systems.
18/09/2025
H Company Releases Holo1.5: An Open-Weight Computer-Use VLMs Focused on GUI Localization and UI-VQA
H Company (A french AI startup) releases Holo1.5, a family of open foundation vision models purpose-built for computer-use (CU) agents that act on real user interfaces via screenshots and pointer/keyboard actions.The release includes 3B, 7B, and 72B checkpoints with a documented ~10% accuracy gain over Holo1 across sizes.The 7B model is Apache-2.0;
18/09/2025
Alibaba Releases Tongyi DeepResearch: A 30B-Parameter Open-Source Agentic LLM Optimized for Long-Horizon Research
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has open-sourced Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B, an agent-specialized large language model built for long-horizon, deep information-seeking with web tools.The model uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) design with ~30.5B total parameters and ~3–3.3B active per token, enabling high throughput while preserving strong reasoning performance.It targets multi-turn research workflows—searching, browsing, extracting, cross-checking, and synthesizing evidence—under ReAct-style […]
18/09/2025
Build Multi‑Agent AI Systems with Microsoft
In this post, I want to share the engineering challenges we faced, the architecture we designed with Azure AI Foundry, and the lessons learned along the way.Our goal is to empower AI engineers and developers to leverage multi-agent systems for real-world applications, with the benefit of Microsoft’s tools, research insights, and enterprise-grade platform.Today, Azure AI Foundry’s Agents platform provides a unified environment to develop, test, and deploy multi-agent systems, complete with the orchestration, observability, and safety features to make them enterprise-ready.
18/09/2025
Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.3
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.3, bringing important enhancements across multiple SSMA flavors to make your database migration journey simpler and more efficient.One of the key highlights in this release is the SKU Recommendation feature for Db2 migrations.With just a few inputs, SSMA for Db2 automatically generates a detailed recommendation report in HTML format with source system details and recommended Azure targets, giving you confidence in planning your migration.
18/09/2025
Conversational Agents for Campus Energy Management
We introduce the proof-of-concept conversational multi-agent system for campus energy management. This system is developed and evaluated through emerging frameworks in Microsoft’s Azure AI Agent Services.We quantitatively discuss the evaluation results and existing limitations within agentic evaluation frameworks.In this blog, we showcase domain-specific agent evaluations to test key capabilities: base agents, prompt engineering, tool use, and contextual grounding.
18/09/2025
IBM AI Releases Granite-Docling-258M: An Open-Source, Enterprise-Ready Document AI Model
IBM has released Granite-Docling-258M, an open-source (Apache-2.0) vision-language model designed specifically for end-to-end document conversion.The model targets layout-faithful extraction—tables, code, equations, lists, captions, and reading order—emitting a structured, machine-readable representation rather than lossy Markdown.It is available on Hugging Face with a live demo and MLX build for Apple Silicon.
18/09/2025
Announcing Azure Confidential Computing for Azure Database for PostgreSQL (GA)
That’s where Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) steps in.We’re excited to announce that ACC CVMs are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.By running your flexible server deployments on Confidential Virtual Machines CVMs, customers gain hardware-based protection for data in use, ensuring that even during processing, your data remains protected from unauthorized access.
17/09/2025
Announcing the Azure Database Migration Service Hub Experience
We’re excited to introduce the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) Hub experience—a powerful new enhancement that simplifies how you view, manage, and track your SQL Server migration journey to Azure.The new DMS Hub offers a streamlined landing page that brings together everything you need to begin your migration journey:View a unified dashboard for discovery and assessment.
17/09/2025
Introducing new update policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance
We’re excited to introduce the new update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance.Update policy is an instance configuration option that provides flexibility and allows you to choose between instant access to the latest SQL engine features and fixed SQL engine feature set corresponding to 2022 and 2025 major releases of SQL Server.In short, instances with update policy SQL Server 2025 benefit from all the SQL engine features that were gradually added to the Always-up-to-date policy over the past few years, and not available in the SQL Server 2022 update policy.
17/09/2025
Accelerate and Simplify Cloud Transformation with New Agentic AI Solutions
Mark your calendar for the upcoming Migrate and Modernize Summit, happening September 23 and 24.Get ready for a rich agenda featuring interactive sessions led by Microsoft product leaders—including our keynote speakers—compelling customer stories, and live demos of the latest cloud innovations.The Migrate and Modernize Summit is your opportunity to connect with peers, gain fresh perspectives, and position your organization for transformative growth.
17/09/2025
Cybersecurity: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know Now
This guide distils five key lessons drawn from real-world engagements to help executive leaders navigate today’s evolving threat landscape.In this article, I share five lessons (and quotes) from the field that help demystify how to enhance an organisation’s security posture.In many organisations, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) operates in isolation from other C-level executives, which can limit their influence and complicate the implementation of security measures across the enterprise.
17/09/2025
jcd 1.0 for Linux and Mac, and ZoomIt v9.01
jcd 1.0 for Linux and Macjcd (jump change directory) is a Sysinternals command-line tool that provides quick directory navigation with substring matching and smart selection for both Linux and macOS.This update to ZoomIt fixes a regression that made the current drawing disappear after snip, reenables mouse click for drawing dots in draw mode, and fixes a bug with consecutive record activations.
17/09/2025
Model Mondays S2E13: Open Source Models (Hugging Face)
This week’s spotlight featured a live interview and demo with Jeff Boudier (VP of Product, Hugging Face) and Nitya Narasimhan from Microsoft.For this final recap, I focused on capturing the energy of the open source AI movement and the practical impact of Hugging Face and Azure AI Foundry collaboration.I'm Sharda, a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador focused on cloud and AI.
17/09/2025
Meta AI Researchers Release MapAnything: An End-to-End Transformer Architecture that Directly Regresses Factored, Metric 3D Scene Geometry
A team of researchers from Meta Reality Labs and Carnegie Mellon University has introduced MapAnything, an end-to-end transformer architecture that directly regresses factored metric 3D scene geometry from images and optional sensor inputs.Released under Apache 2.0 with full training and benchmarking code, MapAnything advances beyond specialist pipelines by supporting over 12 distinct 3D vision […]The post Meta AI Researchers Release MapAnything: An End-to-End Transformer Architecture that Directly Regresses Factored, Metric 3D Scene Geometry appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/09/2025
AI-Powered Migration & Modernization—Secure, Resilient, and Ready for Innovation
Accelerate your migration and modernization journey with Azure Essentials, Azure Migrate, and GitHub Copilot—empowering your organization to join the ranks of Frontier Firms: businesses that put AI and cloud innovation at the core of their strategy.Join the Migrate and Modernize Summit, where Microsoft will show new AI-assisted migration tools that will help teams modernize.Azure Essentials offers organizations a comprehensive blueprint for secure, resilient, and cost-effective migration to the cloud.
17/09/2025
Cyber Dial Agent: Protecting Your Custom Copilot Agents
a browser add-on and agent that streamlines security investigations by providing analysts with a unified, menu-driven interface to quickly access relevant pages in Microsoft Defender, Purview, and Defender for Cloud.This tool eliminates the need for manual searches across multiple portals, reducing investigation time and minimizing context switching for both technical and non-technical users.Using Purview DSPM for AI to Secure (Cyber Dial Custom Agent) Copilot Studio Agents
17/09/2025
How to Build an Advanced End-to-End Voice AI Agent Using Hugging Face Pipelines?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced voice AI agent using Hugging Face’s freely available models, and we keep the entire pipeline simple enough to run smoothly on Google Colab.We combine Whisper for speech recognition, FLAN-T5 for natural language reasoning, and Bark for speech synthesis, all connected through transformers pipelines.The post How to Build an Advanced End-to-End Voice AI Agent Using Hugging Face Pipelines? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/09/2025
MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Fabric Integration and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands (Public Preview)
In version v1.36.0, we’re announcing the Public Preview of Fabric Connectivity (Browse), SQL Database in Fabric Provisioning, and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands — three capabilities that bring Microsoft Fabric and AI-powered assistance directly into your development workflow inside Visual Studio Code.The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now includes Fabric connectivity, making it easier than ever to browse and connect to your Fabric workspaces directly from your development environment.The v1.36 release marks a major milestone by introducing Fabric Connectivity (Browse), SQL Database in Fabric Provisioning, and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands in Public Preview.
17/09/2025
Introducing the new Network Security Hub in Azure
This updated hub brings together Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall, and DDoS Protection—enabling you to manage, configure, and monitor all your network security services in one place.With this new experience, Firewall Manager has expanded into the Network Security Hub, making it easier to discover, configure, and monitor the right security services with just a few clicks.The expansion of Firewall Manager into the Network Security hub is part of a greater strategic effort to simplify and enhance the Azure Networking portfolio, ensuring better alignment with customer needs and industry best practices.
17/09/2025
Microsoft Copilot Studio Unleashed: Build Secure, Scalable AI Agents for Real Business Impact!
Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio (portal shown in the picture above), together with Azure AI Foundry, empowers enterprises to build intelligent agents that automate workflows, enhance productivity, and uphold responsible AI principles.This blog explores how technical, and business leaders can leverage these platforms to create extensible, trustworthy AI solutions, drawing on best practices from recent Microsoft Learning Paths and community feedback.Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio lets organizations create custom agents that use enterprise data, automate tasks, and enhance experiences in Microsoft 365 apps.
17/09/2025
Supercharge your workflow with real-time information from the Microsoft Learn MCP Server
That’s where a new standard is emerging: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers.They connect AI agents directly to trusted, real-time data sources, so answers are accurate, relevant, and up to date.Think of the Microsoft Learn MCP Server as your direct line to official Microsoft documentation—delivered to your AI Agent, in real time, in context, without leaving the tools you already use.
17/09/2025
Copilot-powered file previews coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS
Copilot-powered file previews coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOSThe Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app on iPhone and iPad is getting an experience update that puts key AI-driven capabilities and experiences front and center.As part of this change, the Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams apps for both iPhone and iPad will no longer open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
17/09/2025
Deep dive into Pacemaker cluster for Azure SAP systems optimization
Azure Pacemaker offers a centralized management platform that streamlines the process of monitoring and maintaining pacemakers.The most recommended approach for validating Pacemaker configurations in SAP HANA clusters, which is through the SAP Deployment Automation Framework (SDAF) and its High Availability Testing Framework.Troubleshoot startup issues in a SUSE Pacemaker cluster - Virtual Machines |
17/09/2025
SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10
We’re happy to announce that SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) now includes preview support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, expanding our commitment to modern, secure, and flexible Linux-based deployments.I launched the SQL Server 2025 RC1 container, connected to it using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), and successfully tested the vector data type enhancement. The addition of RHEL10 support in SQL Server 2025 Preview is a major milestone in delivering a modern, secure, and flexible data platform for Linux users.
17/09/2025
Building AI Apps with the Foundry Local C# SDK
Foundry Local is a lightweight runtime designed to run AI models directly on user devices.The C# SDK brings Foundry Local into the heart of the .NET ecosystem.One of the most exciting aspects of the Foundry Local C# SDK is its compatibility with popular AI tools such as:
17/09/2025
Windows 365 Cloud Apps are now in public preview
Windows 365 Cloud Apps are now available to all customers during public preview.Windows 365 Cloud Apps allow administrators to give users access to specific apps delivered from the cloud instead of a full Cloud PC.Windows 365 Cloud Apps runs on Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode.
17/09/2025
Announcing Windows 365 Frontline for GCC and GCCH
Big news for U.S. government agencies and contractors: Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode is now generally available with support for Government Community Cloud (GCC) and GCC High (GCCH) customers.Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode enables shift-based, part-time, or temporary workers to access Cloud PCs during their working hours.A single license enables up to three Cloud PCs, each assigned to a different user, but only one Cloud PC can be active at a time.
17/09/2025
Extending Copilot in Intune to manage Windows 365 Cloud PCs
Windows 365 and its integration with Microsoft Intune sets the standard for simplicity in cloud endpoint management.The release of Copilot in Intune support for Windows 365 is one step of many on that journey, enabling IT administrators to leverage advanced AI-driven insights and automation to manage their Cloud PCs more effectively.Copilot in Intune helps endpoint admins quickly get information about their Windows 365 Cloud PCs wherever they are in the Intune portal.
17/09/2025
Feature Scaling in Practice: What Works and What Doesn’t
In machine learning, the difference between a high-performing model and one that struggles often comes down to small details.
17/09/2025
Practical ways to use AI in your Data Science and ML journey
The series will guide you on practical ways to use AI in your learning journey with Data Science and Machine Learning.Guided Pathways: Move seamlessly from the popular Data Science for Beginners and Machine Learning for Beginners curriculums to interact with fellow learners in the Azure AI Foundry Discord community.Join us for these exciting events and join us in the Azure AI Foundry Discord community.
17/09/2025
Ai2 Researchers are Changing the Benchmarking Game by Introducing Fluid Benchmarking that Enhances Evaluation along Several Dimensions
A team of researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), University of Washington and CMU introduce Fluid Benchmarking, an adaptive LLM evaluation method that replaces static accuracy with 2-parameter IRT ability estimation and Fisher-information–driven item selection.By asking only the most informative questions for a model’s current ability, it yields smoother training curves, delays benchmark […]The post Ai2 Researchers are Changing the Benchmarking Game by Introducing Fluid Benchmarking that Enhances Evaluation along Several Dimensions appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/09/2025
SQL Server IaaS Agent 拡張機能の概要 (What is the Windows SQL Server IaaS Agent extension?)
複数の SQL Server インスタンスがインストールされている環境で SQL Server IaaS Agent 拡張機能 をインストールすることは可能ですか？複数の SQL Server インスタンスがある場合は既定のインスタンス (MSSQLSERVER) のみが拡張機能にサポートされます。In this article, we will explain the SQL IaaS Agent Extension and the SQL Virtual Machines resource on Azure.The SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension is a feature that enables you to manage and operate SQL Server installed on Azure VMs directly from the Azure Portal.When an Azure VM with SQL Server installed is registered with the "SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension" on Azure, a corresponding "SQL Virtual Machine" resource is created in the Azure Portal.
17/09/2025
Google AI Introduces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): An Open Protocol for Interoperable AI Agent Checkout Across Merchants and Wallets
This trust gap is a primary blocker for agent-led checkout on today’s payment rails.Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) addresses it with an open, interoperable specification for agent-initiated payments, defining […]The post Google AI Introduces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): An Open Protocol for Interoperable AI Agent Checkout Across Merchants and Wallets appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/09/2025
Automated Remediation for Malware Detection - Defender for Storage
Today, Defender for Storage released, in public preview for Commercial Cloud, the feature Automated Remediation for Malware Detection.This is for both On-upload and On-demand malware scanning.Anytime that a blob is found malicious (malicious content was found in the blob), the Automated Remediation feature will kick in and soft-delete the blob.
17/09/2025
A Coding Guide to Implement Zarr for Large-Scale Data: Chunking, Compression, Indexing, and Visualization Techniques
In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the capabilities of Zarr, a library designed for efficient storage & manipulation of large, multidimensional arrays.We begin by exploring the basics, creating arrays, setting chunking strategies, and modifying values directly on disk.The post A Coding Guide to Implement Zarr for Large-Scale Data: Chunking, Compression, Indexing, and Visualization Techniques appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/09/2025
GA: DCasv6 and ECasv6 confidential VMs based on 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ processors
Today, Azure has expanded its confidential computing offerings with the general availability of the DCasv6 and ECasv6 confidential VM series in regions UAE North and Korea Central.These VMs are powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors and feature advanced Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) technology.In addition to the newly announced security upgrades, the new DCasv6 and ECasv6 family of confidential VMs have demonstrated up to 25% improvement in various benchmarks compared to our previous generation of confidential VMs powered by AMD.
16/09/2025
Beyond OAuth: Why SCIM must evolve for the AI agent revolution
As AI agents transition from concept to widespread implementation, the current identity infrastructure—effective for humans and traditional applications—must adapt to new requirements.Along with the need for advanced authorization mechanisms in OAuth, AI agents also require updated approaches to identity lifecycle management and provisioning of those identities and their access.This leads to System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), a protocol facilitating automated identity exchange.
16/09/2025
Presenter Mode: Share Content Like A Pro in Microsoft Teams
Enter Presenter Mode in Microsoft Teams: the game-changing feature that transforms your presentations from basic to brilliant.Presenter Mode offers three dynamic layouts, each designed to elevate your delivery:Your video feed is layered in front of your shared content, so you’re literally part of the presentation.
16/09/2025
Tag, You’re It: Wrangling Communication in Microsoft Teams
Enter: Tags in Microsoft Teams.Tags in Teams are custom labels you assign to users within a team.Go to your team in Microsoft Teams.
16/09/2025
Identity and Network Security Practitioner Webinar Series
Webinar series: Microsoft Entra Practitioner Webinar Series (October 2025) This October, we’re hosting a three-part webinar series for Identity and Network Access practitioners.In this foundations panel session hosted by Identity Expert, Merill Fernando, Microsoft product leaders will walk through some core steps to implement a unified identity and network foundation using Microsoft Entra Suite:
16/09/2025
What's new in Microsoft Security Copilot
This month’s update is brief but important: progress on government cloud certification.Security Copilot is now included within the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization for Azure Commercial.Don’t miss Microsoft Secure digital event on September 30th - we’ll be announcing exciting new capabilities for Security Copilot and sharing what’s next in AI-powered security.
16/09/2025
New Course Release: MS-4024: Generate creative assets with Copilot Create
We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of MS-4024: Generate creative assets with Copilot Create, available starting October 31stThis hands-on course explores how to use Copilot Create to generate a wide range of business-ready assets including:MS-4024 is designed for everyday Microsoft 365 business users.
16/09/2025
AKS Automatic with Azure Linux
Earlier today Microsoft announced that AKS Automatic is officially Generally Available (GA) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).AKS Automatic enables organizations to build, deploy, and scale applications on Kubernetes with enhanced efficiency and minimal operational overhead.AKS Automatic leverages Azure Linux as the default operating system for all user and system node pools.
16/09/2025
September V1 Title Plan Now Available
🗂️ September V1 Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at: http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_PlanKindly note: This blog is intended solely for informational purposes.
16/09/2025
Partner Blog | Accelerating AI growth and innovation: Your guide to Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is where possibility meets action.This year’s event will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from November 18 to 21, 2025, with an optional pre-day on November 17.I am excited to join Microsoft leaders including Satya Nadella, Judson Althoff, Scott Guthrie, Jay Parikh, Charlie Bell, and Mark Russinovich in San Francisco to showcase the latest innovations, highlight partner impact, and share our vision for the future!
16/09/2025
Partner Case Study | Silverfort
Founded in 2016 as part of the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, Silverfort is now a managed partner whose business runs almost completely on the Microsoft Cloud.Silverfort’s patented Runtime Access Protection (RAP) technology natively integrates with Microsoft Active Directory—extending MFA and modern identity protections to systems that have traditionally been left behind and enabling customers to meet modern cybersecurity requirements.Dozens of legacy systems still lacked MFA enforcement.
16/09/2025
OneDrive Office Hours | September 2025
Join the OneDrive product team live each month on our monthly OneDrive Customer Office Hours to hear what's top of mind, get insights into roadmap updates, and dig into a special topic.Each call includes live Q&A where you'll have a chance to ask the OneDrive product team any question about OneDrive - The home of your files. This month's special topic: "Microsoft 365 Archive: Doc Lib improvements & OneDrive licensing updates" with Trent Green!
16/09/2025
Search Less, Build More: Inner Sourcing with GitHub CoPilot and ADO MCP Server
Using GitHub CoPilot + Azure DevOps MCP server (with the free `code_search` extension) we turn the IDE into an organizational knowledge interface.# GitHub Copilot Instructions for Azure DevOps MCP Integration This project uses Azure DevOps with MCP server integration to provide organizational context awareness.We have demonstrated in this article how quickly we can make our Azure DevOps content discoverable.
16/09/2025
Google AI Ships TimesFM-2.5: Smaller, Longer-Context Foundation Model That Now Leads GIFT-Eval (Zero-Shot Forecasting)
Google Research has released TimesFM-2.5, a 200M-parameter, decoder-only time-series foundation model with a 16K context length and native probabilistic forecasting support.The new checkpoint is live on Hugging Face.On GIFT-Eval, TimesFM-2.5 now tops the leaderboard across accuracy metrics (MASE, CRPS) among zero-shot foundation models.
16/09/2025
Windows 365 Boot, Connection Center & improved experience - generally available
On any device running Windows 11, Windows 365 Boot allows you to sign in directly to your Cloud PC as the primary Windows experience.Windows 365 Boot now includes built-in access to the Windows 365 Connection Center.When configured, it enables built-in cross-region disaster recovery by allowing users to connect to their Cloud PCs from any supported region.
16/09/2025
KulenDayz 2025: A Community-Driven Celebration in Croatia
KulenDayz has long been a cornerstone of the Balkan tech scene, and this year’s edition was no exception. From September 4–6, the event brought together MVPs and community leaders from Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, and beyond, creating a vibrant space for cross-border collaboration, mentorship, and innovation.The KulenDayz Kidz track was a standout feature this year, offering interactive workshops for children to explore technology through creativity and play.While the main conference inspires professionals, KulenDayzKidz sparks curiosity in the next generation - bringing STEM, robotics, and IT to life for children in a fun and engaging way.
16/09/2025
Experience the future: Switch to new Outlook for Windows today!
Outlook for Windows has a myriad of advanced capabilities for enhancing productivity, communication, and time management in today’s world of cloud computing, hybrid ways of working, and generative AI.Outlook for Windows is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Teams, without the need to install a separate add-in.The updated Outlook for Windows is available to all Windows 10 and higher users.
16/09/2025
Addressing multi-tenant management challenges for MSPs with Microsoft Intune and partner innovations
Managing a growing number of customer environments across multiple tenants is an ongoing challenge for managed service providers (MSPs) of all sizes.Microsoft Intune is proud to announce a collaboration with two leading global providers of multi-tenant MSP solutions: inforcer and Nerdio.inforcer empowers MSPs to standardize Microsoft 365 and Intune policies across all tenants, automate environment configuration, monitor compliance in real time, and reduce risk through policy drift detection.
16/09/2025
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (August 2025)
Summary: Azure Elastic SAN now supports public preview integrations with Azure Backup and Commvault, providing automated, managed backup and recovery for Elastic SAN volumes.Summary: The article discusses how AI-powered search can accurately extract and associate page numbers with search results in large PDF documents using Azure Blob Storage and Azure AI Search.Summary: Part 4 of the Windows Server 2025 Networking Deployment Series details how Contoso Medical Center secures its Software Defined Datacenter using SDN features.
16/09/2025
Everything you need to know about TDE key management for database restore
Transparent data encryption (TDE) in Azure SQL with customer-managed key (CMK) supports Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for data protection at rest and facilitates separation of duties in key and data management.The key used for encrypting the Database Encryption Key (DEK), known as the TDE protector, is an asymmetric key managed by the customer and stored in Azure Key Vault (AKV).Once a database is encrypted with TDE using a Key Vault key, new backups are encrypted with the same TDE protector.
16/09/2025
7 NumPy Tricks for Faster Numerical Computations
Numerical computations in Python become much faster and more efficient with
16/09/2025
🎊Microsoft NextGen Heroes – Season 2 is almost here!
After an incredible first season filled with innovation, collaboration, and inspiring stories myself, Nicklas, Marko, and proudly welcoming Ana to our team for Season 2 — are ready to begin the next chapter in the Microsoft Hero Community 🚀This season we'll be bringing together industry experts, Microsoft MVPs, students and a wide range of impactful projects that will inspire and challenge the next generation of tech leaders.Stay tuned — the best is yet to come 😍
16/09/2025
Announcing Public Preview for Business Process Solutions
Yet in many organizations, data remains fragmented across best of breed applications – creating blind spots in cross-functional processes and throwing roadblocks in the path of automation.Microsoft is dedicated to tackle these challenges, delivering a unified data foundation that accelerates AI adoption, simplifies automation and reduces risk – empowering businesses to unlock the full potential of unified data analytics and agentic intelligence. Our new solution offers cross-functional insights across previously siloed environments and includes:
16/09/2025
Stanford Researchers Introduced MedAgentBench: A Real-World Benchmark for Healthcare AI Agents
A team of Stanford University researchers have released MedAgentBench, a new benchmark suite designed to evaluate large language model (LLM) agents in healthcare contexts.Unlike prior question-answering datasets, MedAgentBench provides a virtual electronic health record (EHR) environment where AI systems must interact, plan, and execute multi-step clinical tasks.This marks a significant shift from testing […]
16/09/2025
MoonshotAI Released Checkpoint-Engine: A Simple Middleware to Update Model Weights in LLM Inference Engines, Effective for Reinforcement Learning
MoonshotAI has open-sourced checkpoint-engine, a lightweight middleware aimed at solving one of the key bottlenecks in large language model (LLM) deployment: rapidly updating model weights across thousands of GPUs without disrupting inference.The library is particularly designed for reinforcement learning (RL) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), where models are updated frequently and downtime […]The post MoonshotAI Released Checkpoint-Engine: A Simple Middleware to Update Model Weights in LLM Inference Engines, Effective for Reinforcement Learning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/09/2025
Building an Advanced Convolutional Neural Network with Attention for DNA Sequence Classification and Interpretability
In this tutorial, we take a hands-on approach to building an advanced convolutional neural network for DNA sequence classification.We focus on simulating real biological tasks, such as promoter prediction, splice site detection, and regulatory element identification.By combining one-hot encoding, multi-scale convolutional layers, and an attention mechanism, we design a model that not only […]
16/09/2025
Enhancing Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 experience with health checks
To further optimize the user experience for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, Microsoft has introduced a health check suite.Confirms the device can connect to essential endpoints required for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 functionality.The health check suite offers IT admins and end users transparent, proactive troubleshooting to ensure optimal performance in their Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 environments.
16/09/2025
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5-Codex: An Advanced Version of GPT-5 Further Optimized for Agentic Coding in Codex
OpenAI has just released GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for “agentic coding” tasks within the Codex ecosystem.The goal: improve reliability, speed, and autonomous behavior so that Codex acts more like a teammate, not just a prompt-executor.Codex is now available across the full developer workflow: CLI, IDE extensions, web, mobile, GitHub code […]
16/09/2025
Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure
There are several approaches to building, deploying, running, and orchestrating agents on Azure.However, Microsoft has already deprecated version 1 of the Azure OpenAI Assistants API, and version 2 remains in preview.Microsoft strongly recommends migrating all existing Assistants API-based agents to the Agent Service.
16/09/2025
Introducing a new Issuer/SID AltSecID
Starting with the September 9, 2025 Windows security update, a new Alternate Security Identity (AltSecID) is made for just-in-time certificate deployments in Windows Server 2022 and later.What are weak and strong mappings in Active Directory?The Issuer/SID AltSecID is recognized as a form of strong mapping because the SID serves as a unique identifier within Active Directory.
15/09/2025
At HR Tech this week? Check out the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The new Employee Self-Service Agent offers HR- and IT-focused support in a single chat experience, helping employees find information and complete tasks efficiently without navigating multiple systems.The Employee Self-Service (ESS) Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot helps employees get HR and IT answers and tasks done quickly while allowing teams to focus on bigger priorities.We’re excited to bring the Employee Self-Service Agent to life at the HR Tech Conference 2025 in Las Vegas this week.
15/09/2025
Azure Networking Portfolio Consolidation
That's why we're excited to introduce a more focused, streamlined, and intuitive experience across Azure.com, the Azure portal, and our documentation pivoting around four core networking scenarios:The portfolio consolidation initiative is a strategic effort to simplify and enhance the Azure Networking portfolio, ensuring better alignment with customer needs and industry best practices.We added scenario hub pages for each of the scenarios.
15/09/2025
Safeguard & protect your custom Copilot Agents (Cyber Dial Agent)
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and InfoOps teams are constantly challenged to reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR).Cyber Dial Agent is a lightweight agent and browser add-on designed to streamline investigations, minimize context switching, and accelerate SecOps and InfoOps workflows.The Cyber Dial Agent is a “hotline accelerator” that provides a unified, menu-driven experience for analysts.
15/09/2025
🚀✨ Are you ready for a power-packed, productive, and inspiring October? ✨🚀
Here we go, friends! 🎉 The October Calendar is officially here, right on time, as always! 🗓️💯This month, we’re bringing you a lineup of world-class sessions designed to help you:🌍 Explore the Microsoft ecosystem from new perspectives💡 Gain practical skills you can apply immediately🤝 Connect with experts and a global community of learners🚀 Stay ahead with the latest innovations in Azure, AI, Power Platform, Security, and beyond.And the best part? ⏰ No matter where you are in the world, the sessions are scheduled across multiple time zones so you can always join in.💙🔗 Check out the full list of sessions, register today, and prepare yourself for an amazing month of learning, networking, and growth.
15/09/2025
Refining Attack Paths: Prioritizing Real-World, Exploitable Threats
Over the past year, we’ve evolved our exposure management strategy so that security issues, from Defender (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender) are no longer viewed in isolation, but connected through attack paths to tell a complete story.It’s time to rethink how risk is defined and how defenses are prioritized, as this directly shapes the proactive security steps that follow.This post will walk you through the key changes to attack paths, including enhancements for cloud environments, and explain what this means for security teams.
15/09/2025
New Microsoft Purview Deployment Blueprint | Lightweight guide to mitigate data leakage
We’re excited to share our latest Data Security deployment blueprint: “Lightweight guide to mitigate data leakage”—a practical resource designed to help organizations quickly enable core data security features across their Microsoft 365 estate with minimal setup.The blueprint follows a good / better / best model that maps protections to your licensing.With the new E5 Compliance Add-On for Business Premium, this guide shows how organizations can capture quick wins today while building toward stronger, long-term security practices.
15/09/2025
JDBC Driver 13.2 for SQL Server Released
Version 13.2 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server has been released.Version 13.2.0 brings several added features, changes, and fixed issues over the previous production release.Add the JDBC 13.2 RTW driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project (choose .jre8 for Java 8/1.8 or .jre11 for Java 11 and up).
15/09/2025
Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1
We have released for general availability Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1.This .NET Data Provider for SQL Server provides general connectivity to the database and supports all the latest SQL Server features for applications targeting .NET, .NET Framework, and .NET Standard.Some of the highlights of new features in 6.1 over the 6.0 release of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient include:
15/09/2025
Day zero support for iOS/iPadOS and macOS 26
With Apple's release of iOS/iPadOS and macOS 26 Tahoe, we’ve been working hard to ensure that Microsoft Intune provides day zero support for Apple’s latest operating systems (OS) so that existing features work as expected.The settings catalog has been updated to support newly released iOS/iPadOS and macOS settings for both declarative device management (DDM) and mobile device management (MDM) to empower your IT teams to have devices ready on day zero.We highly recommend updating your organization’s devices to the most recent Apple OS version publicly available to keep your devices secure and up to date.
15/09/2025
How AI + Communication APIs Are Transforming Work Across Industries
We're seeing a shift from cookie-cutter automation to AI that gets context.A Framework for Communication IntelligenceSmart Appointment Management: Healthcare systems use communication APIs to send HIPAA-compliant reminders via SMS, email, and voice calls.
15/09/2025
NVIDIA AI Open-Sources ViPE (Video Pose Engine): A Powerful and Versatile 3D Video Annotation Tool for Spatial AI
A team of researchers from NVIDIA released “ViPE: Video Pose Engine for 3D Geometric Perception” bringing a key improvement for Spatial AI.It addresses the central, agonizing bottleneck that has constrained the field of 3D computer vision for years.The post NVIDIA AI Open-Sources ViPE (Video Pose Engine): A Powerful and Versatile 3D Video Annotation Tool for Spatial AI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/09/2025
Face the future today by moving your application to cloud native
Migrating applications from Configuration Manager and other on-prem solutions to Microsoft Intune cloud native remains a challenging and time consuming undertaking, especially when dealing with complex line-of-business, legacy, and custom home-grown applications.To address the complex realities of app migration, the Microsoft partner ecosystem has stepped up with specialized offers designed to reduce risk and accelerate cloud adoption.As part of this initiative: starting today, our Microsoft partners Rimo3 and Robopack are offering no-cost, time-limited app migration service to all Intune customers who are looking to move from ConfigMgr to Intune.
15/09/2025
Enhancing AVD and Windows 365 experience with health checks
To further optimize the user experience for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 (W365), Microsoft has introduced a health check suite.Verifies that the local device is connected to a network and can access the internet, a prerequisite for cloud-based services.The Health Check suite offers IT admins and end users transparent, proactive troubleshooting to ensure optimal performance in their AVD and Windows 365 environments.
15/09/2025
Get ready now: One month until Office 2016/2019 end of support
That’s why it’s important to know that in just one month, on October 14, 2025, support will end for Office 2016 and Office 2019 suites, standalone applications, and servers (see the full list of impacted products below). Now is the time to move all remaining devices running Office 2016 or Office 2019 to a supported version.The Office Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) is designed for devices that cannot accept feature updates or connect to the internet.
15/09/2025
T-1 month: Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 End of Support
On October 14, 2025, one month from now, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 will reach end of support.In July 2025, we announced the general availability of Exchange Server SE with details on how to upgrade if you intend to continue to run Exchange Server on-premises.If 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).
15/09/2025
T-1 month: Skype for Business Server 2015 and Skype for Business Server 2019 End of Support
On October 14, 2025, one month from now, 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.Customer installations of Skype for Business Server 2015 and Skype for Business Server 2019 and clients running Skype for Business 2016 and Skype for Business 2019 will continue to run after October 14, 2025.If your organization intends to continue running Skype for Business Server and you want to test and evaluate pre-release builds of Skype for Business Server SE, you can apply to join the Skype for Business Technology Adoption Program (TAP).
15/09/2025
Build Enterprise-Ready AI Agents with the New Azure Postgres LangChain + LangGraph Connector
That’s why we’re excited to announce native LangChain + LangGraph connector for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. With this release, Postgres becomes your single source of truth for AI agents, handling knowledge retrieval, chat history, and long-term memory all in one place.With EntraID authentication, DiskANN acceleration, vector store, and a dedicated agent store, you can go from prototype to production on Azure faster than ever.
15/09/2025
Copilot Chat comes to the Microsoft 365 apps
Starting today, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents are rolling out in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for all users—creating a unified chat experience across the apps millions of people use every day at work.Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web—and now, it’s available in the Microsoft 365 apps.It’s content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you’re working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open.
15/09/2025
Explore Microsoft Fabric Data Agent & Azure AI Foundry for agentic solutions
Over the past year, Gen AI apps have expanded significantly across enterprises. The agentic AI era is here, and the Microsoft ecosystem helps enable end-to-end acceleration of agentic AI apps in production. In this blog, we'll cover how both low-code business analysts and pro-code developers can use the Microsoft stack to build reusable agentic apps for their organizations.This blog post explains how to develop multi-agent solutions for various industries using Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Fabric. We saw how Fabric data agents can be created and utilized in Copilot Studio in a multi-agent setup. In the future, pro-code and low-code agentic developers are expected to work together to create agentic apps, instead of in silos. So, how do we solve the challenge of connecting all the components together in the same technology stack ? Let’s say a pro-code developer has created a custom agent in AI Foundry.
15/09/2025
Copilot Chat: Snack Pack #1
We're kicking off a five-part series of Copilot Chat "Snack Packs": bite-sized articles packed with tips and tricks to help you become a Copilot Chat pro.Follow the download links below to install the Copilot Chat desktop app. Double-click the installer when prompted, and you're in. Use Chat right inside Outlook to refine your writing and send polished messages—all in one place.
15/09/2025
Unlocking Application Modernisation with GitHub Copilot
Let’s delve into how GitHub Copilot is helping teams update old systems, move processes to the cloud, and achieve results faster than ever before.Tools like GitHub Copilot have emerged as AI pair programmers that dramatically lower the barriers to modernisation.Today, GitHub Copilot can act like an expert co-developer inside your IDE, ready to explain mysterious code, suggest updates, and even rewrite legacy code in modern languages.
15/09/2025
Introducing the Azure SQL hub: A simpler, guided entry into Azure SQL
Choosing the right Azure SQL service can be challenging.To make this easier, we built the Azure SQL hub, a new home for everything related to Azure SQL in the Azure portal.Try the Azure SQL hub today in the Azure portal, and share your feedback in the comments!
15/09/2025
Learn about Tape Ark's transactable partner solutions in Azure Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Tape Ark deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace.Mass Tape Ingest and Tape Restore Service: Get fast access to your legacy content – anytime and anywhere – with Tape Ark’s mass tape ingest services.Available on a one-off project basis, Tape Ark’s services restore your data from tape to Microsoft Azure, enabling you to scale access to your content as needed.
15/09/2025
Microsoft 365 LTI is now General Availability
Microsoft 365 LTI release debuts with OneNote Cass Notebook, Teams, Meetings and Reflect – all generally available. Microsoft Assignments, OneDrive, and Reading Coach join these experiences in preview and will transition to GA as ready.At-a-glance:Unified access to OneDrive, Teams, Class Notebook, Reflect, and more, directly in your LMSOnce deployed, the Microsoft 365 LTI integration has links to Contact Support and Send Feedback from right within the app. These can be found in the user voice menu in the upper right on any view that appears within the LMS. Learn more about Microsoft feedback for your organization.
15/09/2025
5 Lesser-Known Visualization Libraries for Impactful Machine Learning Storytelling
Data storytelling often extends into machine learning, where we need engaging visuals that support a clear narrative.
15/09/2025
Meta AI Released MobileLLM-R1: A Edge Reasoning Model with less than 1B Parameters and Achieves 2x–5x Performance Boost Over Other Fully Open-Source AI Models
Meta has released MobileLLM-R1, a family of lightweight edge reasoning models now available on Hugging Face.The release includes models ranging from 140M to 950M parameters, with a focus on efficient mathematical, coding, and scientific reasoning at sub-billion scale.Unlike general-purpose chat models, MobileLLM-R1 is designed for edge deployment, aiming to deliver state-of-the-art reasoning accuracy […]
15/09/2025
Beyond the Black Box: Architecting Explainable AI for the Structured Logic of Law
The Epistemic Gap: Why Standard XAI Fails in Legal Reasoning The core problem is that AI explanations and legal justifications operate on different epistemic planes.AI provides technical traces of decision-making, while law demands structured, precedent-driven justification.Standard XAI techniques attention maps and counterfactuals fail to bridge this gap.
15/09/2025
A Comprehensive Coding Guide to Building Interactive Experiment Dashboards with Hugging Face Trackio
In this tutorial, we walk through Hugging Face Trackio step by step, exploring how we can track experiments locally, cleanly, and intuitively.We start by installing Trackio in Google Colab, preparing a dataset, and setting up multiple training runs with different hyperparameters.The post A Comprehensive Coding Guide to Building Interactive Experiment Dashboards with Hugging Face Trackio appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/09/2025
Enable Nested Virtualization on Windows Server 2025
First, ensure you’re running a Hyper-V host capable of nested virtualization and have the Windows Server 2025 VM on which you want to enable as a Hyper-V host ready. Boot up the Windows Server 2025 VM that you want to configure as a Hyper-V host.Open Hyper-V Manager inside your VM and you’re now ready to run test VMs in your nested environment!
15/09/2025
Compliance Meets Ai: Microsoft Purview in the Age of Ai
As organizations embrace AI-powered tools like Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Agents, and non-Microsoft Ai applications, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk is more critical than ever.That’s why we’re excited to launch our new webinar series: Compliance Meets Ai.This series will guide you through configuring Microsoft Purview to effectively manage and reduce the risks associated with Ai usage across your organization.
14/09/2025
Top 5 No-Code Tools for AI Engineers/Developers
In today’s AI-driven world, no-code tools are transforming how people create and deploy intelligent applications.They empower anyone—regardless of coding expertise—to build solutions quickly and efficiently.From developing enterprise-grade RAG systems to designing multi-agent workflows or fine-tuning hundreds of LLMs, these platforms dramatically reduce development time and effort.
14/09/2025
Software Frameworks Optimized for GPUs in AI: CUDA, ROCm, Triton, TensorRT—Compiler Paths and Performance Implications
Deep-learning throughput hinges on how effectively a compiler stack maps tensor programs to GPU execution: thread/block schedules, memory movement, and instruction selection (e.g., Tensor Core MMA pipelines).In this article we will focus on four dominant stacks—CUDA, ROCm, Triton, and TensorRT—from the compiler’s perspective and explains which optimizations move the needle in practice.The post Software Frameworks Optimized for GPUs in AI: CUDA, ROCm, Triton, TensorRT—Compiler Paths and Performance Implications appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/09/2025
UT Austin and ServiceNow Research Team Releases AU-Harness: An Open-Source Toolkit for Holistic Evaluation of Audio LLMs
Voice AI is becoming one of the most important frontiers in multimodal AI.From intelligent assistants to interactive agents, the ability to understand and reason over audio is reshaping how machines engage with humans.The post UT Austin and ServiceNow Research Team Releases AU-Harness: An Open-Source Toolkit for Holistic Evaluation of Audio LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/09/2025
Top 12 Robotics AI Blogs/NewsWebsites 2025
Robotics and artificial intelligence are converging at an unprecedented pace, driving breakthroughs in automation, perception, and human-machine collaboration.Staying current with these advancements requires following specialized sources that deliver technical depth, research updates, and industry insights.The following list highlights 12 of the most authoritative robotics and AI-focused blogs and websites to track in 2025.
13/09/2025
How to Build a Robust Advanced Neural AI Agent with Stable Training, Adaptive Learning, and Intelligent Decision-Making?
In this tutorial, we explore the design and implementation of an Advanced Neural Agent that combines classical neural network techniques with modern stability improvements.We build the network using Xavier initialization for balanced gradient flow and add stable activations like leaky ReLU, sigmoid, and tanh with clipping to avoid overflow.To stabilize training, we apply […]
13/09/2025
Google AI Releases VaultGemma: The Largest and Most Capable Open Model (1B-parameters) Trained from Scratch with Differential Privacy
Google AI Research and DeepMind have released VaultGemma 1B, the largest open-weight large language model trained entirely with differential privacy (DP).This development is a major step toward building AI models that are both powerful and privacy-preserving.Large language models trained on vast web-scale datasets are prone […]
13/09/2025
IBM AI Research Releases Two English Granite Embedding Models, Both Based on the ModernBERT Architecture
IBM has quietly built a strong presence in the open-source AI ecosystem, and its latest release shows why it shouldn’t be overlooked.The company has introduced two new embedding models—granite-embedding-english-r2 and granite-embedding-small-english-r2—designed specifically for high-performance retrieval and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) systems.These models are not only compact and efficient but also licensed under Apache 2.0, […]
13/09/2025
Announcing Live Interpreter API - Now in Public Preview
Today, we’re excited to introduce Live Interpreter –a breakthrough new capability in Azure Speech Translation – that makes real-time, multilingual communication effortless.Live Interpreter continuously identifies the language being spoken without requiring you to set an input language and delivers low latency speech-to-speech translation in a natural voice that preserves the speaker’s style and tone.With coverage across 76 input languages and 143 locales, Live Interpreter helps people communicate clearly and inclusively in everyday scenarios, like in Teams meetings, customer support centers, international classrooms, or global events.
12/09/2025
🚀 Join Us for the Migrate and Modernize Summit – September 23-24, 2025
On September 23-24, Microsoft is hosting the Migrate and Modernize Summit, a digital event to help you and your customers accelerate cloud migrations to Azure and simplify modernization. This event is appropriate for both partner and customers.Leverage AI to simplify and accelerate Migrations and Modernization to Azure, unlocking new projects and revenue.Join us for the Migrate and Modernize Summit!